Chapter 33 Who is that?

Don’t be fooled by Megure Jusan’s chubby and sturdy appearance and his sweet smile, but when he gets serious, his expression becomes cold and his eyes become sharp, giving him the intimidating power of a veteran detective.

Out of a little respect for this familiar NPC who is likely to be encountered in the case, the player searched for the name in his empty mind.

Then ask sincerely:

"Who is that?"

Amuro Toru, who had been listening to the entire conversation without making a sound, said, "Let me interject a few words."

The handsome blond-haired waiter smiled and asked Officer Megure and Hisashi Jionno, "Jionno-kun, do you still remember Conan Edogawa?"

Player: “Who is this again?”

As soon as he saw Inspector Megure, he took advantage of his height to squeeze through the crowd, and the little carrot-head in a suit who was lurking and eavesdropping was pulled out by Toru Amuro.

Conan Edogawa stared speechlessly with his half-moon eyes, and protested loudly: "It's me!"

Frankly speaking, it wasn't the first time I saw him at the Poirot Cafe. Even if I didn't have a deep impression of him, I had just met him in a proper way. I forgot it the moment I turned around. Is this a seven-second memory?

How can such a person be a detective?

Detective reasoning and solving cases often require a keen eye for details and a good memory.

But Hisashi Jyouno didn't pay any attention to details at all. He even guaranteed that Hisashi Jyouno only remembered Toru Amuro in this cafe, but he might not even remember Azusa Enomoto.

Ha, ha, maybe in his memory, Toru Amuro is called Catherine.

The player glanced at the name above Conan's head and said, "Oh, it's you. Then what?"

Amuro Toru: "Officer Megure, you've also discovered that maybe because he deals with too many people every day, Jyouno-kun doesn't have a good memory for names. He can't remember a name if you only say it."

Player: “…”

Um?

Why does it seem like Catherine complained about me?

But if the players talk about this, they still feel it is very unfair.

In an area where there are dozens of NPCs that he has to deal with every now and then, he can't even remember the names of the passers-by NPCs other than the characters in the card pool with different modeling.

Not to mention that there are so many NPCs in the science world, and the models are all similar. Each NPC has a name on his head, and the naming style is particularly fond of Ichiro, Jiro, Saburo, as if they were printed out of the same mold.

Players who have completed a large number of tasks during this period have come into contact with countless NPCs. They don’t even know how many X-langs there are among them, let alone remember so many.

Megure Jusan was helpless. This was really not a suitable environment for talking.

Although the case involves Hisashi Jyouno, it does not mean that he is suspected of murder.

He still has a good impression of Hisashi Jyouno, who behaves strangely but helps the Metropolitan Police Department a lot. It is normal for a detective to be involved in the case, so his attitude is not serious.

"Let's go talk somewhere else."

The player looked at the long string of exclamations reluctantly, then looked at Megure Jusan.

Although these tasks are simple and the rewards are basically only Japanese yen, but when calculated, the raw materials go through the cooking process and the profit is ten or even dozens of times the price. I don’t know if I will have such an opportunity next time.

But Inspector Megure is the police NPC who appears most frequently in the detective missions he is responsible for. The minimum mission reward is thirty Sands of Time, and with more stages, it can be fifty, which is not on the same level as the yen reward.

Isn't it normal to do multiple tasks at the same time? Why are there tasks that specifically occupy his own scene?

Amuro Toru silently put his hand on Jyouno Hisaji's shoulder and said, "Let's go, Jyouno-kun."

After all, having been "Catherine" for such a long time, Toru Amuro has discovered that Hisashi Jyouno is more familiar with him than others, and will assume that what he says is part of the mission and will listen more carefully.

really.

Catherine goes to Megure Jusan to increase the bet, and the player chooses to go through the mission plot here first.

Before leaving, Toru Amuro apologized to Azusa Enomoto and the customers in the store, asking them to wait for a moment. He really took care of everything.

Officer Megure originally planned to take the people back to the police car for a talk, but the reporters nearby were already holding up their cameras and taking pictures of the police car and them.

As there was no room for Toru Amuro and Conan in the car, they simply called Takagi Wataru and Sato Miwako and prepared to go to the Mori Detective Agency to borrow a quiet place.

