In the anime, their emotions can be combined into strange props

Could it be that this isn't a clue pointing to Kamishiro Rize at all, but some other... "thing"?

"Xia, you seem very interested in this case... Why are you suddenly looking at me like that? Did I say something wrong?"

Hikigaya, who had been watching Xia Yan reading the news for a while, couldn't help but ask a question, but before he could finish his words, he saw Xia Yan next to him suddenly turn his head and look at him with a thoughtful look.

Xia Yan immediately tapped the table and turned his gaze to Yukinoshita Yukino on the other side: "Captain, I wonder if our service club will accept commissions from members?"

Upon hearing this, Yukinoshita paused, and then, along with the fragments and a glance, she directed them towards Xia Yan.

[Fragment: Yukinoshita Yukino dislikes you a little bit]

So why is this?!

"It's [our Board Game Service Club], thank you."

Hearing Yukinoshita's cold and disdainful reminder, Xia Yan remembered some things. It seemed that he had just stabbed Yukinoshita in the back last week, which led to the merger of the board game service club.

He had been thinking of finding a time and opportunity to explain it to Yukinoshita, but so many things happened in the past few days that he had almost forgotten about it.

So the awkward situation between the two of them...

"Are you going to accept the request from the club members or not, Captain Yukinoshita?"

Xia Yan: Business is important, be indifferent and ruthless.jpg

"...Answer it!" Yukinoshita was silent for a while, then agreed to it almost with gritted teeth.

"Oh, actually, I want to ask the Service Club to help me investigate the Beika Town serial murder case. Of course, you don't have to do anything too troublesome, just help me collect the information circulating on the Internet - whether it is true or false."

Xia Yan took advantage of the fact that she... was unlikely to go back on her word and quickly presented the details of the commission.

Chapter 49 Transition

After submitting the commission to the Service Department, Xia Yan has been living an unexpectedly peaceful life these past few days.

Except for these days, Eriri comes to visit him almost every night... He always feels that he is treated as a naughty child who will hurt himself if he is not careful.

In addition to the comic-style fighting battles he and Jing Keai had in the teacher's office almost every day, his telepathy was also steadily increasing through persistent training. He could now use the advanced technique "Jian" stably, and was now starting to try another technique "Liu".

In addition, he was lucky enough to synthesize the Hezhe Quinque he wanted, and the progress of practicing the Nether Tiger Shock Fist was also quite good. Now, the sound of mountains breaking could be heard from Xia Yan's personal space every day.

"Tick-tick~Tick~"

Xia Yan was at home at this time, typing on the keyboard of the laptop in front of him.

The commission submitted to the Service Club a few days ago to "investigate the Beika Town serial murder case" has also made considerable progress.

It was mainly Yukinoshita and Hikigaya who helped search for relevant messy information on the Internet. Fujiwara Chika pulled Terajima-senpai, excitedly shouting that this case might be used as material for a new game, and also joined the investigation, coming to help from time to time.

Yuigahama... She's probably at home, watching some TV show stupidly.

And the information they collected was eventually summarized by Xia Yan.

At this moment, he was pressing the mouse touchpad and browsing the exchanges among netizens on a detective forum.

Although this is not entirely Conan's territory, it seems that the popularity of detectives in this world is not low. Not only is there a special detective forum, but there are also a large number of living people on it who are discussing and reasoning about the methods and murderers of various real cases.

This includes the Beika Town serial murder case, and... the popularity of this case is about to explode!

The police are still reluctant to reveal too much information about the cruel and seemingly indiscriminate serial killings, and have not yet arrested the murderer, who is still committing crimes.

The combination of various factors has also created a surge in popularity on the forum, with a large number of netizens enthusiastically collecting information about the case and deducing the identity and possible characteristics of the murderer.

Xia Yan mainly obtained intelligence from the Service Department, and collected information and reasoning provided by netizens on this detective forum.

The information he has obtained so far is roughly as follows:

1. The murderer seems to prefer committing crimes on rainy days. Although this is not absolute, he/she/it probably wants to use this to cover up the sounds caused by the murder and the traces of entering and exiting.

