Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

Because he ran too fast and was relaxed after seeing his family, Hojo Shinji fell to the ground with a thud and fell into the mud.

"Shinji?"

Hojo Ibiza also saw him and quickly bent down to help him up: "I'll take you to the hospital now!"

"Kudo..."

Hojo Shinji didn't bother to get up immediately, half lying on the ground, he grabbed her hand and said, "Sister, call the police! Hurry up and help me call the police! Kudo is still there! He is in danger!!"

He doesn't like Kudo Shinichi.

But just now in the underground, it was the other party who risked his life to save him, and when they parted, he swore to him that he would call the police as soon as he got out, and he didn't want to break his oath!

I don't know what's going on there now. Will the water not flood it in such a short time? His phone should have some battery left. Hopefully it can last until the police arrive...

Hojo Shinji was lost in thought, expecting his sister to take out her cell phone immediately.

He saw that Hojo Toika in front of him was obviously stunned for a moment.

The next second, her face became full of impatience.

"No wonder you're in danger."

Her words left Hojo Shinji dumbfounded.

"How many times have I told you to stay away from this person? Stay away! Why didn't you listen? Now you've encountered something like this for no apparent reason."

Hojo Shinji stared at her blankly, and it took him a long time to find his voice: "But he saved me..."

"Who asked him for help?"

Hojo Toika rolled her eyes, "I haven't blamed him for putting you in danger yet."

She pulled Hojo Shinji up, looked around, and soon saw a man about to get on the bus: "Hey, you! Come over here and help me move someone!"

The man who received the order turned back subconsciously, and after looking at Hojo Toika for a second, he immediately ran over. He carried Hojo Shinji on his back and drove them to the hospital.

……

It was not until he was admitted to the hospital yesterday that his sister called his parents, and then his parents notified the police... Fortunately, Kudo Shinichi is fine.

Hojo Shinji remained silent and lowered his head.

"It's okay."

Hojo Toika, who had no idea of ​​his mood, glanced towards the door. Apparently she also heard the couple arguing downstairs.

"It's really noisy."

She muttered to herself, picked up the phone earphones from the side and put them on, then turned her head as if nothing had happened and continued with her previous work.

Hojo Shinji looked at her back, not knowing what to say. He turned around and walked silently towards his bed.

His sister has always been like this.

When her family members are bullied by outsiders, she will stand up to defend them, but when her parents quarrel, she always has this expression... which can only be described as disgust.

Hojo Shinji didn't know what his father did for a living. He disappeared the year he was born and only came back four years ago. He would no longer be laughed at as a fatherless child, but the conflict between his parents became his new trouble.

The mother blamed the father for not taking care of the family for so many years, disappearing for ten years without any explanation and not giving any child support; the father blamed the mother for not understanding him and not raising him well...

Hojo Shinji pressed his forehead. He sat on the edge of the bed, looking at his desk and his sister's bed and desk not far away. Suddenly, a hint of doubt flashed through his mind.

...Has his room always had so much furniture?

He was about to ask when he saw a few papers thrown on the ground out of the corner of his eye.

His sister was listening to music and didn't respond, so Hojo Shinji walked over and picked it up, and found that it was a lawyer's letter and a settlement agreement. When he flipped through it, a business card fell out.

Hojo Shinji picked up the business card. Under the light, he could see the name on it clearly.

Concubine Yingli.

"..."

He remembered that when he left home the morning before yesterday, he saw a woman among the visitors who looked very difficult to deal with.

…Why did his sister get involved with lawyers and lawsuits?

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At the same time, on a certain road.

In the black Porsche, Gin whispered the name of a policeman he had just heard.

"Teraoka Katsutoshi..."

"Investigate the head of Section 4 for allegedly accepting bribes from gangsters and selling out police intelligence."

Aoyagi Binkou sat in the passenger seat, his brown-gray hair draped over his shoulders. He took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, then took the cigarette lighter from the side.

"…But we can't be sure yet. We need to send someone to investigate first." He said, "If the situation is true, we can consider developing him into an informant planted by the organization in the Metropolitan Police Department."

The Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Section 4 is dedicated to investigating gangs and organized crime. There are rumors that the headquarters is planning to abolish this department and make it independent.

"I will explain this to that gentleman."

Gin didn't ask Aoyagi Binkou how he knew about it, he just accepted the job.

Aoyagi Bin was just smoking a cigarette, without any guilt at all for about sending someone to hell.

He was just doing a test.

