Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 153 Agreement
At the crime scene, the Hyogo Prefectural Police had already arrived and sent the injured criminal to the ambulance.

"Officer Shiraishi, you're being too harsh..."

Inspector Kazuhisa, who was in charge of the case, looked at Shiraishi helplessly at this time - of course, he was just complaining. After all, he was a senior police officer in Touto and was arresting a criminal. Even if he drew his gun and shot, it would not be his turn to say anything.

"I didn't do that...he just flipped the car into the ditch," Shiraishi emphasized.

After a pause, Shiraishi specifically asked, "Any clues about the missing Hana Matsukura?"

"Someone has gone to search his residence...ah, excuse me." Kazuki was halfway through his sentence when he received a phone call.

"I'm Kazuhisa... I found Hana Matsukura? Is she in the hospital... That's great... Okay, I get it."

After Kazuhisa put down the phone, he reported the good news to Shiraishi: "Officer Shiraishi, we have found Hana Matsukura. Although she has signs of frostbite, she is not in danger of death. We will contact the Mika Police Station later!"

Shiraishi happened to see a police car with "Nishi Musashi" written on it driving over, so he shook his head and said, "No, you guys just contact Nishi Musashi Police Station, I'm just passing by."

Shiraishi was not here to slap anyone in the face, and he did not want to embarrass the people from Nishi Musashino Police Station.

If it is connected with the Beika Agency, it would be considered as confirming the dereliction of duty of the Nishi Musashino Agency.

But after Inspector Mori arrived, Shiraishi still had a gloomy face and scolded him - although the other party was not a police officer of the Beika Police Station, Shiraishi's "substitute discipline" was a bit presumptuous, but... after learning that Shiraishi had no intention of interfering and had already asked the Hyogo Prefectural Police to hand over the matter to him, Inspector Mori accepted Shiraishi's reprimand with great gratitude.

……

After that, Shiraishi didn't pay much attention to them, but went to see Ayako and Misumi.

Just now, the cold storage truck plunged into the pond. Although they were quickly pulled out by Shiraishi, Ayako and Misumi who were in the cold storage also slid to the front of the truck when sliding down and were soaked in the cold water.

Fortunately, Shiraishi immediately towed the car up...

Now the two of them changed into the clothes that Otaki and Hattori brought from the hotel, and after a quick check in the ambulance, they made sure that there was nothing serious and declined to be sent to the hospital.

"Xiaohua is already in the hospital and is not in any danger." Bai Shi informed the two.

Hearing this, both of them breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Hattori Heiji was standing by at the side, watching the handover between the Nishi-Musashino Police Department and the Hyogo Prefectural Police, and said unhappily, "What... these police officers didn't do anything at all. We found them!"

"Hattori!" Otaki quickly asked him to lower his voice.

Shiraishi didn't care. As a little detective, he still needed this kind of "merit" to satisfy himself. As a senior police officer who was no longer on the front line, this kind of thing was not a merit to Shiraishi. Instead, it was...

This time, Shiraishi did a favor for Nishi Musashino Police Station, and Chief Nishimura will definitely remember it.

As for Otaki, of course, his work was not in vain...

"Otaki, Hattori, we have a day off tomorrow. Please take a hot spring bath as a reward!" Shiraishi made the decision with a wave of his hand.

"Then I'll respectfully obey your command." Otaki said shyly.

Although Hattori was not very interested in hot springs, especially in taking a hot spring bath with Otaki and Shiraishi, since Shiraishi said so, and this was the reward for "assisting in the investigation" today, of course he agreed.

Only Sancheng said at this time: "Well... I will go back to Dongdu first."

Sancheng felt that if he continued to stay, he would be like a light bulb.

After all, that dark-skinned kid must be in the same room with Inspector Otaki, whom he knew. So the rest is...

"Hey? Doctor Sancheng, why don't you stay and relax for a while?" Shiraishi didn't think it was a problem.

"This one……"

"That's right, didn't you catch a cold just now? It's better for us to take a bath together. Otherwise, I'm the only one here with the girls, and I feel a little scared." Ayako then persuaded.

After hearing Ayako say so, Misumi finally agreed.

Afterwards, the five of them borrowed a police car and went back to the hot spring hotel where Misumi and Ayako had stayed before. They rested for a night and took a hot spring bath - of course, Shiraishi had a room all to himself.

……

On Sunday, Shiraishi had a rare day off. During the day, he went to visit Matsukura Hana with Ayako and Misumi...

"You kid! See, it's because you don't listen that you are being targeted!"

"Commit suicide? Why would you commit suicide? I think it's because I took too good care of you..."

"What kind of medicine is this? Hospitals just like to prescribe random medicines. There is no such thing as depression. They are just trying to cheat people out of their money!"

"Say less..."

"I asked what happened? I asked what happened? And you guys don't allow me to say it? Both you and your daughter are heartless..."

"You're not done yet, are you? I..."

