Two people also appeared last year and the year before that?

Satoru Aragaki and Taku Morita were stunned for a moment, and then put their heads together at the same time.

"Still can't see clearly... What do you think? Taku Morita asked, turning his head.

Xia Li's current favorability towards Higashinohara is still stuck in forgetting her righteousness, and she subconsciously wants to dismantle the stage, "I can't see it clearly... Who can see it so badly. ”

At this time, Aragaki Satoru rubbed his chin, stared at the picture and said slowly, "I didn't pay attention just now, but take a closer look... I feel that their silhouettes are really similar. ”

"When the boss said that, I thought it was quite similar." Xia Li immediately nodded.

She is still in her internship period and has to take every opportunity to perform.

But to be honest, the video recording is the surveillance of the northwest corner of the intersection, coupled with the impact of the shooting distance and the outdoor weather, the overall picture quality is very rough and blurry.

When I just looked through the video, everyone's attention was on the person who was about to commit suicide marked in red in the picture, and it was naturally difficult to notice the other people around him.

But Taku Morita, who was born in the second section of the search, was slightly stunned, but shook his head, "Even if that's really the case, most office workers in New Tokyo rarely change their daily routes, and if the same two people are photographed at a certain commuter intersection at a specific time, it doesn't mean anything......"

Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, Higashinohara, who had been staring at the auto-playing car video recorder, suddenly spoke again.

"No, it's not just two.

It's seven people. ”

Higashinohara paused and said, "Although these seven people did not appear at the same time in the surveillance video of these accidents, at least three or more people appeared in each accident. ”

"At most once... All seven appeared. ”

His pupils flickered slightly, as if at the pixel level, and he reached out to point out all seven people without mistake.

That situation is like a variety show of "Super Brain" of Hailanxing in the previous life, asking the contestants to find out the difference of tens of thousands of tens of thousands from the Rubik's Cube wall stacked by tens of thousands of small color blocks like two dense TVs like flower screens.

Some people decrypt that the contestants used parallel crossed eyes to overlap the two walls visually, and the different places will flash in order to successfully complete the task.

What Higashinohara had to do was to find the same point in that blurred picture quality, but he was not so complicated, and directly opened the first glance of the [Nine Eyes and Six Paths], and even the Nine Eyes and Six Paths, which could see through the construction of the magic energy, were far easier than imagined to find the same passers-by.

......

Seven people?

Taku Morita was stunned for a moment.

But then, with Higashinohara's finger in the direction, he shifted his attention from the person who committed suicide in the video to the other passers-by around him.

Count silently in your heart.

The surprise on his face also increased.

Finally, in the surveillance of the latest suicide case at the intersection of Twibetsu two days ago, when all seven passers-by appeared on both sides of the intersection in the picture, silently watching the smiling woman walk into the track...

The next second,

The tram whizzed by.

In an instant, as if electrocuted, Taku Morita felt a tingling sensation in his scalp!

Whew!

"They... They..."

Taku Morita pointed to the screen speechless.

Satoru Aragaki next to him also spoke.

"These passers-by appear at different times, morning, noon and evening, not affected by the weather at all, even... Rain or shine, it doesn't look like a passerby, it's like..."

Higashinohara was silent for a moment, then continued, "Witness to some kind of ritual." ”

After the words fell, the car fell silent.

A smile appeared on Satoru Aragaki's face, "Hehe, I didn't expect it to be really boring, it's amazing, Higashino-kun, this can be discovered by you." ”

Morita Takuya was surprised, but he heard Aragaki Satoru mention that Higashinohara is a first-year student at Takehara Minami Private School Park, and it seems to be a gray ordinary speed ability of talent sequence 98.

I didn't expect the observation to be so good.

That's a real personal talent.

