Sakurako Kujo

As the eldest sister pulled out a large bunch of keys in front of the door and searched for the spare key for the room, it took her quite a while to finally find the key and open the room.

The door, which had just been opened slightly, was firmly stuck.

It's a hotlink protection mechanism.

Although hot-chain security isn't very effective at preventing theft, its existence means that the room has, to some extent, become a so-called "secret room."

No one leaves from here.

It was clear that when she saw the security chain hanging there, this woman, who had already been brutally attacked by a corpse once, started trembling with fear.

Although nothing has been confirmed yet, there doesn't seem to be any smell at the entrance, only a faint scent of lavender air freshener.

But once bitten, twice shy, this woman is now in that state.

After carefully smelling the room, Jiang Hang, with a frown, finally moved closer.

"Leave the rest to me, Mrs. Tategaki. You can go and call the police now."

As Jiang Hang said this, he simultaneously flicked out Hidden Blade from his hand and easily sliced open the security lock.

Seeing Jiang Hang suddenly flick a weapon from his wrist, both women present were somewhat flustered.

But what was even more unsettling was Jiang Hang's confident tone, which urged people to call the police.

Trusting Jiang Hang and his reputation as the Eagle-Eyed Detective, she trembled as she took out her phone and dialed a number.

But when the police officer on the other end of the phone asked about the situation, she realized that she didn't even know what had happened.

"Just say that a body has been found."

As he said this, Jiang Hang took out gloves and shoe covers, told the two women to wait outside the door until the police arrived, and then went into the crime scene himself.

Unlike the tranquility of the entryway.

Upon entering the room, Jiang Hang was greeted by an exceptionally tragic and chaotic scene.

The room looked as if a fierce fight had taken place.

Broken glass, a first-aid kit scattered on the ground, and a shattered potted plant lying on the ground.

These scenes all indicate that this place caused quite a commotion last night or even earlier.

Jiang Hang reconstructed the original scene in his mind.

It seems that before all this happened, the female tenant living here must have been a rather tasteful and elegant person.

After looking around the living room, Jiang Hang headed towards the bedroom, where the scent was truly emanating.

Upon opening the bedroom door, the first thing that caught my eye was a woman's miserable and pained face.

She lay half-reclined on the bed, her hands black and twisted, her long-dead body beginning to turn bluish.

The room was filled with the smell of urine from post-mortem incontinence and a faint stench of decay.

With just one glance, Jiang Hang was already certain that the other person had been dead for less than 24 hours, and that the time of death must have been yesterday.

While Jiang Hang was conducting further inspections, a commotion indeed arose again at the entrance.

Jiang Hang stood up and looked outside.

Another young man in a doctor's coat is now at the door asking Yoshimi Mizushima about the situation inside the room.

Seeing Jiang Hang come out of the room, he wanted to go up and ask what had happened.

Jiang Hang reached out his hand, stopping the other person from coming in.

Through the other party's explanation, he quickly learned that the man was Kiyomi Mizushima's fiancé in the room. He had heard about this from Yoshimi in the morning and had followed her there.

"This is the crime scene. Please cooperate and do not enter this room until the police arrive."

As Jiang Hang uttered these words, the figures of the three people present subtly swayed.

Mrs. Tategaki, looked worried, knowing that her apartment had become a haunted house and that it would probably be difficult to rent it out again in the future.

The remaining two, a man and a woman, were suddenly jolted, completely unable to believe what had happened.

The next moment, Yoshimi Mizushima threw herself into the man's arms and began to cry loudly.

Seeing this, Jiang Hang's eyes narrowed again.

This man seems to have an ambiguous relationship with his sister-in-law.

His gaze swept quickly over the two of them.

Then he asked Mrs. Tategaki, the landlord, how long the police would take to arrive.

"Big brother, he should be here in about ten minutes!"

This place is not remote, and the police arrived relatively quickly.

By the time Jiang Hang had almost finished examining the body in the room, the police had already arrived at the crime scene.

"Who are you, and why are you at the crime scene?!" As several police officers questioned Jiang Hang in an unfriendly tone, Jiang Hang showed them his identification.

The title of Metropolitan Police Department Special Advisor is certainly enough to intimidate them.

The title of "Eagle-Eyed Detective" caused the police officers to gasp in surprise.

After all, the police in Hokkaido have been working overtime these past few days to deal with the bombing case from the day before yesterday.

Although the specifics are unclear, some gossip reports mention that the Eagle-Eyed Detective from Tokyo saved an entire train of passengers, caught the culprit who caused the explosion within a single day, and prevented the perpetrator from carrying out another bombing plot.

So, has that Eagle-Eyed Detective arrived in Asahikawa now?

Faced with such a famous detective, the police officers still need to verify his identity.

After the senior police officers called shortly afterward to ask them to cooperate with Jiang Hang in handling the case, the police officers at the scene began to look at Jiang Hang with even more admiration.

It really is that Eagle-Eyed Detective from Tokyo!

Jiang Hang wasted no time and explained his investigation results as soon as the police arrived.

"Suicide?" The police officers looked at the devastated living room and the gruesome face of the deceased.

Although Jiang Hang is indeed a famous detective, isn't it a bit too hasty to conclude that he committed suicide so quickly?

"It's a very simple logic. If it were a murder, the scene wouldn't have been left in such a mess, and the killer wouldn't have gone to the trouble of hanging up a security chain, making it seem like a locked room."

The police officer glanced at the security chain that had been cleanly cut, then looked at the situation in the living room and thought it seemed to be true.

