Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 285 Happy New Year
After Shiraishi and Takashima Akemi agreed on a meeting place, they planned to contact Otaki and Aoki first to ask about the progress of the case investigation.

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"Eh? Shiraishi, are you going to look for that Takashima Akemi?" Otaki asked in surprise on the phone.

"Huh? Is there any problem?" Bai Shi was surprised by his tone and asked back curiously.

"Well... Actually, the Osaka Prefectural Police has recently made a huge breakthrough in the investigation of the Orange Apartment murder case." Otaki said in a low voice.

"Is this something you can tell me?" Bai Shi's tone became strange when he heard him mention this.

Judging from the demon hunters’ attitude before, even if this joint investigation was based on Shiraishi’s personal connections, it was inevitable that there would be some “competition” in the context of the “Metropolitan Police Department vs. Osaka Prefectural Police”!
In this case, even if Otaki and Shiraishi have a good relationship, it is impossible for him to directly tell him the progress of the "Osaka Prefectural Police" investigation.

However, Otaki said at this time: "I think... this may also be an important clue to the 'Misaki Misaki Case', and the suspect has been controlled by our Osaka Prefectural Police."

"Suspect? Who?" Bai Shi was stunned when he heard this - there is a clear "suspect"?

"Rokuninbe Shiro." Otaki said righteously.

Shiraishi:……

This guy is really unlucky. He is the only "unrelated person", but he was still suspected because he was invited to the family gathering of the Munakata family.

In the previous Orange Apartment case, Rokuninbe Shiro was the prime suspect. Thanks to Shiraishi for clearing the evidence for him, it was proved that he, like the police, had fallen into the trap of the real murderer and had actually gone to the same room on a different floor and was framed.

But now...

When Otaki saw that Shiraishi didn't say anything, he explained, "We now think that this guy is the kind of cunning criminal who plays with his mind and gets what he wants."

In other words, the Osaka Prefectural Police suspected that the so-called "frame-ups" were actually just his "self-righteousness"!
This kind of criminal is still very rare...

First frame yourself, then find a way to clear it up, thereby psychologically "checking yourself off" the police officers' suspicion list.

It sounds great, but it's stupid in practice!

After all, for the police, the most difficult step is often to "lock in the suspect" or "determine the direction of the search."

Directly making yourself a "suspect" will most likely result in "being too clever by half"!
It is far better not to appear in the police's sight from the beginning than to show up first and then clear suspicion. Therefore, this kind of criminal is "cunning" but also "smart".

"Is this also Minister Yuanshan's guidance?" Shiraishi asked curiously.

Among the core leaders of the Osaka Prefectural Police this time, the two key figures are the headquarters director, Superintendent Hattori Heizo, and the criminal department director, Superintendent Toyama Ginjiro. They are both rare senior police officers who are very experienced in front-line investigation work!

Generally speaking, the "highest-ranking police officer with outstanding front-line investigation experience" in the entire East Island country is usually the "Chief of Investigation Section 1" of the Criminal Division of the Metropolitan Police Department, which is the rank of "Superintendent" - because this position has a strict requirement for "front-line investigation experience", and it is also the only possibility for the "non-professional group" to have the opportunity to reach the position of "Superintendent".

However, there are still a lot of "quasi-professional teams with frontline experience" vying for this position. More importantly, unlike the top leaders such as the "Superintendent of Police", "Chief of the National Police Agency" and "Directors of various departments", the term of office of the "Chief of Investigation Section 1" is very consistent, and it is not a rotation...

So the probability of this "possibility" is even lower than winning the jackpot!

In particular, several years ago, Hattori Heizo and Toyama Ginjiro, these two "professional teams", actually occupied the position of "Chief of Investigation Section 1" because of their "active performance in front-line investigations."

Now, because of their professional group qualifications and excellent resumes, they have become "Superintendent of Police" and "Superintendent of Police", becoming the limited edition of "top frontline officers". Therefore, the two of them often give opinions on frontline investigations, which is why Shiraishi asked this question.

Otherwise, let alone the Superintendent of Police, the Chief of Criminal Investigation of the Osaka Prefectural Police, even the Director of Police Station Shiraishi would be unlikely to give specific advice to the frontline...

