tokyo creator

Chapter 140 The Detective’s Intuition (Day1-Rainy Night-2100 PM)

After dinner, it was almost 08:30 in the evening, and in half an hour we had a scheduled phone call with Nakano at nine o'clock.

Haiyuanchu took advantage of this gap to hand over the potion that Kudo had just sent over, and explained what happened in a few words.

Zhe Lukui took the potion, and the first sentence was: "Is it not poisonous?"

"Well, I've confirmed it, and there's no problem." Haiyuanchu stated his previous judgment, "Besides, she probably came here without telling Ijuin."

"That doesn't mean anything." Oroku Aoi didn't answer it, but lowered her head to look at the bottle in Haiyuanchu's hand, and said casually, "Maybe Ijuin just pretended not to know, and even gave Kudo an order to approach me to show his favor."

"why?"

"If I am really moved by Kudo, become friends with her, and no longer guard against her... then Ijuin suddenly gives Kudo an order that is detrimental to me, such as asking her to trick me into a trap somewhere, you What do you think she will do?"

"..."

"Friendship is really pure and beautiful, so the Holy Knot also sings of friendship..." Zhe Lukui sneered, "But for the calyx, the loyalty to the bud is the most important thing."

Hui Yuanchu could only say: "Then just pretend that nothing happened and ignore Kudo?"

"No, no need. After all, I can also use Kudo in turn, which is equivalent to having an extra eye in Ijuin's circle." Aoi Aoi finally took the potion, "Besides, if I reject Kudo, then I will be 'narrow-minded' I’m afraid the place’s reputation will spread quickly among the Hualei circle, which will be very detrimental to me approaching other people to collect intelligence.”

In fact, according to Hui Yuanchu's own intuition, things should not be as cruel as Zhe Lukui said, and Kudo's purpose should be quite simple... But obviously, Zhe Lukui doesn't care what he thinks.

"You always think so much, it's very unpleasant..." He could only mutter in the end.

Zhe Lukui glanced at him and said expressionlessly: "I know many people hate me, I don't need you to tell me."

...Does she know her reputation within the group?As soon as Zhe Lukui said this, Hui Yuanchu didn't know what to say.

Oroku Aoi herself didn't show any particular concern. She just said, "I will contact Kudo in the future. Of course, I will be careful."

……

The phone ringing from Nakano rang exactly at the moment when the second of nine ten minutes reached zero.

"Hello, my name is Nakano. Are you Miss Yoshiko Sato's agent?"

Zhe Lukui silently gave Hui Yuanchu a nudge, so he who didn't want to step forward had no choice but to step forward and say, "Yes."

"How may I call you?"

"Orihara Gray."

"Ori-chan—wait, what did you say your name was?"

"Fold, original, gray."

On the other end of the phone, Nakano fell silent for some reason.

After a moment of silence, he suddenly said in a very sure tone: "Is it you, Hui Yuanchu, who turned on the voice changer to play with me?"

Before Hui Yuanchu could deny it, Nakano immediately cursed again, and then added: "Although I don't know why, I think you kid can definitely do such a thing."

Hui Yuan also fell silent.

Mainly, he panicked a little - Nakano was so confident and determined, so was there any fatal flaw in his disguise that could be discovered at a glance?
So by now, maybe I have been discovered by many other people?

"So...what's wrong?" he asked cautiously.

"You mean, you admitted it?"

"Ah."

"..." Nakano was silent for a moment, cursed again, and finally explained: "As for flaws, there are actually no flaws. But as soon as you said your last name was 'Ori', I remembered the last time we dealt with him.

"I'm very impressed with you kid and that Miss Zhe."

“So the more I thought about it, the more I felt something was wrong with the little girl I was talking to now, and then I blurted it out.

"Actually, it's mainly just a bluff. After all, even if I guess wrong, I just need to apologize, but I didn't expect... ugh.

"So in the end... it's probably the detective's intuition, you know?"

Only then did Hui Yuanchu feel relieved.

The intuition of a decades-old detective, something that no one in this academy should have.

His disguise should be perfect.

"So, how did you get to the Holy Knot? And -" Nakano paused obviously, seeming to calm down, "and you put on such a perfect disguise."

"Have you met?" "Miss Yoko Sato thought that we might need to communicate in person in the end, so she gave me your photo..."

