Is there anyone who really wants to be a partner of justice?

"Mental hospital?"

The police officer who received the three people glanced at the records, nodded and said, "Yes, the prisoner was found to have a history of mental illness. During the trial a few days ago, his lawyer argued for a lighter sentence, and in the end he did not go to prison, but to a mental hospital."

"How can there be a lawyer who would defend such a person?!" Mai couldn't understand and asked herself this question.

Gao Ye just snorted coldly and said, "If you study law too much, you will lose your humanity. If you deal with words and rules too much, you will eventually become a slave to the law and lose your original intention as a human being. Being a slave to the law is still good. Some people directly become slaves to money."

Shinichi spread his hands and said, "Well, unscrupulous lawyers are very common. Such people only care about money and have no humanity. It doesn't matter whether the person they are defending is a scumbag or not. What matters is that they have money."

"For example, you, the host." The system suddenly said at this time.

"How come your system is like a group member who is lurking around everyday. You are usually nowhere to be seen, but as soon as you find something that interests you, you immediately turn into a Vietcong and jump out... Also, don't treat me like a scumbag. I am a gentleman who loves money and makes it in a proper way, okay?"

"Haha~"

Shinichi began to argue with the system in his mind, while Mai continued to ask about where the mental hospital where the bishop was. After getting the exact location, the three of them continued to investigate without stopping.

Finally, the three of them arrived at the location the police had told them. Looking at the cold and gloomy hospital gate, they looked at each other in bewilderment. Some old hospitals had plaques with "Inoue Lunatic Asylum" written on them, and the environment inside was deserted and lonely, with few visitors.

After the three entered the hospital, a nurse with a smile uglier than crying led them into the mental hospital. Along the way, the three saw all kinds of incredible behaviors of the patients, coupled with the extremely depressing atmosphere, which made them all have the same idea: perhaps being sentenced to a mental hospital is worse than being sentenced to prison.

After learning about the patient the three were looking for, the nurse sitting at the front desk of the asylum couldn't help but frown and said, "You three are looking for him too?"

"You want one too?" Shinichi noticed something special in the nurse's words and asked, "Has anyone else come to see this person before us?"

"Yes, one came the day before yesterday, two came yesterday, and today you three came again. The flow of people to our mental hospital is too small, and they are all looking for the same person. I remember clearly why so many people came."

The three of them looked at each other, sensing something fishy. Gao Ye continued to ask, "Then, can you tell us who these people are?"

"Well... among the three people who came, there was a well-mannered man in a suit who said he was his lawyer, there was a young and beautiful girl who said she was his daughter, and there was another one who said he was a policeman."

Zhenyi's eyes lit up, and she took out her press card from her pocket and said, "Grandma, the hospital should have records, right? I'm a reporter, specializing in tracking and reporting on the religious case two months ago. The mentally ill patient is the suspect in that religious case.

I would like to know more information, so could you please let us see the identities of the three visitors?"

Looking at the press card that Zhenyi placed at the front desk, the nurse took out her reading glasses and took a closer look. Then she sighed, shook her head and said, "Even if we are a mental hospital, we still have to protect the privacy of patients and visitors..."

"Snapped."

Before the nurse could finish, Shinichi pulled out a stack of cash from his pocket and directly stamped it on Mayi's press card, saying, "She took out the wrong one just now. This is her press card."

"..." x3

Shinichi's actions stunned everyone present except him. After everyone came to their senses, the nurse swallowed, struggled for a moment, closed her eyes and said, "I have also been working here for decades, so I still have some professional ethics..."

Seeing the nurse trying to pull it away, Shinichi raised his eyebrows, and began to retract the big hand holding the banknotes, intending to take back the pile of banknotes, and said, "Forget it, we admire your professional ethics."

"Ah?" The nurse's eyes widened immediately. She used her withered hand to hold down the banknotes that were about to be taken back, and said, "Don't worry! I haven't finished yet!"

As he spoke, he took out a notebook from the drawer with his other hand, placed it on the front desk, and said righteously: "Since you are a reporter, I will definitely cooperate. I still have some professional ethics."

Seeing this, Zhenyi smiled lightly and loosened his hand that was holding the money. The nurse immediately put it into her own pocket. When taking it back, she did not forget to look around to see if there was anyone else.

