I'm Not a Detective

"Sister Eri, why are you here?" Qingjian Liuli opened the door and found a girl with gold-rimmed glasses standing outside the door, and quickly invited her in.

Nakano Eri adjusted her glasses and nodded to her: "I have something to do with Nanabao. Is he at home now?"

"He's here." Qingjian Ruri immediately called to the second floor and asked Takeshi Nanahara to come down to pick up the guest. Then he curiously asked Nakano Eri, "Is there a troublesome case?"

Nakano Eri sat down at the small square table, nodded and said, "We encountered a problem."

Qing Jian Liuli poured her a cup of tea and became even more curious, "Is this a case with great public pressure? Why are you suddenly willing to spend money again?"

Takeshi Nanahara has always been desperate for money and has no moral integrity. He will raise prices from time to time. The price of hiring him is almost as high as that of seven or eight ordinary detectives. Nakano Eri has always been financially strapped and cannot afford to use him on a daily basis. Now he is suddenly found. Qingmi Ruri suspects that another major case has been committed. Faced with the danger of publicly apologizing, Nakano Eri has no choice but to shed tears and bleed.

Nakano Eri looked at her strangely and said, "Didn't he tell you? He is now willing to take cases. The more troublesome the case, the lower his fee."

Qing Jian Liuli was surprised: "He is willing to take the case? When did he say that?"

Nakano Eri replied: "It was just two days ago when I went to the police station to look through old files."

After they had said a few words, Takeshi Nanabaru wiped his hands with a towel and came down from the second floor. He glanced at Eri Nakano and said with a smile: "It seems that business is coming. What happened, Miss Nakano?"

"A senior at the police station was killed." Nakano Eri came to him for help. He stood up and said, "This case is a bit strange. Do you have time to go over and take a look now?"

Takeshi Nanabaru said nonchalantly: "There is time, but we have agreed that if the case is simple, I will still charge the original price."

"I know."

"Then let's go!" Takeshi Nanahara followed her out without further ado, and asked with a smile, "What's going on with this case?"

Nakano Eri sighed: "I couldn't tell for a while that the cause of death of the deceased was poisoning, but we have been searching for most of the day and still can't find out how the deceased was poisoned."

Okay, let’s go and have a look.

Takeshi Nanahara didn't say anything more and followed her into the car. Qingjian Liuli naturally followed and asked Nanabahara Wu in a low voice: "Why are you willing to get involved in the police case again? Didn't you think it was dangerous and the money was too little before?"

"For the sake of Mysterious Man So if it’s a more troublesome or strange case, maybe it’s related to him, you can go take a look.”

Qingjian Liuli suddenly said: "No wonder you lowered the price."

"It's not a price reduction, it's a price reduction for troublesome cases." Takeshi Nanahara corrected him. If the case was ordinary, such as Taro stabbing Jiro with a knife, and it obviously had nothing to do with the mysterious person He is so easy to use that he has to be called on to handle any bad case.

Qingjian Liuli understood, there are only Qianni who are thieves, and there are no Qianni who can guard against thieves. Takeshi Qingyuan is taking the initiative in a sense. He wants to search for more clues about the mysterious person X, and this is a good thing. , he is willing to take the case, and she can contribute to justice again.

She immediately promised: "I understand, and I will also help."

Takeshi Nanahara glanced at her sideways and said indifferently: "Just don't hold me back."

Seeing Liuli being doused with cold water, Qing rolled her eyes at him and wanted to punch him.

This piece of shit talks nonsense all day long, how can the heroine be held back? Wherever there are difficulties in the case, the heroine like me is responsible for waking up the detective, okay?

I don’t understand the importance of a heroine at all!

She was too lazy to deal with Takeshi Nanabaru's daily nonsense and asked Nakano Eri: "Sister Eri, is the victim your senior, a retired detective?"

Nakano Eri drove the car and replied: "Yes, it is a senior who retired due to illness. His name is Sugada Yukio. He has been away from the criminal department for five or six years."

"Retired due to illness?"

"I heard that he had a bad heart, had surgery, and had some gastrointestinal problems. He recovered in his early fifties." Nakano Eri's tone was nothing special. Although she was a senior in the same department, she didn't know him well. "Interpol No one in the industry is in good shape when they get old, and if they stay on the front line for a long time, they will have some problems to one degree or another."

Qingjian Liuli understood and said with concern: "Sister Eri, you should also pay attention to your health."

Nakano Eri glanced at her in the rearview mirror, smiled lightly and said, "I know, let's go to the hot springs together during the vacation."

