Not a detective

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Even if they admit it, they'll only get a small hush money at most. Getting their hands on the inheritance is just wishful thinking. Threatening that all-powerful tycoon will only lead to their own destruction.

"Take the young master away and let these ants disappear."

Anyone could understand this, but the doctors and nurses at the time couldn't care less. Perhaps they were the ones possessed by the monster; they had become slaves to greed. Otherwise, why would they selectively forget how dangerous the baby in their arms was, when this baby had unbelievably killed someone right before their eyes?

Humans, once their minds are controlled by desires, become foolish creatures.

So from beginning to end, the cat demon's host never changed; it remained attached to the newborn baby, constantly killing people. That's the truth.

The murderer himself did not intend to hide, nor did he deliberately conceal his methods. The people who truly covered for him were the eyewitnesses, who were also accomplices and victims.

It wasn't until the very last moment, the instant he saw the baby, that Riku Asakawa understood the truth; before that, no one had been able to discover it.

Even Shinonome Suetsuki and Chizuko didn't have it.

The missing piece of the puzzle for Shinonome Suetsuki was her knowledge of "possession by yokai." As a detective, not an onmyoji, she was unaware of this mechanism, which is why her deduction stalled halfway through. However, looking back at what she said, many of it actually pointed to the key answers to the mystery, but she simply hadn't grasped them at the time.

"The prisoner is not among these six people."

This sentence, in particular, is actually the answer... In the locked room with six suspects and one victim, an eighth murderer suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Her superpowers are still terrifying; perhaps she has already seen many things in advance.

On the other hand, Chizuko clearly knew about "possession by yokai," so why was she unable to deduce it successfully?

She believed that the possessed being could not be an "infant".

"People are not possessed by monsters for no reason. Generally, it is under extreme pressure, anger, hatred or jealousy that a 'gap' appears, allowing a monster to take advantage. Newborn babies do not yet have self-awareness and are even less likely to have such extreme negative emotions. They are pure and, in theory, cannot become the target of monster possession."

Chizuko-senpai still couldn't accept this answer and was puzzled for a long time afterward.

It wasn't until the police searched the home of the victim, Rika Otsuka, that they found a large number of cult books, videotapes, and recordings containing all sorts of bizarre and terrifying content.

It seems that Rika Otsuka was reading and listening to those things throughout her pregnancy... This is truly the worst prenatal education ever.

Perhaps the reason the baby was possessed by a monster was because it was exposed to negative emotions for ten months. That's quite tragic.

As for how to handle the aftermath and matters related to the cult, that was left to the police and the supervisory department to deal with. One day afterward, Asakawa Riku suddenly received a large sum of money transferred to his bank card. The account name was "Kirisame Aoi" and the note was "task commission fee". Thus, his work was completely over.

This sum of money is actually quite large, equivalent to his annual salary. It's worth it after all that effort. The Ministry of Supervision is indeed generous; no wonder that woman can afford a Porsche.

But then he thought again, since the money wasn't transferred from the supervisory department's account, it meant that a portion must have been embezzled during the outsourcing process...

Ah, no wonder that woman can afford a Porsche.

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This is a two-in-one! Happy New Year, here's an extra chapter. Tomorrow we'll enter the AFTER interlude and wrap up the Spring arc.

Wishing all my book lovers good health and all the best in the new year, and may you all have plenty of Porsches and beautiful girls to come to you!

I wrote so many words last year, and I will continue to work hard in the new year, updating non-stop, and persevere until this book is finished.

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Spring of Items: Spring of Items After 1

When Asakawa Riku pushed open the door of the Shinonome Detective Agency, he saw Shinonome Suetsuki's corpse.

The woman's limbs were scattered on the ground, her body naked, her beautiful body in disarray, and blood stained the expensive carpet.

Beside her stood Hoshimi Kou, holding a machete. Her eyes were calm, indifferent, and expressionless.

Blood was also on the knife, staining her suit skirt, her golden braids hanging down, as she looked at the dismembered corpse before her.

Asakawa Riku's expression instantly shifted from confusion to astonishment, and then to seriousness.

He ruled out the possibility of hallucination or dream; this was reality. So he strode over and stared at Hoshimi Kouyu:

"...You've been possessed by a monster too?"

"Ok?"

Hoshino belatedly looked up and saw Asakawa Riku. She seemed not to have expected to be discovered. Her azure eyes widened and her lips parted slightly.

The blade slipped from his hand and fell to the ground, its sound absorbed by the already soaked carpet.

"what is going on?"

Asakawa Riku grabbed her hand and solemnly pressed her for an answer: the detective was beyond saving, but why did the maid suddenly kill her?

If you are possessed by a monster, you must find a way to resolve the situation immediately.

But then, something he never expected happened...

"that……"

That was a sound that could never have been predicted.

The severed head of Shinonome Suetsuki rolled half a circle on the ground before finally turning in the right direction.

She watched Asakawa Riku grab Hoshino and said, "Actually, I'm fine."

Asakawa Rikuto was dumbfounded.

Then, Xingyu seemed to be hurt by his forceful grip, and finally laughed awkwardly twice:

"Haha...we can explain."

...

"In other words, your superpower isn't actually the [Rinnegan] that allows you to foresee the future and peek into the past..."

Asakawa Riku still wore an incredulous expression. He drank several cups of coffee before he finally came to his senses: "But it's about being able to revive oneself through 'resurrection'?"

"Yes."

Higashikawa Suetsuki sat in her luxurious chair, already wrapped in a blanket, stretching out as if it were the most natural thing in the world: "Haven't we always had this?"