"The Osaka Prefectural Police has been busy with other difficult cases recently, and Minister Toyama has not paid much attention to the Orange Apartment case. However, it is said that at the investigation meeting, Minister Toyama did not deny this speculation, but only said that it could be one of the investigation ideas." Otaki replied.

The reason why it is “heard” is naturally because he has been in Toudou recently, not in Osaka!

After hearing his answer, Shiraishi understood that this was probably not the real opinion of Chief Inspector Toyama, but...

Firstly, Yuanshan did not have a deep understanding of the case, and his main focus was not here, so he did not dare to say "definitely not"; secondly... even if he vaguely felt that something was wrong, he would probably treat it as a kind of experience - if it were Shiraishi, he would not rashly interrupt his subordinates when they came up with "wrong" but "conceptual" ideas.

"Why did the Osaka Prefectural Police suddenly turn around and suspect the six-man unit again?" Shiraishi asked curiously.

"Actually, it was Detective Sakata you met before... the young one with glasses. He has been investigating the 'privacy' that the Six-Man Department mentioned before, which was threatened."

Shiraishi also knew what Otaki said - before this, Rokuninbe Shiro said that the reason why he was so obedient and was asked by the "real murderer" to meet him in the apartment where the crime occurred in the middle of the night was because the other party had something on him.

However, as for the specific matter, Rokuninbe Shiro insisted that it had nothing to do with the case and was his privacy...

Otaki paused and then said, "Actually, there are a few photos... In the photos, Rokuinbe Shiro is lighting a fire."

"Set fire?" Bai Shi was surprised when he heard this - could it be that the fire six years ago was actually set by the six-man group?
If this is true, then I am probably wrong about many things.

“Well, but… judging from the photos alone, they didn’t set the house on fire, they just burned the garbage dump. In fact, six years ago, after the fire at the Munakata family, the Fire Investigation Division found that before the fire, there were many garbage dumps burning in the surrounding area.

"Of course, the Six-Man Club did not admit that they were the ones who set fire to the Munakata family. They just said that they were under a lot of pressure at the time, so they did some 'pranks', but they were photographed... When the Orange Apartment case happened before, the photos were given to him along with the threatening letter."

Otaki explained the whole story...

Although the Six claimed that they were not the arsonists, and those few photos alone were not enough evidence, but...

After all, a real fire broke out afterwards, and these photos are indeed the "privacy" that the six-member department absolutely does not want to be exposed!
No matter how many reasons he has or whether he has evidence or not, in this situation, if he is found burning garbage nearby, his suspicion of committing a crime will increase sharply!

But this made Shiraishi look even weirder... "Could it be that Osaka thought that the Six-Man Division, in order to get rid of their suspicion, not only fabricated a frame-up and implicated themselves in the case, but also revealed that they had set fire to the garbage dump near the fire scene six years ago in order to make their threats seem reasonable?"

Bai Shi felt that if the six men were really the criminals, this was no longer a matter of "too clever by half", this was a matter of "extreme cleverness"!
Otaki was silent on the phone for a while, then said, "There is another possibility... that is, Detective Sakata's discovery of those photos was not part of his plan. In order to cover up the past, he said that the photos were 'the real murderer's threat to him.'"

Obviously, the reason why Osaka found this clue was not because he admitted it himself, but because he found the photo first...

As for how I found this photo?

Shiraishi estimated that it was very likely that some methods were used that "would be severely criticized as illegal searches under Kunikida's command"!

Although Osaka is the second core city of the eastern island country, in terms of the discipline of criminal police, the Osaka Prefectural Police ranks relatively low in the national police system.

Even if they are a team of criminal police, they are even more representative of head-on confrontation and gangsters eating gangsters...

However, Otaki knew from Shiraishi's silence that Shiraishi obviously did not agree with this speculation.

It was Karma Go who probably learned from some channel that the Osaka Prefectural Police had a "suspect", so he urged Shiraishi.

Shiraishi does not think that the Osaka Prefectural Police have found the right direction - of course, the so-called "control" by the Osaka Prefectural Police does not mean that they have arrested him. After all, in this situation, they cannot apply for an [arrest warrant] at all. The so-called "control" means that they have put him under surveillance!

"Assuming that's true...then what was the reason why the six-man group killed Yamauchi Yohei?" Shiraishi asked bluntly.

Even if he really set the fire, it is hard to see any connection with the murder case.

