Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 171 Special Suspect
"Director, I have studied the situation in depth, and the identity of this suspect is somewhat special..." Kunikida also understood that this situation was not ordinary, so he learned more about it.

"Special... again, huh? Okay, just tell me who's behind this!" Bai Shi was helpless again. After rubbing his face, he was ready to make a phone call - let me see which department is behind this!
"No, not that special one... The one who is now suspected of theft and murder is this kid... Hayashida Yuuto, do you have any impression of this last name?" Kunikida took out his photo again.

"Surname? Lin Tian... Could it be..." Shiraishi finally reacted.

"Yes, they are the victim of the case that happened before I arrived... and the orphan of the murderer." Kunikida confirmed this.

It’s the case that happened when Shiraishi just took office!

The manager of a gas station was murdered by his employees, and it turned out that the then section chief Shirai was suspected of torture... This made Shirai very anxious at the time.

However, the ending was still good. In the end, it was proved that the employee was not innocent and did commit murder intentionally. However, in the end, it was found that Lin Tian’s estranged wife was suspected of “finishing the fight”...

Now, two months have passed, and the prosecution has basically sorted out the facts. The "finishing blow" did exist, which means that the lady has also been convicted of intentional homicide.

"They actually have a child... and it's this old?" Bai Shi was speechless at the irresponsibility of those two people.

"It's like this. The place we searched before was the child's grandparents' home. He had been raised by the elderly before his mother was arrested. So not only is the child very withdrawn, but... after his parents' case happened, there were some bad rumors in the school, so the school originally wanted to expel him." Kunikida explained at this time.

Kunikida didn't explain it clearly, but Shiraishi could understand...

Given the customs of the island country, if a major case of "wife killing husband" occurred, I'm afraid many parents of students would petition the school to expel the children of this dangerous element, even if he did nothing.

The reason why he became the target of bullying was probably related to this...

Normally, if a student in school is suspected of theft, and the theft is caused by bullying, the school will definitely tend to resolve the matter internally, cooperate with the police investigation, and try to prevent the incident from reaching the stage of prosecution.

But now for Beika High School, on the one hand they want to get rid of the burden of Hayashida Yuto, and on the other hand they don’t want to expose the problem of bullying in the school, so they refuse to cooperate!
Anyway, even if the police have an "arrest warrant", they can only arrest Hayashida Yuto. If they want to arrest the students who stole the cards and sold them to the second-hand store, the resistance will be very great...

"Gold bars were indeed found in Hayashida's house, Director...now it's not just a matter of theft, he's also a strong suspect in murder," Kunikida reminded at this time.

However, Shiraishi hesitated for a while before saying, "Notify Yuan and Yamada and invite him over after school."

Shiraishi decided not to apply for an "arrest warrant" first, giving him the opportunity to actively cooperate with the investigation instead of going directly to the school to pick him up.

There was a video of theft and a video of murder. Although the "protagonists" in the videos were hidden, Shiraishi still saw some problems in them.

Although gold bars were indeed found in his home, Bai Shi still believed in his judgment yesterday - judging from the interaction of external objects, there was no opportunity to "pick up the gold bars"!

As for today's murder case...

Bai Shi also had some ideas and was ready to wait for the results from the narcissistic side.

Of course, even so, Hayashida Yuto was undoubtedly a burglar - although the card was stolen, his actions of hacking into the surveillance system, smashing things and taking the card were still crimes!

However, this level of crime was not enough to make Shiraishi decide to apply for an "arrest warrant" for the 17-year-old high school student.

Seeing this, Kunikida did not refuse but agreed.

Although Kunikida's principle is to use an "arrest warrant" instead of asking for "active cooperation" and to ask for "active cooperation" instead of "emergency arrest" in order to ensure proper procedures, but...

The situation is different now. Shiraishi did not sign the "arrest warrant" because he did not want to arrest people directly from the school. Instead, he wanted to control the impact on the suspect, so he did not follow the most proper procedures.

"By the way, Section Chief Kunikida, please send me the two video clips again." Shiraishi said specifically.

……

At 3:30 in the afternoon, Yuto Hayashida, who did not participate in any club activities, had already walked out of the school gate.

At this moment, Yuan, who had the ramen head, suddenly hugged his neck from behind...

"Hey! Little brother, come and play!" Yuan said in a frivolous manner.

"Eh? I..."

"Gen... I've told you that high school students nowadays aren't like this! How long has it been since you were a high school student? Stop trying to act young!" Yamada couldn't help but complain.

"Lin Tian, ​​is it okay for you to come with us and find out some things?" Yuan quietly showed his police ID.

But I kept hugging his neck, pretending to be a good friend...

Of course, in reality, it seemed that Yuto Hayashida was harassed by some bad youths outside the school...but the security guard at the school gate pretended not to see it after noticing it was Hayashida.

