Congratulations on Your Arrest

  Chapter 168 Slash. Shadow of Strange Demon! (7.5K asking for a monthly ticket)

  Uncle,

   You are actually from the detective agency, right?

  Hearing the words of Kaori Umekoji, the female clerk behind the cash register, Xia Li suddenly "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhss

   Higashinohara and Aragaki Satoru also looked at each other.

   Aragaki Satoru's mouth twitched.

   Could it be that my forged documents are not authentic enough?

  He gave a dry cough and said with a smile, "That's right, we"

   Behind the cashier, Kaori Umekoji blinked her eyes, and her baby face, which was slightly baby fat, showed two dimples with a smile, "Actually, people like you, uncle, have come to ask me many times in the past few days."

   Ah this?

   Aragaki Satoru did not expect to be exposed by his colleagues.

  Umekoji Kaori paused, and curled her lips cutely, "The police won't ask me to investigate these things, they will probably go directly to the lady boss."

   "Eh, what a smart girl haha."

   Aragaki Satoru deserves to be an old fritter. He was dismantled face to face by the cute female clerk. Higashinohara behind him was still a little embarrassed.

   "But uncle, I'm not lying at all. I was a powerful person in the Metropolitan Police Department back then. Now. Hehe, this visit is indeed a private visit."

Hearing Aragaki Satoru's frank admission, Umekoji Kaori's face hesitated a little, she glanced at the direction of the warehouse from the corner of her eye, lowered her voice and said worriedly, "But... I don't know much about the boss, no I can't say anything, but... I'm always a little worried."

"worry about what?"

   Satoru Aragaki asked subconsciously.

  At this time, the male clerk Miura Yuki who hid in the convenience store warehouse to play mobile games turned his head and glanced outside, and happened to meet Higashinohara's gaze.

  The latter quickly retracted his gaze as if nothing had happened.

  Umekoji Kaori didn't answer immediately, she hesitated for a while, and looked over Aragaki Satoru to meet Higashinohara, the "cool handsome guy".

   Higashinohara was stunned for a moment, and squeezed out a gentle smile.

   I have to say that with Higashinohara's outstanding appearance, his smile is still very contagious, and it has a unique lethality for girls.

Umekoji Kaori blushed suddenly, lowered her head, and when she raised her head, she finally summoned up the courage to say to Aragaki Satoru, "Actually, I heard that people from the detective agency have come to inquire about our boss several times in the past few days. But I heard something happened last night."

"What happened."

   "Dead in the detective agency in the middle of the night."

  “.”

   Aragaki Gou choked suddenly.

  He carefully looked at the terrified eyes of the female clerk Umekoji Kaori, and after confirming that the other party was not entertaining him, he couldn't help but sucked in a breath of air.

   Hemp eggs!

  I never knew this news.

   Aragaki Satoru suddenly froze in Bengbu.

  He accepts the entrustment to make money, what's the use of making money if his life is gone.

  But after thinking about it, it's all here, and it's so righteous as I said just now.

  As the president of Aragaki Detective Agency, if he backs down at this time, I am afraid that people will lose his mind in the future, and the team may not be easy to lead.

   With a calm aura, Aragaki Satoru gritted his teeth and said solemnly, "There is only one thing for a detective to do, and that is to let the truth be revealed to the world. Don't worry, we are professionals, and we will not back down no matter how terrifying it is."

  Umekoji Kaori was stunned for a moment.

   "About your store manager, I have a few things I want to know. If it is convenient, please tell me all of them, please." Aragaki Satoru said seriously.

  Umekoji Kaori hesitated for a moment, and finally seemed to be infected by Aragaki Satoru's awe-inspiring aura, and finally nodded.

  The two started talking in a low voice, asking and answering.

   Higashinohara stood behind and listened attentively. During this period, he noticed that the male clerk who entered the storage room earlier seemed a little uneasy.

  In less than three minutes, his eyes drifted towards them six or seven times.

   When the questioning was over, Aragaki Satoru took out a business card with the address and phone number of Aragaki Detective Agency from his arms, and handed it to the female clerk Umekoji Kaori.