Shinichi picked up the press card from under the banknotes, waved it at Mayi, and said, "This is useless."

Then, he pointed to his wallet and said, "This is more useful."

"Um... ahem, sorry for costing you money..." Mai put her press card back with embarrassment and scratched her head in disappointment.

On the other side, Takano had already started looking through the asylum's notebook. Looking at the records of his peers, he found the names of the three visitors.

"Irie Tadaya, Kimura Masashi, Kojima Masaka..."

The nurse who received the money also explained to Takano attentively: "This Irie is the lawyer who is dressed elegantly. This Kimura Masashi is the policeman. These two came yesterday. This Kojima Masaka is the daughter of the mentally ill patient. She came the day before yesterday."

After the nurse's introduction, Takano nodded in understanding and remembered these three names.

Then, the three followed the nurse to the ward where the bishop was. This ward was quite special, as the windows and glass were sealed with newspapers, so people could not see what was going on inside.

Seeing the three people's confusion, the nurse explained: "Although many criminals use their history of mental illness to excuse their crimes, the vast majority of them can only reach the level of mental illness, not mental illness at all.

I have worked in the mental hospital for so many years, and I can tell whether someone is mentally ill or not. Although this bishop has done horrible things, he is really a severe mental patient with severe persecution and hallucinations, and he always feels that there is a monster in the mirror that will attack him.

We had no choice but to cover all the reflective objects in the ward with newspapers. Even in our mental hospital, his condition was considered serious. It was not unfair for him to be sent to our mental hospital.

When you go in later, be careful. This man is not conscious and is very aggressive. The policeman who came yesterday had a fight with him. The policeman was so nice that he even gave him some fruit, but the patient still didn't appreciate the kindness..."

As she spoke, the nurse took out the ward key and opened the door. Only then did the scene inside the ward appear before everyone.

However, when they looked inside, they all expressed confusion because they found that the ward was empty.

Mai walked into the ward with the reflective surface covered with newspapers and muttered in confusion, "Are patients allowed to walk around freely in a mental hospital?"

The nurse who led the three people was also confused. She walked quickly into the ward, turned over the bed, looked under the bed, rushed into the bathroom, and finally came to the balcony and glanced at the open space under the windowsill.

After finally confirming that the patient was really missing, the nurse's tone suddenly became anxious: "Eh? Where is he? The door of the ward is locked, the windows are sealed tightly, and the windowsill is four floors below... Where did he go?"

The puzzled nurse took out the intercom to explain the situation to other nurses and mobilized the entire asylum to search for the missing patient.

"Wait here for a moment. I'll look somewhere else."

The nurse finally asked the three to stay in the ward and then rushed out quickly. The three people who were left behind were not idle either and began to observe the clues in the ward.

Shinichi touched the crumpled blanket on the bed, which was still noticeably warm, so he said, "The bed is hot. This guy must have been missing for a while."

Zhenyi came to the window sill, looked at the height, and said: "If a normal person jumps down, he will definitely break his legs..."

As for Gao Ye, she started to tell fortunes. She took out three coins from her pocket, threw them upwards, and then took them back into her hand. After closing her eyes and being silent for a while, she opened her hand and looked at the direction of the coins in her palm. She said thoughtfully, "The result of the divination is that he is no longer in this world..."

"Huh? Not in this world anymore?" Mai's eyes widened, and she couldn't help but guess, "Does this mean that the bishop is dead?"

Gao Ye shook his head and said, "Not necessarily. Don't forget, we often deal with the other world... I think it is possible that this bishop is also one of the knights and escaped from the asylum with the help of the mirror world."

This conclusion seemed to be possible. Mai, who was standing by, thought about it briefly and expressed her agreement.

Shinichi did not directly comment on this conclusion, but looked at the bedroom covered with newspapers. The bishop did not even let go of reflective surfaces such as floor tiles, and the entire floor of the ward was covered with a layer of newspapers.

This makes people walk in the ward, always hear the rustling sound of paper stepping. If he can really escape through the mirror world, why does he go to the trouble of sealing all the reflective surfaces?

No... No, not all of them. Shinichi blocked all the reflective surfaces in the room so meticulously, but he found an exception...

