The Pirated Onmyoji of the Detective World

Even Officer Shiratori, who was standing nearby, was startled.

“What police officer would get involved with a child while investigating a suspect? There must be a mistake. It must be a young couple with their child! Find someone else!”

Inspector Megure swore and hung up the phone.

"Seriously, they're all a bunch of good-for-nothings!"

"Hey, Inspector Megure," Officer Shiratori said cautiously, looking at Inspector Megure's ashen face as he drove.

"What's wrong, Brother Shiratori?"

"This is just my guess. Do you think those two kids could be Conan and his friends from the Mouri Detective Agency? And that young man could very well be that boy named Aragaki Yu!"

"Huh? How is that possible?" Inspector Megure said with an incredulous look.

"But that explains why we haven't heard from Officer Sato and Officer Takagi all this time!"

Seeing Inspector Megure's bewildered expression, Inspector Shiratori continued to explain, "It's very likely that Inspector Takagi has already been harmed by the suspect, or is being held captive somewhere, and Inspector Sato, for some reason, perhaps at the suspect's request, is unable to contact us."

"what!!!"

……

the other side.

"Yes, this is it!"

Officer Sato's car suddenly stopped in front of a house.

As everyone got out of the car, they saw Mr. Kitagawa open the door and walk out of the house.

Mr. Higashida, who was following behind Aragaki Yu and Officer Sato, couldn't contain his anger when he saw Mr. Kitagawa and impulsively rushed in front of him.

Having already learned the truth, he grabbed Mr. Kitagawa by the collar, glaring at him fiercely and saying, "Kitagawa, you bastard! Why did you kill Miss Muranishi and then frame me for it!"

Mr. Kitagawa looked at Mr. Higashida, who should have been arrested and imprisoned, suddenly appearing in front of him, and a trace of panic flashed involuntarily in his eyes.

However, he quickly concealed his unnatural expression and forced himself to remain calm, saying, "Higashida, what are you doing here? What are you talking about? You were the one who killed Ms. Muranishi while you were drunk. What does that have to do with me?"

"You bastard!" Mr. Higashida raised his fist in anger, just about to teach Mr. Kitagawa a lesson.

Officer Sato, who was standing nearby, immediately stepped forward and pulled him back.

Officer Sato quickly pulled the agitated Mr. Higashida away, and then turned to look at Mr. Kitagawa, who seemed innocent, and said, "Mr. Kitagawa, we now suspect that you are involved in yesterday's murder case, and we hope that you can cooperate with our investigation."

"Miss, please stop joking. I've already told the police everything I needed to say yesterday, and there's really nothing else to say!"

Mr. Kitagawa's face was full of reluctance. He glared angrily at the people blocking his way. "And if you keep harassing me like this, I'm going to call the police!"

Having said that, Mr. Kitagawa, feeling guilty, prepared to return to his house. However, just as he was about to close his door...

But Yuu Aragaki, quick-witted and agile, stopped him in time.

"What do you guys want?!" Mr. Kitagawa angrily pulled out his phone from his pocket, making a gesture as if to make a call. "If you keep this up, I'm really going to call the police...!"

"No need!"

Just as Mr. Kitagawa was threatening the group, Officer Sato suddenly pulled out his police handbook from his pocket and showed it to Mr. Kitagawa. "You don't need to call the police anymore, because I am a police officer. I think we can have a good talk now!"

"!!!"

Mr. Kitagawa glanced at Miwako Sato with surprise, and suddenly felt flustered, his expression becoming much more unnatural.

"Okay, okay..."

However, having no reason to drive them away any further, Mr. Kitagawa reluctantly let go of the door, looking somewhat lost.

Chapter 334 The Injustice Rectified (2)

"Mr. Kitagawa, could you please recount the events leading up to the discovery of Ms. Muranishi's body? We need to record your statement again."

"Confession? Didn't I tell you police everything I know?" Mr. Kitagawa seemed a little impatient.

However, when he noticed the unfriendly look on Mr. Higashida's face as he was being stopped by Officer Sato, Mr. Kitagawa could only wave his hand and say, "Alright, I'll say it again then. It's the same no matter how many times I say it..."

Seeing Officer Sato take out a pen and open the police handbook, Mr. Higashida began to describe the situation with some displeasure—

"That day, I didn't see Higashida and Ms. Muranishi at the company, and no one answered when I called them, so I decided to go to their house to check on them."

"However, no one answered the doorbell no matter how many times I rang it, so I asked the building manager to open Ms. Muranishi's room door to check the situation."

Mr. Higashida paused for a moment, then continued, "I didn't expect that the chain lock in the room was also locked, and I don't know why Higashida was lying in Ms. Muranishi's bed."

"After I shouted a few times at the door to wake up Higashida, I made him unlock the chain lock before I went into the house with the building manager. Later, we found Ms. Muranishi dead in the bathroom. Well, that's all I can say!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Mr. Kitagawa began urging Officer Sato and Aragaki Yu to leave.

