No one understands the laws of Collider better than me.

"No! Everyone knows that none of you will keep your promises. I will not break up with Representative Muto!"

Ms. Kakuta was originally Representative Muto's lover, but now that it was time to campaign, Representative Muto naturally didn't want to leave such an obvious flaw, so he had his secretary take Ms. Kakuta away and give her some money.

Secretary Kawamura tried to persuade Ms. Kakuta for a full ten minutes, but she refused to break up. Annoyed by the tug-of-war, Secretary Kawamura suddenly shoved her, and she fell to the ground and then fell silent.

"What! Professor Muto, what should we do?"

"You figure it out yourself! You can't even handle such a small thing, and you've caused this accident. I don't even know if she's dead."

Representative Muto stood by, offering no assistance whatsoever. Kawamura, the secretary, had to do it himself. He first settled Ms. Kakuta on the bed, but after waiting a while and seeing she hadn't regained consciousness, he gritted his teeth and grabbed a box of sleeping pills, frantically pouring them into her mouth. This time, Ms. Kakuta, who had only fainted, was completely dead.

Meanwhile, Representative Muto showed no pity whatsoever, adding that the secretary had done it all by herself and had nothing to do with him. He even told Secretary Kawamura:

"Kawamura, go buy two pizzas and some coffee, I'm a little hungry."

"Councilor! Now is the time to eat!"

After pouring the entire bottle of medicine down his throat, Kawamura turned on the gas stove and placed a large pot of cold water on it, creating the illusion that his lover had committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills.

"Alright! Congressman, it's time for us to leave now. The police will definitely not discover your relationship with Kakuda!"

The old councilor stroked his chin, recalling how several of his colleagues had been imprisoned by Kitahara Masaki with irrefutable evidence, then shook his head and said to his secretary:

"Kawamura, you should go back to the countryside to lay low for a while. Tell everyone that you dumped your lover, which is why she committed suicide."

"What! That's completely unnecessary! No one will know she was once your lover!"

"No, no, no, that's still too dangerous. That Kitahara Masaki is arresting people everywhere because of his American connections. Who knows if he'll suspect me? Anyway, it's settled then. Oh, right, I guess I have to drop the matter of making you my successor. Don't worry, I'll give you 20 million yen as compensation. You're the most dedicated secretary in all of Japan. That's all."

The old congressman rubbed his stomach, feeling a bit hungry, but his secretary had essentially been fired, so it seemed he would have to find a new one.

Kawamura's secretary looked incredulous. She had done so much for Muto, and now he was just abandoning her?

Enraged, Kawamura grabbed a wooden ornament from the bedside table and smashed it down on the back of the old councilor's head. The proud old man, clearly not expecting Kawamura to dare attack him, a Brahmin, after killing a Shudra, immediately collapsed.

After seeing the old congressman collapse to the ground, Secretary Kawamura rearranged the scene, changing it from a suicide attempt by a lover overdosing on sleeping pills to a scene where the lover, driven by love turned to hate, killed the old congressman before taking sleeping pills herself. He then completely erased his own traces and began planning how to proceed.

After the secretary took out her phone, she saw a message in the group chat inviting her old classmate to go out for drinks. He immediately came up with a plan.

First, he set up the villa's landline to make calls automatically at a set time. Then, he rushed to the bar to meet his old classmate. After having a couple of drinks, he received a call from Ms. Kakuta.

"Hello, Ms. Kakuta, is there anything I can help you with?"

"Hey! What are you talking about? Something that can't be undone?"

"What! Don't do anything foolish, I'm coming right now!"

After putting on a brilliant performance for his old classmate, he immediately drove back to the villa. His plan was that once he arrived, he would be the first to discover the crime, and by the time the police arrived, they would only find traces of the old senator and Ms. Kakuta. Then the case would naturally be unrelated to him, since he had his old classmate's alibi!

However, when he rushed back to the villa, he was dumbfounded. Several cars were already waiting outside, including some police cars.

how can that be!

How could the police have arrived so quickly!

What Kawamura found unbelievable was that the police had just finished a case that day and were mostly still awake, so they arrived very quickly when they received a report.

The secretary was now in a dilemma. He had originally planned to drive away, but he was afraid of causing problems. So, subconsciously, he became the best example of 'murderers always like crime scenes'.

As he walked in, the police officers quickly brought out the person in charge to see him. When this secretary, Kawamura, looked at Kitahara Masaki, who was a full head taller than him, he immediately lost some of his imposing presence.

"Sir, what are you doing here so late?"

"Oh, I see! I just received a call from Ms. Kakuta saying she's done something irreversible, so I came here out of concern. What happened inside?"

"Oh, of course, we're still investigating the scene, since this is now a crime scene."

"I see. Then I wonder if Councilor Muto is here?"

"Councilor Muto? Oh, that old man has already been taken to the hospital."

"The hospital! Does that mean Representative Muto is going to be autopsied?"

Kitahara Masaki looked at the secretary, then shook his head and said:

"The congressman is still alive, but if he were sent for an autopsy, he'd probably be dead by now, hahaha."

Chapter 356 He's still alive.

"Hey! He's not dead?"

Yes, he is still alive.

The secretary felt a chill run down her spine upon hearing this. She knew the congressman would surely expose everything he had done, and would probably even embellish the story. In that case, her life was essentially over.

The secretary, who was already unwilling to give up, asked another question, seemingly trying to make a final stand.

"Officer, may I go to the hospital to see the congressman?"

"Of course, we were going to the hospital anyway, and we'll know what happened once he wakes up. By the way, since you're driving, you can come with us."

The secretary was more than happy to oblige and quickly became Kitahara Masaki's driver. To his bewilderment, a young boy wearing glasses and a blue suit sat in the passenger seat, while Kitahara Masaki's girlfriend, who appeared to be his girlfriend, sat in the back seat with him.

