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Anzai Morio was about to remain defiant when he suddenly heard the cawing of crows.
He had barely opened his mouth when a flock of crows flew to his side.
"I'll go! I'll go right now!"
Anzai Morio quickly crawled to the front of the worship hall, and followed the example of Mamegaki and the other two, kneeling down respectfully.
"I'm sorry, I was too greedy back then. When I heard that there were valuable offerings in the shrine's storeroom, I went and stole them!"
"Quack quack!"
Numerous crows perched on the eaves of the worship hall, seemingly dissatisfied with Anzai Morio's words, cawing noisily.
"This……"
Anzai Morio covered his face, trembling with fear.
The crow attack had left his face and body covered in tiny, pecking wounds.
These small wounds may not be fatal, but the feeling of having your flesh pinched with tiny pliers all over your body is something not everyone can endure.
“These crows mean that you should turn yourself in to the police!” Old Mr. Mamegaki said slowly. “Only by atoning for your sins will the spirit of Sugiyama and the crow spirit forgive you!”
"Police station? No, I'm not going..."
Just as Anzai Morio was about to deny it, a crow descended from the sky, landed on his head, and pecked him hard on the face.
Anzai Morio cried out in pain and instinctively raised his hand to grab the crow above his head, but as soon as he raised his arm, he noticed the cold eyes of the other crows.
“Crows are very vengeful creatures; they can hold grudges for a lifetime,” Conan warned. “If you can’t satisfy them today, you shouldn’t even think about leaving the house in Japan.”
"Stay home? That's impossible!"
Anzai Morio knelt on the ground in despair, his expression conflicted, but he finally spoke.
"I...I will turn myself in."
"Cuck!"
A crow perched on his head lightly pecked at Anzai Morio's forehead, as if reminding him not to forget his vow, before spreading its wings and flying into the sky.
The other crows followed suit, taking to the sky and scattering...
In less than a minute, the once dense swarm of crows, covering the entire sky and field, had dwindled to just a few scattered individuals.
If it weren't for the wounds on Anzai's face and body, and the feces on the bluestone slabs of the ground...
It's terrifying that no one could have imagined that thousands of crows would gather here just now.
Seeing this, the Douyuan family immediately knelt down again.
Anzai Morio was now completely convinced that it was the spirit of Sugiyama from back then at work, and he knelt down again.
"I think I just heard someone wanting to turn themselves in?"
Matsuda yawned and walked along the approach to the worship hall.
"Officer Matsuda! What brings you here?" Yoko exclaimed in surprise.
"I just finished my business and saw the commotion at the shrine, so I came to check it out,"
Matsuda casually explained that, in fact, after Anzai Morio announced his intention to surrender, he had dispersed the flock of crows.
Consciousness also left the puppet body of the raven god and returned to its original body.
Following the system's instructions, he left the puppet body of the raven god in the main hall of the shrine, allowing it to slowly absorb the faith of the shrine's believers.
Matsuda only needs to come and harvest every now and then.
After doing all that, he went down the slope behind the main hall, circled around, and then came up from the approach path on the front of the shrine.
"Officer Matsuda, it's me who wants to turn myself in!"
Anzai Morio obediently placed his hands in front of Matsuda.
“Back then, a batch of precious ritual items were stolen from the Mihana Shrine, and I was the one who did it.”
“Officer Matsuda, I also bear responsibility for this. It was I who told Anzai about the ritual items back then, which ultimately led to Mr. Sugiyama, the shrine warehouse manager at the time, committing suicide.”
After finishing speaking, Mamegaki Taeko looked apologetically at her fiancé: "I'm sorry, Yuji."
“It’s alright, the past is the past. We’ll get married after you atone for Mr. Sugiyama’s sins,” Shimazaki Yuji gently embraced his fiancée.
"Um,"
Taeko Mamegaki wept with joy. She had been worried that Shimazaki Yuuji would break up with her after the truth of what happened back then was exposed.
Now that I've heard his promise, I finally feel at ease.
“Officer Matsuda,” Anzai Morio tried to argue, “I was just stealing back then. The death of that caretaker really had nothing to do with me!”
Chapter 57 is quite the show!
