He looked a little hurt.

Immediately afterwards, the three groups of people who were briefly mentally controlled at the door of the storage room also woke up.

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

Uh, actually it's not necessary.

Xia Li's kick was so powerful, coupled with the heavy fall, that the criminal suspect was knocked unconscious.

"Phew! Thanks to you, Charlie-chan, thank you so much." After coming back to her senses, Aragaki Mai hurriedly came up to express her thanks.

"Be polite and polite, and roar when you see injustice on the road. My father often taught me this when I was a child."

Charlie waved her hands very sternly and continued, "Sister Araguan, if you really feel sorry for me, please treat me to a meal."

Higashinohara:

Everyone has to take care of your relationship, right?

"sure."

Mai Aragaki didn't care about a meal. After confirming that the suspect was arrested, she took out her communicator and contacted the logistics. After a while, a police car came from a distance.

Before leaving, she did not forget to remind Aragaki Satoru that recently there was a big shot in Wano Country in the Adjudication Department in Beijing, and there was a lot of noise outside and inside, so it was best not to get involved in cases involving people with abilities.

Regarding his daughter's words, Aragaki Satoru always raised his hands and surrendered, without refuting for a long time.

Of course, he never listens.

The episode at the convenience store represented that Aragaki Detective Agency fell one step behind in this investigation commission and lost to Kudo Detective Agency.

Although Aragaki Satoru was unhappy, he could only hold his nose and be willing to admit defeat. He could only say that there was still a long way to go to revive the glory of Aragaki Detective Agency.

Higashinohara still felt a little strange and disappointed. This time he participated in the investigation of the detective agency, and by the way, he also wanted to get some sin points and ability drops to disassemble.

However, from the time they entered the convenience store until the clerk Miura Yuki was arrested, the mission of the "Guilty Manual" was never triggered.

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

Not quite right.

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

There is no reason not to trigger the Guilty Manual.

Or is there some hidden condition that was missed?

After leaving the convenience store, Aragaki Satoru held up an umbrella and saw Higashinohara's slightly frowning brows aside, "Higashino-kun, do you have any more questions?"

Higashinohara shook his head, glanced at the police cars leaving in the rain, shook his head and said, "There's no problem, it's just that 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, "Well, didn't you say that you had a conflict with the victim a week before the crime? He is a person with abilities, and it is easy to understand that young people are angry. The kid just now seemed to have 'admitted' it."

Higashinohara shook his head and said, "But this is a serial murder case, where are the others?"

"This is a doubtful point." Aragaki Satoru pondered for a moment, his eyes brightened slightly, "Oh, by the way, Miss Umekoji just mentioned that the suspect seems to be somewhat dissatisfied with the current situation of life, or the rich class, you

Tell me if you will."

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

He had read the information on the victims. In Wano Country, they could be considered middle class at best, but perhaps they were equivalent to "rich" compared to a convenience store worker who had to stay at a relative's house.

"A little bit lost and frustrated, right?"

Aragaki Satoru smiled and patted Higashinohara's shoulder, and said with a smile like an experienced old man, "That's what being a detective is like. The truth is there. Even if you find something suspicious, if you are slow, you will be discovered."

If others pick the fruit, you will gradually get used to it."

Higashinohara didn't have any setbacks.

But I still don't understand.

But he didn't say anything more, smiled and nodded, and the three of them took the car back to the apartment building.

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

You should know that the three of them were wearing detective coats and rented them from other shops. On rainy days, they would be charged extra for cleaning and the trip would be in vain.

He muttered as he drove,

I will definitely not go out on a rainy day next time.

In the evening, the showers began to subside.

Jingle Bell-!

The phone at the Aragaki Detective Agency rang, and when it was answered, it was discovered that it was a call from the Metropolitan Police Department.

