Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

"If you include the current president of the Maru Group, Marudenjiro, there are already three people confirmed dead on your death list."

Zhixing nodded and asked:

"The police should have confirmed my identity by now. Can they get my things back? Also, please notify the rest of the people. Tell them I have a deal and ask if they want to discuss it."

"What's going on? Did you know that Master Wan was going to be murdered?"

Because of the mistress's escape, the maid who was eavesdropping outside the door was about to approach and report to the police with a conflicted look on her face, but when she heard this, she immediately questioned Inspector Megure.

Zhixing saw Inspector Megure awkwardly explaining to the maid why he was unsure what to investigate. Then he looked at the important prop in the case, a home telephone, and couldn't help but speak out:

"Officer Megure, I don't remember clearly. Can I ask the victim if I gave him my number?"

"Number? What does it mean..." The maid turned her head with some confusion, but then Inspector Megure's words answered her unspoken doubts.

"Well, the other party is number 18. Of the two victims before, one is the case you encountered, and the other is the name you didn't mark with a number."

"Ah! Number 18, could that mean..." The maid screamed when she heard the number.

Seeing the other party's reaction, Zhi Xing immediately understood what was going on. He continued to sit cross-legged in the same place and said to everyone present:

"Yes, I was the one who made the call."

"I am a person from the future who holds the information about your death. If you want to contact me, remember your number, No. 18."

Chapter 158 The most important thing in life is choice

Zhixing said that he called the other party later, but because he was too lazy to listen to what the other party said, he turned it into a unilateral announcement. After all, Zhixing had already planned to move to the police station permanently at that time, so as long as the other party wanted to find him, they would definitely be able to find him.

"How could that be? The master thought it was a joke so he ignored it. I didn't expect that."

The maid stepped back in shock, and at the same time shifted the blame for not telling the master onto the deceased master.

Then, without even bothering to hold Inspector Megure accountable, he left in a hurry, saying, "I'm going to tell my wife."

Inspector Megure watched the maid leave and did not stop her. After all, the whole case had been solved, so there was no need to keep everyone here.

Ignoring the maid, Inspector Megure turned his attention to Paper Line and asked:

"Come to think of it, why 18? Isn't it normal to start from the beginning? Or from the front to the back?"

Xiaolan and Conan, who were watching from the side, were stunned when they heard the number 1, and then looked at the paper.

"That depends on whoever gave me the information. The information I received wasn't arranged in chronological order, so the names I listed were compiled by others."

"And the numbers marked there, as I explained before, are simply the order in which the calls came through after I called them one by one in the phone book."

Inspector Megure clenched his fist and placed it on his chin, wondering what he was thinking.

Zhixing turned his gaze towards the kendo coach on the ground.

After Zhixing started talking, he, who was originally very frightened, stopped talking about monsters for some reason and looked at Zhixing with great fear.

Zhi Xing frowned and looked at the real murderer in this case. It was rare that the other party's eyes were clearly focused on him, but he didn't feel anything. So he couldn't help but ask:

"What did you see just now? Describe it."

"No...nothing...I didn't see anything..."

The kendo coach stumbled and turned his head to the side, no longer looking at Zhixing, which made Zhixing very confused.

If I remember correctly, as the first person who regarded anesthesia as a way to calm down, he should be someone who would admit it generously after the truth was revealed, or even stop in time.

Although he failed to get rid of his emotional impulse and became a murderer in anger, he is not afraid of trouble.

Did he really just see a witch over there? A witch is just a larger creature. She shouldn't be so scary after leaving the barrier, right?

What Zhixing didn't know was that Suwa Yuji, as a kendo coach with a famous sword inheritance, practiced both martial arts and tea ceremony, so he thought he had a very strong state of mind.

If Yuuji wasn't furious about the fact that his famous family sword was being handled carelessly by an outsider who didn't know its value, he wouldn't have accidentally hurt anyone.

Even in this state of anger, Yuuji does not regret when he realizes that he has committed a crime, but instead starts looking for ways to escape punishment.

However, this calmness is completely ineffective when facing paper lines.

Even though it had been a long time since the crime, Yuji had already vaguely explained his funeral arrangements to his family and was mentally prepared for the possibility of being arrested.

But just now he had taken the decorative sword very seriously, and with serious murderous intention, he was ready to kill the stranger in front of him.

And the reason is just that the other party saw his name in the cabinet?

