Everyone in Yokohama thinks I'm a villain

In the early morning of the next day, the Armed Detective Agency.

Since returning to the Armed Detective Agency yesterday, Kunikida Doppo's mood was obviously very bad.

Even with the armed detective agency, the atmosphere became a little depressing.

Kunikida Doppo looked at the report sent by the police with some irritability - after he reported the whereabouts of the human skin painter yesterday, the military police blocked Radium Cymbal Street and began to investigate one by one. Up to now, the progress is more than halfway, but there is no information about Akigase Kuno's news.

Although it is not ruled out that Akigase Kuno is hiding in the remaining small area that has not been investigated, Kunikida Doppo knows that the possibility is very slim.

Judging from Akigase Kuno's record of playing "hide and seek" with the police many years ago, this vicious and cunning criminal always has a way to escape the police.Otherwise, the Bureau of Judiciary would not have allowed him to roam around for so many years.

Thinking of this, Kunikida Doppo's annoyance and irritability intensified a bit.

Yesterday, Kunikida Doppo ran into Akigase Kuno head-on, and he had the opportunity to directly subdue the opponent, but in the end he watched them run away. This is simply intolerable to him.

Not to mention that he made low-level mistakes during the battle.

When the first shot was released, Kunikida Doppo's long-term experience made him vaguely aware that the feel was not right-probably because he fired too quickly, and there was a subtle deviation in the direction the wire gun was aiming.

Originally, if Akigase Kuno could be successfully subdued later, such a mistake would not be a big deal, but the problem is that Akigase Kuno managed to escape in the end, so this big or small mistake became extremely unforgivable.

Because of this, Kunikida Doppo has been brooding over it since yesterday.

To be honest, Kunikida Doppo felt that his shot should not have missed - this was not an excuse for his fault, but that he really had confidence in his marksmanship.Although the situation was urgent at that time, he did not forget to do basic aiming. With his ability, even half a second was enough to adjust the orientation.

But the fact is, he did miss.In this case, nothing else will help.

Let Akigase Kuno escape this time, and he doesn't know when he will be able to catch the other party's trace next time.

Akigase Kuno is a murderer who doesn't know how to restrain himself. Thinking that Akigase Kuno will cause more tragedies after today, Kunikida Doppo can't help but blame himself.

"There are no comics published in the newspapers these days..." Ranpo Edogawa picked up today's newspaper, dissatisfied.

Since yesterday, the news of instructing citizens to go out cautiously and stay away from murderers has occupied the headlines of major newspapers, and it has also taken the place of comics by the way.

Of course, the government announcement only said that there were murderers fleeing in Yokohama, and no more specific information was disclosed.

Hearing his complaints, Kunikida got up alone, feeling guilty: "I'm sorry, Mr. Ranpo. If I had been more careful, the human skin painter would not have escaped."

Yesterday Edogawa Ranpo pointed out such accurate information to them, but in the end he was negligent and let the prisoner go.I am really ashamed of Edogawa Ranpo's reasoning.

The black-haired and blue-eyed detective unpacked a pack of snacks, glanced at Osamu Dazai who was lying on the sofa with his eyes closed, and then turned to Kunikida Doppo: "Didn't Dazai tell you?"

Hearing this, Kunikida Doppo was taken aback: "What?"

"I said it," Osamu Dazai sat up, stretched his waist, and spread his hands out of helplessness, "But Kunikida-kun didn't listen at all."

Kunikida Doppo listened to his words, and then slowly recalled the phrase "someone has already done something" that Osamu Dazai said yesterday.

At that time, he thought that Osamu Dazai meant that someone from the Supernatural Secret Service Division had intervened, but afterwards he didn't hear that the Supernatural Secret Service Section sent people to investigate this matter, so he put this sentence behind him.

Osamu Dazai seemed to have seen through his thoughts, and said leisurely: "That person does not belong to the military police, nor to the Supernatural Secret Service Division, nor does he belong to the Judiciary Bureau. However, as long as he makes a move, the human skin painter will definitely not be able to escape unscathed." .”

Kunikida Doppo frowned, before he had time to say anything, the phone at hand suddenly rang.

Kunikida answered the phone alone, and on the other side, Ango Sakaguchi's voice came: "Kunikida-san, just now, the military and police found a body under the overpass in the western district, and it was confirmed that the deceased was Akigase Kuno. The Secret Service Division officially revoked the commission to the Armed Detective Agency, and this case is closed.”

After hanging up the phone, Kunikida Doppo was still a little overwhelmed.

That human leather painter who played the police around like this is actually dead? !

Anyway, it's too weird.

He looked at Osamu Dazai with some doubts: "This is done by 'that person'? Who is he?"

Finding and killing a serial killer before the government does is no easy feat!

"Isn't the answer very simple?" Edogawa fiddled with the transparent jar in his hand, narrowing his emerald green eyes, lazily, "After all, he was the one who captured the human skin painter last time."

A certain answer suddenly flashed in Kunikida Doppo's mind, surprised: "Could it be..."

"Ah."

Osamu Dazai raised the corners of his lips, and said happily, "The one who killed Akigase Kuno this time is the 'Astrologer' who defected from the Supernatural Secret Service Division."

West District, under the overpass.

Several police cars blocked the entrance and exit of the road, and barricades were erected to surround the wide asphalt road.

After Ango Sakaguchi and his assistants investigated the scene for a week, he stood silently around the scene and waited for his subordinates to search for evidence.

Knowing the news of Akigase Kuno's death, the Supernatural Secret Service Division was also very shocked.