Satoru Aragaki slammed his mouth and said thoughtfully, "Now that it is very likely that it is not a suicide, then judging from this situation, I am afraid that the case will be transferred to the third investigation team, right?" ”

The Third Investigation Team is the agency in New Tokyo that specializes in handling cases involving persons with the third type of ability, and although it is attached to the Metropolitan Police Department, its internal positions and ranks are actually parallel to several departments of the Metropolitan Police Department.

Morita Taku nodded, "That's right, at present, the biggest possibility is that the spiritual ability person committed the crime, and it seems that it is still organized and premeditated, but... What are their motives and purposes? ”

Psychiatric people are not mentally ill.

At the very least, the vast majority of them are normal people, and in a big city like New Tokyo, where the base of capable people accounts for a large proportion, the control of capable people is very strict, and the thirteen teams of the Third Investigation Group are located in the New Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, and it is very rare for capable people to take risks to endanger ordinary people.

Witnesses of the ceremony?

Satoru Aragaki recalled this sentence, and his eyes couldn't help but narrow slightly, as if he remembered something.

After muttering for a moment, he patted Morita Taku's shoulder, "Okay, Atuo, you can now take the video to the person in charge of the search section and ask them to transfer the case to the third investigation team, just to buy us a little time." ”

Morita Takushi immediately thought of something when he heard this, and immediately warned, "You just said that you might be involved in the crime of the capable person and will be transferred to the third investigation team, don't mess around." ”

Satoru Aragaki had already opened the co-pilot's door, and while pushing the person out, he said, "Don't worry! Master, I never mess around, don't you know this? ”

Taku Morita was speechless.

I'm just too clear to be at ease.

However, he knew Satoru Aragaki's character, otherwise he would not have resigned from the Metropolitan Police Department back then, so he could only trot back and hope that he would find out the truth soon after the case was transferred to the third group.

......

After getting back on the road, Satoru Aragaki drove the car instead of going home, but headed west in the opposite direction.

"We... Do you want to continue the investigation? Higashinohara, who was in the back seat, couldn't help but ask.

Satoru Aragaki said with a smile while driving, "Of course, you and Xia Li are both capable people, I originally thought that it would be a bit overkill to hire you if it was an ordinary case, but now I don't have to worry about this haha... Is Charlie-chan confident? ”

Xia Li has been beaten by society for so long in New Tokyo, and she is no longer the simple country girl in Okinawa Prefecture at the beginning, and when she heard this, she immediately patted the tablet on her chest and said, "Report to the boss!" I'm confident! Will definitely behave well! ”

"Hahaha! Sure enough, it's a youthful vitality! Satoru Aragaki said with a smile, "Higashino-kun must be the same, I'm relieved to see that you guys are so confident." ”

Wait a minute!

I have the confidence to hammer it!

Although he could barely make out the same passers-by in the surveillance video of the intersection at the scene of the accident.

But most of those people are blurred, and it takes a lot of effort for the Metropolitan Police Department to use portrait recognition to compare and compare, not to mention that they are looking for a needle in a haystack like New Tokyo, a metropolis with a population of 10 million.

Satoru Aragaki is very optimistic.

Driving the two west, they were soon in the heart of Shinjuku, with Kabukicho in front of them, but there was still no neon lights at night.

Xia Li leaned on the car window next to her, her big round eyes looked at the rows of ramen shops, barbecue restaurants and izakaya on the street, and secretly sucked her saliva and turned her head with a smile on her face.

"Ahh Boss... Is it time to eat so soon? ”

Dinner?

Higashinohara, who had been idle along the way, once again entered his mind [Crime Handbook] Masaki Kusao was conducting "intracranial sword training" in the character image drawing, and when he heard Xia Li's words, he looked down at his watch.

It's only past nine o'clock...

You're just going to have breakfast and you're about to start eating again?

I don't have time to complain about this tiger girl.

After two days of hard training, the level of Higashinohara Kotaidao Erdaoliu swordsmanship has been raised to the beginner level (4/10), and I believe that it will not be long before I can break through to the intermediate level of swordsmanship, and I don't know what kind of changes will occur when I cast those secret techniques and mysteries.

