Solving cases with Detective Conan's science? No, I'm a cultivator!

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Kitagawa Taki followed the footprints on the ground to the outside, and only turned back after the footprints disappeared.

In fact, he had already used his divine sense to see the person hidden inside the armor.

Yui Uehara!

Although I don't understand why she would come to scare Ran and the other girl in the middle of the night, I think the strange things that happened in the Torada and Ryuo families must be related to her.

While thinking, Kitagawa Taki used his divine sense to explore Uehara Yui's room.

At this moment, Uehara Yui should have just taken off her armor, and she was in the corridor outside.

Kitagawa Taki quickened his pace.

……

Yui Uehara's room.

She had just untied her hair when she heard footsteps outside and stopped in her tracks.

The footsteps grew closer and closer, stopping at her doorway!

"Mrs. Yui!"

Yui Uehara recognized the voice; it was Taki Kitagawa's voice.

She narrowed her eyes, wondering why Kitagawa Taki had come to her. She was certain that no one had been following her.

"Open the door, I know you're awake, otherwise I'll yell for help!"

Kitagawa Taki's voice came again.

Uehara Yui clenched her fist, then, after a moment's thought, decided to open the door.

She glanced outside the door, wondering if anyone else was there.

"Stop looking, I'm all alone."

Kitagawa Taki glanced at Uehara Yui, whose hair was disheveled, and then walked into the room on his own.

Uehara Yui closed the door, frowned, and asked, "Mr. Kitagawa, what are you doing? Isn't it inappropriate to break into the room of a widow in the middle of the night?"

Kitagawa Taki retorted, "But you opened the door for me, didn't you?"

Yui Uehara choked.

"Oh, you even closed the door." Kitagawa Taki glanced at the tightly closed door.

Yui Uehara's eyes twitched. She never expected that the usually taciturn Taki Kitagawa would be so shameless!

She took a deep breath and asked again, "What do you want with me?"

“You should know perfectly well why,” Kitagawa Taki shook his head. “Tell me, why did you go and scare Ran and the others?”

Uehara Yui's gaze froze for a moment, but she still stubbornly insisted, "I don't know what you're talking about."

No, you know.

Kitagawa Taki said, and slowly walked over to Yui Uehara.

Uehara Yui took a step back and leaned against the door.

As the two drew closer, Uehara Yui adopted a fighting stance.

“Madam, don’t move! If you make a commotion and attract other people, I don’t know what Officer Yamato will think of you.”

Kitagawa Taki didn't mention the Torada family, but instead mentioned Yamato Kansuke.

Yui Uehara paused for a moment, unable to understand how Taki Kitagawa knew about her relationship with Kansuke Yamato.

In the instant she was lost in thought, Kitagawa Taki was already close to her.

Yui Uehara suddenly snapped out of her daze and looked up at Taki Kitagawa.

She clenched her fists, her hands trembling slightly from the force, before finally letting them fall.

Kitagawa Taki reached out his hand and reached towards Uehara Yui's front.

Yui Uehara's breathing became erratic, her whole body tensed, but she slowly closed her eyes.

She dared not resist, nor could she resist.

She has already sacrificed so much, and she hasn't yet completed her plan to avenge Senior Kai. She absolutely cannot give up halfway!

Moreover, as Kitagawa Taki said, she dared not imagine how Yamato Kansuke would view her if he knew.

Chapter 357 Escaping may be shameful, but it's useful.

"Madam, your expression is very easy for people to misunderstand."

Kitagawa Taki took a photo and a small notebook out of Uehara Yui's inner pocket.

Uehara Yui opened her eyes and saw the photos and notebook in Kitagawa Taki's hand. She was startled and instinctively reached out to snatch them back.

But Kitagawa Taki dodged it by raising his hand.

"Give it back to me!" In her desperation, Uehara Yui shouted.

"Shh-"

Kitagawa Taki made a shushing gesture.

Uehara Yui was so angry she wanted to grind her teeth to powder, but there was nothing she could do.

The photo is a group photo of two children, a boy and a girl, with a policeman in the middle.

