Kazuma is not surprised that he is recognized - it is a headshot of Kazuma that has been published in newspapers, and a photo of Kazuma that has been shown on news programs, and in this era where traditional media is the main means of information dissemination, everyone should theoretically recognize Kazuma.

There are few people who can recognize Wama in this hot spring town, which means that it is very closed, and there are few people who read the news and newspapers.

Kazuma smiled at him: "Hello, I'm Kiryu Kazuma." ”

He wanted to show off his title, but now he had more interesting questions to ask him.

"Are you a god? You are dressed in a mountaineering outfit, and the basket full of grass behind you, are you going to the mountains to pick herbs? ”

"Oh, it's Kiryu-sensei, and I'll reason about it right away!"

Reasoning your sister, do you still need reasoning?

"I thought the poultice made by the gods personally picked herbs was just a publicity stunt......" and Ma was speechless, he really thought that just now.

It's like the small pot of tea I've seen in my previous life, which shows nonsense and leeks.

The god lord waved his hand: "I mainly don't have anything to do, this hot spring street has a small resident population, and no one comes to the door for several weeks in the off-season.

"When I was young, I learned to identify herbs with my father, and I started to do it."

Speaking of this, the god showed a humble smile: "I didn't expect it to come and go, and it actually became a famous product." This plaster is actually not that effective at all, but the herbs are mixed with mint, and it is very comfortable to put on it, and everyone thinks it is effective. ”

Kazuma looked at the plaster that had been packed by Hiroko, and wondered if this was just a placebo effect......

Without waiting for Kazuma to speak, the priest continued: "Kiryu-sensei, I'm here, let's take a sip of tea and leave, look at you sweaty, let you go down the mountain like this, but it's my dereliction of duty." ”

As soon as the god's voice fell, Kazuma found that he was indeed a little thirsty, and he should replenish water in time to output it with all his might—no, it was to prevent heat stroke.

He nodded and said, "It's okay to rest." My apprentice, Tamamo, had just climbed the stone steps at the door, and it was like bullying her to let her go down with me. ”

Tamamo: "I'm okay, proper exercise helps to stay in shape. ”

Kazuma glanced at her thin waist and said nothing,

Priest: "Well, please." Hiroko, you can pack up and go. ”

After that, the god himself walked to the building connected to the social office, which should be his home.

He Ma and Tamamo followed.

Behind them, Hiroko was cleaning up before closing the business, closing the sales window of the social office and closing the anti-theft bar.

**

The Shinko's house is a very typical Japanese building, with most of the interior walls having sliding doors that can be opened.

However, compared to the opulent Japanese buildings that Wama had seen before, this house is full of life.

And it can be seen that the god is a master who does not like to tidy up the house, grinding the body of the herbs, half-written sticks, and unfinished ointment boxes are scattered in the room.

There are also a variety of books everywhere.

Kazuma noticed one thing: the books scattered everywhere, mostly detectives.

Especially on the shelf at the door of the toilet, there are a lot of detectives.

It seems that the god is a person who likes to read books to enrich himself while squatting in the pit.

And according to the experience of Hema's life, this kind of person generally needs to be saved by Ma Yinglong.

The priest opened the sliding door of the living room and said to Kazuma, "Please, I'll go get you iced barley tea." ”

He Ma nodded and asked casually, "Is there electricity on this mountain?" ”

"Of course there's electricity, otherwise where would the lighting come from during the festival, with torches? There is a hidden danger of causing forest fires. ”。

He Ma teased: "Set fire to the bottom of the mountain prison and sit through." ”

The priest laughed, opened the door to the kitchen, and entered.

Tamamo had already entered the living room, but Kazuma was not in a hurry to get in, he looked through the books at the door of the toilet, and then accidentally flipped out a copy of "Modern Criminal Investigation" among a bunch of detectives.

There was also a bookmark in the book, and when he opened the bookmarked page, he found that the inside page of the book was full of things like students taking class notes.

He frowned and carefully put the book back in its place.

Then he scanned the books on the shelves again and found another copy of Durkheim's "On Suicide."

At first glance, this book is very incompatible with a bunch of detectives and "Modern Criminal Investigation", but it is not suitable for him to systematically study modern psychology in elective courses all his life, and he knows that this "Theory of Suicide" is not simply a study of suicide, and the concept of "anomie" it puts forward is also widely used in the field of criminal psychology later.