   "The information you provided is very important to us, keep in touch if there is anything." Aragaki Satoru said with a smile, and glanced at the storage room.

"OK."

  Umekoji Kaori took it with both hands and looked at the business card seriously.

  At this moment, Xia Li had already finished the two servings of Kanto cooking, and was gurgling and drinking happy water with her head raised, her eyes staring around the deli cabinet near the cashier.

   Aragaki Satoru suddenly felt tense, he hurriedly said goodbye, and said hello to Higashinohara, and the three of them were about to leave, and the follow-up investigation would be discussed after they went out.

   Unexpectedly, at this moment, a group of people rushed out of the rain on the street outside.

  Unexpectedly, they saw an acquaintance among this group of people—it was Aragaki Satoru's daughter Aragaki Mai who belonged to the 13th division of the third investigation team.

  The latter has a serious face, and besides the people from the third investigation team, there are several people who look like detectives behind him.

  After the group arrived at the door, they were divided into three parts in a very well-trained manner. The left and right sides separated to surround the convenience store, and Mai Aragaki rushed into the convenience store with the group in the middle.

  As soon as he entered the door, he saw Aragaki Satoru and Higashinohara standing at the door, and Aragaki Mai couldn't help being slightly startled. After recovering, he gave Aragaki Satoru an angry look, and then went straight to the cashier.

She showed her ID neatly, and straight to the point said to Umekoji Kaori who was standing behind the cashier, "Hi, we are members of the third investigation team of the Metropolitan Police Department. Yuuki is arresting and questioning, where is he?"

  Umekoji Kaori was stunned for a moment, hesitated for a while, and pointed to the storage room.

  The next second, those wearing the navy blue windbreakers of the third investigation team behind Mai Aragaki rushed towards the storage room.

   Higashinohara was stunned when he saw this, and suddenly noticed that Satoru Aragaki's face next to him was a little angry, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?"

   "It's from the Kudo Detective Agency."

Aragaki Satoru said with a dark face, "Damn it, they actually took the first step. I originally wanted to collect some more evidence before contacting the police. This group of guys. Mai is really good. They don't let the fat and water go to outsiders, and they actually help others. Come to grab your own business."

   "Did the clerk say something just now?" Higashinohara sensed a problem.

   Aragaki Satoru nodded a little dejectedly.

  Now the Metropolitan Police Department is starting to arrest people. At this point, he naturally doesn't need to wait to go out to discuss anything. He turned around and explained the situation to Higashinohara.

  It turned out that among the several questions he skillfully asked Kaori Umekoji, the female clerk, Kaori Umekoji's inadvertent words caught Satoru Aragaki's attention.

   That is, the male shop assistant Miura Yuki who worked with her was the nephew of the victim's wife. He had had a conflict with the victim a week before the incident, and the shop owner and the shop owner's wife had a quarrel because of this.

  In addition, Miura Yuki often scolds unscrupulous bosses when she is at work, saying that the rich in New Tokyo are not as good as pigs and dogs, and that they don’t treat employees as human beings.

   "Is that all?"

   Higashinohara frowned slightly when he heard this.

  In a homicide case, this is indeed quite suspicious, but it still feels like something is missing.

  By the way, ability, if you have a motive, you can’t commit a crime without ability.

   Could it be that the clerk is a capable person?

  As if to answer Higashinohara's question, the moment those people from the third investigation team pushed open the door of the storage room, Higashinohara suddenly felt that their movements seemed to have stopped for a moment.

In the next second, the clerk named Miura Yuki rushed out of the door, his pupils shrank into a strange dark red like sequential apertures, and angrily shouted at Kaori Umekoji who was full of astonishment behind the cash register, " You bastard! You actually betrayed me!"

  This ability seems familiar?

   Higashinohara immediately realized that this was the spiritual ability [Crimson Eye] that he dropped from Xia Li when he first met Xia Li after capturing her, and was later upgraded to [Nine Eyes and Six Paths] by his source point.

  It's too late to say. Fast then.

