The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

The condition of the digestive residue in the deceased's stomach can help determine the exact time of death.

According to the witness statement provided by Miwako Sato, the suspect, Higashida, went directly to the bar to drink after get off work in the evening and didn't leave until after 10 p.m. before being taken home.

If a normal person eats dinner at 6 o'clock, by 10 o'clock, almost four hours have passed, and the food in the deceased's stomach should have been almost completely digested or only a little bit of residue left.

However, based on the current situation, there is a lot of residue in the deceased's stomach, and it is even relatively easy to distinguish what the deceased ate for his last meal.

In other words, the deceased likely died within two hours of eating her dinner.

Unless the deceased, Ms. Muranishi, ate dinner around 8 or 9 p.m. that night, the remains found in her stomach would be the best alibi for Higashida.

If Higashida didn't have the opportunity to commit the crime, then according to Higashida, Kitagawa, who was on leave from work that day, would suddenly become the prime suspect most likely to commit the crime.

If Conan can find the surveillance footage of Kitagawa buying curtains and bedding, and the police can investigate the true relationship between Kitagawa and the deceased, they can arrest Kitagawa directly.

Chapter 421: Chapter 417: The Mystery of the Goldfish in the Mouth?

However, although the time of death can be determined relatively accurately based on the contents of the stomach and other traces on the body, the autopsy obviously does not end there.

The police and detectives had already ruled out Higashida as a suspect at this point and could use that information to question Kitagawa about his alibi at that time. But for the forensic doctor, there was more to it than that.

To reconstruct the deceased's information as thoroughly as possible before death, including their physical condition, what they ate, and their physical reactions before death, is what a qualified forensic doctor should do.

Seeing that the other party was still constantly asking for various tools and carefully examining the corpse in front of him, Jiang Hang didn't say anything more, but continued to cooperate with the other party to complete the next autopsy.

With Jiang Hang's assistance, Asagi's workload was naturally reduced considerably. However, he did not remain idle; instead, he continued to make anatomical records in his notebook as the Nakado system dissected the body.

If it's just a simple external examination of the body, the process is naturally very simple. For a senior forensic doctor like Nakado, it only takes about ten minutes to examine the condition of a body's external organs and skin.

However, because they now need to perform detailed autopsies on the bodies, the time required has naturally increased exponentially.

By the time the autopsy was completed, it was already past midnight.

Of course, that's not all. The various components extracted from the body need to be further tested and recorded before they can be submitted as a formal autopsy report.

Generally, this kind of examination process takes two or three days, but the police don't have to wait that long. After confirming the discrepancy between the deceased's time of death and Higashida's movement trajectory, Conan should have also discovered a lot of useful clues. Inspector Megure has already hurriedly applied for a search warrant to prepare to cause trouble for Kitagawa.

What happened next was naturally none of Jiang Hang's business. After learning the time of death, Inspector Megure and Miwako Sato quickly said goodbye to Jiang Hang and the others before driving away. It was clear that tonight would be another night of overtime.

"The police are really working hard. I hope they can find the real culprit tonight so that Mr. Higashida can attend his daughter's wedding smoothly," Asagi sighed softly as he watched the police leave.

"You've all worked hard. If it weren't for your help, finding a forensic doctor to assist at this time wouldn't be easy," Jiang Hang nodded to Asagi and Nakado, expressing his gratitude. "Are you hungry now? Would you like to go get some late-night snacks? I'll treat you to something nice."

Asagi waved his hand, indicating that it wasn't necessary. After all, it was already past midnight, and having a late-night snack would probably take until one or two in the morning, and they had to go to work tomorrow.

"Let's talk about it another time. By the way, I remember your institute's official name is the Institute for Unnatural Death Causes, right? Working in a place like this, you have a lot of responsibility. If there's anything you need my help with, feel free to call me anytime."

Jiang Hang was saying this to Asagi, wondering if he could get involved in UDI Research Institute's cases and get a few freelances in the future.

Besides, it was too late today, and I didn't get to see the forensic doctor, Mikoto Misumi. I'll have to find another opportunity to come here and sit for a while.

On the other hand, Nakado Kei's attitude towards Jiang Hang, the detective, changed slightly after the autopsy. He didn't care whether Jiang Hang was a great detective or a celebrity in the Metropolitan Police Department, but he and Jiang Hang cooperated quite well during the autopsy.

Although it was their first meeting, it was clear that the other person was quite familiar with the dissection tools and didn't seem to care about the foul language he used during the dissection. This was much better than the other member of the Nakado group besides Asagi Minori.

If we could bring him over, it would definitely improve the efficiency of their team's dissection work.

Of course, the Nakado faction also knew that this was impossible.

Although he wasn't interested in famous detectives, Asahi had mentioned Jiang Hang's name to them more than once since he came to UDI. Even if he wasn't interested, he would still hear a lot of things when others discussed Jiang Hang.

Jiang Hang, a famous detective who can become an advisor to the Metropolitan Police Department, probably earns more than the government subsidies that the UDI Research Institute can apply for in a year. Moreover, according to Asagi Minori, this famous detective seems to be a person who is not short of money, and he came to Japan from abroad to work as a detective.

