What's going on?

Junya Tokatsu sat paralyzed on the floor in the corridor, leaning his back against the wall, looking around with wide eyes in surprise.

I saw the "female ghost" taking off her hood, revealing a girl with short wavy hair, and the makeup artist standing next to her.

"You, you..."

Although Tokijin Junya's head was buzzing at the moment, he roughly understood what was going on.

Everything that happened just now was a play performed by these two people, and the purpose was to make themselves tell perjury while being frightened.

At this time, Tokijin Junya even wanted to take his words back, but it was too late.

From the side of his face, the cameraman was holding the camera and filming his face.

Those few sentences just now have been broadcast to the whole country through TV stations, word for word.

Although this is not considered evidence in court and cannot be used to prosecute him, it has also destroyed his most valued reputation.

Once this incident was exposed, he basically said goodbye to the detective industry. No police officer or client would dare to trust a detective who wronged a good person.

Thinking of this, Tokijin Junzai's expression was completely stunned, and his body became completely limp.

…

Inside the studio.

Junya Tokizu's performance was also simultaneously played on the projection screen on the side of the stage.

The audience couldn't help but burst into uproar when they heard that he admitted that he had committed perjury and forced someone to die.

Compared with Tokizu Junya's complete malaise, the soul detective Hota Keito's face at this time was very energetic, with his head held high and his chest held high, and he looked very majestic.

The host Rena Mizuna also said at this time: "Then let's go to the next step. The audience will vote according to their own thoughts and choose the winner of this show..."

Although Shuiwu Lianna said so, the winner is obvious.

Now the only detective Hotta Keito is left on the field. If not him, who will vote?

Just as the audience was about to raise their hands to vote, a figure in the middle of the front row stood up.

"Please wait a moment..."

Soul Detective Hota Keito was about to walk to the center of the stage to accept the crowning of the winner, but was stopped by this voice.

A mixed-race man walked onto the stage and asked directly: "Mr. Hotta, are you really psychic?"

Keito Hotta narrowed his eyes slightly and recognized the current T1-level famous detective in the Tokyo detective world, Qin Zhibo.

But it doesn't matter. His psychic skills have been faked more than once, but as long as there is no direct evidence, it doesn't matter.

Moreover, he really obtained information that no one else knew except the deceased. This is the point.

"Of course I can channel."

"Really? Then can you channel it for all of us here?"

Hotta Kaito was silent for half a second and replied: "The soul cannot appear in a crowded place. There are too many people here..."

"is that so?"

Qin Zhibo sneered, turned his head to signal Shui Wu Liannai, and then continued.

"In fact, your psychic skills are completely deceptive. The information you claim to have learned from the souls of the deceased was all obtained from other places..."

As soon as Qin Zhibo finished speaking, the projection screen next to the stage came into play again.

On the projection screen, a camera with a very low angle is shooting half a face, and the lower right corner prompts "Abnormal shooting".

Although only half of the picture was taken, the square chin, thick lips, and dark skin exposed on that half of the face. Except for Hota Keito's distinctive Indian face, it is difficult to find another one in Japan.

While the video was going on, the sound of two people talking was heard.

"Is what you said online true? The truth about the Lavender Villa case..."

"Yes, and almost no one knows the truth."

"Well, I want to check the content first. If there is no problem, I will send you money..."

Keito Hotta stared in surprise, looking at the content on the projection screen in disbelief.

As one of the protagonists of the video, he certainly remembers that this happened a day ago.

At that time, he received news from TV director Kuri Sanpei that the case to be discussed was temporarily changed.

Although Keito Hotta wants to protest, he is a low-level detective who has already received negative news before, and it would be good if the program team asked him to appear on the show.

For this opportunity of exposure, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and agree.

Then when he was looking for news about the Lavender Villa case on the Internet, he saw a post written by a self-proclaimed "insider."

The post contains the details of the Lavender Villa case.

Therefore, Keito Hotta contacted this insider and wanted to use money to buy the exclusive information and use it as a TV program.

What is shown in the video is exactly the scene where he and the insider met in a coffee shop yesterday.

"...Well, the information looks quite interesting, so I'll give you the money according to the price agreed upon in advance."

"Don't you need to confirm the accuracy of this information?"

"No, no one will ask whether what the 'soul' said is correct, as long as it is topical enough..."

The video stopped abruptly.

"Mr. Hotta, please explain what is going on."

Mizuno Reina looked at Hota Kaito and asked sternly.

At this time, Hota Keito stood on the stage at a loss, his eyes scanning everything in front of him aimlessly.

He couldn't understand why he, who was so sure of winning, was suddenly about to lose his character?

In fact, from the very beginning, he fell into the trap set by Qin Zhibo and others.

The program team changed the topic temporarily. Keito Hotta is not a real psychic, so of course he can only temporarily search for some information on the Internet.

At this time, the sudden appearance of a self-proclaimed insider will surely make him grasp at life-saving straws like a drowning man.

Of course, this "insider" is actually Sera pretending to be.

And the information told to him was correct enough to bring down Junya Tokatsu.

This allows him to enjoy the peak moment of victory while falling from the peak to the bottom.

"No, that's not the case..."

"The show shouldn't be like this..."

Keito Hotta shook his head and kept repeating that he shouldn't be the villain in this program.

But in fact, the original purpose of this program was to expose the hypocritical faces of him and Tokizu Junya.

Qin Zhibo continued: "Obviously, Mr. Hotta, you don't know how to be a psychic at all. The information about the deceased you mentioned was either purchased in this way or made up..."

"Similarly, if you use the 'psychic' method to find the body of the deceased, you will also find the body of the suicide in advance, bury their body, and pretend that you found it yourself."

"You were afraid that the identity of the suicide victim would be found out, which would lead to your behavior of burying the body being discovered, so you took away all the items that could prove the identity of the body, as well as the suicide note..."

Keito Hotta suddenly shouted: "That's wrong!"

"I can really channel spirits. Those corpses were found by me talking to the souls of the deceased!"

But before he could finish his words, director Sanhei Fururi walked onto the stage and stared at Keito Hota angrily.

"That's you!"

"You found my sister's body in the suburbs two months ago! And you said that my sister died of homicide!"

"But the police later found a suicide note on the computer in my sister's company, as well as medication prescribed by a doctor to treat depression!"

"You bastard buried my sister's body there and used her as a propaganda tool for you!"

The more Furi Sanpei talked, the more excited he became, and he almost rushed forward to use force against Hota Kaito. Fortunately, several colleagues nearby stopped him.

Originally, Keito Hotta wanted to lie about the fact that there was no direct evidence at the scene.

But as the person involved came forward to speak out, he had no room for denial.

In the end, he sadly left the stage amidst boos from the audience.

Today’s victory or defeat.

Tokijin Junzai and Hota Kaito were completely defeated.

…

In the hotel room, Keito Hota stood beside the bed, packing his luggage with a sad expression.

Although this is not the first time that he has been exposed for committing perjury, this time is different from the last time and the impact of the incident is even greater.

And even the matter of burying the bodies of suicides was exposed.

Although there is still nothing the police can do against him without direct evidence, they will at least ask him about the other unnamed corpses.
To be continued...