Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Inspector Megure initially believed that Otsuka deliberately ran over Mr. Arai because he harbored resentment over his wife's infidelity and being fired by Mr. Arai.

But I never imagined that there was such a sordid entanglement between Otsuka and Mrs. Arai.

After he came to his senses, he abruptly stood up, placed his hands on the interrogation table, and stared intently at Otsuka.

"What did you just say? Say it again!"

After Otsuka said that, his emotions instantly calmed down a bit.

Perhaps realizing he had said something he shouldn't have, or perhaps intimidated by Inspector Megure's piercing gaze,
He abruptly lowered his head, avoiding Inspector Megure's gaze, his tone becoming flustered, and he kept making excuses.
"I...I didn't say anything! You must have misheard me!"

He wanted to deny it, to dismiss the words he had just blurted out as mere angry outbursts and gloss over them.

"You think you can get away with this?"

Upon seeing this, Inspector Megure's lips curled into a cold, mocking smile.

“Otsuka, you’re too naive. This is the Metropolitan Police Department. The interrogation room is recording audio and video the whole time. Every word you just said has been clearly recorded. Do you think you can deny it?”

After saying that, Inspector Megure clapped his hands vigorously.

In the adjacent observation room, the officer in charge of operating the equipment immediately understood and quickly pressed the play button.

The next second, a clear voice came from the loudspeaker in the interrogation room, repeating the conversation between Otsuka and Inspector Megure.

"So what if he slept with my wife? I slept with his wife too!"

"We're even now!"

Hearing his own hysterical roar, Otsuka's body froze instantly, and his lips began to tremble slightly.

"Now that the evidence is irrefutable, do you still want to deny it?"

Inspector Megure pressed closer and closer.
"Otsuka, tell me honestly, what exactly is your relationship with Mrs. Arai?"

"Was there some kind of deal? Did Mrs. Arai instruct you to deliberately run over Mr. Arai to death?"

Otsuka was left breathless from Inspector Megure's interrogation.

He abruptly raised his head, his face contorted in a ferocious expression, and roared angrily.

"So what if I slept with her? That bastard Arai can sleep with my wife and ruin my family, so why can't I sleep with his wife? What's wrong with that!"

His voice was hoarse, filled with hysterical madness, as if he wanted to vent all his grievances and anger.

"Heh," Inspector Megure sneered, his eyes full of disdain. "You're just a lowly driver, ugly and uncouth, penniless and unattractive. Mrs. Arai is beautiful, elegant, and neither blind nor insane. Why would she willingly sleep with you?"

Do you think we'd believe your nonsense?

He paused, then leaned forward again, his tone becoming even more stern as he pressed for answers, enunciating each word carefully.

"Speak quickly! Is there some kind of deal between you two?"

"Did Mrs. Arai make a deal with you in exchange for sleeping with Mr. Arai, so that you would deliberately run him over and kill him? Confess now!"

"No! I didn't blackmail her!"

Enraged by Inspector Megure's words, Otsuka struggled frantically, his handcuffs scraping against the chair with a harsh sound, his voice filled with anger and resentment.

"She asked to sleep with me on her own initiative! There was no deal involved! I didn't blackmail her at all; she brought it up herself!"

These words caused another deathly silence to fall over the interrogation room. Inspector Megure froze, his eyes widening in disbelief.

He never expected that Otsuka would say such a thing.

Was the improper relationship between the two initiated by Mrs. Arai?
In the observation room next door, everyone was stunned, speechless for a long time.

"This...how is this possible?" Kogoro Mori muttered blankly, "Has Mrs. Arai lost her mind?" He was interrupted halfway through his sentence by Ruri, who nudged him with her elbow in annoyance.

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Liuli glared at him, but her eyes were full of confusion.

She truly couldn't believe that Mrs. Arai, such a gentle and elegant person, would do such a thing.

"I guess it's for revenge."

Yukiko tilted her head and thought for a moment, reasoning according to her own logic, "After learning that her husband had betrayed her, Mrs. Arai must have been very angry and heartbroken."

"To get revenge on Mr. Arai, she... she took the initiative to have sex with Otsuka, so that her husband could also experience the feeling of being cheated on."

After she finished speaking, she nodded to herself with self-affirmation, feeling that her reasoning was very reasonable.

“What kind of logic is this…” Eri Kisaki frowned, somewhat puzzled.

As a future top lawyer, she tends to think more rationally and logically, and finds such emotionally driven behavior difficult to understand.

"Won't this kind of revenge just hurt yourself?"

Orikasa Midori was also somewhat confused, her clear eyes filled with bewilderment.

"Using self-harm as a way to retaliate against others, that's..."

"Okay, stop arguing."

Lin Xiuyi interrupted the others' discussion, his gaze never leaving Otsuka in the interrogation room.
"Keep listening."

……

In the interrogation room, Inspector Megure clearly did not believe Otsuka's words.

"Look at yourself in the mirror."

He sneered and pointed to the stainless steel panel in the corner of the interrogation room. While not as clear as a mirror, it still reflected a blurry image.
"How could a woman like Mrs. Arai possibly come looking for you on her own initiative? Do you think we're three-year-olds?"

"I'm not lying!" Otsuka roared in despair.

He took a deep breath and began to recount what had happened that day.

"It was indeed I who kidnapped Mrs. Arai that day."

“I’ve been following her for several days and I know she goes out to buy groceries every morning.”

"That morning, I took advantage of her not paying attention and pulled her into my van."

"Then I took her to the harbor, where I had rented a yacht in advance."

He paused, then continued,
“I took her on the yacht and out to sea. Once we were out at sea, there was water all around, so she couldn’t escape, and no one could hear her if she shouted.”

"Then I told him about that bastard Arai and my wife."

At this point, a twisted sense of pleasure appeared on Otsuka's face.

“I told her that her husband slept with my wife. During the two weeks my wife was away on a business trip, the two of them were together every day. I even showed her the photos.”

Inspector Megure didn't interrupt him; he just listened quietly.

"I originally intended to use Arai's wife to extort money from that bastard Arai."

Otsuka continued, his voice filled with resentment.

“I called him and said I had kidnapped his wife and that if he wanted her alive, he should pay the ransom. Fifty million is a huge sum for me, but it shouldn't be much to him.” (End of Chapter)