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Serial murder?

Originally, Higashinohara only thought that this was an ordinary murder case, perhaps involving a capable person, but he did not expect that it would develop into a serial murder case today.

At this time, hearing the solemn reminder from his apprentice Morita Takuma, Aragaki Satoru's face also seemed to be struggling.

During this period of time, the Aragaki Detective Institute was basically helping the neighbors to find cats and dogs, or sending the catwoman Xia Li to secretly film some commissions such as extramarital affairs. It's like this serious murder case, and it's a serial I don't know how long it has been since I received a homicide investigation request.

Business ability Well, except for Aragaki Satoru, a retired policeman, the regular employee Xia Li and the temporary worker Higashinohara have no "business ability" to say.

But after pondering for a while, Aragaki Satoru still gritted his teeth, and said with a straight face, "Serial murder case? Sorry! I can't bear this kind of extrajudicial madman! This commission. Our Aragaki Detective Agency has taken over! "

Morita Takuya glanced at Aragaki Satoru's "righteous vanguard" with some discomfort. Fortunately, he knew Aragaki Satoru well enough, and after thinking about it, he eased up, and he was speechless for a while.

Do not ask!

The question is that the other party has given too much.

Morita Takuma took a deep breath and reluctantly said, "Okay, I can't stop you from accepting this request, but as far as I know, the victim's family should have contacted several detective agencies at the same time, and you want to catch up with them. It wasn't that easy before, now I'll bring you the file you want, tell me, do you have any clues?"

Aragaki Satoru's face suddenly became embarrassed. He had just been entangled in his patronage, and he had not yet entered the part of the case analysis.

However, when he turned his head, he saw Charlie in a "Folmore" pose with her arms around her chest and a thoughtful look on her face at the blood-stained photo.

"Okay! Shirley-chan, tell me." Aragaki Satoru immediately called.

When Xia Li heard this, she couldn't help but froze for a moment, scratched her head, and the two fluffy ears on her short silver-white hair twitched, and she turned her head curiously, "Ah! Is the boss calling me?"

"Yes, let's analyze the case."

Satoru Aragaki turned his head to Morita Takuya next to him with a smile and said, "A Tuo, don't look at Xia Li-chan's time in the office, but she's been fascinated by the teacher's side, and she has a good grasp of the case. I'm afraid it's not there. Under the new elite of your Metropolitan Police Department."

"The murderer. The murderer is a pervert!"

Charlie said suddenly.

"That's right." Satoru Aragaki nodded in admiration, "The murderer did not cut off everyone's hands, but brutally stripped the victim's hands, perverted. Really perverted. Oh, sorry, please continue, Charlie-chan."

However, after waiting for a long time, Charlie was silent.

"Go ahead, did I interrupt your train of thought, Charlie-chan." Aragaki Satoru wondered.

Xia Li immediately shook her head with a "hushouhuohuo", and said a little embarrassedly, "No. Boss, my analysis is so much."

ah this? !

Higashinohara was stunned when he heard the words.

Feelings have you figured out a metamorphosis after thinking about it for a long time?

Morita Taku, who was next to him, couldn't hold back the corner of his mouth, and quickly returned to normal.

Aragaki Satoru couldn't save his face a little, and said angrily, "Then why did you keep nodding your head and looking thoughtful just now? Are you thinking about what to eat for the evening?"

"Eh? Boss, how did you know?" Xia Li was quite shocked.

"Cough cough cough" Morita Taku finally couldn't hold back.

"." Aragaki Satoru.

Higashinohara was also a little sore.

Looking at this bloody picture, there is no one who can still want to eat.

I didn't expect it to be even more painful.

Aragaki Satoru turned his eyes to Higashinohara who was standing at the door, and immediately said to Higashinohara with a kind expression, "Fortunately Higashino-kun is here, and I just read the file just now, Higashino-kun, what do you think, let's talk! Let's just chat casually. "

Morita Takuya, who was in the second section of the Metropolitan Police Department's investigation, stopped laughing when he heard this. The high school student next to him helped them find the suspicious point of the suicide case at Sakura Crossroads last year.

"Am I going to analyze?"

Higashinohara pondered for two seconds, but he did not hide his clumsiness at all, and said directly, "I think the perversion that Xia Li just said can be regarded as a possibility, and it is also the most unfavorable possibility for investigation, that is the randomness of perverted murders. But I don't think another possibility is ruled out."

"Vendetta."

Higashinohara paused when he said this.

He turned his head to look at the bloody and terrifying photos on the projector, and continued, "Everyone has a purpose for doing anything, if it wasn't for hatred, it's hard to imagine that a person would put so much effort into removing a corpse. His hands were stripped to the point where only the bones and joints of the hands were left."

"That's right!"