The two of them chatted, and Takeshi Nanahara smiled and listened without interrupting. Soon the vehicle drove to a small villa near the city center.

Nakano Eri drove the car directly into the yard. Takeshi Nanahara got out of the car and looked at the surrounding environment. It was quiet and elegant. It was obviously the wealthy area of ​​Hirano. He couldn't help but admired: "It's a nice place to live!"

Nakano Eri led them into the villa and said calmly: "Sukada-senpai himself is relatively rich, otherwise he would not choose to retire early due to illness."

For example, if a front-line criminal police officer has health problems and cannot bear the heavy work pressure on the front line, the police station or the Road Police Association will always find a casual job for him to read newspapers until he is sixty years old, so as not to receive a full pension. Pensions and pensions are quite humane, but Yukio Sugada gave up this preferential treatment on his own without missing the 60,000 to 70,000 yen per month. He felt that he was not in good health and went home directly.

Takeshi Nanahara nodded in understanding and followed her into the small villa. The stairs on the second floor of the small villa had been cordoned off. In the living room were three sad-looking women, an elderly woman and a middle-aged woman. , and a girl in a wheelchair.

Nakano Eri introduced him: "This is Sugada-senpai's wife, daughter and servant, plus Sugada-senpai, they are the only four living here."

Takeshi Nanahara glanced at him and nodded in greeting from afar. The three women also noticed him. Except for the girl, they all stood up and bowed slightly in return.

"Let's take a look at the scene first!" Nakano Eri led him and Qingmi Ruri to the study on the second floor of the villa. Except that the body of the deceased had been collected and transported away, the place was still basically the same as it was. There were only two detectives, Okuno Taiji and Hidakaji. Guarding.

Takeshi Nanahara and two acquaintances, Okuno and Hidaka, smiled and said hello, then took a closer look at the study.

There is nothing special about the study room, it is basically the same layout as most other people’s study rooms. There is a large desk with some documents, books, furnishings and teacups on it.

Behind the desk is a chair, which is now tilted to the ground. Next to the chair is the "trace fixation line" of the corpse, marking the position, posture and movement direction of the deceased at the last moment.

Takeshi Nanahara looked at the "trace fixed line", pointed to a single white line not far away and asked: "What is here?"

"The position of the glasses." Nakano Eri took some quick-developed photos from Okuno Taiji. "The deceased was wearing glasses before he died, and he dropped them there after falling."

The glasses are also considered part of the body. They will be classified together with the deceased's belongings and clothes later, and they have now been taken away.

Takeshi Nanahara took a look at the photo of the scene and found that it was a close-up of the deceased's body. Looking at the bloodshot whites of the deceased's eyes, he asked: "Did he die of cyanide poisoning?"

Nakano Eri nodded: "Yes."

Qingjian Liuli also looked at the photo, then at the teacup on the desk, and asked, "Did the poison be poisoned in the teacup?"

Nakano Eri shook her head and said: "No, the tea and tea cups have been tested and they are not poisonous."

Qingjian Liuli asked in surprise: "Where was the poison?"

"I don't know." Nakano Eri sighed. "The only thing that could be eaten at the scene was the cup of tea. However, the forensics class has repeatedly conducted poison tests, and no problems were found in the teacup or tea."

Qing Jian Liuli was stunned, and looked around the small study room again, and found that it was really like this. Apart from the cup of tea, there was really nothing to eat or drink here. She couldn't help but wonder: "Then how did he get poisoned?"

Nakano Eri gave her a helpless look. She had to know, did she need to make a special trip to find Takeshi Nanahara, a money-grubbing guy? The police had been struggling for a long time, but they really couldn't figure out how Yukio Sugada died, so she had to save the scene and call Takeshi Nanabahara to take a look.

After all, it is difficult to identify the suspect until we find out how the deceased was killed.

Qingjian Liuli understood the look in her eyes and immediately asked Nanabahara Wu: "How did he get poisoned?"

"Let me take a look." Takeshi Nanahara put on his gloves from his pocket, picked up the tea cup and looked around, then checked the weight and made sure it was an ordinary tea cup. Then he carefully smelled the smell of the tea, but found nothing. There's something special about it. At least it doesn't smell like almonds. It seems that the forensics class was right. This cup of tea is definitely fine - cyanide is not a rare poison. It is definitely on the list of more than 200 routine poison tests. Originally, it was not Can't go wrong.

Nakano Eri said next to him: "Based on the preliminary examination of the body, the deceased did not have any injuries on his body, and after oral examination, it was determined that he died from oral cyanide. The time of death was between 12:30 and 11:12." .”

