Villain? No, I'll catch up with the protagonist after passing the civil service exam.

A boy wearing a blue suit and a red bow tie squeezed out from the crowd.

In that brief second, the gasps and panic around him seemed to disappear completely.

In that decisive moment, the flow of time seemed to stretch infinitely in Lu Jingyan's field of vision.

In a fraction of a second, the boy's custom-made red and black sneakers silently avoided the puddles on the ground.

With his hands in his pockets, his steps were steady and scrutinizing, unlike that of an innocent and carefree first-year student.

At 0.2 seconds, the flashing red neon lights on the street corner were precisely projected onto his slightly exaggerated black-rimmed glasses.

A blinding white light, defying the principles of optics, instantly appeared on the surface of the lens.

The light completely obscured the true emotions in his eyes, giving him the air of a superior bystander.

At 0.4 seconds, the corners of the boy's mouth involuntarily turned upwards, outlining a wildly excited arc of delight.

It was as if the person lying in a pool of blood upstairs wasn't a living human being, but rather a stage God had specially set up for his deduction.

At 0.6 seconds, he took a deep breath of cold air mixed with the smell of blood, and his chest bulged slightly.

The boy suddenly raised his right hand, his index finger pointing straight at the cracked camphor door on the second floor like a drawn blade.

The air currents gathered wildly at his fingertips, and the line etched in his DNA, the one that had accompanied countless deaths, was about to be uttered.

"The truth is only—"

"Beep beep beep—"

Just as the boy was about to utter the last two words.

A deafening alarm about the rules suddenly went off deep in Lu Jingyan's mind.

The vision of "Absolute Rationality" suddenly descended, and the surrounding air temperature plummeted to freezing point.

In Lu Jingyan's unfathomable, dark eyes, the physical laws governing the entire streets of Shinjuku were mercilessly stripped away.

He could clearly see a dense, almost black aura of causal death spreading wildly from the boy in the blue suit as its center.

This is not a natural magnetic field residue from a crime scene at all.

This is a high-dimensional meme contamination that seriously violates the law of conservation of matter.

"Xiaoxiao, check his records."

Lu Jingyan's voice was as cold and hard as cast iron, abruptly shattering the boy's dramatic spellcasting animation.

Su Xiaoxiao paused for half a second, then immediately stuffed the unfinished milk tea in her hand into Zhao Tiezhu's arms.

The girl's slender, fair fingers left afterimages on the tactical tablet.

In less than three seconds, she swiftly breached the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's population database defense system.

Looking at the waterfall of data scrolling across the screen, Su Xiaoxiao gasped.

"Captain Lu! There's something wrong with this kid's data, a really big problem!"

The girl's voice trembled, as if she had seen some terrifying existence that overturned scientific understanding.

"His household registration shows that his name is Edogawa, and he is currently in the first grade of elementary school."

"But in the six months since he enrolled, he has visited a total of 428 public places."

Su Xiaoxiao suddenly raised her head, her eyes filled with horror.

"And in these 428 locations, a staggering 500 bizarre murders have occurred!"

Upon hearing this terrifying data, Zhao Tiezhu was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped to the ground.

The heavy Gatling gun in his hand suddenly sank down, almost shattering the stone slab beneath his feet.

"Goodness, over 500 murder cases in just over half a year?"

Zhao Tiezhu's face, full of fat, twitched violently. He looked at the boy as if he were looking at a living Black and White Impermanence.

"This guy isn't a primary school student, is he?"

"Even the King of Hell in the mortal realm, working through the night to meet his targets, wouldn't be this diligent!"

Bruce, who was standing to the side, quickly pulled up the probability analysis model in his tactical goggles.

The Dark Knight's brows furrowed deeply, and his low, hoarse voice carried an unprecedented gravity.

"Sir, based on Gotham City's highest-level crime probability calculations..."

"The probability of someone encountering 500 murders in six months is lower than winning the lottery jackpot ten times in a row."

Bruce shared the analysis report on the public channel.

"From the perspectives of both logic and criminal psychology."

"He didn't just stumble upon a crime; he himself is the causal source of the soaring crime rate in this area."

Edogawa clearly hasn't realized the seriousness of the problem.

He pushed up his reflective glasses, tilted his head back, and deliberately adopted a childish and sweet voice.

"Huh? Officer, the culprit must still be at the scene, because of the marks on that door lock..."

He was preparing to launch into a splendid display of his reasoning skills, basking in the astonished gazes of the crowd.

Lu Jingyan, however, strode forward with his long, straight legs, his leather shoes crunching over the wood chips scattered on the ground.

The man completely ignored his flawed detective story.

His long, strong right hand reached out like an iron clamp and accurately grabbed the back of the blue suit jacket by the collar.

Lu Jingyan exerted a slight force in his arm.

They simply lifted the boy, who was still trying to act cute, into the air as easily as lifting a kitten.

"Hey! What are you doing! Let go of me!"

Edogawa kicked wildly in mid-air, his usually calm face showing disbelief and astonishment.

Having worked in the Japanese police force for so long, which policeman wouldn't respectfully kneel down and listen to his reasoning when he met him?

Today, someone actually grabbed me by the collar in public, and I lost all face.

Lu Jingyan looked down at him.

His deep eyes exuded a suffocating sense of rule and oppression, without a trace of indulgence towards the child.

"Edogawa, is that right? I am now legally summoning you for questioning."

The man's voice was flat and monotone, yet it carried a chilling, authoritative tone.

"You are suspected of using weapons of unknown causality to endanger public safety and order on a long-term and large-scale basis."

Edogawa was completely stunned, forgetting even to disguise his lisp, and blurted out the tone of a mature man.

"What causal weapon? What nonsense are you spouting! I'm just a primary school student passing by!"

"Just passing by?"

Lu Jingyan snorted coldly, his deep gaze like a sharp blade, piercing through the other party's disguise.

"On my way to the amusement park, I saw someone on the roller coaster who had been decapitated."

"When I was riding the Shinkansen, a sealed-room explosion occurred inside the train car."

"Even when you're just eating a regular takoyaki, a murder can happen right on time at the hot spring hotel next door."

Lu Jingyan took the tactical tablet from Su Xiaoxiao and shoved the hundred-page death list right in front of the boy's nose.

"In the eyes of you self-proclaimed righteous detectives, this might be called a personal physique, or a stage to showcase your wisdom in solving cases."

"But within the intricate operating logic of the state's rule of law apparatus."

Lu Jingyan's tone turned extremely cold, leaving the other party no room for rebuttal.

"This is called the source of a large-scale destructive disaster."

"Wherever you go, you will die, severely endangering the lives and property of the local people."

"A true society governed by the rule of law does not need to demonstrate your intelligence through endless corpses."

Edogawa was so anxious that his face turned red, and his self-esteem suffered an unprecedented blow.

He quietly raised his left wrist, his fingers already touching the anesthetic dart firing button on the special watch.

However, under Lu Jingyan's absolutely rational rule-based suppression.

The surrounding physical space seemed to have been filled with viscous mercury.

The boy was horrified to discover that his fingers were so stiff that he couldn't even muster the strength to press the keys.

All those fancy tricks and schemes are completely shut down in the face of absolute rule of law.

Lu Jingyan freed his left hand and took out a document stamped with a bright red official seal from the inside pocket of his crisp black police uniform.

He slapped the document onto the boy's forehead with a "smack," the movement fluid and without the slightest hesitation.

The elementary school student struggled desperately: "I'm a detective!" Lu Jingyan pulled out an arrest warrant: "You're a jinx. I'm going to put you under physical isolation for investigation now."