Chapter 21 Repeated Doubts Hagi: If He Is an Idiot, What Am I...
"So, Xiaoyou, do you have any ideas?"
It would take at least half an hour for the police to arrive at the scene. After calling the police, the librarian casually took a triangular sign used by cleaners and placed it next to the body, indicating that no one was allowed to approach.
Despite this, when Hasegawa Yu and Hagiwara Kenji wanted to check the body, no one came out to stop them, and the librarian disappeared.
Some customers who were disgusted by the corpse went to the second floor, while the rest sat in the corner indifferently and continued with their own business.
Hearing the man's question, Hasegawa Yu tried to ignore the strange feeling given to him by the reactions of passers-by, and said seriously: "The murderer is either a man or a woman!"
Hagiwara Kenji: "?"
Otherwise, could it be a Walmart shopping bag?
Recovering his thoughts that had unknowingly strayed, Hagiwara Kenji tried to regain his normal rhythm. "I mean, did Xiaoyou see anything from the body?"
Hasegawa Yu squatted down and stared at the corpse on the ground with a serious expression, "Hmm..."
Kenji Hagiwara stood aside, maintaining a polite smile and waiting for his answer.
A few minutes later, Hasegawa Yu looked up. Her beautiful almond-shaped eyes were very clear, and the emotions in them did not seem fake. "Report to Shibata-kun, I didn't see anything."
The smile on Hagiwara Kenji's lips froze.
Considering that the other party's "personality" is a newcomer who has just started learning criminal investigation knowledge today, and has never even read detective novels, such an answer should be expected.
Feeling a little unexpected, Hagiwara Kenji decided to send the person away first. "Xiaoyou, can you help me find a pair of gloves? It's best not to leave any traces of outsiders at the crime scene."
Hasegawa Yu's eyes lit up, "No problem!"
Watching the orange-haired young man running away as if he had received some important mission, Hagiwara Kenji fell silent.
After a while, he lowered his eyes expressionlessly, looking at the corpse on the ground without any emotion.
Could it be that Hasegawa Yu realized that his detective hobby was just a temporary excuse and was intentional?
"Looks like it's time for detective games now." Hagiwara Kenji rubbed his chin, still feeling something was wrong.
Weird.
Assuming the other person isn't pretending, it seems like we instantly get along.
“…”
Kenji Hagiwara's eyes twitched. He didn't want to admit that he actually treated the idiot's words and actions as unfathomable.
When Hasegawa Yu came back after finding the gloves, he met a pair of slightly inquiring gazes.
He looked around, "Shibata-kun, did you find the murderer?"
"No." After taking the gloves and putting them on, Kenji Hagiwara decided to observe for a while.
It is impossible for a real fool to survive by being killed by Bourbon or Scotland and to survive by their side intact.
Hasegawa Yu, who had indeed been tricked once in the first round, put on his gloves and was eager to try. "Shibata-kun, what should we do next?"
"Let's check the body for any clues first."
After coming to many invalid conclusions in a short period of time, Hagiwara Kenji sorted out his feelings and acted like a college student who was truly interested in detective work.
"But I've only been studying this for a short time, so the information I get may not be accurate. Don't expect too much, Xiaoyou."
"It's okay." Hasegawa Yu comforted him, "People improve through practice. If we can't find the murderer, don't we still have the police?"
Kenji Hagiwara didn't think that the murderer, whom even he couldn't find, could be found by those policemen.
Despite what he was thinking, the young man with black hair, black eyes and a delicate face said nothing and began to examine the body in an orderly manner.
"Mechanical death. This is a homicide."
Feeling the burning gaze that he couldn't ignore, Hagiwara Kenji paused, then opened his mouth to explain, "The deceased's face was bruised, and there were obvious strangulation marks on his neck. Judging from the direction, the murderer strangled the deceased from behind, causing death by suffocation."
Hasegawa Yu took out the small notebook he brought for studying and started taking notes quickly.
"Why not hanged?"
Hagiwara Kenji's eyes fell on his little notebook, then slowly shifted away after a few seconds. "The marks left by the two ways of death are different..."
Halfway through his speech, he suddenly realized why he had to explain so much to others.
"So, if the murderer strangled the person first and then disguised it as suicide by hanging..."
Hasegawa Yuu suddenly stopped taking notes when his ears fell silent. He looked up in confusion, "Shibata-kun?"
"As for trace identification, Xiaoyou can read the book I recommended to you."
Hagiwara Kenji stopped his inexplicable scientific popularization behavior and grabbed the corpse's left hand. "There is a blue silk-like knitted material between the deceased's fingernails. It is very likely that they grabbed it from the murderer's clothes during the struggle."
Hasegawa Yu, whose attention was diverted, stopped asking questions and flipped through the book carefully. "Shibata-kun is very attentive. He didn't miss such a small detail."
After quickly explaining the remaining suspicious points on the body, Hagiwara Kenji stood up and said, "Let's go look somewhere else."
The police are really slow in coming.
While waiting for the police to arrive, Kenji Hagiwara received all kinds of compliments, such as "As expected of Shibata-kun", "Shibata-kun is so amazing", "Shibata-kun has so much knowledge", etc.
The tone is sincere, the eyes are genuine, and there is hidden admiration without any water.
The reserved and reserved Japanese often cannot cope with people who are too straightforward, blunt and enthusiastic.
Not to mention that the person who used this series of combos was a super handsome young man.
It is true that Kenji Hagiwara is usually a social expert and interpersonal communication is a piece of cake for him, but this is really a bit too much at the moment.
