Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 51 The famous detective is so powerful that it’s terrifying!
Faced with the questioning, Sato Miwako sighed.

"Xue Song Nami doesn't seem like someone who would do such a thing. She was in the detention room for the past two hours. First she yelled and cursed us police officers, then she begged for mercy, saying she didn't want a penny and just wanted us to give her a chance to live.

How could someone with this kind of mentality be the mastermind behind this?"

Megure Jusan still asked: "What if this is her disguise?"

He has been staying with Kudo brother these days and has heard all kinds of strange ideas and criminal methods. Now, he feels that there is a hidden story behind everything he sees.

Sato Miwako shook her head: "Inspector, we learned this in police academy, criminal psychology.

Although I'm not very good at this, I can see that Xue Song Nami's psychological breakdown is a very natural process. I stood here for two hours, and the more I listened, the more I felt that she should be the one who was framed.

If this is acting...

I can only say that she is too good and I am too unqualified as a police officer."

Megure Jusan fell silent after hearing this. To be honest, he and his brother Kudo had the same feeling, which was why they had focused their investigation on Yuzuki Kiyoko.

But, it’s still the same problem.

What is she planning?
"If Xuesong Qingzi simply wanted to kill her father, there would be no need to go to the trouble of purchasing personal accident insurance. We would have closed the case long ago. And if she did it for money, why did she only take 30 million?
And she gave 20 million of the 30 million to the real estate agent last night. Considering the huge debt she is carrying, she has no future at all. "

"That's just her giving up on herself. Who knows what she's thinking."

"Sato!"

Megure Jusan always has a good-natured face, but now he is really angry.

It would be fine if there was evidence, but now nothing is confirmed. Do you really want to kill Xue Songqingzi by saying this? !

Miwako Sato opened her mouth and buried her head.

"Feel sorry."

Megure Jusan sighed lightly and said nothing. He could understand Sato Miwako. No one could remain calm after something like that almost happened to them.

Especially three years ago, another man she had a mutual affection for also died in front of her.

Last night, there was probably some overlap with the past.

The two phases overlap...

Well, should I let Sato take some time off and arrange some psychological counseling for her?
I can only say that it's great that Takagi and Shiratori are not in danger of their lives, in every aspect.

"Report to the police chief!"

Suddenly, a fat police officer rushed into the office outside, his tone full of joy. In his left hand, he held a transparent evidence bag, which contained a glass bottle with some ashes, and in his right hand, he was waving a blue folder.

"According to the scientific investigation that was conducted all night, the fingerprint test results are out, it's Yukino Nami!"

When Megure Jusan heard this, his eyes lit up. He quickly took the report and walked into the detention room. Seeing Kudo Shinichi and Yuzukami confronting each other in silence, he excitedly went over and patted his shoulder.

"As expected of you, Kudo brother! You dived to the bottom of the lake to search last night, and you really found the key clue."

Last night, Rice Flower Central Park.

Tojo Shuntatsu drowned in the lake. After receiving a report from a homeless person, the police fished him out and conducted a preliminary investigation of the body and the surrounding environment.

The approximate time of death was between 182pm and 100pm, and Tojo Shuntatsu's blood alcohol content was as high as mg/mL, which was considered severe drunkenness. The wooden fence by the lake was quite low, and the traces of mud on the ground perfectly matched the movement trajectory of the slip.

OK, case closed. It was a complete accident.

After searching the three groups around the lake, they immediately prepared to return home. At that time, all their thoughts were on their three colleagues who had been attacked.

Megure Jusan looked at Kudo Shinichi who was coming up from behind, and saw that he was staring at the lake embankment with a frown on his face. He immediately had a bad feeling and asked hurriedly.

The answer was undoubtedly:
"It's a murder!"

The reasons are:
Even if he was extremely drunk, Tojo Shunshin did not lie down in the cardboard house but went to the scenic lake. No matter how he got there, it showed that he had not completely lost the ability to move. Therefore, after accidentally falling into the water, he must have struggled instinctively.

Especially since it was very close to the shore, even if he didn't have enough strength to climb up, there would still be some marks left between his fingernails and on the edge of the embankment.

But there was neither on the scene.

Without even requiring a forensic autopsy, Kudo Shinichi concluded that Tojo Shunshin had fallen into some kind of movement inhibition state before falling into the water and had lost the ability to struggle.

Even though nothing suspicious was detected in the blood, mouth, nose and respiratory tract of the corpse, Kudo Shinichi still insisted on his opinion, believing that Tojo Shuntatsu was in a disabled state at least for a short period of time after falling into the water.

Even if he regained his mobility afterwards, it would be of no use, as the abnormal condition could not be explained.

"Could it be something like a rope?" Megure Jusan made a guess.

"When a person is struggling to death, the force is very strong. If it is a physical restraint, there will definitely be marks left on the body." Kudo Shinichi rejected it without even looking up.

The thing that made Tojo Shunshin incapacitated must be something from the chemistry department. What could have such an effect and yet be completely undetectable?
Is it soluble in water?

Was the evidence destroyed after he fell into the water?

No, it can definitely be detected in the nasal cavity, and it is more likely that... it evaporates into the air!

It will evaporate and will not react with the human body. Is it an inert gas or carbon dioxide?
Although this stuff cannot directly cause a person to become comatose, if it is sprayed directly on the face in high concentrations, it is likely to cause short-term suffocation, especially since Tojo Shunshin was already deeply drunk at the time. Combining the two, it is entirely possible.

Thinking further, this kind of thing must be placed in a sealed container. Where is that container? Has it been taken away by the murderer?

Theoretically speaking, this is indeed the best option.

So there was another person here at the time?

After Kudo Shinichi expressed his guess, the police immediately began looking for clues about the other person in the surroundings.

Not long after, a passerby reported the case, saying that he had seen a young woman acting suspiciously, but the clues were vague and he later turned off his phone because he was afraid.

Come on, this passerby is pretending too much.

You can tell at first glance that he is a guy with ulterior motives!

Kudo Shinichi almost instantly determined that the murderer must have wanted to divert the police's investigation or frame someone else.

So he continued searching near the crime scene, leaving only the police to check the surveillance footage, plus Kogoro Mouri, who was too distracted at the time to do much.

What happened later was just as he expected. There was nothing found in the surveillance video. He only encountered a late-returning Xiaolan from a distance.

Speaking of Xiaolan, she was with Shuiyue in the afternoon...

"Kudo-kun!"

(End of this chapter)