Conan Edogawa knows best the resentment that Uncle Mori feels towards Hisashi Jyouno because his business has been taken away from him.

Even today there was such a long queue downstairs, and most of them were young women. He knew that Uncle Maori must be extremely jealous.

Sure enough, when I stood downstairs and looked up at the glass window on the second floor, I was faced with a face clinging unwillingly to the window. At first glance, it looked as intimidating as the devil mask.

Conan: "Haha."

Megure Jusan adjusted his hat speechlessly: "This guy is still the same as always."

Toru Amuro: "Wait..."

He couldn't hold it.

The player, who seldom took the stairs and was used to walking in a straight line, had already quickly climbed up the wall to the second floor and bumped into Maori Kogoro, who didn't have time to awkwardly avoid his acquaintance.

The frightened middle-aged man, who was reeking of cigarettes and alcohol, screamed, and he had already jumped out of the window and reached his destination.

Then a one-sided roar that went from weak to furious came from the room.

"What are you doing, kid?" "You have no respect for your elders at all." "Get out of my house now." "Stop rummaging through the closet! Magazines! Don't throw away my precious magazines!" and so on.

Conan: “…”

Megure Jusan: “…”

Takagi Wataru and Sato Miwako whispered, "Detective Jouno is still the same as always... um..."

Sato Miwako was speechless: "I understand. Yumi grits her teeth whenever she mentions him now."

Amuro Toru said with a familiar smile: "Master might be a little scared, let's go up quickly."

The group had only been upstairs for a few minutes, but the house, which was not very tidy to begin with, had already become almost unclean.

Maori Kogoro was busy packing up his treasures all over the room, cursing as he picked them up. Sometimes he would even cry when his collection of classics was dug out, and his expression changed so much that he looked like a mental patient.

Although the culprit, Jyouno Hisaji, did not find any hidden treasure chests, he also collected some dropped ingredients and is now waiting by the table to enter the plot dialogue.

The more common-sense group of people chose to roll up their sleeves and help Kogoro Mori clean up first.

While doing his work, Toru Amuro grabbed Hisashi Jyouno, who was impatient and wanted to climb out the window and jump downstairs.

After everything was basically cleaned up, with Kogoro Mori joining in, who wanted to see Jyouno Hisaji having fun, they finally started talking about the case.

Miwako Sato took out a photo and a newspaper, placed them on the table, and said:

"Three days ago, a resident found a body washed up on the river bank."

"The police have confirmed his identity as Yuichiro Kyuki, who was reported missing by his family twelve days ago."

In the photo, the background is a lively party venue. The young man in the camera looks impatient, but the people around him are very enthusiastic towards him, and some of them even smile a little flatteringly.

The newspapers printed news about the discovery of a floating corpse. Because the body had been soaked in water for a long time, it was horribly decayed when it was discovered, to the point where it would make people feel sick at the first glance.

No one at the scene looked away, except for Jyouno Hisaji, whose expressions became serious.

Takagi Wataru continued, "The autopsy results show that Kyuki Yuichiro died thirteen days ago. There was no sign of resistance on his body, and he was killed by a blunt object hitting the back of his head. The crime scene has been found, right by the river, and the murder weapon is most likely a stone from the river."

"After being attacked and killed, he was tied with ropes and tied to rocks and pushed into the river to sink his body, but the ropes broke and his body floated up and was discovered by witnesses."

"Apart from his own clothes, no valuables were found on him, and his personal relationships were complicated, so the police investigation reached a deadlock."

Hearing this, Conan couldn't help but ask: "If the deceased has no valuables, what about the possibility of robbery and murder?"

"It's ruled out for now." Megure Jusan said, "If it was Kyuki Yuichiro from a month ago, it might be possible, but some time before he was killed, his family's business went bankrupt due to a broken funding chain.

His mother said he was a spendthrift, and estimated that he only had 20,000 to 30,000 yen left.

Conan understood immediately.

If it was a robbery and murder, 20,000 or 30,000 yen would be enough to knock the person unconscious. It is totally not worth it to be responsible for a murder.

"What about his social connections? During my apprenticeship, I learned that many murderers had some kind of grudge against the victim." Amuro pointed at the photos, "From this alone, it seems that he doesn't have a good relationship with people."