Speaking of which, Higashinohara doesn't seem to be very fast, but compared to those swordsmen who have been practicing hard since he was a child, regardless of the cold and heat, his ascension speed is like a heifer riding a rocket.

"Haha, it's still early, but I know there's a good ramen shop here."

Satoru Aragaki who was driving in front laughed optimistically, "When I'm done, I'll invite everyone to go to the team building once to celebrate and commemorate the first operation of our Aragaki Detective Agency, and Xia Li-chan can be eaten open!" ”

"Yay!"

Xia Li suddenly stomped her feet excitedly, it was the first time that someone had invited her to eat openly!

The owner is such a nice person!

Sister Aragaki really introduced herself to a good job, and she didn't want to go back to her hometown!

......

Entering the Kabukicho Ichiban Street, Satoru Aragaki found a pavement parking lot and parked his bread and beckoned the two to follow, muttering that parking fees are too expensive here.

Unexpectedly, after walking a few steps, the mobile phone ringing in the pocket of Aragaki Satoru's coat rang, and when he took it out, he saw that it was Taku Morita, an apprentice who had just separated at the door of the Metropolitan Police Department in the morning, and pressed the answer without thinking.

"Hey! Uh-huh... Well? Is that so....."

After a while, Satoru Aragaki hung up the phone, but his face was a little ugly.

"What's wrong, boss?"

Xia Li cautiously leaned in and asked.

It's not going to be an uninvited meal, is it?

Satoru Aragaki opened his mouth and sighed, "I just received a call, the case of Kame-san's mother was just classified as suicide by a search lesson at noon today, and the case is still a step too slow, even if we find evidence in the future, we can only assist Kame-sao in appealing." ”

After speaking, he frowned slightly, and said with some puzzlement, "It stands to reason that it shouldn't be, the period for this kind of case is usually three months before the trial is concluded, could it be that there are too many cases piled up in the recent search?" ”

Satoru Aragaki was a little puzzled, but he thought that Taku Morita had already submitted the file to Mai Aragaki by the liaison officer of the 13th team of the 3rd Investigation Team in charge of the third type of emergencies in the city.

He immediately took out his mobile phone and dialed again, explaining the current situation to his daughter Mai Aragaki.

Mai Aragaki heard the commission of Ryoka Kame in full at the scene last night, and she was also impressed by the petite girl with a round face and cowardice who had the courage to find a detective for her mother's death, so she followed the file on the spot and said that even if the case was closed, the team would investigate it thoroughly.

Higashinohara was silent for a moment.

The search lesson was in Kame Ryoka just yesterday commissioned the detective to find out the truth, and today they just got the file and closed the case so coincidentally but quickly...... These gave him a smell of something unusual.

"Let's go, let's go!"

Satoru Aragaki had already put away his phone and walked into the door of a bar called [Mishu-no-Fuchi] on the side of the street.

Higashinohara and Xia Li next to him glanced at each other.

The latter's head was tilted, and his cautious eyes estimated that he was still holding grudges, he smiled and didn't bother to explain anything, and followed in, and Xia Li hurriedly followed when he saw this.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Higashinohara entered the door, he met a woman with heavy makeup, a lady's cigarette in her mouth, and a smile slowly walked from the direction of the bar booth that had not officially opened at noon.

The other party's eyes lit up when he saw Higashinohara, and he said lazily with a smile, "Hey, hey, hey!" This is not a place for minors, no matter how handsome they are! ”

"But there is alcohol at my sister's house, if you really want to drink, why don't you ...... tonight"

Unexpectedly, as soon as she finished speaking, Satoru Aragaki's lazy voice also came from the bar.

