The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

Jiang Hang could only smile wryly and shrug at her, indicating that he was powerless to help. He figured Conan must have shared half of his death aura with him.

In comparison, this was the first time that Midori Imai, a college student, had ever witnessed such a scene.

Previously, she had only imagined the crime scene based on the descriptions of Jiang Hang and Shizuka Sakaki. At most, she had seen some artificially created injuries on the set of a tokusatsu film. She had never actually seen a corpse fall from the sky in front of her.

Therefore, among the six girls present, Midori Imai had the strongest reaction, and it seemed that she had been vomiting for quite some time.

Looking at Imai Midori's appearance, Jiang Hang couldn't help but think of himself and Sakaki Shizuka when he first entered this industry.

He gradually got used to being tricked by the system countless times while learning those messy skills in the system space, while Shizuka Sakaki and the others gradually adjusted and adapted through case after case.

Seeing such a horrific crime scene at such close range, even with meditation, it wouldn't be easy to get a good night's sleep.

With that thought to himself, Jiang Hang walked over to Officer Sakata and scanned every detail of the body with Eagle Vision for a year, while asking about the examination results.

Officer Sakata recounted his findings in detail.

"The murder weapon used to kill the victim was likely a rope. The suspect first strangled the person with the rope, then used this knife to pierce through the wallet and stab the victim in the chest..." At this point, Officer Sakata glanced hesitantly at Jiang Hang and Hattori Heiji, seemingly unsure whether to reveal more detailed information.

Hattori Heiji nodded directly to Sakata Yusuke: "Now that Jiang Hang is involved in this case, let's just tell him everything."

After receiving Hattori Heiji's approval, Sakata Yusuke then revealed the secrets of the case to Jiang Hang.

"A serial murder case?" Upon hearing this familiar term, Jiang Hang couldn't help but frown.

What a coincidence!

Having just solved the internal serial murder case of Genji Hotaru in Kyoto, he is now on vacation in Osaka when a new serial murder case occurs.

Why does it feel like things are even more chaotic and stressful in the Kansai region than in Tokyo?

Jiang Hang wiped his forehead. He had sensed something was wrong when he heard about the murder case from Hattori Heiji this morning.

However, he suppressed his curiosity and, in order to avoid getting into trouble, never asked Hattori Heiji what was going on.

Only a few hours have passed, and it has actually come true.

Including this case, this is the third murder case with the same manner of death in Osaka recently.

The killer would always use a knife to pierce the victim's wallet before stabbing them in the chest to kill them.

Because the police did not specify the exact cause of death when they reported the case, the Osaka Police Headquarters classified the second case with similar modus operandi as a serial murder case after the police discovered it.

The reason why Officer Sakata was several hours late this morning was because an emergency meeting was held this morning to deal with this serial murder case.

Unexpectedly, while the Osaka police were still investigating the connection between the victims of the previous two murder cases, a third case with the same modus operandi appeared not long after.

"Stab the wallet?" Upon hearing the killer's unique method of murder, Jiang Hang pondered for a moment. If he were to simply follow the clue of the wallet, he could only think that the victim owed the killer a large sum of money, which was why the killer would use such an obvious object as a mark.

However, the Japanese police are not stupid. If these victims had any financial dealings with the same person, the Japanese police would probably be waiting at their doorsteps to arrest them on the spot, instead of holding an emergency meeting early this morning to discuss the case.

There's no way to tell anything from the method of the crime, and the victim's body was very clean.

With the basic criminal investigation skills that Jiang Hang learned from the system, he could roughly analyze the murderer's physique from the corpse's resistance and the angle of the wound when it pierced the victim's chest.

Unfortunately, the murderer's physique was nothing special; he was between 1.7 and 1.8 meters tall, not particularly muscular, but likely an adult male who regularly exercised.

Most importantly, he had a good understanding of criminal investigation, and after killing someone, he was able to deliberately remove many of the traces left on the victim's body, which greatly increased the workload of the police.

"He's an experienced criminal, so the key to this case is still the connection between these victims and the source of that mysterious phone call?"

Jiang Hang analyzed this in a low voice, but the former required investigating the people and things these people had come into contact with before their deaths, while the latter was much more difficult, something that could be done with just an anonymous phone card.

