In the end, this murder case without a dead person, under the deliberate cover of the victim, allowed the murderer to escape the punishment of the law.

Just as Karasuma wanted to tell Officer Twilight the truth about everything, Terumi Hoshino stopped her, and then called Kaoru Kusano, who had woken up, in front of her.

On the phone, when Terumi Hoshino asks who the killer is, Kaoru Kusano is silent for a while, and then says that it is a fat, short stranger who has barged in from outside the apartment.

It is obvious that Kaoru Kusano is lying, and she is sheltering the murderer Yue Yexue.

And Karasuma Ying, who was listening next to her, chose to be silent.

She doesn't have that very persistent sense of justice, nor does she have a strong desire to make the truth public.

Therefore, if even the victim, Kaoru Kusano, chose to shelter the murderer, then she naturally would not say anything.

In this way, in the silence of Karasuma Ying, Officer Twilight and the others finally identified the murderer as someone outside this apartment.

Karasuma is sure that over time, the case will eventually become unsolved.

"Here, little sister."

In the parking lot downstairs of the apartment, as the police left, Terumi Hoshino, who had been waiting for a long time, beckoned to Karasuma Ying.

"Hoshino-san."

"Mind going for a walk with me?"

"Okay."

Faced with Hoshino's invitation, Karasuma Ying did not hesitate and agreed.

The two walked side by side, in the open space around the parking lot.

"Actually, Xiaoxue, she has always had a crush on Kenzaki." Terumi Hoshino said suddenly.

"I committed the crime because of jealousy and hatred." With this sentence alone, Karasuma Ying understood Yue's motive for attacking Kaoru Kusano.

Tonight's engagement party is a farce in itself.

Kaoru Kusano doesn't really want to marry Kenzaki, and although the two are friends, it's not that kind of relationship.

What Kaoru Kusano really likes is actually her agent, Atsushi Kuma.

However, Atsushi Mama seems to be a little weak in this regard, and he has always been reluctant to take the initiative to express his heart to Kaoru Kusano.

So, the angry Kaoru Kusano found Kenzaki Osamu and hoped that Kenzaki Osamu could cooperate with her to stage an engagement farce to force Kumama to speak.

And in this farce, there is another insider, Hoshino Terumi, which is why Hoshino Terumi will write [Festival Mourning Shun Change] on cardboard.

Hoshino Terumi thought that Kaoru Kusano's plan to force Kumama to propose to her had failed, so she could only wish her a good holiday.

However, Yue Yexue didn't know all this.

Not only that, Yue Yexue has also been quietly in love with Kenzaki Xiu.

She didn't know the inside story at all, and under jealousy, she finally attacked Kaoru Kusano, but maybe it was because she didn't have enough strength, or maybe she was still thinking about the sisterhood of the year, in short, Yue Yexue didn't completely kill her.

And after waking up, Kaoru Kusano also chose to protect Yue Yexue......

People's feelings are really complicated, and Karasuma Ying is not willing to think too deeply.

And her instinct told her that Hoshino Terumi stopped her, and she shouldn't just want to talk about tonight's events.

Sure enough, it didn't make Karasuma Ying wait too long, and after lighting a cigarette for herself, Terumi Hoshino finally got into tonight's topic.

"Little sister, why do you want to be a detective?" She asked.

"Detective?" Karasuma Ying thought for a moment and replied truthfully, "It's just that it's like this, and I didn't deliberately want to be a detective. ”

When she first came to Japan, she was looking for a part-time job, and she happened to meet Mori Kogoro, so she took the opportunity to become the assistant of the great detective.

For Karasuma Ying, the current situation is indeed just a choice she made according to the situation, nothing more.

"Is that so?"

When Hoshino Terumi heard this, she smiled helplessly, her expression a little gloomy.

"It's really enviable......"

When Karasuma Ying heard this, she didn't ask, but just looked at Hoshino Terumi curiously.

In fact, when she was in the apartment before, Karasuma Ying had already noticed that Terumi Hoshino herself had a certain amount of reasoning ability and the necessary knowledge of criminal investigation.

But that's about it.

Terumi Hoshino is an actor after all, not a detective.

Although it seems, she seems to want to be a detective?

"When I was very young, I met a police officer."

Suddenly stopped, Hoshino Terumi looked up at the starry sky and slowly spoke.

