Raiders of the Queen of the Damned

After hanging up the phone, Yuan Mirai asked the minister for leave to return to Yokohama early.

She didn't say that she wanted to go back and cooperate with the police in investigating the case.There is still the last day of the camp training that was originally scheduled, but the training cannot continue under the current situation, so the minister agreed.

Minamirai took the Shinkansen back to Yokohama, arrived at the station and headed non-stop to the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Headquarters in Naka Ward, Yokohama, and finally arrived at around 19:[-].

In the headquarters, the police officer who had contacted her had been waiting for her.

"I'm sorry to bother you, but you can call me Yamamoto." The young male police officer raised his hand to guide her with a neither humble nor overbearing attitude, "Please follow me this way."

The two came to a room for conversation.

There was a table in the room, and a middle-aged police officer with a serious expression was already sitting behind the table. On the table were notebooks, pens, a cup, and a bottle of drink.

"This is the Hirasawa Police Department." Officer Yamamoto introduced the man sitting behind the table to Yuan Mirai, and then pointed to the drink and said, "I prepared this for you without authorization. If you don't like it, you don't have to drink it."

"Thank you." Yuan Weilai took the seat in front of the table.

After Officer Yamamoto sat down at the table, he picked up the pen next to the notebook, and the Pingze Police Department said, "Hello."

Yuan Weilai replied politely, "Hello."

Pingze Police Department said: "You and the deceased—Shimizu Kazumi are classmates, right?"

deceased.

Yuan Mirai's heart was stung by this word, and then this feeling dissipated like an ebb tide, making her mood quickly return to calm.

Yuan Weiwei nodded: "Yes."

"You should have a good relationship, right?" Pingze Police Department said, "We found out that you were the last person she contacted yesterday."

Yuan Weilai said: "It's pretty good." She is very popular in the class and gets along well with many classmates.

Officer Yamamoto kept his pen nib, and filled in the information related to Minamoto Mirai in Shimizu Kazumi's relationship in the notebook.

Pyeongtaek Police Department asked: "Can you disclose the content of your call last night?"

Yuan Mirai thought about it, whether it was the curse spirit who killed Shimizu and Kazumi, it would not have any effect if she provided the content of the conversation between the two, at most it would not be possible to find out the reason.

She said: "You should have read the chat records between me and Hemei, right?"

Neither of the two police officers answered, but they thought they had seen it.

"Hemei said she was very scared because the doors and windows at home always opened by themselves."

After Yuan Mirai finished speaking, Officer Yamamoto glanced up at her and asked, "Open it yourself? Are you sure she didn't open it and forget it?"

"What a coincidence," Yuan said, "her parents and boyfriend also think so."

The Pingze Police Department coughed and reminded: "Please don't joke."

"Sorry, but I'm not kidding. Her parents and her boyfriend didn't believe what she said." Yuan Mirai continued, "I asked her when it started."

She found that the two people in front of her were visibly refreshed. It seemed that the information about the time point was very useful for them, so she said: "The time is on the evening of August 8th. I don't know the details. She and her boyfriend It started after returning from Gero Onsen.”

Officer Yamamoto couldn't help muttering, "It's him again."

he?Is it Shimizu Kazumi's boyfriend?

The Pyeongtaek Police Department asked, "Are there any more?"

"It's nothing." Yuan Wei said, "After that, she said she wanted to go to Sendai to find me, so I let her come."

The Pyeongtaek Police Department asked, "Do you know the deceased's boyfriend?"

Shimizu Kazumi has the habit of cleaning up her mobile phone chat records every week. The police checked her chat records this week and found nothing about her boyfriend, so they could only ask Yuan Mirai.

Yuan Weiwei shook his head: "I don't know."

Officer Yamamoto sighed slightly.

Seeing his reaction in the future, Yuan Wei felt that the police seemed to regard Shimizu Kazumi's boyfriend as a suspect?

The Pingze Police Department did not feel discouraged, but continued to ask: "Girls of your age should be able to communicate with each other about your love affairs? The deceased has a very good relationship with you. Have you ever told you about your boyfriend?" question?"

