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

[The Death Note allows for post-writing corrections. To change something written in the Death Note within 6 minutes and 40 seconds, the user must first draw two horizontal lines on the section they wish to alter. The time and circumstances of death can be changed using this method, but the person whose name has been written on the Death Note cannot escape death, regardless of the method used.]

In other words, you can write a long, unrelated paragraph in the Death Note, hide the content you want in it, and then delete the unrelated content by drawing two horizontal lines when you need it.

After all, Ze Lixun was an impatient and neurotic guy, so Lin Jiashu naturally couldn't let his guard down... Fortunately, he did the right thing.

Lin Jiashu began writing the locations in the deliberately left blank spaces.

Seeing that he was dragging his feet, Ze Lixun became a little annoyed and angrily urged him to continue.

The tall, thin woman, Junka Nihei, who had been cleared of suspicion, breathed a sigh of relief, but Tooru Amuro, Ran, and the others felt something was amiss and were worried.

what happened?

Why was he so concerned about that notebook under these circumstances?

It's really strange that he would continue to create under such a critical situation; he's never been in this situation before!

Lin Jiashu stopped what he was doing.

Seeing his calm demeanor, but clearly a pause in breathing before he began to speak, everyone present immediately realized: Lin Jiashu was stalling for time, or... trying to distract himself by diverting attention.

Sawakuri Isao will kill the murderer of his sister upon successfully solving the case, and then commit suicide. This means that once Hayashi Yoshiki uncovers the truth, two lives will be lost because of him.

This was something that he, with his gentle nature, could not accept.

but,

If he keeps delaying giving an answer, Ze Lixun might actually detonate the bomb on his body and send everyone to their deaths!

So, what should we do?

Although the weights on both sides of the scale are not equal, they cannot be easily discarded just because one is lighter and the other heavier... The reason why the trolley problem has no solution is because it tests the conscience of the person answering the question.

Amuro Tooru's brows were furrowed.

He understood perfectly well that Lin Jiashu's delaying tactics were pointless, since there was no third party available to help break the deadlock.

However, in his view as a police officer and an undercover agent, the best solution is to let this guy and the murderer die together in order to save the others!

Under increasingly impatient urging from Sawakuri Isao, Amuro Tooru finally spoke up: "'Rat' is Ms. Mitsui Tamami!"

"what?"

"Now that the BOSS has guessed that the elephant is Ms. Two Bottles, the rest is easy to guess."

There's no reason to pity a murderer.

I wouldn't care even if two lives were attributed to me.

With this in mind, Amuro Tooru said, "The first person to sign, Ms. Nihei, said that Ms. Miku's slippers were dry, but Ms. Mitsui said that Ms. Miku's shoes were damp and warm... So, Ms. Yuchi, who had just finished taking a bath, must have been the second visitor before Ms. Mitsui. She left wearing the wrong slippers, leaving behind a pair of soaking wet shoes. Therefore, Ms. Yuchi is the 'fox' and Ms. Mitsui is the last 'mouse'."

The obese Mitsui Tamami's face turned pale.

Ze Lixun immediately became excited and couldn't wait to turn the gun towards the fat woman.

Yoshiki Hayashi, who had already written the time in his notebook, finally began to write his name in the Death Note.

"Well done! That's impressive! As expected of the Kindaichi Detective Agency... You despicable murderer who killed my sister and faked it as suicide, you filthy rat, Mitsui Tamami—"

He turned the muzzle of his gun toward Mitsui Tamami and put his index finger on the trigger.

Everyone's heart was in their throat.

Amuro Tooru's expression remained unchanged as he witnessed this scene.

He looked at Lin Jiashu, thinking that his valued junior should not have to bear the pressure because of this, but he saw that Lin Jiashu's expression changed slightly at this moment.

"No, wait!"

"She wasn't the murderer!"

"What!?"

"...Although the rat was indeed Ms. Mitsui, she was not the murderer."

