Zi Ji gently stroked the white fur of the beast and asked, "If you don't eat people and don't do evil things, will you be able to live under the mountain?"

The white beast laughed, and its voice was like thunder.

Even if we don't eat people and don't do evil things, some people will still charge us with this crime, so what does it matter if we don't eat people and do evil things?"

- "The Mountain of Evil Spirits", Yashan Liao.

At two o'clock in the evening, everything was quiet.

The crows stopped chirping, and the only sound of gurgling water could be heard in the entire mountain stream.

Two figures walked on a dirt road covered with dead branches and leaves after the rain towards the warehouse outside the villa, and the light of a few flashlights occasionally crossed in the darkness. In this night when you can't see your fingers, even with the utmost care under your feet, the clicking sound of chewing keeps ringing from the ground, and then it is infinitely expanded in the empty valley.

The man at the head was dressed in the usual uniform of a middle school student, his long hair hanging down from the waist was tied high above his head, and his glowing green eyes shone slightly like some kind of beast under the white beam of the flashlight. The young man who followed closely behind her had a grim expression, his muscles tensed tightly, and his dark blue pupils were full of tenacity of determination.

These two are the young education section police officer Saotome Nao, who is known as the "dawn of the police world", and the young detective Heiji Hattori in Kansai.

After the information hidden in Kitaja Rintaro's room is discovered, the teenagers realize the severity of the whole incident, and in order to prevent the real murderer from going unpunished, they decide to rush to the murderer's hiding place at night and bring him to justice before the prisoner notices.

But it was not so much a discussion as it was Nao's strong assertiveness - because when he proposed this proposal, Hattori Heiji, who had a strong sense of justice, was the first to disagree, let alone the opinions of the other two. After all, a smile and the cold light reflected by the lenses are not good memories.

Eventually, after Hattori showed off his kendo skills that were not inferior to Nao, the two boys who had been firmly opposed finally relented.

Nioh Masaharu and Yagyu knew their limits very well, and knew that it would be of no use for them to go with them—after all, compared to other true martial arts masters, they had come to this gathering purely for a visit—and although they were unwilling, they had no choice.

Especially in this precipitous state where the slightest carelessness can fall short.

Nioh and Yagyu, who remained in the villa, had a very important mission, as they needed to keep an eye on the other people who were stranded in the villa and not let them step out of the mansion. This is related to the safety of the actions of the other two main personnel, because the enemy they have to face is a very terrible mental criminal, and they have no weak martial arts skills - they cannot be led to the enemy because of the combination of the inside and the outside.

And the most terrible thing is that they don't know which person is an accomplice of the prisoner.

Fortunately, the three adults in the mansion can restrain each other, Nao thought to herself.

With the charred warehouse in front of him, Nao and Heiji glanced at each other, extinguished the flashlight, and drowned out their breathing.

As soon as the puzzle of qiē is solved, it is about to be solved.

The warehouse with half of the roof collapsed stood in the darkness, and the stench of burning proteins that had not yet dissipated and the burnt smell of wood filled the air, like a giant beast with a wide mouth and snorting, entrenched in this unusually dark and silent mountain col.

The charred corpse, covered in plastic sheeting, lay at his feet. Thinking of its tragic situation in this strange and quiet atmosphere, Nao, who was already immune to corpses, couldn't help but shudder, not to mention Hattori Heiji, who had been tossed by it before.

"What a great place to test your guts......"

As if to relieve the tension, Ping muttered in a low voice. And at the same moment, Nao felt a chilling gaze stab her spine.

Nao shouted in her heart, striding and turning around without stopping, leaning back against her back with Hattori Heiji, looking around vigilantly, waiting for the sight to appear.

Hattori was stunned for a moment, and the physical contact made him feel the girl's nervousness, and he couldn't help but smile - although his skills were not the strongest in the entire Kansai school, he was also the number one in the row, and he was not slow to sense danger - he hadn't sensed any threat yet, why did this domineering girl get nervous first?

