Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 39 Two possibilities
In Shiraishi's mystery play, Tsubokura pretended to be harmless and looked like he wanted to talk to Station Master Hayashida...

"Get out, get out now! You've been fired, don't show up in front of me again!" Lin Tian waved his hands impatiently.

"Stationmaster, don't say that... let me in first..."

"Wait! What are you going to do?"

"Let me help you cook..."

"stop!"

"Lie down, you!"

"Eh..."

……

At this time, Tsubokura squeezed in with great effort, and then... put on gloves and ran to the kitchen, trying to find a kitchen knife!

However, he was kicked over by Hayashida from behind. Then, Tsubokura tried to crawl to the kitchen, but Hayashida dragged him by the legs...

Then the two of them maintained this strange posture, turned their heads together, and looked at Bai Shi with speechless eyes.

"Officer Shiraishi, I've made all the preparations, but I still have to come to the scene to find weapons, right?"

"Will I let this kid get the kitchen knife?"

Upon hearing this, Bai Shi waved his hand again, and time in the room went backwards...

The clock had just struck two o'clock.

Ding-dong-

……

Shiraishi watched coldly as Tsubokura lowered his posture and forced his way in, and then...

"Do you know how much trouble you have caused since you joined the company? No need to say more, hurry up... what are you going to do?"

While Hayashida turned around, Tsubokura put on gloves, and then, amid Hayashida's questioning, he took out a short, sharp dagger from his arms!

Seeing Tsubokura stabbing towards him, Hayashida quickly dodged. At this time, the two of them slowed down their movements and saw a scratch on the wall that was the same as the one in the "scene photo".

Hayashida quickly fled into the kitchen, and Tsubokura chased after him...

Clang——

Hayashida picked up the cleaned sushi knife from the kitchen knife set and swung it towards Tsubokura. Tsubokura blocked it with his dagger knife, and there was a crisp sound!
Unfortunately, the knife that Hayashida picked up in a hurry was the weakest sushi knife...

At this time, the action slowed down again, and you could see a notch on the blade of the sushi knife, while Tsubokura's knife slipped out of his hand and flew back into the entrance hall, leaving a mark when it landed, the same as in the "on-site photo"...

After all, Hayashida's physique is stronger than that of the young man Tsubokura!

"You kid... go to hell!"

Hayashida seemed to have lost his temper and continued to stab Tsubokura. After Tsubokura took two steps back, he grabbed Hayashida's hands with both hands and started to wrestle with him.

The next moment, the two of them fell to the ground and rolled around...

The movement slowed down, resulting in many traces corresponding to the "on-site photos", and at this time the glove on one of Tsubokura's hands fell off.

Immediately, at the door leading from the hall to the kitchen...

puff!

In the end, "the young and the strong are better than the strong", Ping Cang grabbed the knife and stabbed it through the chest!

At this moment, footsteps were heard in the corridor...

Immediately, all the movements and sounds stopped, leaving only Tsubokura's inner monologue: "Someone is coming, I have to run... Oh, I have to take away the things they brought. As for the murder weapon... It doesn't matter. It's normal to have my fingerprints on it. If I pull it out, it will be covered in blood and people outside will see it!"

Then time began to flow again, Tsubokura hurriedly picked up his knife and gloves and rushed out the door.

Although I passed a passerby in the corridor, the passerby didn't suspect anything.

Then Shiraishi walked to the balcony and watched Tsubokura leave the alley. It happened that Ms. Hayashida also walked here, but she didn't go through the alley because she saw someone...

When Ms. Lin Tian returned to the victim's door, she found that the door was not locked. After opening the door, she saw the victim's body. Ms. Lin Tian was shocked and quickly picked up her phone, but...

As if she had thought of something, Ms. Lin Tian did not call the police, but went into the bedroom to look for something. However... after opening the door of the bedroom, there was a black hole inside. Because there were no traces related to the case, there were no photos of the scene!
Then Ms. Hayashida came out of the "black hole" again, erased all traces of her presence, and took away the food.

Bang...

With the sound of the door closing, he left the room without looking back.