Charlie's eyes lit up next to her, and she made an inference, "When I was in my hometown in Okinawa, a pheasant came to my house to eat millet. I went up the mountain for revenge for a day, and only caught it when it was getting dark, and then Violently stripped its fur before venting its hatred."

Higashinohara glanced at Charlie.

That pheasant should end up in your belly.

"Vendetta?"

Morita Takuya pondered for two seconds when he heard the words, and then slowly analyzed, "It is impossible to rule out this possibility, but the current analysis result of the colleagues in the Police Department's search section is that vendettas are generally individual cases, and the murderer is committed to a single person. Vengeance, the homicides we have now encountered have happened five consecutively from a week ago to now, and the victims have no connection with each other, so it is difficult to infer vendetta."

The people of the Metropolitan Police Department's investigation section were very thoughtful, and Morita Takuya's rebuttal really pointed out a very obvious loophole in Higashinohara's inference.

But when Higashinohara looked at the horrific photos, for some reason, he still felt a very strong hatred from the victims whose hands were only left with eerie and gloomy bones.

Frowning for a while, Higashinohara said again, "If that's the case, then I think there is another possibility."

"What possibility?" Morita Takuya asked.

Charlie was also curious, but Aragaki Satoru had a thoughtful look on his face.

Higashinohara said lightly, "Perhaps. The target of the murderer's revenge was never a single person, but a certain group."

Aragaki Satoru suddenly lit up and continued, "If this assumption is true, revenge against a certain group should start from the individual."

"Then the first person to die, the murderer must have some special reason for choosing him, and the scope of our investigation is narrowed again."

Takuma Morita wants to say that your hypothesis is not necessarily true, but he is inexplicably infected by the calm and indifferent momentum of Higashinohara. This high school student inexplicably has the aura of a famous detective in film, television and animation works, which makes people unconscious. would choose to believe his inferences.

In fact, he thought too much about this. Dong Yeyuan was purely a confidence that he had never had before due to the improvement of his strength under normal conditions, and it turned into an invisible appeal.

In the end, Morita Takuya took a breath and pressed the remote control button in his hand. The picture on the projector flashed quickly and returned to the first bald middle-aged man's body.

Nagoshi Taro, 47 years old, owner of a convenience store.

"Everyone! It seems that we already have a goal."

Aragaki Satoru immediately clapped his hands full of fighting spirit, looked at Higashinohara with relief, and said, "Tomorrow morning we will set off to formally start the investigation. I have a hunch that this case will definitely re-broadcast our firm's reputation! Tell me aloud, do you have any? Confidence?! Oh Charlie raised her hand, do you still have any questions?"

"Boss, do you want me to have a working lunch tonight?" Charlie asked expectantly.

Aragaki Satoru suddenly choked, and said in a bad mood, "You applied for a rest today, where can you get a working meal on a rest day?"

"Okay, there are no other questions, then we will gather at eight o'clock tomorrow morning. Do you have any problems with Higashino-kun?"

When it comes to Higashinohara, Satoru Aragaki's attitude changed immediately. Although he couldn't figure out how this sullen and silly boy who rented in his apartment building suddenly became enlightened, enlightenment is enlightenment, and now he naturally sees it differently.

"I can do it." Dong Yeyuan smiled and nodded, "If there is nothing left, I will go back first, see you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow!"

"Uh, let me go too." Morita Takuya said.

He was brought here by this unreliable master, and he didn't want to eat rice with a shy face, so he wouldn't stay here any longer after the incident.

So the two went out together, and when they came to the corner of the corridor, Morita Takuya, who was about to go downstairs, thought for a while, but couldn't help but raised his head and shouted to Higashinohara who went upstairs, "Higashino-kun."

"Huh? What's wrong? Mr. Morita?" Higashinohara lowered his head and asked.

"That. That guy from my master, Aragaki, is not very reliable." Morita Takuya smiled helplessly, and immediately reminded in a serious tone, "This murder may involve a capable person, I know you are also studying in the capable person academy, But we still have to be careful during the investigation.”

Higashinohara was stunned, nodded and said, "Thank you, I will pay attention."

After that, the two of them said goodbye.

The next day, Saturday.

Edogawa Ward, small forest convenience store.

The rain outside the shop window was dripping down, leaving a meandering and mottled rain trail on the glass.

For the two clerks in the convenience store, a man and a woman, the convenience store with few people on rainy days is the "good weather" for their service-oriented industry.

Behind the cash register of the Xiaolin convenience store, a female clerk named Mei Xiaolu Kaori was restlessly resting her chin in her hands, staring at the rain marks falling on the window in a daze;

The male clerk next to him, Yuki Miura, was holding his phone in both hands attentively, as if he was engaged in a game battle.

