Yukimura's shadow

Mori Kogoro pushed open the door and ran all the way leaning on crutches.If it weren't for the bandages wrapped around his legs, probably no one would have noticed that his legs were injured.

When passing by the duty desk, he braked quickly and yelled at the nurse inside.

"Quick! Call the police! Killed!"

"Hey, hey——" The nurse who was fishing suddenly heard this and hadn't reacted yet.

"hurry up!"

"Mama Mama——" the nurse turned pale from his fright, she regained her composure and hurriedly made a phone call tremblingly. Gradually, there were fine beads of sweat on her forehead, and she moved towards the frightened colleague With a wink, the man immediately followed up knowingly.

"Mr. Mori! Please wait—"

The little nurse was panting after chasing after her, but Mori Kogoro ran fast on crutches, and finally ran to the room he was thinking about. Seeing that the door was unlocked, he grabbed the crutches and opened the door without hesitation." Kicked away with a bang--

But there is nothing in the room.

He looked around and went in and turned on the power, and the room lit up with a swish.But apart from a few chairs stacked in a corner, the room is empty.

"Huh...huh...this is an empty warehouse...Mr. Mori..." The nurse stumbled up behind him, but Mori Kogoro remained unmoved.

"Strange... I clearly saw it here..." He rubbed his chin and muttered.

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Time rewinds to a few hours ago.

Raindrops slammed on the window, Yukimura was walking around to pack things in the dark house, and his slippers made a slight sound on the wooden floor.

In the darkness, Masami huddled stubbornly on the chair, holding Yukimura's long jacket in her hands to cover her body, her black hair was draped behind her head, and she could only see her bright moon-like eyes clearly through the faint light outside the window.

Yukimura had just finished tidying up his things, and when he turned around, he saw her curled up on a chair and looking at him quietly.

He smiled and was about to get up.

"do not move!"

"…What's wrong?"

Masami suddenly yelled, and although Yukimura didn't know what happened, he still stood there obediently.The hair that had just been washed was slightly curly, fluffy and wanton, against the rare innocence on his face, it was completely different from his usual self, like a little angel who knew nothing about the world.

But Yami's tone did not relax at all.

"Yes, that's it. Don't come over—we, separate, separate, and sleep."

This was too straightforward, and the atmosphere between the two of them was a bit awkward for a while.

"Now, I'm going to bed." Yami reminded emphatically.

Seeing her unkind expression, Yukimura smiled and took two steps back, but still did not walk away.He said why Yami's face was always weird when she woke up in the morning, and she didn't seem to care much when talking to her, so the problem was here.

Yukimura smiled helplessly, probably knowing that she might have misunderstood something.Although the two had just established a relationship, it was true that he wanted to get close to her, but as a thoughtful person, he cared more about her body.On the one hand, it was my own selfishness to sleep with her in my arms, and on the other hand, based on her current situation, it might not be good not to cover her at night.

"Yami... your perception ability has recovered a lot now. If you have a cold and a fever, it will be difficult to get you medicine." He looked earnest, but Yami was unmoved.

"I won't catch a cold." Yami stubbornly pulled up his coat, but fortunately it was a long one, barely covering his feet when sitting on a chair.She looked back at Yukimura directly, the meaning conveyed by her eyes was very obvious.

Looking at each other from both sides, Yukimura was quickly defeated.He shrugged and walked over to double-check that the windows were closed tightly in case rain drifted in in the middle of the night, and after drawing the curtains, he checked the heating one last time.

"Don't be too high, it's too boring!" Yami called out hastily.Yukimura paused holding the remote control, and looked at the monitor in his hand, which had increased to 23 degrees at some point.He paused, as if he had made up his mind a lot, and then lowered himself a little.

"Will it be too hot..." Masami was still a little worried when she saw the words "twenty degrees" on the monitor, but then she saw Yukimura put down the remote control panel and walked towards her, and immediately retracted herself into the jacket.

"I'm asleep." Her voice came from under the padded jacket, sounding muffled.

"...Yum." Yukimura stopped in front of her, seeing her look like she wanted to wrap herself in clothes, suddenly amused and helpless.Doesn't he look like some kind of beast?

Finally he reached out and stroked the top of her hair, gently as if treating a kitten.

"Good night."

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Nagasawa Masami's words came true, and in the middle of the night, Yukimura Seichi was woken up by the heat.

On the other hand, Yamei was still curled up on the chair, her head turned to one side, and she was sleeping soundly, her hair was messy covering most of her face, and the jacket that was tightly held had slipped a lot. Curling up well, the clothes must have fallen to the ground long ago, so she will inevitably catch cold tonight.

