The Pirated Onmyoji of the Detective World

"I knew it!" Before Ms. Nishitani could even dial the number on her phone, Yuu Aragaki grabbed her arm, his eyes crinkling with amusement as he looked at her.

"Hmm?" Miss Nishitani looked at the boy in surprise. Seeing his still rosy complexion and unchanged expression, he didn't seem to have been poisoned at all. She couldn't help but wonder, "Wh-what happened?!"

Under Ms. Nishitani's puzzled gaze, Aragaki Yu handed the empty bottle to her, gesturing for her to look at it, and said, "Don't you notice anything different?"

"What's different?" Miss Nishiya looked at the empty drink bottle in her hand, not quite understanding what the boy meant. It was clearly the same Kazman drink...!?

In an instant, Miss Nishitani, realizing something, froze.

This bottle of Kazman beverage doesn't have the yellow sticker I saw before!

"You finally figured it out?" Aragaki Yu looked at Nishitani's surprised expression and explained with a smile, "You probably didn't know, did you? The promotion of giving away Kazman beverage phone stickers as a free gift ended the day before yesterday. Therefore, at noon the day before yesterday, all the Kazman beverages in the vending machines were replaced with this kind of bottle without the sticker."

"Could it be...!?" Miss Nishitani seemed to understand something. She raised her head and looked at the boy in front of her with a shocked expression.

“That’s right, the bottle of Kazman drink you prepared beforehand, the one you poisoned, is still here!” Yuu Aragaki slowly pulled out another half-empty bottle of Kazman from his pocket, with a conspicuous yellow sticker on it. “The bottle in your hand is the one you bought from the vending machine earlier when you passed by, the one you didn’t take out after inserting coins for the sake of acting. I just drank half of it.”

"What... what on earth is going on?" Miss Nishitani's eyes widened in shock. She grabbed Aragaki Yu's shoulder and asked in astonishment, "Who... who are you?!"

Ms. Nishitani's sudden action startled Aragaki Yu. Looking at her pretty face so close to his, he awkwardly tilted his head back and explained to Ms. Nishitani, "I was just a passerby who happened to see someone following you! I originally wanted to follow you to see if you needed help, but I happened to notice your strange behavior along the way, and I became suspicious, so I devised this plan."

Seeing Ms. Nishitani's pale face, Aragaki Yu continued, "Fortunately, before everything could be salvaged, we managed to stop your foolish behavior. So, can you tell me why you did this? If my reasoning is correct, this bottle of poisoned Kazman drink was probably meant for that man who's been following you."

"Mmm, mmm!" Upon hearing this, Miss Nishitani was slightly taken aback at first, then her expression became excited as she leaned closer to Aragaki Yu. She pressed her face against Aragaki Yu's and said with fear and trepidation, "Please help me! I really don't want to do this! But if I don't, that man will kill me!"

Aragaki Yuna could clearly feel Ms. Nishitani's warm breath on his face. Feeling a little uncomfortable, he gently pulled away from Ms. Nishitani's hands that were gripping his shoulders, took a step back without leaving a trace, and asked in a soft voice, "Ms. Nishitani, please calm down. If there's anything I can do to help you, I will definitely lend you a hand. So, can you tell me what happened?"

Miss Nishitani realized her rudeness and took two steps back, looking slightly embarrassed. She then bowed to Yuu Aragaki and apologized, saying, "I'm so sorry, I was so impolite. I was really driven to the brink of collapse by that man, which is why I did such a heinous thing. Thank you for your help!"

"Hmm, it's alright." Aragaki Yu shook his head, indicating that he didn't take it to heart. "Then please tell me what happened. I'm also very curious about the man who's been following you!"

After hearing what Aragaki Yu said, Ms. Nishitani hesitated for a moment before saying, "Well, then I'll leave it to you!"

As Ms. Nishitani led Yuu Aragaki back to her apartment, she began to introduce herself: "My name is Miho Nishitani. I recently moved to Beika Town and now work at a family-run restaurant in the Haido Ward."

"Yes, Ms. Nishitani, I am Yuu Aragaki, a high school detective!" Yuu Aragaki followed Ms. Nishitani into her apartment. After a moment's thought, he decided to borrow Shinichi Kudo's profession.

After all, he felt that it wasn't quite appropriate to call himself an Onmyoji at this time and in this atmosphere.

"Detective!?" Miho Nishitani was startled by Yuu Aragaki's words, but then she relaxed and was overjoyed. "No wonder, no wonder you found out what I did. I really have to trouble you with all of this, Detective Aragaki!"

"Thank you." Sitting on the sofa, Aragaki Yu accepted the black tea that Ms. Nishitani had just brewed and handed to him.

Next, Miho Nishitani took a cup of black tea and sat down on the sofa opposite Yu Aragaki. After taking a sip of the tea, she let out a long sigh and calmed herself down.

Aragaki Yu's expression also turned serious: "Then, Ms. Nishitani, please speak."

“Yes!” Miho Nishitani nodded and then spoke.

"Before I moved to Beika Town, I lived in Yokohama for a while. I always hoped to open a cake shop there in the future, so I worked at a Western-style pastry shop there to gain experience."