Before meeting Jiang Hang, Nakado Kei naturally wouldn't have any particular thoughts about this famous detective he'd never met. But after they'd met and worked together once, and after hearing from Jiang Hang that he could ask him for help with an investigation, Nakado Kei suddenly had some new ideas.

If you were a detective like that, could you help me find the murderer from back then?

Several years ago, Nakado Kei's fiancée was murdered by a mysterious killer and abandoned in a garbage dump. When his ex-girlfriend's body was discovered by the police and sent to the autopsy table as an unidentified corpse, the forensic doctor standing on the autopsy table was himself.

However, in the end, he was unable to find many traces left by the murderer on his girlfriend's body. The only thing that could be treated as evidence was a mark inside her mouth that looked somewhat like a goldfish.

He had initially kept the clue of the mark in his mind, thinking it was just a common mouth ulcer and hadn't thought about it too deeply. It wasn't until four years ago, during an autopsy, that he rediscovered the goldfish mark, almost identical to the one on his girlfriend's mouth, during the autopsy of another woman in her twenties. Moreover, the police had also failed to find the murderer of the victim, which made him take notice of it.

It wasn't until six months ago, when he discovered the goldfish mark for the third time on an abandoned corpse, that he finally confirmed it was a serial murder case spanning eight years, and that the murderer who killed his fiancée was still creating new victims.

It can be said that he joined the UDI Institute in order to more easily find corpses with goldfish marks in their mouths. He even approached a funeral home worker to help him find those corpses with goldfish marks in their mouths.

Now, the appearance of Jiang Hang, this famous detective, has only given him some new ideas.

However, he was still just observing the "famous detective" in front of him with his own eyes, who seemed to have nothing special about him and even seemed to have little presence when he stood there, without telling him about this matter directly.

This was the most important secret of his life, and he certainly wouldn't reveal it so easily before confirming the detective's abilities.

If there's another chance, let him see the detective's skills firsthand, and then let him make the decision.

Chapter 422: Chapter 418: The Case Closed

While the Nakado faction was considering getting help from Jiang Hang, Jiang Hang was also thinking about whether there was a chance to bring Asahi and the Nakado faction into his assassin brotherhood.

Asami Narumi, needless to say, is a genius from the University of Tokyo's medical school.

Zhongtang Xi is also a senior forensic doctor with more than ten years of experience. Apart from having a bad temper, his skills and professional attitude are absolutely exemplary.

Even if we can't directly bring him into the fraternity, maintaining a good relationship with them is still very important.

Besides, Nakado Kei wasn't exactly a good person to begin with. His main purpose in joining UDI was to find the murderer who killed his girlfriend.

In Jiang Hang's memory, in one episode of Unnatural Death, after Nakado met a man with a similar experience to himself, and after finding the murderer in that case, he did not even try to stop the man from taking revenge on the murderer. He even clearly told everyone that if he found the murderer, he would also take the same revenge on the murderer.

In fact, in the final chapter, in order to interrogate a reporter who possessed evidence of the murderer's actions, he even induced the reporter to drink a deadly poison.

It was only thanks to the female lead's timely arrival and her persuasive skills that he was pulled back from the brink of despair.

Jiang Hang had no doubt that if he could find the serial killer before the finale and present all the evidence to him, the Zhongtang faction would be willing to do anything for him.

Unfortunately, Tokyo is so big that even though he knows some information about the culprit, finding his trail in advance is not an easy task.

Jiang Hang took this matter to heart and prepared to investigate the case gradually.

After obtaining Zhongtang's contact information, Jiang Hang drove back to his office to rest.

The next morning, as usual, Jiang Hang received a notification from Inspector Megure early in the morning.

After obtaining the search warrant, the police immediately went to Kitagawa's home to conduct a search.

Although Kitagawa resisted, he was quickly rendered speechless by the police's presentation of a series of evidence, including phone and text message records, supermarket surveillance footage, and autopsy reports.

During the subsequent search, the police successfully discovered that an electrical wire was missing from Kitagawa's room, and the type of the wire matched the murder weapon used to kill the victim.

After realizing that everything about him had been thoroughly investigated by the police, the murderer had no choice but to confess to his crimes and the details of the offense.

The crime unfolded exactly as Jiang Hang had expected: he and the deceased, Ms. Muranishi, had been having a secret office romance, but Kitagawa himself was not a stable person and did not intend to tie himself to Muranishi.

However, he did not expect that while dating Muranishi was easy, he would run into trouble when he wanted to stop—Muranishi was unwilling to break up and even took out a marriage application to express her desire to marry him and make the matter public in the company.

When Kitagawa saw how determined Muranishi was to force him into marriage, and how he even used his job as a threat, he decided to kill Muranishi.

After that, things became much simpler.

Although he and Dongtian were drinking buddies, their relationship wasn't actually that good. In fact, they were direct competitors, and Dongtian's performance was slightly better than his.

So, after spending some time figuring out some of Higashida's habits, he came up with the idea of ​​killing Muranishi and framing Higashida.