He already asked about this, so Yuan Mirai could only say: "I don't know much, I only know that Kazumi's boyfriend has eccentricities, like watching bloody movies and eating raw meat with blood."

As soon as she finished speaking, the two police officers seemed to remember something, and their expressions changed obviously, and they couldn't hide it.

Yuan Mirai felt that something was wrong. If it was done by the mantra, the attitude of these two people would be too strange.

Officer Yamamoto asked, "You mean, the deceased's boyfriend had pica?"

Yuan Weilai said: "Well, it's probably...."

She's also not sure if liking raw meat counts as pica.

Hearing this, the expressions of the two police officers became even weirder.

Yuan Weiwei knew that the police officer would probably not reveal anything related to the case, but he still asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay." Pingze Police Department said, "Do you know anything else?"

Yuan Weiwei said, "It's gone."

The Pyeongtaek Police Department signaled to Officer Yamamoto, and Officer Yamamoto stood up and said, "Thank you for your cooperation, please follow me, and I will see you off."

Minato Mirai nodded, got up and followed Officer Yamamoto.

As soon as the door of the conversation room was opened, Yuan Mirai heard the woman crying: "How perverted are you to eat my daughter's corpse!"

Source Future: What the hell?

What kind of shocking case is this?Killing and eating corpses?

Before she was shocked, she heard another cold voice: "Mrs. Shimizu, please calm down. There is no evidence to prove that Kurokawa-san ate your daughter's body."

"Who else could it be!" Mrs. Qingshui shouted, "How can he explain that it took almost an hour to report the crime after seeing my daughter's body!"

"Enough!" The source of this male voice is more familiar in the future, and it turned out to be Shimizu Kazumi's father, "The police headquarters is not a place for you to quarrel, what's the matter, wait until the police investigate!"

Their voices were so loud that they could be heard from half the floor.Officer Yamamoto's expression became a little embarrassed, and he looked at Yuan Mirai apologetically: "Sorry."

Yuan Weilai said: "...Can I persuade you? I know Aunt Qingshui."

Officer Yamamoto hesitated, nodded and said, "Yes."

The two did not walk far along the corridor, and when they turned a corner, they saw a middle-aged woman crying bitterly in the arms of a middle-aged man. In front of them was a police officer with an expressionless face, and a high school boy with a pale face and a thin figure. .

"Uncle Shimizu, Aunt Shimizu." Yuan Mirai greeted them.

"Future?" Mrs. Shimizu rushed over and grabbed Yuan Mirai's arm, "Has Kazumi ever told you that something is wrong with her boyfriend? Have you ever suspected that her boyfriend wants to kill her?"

It seems that Mrs. Shimizu really regarded Shimizu Kazumi's boyfriend, Kurokawa, as the murderer, and really wanted to find evidence that he killed Shimizu Kazumi.

Yuan Weilai couldn't lie, so he only said softly, "Auntie, no."

After Mrs. Shimizu heard her words, her expression seemed to be falling. Mr. Shimizu took her over and patted her on the back.

"Student Yuan, I'm sorry to bother you about Hemei." Mr. Shimizu suppressed the pain of losing his daughter, and politely said to Yuan Future, "It's because we usually don't care about Hemei too much."

Yuan Wei said: "It's okay, Kazumi and I are friends."

Both of them fell silent after they finished speaking, only Mrs. Shimizu's sobbing could be heard.

……

Next, Yuan Mirai accompanied Mrs. Shimizu, comforted her, helped her soothe her emotions, and learned some details related to the case from Mr. Shimizu.

After she finished listening, she felt that it was no wonder Mrs. Shimizu suspected that Kurokawa was the murderer, because Kurokawa was really suspicious.

After Shimizu Kazumi hung up the phone last night, about ten minutes later, the surveillance camera downstairs in the apartment captured Kurokawa entering the apartment.Coincidentally, the cameras outside the apartment are working normally, and the cameras on all floors in the apartment are also working normally except for the floors of Shimizu and Mizu.

In other words, only the camera on Shimizu Kazumi's floor had a problem and was not working properly, so it cannot prove whether Kurokawa entered Shimizu's house.