After all, it's a girl~ I still have to rely on boys at a critical time-Pingji, who felt that he had won a game, thought complacently in his heart.

Nao wasn't in the mood to guess what the man behind her was thinking, she tensed up, staring at the direction where the gaze came.

Ten seconds...... Twenty seconds......

Until her palms were covered with sweat and cold sweat broke out on her forehead, with a slight "squeak~", a vague outline slowly and slowly rose from the place she had been staring at.

Rises vertically until a human figure is formed.

Heiji Hattori turned around as soon as he heard the voice, hiding Nao behind him, and smiled confidently at the figure, "That's right."

"You're hiding here!, Mr. R.K...... Or is it Mr. Koji Haneda?"

"Oh, Xiaosheng really underestimated you, I didn't expect you to be able to find me, this is really unpleasant. ”

Koji Haneda, the dark shadow, said in a slick tone, but there was no unpleasant emotion in the voice.

"I'm curious," Haneda said, walking in the direction of the two, "As far as I know, you've been suspecting that it's Kitaja Rintaro that you've been suspecting, so what made you track me down?"

"Ah, you said that! Who made you have good teeth!"

Hattori pursed his lips disdainfully, but secretly raised his guard against Koji Haneda, who was gradually approaching them.

"The real R.K., aka Kitajaw Rintaro is a writer, and we find his usual dipping pens in his desk - each pen has deep tooth marks on the nib, combined with the indentations on the front teeth found on 'Your Corpse' earlier, and the slight deformations of the index and middle fingers of the right hand.

"As careful as you were to dress the dead North Paw and burn his body so that it could not be recognized, the most important thing is that each person's tooth marks are as unique as fingerprints!

"I see, it's really my mistake. ”

Regarding Hattori's accusation, Koji Haneda admitted it calmly, which made the two feel even more uneasy.

"But the murderer is not me!" Sure enough, he changed his words, "even if I didn't die, you don't have any evidence that I killed those people, right? Let me think about it--the murderer should be that Lei Shan Xingxiang, right? She first killed the fat man with a letter opener, but the fat man accidentally left a death message, and then because I guessed the death message, she knocked me unconscious with a stun stick when I persuaded her to turn herself in, and then killed and burned the body...... In the end, because of his conscience, he committed suicide in a bathroom furnished as a secret room - isn't that a perfect script?"

"No kidding, it's impossible for Lei Shan to cut off his left neck with his right hand......"

"Oh, don't you know?"

Haneda interrupted Hattori's words, revealing an exaggerated expression of pretending to be surprised, "That Anka Raiyama used to be left-handed, but it was forcibly corrected to a right-handed. ”

"You really knew Aika Raiyama before!You instigated her to kill Okawa Grind!" Hattori Heiji's face darkened, "and then I killed her when I felt that she was unstable and couldn't keep a secret—"

"No, no, no, I guessed wrong! I wasn't the one who instigated her to kill - and the little girl over there, don't think about moving the rescuers, it's a little secret that only the three of us can know." ”

Slowly moving towards the door, Nao, who was about to outflank him from behind, stiffened at his feet.

"Alright, that's all for the small talk! ”

Koji Haneda smiled weirdly and pulled out the hand that had been stuck in his trouser pocket, and the glowing blue object made a beeping sound in his palm.

Shock stick!

As soon as Nao and Heiji's eyes met, they both saw caution and affirmation in each other's eyes - just as they had discussed before, the two teenagers were ready to attack Koji Haneda first.

The red-haired girl arched her body like a leopard, her flexible and powerful legs kicked the ground, and she scraped the uneven ground and shoveled Haneda's feet, while at the same time, Hattori Heiji, who was standing in front of Haneda, let out a loud shout, and strode forward to slash at Haneda's right hand holding the stun baton.

