Everyone's an Actor

The roller coaster boarding area.

Security guards and staff from the amusement park had arrived and cordoned off the area.

Shu Yunwen, Tsukamoto Kazumi, Hitomi, and the others who had ridden the roller coaster were stopped and not allowed to leave for the time being.

Shu Yunwen and Tsukamoto Kazumi each drank a bottle of water, spitting it out repeatedly. Tsukamoto Kazumi then took out two pieces of gum and offered one to Shu Yunwen. "H-how could something like this happen? It was, it was too terrifying."

"Heh... it's all Kudo Shinichi's fault..." Shu Yunwen casually shifted the blame onto him.

Tsukamoto Kazumi asked in surprise, "W-what does that have to do with Shinichi-kun?"

Shu Yunwen casually replied, "Haven't you been reading the newspapers lately? If you had, you'd notice that wherever that guy shows up, a case is sure to happen!"

"..." Tsukamoto Kazumi fell silent.

What kind of logic was that?

Shu Yunwen stopped talking and instead examined the invisible sphere in his hand. With a thought, the soul of the man named Kishida within the sphere was enveloped by the "Judgment" sorcery, transforming into pure energy that entered Shu Yunwen's nasal cavity and was absorbed.

Tsukamoto Kazumi noticed Shu Yunwen's peculiar posture and asked, "Yunwen-san, are you, are you alright?"

"N-nothing," Shu Yunwen shook his head. "Just thinking about something."

Then, Shu Yunwen began to slowly refine the energy that had entered his body.

This Kishida must not have been a good person in life. The energy Shu Yunwen extracted from Kishida's soul was twice that of Yamazaki Akiji's soul energy from last night. This soul was definitely worth the price.

A short while later, the police from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division finally arrived.

Inspector Megure led the team. As soon as he ordered an investigation of the scene, Shu Yunwen approached him and greeted him, "Inspector Megure, hello!"

"Is, is that you? Student Shu?" Inspector Megure was surprised. "Were you caught up in this accident too?"

"Mm..." Shu Yunwen hesitated, then smiled and scratched his head. "Yes! My luck doesn't seem to be very good."

As he finished speaking, Shu Yunwen asked Kazumi to stay put and then quickly walked up to the killer, the woman named "Hitomi," and said with a smile, "Hello, madam. May I speak with you privately?"

Hitomi, who was still wiping away tears, replied, "Ah? Sir, I don't think we know each other..."

Shu Yunwen smiled and said, "What I want to talk about is regarding the deceased. When we were on the roller coaster, I made some strange observations..."

Hitomi's body visibly stiffened, and then she agreed, saying, "O-okay, sir."

"Hitomi..." Beside Hitomi, the woman named "Reiko" was also crying.

Hitomi bowed slightly. "Reiko, I'll be right back."

Hitomi followed Shu Yunwen to a side, and Shu Yunwen got straight to the point, lowering his voice as he asked, "Ms. Hitomi, why did you kill Mr. Kishida? Was it purely for emotional reasons?"

"N-no, I didn't..." Hitomi was startled and shook her head frantically, her expression very nervous.

Shu Yunwen smiled and said, "Ms. Hitomi, the reason I'm talking to you is because I have concrete evidence..."

"No! I, I didn't want to kill him, but I, I couldn't lose him! I gave him almost everything. Later, after we broke up, he even used my in~ap~propriate photos to demand money from me. Even now, I still have to embezzle funds from my part-time job to give to him..." Hitomi burst into tears.

Blackmail with photos and forcing a woman to steal money for him? It was now certain that the deceased was an absolute scumbag!

Shu Yunwen turned to look around. Because of Hitomi's crying, many people were paying attention to them, even Inspector Megure glanced over. Tsukamoto Kazumi was also walking towards them, seemingly wanting to ask what had happened.

Shaking his head, Shu Yunwen spoke again, "Ms. Hitomi, it seems we can't continue this conversation. Of course, if what you've said is true, I will help you cover it up."

"Yunwen-san, did something happen here?" Tsukamoto Kazumi had walked up to not far behind him and asked.

Shu Yunwen turned around with a smile. "No, of course not. I was just comforting Ms. Hitomi. It's just that Ms. Hitomi seems to be overly sad."

"Is that so?" Tsukamoto Kazumi's gaze was curious, sweeping back and forth between Hitomi and Shu Yunwen.

Returning to Ran, Genta, and the others, Shu Yunwen glanced at the still crying Hitomi and tightened his grip on the camera in his pocket.

Come to think of it, this killer named Hitomi was just a pitiable person. Kishida was a scumbag anyway, so him being dead was for the best. Only a scumbag had died, there was no need for the pitiable woman Hitomi to also be implicated...

If Kudo Shinichi, who was obsessed with the truth, were here, he would have thoroughly exposed this case. However, if it were Shu Yunwen, he didn't have that kind of obsession with pursuing the truth. Helping the culprit cover it up didn't seem like a big deal.

Inspector Megure and his team were collecting evidence at the scene. After a while, Inspector Megure walked up to Shu Yunwen and asked, "Yunwen-san, your seat was right in front of the victim, correct? Did you discover anything? About the killer..."

"This..." Shu Yunwen scratched his head and smiled sheepishly. "I'm sorry, Inspector Megure, why are you asking me this?"

Inspector Megure replied, "Because, Yunwen-san is also a very capable detective, isn't he? And you were sitting in front of the victim earlier. Of course, in my opinion, this might have been an accident."

"An accident?" Shu Yunwen blinked, then smiled. "Yes, perhaps it really was an acc..."

Before Shu Yunwen could finish speaking, he suddenly heard a police officer standing beside Aiko exclaim loudly, "I-Inspector Megure! We found a blood-stained knife in this lady's handbag! It might be the murder weapon!"

Hearing this, it was as if thunderclaps sounded in Shu Yunwen's ears. He suddenly thought of something and looked at Hitomi, who appeared rather uneasy. However, this time, he saw hatred and... murderous intent in Hitomi's eyes!

This Hitomi wanted to kill the woman named Aiko!

In an instant, Shu Yunwen suddenly realized, cursing inwardly—

Damn it! I was almost fooled by this woman!

If she had only killed Kishida because she was being threatened, then that would have been the end of it. Why would she deliberately place a blood-stained knife in Aiko's handbag to frame her?

The so-called blackmail with photos was probably a smokescreen created by this woman! Her true intention was to kill Kishida and frame Aiko!

While Shu Yunwen was contemplating, he heard Hitomi suddenly say, "Ah? Aiko-san, I thought you and Mr. Kishida had a good relationship..."

Hitomi's expression was one of feigned surprise. If Shu Yunwen hadn't already known Hitomi was the killer, he would have been completely fooled!

Damn it, another one who's good at acting!

However, now that Hitomi had spoken these slanderous words, Shu Yunwen had completely lost any intention of helping her cover up her crimes.

If a woman like this wasn't put in prison for life, Shu Yunwen himself would probably become her target for revenge.

As he thought about it, Shu Yunwen's expression turned cold.

Help her cover it up? Forget it!

A woman like this was not worth pity at all!