Chapter 137 Who Gets the Perfect Attendance Award?

Day 11 of the road survival game!

"Huh? My story is ridiculous?" Furuya Rei couldn't help but retort to Matsuda, "You went too far with your own interpretation, didn't you? I told you to go all out, but I didn't expect you to go so far as to tell Gin about coming from the future."

"Gin told you that?" Matsuda couldn't help but reveal his beady eyes. "Besides pretending to be a colleague of the organization you infiltrated, I didn't say anything else to him before he hung up. Didn't you miss the hint that we came from the future?"

"Am I that unreliable? It was Gin who said with absolute certainty that you came from the future, and that's why I added a little something on top of that!" Furuya Rei rarely showed his crescent-shaped eyes at this moment, clearly speechless.

Morofushi, who was standing to the side, had no idea what had happened in the Twin Towers. He only listened to Matsuda and didn't understand what was going on. He couldn't get a word in edgewise or give a reliable answer.

Hagiwara, upon hearing Matsuda's words, showed a slight change in expression as he walked quickly. He then said to Matsuda, "Jinpei, ask Furuya if he heard Kaze-chan's voice when I called him?"

After being reminded by Hagiwara, Matsuda instantly realized that they hadn't said anything at the time, but the junior student in the dungeon dimension had whispered something in his ear after overhearing his conversation with Gin.

Could it be that when the junior schoolgirl's body comes into contact with a human in the real world and she speaks in the other person's ear, her sound waves cannot be detected by the ears of people around her in the real world, but can be received by the phone's microphone and transmitted to the ear of the person on the other end of the phone?

So Gin overheard her words? Although Gin's personality suggests he's very suspicious, he trusts his junior schoolmate enough, which is why he was in a hurry to get her out of the dangerous environment and didn't continue to question her?

If that's the case, it will be much more convenient for everyone in dungeons in the future. All you have to do is collect a few pairs of headphones, and when the junior female student wants to talk in a dungeon, she can just touch one of them and speak into her phone.

He wasn't sure if Gin knew they came from the future because of what the junior girl said. Thinking of this, he wanted to quickly relay Hagi's words to Furuya to confirm if it was what Hagi guessed.

However, before he could even ask, Furuya Rei, whose phone was of impeccable quality, had already heard Hagiwara's words. Even without knowing the specifics of the situation, he guessed a certain possibility.

So he immediately replied, "Yes, I heard it. What, does this have to do with Gin knowing you're from the future? Can't we, who are from the past, hear Gin's voice?"

"Uh... this matter is complicated to explain, and it seems impossible to go into details in the current situation. In short, you can understand it as if she were talking right next to us, and we could hear her, but you shouldn't have been able to hear her."

However, it seems that when we are talking to you on the phone, if she speaks near the person using the phone, the person on the other end of the call can hear her..." Matsuda originally wanted to explain in more detail what the junior student had said at the time.

Gin would know why they had this information about the future, but before they could say anything more, they saw the spacious deck under the setting sun.

A middle-aged woman with short, shoulder-length hair was pointing a gun at the trembling captain in front of her, who had been identified by the man in the banquet hall as someone involved in the murder of a father and daughter to defraud a huge insurance payout.

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Their professional instincts told them to immediately slow their pace and move to a concealed position. Matsuda also stopped talking immediately to avoid alerting the two men facing off. Then they heard a conversation that surprised them.

It turns out that this woman was also the daughter of another victim in the case of an eight-generation father and daughter who staged a shipwreck to defraud a huge insurance payout. She learned the truth about her father's death from the family of the previous male victim and had been waiting for an opportunity to take revenge...

Seeing that the middle-aged woman was about to kill the captain to avenge her father, Feng Xingshou, although outwardly law-abiding, was actually somewhat influenced by his brother in his conduct.

After hearing the man's account of the truth in the ship's banquet hall, she felt that the father and daughter surnamed Yatsushiro deserved to die. It was right for them to seek revenge, especially since the death penalty was issued in Japan in an appallingly low number.

Furthermore, the law is implicitly controlled by capital. Not to mention that 15 years have passed and there is no evidence, even if there were evidence for the victim's family to sue, such wealthy and powerful people could hire a famous lawyer.

With a few more clandestine maneuvers, it's unlikely they'll even get a few years in jail as a token gesture. Given the circumstances in Japan, the victims' families have no other recourse but to take matters into their own hands if they want revenge.

So when she saw another victim wanting revenge, even though she could take advantage of being in the instance and having the ability to store things in her inventory, she didn't have the idea of ​​going over to take away the murder weapon and stop the murder.

Seeing this, Morofushi moved his feet slightly, clearly wanting to go and save the person. Unexpectedly, Matsuda, who was next to him, grabbed his shoulder and shook his head at him, then gave him a look, indicating that he should look at the opposite side.

