Chapter 73 Assassin 3
Saturday, April 29th
A week passed by as usual.
There has been no movement from the organization codenamed after wine, but there has been some progress in the murder case where the victim was a police officer.
...It can't be said to be progress, there are just new casualties.
It was at the wedding of Sara Shiratori, the younger sister of Inspector Shiratori of the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division.
As a friendly work partner of the Metropolitan Police Department, Utsuki Kurosaki was also invited to attend the wedding ceremony. Of course, she came in person - Kenji Hagiwara, who was using her body, was at her home at the moment helping her brother and sister-in-law take care of the children.
Although she was attending the meeting alone, the police officers around her were mostly familiar faces to her, so she didn't feel out of place. However, she was quite surprised when, while searching for Jinpei Matsuda in the venue, she unexpectedly found the disguised Morobushi Kagemitsu.
"Hello again." She walked up to the "complete stranger" young man and spoke to him in a naturally low voice, "Why are you here?"
"I can't hide it from you." Zhu Fujingguang smiled, but he wasn't surprised. "After all, I have more than just one job."
Kurosaki Utsuki used the same sentence structure: "After all, I don't just rely on my eyes to recognize people."
Since she can see through Kaito Kid's identity, there is no reason why her childhood sweetheart, Morobushi Kagemitsu, can hide it from her.
But since they had met by chance, she didn't mind lending a hand to her friend: "Do you need help?"
"Not for now." Zhu Fushigiri shook his head and pointed behind her. "Matsuda is walking towards you."
Even though it was behind him, Kurosaki Utsuki was aware of it because she could sense the spiritual pressure. "Are you going to avoid it?"
Zhu Fujingguang smiled and said, "It's okay. I haven't seen him for a long time."
A few minutes later, the three of them stood in an inconspicuous corner of the venue and reminisced about the past.
Matsuda Jinpei complained slightly about his colleagues' disappearance, but he could roughly guess that they hadn't left the police force, but had been assigned important tasks that required them to remain anonymous. Therefore, he didn't ask any further questions, and even after confirming their identities, he never called out their names once.
"Speaking of which, I just heard that your brother was transferred from the headquarters to the local police station. Do you know what happened?"
Morobushi Kagemitsu was stunned by the question, but Kurosaki Utahi chimed in, "Teacher Gao Ming isn't always as calm as Zhuge Kongming."
Compared to her undercover brother, she, as a student, knows Zhu Fu Gaoming's current situation better.
Immediately, both of them looked at her: "Ge Xi, you know?"
"I heard a little bit... It was just a minor irregularity, not a big deal," Kurosaki Utsuki replied, a touch of comfort in her voice. "Teacher Gao Ming's colleague disappeared while tracking down a criminal and was almost presumed dead. He was the only one who persisted in searching, using slightly irregular methods, and luckily he finally found them."
She thought for a few seconds, then added, "The missing person was probably a colleague, like you and Kenji to Jinpei. Before they became colleagues, they were childhood friends, although Mr. Gaoming always arrogantly denies it."
"Is that why you were transferred to the local police station?"
Kurosaki Utahi nodded, "It's Shinno Shu. In a sense, he's a good match for Mr. Gao Ming."
Matsuda Jinpei asked blankly, "Why?"
Zhu Fujingguang also reacted for a few seconds, and then suddenly realized: "It's because of the "Longzhong Strategy". I remember you told me and Zero about it when you were in middle school."
Matsuda, who had not been exposed to this kind of cultural influence, immediately looked at Kurosaki Utsuki with half-moon eyes: "Hello, what kind of encrypted call is this——"
Kurosaki Utsuki clicked his tongue. "'At that time, the First Lord was stationed in Xinye.'" When Liu Bei was stationed in Xinye, he heard about Zhuge Kongming through a recommendation, and then he visited him three times at his thatched cottage."
"I see……"
"Of course, with Mr. Gao Ming's ability, he will soon be able to show his skills to a place where he can be like Kong Ming."
Catching sight of Maori Kogoro in her peripheral vision, Kurosaki Utaki temporarily left to greet Detective Maori and his daughter, Ran. The young detective she had just met was also nearby, giving her a sudden, ominous feeling.
When she returned to Zhu Fu Jingguang, her cell phone suddenly vibrated, which immediately confirmed this.
The caller was Kenji Hagiwara. Logically, he knew she was attending the wedding and should not disturb her unless it was something important.
With no one in particular to avoid, Kurosaki Utsuki answered the phone right where she was. Soon, her own voice came through the receiver. Hagiwara Kenji, still using her body, sounded a little aggrieved. "Utsuki-chan," he complained, "I've been kidnapped."
……ah?
Before Kurosaki Utsuki could even utter an "Ah?", the lights in the entire venue suddenly went out and it was pitch black, as if there was a power outage.
Her nerves were tense, and her bad premonition became a reality a dozen seconds later.
The girl's scream reached everyone's ears.
She is the daughter of the Mori family.
"I have some trouble here, you deal with it yourself first. Remember to turn on the location, I will find you as soon as possible." After hurriedly responding to the person on the other end of the phone, Kurosaki Utsuki hung up.
Even if he claimed to have been kidnapped, he was still a qualified Shinigami who could be trusted by the captain to guard the human world. With humans as his opponents, there was no need to worry about his safety.
If she wanted to go to his side and help him as soon as possible, she had to solve the unclear problems here as soon as possible.
Before the lights came on, Matsuda Jinpei beside her had already turned on the flashlight on his phone. Several people were already running towards the screaming girl. She sensed the movement of spiritual pressure and knew it was Detective Mori, the young Kudo boy, and the familiar Inspectors Megure and Takagi.