This excuse was nothing more than an attempt to deflect the blame that belonged to him. Moreover, the detective opposite him looked like he was planning to point the finger at him, so it was only a matter of time before he would be caught.

Moreover, this happened in public, and if it weren't for the sudden appearance of the monster, Yuuji would have been convicted of two murders without any evidence.

Zhi Xing looked at Yuji, who was not about to speak, in confusion, then turned around and glanced at everyone present.

As Zhixing looked around, everyone kept their mouths shut and turned their heads away, not daring to look at Zhixing casually, except for Conan who knew part of the truth, and Xiaolan who had something to say to Zhixing.

Zhixing stared at her for a few seconds, and seeing that Xiaolan had no intention of speaking, he turned around and looked at Inspector Megure.

"So this case is closed, right? What else is missing? How did the criminal commit the crime?"

"We will slowly find out about that kind of thing later. But why did you suddenly appear here?"

Inspector Megure shook his head and asked the police officer to help Yuji, who had been pinned down for a long time, and then casually asked the question that concerned him most.

"It's an experiment, an experiment. You can just treat everything that doesn't make sense as an experiment. I don't understand why you ask me to explain it. After all, I wasn't the one who designed the experiment."

Inspector Megure couldn't help but sigh when he heard these words that clearly showed no intention of explanation.

Although it was clear that Kamijou Touma was concealing information, he didn't do anything himself and simply didn't report it... No, he had already reported that the victim was going to die, but no one took it seriously.

"So, you didn't come here to stop the victims from being killed and the perpetrators from committing crimes?"

"Stop it? How can I stop it?"

Zhi Xing spread his hands helplessly and said:

"Look, the victim's family won't believe me at all, and I'm just an ordinary person with limited knowledge. I don't have the ability to prevent the murder that is about to happen~"

Inspector Megure recalled and said:

"You know a lot about the criminal's motives and the evidence left at the crime scene, don't you? Look, you directly mentioned many clues in the previous two cases, and just now you said the criminal's name to that cabinet, didn't you?"

Zhixing thought for a while, then suddenly asked:

"Come to think of it, you haven't told me your motive for committing the crime yet, right? Could you tell me about it?"

After what he just witnessed, Yuji is still afraid of the paper company of unknown origin, but he has nothing to hide about his crimes.

So he immediately mortgaged his ancestral sword in exchange for high-interest loans in order to raise money. However, he did not expect that the other party would directly dispose of the mortgage without his authorization. Therefore, he killed the other party in anger.

"Then it was similar to what Detective Maori had analyzed. I listened to the answering machine message. I was so focused on finding a way to get out of the crime that I didn't notice that the person still had a breath left because of the decorative sword he used. He actually carved my name so quickly."

"Hey, hey, hey, wait a minute, you said you were right next to them, but they carved marks on the cabinet that you couldn't clean off, and you couldn't react?"

Zhi Xing looked at the wooden cabinet that looked quite valuable just by looking at it. He realized that it was not enough to carve it once, so he carved several identical marks in succession to emphasize the fact that the prisoner's name was deeply engraved in the wood.

Is this really a decorative knife that even a kendo coach can't kill with one blow, but can accomplish this silently in just a moment?

"Huh? Oh, I was listening to the message on the answering machine and wasn't paying attention to what was happening behind me. That fat guy was talking quite loudly, so I didn't hear it."

Zhi Xing sat there looking at the strokes on the cabinet that were so curved that they didn't look like they could be carved with a sword, and he began to question the reality of this world.

"Well, then, how long has it been since you lent him the knife?"

Yuuji fell silent again, but it was obvious that his silence this time was different from the previous ones, and instead expressed a different meaning.

Seeing that the other party did not directly state the date, Zhixing, who was already very sensitive about Conan's world line, immediately frowned and looked at Inspector Megure.

"How long has it been since I joined the police station?"

"It's been almost two months. The last time I saw you was over a month ago."

Zhihang's brows frowned even deeper.

If I remember correctly, Haibara Ai went to investigate Kudo Shinichi's residence two weeks after he disappeared. Shortly after revising Shinichi's death report, she received the news of her sister's death. Then, while in solitary confinement, she took her own medicine and escaped, and became Haibara Ai from then on, right?

In other words, I have missed Haibara Ai's story?

In order to make his question about time less unusual, he casually said:

"So, you've been pawning your famous sword here for longer than two months, right?"

"Hahahahaha...."

