For a moment, Furukawa Kumisa didn't care about anything else and just spent 25 points of favorability to escape.

Fortunately, the system pulled her back with the second sentence.

Furukawa Kumisa rubbed his throbbing temples and asked the system: "What's going on?"

The system answered honestly: "I don't know, I haven't seen this scene before - but according to my speculation, that may be because Matsuda Jinpei is the only character among so many targets that I have a good impression of from the beginning."

"Because I increased his favorability to 100 points?"

"Yes, because his favorability has reached the normal full value of 100, so the system determines that the strategy has been 'completed', so there is no need to 'restart'."

If you don’t restart, your favorability will not be deducted, and of course, your favorability will not be increased.

Furukawa Kumisa sighed: "But no matter what, it is a good thing not to deduct the favor."

She thought for a while, but still wanted to confirm again: "Has he really discovered my identity?"

The system is very strange: "You have no memory of when you were drunk?"

Furukawa Kumisa shook his head: "I only vaguely remember that Matsuda and I were drinking, and then when I came back to my senses, I saw bourbon..."

Saying this, Furukawa Kumisa gritted his teeth and stopped talking.

Then she thought of something: "That's wrong, aren't I and Matsuda together? Where did bourbon come from?"

"Matsuda Jinpei thought Bourbon was your boyfriend. When he saw you were drunk, he called Bourbon and asked him to take you home."

Furukawa Kumisa:...Good guy, it turned out that someone else helped her lure the wolf into the house.

She sighed again: "Forget it... I have good intentions too."

The system said silently: "Aren't you curious why he thought Bourbon was your boyfriend?"

Furukawa Kumisa smiled "haha": "Are we often misunderstood by others? Every time I explain, do they listen?"

System:...It makes sense, and cannot be refuted.

"Anyway, now that I'm back in Tokyo, I can stay away from that guy."

——At least that night, Furukawa Kumisa still thought so.

The next day, Furukawa Kumisa went to the Metropolitan Police Department to clock in as usual. After work, thinking about the previous case, he turned around and walked to class one.

As soon as she stepped into the door of Class 1, she saw the young police officer near the door smiling and saying "Oh~" with a clear face, and then winked at her.

"Is this Officer Furukawa, here to see Officer Matsuda?"

Furukawa Kumisa: ...As I said before, she has been misunderstood too many times and she has given up struggling.

And that's actually true. She did come to see Matsuda Jinpei today.

Matsuda Jinpei came out to pick her up not long after. He had changed back into his suit and no longer looked like the gangster he had yesterday.

Furukawa Kumisa paid attention to observe his reaction, but still couldn't be sure whether he really "confirmed his identity".

...Well, it’s okay if you don’t deduct the favorability points anyway. Matsuda Jinpei’s line has 100 points of favorability. If you really want to deduct her, now she will have negative points.

Matsuda Jinpei led her indoors and spoke with concern: "You were so drunk yesterday. Did you feel uncomfortable when you woke up this morning?"

Furukawa Kumisa shook his head with a complicated expression: "No, last night... I drank hangover soup."

Thanks to the bowl of hangover soup cooked by Bourbon, at least she didn't have any uncomfortable symptoms when she woke up in the morning.

Thinking of this, she felt that she needed to emphasize to Matsuda Jinpei: "Matsuda, Amuro Toru is not my boyfriend. Don't look for him when encountering this kind of thing in the future."

Although I had heard this sentence from Toru Amuro last night, she personally confirmed it today that it still means something different to Matsuda Jinpei.

He turned back and smiled at her: "I know."

After thinking for a while, Furukawa Kumisa added uneasily: "You should also stay away from him."

Matsuda Jinpei paused in his steps - this was strange, since both of them had emphasized to themselves "stay away from each other".

Forget Toru Amuro, he can understand that it is emotional selfishness, but what about Furukawa Kumisa?

Of course Furukawa Kumisa cannot say, "Toru Amuro is a core member of a large yakuza organization, and getting close to him will harm you."

She thought about what happened last night and subconsciously touched her lips.

She learned from her previous lesson and used makeup to cover up all traces perfectly before going out in the morning.

But where others couldn't see, there was still the feeling of being bitten and gnawed by him last night. The guy bit her last night almost in a venting manner, almost giving her a feeling that she would be torn apart and eaten by him.

the illusion.

...what a madman.

Furukawa Kumisa's action of touching her lips was noticed by Matsuda Jinpei. He understood something instantly, and with a sharp look in his eyes, he asked: "What did he do to you?"

——He clearly warned that guy Jiang Gu not to take advantage of others!

Furukawa Kumisa also realized what his actions revealed, and could only cough lightly as if to cover up, avoiding Matsuda Jinpei's fierce gaze, and said vaguely: "...In short, just stay away from him."

Matsuda Jinpei stopped asking questions, after all, he had already got the answer.

While they were talking, they had already walked to the whiteboard in the back room, where Takagi and Sato were already waiting.

Sato saw her and said hello to Furukawa Kumisa: "Furukawa."

