Blue Castle

Meanwhile, Edogawa Kid began his operation.

He nimbly leaped down from the rooftop, came up behind Sato Miwako, and patted Sato Miwako on the shoulder.

Upon hearing this, Sato Miwako turned her head in surprise. When she saw Edogawa Kid, she was stunned for a moment, then took two steps back and pretended to look innocent, pitiful, and frightened.

"You don't want to get hurt, do you?"

Edogawa Kid stepped forward slowly, "Hurry up and hand over your money... or else..."

Before he could finish speaking, Sato Miwako kicked him.

The whip kick landed squarely on his lower abdomen.

The immense force sent him staggering backward.

A sharp pain shot through him; he felt as if a polar bear had slapped his lower abdomen.

"Action!"

With a loud shout, two or three figures suddenly darted out from the surrounding area.

Those men were dressed in smart suits; they must all be detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department.

"Hateful!"

By now, Edogawa Kid was clutching his stomach, finally understood what had happened.

They've fallen for it!

Realizing what had happened, he was startled and immediately used his lightness skill to rush towards the roof.

"Don't run!"

Upon seeing this, Sato Miwako immediately leaped over the wall and then grabbed the eaves to climb onto the roof.

Edogawa Kid immediately leaped onto the roof of another house.

Sato Miwako gave chase and jumped over as well.

Although she lacked Edogawa Kid's agility, Sato Miwako relied on her amazing jumping ability to grab the eaves of another house when she was only a few centimeters away from falling. With a quick push of her arm, she flipped herself over.

"Hateful..."

However, unable to keep up with her movements, she could only watch helplessly as the Edogawa Kid continued to flee towards the surrounding rooftops.

Just as she was about to give up, a white figure suddenly swept past her.

"It was him?"

Sato Miwako realized that the white figure was the same guy who had just teased her a while ago.

"What exactly is going on with that woman?"

Edogawa Kid stood on the rooftop, panting, looking back in the direction where Sato Miwako had just been. Recalling the moment he was shot in the lower abdomen, he still felt lingering fear.

"You've just arrived in Mika and you've already run into the Beika Fury. You're really unlucky."

"The Beika Fury?"

Edogawa Kid turned around and saw a person dressed in a white robe and wearing a black mask standing behind him, making a low sound.

Upon arriving, he didn't recognize Beika Batman, but was surprised that he hadn't noticed the person appear silently behind him without him noticing.

Without thinking twice, he threw a punch.

Fujino easily dodged the attack, then lunged forward and delivered a swift and decisive elbow strike!

Then, Edogawa Kid felt as if his chest had been hit by a dump truck, and everything went black before he fell off the roof, landing on the asphalt road outside the wall next to the roof.

"Jeet Kune Do is indeed more convenient."

Fujino withdrew his elbow and glanced at the Edogawa Kid who had fallen to the ground.

With a light leap, his figure drifted down slowly like a feather.

After checking with his hand and finding that he was still breathing, Fujino took out a Bat Dart from his Pocket Dimension and stabbed it hard into Edogawa Kid's buttocks.

He took an elbow strike from him and probably won't wake up for a while.

However, just to be on the safe side, it's better to poke it a little with Bat Dart.

Just as Fujino finished searching Edogawa Kid's body and found 500,000 yen in cash and some gold and silver jewelry, and was about to get up, a sense of crisis suddenly overwhelmed him.

This sense of crisis... is the hidden blade's sixth sense!

Realizing what was happening, Fujino immediately drew his hidden blade and turned to block.

"Clang!"

The crisp sound spread out.

Sato Miwako had caught up with them at some unknown time, delivered a whip kick to the back of the hidden blade.

The immense force traveled through the hidden blade and was transmitted to Fujino's hand.

However, Fujino was no longer the same person he once was.

[Detective Enhancement Activated]

Fujino forcefully thrust the hidden blade forward, and Sato Miwako was then forced back several steps by the same immense force.

"I never expected to run into you again."

Sato Miwako adjusted her posture and stared intently at Fujino.

"What a coincidence, this Tough Woman Miss from Mihua."

Fujino silently sheathed his hidden sword.

"Mihua... a shrew?"

Upon hearing Sato Miwako's face immediately fell.

Why do these criminals all like to call her a shrew?

She's practically being branded a shrew by the Metropolitan Police Department!

"Alright, Tough Woman Miss, I don't have much time to argue with you today..."

With that, Fujino pointed at Edogawa Kid, "I'll leave this guy to you. I have other things to attend to..."

Before Fujino could finish speaking, Sato Miwako rushed forward.

Fujino frowned upon seeing this, his vision clearly revealing Sato Miwako's next move.