"Yamauchi Yohei was staying at the Munakata family when the fire broke out. Maybe he happened to see something?" Otaki's tone was also uncertain.

"Silencing someone six years late?" Bai Shi asked back.

Otaki didn't say anything - indeed, there were many doubts about this line of thought, and it seemed very forced to justify it.

However, Shiraishi did not comment much on how the Osaka Prefectural Police investigated the case. He just asked, "Assuming that he killed Yamauchi Yohei, then... why did he kill the piano teacher of the Munakata family two years ago? When Ono Yuuko knew the Munakata family, the fire had already happened three years ago. Could Ono Yuuko have seen something?"

"From the perspective of a murder of passion, the six people would kill Ono Yuuko, the person they had a crush on. This is already the most motivated of the few people." Otaki's tone was also somewhat helpless.

In fact, based on his experience, he has discovered that this guess is outrageous.

Indeed, the Rokuninbu liked Ohno, and Ohno liked Munakata - for a petty person, there was indeed a murderous intention brewing.

But Bai Shi still felt a little strange...

After all, Rokunobu was just "secretly in love". From Takashima and Munakata, we know that Rokunobu never even confessed his love!

Is this also jealousy and murder?
Shiraishi thought that if he was really so petty, he should have killed Munakata, whom Ohno had a crush on, first...

But in this situation, there was no point for Shiraishi to say anything more, so after exchanging a few words with Otaki, he turned to contact Aoki - Shiraishi could say more about his own subordinates!

Aoki now indeed has his own suspect!

"Director, I compared the wounds on the victim's head. The one on the back of the head should be a wound caused by a direct attack by the murderer. Judging from the height of the victim, I suspect the real murderer is a male over 1.7 meters tall." Aoki was becoming more and more adept at using clues from the scene at this time.

"Who is over 1.7 meters tall here?" Bai Shi confirmed again after hearing this...

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Dongdong: That’s all for today…

Old book friends all know that today is Dongdong's birthday. (So even if you update less, you can still ask for monthly tickets!)
This should be Bendong's most unforgettable birthday. The past few days have been full of twists and turns...

On the 26th, I accompanied my wife to the hospital for childbirth with great anticipation. She gave birth on the evening of the 27th. Since I had saved some manuscripts, I thought I would not stop updating...

However, things did not go smoothly afterwards and she was unable to give birth naturally. The mother began to feel something was not right. The fetal movements began to be too intense and felt like "hiccups", so she immediately decided to switch to a cesarean section...

Guoguo was born in the early morning of the 28th. I only saw her once at that time, and then she was sent to the neonatal ward. I didn’t see her for the second time until today...

It was right to switch to a cesarean section. The baby choked on the amniotic fluid and had low blood oxygen when he was born, but he is fine after rescue.

If it were just this, I wouldn't be so panicked and stay awake all day. After all, the hospital I chose has strong medical resources. Choking on amniotic fluid is dangerous at first, but after being put on a ventilator, the patient will recover. So I wouldn't be too scared.

But what was speechless was that the night nurse told me that "there was no urethra opening on the baby's cervix" (actually, she didn't see it!)...

With this kind of words, everyone should understand why Bendong's condition took a sharp turn for the worse and he couldn't keep updating. It's different from choking on amniotic fluid and trying to save it. This is something that will cost lives and affect your whole life. When I went to pay the bill, my fingers were numb...

Now it is proven that everything is a weird misunderstanding (in fact, according to medical common sense, the fetus also needs to pee in the womb, and it may be born without PY, but it is impossible to be born without urethra)...

Guoguo is in good condition now. If nothing unexpected happens, he should be able to be discharged from the hospital on the 2nd. Then I will be able to see my son for the third time...

When explaining the patient's condition, they didn't mention anything about the lower third. They were just dealing with low blood oxygen and infection and inflammation caused by choking on amniotic fluid. The rest was just a mistake made by the nurse on duty...

For a moment I didn’t know whether I should be thankful or angry. Anyway, I was so scared that I was completely out of shape for the past two days. I thought that if I could find time to write a little every day, the manuscripts I had would be enough, but I couldn’t write at all and I couldn’t bear it at all…

Fortunately, I can finally take a good rest today. The mother of the child is already in the confinement center and doesn't need Bendong to take care of her. If nothing goes wrong, I will pick up the child the day after tomorrow...

(End of this chapter)