The time Kurokawa left as captured by the camera downstairs in the apartment was half an hour after he arrived.

According to Kurokawa, he received the news that Shimizu and Kazumi were afraid yesterday. After comforting her, he felt that this was a good opportunity to perform at night, so he wanted to accompany her.But he knocked on the door for a long time, but no one opened the door. He thought that Qing Shuihemei lost his temper with him because he didn't care enough about her, so he sent a few messages outside the door and left.

Originally, this statement could be considered tenable, but his behavior the next day was difficult to explain.

On the afternoon of the second day, Kurokawa came to Shimizu and Mei's house again, this time he brought the key of Shimizu and Mimi's house - he was afraid that Shimizu and Mimi would get angry with him and would not open the door, so he brought the house key given to him by the other party before.This is how he discovered Qing Shuihemei's death, and he also reported to the police.

But it was he who the police first suspected.Because according to the monitoring time of the apartment, there was nearly an hour between Kurokawa entering the apartment and calling the police.

Kurokawa hesitated about what he did during this hour, and later said that he was too scared at the time, and he waited for a long time before calling the police.

In addition, Shimizu Kazumi's body was incomplete, and the entire lower body was missing.

The forensic doctor identified Shimizu Kazumi’s death time as the time when Kurokawa knocked on the door last night, and what Minami revealed today—Kurokawa had pica, made him even more suspicious.

Yuan Mirai is also a little confused. Did the curse spirit harm Shimizu and Kazumi, or Kurokawa?

She decided to sneak a look at the scene of the crime at night.

But if it was done by the curse spirit, how to help Heichuan clear the suspicion?After all, it is a fact that he spent almost an hour with Shimizu Kazumi's corpse today.

Minato Mirai thought about it, and thought of Ranpo Edogawa of the Armed Detective Agency, the young man who was considered the pillar of the detective agency.

Professional matters should be left to professional people.

When Yuan Mirai left the police headquarters, he left the contact information and address of the Armed Detective Agency to Officer Yamamoto.

"Forgive me, if you encounter difficulties during the investigation, you can ask people from the Armed Detective Agency as foreign aid." Minamoto Mirai said, "Mr. Edogawa Ranpo of the Detective Agency is very good at this."

Officer Yamamoto seemed to know Edogawa Ranpo, and showed a clear expression: "It's him. Thank you, we will consider it."

Yuan Mirai didn't go home, but took advantage of Shimizu and his wife's presence at the police headquarters to secretly visit the scene of the crime.

Because there are surveillance cameras downstairs, she folded a paper crane shikigami out of paper, descended from the sky, and flew into the apartment along the still open window.

As soon as you enter, you can see that there are many bloodstains in the living room, and the bloodstains of struggling are everywhere. Finally, the dragging marks stop near the door, where there is a half-human figure drawn.It is not difficult to guess that Shimizu and Mei struggled before they died, and finally died when they crawled to the door on the ground.

These traces were shocking, and Yuan Weiwei felt a little uncomfortable.

She thought of Shimizu and Mimi's voice and smile. That lively little girl must have been in pain and despair before she died.She crawled towards the door to open it for help.

Curse spirits are really abominable things, they will take away your friends, classmates, teachers, and family members.

Yuan Mirai has never been in contact with the curse spirit in the game like now, and personally experienced the disasters brought by the curse spirit, because at that time, there was a double-faced Su Nuo by her side.Although that guy is a bit of a dog, he still protects her very much, and will clean up all the curse spirits and even monsters that approach her.

Just when Yuan Mirai felt uncomfortable for Shimizu and Mei's death, and her eyes and nose were sour, her emotions disappeared quickly.

Again.

Yuan Mirai hated the feeling of being emotionally cleared.

She knew that this was a problem brought about by supernatural powers and "gods", and she could tolerate it now because she was waiting for the answer in a few days.

No, now is not the time to think about that.

Yuan Future converges his thoughts and focuses on the immediate matter.

She was afraid that her footprints would destroy the scene of the crime and affect the investigation, so she stopped in mid-air and never landed, making the origami crane shikigami smaller, and took her to look around the room.

