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Following the address given to him by Kiritani Kazuto, Nohara Shinnosuke took a car to the vicinity of Imamura Kohei's residence.
After donning his Spider-Man suit, Shinnosuke Nohara stealthily made his way towards Kohei Imamura's villa.
"Okay, let me figure it out."
"Has someone been here before?"
[Nohara Shinnosuke, who climbed over the second floor, didn't find the dusty, neglected place he expected; instead, he was met with an even worse scene, as if a thief had broken in.]
[Upon entering Kohei Imamura's bedroom on the second floor, Shinnosuke Nohara saw a collapsed mattress and a broken wardrobe, with huge, gruesome scratch marks on the door frame.]
Shinnosuke Nohara went down the stairs and saw that the once spacious and luxurious sofa was now in a dilapidated state, looking like it had been repeatedly disturbed by five or six huskies.
Many windows were broken, and shards of glass littered the windowsill. The huge television set that had been hanging on the wall was overturned. Shinnosuke Nohara picked it up and looked at it, noticing a large hole in the center of the screen.
The kitchen was a complete mess, with food scraps everywhere and a foul stench of spoiled food filling the air, likely due to the refrigerator lying on the floor.
"Police don't investigate missing persons like this. If it were a robbery, they wouldn't have left the house like this; it's time-consuming and laborious."
"So, it seems the owner of the house has returned."
Shinnosuke Nohara decided to use his newly acquired camera to photograph the dilapidated state of the house.
"Maybe I'd be better suited to be a journalist; these photos are really good."
Shinnosuke Nohara glanced at the photos he had taken and thought they were quite beautiful.
"So, Dr. Lizard sneaked back under the cover of darkness? On which day did he flush himself back through the sewers after we parted ways?" Shinnosuke Nohara wondered, and began searching Kohei Imamura's villa.
Finally, Shinnosuke Nohara found a huge hole in the bathroom, which was undoubtedly the path Kohei Imamura used to climb back home.
"Should I jump? But what if I jump and get trapped like a turtle in a jar?"
"Forget it, I'd better not jump. Finding a Dr. Lizard in the sewers is too difficult; the sewers are a maze, and it's easy to get lost."
[Shin-chan thought about it but didn't jump. It wasn't that he thought it was dirty or smelly, but simply because there were too many uncertainties.]
"If I'm not mistaken, that place, pfft..."
Kitahara Iori patted Imamura Kohei on the shoulder and couldn't help but laugh, saying that the location of the hole and the absence of that piece of furniture made Kitahara Iori know where Imamura Kohei came from.
"You country bumpkin, this is a place specifically for bathing, there are no toilets, only drains."
Kohei Imamura was also a little annoyed by this, but his words were obviously of little use to Iori Kitahara.
Kitahara Iori still looked at him with that same smile.
"Who are you, and why are you here?"
Nohara Shinnosuke had just entered the living room to conduct a more detailed investigation when he was bumped into by Kitahara Iori, who had come to Kohei Imamura's house.
Looking at the chaotic state of his house, and then at the man in the tight-fitting clothes in front of him, Kohei Imamura instinctively assumed that Shinnosuke Nohara was a petty thief trying to make a quick buck.
Shinnosuke Nohara looked at the guy in front of him and knew at a glance that he wasn't an ordinary person; after all, ordinary people usually had four mechanical arms.
"I was just a masked cosplayer passing by who heard the commotion and came to investigate."
[Nohara Shinnosuke hurriedly explained, but Kitahara Iori merely glanced at him before a mechanical arm reached out and grabbed at him.]
[Shin-chan, seeing the approaching mechanical arm, easily leaped aside and climbed onto the wall. The missed shot from the mechanical arm punched a large dent into Kohei Imamura's wooden floor, the flying wood chips the only sound in the deathly silent room.]
"You say you're just an ordinary person passing by doing cosplay? Is this the kind of reaction and speed an ordinary person could have?"
Kitahara Iori was initially just testing the guy in front of him. If he didn't dodge the mechanical arm, it would automatically stop; after all, he wasn't an unreasonable person.
But things are different now. What kind of ordinary person could react so quickly and leap that far from the spot, sticking to the wall like that?
"Uh, okay, goodbye, octopus."
Seeing this, Nohara Shinnosuke immediately took off running, after all, to be honest, he was in the wrong.
73: I'm a thief, and you're a thief too.
"And who are you? Aren't you a thief who came in here too?"
[Shin-chan suddenly thought, what if the other person isn't a good person?]
"I...I'm the best friend of the missing owner of this house."
"Now, I have reason to suspect that you, this illegal intruder, are involved in my friend's disappearance. Come with me to the police station."
