Mr. Itsuki turned his head in surprise, just in time to meet Hazuki Mogami's gentle gaze.
The usually cold and rational female professor surprisingly revealed her feminine side in front of everyone.
She even pressed herself against Mr. Itsuki's body, seemingly trying to calm his agitated emotions with her body heat.
Caught off guard by this unexpected display of affection, everyone could only turn away.
Yoruichi Toyama, who was about to comfort Mr. Itsuki, coughed.
"Um, Mr. Itsuki, let me correct you."
"Even a 'white-haired ghost' who premeditates murder isn't without a heart."
"Selfishness, cowardice, laziness, malice... these things also come from the human heart, only they are the 'evil' side of the human heart."
"So he wasn't wrong to claim that he still had good intentions."
These seemingly excusing but actually sarcastic remarks caught Wada's attention.
He knelt there, looking at Yoruichi Toyama with a pitiful expression, yet a hint of gloom shone through his eyes.
"You call me... selfish?... How could a detective like you, who speaks without understanding the situation, possibly understand..."
“Oh, there’s a question,” Yoruichi Toyama asked, seemingly ignoring his mutterings, “How did you meet that ‘Hellish Puppet Master’, Yoichi Takato?”
"What? Takato?" Kindaichi jumped three feet in the air, recognizing the name. "Where is he?"
Yoruichi Toyama sighed helplessly.
"Hey Hajime-chan, haven't you noticed that someone's missing from our team?"
Jintian was taken aback for a moment, then began counting the number of people in the cabin.
Mr. Itsuki, Wada, antique dealer Yagi.
Kinuyo Nakata and the other three are brothers and sisters who have just been recognized by each other.
Miyuki, Emily, Toyama, and Akemi.
Even the tour guide, Shiro Tendo, was there.
"By the way, Mr. Mao... you said he is Gao Yuan?" Kindaichi's eyes widened in disbelief.
The thought of himself and Mr. Itsuki spending their free time at that coffee shop made him feel terrible.
"No, wait a minute! You and Miss Mingmei have spent quite a bit of time with him, haven't you?"
Yoruichi Toyama, who hadn't explained this to Kindaichi before, could only offer a perfunctory answer.
"He suddenly said he had something to do back home and left, how was I supposed to know..."
"I heard a noise outside just now. When I went out, I saw Mr. Wada dressed as a white-haired demon, acting suspiciously. I bumped into him when I followed him."
Knowing that Yoruichi Toyama possessed some mystical abilities, Kindaichi had no choice but to believe it.
"What about Gao Yuanren? Did you let him get away again?"
Yoruichi Toyama shrugged and answered confidently.
"There's a criminal threatening to attack Ms. Nakata right in front of me, what do you think I can do?"
Thinking back to that situation, everyone immediately understood.
As long as Takato didn't do anything threatening to others, there would have been no problem for Yoruichi Toyama to stop Wada from killing him.
"So this plan of yours was also taught by Takato?" Kindaichi was indeed furious when the puppeteer was mentioned.
"How could you listen to someone like that! He's just using you!"
"W-what?" Wada asked, looking surprised. "That person... he didn't teach me any plan at all!"
"He's a murderer! He almost killed me, you know that?"
Because he was triggered to confide in others, Wada Ichiko blurted out his conversation with Takato.
"That day, when I left the hospital, I was so distracted that I almost got into a car accident..."
"But then I regretted it. If I had been hit by a car and died, my life insurance money could have gone to Tomomi..."
"I want to die, but I can't commit suicide, because the insurance company won't pay out..."
It was around that time that Gao Yuan approached Hetian.
It must be said that the "puppet master of hell" is incredibly perceptive when it comes to capturing people who are desperate, especially those who are prone to turning despair into murderous intent.
However, he maliciously suggested that he kill Wada so that Tomomi could be saved, which frightened Wada into refusing.
Yoruichi Toyama couldn't help but laugh.
Aside from a cold laugh, he even felt a bit of admiration for the puppeteer.
As expected, he is an expert at seeing through the evil in people's hearts, and he is the best at exposing people who use kinship to cover up their selfish nature.
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