Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 390 The Kidnapper with Unique Sexual Fetishes

"you."

Lin Xiuyi's brows furrowed almost into a knot. He followed the two police officers' gaze to the high school girls chatting and laughing inside the window, and his voice suddenly turned cold.

"You don't mean you want Eri and Yukiko to go, do you?"

“We have no choice,” Officer Matsumoto said with a helpless expression. “There are no female officers in the First Division at all. Other divisions may have one or two, but they are all middle-aged women who are over the legal age.”

“After we got back last night, we asked around everywhere, but we couldn’t find a suitable candidate,” Inspector Megure added.

Lin Xiuyi took a deep breath, and the aroma of food in the night breeze suddenly became pungent, like some kind of ominous premonition.

He stared into the eyes of the two officers and said, slowly and deliberately, "I disagree with this matter."

“Lin-kun…” Officer Matsumoto took a step forward, raising his hand slightly as if to pat Lin’s shoulder, but then stopped in mid-air.

“If it’s something without danger, then it’s fine to ask Eri and the others for help,” Lin Xiuyi’s voice grew colder and colder, “but the case you’re talking about is clearly very dangerous.”

His gaze swept back and forth across the two officers' faces, capturing every subtle change in their expressions.

"If I'm not mistaken, besides trying to lure out the criminal, you also want her to fake her kidnapping so you can find the criminal's hideout and see if you can rescue the other two kidnapped girls, right?"

The two remained silent and did not answer. Inspector Megure awkwardly tugged at his tie, while Inspector Matsumoto stared down at the worn tips of his leather shoes.

This silent response was clearly an admission.

"Don't go looking for Yingli and the others alone," Lin Xiuyi warned the two of them coldly. "If you go looking for them behind my back, I will make you regret it."

After saying that, he turned around and wanted to go back to the izakaya.

"Lin Jun, do you think I want them to take such risks?"

Officer Matsumoto suddenly raised his voice, his tone filled with suppressed anger and helplessness.

"The reason why the two of us left without saying anything yesterday was because we didn't want them to get involved!"

His fist slammed heavily on the hood of the police car, making a dull thud.

“If there were any other way, we wouldn’t be here.”

“Matsumoto-senpai is right…we really have no other choice.”

Inspector Megure looked worried, and the muscles in his face twitched involuntarily.

"We still have no clue about the two missing girls. We don't even know if they are still alive."

"If their deaths were due to the police's failure to provide timely rescue, I..."

Their words were like invisible chains, holding Lin Xiuyi back.

He stopped at the entrance of the izakaya, and after a moment slowly turned around.

"Do you have the case files? Let me take a look."

“Here it is,” Inspector Megure breathed a sigh of relief and quickly turned around to take a bulging file bag from the police car.

Lin Xiuyi opened the file bag and began to carefully read through it.

The two missing girls are named Mizuki Oi and Haruko Iguchi.

According to the information, the two girls attend different high schools; the former is a sophomore, while the latter is a freshman.

The two girls took the same tram after school and both disappeared on their way home after getting off. Mizuo Oi was the first to go missing, and she has been missing for a week.

In the photo, she has long, glossy black hair, almond-shaped eyes with a hint of arrogance, and a slight upturn at the corners of her mouth, as if she is showing disdain to the camera.

Haruko Iguchi went missing three days ago, on Friday after school.

In her photo, her slightly protruding front teeth and round face make her look younger than her actual age, with a lively smile on her face.

Lin Xiuyi noticed that the two girls came from ordinary families; they were neither rich nor poor, just typical middle-class families.

When the police first learned of their disappearance, they thought the two women had been kidnapped and that the kidnappers would definitely demand a ransom. So they kept an eye on the two families' phone calls and the surrounding area.

Unexpectedly, since the two girls went missing, the people who kidnapped them have never contacted their families.

“We believe that the suspect who kidnapped the two women may not have been after money,” Officer Matsumoto said in a deep voice, “but rather to sexually assault them and then kill them to silence them after he had his way with them.”

"Knowing it's so dangerous, why did you still come looking for Yingli and the others?" Lin Xiuyi snorted coldly, unable to help but clench the file bag tightly.

Knowing they were in the wrong, Officer Matsumoto and Officer Megure remained silent.

"Both of these girls have boyfriends?"

Lin Xiuyi suddenly asked, his finger hovering over a line of text in the document.

“That’s right,” Inspector Megure nodded affirmatively. “The two girls’ boyfriends usually rode the train with them to and from school. It was through their boyfriends’ testimonies that we were able to roughly determine the location where the two girls were kidnapped.”

"sexual assault..."

Lin Xiuyi muttered to himself, carefully comparing the photos of the two girls.

The photos provided by the police are all candid shots. Mizuki Koi is beautiful, tall, and has long, straight black hair.

The other girl, Haruko Iguchi, can only be described as cute, but she is less than 1.5 meters tall and has obvious buck teeth.

"Can the same prisoner choose such different victims?" Lin Xiuyi frowned, her fingers unconsciously tapping on the folder.

"What?" Inspector Megure looked completely bewildered.

Officer Matsumoto nodded: "I've thought about this before. Of the two missing girls, Mizuo Oi is indeed much prettier."

He touched the stubble that had sprouted on his chin.

“If the criminal kidnapped the less attractive Haruko Iguchi during his first crime, and then kidnapped the more attractive Mizuo Koi after gaining criminal experience, it would make sense.”

"But it's not quite right to kidnap a pretty one first, and then kidnap an unattractive one later."

Officer Matsumoto's voice grew softer and softer until it was almost a soliloquy.

"Could it be that the criminal just likes Haruko Iguchi?" Inspector Megure interjected. "According to her classmates, Haruko Iguchi is lively and helpful. Although she's not very pretty, she's very popular at school."

"Oi Mizuki is the opposite of her. Although she is beautiful, she has a cold personality and doesn't get along well with her classmates at school."

“Sexual assault isn’t like dating,” Officer Matsumoto shook his head. “When criminals choose their victims, they certainly don’t pay attention to personality.”

As he spoke, he pulled a crumpled pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took one out and put it in his mouth, but hesitated to light it.

Lin Xiuyi was about to nod in agreement, but stopped halfway through the action...

(End of this chapter)