Chapter 67 Merchants and Consumables (Fourth update)
When Hoshino Mirai received Ye Shan's invitation, of course she agreed to Ye Shan's invitation without even thinking about it.
But before going to the appointment, she still wanted to investigate as much as possible about Ye Shun's life experience.
Just when Hoshino Mirai's investigation was in trouble, she received an invitation from Lihua Group.
Lihua Group is the mastermind behind the entire brain-refreshing drug case.
They provided the raw materials for the brain-rejuvenating agent to two Yakuza organizations, the Sanmei Society and the Far East Society, and then sold them through the sales channels of these two Yakuza organizations.
Not only can he avoid his own risks in terms of law and public opinion, but he can also rely on brain-refreshing drugs to make huge profits.
It's just that since the Kabukicho Yakuza Riot incident, the Sanmei Society and the Far East Society have not listened to the Tachibana Group so much.
Sanmeihui was completely damaged by that attack and was listed as a key target by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
The Far East Club also relied on Nobuo Aozaki to join. Although it was dormant, it was able to continue to develop the Sanmei Club without any scruples.
However, Hoshino Mirai was very keen to hear that his words were not polite, but mocking her for being 'too naive and immature'!
Hoshino Mirai is only seventeen years old this year. If you look at her appearance, she might be around fifteen years old. In this case, the term "young" is not a compliment to her.
So when the real evidence was placed in front of her, Mirai Hoshino couldn't even express the slightest surprise.
But her arrogant and awkward self-esteem prevents Hoshino from allowing her to take other people's cases in the future, let alone cases where Ye Xuan, her arch-enemy, has already achieved success.
Hoshino Mirai said this very cold-bloodedly...
For this reason, Hoshino Mirai also agreed to the seemingly conspiracy-laden invitation from the Lihua Group, and successfully met the head of the Lihua Group...
It only took one year for this baby to grow from early childhood to the age of fourteen or fifteen in junior high school.
It was not until the sixth year that he changed into the uniform of Shojo High School and became the sworn enemy that Hoshino Mirai knew well, her inner demon...the murderer detective Hayato Koba.
To be honest, they are the original intention of the Japanese Detective Agency, which is to explore all kinds of gossip and news.
Then the target pursued by the police and detectives will have one more suspicion that the identity of the murderer is unknown.
What follows are training records, rigorous physical training, and military-level training including firearms, combat, reconnaissance, and counter-reconnaissance.
"..."
"Mr. Lihua...is this person sitting in your office your personal bodyguard or your personal detective?"
Hoshino Mirai actually thought of a more terrifying business that the Black Sea Group could do by relying on these products, and this business could even shake her values in life and what she was proud of.
After Hoshino Mirai opened the envelope and carefully looked at the contents, the first thing that caught her eye was a photo of a baby.
Not only would this make it look like she was licking her face and begging for Ye Shan, but outsiders would also think that she was taking credit from Ye Shan.
That shows that Ye Shun must have put a lot of thought and energy into concealing his past.
Hiroyuki Tachibana asked his secretary to hand this document bag to Mirai Hoshino.
So boring that I want to make her yawn...
But even if the truth she has been pursuing, no matter how boring it makes her sleepy, it is always the truth. At least Hoshino Mirai can't find any evidence to refute this truth now.
If we really need to let NO.19212 carry out the assassination mission, wouldn't it be enough to just throw him to the crime scene?
Regardless of whether it succeeds or fails in the end, the Black Sea Group only loses a little money.
Before the Curse of Murder appeared, the Xiwen Detective Agency was a detective agency that started out as a shady agency in Japan.
Based on the above, Hoshino Mirai now devotes all his energy to investigating Ye Shun's past life experience.
"What's the exchange condition? I don't think you will give me this clue for nothing."
In the end, her desire for the truth defeated her persistence in solving the case independently.
Hoshino Mirai listened to the truth told to her by Hiroyuki Tachibana...it sounded absolutely boring to her!
But what’s really creepy is the time recorded underneath the photo.
Hoshino Mirai said while holding the photo of Hayato Koba attending Shojo High School.
Hoshino Mirai was not so eager to take the document bag, but continued to stare at Tachibana Hiroshi.
The photos in the future are the baby's growth experience, from infancy to kindergarten to elementary school...and then to junior high school.
"This is also very simple... because we hope that when he was arrested, he was a sophomore at Shoucheng High School and a student union secretary, Hayato Koba, and not product No. 19212 of the Black Sea Group."
Hoshino Mirai also knows this guy. He is one of the leading detectives from Japan's three major detective agencies, Hidetori Sagi.
From Hoshino Mirai's point of view, even her senior senior Hyakukiin Ikuyo could not find out much about Ye Shun's life experience.
