Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

He rubbed his nose and looked out the window.

After entering October, the weather gradually began to get colder. The survival temperature of his current animal state is between 15℃ and 25℃. It feels okay now, but I don’t know what will happen after winter...

【Lust: Good.】

……

Aoyagi Binkou was eating lunch in the single lounge next to the music classroom. He found a clean disposable plate, gave one of the sandwiches to Rabbit, and made himself a cup of Baihao Yinzhen tea.

He held the sandwich in his right hand and flipped through the comics that Rabbit brought to school with his left hand.

These were bought when they went to Akihabara before. Rabbit felt bored outside of classes, so he brought some comics to school.

[Lust: If you are interested, it is best to start from the first volume. ]

Rabbit reminded that since he had already read the middle of this comic, the volume he brought to school this time was the thirteenth volume, and he might not be able to understand it from now on.

The comic is slightly smaller than the textbook, with the title of the comic written in white letters on the black cover. A long-haired boy is standing on the red claws of a monster, holding the sharp nails with his hands, and his white cloak is fluttering.

[Rage: I'm just taking a look, what story is this about? ]

[Lust: It is a typical hot-blooded youth manga from JUMP, a story about a boy from a psychic family who meets a bunch of friends and participates in a competition.]

The comic book that Rabbit bought is called "Shaman King".

He remembered that in reality, this comic started serialization later than Conan, but it ended earlier here. The timeline of this game world is somewhat different from the original.

[Rage: Who is this person on the cover? ]

[Lust: He is Asakura Yoshi, the older brother of the protagonist Asakura Ye. They are twin brothers. Asakura Yoshi is the boss in the story...]

The twin brothers look exactly the same, the only difference is that one has long hair and the other has short hair, and they also have different personalities.

Rabbit inexplicably remembered the Kotomine sisters he had met at Colombo Restaurant before.

The pair of sisters also look almost exactly the same, but their hairstyles and personalities are different. The older sister with short hair and who is said to be in poor health is also Jealous' girlfriend.

Qingliu Binguang smiled.

"Quite interesting."

Rabbit was surprised to hear his teammates say these words directly, and the next second, he continued to talk in the system group chat.

[Angry: Then why doesn't the twin brother stay with his younger brother and become the boss? Is their relationship bad? ]

[Lust: I haven’t finished watching it, but I saw some spoilers online. He is the reincarnation of a very powerful Yin-Yang master. After his mother was killed by someone, he wanted to create a world with only psychics...]

Most of the bosses in boys' comics are like this, as if they are not born bad. They all have a lot of prerequisites - an extremely tragic childhood, the death of important people, etc. It is the world that is unfair to them first, which leads to their evilization.

Don't advise others to do good without experiencing their suffering. The rabbit felt that such an experience was indeed pitiful, but he always felt that the other innocent people who died tragically at their hands were more pitiful.

[Lust: He also has clairvoyance, which he can use to read other people's minds. This ability cannot be turned off.]

[Rage: That's the same as the passive skill of 'Jealousy'. ]

Rabbit was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that Qingliu Binguang would think of Baijiu so quickly.

[Lust: Not sure. But in the comics, his ability is not that great. For example, when he worked hard to get rid of evil spirits, others looked up to him and congratulated him, but in their hearts they were calling him a monster...]

【Rage: This is the disadvantage of the ability to read minds. 】

Aoyagi Binkou was not surprised at all. Instead, he patiently explained to the rabbit.

[Rage: To borrow a line from a mystery novel, the sun and human heart cannot be looked directly at. Using this ability can gain intelligence, but at the same time, they will also endure more, stronger, and more undisguised malice, and they know clearly that this is the most real thing.]

[Rage: If someone who is not strong enough in heart obtains this ability, he will collapse first.]

The rabbit stared at him blankly.

He found that the ability he was so afraid of could be easily defeated in the eyes of his teammates.

"Dong dong."

There was a knock on the door outside the lounge. Aoyagi Binkou put down the comic book and walked over to open the door.

Standing outside the door was Toru Amuro.

Toru Amuro had the same smile on his face as usual. He didn't look sick or shocked - it was impossible to guess why he had asked for leave.

"Teacher Aoyagi, this is the notice for next month's school trip."

Toru Amuro handed the thing in his hand to Aoyagi Akiko.

Qing Liu Bingguang took it and looked at his face naturally: "I heard from the students that you asked for leave this morning. Is there something going on at home?"

"Toothache."

Amuro Toru smiled bitterly and pressed one of his teeth.