After hesitating for a while, he was still afraid that Masami would wake up and blame him again, so Yukimura just picked up the clothes and covered them again.When tucking it in, her knuckles accidentally touched the girl's face, she seemed to have sensed something, and turned her face away with a frown.

Yukimura originally thought that he had woken her up, so he deliberately slowed down his movements, but she rubbed the back of Yukimura's hand, her frown slowly relaxed, and the corners of her lips curled up slightly, as if she had dreamed of something good.

Yukimura only felt that the back of his hand had been burned by a soldering iron, and his eyes focused on the corners of Yami's pouty lips. The faint glimmer of water on his lips made him feel that life is full of beauty and temptation.

Maybe it was because his eyes were too straightforward that Yami felt a little uncomfortable. She moved her body, but luckily she didn't wake up.Yukimura reached out and gently wiped off the water stains with his thumb, the smile on his face could not be concealed.

Like a child, did he eat something in his dream?

After this movement, the drowsiness also subsided a lot, so he lowered the temperature a bit, and opened some windows on the side away from Yami.The fresh air mixed with the fragrance of the soil washed by the rain scrambled over, and the spring breeze mixed with the rain quickly wiped away the dry heat he brought out of the house.

He was about to close the window, but he caught a glimpse of something wrong with the diagonally opposite window.He was about to take a closer look when suddenly a loud shout resounded throughout the building. As if it had been agreed upon, the lights in each room were turned on one after another. The light from all directions dazzled him a little. All gone.

It's like an illusion.

"Murder—"

The voice came from the hospital building, and it was particularly loud in the silent night.

Yukimura quickly pulled down the curtains, but when he turned around, he saw Masami rubbing his eyes, probably woken up by the sound just now.

"What happened?" She only heard someone yelling, but she didn't hear a word of the content.

"It's all right. I guess there's something wrong with one of the patients." Yukimura said calmly, telling lies without leaking.

He walked up to Yami, picked up the padded jacket that had just fallen on the floor and covered her, and then tucked her messy sideburns behind her ears very naturally.Yami hadn't woken up yet, her mind was ignorant and she had no energy, so she simply let him do it.She half closed her eyes, opened her mouth slightly and yawned, the water on her lips was particularly obvious.

"I gonna go see."

"Um……"

After finishing speaking, he picked up the coat on the other side and put it on himself. He has been amazing since he was a child, and now he can vaguely hear the commotion in the corridor.

Glancing at Masami worriedly, seeing that she was already sound asleep, Yukimura calmed down and gently unlocked the door.

He doesn't want her to know about it for the time being, maybe after she has a good sleep, the matter will be resolved when she wakes up tomorrow.

The light came in through the opening of the door, and Yukimura got out without thinking too much, because Kogoro Mori happened to run past him when he was going out.

Pulling the door with his backhand, Yukimura followed without looking back.Finally, they stopped in front of a certain house, which happened to be only two rooms away from the house where Yukimura lived.

These two rooms have been vacated since no one has lived in them recently.

Mori Kogoro put his cane on the door and pushed it open.However, the situation in the room caused everyone who followed to fall into silence.

"Strange... I clearly saw it here..."

it's here?

Mori Kogoro glanced at him and found that it was the friend Harada Nobuo brought during the day, so he explained.

"I just saw someone stabbing someone with a knife in the ward. After all the calculations, it should be this room." He felt suspicious again as he spoke, and went straight into the room.For fear of damaging the scene, Yukimura and the nurse who rushed to stay outside the door.People in the surrounding wards came to ask what was going on, and the nurses persuaded them to go back one by one.

There is a clear view of the emptiness of the room.The floor was very clean, except for the part near the window sill that was stained with water because the window was open, the rest of Yukimura couldn't see anything.

"Here, when did you stop using it?" Mori Kogoro asked suddenly.

The nurse froze for a moment, not knowing why he asked this.But I still thought about it responsibly, "Probably a few weeks ago... This room is not very well lit and very humid, and I don't usually store medical supplies here. I cleaned up this room when I needed to repair the roof some time ago." It came out and was used by the workers."

"The weather forecast says that there will be a lot of precipitation this spring, and the new year has just passed, so this house is temporarily put on hold."

But this is not the answer Mori Kogoro wants.

He walked around the room twice more calmly, but still found nothing.

"What about the key? Who has the key to this room?"

A look of astonishment flashed across the nurse's face, "The manager... right?"

She replied uncertainly that she was just a small nurse on duty, and it was very accidental that she could roughly understand why the house was useless.As for the key... According to common sense, the manager should have one in his hand.

