stand-in creed

"Today is the weekend!"

"That's it..." Nero understood, "Then I'll go directly to Duwang Police Station to find your grandfather."

Say something.

Jousuke's Grandpa Patrol sometimes works better than Crazy Diamond.

"Etc., etc!"

Before Nero hung up the phone, Jousuke hurriedly said, "How about I go too?"

"you?"

"The main reason is that my mother kept talking about "don't play games at home all day on weekends" and so on. I didn't dare to talk back, and I didn't know what to do when I went out. I just thought that since you want to investigate the case, why don't you bring me with you? "

"Come if you want, but let's make it clear that the next step is to visit and investigate. There is no fight to fight, and it may be boring."

"Hey, Nero! In your eyes, am I the kind of bad boy who wants to fight every day? My heart hurts!"

Aren't you bad?

Nero was shocked.

Forcibly suppress the desire to complain in my heart.

"...I won't make an appointment for specific events. Anyway, I'm going out now, so you can save a file now and go."

"Great!"

Immediately Nero took a blank piece of paper, recalling the soul that drifted far away when he was chatting with Suzumi Sugimoto in the alley, picked up the paintbrush and took a deep breath, and the golden double appeared on the screen. Behind him, he held the paintbrush together with the main body.

Whoosh whoosh.

Like the most sophisticated scanner, portraits of departed souls emerge from the page.

Chapter 45 The Famous Detective Nero

Duke Police Station.

Dongfang Liangping, an old patrolman, is sitting in the office today.

If it was in the past, Dongfang Liangping would definitely make a cup of tea when he was free, study stocks, or read some weird magazines, but today Dongfang Liangping is rarely buried in reading one copy after another. Looking at the file, my eyes are a little sore.

At this time, Dongfang Liangping saw two figures at the door of his office.

"Nero, Jousuke, why are you here?"

"I have some clues and want to chat with you. I called your house to find you, but Josuke said that you were at the police station and wanted to come and have a look together, so he picked him up."

"Hmm..." Dongfang Lianghei looked at his grandson with a hippie smile next to him, and waved his hands, "Jousuke, find a place to sit next to him, and don't disturb Nero and I discussing the case by making noise."

"Okay!" Jousuke nodded obediently.

Immediately, Dongfang Liangping's eyes gradually became serious: "What did you find?"

Nero simply handed Dongfang Ryohei the portrait he drew in the hotel.

"About an hour ago I saw Suzumi Suzumi's earthbound spirit who died 15 years ago. While asking her for details about 15 years ago, the spirit of this woman flew over Morioh, and when I returned to the hotel I drew a portrait based on my impression."

Even though he had already known about the existence of the stand-in messenger, Dongfang Liangping still couldn't hold back his face.

Suzumi Suzumi's Earthbound Spirit?

A female soul flying over Morioh Town?

"..."

Dongfang Liangping looked at Nero in front of him in a daze.

Immediately, Dongfang Liangping said with some uncertainty: "I know a tailor shop, and I will get you a hunting suit according to your size later?"

"Compared to Abe Seimei, if one day I really want to ask for ghosts, I might be more inclined to Manjushri Maru... Besides, Mr. Dongfang, I'm not joking with you, Morioh Town is really haunted."

"I just know you're not joking, you're not the one who jokes when you're talking about business, so you have to make some jokes to liven up the atmosphere." Dongfang Liangping sighed, "Duwang Town is becoming more and more strange."

When Nero heard what the old patrolman said, he could only comfort him.

"Look out, Mr. Dongfang.

"The town of Mori as you know it never existed from the very beginning."

Dongfang Liangping's head was full of black lines: "I! @#￥%..."

After a while, Dongfang Liangping looked at the sketch in Nero's hand.

This is a beautiful woman floating in the sky, many parts of her body have become gaseous.The woman's body seemed to be collapsing, with a painful expression on her face, and her whole body was flying to the other side of the sky.

"There are photos... Although this is not a photo, this painting is no different from a photo.

"With this painting, it will be very fast to determine the identity. Either I find the information first, or the family members of the missing person find something wrong and call the police, and they can get the information tomorrow. I will take you with me during the investigation. .”

It is really convenient to know the police.

Nero thought so.

……

the following afternoon.

Dongfang Liangping drove Nero in a police car and galloped through the streets of Moriwang Town.

Dongfang Liangping said: "I asked about the basic situation on the phone a little bit. The victim—remember to say the missing person when I went to someone's home—surnamed Kazama, a 31-year-old housewife. Her husband is an ordinary member of E Company. She has a son and a daughter. Female.

"Mrs. Kazama, who has been married until now, will carefully prepare a sumptuous dinner for the couple every night, then help the children with homework, and prepare lunch for the children and husband to take to school and work the next day. Wait until the children go to bed In the end, she would watch unnutritious TV programs while boiling the bath water in advance and waiting for her late husband to come home.

"After the husband returns home, he will say that you have worked hard before delivering the slippers, taking the coat and briefcase, and then serving him for dinner. If one day the husband gets drunk because of entertainment, she will cook and prepare some hangover soup and side dishes.

"It went on like this for ten years, without a single day of interruption except for illness, until yesterday.

"After returning home at night and finding his wife was not there, the husband asked the housewife's neighbors who played more "according to his wife" and his wife's parents, but found no trace of his wife anywhere.After not returning all night, the husband chose to call the police, and we are going to Mrs. Kazama's house now. "

Nero frowned: "...It sounds like the husband and wife's social circles don't have any intersection at all?"