Takeshi Nanahara put down his tea cup and went to check the window of the study room. He found that it was well locked from the inside and asked, "Twelve past one?"

This time is too precise.

Nakano Eri explained from the side: "The deceased and his wife had lunch together. It was around 12:30 when they finished the meal, and then they went upstairs and entered the study with tea. At 1:12, a friend called to find the deceased. , when his wife called him to answer the phone, she found that he had been poisoned and determined the time period of his death."

Takeshi Nanahara nodded, opened the bookcase and looked at the books inside, then went to check the desk, flipping through the books and documents on it, and finally walked to the door of the study, stood at the door and looked at it for a while, touching his chin and lost in thought.

Qingjian Liuli waited for a while and asked carefully: "Did you find anything?"

Qin Yuanwu pondered for a moment, shook his head and said: "No, everything is normal here."

Qingjian Liuli thought for a while and reminded: "Didn't the deceased hide anything?"

She remembered that there was a previous case in which the deceased was also poisoned for no apparent reason. In the end, it was discovered that the deceased drank secretly and did not want to be discovered. After drinking, he hid the bottle and created a secret room poisoning case. She suspected that this case was similar.

Takeshi Nanahara looked around the study again, shook his head and said: "No, he doesn't drink or smoke... Or should I say, he never smoked in the first place, and he stopped drinking for a long time. There is no trace of hiding anything in this study."

Qingjian Liuli asked strangely: "Then how did he get poisoned?"

There was no poison in the tea, and there was nothing else to eat or drink. It was still the study on the second floor. The deceased was alone in there, and the windows were locked. He couldn't have licked the book, right?

"I don't know, but this is a bit interesting." Takeshi Nanahara also became interested in this poisoning technique. It was done so cleanly and neatly, without anyone noticing, and he wanted to learn it.

Qingjian Liuli wanted to fulfill her duties as a heroine, but seeing that he couldn't figure it out for a moment, she frowned and pondered for a moment, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she whispered in a low voice: "Could it be suicide?"

If there is no outsider poisoning, there is only one last explanation left, that is, the deceased poisoned himself, so this is most likely a suicide case!

Takeshi Nanahara had already thought about it, shook his head and said: "This possibility cannot be completely ruled out, but the possibility is very small. This does not look like a suicide case."

"Why do you say that?"

Takeshi Nanahara pointed at the desk and said: "The deceased was reading a novel before he died. After reading for a while, he clipped the bookmarks and put them aside to rest. He did not leave a suicide note. This is not like what a person who is preparing to commit suicide would do before his death, and even if the deceased planned to take poison, If he committed suicide, he would try his best to leave the world with dignity. But the way he looked before he died was that he realized something was wrong and planned to ask for help. However, the poison attacked too quickly. He fell down when he stood up. He failed to ask for help - he fell to the ground. His hand is still reaching for the door, which is unlikely to be the case for suicide."

Qingmi Ruri looked at the "trace fixed line" on the floor of the study room and felt that there was nothing wrong with what Takeshi Takeshi said. The posture and what the deceased was doing before death did not look like suicide, at least the case should not be easily closed on the grounds of suicide.

She thought about it again, a little confused, and murmured: "What's going on?"

"It's hard to say now, let's go look elsewhere!"

Takeshi Nanahara was about to walk around the villa to ask the family members of the deceased to see if he could find anything. At this time, a blue hat from the forensics department came and reported to Nakano Eri: "Ms. Nakano, the fingerprint comparison results are out. ”

Fingerprint comparison is a routine test in searches, but it may not be useful in this case. However, Nakano Eri's expression changed slightly when he took a look at the report.

Takeshi Nanahara asked curiously: "Did you find anything?"

Nakano Eri showed him the comparison report. In the column of fingerprint ownership, he pointed to a name named Hisashi Kikuma and said: "I have heard of this name. This was a serious criminal five years ago, which caused a headache for the police. For a while.”

Qingjian Liuli also stretched out his head to look, and said hesitantly: "So, the motive for the crime is revenge?"

Back then, Yukio Sugada was a criminal policeman and arrested Hisashi Kikuma. Was Hisashi Kikuma here to take revenge? Through some method, he poisoned the criminal policeman who arrested him back then?

Nakano Eri adjusted her glasses and said hesitantly: "But I remember that he died five years ago. He died in a detention center. He seemed to have committed suicide by taking poison and caused a lot of trouble... I can't remember clearly. I asked someone to Check it out.”

Qing Jian Liuli's eyes widened instantly. He died five years ago. Why did his fingerprints appear here?

Could it be that the dead were resurrected, or were poisoned in the form of ghosts, poisoning the criminal policeman who handled the case?

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