A villainous girl created by paranoia

The arson case was handled too thoroughly; all clues were reduced to ashes in the fire. Just identifying the body exhausted three superhuman forensic doctors, and only superhuman forensic doctors could identify it. Ordinary forensic doctors simply couldn't identify it.

Seemingly feeling that no one had responded to her for too long, Zhan Xiaoxiao spoke up to me.

"Hey, Pantsu-kun, I think you guys should just skip the formulaic interrogation and just kill that woman named Hanamiya Karen. She's definitely the murderer."

I couldn't help but raise an eyebrow, not because of Zhan Xiaoxiao's words, but because Zhan Xiaoxiao had called me by the wrong name. So I pushed up my non-existent glasses and said in a deep voice.

"It's not panties, it's Kenji. My name is Toujou Kenji."

"It doesn't matter how many times it is, it's all the same anyway. The most important thing is that we can just skip this troublesome procedure and go straight to the death penalty."

I opened my mouth, but for a moment I didn't know how to respond to Zhan Xiaoxiao's words. It wasn't that I couldn't respond, but that I was too lazy to respond, because she was just too tactless, so I didn't want to pay attention to her.

Just then, a mature female voice came from beside me.

"Officer Zhan Xiaoxiao, could you please shut up?"

Looking in the direction of the sound, I saw my very familiar partner, Zhao Yaqin, who was looking at Zhan Xiaoxiao with a forced smile.

Zhao Yaqin's appearance wasn't particularly outstanding; she was just averagely pretty and pleasing to the eye. She had shoulder-length light purple hair, eyes that matched her hair color, and a beauty mark at the corner of her eye. Compared to Hua Gong Ke Lian or Zhan Xiao Xiao, Zhao Yaqin's looks were inferior to theirs. However, mature women naturally possess enviable assets that young girls never have, namely Zhao Yaqin's figure.

Zhao Yaqin and I were partners, and I also had a crush on her. After the case of the burning corpse was solved, I went back to my hometown with Zhao Yaqin and got married.

Do you think I would say that? I'm not going to make that kind of sure-fire prediction!

Zhan Xiaoxiao pouted, looking unconvinced, but she didn't say anything. Instead, she shifted her body and continued to shrink into the chair.

Speaking of which, Zhan Xiaoxiao, as the No.18 of the Yuling City Hero Association, I don't know what got into her head and she suddenly became a police officer. Moreover, she doesn't like to follow the rules at all, and she dares to arrest people without any permission.

This country has a tripartite power structure: the church representing divine authority, the royal family and nobility representing royal authority, and the parliament representing democracy.

Each powerful group had its own military force, such as the Holy Knights and Inquisition of the Church, the Royal Knights, the Parliament's army, and the police.

The Hero Association is a newly emerging civilian superpower organization in the last decade. At first glance, the Hero Association may seem to belong to the parliament, but in reality, it was established with funding from the royal family and nobles. Even though it operates under the banner of a civilian superpower organization, they are still actually members of the royal family.

A week ago, the Sheriff inexplicably transferred this woman to the police station, ostensibly to promote relations with the Hero Association, but in reality, Zhan Xiaoxiao was just there to cause trouble.

Because the Hero Association has the backing of royalty and nobility, even the heroes themselves behave in a very crude and barbaric manner.

Ignorance of regulations, disregard for regulations, abuse of power for personal gain, and disorganization – this is the impression Zhan Xiaoxiao left on everyone at the police station. Indeed, Zhan Xiaoxiao's actions were quite egregious.

As mentioned before, once Zhan Xiaoxiao identifies someone as a criminal, she will relentlessly pursue them, even resorting to violence to force them to confess their crimes. She has indeed been the one to extract confessions through torture.

Opinions about Zhan Xiaoxiao on the internet are also highly polarized. On one hand, people condemn Zhan Xiaoxiao's atrocities, saying that such a hero cannot bring safety to the people, but only unease.

The other side's statement was more interesting, because they believed Zhan Xiaoxiao did nothing wrong; any means were acceptable as long as it punished the criminals. However, this group was essentially driven by superficial appearances, acting like sycophants towards Zhan Xiaoxiao simply because of her looks.

If you ask me how I feel about fighting Xiao Xiao... I would undoubtedly hate her. But before I hate her, I hope she can take her feet off my desk, because the hot-tempered director is coming in for a meeting soon.