"Wait a minute, Mr. Kitagawa!" Aragaki Yu suddenly stopped Mr. Kitagawa's actions.

"What are you doing, kid!"

"So, you've never touched anything in Ms. Muranishi's room?"

Mr. Kitagawa looked at Aragaki Yu, who was staring at him with a smile, and suddenly felt a pang of panic. "Of course! Anyway, judging from the environment in Ms. Muranishi's room at the time, the murderer must be Higashida!"

"What did you say, Kitagawa, you bastard! I'm going to teach you a lesson!"

Aragaki Yu reached out and stopped Higashida, who had become furious after hearing Kitagawa's words. His smile widened. "Then, Mr. Kitagawa, can you explain why you changed the color of the curtains and sheets in Ms. Muranishi's room?"

"!!!"

Mr. Kitagawa's expression changed slightly.

“It must have been you.” Aragaki Yu stared into Kitagawa’s eyes. “You were the one who changed the curtains and sheets in Muranishi’s room from beige to gray, weren’t you?”

Upon hearing these words, Mr. Kitagawa felt that Aragaki Yuna's gaze seemed to see right through him, and he guiltily looked away.

He had absolutely no courage to continue looking Aragaki Yu in the eye.

To cover up his guilty conscience, Mr. Kitagawa even flew into a rage and tried to rush forward and grab Aragaki Yu by the collar.

Yugo Aragaki wanted to retaliate and subdue the guy, but Officer Sato, who had been watching Mr. Kitagawa's every move, beat him to it.

She strode forward and stood in front of Aragaki Yu, quickly grabbing Kitagawa's wrist to stop him from making any further moves.

"Humph!"

Noticing the policewoman staring at him with icy eyes, Mr. Kitagawa snorted coldly and then flung her hand away from his wrist.

After taking two steps back warily, he said to Officer Sato with great dissatisfaction, "Officer, you'd better get out of here with this brat who's spouting nonsense, or I'll sue you for defamation!"

"You...!" Officer Sato was about to explode at the murderer who had killed someone and framed his friend, and who was even so arrogant.

Aragaki Yu, who was being shielded behind her, suddenly patted her shoulder, signaling her to calm down.

Upon realizing that he was performing his duties, Officer Sato immediately calmed down, glared fiercely at Mr. Kitagawa, and then stepped aside.

“Mr. Kitagawa, you probably don’t know this, but we just went to the department store nearby to get relevant evidence.” Aragaki Yu was still smiling, but Mr. Kitagawa could clearly sense that his smile had become strange.

"Wh-what?" Mr. Kitagawa panicked.

"According to the department store clerk's statement, you recently went there and bought gray curtains, duvet covers, and bed sheets."

"Well... so what!" Mr. Kitagawa said, trying to appear calm. "It's because my curtains and sheets were too old that I went to buy new ones, but I didn't like them after changing them, so I threw them away!"

Mr. Kitagawa nervously raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, and said to Aragaki Yu with a fierce but weak tone, "If this is the kind of evidence you're talking about, then I think you can go back now..."

However, before Mr. Kitagawa could finish saying he wanted to send people away, Yuu Aragaki suddenly spoke up again.

"So, Mr. Kitagawa, can you explain what's going on with the band-aid on your finger?"

"!!!"

Upon hearing this, Mr. Kitagawa's hand, which was wiping away cold sweat, trembled slightly.

The next second, he instinctively hid his hands behind his back. "No, it's nothing, I just accidentally hurt myself."

"Oh, is that so?" Aragaki Yu didn't press Kitagawa about how he injured his finger, but instead suddenly changed the subject. "Speaking of which, we also found something very interesting in Ms. Muranishi's room."

"Wh-what?" Mr. Kitagawa's voice began to tremble.

A sudden sense of foreboding arose in his heart.

"On the balcony of Miss Village West's room, we found that one of the cacti had broken off in one place."

"So what...so what?" Mr. Kitagawa frowned, his hand with the bandage on it clenching involuntarily.

Yuu Aragaki squinted as he explained the situation to Mr. Kitagawa: "You may not know this, but we found a little blood where the spike was broken. Once it's sent back to the police station for analysis, we'll quickly find out who left that blood."

"I..." Mr. Kitagawa was still trying to deny it, "Yes, right! I remember now, it was when I went to Miss Muranishi's house a few days ago, I accidentally got pricked by that cactus..."

However, Mr. Kitagawa had only spoken halfway when he noticed the strange expressions on Aragaki Yu's and Officer Sato's faces. His heart skipped a beat, and his voice gradually softened.

He seemed to have realized something, and his expression suddenly turned ugly.

Chapter 335 The Innocent Officer Takagi

"It seems you've already realized it. That's right, the cactus that pricked your finger was the one the izakaya proprietress gave to Ms. Muranishi on the night of the incident."

Aragaki Yusuke looked at Kitagawa and said, "If that's the case, then how come you were pricked by that cactus a few days ago?"

"..."

"Do you have anything else to say?"