"Whether it matters or not, once it goes to court, the judge will make the decision."
Matsuda took out handcuffs and handcuffed Anzai.
strangeness……
Isn't this guy curious about the wounds on Anzai's face and body?
Conan noticed something was wrong, and his gaze immediately turned strange.
"By the way, how did you get into this state?"
Matsuda tugged at Anzai's clothes, which were almost completely tattered, and then looked at the dense array of tiny wounds and bruises on his face and body.
"Which mountain did it roll down from?"
"Officer Matsuda, actually, the thing is like this..."
Yoko recounted everything that had just happened.
Matsuda pretended to listen attentively while carefully observing Conan. Only when he saw the suspicion on Conan's face gradually fade did he feel relieved.
"So it was the crow spirit and the victims from back then appearing..." Matsuda nodded.
Conan no longer suspects that Matsuda is connected to the crows.
But now, upon hearing Matsuda's reply, his expression became somewhat strange.
"Officer Matsuda, you don't believe in this stuff, do you?" Conan looked up and chuckled. "You're a detective from the Metropolitan Police Department!"
"Who told you that detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department don't believe in gods or Buddhas?"
Matsuda looked at the worship hall with a devout expression.
"The god of Mika Shrine appeared today. I will definitely come to pray more often in the future, hoping that it will bless me with promotion and wealth."
This guy is hopeless... Conan was speechless.
"By the way, is it really okay for you to say something like that?" Matsuda looked at Conan. "Didn't Yoko just say that you were disrespectful to the crows and they bombed you with bombs from the air?"
It’s terrible…
Conan then remembered his miserable experience and immediately covered his head, slowly raising his head with a pounding heart.
Fortunately, everything was calm. Perhaps the few scattered crows that remained didn't hear what he said.
After scaring Conan, Matsuda was about to leave with Anzai when Ran suddenly said...
"By the way, Officer Matsuda, actually this afternoon when the crew was packing up to leave, I originally wanted to ask Mr. Nachi for his autograph, but I overheard Mr. Anzai extorting Mr. Nachi."
"No, absolutely not! This Miss Mori must have misheard. Anzai didn't blackmail me!"
Shingo Nachi, covered in crow droppings, immediately came over after hearing Ran's words.
"You're right, Mr. Anzai!"
"Yes, it's all a misunderstanding, I really..." Anzai Morio also wanted to deny it, after all, everyone wanted to minimize their guilt.
"You must not lie before the gods!" the old shrine priest, Mamegaki, suddenly shouted sternly. "Do you want to be punished by the gods again, just like before?"
"I, this..." Anzai Morio was so frightened that he stammered instantly.
"Have you thought it through? Did you actually try to extort money from me?"
Matsuda snapped his fingers. Suddenly, a crow in the sky let out a caw.
Anzai Morio immediately trembled.
"That's right, I did blackmail him with photos of Shingo Nachi having affairs with several women!"
As he spoke, Anzai Morio pulled out several explicit photos of Nachi Shingo with several different women from his pocket.
"Wow, Mr. Nachi, you're really good at this!" Matsuda took the photo and spread it out in his hand.
"ah!"
Xiaolan and Yangzi blushed and turned their heads away when they saw the exposed man and woman in the photo.
"Mr. Nachi, I never imagined you were such a scumbag who toyed with women!" Ran said angrily.
"Damn it! Give me the photos now!"
Nachi Shingo rushed over to grab it, but Matsuda gently pushed him aside.
“Mr. Nachi, these photos are evidence of Anzai Morio's extortion. They must be kept by the Metropolitan Police Department because they will be taken to court in the future.”
Matsuda put the photo in his pocket.
“If you continue to fight over it, I will have no choice but to arrest you as well on charges of robbing important evidence in the case.”
"No! Please, if these photos get published in the media, my future will be ruined!"
Nachi Shingo knelt on the ground, his previous arrogance completely gone.
"Mr. Nachi, there's a saying in China: 'Heaven is watching what people do.'"
Matsuda said coldly,
"Whether it's Anzai Morio or you, you should have thought about the consequences when you did something wrong!"
……
The next day, just as Shingo Nachi had predicted,