"Everything was going well, but then, that man who called himself Nagai Tatsuya appeared, and everything was thrown into chaos!" Miho Nishitani's voice began to tremble with tears.

“One day, I was busy at the cake shop when Mr. Nagai suddenly came to the shop and found me. He said he had been paying attention to me for a long time and hoped that I could date him. But I didn’t know him at all at the time, and I only wanted to focus all my attention on the cake shop, so I decisively rejected him.”

"However, things did not get better after I rejected him. In the days that followed, Mr. Nagai started coming to the cake shop every few days to confess his feelings to me. He even followed me when I got off work. Eventually, he even found my doorstep and harassed me!"

Yuu Aragaki took a sip of his black tea and asked Miho Nishitani, "Hmm? So, Miss Nishitani, you couldn't stand it anymore and moved to Beika Town?"

“Yes, Detective Aragaki!” Miho Nishitani nodded.

Chapter 132, of course, means he needs to be taught a good lesson.

"For the first two days after I moved here, I didn't see Mr. Nagai again. Just when I was starting to feel relieved that I had finally gotten rid of his harassment, he reappeared around me!"

At this point, Miho Nishitani began to get a little nervous.

"Just like before, he kept loitering around my rented apartment. One time in the early morning, I peeked out the window through the curtains and I could see him spying on my room from the street corner!"

Crystalline tears slowly streamed down Miho Nishitani's face, tracing a path across her beautiful features.

Yuu Aragaki could tell that Ms. Nishitani was indeed deeply troubled by that man named Tatsuya Nagai. He took out a pack of tissues from his pocket, handed it to Miho Nishitani, and asked, "Ms. Nishitani, didn't you seek help from the police during this time?"

Miho Nishitani silently accepted the tissue from Yuu Aragaki, thanked him, and said with a heavy heart, "Of course I called the police, and they did come immediately, but he argued that he just happened to be passing by and wasn't following me at all!"

"Because the police did not make any actual threats to me, they had no way to take any coercive measures against him. They could only give him a lecture and then let him go. But after that, his stalking of me became more and more blatant."

"The Wolf of Beika?" Aragaki Yu suddenly thought of the urban legend that had recently begun to circulate in Beika Town.

After listening to Ms. Nishitani's account, Aragaki Yu became even more certain of the capabilities of the Japanese police in the scientific world.

Alas, it seems that it's not just Gin who's working hard and diligently at the distillery; the other managers are either slackers or incompetent.

It turns out that the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in Japan is in a similar predicament.

“Moreover, I recently discovered that he even had thoughts of killing me!” Miho Nishitani seemed to have thought of something, and a look of horror unconsciously appeared on her face. “Just a week ago, I was coming home from get off work at a family restaurant. When I was going down the stairs at the station, someone pushed me down the stairs! Luckily, someone at the bottom of the stairs managed to stop me from falling, so I was not seriously injured.”

Miho Nishitani looked shaken: "But when I turned back to look up the stairs, I saw him standing there, staring at me menacingly. His eyes seemed to say, 'You woman, you dare to call the police! I'll kill you!'"

"How awful! How could there be such a man!"

Just as Aragaki Yu was about to say something to comfort Ms. Nishitani, the door to Nishitani Miho's house was suddenly flung open with a "bang".

Startled by the sudden sound from the side, Miho Nishitani jumped up from the sofa and looked fearfully toward the door.

Aragaki Yu didn't show any surprise. Ran and Sonoko appeared at the door of Nishiya's house at some point. The two of them were standing at the door, clenching their fists and speaking indignantly with dark faces.

"Who...who are you people?" At first, Miho Nishitani thought that Tatsuya Nagai had broken into her home, but now she only saw two high school girls at the door. While she breathed a sigh of relief, she couldn't help but feel puzzled again.

Seeing that they were about the same age as Aragaki Yu, Nishitani Miho looked at Aragaki Yu suspiciously: "Are they your friends?"

Yuu Aragaki nodded to Ms. Nishitani and explained, "Yes, they were the ones who first discovered Nagai Tatsuya who was following you, and they were the ones who offered to follow and protect you!"

Upon hearing this, Miss Nishitani looked at Ran and Sonoko with gratitude, although in her heart she didn't think these two seemingly frail girls could be of any help to her.

Although Ms. Nishitani didn't show anything on her face, Yuya Aragaki could roughly guess what she was thinking, so he chuckled and explained, "Don't underestimate them. That long-haired girl's father is the famous detective Kogoro Mouri, her boyfriend is the very famous high school detective Shinichi Kudo, and she herself is a karate master! Dealing with a little stalker is naturally a piece of cake!"

"Ah!" Miho Nishitani looked at the girl at the door with surprise. She had naturally heard of Kogoro Mouri and Shinichi Kudo's reputation. Before she decided to poison Tatsuya Nagai, she had considered seeking their help, but later gave up for various reasons.

"Aragaki! What...what boyfriend?! Don't talk nonsense."

Leaving aside Miho Nishitani's surprised thoughts, Ran was blushing with embarrassment because of Yuu Aragaki's words. Steam rose from her head as she looked at Yuu Aragaki with shame and indignation.

