Congratulations on Your Arrest

  Chapter 167 Analysis and Dismantling

  Serial murder?

  Originally, Higashinohara only thought that this was an ordinary murder case, perhaps involving capable persons, but he never thought that today it would actually develop into a serial murder case.

  At this time, upon hearing the solemn reminder from apprentice Morita Taku, Aragaki Satoru seemed to be struggling a bit.

During this time, Xinyuan Detective Agency has basically been helping neighbors in the neighborhood to find cats and dogs, or sending Xia Li, a catwoman, to secretly take pictures of extramarital affairs and other commissions. It is like this kind of serious murder case, and it is a serial I don't know how long I haven't received the commission for the investigation of the murder case.

  Professional ability Well, except for Aragaki Satoru, a retired police officer, neither the regular employee Xia Li nor the temporary worker Higashinohara has any "professional ability".

But after pondering for a while, Aragaki Satoru still gritted his teeth, and said with a righteous face, "Serial murder? Sorry! I can't tolerate such extrajudicial lunatics! This commission. Our Aragaki Detective Agency took over! "

  Taku Morita glanced at Satoru Aragaki's "vanguard of justice" look a little uncomfortable. Fortunately, he knew Satoru Aragaki well enough, so he recovered after thinking about it, and was speechless for a while.

Do not ask!

  Ask means that the other party has given too much.

Morita Taku took a breath, and forced himself to say, "Okay, I can't stop you from accepting this commission, but as far as I know, the family members of the victim should have contacted several detective agencies at the same time, and you want to hurry up with them It was not so easy before, but now I have brought you the file you want, tell me, do you have any clues?"

   Xin Yuanwu's face suddenly became embarrassing, he just patronized and tangled up, and he hasn't entered the link of case analysis yet.

   But when he turned his head, he saw Xia Li folded her arms around her chest in a "Volmorely" pose, looking thoughtful at the **** photo.

   "Okay! Let me tell you, Charlie-chan," Satoru Aragaki called the name immediately.

  Xia Li couldn't help being slightly taken aback when she heard the words, she scratched her head, her two fluffy ears on her silver-white short hair trembled, she turned her head curiously, "Ah! Is the boss calling me?"

   "Yes, let's analyze the case."

Aragaki Satoru said as he turned his head to Morita Taku who was next to him with a smile and said, "Tuo, don't think that Xia Lijiang has not been in the office for a long time, but she has been around Weishi's ears and eyes, and she is not sure about the case. Under the elite of those rookies in your Metropolitan Police Department.”

   "Murderer. The murderer is a pervert!"

   Xia Li said suddenly.

"That's right." Satoru Aragaki nodded appreciatively, "The murderer didn't cut off everyone's hands in this serial murder case, but ruthlessly peeled off the victim's hands. Abnormal. Really abnormal. Oh, sorry, Charlie-chan, please continue."

  However, after waiting for a long time, Xia Li didn't make a sound.

   "Go on, did I interrupt your train of thought, Charlie-chan." Aragaki Goto wondered.

  Xia Li immediately shook her head in an 'aggressive head and a tiger brain', and said in a somewhat embarrassed way, "No. Boss, my analysis is so much."

   Ah this? !

   Higashinohara couldn't help being stunned when he heard the words.

  Emotional you ponder for a long time to figure out a pervert?

  Taku Morita next to him couldn't hold back the corner of his mouth, and quickly recovered.

   Aragaki Satoru couldn't save face, and said in a bad mood, "Then why did you keep nodding and looking thoughtful just now? Could it be that you were thinking about what to eat tonight?"

   "Eh? Boss, how do you know?" Xia Li was quite shocked.

   "Cough cough cough" Morita Taku finally couldn't hold back anymore.

   "." Aragaki Satoru.

   Higashinohara also felt a little bit pained.

  Looking at this **** scene, there is no one else who wants to eat

   I didn't expect it to be even more painful.

Satoru Aragaki turned his gaze to Higashinohara who was standing at the door, and immediately said to Higashinohara with a kind face, "Fortunately, Higashino-kun is here, and Higashino-kun has read the dossier just now. If you have any thoughts, let's chat! Let's chat casually "

  Taku Morita of the Metropolitan Police Department's Search Section 2 didn't laugh when he heard this. The high school student next to him helped them find the suspicious point of the suicide at Sakura Crossing last year.

   "Shall I analyze?"

Higashinohara pondered for two seconds, and didn't hide his clumsiness at all, and said directly, "The abnormality that Xia Li just mentioned, I think it can be regarded as a possibility, and it is also the most unfavorable possibility for investigation. That is the randomness of the abnormal murder case. But I don't think there's another possibility."

   "Vendetta."

   Higashinohara paused at this point.

He turned his head to look at the **** and horrific photos on the projector, and continued, "Everyone has his purpose in everything he does. If it is not for hatred, it is hard to imagine that a person would spend so much effort to dispose of a corpse." His hands were stripped so that only the bones and joints of his hands remained."

