Chapter 50 Chapter 50 The Murder at the Rich Family Banquet (Part 2…)
As soon as Mao Lilan finished calling the police in a clear and coherent manner, Yuyin heard some noise and saw that many people were approaching in that direction.
Of course, the police wouldn't arrive so quickly, and the banquet hall was so noisy that no matter how sharp Matsudaira Kojiro's girlfriend's screams were, they couldn't be heard outside. The only thing that could cause such a big commotion was the energy reaction caused by the deceased's death causing his supernatural powers to become ineffective.
That's right, the deceased who had a conflict with Matsudaira Kojiro and whom he considered to be his elder brother had only one possible identity, and that was Maruyama Shoichi, a psychic with the ability to transform [chameleon].
Yuyin was already thinking about the feasibility of escaping by jumping out of the window at this time, but this room had no windows leading to the outside world. If she wanted to jump out of the window, she would have to run away first, and there was only one road outside that connected to the hall.
Her eyes fell on Edogawa Conan who was still examining the body, and she couldn't help but sigh, thinking that with this little guy around, it would be useless for her to run away. Based on her understanding of the child from the two meetings she had, he would definitely tell her when the police arrived at the scene to question him.
When Atobe Keigo saw that her face looked strange, he quickly asked, "What's wrong?"
He arrived at the scene a little later than Yuyin, and only found out what had happened from Ran Mouri's call to the police. Upon seeing the deceased, Atobe's face wasn't looking good either. After all, no matter how gifted he was, this was his first time dealing with a dead body.
But even so, he noticed that something was wrong with Yuyin at the first moment.
"Nothing..." Yuyin shook her head gently. When she heard hurried footsteps behind her, her tone suddenly changed. She took Atobe's arm and said, "Atobe, I'm a little scared to stay here. Can you come with me?" She leaned close to Atobe's ear and whispered softly, so low that only the two of them could hear, "Cover me."
Atobe was stunned for a moment by her abnormal behavior, then he reacted after hearing her whispered words and put his arm around Tamane's shoulders. Tamane leaned on Atobe's shoulder and buried her face in it.
The two of them walked out the door in this posture. At this moment, a person rushed in and almost bumped into them.
Atobe Keigo was startled again. Wasn't this young man with round glasses one of the people Yuyin had said she didn't want to see? No wonder Yuyin acted like this; she had expected this commotion to attract him.
When Ango Sakaguchi saw someone trying to leave, he was afraid it was Maruyama Shoichi who had just changed his disguise, so he immediately stopped them and asked, "Excuse me, what happened? I thought I heard screaming?"
While speaking, he looked at the two of them carefully. He saw that they were a young boy and girl. The purple-haired boy had an outstanding temperament and an imposing aura. He must be the eldest son of a certain family. As for his female companion, he could not see her face because of her posture.
Atobe Keigo said with a sullen face: "Please move aside, my girlfriend is not feeling well and needs to go out for some fresh air."
Sakaguchi Ango pushed up his glasses and immediately changed his strategy. He looked like a kind-hearted person passing by and asked with concern, "Are you sick? Do you want me to call the hotel doctor?"
Atobe Keigo felt Yuyin move slightly beside him, and the two of them moved closer together. He didn't forget that Yuyin was avoiding him, and immediately stretched out his hands to protect himself, like a protective child, "It's okay, she was just scared, someone died inside."
Ango Sakaguchi's heart sank. He came here to confirm this matter. Due to the problem with the structure of the hotel room here, the sound fed back by the monitoring device installed on Matsudaira Ryoichiro's mobile phone was not clear enough. The report from his subordinates was just that they heard a dead person. The specific situation was still unclear, but he had already thought of a possibility.
Seeing his subordinates following him out of the corner of his eye, Ango Sakaguchi gave them a look, signaling them not to let anyone leave. He stopped trying to stop Atobe and the other two and was about to enter the room.
Seeing this, Atobe thought he had finally passed the test, so he moved away a little, put his arm around Yuyin, and walked out.
The moment they passed each other, Sakaguchi Ango paused, turned around suddenly and looked at the two of them.
