【Um? 】
At the moment when he passed by Mr. Muraki, the boy suddenly smelled a vague and strange smell coming from Mr. Muraki's body.
The strange smell was a bit pungent, but not strong. It just drifted away in the wind in an instant, almost making the boy think that there was something wrong with his sense of smell.
Stopping, the boy turned to look at Mr. Muraki, who was standing next to the door, his eyes slightly narrowed.
He looked at Mr. Muraki's body again.
The shirts and trousers on my body were clean, but they were full of wrinkles that had not been smoothed out. It felt like they had been washed and dried and stuffed into the closet for a few days, and then taken out and put on in a hurry. .
The exposed skin was normal. With the boy's keen eyesight, he didn't see anything like he hadn't bathed for a long time, and his skin seemed to be coated with something.
Rather, it looks quite clean.
"S-Officer Baihe?" Mr. Muraki was stunned and looked at the boy with some confusion.
"Wooden man?" Xiao Karasuma, who was following the boy, also stopped and looked at him doubtfully.
The two detectives inside and outside the door suddenly became serious at this moment. Having followed the boy to solve crimes for a long time, they naturally understood the signals expressed by certain actions of the boy better.
Usually, in this situation, it is the boy who is ready to arrest someone.
Although they didn't know exactly what the boy found, it didn't matter. They just caught him. The boy never made mistakes anyway.
However, this time the two detectives' guess was wrong.
Under Mr. Muraki's confused and nervous expression, the boy carefully looked at his whole body, and then a smile appeared on his lips.
"Mr. Muraki, have a good rest. If you are really feeling unwell, go to the hospital as soon as possible."
"Ah? Ah, ok, ok, thank you Officer Baihe for your concern..."
Somewhat unaware of the boy's concern, Mr. Muraki was stunned for a moment before quickly nodding and smiling.
"Then Officer Baihe, go slowly. I'll leave Xing and Xingzi's affairs to you. If you have any questions, please feel free to come to me and my wife. Go slowly..."
Without responding to him, the boy walked straight into the police car parked outside.
"drive."
"Wooden man, what happened just now?" Xiao Karasuma asked hurriedly as soon as he got into the police car. The other two detectives also pricked up their ears when they heard the sound.
Not only she, but also the two detectives were aware of the weird atmosphere just now, but they didn't dare to ask directly like Karasumaru.
"I suspect there is something wrong with this family."
The car started slowly, and the boy sitting in the back seat spoke directly without hiding anything.
He lowered his head and frowned slightly. His words made Karasuma, who was sitting next to him, stunned for a moment and asked in disbelief:
"You wouldn't suspect that they killed their daughter, would you?"
"Mr. Muraki was very nervous when he first met me. This is not normal."
"In their eyes, you are a policeman after all. When ordinary people see a policeman, even if they are a little nervous..."
"That's not what he looked like when he saw me this morning." The boy interrupted Karasuma slightly.
He had met the Muraki couple at the cemetery this morning, but he only briefly asked about some relevant information in the morning and asked the couple to go home first and wait for the police's follow-up investigation.
At that time, neither Mrs. Muraki nor Mr. Muraki had any nervous reaction when they saw the boy.
But just one morning passed, and when Mr. Muraki saw him again, he suddenly became extremely nervous for some reason.
In the conversation just now in the room, Mr. Muraki showed a cautious attitude when facing the boy from the time he appeared to the time he left. This was a very obvious difference from his reaction in the morning.
"No wonder you stopped me from drinking the tea he handed me. Did you suspect that there was something wrong with him at that time..."
Xiao Karasuma was thoughtful after hearing this.
"When they went to see Kyoko's body this morning, did they show any unusual reaction? For example, they were not surprised at all, or not sad at all?"
Recalling the plot of the detective reasoning that he had seen before, Karasumaru asked quickly.
"It's hard to judge the surprise." The boy explained.
"After all, we called them to come for the autopsy, which also made them mentally prepared in advance, so they didn't show too much surprise after seeing their daughter's body with their own eyes. This is also a normal reaction.
As for sadness and grief...the couple did have a strong reaction at the time, and it wasn't like they were just faking it. "
"In other words, are you overthinking it? They actually did not kill their daughter..." Hearing this, Xiao Karasuma looked thoughtful again.
How could anyone pretend to react in such a grief-stricken manner after personally killing his own daughter? Even if you can pretend it, how long can you pretend it?
Karasuma had not forgotten that when she first saw Mrs. Muraki, her eyes were still red and swollen.
It was obvious that Mrs. Muraki had been crying all morning.
Although Mr. Muraki didn't have such a strong reaction, he still looked exhausted, as if he was about to lose his soul.
The couple are both very visibly grieving over the murder of their daughter.
"When I was leaving just now, I smelled a strange smell on Mr. Muraki."
At this time, the boy spoke again.
"The smell is very special, a bit pungent, but it is not the body odor emitted by the human body after being left unwashed for a long time, nor is it like the smell of cigarettes or alcohol. At the same time, it is also similar to the special smell emitted by the long-term accumulation of garbage. The stench is completely different…”
When the boy said this, he suddenly paused.
"After all, I still haven't figured out how he got that smell."
Being active at various crime scenes for a long time has exposed the boy to various environments, and he has a clear understanding of the smells commonly associated with humans.
But the special pungent smell that Mr. Muraki emitted just now left the boy completely unimpressed. He even carefully recalled the smell of highly decomposed human corpses he had seen before, but found that it was completely inconsistent.
[There must be something wrong with that strange smell. 】
The boy made a judgment in his mind.
If just the weird smell wasn't enough to make him think this way.
But if you add in Mr. Muraki's nervousness the whole time when he saw the boy again, plus the clothes he wore that were obviously changed in a hurry...this was enough to make the boy suspicious.
The story behind this family is definitely not that simple, but the boy is not sure yet whether it is related to the murder of Kyoko's classmate.
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(End of chapter)