He sat on the barstool and touched a bottle of wine from nowhere, mixed himself with a glass of blue flame, and said with a smile in his mouth, "Hey, hey, Miss Snake, he's a high school student, why don't you invite me if you have good wine at home?" ”

Snake Saori's body stiffened, and she turned her head to look at Satoru Aragaki who was sitting there smiling and raising a glass to her, "Why are you here?" You're not a cop now, and don't forget to pay for your drinks. ”

"Wow! It turns out that the boss doesn't give money for drinking? Xia Li tilted her head and whispered secretly, the ears under the shirt and hat on her head twitched, and her tone was a little adoring.

Higashinohara glanced at her with a slight twitch at the corner of his mouth.

MDZZ...

"Of course you have to give money!"

Satoru Aragaki shook his glass twice, raised it and drank it all, and asked straight to the point, "I'll stop gossiping, you should remember... The organization called [Funeral Society] a few years ago, right? ”

......

"Funeral Society?"

Snake Saori frowned slightly when she heard this name, "Of course I remember, what's wrong?" Didn't you destroy their organization dens back then? ”

"It's smashed, yes."

Satoru Aragaki smiled coldly, "But I couldn't find out their leader, the man who was called 'Doctor'. ”

Snake Saori was stunned, then shook her head.

"Then you may be in the wrong place, my bar... No, all the bars in Kabukicho have been singing and dancing lately, and there hasn't been a murder in a long time, at most a few drunken and crazy customers who have been thrown into the garbage heap in the back alley for a night of sleep. ”

"Of course I do."

Satoru Aragaki paused after finishing speaking, and his eyes looked directly into the eyes under the thick eyeshadow of the snake Saori.

"But there have been a lot of murders at an intersection recently, and as in those days, there are witnesses to each murder scene with the same appearance."

The snake's eyes shrank slightly, his eyelids trembled, and then he lowered his gaze and said, "What does that have to do with me, you may be in the wrong place." ”

"It has nothing to do with you."

Satoru Aragaki put down his glass, got up from his high chair, and walked slowly towards Saori Snake.

Snake Saori looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, although he was now bearded and his face was vicissitudes, but somehow the heroic and powerful figure with a pair of sword eyebrows full of awe-inspiring justice appeared in his mind, and he involuntarily took half a step back.

Satoru Aragaki didn't stop, and the moment he passed by, he suddenly lowered his voice and said in the ear of the snake Saori, "But these have something to do with your father, don't forget, your father was the only person who escaped the search for the [Funeral Society] except for the 'doctor' back then." ”

Speaking of this, Aragaki Satoru paused and continued, "I don't know if he has contacted you over the years, and I can't be sure if he has anything to do with this case. I'm not a cop anymore, and I'm not going to let you persuade him to turn himself in. ”

"But if he's related to this case, I think... A person doesn't fall twice in the same place, can he play disappear again this time. ”

After speaking, Aragaki Satoru took out a business card and handed it to the silent snake Saori, and the smile on his face regained, "This is my business card, please contact me at any time if there is a situation, see you later." ”

"Let's go, everyone."

He waved his hand, and Xia Li hurriedly followed.

And Higashinohara, who had just heard Satoru Aragaki's words, took a deep look at Saori, a snake with a complicated face who was stunned in place.

Family members of criminal suspects?

It was the first time he had heard of the name Funeral Society.

I haven't seen any information on the Internet.

Listening to Satoru Aragaki's words, it seems to have something to do with the case of Kame's mother...

Turning around, Higashinohara quickly caught up with the two in front.

However, when he walked out of the bar door, he realized one thing, Satoru Aragaki, who had just sat at the bar and mixed himself a glass of wine, said that he would have to pay.

It still didn't pay.....

This guy is such a white.

He sighed in his heart, but when he watched Satoru Aragaki walk to a ramen shop not far away with the fart Xia Li very boldly, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile.

It's time for "heaven to do justice".

......

A suburb of New Tokyo.

Category III Detention Centers for Crimes.

In a visitation room, with a table and a few fixed chairs in the middle, the walls around it are made of special alloys, and the floor is paved with mixed magnetic materials, the whole room is like an airtight and gloomy cage.

