Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 101 Hidden secrets
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The wooden staircase in the detached house made a sound of being overwhelmed, and then...

After hearing the sound, several people at the crime scene looked towards the door, only to see... Bai Shi, who looked like a little giant, "crawled" in from the door of the studio.

This normal door frame of a single-family house is a bit short for Bai Shi!

"Director!" Sen Ya immediately saluted with his head held high.

Akasaka and others also saluted and greeted.

"Director, your injury..." Akasaka asked with concern.

"It's okay, it's just a minor burn. You can go back to work tomorrow." Shiraishi continued to read the sick leave standards of the Mikado Agency.

Then Shiraishi discovered that the group at the scene was "three and a half", so he asked, "Why are you two together?"

"Oh, Gen and Yamada were borrowed by the main store team for two days!" Kuroki said immediately.

Bai Shi glanced at him twice and said, "Are you going to borrow them to form a pair?"

"Maybe...right." Hei Mu felt a little guilty.

Well, the people Takei wanted to borrow more were Kuroki and Kanzaki, but... Kuroki "passed the buck" to Yuan!

Yuan, who didn't know the truth, was quite happy and even felt that this was a good job. He thanked Kuroki - because the reason for the "team" to borrow people was to assist in investigating cases involving banned drugs. Although the East Island Country did not pay as much attention to such cases as its neighbor, it was also a country that cared more about drug control. Catching such criminals was a big achievement, especially when they were borrowed by the head office. At least it would be easier to apply for leave in the future.

……

Bai Shi didn't investigate further. He just moved his ears, frowned, looked around the crime scene, and finally looked at the speaker with some displeasure, and asked, "Are you sure it's a homicide?"

"Well... no, we can't rule out the possibility of an accident. Besides the victim, only Mr. Fujimaru was present at the time, but he himself can't remember the circumstances... He's already contacting the manufacturer of the photo frame." Akasaka said conservatively at this time.

Indeed, judging from the scene, if the murderer was not Fujimaru himself, then it should be... a problem with the quality of the photo frame?

Will such thick and large photo frame glass break by itself? This question needs to be asked to colleagues in the forensic department...

At the same time, Akasaka also saw that Kanzaki squatted down and looked at the glass fragments on the ground curiously.

"Is this the cause of death?" Shiraishi squatted down, looked at the glass fragments next to the sofa, then looked at the body, and frowned, "What were the victim and Mr. Fujimaru doing here?"

"Composition...Hideko is my assistant!" Fujimaru Kazuo said quickly.

"Composing? Then why is the assistant lying on the sofa?" Shiraishi glanced at him and asked back with disdain.

"Well...she wasn't lying down at that time, it was..." Fujimaru wanted to quibble.

But at this moment, Kudo Shinichi also questioned: "Mr. Fujimaru, although I don't know much about composing, but... when composing, you shouldn't play music so loudly, right?"

At the same time, Shiraishi put on white gloves - he was in the habit of carrying them with him.

Then, Bai Shi was seen facing the corpse, clasping his hands in front of his eyes, closing his eyes and praying. Then... he squatted down, bent over, and took off the victim's skirt!

"Ah..." Yuanzi blushed when she saw this and cried out softly - my sister is still here!

"Shh!" Ayako quickly pulled her, frowned and made a "shut up" gesture, reminding her not to make trouble.

Shiraishi then said, "Mr. Fujimaru, the victim was not wearing a skirt at the time, right? Do you have any explanation for destroying the scene and disrupting the investigation?"

That's right, Shiraishi found out after a quick inspection - there were broken glass shards and small wounds on the victim's body, but there was no tear on her skirt!

Seeing this, Kudo Shinichi turned his head away somewhat embarrassedly - after all, he was only a high school student and had only been exposed to murder cases for a few months. He was not used to it yet and was not as calm as he would be later.

On the contrary, Kanzaki, the youngest police officer on the scene, immediately came forward to check...

If the woman is alive, the physical examination must be conducted by a female police officer.

However, when it comes to the dead, there is no gender distinction in the examination. Not to mention the criminal police, there are a lot of male forensic doctors. There is no requirement for the examination of the dead to be of the same sex, and there is not even a saying of "same sex first". Emphasizing the gender shame of the corpse will instead undermine the ethics of criminal investigation.

After Shiraishi enters the inspection state, he will not pay special attention to the gender taboo of the corpse...

As for Kanzaki, he is a newcomer, so he has a blank slate - what he learned in the police academy is that there is no need to be shy, so he is not shy at all and is more natural than many veteran police officers!
Shinichi, who was standing by, probably guessed what Shiraishi had discovered, so he asked Mrs. Fujimaru, "Madam, when you saw Mr. Fujimaru before, your first reaction was to ask him if he had done anything to Ms. Hidaka... There must be a reason for this, right?"

