Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 26 New clues

"Director." Akasaka's tone was excited, obviously he had discovered something.

"Patrolman Fuji is here too? What's going on?" Shiraishi looked at Fuji Seiko in confusion.

Fuji Seiko, the fourth SR in the entire Mika Agency!

【Fuji Seiko (Patrolman at Beika Police Station):
Age: 26 years old.

Overall rating: SR.

心：正义（65）、原则（66）、温柔（33）、主观（71）、热血（60）、坚韧（75）。

Body: Healthy and persistent.

Skills: Reasoning (SR), Evidence Collection (SR), Interrogation (R), Fighting (R)...

Potential: Huge, tends to be a frontline criminal police officer. 】

Therefore, after Shiraishi saw her attributes, he immediately looked at her resume - why would SR be a patrol officer in Koban? Looking at this technical assignment, it doesn't seem like the police station "doesn't know people well".

After all, abilities like [reasoning] and [evidence collection] can only be developed by frequently going to the scene.

Sure enough, Shiraishi discovered that Fuji Seiko was transferred to the Koban position only in the last two months. Before that, she was the ace of the Criminal Division!

The reason for the job transfer...

Workplace bullying?

Seeing her [Justice] and [Principles], Shiraishi felt that this was unlikely, so he checked with Director Ebihara again, and only then did he know...

Fuji Seiko took the initiative to be transferred to the Koban. In fact, many veteran police officers in the police station knew the real reason. It was to investigate a case related to her good friend.

It was just called "workplace bullying" in name only, and indeed, before the transfer, she went to beat up Yamada...

Otherwise, she should have "avoided suspicion" in a case involving a good friend, not to mention being transferred to the corresponding unit specifically for this case.

Therefore, the old director did not mention it to Shiraishi at first, and Shiraishi did not mention transferring her back afterwards...

After all, the "body" in the attribute column should be one of the "physical and mental health" items, and Fuji's item has the entry of "persistence", which shows that her mentality is already a little bad. At this time, it is better to relieve than to block...

But now Shiraishi was still a little surprised when he saw Fuji Seiko and Akasaka coming together, as if they were going to report something.

"I specifically asked Patrolman Fuji for help before, and this clue was discovered thanks to Patrolman Fuji..." Akasaka hurriedly explained when he saw this.

In the afternoon, Akasaka and Toosaka were responsible for going to Beika Park, hoping to confirm Tsubokura's claimed alibi.

The two of them checked all the surveillance cameras available in the surrounding area, but there was no angle that could see the small square where the coffee truck was located. The surveillance cameras on the roadside nearby also failed to capture any footage of Tsubokura entering or leaving - this only failed to prove that he had been there, but it did not prove that he had not been there, after all, the surveillance cameras did not monitor all routes.

So we could only ask the previous witness, the clerk of the coffee truck.

but……

"Considering that there is a lot of criticism about us from the outside world right now, if we go to ask, we might be photographed by reporters and spread some rumors, so we asked Inspector Fuji to go and inquire..." Akasaka explained at this time.

Akasaka and Toosaka both have fierce temperaments, and it would not be out of place for them to be paired together. However, it would be easy to be criticized if they contacted "witnesses who were suspected of being misled by the police before" at this time.

So Akasaka asked Fuji Seiko, who was off work, to come over to help. Of course, Akasaka knew about Fuji's abilities, and judging from Fuji's appearance, she didn't look like a female Tyrannosaurus...

Fujiya readily agreed, pretending to be an ordinary person, or even an admirer of the righteous witness who resisted the police, and went to confirm with the "shop assistant brother"...

... "Ah! Are you the shop assistant who testified for the wrongly accused boy?"

"What happened at that time? I'm curious!"

"Brother, you are amazing. You can actually remember things from such a long time ago..."

“Was it stressful when you went to court to testify?”

"I see. Come on..."

……

"Ugh..." Teng suddenly dry-heaved in the director's office.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Bai Shi looked at me puzzledly - there's no "early pregnancy" in your health condition!

"Ahem, nothing much… Thinking about the previous inquiry, I feel a little uncomfortable." Teng remembered what he had said when he tried to coax the otaku clerk, and he couldn't help feeling nauseous.

Later, Fujiya explained: "Sure enough, it was that jackal lawyer who hinted to him... That stupid clerk thought that this case was very popular and many people would go to the trial... Including his estranged wife and daughter, who were also invited by the lawyer to sit in, so subjectively, the witness had a hero complex!
"In this case, he will tend to confirm uncertain memories and give testimony that the public is more willing to see."

Fuji paused for a moment, then added: "But... I don't think his testimony is completely fabricated."

Although the last sentence was just Fuji's subjective consideration, Shiraishi still nodded.

Given Gu Meimen's personality, he wouldn't dare to ask someone to forge testimony.

What the witness remembers has not changed. It's just that at the beginning the police told him "don't say anything if you're not sure." Now Kumimon is using public opinion to make him "say it as if you are sure."

"Isn't this the only discovery?" Shiraishi looked at Akasaka again, and the laptop in his arms.

"That's right...there's also this! But it doesn't quite match the direction of our investigation, this..." Akasaka was a little embarrassed at this time.

It seems that this has turned out to be evidence that is unfavorable to Tsubokura!

"It's okay, let me take a look..." After Bai Shi opened the notebook, he found that the screen was showing someone's blog.

"This is..." Bai Shi didn't immediately understand why.

"This is a blog that Gen and Yamada found when they were looking for an eyewitness to prove their alibi. Director, look here... On September 9rd, this blog says that the blogger was in the square in Beika Park and... also bought this!" Akasaka said, motioning for the director to scroll down.

Yamada was quite fond of surfing the Internet, so he thought of looking for accounts that had posted blog content nearby at the time of the crime, and he actually found something.

Sure enough, in the photo below, there is a cup of "Signature Iced Latte" - it is the coffee from that coffee cart shop, and it is consistent with the category that Tsubokura had previously declared, and it is also consistent with the only record retrieved from the cash register!
If this blogger really ordered the "signature iced latte" there on the afternoon of September 9, it would prove that Tsubokura's alibi was false - because at that time, the coffee cart only sold one cup of coffee.

Moreover, this blogger is obviously a lady who likes to share her life. The white hand in the photo doesn't look like Tsubokura's...

"Have you found out who the blogger is?" Bai Shi asked immediately.

"Well, her identity information was shared earlier, but..." Akasaka said helplessly, "When we went to find her, she said... the prosecutor's office had asked her to testify in court, and she also refused to be questioned if she saw the police."

Without an "arrest warrant", she can indeed refuse to cooperate, and she is not a criminal, so emergency arrest does not apply to her. Moreover... the prosecutor told her that she "does not need to cooperate", so it's useless to scare her!

"Huh?" Upon hearing this, Aoki glanced at the blog a few more times, then exchanged a glance with the director.

Both of them realized that it seemed that the witness that Miki discovered and sent to the prosecution was this blogger lady!
"If this blog is indeed true, then Tsubokura's alibi can be confirmed to be invalid." Fuji's expression was a little confused at this time - combined with what she had confirmed with the coffee shop clerk before, she always felt that something was strange.

At this time, Bai Shi suddenly said, "Let me take a look..." As he spoke, Bai Shi began to look up and down the blog of this blogger.

(End of this chapter)