Chapter 2557-2569 [Cunning Subordinates]
"Why did you draw this picture?" Kobayashi Seiji was scribbling something in his sketchbook. Hearing this question, he looked up and glanced at Officer Takagi. "Why do you breathe, why do you eat, why do you have a crush on the female officer next to you? - Just like you instinctively pursue these things, I am also constantly pursuing my art."
Officer Gao Mu felt as if he had been hit by a hammer. A second later, he jumped up from his chair like a cooked shrimp: "What, what, what secret love?! Don't talk nonsense!"
"Heh." Kobayashi Seiji smiled grimly, "If you don't want to admit it, forget it."
"..." Officer Takagi secretly glanced at Sato Miwako who was busy in the distance, and seeing that she was not paying attention to the movement here, he sat back on the stool with lingering fear.
Judy was more concerned about something else. She looked at Kobayashi Seiji and said tentatively, "I get nervous every time I come to the police station, but Mr. Kobayashi doesn't seem to be like that."
Xiao Lin Xing didn't even raise his head: "That's because you don't come here often. You'll get used to it after a few more times."
Judy: “…”
...I'm chatting with you, why are you cursing me! !
Officer Takagi, who was standing nearby, was not surprised by this: in his impression, this famous painter was obsessed with painting all kinds of corpses - other people would scream and call the police when they came across a crime scene, but Kobayashi Seiji would happily run in to paint when he came across a crime scene. So this guy had been taken to the police station as a suspect more than once, and his familiarity with the Metropolitan Police Department was probably no less than that of some ordinary detectives.
But this is obviously not the focus at the moment. The focus is still today's bus explosion.
Thinking of the painter's eventful personality, Officer Takagi couldn't help but speculate: Could it be that Painter Kobayashi accidentally came across the criminals' planning scene, so he was inspired and painted something like this?
Thinking of this, he considered his words and asked again in a more specific way: "Where did you get the inspiration for this painting? - Why is the figure in the middle that is the most severely burned wearing a black hat? Who are you alluding to?"
Kobayashi Seiji frowned when he heard this: "Just draw if you want to, there's no need to ask so many questions. But speaking of this painting alone..."
He suddenly remembered something and said gloomily, "There is indeed another reason - in the previous case at Teitan High School, a guy wearing a black hat suspected me of being the murderer for no reason, which led to your police taking away my notebook."
He touched the sketchbook in his arms: "So I had a deep impression of that person. A few days ago, I happened to run into him near my home, so after I got home, I simply drew a portrait for him."
Officer Takagi understood: "So this is actually a cursed portrait?"
"Of course not." Kobayashi Seiji showed that chilling smile again, "I just think this kind of fate is very suitable for him - he looks like a very powerful person, only such a person is worthy of a sufficiently grand death."
Judy's hair stood on end when she heard this: "…" This, this is exactly what Uzo's twisted logic was! This lunatic actually said it in front of the police - what are the police over there standing there for? Arrest him!
Officer Gao Mu received the hint from Teacher Judy's eyes, but could only sigh helplessly: they, the police, can only catch criminals, not perverts - if the face of the person in the painting was clearly revealed, perhaps they could find a way to use the portrait rights to argue, but now...
Officer Takagi looked at the charred and distorted figure in the oil painting and shook his head silently.
Judy didn't expect that the police officer would be so easy to fool. She shook her head and had to do it herself: "But why don't you paint on canvas, but paint it on a postcard? What does the string of words on the back of the postcard mean?"
Officer Takagi: “!” Yeah, that’s a bit suspicious - then again, everyone around Jiang Xia has indeed become good at reasoning, even this foreign teacher who hasn’t taught Jiang Xia much... When the holidays come, why don’t he find a chance to go to Jiangxia for further studies?
On the other side, Kobayashi Seiji was not stumped by the series of questions that came his way. He tapped on his sketchbook and said, "As you can see, I haven't done oil painting for a while. The corresponding props at home are all in the warehouse, and I'm too lazy to look for them. But it happened that there was an oil painting studio recruiting students on the commercial street that day. They saw the sketching tools I was carrying and thought I was a potential user, so they gave me a stack of blank postcards and matching tools.
"Those miniature painting tools were very delicate, so I drew a picture on a whim. But I was not satisfied with the painting, so I put it aside and planned to draw a new sketch another day."
"As for the words on it, I don't know what they mean." Kobayashi Seiji picked up the postcard and looked at it. "These words are not mine. Maybe I accidentally put it in my painting supplies and left it outside. Someone picked it up and used it."
Judy: "..." Sophistry, all sophistry! Why have I never seen an admissions classroom that provides a full set of painting supplies?
She took a deep breath and asked, "Which studio?"
Kobayashi Seiji said confidently: "How can I remember that? I won't go to learn oil painting from them - can you remember every advertising flyer you have received?"
Judy: "..." You are lying!
She tried to keep smiling, trying to expose the other person's lie from another angle: "Let's not talk about this for now - there are so many ways to die in the world, why did you choose to draw a bus explosion?"
Kobayashi Seiji: "I happened to see a series of bus accidents that day, and I drew it when I got home."
He smacked his lips and said regretfully, "It's a pity that the car accident wasn't serious and no one died. I can only play freely."
"You...!" Judy couldn't bear to listen any longer. "How can there be so many perfect occasions? Such a crude excuse is too perfunctory!"
Kobayashi Seiji: "Believe it or not."
"Alright, alright." Officer Gao Mu quickly put on a smile and tried to stop the fight. "The police will continue their investigation. Please go back first. We will notify you when we have the results."
Kobayashi Seiji stood up readily but was in no hurry to leave.
He asked Officer Gao Mu: "I heard that two robbers died at the scene this time? Can I take a look?"
"No!" Officer Gao Mu decisively rejected this perverted painter who used human lives as material, "Please go back."
…
Judy came but couldn't find out anything.
She sighed, walked out of the Metropolitan Police Department, and whispered into the headset, "How is it, did you find anything? I just guided him to sit by the window, but he didn't seem to care about the position. I don't know if he is really not afraid of being killed by that organization, or if he is just pretending."
(End of this chapter)
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