"Don't you admit it? After you woke up, you said you were wrongly accused?" Aragaki Satoru was stunned for a moment after answering the phone, and asked subconsciously, "Then why did he run away when he was caught? Why did he yell at others to 'betray him'?"

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

Aragaki Satoru said a few words and then turned to Higashinohara, shrugged, and said with a smile, "It's Mai calling. The criminal suspect caught at the convenience store today refused to plead guilty. I want to ask if I have any good ideas."

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

Aragaki Satoru rarely showed his father's dignity and taught by words and deeds for a long time. It was time for Mai Aragaki to get off work. After thinking about it, she decided to come back in the evening to ask for advice in person. It was not convenient for her to say some things in the office.

At about seven o'clock in the evening, a Metropolitan Police car parked in front of Aragaki's apartment, and the first to get out was a tall figure wearing a navy blue windbreaker.

The tenants who come and go all know that the landlord has a beautiful daughter who is a police officer and a third investigation team that specializes in handling special incidents, so 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 looked like newcomers who had come for internship. They all followed very respectfully and greeted the neighbors passing by from time to time.

.

"Hey! Stand up and show your manliness!"

When Mai Aragaki saw the low-brow looks of the interns following her, she suddenly became angry and said, "Remember, no matter where you go, don't forget that we are from the Thirteenth Division."

"Yes! I will never embarrass Division 13!"

Several interns immediately shouted in unison.

Mai Aragaki covered her ears and looked at these idiots angrily, "Just talk, why are you shouting so loudly?"

She made up her mind that this time she must let Aragaki Satoru train these newcomers well - she knew that although her father was not very popular, he could still control these newcomers with his many years of experience in the Metropolitan Police Department.

In the corridor on the fifth floor, Higashinohara lowered his head and saw the scene downstairs, and couldn't help but smile in his heart.

Mai Aragaki usually felt like a gentle and reliable senior to him, but unexpectedly, in her job at the Metropolitan Police Department, she unexpectedly had a sisterly demeanor.

However, remembering what Aragaki Satoru and Aragaki Mai said on the phone just now, Higashinohara's brows couldn't help but frown slightly. He always felt that this case seemed not that simple.

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

"Higashino-kun (eldest brother), come back and have dinner together." While he was thinking, the voices of Miria Nishimaru and Coladia came from behind.

Higashinohara responded and shook his head not to think about these things. Anyway, he doesn’t have to go to school tomorrow and Sunday. Let’s go and see if he has time.

The night is getting darker.

The tall buildings in the distance lit up with lights.

When resting on weekends, Higashinohara used to do part of his exercise in the evening. After eating, he would walk all the way downstairs.

When he reached the corner of the fourth floor, Higashinohara suddenly discovered that the voice-activated light in the corridor seemed to be malfunctioning and the corridor was dark. He remembered that a tenant had reported this a few days ago.

Higashinohara came back last night and saw that the lights were on. He thought it had been repaired, but he didn't expect that the light just came back - 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.

The third floor seems a little quiet.

You know, the word quiet rarely appears in an apartment building with a mixed crowd.

Of course, if it were just like this, it wouldn't be worth stopping Higashinohara.

At this time, the night wind blew 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 something dark.

On the third floor, in the neon-lit room of the Aragaki Detective Agency, several figures fell into a pool of blood and breathed their last without even a trace of struggle.

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

She lowered her head and took a look in the faint moonlight, revealing slight dimples on her cute cheeks that were slightly baby fat.

"Na na. Aragaki Detective Agency? This should be the right place."

The petite figure looked like a high school girl in need of help. She timidly looked for her according to the address on her business card, looking happy after successfully finding her.

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

And in this unusually quiet environment, the scarlet blood was dripping down.

Aragaki Satoru sat in the chair where he often sat on horse racing and drank wine. His face was very painful, sweat was dripping from his forehead, and his right hand was tightly covering his sticky and blood-red abdomen.

"Ma Yi! Leave quickly and leave me alone!"
To be continued...