"I've heard about Miss Hoshino for a long time...I finally met her in person today. She looks much younger than she looks on TV and in magazines." Hiroshi Tachibana came up and was polite.
Regardless of the former or the latter, if others really have such thoughts, Mirai Hoshino will probably be so ashamed that she wants to strangle those who have such thoughts to death!
When Tachibana Hiroyuki said this, he caught a glimpse of the unhappy expression on Hoshino Mirai's face, and then asked in a teasing tone.
There is even a sense of loss of ‘that’s it?’.
Most detectives have obsessive-compulsive disorder like Hoshino Mirai who can't sleep because they can't find the truth... So since they want the murderer's true identity, the Black Sea Group will create a 'true' identity of the murderer in advance for them.
It won't take long for the Far East to reorganize the internal disputes within the Jida, and they will rely on the more terrifying dragon's blood brain-refreshing agent to fight back.
"I won't be obsessed with such boring things!" Hoshino Mirai directly grabbed the thin document bag from the secretary's hand.
Use this to humiliate him severely and let yourself breathe a sigh of relief.
Hiroyuki Tachibana is the kind of man who looks like a man in power at first sight. He has gray temples and a strong face. Even when he is wearing a suit and sitting behind his desk, he is wearing black gloves that will not leave any fingerprints on him.
The experimental subject in the photo spent a full five years of his life in these rigorous trainings.
That is to let Hayato Koba go to high school. Logically speaking, they have already trained Hayato Koba or Experimental Subject No. 19212 as a killer consumable.
The explanation given by Hiroyuki Tachibana is perfect, because if these experimental killers are not allowed to integrate into society and are given a social identity...
"...Although I had a premonition in my heart, this result is too similar to what I expected." Hoshino Mirai had anticipated this possibility when he received the initial information from Hyakkiin Ikuyo.
That Tachibana Toru's vigilant father, Tatehua Hiroki.
"Are you satisfied now, Ms. Hoshino?" Hiroyuki Tachibana said.
"Since you all regard him as a commodity, why do you want him to leave a 'proof of living' in this world?"
When Hoshino Mirai thought of this, she actually started to think about investigating the brain-refreshing agent case with Ye Xuan.
This time, from a purely rational detective perspective, she discovered a move by the Black Sea Group that was completely asking for trouble, something that she considered very unreasonable.
Hoshino has a hunch in the future that the current cessation of the brain-refreshing agent market is only temporary...
Just looking at the arrangement of these photos, an outsider might think they were taken from an ordinary family growth photo album.
"There must be conditions for exchange, but the things in Miss Hoshino's document bag are not 'clues', but all the truth about Hayato Koba... not just one case, but all the information about his life.
It’s all recorded in it.”
It was the same man in a suit and a wide-brimmed hat, but this man had peach blossom eyes and stubble, but the word frivolity was written on his face.
As long as she can find out the past of Ye Shan, Hoshino will be able to proudly take the evidence and slap it on Ye Shan's face in the future and say proudly, 'Your elaborate puzzles are nothing!'
There is a number tag on the baby's arm that says NO.19212.
"Or is it that the answer to the riddle is presented to you so easily, disturbing your enjoyment of investigating the case, Miss Hoshino?"
"The 'Opera House Murder' you have been pursuing is nothing more than our company's 'goods' completing the 'function' they should have performed since they were produced."
"Mr. Sagi is also the client I invited. Miss Hoshino, you don't need to pay attention to him. The things you have been investigating recently are in this document bag."
"I don't think you are putting all your effort into letting 'consumables' go to high school because you have a conscience and want to give 'commodities' a complete life or something."
The identity of the other person is unusual.
"Did Miss Hoshino expect this? That's right... the murderer Hayato Koba that you have been tracking down has always been a 'commodity' of Black Sea, the biological company we control."
Hiroyuki Tachibana did not hide much and directly told Hoshino Mirai the truth.
Hoshino Mirai endured this guy's sarcasm for the time being. She was now more concerned about the other two figures sitting in the office, one of whom seemed to be the secretary who helped Hiroyuki Tachibana.
But in the future, Hoshino will still focus on the matters he is currently investigating.
"What about the terms of exchange? You told me this thing that can be said to be a secret of the Black Sea Group... What do you want to get from me?" Hoshino Mirai asked.
"It's very simple... I just hope that when you participate in this talk show, Ms. Hoshino, let Experimental Subject No. 19212... or Hayato Koba, personally reveal all the evidence of the crimes he committed to the world! Finally force him to confess!"
The interview program Tachibana Hiroyuki was referring to was the "Opera Detective Storytelling" that Ye Shun invited Hoshino Mirai to participate in not long ago. It will be broadcast on TV Tokyo... to audiences all over Japan.