"Drink!"

Accompanied by Fujiwara's somewhat venting roar, the other party was knocked to the ground with a slinger, moaning in pain. "Uh-don't...... Don't fight......"

"Humph!" Fujiwara snorted coldly and kicked the dagger that had slipped out of the arsonist's hand and flew away. "When will the police arrive?"

"Come on, the firefighters should be on their way as well." Hotaru stared ahead at the warehouse that had apparently been set on fire by the arsonist. "This warehouse...... I feel like even if someone is called, I can't help it? ”

"yes, and isn't this area supposed to be a warehouse to be demolished?" Fujiwara nodded. "Anyway—"

"Human face!" Hotaru suddenly pointed in surprise at an iron fence window in the warehouse. "There...... Someone seems to have it! ”

Behind the window, a bloody human face clung to the fence, only to disappear suddenly, followed by the sound of metal objects colliding against each other.

"You take a good look at this guy here, I'll go over and take a look." Fujiwara narrowed his eyes slightly and walked in the direction of the fence. At the same time, the sound of police cars was already approaching. "Anyone?"

As he called like this, Fujiwara hurried closer to the window, and just as he was close enough, he finally heard a rather faint response. "Help...... Help me! ”

……

"You caught the arsonist, didn't you?" As soon as Officer Shiratori got out of the car, he looked at the rather sluggish man sitting in the corner, covered by a trench coat and hat. "Is that the man?"

"If you're talking about the arsonist, it's not him, it's the one next to me." Fujiwara's voice came from the other direction—beside him sat another middle-aged man lying on the ground, looking rather scruffy. "But I think you're right to focus on that person first – you're almost losing a colleague forever."

"What?" Officer Shiratori was stunned for a moment, and with some surprise, he looked back at the subject who had completely diverted his energy because he knew that the other party was not an arsonist. "That's ......"

"I'm sorry," Takagi said with some shame as he struggled to peek his face out of his hat. "Because the pistol was accidentally seized by the other party, it ......"

"Huh?" Before the others could react, Hotaru was startled. "You (anata), watch out for the gun!"

"I don't think he looks like he has a gun, or he should have used it just now." Fujiwara re-entered the state of alert, but he didn't seem to think that the other party really had a gun. "And we've already taken off his trench coat, where else can he hide?"

"I don't even know why that guy is here," the arsonist groaned in defense. "I didn't even know he was here......"

"Are you going to plead guilty of assaulting a police officer?" Officer Shiratori took a look and walked over to the arsonist. "That being said, the situation is not good for you, and I think the prosecutors will be happy to give evidence that there should be a presumption that you know the fact that he is here."

"But I really don't know......" the arsonist groaned rather weakly.

Fujiwara pursed his lips and glanced at Hotaru.

Although the matter of the gun is still a little unclear, and I don't know where the gun went, but at least this arson case should be over, right?

"Then again," Officer Shiratori suddenly asked Fujiwara as he watched his subordinates handcuff the arsonist. "What happened to that case yesterday, and why did Officer Twilight greet us at the Metropolitan Police Department today with dark circles under his eyes and ask us to seal all the files related to the burning death of Miss Hatsune Kato?"

"......" Fujiwara glanced in Hotaru's direction, and then organized the wording. Belch...... If you need not to know, that's all I can say. The things behind this case are complicated, so after we discussed it, we decided to let this case go by. The reason why the file should be closed is also because this case is obviously different from the other arsons that should be attributed to this arsonist, and if you continue to leave it here, it will easily become a distraction to mislead you into catching this murderer. ”

"In other words, you didn't deny that this case was not as simple as what you said to the victim's family at the scene that they had a 'rabies attack'?" Officer Shiratori thought for a moment and asked in a tone that wasn't too sure. "What's going on here?"

Fujiwara just shrugged his shoulders and said nothing more.

"Forget it, I'll just assume it didn't happen," Shiratori sighed with a wry smile, but looked at Takagi again. "But this time, this guy took advantage of it, and it is said that he was knocked unconscious because he deduced the real murderer, maybe...... It's not good that I'm going to be hit a home run now! ”

"Officer Shiratori, what are you talking about?" Fujiwara was a little stunned.

"Ah, nothing, nothing, I'm just talking to myself, hahahahaha-" Officer Shiratori's insincere perfunctory reverberation echoed in the alley.

……

2 a.m., Rice Flower Central Hospital.

"Officer Sato......" Takagi lay on the hospital bed, looking at Officer Sato with mixed emotions. That one...... Do you already know the murderer? Eighteen years ago......"

"Mr. Shuji Shikano, right?" Officer Sato shrugged. "Although you didn't say it in the first place, the children found it in the end."

"Kids?" Takagi was taken aback, and then he looked at the person who had come with Officer Sato, but was subconsciously ignored by him.

Chiba sat on the chair and glanced at Officer Sato with some helplessness, and then responded to Officer Takagi's surprised look with a wry smile. He was pulled over by Officer Sato, and he probably guessed what Officer Sato was thinking - he was pulled to avoid an extreme situation that Officer Sato didn't want to see: for example, if Officer Takagi used that promise here and asked Officer Sato to [associate with him].

If Officer Takagi really made such a request, Officer Sato would probably use the reason that Chiba had told him the answer to deprive Officer Takagi of this right, right?

However, Officer Takagi's temperament probably wouldn't have done such a crazy thing, right? Although I have probably fantasized about everything in one step, but in practice......

"Of course, considering that you are indeed the first person to think of, give it a try, if it is not too much, I can meet it." Officer Sato crossed Jiro's legs and looked at Takagi playfully. "As a reward for your quick thinking, but also as a punishment for your procrastination."