  The crazy-looking Miura Yuki pushed away the people from the Kudo office who were blocking the way in front of him, and was about to rush out from the front door of the convenience store recklessly.

"drink!"

   Just at this moment, there was a clear and loud shout in the convenience store!

With a face of "ah what's going on here", Xia Li seemed to realize something suddenly, her pair of cheetah-like strong and long legs suddenly jumped up in two steps, and suddenly rolled up a huge howl, towards The little clerk who fled was kicked in the back.

  Tianhu Six Styles. Fengjiao!

  The next second, Miura Yuki still rushed out of the convenience store door _ but this time he flew out as a whole, and fell to the side of the road outside with a bang, splashing water that was ten feet high.

  The corners of Higashinohara's eyes twitched involuntarily.

  He looked a little hurt.

   Immediately afterwards, the three groups of people who were temporarily mind-controlled at the door of the storage room also woke up.

   They hurriedly gathered with their teammates who stayed outside to surround the convenience store, quickly pushed the man named Miura Yuki to the ground, and handcuffed him to the ability restraint.

  Uh. Not really necessary.

  Xia Li's kick was powerful and heavy, and coupled with that heavy fall, the suspect fell directly and fainted.

   "Phew! Thanks to you Charlie-chan, thank you so much." When she came back to her senses, Mai Aragaki hurried up to thank you.

   "Be courteous and courteous. When you see an injustice, you should yell. My father often taught me when I was young."

  Xia Li waved her hands in embarrassment, and continued, "Sister Xinyuan, if you are really sorry, please treat me to a meal."

  Higashi Nohara:

  Everyone has to take care of your relationship, right?

"sure."

  Mai Aragaki didn't care about a meal. After confirming that the suspect had been arrested, she took out the communicator to contact the logistics. After a while, a police car came from a distance.

  Before she left, she didn’t forget to remind Satoru Aragaki that recently, there were important figures in the Judiciary of Shangjing in Wano Country, and the rumors were loose on the outside and tight on the inside. It’s best not to get involved in the case of the capable person.

  For his daughter's words, Aragaki Satoru has always raised his hands in surrender, without refuting for a long time.

  Of course, he never listens.

  The episode of the convenience store represents that Aragaki Detective Agency is one step behind in this investigation commission and lost to Kudo Detective Agency.

  Although Aragaki Satoru was unhappy, he could only pinch his nose and was willing to admit defeat. It can only be said that there is still a long way to go to revive the glory of Aragaki Detective Agency.

  Higashi Nohara still felt a little strange and disappointed. He participated in the investigation of the detective agency this time, and by the way, he also wanted to get some crime points and ability drops to break it down.

  However, from the time they entered the convenience store to the arrest of the clerk Miura Yuki, the task of [Crime Manual] has never been triggered.

   Could it be that the evil value is not enough to trigger?

   It shouldn't be.

   After these brutal serial murders, judging from his past experience, at least he must have a three-star crime index.

   There is no reason not to trigger the evil manual.

   Or did you miss any hidden conditions?

  Out of the convenience store, Satoru Aragaki held up his umbrella and saw Higashinohara frowning slightly, "Higashino-kun, do you have any questions?"

  Higashi Nohara shook his head, glanced at the police cars leaving in the rain, shook his head and said, "No problem, but I have a few questions that I don't quite understand."

   "What's the problem?" Aragaki realized.

   "The motive for committing the crime." Higashinohara said.

   Aragaki Satoru said with a smile, "Uh, didn't you say that there was a conflict with the victim a week before the incident? He is also a person with abilities, and it is easy to understand that young people are angry. Just now, that kid seems to be 'admitted'."

  Higashi Nohara shook his head and said, "But this is a serial murder case, what about the others?"

"That's a suspicious point." Aragaki Satoru pondered for a moment, his eyes brightened slightly, "Oh, by the way, just now Miss Meixiaolu seemed to have mentioned that the suspect seems to be somewhat dissatisfied with the status quo of life, or the rich class, you Say it will."

   "Do you hate the wealthy class?" Higashinohara did not answer directly.