Obviously some of them were very basic knowledge, but Hasegawa Yu praised them as if he had won some important award, and the only thing missing was a red flower being awarded on the spot.
Met an opponent!
Kenji Hagiwara, whose analysis of the case was so detailed that he almost told people who the murderer was, suddenly fell silent.
"According to Shibata-kun's calculations, there are three suspects..." Hasegawa Yu was still thinking hard, "We'll have to wait for the police to arrive to investigate the rest..."
Kenji Hagiwara stood there with his hands in his pockets, the light in his eyes flickering.
After taking a few steps, Hasegawa Yu realized that someone had fallen behind. He quickly trotted back to the young man. The hair on his head swayed slightly with his movements, like a fluffy and soft piece of freshly baked bread.
Orange Bread's tone was pleasantly surprised, and he seemed to smell sweet too. "Did Shibata-kun come up with a new clue?"
"The police are here."
Avoiding the question, Hagiwara Kenji raised his chin slightly and gestured towards the door, "Xiaoyou, why don't you go find them for the rest."
The man, who actually didn't smell the fragrance, frowned slightly, then quickly relaxed his brows, and casually followed the orange-haired young man's leaving steps.
To some extent, the virus's infectiousness is quite terrifying, and you can get infected if you are not careful.
Kenji Hagiwara collected his thoughts and didn't think it was a good thing.
Looking at it this way, he can't be a fool.
"Inspector Megure, Officer Sato~" Hasegawa Yu greeted the detectives from the Search Section 1 who were in charge of this mission in a cheerful tone.
Two police officers:.
Why is it this person again!
During this period, detectives from the First Investigation Division often encountered this orange-haired young man, who was unforgettable no matter from which angle he was viewed.
The other party did not interfere with their work, but just watched out of curiosity, occasionally asking some reasonable questions. They did not care even if they were impatient to answer and drove them away.
Instead, it makes people inexplicably concerned about what he wants to do.
[Megure Jusan, current collapse value 95%]
[Sato Miwako, current collapse value 95%]
Ararat reported the real-time values at the appropriate time. "The last time their Honkai value unexpectedly fluctuated and decreased was because of a case. Think about what you did then."
Hasegawa Yu, who had no idea what he had done to "offend" the police officers, blinked. He was just talking normally and didn't do anything.
Can people in this world also be treated with “talk therapy”?
Since I don’t have any magical transformation, the red characters who collapsed can’t be considered villains.
To be precise, the mermaid princesses are doing "sound therapy", but Miss Kabei's bad guy purification activity is more like "talk therapy".
Shaking off the scattered memories, Hasegawa Yu said excitedly, "Officer Megure, I've collected some clues about the murderer."
"Yeah."
Hearing this, Megure Jusan took the small notebook handed to him by the young man nonchalantly, glanced at it casually, and closed it, not knowing whether he had read the contents clearly or not. "Then let's do as you say."
Hasegawa Yu hesitated in the middle of his explanation, "Officer Megure, don't you want to confirm it again?"
"It doesn't matter. If this guy isn't the murderer, why are there so many evidences pointing to him? If he really isn't the murderer, he will definitely find a way to find evidence himself to clear the case."
The fat police officer, who looked like he was going to find a random scapegoat to get the matter over with, waved his hand and without saying a word, stepped forward and handcuffed the man.
Hasegawa opened his mouth, wanting to stop it, what if the murderer was framing him?
"These two people framed me!"
The handcuffed man in a blue sweater resisted fiercely, "They've been lingering around the body, maybe they're taking advantage of the opportunity to create evidence!"
"But the deceased died about an hour to an hour and a half ago. At that time, Shibata-kun and I were on the second floor of the library, and there were many witnesses around."
Hasegawa Yuu refuted him by showing the content of Hagiwara Kenji's teaching, "Besides, there is no social relationship between me and the deceased, but there is an IOU written by you in the secret pocket inside the deceased's clothes."
The orange-haired young man refuted the situation by giving evidence one by one. "A lot of this can only be done by personally interacting with you. Until the officers arrived at the library, we had never met before."
"That's enough." Sato Miwako said impatiently, "Let's go to the Metropolitan Police Department and talk. The interrogation room will always make you tell the truth."
"If you're going to take a statement, we can cooperate."
Hagiwara Kenji, who had stood quietly by the side the entire time, spoke lazily, "After all, no matter how you look at it, he's a bigger suspect than us."
Hasegawa Yu, who participated in the entire crime scene for the first time, pursed his lips and finally felt the collapse of the red team's character.
Compared to Fūya Rei and his friends who were already members of the organization when they first met, Megure Jusan and his friends who were still police officers had a greater impact on him.
Hasegawa Yu, who didn't know the original plot, pulled the strap of the backpack slung across his body and put away the small notebook filled with notes. "Then let's go to the Metropolitan Police Department and tell it."
"Who wants to go to the interrogation room?"
The man in the blue sweater struggled to break free, pulled out a knife from his pocket, and rushed towards the orange-haired youth who pointed out the evidence of his murder, "You nosy guy!"
Seeing this, Hagiwara Kenji, who was in the same direction, raised his eyebrows and glanced at the person next to him inconspicuously, with a relaxed posture and without avoiding.
Hasegawa Yu opened his eyes wide and hurriedly pushed away the man who might be affected. He narrowly dodged the attack by turning sideways and immediately took out the pepper spray.
As the pungent smell filled the air, Hasegawa Yu almost let out a sharp roar and said in disbelief: "Why did you hit my face? Can't you hit other places?"
The idol’s face must not be hurt!
Do you know how expensive the insurance was?
Others whose eyes were nearly blinded by the pepper spray: …
Is this the point!!!