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Chapter 441: Adjournment: The Street Under Sniper
—————May 28, 5:20 p.m.——————

————Kamurocho, a certain street——————

Holding the Demon Hunting Sword, Hattori Heiji walked on the street, stroking his chin, thinking about the case. He always felt that something was wrong.

Although he did not participate in the morning trial due to an emergency incident, he also noticed something particularly strange from Xiang Yuanguang's retelling.

For example, the dosage of the bottle of cyanide found in the Tsujimura family's home was strange.

(This amount is too large, isn't it? This isn't a common medicine for the citizens of Beika Town. Why prepare so much? To take revenge on society? It's just poisoning a pot of tea, not a bucket of water. Is it that serious?)
(Shouldn't a normal person carry this kind of drug with them, use it when needed, and immediately find an opportunity to destroy the evidence after use? Why would they keep it at home?)

The famous Kansai detective stroked his chin, quite puzzled.

Normally in this situation, he would directly say that someone framed the Tsujimura family, but the weird thing is that the cyanide was put in the tea, which means that the criminal could only be Tsujimura Kimie or Tsujimura Toshimitsu.

Unless when these two talented couple were in the kitchen, a third person, unknown to them, entered the kitchen and poisoned the tea, and made Tsujimura Kimie think that he did it, and made Tsujimura Toshimitsu think that Tsujimura Kimie did it.

But this idea seems even more outrageous. There are no ninjas who can become invisible in modern society. You can't just make a seal with your hands and shout "Water Style: Mist Invisibility Technique" and then go in and poison someone, right?

(Please, if we must say who in the Inquisition is most likely to know the Mist Hidden Art, it can only be Xiang Yuanguang who appears as a defense lawyer. After all, he is a great magician.)
Hattori Heiji was thinking about the case and was so absorbed in it that he didn't notice that the number of people around him was gradually decreasing. Then, something fell from his body.

The famous detective Kansai was startled and immediately bent down to pick it up, but at this moment he heard a whooshing sound!

(This is… this is the sound of a gun with a silencer installed…!)

Hattori Heiji didn't have time to pay attention to the location where the gunshot came from. He immediately picked up the things that had fallen, rolled over and hid behind the pillar of the shopping mall in front of him, secretly frightened.

Although I knew in advance that this case might be related to the terrorists who blew up the Silver Star, I didn't expect these guys to be so lawless as to kill people with sniper rifles in broad daylight in the city!
How dare he do that? Didn't the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department concentrate police forces in Kamurocho? Committing a crime against the wind? The more wind and waves there are, the more expensive the fish are? It doesn't make sense, why did they catch him and beat him?

The Kansai detective's mind raced, he opened his hand carefully, and looked at what he had picked up————

It was a talisman given to him by his childhood sweetheart, who was like a girlfriend to him.

"Really? This time it's all thanks to you, He Ye."

Hattori Heiji tied the amulet back around his neck, his expression gradually became serious, and he even straightened his hat.

If the amulet that He Ye gave him had not inexplicably broken and fallen to the ground at this moment.

I'm afraid he has been hit by a sniper bullet and is seriously injured if not dead.

He hid behind a pillar, and quickly looked outside, searching for bullet holes left by the previous shooting. Finally, he found it on the wall of a store. Based on his previous position, he made a simple calculation—

(This guy doesn't seem to be planning to kill me. The bullet should be aimed at my left arm... the arm holding the Demon Hunting Knife. Why? Does the sniper want the Demon Hunting Knife?)
(Or does he not care what I took or didn't take, and just wants to make a big noise to attract other people's attention? What's the benefit?)
The famous detective Kansai's mind raced as he took out his cell phone from his pocket. He was about to call the police.

In this situation, he had nothing. He couldn't just carry a sniper rifle and draw his sword to make a board charge.

No kidding, what's the difference between that and seeking death? The amulet is just a psychological prop, not a real thing.

"Ohhhhhhhh Majima-sama!!!"

At this moment, some kind of ghostly and wolf-howling sound suddenly appeared.

Hattori Heiji subconsciously recalled when he heard the voice, and then reacted. Then————Majima Goro, who was carried away, sat up directly, scaring the other brothers.

"Oh, I seemed to smell something familiar just now, um... what is it? What is it?"

Mad Dog stood up and jumped to the ground, turned his head and looked around, and then his eyes fell on Hattori Heiji's demon hunting sword.

He looked down at the Demon Hunting Sword, then looked up at Hattori Heiji, and then looked back at the Demon Hunting Sword for confirmation.

Then he looked up at Hattori Heiji again, and then said with some disappointment.

"Why is it you? Oh, that's boring. Let's go."

As the freest man in Kamurocho, Goro Majima leaves when he says he will. He is about to walk into the nearby [Yoshida Batting Practice Center] surrounded by his younger brothers.

Hattori Heiji suddenly said.

"Hey, man, someone is using a sniper rifle to kill people in your territory, and you don't care?"

Perhaps it was Hattori Heiji's Kansai accent that attracted Majima Goro, or perhaps it was the sniper rifle that attracted Majima Goro.

In short, the mad dog stayed for the time being and looked at Hattori Heiji with his only remaining eye.

Then, following Hattori Heiji's gaze, he looked at the gunshot marks on the wall of the store on the other side.

"Ha, this is interesting. Guys, look for it and find it for me."

A smile suddenly appeared on Goro Majima's face, as if he had seen something very interesting.

In response, Hattori Heiji just curled his lips, took out his cell phone and made a call.

"My name is Hattori Heiji. I'm standing by the gatepost of the Yoshida Combat Training Center. Someone tried to hurt me with a sniper rifle, but I was lucky enough to dodge it..."

"Listen to me, I now suspect that the sniper is deliberately trying to sow discord between you and the East City Society. He wants to muddy the waters here. He must have a special purpose."

The image of a person suddenly flashed through the mind of the Kansai Detective.

Then he said somewhat uncertainly.

"I think... it's very likely that they want to lure out Prosecutor Dante who is against you. After all, whether it's the prosecution or the adjournment of the investigation, it's all Dante's idea."

"In other words, the organization you mentioned is most likely targeting Dante... to magnify the consequences of what he did, so as to force Dante to come forward and calm things down, and then use this to achieve some special purpose."

On the other end of the phone, Xiang Yuanguang, who had just come out of the Jinshan group, frowned.

The Black Organization's target is Dante, and he has never thought of this possibility.

Dante is probably on guard against the Black Organization by not showing up now, but what can the Black Organization gain by luring Dante out? Just shoot Dante and kill him? What's the point? The situation has come to this point, how can the case not be investigated?
It couldn't be that there was a spy in the Silver Star Special Investigations Group, and the Black Organization's goal was to lure out Dante and then let the spy escape, right? Hmm... probably not.

Given the Black Organization's style of doing things, it would be more normal for them to suspect a traitor of betrayal and then shoot their teammates in the head from a distance...right?

(End of this chapter)