"Ah, we also have spare keys at the front desk on duty!"

Kogoro Mori was about to light up when he heard this, but another voice came in.

"Come on, Maori, the lock is obviously broken from the inside and doesn't need a key at all."

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I searched all the basements, and found a set of other people's, but I couldn't find mine...

Although it's already finished, I still want to--

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☆, Oolong

"Brother Megure!"

The fat man in a khaki coat adjusted the brim of his hat, revealing a familiar face under the beige wide-brimmed hat.

A few policemen were following behind the fat man, some of them seemed to be questioning something with pens and notebooks in their hands, and some of them had already begun to investigate at the door.

"Brother Megure, why are you here?"

"Brother Maori, why are you everywhere?"

The two said this almost at the same time.As soon as the words fell, everyone present couldn't help laughing.In an instant, the serious atmosphere brought about by the case was swept away in the room.

"Information about the fourth missing girl has already been obtained. I was visiting her family nearby, and I received a call from the police, who let me come here because I was close."

The inspectors looked carefully at the door before entering the room.Seeing Mori Kogoro standing in the room, the new policeman was a little displeased but didn't say anything.

People rushed over one after another in the corridor.Although Police Officer Mu Mu had asked people to disperse them, there were still people who couldn't be stopped.

"What happened?" Dr. Shirai rushed over from the other side in a hurry. He walked hurriedly, as if something was chasing him behind him.Dr. Jiang Teng turned out from the stairwell, with a gloomy look on his face, it was a bit scary to come out of the darkness.

"I just had a nightmare just now, and when I woke up, I heard someone say that someone killed someone, it was really shocking..."

Yukimura glanced at him, no wonder the white coat on his body was crumpled, there was a little sweat on his head, and he seemed to be in shock.

"I never thought that people like you would be afraid of nightmares?" Dr. Jiang Teng, who was walking behind, sneered when he heard this, his face was full of sarcasm and malice.

"Hey... Dr. Eto..." Dr. Shirai was a little distressed, but he was not angry, he just frowned as if he had been wronged and didn't know how to explain it.

"Oh...it's normal to be afraid of nightmares...who hasn't done it before." Someone couldn't stand it and stood up to save the siege. It was a young nurse, her eyes were moving around very agilely, she kept looking into the room, Seems more concerned with the case. "What happened to the case..."

"Please be quiet—" Officer Megure, after discussing with Mori Kogoro, couldn't help turning his head to remind him politely.The corridor immediately became quieter.After completing the investigation, the police officer unceremoniously invited those people out.

On the other side, Nobuo Harada walked up to Yukimura.He was also wearing pajamas, obviously everyone woke up from sleep.Yukimura was very surprised to see that he was still holding the little boy Futa in his hand.

"Why did you bring him here too?"

"It can't be my fault. I met him at the stairs. I didn't expect such a shy little guy to be so concerned about these things." Nobuo also looked helpless, and it stands to reason that he didn't want to let children touch him. These things, however, Feng Tai would not listen to him, just to be on the safe side, he could only bring him by his side.

"I also dared to bring him up when I heard that there was nothing scary."

"Fengtai is a man, I'm not afraid!" When he said this, his eyes were shining, his face was a little flushed, and he looked very excited, but now he didn't have the timidity and shyness before, and he didn't know if it was a bad thing or a good thing .

But even so, Yukimura still feels that children should not be exposed to such things directly, just like he left Masami in the room, subconsciously thinking that they should be protected.

Just as he was about to say something, the police over there had already walked over with a small notebook.

It was just a routine investigation at first, and when he heard that Yukimura lived in a nearby room, the policeman glanced up at him.

"Did you hear any strange sounds or see anything?" is also a routine question.

But Yukimura hesitated a little, the more he thought about it, the less sure he saw something.In a very short time, he glanced around, taking in all the expressions of the crowd.

"Is there?" Seeing that he did not answer for a long time, the policeman asked again patiently.

Suddenly someone put a hand on his shoulder, and when Yukimura turned around, it was Dr. Shirai who stayed on the periphery and did not leave.

"Don't be afraid, speak boldly! The police will catch the real culprit as soon as possible!" He patted Yukimura on the shoulder with a look of hatred.In his opinion, young people are indeed too indecisive.

Yukimura didn't like the touch of strangers very much, so he moved quietly, but the man didn't seem to notice it, and didn't intend to let go of him.

All this happened in seconds.

"I..." Yukimura lowered his eyes, reached out and swept Dr. Shirai's hand on his shoulder very naturally, "I just came out to take a look when I heard the noise in the middle of the night."