Click...

As if on cue, the moment I thought I was going to get yelled at by the bureau chief, the conference room door opened and a middle-aged man with a stubble beard walked in, smoking a cigarette and rubbing his messy head.

This man is the chief of this police station, named Cao Xinwu. He's a foul-mouthed bastard with a terrible temper.

Cao Xinwu walked to the head seat while smoking a cigarette. He slammed his hands on the table with a loud thud. I knew he was doing this to attract everyone's attention, but ever since you entered this conference room, you have been the focus of everyone's attention.

"Sons and daughters, are you all here?"

See? I knew that bastard wouldn't say anything nice.

Nobody paid him any attention. Some people didn't want to be taken advantage of by this bastard, but most people just couldn't be bothered with him.

Seeing that no one paid any attention to him, Cao Xinwu was not annoyed. Instead, he changed his nonchalant attitude and spoke in a serious tone.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to say that there seem to be quite a few murders and missing persons cases in our city lately. You know, the police chief just gave me some statistics: this month, Jade Zero City has had 28 murders and 88 missing persons cases. Among them, dismemberment and arson cases have had the most severe impact. I think..."

Before Cao Xinwu could finish speaking, Zhan Xiaoxiao, who was huddled in her chair, raised her hand to interrupt her.

"Hey uncle, didn't I tell you before? The dismemberment case was done by someone named Inukai Tsubaki, and the burning case was done by someone named Hanamiya Karen."

A vein bulged on Cao Xinwu's forehead, and he gave Zhan Xiaoxiao a somewhat forced smile.

"Where's the evidence?"

Zhan Xiaoxiao looked at Cao Xinwu with an expression as if he were an idiot, and then said something that was no different from what an idiot would say.

"What evidence do you need? Just execute both of them. I've already told you, those two are the murderers."

"Then I could say I'm your fucking dad, why the fuck don't you call me dad?"

Here it comes! This bastard hates being interrupted when he's talking. If anyone dares to interrupt him, he'll verbally abuse them so badly they won't even recognize their own mother.

Zhan Xiaoxiao, who was being questioned, was also slightly taken aback, and then gave a divine answer.

“I come from a single-parent family. If you want to be my dad, you’ll have to ask my mom. Asking me won’t help.”

Is this what it means for masters to clash? I'm in love! But how could that old bastard Cao Xinwu let Zhan Xiaoxiao off so easily? So he continued to retort.

"Then you fucking suck your lip, do you know how you're always messing around and violating regulations outside? And you fucking get your feet off the table, don't you know any meeting room rules?"

Before you criticize others, can you please put out your cigarette?

"Why? I'm doing this so it won't interfere with the meeting."

I see you're looking for number B in ACD, but it turns out you don't actually have number B at all.

Who is Cao Xinwu? He is the director of the Central Police Station in Yuling City, and is known as the number one troll in Yuling.

"No, I'm not worried about you not being able to hear me at the meeting, I'm worried about your stinky feet bothering my son."

What did you say, my dear grandson?

"My feet don't smell."

Damn, Zhan Xiaoxiao is such a silly goose.

"I don't care about you. I said your smelly feet are making my son sick, and you are, right, my dear son?"

Cao Xinwu's last sentence was clearly directed at me, but I ignored him. Why would I bother with him? To be treated like a good son?

"Look, even Panty Guy hasn't said anything, so what are you worrying about, you old geezer?"

"You should really study your elementary Chinese properly, and while you're at it, go get your ears checked at the eye hospital. They don't call them 'panties,' they call them 'cheap panties.'"

Damn it, I think you should also reread your elementary school Chinese textbook.

--split line--

You've read at least one chapter. The current timeline is September 23rd. Yesterday, Shu Nai's revenge was already over; everyone who needed to be killed was killed.

I didn't write about the part where Shuna killed Ichiyanagi Mie; I plan to write it as a side story after this volume ends. Now, let's get straight to the main plot and get started. The main goal of this section is to find evidence of Shuna's crimes from other people's perspectives and confront Shuna.

I was very happy to receive so much care yesterday. I originally planned to update twice today, but after thinking about it, I thought it would be more practical to combine the two chapters that were going to be split into one chapter. This chapter is about 5,500 words long, and I hope everyone enjoys reading it.