The girl is Uehara Yui, and the boy looks a lot like Yamato Kansuke.

The notebook did not belong to Yui Uehara; judging from its contents, its owner was Shigeji Torada.

It records how four people, including Torada Shigeji, caused Kai Genjin's death six years ago.

Uehara Yui said coldly, "Can I have it back now?"

Kitagawa Taki, however, showed no intention of returning it.

He asked with interest, "How do you plan to kill the remaining two?"

Uehara Yui gave a self-deprecating laugh and asked in return, "What? Are you going to help me?"

Kitagawa Taki said, "It's not impossible. Tell me your plan first."

Uehara Yui was taken aback, then asked, "Why?"

He casually said, "There's no reason why, I just did it because I wanted to."

Yui Uehara frowned, then explained her detailed plan.

After listening to her story, Kitagawa Taki finally remembered, wasn't this "Wind, Forest, Fire, Mountain"?

But something seems off. Although he forgot the murderer and the motive, it certainly wasn't Uehara Yui.

After all, Uehara Yui is one of the "Nagano Trio"...

Forget it, I can't figure it out.

Kitagawa Taki simply stopped thinking about it and asked:

"Do you think your methods can fool two famous detectives, and Yamato Kansuke?"

In her plan, she intended to make Shigeji Torada a scapegoat.

Torada Shigeji's notebook is key; she will use it to lure Torada Shigeji out, and then devise a plan to kill him with the high voltage of the tram.

After hearing Kitagawa Taki's question, Uehara Yui remained silent for a moment, then shook her head with a wry smile.

Six months ago, Yamato Kansuke was caught in an avalanche in the mountains while investigating Kai Genjin. She originally thought that Yamato Kansuke was dead.

Disheartened and disillusioned, and having discovered some problems with the group of four, she began to suspect them. In order to conduct a more in-depth investigation, she married Yoshiro Torada.

She only recently obtained the decisive evidence, namely Shigeji Torada's notebook.

From that moment on, she began planning her murder.

A few days ago, after Yoshiro Torada was caught in a tornado, she conceived the idea of ​​using "Wind, Forest, Fire, Mountain" to kill someone.

She thought it was God helping her, but fate played a cruel trick on her, and Yamato Kansuke survived!

But she can never go back...

Kitagawa Taki originally intended to give Uehara Yui some advice, but then he suddenly thought of a suspicious point and said:

“I have another question. If Torada Shigeji corresponds to ‘fire’, why didn’t you use a simpler method, such as burning him to death directly?”

After a moment of silence, Uehara Yui said, "Because compared to being burned alive, this way of dying is faster, less painful, and more like suicide."

“No, no.” Kitagawa Taki shook his head. “You said you would hang the laptop on the high-voltage line and have Torada Shigeji retrieve it with a fishing rod. That kind of trick is easy to see through.”

"Sun Tzu's Art of War says: 'Swift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as fire, immovable as a mountain.'"

"This is also a strategy favored by Takeda Shingen." Kitagawa Taki asked, "You referenced this, didn't you?"

Yui Uehara didn't say anything, and she wasn't surprised that Taki Kitagawa could think of this.

Kitagawa Taki continued, "But there are two more sentences after these few: 'As unknowable as the shadows, as powerful as thunder.'"

"Actually, Shigeji Torada corresponds to 'Thunder,' am I right?"

“And Kai Genjin’s death corresponds to ‘yin’, so there is still ‘fire’ left.”

"Did you leave this for yourself?" Kitagawa Taki's gaze was intense.

Uehara Yui remained silent, for this was her true plan.

She was completely numb from Kitagawa Taki's antics. First, he found her in her room, and then he took out photos and a notebook from her clothes.

In contrast, Kitagawa Taki guessed her real plan, so she was no longer surprised.

In fact, she knew very well that she couldn't hide it from Yamato Kansuke, but she didn't know how to face him when the time came.

Her hands were already stained with blood, so she decided to end it all.

Escaping may be shameful, but it's useful, isn't it?

Kitagawa Taki got the answer from Uehara Yui's face. No wonder she looked so gloomy. Anyone who didn't know better would think it was because her husband had just died.