If you think about it, there's a bit of black humor.

In this book, Durkheim divides suicide into several categories, the last category is "anomie suicide", and after a person is socially anomie, in addition to suicide, there is also an ending, that is, becoming a criminal.

Kazuma recalls what he had learned in an elective course in psychology in his previous life, and then puts the book back on the shelf.

This god deserves hemorrhoids when he reads such a hardcore book when he is on the toilet.

While the horse was thinking like this, the god came out of the dining room with barley tea.

"Won't Kiryu-sensei go in and sit?"

"Let's go."

So saying, he and the horse went into the living room, and then he found that the living room was quite cool.

Natural winds pour in through the open sliding doors.

The wind chimes hanging under the side porch of the edge jingle bells.

Tamamo sat next to the door that opened to the outside, the cool breeze ruffling the sweat-soaked hair on her forehead.

Kazuma decisively chose a more convenient position to admire Tamamo and sat down.

The god placed a large glass in front of him: "I'm sorry, I haven't had a guest here for a long time, and the ceramic teacup for hospitality has not been washed for a long time, so let's use the glass." ”

"No problem, the glass represents modern industrial culture, and I like it." Kazuma smiled, and then asked unexpectedly, "Lord God likes to read in the toilet so much, won't he get hemorrhoids?" ”

There was a noticeable pause in the hand of the god lord pouring the tea, and some of the tea spilled out, and landed on the arm of the horse, cold and cold.

It seems that this person is already suffering from hemorrhoids.

I don't know if Japan in this era can buy Ma Yinglong.

Tamamo looked at Kazuma, frowning slightly.

Sure enough, even Tamamo couldn't accept asking this kind of question to a stranger who met for the first time today.

He Ma didn't see Tamamo's expression, and calmly changed the question, as if the sentence just now did not exist: "Lord God is a detective fan?" ”

The priest was now back to normal, he poured barley tea for the two guests, placed the teapot on the table, and sat opposite the guests.

"My surname is Ota, call me Ota."

"So, Ota-san, you have a lot of detectives here."

"Ah, yes, I like to watch detectives in my free time." Ota laughed.

Kazuma: "What about "On Suicide"? That's also a time to kill? ”

Because it's normal for detective fans to have a copy of "Modern Criminal Investigation" at home, Kazuma directly skipped this book and asked about another book.

Ota looked the same: "Ordinary people may think that there is a book of "On Suicide" in a bunch of detectives that is very out of place, but Kiryu-sensei definitely doesn't think so, right?" ”

Kazuma: "Why do you say that?" ”

"Because you are an expert in solving crimes, you must be proficient in criminal investigation and know that this book "On Suicide" has a great relationship with modern criminal psychology."

Hema thought to himself, when did I become a crime solver again?

In the previous press conferences and other things, I focused on my bravery, deliberately avoided solving the case, and saved the face of the police.

Tai Tian saw Kazuma's expression, and then turned around and pulled out a weekly Fang Chun from a pile of miscellaneous items.

And the horse staggered.

He vaguely guessed what was happening.

Ota turned one of the pages and held up the magazine to show hima: "This article tells in detail how you solved the refrigerator serial suicide case. ”

Kazuma didn't read the article, but directly looked at who wrote it, and as a result, he saw the name of Takashi Hanafang.

It seems that Takashi Hanafang wrote another article about how he solved the case after talking about the 100 million yen that he burned with horses.

And Takashi Hanabo didn't tell Kazuma about it.

So Kazuma now just wants to rush back to Tokyo and blow up the head of this news reporter.

"That, Ota-san," Kazuma touched his nose, "Most of the contents of the weekly Fang Chun are things that are not in the wind. ”

"But this one is written as rigorously as a detective." Ota said again, the subtext is "this can still be fake".

Kazuma: "This must have been deliberately written like this by Takashi Hanafang." Listen, it's the criminal police officers from the Metropolitan Police Department's Search Section 1 and Search Division 4 who solve the case. ”

"However, Kiryu-sensei is also determined to become a criminal policeman, right? Alas, you didn't try your hand at these cases? ”

No, I've tried it out.

