Conan’s Corpse Picker

  Chapter 8 Let me photograph my face

   Jiang Xia photographed the whole process of Ikezawa Yuko’s illegal entry into the house.

   After Ikezawa Yuko entered the door, he also put on the camera and walked there silently.

  …

  Ikezawa Yuko walked into the room and turned on the light.

   She came to the bedroom, raised her hand, and threw a bunch of threatening letters stained with chicken blood on Yoko Kinoshita’s bed.

  Ikezawa Yuko looked at the bed strewn with blood letters, remembering Yoko Kinoshita’s recent bad state, and felt like a genius.

   She showed a happy smile and planned to go to the living room again to move the furniture and the like.

   Who knows, turned around and faced a dark camera.

   Ikezawa Yuko froze, and a cool air rushed to the top of her head.

  —Sometimes there was another person at the door of the bedroom. The man was wearing a mask, hood and gloves, which covered him tightly, and his eyes were hidden in the shadow of the brim, so he couldn’t see his face at all.

   He was leaning against the door frame leisurely. At this time, seeing Yuko Ikezawa turn around, he stood up straight and nodded at her, as if he was very satisfied with her performance.

   This was originally a polite gesture.

   But Ikezawa Yuko stared at the camera, her heart was cold.

  Illegal entry into the house, harassing and threatening colleagues with threatening letters… Once these things that she did are filmed and sent out, not to mention that her career will be ruined, she may even be sent to prison!

  …But, it’s okay.

   She is now wearing a scarf and sunglasses, the scarf is pulled high and her face is covered.

   As long as you don’t get caught on the spot and don’t get a clear full face, you can completely wash it off afterwards, saying that it was someone else who pretended to be her to pose for a photo, and that it was framed.

   Ikezawa Yuko made up his mind – he must escape.

   She looked at Jiang Xia, who was blocking the door, and planned to smash something and knock him down, or frighten him away, and then rushed out the door in a rush to escape.

   Gotta find a weapon first…

   Ikezawa Yuko’s gaze shifted slightly and landed on the step stool beside him.

   At the moment when her eyes were staggered, a flower flashed in front of her eyes—Jiang Xia came close, and pulled off the scarf and sunglasses from her face, removing her disguise.

   Ikezawa Yuko was startled.

   After a moment, she realized in horror—she showed her face.

   What’s even worse is that the camera’s lens is always facing her steadily… The person in front of her seems to have thought of everything she thought of just now!

   There was a buzzing sound in Ikezawa Yuko’s mind, and she raised her hand like crazy, trying to knock out the camera.

   She failed, but was grabbed by the neckline and overturned on the bedroom carpet.

   Jiang Xia pressed Yuko Ikezawa’s struggling hands with his knees, then held the camera in one hand and freed the other, pinched her face, and tugged hard.

  —Due to the activity of a certain phantom thief, many people in this world know about disguise.

  If you don’t look at the camera and grab it like this, in the future, Yuko Ikezawa may say “someone is disguised as her”.

Jiang Xia originally thought that as long as he grabbed Yuko Chize’s face in front of the camera, people could see that she was not disguised, plus the natural redness after the skin was pinched, it would prove that what he photographed was really Chi. Ze Yuko.

   However, Jiang Xia soon realized that the situation was not right.

   – He really failed to tear off the disguise.

   But Ikezawa Yuko’s skin didn’t turn red either.

   Jiang Xia retracted his hand suspiciously, and found that a thick layer of makeup powder was on his black gloves.

   After a moment of silence, Jiang Xia stretched out his hand in disbelief and grabbed it again.

   Ikezawa Yuko’s face was still not red.

   Maybe the powder is too thick.

  …In this case, there is no way to prove that it is her real skin.

   Jiang Xia fell into contemplation at his dirty gloves and the screaming Yuko Ikezawa.

   After a while, he remembered that when he passed by the living room just now, he saw a box of wet wipes on the coffee table.

   An illusory inspiration light bulb appeared from the biu above Jiang Xia’s head.

   He picked up Ikezawa Yuko like a chicken, put her on the sofa in the living room, and pressed it again.

   Then grabbed a wet wipe and wiped it hard against her face.

   This time, I finally wiped it off.

  Ikezawa Yuko’s skin was rubbed red under the camera. This extremely natural change is currently impossible to do with the transfiguration technique. Can prove it’s a real face.

  Ikezawa Yuko felt wet on her face, and she opened her eyes suspiciously. At a glance, Jiang Xia was holding a wet wipe covered with her makeup.

  Ikezawa Yuko looked at the wet wipes dully, and then at the camera that was still shooting at her.

   After realizing what happened, she suddenly let out a scream of incomparable anger.

  Jiang Xia was startled by the decibel she suddenly raised, and subconsciously slashed the side of her neck with a knife.

   The screaming stopped abruptly. Ikezawa Yuko rolled her eyes and fell into a deep sleep with a face full of unwillingness.

  The surroundings became quiet again.

   Jiang Xia breathed a long sigh of relief.

   He held the camera, looked down at Ikezawa Yuko and thought about it, and felt that since things have already begun, it is best to finish them.

   So he took some more wipes, wiped Ikezawa Yuko’s face thoroughly, and filmed the whole process before stopping the video.

  With these materials, it should be enough whether it is sending Yuko Ikezawa to the bureau to reform, or threatening her to stop harassing her.

   However, there is a problem…

  Jiang Xia recalled the footage he had just shot, played it back, and paused the scene at the end.

   He looked at Yuko Ikezawa’s face without makeup, and remembered her usual appearance in the poster, and suddenly he was a little confused.

   The difference in appearance before and after is too big.

  …In this way, can it really prove that Ikezawa Yuko is not someone else’s disguise?

   But it’s all wiped, so it’s impossible to repaint her again.

   Jiang Xia recalled the desperate eyes of Yuko Ikezawa, and realized that she herself seemed to be very concerned about the content of the filming.

  …so it shouldn’t be a big problem.

The    plan can still proceed as usual.

   (end of this chapter)