Dongfang Liangping smiled helplessly.

"I don't know what's going on in Italy, but it's normal in Japan.

"Wake up at 05:30 in the morning to wash the dirty clothes that the family left in the bathroom last night, then wash and prepare breakfast. After the family leaves, the children go to school, and the husband starts to cook rice and do housework after he goes to work.

"After the housework is done and until dinner is ready, every housewife has her own time of the day. It is usually spent with neighbors who are also housewives.

"Whether it's shopping, beauty parlors, or other activities that are convenient to tell the husband and not convenient to tell the husband... This circle is a circle where the husband doesn't get involved and has no chance to get in, and he doesn't have the interest to get in. There may be some intersection.

"Even for housewives, it is worth comparing with each other when the husband comes home late-even if the husband just goes to the izakaya to drink alone after get off work, as long as he comes back later, it proves that the husband is working hard outside. , and will show it off in front of neighbors who are also housewives."

"It's not easy." Nero sighed.

"Isn't it?" Dongfang Liangping was also quite emotional.

A word of emotion is enough.

Nero quickly returned to the topic: "So compared to the husband who is a relative, the neighbor who is also a housewife may know some clues."

Dongfang Liangping showed a rather complicated expression.

"Even if he disappeared, there might be clues that could not inform the husband of the missing person. This is a bit harsh, but... the disappearances in Morioh Town are eight times the national average, at least in the "Investigation and Evidence Collection" This is convenient, and the experience of our Morioh police is the richest in Japan.

"Some sort of messy things, we've seen a lot—now, here we are."

Dongfang Liangping parked the police car on the side of the road and pointed to one of them.

Nero looked at the nameplate by the door.

——Kawajiri.

"Isn't this the home of the murdered... missing person?"

"The husband is at work, the children are at school, and there is no one at home, so we can only start with the neighbors around us."

"My wife is missing and still working?!"

"I also asked on the phone, the company does not grant leave."

"..."

It's not easy.

Chapter 46 The Famous Detective Nero Six

Group 4 8 8 ⑦ 4 9 ⑦ 9 9

Shinobu Kawajiri is a housewife.

Kawajiri Shinobu's husband Kawajiri Kosaku is a classmate she met when she was in a short-term college. From Shinobu's point of view, he is a boring man.However, because Kosaku Kawajiri has a good university in the local area, and friends around him also commented on him as "the personality is great! So handsome", so even if he doesn't like the other party, he still associates with the other party for the sake of superiority.

As a result, because the insurance measures were not taken well, the accident had to be married with a son.

Even after marriage, this woman who has never tasted the mystery of "love" finally realizes that her husband is a boring man, and realizes that the most important thing in marriage is that two people get along well, but it is too late.With her child already in elementary school, she accepted her destiny and became a housewife who used to be extremely boring in her eyes.

And today.

Husband Kawajiri Kosaku went to work early as in the past few years, and son Kawajiri Hayato also went to school.After eating the simple lunch I made, I sat on the sofa and watched boring TV shows, waiting for another boring night.

"Why don't you just go shopping? But no, the family is running out of money, and it will be miserable if we can't pay the rent..."

Kawajiri sighed.

And just then, the doorbell rang.

"No newspapers! I've ordered milk, too! I don't need any other sales! Thank you!"

Kawajiri Shinobi yelled towards the door as a matter of course.

However, it was Dongfang Ryohei who responded to Kawajiri Shinobu.

"Excuse me, Mrs. Kawajiri, right? I'm Dongfang Ryohei, a police officer from the Duwang Police Station. May I bother you?"

"police?"

Kawajiri was stunned.

After opening the door, what came into view was indeed a kind-faced old policeman who took out his ID card seriously.

But the problem is... what the hell is this almost two-meter-tall blond guy behind you!

"Ah, don't worry, Mrs. Kawajiri." Dongfang Ryohei introduced with a smile, "This is mine... Although the seniority may be a bit strange, but he is indeed the godfather of my grandson's grandniece, and it should be my great-grandson Relatives of older generations who work as private investigators in Italy.

"Aren't the police and the detectives very professional professions? It happened that he was traveling in Duwang Town, so I took him with me after I had a case."

"Hi, Mrs. Kawajiri."

Nero smiled and held out his hand.

Mrs. Kawajiri looked at Nero's gentle smile like the sun, her face was a little red.

"H-Hello...you should be familiar with Japanese books."

"Thank you for the compliment."

What a handsome foreigner!

Just like men will carefully appreciate a woman's appearance, women will also quietly talk about a man's appearance, which is quite normal.

However, although Kawajiri Shinobu lamented how handsome Nero was, he didn't forget the business.

"Excuse me... Could it be that Kosaku or Satoshi did something?"

"No, no, that's not the case." Dongfang Liangping hurriedly waved his hands, "The wife, Ms. Kazama, who lives next door to you, has disappeared, so we want to find out more about it."

"Yumi is missing?!"

Kawajiri was shocked.

Immediately, Kawajiri Shinobu suddenly realized: "Speaking of which, the gentleman next door did come to ask last night, do you know where his wife might have gone... I didn't expect to disappear?"

In fact, he was killed.

But this kind of thing is temporarily inconvenient, and there is no need to say it.

Immediately Kawajiri Shinobu stepped aside and opened the door.

"Come in, you two, I'll make tea."