Kitahara Iori, seeing that the guy seemed to regard him as a petty thief, roughly reached for Nohara Shinnosuke with his mechanical arm.
"Don't be angry, don't be angry, uncle. Getting angry will make you angry."
"And my disappearance is related to your friend, Dr. Kohei Imamura, the lizard doctor."
[While nimbly dodging the grasping arms of Doctor Octopus Kitahara Iori's four mechanical arms, Nohara Shinnosuke kept muttering to himself.]
"Dr. Lizard?"
Kitahara Iori was curious about the "Lizard Doctor" that Nohara Shinnosuke was talking about, but then she thought that it wasn't unreasonable for her friend, who studied lizards, to be called "Lizard Doctor."
Shinnosuke Nohara was also considering whether to tell Iori Kitahara about Kohei Imamura's mutation, but considering there wasn't a 100% certainty that the Lizard Doctor was indeed Kohei Imamura, Shinnosuke didn't say anything further.
Shinnosuke: I'm a thief, and you're a thief too.
"To be honest, I don't want to fight you, old man."
Nohara Shinnosuke nimbly darted around the villa, while Kitahara Iori's mechanical arm, in pursuit, successfully worsened the already shattered home.
[Nohara Shinnosuke, who had just reached the second floor, caught his breath when two mechanical arms transformed into drills, drilling through the ceiling. Kitahara Iori then climbed out of the hole.]
Kitahara Iori lifted the bed frame and threw it at Nohara Shinnosuke.
[Seeing the massive bed frame flying towards him, Nohara Shinnosuke punched it. His seemingly ordinary arm, lacking much muscle, shattered the huge bed frame with a single blow.]
The next second, the robotic arm seized the opportunity and extended.
【"Bang."】
[Shin-chan couldn't dodge in time and was blocked by another mechanical arm of Iori Kitahara. One of the mechanical arms grabbed Shin-chan and pinned him against the wall.]
The camera that Shinnosuke Nohara was carrying also flew off during the fight and landed with a clatter on the edge of the bathroom.
"That's unfair! It's a mechanical octopus; it has more legs and it's bullying the one with fewer legs!"
"Alright, now prepare to tell me anything you know about Kohei Imamura."
Kitahara Iori took off her small sunglasses and stared at Nohara Shinnosuke as she spoke.
"Um, it's not that I don't want to tell you, but you probably wouldn't believe me if I said I didn't know."
[Nohara Shinnosuke said, then realized the other person probably wouldn't believe him.]
"I believe you."
"I'm not an unreasonable person."
Kitahara Iori simply nodded slightly, then put her sunglasses back on and said...
"Uncle, I knew you were a reasonable person. Now you can put me down, right?"
"Okay, I'll put you down. I'll put you down when we get to the police station."
"Breaking into a private residence, burglary, damaging property, suspected kidnapping, and suspected intentional assault."
"Is this enough?"
Kitahara Iori, like spitting out tiny pearls, unearthed a whole host of evidence against Nohara Shinnosuke.
"That's a brilliant move."
Kazuma Sato thought Kitahara Iori's combination of moves was absolutely brilliant, and that he had hit the nail on the head.
I originally thought that Kitahara Iori would take Nohara Shinnosuke to her underground laboratory for torture after capturing him.
Unexpectedly, Kitahara Iori suddenly unleashed a series of moves that could be used for torture or even torture.
"Uncle, I admit to what happened before, but what about the one after? He's suspected of intentionally hurting others. How's that calculated? Why don't you check who hurt whom now?"
"I acted in self-defense, don't you understand, kid?"
"No, this isn't self-defense, it's mutual fighting. And I'll show you something interesting."
[After Nohara Shinnosuke finished speaking, he raised his wrist and with a soft "whoosh," a white spider silk thread struck Kitahara Iori precisely in the eye.]
【"ah."】
Kitahara Iori was stunned by the spider silk shot by Nohara Shinnosuke, who in turn grabbed the mechanical arm that was holding him with both hands and twisted it forcefully.
[Already momentarily distracted by the loss of vision, Kitahara Iori was further distracted, allowing Nohara Shinnosuke to break free.]
"Don't worry, you can sit back and wait two hours to fully experience what it's like to be blind. Maybe you can even write a book called 'What If You Had Two Hours of Darkness'."
[As he spoke, Nohara Shinnosuke darted to the window and jumped out, leaving Kitahara Iori inside the villa, helplessly enraged because she couldn't see him.]
"Here, have a pen."
Kohei Imamura somehow obtained a pen and a notebook and handed them to Iori Kitahara, saying that since Iori had messed with him before, he should take advantage of the situation.
"What are you doing?"
Kitahara Iori curiously took the notebook and pen and said...
"Write, Doctor Octopus, great author, write your 'If You Had Two Hours of Darkness'."