Su Shuang's world is collapsing [Comprehensive]

Chapter 527 [Chapter Guizhang Saito Line] 12

Fujita Goro: "..."

Oops, I feel completely suppressed in terms of conversation, what to do.

But he still has a lot of questions to ask her?Although she seemed in no hurry to clarify her innocence, making him look like a fool who was anxious and troubled by it... However, those doubts that piled up more and more cannot be dealt with properly of.This is about protecting the safety of townspeople and civilians—just like what the Shinsengumi did; it is also about how the reputation of the Shinsengumi’s companions can be properly maintained—because he never wants to see her being Others looked at her with strange or condemning eyes, and they never believed that she would kill innocent people so casually.

Her swordplay is bright, courageous, and shadowless.Shouldn't he, who has fought side by side with her countless times before, know this best?

...However, Fujita Goro never thought that, as a policeman, he would have to persuade the suspect to agree to prove his innocence.

They are now sitting in a hidden corner of a tea house.Unexpectedly, the atmosphere between the two was slightly tense.

This tea house is considered a relatively high-end place, even if they enter in western clothes like the two of them, it doesn't look too out of place.After serving them dessert and tea, the waitress retreated silently.This corner happened to be located behind a small screen, which blocked the voices of other guests in the teahouse, as if they were coming from another world.

Fujita Goro cleared his throat, determined to speak first to break the embarrassing atmosphere.

"Mr. Xueye," he said very seriously, "I think it is necessary to hear what you have to say about the Kutiao family and the serial killings at night."

And Qingyuan Xueye, who was sitting opposite him, was biting the tip of a bunch of dumplings, raised his eyebrows slightly, and blinked innocently.

Fujita Goro: Ah, I feel so tired.Before the conversation started, I already had the premonition that "today's conversation may not be easy", is it my own illusion?

He stared at her with some headaches, trying to neutralize the bad influence of her casual performance on the atmosphere with his extremely serious attitude.

"If you feel that you have too many clues and don't know where to start, I can also ask you questions. You just need to answer me." He continued, with a face that looked like the school she remembered from a long time ago Dean.

She couldn't help laughing and sighing.

"Ah~ah, Yi-kun, so serious~" She imitated Okita's iconic half-truth and half-fake little devil tone, and said with a smile.

"It turns out that Yijun really didn't invite me out to reminisce about the old days~ Could it be that he only invited me out to handle the case~ Is there nothing to tell me other than talking to me about these things? Long time no reunion~? Ahhh, so disappointed~"

The series of codas represented by wavy lines and plausible complaints made the natural and serious Xiaoyi immediately take it seriously, showing a look of embarrassment.

"I, I'm not trying to interrogate you rudely, but in order to catch the real murderer, I must get your testimony... because that mysterious murderer also appeared on the street to commit crimes on the night I was patrolling, and you are The only person I found on the street that night, it was necessary to..."

Before he could finish speaking, she interrupted him.

She was sitting across from him, although she was wearing a long dress that looked gorgeous even when walking on the road, but she didn't seem to be aware of it, holding her head in her left hand and holding the half-eaten dumpling in her right hand , holding one end of the bamboo stick in his mouth, slightly revealing a few white teeth, biting the bamboo stick casually, tilting his head and looking at him across a table.

"Hey~" She dragged out the ending sound again, looking lazy.For some reason, this attitude made Fujita Goro suddenly think of her former boss, Souji Okita, the leader of the Shinsengumi Ichiban Division.In my memory, whenever Okita was about to say something serious, it was often like this.

Sure enough, the next moment she also threw out a sentence that poked people's lungs.

"So, Yijun came to me not to give me a lot of cherry cakes, but to see if I am the real murderer, right~"

Fujita Goro:! ! !

His expression became extremely serious in an instant.He even subconsciously straightened his face, as if he was about to enter a battle—he didn’t realize it himself—and unconsciously slid his left hand down to his waist, holding the handle of the saber there, as if holding a knife It can make his mood firm at the moment.

"It's not like that." He lowered his voice, looked straight into her bright and bottomless eyes very seriously, and said:

"I came to you to prove to everyone that you are innocent."

"I don't believe you're a murderer. Whether you're 'Kyohara Yuki' or 'Kujo Noriko', if you change your name, you're still you."