   "Exactly!"

Xia Li's eyes lit up, and she drew inferences, "When I was in my hometown in Okinawa, a pheasant came to my house to eat millet. I went up the mountain to find it for a day for revenge. I caught it when it was almost dark, and then Only by ruthlessly ripping off its fur can the hatred in my heart be vented."

  Higashi Nohara glanced at Xia Li.

   That pheasant should end up in your stomach.

   "A vendetta?"

Morita Taku pondered for two seconds when he heard the words, and slowly analyzed, "This possibility cannot be ruled out, but the results of the current analysis by the colleagues in the Police Department's Search Division are that vendettas are generally individual cases, and the murderer is a single person. Revenge, the homicides we have encountered now have occurred five times from a week ago, and the victims have no connection with each other, so it is difficult to infer from vendetta."

  The people in the Metropolitan Police Department's Search Section were very thoughtful. Morita Taku's rebuttal indeed pointed out the very obvious loopholes in Higashinohara's deduction.

  But Higashinohara looked at those horrific photos, and for some reason, he still felt an extremely strong hatred from the victims whose hands were left with only weird and eerie bones.

   Frowning and thinking for a while, Higashinohara said again, "If this is the case, then I think there is another possibility."

   "What possibility?" Morita Takuo asked.

  Xia Li also looked curious, but Aragaki Satoru had a pensive look on his face.

   Higashinohara said in a flat tone, "Perhaps. The target of the murderer's revenge has never been a single person, but a certain group."

   Aragaki Satoru's eyes lit up immediately, and he continued, "If this assumption is true, revenge against a certain group should start from the individual"

   "Then the first person to die, the murderer must have had some special reason for choosing him, and the scope of our investigation has been narrowed down again."

Morita Taku really wanted to say that your hypothesis is not necessarily true, but he was inexplicably infected by Higashinohara's calm and indifferent aura. Will choose to believe his inference.

  Actually, he was overthinking this. Higashinohara is purely the confidence that he never had before brought about by the improvement of his strength under normal conditions, which turned into an invisible appeal.

  Finally, Morita Taku took a breath, pressed the remote control button in his hand, and the photos on the projector flashed quickly, returning to the first photo of the slightly bald middle-aged man's body.

  Naga Kichitaro, 47 years old, convenience store owner.

   "Everyone! It seems that we already have a goal."

Aragaki Satoru immediately clapped his hands full of fighting spirit, looked at Higashinohara with relief and said, "Tomorrow morning we will set off to officially start the investigation. I have a hunch that this case will definitely re-establish the reputation of our firm! Tell me loudly, is there any?" Confidence?! Oh, Charlie-chan raised her hand, do you have any questions?"

   "Boss, will you have a working meal for my meeting tonight?" Xia Li asked expectantly.

   Aragaki Satoru choked for a moment, and said unhappily, "You applied for a rest today. How can you get a work meal on the rest day?"

   "Okay, there are no other questions, then we will gather at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. Do you have any questions, Higashino-kun?"

   Towards Higashinohara, Aragaki Satoru's attitude immediately changed. Although he couldn't figure out how this boring, silly boy who rented in his own apartment building suddenly became enlightened, but enlightenment is enlightenment, and now he naturally sees it differently.

   "I can do anything." Higashinohara nodded with a smile, "If there is nothing left, I will go back first. See you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow!"

   "Uh, let me go too." Morita Takuo said.

  He was brought here by this unreliable master, and Xia Li didn't have the intention to slap his face on his face, so naturally he wouldn't stay here any longer after he was done.

  So the two went out together. When they reached the corner of the corridor, Morita Taku, who was about to go downstairs, thought about it, but couldn't help but raised his head and shouted to Higashinohara who was going upstairs, "Higashino-kun."

   "Huh? What's the matter? Mr. Morita?" Higashinohara lowered his head and asked.

"That... my master Aragaki is not very reliable." Morita Taku gave a helpless smile, and immediately reminded him in a serious tone, "This murder may involve a person with abilities. I know you also attended the Academy for Persons with abilities. But you have to be very careful during the investigation.”

   Higashinohara was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "Thank you, I will pay attention."

   After finishing speaking, the two said goodbye.

  The next day, Saturday.

  Edogawa Ward, Komori Convenience Store.

  The rain fell outside the window, leaving meandering and mottled rain marks on the glass.

  For the two clerks in a convenience store, a man and a woman, a rainy day with few people in the convenience store is a rare "good weather" for a service-oriented industry like theirs.

  Behind the checkout counter of the Komori Convenience Store, a female clerk named Kaori Umekoji was resting her chin in both hands, staring in a daze at the falling rain marks on the window;

  The male clerk Miura Yuki next to him was holding his mobile phone in both hands with concentration, and it seemed that he was engaged in a game battle.

At this time, three figures in black windbreakers and a black umbrella walked up the street in the rain not far away. Rhythm, abruptly turned the deserted rainy street into a fashion week show.