"Little boy, are you Officer Kitahara's child?"

"No, no, no, Secretary Kawamura, I don't have such a stupid child."

"Hmph! My name is Conan Edogawa, and I'm a detective!"

Oh, he's just a little kid. Secretary Kawamura ignored Conan, focusing instead on how to kill the politician once they got to the hospital.

"By the way, how come the police arrived so quickly? Who called the police?"

Kitahara Masaki and Vermouth exchanged a glance. Vermouth made a gesture, and Kitahara Masaki understood what she meant.

"Hmm—it was my deceased lover who called the police."

"This—this is impossible!"

"Secretary Kawamura, based on the initial on-site investigation, the police believe that the lover accidentally knocked the politician unconscious, and the lover, believing she had killed him, then committed suicide by overdosing on medication. You arrived here after receiving a call from your lover, so what's impossible about the lover calling the police before committing suicide?"

Kawamura's secretary was speechless when questioned. He couldn't very well admit that he was the one who killed the person, so he knew it definitely wasn't his lover who called the police.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I made a mistake. It wasn't your lover who called the police. It was because water was boiling on the stove, which triggered the fire alarm. We had just finished a case, which is why we arrived so quickly. I guess you're just unlucky, Secretary."

"Huh? Officer Kitahara, what are you talking about? This case has absolutely nothing to do with me. Isn't it all because of your lover? She really didn't want to break up with the politician, which is why this happened."

Conan, sitting in the passenger seat, took an evidence bag out of his pocket, wondering what the forensic team was up to.

“This case is definitely not like that. I found sleeping pills in the room.”

Conan's eyesight is far superior to that of the forensic team; he found the sleeping pills on the ground before Kitahara Masaki even took out his magnifying glass.

However, Secretary Kawamura simply regarded Conan as an immature brat and replied perfunctorily:

"Kid, it's not unusual for your lover, who thinks you just killed someone, to drop sleeping pills on the ground in their panic."

"But these sleeping pills were found under the senator. That means the sleeping pills had already fallen to the floor before the senator was hit on the back of the head and fell to the ground! This means the lover was given sleeping pills first, and then the senator was knocked to the ground! There was a third person present!"

Conan's deduction hit the nail on the head, almost causing Secretary Kawamura to lose his grip on the steering wheel. He had originally planned to open the car door and kick the annoying brat Conan out, but there were still two people sitting in the back seat, so he had no choice but to continue driving obediently.

"That's right! Could it be that the lover first threatened the senator with sleeping pills, saying she would commit suicide if they broke up, and the sleeping pills fell to the ground during the argument?"

Conan paused for a moment. Not knowing much about romantic relationships, he thought about it and felt that it made some sense, but something felt off. He could only say that it was made up to be somewhat plausible.

Kitahara Masaki was too lazy to argue with the secretary anymore, only thinking that the guy's acting was really bad. After the four of them arrived at the hospital, Takagi, who was in charge of protecting the senator, came up to them with a smile and said:

"The congressman is expected to wake up soon, and once he does, we'll know what happened."

This was indeed good news for the police, as the victim was awake and able to give a statement, which saved a lot of investigation work. However, for Secretary Kawamura, it was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue. Although it was the early hours of the morning, he was still anxious and restless.

"By the way, Mr. Secretary, please wait here for a moment. We will come to wake you up when the congressman wakes up."

After Kitahara Masaki and the others went to the upstairs ward, Secretary Kawamura, feeling restless, rushed upstairs to the ward. Seeing Kitahara Masaki and the others standing in front of a room, he immediately ran over and asked:

"Can I see you too?"

Do you want to see him too?

"Yes, I'm very worried about him too."

"Um, but—"

"please."

The anxious secretary, Kawamura, was completely unaware that everyone around him was struggling to suppress their laughter.

"Alright, you can go in now."

After receiving permission, Kawamura rushed into the ward, only to find that the person on the bed was not a politician, but a handsome young man.

"Huh? Who is he?"

"Hmm? Mr. Kawamura, didn't you say you wanted to come in and see Inspector Shiratori?"

"Huh? I thought the senator was inside."

The secretary, looking dejected, could only slink away, while Kitahara Masaki reassured Shiratori to focus on his recovery. He had come to the hospital because he had enjoyed a meal with Kobayashi-sensei so much that he had eaten too much sashimi, causing stomach problems and requiring a hospital stay. However, Kobayashi-sensei's care made Shiratori realize that occasional hospitalization wasn't such a bad thing.

Helpless, Kawamura could only sit on the first floor. He had no idea which ward the congressman was in, and Conan and Kitahara Masaki were standing next to him, which made him feel a sense of gloom about the future.

But at that moment, the doctor suddenly walked over and said:

"Officer Kitahara, the patient has regained consciousness and is out of danger."

"Oh, that's good. So, may we go and ask them questions?"

The doctor's expression turned somewhat serious as he replied:

"This may be a bit difficult because the patient's memory of the events before and after the beating is blurred. After all, he is an elderly man, and this situation is inevitable."

"Oh, I see. Is there any possibility of recovery?"

"Yes, after all, human memory is such a wonderful thing."

The doctor's words made Kawamura's secretary feel that he had temporarily escaped a disaster. What he did not expect was that Kitahara Masaki and all his companions were watching the secretary, waiting to see what tricks the suspect would pull next.

Chapter 357 We're waiting for you!

Kitahara Masaki took Kawamura's secretary to see the old councilor. However, just as the doctor had said, the old councilor was still delirious and looked exactly like Patrick Star. Kitahara Masaki almost slapped him twice and sent him away instead of wasting any more time.

"Mr. Muto, Mr. Muto? Can you hear us?"

"Huh? Did you call me?"