The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

Detective No. 138

What's going on?

Shi Jin Run Ya slumped on the floor of the corridor, his back leaning against the wall, looking around with wide eyes in surprise.

The "ghost girl" took off her hood, revealing a girl with short wavy hair, and the makeup artist was standing next to her.

"You, you guys..."

Although Shi Jin Run Ya's head was buzzing at the moment, he roughly understood what was going on.

Everything just now was a play performed by the two of them, the purpose of which was to make him tell false testimony in fear.

Even if Shi Jin Run Ya wanted to take back his words at this time, it was too late.

At his side face, the cameraman was holding the camera against his face to shoot.

The few words just now have been broadcast to the whole country through TV without missing a word.

Although this is not considered as evidence presented in court and cannot be used to sue him, it has destroyed his most important reputation.

Once this matter is exposed, he will basically bid farewell to the detective industry. No police or clients will dare to believe a detective who has wronged a good person.

Thinking of this, Tokizu Junya's expression was completely stunned, and his body completely collapsed.

…

In the studio.

Tokizu Junya's performance was also played synchronously on the projection screen on the side of the stage.

The audience couldn't help but be shocked when they heard him admit that he had forced someone to death by perjury.

Compared with Tokizu Junya's complete depression, the soul detective Horida Kaito's face was very energetic at this time, with his head held high and his chest puffed out, looking very majestic.

The host Mizunashi Rena also said at this time: "Then let's move on to the next stage, and the audience will vote according to their own ideas to select the winner of this show..."

Although Mizunashi Rena said this, the winner was obvious.

Now there is only one detective left on the field, Horida Kaito, who else should they vote for?

Just as the audience was about to raise their hands to vote, a figure in the middle of the front row stood up.

"Please wait a moment..."

The soul detective Horida Kaito was about to walk to the center of the stage to accept the crown of the winner, but was stopped by this voice.

A mixed-race man walked onto the stage and asked directly, "Mr. Horita, can you really communicate with spirits?"

Kaito Horita narrowed his eyes slightly and recognized that it was the famous detective Qin Zhibo, who is currently at the T1 level in the Tokyo detective world.

But it doesn't matter. His spiritualism has been exposed more than once, but as long as there is no direct evidence, it doesn't matter.

Besides, he really got information that no one else knows except the deceased, and this is the point.

"Of course I can communicate with spirits."

"Really? Then can you communicate with spirits for all of us here?"

Kaito Horita was silent for half a second and replied, "Souls cannot appear in crowded places. There are too many people here..."

"Is that so?"

Qin Zhibo sneered, turned his head and gestured to Mizunashi Rena, and then continued.

"In fact, your spiritualism is completely deceptive. The information you so-called obtained from the souls of the dead is all obtained from other places..."

As soon as Qin Zhibo finished speaking, the projection screen next to the stage came into play again.

On the projection screen, the camera at a very low angle was shooting half of a face, and the lower right corner indicated "abnormal shooting".

Although only half of the face was shot, the square chin, thick lips, and dark skin revealed by that half of the face were hard to find in Japan except for the distinctive Indian face of Horida Kaito.

As the video was going on, the sound of two people talking was heard.

"Is what you said online true? The truth of the lavender villa case..."

"Yes, and almost no one knows this truth."

"Well, I want to check the content first. If there is no problem, I will give you more money..."

Horida Kaito stared in surprise and looked at the content on the projection screen in disbelief.

As one of the protagonists of the video, he certainly remembered that this happened a day ago.

At that time, he received a message from the TV director Furukuri Sanpei, saying that the case to be discussed was temporarily changed.

Although Horida Kaito wanted to protest, he was a second-rate detective who had already been reported in negative news before, and it was good enough that the program team asked him to be on the show.

For the chance of exposure, he had no choice but to agree.

Later, when he was looking for news about the Lavender Villa case on the Internet, he saw a post written by a person who claimed to be an "insider".

The post contained the details of the Lavender Villa case.

So, Kaito Horita contacted the insider and wanted to buy the exclusive information with money to use it for a TV show.

And the video was the scene where he and the insider met in a cafe yesterday.

