Isn't it very scientific to use the Death Note to kill people?

Sawakuri Isao picked up the gun that had just been kicked away and pointed it at him... because his hand refused to take it off the bomb detonator, Amuro Tooru didn't dare to make any move.

He glanced at Lin Jiashu discreetly.

The latter frowned, seemingly pondering a solution.

Kogoro Mouri answered the phone quickly.

Just as Amuro Tooru said, it was Sawakuri Isao's shooting that disturbed the nearby residents... In front of them, Mouri Kogoro awkwardly laughed and said that the TV volume was accidentally too loud, and apologized repeatedly to get away with it.

Only after confirming that he had hung up the phone did Ze Lixun take something out of his pocket.

"Come on, Kogoro Mouri, Yoshiki Hayashi... I hope you two great detectives can grant my wish and help me solve the case."

"Don't worry, as long as you help me find the murderer, I will kill him to avenge my sister, and then I will disappear from this world!"

"I don't want to implicate innocent people."

"However, there's a limit to how long I can stay calm. If I find out you're trying to fob me off or deliberately stall, don't blame me for using these bombs on me!"

His tone suddenly rose at the end, conveying a strong sense of urgency.

Judging from the fierce look in his eyes, his mental state is probably not quite right.

"For your sister?"

Lin Jiashu looked at him.

"While I don't condone your actions of showing up at my door with a gun and bomb to threaten me, I can somewhat understand your desire for revenge for your sister... But then again, why not just file a commission? Issuing a commission and waiting for the investigation results before taking action less risky than what you're doing?"

"That's because I don't want to live anymore!"

Sawakuri shouted angrily, "Instead of letting you slowly investigate after accepting this case, why not do it this way?! Hurry up, find out the truth, tell me the culprit and I'll take her with me out of this world! Otherwise, I'll make everyone in this agency die with me!"

"...Brother Jiashu"

Seeing Ze Lixun's fierce appearance, Xiao Lan felt a little worried.

Lin Jiashu did not respond.

Just as he had said, Hayashi Yoshiki could indeed understand Sawakuri Isao's desire to avenge his sister. After all, he would have done the same if someone close to him had met with misfortune; he would have certainly taken ruthless revenge. However, this did not constitute a reason for Sawakuri Isao to threaten him.

Damn it...

In a fleeting moment unnoticed by anyone, Hayashi Yoshiki's eyes darkened as he looked at Sawakuri Isao.

But there's no opportunity now.

Lin Jiashu walked over and picked up the case files that the other party had brought to examine.

—The suicide of author Miku Sawakuri, who won the Naoki Prize, occurred on the 4th of last month.

Because he is a relatively well-known figure, information about this matter can be found online.

On the day of Miko Sawakuri's "suicide," the three middle-aged women were vacationing with her at a hot spring inn, and Isao Sawakuri was also there—he was the first person to discover the body, and he was also staying in the room next to Miko Sawakuri's.

According to the news, Isao Sawakuri suddenly received a farewell text message from his sister, which he found strange, so he knocked on her door, but she did not respond.

He then notified the front desk to break the window and enter Sawakuri Mikoto's room, only to find the entire room filled with steam. Sawakuri Mikoto had died in the bathroom, her cut wrists submerged in the bathtub. At that time, she was still clutching the room key and her cell phone.

But most importantly, the hotel room wasn't the type that could be locked automatically; it required manual locking, making it a so-called "locked room."

Chapter 430: What are you writing in your notebook?! Let me see it!

Police investigation concluded that Miku Sawakuri's death was a suicide.

However, Isao Sawakuri was very dissatisfied with this result. He said that although the room was indeed a locked room, there were very suspicious traces left at the scene.

"When I found my sister lying in the bathroom, I was frantically calling for an ambulance when I heard a slight cracking sound coming from the window. So I rushed over to check and found some shards of glass on the balcony outside the window—which is really strange! I broke the window from the outside to get in, and glass shards should only be inside the room and not on the balcony."