"Twenty years, right? I was very young at the time, and there are many details that I can't remember now.

I remember that day, after a quarrel with my parents, I ran out of the house in a fit of rage, and I was alone on the street at that time, and I don't know how I met him.

The officer seemed to have asked me a lot of questions at that time, but I can't even remember them now, so I guess they asked me about my parents and where my home was......

But I certainly didn't answer him properly at the time, because he had been taking me everywhere that day, by the sea, at amusement parks, and in foreign restaurants......

I thought at that time that he must be the top official in the police, because my father said that ordinary police officers are very busy and can't have time to play with strange children.

I remember that evening, there seemed to be a murder in the restaurant where we were eating, and the police officer held me and quickly cracked the murderer's methods and subdued the murderer.

At that time, I thought he was the best man in the world, so I said to him, when I grow up, I want to be a police officer, and guess what he answered me? ”

Hoshino Terumi suddenly turned her head to look at Karasuma Ying, of course, she didn't seem to really intend to let Karasuma Ying answer, so she retracted her gaze, looked up at the night sky again, and said:

"Police? Or don't you? If you really want to, Xiao Huimei can go to be a detective, because the word police is very heavy. ”

Hoshino Terumi said, lowering her head again, the cigarette in her hand had burned out at some point, and there seemed to be tears in the corners of her eyes.

At that time, I didn't know the meaning of this sentence, but simply out of admiration for him, I simply changed my words and said that I wanted to be a detective when I grew up.

He told me that detectives should have their own office, and I said that I would ask him to fix one for me when the time came, and he laughed and said that if I had this idea when I was an adult, he would come and help me......"

"And then?" Immersed in the story told by Terumi Hoshino, Karasuma Ying couldn't help but ask.

Although, she had already anticipated the end of the story.

"No later......"

Terumi Hoshino gradually stopped, her head still bowed, standing in place, as if smiling.

"Because half a month later, that police officer, he died in the line of duty...... He couldn't come for a long time...... It's a little sad......"

Raising her hand to wipe her eyes, Hoshino Terumi took a deep breath and smiled at Karasuma Ying.

"I'm sorry to talk to you about these useless things all of a sudden......"

"No, these are not useless things, for Hoshino-san, these are precious memories." Karasuma retorted.

In this regard, Hoshino Terumi just smiled slightly.

"No matter how precious the memory is, if you are too immersed in it, you will sink into it.

Today, when I saw your reasoning, little sister, I don't know why I suddenly remembered him again, so I couldn't help but want to talk to you about him...... I'm sorry. ”

"It's okay."

"However, I have been hiding this matter for 20 years, and now that I have said it, I feel a lot more comfortable...... Okay, it's not too early, let's go back early. ”

"Well, Hoshino-san, be careful on your way."

"Well, you too."

Without much to say, the two waved goodbye, Karasuma Ying got into her electric car, and Hoshino Terumi got into her car.

However, after watching Karasuma Ying leave in the car, Hoshino Terumi did not go home directly, but slowly started the car, first bought a bouquet of flowers from a flower shop on the side of the road, and then drove towards the location of the police cemetery.

This path is very familiar to her, because from a very young age she comes once a year, from when her parents bring her, to when she comes alone.

The time of year may vary, but she will come.

Parking the bridge car outside, Terumi Hoshino held a flashlight in one hand and a bouquet in the other, walked straight to a tombstone in the middle of the cemetery, and bent down to put the bouquet down.

"I saw a very powerful child today, I don't know why, she always feels like you, maybe it's because she's a very powerful person like you, right?"

Terumi Hoshino raised her hand and took out an old yellowed photo in her inner pocket near her heart.

In the photo, it is a man who looks to be in his thirties, the man is gentle and handsome, holding a little girl of five or six years old in his hands, judging from the background behind the two, this photo should have been taken at an amusement park.

Putting the photo back in, Hoshino Terumi crouched down and picked up the fallen leaves that fell in front of the tombstone one by one.

"I'm sorry to bother you so late, because I really want to see you tonight, so please don't be mad at me.

Of course, I think you'll be glad I'm coming, because I'm the only one who comes to see you every year, and you're sure to count on me to clean up the leaves for you. ”

The tombstone is very simple, there is nothing superfluous, and there are no family names, just the name and police rank of the owner of the tombstone.

"Am I right? Officer White River? ”

【Baiheqing Police Inspection】