Even taking into account the fact that the perpetrator wanted to provoke the police, at most we can only conclude that the perpetrator was probably not far from the crime scene at the time of the incident and could clearly see where the police cars were parked.

Verifying all these aspects is not a task that one person can easily accomplish.

As the police, who had received the emergency call, gradually arrived at the scene and cordoned it off, Jiang Hang shrugged at the girls standing nearby.

Previously, they rode in police cars for tourism; now, they have to go to the police station to give statements.

"So, our Osaka trip is over again? You, the great detective, are going to follow Hattori Heiji to find the truth of the case again?" As they got into the police car, Miyano Shiho said to Jiang Hang with a hint of sarcasm.

Jiang Hang scratched his head, looking slightly embarrassed: "I will assist the Osaka police in solving this case as soon as possible, and then we can make up for the time we spent on this case."

"What if new cases come up later? Are we just going to keep investigating them like this?" Shiho Miyano gave Jiang Hang a speechless look.

Jiang Hang wanted to explain a few more words, but Hattori Heiji suddenly seemed to have noticed something among the onlookers and ran after him into the crowd.

"Hey, ma'am, wait a minute!"

As Hattori Heiji shouted this, Jiang Hang looked in the direction Hattori Heiji was chasing and saw a middle-aged father and daughter, around forty years old, fleeing the crime scene in a panic. They even got into their car before Hattori Heiji could catch up with them, stepped on the gas, and left Hattori Heiji behind.

Because Heiji Hattori acted so suddenly, even the police officers hadn't had time to react.

By the time they realized something was wrong with the woman, it was too late to give chase; she and her car had already disappeared around the corner.

It wasn't until Hattori Heiji returned, looking somewhat helpless, that Jiang Hang asked him, "Is there something wrong with that woman?"

Hattori Heiji hesitated and shook his head: "I can't quite put my finger on it, but I sensed that she seemed particularly afraid when she looked at the corpse."

He pointed to the crowd of onlookers around him. Some of them were gossiping, some, like Midori Imai, felt physically uncomfortable after seeing the corpse and quickly left, and there were even some who were standing on tiptoe just to get a glimpse of the dead body.

But fear is a dominant emotion on a woman's face unless the deceased is related to her or she knows the cause of death.

Hearing this, Jiang Hang frowned. According to the usual pattern of this kind of mystery, the person who reacted like this at the crime scene would most likely become the next person targeted by the murderer and killed.

"However, I've already noted down the woman's license plate number. As long as she's driving her own car, we'll be able to find out her identity quickly. Anyway, let's go to the Higashijiri Precinct and wait for further news."

Chapter 379: Chapter 375: Shiho Miyano used her ability to see through things.

At the Higashijiri Precinct, after Jiang Hang and his team, who were involved in the serial murder case, briefly explained the incident to the Osaka police, the Osaka police, with the approval of their superiors, released more detailed information about the case to Jiang Hang.

The time and place of death of the three victims, the eyewitness report left by the first person to discover the bodies, and the seemingly unrelated identity information of the three deceased.

The first victim was the convenience store manager, the second victim was the owner of an izakaya (Japanese pub), and the third victim, who was smashed on the police car, was a taxi driver.

Their residences, main activity areas, and recent phone call records did not overlap with those of the other two individuals.

Based on the current police investigation, the killer seems to be the kind of psychopath who randomly targets people in deserted areas.

However, the woman Hattori Heiji encountered at the crime scene who looked terrified and hurriedly drove away might be a breakthrough.

If we can find that woman's whereabouts, we might be able to learn the secrets of this serial murder case from her.

The license plate number provided by Heiji Hattori has already been used by the officers of the investigation department to investigate the woman's identity. It's estimated that they will find out her identity information soon.

What they need to do now is to protect this woman before the murderer finds her.

But Officer Sakata is in a much worse situation now.

They borrowed the best police car from the police station to entertain guests, but in just one afternoon, the perfectly good police car was damaged by a corpse.

After this incident, Officer Sakata will have to write a report to the police station explaining the cause of the police car damage, and he probably won't have much of his attendance bonus left this month.

But Officer Sakata still seems relatively optimistic, and is seriously discussing with his colleagues in the First Investigation Division whether the victim could possibly be connected to the previous two victims.