Although he couldn't accept it at first, Asakawa Riku couldn't doubt what he had just seen.

In his eyes, Shinonome Suetsuki had miraculously "come back to life".

Right there in the room, the severed limbs reassembled themselves, the wounds healed and regenerated, and even every drop of blood flew up and returned to the body.

The whole process took less than five minutes, and she was completely healthy again, without a single scar on her body, and she was lively and energetic again.

Her graceful figure, like an oil painting or sculpture, with perfectly proportioned curves, showcases feminine charm like the golden ratio.

With such a miraculous resurrection, it's as if a goddess has been reborn.

If you ignore her rude yawning and adjusting the angle of her head.

"But... why is it 'resurrection'? That doesn't make sense."

Asakawa Riku still couldn't understand. Did she have two superpowers? Could one person have two superpowers?

"The Rinnegan was a lie I told... In reality, Miss can't do that."

Xingyu stood obediently to the side as punishment: "I was worried that Miss would be targeted by others because of her resurrection ability, so I have been using this lie to cover up my true ability."

—Is prophecy any less important than resurrection?

Asakawa Riku couldn't help but mutter, but that wasn't what puzzled him:

"But haven't you actually made several prophecies?"

To put it more simply, for example, she didn't even go to the scene to investigate this time, yet she still managed to see through part of the truth.

For example, last winter, she predicted that she would be assassinated, and she was indeed assassinated.

"I already said it's a [deduction] game."

Shinonome Suetsuki tapped her head with her fingertip: "I'm a detective, and detectives are supposed to rely on superb reasoning skills, isn't that just natural?"

Seeing this familiar gesture, Asakawa Riku suddenly realized something.

He remembered that when he asked her how she saw through so many suspicious points, the detective pointed to her eyes and said it was "here".

Thinking about it now, it wasn't referring to her "eyes," but rather to her "mind."

"No, no, no, no."

Asakawa Riku shook his head, stood up, and paced frantically around the room.

Thanks to the effect of Shinonome Suetsuki's resurrection, not a single drop of blood was left on the carpet, and there was no trace of blood in the entire reception room, making it seem like a murder scene at all.

He said, "When we first met, you also told me a lot about my past, even including my..."

"That's the result of the investigation."

Suezuki calmly replied, "Since you're here to work for me, I'll naturally conduct a comprehensive investigation into your life and experiences."

"The Dongyun family has a comprehensive search network covering the entire country. Under the surveillance of that [All-Seeing Eye] system, no one can completely protect their privacy."

Hoshino added.

It seems... they obtained the information in advance through prior investigation?

What kind of charlatan's approach is this? He's completely fooled by their nonsense!

"But you still call me 'Kawasaki'!"

"Aren't you called [Kawasaki]?"

Mo Yue, on the other hand, paused for a moment, then tilted her head and asked, "What should I call her then? How about Lu?"

—Was it really just a simple case of mispronouncing it?!

Asakawa Riku once believed that Shinonome Suetsuki had seen his past life through "peeping into the past," and even knew the fact that he had traveled through time.

At the time, he was convinced that Shinonome Suetsuki must have some kind of superpower, otherwise she wouldn't have known about this.

While it's true that "Kawasaki" is a Japanese pronunciation, it's actually a complete coincidence; this guy does frequently call people by their names randomly...

It turns out that the so-called "peeping into the past" is only based on a huge information database. Shinonome Suetsuki will not go to the scene to investigate, but will stay at the office and not go out. But this does not mean that she knows nothing. Hoshimi Kou, the maid, can use the Shinonome family's huge information network to collect a lot of intelligence for her, so as to control everything.

An omniscient and omnipotent deity, through the all-seeing eye, can perceive everything that happened in the past.

"I know that 'peeping into the past' doesn't exist... but what about 'foreseeing the future'?"

Asakawa Riku didn't forget that Shinonome Suetsuki's superpowers weren't limited to this; her most amazing ability was her ability to predict future events.

She had predicted things like "the spider's nest is dangerous" and "she will be assassinated this winter," and all of these predictions came true.

If all she has is the ability to resurrect, how does she manage to act as a prophet?

"how did you do it?"

Spring of Items: Spring of Items After 2

"I have hyperthymesia."

Dongyun Sueyue pondered for a moment, then pointed to her head and said.

Asakawa Riku was stunned.

"Hyperthymesia is an extremely rare medical anomaly, belonging to the branch of non-selective memory. Simply put, it's like the brain has an automatic memory system. People with hyperthymesia use the left frontal lobe and the occipital region at the back of the brain to store long-term memories," Xingyu explained at the right moment. She went around behind the detective and showed Moyue's head as if giving him a massage.

“Normally these two areas are used to process language and store visual memories, but for people with hyperthymesia, these things happen subconsciously.”

Asakawa Riku remembered that he seemed to have seen this disease somewhere before, but he thought it was in a fictional work. He didn't expect it to actually exist.

People with hyperthymesia have no memory. They can remember everything they have personally experienced, down to the smallest detail.

“Such cases are rare; there are probably only a handful in the entire world. But my hyperthymesia is somewhat different from other people’s cases.”

Mo Yue took the medicine bottle out of the drawer.

The transparent medicine bottle, the one she always carried with her.

"This is a side effect of superpowers."

"side effect?"

Asakawa Riku couldn't understand how his extraordinary memory and photographic ability could be a side effect.

During the final exams, he wished he could have one too.

"Lu," she did indeed change her form of address, "Have you heard of the [Mind Palace]?"

"Oh...you mean that Sherlock Holmes?"