The person who opened the door to Gao Cheng was a casually dressed woman with broken hair, wearing big square-framed glasses, but she didn't look old-fashioned, with slightly upturned corners of her eyes and lip gloss on her mouth, just like a Shibuya hot girl, but her skin was quite fair.

The other party was not too excited to see Gao Cheng, but he still glanced at it a few more times.

"Come in first, Detective Joto, my assistants happened to be on vacation yesterday and won't be here until a while."

The room is very tidy, and it can be seen that it is often maintained, and the room used for painting is not messy, and in the middle is the workbench of Naoko Izuru and three assistants, and there are bookshelves, TVs and other things around it, and there are not many comic books on the shelves.

"Now that I have a tablet, I can read all the electronic comics, and it's easy to find information." Naoko Izuru explained.

Gao Cheng looked at the tools on the table, such as the transparency table, dot paper, and utility knife.

Although he had a tablet, the comics were still hand-drawn, and he thought there would be a drawing tablet.

"These are some of my thoughts on Kanedaichi's manga," Naoko Izuro took out a stack of sketches and handed them to Gao Cheng, "I was going to send them to the editorial department when I perfected them, but they said you were coming over this morning, and I tried a few styles of art......"

Gao Cheng took a cursory look at the sketch.

There are indeed several styles of Kanedaichi's image design, and his shadow can be vaguely seen, and the ponytail hairstyle he combed some time ago has also been retained.

He was very satisfied with the style of painting, and to be honest, it was much better than his impression of Kaneda's painting style.

There is also a comic manuscript adapted from the events of the opera house in the back, and the storyboard is also quite solid, I don't know if it's because of this world, it's very 73.

In other words, the Conan-style "Kanedaichi" is quite interesting unexpectedly, and there is an inexplicable nostalgia.

"Let's try again with the second style." Gao Cheng pointed to the version closest to the 73 style and said.

As for whether to choose Naoko Izuru or not, he will have to talk about it after visiting the remaining two manga artists, but if there is no accident, Naoko Izuru is the most suitable person at the moment.

"The second? Okay," Wellbore sorted out the sketch, paused and turned back to Gao Cheng and said, "It may be a bit redundant to say that, but I still really want to be able to cooperate with you, actually, I was the editor who took the initiative to contact after seeing the vampire incident that happened the day before yesterday......

"Unlike in my comics, events in reality are not so coincidental to be encountered by detectives, but Detective Joto is different, it seems that it is easier to encounter events than others, and no matter what kind of case it is, it can be solved."

Gao Cheng's eyebrows jumped.

Is this a compliment or something......

"Woo——!"

As he was talking, a siren suddenly sounded downstairs in the apartment, and Naoko Itsuro was stunned for a moment, and when she went to the balcony to check, she found that several police cars had been parked downstairs.

The atmosphere in the room was a little silent, but Gao Cheng took the initiative to speak: "I'll go and see the situation, and I'll talk about the cooperation later." ”

On the third floor of the apartment, Gao Cheng accidentally met Officer Otaki, an Osaka prefectural police officer who often helped Hattori, in a group of police officers.

The deceased was an old man who lived on the third floor, Hideri Kanzuki, who lived alone, and Officer Otaki cooperated with the Metropolitan Police Department to monitor the elderly because of another incident in which the elderly was killed by a former student.

But this morning, when Gao Cheng came over, the police did not see the old man go out when the old man was used to walking, so he entered the room to check the situation, and found that a rope was tied to the air conditioning outlet in the living room, and the old man was hanged there, and a chair was poured underneath.

"So it's suicide?" Gao Cheng asked.

"Yes," Officer Otaki said with a frown, "Although the door is not locked, we have been monitoring the windows and doors of the room, and there are no suspicious characters entering and exiting at all, so we can only commit suicide, and the reason for the suicide is not clear for the time being." ”

Otaki was a little distressed.

In any case, the sudden suicide of the person under surveillance is also a dereliction of duty.

"This old gentleman had been working as a high school teacher until a few years ago, and the serial murderer we were hunting, Fei Tu Tong, was also a former student of his,

We received information that someone had seen him in Tokyo, so we came over, because the only person who had no relatives and no reason could rely on the old gentleman who had introduced him to a job and taken care of him, and today was the third day of surveillance, and the result was ......"

"Teacher! How so?! Naoko Inotsu, who had followed Gao Cheng, was stopped outside by the police along with the apartment residents, choking up and screaming after learning that the old gentleman had hanged himself.

"Miss Wellbore?" Gao Cheng turned around and asked, "Are you also a student of this old gentleman?" ”

"Kangetsu-sensei was my homeroom teacher in high school," Naoko Izuru said sadly, "but how could the teacher commit suicide, obviously he asked me to borrow a high school photo album a few days ago." ”

Officer Otaki looked at Gao Cheng suspiciously: "She's ......"

"A cartoonist who lives in this apartment, I happened to have something to do with her today," Gao Cheng looked around the body of the old gentleman who had hanged himself in the living room, "However, it is indeed a bit strange here, the height of the chair is not high enough for the old gentleman to hang himself, and it is impossible to tie the rope to the air conditioning outlet of the ceiling." ”

Officer Otaki followed and looked at the chair that had fallen to the ground, and exclaimed, "That's true, it's difficult, could it be that he killed it?" ”

It's incredible, if it's him, how did the murderer get in and leave?

"To be precise, it's still suicide, but it's ......"

Gao Cheng's eyes swept over the room, and landed on a sweeping robot in the corner and a long cylindrical trash can.

"The whole room was very clean and tidy, only a little pencil shavings were left on the ground in the hanging position, and the trash can was also casually dumped in the corner......

"I think,Mr. Guanyue should not use a chair to set up a table,It's this slender trash can,Placed upside down under the air conditioning outlet,So all the pencil crumbs inside fell out,Kick the trash can down afterwards,Let the sweeping robot with the set path push it into the corner and it becomes like this,As long as you let the sweeping robot run again, you can be sure."

Gao Cheng looked at the body of the old gentleman hanging quietly in the middle again.

"So, no matter how you look at it, the old gentleman is a suicide, the difference is just the motive, the old gentleman doesn't know why, he disguised his suicide as if he was murdered, but he seemed to be a little unlucky, but he didn't expect to be monitored by the police, and the scene was in vain."

When leaving the apartment, Naoko Izuru specially sent Gao Cheng, but her mood didn't seem to be very high.

"Actually," Naoko Izuru said sadly, "I probably know the reason why the teacher did this, the teacher seems to have borrowed a lot of money because of the failure of the stock investment, and like many people here, he is very dissatisfied with Mr. Bupu, a stockbroker who lives on the second floor, causing a bad situation......

"It's also right that the teacher will hold a grudge, that agent is already very bad, and the teacher probably wants to make the scene look like he was killed by that person."

"I'm sorry," Gao Cheng said downstairs, turning back to the female cartoonist, "for you to meet such a bad thing." ”

"It's okay," Naoko Izō said with a rare smile, "Even if there weren't detectives from Joto, this kind of thing would have happened, and probably no one would notice the teacher's thoughts and treat the case as a suicide, right?" That's too sad for the teacher. ”

Gao Cheng handed his business card to Naoko Izori: "So, let's contact you again if you have something." ”

It's a really strange day, he doesn't seem to encounter cases very easily, although this time it's just a relatively special suicide case, and the system doesn't react.

"Ah," Gao Cheng suddenly stopped, "I forgot to help Chiba get an autograph......"