Tokyo: Rabbit Police and Her Evil Partner

Chapter 99 Werewolf Killing
Of course, Kazama Takusai would not agree to such a bet. He is not the director, so how could he have the authority to give his subordinates a holiday? It would be good enough if Fushimi Shika could stop working overtime!
As a senior, Takusai Kazama felt that he had the responsibility to say a few words.

It's not to criticize and educate Fushimi Shika. It would be meaningless even if he was scolded to death now. Kazama Takusai planned to teach him "how to correctly investigate the crime scene"... Although he is not good at collecting evidence, he still has the ability to restore the scene.

"Who has the final say on this case? I am the chief investigator, and I have the final say on how the case is investigated!"

Although Fushimi Shika had never seen Yamaguchi Takashi's face to make things difficult for Minamoto Tamako, he was convinced that all crows are evil. He refuted the question with a convincing argument, then changed the subject and said, "If you are willing to take my place for a month, I can let you help with the case."

Takusa Kazama originally wanted to refuse, but Fushimi Shika persuaded him. After all, before he and Minamoto Tamako came, Takusa Kazama and Watanabe Shun had always been in charge of patrolling - thinking on the bright side, don't they have an extra labor force, Minamoto Tamako?
"Ok."

Takusai Kazama reluctantly agreed, and then he asked Fushimi Shika how he planned to investigate. Putting aside the identity of the deceased and external pressure, this case itself is a bit strange - how did the murderer poison in public?
According to his idea, the first step should be to observe the symptoms of poisoning on the corpse, roughly guess the type of poison, and then try to restore the scene, not ruling out the possibility that the woman in kimono poisoned it in advance...

"No need to check." said Fushimi Shika.

"What not to check?" Kazama Takusai really didn't understand.

"Literally, I won't investigate anything," Fushimi said with his arms folded across his chest, and said seriously, "This is my original 'Fushimi Investigation Method'. It captures the 'murderous aura' of the real murderer through the perception of spirituality..."

"What the hell are you talking about?" interrupted Takusai Kazama.

Fushimi Shika sighed, thinking that this world was just a huge source of Tamako. He, the great Detective Fushimi, had finally gone out to investigate personally, but there was this idiot who didn't understand the situation and insisted on interfering.

"Then let me ask you, since we can't leave the room, how can we collect evidence at the scene? Even if you infer the key evidence and find the murder weapon, how can you prove that the murder weapon is the murder weapon?"

Fushimi Kazuka spread his hands and said, "There are no forensic officers here. Even if you find the murderer's fingerprints, who can prove that the two fingerprints are from the same person? People who are involved in the mafia can't understand these things. If you say the fingerprints are the same, then they are the same?"

Kazama Takusai vaguely understood what he meant.

"This isn't an investigation. This is just a game of Werewolf. Don't ask me what Werewolf means. I'm too lazy to explain it to you."

Fushimi Shika paused, leaned closer to the gap in the screen, observed the 'suspect' under the candlelight, and continued: "The bald man is the judge, and the other Inagawa-kai officials are both suspects and jurors."

“There are a thousand truths among a thousand people, but there is only one fact. The job of the police is to investigate the ‘facts’, while the job of the lawyer is to pick out the truth that is beneficial to the client from among the thousand truths, and use this truth to convince the judge and jury, so that it becomes a legally established fact.”

"Now do you understand? Even if you put the 'facts' in front of them, they won't believe it. We can only listen to everyone's opinions and make up a 'truth' that everyone believes in based on the consensus of the majority. Just like in Werewolf, we vote the players out - as for who the real murderer is, it doesn't matter at all."

Takusai Kazama wanted to say that this was a crooked way of doing things, but after thinking about it for a moment, he realized that this was the fact at the moment.

If Gen Tamako was present, she would definitely do everything she could to find out the fair 'facts', and she herself would be able to do this with her excellent reasoning ability... Kazama Takusai finally understood why Gen Tamako always liked to stick with Fushimi Shika.

"According to what you said, everything is back to square one, right? Those Yakuza must be of one mind, thinking that we are the murderer..."

"That's because you're not good at making up stories," Fushimi Shika retracted his gaze and sat up straight, "A true master can manipulate the truth at will."

This sentence was like a flash of lightning, exploding in Takusai Kazama's heart. He suddenly recalled the initial Tianfa case, from the death of Nagano Kawai, to the hard-to-verify evidence, and finally the local newspaper announcing the 'truth' - perhaps his intuition had never been wrong.

"What are you looking at? Isn't it just a substitute shift for a month?"

Fushimi Shika realized that he seemed to have let something slip, so he immediately confused the audience and began to chant evilly: "After all, I risked my life to come here to investigate in order to save Senior Watanabe. I thought you and I should be in the same boat, but I didn't expect you to look at me like this... Can this society ever be better? How can small patrolmen like us live to satisfy you?"

Kazama Takusai's magic immunity is higher than that of Gen Tamako, and the tricks he used once were no longer effective, which made him more suspicious. The expression on his face seemed to say "I will just watch you perform quietly", which made Fushimi Shika feel uncomfortable.

Fushimi Shika coughed dryly and changed the subject abruptly: "Since there is no objection, let's prepare to begin the interrogation. Just keep quiet and take notes on the side."

"I didn't bring a pen." said Takusai Kazama.

"You didn't bring a pen? How could you, a policeman, not bring a pen? That's like a soldier going to the battlefield without a gun... Never mind, I won't say more. Just reflect on yourself."

Fushimi Shika asked the bald man for paper and pen and officially began the interrogation.

The second person he interrogated was the young man who was shouting the loudest. Before the other person even sat down, he started to find fault with him: "Are you two in the same group?"

"He just helped me record it. All the conversations during the interrogation will be recorded. Both parties will sign and seal it after confirming that it is correct," Fushimi Shika smiled and made a gesture of invitation: "Please sit down."

"Then how can I be sure that you won't change the contents of the transcript?" The young man sat down cross-legged.

"In duplicate, you can take one copy of the transcript away after the interrogation is over." Fushimi Shika replied.

The young man curled his lips, showing disdain, and finally said nothing more. Fushimi Shika sat up straight, put his hands on the table, and said in a calm tone: "Well, now let's start the interrogation... Please introduce yourself, suspect."

"Suspect? Are you saying I killed my father? You—"

Fushimi Shika leaned over and said, "Remember, the suspect is emotionally agitated and refuses to answer."

"Hey! What are you writing? You... My name is Yuhiro Inagawa, okay?" He glared at me, "Stop writing on that piece of paper!"

Fushimi Shika smiled and responded: "Don't worry, didn't I just say that? The contents of the transcript will be checked by both parties in the end. If you feel that the record is biased, we can discuss deleting some unimportant content!"

"That's more like it." Yuhiro Inagawa snorted coldly.

Takusai Kazama was writing down the information on the paper. Even he could see that the 'young master' of the Inagawa Society was a simple-minded guy, and he might be able to use him as a breakthrough to extract valuable information.

(End of this chapter)