At this, Kido Yoshihiko let out a long sigh. There was even a trace of the bitterness of betrayal in his voice. "We agreed to get rich together, but he ran off on his own—now that things have come to this, I can only continue with peace of mind if I make him shut up forever."
Listening to this, Inspector Megure belatedly realized that even after being exposed, this criminal had not collapsed to his knees in remorse like others of his kind. Instead, he was still shamelessly self-righteous.
Inspector Megure: "..." For an outlaw who had been dragged into the business halfway through, this guy was really ruthless. Good thing Brother Jiang Xia had caught him early. Otherwise, if today's case had been closed as a suicide, the Metropolitan Police Department might have ended up with another Confidant-turned-threat in the future...
With a sigh, he waved for his subordinates to take this criminal with no future ahead of him to the police car.
A day that had begun with a hospital visit thus ended with a Murder Case.
"So that 'street lamp' outside was actually a moth trap." Standing by the roadside, Inspector Megure looked at the light in the neighboring yard with Jiang Xia. "No wonder there were so many bugs around it."
Officer Takagi scratched his head, recalling another case that had happened just last night. "These murderers really think alike. They both came up with using the Mother Bug's pheromones and insect-attracting lamps to control the order of the bugs' movements."
Thinking of the male bugs lured by the Mother Bug's pheromones, Officer Takagi, who had recently been working hard to court Officer Sato, vaguely felt as though something passing by had kicked him.
Of course, such a vague similarity would not make this honest materialist