Specifically, he was looking at the back of the girl whose face he had never seen clearly.
Ango Sakaguchi pushed his glasses up, his eyes flashing with an unknown emotion that was complex and difficult to understand.
In just a moment, he calmed down and walked back into the room.
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The deceased was indeed Maruyama Shoichi.
Sakaguchi Ango didn't even need to use his special abilities, he could confirm this from the appearance.
However, in order to prevent Maruyama Shoichi from faking his own death, and to use a trick of transplanting flowers and trees to get rid of the wanted list of the Special Ability Agent Department, he still leaned over and approached the corpse, trying to read some useful information to confirm this matter.
"Don't touch it!"
However, he was stopped by a child. To be more specific, an elementary school student opened his hand and said righteously, "Uncle Maori said that only the police can touch the body. No one else can get close. Otherwise, it will destroy the scene!"
Under normal circumstances, Ango Sakaguchi's response should not be to lie and say that he is a policeman (he has his ID anyway), but he should have asked who "Uncle Mori" is in a normal way.
However, Sakaguchi Ango was in no mood to act at the moment. If the memory scenes he had just inadvertently read from the boy he passed by with his supernatural powers were full of a capable subordinate who was suspected to be dead, then the memories that this little boy had asked him to extract were even more bizarre. In addition to the figure of a high school girl, there was also the memory of his body shrinking from big to small.
This experience, comparable to the ability to manipulate age, slowed his reaction for a few seconds before he replied, "I am a police officer."
Then he saw a detective named Conan, who was actually the savior of the island nation's police, looking at him with suspicion, and almost blurted out "You are lying, I know all the police officers in the Metropolitan Police Department."
Sakaguchi Ango reluctantly pulled out his spare "Police Handbook" and shook it: "Do you believe it now, little detective?"
Well, it’s basic homework for a secret civil servant to avoid being discovered by a high school detective as a member of a secret agency.
He waved the ID so quickly that Conan couldn't see the police number and name clearly, but he vaguely caught the word Yokohama. Then he realized that the other party was probably not a local Tokyo policeman, and finally he was not so alert.
"You can watch now," he added after a moment's thought, "but I have to keep an eye on you and don't spoil the scene."
"As you wish." Sakaguchi Ango smiled helplessly. The amount of information he had received today was so overwhelming that the suspected death of Maruyama Shoichi seemed less important.
*
Atobe and Tamane had not walked far before they were stopped again.
His face darkened, and he deliberately put on the arrogant tone of a young master: "Get out of the way, or I'll have my lawyer sue you for restricting my personal freedom."
Yuyin glanced at him out of the corner of her eye, making sure that Chief Taneda was not present and that others would not be able to recognize her. She finally felt relieved and released the tangerine-like posture she had just been in.
These people followed Mr. Ango here. They should be from the Special Ability Department. Breaking in by force would be bad luck.
Yuyin, who still didn't know that her vest had fallen off for some reason she didn't understand, pulled on Atobe's sleeve and advised, "Forget it, let's go back to our lounge first. The police will come later and will probably ask for a statement."
Atobe's expression then turned from gloomy to bright, and he snorted heavily. The two of them walked hand in hand back to the lounge where they had played cards with Sonoko and Ran before.
Seeing the heavily closed door in front of them, the two plainclothes officers from the Special Ability Division exchanged glances, and one of them whispered, "Is there no other exit from this room?"
The other person thought for a moment before saying, "Probably not. I remember that the lounges here are all inner rooms. Apart from this door for entering and exiting, there aren't even any windows."
The man from before finally breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good. Mr. Sakaguchi probably means that we should keep the person here and not let him escape."
Another person sighed, "Ah, this banquet hall is full of dignitaries, and we are not allowed to reveal our identities. It's really difficult."
*
As soon as the door closed, Yuyin let go of her hand, took half a step away, and restored her normal social distance from Atobe.
Atobe turned his head, coughed lightly, and finally adjusted his facial expression. He asked softly: "Who are the young man you want to hide from and those people just now?" If they are bad guys, I can provide help.
