Not UDI

"You're still thinking about those little cuties? I think you—" Shiraishi twisted the stalker's arm behind his back, nearly lifting him off the ground.

"Ow, ow, ow—put me down! I only came to save Lilith, Vivian, Salome, Delilah—"

"Them!"

The stalker was still shamelessly spouting nonsense.

Meanwhile, Misumi, who had come up from downstairs, recognized the man now that his hat had fallen off.

"You're... the one who was arguing with Mrs. Kuwashima?" Misumi did not know him, but she had seen him arguing with Mrs. Kuwashima before.

Shiraishi's expression shifted at that. Kuwashima—the victim's surname was Kuwashima. Then Mrs. Kuwashima... should be the deceased's family member and the first person to discover the body?

Seeing that he might not be an ordinary stalker, Shiraishi loosened his grip slightly.

"That's right. I argued with that bi— with his wife, but that was because after Kuwashima died, she neither fed the little cuties nor let me adopt them. That woman—" the stalker said indignantly.

"By your little cuties, you mean..." Shiraishi realized something.

"Of course I mean the spiders Kuwashima kept before he died!" the stalker said as if it were obvious.

Shiraishi: ...

Shiraishi let him go first.

"Do you know who I am?" Shiraishi asked directly.

"You... are the Beika Police Chief, right?" The stalker was not a Beika resident, but he was at least from Tokyo. Naturally, he knew who Shiraishi was.

Shiraishi nodded. "Then I'm questioning you now. Answer honestly!"

Shiraishi's Police Rank was high, even higher than the chief of Seibukitsuno Police Station. But this was not Shiraishi's jurisdiction at all, so officially questioning someone under the police banner would not exactly be proper. Still, the other man had recognized Shiraishi himself, and Shiraishi had never said this was a police interrogation.

"Who are you? Why