Conan's Unscientific Detective

It's not like he's some high school student who has the grim reaper in him and can run into a murder while just taking a stroll.

"A new detective professional mission has been detected, please check it out!"

Hearing the system prompt, Fujino slammed on the brakes.

Opening the system interface, the task list appeared in front of him:

[Detective Career Mission: Haunted House Murder Case

Mission objective: Solve the haunted house murder case five years ago

Mission-limited countdown: one hour

Mission Reward: 500,000 yen bounty, system initial equipment package]

"Haunted house murder case? Five hundred thousand yen?!"

Fujino asked in confusion, then turned his gaze to the side and saw a gloomy western-style house.

Fujino was deeply impressed by this dilapidated Western-style house with weeds growing on the fence and a Yamada family nameplate hanging on the doorpost.

If he remembered correctly, this should be the crime scene of the haunted house murder case five years ago, and the mother and son who killed the head of the Yamada family were hiding in the basement here.

Fujino lowered his head and frowned, thinking for a while before making a decision and accepting the task.

After parking the car in an open area nearby, Fujino groped his way back to the villa and, following his memory, found a secret entrance on the side of the courtyard wall covered with vegetation.

Look at the small hole made of wooden boards that only one person can pass through.

Fujino couldn't help but complain: "Why does it feel like crawling through a dog hole?"

When you enter the courtyard and push open the old gate, you will see four demon statues.

In the setting sun, the demon statues looked particularly creepy.

"These statues are probably meant to scare people."

Fujino muttered to himself, and then continued to move deeper into the house.

Passing through the dim corridor, a clean carpet at the end of the corridor caught his attention.

If his guess was correct, this should be the secret entrance to the basement of the house.

Fujino took a deep breath, held the power-boosting card in his hand, and lifted the stone slab covering the basement.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 4: Haunted House Murder Case

Fujino pushed the stone slab open with force, and a winding staircase came into view.

Go down the stairs and you'll find a dark tunnel at the end.

There were puddles everywhere in the tunnel, and dew dripping from the stone walls fell into them, making a ticking sound.

Fujino looked around and found a half-open iron door.

There was still some light coming through the iron door.

Suddenly, a wailing sound was heard from within.

Fujino's heart tightened.

Looking inside through the crack in the door, what came into view was a room that looked like a prison cell.

A man with a beard and long hair is locked in a cage.

At this moment, he was tearing the worn-out bed sheets and wailing in agony at the gray-haired woman in a linen black dress outside the cage: "Mom! Let me turn myself in!"

"No! Akio!"

Mrs. Yamada's eyes sparkled with tears. "As long as we wait until the statute of limitations is over, we will be able to embrace a new and beautiful life!"

"I've had enough of this life where I dream about my father's face every night!"

As he said this, Zhao Fu desperately banged his head against the iron bars, while banging, he screamed: "Let me die!"

"Akio!"

Outside the iron cage, Mrs. Yamada, who was at a loss, used her hands to protect his head. Her already rough hands were left with scars from the repeated impacts.

After a while, Yamada Akio finally calmed down.

At this time, Mrs. Yamada squatted down, stroked his long hair and comforted him: "It has already happened. No matter how painful it is, the dead cannot be resurrected. Wait a little longer. When the statute of limitations is over, everything will be fine!"

It seems that these two are the real murderers of the haunted house murder case?

In the corridor, Fujino looked at the scene in the room and already understood it in his heart.

Fujino has some understanding of the statute of limitations.

Regardless of the country, there is a statute of limitations for criminal cases.

After this time, no further prosecution will be carried out.

In other words, if a crime is committed but not discovered, the murderer will no longer be held accountable after the statute of limitations has expired, and the judicial authorities will not have the right to judge the perpetrator.

But for someone like Akio Yamada who still has a conscience, what does it matter if the statute of limitations has expired?

The irreparable trauma will forever linger in his heart, and he will recall the face of the murdered person in his dreams every day.

"The dead will not come back to life, but the guilt will always linger in the murderer's heart."

Putting his thoughts away, Fujino leaned against the wall and sighed.

"who?!"

Mrs. Yamada, who heard the sound, immediately wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, picked up the fruit knife on the ground and turned to look.

[Reminder, detective time has started, countdown 0-0-59]

Hearing the system prompt, Fujino silently clenched the cards in his hand and took a deep breath.

Looks like we need to hurry up?

Then he took a deep breath and pushed the door open: "My name is Fujino, and I'm a detective!"

"detective?!"

Mrs. Yamada looked at the young man in front of her, feeling a little panicked. "Why are you here, a detective?!"

"Of course, I came here to investigate the murder case that happened five years ago."