"... Well, the information looks quite interesting, then I will give you the money according to the price agreed in advance."

"Don't you need to confirm the correctness of this information again?"

"No, no one will investigate whether the words of the 'soul' are correct, as long as they are topical enough..."

The video stopped abruptly.

"Mr. Horita, please explain what's going on."

Rena Mizunashi looked at Kaito Horita and asked righteously.

At this moment, Kaito Horida stood on the stage at a loss, his eyes aimlessly scanning everything in front of him.

He couldn't understand why he, who was originally sure of winning, suddenly had his image fall apart?

In fact, from the very beginning, he fell into the trap set by Qin Zhibo and others.

The program team changed the topic temporarily, and Horida Kaito could not really communicate with spirits, so of course he could only search for some information on the Internet temporarily.

At this time, the sudden appearance of a person claiming to be an insider would definitely make him grab a life-saving straw like a drowning man.

Of course, this "insider" was actually Sera pretending to be.

And the information told to him was also the correct information that was enough to bring down Tokatsu Junya.

In this way, he could fall from the peak to the bottom when he was enjoying the peak moment of victory.

"No, it's not like this..."

"The program shouldn't be like this..."

Hotta Kaito shook his head and kept repeating that he shouldn't be the villain in this program.

But in fact, the original purpose of this program was to expose the hypocritical faces of him and Tokatsu Junya.

Qin Zhibo continued: "It is obvious that Mr. Horita, you can't communicate with spirits at all. The information about the dead that you mentioned was either purchased in this way or made up..."

"Similarly, you used the method of 'communication with spirits' to find the bodies of the dead, and you also found the bodies of the suicides in advance and buried them, pretending that you found them yourself."

"You were afraid that the identities of the suicides would be found out, which would lead to your behavior of burying the bodies being discovered, so you took away the items that could prove the identity of the bodies and the suicide notes..."

Horita Kaito suddenly yelled: "No!"

"I can really communicate with spirits. I found those bodies by talking to the souls of the dead!"

But before he could finish his words, Director Furukuri Sanpei walked onto the stage and stared at Horita Kaito angrily.

"It's you!"

"You found my sister's body in the suburbs two months ago! And you said my sister was murdered!"

"But the police later found a suicide note in my sister's company's computer, and drugs prescribed by the doctor to treat depression!"

"You, a bastard, buried my sister's body there, and used her as a tool for your publicity!"

Furuli Sanpei became more and more excited, and almost rushed up to attack Horida Kaito, but fortunately several colleagues nearby stopped him.

Originally, Horida Kaito wanted to cheat by relying on the lack of direct evidence at the scene.

But as the parties came forward to tell their stories, he had no room to deny it.

In the end, he left the scene sadly amid the boos of the audience.

Today's victory or defeat.

Junya Tokatsu and Horida Kaito were completely defeated.

……

In the hotel room, Horida Kaito stood by the bed, packing his luggage with a gloomy look.

Although it was not the first time he was exposed for perjury, this time was different from the last time, and the impact of the incident was greater.

Moreover, even the matter of burying the bodies of the suicide victims was exposed.

Although the police could not do anything to him for the time being without direct evidence, they would at least ask him about the other unidentified bodies.

Before that, he could only go back to his hometown to hide for a while and wait until the storm was over.

Kaito Horita was born in a small place far away from Tokyo.

Since he was a child, he has been discriminated against and bullied because of his "outstanding" appearance.

When he grew up, he was not very successful in the workplace because of his appearance, and it was difficult for him to find a decent job in the company.

By chance, he saw American psychics performing spiritualism on the Internet, and even appeared on TV shows and became local celebrities.

In the American concept, the indigenous people of that land - Indians often have mysterious powers that cannot be explained by common sense.

Just like the stereotype that "Chinese people all know kung fu".

Coupled with the concept that "strange people have their own unique appearance", Kaito Horita found a track that really suits him.

So, he began to perform psychic skills on the Internet, learning from American psychic masters in every move.

But even so, there was no response at first.

Until he realized that he could combine psychic skills with the most popular detective culture at the time to create the image of a "soul detective".

In this way, the soul detective Kaito Horita appeared.