But Kazuma smiled and replied, "No." The detectives in the Metropolitan Police Department are very professional, and there is no room for me as a layman to interfere. ”

"That's right." Lord Ota had a visibly disappointed expression.

"Ota-san, you are so disappointed, isn't there an incident that needs to be solved by someone who is good at criminal investigation?" Tamamo asked unexpectedly.

"Nope!" Ota subconsciously denied it, but immediately he hesitated, and after a short entanglement, he let out a sigh, "Actually, there is." ”

Kazuma: "The detectives in your house all look new, and some of them are obviously mail-in, and the books are stamped with a time stamp when they were sold. I'm afraid you've only recently fallen in love with detectives, right? ”

Ota stared at Kazuma with round eyes.

Although he didn't speak, He Ma seemed to hear him ask: "Chang Wei, you still say that you don't know martial arts?" ”

He Ma didn't care, and continued to ask: "The book "On Suicide" I just flipped through is still stamped with the seal of the library of the town office, it should be the collection of books over there." Did you come back from the library? ”

Ota nodded, but immediately reacted and shook his head continuously: "No, no, no!" I borrowed it and just thought I'd pay it back next time I went to town, but I didn't go to town for months. ”

"Wouldn't it be nice to let Hiroko do it for you, she's in high school in town, right?" Tamamo said.

"Let the girl take this kind of book to the library and return it, and soon strange rumors will spread. There is not even much gossip in this kind of mountain, and they will not let go of this excellent subject. Ota was in a depressed mood when he said this, and Kazuma guessed that he might have been hurt by the message before.

"Let's leave these details alone," he waved his hand, "Let's talk about important things, you started watching detectives and studying modern criminal science and criminal psychology because of the accident that happened to the Meiji University Fantasy Biology Research Society last year, right?" ”

Ota took a deep breath, then nodded to Kazuma, "Yes." I suspect it wasn't an accident. ”

"Why?"

"When they go up the mountain, it is daytime, and there are no clouds, and the daylight is very fierce.

Kazuma immediately retorted: "Or maybe they just got lost in the mountains, and they were still looking for their way at night, and then a tragedy happened with a slip under their feet." ”

"The time of death is not right." Ota replied, "Because I'm a god, I still have a bit of face with the police in the precinct, and I asked, and the one who died should have died during the day." ”

He spread his hands with the horse: "Then maybe they are running in the mountains and forests." In detectives, it may be possible to convict in this way, but in reality it is not, there must be a complete chain of evidence. ”

In "Conan", Conan always finds one or two pieces of evidence and loudly announces that the case has been solved, in fact, that way of solving the case will not work in any country, and it doesn't take a very good lawyer to use the reason of "insufficient evidence" to complete the not-guilty defense.

Therefore, in every case in Conan, the murderer must confess at the end, because in Japan, as long as the murderer confesses, the confession he signed is overwhelming evidence in court.

Ota had only watched detectives and modern criminal investigation, and probably didn't know much about how justice works in Japan, so he looked at Kazuma with a surprised expression: "Can't you convict if the time is not right?" ”

"Of course not. If you want to overturn the conclusion that he died in an accident, you have to have a complete chain of evidence – and of course you can find the killer to make him plead guilty and submit to justice. ”

Ota lowered his gaze and looked at the desktop: "This can't work...... I thought it must have been Hantian who put pressure on the county police in order to protect this hot spring tourism development plan. ”

Kazuma immediately recalled the information he had heard from the hostess of the hotel, Ms. Kamashima, and asked, "Handa is the ...... Vice-Minister of Transport? ”

Ota looked at Kazuma and nodded vigorously: "Yes, it's him." ”

On the Japanese side, politicians and officials are separated, and the politicians at the head change smoothly, and the iron-clad official system does not move at all.

Therefore, the real power of the various departments of the Japanese government is in the hands of the vice ministers, who are responsible for keeping the whole system running, advising the politicians who have been replaced, and implementing the new ideas of the new bosses.

Of course, the vice-ministers can also enter politics after accumulating actual achievements, and at this time, they will become XX politicians according to their background, and closely collude with relevant interest groups.

This Hantian probably had a similar idea.

As a person from the transportation province, a large part of his basic plate is the local tourism promotion association.

