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Yumi read the words on the card softly.
"Matsuda, when you wake up, we'll go racing like we did back in police academy!"
"Matsuda, don't give up! Don't forget your dream!"
……
"It seems like the person who sent the letter is quite familiar with you?" Yumi exclaimed.
Sato sent more than two hundred cards, and judging from the dates on them, one card was sent every week without fail.
“It’s a friend I met when I was in police academy,” Matsuda said, looking at the card with a complicated expression.
He already knew who had sent the card.
After all, of the original five members of the police academy group, only he and Rei Furuya remain.
"I never expected Matsuda to race cars like that," Sato chuckled. "You usually seem so lazy and laid-back."
“Tsk tsk,” Yumi nudged her friend with her elbow and teased, “Isn’t this another thing we have in common?”
“I don’t like racing,” Sato complained. “Those are all emergencies, accidents!”
"Yes, it was all an accident!" Yumi said with a teasing smile. "Including the fact that she always screams loudly without engaging the handbrake while drifting, forcing me to cover my ears every time!"
"The racing incident mentioned on the card was actually just an accident," Matsuda recalled with emotion. "I remember an elderly couple mistakenly pressed the accelerator instead of the brake and crashed directly into a truck."
"As a result, their car was towed along the road by the truck, and the truck driver suddenly fell ill and went into a coma."
"Then, I, the second-year graduate student, and Ling drove together in the instructor's white Mazda to rescue people."
"And what happened later?" Yumi and Sato asked with concern.
"Of course we were rescued. The elderly couple and the truck driver were all safe and sound," Matsuda laughed. "However, because we damaged Instructor Onizuka's friend's car, the three of us got scolded later."
“Instructor Onizuka?” Miwako paused, as if she remembered something.
"His car isn't white, is it?"
"Yes, it's white. It's said to have been left with the daughter of one of Instructor Onizuka's close friends who died in the line of duty, so she could focus on becoming a police officer..."
Before Matsuda could finish speaking, there was a loud "thump"!
Sato slammed his fist heavily on the table.
"……What's wrong?"
Matsuda and Yumi were both startled.
"Matsuda, you bastard! So you were the one who wrecked my dad's car that time!" Sato glared and roared. "Uncle Onizuka told me it was his three idiot students who did it, but I never imagined it was you!"
"You're the kind of tigress who leaves her car with Instructor Onizuka and thinks she can beat a man?" Matsuda blurted out instinctively.
"You bastard Matsuda, what did you say?!"
With a dark expression, Sato grabbed Matsuda from behind and choked him, subduing him!
"No, I was wrong..." Matsuda hurriedly begged for forgiveness.
Watching the two playfully bickering, Yumi tapped her chin with her slender fingers, feeling a sudden pang of disappointment.
So these two were connected so early on?
Chapter 12 The Blood Knight Corrupted by Artistic Obsession
After Sato and Yumi left, Matsuda tidied up the cards on the table, preparing to take them home when he got off work.
At that moment, he suddenly remembered a question.
"System, can I... bring back the souls of the deceased?"
Matsuda thought of his good friend Kenji Ogiwara, who had passed away seven years ago.
If he were still alive, he would definitely send him a bunch of greeting cards, just like this person.
However, if it's Kenji Ogiwara, then most of the words on the paper should be correct.
"Matsuda, wake up! I'll take you to pick up girls."
"The Metropolitan Police Department has a new beautiful girl. Get up and take a look."
"If you don't get up soon, I might just chase after the Metropolitan Police Department's beauty."
……
The system quickly provided an answer to Matsuda's question.
"It depends on whether the other person's soul is still in this world. Generally, after a person dies, their soul is free from all attachments or has fulfilled its last wish, and will soon be dragged away by the six realms of reincarnation."
"But if there are strong desires, resentments or other emotions, the soul is very likely to possess the thing that is most important to it, which could be a person or an object."
"For a second-year graduate student, if he really harbors resentment or has a wish, he'd probably be that bomber!"
Matsuda thought to himself.
Three years ago, after being deliberately trapped on a Ferris wheel by the bomber, Matsuda knew in his heart that the bomber must have some kind of hatred for the police.
With his recent high-profile comeback, Matsuda believes that as long as the bomber sees his news, he will definitely be unable to resist causing trouble again.
This time, we must catch him!
Then, perhaps we'll even see the souls of the second-year graduate students. These five friends from the police academy will definitely reunite one day!