Takagi was more perceptive. He saw that Matsuda Jinpei's aura was not quite right. He scratched his head and felt that now was not the time to ask this question, so he shut up and simply said hello to Furukawa Kumisa.

The topic turned to the main topic of her visit today, and Furukawa Kumisa got straight to the point: "Isn't the case of Mizuo Misa still unresolved?"

Misao Mizuo was previously implicated in the vicious murder case in which Kudo Shinichi was buried alive.

The victim's body was dumped in the Tsumuzu River. There were obvious signs of long-term abuse on the body.

More than three weeks have passed since the discovery of the body. During this period, Furukawa Kumisa helped eliminate a suspect in the case in Hokkaido - the victim's scumbag ex-boyfriend. Of course, that scumbag is now involved in other cases.

and accepted legal sanctions.

Furukawa Kumisa had seen the tragic state of the victim's body and had always cared about this case. However, she did not expect that nearly a month had passed since the incident, and there seemed to be no progress in the first lesson.

Sato Miwako sighed and handed Furukawa Kumisa a piece of information: "You are also a relevant person in that case, so we won't hide it from you... To be honest, this case actually had some clues earlier, but things

……a little complicated."

Furukawa Kumisa took the file and took a look at it. It was Mizuo Misa's autopsy report and the subsequent investigation of the crime scene.

——It’s shocking.

Rape, beating, drowning, burning, electrocution, hanging... All the victim's begging for mercy and resistance became the adjustment to satisfy the murderer's abnormal psychology. She survived in pain for nearly two months in a torture that was worse than death. In the end, she survived

Couldn't escape the murderer's hands.

——Or maybe for her at that time, death was already a relief.

When Furukawa Kumisa first saw the corpse, he knew that this matter was not simple, but after actually seeing these things in the report...

Her fingertips holding the information suddenly tightened, and then gently relaxed, and then she looked up at Sato.

"These are all conclusive facts, and the apartment where the victim was abused was found. Why can't the suspect be caught?"

Matsuda Jinpei saw the suppressed anger hidden in Furukawa Kumisa's heart. He reached out and patted her shoulder, and then answered the question in a deep voice: "The suspect has been caught."

Takagi pulled out another piece of information from the table, and Furukawa Kumisa took it and saw that it was the suspect's information.

After turning two pages, she knew the root of the problem——

"They are all underage."

Everyone here fell silent.

After a long while, Sato sighed and spoke again: "As you know...for some reasons..."

After saying this, she smiled bitterly, "According to their ages, it is hard to say whether they will be severely punished after going to court. Moreover, one of the three suspects has some connections in his family. It is said that he hired a good person.

lawyer."

Furukawa Kumisa took a deep breath: "But you can't escape intentional murder, right?"

Unexpectedly, Matsuda shook his head: "No, according to the autopsy results, the victim accidentally fell and died while escaping... So, although... the victim suffered... abuse..."

He couldn't go on, so he paused for a moment before continuing: "But when it comes to the death of the victim alone, this is an accident."

Furukawa Kumisa blinked: "...an accident?"

Sato picked up the coffee at hand and took a sip: "Yes, the other party's defense lawyer will argue in the direction of the accident - although the victim's condition was already very grim before her death, because she did not die of direct abuse, so

, they will defend it as an accident."

Takagi sighed: "At most, we can add the crime of abandoning a corpse. There is no more room."

Furukawa Kumisa put down the information in her hand with a "snap". Matsuda Jinpei looked at her action and his eyebrows jumped, thinking that she couldn't restrain her anger, but she just asked a question lightly.

"So what can we do now?"

Sato shook his head: "...what our police can do...is already very limited. Now the Search Section 1 is working hard to find evidence that this incident may not be an 'accident', or at least it can be used to prove that it is a 'deliberate murder'"

The direction of sentencing..."

Furukawa Kumisa responded: "But the other party is a minor, so even if he is found guilty, he cannot be sentenced to death."

Hearing this, even Takagi, who has always been a good old man, sneered, "Death penalty? If you can get a sentence of more than 3 years, it will be considered a success."

Furukawa Kumisa glanced at the information on the table one last time, and then nodded: "I understand."

Matsuda Jinpei looked at her with an ominous premonition in his heart: "...What do you know?"

Furukawa Kumisa glanced at him: "The truth of the case, otherwise what do you think I'm here for? Now that the case has been solved, sentencing and court trials are not the scope of my concern."

She stood up and stretched: "Then I'll leave first. I have an appointment with someone later."

Matsuda Jinpei instinctively felt something was wrong, and he didn't even care about the second half of her sentence: "Furukawa... are you okay?"

She looked so calm after knowing this - not to mention her impulsive character, even Takagi, who had the best temper in their class, was so angry after hearing the truth that he wanted to teach the three of them directly.

An underage beast.

Furukawa Kumisa ignored him and just said calmly, "It's okay, I'm just leaving in a hurry - regarding this case, if you need my help in any way, just come to me."

With that said, Shi Shiran stood up, said goodbye to several people in the first class, and walked out of the Metropolitan Police Building.
To be continued...