Bai Shi was sitting on the sofa at this time, seemingly lost in thought.

Ding Dong - the doorbell rang, and then the door opened by itself. Tsubokura poked his head in, looked at Shiraishi and said, "Officer Shiraishi, are you targeting me? Does it have to be me?"

"I think so too. Maybe we can think about it again." Lin Tian, ​​who was lying on the ground, raised his neck and said.

Bai Shi slowly raised his hand and waved again...

Time goes back in the room!

Time: two o'clock.

Ding-dong-

As Lin Tian opened the door, he said in a frivolous voice, "Honey, you're back?"

The person who appeared in front of the door... was indeed Ms. Hayashida!
Just now, Ms. Hayashida came back from the supermarket in a taxi and saw Ping Cang walking into the alley, so she came in through the main gate, which means she came back first.

"Don't forget what you promised me!" Ms. Lin Tian walked in with a stern face and went straight to the kitchen.

Lin Tian was about to follow in, but at this moment...

Ding-dong-

The doorbell rang again...

"Who is it? I said everything was fine..." Lin Tian thought it was another neighbor.

"Stationmaster Hayashida, it's me." Tsubokura's voice came.

Ms. Lin Tian seemed to want nothing to do with him at all, and asked quietly, "Did you make an appointment with someone else?"

"This psychopath...Why did I ask him out? Don't worry about it!" Lin Tian said unhappily.

"I..." Ms. Lin Tian hesitated for a moment and hid in a bedroom on the side, as if she didn't want to be seen.

Then outside...

"Do you know how much trouble you have caused since you joined the company? No need to say more, hurry up... what are you going to do?"

Wearing gloves and pulling out knives, chasing and fleeing, leaving traces...

Hayashida wanted to pick up the kitchen knife "again", but... at this time he could see that only the sushi knife was on the shelf, and the others were on the chopping board two steps further away. Hayashida had no choice but to pick up the weakest kitchen knife.

Seeing Hayashida holding a sushi knife and swinging it towards Tsubokura, Tsubokura... as expected of a young man, took two steps back, dodged the attack nimbly, and slashed at Hayashida with the knife again, Hayashida was so scared that the knife dropped from his hand!

bang-

The kitchen knife flew out, leaving a mark on the floor that was identical to the "scene photo" that Shiraishi had seen.

Then Lin Tian wanted to go back to the kitchen to get a knife, but it was too late!

puff-

After stabbing him, Tsubokura hurried away... taking his own knife with him, of course.

If he had more medical knowledge, he would be able to judge from the amount of bleeding that the knife... was not deep enough to be fatal!
After Tsubokura left, Ms. Hayashida, who was already terrified, came out of the bedroom, which had been closed all the time, and checked on the victim, but...

Well……

The victim, still breathing, grabbed Ms. Hayashida's wrist, as if asking her for help, but...

Thinking of the threats she had received before and the fact that the guy was still unwilling to divorce, Ms. Lin Tian's expression gradually became ferocious. She picked up a kitchen knife that had fallen nearby, wrapped the handle with a gauze scarf, and while the victim was terrified and unable to move, she used all her strength and her body weight to press the knife in along the small cut!

click...

A "perspective" perspective appeared, and it was seen that when the blade was pressed in, it knocked out a small notch on the rib.

Then Ms. Hayashida cleaned up all traces of her presence and took away the unfinished food. As for the murder weapon...

Thinking that there was no trace of myself on it, I just left it there.

After Ms. Hayashida left, Hayashida's corpse sat up and said to Shiraishi, "Officer Shiraishi, people can only die once, so... which one do you think it is?"

Indeed, both possibilities would lead to the situation we have now grasped!
but……

In fact, it is not difficult to distinguish them. You just need to examine some information that shows different expressions in these two situations!
But that's not something that can be done "here" by just thinking about it...

……

In the observation room of the interrogation room, Shiraishi opened his eyes...

To others, less than a minute had passed.

At this point, Bai Shi can be said to have seen through the truth, but... it remains to be verified!
(End of this chapter)