Chapter 107: Death of a Detective Novelist

Setagaya Ward, AICClassic Internet Cafe.

Tuqi Yiping sat in a cubicle in the corner of the internet cafe, clicking the mouse under the dim light.

He is a NEET (a person not in employment, education, or training), purely relying on his parents' pension to live. But he believes this is not his fault, purely a social problem.

If it weren't for the economic crisis, how could he not find a job!

Tuqi Yiping sighed, he quarreled with his family again today, let's go back later.

He put aside his worries, tapped the keyboard, and opened the detective novel forum he often visited. Although he is a NEET, he is also a detective fan.

To him, this forum is no less than a spiritual sustenance.

On this forum, there are more than 50,000 netizens active like him. Although the identities of all netizens are different, there is one thing in common, that is, everyone loves detective novels from the bottom of their hearts, even to the point of spiritual food.

Tuqi Yiping skillfully pressed the keyboard and entered his account password. After logging in successfully, he began to browse, preparing to see if there were any interesting topics or posts.

Immediately after, he saw a pinned post with the title *Death of a Detective Novelist*.

Tuqi Yiping frowned. After seeing this title, he suspected that this post was deliberately intended to cause topic disputes.

In recent years, the detective novel world in Nihon, although still dominated by the Honkaku school, works of social school, Bizarre school, etc., have emerged one after another, and even schools like Court school, Suspense school, Hard-boiled school, etc., have appeared.

Because of the different styles of works they like, supporters of different factions often attack each other, even leading to verbal wars.

Some people, because they are dissatisfied that Honkaku school detective novels still occupy a dominant position, even blamed all detective novelists, while insulting Honkaku school writers, also attacked writers of other factions as trash.

Tuqi Yiping is very dissatisfied with this. To him, since they are readers and fans, isn't it fine to watch the works quietly? Why do they have to attack and criticize each other?

And the more detective factions there are, the richer the detective works, doesn't that prove the prosperity of the detective novel world?

Does one faction have to beat another faction to become the mainstream?

Tuqi Yiping didn't hesitate and prepared to open this post. Before opening it, he had already prepared in his heart. If it was still those random criticisms without substance, he was prepared to scold directly.

Idiot, moron, fool, you don't know a fart about detective novels, what ability do you have to say detective novelists are dead!

If you have this effort, you stupid OP, why don't you write one yourself? If you have so much effort to criticize others, why don't you see what ability you have. Since you can't write it, then you are social trash, I suggest you commit seppuku to apologize!

Just scold like this, it's definitely right, it's estimated that you can scold this OP into psychological trauma! Stop making the forum so smoky!

Tuqi Yiping took a sip of the drink placed in front of the table, then clicked on the post and began to browse.

Eh? Doesn't seem to be the case?

Tuqi Yiping was surprised to find that the content of this post titled *Death of a Detective Novelist* seemed to be a detective novel...

He was a bit embarrassed, subconsciously pulled the corners of his mouth, but still dragged the mouse and started reading.

Let me see what content this story tells. If it doesn't look good, I will... I will just say a few words simply...

He set his mind at ease and started reading.

The story happened in GK Ward, Tokyo. A well-known 85-year-old detective novelist committed suicide by slitting his throat in his room on his birthday, and the sprayed blood spilled all over the room.

The police received the report and immediately went to the scene. According to multiple surveys, it was determined that the other party committed suicide.

Not long after the case, a detective received an anonymous employment letter, inviting him to investigate the murderer behind this case.

The detective considered it again and again, accepted the invitation, came to the family where the detective novelist was, and questioned the detective novelist's family one by one.

He was surprised to find that everyone had had conflicts with the detective novelist: the eldest son-in-law's affair was discovered by him, the younger son was fired by him from the company he was in, the second daughter-in-law had been cheating money and was discovered by him, the eldest grandson had a big quarrel with him the night before the case and slammed the door and left...

In other words, the vast majority of family members had a motive for the crime.

Besides that, the detective novelist's family all lied to some extent when answering the detective's questions.

But the detective still learned an important piece of information—the detective novelist let the female caregiver from the Kuril Islands give him an injection after the life party, and committed suicide at 12:00 midnight after the caregiver left.

So, the female caregiver is the last person to see the detective novelist.

The detective pondered for a while and decided to go and see this female caregiver...

Tuqi Yiping was reading intently, but found that there was nothing below...

The OP just said one sentence "Subsequent content will be updated next Monday, and at the same time, I recommend Akiwara Yuto's work *The Devotion of Suspect X*."

What the hell?!

My appetite has been whetted, and it's just like this?! You even gave me an advertisement?

Tuqi Yiping was a bit anxious, but still suppressed his mood and continued to browse down.

Sure enough, there were scoldings below, and many people hoped that the author would update as soon as possible and supplement the content as soon as possible.

But some people also began to guess, guessing who the murderer was? Guessing what method the murderer used to forge the victim's suicide.

After all, it can't be that the detective novelist committed suicide himself, that would make this case a bit too ridiculous.

Tuqi Yiping finished reading the replies and originally wanted to spray a sentence, but thought about it and gave up.

What if too many people spray and the OP runs away directly?

Then wouldn't he be unable to see the following text.

To be honest, he really wants to know now who the murderer is and what the detective's detective method is.

All this unknown made him feel a bit itchy in his heart at this moment.

Suddenly, he lost the thought of continuing to browse the forum. After all, most of the posts on the forum are just discussions about detective novels.

Tuqi Yiping turned off the computer, stood up, and walked to the front desk to pay. He prepared to go to a nearby bookstore or library to see if there were any new detective novels.

To relieve the itchy feeling in his heart.

In his view, if you want to get rid of the addiction to a story, then replace it with another story.

Just as he was about to walk out the main door, he suddenly remembered the advertisement the OP had hit before.

Why not go to the bookstore to see that *The Devotion of Suspect X*?

He hesitated for two seconds, then turned around and walked towards the bookstore he remembered was closest...

Maybe there will be an unexpected surprise? ===== CHAPTER 108 =====