As for the other girl, Sonoko, Yuu Aragaki couldn't help but think to himself, "Not to mention her powerful family background, in a little while, the Super Saiyan from the Detective Conan world will be her boyfriend!"

Ignoring Ran's haughty question, Aragaki Yu asked Ran and Sonoko, "Didn't I tell you to wait outside? Why did you suddenly run in?"

"Uh..." Ran and Sonoko, who were still indignant, suddenly froze. They couldn't help but smile awkwardly and said, "It's because what Miss Nishitani said made us so angry that we couldn't help but push the door open and rush in!"

"So you've been eavesdropping the whole time?" Aragaki Yu rolled his eyes at the two of them helplessly. He had only told them to wait outside and keep an eye on their surroundings.

"Hehehe..." Ran and Sonoko knew they were in the wrong, so they could only laugh awkwardly and look around.

They would never admit that they couldn't help but eavesdrop because they were curious about what Aragaki Yu and Nishitani-san, a man and a woman, would do or say in their room alone.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore!" Aragaki Yu naturally noticed that they were so embarrassed that they were practically digging their toes into the ground, so he let them off the hook. "Since you've heard it, tell me what you think."

Miho Nishitani was clearly delighted that she had gained two more people willing to help her, especially since one of the girls had such a powerful background.

Therefore, after wiping away the tear stains on her face from crying, she immediately got up to welcome Xiaolan and Yuanzi over, and then took the initiative to run into the kitchen to make tea for them.

Upon hearing Yuu Aragaki's question, Sonoko, who had just sat down on the sofa, immediately suggested indignantly, "When you encounter such a despicable man, of course you have to teach him a lesson! Ran, use your karate to beat him half to death! Let's see if he dares to continue bothering Miss Nishitani!"

Yuu Aragaki noticed that although Ran on the sofa didn't say anything, her fists were constantly clenching, unclenching, and clenching again... as if she was suppressing something, and obviously she was also thinking the same thing as Sonoko: she wanted to beat up Tatsuya Nagai.

Chapter 133 Lure the snake out of its hole

Looking at the indignant Ran and Sonoko, Aragaki Yu pondered for a moment, then said to Ms. Nishitani, who was carrying a cup of red tea, "I do have a way to resolve the current situation."

Ran and Sonoko asked Aragaki Yu curiously, "What method?"

Even Miho Nishitani looked at him with surprise.

"However, this method may require you to take a little risk, Miss Nishitani."

"Detective Aragaki, just tell me your solution. I'm willing to do anything to help me get rid of that man!" Miho Nishitani said firmly.

To get rid of Tatsuya Nagai's entanglement, she didn't hesitate to devise a murder plan, let alone take a small risk.

"Since the police say there's no evidence to prove that Tatsuya Nagai threatened Ms. Nishitani, then can't we just find a way to get the evidence?" Yu Aragaki said calmly.

"Huh!? You don't mean you want to..." Xiaolan vaguely guessed what was going on.

Seeing the questioning looks on everyone's faces, Aragaki Yu explained in detail: "Well, actually the method is very simple. Since Ms. Nishitani said that you have sensed that Nagai Tatsuya has recently developed murderous intent towards you, then all we need to do is catch him in the act, and we can send him to prison on charges of attempted murder."

“But we don’t know if Nagai Tatsuya really intended to harm Nishiya-san, and even if he did, we can’t be sure of the time and place!” Sonoko raised her doubts.

"No! I can't be wrong! The way she looked at me then, she really wanted to kill me!" Miho Nishitani said anxiously after hearing Sonoko's words.

"Calm down, I believe you, Ms. Nishinoya." Yuu Aragaki first tried to soothe Ms. Nishinoya's agitated emotions. Having watched the anime in his previous life, he vaguely remembered that Tatsuya Nagai had indeed made thorough preparations to attack Ms. Nishinoya. If Ms. Nishinoya hadn't poisoned her drink, striking first to kill Tatsuya Nagai, then it would likely have been Ms. Nishinoya who died…

However, having no idea when or how Nagai Tatsuya would act, Aragaki Yu could only offer his suggestion: "So, we can only add fuel to the fire. Didn't Nagai Tatsuya push Ms. Nishitani down the stairs because she called the police? Given his personality, I think if the police come knocking again, the provoked Nagai Tatsuya will definitely not let it go."

"But if that's the case! What if something unexpected happens? Wouldn't that be too dangerous for Miss Nishiya?" Sonoko said with some concern.

“It’s alright! Little sister, as long as we can catch that guy, I’m willing to take any risk! Besides, I trust Detective Aragaki and you all to protect me,” Miho Nishitani said with a slight smile.

"Yes! I will protect you well too, Miss Nishitani!" Ran waved her fist at the air to indicate.

……

"Okay, let's do it this way!" After discussing the details and precautions of the plan to lure the snake out of its hole, Shinjuku Yu made the final decision.

After deciding to begin implementing the plan the next day, the group exchanged contact information and then Aragaki Yu and the others got up to say goodbye.