[Huh? 】

At the moment when he passed by Mr. Muraki, the boy suddenly smelled a strange smell coming from Mr. Muraki.

The strange smell was a little pungent, but it was not strong, but it drifted away with the wind in an instant, almost making the boy think that there was something wrong with his sense of smell.

Stopping, the boy turned his head to look at Mr. Muraki, who was standing by the door, his eyes narrowed slightly.

He glanced Mr. Muraki up and down again.

The shirt and pants on his body were clean, but they were full of unsmoothed wrinkles, like washing and drying and stuffing them in a closet for several days, and then hurriedly taking them out and putting them on.

The exposed skin was normal, and with the boy's keen eyesight, he didn't see anything like he hadn't bathed for a long time, and his skin seemed to have been covered by something.

Rather, it looks pretty clean.

"Officer Shira, Officer Shirakawa?" Mr. Muraki was stunned and looked at the boy with some confusion.

"Wooden man?" Kokarasuma, who was following the boy, also stopped and looked at him suspiciously.

The two criminal policemen inside and outside the door suddenly became serious at this moment, and they who had been following the boy to solve the case for a long time naturally had a better understanding of the signals expressed by some of the boy's actions.

Usually in this case, the boy is going to be arrested.

Although they didn't know exactly what the boy had found, it didn't matter, just catch it, and the boy never made a mistake anyway.

However, this time the two detectives were wrong in their guesses.

The boy looked at Mr. Muraki's puzzled and nervous expression, and after carefully examining his whole body, a smile immediately appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Mr. Muraki has a good rest, and if he is really unwell, go to the hospital as soon as possible."

"Huh? Ahh......h

Some didn't reflect the boy's concern, and Mr. Muraki was stunned for a moment, before he quickly nodded and smiled.

"Then Officer Baihe go slowly, the matter of apricots and apricots is left to you, if there is anything else to ask, please come to me and my insider, go slowly......"

Without responding to him, the boy walked straight into the police car parked outside.

"Drive."

"Wooden man, what just happened?" As soon as he got into the police car, Korasuma hurriedly asked, and the other two criminal policemen also pricked up their ears when they heard the sound.

The strange atmosphere just now was not only her, but even the two criminal policemen were aware of it, but they didn't dare to ask directly like Karasuma.

"Family, I suspect there's a problem."

The car started slowly, and the boy sitting in the back seat did not hide anything, and spoke directly.

He lowered his head, his brows furrowed slightly, and his words made the little Karasuma sitting next to him stunned for a moment, and asked incredulously:

"You don't suspect they killed their daughter, do you?"

"When Mr. Muraki first met me, he was nervous all the time, which is not normal."

"In their eyes, you are a police officer after all, ordinary people see the police, even if they are nervous......"

"It wasn't like that when he saw me this morning." The boy interrupted Karasuma's words slightly.

He met the Muraki couple at the cemetery this morning, but he only briefly asked about the relevant information in the morning, and then asked the couple to go home first and wait for the follow-up investigation by the police.

At that time, neither Mrs. Muraki nor Mr. Muraki had any nervous reaction when they saw the boy.

But it was only a morning that passed, and when Mr. Muraki saw him again, he suddenly became extremely nervous for some reason.

In the conversation in the room just now, this Mr. Muraki had a cautious attitude when facing the boy from the time he appeared to the time he left, which was very different from his reaction in the morning.

"No wonder you wanted to stop me from drinking the tea he handed me before, and you suspected that there was something wrong with him at that time......"

Kokarasuma was thoughtful when he heard this.

"When they went to see the body of Kyoko-san this morning, did they show any unusual reactions? For example, not surprised at all, or not sad at all? ”

Recalling the detective reasoning he had seen before, Karasuma hurriedly asked.

"It's hard to tell if you're surprised." The boy explained.

"After all, we called them to come over for the autopsy, which also made them mentally prepared in advance, so they didn't show too much surprise after seeing their daughter's body in person, which is also a normal reaction.

As for the sad and grief...... The couple did have a strong reaction at the time, and it didn't seem like they were pretending. ”

"In other words, did they really think too much, they didn't actually kill their own daughter......" Kokarasuma heard this, and his expression was thoughtful.

How could anyone pretend to have such a grief-stricken reaction after abusing and killing their own daughter with their own hands? Even if it can be loaded, how long can it be loaded?

Kokaramaru hasn't forgotten that when she first saw Mrs. Muraki before, her eyes were still red and swollen.

Obviously, this Mrs. Muraki had been crying all morning.

And although Mr. Muraki did not react so strongly, he also looked exhausted, as if he was about to lose his soul.

The couple is very visibly saddened by the murder of their daughter.

"Just when I was leaving, I smelled a strange smell on Mr. Muraki."

Then the boy spoke again.

"This smell is very special, a little pungent, but it is not the body odor emitted by the human body after a long period of unwashed, nor is it like the smell of smoke or alcohol, and it is completely different from the special odor emitted by the long-term accumulation of garbage......

The boy paused.

"After all, I still haven't figured out how that smell came from him."

Being active at various crime scenes for a long time, the boy has been exposed to a variety of environments and has a clear understanding of the odors that are commonly associated with humans.

However, the special pungent smell emitted by Mr. Muraki's body just now made the boy completely unimpressed, and he even carefully recalled the smell of highly decomposed human corpses he had seen before, but found that it was completely incorrect.

[There must be something wrong with that strange smell.] 】

The boy made a judgment in his heart.

If the smell alone wasn't enough to make him think so.

But if you add to that the tension that Mr. Muraki felt when he saw the boy again, and the clothes he had obviously changed in a hurry...... That was enough to make the boy suspicious.

The story behind the family is certainly not that simple, but the boy is not sure if it has something to do with the murder of Kyoko-san.

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(End of chapter)