He picked up the small fruit basket that was quietly placed in the corner of the bedside table, where no one would notice it. The small fruit basket was covered with a layer of plastic wrap. Shinichi held it in front of him, and his face was reflected on the plastic wrap...

Chapter 90: New Mist

"The fruit basket... Hey, it really does reflect light."

Mai looked at the fruit basket in Shinichi's hand, and then showed a surprised expression, while Takano looked at the fruit basket in Shinichi's hand, touched his chin and started to speculate again.

"So that's how it is. Apparently, my guess was wrong. Obviously, although the bishop knows about the mirror world, he is obviously afraid of and rejects it. If it were normal, he would probably be afraid of the mirror beast.

However, this fruit basket was clearly placed here as a gift to him, so the one who harbored ill will towards him was not just the Mirror Beast, but most likely a certain knight."

Shinichi nodded at this guess: "I think so too. The next step is to find out who the police officer named Kimura Masashi is. Then we can know who the knight is."

"Eh? Why?" Mai, whose mind was still spinning for a moment, couldn't help but wonder, "There were three people visiting him, why did Kadoya Shi-kun think it had to be that policeman?"

"Didn't you hear what the nurse said just now?"

"Ah? What are you talking about?"

"That policeman sent the fruit to the bishop. If you don't believe me, ask Gao Ye if the nurse said so."

The two of them immediately focused their attention on Gao Ye, and Gao Ye's face froze. He murmured awkwardly, "Um...it seems...there is...so to say."

"..." Shinichi asked the two girls with twitching eyes: "Don't you listen when others are talking?"

Mai pouted and defended herself: "Rather than saying that we didn't listen, it's better to say that you, Kadokuni Shijun, listened too carefully. You can even listen to grandma's nagging so carefully..."

Shinichi hit her head with a slap on the face: "Mai, as a reporter, aren't you ashamed to say such things? As a reporter, the most important thing is to listen to others' words. But you just let it go in one ear and out the other."

"Woo!"

Mai covered her head in pain and fell on the bed. Takano coughed lightly to ease his embarrassment, and his expression became serious again: "Now that we have a target, the next step is to find that Kimura Masashi."

"Well, well!" When it came to this, Mai immediately jumped up from the bed and volunteered: "I can handle this. I have a friend at the Metropolitan Police Department. I can ask him."

As she said that, Mai took out her cell phone and dialed a number: "Hello? Misaki, can I ask if there is a person named Masashi Kimura in your Metropolitan Police Department? ...Oh, okay...um...hmm?!

How could this be... this... oh, okay... OK. I understand... Hey, wait a moment, don't hang up."

Seeing that Mai had made a call, the two of them immediately came over curiously, wanting to know what was going on. Mai, who was covering the phone, had an extremely strange expression on her face.

"Something is wrong. My friend said... the policeman Masashi Kimura disappeared a month ago. Now everyone in the police station believes that he died in the line of duty."

This situation really surprised the two of them. Gao Ye guessed, "If he has disappeared... then there are two possibilities. It is possible that the policeman who delivered the apples was Kimura Masashi himself, or it is possible that this Kimura Masashi is actually an imposter."

Shinichi pinched his chin, thought for a while, and then suggested to Mai: "Mai, ask your friend what case Kimura Masashi was working on before he disappeared?"

"Okay, let me ask..." Mai nodded and continued the call: "Misaki, can I ask what case Kimura Masashi was working on before he disappeared?"

As the question was asked, Shinichi and Takano carefully watched the changes in Mai's expression, and then her expression gradually became stunned...

"Ah... OK... Okay, thank you..."

After asking the question, Mai hung up the phone, took a deep breath, turned around and responded to the two people: "Kadokuni Shikun, Ms. Kono, I already know who that person is..."

"Oh?" Gao Ye's expression brightened.

Shinichi looked at Mai's expression and had the answer in his mind: "It's a king snake, right?"

"How did you know that, Kadoya Shikun?" Mai looked at Shinichi in surprise, somewhat unable to believe it as he gave the answer.

"I said it was just my guess, do you believe it?" Shinichi chuckled and teased the two of them.

"Can you still guess this?"

Shinichi spread his hands and explained, “In fact, when I knew that this policeman might be a knight, I already had some guesses in my mind. Youxia mentioned to me before that the knight killed by Wangshe was the policeman who was chasing him.

