Conan Rick's Investigator

"Mr. Tokitsu, the production team is still waiting for you to come back!"

"Mr. Tokitsu, what's wrong with you?"

Tokatsu Junya's butt was almost sitting on the table of the dressing table, and he turned to look at the makeup artist standing at the door.

But the makeup artist seemed to be unable to see the woman in front of him and just looked at him with a puzzled expression.

“You, you…”

"Can't you see her?" asked Junya Tokatsu in a trembling voice.

"What do you see?"

The makeup artist looked confused, "Aren't there just you and me here?"

At this moment, Tokatsu Junya's brain had no time to think any more, he turned his head again and stared at the figure in front of him.

Looking at the approaching gray face, his legs began to tremble unconsciously.

"you……"

"You killed me..."

A long, ghostly sound emanated from the female figure's mouth, which matched all human fantasies about the sounds made by dead people.

Just then, the lights in the lounge began to flicker, accompanied by crackling sounds.

At this moment, Tokatsu Junya's nerves, which were already stretched to the limit, were properly provoked, and the emotional dam that had been compressed for a long time collapsed like a tidal wave.

"not me!"

Tokatsu Junya turned around and ran to the door, pushing away the makeup artist who was blocking the door.

But he ran too fast and didn't see the threshold under his feet clearly, and he tripped and fell at the door of the lounge.

He ignored the pain in his knee and quickly turned to look at the back of the room. The terrifying female figure was chasing him.

"Don't come over here!"

"I didn't mean to perjure myself! I didn't expect you to commit suicide!"

"It's not my fault!"

"Don't come over here!"

Sitting on the ground, Tokatsu Junya retreated backwards while waving his free hand about.

But even so, it couldn't stop the "female ghost" from approaching him.

Until the "female ghost"'s palm approached his head, he was so scared that he quickly covered his head with his hands.

But after waiting for a few seconds, nothing happened.

He tentatively released his hands from covering his head and looked around nervously, only to see the maid and the makeup artist standing right in front of him.

He was surrounded by TV crew members holding cameras, shooting at his face with the lenses pointed at him.

The maid also took off her wig at this time, revealing her original wavy short hair underneath.

Beneath the cheerful smile are two cute little canine teeth.

"Haha~"

"Admit it!"

Chapter 1387 True Soul Detective

what's the situation?

Tokatsu Junya slumped on the floor of the corridor, his back leaning against the wall, looking around with wide eyes in surprise.

The "female ghost" took off her hood, revealing a girl with short wavy hair, and the makeup artist was standing next to her.

"You, you..."

Although Tokatsu Junya's head was buzzing at the moment, he roughly understood what was going on.

Everything that happened just now was a play performed by these two people, the purpose of which was to scare me into telling false testimony.

Even if Tokatsu Junya wanted to take back his words at this moment, it was too late.

In the profile position of his face, the cameraman was holding the camera against his face and shooting.

Those few words just spoken have been broadcast across the country through television without missing a word.

Although this could not be considered evidence in court and could not be used to bring a lawsuit against him, it had destroyed his reputation, which was what he valued most.

Once this matter is exposed, he will basically bid farewell to the detective profession. No police officer or client will dare to trust a detective who has wronged a good person.

Thinking of this, Tokatsu Junya's expression became completely stunned and his body completely collapsed.

……

Inside the studio.

Junya Tokitsu's performance was also played simultaneously on the projection screen on the side of the stage.

The audience was shocked to hear that he admitted to having perjured someone and forced someone to death.

Compared with Tokitsu Junya's complete dejection, the soul detective Horida Kaito at this time had a very energetic look on his face, with his head held high and his chest puffed out, looking very majestic.

The host, Rena Mizunashi, also said at this time: "Then we move on to the next stage, where the audience will vote based on their own ideas to select the winner of this show..."

Although Mizunashi Rena said this, the winner was obvious.

Now there is only one detective left on the court, Kaito Horida. Who else should we vote for if not him?

Just as the audience was preparing to raise their hands to vote, a figure in the middle of the front row stood up.

"Please wait a moment..."

Soul detective Kaito Hotta was about to walk to the center of the stage to be crowned the winner, but was stopped by this voice.

A mixed-race man walked onto the stage and asked directly, "Mr. Horita, are you really a psychic?"

Kaito Horida narrowed his eyes slightly and recognized that it was Qin Zhibo, the famous detective of the T1 level in the Tokyo detective world.

But it doesn't matter. His psychic skills have been exposed as fake more than once, but as long as there is no direct evidence, it doesn't matter.

Besides, he really obtained information that no one else knew except the deceased, and that was the point.

"Of course I can be psychic."

