Heiji nodded. "This fella I knew had some dirt on 'em would've ruined the lady's law career. He stored it away in some safe deposit box, but they needed a 7-digit pin to access it. Tried to get him to talk by roughing him up, only they did it so bad they thought he was dead."

Now that part Heiji was decidedly not happy with, even if Kusukawa had turned out to be all right after all. "Anyway. It turned out that he wrote down the pin on a piece of paper, but in the form of a code. They couldn't solve it for themselves, so they needed me to get at it."