And this Masashi Kimura happened to be missing, and was related to the knight. He suddenly appeared at this moment. It is very likely that King Snake killed Masashi Kimura and used his identity information to impersonate him.

The fruit basket wrapped in plastic wrap was left in the ward, and in this way, the bishop was kidnapped without anyone noticing. "

Shinichi explained his speculation, then he tore open the fruit basket in his hand, picked out a grape from it and put it into his mouth.

This speculation was quite reasonable, and the two women nodded in agreement.

Mai nodded and said with emotion: "How amazing! Kadoya-sama was able to figure out what happened based on just this one connection? And... Youxia-chan knows so many things. I don't even know the situation of the knight killed by King Snake."

Shinichi knocked on Mayi's head again: "It's your fault that you are always so careless."

Gao Ye stroked his chin, digesting the information he had so far, and raised his own doubts: "Although we know who kidnapped the bishop, this brings up more questions... Why did King Snake kidnap the bishop? What is his relationship with the Samsara Society?"

"Well, I'm afraid I'll have to ask him in person... Anyway, as knights, we'll definitely meet the King Snake again, so we can just confront him face to face then." As he said that, Shinichi took another grape from the fruit basket and put it into his mouth.

Mai obviously didn't have Shinichi's carefree attitude, and she was still thinking about eating fruit: "But is it really okay? That's a king snake... I'm a little worried that the king snake might kill the bishop. After all, he's a desperate criminal."

In this regard, Gao Ye shook his head and gave his own answer: "It shouldn't be. The purpose of the king snake is obviously not to kill the bishop. If it was just to kill the bishop, there would be no need to go to such great lengths.

Obviously, in the eyes of King Snake, kidnapping him is more valuable than killing him directly... As for the reason behind this, we still have to figure out the clear relationship between King Snake and Samsara..."

As the three discussed, the whole story became clearer, but at the same time, they discovered that there was a lot of mystery behind the Knights' War. There was still a long way to go to figure out the secrets of the Knights' War.

On the other hand, the disappearance of the bishop caused the entire asylum to be in chaos for the entire afternoon. After all, the disappearance of a mentally ill person is no small matter, and the escape of a madman is a potential threat to society.

For this reason, the asylum had to call the police to assist in the investigation. As the first parties involved, the three had to be interrogated by the police. However, because of Mai's relationship, the police did not make things difficult for the three. After taking a statement, they let them go.

After leaving the asylum, the three began to discuss the direction of the next investigation.

"The bishop was captured by King Snake, but King Snake is elusive and a wanted criminal, so it's hard to find him. Fortunately, we still have other ways to continue the investigation. Remember the bishop's daughter that the nurse mentioned? We can investigate some of the protagonist's daughters and maybe we will get something."

Takano gave the direction for the next investigation and got the agreement from the other two. Just as they were about to move on to the next target, a neatly dressed white-collar man with a suitcase in hand and a side-parted hair stood in front of the three of them.

The white-collar man put one hand in his pocket and said to the three people in an imposing manner: "The police were too lenient in questioning you. As the first suspect, they let you go so easily. Humph... But it doesn't matter. The police didn't let you talk. I can do it."

"...Who are you?" Gao Ye asked first.

The white-collar man put down his suitcase, then took off his tie from his neck, folded it carefully and put it in his pocket, and then took out a card box from his arms. On the card box, there was a shark tooth pattern carved.

"My name is Irie Tadaya, I'm 33 years old, I live in the northeast of Shinjuku District, Tokyo, and I'm not married..."

"Forehead……"

"I am a lawyer, working at my own Irie Law Firm. I have to get off work and go home before 8 o'clock every day at the latest..."

"Yakamachi! You're so long-winded!" Seeing that the man wanted to continue talking, Shinichi shouted and stepped forward, interrupting his Bible chanting.

"..."

"Hey, hey, why are you cosplaying as Kira Yoshikage? I'm not interested in where you work, what you do, or what weird hobbies you have. Now that you've taken out the card box, stop whining and start fighting!"

As he said that, Shinichi took out the big tooth card box from his arms. Being a "scumbag" who gets bored easily, he had long wanted to try a different belt!

"Henshin!"