  He has read the materials of those victims. In Wano country, they can be regarded as middle class at most, but maybe they are also equivalent to "rich people" compared to the convenience store workers who need to board with relatives.

   "A little lost and frustrated, isn't it?"

Aragaki Satoru patted Higashinohara's shoulder with a smile, and said with a smile in the tone of an old man who has been there, "That's what being a detective is like, the truth is there, even if you find suspicious points, you will be caught if you take a step too slowly." Others pick the fruit, and you will gradually get used to it in the future.”

   Higashinohara has no setbacks.

   It's just that I still don't understand.

  But he didn't say anything more, and nodded with a smile, and the three of them drove back to the apartment building.

   Aragaki Satoru was open-minded, but on the way back he started complaining again.

   You know, the three of them rented the outfits of detective coats from other people's shops, and if it rains, they will be overcharged for cleaning fees, not to mention that it's a waste of time to travel.

   He mumbled while driving,

  Never go out on a rainy day next time.

  In the evening, the showers had just stopped.

Jingle Bell-!

  The phone of the Aragaki Detective Agency rang, and when it was connected, they found a call from the Metropolitan Police Department.

   "Don't you admit it? When you wake up, you say you were wronged?" Xin Yuanwu was slightly taken aback after answering the phone, and asked subconsciously, "Then why did he run away when he was caught? Why did he call 'betray him' at others?"

  At this moment, Higashinohara happened to be in the office, and he wanted to see if there were any other commissioned investigations about capable people.

   Aragaki Satoru turned around and shrugged at Higashinohara after saying a few words, and said with a smile, "It was Mai who called. The suspect caught in the convenience store today has not pleaded guilty. I want to ask if there is any good way for me."

   Higashinohara was slightly taken aback, with a thoughtful look on his face.

   Aragaki Satoru rarely showed his father's dignity and taught by example for a long time. Mai Aragaki also had time to get off work. After thinking about it, she decided to come back at night to ask for advice in person. It is not convenient for her to say something in the office.

  About seven o'clock in the evening, a car from the Metropolitan Police Department stopped in front of Xinyuan's apartment, and a tall figure in a navy blue windbreaker stepped down first.

  The tenants who come and go know that the landlord has a beautiful daughter who is a policeman and the third investigation team that specializes in special incidents, and they are not surprised by this.

Mai Aragaki did not come back alone this time. There were a few young and fresh faces behind her. They seemed to be following the newcomers who came to practice. They all followed very respectfully and greeted the neighbors passing by from time to time. .

   "Hey hey! Put your chest out and show your manliness!"

   Mai Aragaki saw the low eyebrows of the interns following behind her, and she suddenly became angry, "Remember, no matter where you go, don't forget that we are members of the 13th squad."

   "Yes! Never embarrass the 13th Division!"

   Several interns immediately shouted in unison.

  Mai Aragaki covered her ears, and glanced at these fools angrily, "Speak as you speak, why are you yelling so loudly?"

  She made up her mind that Satoru Aragaki must train these newcomers well this time - she knew that although her father was not very good-natured, the Metropolitan Police Department's years of experience could still completely restrain these newcomers.

  In the corridor on the fifth floor, Higashinohara looked down at the scene downstairs, and couldn't help laughing.

  Mai Aragaki usually gave him the feeling that he was a gentle and reliable senior, but he didn't expect that in the Metropolitan Police Department, she unexpectedly had the demeanor of a big sister.

  But remembering what Aragaki Satoru and Aragaki Mai said on the phone when they were downstairs just now, Higashinohara frowned slightly. He always felt that this case seemed not that simple.

  Do you want to go to the convenience store again tomorrow?

   "Higashino-kun (big brother), come back and have dinner together." He was thinking, when the voices of Nishimaru Miri and Kolotia came from behind him.

   Higashino Hara responded, shook his head and didn't think about it, anyway, he doesn't have to go to school tomorrow and Sunday, so I'll go and have a look when I have time

  The night is getting darker.

  The tall buildings in the distance are lit up.