After hesitating for a while, Atobe swallowed the second half of the sentence.
Even yakuza organizations like the Yamaguchi-gumi and the Mafia would not act recklessly at the Matsudaira family banquet, so Atobe quickly ruled out this speculation.
"Don't worry, they are not bad people." As if she could see what Atobe was thinking, Yuyin comforted him.
"Then why did you... Forget it, if it violates your privacy, you don't have to tell me." Atobe said considerately.
"Nothing, I just don't know how to say it," Yuyin thought for a moment and replied, "Besides, some things are not necessarily better the more you know."
She understood this very early on that the world is not as simple as ordinary people see it.
To ordinary people who are unaware of its existence, the Special Ability Department is the guardian angel who silently protects the world of ordinary people. However, to the special ability people who are involved in the disputes, it is no different from a vampire.
Although if we really talk about ranking, the group of old immortals in the Sorcerer Association are the undisputed number one on the trash list, but as far as the situation at the time is concerned, when she was a sorcerer, most of the time she was either in Curse High or on the way back to Curse High from the mission location, and she didn't have to meet that group of old trash at all. It was different in the Special Ability Agent Department. The secret bureaucracy had all the rules and regulations, and she was still the one who was often caught as 007.
Especially after Mr. Ango became my direct supervisor, endless working hours became the norm.
If it weren't for the fact that Mr. Ango, besides being a workaholic, was at least a kind and good leader who didn't manipulate his subordinates, Yuyin felt that she would have long ago been unable to endure the life of working overtime every day and would have jumped ship to Port Mafia.
Atobe heard the implicit warning in Yuyin's words and stopped asking questions.
Although he wanted to tell her that his question had nothing to do with curiosity, but was simply out of concern for her safety.
Atobe really wanted to tell her that no matter what difficulties she encountered, he hoped she would think of him first and ask him for help.
Just like before.
"What are we going to do now?"
"wait."
"Wait?" Atobe asked.
Yuyin pulled Atobe to sit on the sofa, pushed the food cart that had just been delivered to the side, and placed the food on it on the coffee table one by one.
"Wait until those people have confirmed the information they need and then retreat on their own."
Yuyin is very clear about the operating style of the Special Ability Agent Department, especially since this is not in their territory, Yokohama. After confirming that the deceased is indeed the wanted special ability user Maruyama Shoichi, they will retreat and leave the subsequent case-solving to the local police. Then she will be safe.
She touched the pot tentatively and said happily, "The tea and coffee are still warm. What would you like to drink?"
"Black tea, thank you."
Atobe took the cup of black tea she handed him and pushed the two plates of desserts in front of him towards her, saying tactfully, "You've eaten a lot of this Nagasaki honey cake and Stollen dessert before. I specially ordered them for you to try."
Yuyin looked at the two pastries placed in front of her and blinked. She didn't expect that Atobe was so careful in his daily observations. After the whole banquet, she really thought that these two desserts from this hotel tasted the best. No wonder those people in the fan club always praised his amazing insight on the court. There was no opponent's flaw that he couldn't see through. What they said was true.
As a courtesy, Yuyin glanced at the table and handed him a plate of French desserts made with dark chocolate and black coffee. "Tetsubo, try this. I remember you don't like things too sweet. This Opera Cake should be just right."
Atobe took the plate but deliberately put on a stern face.
"Keigo."
"What?" Yuyin was puzzled.
"I mean, privately call me Keigo."
Yuyin glanced at Atobe Keigo who hurriedly picked up the red teacup to cover up, and suddenly realized what he was referring to.
"Keigo," she called softly. Seeing Atobe's eyes light up, she suddenly felt it was a bit strange to call him by his name. She quickly pushed another plate of cake over and said, "You're not allergic to alcohol, are you? You can try this Black Forest cake too."
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The author has something to say: I have set up Anwu's special ability to extract memories that are related to the duration of contact. If the time is too short, the extracted memories will be more profound or will be what the person is currently thinking about.
Ahem, so Yuyin didn't expect that the reason she was exposed was... =V=
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