"This..." Fujimaru Yoshino was a little flustered at this time. Fujimaru Kazuo said quickly: "Wait! Yoshino, don't say anything nonsense..."

Seeing his obviously suspicious behavior, Sen Ya on the side immediately pulled him away.

However, Fujimaru Yoshino seemed to be very distressed at this time. She covered her mouth and ran away crying.

Akasaka winked and told Kuroki to follow, and Shinichi saw this and followed as well.

At the same time, Akasaka looked at Fujimaru Kazuo solemnly and said, "Mr. Fujimaru, you are now highly suspected. If you have anything you haven't said yet, you'd better confess it immediately. The evidence that you have been with the victim and deliberately destroyed the scene is enough for arrest...even enough to charge you with murder!"

"No! I... I didn't! I... OK, I did cheat, but it was just cheating... Today, Hideko and I were on the sofa when the incident happened, and we played loud music to cover it up...

"But at the critical moment, a football broke through the glass and rolled in. I was startled and went down to check. Just as I walked to the bed, the sofa suddenly broke and exploded. Rizhizi... Rizhizi also screamed...

“I turned around and saw… I saw… Rizi was covered in blood… and soon she stopped breathing!

"At this time, my wife and the young man were knocking on the door. I was afraid that my affair would be exposed and I was also worried about being suspected, so I put on my clothes, put a skirt on Ryoko, and turned off the music."

At this time, Fujimaru Kazuo honestly described a different version of the situation from what he had just said.

"The photo frame glass shattered on its own? Or... did you become malicious because Ms. Hideko threatened you with divorce?" Akasaka questioned while staring at Fujimaru, trying to find his flaws.

"No, no! I didn't kill anyone! The glass really broke by itself!" Fujimaru said hurriedly.

Ayako looked at the scene and asked Akasaka, "Detective Akasaka, can I take Sonoko and Xiaolan down first?"

She didn't want her sister to keep witnessing such a complicated, adult world, and at the same time... she didn't want Shiraishi's subordinates to feel that "the director's girlfriend is acting recklessly", so she asked Akasaka directly.

"Oh! Of course you can. Just don't leave the blocked scene for now. I'll ask both of you to take a statement later." Akasaka said quickly.

Shiraishi took a closer look at the photo frame, then went downstairs with Ayako. He only said to Akasaka and Kanzaki, "Well, keep up the good work."

"Yes! I will definitely live up to the director's expectations!" Sen Ya answered loudly and saluted.

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"Brother-in-law! The murderer must be that man, right? He looks very guilty and he even moved the corpse..." Sonoko said firmly at this time.

"Sonoko, don't say such things casually." Ayako reminded from the side.

"No, on the contrary, it's most likely not him." Bai Shi shook his head.

"Eh?" Sonoko was confused when she heard that - maybe he was not the real murderer, but... why did her brother-in-law sound like "that's why it's not him"?

"Since he really doesn't want his extramarital affair to be exposed, then... if he is the murderer, why doesn't he kill the victim while she is wearing her clothes? Then there would be no need to waste energy and time to put the skirt back on her." Shiraishi said as a matter of course.

And Shiraishi understood that Akasaka must have realized this as well, and he was just trying to scare Fujimaru so that he would tell the truth.

When Sonoko heard what Shiraishi said, she suddenly realized and said, "That's right... Brother-in-law, you are still very sensible! Unlike some mystery geeks... who are still liked by ignorant girls, right, Xiaolan?" As she said this, she also criticized Shinichi and teased Xiaolan.

"What do you mean by like? Yuanzi, you are talking nonsense again!" Xiaolan suddenly felt embarrassed.

"Eh? Did I say who it was?" Sonoko pretended to be stupid.

"In that case... was it really an accident? Then after that... cough cough." Ayako suddenly coughed twice.

"Sister, are you thinking that in the future, you can't use this kind of photo frame for your wedding photos with your brother-in-law, and you can't put it under the wedding photos..." At this time, Sonoko came closer in a mean way and teased Ayako again.

"Garden!"

Ayako, who was always gentle, couldn't help but pat Sonoko lightly, and Sonoko immediately pretended to be scared and dodged, accidentally knocking over a large flat cardboard box on the side of the stairs.

"Ah... sorry." Seeing this, Sonoko hurriedly helped him up - fortunately, there was nothing inside.

"Hmm? This is..." When Bai Shi saw the cardboard box, he suddenly thought of something and bent down to take a look.

At the same time, Kuroki and Shinichi had just found out from Mrs. Fujimaru that Fujimaru Kazuo had cheated on him - although he thought he was doing it very secretly and even played loud music as a cover-up every time, he was still seen by Yoshino more than a month ago!

(End of this chapter)