"Also, before the police arrived, there were some bloody handprints on the doormat at the bathroom door. I think those might be the bloodstains left by my sister when she struggled to escape the bathroom after the murderer cut her wrists."

"Otherwise, how could there be bloodstains on the floor mat!?"

As he said, if this was a suicide, there are indeed too many suspicious things.

"Didn't the police investigate these suspicious points?"

"They investigated, but found nothing, so they closed the case!"

"So careless?"

Kogoro Mouri was taken aback.

Unexpectedly, he would hear him criticize someone for being careless. Lin Jiashu looked at Ze Lixun and took out his notebook from his pocket: "What's that police officer's name?"

"Mountain Village Exercise"

The thought of that incompetent policeman made Ze Lixun grit his teeth in anger.

It's that Muggle in the police force...

That's fine.

Ze Lixun watched Lin Jiashu take out his notebook, but seeing that it wasn't anything threatening, he didn't stop him.

He then explained why he had summoned the three women to the Mouri Detective Agency.

"These three women all went to my sister's room shortly before the incident, right!?"

He suddenly raised his voice for the last sentence and pointed his gun at the three men.

The tone of the three middle-aged women changed.

"Yes! In fact, the four of us, including Ms. Wei Hong, made a pact that whoever's work first sells over a million copies would pay for the rest of us to go on this hot spring trip."

"Ms. Wei Hong was the first to achieve this goal, so we wanted to ask her to sign the new book of her famous work that she gave us at the hotel so that we could create a buzz on social media."

"So that day, the three of us went to her room to look for her, and coincidentally, the times when we looked for her were all at different times."

The three of them talked amongst themselves and took out the books they had received autographs for that day.

Seeing this, Sawakuri Isao pulled out another printed document—some of the complaints his sister had left on social media using his account.

"The first person to pester me for an autograph was an elephant. I had just finished showering and hadn't even dried my hair yet. What an annoying elephant!"

"The second person who came was a fox, and she came with some unreasonable demands. She was so noisy! I've already signed her name, so hurry up and go back."

"The last person to come to me was KY's rat, who launched a quick attack. I should have kicked them out as soon as they finished signing! Oh my god, they actually refused to leave. Oh no, I'm starting to feel sleepy. What should I do?"

Kogoro Mouri took the document and read it aloud.

There were many detectives present.

Amuro Tooru temporarily shifted his attention from the detonator in Sawakuri Isao's hand and focused his gaze on the three middle-aged women, beginning to try to connect the animal code names with these three women.

The same applies to the Seven Tsuki of Koshimizu.

"Ms. Sawakuri, who left these words, certainly doesn't seem like someone who wanted to commit suicide."

She said, "And the last one was a rat, and Ms. Sawakuri also mentioned wanting to sleep... Could it be that the 'rat' somehow made her fall into a deep sleep, then killed her and faked it as a suicide?"

Among the figures on set, the obese woman, Mitsui Tamami, resembled an elephant; the tall and thin woman, Nihei Junka, had a face that looked somewhat like a fox; and the short woman, Yuji Shishin, with incisors like a rodent, was probably a mouse.

While everyone was observing the three middle-aged women, Lin Jiashu began writing in his notebook.

Swish, swish

Then the three middle-aged women each took out a signed copy of the book.

The autographed book by the tall, thin woman, Niping Junxia, ​​was noticeably wrinkled on the page where she signed it, likely because it had been wet and then dried.

The autographed book by Shinobu Yuji, whose front teeth are prominent, is very well preserved.

In addition, the autographed book by the obese Tamami Mitsui was somewhat damaged.

"That's because Ms. Wei Hong had already signed the book, but when she handed it to me, she deliberately teased me by delaying giving me the book, which caused it to break. That day, I had an upset stomach, and when I was signing, I suddenly started having cramps and wanted to use the restroom, but she deliberately wouldn't let me. She said she needed to use it right away, so she couldn't let me use it, but she was just trying to embarrass me! She had clearly taken a bath in the hotel's public bathhouse, but she lied and said she was going to take a bath in the bathroom in her room."