Miwako Sato is quite familiar with the case.

"Kyuichiro Kugi did not have a good reputation among his friends. They were accused of looking down on others because of his wealth. When his family went bankrupt, his friends distanced themselves from him. On the day of the incident, they were partying in a bar. The surveillance video of the bar was true, and they had an alibi."

"As for family relationships, Kyuki Yuichiro is the only son in the family, and his other relatives are only an uncle and a cousin."

"His parents have basically never left the house since they went bankrupt. His uncle is the general manager of a pharmaceutical company, and his cousin is his adopted daughter. Coincidentally, the alibis of the four of them were all testimonies between each other."

"But there is no evidence to support this."

Conan frowned slightly. Kyuichiro Kyuki died too cleanly.

His extravagant spending after bankruptcy may have caused his family to resent him, but the time was too short and it should not have reached the point where they would kill their own son.

As for his uncle and cousin, judging from Kyuki Yuichiro's personality described in these passages, it is more likely that he hates his relatives who are still wealthy.

Not true.

If he wasn't going out to party with friends, what would Kyuki Yuichiro do with only 20,000 or 30,000 yen on him?

...his uncle’s pharmaceutical company!

If the Black Organization was involved, it would be normal for Kyuki Yuichiro to die so cleanly without any trace of the murderer.

Why did the police look for Hisashi Jyouno? Did Hisashi Jyouno participate in this mission and leave behind some scars?

Conan felt a chill down his spine at the thought, yet his heart was excited at the same time.

He was just about to go to Takagi Wataru to ask whether the testimony of Kyuki Yuichiro's friend mentioned that this man said he would become successful, when he heard the loud voice of Mori Kogoro.

"I roughly understand. This is a troublesome case." Maori Kogoro pointed at Jyouno Hisaji, "But what does this have to do with him? Aren't you here to see him?"

Police cases are not usually entrusted to detectives. If a detective stumbles upon a murder scene and solves the case, it's fine. But if they do this on a daily basis, the Metropolitan Police Department will not be able to hold up their heads.

Kogoro Mouri used to be a criminal policeman and is now a detective, so he knows all these things very well.

Megure Juzo said: "This was also an oversight on our part. We were busy investigating the people involved in the case and only later realized that the deceased's lost belongings were not just cash, but also the mobile phone he would have carried with him.

Fortunately, although the phone was turned off when we found it, we were able to track its previous trajectory and it did not overlap with the location where Yuichiro Kyuki was killed.

It can be confirmed that someone obtained this phone shortly before Kyuichiro Kyuki's death and has been carrying it with him ever since.

However, he was somewhere else at the time of Kyuichiro Kyuki's death, and many clients who asked him for help testified that he was not the murderer.

Based on these, uh… strange tracks throughout Japan, we were able to identify the only person who matched."

As Inspector Megure spoke, everyone present looked at Jyouno Hisaji who was obviously not listening seriously and was daydreaming.

After all, just as Inspector Megure was able to confirm so quickly that it was Hisaji Iono, anyone who follows Hisaji Iono knows that the only person who can run around like a cat when its owner is not at home, leaving the entire map of Japan with a messed up route, is Hisaji Iono.

...Aren't you a famous detective? Is this your attitude towards the case?

Of course, they don't know that solving cases has nothing to do with the player's brain. The plot dialogues can be skipped as needed, and the reasoning evidence is all based on guessing key words.

Anyway, if he guessed wrong, the system would just let him vote again and would not release him. As a result, everyone saw him as a detective who never made mistakes, but no one knew that he was using the process of elimination to solve the case behind the scenes.

While waiting for these long, automatically played plots to end, players switched to a small game in the background.

I switched back from the base-building mini-game when I realized that there had been no background chatter for a while.

Then I heard Inspector Megure say:

"It's you, Jyouno Hisaji!"

Players who haven't figured it out: "Who is Jyouno Hisaji?"

Everyone: “…”

The player suddenly realized what was going on when he saw the NPCs in the room looking like they wanted to pinch themselves to save themselves for some reason.

"Ohhhh, it's me."

"So what do you want to talk to me about?"