……
I whiled away the morning in the office.
In the afternoon, just as Matsuda was counting down the hours, waiting to leave work, Inspector Megure suddenly burst into his office.
"Matsuda, there's a case, come quick!"
"Do you really need me?" Matsuda glanced at the time; it was almost time to leave work.
"Hurry up, do you still want a promotion?!" Inspector Megure urged.
At the Tokyo Medieval Museum, a crowd gathered, listening to the person in the center speak eloquently.
"...All of this evidence points to one thing."
"The person who killed Mr. Manaka, the current owner of the art museum, is you, Director Ochiai!"
With the murderer's confession, the art museum murder case was successfully solved.
"Well done, Matsuda!" Inspector Megure laughed with satisfaction.
He had previously told his superior, Inspector Matsumoto, that Matsuda's reasoning skills were also excellent, and if he could train him, the police wouldn't have to put up with the incompetence of those detectives anymore.
Inspector Matsumoto was still somewhat worried that the two cases Matsuda had solved earlier were both based on luck.
Now that Matsuda has solved another case, Inspector Megure believes that Inspector Matsumoto will definitely have nothing to say this time.
"Officer Matsuda is amazing. The confident way he deduces is so similar to..."
Ran stared blankly at Matsuda, who was talking to Inspector Megure not far away, and a certain figure seemed to appear in her mind's eye.
"Cough cough!"
Conan, who was still unwilling to accept defeat again, quickly coughed twice.
If Xiaolan continues to make these connections, what if her feelings change...?
Conan dared not think any further and hurriedly looked up and said, "Ran-neechan, if Shinichi-nii were here, he definitely wouldn't lose to Inspector Matsuda."
Xiaolan snapped out of her daze, snorted, and clenched her fists angrily, saying, "That's not necessarily true. It would be better if that bastard lost!"
"Hehe." Conan chuckled dryly twice, then didn't dare to say anything more.
Over here, Matsuda is discussing some details of the aftermath of the case with Inspector Megure.
Suddenly, a system notification appeared.
"An anomaly detected: a Blood Knight corrupted by artistic obsession."
"Because of his dedication and love for art, museum director Ochiai put on armor and killed the museum's owner, Manaka, who was trying to demolish the museum."
"When the blood of the Boss Shinaka splattered on the knight's armor, mixed with the curator Ochiai's obsession with art and the blood of the Pearl Boss's fear and resentment, the knight's armor gained a spirit."
"It will be like a knight in divine punishment, punishing the devil, and bringing divine retribution upon those who defile works of art!"
Knight's armor? Matsuda looked at his feet; all the things that Director Ochiai used when he killed people were here.
Matsuda carefully examined the blood-stained armor but found nothing unusual.
Is it because it's still daytime? Looks like we'll have to wait until night.
After thinking this through his mind, Matsuda immediately called out to Inspector Megure, who was about to leave: "Inspector, how about I take the shift tonight?"
"Why? Didn't you just push all the troublesome things like taking statements onto Takagi, saying you were going on a date with Sato?" Inspector Megure retorted irritably.
"Well, considering the time I joined the First Investigation Division, I'm Takagi's senior, so how could I possibly dump all the hard work on him!" Matsuda laughed and made up an excuse.
"...That works too,"
Having already come to regard Matsuda as one of his trusted lieutenants, Megure naturally wouldn't refuse his request. However, after agreeing, he added,
“You need to make it clear to Sato that I didn’t force you to work the shift! If that girl gets angry, no one can stop her…”
Sato is truly a highly respected figure in the First Division! Even Inspector Megure is afraid of her.
Matsuda was once again certain that what he said back then—that she was definitely a tigress who could beat men—was absolutely right!
……
Metropolitan Police Department, First Investigative Division, Violent Offender Investigation Section 3 Office.
After giving his statement, Director Ochiai was taken into custody.
It was well past closing time, and apart from Matsuda and Takagi who were on duty, there was no one else in the office.
Matsuda walked to the window, looked at the night outside, and figured it was about time.
"Takagi, I'm a little hungry." Matsuda rubbed his stomach.
"Yes, Officer Matsuda! I'll go buy some late-night snacks right away." Takagi hurriedly stood up.
“I want to eat oden,” Matsuda said casually, “the one that just opened a couple of days ago, the one Yumi and Sato mentioned.”