"You can kill someone without a knife!" Yoruichi Toyama suddenly said casually.
It was strange enough that such a young man walked into the scene of the criminal police interrogation, but the fact that he chatted so casually surprised the old lady in the hospital bed.
However, before she could even voice her criticisms, Detective Takagi, who had been questioning her, turned around and explained her situation.
"Mai Lin Meijia, 46 years old, is the madam of a small bar in the red-light district..."
Yoichi Toyama felt nauseous upon hearing this.
You're a criminal police officer, not someone who specializes in cracking down on prostitution. How can you say something like that so seriously?
Oh, this is legal in Japan? Never mind then.
"I am Toyama," suppressing her instinctive aversion, Toyama Yoruichi nodded to the madam on the bed. "Although I am not a police officer, I work as an advisor in the First Investigation Division."
"A consultant?" Mai Linmeijia chuckled coldly. "Just how incompetent must the police be to hire a naive youngster like you as a consultant?"
"Hey, behave yourself!" Takagi shouted before Yoruichi could react.
But looking back at Yoruichi Toyama's expression, she found that he didn't react at all.
At this moment, Yoruichi Toyama had no time to care about such low-level sarcasm.
The name "Mailing Meijia" seemed to have triggered some memories in him, and he was trying hard to recall them.
This incident... involves Kindaichi and Miyuki... it's highly likely an incident that already existed...
But what exactly was the incident?
Yoruichi Toyama, who had acted too early and completely stopped the situation from developing, fell into deep thought for a moment.
When she noticed that he didn't react to being ridiculed, Mika Mailin turned her gaze to Kindaichi, who had just rushed into the ward and was still wearing slippers.
"This kid is... oh right, the one who stopped my car!"
"What, is he one of your police officers too?"
"Or is it because of my status that just any Tom, Dick, or Harry can come and kick me?"
"You, you..." Kindaichi was someone who couldn't stand being provoked, and after being said that, he immediately became furious, but after a pause, he calmed down.
"By the way, old lady, wasn't it you who disguised yourself as a bus driver and drugged us?"
"You still say the purpose was robbery?"
"But didn't I tell you that the three of us together only have 500 yuan?"
"If you were only in it for the money, you shouldn't have let us on the bus in the first place!"
He thought he had finally caught the other party red-handed, but Merlin Meijia just scoffed contemptuously.
"That's because..."
"Because there was a clap of thunder at that time," Yoruichi Toyama continued.
Mai Linmei immediately pursed her lips and looked at him warily.
"Wh... Oh, I see!" Kindaichi's brain was still working well; after being reminded like that, he immediately got out of his previous rut.
“It was already very dark, and we weren’t your target, so you didn’t want to stop.”
"But because of the thunder, the flash of lightning shone down, and you were worried that we would see your face..."
Yoruichi Toyama nodded: "And I did see it."
"Then, Kindaichi-kun, it's easy to predict what will happen next."
"A criminal about to commit a crime, whether she's planning robbery or something else, suddenly accepts someone she had no plans with..."
"Moreover, these people may have seen her face clearly."
"What do you think she wanted to do by accepting these people?"
"...Silence them!"
This time it wasn't Kindaichi, but Takagi, who was sitting in front of the bed, who spoke loudly.
He looked at Merlin Meijia with sudden realization, like a hound eyeing a large wild beast.
Mai Lin Meijia panicked for a moment, but quickly calmed down.
"No, I just... I'm really worried about being seen. I drugged a whole car full of people, and when the police find out tomorrow and start investigating, these people will expose me."
"But I didn't intend to kill anyone to cover it up or anything, I just planned to... throw them all together."
"They were drugged without their knowledge, and when they wake up they probably won't remember what I look like, that's my guess."
"Or think about it, didn't the passengers on the bus see me before? Did I kill them all?"
That's...that makes sense.
Yoru Toyama thought to herself, if this madam didn't have some special disguise skills that made passengers unable to recognize her, then this would probably be the setup for this incident.
There is another possibility, which is...
She really planned to kill all the passengers!
Yoruichi Toyama was startled by this speculation, but she couldn't understand why a madam would do such a terrible thing.
Just for the money?
He disguised himself as a bus driver beforehand and tricked someone into driving a bus...
More likely, the car itself was stolen...
Picking up a dozen or so passengers at the amusement park entrance, not knowing how much money they have, or whether they'll encounter any unreliable idiots like themselves or Hajime-chan...
The vehicle was equipped with hypnotic gas and gas masks; these, I'm afraid, can only be purchased with real money…
If it's just for the "robbery" that Mika Marin claims to have made, Yoruichi Toyama highly doubts that she won't even get her money back on this trip.
Moreover, she wouldn't make multiple trips; just waiting for the gas in the car to dissipate would take several hours.
Was she doing this for just a dozen or so passengers?
unless……
Her target is a specific person!
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