It was triggered by the Combat Insight.

Seizing the opportunity, Fujino stepped forward with his left foot and swept his right foot towards Sato Miwako's lower body.

Chest up!

Sato Miwako balance and was knocked away by Fujino.

He landed in mid-air and slammed hard on his butt.

After taking down Sato Miwako, Fujino didn't linger.

With a slight push of the toes, the Soul Wings skill was triggered.

He looked like a martial arts hero from a wuxia novel, leaping towards the rooftop.

Sato Miwako sat on the ground, a sharp pain shooting through her buttocks.

She stared blankly at the white figure disappearing into the night sky not far away, muttering to herself, "That person... was a woman?"

Meanwhile, after Fujino returned home in the Soul Lotus, he sat up in bed, rubbing his aching head with a resentful expression. "As expected, controlling the Soul Lotus to fly consumes a tremendous amount of mental energy..."

Although the system's skill description does mention that it consumes a lot of mental energy.

But the spiritual energy consumed by the Soul Wings...

This was beyond Fujino's expectations.

Based on the experiment just now, if he were suspended in mid-air, his mental energy consumption would increase dramatically.

It will probably take less than five minutes for his blue bar to be cleared.

The most cost-effective way to use it is to use the Soul Wings skill when leaping, achieving an effect similar to light footwork.

That thing consumes relatively little mana.

Fortunately, with the mental recovery bonus from his study profession and the Fire Emblem, he should be fine after a good night's sleep, as he is almost completely exhausted.

"What a fruitful night..."

Lying in bed, Fujino opened the system interface, looked at the 4.8 million yen in the system balance, and felt satisfied and gratified.

The one million yen from the arrest of Edogawa Kid has been deposited into the account.

He just found 500,000 yen on that guy.

On his way back, he also robbed some evil and helped others, getting 100,000 yen.

That night, he earned a total of 1.6 million yen.

There are also some gold and silver jewelry that cannot be sold or disposed of.

Under normal circumstances, if he goes out to loot for a night, his ideal is to loot 100,000 or 200,000.

After all, those robbers don't usually carry much money.

Most robbers only resort to robbery when they are out of money.

The next morning, as soon as Fujino got up, he received a package and a letter.

The package was signed by Kaori Niina, and inside was Shinichi issue of Half-Top, written by her.

The other letter was sent to him by a man named Mamiya Takato.

The letter stated that their family possessed an ancestral treasure hidden within their castle, and that if Fujino accepted the commission, they would offer him 1.5 million yen as a reward.

"A new Detective Profession Mission has been detected. Please check it!"

Less than a minute after Fujino finished reading the letter, a system notification sounded in his ear.

Detective Profession Mission: The Blue Castle Incident

Mission Objective: Uncover the truth behind the Blue Castle fire four years ago and arrest the perpetrator.

Mission Rewards: 2 million yen, 200 Detective Reputation, 1 All Profession Points

"The Blue Castle case?"

Fujino immediately recognized which case it was.

After all, the Blue Castle case is truly a classic.

"Only 1.5 million yen... As expected of the Mamiya family."

Fujino put away the letter and accepted the System Task.

The commission fee is 1.5 million yen, plus a system reward of 2 million yen, for a total of 3.5 million yen.

It must be said that the reward for this mission was extremely generous.

After accepting the System Task, Fujino rode his motorcycle to the address indicated in the letter.

On the way, Fujino hung his phone on the handlebars of his motorcycle and dialed Hiratsuka Shizuka's number.

After all, today is a school day, and it would be really bad not to say anything.

"Do I need to take another day off?"

On the other end of the phone, Hiratsuka Shizuka seemed to have known all along about Fujino's leave request, her tone as calm as could be.

"Here's the thing, I received a last-minute request this morning, so I can't go to school today."

"I see."

Hiratsuka Shizuka seemed to sigh. "How many days are you going to take this time?"

"Just one day should be enough... I'll talk to you later, I'm driving. I'll treat you to ramen next time."

Immediately, Fujino hung up the phone.

Hiratsuka Shizuka put her phone away, her eyes gradually becoming resentful.

Another tempting offer of ramen—how could she possibly refuse...?

But then again, it seems like Fujino has already said he'd treat her to ramen quite a few times, hasn't he?

She hasn't even seen a ramen shop yet.

That kid.

The address mentioned in the letter is located deep in the mountains and forests.

Fujino rode his motorcycle along the forest path and soon came across a magnificent building.

It was a tall castle with a blue roof and white walls. Around the castle were several tall towers, just like the tower where the Princess was trapped in a fairy tale.

It is worth noting that among the towers, one has been reduced to a gray ruin.