Chapter Seventeen: Heroes and Criminals (Part Two)

The two of them had been arguing for about half an hour, while Hanamichi Karen on the screen behind them seemed to have realized her situation and started playing on her phone more than twenty minutes ago.

We're not worried about her sending any suspicious messages on her phone, because since yesterday, every action she takes on her phone has been recorded—her chats with others, the websites she visits, and even the videos she watches.

Although Hanamichi looks more like a victim than a suspect, she is still highly suspicious, since most of the clues point to her. While we can't take too many restrictive measures, we can still do some small things.

Fortunately, as their argument escalated, Zhan Xiaoxiao finally took her foot off my desk. Unfortunately, as they continued to argue, they developed a strange habit.

Boom!

"Are you fucking an idiot? Executing someone without any interrogation, do you know what the consequences will be? Do you think our police station is like your Hero Association? With the royal family backing you up, you can suppress any public opinion! But our police station can't! We can't! Do you understand, you stinking idiot?"

Along with Cao Xinwu's furious roar and a dull thud on the table, I could vaguely discern the director's attitude towards Hua Gong Ke Lian from his words. Clearly, he was very suspicious of Hua Gong Ke Lian, but like me, he was neither sure nor dared to be certain.

First, the formal interrogation has not yet been conducted. Second, both Cao Xinwu and I felt sorry for Hua Gong and couldn't do it. According to the forensic examination results, apart from two people at the port who were shot, the rest were all killed by having their throats cut and then choking on the blood in their throats. The only one whose cause of death could not be determined was Honda Hebi, whose cause of death was given by the forensic doctor as unknown.

How could a girl with a DDDC rating kill so many people with higher four-dimensional ratings than her, and all of them with deadly attacks like slitting throats, many of whom were one-hit kills? Were those people just standing there letting Hanamiya pitifully slit their throats?

With that in mind, I continued recording this seemingly useless information, but...

Boom!

"I already told you, no matter how much you interrogate her, that shrewish actress won't confess! So what's the point of interrogating her?"

The rough knocking on the table and Zhan Xiaoxiao's somewhat hoarse voice made my hand tremble as I was taking notes. The ballpoint pen left an unsightly mark on the paper, and there was more than one such mark; there were at least eight such marks on this page.

I raised an eyebrow, ignored it, and continued to jot down the information I found useful.

Boom!

"You make it sound so easy for you. What about the records? What about the official documentation? Are you going to just make things up? How are we supposed to explain this to the public? What if the higher-ups in parliament hold you accountable? Are you going to take the blame?"

Even when the two were arguing heatedly, it didn't affect the other officers from carrying out their work.

Where is this? This is the central police post in Yuling City. When has Cao Xinwu ever spoken without using a few swear words? So the police officers working here are already used to it.

Boom!

"Then let's find a mind reader or a bishop who can predict the future!"

Boom!

"Fuck you! You're so awesome! There are only three recognized mind-reading psychics and two bishops who can predict the future on the entire planet! You think you can find them? Go ahead and find them!"

Zhan Xiaoxiao's words were quite thoughtless, because there weren't that many mind-reading ability users or bishops who could make prophecies on the planet. Moreover, even the five people Cao Xinwu mentioned were all very famous figures, and one of them was even a natural disaster.

I'm actually quite curious why those authors who write about supernatural abilities can write about mind-reading running all over the world. You know, on this planet, if you're associated with supernatural abilities like mind-reading, you'll basically be hunted down by the whole world.

Who in this world doesn't have secrets? Criminals undoubtedly want these kinds of superpowers to disappear completely, while those great and righteous figures also want to eradicate them.

If you dare to claim you have similar abilities, without some real power or influence, I guarantee you won't even know how you died the next day.

Boom!

"Then let's use truth serum!"

The moment these words were spoken, the entire room fell silent. The police officers who had been busy with their work stopped what they were doing and just stared blankly at Zhan Xiaoxiao. Similarly, Cao Xinwu and I, the old trolls, looked at Zhan Xiaoxiao with the same expression.

Seemingly uncomfortable being stared at by so many eyes, she shifted her body in confusion, then said fiercely to us.

"What? Did I say something wrong?"

Boom! ! !

The table-slamming sound was louder than ever before; I could even faintly hear the cracking of the wood.

"Holy crap, Zhan Xiaoxiao! Are you a hero or a criminal?"