Before, he wanted to directly tell Gin the identities of several undercover agents, but the information could not be sent out at all. [Plot modification restrictions] blocked him, but just now he was able to do so unimpeded.

Aoyagi Binguang lowered his head and looked at the ring on his right hand which had not changed at all. This time, the snake-shaped angel did not hold up a sign to remind him.

Is it because of different identities?

Those undercover agents were created by cartoonists and are considered real original characters, but this black policeman is just added to the animation?

While he was lost in thought, Gin spoke again.

"What exactly do you want to do by looking for that famous female lawyer?"

Gin's tone didn't change at all, but Aoyagi Bin could tell that he was in a good mood.

"Didn't I tell you on the phone before? I just want her to seek justice..."

Chapter 61 Methods of advancing the main plot

Concubine Yingli.

After Rabbit told Aoyagi Akimitsu that Mao Lilan's mother was an excellent lawyer with a record of no losing cases, he wrote down the name.

He asked Gin to find her law firm through many twists and turns and commission her.

- Helped the family of a victim of a homicide case to sue the novelist Hojo Tobiko for publicly "teaching" others how to kill through the use of novels.

……

How to deal with someone who has the ability to change other people's will?

Ever since he learned about Hojo Toika's skills, Aoyagi Akimitsu began thinking about this problem.

There were two problems before him:

First, this ability is too dangerous, and you must never confront her head-on, and you must quickly determine how to defend against it;

Second, she knew more intel about the undercover than Rabbit did, and he had to get that information from her.

Aoyagi Akimitsu repeatedly reviewed the existing clues while trying hard to think of a countermeasure.

Soon, he thought of it.

"Gin, have you read Detective Kyoko? It's the novel written by the author who alluded to the crimes of the members of Tsukikage Island."

Inside the Porsche, in order to prevent Gin from forgetting who this person was, Aoyagi Akiko specifically mentioned the relevant case.

"I watched a little bit to determine how much she was insinuating," Gin replied.

"What do you think of the methods used to commit the crime?"

Gin sneered, with a cold arc at the corner of his mouth: "Some of them are quite interesting, and can even be done in reality."

There is a principle in ordinary detective novels.

The methods used by the murderer in the film may be fancy, inexplicable, and unbelievable, but they can never be done in reality.

——Otherwise, detective fiction is no longer fiction, but a horrible guide to murder.

But "Detective Kyoko" is different.

The player with the ID of Arrogant, Hojo Toika, writes not detective stories that she came up with herself, but things that will really happen in this world in the future!

In other words, the techniques used in the novel are very likely to work.

As early as when he saw her publish the modified original work, Aoyagi Akimitsu was wondering whether there would be readers who would try to use the techniques in the work and succeed in committing the crime?

What would be the reaction of the victim or the murderer's family if they knew about this?

So during these two weeks, he took Rabbit to class during the day, and then left the skill clone at home, asking him to search for homicide cases that occurred in Japan after Kyoko was serialized based on the methods compiled by the novel's fans.

This is a huge amount of work.

Although Gin pushed Tequila to Aoyagi Binkou as his assistant, he was worried about letting Tequila, whose three code names could be exposed with just one sentence, to do such an important task, so he would rather get tired himself.

He spent a week finding several pieces, and from among them he picked out a victim's family who had a gambling addiction, and tried to find a way to reveal the matter to them.

The murderer was short of money and did not have much property to compensate them after the case, while the victim's family had only a little money left, which was not enough to repay the gambling debts currently owed by the family.

It has been described in the novels of Tu Zi and Kyoko that the victims of many cases here had "obvious signs of death" before the incidents occurred - they had an arrogant attitude, foul mouths, no sense of humor, and provoked everyone present.

In novels, personalities are set up, but in reality, such people are often brought up by their families. Either their families spoil them too much, or their parents are like this, and they are influenced by it since childhood.

If such a family knew that the murderer learned the method of killing the deceased from a novel, they would most likely go to trouble the author of the novel - especially if they were in urgent need of money, and novelists who could sell copyrights were often quite wealthy.

Rabbit said that Hojo Toika was unreasonable, so Aoyagi Akimichi sent a group of even more unreasonable people over.

Gin remembered that in addition to contacting Eri Kisaki, Aoyagi Akimichi also found the family of a murder victim, and he quickly understood his intention.

"If a novelist writes a case that instructs others on how to kill, then she probably won't be able to continue serializing."

Gin glanced at Aoyagi Binguang and said, "Is this your way of dealing with it? Such a weak method is meaningless. It is better to kill her as soon as possible."