She tilted her head and bit the bamboo stick, and the relaxed smile slowly froze on her face.

"...Yijun." She called him suddenly.

Fujita Goro:?

"I told you..." Her voice sounded a little light and unreal.

"Don't trust me... I'm just a bad person."

Fujita Goro:? ? ?

Seeing the question mark on his face, but the only thing that didn't show the kind of expression full of guard because of it, her eyes shook slightly.

"You came to me today because you found something out of your investigation." She slowly loosened her teeth, put down the bunch of balls, and picked up the steaming teacup on the table.

"Then let's talk about it."

Although it felt as if she was subtly turned from defense to offense and dominated the development of the situation, Fujita Goro did not interrogate her suspicious person mercilessly in the capacity of the police.

No, it would be better to say that he came today as a "former friend and companion" to seek her solution and cooperation, just like countless days before.

He nodded slightly, and didn't say much about "Why are you asking the question now, when you should be the one answering my question?" Instead, he stated in a serious tone:

"...I found the previous land certificate records of Jiutiao Mansion. The owner recorded on the old land certificate is not the current Jiutiao Patriarch Zhongshun, but a man named 'Jiutiao Daoqing'."

As he said so, he quietly observed the subtle expression changes on her face.In this situation of sitting face to face across the table and not being affected by a series of influences caused by her being too close to him, his calm and meticulous thinking is still one of the best.

From the very beginning, he straight-forwardly stated the biggest discovery he had made in the past few days of investigation, and he also had a tentative mind-because she had hinted to him that the Jiutiao family was worth investigating.So did she know some terrible secrets before she made such a gesture to him?

Of course he also remembered her telling him "I can't explain it all".

The wording of this sentence is inexplicably interesting.

Strictly speaking, this sentence can be read in two ways.One is "I don't want to explain this to you," and the other is "I'm limited in some way to explain this to you, although I would love to."

He preferred to believe that the meaning of the sentence was the latter for her.But this has added a lot of trouble to him - it is of course the easiest way to ask her directly, but when the way fails, the facts he has investigated are all isolated fragments, and he does not know what he should do. Methods can connect them one by one to become the truth of a whole fact.

Now he noticed that when he said the name "Jiu Tiao Dao Qing", she did raise her eyebrows slightly.

...So, this guy is really important, right?

He continued: "I interviewed some residents near the Jiutiao mansion and the old people on the street at that time... The conclusion I got was that this person, Jiutiao Daoqing, was probably the illegitimate child of the Jiutiao family—in other words, although it is a bit impolite to speculate like this , but I have reason to believe that his father is Lord Zhongshun."

He saw her raise her eyebrows again, that expression was familiar to him, which represented "keep talking, I'm listening".

He felt relieved for some reason (?), and continued to narrate calmly: "The current house in Jiutiao Mansion was first purchased and built by him. And according to the testimony of some people, Jiu Tiaoqing is not an ordinary person. The Chinese young master—not because he is an illegitimate child or publicly claimed adopted son status, but because his behavior is very suspicious. As such, he presides over the mansion of the Jiujo family in Edo with a high profile, and goes in and out of this place every day. The types and numbers of guests in this mansion are quite mixed..."

While thinking about the sequence of events he had sorted out on his way here, he said:

"Although using the word 'guess' to express some things may sound unreliable... However, I have evidence and reasons to believe that I am making a reasonable guess."

"Kujo Daoqing, do you want to obtain the status of officially entering the Kujo family, so you did not hesitate to use a lot of extraordinary means to work for the Kujo family in Edo?"

His voice fell, and then he saw her on the other side of the table who was still holding her head, with a flash of a smile in her eyes.Then, she raised the teacup to the corner of her lips, and the soft red lips that had kissed him were half hidden behind the rim of the cup, and she silently mouthed a few words to him.

She said: Yijun, you are so smart.

Fujita Goro: "..."

The author has something to say:

February 3:

exhausted. . .

Tomorrow's update, please come back at this time~~

Recently, because the outline is a bit self-indulgent and there are too many lines, I feel that the order is chaotic, and I have to sort it out again.

In addition, I am also considering whether to join the branch line of Mikazuki Zongjin.

The sword man in the national uniform feels that I am the only one in the world without a crescent moon!Sure enough, the metaphysics of grain production and so on are all lies! !

So I miss piao him even more, shall I say? 【.