"Don't panic, several people have already gone over there. In this dark environment, too many people will make the scene even more chaotic." Kurosaki Utsuki spoke to comfort Matsuda who also wanted to run to see the situation, and closed his eyes to concentrate on sensing the spiritual pressure a little further away.
"The girl who screamed just now is fine," she whispered the conclusion of her investigation, but then her brows furrowed. "Someone around her was injured. It was Miwako. I'm afraid the injury is very serious. Don't get excited. Officer Megure will definitely call an ambulance immediately."
There was another thing that concerned her very much. She had been concentrating on chatting with her friends before, and just now she realized that there were actually two whole beings in the venue. They were very close to each other, and their spiritual pressure gave her the feeling that they were not earthbound spirits.
She hadn't heard of any murders or accidents happening at this wedding venue in recent years, so there was only one answer -
They came here with someone they cared about very much, and this person made them so obsessed that they could not become Buddhas.
Although her first reaction was to the deceased elders of Shiratori's family or the groom's family, these two were not at the newlyweds' side, but were closer to the direction where the sudden incident had just occurred...
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The phone call came.
After the ambulance arrived and took away Sato Miwako and Mori Ran, the highest-ranking police officer present, the Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Chief, ordered all personnel to conduct a smoke reaction check.
Obviously, the weapon that had just injured Sato Miwako was a gun. And from the fragments of conversation between Kudo Shinichi and Megure Jusan, Kurosaki Utaki roughly understood that the criminal had emptied the magazine.
"...That kind of examination will take too long." She couldn't help but mutter under her breath.
There are quite a lot of guests at this wedding.
Zhu Fujingguang lowered his voice beside her: "Is there something urgent?"
She curled her lips and said, "It's not too urgent, it's just that "I" was kidnapped."
Is this considered adding insult to injury?
"ah?"
"It might take some time to explain. I'll tell you on the way."
Kurosaki Utsuki waved to him and walked straight towards a strange young man. Although she stopped in front of him, her eyes finally fell on the empty direction beside him.
Her actions were not ostentatious. In the slightly chaotic meeting place as they were preparing for the smoke test, only Matsuda Jinpei and Morobushi Kagemitsu kept their eyes on her.
However, the former's gaze had an extra layer of clarity compared to the latter - Zhu Fu Jingguang could only vaguely see the spirit, but could not clearly see the face of the soul.
"It seems like you have something to say," Kurosaki Utsuki said slowly, not caring at all about the surprised look from the man beside her. "Do you have any clues about the case just now? Do you want to tell me?"
After the call, when she saw the faces of the two souls, she already knew that the man next to them was the criminal - most likely the murderer of the two previous murders and the attempted murder just now.
After all, the bodies of these two souls had been on her dissection table not long ago.
The man next to him said, "Excuse me—"
Kurosaki Utsuki didn't give him a chance to interrupt, her eyes fixed on the soul of the police officer who had recently died in the line of duty. "Don't be so surprised, I'm talking to you, Officer Narasawa," she said, suddenly changing the subject. "Is this man next to me the murderer of these three cases?"
Although her voice was not loud, it was enough to attract the attention of everyone nearby.
The man next to her visibly tensed at her question, and she quickly got her answer.
It was the same affirmation as she had guessed.
"He's a psychiatrist... I see. The death message left by Officer Narasawa didn't refer to the police manual, but to the psychiatric department."
While listening to the explanation from Officer Narasawa's spirit, Kurosaki Utaki recounted the information she heard as if talking to herself.
"The criminal's purpose is related to the case that the three police officers reopened their investigation into. Is it the case of Dr. Niino's suicide?"
Various gazes around her gradually gathered towards her.
And her next words completely broke the man beside her defense—
"I see. He was the one who killed Dr. Nino a year ago."
"Miss," the young man who was accused of murder by Kurosaki Utaha interrupted impatiently, "Excuse me, what are you talking about?"
More and more people, almost all of them police officers, attracted their attention.
"I'm doing deductive reasoning, the kind in a mind palace."
Kurosaki Utsuki made up the story seriously, then she straightened her expression and all her facial expressions disappeared in an instant.
"The final conclusion is that the culprit who killed Dr. Nino a year ago, killed Officers Narasawa and Shiba not long ago, and just seriously injured Officer Sato is you, Dr. Fudo."
The entire room fell silent after she finished speaking. Even the Minister of Criminal Justice simply stared at her in silence, awaiting the next confrontation between her and the person she accused.
The man took a sharp breath. "I can accept the gunpowder test. There is absolutely no gunpowder reaction on my cuffs—"
"Yes, because you used surgical gloves and an umbrella," she said. "If you put on the gloves and then walked through the umbrella with the hole in it, the gunpowder would not fly onto your cuffs."
Obviously, Kurosaki Utsuki, who already knows the truth, has the absolute upper hand here.
After all, there were two reliable witnesses around.
She then pressed on, "But what about the uppers? I'm afraid some of them have fallen off a bit."
"Besides, isn't the witness still alive? The flashlight just now allowed that lady to see your face—"
Not wanting him to pay too much attention to the witness, Kurosaki Utsuki changed the subject.
"I already know where you disposed of the umbrella and gloves. It's impossible for you to throw them far away in such a closed environment. A quick search would have easily revealed them. Do you think there are any traces of you left in the gloves?"
"How you obtained the gun is certainly a clue. Maybe there's information about the dark web in your browsing history that you haven't deleted."
Having said that, a smile suddenly broke out on Kurosaki Utsuki's face.
"No way, no way, could it be that I was right about everything——"
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