"Furthermore, based on my judgment, the deceased likely ingested a high dose of belladonna and subsequently died from poisoning."

The initial symptoms of belladonna poisoning include hallucinations and delusions.

Jiang Hang had already scanned the entire room with his Eagle Eye.

Although the room looked messy, with her Eagle Eye vision, she was able to deduce that the entire incident was caused by the deceased alone by meticulously reviewing the scene.

At the same time, abnormal dilation of the pupils is also a major symptom of death from belladonna.

Jiang Hang, with his Poison Mastery, could not possibly make a mistake.

He could even tell that the other person was consuming Japan belladonna, which was an unprocessed fruit.

"There was a ticket stub from the other person's pocket showing that they had been to the botanical garden yesterday. Perhaps the belladonna that the deceased ingested was secretly picked from there."

After pointing out the cause of the other person's death, Jiang Hang also pointed out another key point: the other person died by suicide.

That's excrement.

Although the scene was still almost entirely filled with a foul stench, the situation was much better compared to the other deceased.

The other person must have emptied their stomach and intestines before making the decision, in order to avoid being in a more wretched state after death.

Unfortunately, the other party underestimated the toxicity of belladonna. In her pain, she hallucinated and perhaps regretted her actions, which is why she knocked over the first aid kit in an attempt to find a way to save herself.

But it was all too late.

In the end, she lay on her bed and ended her young life.

After Jiang Hang finished explaining his analysis, he took out the other party's phone in front of the police.

"Although it was indeed a suicide at the scene, and the reason for the suicide can be roughly guessed, I still need to confirm why the deceased suddenly chose to commit suicide."

"I need to copy the records from the other person's phone and computer to confirm the reason for their suicide."

This is just a reminder.

Jiang Hang has already been doing the actual work for a long time.

Even if he had already discovered the truth that was out in the open.

The truth, as it appears, is quite simple.

It's nothing more than that the man outside and his sister-in-law work at the same hospital, and he developed feelings for her behind his fiancée's back.

After discovering this, the woman chose suicide—an extreme yet conservative means—to end the relationship.

This kind of plot where the man uses death to end the relationship, and the man afterwards will probably suffer greatly because of it, does seem to be the style of female-oriented novels.

Are all the cases happening here this type?

If this were Conan's situation, the one who would die would probably be the other person's sister or man; in any case, at least one of them would have to be taken away.

Jiang Hang remembers that many cases in the Conan series followed this pattern.

What Jiang Hang cares about now is whether there are any other interferences behind the other person's choice to commit suicide.

It's like that Suicide Website that Jiang Hang has almost completely hidden away by cracking down on it with internet technology.

While Hokkaido does pay attention to these websites, the effort they put in is not as significant.

More importantly, there really is a hidden big boss in Hokkaido who incites others to commit suicide and commit crimes.

He needs to figure out if there is any connection between the two.

As he completed these operations and prepared to conduct a more detailed analysis of the data, the male protagonist he had been waiting for finally arrived at the crime scene with the female protagonist who liked bones.

Chapter 588: Sakurako Kujo

"Oh, Shotaro, you're back way too late!"

Listening to Mrs. Tategaki's complaints about her son, the young boy showed a helpless expression and explained, "After receiving your call, I tried my best to get back. It's just that you guys are too fast, okay?"

He noticed that the apartment was cordoned off, and then asked his mother anxiously what was going on inside.

"I'm not entirely sure what's going on inside. I only know that Miss Kiyomi seems to have died there, and the detective who came from Tokyo to find you is investigating inside." Mrs. Tategaki rubbed her arm; she was still a little shaken.

Fortunately, Jiang Hang helped her, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to handle this kind of situation.

"Ah, Miss Kiyomi is dead?" Shotaro Tatewaki looked incredulous and stood there for a long time.

It's clear that, as his tenant, he knew the other person before, and they might even have had a fairly good relationship.

Who would have thought that after just a few days of not seeing each other, the other person would suddenly die in their own rented room?

However, what concerned the long-haired woman even more than the news of a woman's death in the apartment building was the detective from Tokyo that Mrs. Tategaki had mentioned.

A detective in Tokyo, looking for Shotaro?

This information made her even stranger.

As she voiced her question, Mrs. Tategaki seemed to notice the beautiful woman standing next to her son.

Her expression immediately became much more respectful. "Ah, it's Miss Kujo. I didn't expect to see you here."

The middle-aged woman finally noticed Sakurako Kujo, who was said to be a former major landowner in Asahikawa. Even the land they were standing on was the private property of the Kujo family decades ago.

Although the other party gradually sold off these lands, in Asahikawa City, the Kujo family is still an aristocratic family that is unattainable for ordinary people.

This only made him more confused. Although she knew that her son had changed a lot in the past few months, she never expected that her son would be involved with this young lady.

This also reflects the great autonomy she usually gives her son in his life. If she hadn't really wanted to come and open the door today, this matter could probably have been kept secret forever.

With a sigh in her heart, Mrs. Tategaki again according to the previous etiquette.

"Don't worry about me," Sakurako Kujo had seen too many people like that over the years, so she didn't care about such things.

In the end, he was just a landlord in a small, declining place like Asahikawa. He might still have some influence locally, but he was nothing in other places.

She herself didn't care about her identity, but instead asked the other person about the detective.

"It's that one," Mrs. Tategaki said with a gossipy look, and then told him about Jiang Hang.

Although Jiang Hang is already quite famous, there are still people who don't care about these things at all.