Tokyo: Rabbit Officer and Her Evil Partner

"Where did the water come from?" Fushimi Roku asked.

"How would I know?" Minamoto Tamako snapped, angrily tossing a tissue onto the floor and shouting, "Maybe there's been another break-in! That woman is really vile, she better hope I never catch her!"

"You're saying the female thief broke into a cop's house, didn't steal anything, didn't do anything, just to spill some water on the floor?" Fushimi Roku rested his chin on his hand, trying hard not to laugh.

"She's crazy! Nothing she does would be surprising!"

Minamoto Tamako finished wiping the floor, picked up the tissue, and threw it in the garbage. Passing by the coffee table, she noticed the tape recorder and the tape that popped out of it.

"Deep Sleep"

Minamoto Tamako remembered, this morning Fujimura-kun suddenly mentioned something about it, and she found it odd at the time. Who asks someone to sleep together early in the morning?

She suddenly connected it to the sweet dream she just had, and suspicion arose in her heart: "Fujimura-kun... did you use the hypnosis tape to do something weird to me?"

Fushimi Roku denied it with a sincere face, raising both hands to prove his innocence: "Look, everything's dry, I didn't touch anything."

Minamoto Tamako realized that perhaps Fujimura-kun had been watching her dream the entire time!

How despicable and vile!!

Minamoto Tamako, flustered and exasperated, let Fujimura-kun lie on the sofa. She had to see if the tape was legitimate—maybe it was a hypnosis tape that induced erotic dreams!

Fushimi Roku quickly changed the subject, saying they had rested enough and should continue the investigation.

Minamoto Tamako wanted to press on, so Fushimi Roku had no choice but to issue a redemption voucher to cover it up.

He thought issuing a redemption voucher would get him off the hook, but little did he know that such behavior was, in Minamoto Tamako's eyes, a confession—why issue a redemption voucher if Fujimura-kun hadn't done anything wrong? It must be because he was feeling guilty!

Convinced that the tape had issues, Minamoto Tamako immediately confiscated it and secretly planned to meet Doctor Arima for a hypnosis brainwash for Fujimura-kun.

After tidying up, the two of them went downstairs to buy boxed lunches, hastily dealing with lunch.

Minamoto Tamako continued to lead the detective team on the case, running everywhere, searching for witnesses with their own legs, naturally with low efficiency, and by nightfall, they still had nothing to show for it.

Fushimi Roku secretly inquired and found that the Police Department's investigative division had a new theory: Uesugi Shion had previously escaped from a hospital, evading doctors, nurses, and cameras in a straitjacket and ran all the way to Sugamo Apartment... No one knew how she did it.

However, this precisely demonstrated that Uesugi Shion had the ability to escape.

There might not have been a kidnapper at all; perhaps Uesugi Shion had an accomplice and used a fire to escape from the National Hospital.

The above is the new approach of the investigative division.

They intend to focus on investigating Uesugi Shion's social circle, expanding the suspects to include Uesugi Shion herself... Fushimi Roku was sure their investigational direction was correct and felt relieved for the moment.

By dinner time, they returned home to take care of Taira Sakurako, who came home before curfew. Fushimi Roku bought some ingredients on the way and cooked dinner at home.

After eating and drinking their fill, the three of them slouched on the sofa for a while before getting ready to return to their rooms to sleep.

Fushimi Roku planned to set an alarm and sneak out when Minamoto Tamako was asleep at night to interrogate Uesugi Shion in the abandoned underground warehouse of the commercial street.

He stretched, opened his room door, took a hot shower, yawned in his pajamas, walked to his bed, and was about to lie down when he noticed there was a lump under his blanket.

Fushimi Roku wasn't blind; he could tell someone was hiding inside.

His first thought was that Minamoto Tamako was hiding in there. She must be holding a grudge from the afternoon, planning to get revenge at night; or because of her confession the day before, she couldn't contain her feelings and wanted to embrace him as a girlfriend...

Then he heard Minamoto Tamako's voice coming from outside the door: "Fujimura-kun, aren't you going to listen to the tape before sleeping?"

Fushimi Roku's heart skipped a beat. He casually replied 'no,' and quickly lifted the blanket.

The woman on the bed was Uesugi Shion.

Her skin was bruised, clearly abused, and she wore Fushimi Roku's shirt, with the hem hanging loosely. Seeing Fushimi Roku, she shrank into a ball and softly said 'Dad, it hurts'...

