But She Really Was a Good Girl?

"Is this what they call a female best friend?"

Sato Miwako glanced at Shirakawa not far away, then turned to look at Aizawa Tae and murmured, "It's really rare. I've only ever heard of conflicts between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, I never thought there were conflicts between fathers-in-law and daughters-in-law."

"To be honest, that's normal."

Mori Kogoro interjected, "To dress up like this to meet your future father-in-law... I doubt even I would agree to it."

"Well?"

Suzuki Sonoko exclaimed in surprise, "She's only twenty years old?"

"Yes."

Takagi glanced at Aizawa Tae's driver's license and said, "That's what it says on the driver's license."

"Then she's about my age."

Sonoko rubbed her chin, then exclaimed in surprise, "Then I'm not next, am I?!"

"You really know what you're doing..."

Fujino glanced at Sonoko and silently complained to himself.

He remembered that Sonoko would be the next to be attacked.

In this way, we can simply wait and see what happens; there's no need for deduction at all, the criminals will just show up on their own.

"Speaking of which, Ran."

At that moment, Mori Kogoro suddenly asked, "Did you see anyone suspicious before you saw her?"

"Um..."

Ran pondered for a moment upon hearing this.

Despite still feeling shaken by what had just happened, she glanced at the corpse.

After racking her brains for a moment, she suddenly remembered something. "Actually, when I came to the parking lot just now, I did see a square-faced man walk out of the parking lot."

"A square-faced middle-aged man?"

Mori Kogoro frowned. "Then does that mean that guy is the murderer?"

"Ran, did you get a good look at that person's face?"

Sato Miwako quickly pressed Ran for details, asking, "For example, what clothes that person was wearing, and more specific details about their appearance."

"The person this girl is talking about must be me."

Before Ran could speak, a square-faced man who looked exactly like Ran had described stepped out from the crowd. "I am the security guard here Kiyofumi Jin. I was on my way to the restroom at that time. The murderer probably killed this girl around that time."

"Going to the restroom... Could it be that you were the one who killed him?"

The speaker was a middle-aged man with a mustache, round-framed glasses, and a large belly.

The man walked over and looked at Kiyofumi Jin suspiciously. "By the way, I remember you were a security guard who switched jobs from the company across the street half a year ago... You wouldn't happen to be someone they sent to kill people and damage our company's image, would you?"

"How could this be?!"

Kiyofumi Jin was stunned for a moment, then quickly retorted, "Even if I switched jobs from the other company, putting aside whether I am a so-called spy or not, I would never do something like murder!"

"That's hard to say. Who knows how much you've taken from them?"

The man made a sarcastic remark.

Turning his head, he coldly addressed Shirakawa Noriyuki Juzo Megure, the man who had previously cursed Inspector Megure and was now weeping over his girlfriend's death, "Noriyuki, what kind of man are you, crying like this? You've become like this over a woman. You've completely disgraced our family!"

"Dad..."

Shirakawa Noriyuki's face was filled with resentment.

"Snort."

The man snorted coldly, turned and left, while sternly instructing, "Perfect, you can take this opportunity to change your girlfriend. This time, you must find a woman without any stain on her reputation, so that she is worthy of the status of the Shirakawa family!"

"That guy must be the owner of this department store, right?"

Sonoko glanced at the departing man and said irritably, "They really are a family; they all have the same terrible personality."

"Um..."

Fujino agreed with this.

All I can say is, they truly are a family.

The ingredients for their outrageous claims are practically identical.

Sure enough, defying fate can be hereditary.

"Hey, Sonoko."

Ran glanced at the corpse again, then turned to Sonoko and asked, "Don't you feel like there's something strange about her?"

"A strange feeling?"

Sonoko didn't examine the body closely.

After all, it's pretty scary no matter how you look at it...

However, after Ran said that, she mustered up her courage and took a look, then nodded and said, "It is quite strange, but I can't quite put my finger on what's strange about it."

"I should say that something's wrong with me from head to toe."

Having overheard their conversation, Mori Kogoro glanced at Aizawa Tae and made a comment.

In his eyes, people who deliberately tan their skin and dress like that are quite strange.

In contrast, he was more concerned about the 'stain' that the old man had just mentioned.

Turning back, he asked Shirakawa and Konno, "By the way, what exactly is this stain that gentleman mentioned...?"

"It's probably about that incident from about a year ago, right?"

Kono Yuri and replied, "She hit and killed a little boy with her car, and that's why she was fired by the mall."

"A car ran over and killed a boy?!"

Mori Kogoro was clearly taken aback upon hearing this, and then asked in surprise, "Then how could she have died here?"

The implication is that this woman hasn't been sentenced yet.

"I heard about this from Yumi in the traffic class."

Sato Miwako suddenly recalled an accident that Yumi Miyamoto had gossiped about, and immediately explained, "She said that there was a little boy who was waiting here for his mother to come back from shopping, and he suddenly rushed out of the shadow of the car along with a soccer ball, and unfortunately he was hit by the car."

"This is a parking lot. The speed of the car was not high at the time, but because it hit vital organs, the boy still died in the hospital in the end... The girl who caused the accident was later sentenced to one year of probation."

At this point, Sato twitched his chin and recalled, "I think that little boy's name was Sakurai Akira."

"Only a one-year suspended sentence?"

Mori Kogoro exclaimed in surprise.

"It's probably because they're minors."

Fujino explained, "She was only nineteen years old at the time, a minor. Judges take this into consideration when sentencing her. As for whether she was really not the main party at fault, nobody knows. Nobody witnessed it, and the victim was already dead. That's about it... But even so, the sentence was still too lenient."

"I see..."

Mori Kogoro suddenly realized. "No wonder that boss didn't want his son to date a girl with a criminal record."

"What are you two talking about?"

Shirakawa heard someone speaking ill of his girlfriend, and his anger flared up again. "Even though she bumped into someone before, she's a really good girl! And it wasn't her fault that she bumped into that little thing!"

Mori Kogoro: "..."

Do you have some misunderstanding about what a good girl is?

Fujino: "..."

This sentence sounds so familiar.

Yes, he smoked, drank, dropped out of school, and even hit and killed a child.

Okay, okay, so this is how good girls play, right?

This guy is such an outrageous guy who likes black girls.

If they say anything outrageous, it won't seem strange anymore.

This whole family is extraordinary...