2. The murderer's targets were mainly concentrated in remote houses where people lived alone or with two people. Judging from the fact that he was able to accurately find the right target every time, he must have followed the victim for a period of time before committing the crime.

3. Judging from the fact that the murderer wandered from Haido Town to Beika Town, and the second point mentioned above, the murderer's occupation should be one that allows him to wander the streets all the time and would not arouse suspicion. Otherwise, walking around in a remote place every day would be too suspicious.

4. The murderer seems to be extremely powerful, and may be a tall person, because in some crime scene photos found by netizens, broken doors and windows of the houses can often be seen.

5. The fact that the murderer has yet to be apprehended, and no clear identification has been released, suggests he possesses a strong anti-detection capability...

……

The information circulating on the Internet is complicated and the inferences are just the product of bored amateurs.

They would even naturally not consider a possibility, that is - the "murderer" might not be a human, and might have some special abilities.

Therefore, it is extremely difficult to identify the real culprit from this uncertain information, or even just find some of his characteristics...

But Xia Yan doesn’t need to figure it out himself!

Judging from the fragments of clues he obtained, as long as he saw information related to the murderer, corresponding fragments of clues would be automatically formed.

As for the information about the murderer, which one is true and which one is false?

The system will judge for itself.

That's why he asked everyone in the service department to send him all the information regardless of whether it was true or false. The reason was that as long as he could see it, it would be a victory.

pity……

Xia Yan picked up the cup of tea on the table and took a sip of tea. His method should be correct, but he always felt that he was missing some key information, so he didn't get the last piece of clue.

Anyway, today is Saturday, and Eriri didn't come to see him last night. She must be completely relieved of this "naughty kid" of his. I guess she will never come to see this annoying guy again in the future.

So he has plenty of time today to search for information about the murderer.

take it easy.

……

……

“Deadline deadline deadline deadline deadline deadline!!”

"Ah~"

afternoon.

Xia Yan silently closed the laptop in front of him, and glanced at Ying Lili who was painting the wall furiously with a horrified expression and muttering something.

He looked at her for two seconds and couldn't help but say angrily, "Eri...you're making me lose face."

It hasn't even been two seconds since I finished speaking and you're already coming over to me?

"Huh? What are you talking about? I'm on deadline soon and need a quiet place to finish my manuscript. Please! Consider it my reward for bringing you food every night these past few nights!"

Eriri placed several drawing stands in front of her, holding the paintbrush, and painted as if she was dealing with some mortal enemy. As she moved vigorously, the silver-white whistle tied with a red rope on her flat chest swayed and reflected a faint light.

"Then the reward you need is really cheap."

Although he was interrupted, Xia Yan didn't care too much. He opened his laptop again and prepared to continue working. At the same time, he looked at Ying Lili with a rather cheerful mood: "But seeing how you are being forced to do this due to the deadline, how can I say..."

"I feel inexplicably happy, haha!"

Before Ying Lili could even bar her fangs and curse, Xia Yan took the lead and pulled out his ringing phone from his pocket: "Oh~, sorry, I have to take a call first."

"Hello~"

As soon as Xia Yan picked up the phone, he heard a cheerful female voice on the other end: "Hello, Teacher Xia Ri, how is the fifth volume of "The Familiar of Zero" going?"

"……Clam?"

From Xia Yan's puzzled "huh", Machida Yuanzi on the other end of the phone seemed to have guessed something: "Hey, Mr. Xia, you're not telling me that you haven't written anything yet... No, you haven't even forgotten that you wrote a light novel?!"

"Wait a minute, I'll take a break!"

Xia Yan raised his hand and pressed his forehead as if he had a headache, and sorted out the current situation.

First of all, the time he traveled through time was not recently, but a few months ago.

At that time, although his appearance had not changed much after he traveled through time, and he had a very strange identity and residence in this world, he was... very short of money!

Everything you eat, use and live in costs money!

So in order to improve his life, he copied a copy of "The Familiar of Zero"... Fortunately, he was barely doing this job in his previous life. Although his writing was terrible, Boss Shan○Sheng at least gave him some face, allowing him to earn some spare money.

but……

Xia Yan felt that there was nothing to say about this. Although the Fuzugawa Bunko would send him the money along with the complete set of "Zero no Familiar", he would accept it as usual.

