Great, It's the Pervy Neighbor. We're Doomed

The idea that Jiang Ran had stolen these two men's girlfriends, leading them to pursue him abroad for revenge, actually seemed reasonably plausible on the surface to everyone present.

After all, in their aesthetic judgment, Jiang Ran was better-looking than both Jin Baiying and Zhao Jue. He had the advantage in appearance, so it was very possible he'd done something like that.

Michelle's black student even said, "I knew all along that this Jiang Ran wasn't a good person! Stealing someone else's girlfriend is such a despicable thing to do!"

At that moment, the tightly shut door suddenly swung open, and a Hua Country person walked in. It was Bai Xiaoliang.

Bai Xiaoliang had clearly heard Chief Pete's words and the black senior brother's comments from outside the door.

He came in and said, "I called Jiang Ran. He said that's complete nonsense. He never stole anyone's girlfriend.

Therefore, I just went to interrogate those two men again. I demanded they produce evidence of who their girlfriends were and proof that Jiang Ran had been having an affair with them.

But those two couldn't produce anything. They said that because they were so heartbroken over being cheated on, they'd deleted everything.

So, I believe those two men's reason for attacking Jiang Ran has nothing to do with some supposed stolen girlfriend."

Lucas spoke up at this point, "If that's not the reason, then what is it?"

Bai Xiaoliang shook his head. "Earlier at the hospital, Jiang Ran said in front of us that he had no recollection of Jin Baiying, but he recognized Zhao Jue. They lived in the same apartment building. He said he didn't know if Zhao Jue was mentally ill, but the man attacked him for no reason, was caught, and now he's out again. After getting out, he ended up in the same country, Germany, and attacked him again."

Lucas clapped his hands together. "It's all clear now! Everything connects! It's simple: Jiang Ran stole his girlfriend, so that's why he keeps attacking him over and over!"

Whether Lucas genuinely believed this or was deliberately spouting nonsense was anyone's guess.

Bai Xiaoliang frowned. "That's highly unlikely."

Lucas continued, "Nothing's impossible. After all, how can you be certain that everything Jiang Ran says is the truth? Even if it is the truth, couldn't he be leaving out some other truths that completely skew the direction of the deduction?

Of course, I could also make this speculation: everything Jiang Ran says is the truth, and he hasn't left anything out. It's complete.

But that completeness is only relative to the current Jiang Ran.

Don't forget, Jiang Ran is a patient with dissociative identity disorder, and an extremely severe case at that. It rivals the one our teacher treated back in the day.

Therefore, the most likely scenario is that one of Jiang Ran's alternate personalities stole those two men's girlfriends, but the current Jiang Ran doesn't know about it. He has no memory of it at all. So, this Jiang Ran in front of us would say those things because he genuinely doesn't know those two people or why they attacked him!"

Dead silence.

A deathly stillness.

The fact that Jiang Ran had dissociative identity disorder had been revealed to them the previous night when he was being hunted by the chainsaw murderer.

After all, they all knew that Bai Xiaoliang had a patient with an extremely severe case of dissociative identity disorder. They'd heard about it before but never seen it. The previous night counted as their first encounter.

Therefore, as everyone carefully considered Lucas's speculative possibility, they all felt the truth must be exactly that.

Even Bai Xiaoliang found himself dazedly thinking that this reasoning had no major flaws.

Among Michelle's five male and three female students was a white man older than Bai Xiaoliang and the others.

This was Michelle's first student, the senior brother of the five males and three females.

The senior brother spoke up at this moment. "Let's set aside the question of why they attacked Jiang Ran for now. First, let's confirm one thing. If Lucas hadn't coincidentally been living right below Jiang Ran, and by some twist of fate hadn't been driven crazy by the noise from upstairs and come up with people to confront him, thereby stumbling upon those two men... if that hadn't happened, would Jiang Ran be alive or dead right now?"

Lucas rested his chin on his right hand, frowning deeply.

He thought, "If I'd known it was Jiang Ran upstairs, I never would have brought people up to complain. Now I've accidentally saved him instead."

Others began pondering this question as well.

Most of them leaned toward dead.

Especially having witnessed Jiang Ran's condition inside room 507 with their own eyes.

The injuries on his body were clearly meant to kill him.

The senior brother said, "My opinion is: dead. If he had died, this would have been another death case. And these two men, don't you think they're similar to the ones who attacked that Hua Country person named Zhu Hong? The motive for the attack is unclear? Even though they claim it's about a stolen girlfriend?"

Whoosh!

It was like a stone breaking the calm surface of the water.

Everyone suddenly had a moment of epiphany.

They hadn't considered that these two cases might be connected.

And the possibility was quite high.

"What a headache! How many death cases have there been since we arrived in Aisen Town?"

The black student grabbed his short hair, looking somewhat overwhelmed.

Bai Xiaoliang said, "First, the cardiac arrest death case at the restaurant. Second, the scarecrow death case. Third, the death case in the Napoleon Hotel room. If Jiang Ran had also died, that would have made four."

Chief Pete added, "Actually, I forgot to mention another one. It also just happened recently. The Aisen Bell Tower death case. The victim was a black man."

Everyone was shocked.

So, not counting Jiang Ran, there had already been four death cases in the short time they'd been here.

This wasn't some big city with millions of people where four death cases wouldn't mean much.

But this was just a small town with fewer than two thousand people.

The frequency of these death cases was alarmingly high.

Even Lucas said, "Anyone would think Conan was in our Aisen Town!"

Cherry Blossom Country anime was popular worldwide.

Probably, aside from the older Chief Pete and Michelle, everyone else knew about that death-bringing elementary school student.

...

Jiang Ran was discharged from the hospital by noon.

The main reason was that he really couldn't stand being in that hospital environment any longer.

Since he could get out of bed and walk, he decided to walk around and get some fresh air.

So, after being discharged, he strolled through the streets of Aisen Town.

He was now thinking about the two men who had left him covered in injuries.

Not long ago, Bai Xiaoliang had called him, saying those two men had attacked him because he'd stolen their girlfriends.

He genuinely found it absurd!

Wasn't that pure nonsense?

Since he'd traveled to this world, he hadn't dated a single woman.

How could those two beasts bear to throw such dirty mud at him and slander his innocence?

Suddenly, a flash of memory struck him, and Jiang Ran remembered who Jin Baiying was.

It seemed to be that beggar who had attacked him for no reason when he was heading home that one time.

It's just that the difference in appearance between then and now was too great, so he hadn't recognized him at first.

He remembered that back then, the beggar had said his name was Jin Baiying.

But why had he attacked him?

Had his alternate personality made an enemy of him during one of its periods of control?

Could the same be true for Zhao Jue? Had his alternate personality made an enemy of him too? Is that why he kept attacking Jiang Ran for no reason?

"Those two guys were both arrested by the police, but because they didn't cause too much harm, they got out early."

"Oh, wait. I'm falling into a trap. I don't need to know why they attacked me."

"They're both dangerous people. Do they need a reason to attack me? Isn't it the same as all those people from the Alice Apartment who went after me before?"