   "Dingling! Welcome to Xiaolin Convenience Store, I wish you a happy shopping."

  The sensor door opened, and when the three figures stepped in, the convenience store's welcome sound also sounded.

The three uninvited guests in the rain screen stepped into the door and put the umbrella in their hands on the drain rack at the entrance of the convenience store. Aragaki Satoru scratched the wet strand of hair on his forehead and said angrily, "Damn it! New Tokyo Do all the weather stations use S? Every time it says it won’t rain, it will definitely rain, wasting the 'work clothes' I prepared for you."

   "Boss, is there a possibility that you read the weather forecast wrong," Xia Li shook her head after entering the door, shaking off the rain on her short, fluffy milk-white ears.

   "No way!"

   Aragaki Satoru exclaimed guiltyly.

  Beside the two of them, Higashinohara put the umbrella on the drain rack and looked at the convenience store calmly.

  Cameras are installed in several key places on the ceiling inside the convenience store. The TV screen behind the cash register is divided into nine small squares to monitor the situation in the store in real time.

  However, there are only eight cameras on the TV screen, and the one in the lower right corner is probably malfunctioning, and nothing is displayed in pitch black.

Seeing customers coming in on a rainy day, Kaori Umekoji, the female clerk behind the cashier counter cheered up, and said with a smile on her face, "Welcome, our store's oden has a special promotion recently, buy three get one free, and a cup of oden on a rainy day is great. Oh!"

  The girl smiled with crescent moons and squinted her eyes, and some baby fat cheeks showed shallow, sweet dimples.

  The male clerk Miura Yuki next to him seems to have not finished a game. In the past, he would not dare to play on his mobile phone during working hours.

  But the situation is special recently. The owner of the convenience store has just been killed, and the wife is busy chasing the murderer. Who cares about checking the convenience store’s camera every day.

  So Miura Yuki glanced around furtively, coughed dryly, and turned around and walked into the storage room and changing room of the convenience store.

  No one can cheat teammates.

  The camera in the storage room and changing room seems to be faulty. Yuki Miura usually hides here to catch fish when he is lazy to play games. The work in the convenience store is very easy, and there is no problem with someone outside to look after it.

  Hearing the sweet sales from the female clerk Umekoji Kaori, Aragaki Satoru stepped forward, clenched his fists and coughed dryly, "Thank you, but no need."

   "Boss, buy three and get one free!"

  Charlie's eyes lit up.

  The female clerk Umekoji Kaori glanced at Xia Li, the smile on her face became sweeter, and she continued to sell, "Yes, if you buy two copies, you can buy a bottle of Coke for an extra 50 yen."

   "Boss! Give me a coke!"

  The expression on Xia Li's face became even more excited.

  The appearance seems to say that there is such a big advantage not to take advantage of it, and that he deserves to be struck by lightning when he goes out.

   Satoru Aragaki thought about it, and then they will use these two shop assistants as a breakthrough strategy. It seems that it is a bit unreasonable not to buy something.

  So he took out his wallet and said to Umekoji Kaori very generously, "Then give me two odens, and buy a bottle of drink for 50 yen. You don't need to change the remaining 150, it's uncle's tip."

tip?

  The corners of Higashinohara's eyes twitched.

  Satoru Aragaki, this guy goes to the supermarket downstairs to buy cigarettes, he has to bargain with people for a discount, and one day he will take the initiative to tip. It can only be said that the world is amazing.

  The female clerk Kaori Umekoji was used to giving change, and it seemed that it was the first time she was accepting a tip. She was stunned for a moment and then bowed politely, "Then thank you very much."

   After finishing speaking, she borrowed the money with both hands and put it away, turned around and quickly picked up the cup to serve Oden.

   "You're welcome, your smile dispelled the haze of the rainy day for uncle and me. You deserve it." Satoru Aragaki, who had a swollen face and looked fat, said in a gentlemanly manner.

After a pause, when the female clerk Umekoji Kaori bent over to serve the oden, Satoru Aragaki supported the counter of the oden, and suddenly bent over through the window and asked, "By the way, I heard that the boss of your store met last week. Unfortunately, do you know anything about it? Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, I am a police officer from the Metropolitan Police Department's Search Division."

   As he spoke, Aragaki opened the double-folded wallet in his hand, revealing the Metropolitan Police Department ID that he forged just this morning, and immediately put it away in his arms calmly, "They are all my colleagues."

The female clerk, Kaori Umekoji, looked up at Satoru Aragaki, and suddenly looked over Satoru Aragaki at Xia Li, who was staring at the oden in her hand, and Higashinohara, who put his hands in his pockets and looked like a "cool Tokyo handsome guy" behind them, A sly smile suddenly appeared on her slightly baby-chubby cheeks.

   "Uncle, are you actually from the detective agency?"

   Ask for a ticket lol~

  (end of this chapter)