Fushimi Roku suspected that Uesugi Shion was actually a ghost attached to his bed, like embroidered shoes in a Chinese horror film, no matter how far you throw them, they can come back on their own.

"How did you escape again?"

He quickly covered Uesugi Shion's mouth to prevent her from screaming: "Even though I don't know what you're up to, since you came back here to die, acting crazy again, don't blame me for being ruthless..."

No sooner had he finished speaking than the door was suddenly pushed open.

Fushimi Roku was startled, instinctively jumping onto the bed, holding Uesugi Shion tightly in his arms, pulling the thick blanket over both of them to cover their bodies.

Minamoto Tamako stood at the doorway, her shadow stretched into the room, looking like a murderer entering the scene.

Fushimi Roku immediately pressed Uesugi Shion's head down into the blanket. Lying on the bed, he watched as the shadow grew larger, covering half the room until Minamoto Tamako walked out of the entrance corner. Only then did he question: "Why are you in my room?"

"I thought I heard a woman's voice just now."

With that, Minamoto Tamako's nose twitched, and she tightened her tiny fists, pacing around Fushimi Roku's bed like a crocodile gliding in a shallow pond: "Something's off, there's a different smell in your room."

"How could there be..." Fushimi Roku chuckled awkwardly.

"Are you cheating?" Minamoto Tamako stared into Fushimi Roku's eyes, using the Super Cold Reading Skill to interrogate.

Under tremendous pressure, Fushimi Roku felt that investigating Heavenly Punishment wasn't as intimidating as the current moment.

He didn't expect Minamoto Tamako to assume the girlfriend role so quickly; not even a day in, and she's already catching him cheating... he hasn't even had time to assume the boyfriend role himself!

Are they going to break up just after getting together?

"Heaven knows I'm devoted to you, how could I ever do anything to upset you..."

Fushimi Roku tried using the sleazy man's sugar-coated words to distract Minamoto Tamako, but this time the trick didn't work. Minamoto Tamako remained unaffected, her gaze continued to scan the room. She glanced at the curtains, then the balcony, and even mentioned checking the mothballs in the wardrobe, turning his closet upside down.

Seeing Minamoto Tamako couldn't find evidence, Fushimi Roku's confidence returned: "I can't believe you suspect me... I never thought our relationship was this fragile!"

Minamoto Tamako glanced around and her gaze fell on Fushimi Roku: "Why do you look a bit bulkier?"

"The weather's too hot, I put down a waterbed." Fushimi Roku quickly lied.

"Really..."

Minamoto Tamako reached out, ready to lift the blanket. Fushimi Roku nonchalantly said, "Yeah, to cool off, I didn't wear pajamas, not even underwear."

Minamoto Tamako froze, swallowing: "Then you..."

"That's right, I'm not wearing anything." Fushimi Roku intentionally flashed a rogue smile.

Minamoto Tamako huffed, questioning why there was a woman's voice in Fushimi Roku's room. He replied that she must have heard wrong, perhaps it was the sharp noise from the waterbed being compressed, including the 'other smell' she mentioned, which was the smell of the waterbed.

Reluctantly accepting this explanation, Minamoto Tamako helped Fushimi Roku tidy up the scattered clothes, sealing the deal with a stamp on the success plan chart in the room.

Seeing this, Fushimi Roku tried to act aggrieved, "You doubted me... I just can't believe that our relationship is so fragile!"

Minamoto Tamako gave another look around, her eyes lingering on the bed. "You sure you're not hiding something?"

"Yeah, I put a quilt," Fushimi Roku fibbed.

"Really..."

Minamoto Tamako reached out to lift the blanket. In the heat of the moment, Uesugi Shion shifted, sparking an idea in Fushimi Roku's mind.

"Why don't you plug in the tape and let's listen to it together?" he suggested.

He planned to dream alongside Uesugi Shion using the hypnosis tape.

Yes, he wanted to enter Uesugi Shion's dream to see what was really going on.

"Alright..."

Minamoto Tamako agreed, her suspicions not entirely put to rest, "I guess I could join you. I mean, it's only natural for a couple to do things like this together!"

Fushimi Roku embraced Uesugi Shion firmly, pulling the thick quilt over their heads, before saying, "Help me put it in the player, I'm too lazy to get up."

"Don't disturb me while I'm sleeping, okay?" he warned.

Minamoto Tamako, internally fuming but also a bit shy, said, "Alright, let's sleep together."

She thought to herself, "Isn't that what boyfriends and girlfriends are supposed to do together?"

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