User blog comment:Dragonking1010/Information page./@comment-3308166-20111009004939/@comment-2074153-20111009114347

I've said this before, but I strongly suspect the Research thingee falls under their jurisdiction of the Records Office. The Accomplice was supposed to have worked there, and he was handed over to Okuni's men once questioned (which is odd, you'd think they'd just imprison him, which shouldn't be a duty of the Records Office). Plus, between the Records Office and the Investigations Office, it's not too likely that they had a third entire separate office devoted to doing research, when the first two seem to do nothing but that. Anyway, in THIS particular case, I suspect the guy is actually referring to the Records Office being destroyed. All he says they have some info on the destruction. And since details were limited on the library's destruction immediately after, I suspect that's what he's actually talking about. Especially since Yoshimori questions Souji about his involvement in Okuni's murder in the previous chapter, and I can't think of any other place that ever mentions any office devoted to research. I think if it were actually a separate place that had been destroyed, it would have rated some additional mentions somewhere. And for Yumeji to get so pissed about it really makes me think the place destroyed was of considerable importance, which the Records Office was.