Nakano cursed again, his voice getting lower and lower, and finally he seemed to be unable to bear it anymore and said: "So, you little bastard, why don't you turn off the voice changer????"

"It's inconvenient for some reasons. You'll get used to it as long as you bear with it." Hui Yuanchu said casually.

Hui Yuanchu looked up at himself in the mirror.

How could such a beautiful woman move her lips and spit out a vulgar male voice that has changed her voice? ?
It's not perfect!

"How can I bear this-"

"Uncle~~ Just think that you are talking to the female high school student of the Holy Knot, Orihara Hui. What's wrong with that?"

"..." After a moment of silence, Nakano said in a constipated voice, "Okay, okay."

"Okay, don't worry about this, uncle. You also know what I want to ask you for, so just tell me."

"You're talking about the incident where the two eldest ladies of the Holy Knot fell from the building, right? You know the situation, anyway... Let me state in advance that since there is no autopsy, I can only say that what I give is a preliminary conclusion." Nakano sighed.

From the tired sigh, Hui Yuan initially imagined the scene of a middle-aged man frowning and scratching his greasy hair.

Then Nakano began to briefly describe his criminal investigation process. As Hui Yuan originally thought, he focused on whether there were footprints of a third party or signs of struggle around the bell tower.

And his final conclusion was also very clear: "In short, if we only draw a conclusion based on the on-site information, it is a completely irrefutable suicide. There is no sign of a third party at the scene."

"But based on my experience, if an autopsy is performed, things may turn around. The family members objected at the time, but if it were you..." Nakano said tentatively:

"impossible."

Impossible, there is no body left for autopsy, Hui Yuanchu said in his heart.Because one body has been cremated, and the other body...

Well, she ran away.

"...Okay, whatever you want, it's actually not my case." Of course, Nakano didn't know what Hui Yuan was thinking, and just muttered, "Then, is this the conclusion?"

Hui Yuanchu asked without giving up: "So, is there really nothing wrong at the scene?"

"...Actually, to be honest, I did find something not quite right."

As soon as Nakano said this, Hui Yuanchu immediately became energetic.

"——But due to the limitations of the conditions at the scene, that kind of abnormality cannot be turned into solid evidence at all. If I say it, it will probably be regarded as my imagination, or even considered as an offense to the deceased. I don't want to offend the big shot inexplicably. So I didn’t even mention it to them at the college.”

"However, if it is confirmed that you are involved in this matter, then... I think I can give my most intuitive answer regardless of common sense and logic."

After a pause, the sound of a lighter sounded on the other end of the phone, and then the sound of smoking.

As for Hui Yuanchu and Zhe Lukui, they just waited patiently.

Finally, Nakano revealed: "——It's a footprint."

"Those two days were rainy days, right? Moreover, no one came near the place before the first deceased, A, went to the scene. And after her death, the scene was tightly sealed and protected until No. 2 deceased B Go to.

"So, the footprints of the two deceased people were clearly imprinted on the floor. Moreover, deceased A took off his shoes, but deceased B did not. So even if there is partial overlap, it is not difficult to tell who the footprints belong to.

“The footprints of the two people are very strange.

“I mean, not like a suicidal person.

"Very few people can die without struggling at all. Most of the footprints I have seen first appear as a messy mass on the edge of the platform. It shows that I have been wandering and struggling for a long time before finally making up my mind. And The last jump may have used a lot of strength to jump very far, or it may have lost strength and simply fell..."

"But these two people...are different."

"Dead A, she took off her shoes from the moment she entered this floor, and then walked straight to the edge of the platform barefoot without any extra steps without any struggle.

"Moreover, her pace was getting faster and faster, and in the end she almost couldn't bear to run. The eagerness was like...

"Ahem, it's like you can't help but go to the toilet?
"As for deceased B, she didn't take off her shoes. And her steps were even weirder.

"She didn't hesitate at all and walked directly to the platform.

"But her step distance is not accelerated, but...every step is equal. Even the last step is the same when she steps out.

"This kind of step distance gives me a feeling: It's as if she is not jumping out or rushing out, but as if she is taking one step and walking out as usual in the sky and on the ground in front of her.

"I can't believe that any person can be so calm."

"...that's all I can tell you." Nakano finally said.

(End of this chapter)