The speed of the two was not unfast, but Koji Haneda smiled contemptuously, as if he had expected this situation, and unhurriedly dodged Heiji's attack, grabbed his right hand and shook it, and swept the black-haired boy behind him with an ordinary push-by Nao's attack had reached Haneda's feet, but the bigger target was Hattori Heiji's stumbling figure.

Damn! The girl bit her lip in annoyance, unloaded the strength of her legs, and used her skill to step on Hattori's body, and the whole person jumped up, and her right leg, which was as tense as a rubber band, mixed with the whirring wind, struck Haneda's face directly, and Hattori Heiji rolled on the ground along Nao's stomping, ready to flash to the side to prepare for the next attack-

However, it was at this time that he was about to get up, and he suddenly felt the emptiness under his feet, and his vision disappeared into darkness in an instant...... His body slammed into a deep hole with a loud thud.

The sudden change made Nao's attack posture slightly shaken, and Koji Haneda, who has a black belt, seized the opportunity, resisted the girl's kick with his elbow, grabbed her right leg tightly, pulled and tugged, and kicked her waist sideways like lightning.

"Hmm......"

The sudden pain made the girl's cheeks white, and Nao, who was kicked into the wound, made a gesture to attack, but took advantage of the opponent's defense to bounce a few times and retreated to the corner, half-squatting on the ground and covering the wound and gasping deeply.

"Hey-Saotome-You're alright!!Damn-what the hell is this-"

A young man's faint shout came from the hole behind Koji Haneda, and Nao, who could hear from his voice that he was fine, breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's the end of it, and I still expect something from you. Koji Haneda smiled maliciously.

"What is that place?" Nao looked up and stared at him viciously.

"Don't worry, it's just a cellar. The man didn't look behind him, but observed Nao's painful appearance with interest, "Do you think I'm standing and waiting for you to come without any preparation? But you're really surprised by me, not only with a sharp mind, but also with such skill--deducing that the murderer is not the one from the North Claw, or you, right? If the adults in the organization know about you, I'm afraid it's going to be another storm...... Hawkers,Although it's against my style to shoot at girls.,But it's better to pull out the good seedlings that are threatening here!"

"Organization, what organization?" a glint crossed Nao's eyes. She keenly sensed that there was another Cunzi in this dark room who was hiding her whereabouts - although she didn't know why Koji Haneda didn't know it, she noticed that when Haneda said the word "organization", the man's breath was confused for a moment.

"Oh, that's not something you should know. Koji Haneda smiled softly, holding a crackling electric shock rod and walking towards Nao step by step, like the gradual approach of death.

Nao's narrow eyes narrowed, and she suddenly smiled.

"It's useless, even if you kill me here, you won't be able to escape the police. ”

"Do you mean the two children hiding in the villa?" Haneda pouted, "Without conclusive evidence, who would believe the two children?" What's more, the only one who knows about it, Anka Raiyama has already committed suicide in fear of crime, and the first suspect, Kitaja Rintaro, is also 'missing', and by the time they find this body, I have already left here." ”

"So, what if you can prove that Lei Shan didn't commit suicide?"

Nao gasped, but the smile in his eyes grew deeper and deeper, "If there is conclusive evidence that you killed Raiyama Xingxiang, do you think that the 'adult in the organization' in the villa will continue to cover up the facts of your crime - for the guy who no longer has cultivation value." ”

"You ......"

Koji Haneda's expression finally stopped being the same smile. A hint of wolf flashed in his eyes, and he stepped forward and grabbed the girl's neckline hard, half-lifting her in his hand, and the originally very good-looking peach blossom eyes were now hideous.

"There's no way I've got a wrong plan! there's no way anyone can see through my arrangement—"

"I'm sorry about that!"

The red-haired girl didn't seem to feel discomfort, although her face was pale, but her eyes were getting brighter and brighter, and her confident and determined expression was accompanied by a language full of oceanic breath, and she smashed towards Koji Haneda like a wave-like splendor like a sun-like look that made him a little unable to react for a while.