Zhu Fu and Feng Xing Shou then noticed that a middle-aged man in a suit and tie was already standing on the side of the cabin door diagonally opposite, and stopped the woman when she was about to make a move.

He also told her that he had tampered with the gun in her hand and that it was unusable. He made her try it, and after confirming that the gun was unusable, she threw it away. Meanwhile, the captain who had participated in the murder for insurance money took the opportunity to escape...

"...That guy is being a bit nosy! He's avenging his father and killing a scumbag, why should he save him? He talks about it so seriously and threateningly, but even if he talks to the other party and finds actual evidence, it's useless."

In Japan, the law is practically meaningless for the wealthy. Even for ordinary people, accomplices who are not the masterminds of murder will not be sentenced to death in Japan, and their sentences are usually very short.

"The guy who killed her father has lived a glorious life for so many years. He was just one step away from taking revenge when he was stopped. That woman will be very angry!" Feng Xingshou couldn't help but whisper in Hagiwara's ear as he watched things unfold.

Her words surprised Hagiwara, who asked her curiously in a low voice, "How does Fu-chan know so much about Japanese law?"

"It's because in 2016, a particularly sensational case occurred in Japan. A very upright and brave elite Japanese police officer secretly assassinated many murderers who had used various methods to escape legal punishment, using the identity of the Twenty-Faced Man."

His arrest and subsequent revelation that he was a police officer caused a sensation in Japan, especially since the reason for his crimes was that the murderers he had arrested had escaped legal punishment by claiming mental illness.

Not long after, he went and brutally murdered the policeman's sister, even turning her into a teru teru bozu (a Japanese doll made from teru bozu's skin)... In short, his methods were extremely cruel. His only relative died tragically because Japanese law allowed criminals to go unpunished. No wonder that righteous and brave Japanese policeman turned to the dark side.

When I saw this news in China, I wondered if the Japanese media was exaggerating it for sensationalism. So I searched for information about Japanese law and found that the news report was actually quite mild!

I only found out after investigation that the identity of "Twenty-Faced Man" has existed in Japan for several years. Every time someone is identified as having "Twenty-Faced Man" and arrested, a new "Twenty-Faced Man" will soon appear. It is said that they are all such pardoned criminals.

The rarity of death penalty orders has caused anger and pain among the victims' families. "When Feng Xingshou recalled how he felt when he saw these news reports, he felt goosebumps and was once again grateful that he was born in a country where the death penalty is clearly enforced."

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"Heh... If the upper beam is crooked, the lower beam will be crooked too. If the main beam isn't fixed, no matter how much this Detective Mori insists on the righteous path, it will be hard for those involved with the victim to let it go." Hagiwara thought of the teru teru bozu doll and immediately understood the culprit's method.

At the same time, I can understand the policeman's dark side. After all, he also has a sister, parents, and relatives. If any of them had been in this situation, he would not have forgiven the perpetrator.

Even if it violates Japanese law, he will not let go of anyone who harms his family and friends. At the same time, he was also very surprised. Before his incident, although the crime rate in Japan was also high, it was not as exaggerated as Feng Jiang mentioned.

At least no murderer with twenty faces had appeared that year, but considering how many cases he encountered in just a few months at the police academy—murderers abducting girls to commit suicide, drug dealers renting houses to grow narcotics, bomb-wielding criminals using bombs to extort huge sums of yen…

Thinking back on the various cases mentioned in the more than one thousand text messages Kojinpei sent him, he concluded that Japan's crime rate must have risen dramatically after his incident, but Kojinpei didn't live to see 2016.

So I don't know what Feng-chan knows about Japan's future crime rate and those horrific cases... -_-|| Normal countries shouldn't have so many crimes happening so frequently, right?

He wasn't the type to worry about things that hadn't happened yet. After hearing Feng Jiang's answer, those thoughts only flashed through his mind briefly. He didn't want his sweetheart to recall such terrible information because he was thinking about the criminal's methods.

So he simply changed the subject in a low, sarcastic tone: "But I thought we were particularly destined to meet our future brother-in-law, which is why we always run into your brother every time we come here!"

It seems I guessed wrong. Perhaps the one truly destined to meet me is this Detective Mouri? I remember him on the Shinkansen, and at the Twin Towers, and that detective named Shinichi Kudo seemed to be with him too…”

Matsuda and Morofushi couldn't hear Kazesei no Kami's voice and didn't know what she and Hagiwara had been whispering to each other. Now, hearing Hagiwara's words, they assumed the two were discussing the current situation.

"Tsk! Kudo wasn't here this time. I feel like he's the one with perfect attendance. Should we give him a perfect attendance award sometime?" Matsuda, who had encountered Kogoro Mouri in several dungeons, nodded in agreement and muttered a complaint in a low voice.

Morofushi, who was visiting the instance for the first time, was a little incredulous: "Is this really that exaggerated?"