He smiled and looked at the questioning policeman, who stared blankly at him and almost forgot what he was here for.

...

"Brother Maori, I think this is not only the doctor's nightmare, but you also have hallucinations?" After comprehensive investigation, Officer Mu Mu frowned distressedly at the final result.

"How is it possible?!" Mori Kogoro exploded when he heard it.

"I saw it with my own eyes!"

Police officer Mumu spread his hands helplessly.

"We need evidence for what we're talking about—but look, there's nothing here to back up what you're saying, neither witnesses nor clues, not a single one."

Police officer Mumu emphasized the last two sentences.Mori Kogoro didn't believe in evil, so he insisted on taking their record book to read, but he still found nothing.

"How is it possible..." he muttered to himself while holding the record.

The onlookers had already left a lot after being dispersed before, and at this time, many people became sleepy out of boredom, and their patience was exhausted a little bit. When they heard "no murder case", everyone was a little dazed .

"Look, if it's murder, from the moment you saw it until you arrived in this room, it's impossible for the prisoner to handle the scene so perfectly in such a short period of time."

What's more, apart from the water stains from the rain from the window and the dust all over the floor, only the footprints of their group of people who perfectly destroyed the scene remained on the floor.Now it is much more difficult to extract footprints.

This point was said by the little brother in the inspection room who just met, but Police Officer Megure didn't say it, for fear of hitting Mao Li's self-esteem as a famous detective.

"And according to what you said, if the dagger is directly inserted into the throat, there is a high probability that it will cut the main artery. At that time, the blood will splash out at a certain angle, and it will be very troublesome to clean up the blood. "

Hearing this, Mori Kogoro could roughly understand what Police Officer Megure meant.

But he still didn't give up.

"What about the door? Isn't this door usually closed properly?"

"good question."

Police officer Mumu clapped his hands together, ordering people to pack things up, and generally directing people to deal with the aftermath.

He directly showed him the confession record of a certain nurse, "The door accidentally broke when the roof was being repaired, and the lock was broken by moving heavy objects that day, and it has never been repaired in time."

"It's so weird that I haven't had time to fix anything," Mori Kogoro muttered.

Officer Mu Mu rolled up his sleeves and glanced at his watch, then waved his hand, "In short, nothing happened today."

"Okay, it's so late, everyone leave!" He said, basically the matter has been settled.Those who didn't sleep most of the night and wanted to watch the excitement were a little disappointed.

Mori Kogoro was even more disappointed, because he always believed that he saw that scene.

As his attending doctor, Dr. Shirai naturally stepped forward and asked him if he was not in a good mental condition. People around him all paid attention to him, which made Mori Kogoro even more embarrassed.

"I'll send Fengtai back first." Nobuo said.

Yukimura nodded, seeing that after they left, he planned to go back to the ward, but when he turned around, he saw Masami standing silently behind him.

startled.

The surrounding policemen were still dealing with the funeral, so he had no choice but to quietly pull her back, and Yami followed his footsteps obediently.

After returning to the ward, Yukimura quickly closed the door, and hurriedly asked:

"Why are you there?!"

Yami felt a little uncomfortable being blocked by his hands in the corner of the door.She moved and tried to get out but was unsuccessful.

"...You must have forgotten, because there is a shadow." Yami muttered.So Yami, who was still sleepy at the time, was directly pulled out through the wall by that force.

"…what did you hear?"

"...All?" Masami asked tentatively, looking at Yukimura's expression.Sure enough, his complexion became extremely bad.

"... Hey, hey... You don't want to hide it from me, do you?" Thinking about it this way, it was really possible that he threw himself in the room to see it by himself.

"..." Yukimura choked when he poked at the center.

He sighed and folded his arms around her. "I don't want you to go through these things. Wouldn't it be nice for a girl to be more stable?"

He buried his head on her neck, and the voice came out muffled, presumably the owner of the voice was also a little depressed at this time.

Yami was a little bit dumbfounded, his protection was a bit too flimsy, "How fragile I am in your heart—"

She hesitated for a moment, put her chin lightly on his shoulder, and put her arms around his waist.

"Ashi, I am not as innocent and kind as you think. Although I have received traditional Japanese education, my thoughts are definitely not a dodder flower that can only cling to my husband."

Yukimura didn't speak, but still leaned on her shoulder, hugging her even harder, somehow Masami felt a bit of grievance from him.

Thinking of how he looked like he was able to do a job outside in a calm and calm manner just now, but now he is far from that demeanor.

This person really has two faces.

"...Actually, I saw it at the time." He said as if he had made up his mind.

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Friendly reminder, both the suspect and the victim have appeared and are still appearing.

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