Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

Nakano turned around and found his voice again: "Senior, what you said is too much! Shirahito-senpai loves his girlfriend very much!"

The person who spoke stood up and looked at this junior who usually admired Baijiu with contempt.

The other one seemed to want to stop him, but asked curiously: "Why do you say that? These... Miss Kotomine often came to give Baijiu a change of clothes in the past few days. They are obviously very close, right?"

"If you really love someone, would you let them do something dangerous like this?" the person who spoke said sarcastically, "Even after she disappeared, he went straight back to the Metropolitan Police Department and didn't even participate in the search and rescue work. Is this a good relationship?"

"That's because others are worried that he will be too shocked and it will affect his work--"

Nakano wanted to defend Baijiu, but he obviously lacked the confidence.

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and someone quickly passed by the door of their office, so fast that they couldn't see clearly.

Katsutoshi Teraoka stood up immediately afterwards to stop their meaningless quarrel.

"Don't talk about your colleagues behind their backs," he said sternly, glancing up at the clock. "I'm going to go check on the task force, you guys continue with the work at hand."

Katsutoshi Teraoka was usually a strict boss who cared about his subordinates. No one doubted his temporary departure and they all nodded obediently.

The head of Investigation Section 4 left the office, his hand in his pocket, silently clenching his cell phone.

The person from the organization, the woman, sent him an email, asking him to find a way to inquire about the sixth victim.

——Because the sixth case was committed by their organization, she wanted him to find out whether the Metropolitan Police Department had determined that this was the work of the previous murderer, and whether there were any suspicions that other forces were involved.

Currently, there are two people in the organization who are in contact with Katsutoshi Teraoka, one is a big man, and the other is the woman who helped him find the whereabouts of Matsuyama before.

The man is tight-lipped and would only assign tasks directly; the woman is different, she is more talkative, like this time, she even specifically explained some of the reasons to him.

Katsutoshi Teraoka soon arrived at the task force office.

The atmosphere inside was extremely depressing. Bai Jiu stood aside, and the others stood far away. He looked very embarrassed, perhaps he had just been beaten by someone. Most of his face was swollen, and his face was expressionless.

Seeing him like this, Katsutoshi Teraoka sighed silently.

She told him that it was the organization that did it, but did not tell him why the organization killed Bai Jiu's girlfriend.

What was so special about her? What good would it do to kill her? Did she offend someone? Or did she see something she shouldn't have seen?

All kinds of thoughts flashed through Katsutoshi Teraoka's mind, and suddenly he saw Baijiu move.

He turned his head and looked towards him.

……

Heart-wrenching cries were heard in the morgue.

The moment Mrs. Kotomine saw her daughter, she collapsed, was stunned for a moment, and then burst into tears; Mr. Kotomine tried to support her, but his eyes were also completely red.

Only Kotomine Jonah didn't cry.

She had just slapped Bai Jiu and was warned by others that this was an attack on the police. She had a dazed look on her face and just walked past quietly.

She reached out and grabbed the white cloth covering the body, pulling it off before anyone could stop her.

Everyone present finally saw the "complete" body.

Mrs. Baijiu fainted completely.

"We...we have tried our best to get her back..."

The accompanying Jinpei Matsuda glared at the autopsy officer so fiercely that he shuddered in fear and shut up in disappointment.

After he shut up, Jinpei Matsuda picked up the autopsy report next to him and quickly and completely took in the results one by one.

The same dismemberment.

The same cooking of corpses.

The same mouth, nose and eyes filled with syrup.

——Equally brutal and merciless.

Matsuda Jinpei, who had seen even more tragic records, couldn't help but look away. He frowned and looked at Kotomine Jhona.

Kotomine Joanna still didn't cry. She was terrifyingly calm. She reached out to touch the sticky face that looked exactly like her own, and then held her sister's hand.

The right hand is incomplete, the fingers are broken and deformed, and the nails are missing.

This is different from the first five deceased. She has experienced more cruel torture.

At this time, Jinpei Matsuda noticed that her left hand was clenched tightly, and Kotomine Jona also noticed this.

She took hold of the hand and slowly, as if with little effort, pried it open.

They saw what was inside.

