Chapter 37: Kaiser Zero quits

"Tiaoye-kun, even if you are a detective involved in the case, you should know that it is illegal to break into someone else's house to investigate."

There was no sign of old age on Kyuki Jin's appearance, even his hair was only slightly grayed naturally. At this moment, he aimed his hunting rifle at Jyouno Hisaji, his eyes extremely sharp.

Kyuki Norie seemed a little scared as she stood behind Kyuki Jin.

The player has entered plot mode.

The black-haired young man walked towards the muzzle of the hunting rifle. He was not afraid of Jiu Mujin's momentum. He even calmly and arrogantly pushed the barrel of the gun to the side with his fingers.

"Is it illegal? Compared to what you did, Mr. Kumaki Susumu, I think what I did is enough to be forgiven by everyone."

"A famous detective, you wouldn't say I'm the murderer, would you?" Jiu Mujin snorted coldly and put away his gun. "That's ridiculous."

No one turned on the lights in the living room. The only light was the moonlight shining through the tall, large windows. It swayed through the thin curtains, spreading like cold ripples on water, trapping the three people in the ripples.

The detective dressed in black was like a shadow walking in the dark night, and he was the first to break the ripples of the moonlight. The sound of his footsteps on the floor made people's hearts beat nervously for no reason.

"Let's start with your totally unconvincing alibi."

"You worked at home all day, and only met your daughter and the maid at mealtimes. You could have sneaked away during these free time periods and killed Kyuki Yuichiro."

"The evidence is the marks on your boots and the phone hidden in the study.

Of course, your morning run would also leave similar marks on wet ground, but why would you hide your unwashed boots at the very back? Is there no way to have a servant who knows your itinerary clean them?

Moreover, the pattern on the sole of the boot matches the shoe prints found by the police.

As for this phone, it contains an email that contains a deal with Kyuki Yuichiro. This way, you can take him, who is carrying your company's secrets, to a remote and deserted place, knock him out, drag him away, kill him, and dump his body."

Seeing Jiumu Jin's face suddenly turn miserable, the black-haired young man shook the mobile phone in his hand.

"I don't need to explain the motive for the murder, right? Mr. Jiumu, you have been carefully hiding this news. After all, the core project secrets were stolen by your relatives who you recruited. This is not only a major mistake on your part, but it will also have a great impact on the company."

"You never told the police about this inside story. First, you were afraid that the truth would be leaked if too many people knew about it. Second, you wanted to hide your motive for murder."

"So, Kyuki Susumu, you are the murderer of Kyuki Yuichiro!"

Jiumu Jinneng has been running the company for so many years and has seen all kinds of ups and downs, but at this moment he couldn't help but feel a little panicked by the young man's loud conclusion.

He did hide the fact that Kyuki Yuichiro had stolen company secrets, but when he learned about it, he did nothing except suppress it.

He didn't know anything about the marks on the boots or the phone used to make the deal!

Thinking of this, Kyuki Susumu suddenly turned around and looked at Kyuki Norie.

There are many rooms in the house that maids cannot enter freely, especially places like the study where important documents are kept, which will be locked when no one is there.

Besides him, the only one who could do this was Kawaki Norie!

Kawaki Norie met his gaze with some bewilderment, as if she was still shocked that her father was a murderer.

"Norieda, you..."

Jiu Mujin's voice, which was filled with anger and disappointment, was cut off.

The detective who had always been aggressive towards Jiu Mujin suddenly changed the subject: "Do you think I would say that? The real murderer lady?"

Kyuki Norie's body stiffened slightly, she clenched her fists and glared at Jyouno Hisaji:

"You slandered my father first and then slandered me. It seems that you are just a person who seeks fame and reputation by randomly identifying the murderer in order to solve the case. If you can't produce evidence, you will meet the lawyer of the Jiumu family."

"When I made the above inferences as you wished, Miss Murderer, you were not so angry."

As the real murderer is pointed out, the background music in the plot also changes, and a tense and exciting piano piece is played.

Then, we entered a section of this type of mission that is a favorite among players.

He called it the killing spree before the finale.

"Your alibi can be overturned for the same reasons as your adoptive father's, but you left home that day with his clothes and boots, and he has been locked up in the house ever since."

"Because he was thinking, why would his adopted daughter betray him?"

Kyuki Norie was stunned, but saw that Kyuki Susumu rarely showed a tired expression, and even his appearance, which had never looked old, suddenly seemed to have aged by ten years.