"You made an appointment with Aika Raiyama to meet her in her room, coaxed her into going into the bathroom with you, and then killed her in the bathroom. Breaking the light bulb in the living room and turning the water in the bathtub to the maximum to allow the water to spill out is also to let the people who enter the door notice the corpse first, not to discover where you are hiding - you who have washed off the blood stains and dressed are probably hiding on the windowsill behind the double blackout curtains in the living room when we entered? When we all entered the bathroom and focused on Lei Shan's corpse, you swaggered away from the empty door...... Am I right?"

Nao didn't care about Koji Haneda's murderous eyes and continued to talk...... And gently moved his feet in places he didn't notice.

"But you walked in too much of a hurry and didn't seem to notice it—the soles of your hiking boots that you exchanged with Rintaro Kitajaw had a much deeper pattern on the soles than you thought...... It's so deep that even if you rub the dirt off the carpet, it will leave a little bit in the groove that you can find!"

Like lightning, at the moment when her last word was spit out, the posture that had been prepared for a long time suddenly launched!

The girl's hands, which were originally covering the wound, tightly grasped the palm of Koji Haneda's hand that was holding the electric shock rod, and slammed it to the side, while the other hand held the ground, and the soft body twisted at an incredible angle, and the long straight legs kicked hard from his back to the arm that she broke behind her back-

"Hah!!"

A loud burst sounded, and Koji Haneda's forearm made a dull clicking sound like broken bamboo.

This qiē only happened for a split second, and by the time the man felt the pain in his arm, the dust had already settled.

Nao snatched his stun baton and threw him to the ground with a knee thump. The red-haired girl stepped on Koji Haneda's chest with one foot and held an 80,000-volt electric shock stick in her hand that was enough to stun a person in an instant, and the man whose face was distorted with pain showed a rebellious smile.

"Just a little bit of dirt is enough for me to deduce your modus operandi and hiding place - after all, the kind of yellowish and charred dirt can only be found in this place where it was burned. When the police came, I saw that you originally belonged to Kita Claw Rintaro, combined with my confession...... Mr. Haneda, please stay in prison until you are old!"

As he finished speaking, the electric shock baton flashing with blue sparks poked into Haneda's shoulder.

Five hours later, the local Self-Defense Force and fire brigade opened the road that had been buried by the mudslide. Koji Haneda, who had a splint hanging from his arm and was tied up with five flowers, walked into the police car of the Tateyama District Police Station after several teenagers reported the crime. The bodies of several victims were also collected, and Nao handed over the photos of the scene along with the investigation report to the Search Division of the Tateyama District Police Station.

Heiji Hattori hit his head when he fell into the cellar, but fortunately he was not seriously injured and was able to sit in the guesthouse and munble on barbecue, Nioh Masaharu and Yagyu Hiryushi fell asleep while Nao and Hattori were capturing Haneda, and everyone had sleeping pills in their cups, but the "inner ghost" who was suspected of being in harmony with Koji Haneda was unknown - because the housekeeper Heizaburo Hino and the school doctor Kazumi Kurosawa disappeared along with him.

Officers of the Search Bureau conducted a thorough search of the villa and found the body of a man who had been dead for more than three days in the boiler room, which was separated from the kitchen wall.

After investigation, the identity of the body was that of the missing old housekeeper.

The next day, when Nao, who was bored because of his injuries and could only sit and watch others train, Koji Haneda, who was escorted to the city police station, quietly swallowed his last breath in the police car - the cause of death was unknown.

After a forensic autopsy, it was found that the cells of his whole body were excessively divided, and his internal organs were rapidly aging and he died.

As for who the "Hirazaburo Hino" who spent a day and two nights with everyone, and where Kazumi Kurosawa, who also lost a trace, is unknown.

The author has something to say: this case is finally over, although the ending is a bit rushed, there are some things that I want to write...... But it's much better than being stuck in this case all the time, ahahaha...... (Drawn)

P.S: Because Mao can't reply to the comment――――――!!!