Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 149 Arima
"Ms. Misumi, you're a surgeon, right?"

"Huh?" Sancheng was stunned when he heard the young black man say this.

Seeing this, Hattori Heiji thought he had guessed correctly, so he explained confidently: "There is a faint mark on Ms. Misumi's index finger. It should be left on the hands of someone who often uses surgical sutures."

"This is..." Bai Shi looked at his observation skills and desire to express himself... and was able to basically determine his occupation. Then, looking at his age and skin color, he was basically able to determine his identity!

"This is Hattori Heiji, the son of our boss... I'm sorry, he prefers reasoning, so..." Otaki said, still a little embarrassed, afraid to cause trouble for Shiraishi.

"Sure enough, a high school detective from Kansai, right? I've heard that in our Kanto, there is also a high school detective who has assisted our police station in solving cases." Shiraishi was very open-minded about their interference.

In addition...

It was like "adding fuel to the flames". As expected, when Hattori heard about the "high school detective from Kanto", he immediately started to grumble and developed a sense of comparison in his heart.

"By the way, there was a little mistake in your identity observation just now." Shiraishi said and looked at Misumi Mikoto.

"Huh?" Hattori was stunned when he heard that.

Sancheng smiled and said, "Little brother, you guessed it well... But I'm not a surgeon, I'm... a forensic doctor."

"Law...Ah! I see! There is a forensic doctor..." Upon hearing this, Hattori rubbed his head in frustration.

When I was considering my career just now, I missed a possibility!
Indeed, forensic doctors often have to suture. After all, even if it is a corpse, it must be sutured after being opened. It cannot be left alone.

Over time, there were traces of stitches on Sancheng's fingers.

"Forensic doctor?" Otaki was also surprised. As a detective of Souichi, he often dealt with forensic doctors at the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters, but he had never seen a female forensic doctor as young as Misumi.

Soon, Otaki said in a more serious tone: "As expected... Is there some important case?"

Seeing that Shiraishi actually has his own forensic doctor, it is unlikely that this is not a murder case.

"Well, let's talk in the car." Bai Shi was a little hurried - after all, the paper ball found in the corpse's stomach might be a cry for help.

Although there was one more person than expected, Otaki had specially rented a large jeep, and fortunately Ayako and Misumi were both relatively slim, so the three of them could fit in the back!
On the way, Shiraishi also talked to Otaki about the autopsy results from the previous two days and some basic information about the case...

After listening to Shiraishi's analysis, Hattori also said thoughtfully: "So... the real murderer is very likely in Arima Town now, and is holding another woman hostage?"

"There is such a possibility." Bai Shi nodded. This was why he came here.

"Based on the time of death of the three suicides, there was only four hours to store the bodies. And considering the bodies that froze to death, the time of death was not much earlier than the three suicides. And then add in the travel time from Arima to Touto...

"The time difference in where the body can be placed is only about an hour. Didn't the Metropolitan Police Department check the traffic records in the surrounding area during that period?" Hattori said with some complaint.

Indeed, during the initial inspection, the criminal police even determined that the time of death of the four victims was similar. However, after the autopsy found that the "unknown female corpse" was frozen to death, the estimated time of death was moved forward by one hour, that is, from "three or four in the morning" to "around two thirty in the middle of the night."

It takes five or six hours to drive from Arima to Toudou. If we set off immediately after the murder, the earliest we would arrive at the scene would be seven o'clock!

Just after eight o'clock, the scene was discovered by the newspaper deliveryman, which means...

The possible time period for the murderer to enter the scene after freezing the person to death in Arima Town was only about an hour!
If it is too early, the person is not dead yet. If it is too late, the scene has already been discovered.

However, when Otaki, who was driving, heard Hattori ask this, he immediately called him in a low voice: "Hattori!"

Hattori's words sounded like he was complaining about the Metropolitan Police Department being too bad...

In the police system of the East Island Country, the only one that can be compared with the Metropolitan Police Department is the Osaka Prefectural Police.

If it were a more extreme Metropolitan Police Department officer, he would probably have thought that "the son of the Osaka Prefectural Police Chief is provoking us."

But Bai Shi didn't care too much...

"Two streets away is the main road. I asked someone to check the cameras on the main road. All vehicles from Hyogo Prefecture are being checked within a reasonable time. As for the possibility of taking a detour through a small road... it is still being checked." Shiraishi said as a matter of course.

That's right, Shiraishi thought of this last night, and asked the person on duty in the Criminal Investigation Division last night to watch the traffic surveillance during the night shift.

Since the murderer chose to come to Dongdu, he should be aware of the suicide situation and must be in a hurry. It is unlikely that he would deliberately take a long and narrow route to avoid the camera.