Jiu Mujin's voice was a little hoarse: "You used to date that boy Yuichiro, you thought I didn't know, but I saw it a long time ago.

It was you who persuaded me to let Yuichiro join the company. I had originally planned to introduce him to another job, but it was you who insisted on letting him come to the company. I thought you two still had feelings for each other, so I agreed.

It's not that easy to steal the secrets of this project. If you could get them just by relying on your relatives, this project would have been abandoned long ago. But you are the heir of the company and you are in charge of part of the project. You can let Yuichiro do this.

Therefore, after learning that the secrets were stolen, I just suppressed the matter and even continued the project as if nothing had happened. First, the project could not be stopped at this stage, and second, I did not want to send you to prison.

Then we got the news that Yuichiro had died, and the matter seemed to have faded into obscurity.”

Kyuki Norie: "Are you trying to put all the blame on me?"

"It's no use trying to make excuses now, Miss Murderer. You should understand that when your adoptive father is no longer willing to protect you, your plan, which you thought was flawless, will be full of loopholes."

The detective took back the topic.

"Let me put this whole thing into context."

"For some reason, you have always harbored hatred towards your adoptive father, but you didn't find a good opportunity to attack him until Kyuki Yuichiro's family went bankrupt."

"You recommended Kyuki Yuichiro to join the company and guided him to steal project secrets because you knew that this project was targeted by a certain organization, and you were even contacted by someone from that organization, right?"

"But you were unwilling to take the risk, so you cleverly let Kyuki Yuichiro be the trader. Once the news of the company's core project data leaked out, the project would fail and the company might even collapse. You didn't actually plan to kill Kyuki Yuichiro that day. You just wanted to achieve the above result."

“But you have a troublemaker.”

"Kyuuki Yuichiro was knocked unconscious, and all his belongings, including the USB flash drive, were stolen. You were quietly following him, and just in case, you disguised yourself as Kyuuki Susumu. If you started fighting, you would be exposed, so you could only watch your original plan fall through."

“So, you have new ideas.”

"Drag Kyuki Yuichiro away and kill him, then deliberately leave a small gap in the rope that holds the body so that Kyuki Yuichiro's body will emerge after a while. This way, all the traces the police can find will only be traced back to Kyuki Jin, including the phone you used to fake the transaction email."

"Either let his life's hard work go to waste, or let him be charged with murder. Maybe Mr. Jiumu Jin, you should know why your adopted daughter hates you so much?"

"…Nori, do you know about that?"

Kyuki Norie shouldn't have been angry.

Even though she was proud of how her plan had fooled the famous detective, she was also frightened that the detectives were just playing with her and had actually seen through her.

But she had such a deep hatred, and she also knew that she had not left any key evidence. The reasoning without evidence was just a bench with broken legs, and there was no way to do anything to her.

But when she saw Kyuki Susumu putting himself in his father's shoes as always, her anger burned irrationally, even burning her reason.

"I knew it all along!"

The pretended gentleness could no longer be maintained, and Kyuki Norie's expression even showed a hint of satisfaction.

"Yes, you wanted to hide it from me, thinking that I should be grateful to you for my whole life just because you adopted me. But my father died because of you! Do you know that my mother has always missed him? She resented you for killing my father until she died!"

"If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have needed to be adopted by you at all. I could have a happy family with my parents instead of being the eldest daughter of the Jiumu family!"

"You think you're great for leaving all your inheritance to me, right? You're great for not getting married and having children for my sake, right? Everyone thinks so, but I'm the only one who knows how hypocritical you are. You're just doing this to appease yourself!"

Kyuki Susumu, who had managed to remain calm even when being pointed out as the murderer by Jyouno Hisaji, now felt as if a knife had pierced his heart, and he was bleeding profusely.

Finally, he said sadly:

"I'm sorry I haven't been able to take your feelings into account."

"I loved your mother dearly, she was the first person I ever loved, but I couldn't get her no matter what, so I did something wrong.

After learning that she was dating your father, I proposed a mountain bike downhill race to your father, who is also a sports enthusiast. I made it down the mountain, but he lost his bike and died.

After that, your mother refused all my compensation and disappeared. I finally got her news again and kept an eye on her, but she passed away not long after, leaving you, a seven-year-old, behind. "

"I adopted you out of selfish motives. I wanted her daughter to live a good life and to make up for the mistakes I made. But I didn't know you hated me so much... I guess you haven't been happy these years."