Tsukasa Sugida, the leader of the 13th team of the 3rd Investigation Group, sat silently in his chair, and after a while, a door opened in front of him, and a dull sound of metal shackles was heard in his ears.

He raised his head, and unsurprisingly jumped into the tall figure of Ryunosuke Kamiya, wearing a choke collar around his neck, and his face still had that lazy expression.

There was no surprise on the other party's face when he saw Tsukasa Sugita coming, and he smiled and walked to the chair across the table and sat down.

The door to the back was shut.

Sugita Tsukasa stared at Ryunosuke Kamiya in front of him, staring at the lazy smile on the other party's face, a wave of anger swelled up in his heart for some reason, and he said slowly in a somewhat low tone, "The teacher said back then, you are the one among us who is most likely to achieve the realm of swordsmanship... What do you think? ”

"Hahaha, I'm a little embarrassed to say that, but I think so too." Ryunosuke Kamiya replied with a smile, trying to scratch his head only to find that his hands were chained, so he could only shrug his shoulders.

"But you...

Soon to die... Death penalty. ”

Sugita's voice was soft, but the words he spoke seemed to be heavy.

The smile on Ryunosuke Kamiya's face also froze suddenly, and his thick brows frowned as if he was thinking about something, and then a smile appeared on his face again.

"Tut-tut.... The exchange of interests between the big guys... Presumably, the industry of the Sigmund Company in Wano Country was swept away this time, but I didn't expect me to be so important in their eyes. ”

"Are you really stupid or are you pretending to be stupid?"

Tsukasa Sugita looked at Ryunosuke Kamiya coldly.

"How many Sigmund trading ships have you Sakamoto Dragon Pirates looted in the East China Sea in recent years, and you think that with your death, you can appease the anger of those big people?"

"Isn't it worth strangling a future world-class swordsman?" Ryunosuke Kamiya asked with a smile, but then gradually fell silent.

He raised his eyes again and looked directly at Tsukasa Sugitada.

"Where will the execution be carried out?"

"East China Sea, Rising Sun Island."

Sugita Tsukasa met Ryunosuke Kamiya's cold gaze and said slowly, word by word, "The whole world will publicly broadcast the execution live, and everyone will be able to see it at that time, and the news has been released in the morning." ”

Bang!

There was a terrifying thud on the table!

Ryunosuke Kamiya's handcuffed fists slammed into the table, leaving two crimson marks, and the dark gold collar under his neck flickered violently.

The door behind him was slammed open, and the jailer in the hallway came in to look at Tsukasa Sugita unscathed, and then stepped back out at the latter's gaze.

Ryunosuke Kamiya leaned forward slightly, staring at Tsukasa Sugita deadly, and almost forced a cold roar from between his teeth:

"Even if you use me to lure that man in! Don't want me to be your bargaining chip! No one will be his opponent, and I advise you not to waste your efforts. ”

"Is the No. 1 swordsman in the East China Sea?"

Sugita nodded.

"I really deserve your trust."

"But do you know that this time the Rising Sun Island prisoner, in addition to the Tokugawa team leader, also dispatched the three seventh-order absolute abilities of Wano Country who lived behind the Sakurada gate, and Councilor Hope of Shangjing would also be present to supervise the sentence in person, you should know that he is also a seventh-order absolute ability of the [Canglei] of talent sequence 27, right?"

The absolute ability to control the development of the realm above the seventh order is all the high-end combat power of this world.

"I know that your [Sakamoto no Dragon] Pirates are one of the two strongest pirates in the East China Sea, but you also have a lot of enemies on the sea, right? Do you think they'll be in for a while? Or do you choose to fall into the ground? ”

Tsukasa Sugita got up and left a message before walking out of the room.

"The date of execution is the first of next month, and if I'm not mistaken, they're already on the move, don't try to be fearless or... Suicide, that would make your friends pay... Lose any meaning. ”

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