"Really? Then can you channel the spirit here for all of us?"

Kaito Horida was silent for half a second, then replied: "Souls cannot appear in crowded places. There are too many people here..."

"Is that right?"

Qin Zhibo sneered, turned his head to gesture to Mizunashi Rena, and then continued.

"In fact, your spiritualism is completely deceptive. The information you said you got from the souls of the dead was obtained from other places..."

As soon as Qin Zhibo finished speaking, the projection screen next to the stage came into play again.

On the projection screen, the camera at a very low angle was capturing half of a person’s face, with a message “Abnormal shooting” in the lower right corner.

Although only half of the face was photographed, the square chin, thick lips, and dark skin revealed in that half of the face make it difficult to find another one like Kaito Horita's distinctive Indian face in Japan.

As the video progressed, the sound of two people talking could be heard.

"Is what you said on the Internet true? The truth about the Lavender Villa case..."

"Yes, and this truth is almost unknown to anyone."

"Okay, I'll check the content first. If there's no problem, I'll give you the money..."

Kaito Horida stared in surprise, looking at the contents on the projection screen in disbelief.

As one of the protagonists in the video, he certainly remembered that this happened a day ago.

At that time, he received a message from TV director Furuli Sanpei, saying that the case to be discussed would be temporarily changed.

Although Kaito Horida wanted to protest, he was a second-rate detective who had already been involved in negative news, and it was good enough that the program team asked him to be on the show.

For the opportunity of exposure, he had no choice but to agree.

Later, when he was looking for news about the Lavender Villa case on the Internet, he saw a post written by someone who claimed to be an "insider."

The post contains the details of the Lavender Villa case.

So, Kaito Horida contacted this insider and wanted to use money to buy the exclusive information and use it for a TV show.

The video shows the scene of him meeting the insider in a cafe yesterday.

"...Well, the information looks quite interesting. I'll give you the money according to the price we agreed on in advance."

"Don't you need to confirm the accuracy of this information?"

"No, no one will investigate whether what the 'Soul' said is correct or not. As long as it is topical enough, it is enough..."

The video ends abruptly.

"Mr. Horita, please explain what is going on."

Mizunashi Rena looked at Hotta Kaito and asked sternly.

At this time, Kaito Hotta stood on the stage at a loss, his eyes aimlessly scanning everything in front of him.

He couldn't understand why his image suddenly collapsed when he was originally sure of victory.

In fact, from the very beginning, he fell into the trap set by Qin Zhibo and others.

The program team changed the topic temporarily, and Kaito Horita was not a real psychic, so of course he could only search for some information on the Internet temporarily.

At this time, the sudden appearance of someone who claims to be an insider would definitely make him grab at a life-saving straw like a drowning man.

Of course, this "insider" was actually Sera in disguise.

The information he was told was accurate enough to bring down Tokitsu Junya.

This way, he can fall from the peak to the bottom just when he is enjoying the peak moment of victory.

“No, that’s not the case…”

“The show shouldn’t be like this…”

Kaito Horida shook his head and kept repeating that he should not be the villain in this episode.

But in fact, the original purpose of this episode was to expose the hypocrisy of both him and Junya Tokitsu.

Qin Zhibo continued, "It's obvious that you, Mr. Horita, don't have any psychic powers at all. The information about the deceased you mentioned was either purchased in this way or made up..."

"Similarly, you used 'psychic' to find the bodies of the dead. You also found the bodies of the suicide victims in advance and buried them, pretending that you found them yourself."

"You were afraid that the identity of the suicide victim would be discovered, which would lead to your act of burying the body being discovered, so you took away the items that could prove the identity of the body, as well as the suicide note..."

Kaito Horida suddenly yelled, “No!”

"I really can communicate with spirits. I found those bodies by communicating with the spirits of the dead!"

But before he could finish his words, director Furuguri Sanpei walked onto the stage and stared at Horita Kaito angrily.

"That's you!"

"You found my sister's body in the suburbs two months ago! And you said my sister was murdered!"

"But the police later found a suicide note in the computer at my sister's company, as well as medication prescribed by a doctor to treat depression!"

"You bastard buried my sister's body there and used her as a propaganda tool for your own benefit!"

As Furuli Sanpei spoke, he became more and more excited, and he almost rushed up to attack Horida Kaito, but fortunately, several colleagues nearby stopped him.

Originally, Kaito Horida wanted to cheat by taking advantage of the fact that there was no direct evidence at the scene.

But as the person involved came forward to tell his story, he had no room to deny it.

In the end, he left the stage sadly amid the boos of the audience.

Winning or losing today.

Junya Tokitsu and Kaito Horita were completely defeated.

……