At this time, three figures in black trench coats came to the street in the rain not far away, holding a black umbrella in their hands. Rhythm, abruptly turned the empty rainy street into a fashion week show.

"Ding bell! Welcome to the small forest convenience store, I wish you a happy shopping."

The induction door opened, and when the three figures stepped in, the welcome prompt of the convenience store also sounded.

The three uninvited guests in the rain curtain stepped forward and put the umbrellas in their hands on the drain rack at the entrance of the convenience store. Do all weather stations in the world eat S? Every time you say it won't rain, it will definitely rain, and the 'work clothes' I prepared for you are wasted."

"Boss, is there a possibility that you read the weather forecast wrong?" Charlie shook her head after entering the door, and numbly shook off the rain on the short furry milky white ears on her head.

"No way!"

Aragaki Satoru exclaimed in a guilty conscience.

Beside the two, Higashinohara put the umbrella on the drain rack and glanced at the convenience store calmly.

Cameras are arranged in several key places on the ceiling of the convenience store, and the TV screen behind the cashier is divided into nine small squares to monitor the situation in the store in real time.

However, only eight cameras on the TV screen have pictures, and the one in the lower right corner is estimated to be malfunctioning, and no pictures are pitch black.

Seeing a customer entering the door on a rainy day, the female clerk behind the cashier, Mei Koji Kaori, cheered up and said with a smile on her face, "Welcome, our store's Oden has a special promotion recently, buy three get one free, and a cup of Oden on a rainy day is great. Oh!"

The girl smiled and squinted her crescent eyes, and some of the baby's fat cheeks showed light, sweet dimples.

The male clerk next to him, Yuki Miura, seems to have not finished a game yet. In the past, he actually did not dare to play with his mobile phone during working hours.

But the recent situation is special. The owner of the convenience store has just been killed, and the lady boss is busy chasing the murderer. Who cares about checking the camera of the convenience store every day.

So Miura Yuki furtively glanced left and right, coughed dryly, turned her head and walked into the storage room and changing room of the convenience store.

No one can fool teammates.

The camera in the storage room and locker room seems to be faulty. Usually Miura Yuki hides and fishes here when he is lazy and plays games. The work of the convenience store is very easy, and there is no problem with someone outside to take care of it.

Hearing Kaori's sweet promotion from the female clerk, Mei Xiaolu, Aragaki Satoru stepped forward, clenched his fists and coughed, "Thank you, but no need."

"Boss, buy three get one free!"

Charlie's eyes lit up.

Mai Kouji Kaori glanced at Charlie, the smile on her face became even sweeter, and continued to sell, "Yes, if you buy two copies, you can exchange for a bottle of Coke for an extra 50 yen."

"Boss! He even gave Coke!"

The expression on Charlie's face became even more excited.

That look seems to be saying that if you don't take such a big advantage, you deserve to be struck by lightning when you go out.

Aragaki Satoru thought for a while, and then they would use these two shop assistants as a breakthrough strategy. It seemed a bit unreasonable not to buy something.

So he took out his wallet and said to Mei Xiaolu Xiangzhi very generously, "Then give me two oden, 50 yen plus a bottle of drink, and the remaining 150 don't need to be looked for, it's a tip for uncle."

tip?

The corners of Higashinohara's eyes twitched.

This guy, Aragaki Satoru, goes to the supermarket downstairs to buy cigarettes and he has to bargain with people for a discount, but one day he will take the initiative to tip, he can only say that the world is amazing.

The female clerk, Mei Xiaolu Kaori, was used to giving change and seemed to be accepting a tip for the first time. After being stunned, she bowed politely, "Thank you so much."

After she finished speaking, she borrowed the money with both hands and put it away, turned around and picked up the cup nimbly to serve the oden.

"You're welcome, your smile is for the haze of the rainy day that Uncle Me dispels, this is what you deserve." The swollen-faced and fat gentleman Satoru Aragaki said with full demeanor.

After a pause, when the female clerk Mei Xiaolu Kaori bent over to serve oden, Aragaki Satoru supported the oden counter and suddenly bent over through the window and asked, "By the way, I heard that the owner of your shop met you last week. Unfortunately, what do you know about this? Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, I'm a police officer from the Metropolitan Police Department's Search Division."

With that said, Aragaki opened the folded wallet in his hand, revealing the Police Department ID that he had just forged in the morning, and immediately put it away in his arms, "They are all my colleagues."

Mai Kouji Kaori looked up at Aragaki Satoru, her eyes suddenly passed Aragaki Satoru again to look at Xia Li, who was always staring at her Oden, and Higashi Nohara, who put his hands in his pockets behind them and looked "cool Tokyo handsome fan". A sly smile suddenly appeared on her slightly fat cheeks.

"Uncle, you are actually from the detective agency, right?"

Ask for a ticket!