Meeting the fierce gaze of Sawakuri Isao, whose pupils were dilated and whose breathing was heavy with excitement, Hayashi Yoshiki remained silent for a moment before speaking expressionlessly: "The murderer is 'Fox,' also known as Ms. Yuchi."

Amuro Tooru was taken aback.

Despite appearing calm, Lin Jiashu's voice had an unusual dullness.

no way.

—If we don't speak up now, innocent Mitsui Tamami will die at the hands of the real culprit.

Although he didn't say it aloud, several people present seemed to be able to see what he was thinking.

Chapter 432: Stop making that expression just to reassure us.

"The murderer is Ms. Tangdi."

Lin Jiashu closed his notebook and repeated his words.

Everyone looked at him.

However, Lin Jiashu's eyes were fixed on Ze Lixun, on the gun in his hand that was about to be pulled at any moment.

"It's Yuji Shinobu."

He repeated it again.

It was a calm and firm tone, but his expression... carried an indescribable tension.

Amuro Tooru's expression immediately changed.

I realized I misjudged the situation. So, it was indeed my actions that forced the BOSS to quickly step forward and identify the culprit.

Amuro Tooru's purplish-gray pupils trembled as he watched Hayashi Yoshiki's unwavering gaze fixed on Sawakuri Isao. He gritted his teeth and glared at the man who seemed poised to lose control and fire at any moment.

As expected, Sawakuri Isao stopped what he was about to do.

But he looked suspicious and immediately demanded that Hayashi Yoshiki give the answer: "What happened? How could she be the murderer? She was clearly the second person to go to my sister's room, and my sister was perfectly fine until that rat Mitsui Tamami went there!"

Mitsui Tamami breathed a sigh of relief, no longer having a gun pointed at her, but instead, Yuji Shinobu looked terrified.

However, Lin Jiashu seemed to have made a decision and no longer hesitated. He spoke:

Let's take a look at Ms. Wei Hong's comments on social media.

"The second person to arrive was a fox, who came with some unreasonable demands," and then refused to leave.

"Just as the fox was making unreasonable demands of her, Ms. Mitsui, the 'Rat,' suddenly appeared, so Ms. Miku had no choice but to tell Ms. Yuchi to hide in the bathroom first and then figure out a way to get rid of Ms. Mitsui."

"Of course, in order to avoid drawing attention to having two pairs of slippers in the entryway, I must have asked Ms. Tangdi to bring her own slippers into the bathroom as well."

"But Ms. Yuchi didn't take her own wet slippers that she had just worn after taking a shower. Instead, she took Ms. Miku's slippers to the bathroom by mistake—which is why Ms. Mitsui made a misunderstanding when she accidentally put on the wrong ones."

"That makes things easier to explain."

"After Ms. Yuchi and Ms. Mitsui left, she killed Ms. Mikumi and staged it as a suicide. She then used her cell phone to send a text message to lure Mr. Sawakuri into breaking the window and entering the room. She then took the opportunity to leave through the broken window and go to your room next door. Afterward, she blended into the crowd in the chaos."

Upon hearing this, Ze Lixun immediately pointed his gun at Yuji Shinobu.

The middle-aged woman with rabbit teeth immediately let out a terrified scream.

Sera Masumi frowned.

The complexity of the situation prevented her from speaking up and participating, but she could somewhat understand Lin Jiashu's "helplessness" at this moment.

There is no way to break the deadlock.

In order not to harm the innocent and those around him, he could only let Ze Lixun go astray, let him take a life in front of him and then commit suicide.

This feeling of pressure and helplessness when facing the trolley problem...

Xiao Lan looked at Lin Jiashu with worry.

"No, why are you saying I'm the murderer! Others did the same thing—"

"When Ms. Wei Hong was desperately trying to escape from the bathroom, she gripped the floor mat tightly with her blood-stained hands, leaving two very clear bloody handprints on the mat. The palm parts of both handprints are very clear, but one of the handprints only shows the palm and fingertips, and the blood between the fingers is not imprinted, which proves that she must have been holding something else in her hand at the time."