"Come on, beat me to death! This is a hospital, go ahead and beat me!"

……

There were suffocating sounds coming from the ward.

Whoosh—Bai Shi opened the door of the ward, and the suffocating quarrel in the ward suddenly stopped.

Facing ordinary police officers, this pair of hooligans dared to act out, but facing Bai Shi, who was 2.3 meters tall and weighed 300 kilograms, they immediately became reasonable even without revealing their identities.

"You... who are you?" Matsukura's father was a little shocked.

"I'm a police officer from Dongdu. I was able to discover Xiaohua's friend's call for help thanks to Doctor Sancheng. She was worried about Xiaohua, so she came to visit." Shiraishi said as he turned his body sideways and pushed Sancheng to the front.

"You're...the one from UDI...Oh, thank you."

The Matsukura couple remembered Sancheng, whom they had seen before when they identified the body.

"But the girl who died wasn't our responsibility, was she?"

"Tsk, I think Xiaohua was led astray by her..."

Sancheng faced the couple, took a deep breath, and then forced himself to smile and said, "Can I talk to Xiaohua alone?"

"Huh? What do you want to say?" Matsukura's father frowned.

However, Bai Shi agreed directly at this time: "Of course! You two, let's come out first."

The Matsukura couple: …

Regarding Shiraishi's self-assertion, the Matsukura couple said that they had wanted to agree to it in the first place!

Xiaohua, who had been silent on the hospital bed, looked at Sancheng and her eyes suddenly turned red - at this time, she had already learned of the death of "Sanmao".

Sanmao is the online name of the unknown dead person.

She didn't tell Xiaohua her name. To someone who wants to commit suicide, the real name is not that important.

"Sister, have you... seen Sanmao before?" Xiaohua asked with a sob.

"Well, until the last moment of her life, she was still thinking about you..."

……

Slightly different from previous speculation, Hana Matsukura did not simply run away from home. She did log into a suicide forum and ran away from home after learning that "Sanmao" was going to commit suicide in her city...

However, Sanmao discovered that she had not completely lost her desire for life, so she persuaded her to give up.

At the same time, the murderer whose online name is "Xiaoxue" has already targeted them. He first approached "Sanmao" in the name of assisting suicide, and then wanted to instigate Xiaohua to commit suicide.

In order to protect Hana Matsukura, "Sanmao" fell out with "Xiaoxue" and was eventually killed by him.

Then "Xiaoxue" also prepared to kill Xiaohua - although Matsukura Hana had subjectively given up suicide, "Xiaoxue" understood that based on the thinking of the East Island police, people with suicidal tendencies in daily life could easily disguise themselves as suicide!

After all, if the police knew she had suicidal tendencies through a visit, they would be happy to close the case as a "suicide" as long as there was no obvious evidence of homicide.

He enjoyed "killing", but because he didn't dare to actually kill anyone, he instigated suicide on suicide forums and made appointments with suicidal people to "provide help".

This kind of perversion often ends up committing real "murder". Just like now, "Sanmao" was his first real and felt murder!
Afterwards, he was even ready to kill Xiaohua, but he didn't expect that he would be discovered by the police from Dongdu.

Although he is still insisting that it was "assisted suicide", UDI has already provided evidence that "Sanmao" was murdered. I believe he will not be able to deny it for too long.

……

Sanmao is dead, and even the police and Xiaohua don’t know her real name.

But Xiaohua survived, and before Sancheng left, Xiaohua made a promise with her...

I will live with Sanmao's share. After my injury heals, I will leave here and go to Dongdu. I will work on my own. At the same time... I will work hard to become a forensic doctor and listen to more voices of the deceased.

……

In the evening, Shiraishi, Ayako, and Misumi took the Shinkansen back to Toudou.

Of course, Misumi got off at Nishi Musashino City, and Shiraishi sent Ayako home first...

"Hmm? Aunt Tomoko seems to be at the door. I'll go say hello." Shiraishi saw the figure from afar and said politely.

"No...not this time! Ahem...I mean, next time!" Ayako blushed and changed the subject.

After all, her mother had already called her, and was obviously still upset about her and Shiraishi going out for two nights, so she was here at the villa in the port area today.

"Eh? Aunt Tomoko won't pick on me, right?" Shiraishi hesitated. After all, in his heart...Aunt Tomoko is just someone who likes to pick on me!
"Okay, go back and rest early! Have a wonderful Monday." Ayako pushed him away and went home by herself.

Shiraishi:……

Since Ayako had already said so, Shiraishi had no choice but to wave to Aunt Tomoko from a distance and then turned and left.

……

For the director of the Rice Flower Agency, "having a wonderful Monday" is obviously a bit of a luxury!
Shiraishi had a good rest on Sunday, and it seems that there hasn't been a murder case in Beika Town for a "long time".

Don't say it's "beautiful", Bai Shi just hopes that he didn't make himself feel a big...

(End of this chapter)