Although he didn't know how to solve cases, he could accumulate believers by using the voice of the deceased's soul to tell some things that outsiders didn't know.

In addition, he occasionally pretended to be a ghost, and also gained a lot of fans on the Internet.

But with the collapse of this persona, his basic calculation on the Internet was completely over.

In this era, a new way of playing "black and red" was not developed, and there was no way to use influence to live broadcast and sell goods.

As long as no one believes in his psychic skills anymore, his value will no longer exist.

A fake psychic master is even worse than a fake kung fu master, and he doesn't even have the opportunity to go to a bar show.

But fortunately, he has saved a lot of money over the years...

While packing his luggage, Kaito Horita fantasized about living a comfortable life without fighting with the world after returning to his hometown.

It is not impossible that he can change his name and become a "detective" again after a few years.

At the same time, Kaito Horida did not notice that the wardrobe behind him was quietly pushed open from the inside.

Bang!

…

When Kaito Horida slowly opened his eyes, his hands and feet were tied to the chair.

"Answer my question..."

"If you say one more word, you're dead."

Kaito Horida turned his head in shock to look in the direction of the voice, but found that a black gun muzzle was pointed at the side of his forehead.

The man holding the gun was not masked and looked like a man in black with slightly longer hair.

"Who are you?"

Keito Hotta asked the other party tremblingly.

But what answered him were not words, but the overwhelming sound of the pistol hammer, which was the signal to switch the pistol to the bullet-ready state.

Hotta Kaito immediately understood what this meant and quickly shut up.

The next second, the man asked coldly: "What do you know about the Haneda Koji case?"

"The Haneda Koji case?"

Hotta Kaito was confused for a moment. He originally thought it was the family members of the corpse who had watched this program and came to seek revenge from him.

It turned out that he was here to inquire about the Haneda Koji case.

"I, I don't know much..."

"I only heard that the bodyguard following Amanda, Asaka... is a woman..."

"Before she disappeared, she was holding a woman's makeup mirror..."

"What else?"

The man's voice was extremely cold, and the muzzle of the gun in his hand came closer.

This time, Hota Kaito was so frightened that his expression became even more out of control, and even his crotch began to feel a little wet.

"Also, there are still some people who have entered Amanda's room...the leader of the man is a bald guy..."

"Where did you get this situation?" the man then asked.

The muscles on Hota Keito's face began to twitch, and his voice began to break.

"It's a witness..."

"A guy wearing glasses and glasses..."

"female……"

Hotta Keito's voice became lower and lower, until his head tilted and his wide eyes completely lost all life.

The man looked at the violently dead Keito Hotta without any emotion on his face.

He put away the pistol calmly, then took out his cell phone and sent a text message.

[Rum, goal solved]

After sending the text message, the man cleaned up the scene, opened the door and left the room.

…

"cheers!"

"cheers!"

In a Chinese restaurant near the TV station, Qin Zhibo, Sera Masumi, and Koshimi Nanatsuki toasted in celebration.

"At that time Junya Toki was finished, and the discussion about the Lavender Villa case had already spread on the Internet..."

Sera said excitedly, picking up a piece of Mapo tofu and stuffing it into his mouth.

Nanatsuki Koshizui, who was sitting next to him, had a smile on his lips. He turned to Sera and thanked him: "Thanks to your help this time, otherwise that guy would definitely continue to be arrogant..."

"Haha~"

Sera patted Koshimi Nanatsuki on the shoulder, "What can I thank you for? Aren't we friends?"

Hearing this, Koshimizu Nanatsuki felt a warm feeling in his heart.

"But I never thought that you were a female high school student..."

"Haha~" Seriang smiled heartily again, "People often mistake my gender, I'm used to it~"

"Yeah?"

Koshimi Nanatsuki also smiled playfully, "Actually, I am often mistaken by others..."

Qin Zhibo looked at the two people across the table who were exchanging experiences in this area, with a smile on his lips.

At this moment, the phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

Somewhat surprisingly, the call turned out to be from Officer Megure.

"Brother Qin, where are you?"

"Come on, Keito Hotta is dead..."