How do you know she's lying to you?

"Because when I left, I put on the wrong slippers in the entryway, and I found that the slippers were not only wet but also very warm... just like they had just come out of the hot spring."

Faced with the gun, Mitsui Tamami dared not hide anything.

But her words puzzled the tall and thin Junka Nihei: "That's strange. I remember when I went to her room, her slippers were neatly placed at the door, not wet at all, and not warm either."

"I think you're wearing your own slippers," Yuji Shinobu said to Mitsui Tamami. "Maybe it's because your skin gets oily easily—"

"That's very rude of you! I have a dry constitution!"

"Stop arguing, you bunch of old ladies!"

Seeing that they were about to start arguing, Ze Lixun immediately shouted.

He glared fiercely at the three men.

After scanning them for a while, he suddenly looked at Lin Jiashu and pointed the gun at him: "What have you been writing on there since just now? Isn't everyone saying that you're best at solving cases in an instant?"

“This isn’t a murder scene.” Lin Jiashu put down her pen and looked at him. “Even if we want to solve the case, we should at least wait until we have a complete understanding of the situation, right?”

"So what are you writing down? Let me see it!"

Ze Lixun knew his brain wasn't working very well, but he was still vigilant in this situation. If Lin Jiashu tried to use the notes to secretly send signals to others or do something, he would definitely check them.

Lin Jiashu paused.

"Bring it here quickly!"

Ze Li Xun threatened, pointing the gun at him.

With a calm expression, Lin Jiashu handed him the notebook.

Ze Lixun took it and glanced at it.

He frowned at just one glance.

Chapter 431: Lin Jiashu Burdened by Pressure

"What kind of rubbish have you written?"

"Story plot".

"what?"

Ze Lixun looked completely bewildered.

He flipped through several pages of the notebook, only to find some incomprehensible names, story plots, and long sentences written in foreign languages. He found nothing but annoyance.

"I asked you to solve a case, what nonsense are you writing?! Do you want to die?! Or is this some kind of code you use to secretly discuss something with someone?!"

He suddenly became neurotic.

The dark muzzle of the gun was pointed at Yoshiki Hayashi. Then he glanced at Amuro Tooru or Koshimizu Nanatsuki next to him. He had heard that these two were Yoshiki Hayashi's assistants. If there were any coded messages to communicate, they should be used with these two.

"Don't worry, I'm not ignoring what's going on."

Lin Jiashu looked at him quietly and said, "Next, let's talk about Ms. Wei Hong's rules for giving people nicknames."

"So you mean you already know who 'Rat' is, is that right?!"

"The first person to ask Ms. Wei Hong for her autograph was 'Elephant'."

Ignoring his suddenly excited face, Lin Jiashu said, "Since you just took a shower and your hair isn't dry yet, your body temperature should still be quite high. Signing a document while covered in moisture would make the paper wrinkled... In other words, the first elephant to arrive should be Ms. Niping, whose autograph page is wrinkled, no doubt about it."

"Another piece of evidence is that she clearly remembered the details of Ms. Wei Hong's slippers when she entered her room, which suggests that she is a very meticulous person... This probably also explains why the first page of the precious first edition signed book is wrinkled, but the rest is as good as new."

Ze Lixun grinned.

He slowly relaxed the gun he was aiming at Lin Jiashu.

"Yes, that's it... You must be right! So who's the rest?"

"Before that, could you please return my notebook to me?"

"Take it!"

Sawakuri Isao immediately handed the notebook back to Hayashi Yoshiki.

He began urging Lin Jiashu to reveal the rest of the story.

But the latter did not speak directly.

After getting his notebook back, he started making changes to it.

The first thing he wrote down was that the cause of death was manipulated—but he did a lot of cover-up.