Doing a good job in the hot spring tourism in his hometown is not only a return for a blind date, but also a great benefit to his future.

So it's normal for Ota to suspect that Hantian is behind the ghost.

But Kazuma still doesn't understand one thing: "You...... Just because the time of death is in the daytime, do you suspect that it is not an accident? Right? You first suspected that it was an accident before you inquired, didn't you? ”

The police would not take the initiative to tell the god who had nothing to do with the details of the time of death, which must have been his suspicion first.

Ota pursed his lips and was silent for a long time, as if remembering something.

Finally he said, "I had a good relationship with the dead Watanabe-kun, who was a very cautious, very intelligent, and somewhat arrogant child. It's hard for me to imagine him stumbling down a hill. ”

"Everyone has the possibility of stumbling, even cats, which are athletic predators, sometimes overturn."

And in the future, after the popularization of video websites, the cats who overturned the car will also be made into video highlights to please the terrifying Homo erectus.

Kazuma's words did not shake Ota, and he continued, "Proud children are easily bullied in school, even in college. During the conversation, I could feel that Watanabe-kun was subjected to a certain degree of cold violence at school.

"Moreover, Watanabe-kun is very talented, and even among the group of children who passed the very difficult selection and entered Meiji University, he is very prominent. In addition, he has a good relationship with Miss Akasai, so it is inevitable that there will be people in his classmates who are jealous of him. ”

"However, even if those college students, the seniors of Meiji University, have a motive, we cannot assume that they are criminals because of their motives. Talk about the evidence. And the horse said.

"Yes, I know. So throughout the year I kept going into the mountains to look for evidence. ”

"I see, I'll just say that your mountaineering outfit looks very new, not like a person who has insisted on going into the mountains to collect medicine for many years."

Ota laughed: "For many years, insisting on going into the mountains to collect herbs is the propaganda standard finalized by the Tourism Promotion Association - oh, it's true that I insist on grinding herbs to make plasters, but I used to grow some herbs on my own in the fields cultivated around the shrine."

"The people in the local agricultural cooperatives don't know about herbal medicine, and I don't buy fertilizer or take out loans, so they don't care about me."

He Ma pulled back the topic that he was looking to be off-topic: "So you have been running in the mountains this year, have you found any evidence?" ”

"This ...... There are some things that I don't know if they are evidence. I'll bring it to you. ”

Ota got up and left the living room, and a moment later returned with the little box and opened it in front of Kazuma.

There was a lot of dirty garbage in the small box.

"Because I was worried about washing off the fingerprints on it, I didn't rinse it when I took it back, and just put it away."

"Your fingerprints weren't left on it, were they?" And the horse asked.

"Of course not, I picked it up with gloves on. I know that. ”

Kazuma nodded, because he didn't have gloves he didn't pick up the things, just put them in the box and observed.

What caught his eye the most was a dirty butterfly hair ornament: "This hair ornament ......"

"This is Miss Akasai's hair ornament, she wore it when she entered the mountain that day, and when she came back, she was gone." Ota said, "Because Miss Akanishi is a beautiful and lively person, I remember this hair accessory flying up and down like a real butterfly when she runs." ”

Kazuma nodded, then pointed to the wreckage of a lighter and asked, "What about this?" It looks like a normal plastic lighter. ”

"This is Watanabe-kun's lighter. At least the color is the same, but I'm not sure if there are other tourists who have taken up the hill with lighters of the same color. After all, this kind of model is sold in our convenience stores here, and it is very cheap, and if it is so cheap that it is lost, we will never bother to find it. ”

Kazuma nodded slowly as he swept over the remaining objects, then pointed to one of what looked like some kind of fragments and asked, "What is this?" ”

The god advocated that the mouth should be answered, and Tamamo spoke first: "This is the turtle back card, which is used for divination, and the other side should have a spell from the Yayoi era." But this is supposed to be a modern product, I don't remember any of this thing unearthed. ”

Kazuma pinched Tamamo's thigh under the low table to remind her that she was purring.

How do you know if you haven't unearthed it?

Tamamo immediately shut up and observed Ota's expression with Kazuma. However, Ota didn't notice the logical problem at all, and replied, "Yes, yes, there is indeed a pattern on the back, and he is worthy of being a student of Tokyo University, and he knows a lot." ”