But he would not be proud of it, because it was originally copied;

I won't feel ashamed, because there is no such person as Shan○Sheng Da Lao in this world, nor is there such a book. But making money is not shameful.

So in these few days, no, it should be said that after the system was turned on, he completely forgot about this insignificant matter.

"Teacher Xia Ri, you've been publishing books at a rate of almost one volume per month these past few months. I understand your hard work..."

No, I was just in a hurry to make money.

"If you want to resume writing the book at the normal pace of one volume every three months, I support you, but you can't stop writing altogether, right? Or do you want to give up on this book completely?"

"No, not quite."

Listening to Machida Yuanzi's earnest persuasion, Xia Yan's eyes suddenly lit up. He remembered the pen name he had randomly filled in, and he felt that he had found a good excuse: "But Miss Machida, you also know that my pen name is Xia Nori. Now that summer is over, I am not in good condition and I plan to postpone the update, which is also very positive..."

"roll!"

——"Big Sister" Machida did not accept his statement at all. After ten seconds of mocking others, Xia Yan was struggling to finish his script on the same stage with Eriri.

"Hahahahahaha!"

Chapter 50: Tsundere ≠ Loser Tsundere

"Hahahaha!"

Ying Lili, who had listened to Xia Yan's entire call, was now holding her belly with both hands, almost laughing to death.

She had never seen a slap in the face come so quickly. Thanks for the timely call, thanks to Ms. Machida!

Xia Yan rolled his eyes as he watched her drinking his own tea, occupying his own sofa, and kicking her white silk-clad legs with laughter, almost kicking him in the face. He casually slapped away the pair of white silk-clad legs that were dangling in front of him.

"Ha~ha~, no, I'm laughing so hard that my stomach hurts."

After Ying Lili had laughed enough, she lay down on the sofa and rested for a while. Then she used her hands and feet to crawl towards Xia Yan, and poked out her golden little head with a little curiosity.

To be honest, she did want to know what kind of light novel this guy wrote.

You have to know that she is a veteran, even so experienced that she draws her own books. For a loser like Xia Yan who doesn't even buy action figures and whose otaku power is only 5, my Eriri is the super otaku that he can never reach.

So Eriri thought, maybe she had read this guy's light novels... Well, with this guy's low-level otaku skills, his light novels must be so badly written that they can only be used as toilet paper.

“…You, you, you!”

As a result, Ying Lili looked at the words that Xia Yan was typing on his laptop. After a while, her cheeks suddenly turned a little red.

Listening to the noise coming from beside his ear, Xia Yan turned his head and looked at Ying Lili who seemed shy. He had an idea and thought of something, so he turned the computer to the web interface and searched for the author of Zero no Familiar.

[Original work: Natsu no Hi Painter: Eri Kashiwagi]

Wow, is it really such a coincidence?

Before, he seemed to be not very interested in many things, and he didn't even realize that the illustrator of his light novel was Eriri.

"No...that's not what I'm talking about."

Seeing what Xia Yan did, Ying Lili knew that he had misunderstood something. Her fair cheeks still had a beautiful blush on them, and she was indeed a little embarrassed and covered her face with her hands. Then, a hesitant voice came out from under her hands: "That... Louise..."

Aside from the slightly different hair color and hairstyle, she's tsundere and poor. The heroine of your novel is written like this, maybe you like...

"You think too much!"

This time, Xia Yan understood immediately. He glanced at Ying Lili and said, "Let's not talk about how long we've known each other and when the work was produced. But Louise is the real heroine who won from the beginning to the end. How can a proud loser like you compare to her?"

"It's even less likely that the prototype is you!"

"Creak, creak, creak!"

Xia Yan could even hear Ying Lili's teeth grinding in his ears. When Ying Lili realized that this guy was no longer a wounded soldier, she got angry and kicked him with the kick she had been holding back for a long time...

"Hmm~"

Looking at Ying Lili, who was trembling slightly, covering her calf and crying like a wounded animal, Xia Yan gave her an admiring look.