  During weekend breaks, Higashinohara used to put part of his exercise in the evening. After eating, he walked downstairs along the stairs.

  When he walked to the corner of the fourth floor, Higashinohara suddenly found that the voice-activated lights in the corridor seemed to be malfunctioning, and the aisle was completely dark. He remembered that a tenant had responded a few days ago.

  Higashi Nohara came back last night to see the light was on, and thought it was repaired, but unexpectedly it was just a flashback—this unscrupulous landlord is really stingy in this regard.

  He was thinking about this, but when he reached the dark corridor on the third floor, Higashinohara suddenly stopped in his tracks.

  The third floor seems a little quiet.

   You know, the word quiet rarely appears in apartment buildings where fish and dragons are mixed.

  Of course, if it’s just like this, it’s not worth Higashinohara to stop.

   At this time, the night wind came from the east side of the corridor, and Higashinohara smelled a strong smell of blood.

  On the easternmost side of the corridor, under the flickering dim light, there seemed to be a pool of dark things.

   On the third floor, in the room of [Aragaki Detective Agency Office] with bright neon lights, several figures fell into a pool of blood and took their last breath without even a trace of struggle.

  A petite figure in a high school uniform stood at the door, holding a business card in his hand.

  She lowered her head and took a look in the light of the moon, and there were dimples on her cute cheeks that were slightly baby fat.

   "Hey, Aragaki Detective Agency? It should be right here."

  That petite figure looked like a high school girl in need of help, timidly looking for it according to the address on the business card, a little lucky after successfully finding it.

  Of course, the premise is that you must ignore her deformed right hand that is as sharp as a sharp knife

  And the scarlet blood that was "tick-tick" falling in this unusually quiet environment at this time.

   Aragaki Satoru was sitting on the chair where he often sat on the horse betting and drinking. His face was very painful, sweat was constantly oozing from his forehead, and his right hand was tightly clutching a sticky, blood-red abdomen.

   "Sai! Go away, leave me alone!"

   "Shut up! Do you think she might let me go?"

   Aragaki Satoru gave a wry smile.

He stared at the slightly baby-fat baby face in front of him, even though he just watched the other party really just push the door like a ghost and shot, the incredible deformity of his right hand turned into scissors and brutally killed the few brought back by Mai Aragaki New interns.

   Looking back at this moment, he still felt a little absurd and unbelievable.

  Because the girl blocking the door is Kaori Umekoji behind the checkout counter of the convenience store whom she met in the convenience store today, a sweet girl who looks like a high school girl.

   Judging from the strange ability that the other party just showed with her hands turning into scissors, she has at least the strength of a fourth-level or even fifth-level power user.

  No one in the Aragaki Detective Agency is her match, and no one can recognize the talent sequence corresponding to this strange ability.

   "What a pity"

   In the shadow of the doorway.

  Umekoji Kaori's girl smiled sweetly at Satoru Aragaki, "Uncle, do you know? Today is the first time I have received a tip. I didn't intend to kill you."

   Speaking of which, she sniffed, lowered her head, and said with some frustration, "But today, you all have to die here."

   Mai Aragaki knew that running away and begging for mercy would only make her die faster at this time, and the only thing she could do was to delay the time. She took a breath and said, "So you killed the owner of the convenience store?"

   "The owner? You mean the uncle who likes to take advantage of me?"

Meikoulu Kaori nodded, and said softly, "Yes, he used to like to harass me very much, and he often told me that he touched my hand and couldn't bear to wash it after going home for several days. I thought about it .Since he likes it so much, just peel off those hands and give it to him."

  Mai Aragaki and Satoru Aragaki looked at each other in shock, it was hard to imagine that such words would be said so gently from a baby-faced girl.

   Mai Aragaki took a deep breath.

   "I sympathize with what happened to you, but in that case, you should have called the police."

"Call the police?"

  Umekoji Kaori shook her head, "It's useless, I have reported to the police. Three years ago, when my mother remarried and the elder brother brought by my stepfather often touched me, I have already reported to the police."

   "But the stepfather would only say a few words indifferently. After the police came, the mother also told the police that it was just a misunderstanding."