While Yuji Shinobu frantically tried to refute him, Hayashi Yoshiki gave his answer without hesitation.

—The evidence is the signed book owned by Yuji Shinobu.

"After all, I am an author who has published several books."

"Due to different printing methods, the sides of a book, also known as the fore-edge, can sometimes be very flat, while other times they can be uneven due to the way they are cut."

"Both are first editions of new books, so why are the edges of the other two books uneven, while the edges of your book, Ms. Tangdi, are so smooth? Is it because you carefully sanded it smooth with sandpaper or something?"

"I think Ms. Wei Hong was holding your book at that time."

"The purpose of smoothing the edges of the book is to remove the bloodstains on it, and I noticed that the cover of your book has a slightly unnatural appearance... It's probably because the cover has the most bloodstains and they can't be wiped off, so you bought a new book to exchange for it?"

Once you've made up your mind, just end it directly.

Lin Jiashu's decisive and resolute statement clearly conveyed this meaning.

Yuji Shinobu's mouth was agape.

Finally, she lowered her head in dejection.

That's right.

"It really was you—"

"When I dragged her into the bathroom after I had drugged her, the book accidentally slipped out of my bathrobe and landed on the floor mat."

"You bastard, why did you kill her?!"

"Shouldn't she have died?!"

Sawakuri Isao was met with an angry roar from Yuji Shinobu.

The man holding the gun and detonator was taken aback by her sudden outburst of anger.

Then, Shinobu Yuji explained his reasons.

—She and Miku Sawakuri were good friends. Sawakuri asked her to collaborate on a book, which was later published under Sawakuri's name but became a bestseller.

Up to this point, Yuji Shinobu was still quite happy for his friend.

But to her surprise, when she was determined not to lose to her and prepared her new work to submit, the publisher's editor said, "Although what you write is indeed very interesting, one Miku Sawakuri is enough. If you don't mind, why don't you become her ghost writer?"

It was only after that that Shinobu Yuji discovered that Miku Sawakuri had been imitating his writing style since she became famous, and had taken it as her personal style.

During this hot spring trip, Yuji Shinobu approached Sawa Kuri Miko and asked her to stop this behavior, or at least explain that the famous book was co-authored by the two of them, but she refused, saying that it would bring shame to the Naoki Prize-winning author.

And so, everything we have now came to be.

"Mr. Sawakuri!"

When Yuji Shinobu finished speaking and Sawakuri Isao's expression turned ugly, Hayashi Yoshiki immediately stepped forward to try to stop him.

"In any case, I hope you won't continue down the wrong path."

I understand how you feel.

"But in the end, no one benefits from this kind of thing!"

He placed one hand on his heart and opened the other hand toward Ze Lixun, his handsome face revealing a rare earnestness.

"Now that the truth has been proven, Ms. Tangdi's murder will be judged and punished by law. If you stop now, it's not too late. I think Ms. Wei Hong certainly wouldn't want her brother to become a murderer!"

“That’s right, Mr. Sawakuri! It’s not too late.”

With Ze Lixun still not taking any action, Xiao Lan immediately stepped forward and made her request.

Under the tense gazes of Nanatsuki Koshimizu and Masumi Sera, Tooru Amuro stood ready, while Kogoro Mori quietly stood up as well.

"Mr. Sawakuri—"

boom!

A gunshot rang out.

When smoke billowed from the muzzle of Sawakuri Isao's gun and a bullet hole appeared in Yuji Shishin's forehead, Hayashi Yoshiki's earnest expression froze.

His pupils suddenly contracted.

Those dark eyes watched helplessly as Yuji Shinobu collapsed to the ground.

"Hmph, you killed my sister, so of course you have to pay with your life!"

Sawakuri Isao shouted loudly.