Takamori Masumi instinctively refuted Toriyama Naoko's words, and then she had time to think seriously.
After thinking about it, he immediately rebutted even harder.
"Impossible! Don't exonerate yourself. This unfortunate victim like me is too lazy to continue pursuing the case. Why do you have to use such a terrible way to clear your name?"
Masumi Takamori couldn't accept such a horrible thing in the world: "Besides, haven't you seen Jiang Xia's collection of solved crimes? He is so powerful that even you, the real culprit behind the scenes, was successfully discovered. If we had that case at that time
There are other people standing behind the scenes, and he will definitely be able to find out!"
Torimaru Naoko pursed her lips tightly, unable to restrain the trembling in her heart: "But what if there really is such a person, a person who even Jiang Xia cannot find and convict."
"..."
Takamori Masumi fell silent, his expression extremely ugly.
But after a moment, after thinking about it carefully, she suddenly relaxed.
"It's okay if you have it. If even a detective as powerful as Jiang Xia can't find him, why are we two still struggling?"
Masumi Takamori thinks the problem is big, but when the problem reaches a certain level, it is not that big anymore, because there is no point in rushing:
"Let's just pretend that that person doesn't exist and live our lives quietly. Otherwise? Can you still find him and ask him why he wants to harm you?
"I don't even feel unwilling. What do you have to be unwilling to do? Even if there is such a person, if a guy like you who manipulates me to kill is manipulated by others, it can only be regarded as deserved. In this way, he can even be regarded as revenge for me.
He is my benefactor."
Naoko Tormaru: "I'm not exonerating myself, but if I was really manipulated by others to commit the crime, then I would just be a knife used by him. Your enemy is actually the mastermind behind the scenes. How can you
Do you think he is kind to you?"
"What you said seems to make sense..." Masumi Takamori blinked, feeling a little dizzy.
But anyway, they have already killed people, anyway, they have all escaped, anyway, they are all wanted, anyway, they have all fallen into the hands of the mastermind... So what else can be done?
"Aren't you tired from thinking so much? Our lives have become like this, so don't pursue those details."
Although Takamori Masumi and Toriyama Naoko have similar personalities, they have many fewer years of working experience in the workplace than the latter. She has never been the second-in-command in the company, nor has she lived a very stable life.
If you have never owned one, you are not afraid of losing it. Masumi Takamori decided to ignore those small flaws and face the reality calmly: "In short, even if there is a mastermind behind the scenes, just pretend you don't know. If you really can't swallow this breath, earn enough money."
, and then entrust a detective to investigate him - I have never seen a better detective than Jiang Xia, he will definitely help you find out the truth."
Torimaru Naoko didn't expect that the topic would return to Jiang Xia. She sighed and said helplessly: "You believe in that detective too blindly. Because he is your classmate?"
Masumi Takamori: "Because he is the one who found you, the 'mastermind', and restored my innocence. Without him, let alone the mastermind behind the mastermind, I would not even know you, the first-level mastermind, now.
——Of course I trust him, otherwise I wouldn't be able to trust you more."
Naoko Tormaru was silent for a moment, and it was better to talk about detectives than to talk about her manipulation of murder.
So she took the initiative to change the subject: "I have checked some of the detective's case-solving experience. He is a cautious person and always likes to keep silent until he has found all the evidence. If he can never find substantive evidence, then even if
If he is aware of it, he will not reveal the existence of that person."
While talking, Naoko Tormaru took out her phone, clicked on the browsing history that she had checked, and refreshed it.
Then a brand new case emerged - Hokkaido's "Red Bearded Santa Claus".
The reporters who wrote the case reports were all veterans, and the titles and openings were more exciting than the last. Naoko Toriyama was stunned after just one glance, and couldn't help but click in and read them one by one.
Then his face gradually turned uglier.
She pursed her lips and stared at the screen for a long time. She sent those reports to Takamori Masumi. After she read them, she asked: "What do you think?"
Takamori Masumi read it as if he were reading a story. When he heard her ask, he said with emotion: "Jiang Xia is really amazing."
Toriyama Naoko: "..."
Takamori Masumi realized that this was not what she was asking, so he thought for a while and said: "Even high-ranking officials like the police may be serial killers. This world is really dangerous."
Toriyama Naoko: "...What else?"
"..." Masumi Takamori felt for a moment that she was back in school again, and the person sitting opposite her seemed to be her strict and rigid teacher.
She could straighten her back and sit up a little straighter: "No, no more. What else is there?"
Naoko Tormaru took a deep breath: "Don't you think there are too many overlapping elements between this case and our recent experience?"
Takamori Masumi thought for a while: "You mean, Jiang Xia and two of my classmates were involved in the two cases, and they were both serial murder cases? - What's so strange about this? Jiang Xia is a detective, and when he encounters a case
Isn’t it very normal?”
"Besides that detective, can you think of anything else in your mind?" Naoko Tormaru couldn't stand these young girls anymore. She could only say bluntly, "It's not just them, there is also Maya Hashimoto in this case.
And—this person.”
She turned her phone around and pointed to a photo related to the case. In the photo, there was a stainless steel kettle. The shiny kettle wall reflected the upper body of a person - because the kettle wall was irregularly spherical, the figure's face
It was elongated in a weird way, and its appearance couldn't be distinguished at all.
Takamori Masumi stared at the deformed face: "..." Who is this?
Naoko Tormaru sighed. She opened the editing software and compressed and stretched the figure. After this processing, although it was still difficult to distinguish the face, some features were much more obvious.
——With his wide chin, burly figure, and sunglasses that never leave his body, he looks somewhat similar to their unlucky boss Jiro Inozuka at first glance.
Takamori Masumi finally recognized it and said in a voiceless voice: "This is... the guy who chased us on the way to the police?!"
Naoko Tormaru nodded.
"And the deceased and the murderer - they are also twins, and one of them happens to be a 'costume designer'."
Masumi Takamori: "...too? We haven't had plastic surgery yet. Have you adapted so quickly?"
Torimaru Naoko: "Didn't you just say that we can only comply with him first?" After a pause, she leaned into Takamori Masumi's ear and lowered her voice, "This case may be that person's reminder and warning to us.