"But the company is related to the families and futures of many people. Yuichiro is a moral scum, and it is not a reason for you to take his life. I can't take the blame for you and make more mistakes."

Kyuki Norie hated this look of his the most. "At this point, you are here to talk about some great principles!"

She knew that even if there was not enough evidence to arrest her for murder, since Jiumu Jin had said so, the charge of leaking trade secrets was enough to send her to jail.

From now on, Jiu Mu Jin will definitely stay away from her, and she will never have the chance to take action again!

She rushed over and tried to snatch the hunting rifle, but Jiumu Jin naturally refused to let her. However, because he thought there was a thief in the house, he was ready to fire his hunting rifle.

Now, during the robbery between the two men, a gun went off accidentally. Kyuki Norie, who had pulled the trigger, felt her arm numb from the recoil, and the flying bullet was easily dodged by the black-haired young man by turning his head to the side.

Then, a chill pierced through his brain, and in his remaining vision he saw splattering blood and Kyuki Susumu's panicked face, and his body fell heavily to the ground out of control.

Kyuki Susumu held Kyuki Norie's body and tried to cover the wound, but to no avail.

“Noriie! Norie!!”

【Mission Completed】

[Mission rewards: Sand of Time*50, Advanced Experience Book*3, Refined Ore*30, Japanese Yen*80,000]

It was quite strange that the player who exited the plot mode after pointing out the real murderer turned the gun that launched the attack based on conditional reflex.

In the previous crime-solving missions, the murderers were mostly literary fighters, that is, they repeatedly refused to believe the reasoning and insisted that he produce evidence. After producing the key evidence, they knelt down and confessed in tears.

This was the first attack on him.

He is also the first character in this type of mission whose health bar lights up because of the desire to attack him.

Please, he has been hit and the opponent's health bar is showing. Is it reasonable not to fight back?

But is this legitimate defense?

Let's just tell Gin and let the organization take care of it.

The player, who didn't want to be wanted again, had just finished sending the email when he saw a figure who had obviously sneaked in from a detour appear in the corridor. The recognizable blond hair was particularly obvious in the moonlight.

The player greeted him.

"Catherine, you're too slow to gain any experience. The case is closed."

"Oh, by the way, I remember you are still Bourbon. You can do what Gin can do, right?"

"How about helping me deal with this situation?"

The smell of blood filled the huge living room, it was not strong, but it made Amuro Toru feel like he had fallen into an ice cellar. He glanced past the hostile and wary eyes of Kyuki Jin who was crying, and met the black-haired young man's eyes which were as calm and indifferent as ever.

This is what happened when I chased him and called Catherine.

This was what happened yesterday when I was dealing with so many guests, which was rare.

The same thing happened now, when the title of the famous detective was stained with blood for the first time.

Toru Amuro knew that even if he didn't come with him tonight, Hisashi Jyouno would most likely have caused this result.

But he shouldn't think that the other party's behavior is still traceable and controllable to a certain extent, just like he habitually thinks that this time is the same because Hisashi Jyouno has never caused any harm in any cases or commissions.

He was not blaming himself. He knew very well that even if he did not give Jyouno Hisaji the summary of the case, the other party would still act according to his own ideas, and often successfully.

He just... regretted that he arrived a step too late and failed to save this life that should have been handed over to the law.

And I realized once again that Hisashi Jouno is uncontrollable.

Toru Amuro opened the email he received, which contained a task from Gin, which was to ask Hisashi Jyouno to handle this matter.

He skillfully gave Jyouno Hisaji a Bourbon smile.

"Of course, just leave this little thing to me."

"Come to think of it," he raised his phone, on which was an email he sent to Gin that was replied to in seconds, "You've worked so hard to help me do so many trivial things, I think it's enough, congratulations, the punishment is over."

The player blinked in confusion.

The system suddenly popped up a prompt.

[Daily Mission Function Disabled]

[Because the person in charge, Toru Amuro, believes that the Polo Cafe has enough staff and no longer needs help with trivial matters, you may need to find another part-time location and a new person in charge. I wish you all the best.]

Player: “?”

Player: “Huh???”

Wait! What on earth happened?

Can the daily tasks still be turned off?

Catherine! No! I can't live without you, Catherine!!!