"To be honest, this is the first time I've been asked to identify a body."
Li Wei looked at Lestrade in disbelief.
"When we were investigating the body, we found an entry in his notebook saying he had met with you. That's why we came to ask."
Lestrade looked at Li Wei and asked curiously,
"What happened? Did he come to you with a case?"
"Well, I'm not sure you could call it a case... Anyway, he claimed he'd killed someone."
"Claimed? No one saw the body?"
"That's the problem. He claimed he was the only person who could see the body."
"...Ah, so that's why he came to you?"
Lestrade understood at once.
"So were you planning to help him investigate?"
"I suggested he see a psychiatrist first... To check whether it was a mental health issue."
Li Wei shook his head. His reasons for not immediately accompanying Baron Hanklis to take a look were simple. For one thing, the man's home was far away, and getting there would require a long journey. For another, Li Wei had examined him with Soul Sight. His soul was perfectly normal, with nothing wrong with it, and he did not seem to be under a curse or anything of the sort.
Besides, he thought he had killed someone. It wasn't as though someone was trying to kill him...
"He did see a doctor. We questioned the doctor as well."
"Oh? What did the doctor say?"
"The doctor said he said some very strange things."
"Strange things?"
"Yes. The doctor asked about his family situation, what had happened to him recently, and so on..."
"Oh..."
That was a standard approach for psychiatrists.
"Then he gave some very peculiar answers. The doctor thought he might indeed have a mental health problem."
"How so?"
"Listen