Sato Kicking Down the Door

"Is that so?"

Looking at Asai Narumi's bulging chest, Fujino's lips curved into a playful smile.

"Eek! How annoying!"

Asai Narumi suddenly let out a shriek.

Fujino: "?"

A moment later, the shriek turned playful. He let out a soft chuckle and said in a male voice, "Just kidding."

"So I was exposed after all?" he sighed and lamented, "As expected of Detective Fujino. You figured out the truth just one day after arriving on the island and exposed me… It truly exceeded my expectations."

After his lament, he turned to Fujino with a hint of curiosity and asked, "How exactly did you see through my disguise as a woman?"

Asai Narumi was deeply confused about how his true gender had been revealed.

After all, he had been the village doctor on the island for two years.

No one had discovered he was a man in two years, and there were even people with ill intentions who had tried to…

"Detective's intuition…"

Fujino said calmly.

Asai Narumi's forehead was covered in black lines upon hearing this. It was clear he didn't believe Fujino's answer.

"I was just kidding too."

Fujino chuckled and explained, "It was actually because of the envelope you gave me."

"It was the only envelope sold on the island, with a pink heart pattern. It was far too obvious."

"I was careless."

Asai Narumi nodded upon hearing this, but still felt something was off. "However, you couldn't have confirmed my identity based solely on the envelope, could you? After all, I wasn't the only one on the island who bought an envelope."

"As you said, the envelope alone wasn't enough for me to determine your identity."

Fujino leaned lazily against the wall, adjusting his posture. "After arriving on the island, I went to talk to the local police to learn about the fire twelve years ago."

"From him, I discovered the only memento Aso Keiji left behind, a stack of sheet music."

"That stack of sheet music was very peculiar, so I tried to decipher it. I actually managed to decipher something. It was a suicide note left by Aso Keiji twelve years ago, detailing the criminal activities of the drug trafficking syndicate… At the end of the note, there was also a line: 'To my son, Aso Narumi.'"

As he spoke, Fujino took out his phone and showed Asai Narumi the sheet music on the screen. "Asai Narumi, Aso Narumi. Asai must be the surname of the family that adopted you. So, if I'm not mistaken, you should be Aso Keiji's son, who didn't die in the fire twelve years ago because he was being treated in Tokyo."

"So that's how it is."

As he spoke, Asai Narumi looked at the sheet music on his phone, his gaze unfocused for a moment.

"Thank you, Detective Fujino."

A moment later, he wiped away a tear from his eye. "If it weren't for you, I might never have known that my father had left behind such a suicide note…"

"A client's affairs are my affairs."

Fujino waved his hand. "After all, you are a client who paid me a commission of five hundred thousand."

"Actually…"

Before he could finish, his phone rang.

He picked up his phone and saw that the contact was Juzo Megure.

"Brother Fujino! Where are you now?"

After answering the call, Juzo Megure's urgent voice came from the other end.

"I'm in the village clinic on Moon Shadow Island…"

Hearing the hoarse voice from the other end of the phone, Juzo Megure was stunned for a moment.

He remembered that Brother Fujino's voice wasn't like this…

Could he have been abused by members of the drug trafficking syndicate?

Oh no!

Brother Fujino is in danger!

Thinking this, Juzo Megure quickly called out to the walkie-talkie, "Everyone, move out immediately! The hostage is in the village clinic!"

"Who's nearby? Is that Sato?"

"What?! You're going to storm the place first?"

"Be careful!"

"Brother Fujino, we're coming to save you, hang in there!"

"Huh?"

Fujino was stunned by the noisy sounds from the other end of the phone.

Then, he understood what storming the place and saving him meant.

The door to the clinic was suddenly kicked open by a female police officer in a professional suit, holding a revolver.

Then, she aimed her gun at Asai Narumi, a sharp, cold glint in her eyes, and shouted, "You woman over there, hands up, don't move!"

Asai Narumi, having never encountered such a situation, obediently stood up and raised his hands.

"Sato Miwako?"

Fujino watched the female police officer who kicked down the door, surprised.

"Is that Fujino Doji?"

Sato Miwako noticed Fujino lying on the hospital bed.

His frail body, his black, lifeless eyes, and that lazy demeanor.

He was definitely the Fujino that Inspector Megure had mentioned!

This time, the police deployed at least three departments, with nearly a hundred officers, including riot police armed with live ammunition.

Fujino learned from Sato Miwako that the police had gone to such lengths because Juzo Megure believed Fujino had been captured by a drug trafficking syndicate and had been subjected to a great deal of torture.

Sensing that he had caused some unnecessary misunderstanding, Fujino couldn't help but feel speechless.

Things had gotten a bit out of hand…

"Brother Fujino, weren't you captured by the drug trafficking syndicate?"

Juzo Megure looked at Fujino, who was lying on the hospital bed with an IV drip, and asked in surprise.

The fierce-looking detectives surrounding them formed a stark contrast with Sato Miwako.

Fujino glanced around, a shiver running down his spine.

He quickly explained, "No... Last night, after investigating the criminal group on this island, I ambushed the transaction point and captured all the evidence of the drugs. I also caught a drug dealer red-handed. I've already knocked him out and tied him up at the village community center."

"You caught the drug dealer yourself, Brother Fujino?!"

Juzo Megure looked at Fujino in disbelief.

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

He might have believed it if you said Brother Kudo caught two drug lords with his bare hands.

But this frail Brother Fujino, who was still on an IV drip… emm…

"It wasn't a frontal confrontation,"

Fujino thought for a moment before continuing, "I took them by surprise from behind when they weren't paying attention and knocked them out."

"That's still very impressive!"

At this moment, Sato Miwako, the only female detective present, offered a word of praise.

Honestly, seeing Fujino's frail body, she couldn't help but feel a pang of concern.

She believed Fujino's story about a sneak attack.

He had succeeded in knocking them out, but if things had gone wrong, it would have been a disaster for Fujino.

Taking on two drug dealers with his bare hands.

How much courage would that take!