According to current information, the deceased Akigase Kuno died of excessive blood loss after falling from a height.

The location where his body was found happened to be under an overpass, so the most reasonable guess now is that Akigase Kuno entered the overpass last night, and then accidentally bumped into a section of railings that were damaged due to aging, accidentally slipped and fell to his death.

Ango Sakaguchi looked at the document in his hand, without saying a word.

Akigase Kuno is a prisoner who escaped from the No. [-] Agency, and the No. [-] Agency is the place where the Supernatural Secret Service Division handles all shady things.

For the Supernatural Secret Service Division, the escape of prisoners is undoubtedly a big scandal.

This time when Akigase Kuno escaped, some high-level executives in the Supernatural Secret Service Division were furious and wanted to hold them accountable. However, after the investigation, it was found that the guards had been scrupulously dedicated to their duties during their tenure, and there was no negligence. This time, Akigase Kuno escaped from prison. There are loopholes in the regulatory system of the agency.

Therefore, although the higher-ups were dissatisfied with this, they couldn't attack anyone. They could only make a request: to reduce the impact of the escape of the human skin painter to a "minimum."

The so-called reducing the impact is nothing more than concealing the escape accident and then secretly arresting Akigase Kuno.

The top management was unwilling to disclose this matter, which made the progress of the investigation extremely slow.

Later, it was really impossible to wrap the fire with paper, so they finally accepted Sakaguchi Ango's suggestion and entrusted an armed detective agency to assist in the search.

But now the supernatural criminal threw himself to death while being chased by the police?

Ango Sakaguchi kept a straight face.This kind of explanation is estimated that only those high-level officials who are eager to turn this matter over will believe it.

He didn't believe at all that this could be a mere coincidence.

"Senior Sakaguchi, just now we went to retrieve the nearby surveillance cameras, and found that the accident occurred—that is, the surveillance cameras on the overpass broke down not long ago, and failed to record the situation at the time of the incident. But from the surrounding surveillance, Akigase Kuno ran all the way up the overpass." After the assistant reported, he hesitated, "Although I don't know how his mental state was at the time, it seems to be in line with our previous guess about the deceased's accidental slip."

Ango Sakaguchi nodded indifferently, took the information in the assistant's hand, opened one of the pages and frowned: "Is this the trajectory of Akigase Kuno last night?"

"Yes!" The assistant nodded.

He didn't notice Ango Sakaguchi's expression, but he said happily: "Although it's not appropriate to say this, it's great that Akigase Kuno died unexpectedly. If such a serial murderer has been hiding in Yokohama, he will definitely kill more people." Civilian."

After searching and arresting some time ago, he has already deeply felt how difficult Akigase Kuno is.

Although they failed to catch the criminal, it would be a good ending for the other party to stumble and fall to his death.Or so, problem solved.

As he said that, the assistant seemed to have thought of something, and asked Ango Sakaguchi while scratching his head: "By the way, Senior Sakaguchi, in the file five years ago, it seems that the person responsible for investigating the Akigase Kuno incident was a senior named Kazuma Kazukawa. I read the case records, he was able to arrest Akigase Kuno within two days, it was amazing! Do you know him?!

"My entry time is too short, so I don't know anything. I also asked several other seniors before, but they couldn't explain clearly."

When he spoke, he looked very yearning, and seemed to have great admiration for Kazama Kazukawa.

Sakaguchi Ango remained silent.

Those "predecessors" are probably not unclear, but simply don't want to mention the name Kazuma Kazukawa.

After all, anyone who has been in contact with Kazama and Chuan knows how dangerous he is.

It is human instinct to stay away from danger.

But Ango Sakaguchi did not answer, just pointing to the starting point of the road map and asked: "Why did Akigase Kuno appear in this bar in the first place?"

The assistant didn't know why he asked this suddenly, and answered after flipping through the information in his hand: "He is an acquaintance with the owner of that bar, and he probably went there to find new victims."

These are the intelligences that were discovered after the discovery of Akigase Kuno's body today.

As he said that, the assistant consciously looked through the follow-up information: "It's a coincidence that the bar happened to be closed that day, and Akigase Kuno should have discovered this after arriving. According to the confession of the manager of the grocery store near the bar, Qiu Sekuno asked him about the nearby bars, and then took a taxi and left. But he didn't get off at the bar but came to this overpass, so there must be another accident?"

Coincidence, accident.

"..."

Ango Sakaguchi tightened his grip on the road map, and cold sweat slowly dripped from the corner of his forehead.

The assistant was still talking about his speculation with some doubts, but when he raised his head, he lost his voice when he saw Ango Sakaguchi's expression.

"Senior Sakaguchi?" He didn't know why Ango Sakaguchi had such a reaction, thinking that he had said something wrong, he was silent for a while, looking at this always steady senior with trepidation.

Birds fluttered overhead with flapping wings.

After a while, Ango Sakaguchi took a deep breath and adjusted his expression.

He didn't continue the topic just now, but pushed his glasses, and said to his assistant: "By the way, your previous question-about Kazuma Kazukawa, why don't you check the wanted list of the Supernatural Secret Service Division, where Maybe there will be an answer you want."

After all, regardless of the assistant's earth-shattering expression, Ango Sakaguchi put away the documents in his hand, and walked away, feeling more and more heavy.

Ever since Akigase Kuno escaped from prison, he had always had a bad guess, as if some conspiracy was gradually approaching the city.

And now, this feeling is getting stronger and stronger.