Since they chose to leave the body at Suzuki's house, the only thing they were betting on was that the police wouldn't find any signs of homicide!
So far, we have found 12 vehicles from Hyogo Prefecture passing by the area within a reasonable time period, but after further verification, nine of them quickly appeared on the road to Musashino City in the east - that is, they were heading towards the eastern metropolitan area and did not stop in Nishi-Musashino City at all. The other three will be visited and investigated after someone from the Beihua Agency arrives at work.

After all, this is not a case of the Beihua Police Department, and Shiraishi did not ask anyone to work overtime, he just asked the people on duty to strain their eyes!
After work, I will ask the detectives who don’t have many cases to investigate...

If the criminal police of the Mihua Police Department were required to work overtime for any random case in other jurisdictions, they would become unbearable.

……

It only takes forty minutes to drive from Osaka Airport to Arima Town. After Shiraishi and Otaki briefly discussed the case, they arrived at the destination. It was just six o'clock in the morning.

"Let's stop at a hot spring hotel." Shiraishi said to Otaki.

"I know a good hotel that's not crowded yet." Otaki is half a local, so of course he is very familiar with it.

Soon, Otaki sent the three of them to the door of an antique-looking Japanese-style hot spring hotel. It seemed that Otaki had already made an appointment with the owner of the hotel.

"Otaki...ah! Ahem, Officer Otaki is here, just to sign in!" The innkeeper was also startled when he saw Shiraishi, and thought that a bear had come out of the mountain.

But I immediately realized that this was a person...

"Oh, right! I only booked one room, but there should be an empty room." Otaki said suddenly remembering it.

"No need, just one room will do." Bai Shi said directly.

Ayako, Misumi, Otaki, Hattori:...

The four of them looked at him in shock.

Shiraishi looked at Ayako and Misumi and said as a matter of course, "You two should stay in one room and have a good rest. I'll call you at noon... Inspector Otaki and I will go for a walk."

That’s right, Bai Shi had no intention of taking a break!
However, Misumi and Ayako had been busy all night and only took a short nap on the plane, so they definitely didn't have enough energy at this time.

Upon hearing this, Misumi and Ayako did not refuse stubbornly. After Shiraishi paid the room fee to the boss at the front desk, wrote his name and phone number, he let Misumi and Ayako go to the room to rest first.

Afterwards, Shiraishi went out with Otaki and Hattori...

"By the way, let me make a call first... I have a senior who works as a criminal police officer at the Hyogo Prefectural Police Headquarters." Otaki said as he made a call on the phone.

“Wakyu-senpai, it’s me, Otaki… I have one more thing to ask of you… It’s like this, there’s a friend from the Touto Metropolitan Police Department who wants to investigate some personal matters… Yeah, yeah… That’s great, thank you for troubling me again! Of course, of course… We’ll have a good get-together later.”

Otaki was very well-behaved and didn't say specifically what it was - not because he wanted to hide anything from his senior, but... it was better not to say it out loud!
After all, nothing has been confirmed yet, and Shiraishi and Otaki are in someone else's jurisdiction, so it can be said that they are "investigating in a private capacity."

Even if nothing is gained, it would only delay one day of vacation. However, if the local criminal police are told about it, the nature of the matter will be completely different... Will the Hyogo Prefectural Police take action or not?
Taking action might waste a lot of police resources, and there wouldn't even be a reason to file a case - you can't just file a case for investigation just because "you heard about a case in Dongdu and have doubts about it", right?

Everyone is very busy and it is impossible to start an investigation at the slightest sign of trouble. Otherwise, the number of police officers would have to be several times more.

And if we learn about this from Otaki and haven't launched an investigation, if something happens later, the Hyogo Prefectural Police Headquarters will be held responsible!
Even if something really happened now, it wouldn't be considered dereliction of duty if the Hyogo Prefectural Police didn't receive a report...

So Otaki didn't say anything, and Inspector Kazuhisa didn't ask. After knowing Otaki's purpose, he sent Otaki the addresses of several cold storages in Arima.

"There are three large cold storages in Arima-cho..."

After Otaki saw the message, before he could finish his words, Hattori said, "Then let's split up!"

"Eh? This..." Otaki hesitated when he heard that - Shiraishi was fine, although he was a superintendent now, but Otaki knew that he was also a frontline police officer before. What Otaki was worried about was Hattori, who was still a high school student.

"Don't worry! I have just borrowed an electric car from the store!" Hattori said generously, indicating that he had a means of transportation.

"That's not the problem..." Otaki said helplessly.

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Dongdong: "Arima Onsen" is actually the prototype of "Arima Onsen" in "Unnatural Death". This time the plot is directly set at the prototype's location.

In addition, in the original work of "Detective Conan", there is no long-term appearance of the county police NPC in Hyogo Prefecture. When Conan came to Hyogo Prefecture, he also cooperated with Hattori in Osaka...

Ps: The monthly ticket is now doubled, please give me a monthly ticket, please give me a monthly ticket~~
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