  "I ran away from home a few times, but when I came back, I was beaten by my stepfather, saying that I made them worry, huh. Did they really worry about me?"

   Mai Aragaki was taken aback by what was said, and felt a little sympathetic to what happened to the girl in front of her.

  However, the bodies of several interns she brought tonight were in a pool of blood, and her father Satoru Aragaki also had a huge wound cut on his abdomen to protect her, and his life might be in danger at any time.

  At this moment, it was obviously not the time to empathize with the extremely dangerous girl in front of her. She took another breath, her mind spinning rapidly and continuing to ask questions.

   "Then what about the other murders in Edogawa District recently? They should not have had a life trajectory with you. Are their deaths related to you?"

   "Are you talking about those uncles?" Umekoji Kaori said.

   "Do you really know them?" Mai Aragaki frowned.

   "No, I don't know each other, but on the way home in those nights, I felt that there was an uncle following me all the time, and he wanted to violate me." Umekoji Kaori closed her eyes and said with trembling eyelashes.

   "Did they do that?" Mai Aragaki asked.

"No."

  Umekoji Kaori shook her head.

   "Did the delusional ones be persecuted? So you killed them?" Mai Aragaki was in disbelief.

   "No it's not like that."

Kaori Umekoji shook her head and said softly, "Have you ever felt that way? It seems that there is a person living in your mind who knows what you think and understands what you think. He will tell you the truth of the world and give you strength. Let you protect yourself."

   Saying that, Umekoji Kaori raised her right hand.

  Her right hand turned into a dark blue bone spur-like sharp scissors very strangely, glowing with a chilling brilliance under the hazy moonlight.

   Mai Aragaki reacted a bit, and asked with a frown, "Someone in your mind is talking to you? Telling you to kill them? And giving you this ability?"

"right."

  Umekoji Kaori nodded, then shook her head again, "But it's not 'give', it's 'charity', this is the ability I should have by nature.

  Suddenly, a smile appeared on her doll's face.

   "Like this moment, you shouldn't be involved, you shouldn't be dead, but the voice in my head tells me that you have to die

  Actually, I know that you are delaying time by asking me so many questions. Time is not so precious sometimes, what do you think? Can anyone help you now? "

   "It's over, I'm going back to meet that dear brother, he should just come home from school today."

  After the voice fell, Umekoji Kaori's figure seemed to be integrated into the misty moonlight, and the scissors like bone spurs drew a clear and cold light in the air.

quick!

   Completely faster than the naked eye of Mai Aragaki!

  It's hard to imagine any ability in the talent sequence that can mutate people's bodies and at the same time grant such terrifying speed.

  However, there was no way to avoid Mai Aragaki, and Satoru Aragaki, who was lying on the chair behind him and was dying, suddenly grabbed his lower abdomen with some strength, and pushed her to the side.

   "This idiot!" The moment Mai Aragaki lost her balance, her heart suddenly tightened.

  However, at the next moment, when she fell to the ground and hurriedly turned her head back, the image of blood spilling as she imagined did not appear in front of her eyes, and she only heard a "dang" sound like a clash of gold and stone in her ears.

  The fire suddenly bloomed!

   Without warning, a familiar slender figure stood in front of them.

he is

   is the upstairs tenant Higashino-kun!

   Mai Aragaki froze on the ground.

  In the detective agency, under the dim light, the figure of Higashinohara slowly emerged from the shadows.

  He looked at the girl in front of him with a slight frown. Before finishing dinner in the evening, he was thinking about going to the convenience store again tomorrow, but he didn't expect that the girl "came to the door".

  Of course, what makes Higashinohara even more disturbed at this moment is that there are several young corpses lying in disorder in the pool of blood on the ground.

  But he stared at the baby-faced girl with baby-faced cheeks under the moonlight at the door, and the [Guilty Handbook] in his mind was still silent.

   What the **** is going on here?

   Hot at the end of the month~

   Grandpas, your votes will expire if you don’t vote.

   Ask for a ticket lol~

  (end of this chapter)