In the eyes of Yuan Mirai, the whole house is full of purple and black traces left after the use of mana.Not only on the door, on the window handle, but also on the door of the bedroom, but the ceiling and the floor of the living room still have the most traces.

There will be traces left after the magic power is used, but it is very thin, and you can only see it if you pay close attention.

——This was discovered by Yuan Mirai by accident. If she was a conjurer, she would know that this trace is called "residual."

It was indeed the work of the curse spirit.

Yuan Mirai tried to find the curse spirit along the trace, but this trace was only in Qingshui's house.

There are many mantras in Japan, and new mantras may be born every day.Looking for a mantra in Japan is like looking for a needle in a haystack, it is much more difficult than finding someone.

Yuan Mirai didn't want to let it go, she wanted to kill the curse spirit to avenge Shimizu and Kazumi.

She remembered how this filth made her feel, and planned to go to Gero City, Gifu Prefecture tomorrow. After all, Shimizu Kazumi only happened after returning from Gero Hot Spring.

……

The next day, Yuan Wei woke up very early, ready to pack a simple travel bag.

If she really finds the curse spirit in Gero Hot Spring, she will probably have to wait until night to slaughter it, after all, she can't do supernatural events in public.If this is the case, it will delay a day, so it is better to bring something.

She was packing up her toiletries when the doorbell was suddenly rang.

Yuan Mirai ran to the door and saw through the cat's eyes that the person standing outside the door turned out to be Officer Yamamoto.

Finding that she hadn't opened the door, Officer Yamamoto rang the doorbell twice more, this time with a slightly anxious expression.

Yuan Weilai opened the door with a blank expression: "What's the matter?"

What she should say has already been said, what did they ask her for?Could it be that the surveillance system was repaired again, and she was photographed flying in the sky and sneaking into Qing Shui's house last night, right?

Seeing the living Minamirai, Officer Yamamoto breathed a sigh of relief, his whole body obviously relaxed a lot.

He was moved: "Great, you are still alive."

Source Future: "?"

In other words, if she is not alive, can she still die?

Officer Yamamoto said: "I'm sorry to bother you, but I take the liberty to make a request to you - can you live with our female police officer for these two days?"

Yuan Mirai: "Huh?"

"It's like this. I found out that Kurokawa was killed just now." Speaking of this, Officer Yamamoto's expression was very depressed. The most suspected person was killed. Now I don't know where to start this case. "I don't know who the murderer is. Whether we will continue to commit crimes, we held an emergency meeting and decided to protect a few people who are close to us. Mr. Shimizu and his wife have been protected, and the other person is you."

"Kurokawa is dead?" Yuan Mirai's eyes widened.

Officer Yamamoto said: "Yes."

Yuan Weilai made a request: "I want to see the scene."

She wanted to go to the scene to see if it was the same curse spirit. If so, the problem must be Gero Hot Spring.

Officer Yamamoto immediately refused: "In principle, it is not possible."

Yuan Weiwei smiled: "In principle, it is not possible, so there is still room for manipulation?"

……

Ten minutes later, Yuan Mirai successfully got into the car of Police Officer Yamamoto and went to the scene of the crime.

She went around a long way and walked through the back door. First, she contacted the Armed Detective Agency through Naomi Tanizaki, paid money to place a commission, and asked the detective agency to find a relationship and let her go to the scene.

Coincidentally, Edogawa Ranpo had just received the commission from the police headquarters, and it was this case.So she took the position of Edogawa Ranpo's temporary assistant and successfully obtained the right to go to the scene of the crime.

Soon, they came to Kurokawa's house.

The author has something to say:

Note: It is wrong to enter other people's house privately, don't learn from the future.

I don’t know much about the Japanese police (and I don’t read Conan), and I don’t know much about the domestic ones. Please forgive me if this chapter is different from the reality.

Found [-] nutrient solutions, happy!Then let me reveal some information (?), according to the outline, the things to be paved are all laid out now, and the next chapter or the next chapter will start to close the line. The holes dug in the game will be filled one by one, and then fall in love~