Rabbit's scalp felt cold, as if he heard the sound of an electric drill. Qingliu Binguang showed a sympathetic expression: "Toothache is really annoying. I used to take painkillers when I had toothache."

The two exchanged a few words, and then Amuro Toru left. He would attend classes as usual in the afternoon.

Aoyagi Binkou closed the door and put the school trip notice on the table.

Rabbit leaned over to take a look out of curiosity and found that the time was at the beginning of next month and the location was not in Japan but in Moscow, Russia - Minato Middle School had exchanges and cooperation with several Russian schools and often went there for school trips.

Does the organization allow me to run so far?

Rabbit was a little worried. Just when he was about to ask, he suddenly smelled a smell on the paper.

In the messenger form, they gain the advantages of this animal, such as better sense of smell, vision, etc. Of course, their eating habits are different, and they still eat human food.

At this time, the rabbit, with its sense of smell comparable to that of a police dog, smelled a faint sweet scent.

——It seems to taste like table sugar and rock candy.

The rabbit felt a sudden shock in his heart and looked up at Qingliu Binguang.

He seemed not to notice the sweet smell at all, and threw the empty sandwich packaging into the trash can as if nothing had happened, and then started to tidy up the lounge.

He put a dozen discarded sheet music that he had scribbled over and the insurance leaflets he had received in the past few days into the shredder and slowly shredded them all.

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Metropolitan Police Department.

Baijiu, who hadn't slept all night, sat in the lounge with his head in his arms. He was the only one in the lounge, and he had locked the door.

He didn't want to go out. As soon as he went out, the truest voices of others would turn into sharp blades and pierce into his heart one by one.

There is still no news about Kotomine China. She has been missing for a whole night. Now the task force and the Investigation Section 1 are desperately looking for her in the port area, and her family has not been notified yet.

Baijiu closed his eyes in pain.

He hoped that Qina was alive and had not been insulted. The female victims in previous cases had not been violated, and he hoped that she would be spared... Otherwise, he didn't know how he would face her in the future...

While he was lost in thought, there was a knock on the door.

His heart trembled violently, but he still raised his head and asked in a trembling voice.

"Who?"

"Bai Jiu, we... have found her body in a park in the port area..."

"…It was the exact same way the previous victims died."

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"Okay, I know."

In a park in Minato Ward, Jinpei Matsuda put down his cell phone.

When his colleagues who were working in the field saw his expression, they thought that he was exhausted from staying up all night searching. Then they realized something and their faces turned grim.

"Matsuda, could it be..."

"...Yes, ten minutes ago, people searching in other areas found Ms. Kotomine's body."

Jinpei Matsuda clenched his fists.

He felt that the bait plan was ridiculous from the beginning. Now that something had really happened, a strong sense of resentment and anger rushed into his heart, towards Bai Jiu, towards his superiors in the task force, and towards himself.

Although they were the murderers, this time the police indirectly killed Kotomine China's accomplices. There were too many mistakes in their actions.

If he had stopped it a little harder.

If he was in the bar, with more attention and a little more speed...

But it's too late to say anything now.

Jinpei Matsuda got into the car in silence, and his expression did not improve until he drove back to the Metropolitan Police Department.

When his colleague sitting in the passenger seat saw him with this expression, he reminded him that he should not continue to have a sullen face or his boss would blame him. His gaze suddenly swept forward and his eyes widened in horror.

"Kotomine China?!!"

Hearing this tone of hell, Matsuda Jinpei looked there and was stunned for a moment.

"…No, that's not her."

He recognized the other person.

A few years ago, he and several friends rescued the kidnapped Kotomine China from the well-known robber Asama Yasuji.

Afterwards, her family rushed to the hospital and repeatedly expressed their gratitude to them. One girl who looked exactly like her cried particularly hard and said she would always remember their names.

He still remembers clearly what she looked like at that time.

"That's her twin sister."

Matsuda Jinpei's heart sank again, this time even deeper. He parked the car and rushed back to the task force without stopping for a moment.

……

In Investigation Section 4, Section Chief Katsutoshi Teraoka and others were also discussing the issue.

When he heard that the task force's bait plan had failed and the woman who served as bait had died tragically, he sighed with pity.

"Baijiu must be feeling very bad right now..."

Nakano, who had met Kotomine China a few times, lowered his head and couldn't say a word.

A person who didn't have a good relationship with Baijiu put the information down heavily. He commented sarcastically: "I don't think so. Maybe he will be happy to finally get a new woman."