Swordsman Soldier

Fujino snatched up the wooden sword, put on the Vision Enhancement Glasses, pushed open the car door, and followed the man who was leading Ogawa Yuta away.

Before coming here, he had made thorough preparations for this operation.

Besides wearing the Vision Enhancement Glasses, he also held a Strength Enhancement Card and a Perception Enhancement Card in his left and right hands respectively.

The park bloomed with birdsong and fragrant flowers.

It was dusk, and there weren't many people around. The area was silent, making it a good place to kill someone.

"Wow! Thank you, Uncle!"

Beside a park bench in an open space, Yuta squatted on the ground, excitedly unwrapping the gift in front of him.

"You don't need to thank me..."

The man named Ogino said strangely.

He then took off the trench coat he was wearing, pulled out a fruit knife from his pocket, and walked towards Ogawa Yuta with a vicious glare filled with resentment.

"Tomo, you must have been lonely over there... Don't worry, I'll let this little kid join you now..."

He thought to himself, slowly raising the fruit knife in his hand.

"This is as far as you go!"

Suddenly, a figure blocked his path.

The person held a wooden sword and wore black-rimmed glasses, their eyes revealing a hint of sharpness.

However, given his slender build, he didn't pose much of a threat.

"Who are you!"

Ogino glared fiercely at Fujino and shouted, "Get out of my way!"

Fujino raised the wooden sword in his hand, the wooden blade pointing at Ogino's face, and said in a deep voice, "Are you really going to kill this innocent child?"

"I advise you not to meddle!"

Ogino threw the trench coat he was holding aside, "Or I'll kill you too!"

Then, he raised the fruit knife in his hand high and charged directly at Fujino.

"If I'm not mistaken, the reason you're killing him is to make his father pay blood with blood, right?"

[Hint: Detective Time has been activated. Countdown: 0-0-59]

The system's prompt suddenly sounded.

"What?!"

Ogino was stunned by the words, stopped in his tracks, and looked at Fujino in surprise.

"Two years ago, your son, Ogino Tomoya, died of appendicitis. Unable to accept the grief of your child's death, you transferred all your resentment to Dr. Ogawa."

Fujino's lips curved into a slight arc as he deduced, "From that moment on, you sent the insurance money obtained from Ogino Tomoya's death, along with his toys, to Dr. Ogawa's son, Ogawa Yuta... The goal was to personally end Ogawa Yuta's life two years later, to let him experience the pain of losing a child when he turned five!"

"How do you know all this?"

Ogino exclaimed in surprise, then roared and questioned, "Who exactly are you?!"

"My name is Fujino, and I'm a detective!"

With that, Fujino activated the system's enhancements, simultaneously crushing the Perception Enhancement Card and Strength Enhancement Card he had been holding.

[Detective Enhancement 100% activated for host. Countdown: 0-1-59]

[Strength Boost 100% activated for host. Countdown: 0-0-59]

[Perception Boost 100% activated for host. Countdown: 0-0-59]

"I don't care if you're a detective or a dog detective. Since you dare to interrupt my business, you can just die!"

Roaring, Ogino charged forward again, raising the fruit knife in his hand high and stabbing directly towards Fujino's chest.

"Stubborn."

Fujino scoffed lightly, exerted force with his legs, and adopted the Sword Flying Heaven Style's footwork. Watching the relentlessly advancing knife tip, his heart remained completely calm.

With the double enhancement from the system's Perception Enhancement and the glasses' perception enhancement.

At this moment, in Fujino's eyes, Ogino's charge towards him was clearly visible.

In his vision, those movements transformed into streaks of phantom images, gradually evolving into a trajectory.

This was his prediction of Ogino's movements.

With a mere sidestep, Ogino's strike missed.

Then, he raised the wooden sword in his hand with minimal movement.

He directly smashed it onto the weakest point of Ogino's wrist.

"Aargh!"

Ogino clutched his wrist and let out a scream.

Fujino didn't dare to slacken. With a turn, using the momentum, the wooden sword gripped tightly in his hand swung like a flail towards Ogino's lower back.

Bang!

Ogino instinctively fell in the direction of the sword swing, letting out groans of pain as he lay on the ground.

"You can't bully good Uncle!"

At that moment, a childish voice called out from not far away.

"Huh?"

Fujino exclaimed in surprise at the sound.

Turning his head, he saw Ogawa Yuta standing a short distance away, hands on his hips, shouting at him.

"Kid, that guy over there is the bad guy!"

"Don't you see the knife in his hand?"

"Uncle gave me fun toys, how could he be a bad guy!"

Pure light shone in the child's eyes.

Fujino was momentarily speechless.

Well, I've become the bad guy...

"Tomoya..."

Looking at Ogawa Yuta defending him, Ogino's eyes welled up with tears.

In a daze, he seemed to see his son, who had died two years ago.

"Uncle! Why are you crying?"

As he spoke, Ogawa Yuta started to walk towards Ogino.

"Don't go, it's dangerous!"

Fujino scooped up Ogawa Yuta, his Wooden Sword still pointed at Ogino.

"Bad brother who bullies good uncle, let me go quickly!"

Yuta struggled, shouting loudly.

Fujino couldn't help but feel speechless.

Why can't this kid tell right from wrong...

Do I really look that bad?

"No!"

Ogino knelt on the ground, tears streaming uncontrollably from his eyes. "It's all my fault, Uncle is the bad guy..."

"Actually, I knew from the beginning that Tomoya didn't die because of the surgery..."

"It's just... I just..."

"You just couldn't accept the cruel reality."

Fujino kicked the fruit knife aside and slowly walked to Ogino's side. "Reality is like this, cruel and hard to accept..."

As he spoke, he patted Ogino's shoulder. "But that's no reason to make other innocent people experience this heart-wrenching pain."

As Ogino sobbed uncontrollably, the commission was successfully resolved.

In the end, Doctor Ogawa did not send Ogino, who had attempted to abduct his son, to prison.

Fujino naturally respected the employer's wishes.

After all, he was just a detective who did the job for money.

The sun set.

Fujino, having earned a commission of 650,000, leaned against his Ford Taurus.

He looked at his handsome face in the rearview mirror and muttered, "Do I really look that much like a bad guy?"

Shaking his head, he stopped thinking about it.

At that moment, a series of system notification sounds echoed in his ears:

[Detected that the host has completed a commission. System reward: 50 Detective Professional Reputation points. Current Detective Reputation: 150. Remaining points to level up: 50.]

[Swordsman Level Up: Intermediate]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the Swordsman skill: Swordsman Soldier.]

"My Swordsman level went up?"

Hearing the system notifications, Fujino exclaimed in surprise.