It was just a random remark, but Zhixing never expected that Suwa Yuji, who had been admitting his guilt, would suddenly burst into laughter after hearing it.

"You are indeed from the future. I can't hide it from you."

Zhixing looked in Conan's direction in confusion, while Maori Kogoro, who was in the same direction as Conan, was awakened by Yuji's laughter and opened his sleepy eyes.

"Detective Maori saw through my method of clearing my name, and you saw through my true motive. So, it seems that my revenge attempt has most likely failed."

"What's going on? Do you have anything else to hide?"

Inspector Megure asked anxiously. After all, once someone lies about their motive, there must be a bigger motive.

Suwa Yuji looked at Inspector Megure and explained his true motives to him.

"Yes, that is our ancestral famous sword [Kikuchiyo]. If it wasn't for the last resort, how could I have ended up pawning it?"

"But that crisis came so strangely that I immediately sensed something was amiss. So after borrowing the high-interest loan from Wu Dian, I quickly contacted people elsewhere to borrow money. Finally, a month later, I was able to borrow the same amount in cash, even including the interest."

"But that guy's goal was to get the famous sword [Kikuchiyo] in my hand. I fell into his trap!"

When Yuuji said this, if he wasn't wearing handcuffs, his expression would have looked like he was about to take action.

"Calm down, I'm not sure I can get you out again."

Zhi Xing frowned as he looked at the witch's kiss faintly appearing on the other person's neck.

"Yes, I was so angry at that time, huh~"

Yuuji used his usual self-cultivation skills to suppress his anger and continued:

"When I heard that my knife was secretly sold by a wealthy CEO within a month, I was completely confused."

"But after accepting my ransom, they told me: If you want your sword back, you must also hand over your sword manual."

"At that moment, I realized I was being watched."

"There's no such thing as an inexplicable crisis. It's simply a tactic the other party has long ago arranged. I'm afraid even Mr. Wudian introduced me to him specifically so that I can pawn my ancestral sword."

Yuji clenched his fists and squeezed his eyes shut, but you could still tell from his mustache that he was still angry.

"After realizing I had been tricked, I couldn't help myself. I took one of the two decorative swords from my back and slashed it hard at the other person."

"When I realized what I was doing, I regretted it deeply."

"Because if I do that, not only will I not know the whereabouts of my ancestral sword, I will also not know who is behind this."

"Just then, the phone rang and the message on it gave me an idea."

"If the other party's goal is to obtain my secret manual, then they will probably be terrified when they learn that the middleman has died unexpectedly."

"To do this, I have to let the people behind the scenes know that it was me, but at the same time, I have to make sure the police don't know it was me."

Then Yuuji opened his eyes and looked at the cabinet with his name engraved on it with a complicated expression.

"But I never expected that the other party still had so much energy left."

"Even though he was severely injured by me, he was still able to perform a very solid set of basic swordsmanship, and quickly and deeply left words pointing to me on the cabinet."

"I was so shocked that I asked him to carve it twice more."

"That's why I had to actually fight him a few times with swords. Then, to disrupt the scene, I had to leave all kinds of sword marks in the room, and I even deliberately made his sword hand go in the wrong direction."

After hearing this explanation, Zhixing looked around the room a few more times, and then saw the photo of the president holding a real sword in Conan's eyes.

"So, the victim, who was skilled in swordsmanship and a loan shark, naturally had a keen eye. Therefore, he set his sights on your famous sword and set up a scheme to steal it from you?"

"Yes, that guy obviously practiced sword before, so he must have heard of the reputation of our sword gym."

"But with that guy's ability, even if he gets my sword manual, he can't practice on his own. So I think there must be someone behind him who wants it."

"Even though he's already rich?"

Yuuji was silent for a moment, but still trusted his martial arts-trained intuition and nodded.

Seeing this, Zhixing slapped his head and felt extremely speechless.

Hey, hey, hey, Conan has a distillery that refines medicine, Kidd has a zoo of gems, and now this is some kind of Dark Martial Arts Tournament? Why are there so many massive organizations in this world? I don't want to get into any more trouble.

Zhixing slowly stood up and looked at the criminal Suwa Yuji. Now that the topic had been opened, the other party would probably not resist answering what he saw and heard after entering the unknown barrier. This was very important for Zhixing to understand his own situation.

However, Zhixing turned his head and looked at Ran Maoli, who was telling the truth about her father but was a little taciturn, which was inconsistent with her personality. Zhixing always felt that the other party seemed to have something to say to him.