It was a bloody number carved on the palm of the hand with the only remaining fingernail, using the last bit of strength.

- 0.

Chapter 101: Undercover (Part )

Baijiu stood in the office.

He didn't know why things turned out like this.

To him, this world is actually a game, and he is a player who traveled through time and space.

He didn't hate this game. Before, he had a mother who brought shame upon him and a girlfriend who was in some sense even worse. But after entering the game, he got rich and respectable parents and a girlfriend who truly loved him.

He is not very ambitious. Although he cannot get more women and wealth like his predecessors, and his current girlfriend's family conditions are not good enough for him, he reluctantly accepts it and works hard to do the annoying police job.

He always thought that what he asked for was little enough.

...So why did it become like this?

[Why did the organization want to kill her... She saw something she shouldn't have seen...]

When Bai Jiu heard these words belonging to Katsutoshi Teraoka, his mind went blank again.

He subconsciously looked at his boss who appeared at the door, and a thought flashed through his mind so quickly that even he didn't catch it.

Before he could say anything, Kotomine Jonah came back like a whirlwind.

Jinpei Matsuda followed behind her, his face tired and his eyes dark. He had none of his usual pretense of looking down on others, and his expression was even a little strange.

Kotomine Jonah almost rushed to Baijiu.

Baijiu instinctively took a step back out of fear.

He looked at that face, the face that was extremely similar to his girlfriend's, staring at him angrily. There was not a single tear on the face, only the eyes were bloodshot.

That look frightened Bai Jiu, who had seen many criminals. His face began to ache again and he couldn't utter a word.

"you--"

"Buzz..."

Kotomine Jona's voice and Hakubato's cell phone rang at the same time.

Baijiu felt relieved, turned his head, and answered the phone in a natural way. But the content of the phone call nailed him to the spot again.

"Hello, Mr. Baijiu, we are Japan XX Insurance Company."

"We are deeply saddened to hear the tragic news about Ms. Kotomine, and we have come to inform you about the insurance compensation..."

"Ms. Kotomine bought the highest amount of accident insurance from our company before her death. The compensation is as high as 10 billion yen... Of course, we have to do some review work for the murder of the insured person. I hope you can cooperate. I heard that your job is..."

insurance?

compensation?

...10 billion?

Baijiu didn't react at all, as if the other party was speaking a language he couldn't understand at all.

Kotomine Jonah heard it.

"One billion insurance compensation..."

She squeezed out these words from between her teeth with a trembling voice.

Now, Matsuda Jinpei who was behind her heard it, as did some of her colleagues from the task force who had gathered around her because they were worried that she would lose control of her emotions again.

Everyone looked at them in amazement.

"—Is this the real reason why you let her be bait?!"

Kotomine Joanna took out a stack of white paper from her bag and smashed it hard at Baijiu's face. After hitting him, the contract papers scattered all over the floor. Her voice was so loud that the whole office could hear it.

Baijiu was completely confused.

The room fell silent for a moment, and after this brief, tomb-like silence, whispers rang out from every corner of the office.

……

All those present were police officers, who deal with all kinds of crime every day.

They have been to many crime scenes, seen countless corpses, heard all kinds of bizarre reasons for committing crimes, and come into contact with the most terrifying side of human nature.

They will speculate the darkest angles on everyone around the deceased, so that they can catch the criminal faster.

It is not uncommon for someone to kill his or her spouse/friend/other insured person in order to obtain high insurance premiums. There are so many people who take risks for money that the Investigation Department receives quite a few cases every year.

Now this incident happened in the Metropolitan Police Department, and the beneficiary was a police officer.

——A policeman who offered to let his girlfriend, who was just an ordinary person, do dangerous bait work.

……

The white dove stood there, motionless.

The passive skill of listening to other people's thoughts once brought him a lot of convenience.

For example, he can know the prisoner's true thoughts and save a lot of troublesome interrogation work;

For example, he can hear his boss's thoughts, actively cater to his boss's preferences, and be a likable subordinate.

For example, he could know who smiled at him on the surface but actually hated him in his heart. He wrote down the names of those people and gave them to Hojo Toika, asking her to find them the next time she came to the Metropolitan Police Department to modify her will.

But more often than not, it got him into trouble.

Like now.