To be honest, the police are indeed much faster at doing these things than the two detective assistants, Shizuka Sakaki and Yuno Koharu.

Jiang Hang was still listening to his assistants analyze the murderer's motives when Officer Sakata excitedly came to Hattori Heiji's side with a videotape.

"We've found it! We've just discovered the first connection between these victims."

As he said this, he plugged the videotape into the television next to him and started playing the news from it.

That was a news report about officials suspected of embezzlement and bribery.

As a native of Osaka, and with his father being the head of the Osaka Police Headquarters, Hattori Heiji was somewhat familiar with this kind of news.

After just a quick glance, he recalled the details of the news report and explained it to Shizuka Sakaki and the others who were looking somewhat confused.

"The person reported in the news is Sotaro Goji, a current member of the Osaka Prefectural Assembly. This is the first scandal he has encountered since he entered politics, which happened six years ago."

"Anyway, I remember that the news eventually fizzled out with the guy shifting the blame to his secretary."

Hattori Heiji said this, then looked at Officer Sakata beside him, wanting him to continue explaining the connection between the news from six years ago and this serial murder case.

Officer Sakata nodded and continued explaining, picking up where Hattori Heiji left off: "That's right. According to our comparison, the secretary that Goji Sotaro fired was the first victim in this murder case, Nagao Hidetoshi."

He found a spot to pause the videotape, then pointed to the secretary in the news footage who was blocking the reporters from approaching.

Jiang Hang compared the photos of the people in the news with those of the deceased.

Six years have passed. After leaving politics, Hidetoshi Nagao lost his original spirit. Six years seemed to have passed for him as if sixteen years had gone by. At first glance, he was almost unrecognizable as the same person.

Seeing everyone comparing the deceased's appearance now with that of six years ago, Officer Sakata paused for a moment before continuing, "Then there's the victim in today's case, Noyasu Kazuto."

He pointed to the man sitting in the driver's seat in the videotape.

The man who drove Goji Sotaro in the news is the same person who fell into the police car today!

Because the other party was just an ordinary driver, six years had not left many marks on his face, and everyone quickly confirmed this after Officer Sakata pointed it out.

"Until four years ago, Kazuto Noya, who was killed today, was the personal driver of Councilor Kazuhito. However, he resigned four years ago for some unknown reason and became a taxi driver until now."

At this point, Officer Sakata scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly: "However, we haven't been able to find a second victim who is connected to them yet."

"But I think the two victims in this case used to work as a driver and secretary for the same politician, so perhaps the izakaya owner also had some connection with that politician..."

"The senior officers at the police station are already investigating this matter, and it seems they are preparing to go directly to the township councilor to inquire about the case."

Upon hearing Officer Sakata's words, Hattori Heiji spread his hands: "But I heard that Councilor Goji has never had a good attitude towards the police. You have no evidence right now, so even if you go there, he won't see you."

Officer Sakata gave a wry smile: "But no matter what, this is the only useful clue our police have found so far."

"If all else fails, I'll have to report this to my superiors and see if there's anything they can do."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Hang rested his chin on his hand and pondered for a moment. He was a politician who disliked the police.

In addition to the bribery scandal that occurred six years ago, he is now involved in this serial murder case, so he is probably not a good person.

If the police really run into a wall with that congressman, then he can find time tonight to "sneak" into that guy's house, drug him a bit, and force him to tell the truth.

Anyway, he's not exactly a proper detective; those seemingly unconventional methods are his usual approach.

Unaware that Jiang Hang was about to make a move, Officer Sakata shook his head helplessly. He seemed to remember something and started talking to Hattori Heiji about the woman who had escaped from the scene.

"By the way, I've already found out the identity of the woman you asked me to investigate through her license plate."

“That woman’s name is Sumie Okazaki. She’s 39 years old and currently divorced and single. According to the information on her driver’s license, she lives in the Saito Apartments, which isn’t far from here. I can tell you’re quite concerned about her, Heiji. Shall we go check on her first?”

Upon hearing this, Hattori Heiji, who had been pondering his next move, immediately perked up.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's contact her right away. I feel the key to this case lies with her!"

Seeing that everyone's eyes were on him, Officer Sakata nodded somewhat hurriedly, took out his phone, and dialed the number the woman had left when she took her driver's license test, putting it on speakerphone.