He first went to Dongtian's house a few times to get a general idea of ​​the layout, and then, under the pretext of repairing the TV, he got Dongtian to leave his fingerprints on the electrical wires in his house.

Next, he prepared a new set of blankets and curtains. After murdering Muranishi and hiding her in the bathroom, he rearranged the layout of her house.

Finally, they went to their usual pub and got Higashida, who wasn't a very good drinker, drunk. Then, they took him to Muranishi's house and thoughtfully reminded him to lock the door.

Through this series of actions, a crime scene was created where the doors and windows were locked from the inside, and the suspect inside was a drunk man who had a conflict with the victim and couldn't remember anything.

In fact, if it weren't for the accident during the transport that allowed Higashida to escape and then run into Conan and his group, Kitagawa would probably still be happily drinking beer at home, enjoying the pleasure of escaping legal judgment.

"In short, we owe you a lot for helping us this time, Brother Jiang Hang. If it weren't for your help, we probably would have let the real culprit get away with it." Inspector Megure on the other end of the phone continued to thank Jiang Hang, and also mentioned the handling of Sato Miwako and Takagi Wataru.

Although Takagi Wataru and his colleague were able to redeem themselves and save face for the Metropolitan Police Department, this matter cannot be judged solely by its final outcome.

First, the suspect escaped during the transport due to the carelessness of the guards. Second, after learning that there might be other hidden details in the case, they privately reopened the investigation without the approval of their superiors. These are all things that require warnings and self-criticism. Furthermore, their promotions have been temporarily suspended.

Miwako Sato is in a slightly better position, since she was only promoted to acting inspector this year. Given her age, it would probably take her another five or six years to get promoted to inspector again.

In comparison, Takagi Wataru is a bit unlucky. He has been preparing for the promotion exam for police inspector recently. As long as he passes the exam, he will be promoted to a higher police rank and get a small raise in salary and bonus.

With this punishment, Takagi Wataru will probably just have to stick to his job as a patrol chief this year. It's definitely not going to happen anytime soon if he tries to surpass Sato Miwako in rank.

However, it was clear from the phone call that although Inspector Megure was criticizing Takagi and Wataru, he was actually quite pleased with his two subordinates. The apology was probably just a perfunctory formality.

After finishing his call with Inspector Megure, Jiang Hang was thinking of logging into the game to see if he had been penalized by the game's official system for AFK last night. However, before he could even turn on his computer, Shizuka Sakaki rushed to the agency with another piece of information.

"I contacted someone who works at the Spider Mansion last night and got some important clues from her!"

Chapter 423: Chapter 419: The Past of the Spider Mansion

Now, Shizuka Sakaki and Yuno Koharu's intelligence-gathering abilities are on a completely different level compared to when they first joined the agency.

As for Shizuka Sakaki, since she still wanted to continue working towards becoming a voice actress, Jiang Hang mainly assigned her voice-changing ability as her skill. After her information gathering skill was assigned to the beginner level on her character panel, he stopped paying attention to it, since the beginner skill recognized by the system was more than enough for everyday use.

As for Yuno Kiharu, it's because she's been constantly boosted by the Intelligence Gathering skill, and she's also been working hard, so Intelligence Gathering is currently the only intermediate skill on her character panel.

Previously, because Jiang Hang solved cases at the scene so quickly, Yoshino Koharu and Shizuka Sakaki couldn't fully utilize their abilities. But after encountering this case and being entrusted with an important task by Jiang Hang, they finally proved to Jiang Hang that their efforts over the past period had not been in vain.

According to Shizuka Sakaki, they have been investigating the Spider Mansion through various channels around them these past few days.

The six degrees of separation theory is perfectly embodied in them—this theory states that there are no more than six people between a person and another stranger. In an ideal situation, you can get to know everyone in the world through six intermediaries.

Of course, this theory only describes an ideal situation. You can't know what kind of social circles the people you know have, let alone how many new social circles can be derived from their social circles. If you want to find your target accurately in this way, you will naturally have to spend a lot of energy and money, and you will also need a little bit of luck.

However, this is where intelligence gathering capabilities come into play.

They can effectively analyze and eliminate potential contacts by establishing data analysis, then gradually narrow down the scope, and finally successfully connect with the employee of the Spider Mansion.

The employee contacted by Shizuka Sakaki is named Miyuki Aida. She works as a maid at the Spider Mansion and has been working there for four or five years. It can be said that, apart from the Takeda family, she is the one who knows the most about what happened back then.

To put it bluntly, if the suicides at the Spider Mansion were deliberately orchestrated, then the maid who had worked there for four or five years was also a prime suspect.

Therefore, it was not an easy task to get more useful information from the maid without alerting her.

Fortunately, Shizuka Sakaki and the others were well-prepared before contacting the maid, and their questions did not show any suspicion. In the end, they did obtain a lot of useful information from the maid.

Although the details of the Takeda family had been explained before, the maid's explanation included some subjective opinions, offering a fresh perspective on the family.

In addition, Shizuka Sakaki meticulously recorded the maid's daily work and the doll sales at the Spider Mansion in her notebook.