Yuan directly dragged Hayashida to the police station and came to the interrogation room. Yuan was in charge of the interrogation himself. He said that he "actively cooperated with the investigation", but at this point, it was actually no different from "interrogation". Yuan's conciliatory style was very suitable for dealing with high school students like Hayashida who were still rebellious!
"Mr. Hayashida, you are good at computers, right?" Yuan asked with emotion.

"What, what happened?" Hayashida Yuto immediately became nervous.

Seeing Yuto's reaction, Yuan was relieved - this at least proved that he was not a sophisticated criminal...

Yuan did not continue to "take a detour" at this time, but took out two evidence bags - one contained the [Blue-Eyes White Dragon], and the other contained a five-kilogram gold bar...

"This originally belonged to me!" Yuto said anxiously.

Yuto's expression changed immediately and he said, "You went to my house? Grandpa and grandma..."

"Don't worry. We didn't mention you as a suspect of a crime. The two elders are accompanied by a female police officer now." Yuan comforted them.

Yuto was relieved at this, and continued to mutter: "This was originally mine..."

Yuan noticed at this time that Yuuto was always looking at the [Blue-Eyes White Dragon], and when he occasionally glanced at the gold bars, he was always nonchalant.

"What about this?" Yuan showed him the gold bar.

"That's... gold? I didn't take anything else!" Yuto immediately shook his head.

"Where were you from 6:30 to 7:00 this morning?" Yuan then asked about the alibi.

"Today?" Yuto was stunned when he heard that. Seeing that Yuan didn't explain, Yuto said impatiently: "I... I didn't want to go to school too early, so I just walked around Beika Park."

"Have you met anyone, or... who do you think will have an impression of you?"

Although Yuan's tone was as good as he could be, Yuto seemed to be stimulated by something: "You just want to say that I stole this thing, right?"

"Yuto, the things in that store were thrown away by you when you first went there, and they were indeed found in your yard... So if we want everyone to believe that they were not taken by you, we need you to prove it." Yuan said in a soft voice.

"What do you mean the first time? The first time I went there, that boss... humph!" Yuto still looked very angry at this time.

Apparently, when he wanted to get his [Blue-Eyes White Dragon] back, he was scolded by his boss.

Gen noticed at this time that Yuto's expression was slightly shaken by his first correction, but he still said afterwards: "Yuto, if something is stolen, you must call the police! You can't steal it back from other people!"

"But... this card is worth at least 100,000 yuan, but those guys only sold it to the second-hand store for 3,000 yuan. I asked to buy it back for 3,000 yuan, but he didn't agree and insisted that I pay 100,000 yuan!" Youdou did not hide his anger at this time.

"So, the owner of the second-hand store is indeed suspected of knowingly collecting dirty money. If you call the police, the police brother will solve the problem for you." Yuan shook his head helplessly at this time, and then said specifically: "Unfortunately, it's too late now. The owner of the second-hand store is dead. He was beaten to death by this guy at 6:45 this morning."

Yuan said as he shook the evidence bag of the gold bars.

Yuuto was indeed shocked, and then...

I started to panic!
Originally he thought that they were just trying to "frame" him for stealing, but who knew... now it seems that this is not just stolen goods, but also... a murder weapon!
"You, you suspect I killed someone? How is that possible... surveillance! Oh, where is the surveillance?" Yuto said hurriedly.

"Yuto... when you went to get this, you tampered with the surveillance settings, right?" Yuan didn't know when he started calling "Yuto".

"That's right..." Yuto admitted it when he saw that he was talking about the [Blue-Eyes White Dragon].

"Why do we have to do this? Can't we just turn off the surveillance?" Yuan asked puzzledly.

"Well, there's no special reason!" Yuto felt a little embarrassed.

As soon as Yuan saw his reaction, he knew...

Just as the director said, this was purely a need to show off, and it was embarrassing for him to bring it up directly.

"The scene of using this to kill the store owner was also captured by surveillance cameras...but the effect is the same as the surveillance footage you tampered with, so...Yuto, you'd better think about who can provide you with an alibi." Yuan said seriously at this time.

Upon hearing this, Yuto realized that he was becoming more and more suspicious, and hurriedly said, "What? That kind of surveillance too? I... I have only hacked into the surveillance in the store! They have obvious loopholes, and I... I am not the only one who can do this!"

Obviously, judging from Yuto's behavior, if he was not pretending, he didn't know that someone had died, nor did he know the time or location of the crime!
Seeing this, Yuan comforted him: "Yuto, I believe you, but... you have to give me a reason to convince others."

"No... You don't believe me at all! You don't believe me at all. You all think... I did everything! Just... just because of my mother's matter!"

Yuto suddenly became inexplicably gloomy...

(End of this chapter)