Detective Murdering?!

"Hehe, that's really not simple."

Fujino chuckled dryly, "Privilege is really a deeply ingrained thing. This kind of old man has it easy to do anything, even in death."

"After all, he's a city councilor..."

Sato Miwako chuckled dryly, somewhat helplessly, and led Fujino into the suite.

The suite was luxuriously decorated, and on a red carpet, forensic officers in blue Forensic Science Division were busy searching for evidence left at the scene.

In front of the closet, the Ōki Iwamatsu that I had just met the day before yesterday lay there upright, half of its body still leaning against the closet.

Directly in front of the corpse, Juzo Megure, chin in hand, was surveying the crime scene.

Meanwhile, Takagi was standing to the side, quietly asking Tokiwa Mio, who was still wearing a suit, and Sawaguchi Chinami something.

"Brother Fujino, you've arrived!"

Juzo Megure turned around, noticed Fujino, and warmly greeted him.

"Um?"

Tokiwa Mio was taken aback when she heard this. She turned around and just then saw Fujino walking over.

She looked Fujino up and down, blinked, and a look of surprise appeared in her eyes.

His expression also became somewhat strange, and it was unclear what he was thinking.

"A new Detective Profession Mission has been detected. Please check your inbox..."

Fujino, on the other hand, accepted a System Task with a reward of about two to three million yen and about five hundred reputation points. He went up to greet Juzo Megure, and then looked at Tokiwa Mio and Sawaguchi Chinami beside him. "Ms. Sawaguchi, Ms. Tokiwa, I didn't expect to meet you again."

"I never expected to meet Fujino here."

Sawaguchi Chinami greeted her warmly.

Tokiwa Mio was stunned for a moment, then her expression softened and she nodded.

"You two know each other?"

Sato Miwako glanced curiously at Tokiwa Mio, then turned to Fujino and asked.

"Yes, I came here for a visit with Mouri-niisan the day before yesterday."

Fujino nodded in agreement. "Speaking of which, it was this building that Ms. Tokiwa introduced to us."

"Why are you guys everywhere...?"

Juzo Megure was speechless for a moment, silently complaining to himself.

"Brother Megure, is this the deceased?"

Fujino glanced at Ōki Iwamatsu, his face expressionless.

He only felt a sense of dread towards this kind of thing!

"That's right, Councilor Ōki Iwamatsu of Nishitama City."

"I know him. I met him when I came to visit a few days ago."

"..."

Juzo Megure was speechless again.

You two happened to come over the day before yesterday, and you just happened to run into this guy.

And then he died today...

He sighed inwardly, then turned to Takagi Wataru and called out, "Takagi, could you please explain the details?"

"Yes!"

Takagi pulled away from Tokiwa Mio and opened the police manual. "The deceased's time of death was between 10 p. m. and midnight last night. The cause of death was shock caused by massive internal bleeding due to stab wounds from a sharp weapon... However, we did not find the murder weapon. The scene was very clean, and there was nothing that could prove the identity of the murderer. In addition, next to the body, there was a small porcelain cup that had been smashed in half."

He paused for a moment, then continued, "Since this place is not yet open, according to Ms. Tokiwa Mio, the chairwoman of the Tokiwa Group, the only people who can enter and exit here are Kazama Hidehiko, secretary Sawaguchi Chinami, Hara Yoshiki, and her teacher Kisaragi Hōzui."

"Based on the current situation, we believe it was homicide."

Juzo Megure pulled out an evidence bag and showed it to Fujino: "This small porcelain cup seems to be the only evidence at the scene that can identify the murderer. It may be the information about the death, but I don't see how it has much to do with the murderer."

"Well, if we only look at this point, we really can't see any clues."

Fujino echoed this, nodded, and looked at the corpse beside him, lost in thought.

There was blood on the lower half of the closet, but not on the upper half, meaning it was covered by something.

Judging from those people, Kisaragi Hōzui is the murderer.

As for the small porcelain wine glass that was smashed in the middle...

It's probably a veiled reference to his revenge for building those two buildings, which blocked his view of Mount Fuji.

The small porcelain wine glass, when turned upside down, resembles Mount Fuji, and if it is cracked in the middle, it represents a broken Mount Fuji.

Pulling himself back to reality, Fujino decided against immediately breaking the deadlock. Instead, he suggested to Juzo Megure, "We still don't have enough information. I think we should call those people over to take their statements. Maybe we can get some new clues."

"That's what I was thinking too. I've already asked Takagi to take care of this..."

As he spoke, Juzo Megure suddenly brought up the matter. "But Fujino- kun, could you please bring the people who came to visit with us that day? Perhaps we can get some clues from them."

"That's no problem..."

Fujino nodded. "But we may have to wait until the statement is taken. After all, there were quite a few people there that day, including Mouri-niisan, Ran, Sonoko, Professor Agasa, and Conan, in addition to me."

Juzo Megure's eyebrows twitched slightly.

Suddenly, he felt that the city councilor's death made much more sense.

So all of you came?!

No wonder it's so powerful; it even killed a city councilor!

Juzo Megure glanced at the corpse of Ōki Iwamatsu.

What kind of terrible things has this guy done...?

In front of the elevator in Building B of the Joban Twin Towers

Fujino pressed the call button for the elevator, and the elevator quickly arrived at the sixty-seventh floor.

Just as he entered the elevator and was about to close the door, Tokiwa Mio blocked the elevator door and walked in.

"Ms. Tokiwa, are you coming downstairs too?"

Fujino smiled and said to Tokiwa Mio.

"..."

Tokiwa Mio remained silent, looking at Fujino with a somewhat complicated expression.

She had just arranged with this detective yesterday to investigate Ōki Iwamatsu.

Today, the Ōki Iwamatsu died...

The key point is that this detective made a bet with her just yesterday!

It's hard not to suspect that this detective killed the person to save himself trouble!

Are detectives who, unable to solve the investigation's objective, simply solve the objective itself?

Detectives are resorting to murder now?

After a brief moment of thought, Tokiwa Mio decided she should still ask.

What if it isn't?

She looked at Fujino with a serious expression and said in a stern tone, "Ōki Iwamatsu, you wouldn't have killed him, would you?"

What do you think?

Fujino's expression darkened, and he looked at Tokiwa Mio meaningfully.

"Did you really do this?!"

Tokiwa Mio's delicate face was deathly pale, and her voice even trembled slightly. "Why did you kill him?! I only asked you to investigate him..."

She felt like crying but had no tears left to shed.

After all, she only commissioned the other party to investigate; she didn't say she wanted to kill them.

Now look what's happened, she seems to have become an accomplice!

Even if she didn't ask the other party to kill, if the investigation traces back to her, then she's finished!