Fujino looked at Mrs. Yamada and said slowly, "Five years ago, a murder case happened here. The victim's wife and children have already moved out, and the murderer has not been caught yet... But the strange thing is that since the mother and son moved out five years ago, strange rumors have been circulating in this house."

After a pause, he chuckled, "But now the truth of the ghost story seems to be clear."

"If I'm not mistaken, you should be the Yamada mother and son in the case five years ago, right?"

"The case five years ago was not a burglary case, but a robbery disguised as a murder case! The murderer is between you two!"

"shut up!"

Mrs. Yamada turned her head and glanced at Akio Yamada, then pointed the fruit knife at Fujino and gritted her teeth: "I am the murderer! He was just imprisoned here by me!"

"is it?"

Fujino clenched his chin and said, "It is indeed a reasonable explanation that the wife killed her husband and imprisoned the son who witnessed everything."

After a moment, he raised his head and looked at Mrs. Yamada with sharp eyes: "However, there is another explanation. That is, Mrs. Yamada, you are trying to take all the blame and deliberately exclude your son, the murderer!"

"Five years ago, Yamada Akio killed his own father. When he was at a loss, you helped him fake the murder scene and escape punishment!"

"Logically speaking, if this continues, no one would know the truth of the matter... But you didn't expect that he would want to turn himself in because his conscience couldn't bear it!"

"And in order to prevent him from ruining his future, you imprisoned him in an iron cage in the basement, planning to live in seclusion until the statute of limitations had passed, and then bring him back into the sunlight!"

"I heard your conversation just now. The real culprit of the case five years ago was actually your son!"

"Shut up!"

Mrs. Yamada's expression gradually distorted. Seeing that the truth could no longer be concealed, she clenched her hand holding the fruit knife even tighter, and her scarred hand was still shaking.

When the truth was revealed, she originally planned to take all the blame on her own.

But this detective shattered her last bit of fantasy.

Her eyes flashed with unusual ferocity, and she stabbed Fujino in the chest with a fruit knife: "Go to hell!"

"Mom, no!"

Akio Yamada held the iron railing tightly and shouted at Mrs. Yamada.

But how could Mrs. Yamada, who had already lost her mind, care so much?

Her only thought now was to kill the detective in front of her to silence him.

"Are you still stubborn?!"

Fujino crushed the ability-enhancing card in his hand.

[Perception amplification has been activated for the host, strength amplification 100%; countdown 0-0-59]

Suddenly, the world around me seemed to slow down.

With the double increase in strength and perception, Mrs. Yamada's movements were clearly visible in Fujino's eyes, and even the cut on the knife in her hand was captured.

"Wake up!"

Fujino kicked Mrs. Yamada in the hand holding the knife.

The silver blade flew high up, and after a moment it fell to the ground with a long, crisp sound.

"give up."

Fujino retracted his legs and stared at Mrs. Yamada expressionlessly.

"I won't allow you to send Akio to jail!"

Mrs. Yamada struggled to get up, dragged her dislocated wrist hysterically, and pounced on Fujino again.

"To be honest, I really don't want to use my full strength..."

Fujino frowned slightly, looking a little embarrassed as he looked at Mrs. Yamada approaching.

The blow he had just struck had already given her enough face by not sending her to the hospital.

But if she continued to be stubborn, he would not indulge her.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 5 Okamoto Momoka

"Yes, it's me!"

But just when Fujino was about to take action, Yamada Akio, who was locked in the cage, shouted: "I am the murderer of Dad! Please don't hurt Mom again!"

"Akio! Do you know what you are talking about?!"

Mrs. Yamada stopped walking after hearing this, turned around and yelled hysterically at Yamada Akio: "Don't talk nonsense, Akio! If you hold on a little longer, the statute of limitations will be over!"

"I don't want this anymore!"

Yamada Akio knelt on the ground, his hands on his knees and sobbed: "I don't want to see you get hurt because of me again!"

"Akio!"

Mrs. Yamada felt like a deflated ball, and the knife in her hand fell to the ground.

Fujino was relieved to see this.

Suddenly, he had the illusion that he had become a villain.

After coughing lightly to ease the awkwardness, he continued to speak to Mrs. Yamada in a deep voice, "Don't you understand your son's intentions?"

"Shut up!"

Mrs. Yamada turned her head sharply, "I just wanted to protect him! I can't just watch him go to jail and ruin the rest of his life!"

Fujino sighed.

After secretly thinking that his verbal skills were not up to par, he said sternly:

"Is it protecting him to lock him up in a dark and damp cage and make him suffer from the torment of his conscience every day? Don't you think your so-called protection is more cruel than sending him to prison?"