Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 213 Mrs. Ota's Problematic Boyfriend

Inspector Megure hurried to find the police officer from the Forensic Department.

Lin Xiuyi stood in the bathroom, staring at the corpse on the floor, and his mind couldn't help but think of the shoe rack he saw in the entrance just now.

The women's shoes on the shoe rack are colorful and of various styles. The two pairs of men's shoes are obviously out of place.

One pair was black leather shoes with a little dust on the uppers, and the other pair was casual sneakers with the laces scattered randomly.

Lin Xiuyi stood up and walked out of the bathroom. While thinking, he wandered around the apartment and observed the furnishings in the house.

He walked into Mrs. Ota's bedroom. The room was filled with a faint scent of perfume mixed with a barely perceptible hint of tobacco.

Lin Xiuyi checked every corner of the room in an orderly manner. The dressing table was full of women's cosmetics, and a men's razor mixed in among them was particularly eye-catching.

There was an ashtray next to it with a few unextinguished cigarette butts in it.

Lin Xiuyi picked up the razor, opened the cover, and a lot of fine upright hairs fell out.

After looking at it carefully for a while, Lin Xiuyi put down the razor and his eyes fell on a men's shirt thrown casually on the bed. The cuffs of the shirt were slightly rolled up, as if it had just been worn by someone.

When he opened the drawer of the bedside table, he saw an opened and partially used box of condoms.

"Does Mrs. Ota have a new boyfriend?" Kisaki Eri couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"Hmm," Lin Xiuyi nodded thoughtfully.

He came to the bed and looked up at the wall above the double bed.

There was a rectangular area there that looked exceptionally white, contrasting sharply with the slightly aged walls surrounding it.

"The photo originally hung on the wall should have been the wedding photo of Mrs. Ota and her husband. After she found a new love, she took it down."

"Didn't Inspector Megure say that Mr. Ota had been dead for several years?" Kisaki Eri snorted. "It's normal for Mrs. Ota to find another boyfriend."

"It's normal to find a boyfriend, but I'm afraid there's something wrong with the identity of the boyfriend she finds..." Lin Xiuyi shook his head strangely and walked out of the bedroom.

Kisaki Eri looked at his back in confusion, then glanced at the white shirt on the bed, and suddenly remembered that the dead person in the bathroom did not seem to be wearing a shirt either.

No way……

Kisaki Eri quickly raised her hand to cover her mouth to prevent herself from making a sound of surprise.

Lin Xiuyi walked to the corner of the living room where there was a sports backpack.

The middle-aged woman who was still arguing with Inspector Samezaki became even more nervous after noticing Lin Shuichi's actions.

"Please don't touch my things!" Mrs. Ota shouted. "Didn't you police officers just search it? There's nothing else in there except clothes!"

"Mrs. Ota, you are now a murder suspect," Inspector Samezaki warned with a serious expression and sharp eyes, "We have the right to search everything in your apartment."

"Is he a police officer too?" Mrs. Ota asked dissatisfiedly. "Yes, he is the investigative consultant of our Investigation Division 1," Inspector Samezaki nodded affirmatively.

Mrs. Ota gritted her teeth and watched Lin Xiuyi unzip his pants. Her body trembled slightly and there was a hint of panic in her eyes.

A pair of men's sports socks and a sweaty sports vest were revealed inside, and a faint smell of sweat could be smelled.

These clothes, as well as the signs Lin Xiuyi had just discovered, all suggested that there was a man living in this house.

"Have you seen enough?" Mrs. Ota ran over, quickly snatched the sports backpack from Lin Xiuyi's hand, and quickly zipped it up.

She held the backpack tightly in her hands, as if it was her last straw.

"Madam, these clothes, and the men's products in your house," Lin Xiuyi suppressed the strange feeling in his heart and asked, "Have you got a boyfriend recently?"

Mrs. Ota's already panicked eyes instantly flashed with fear, and her hands unconsciously clenched the sports backpack, her knuckles turning slightly white from the force.

She forced a stiff smile, her voice trembling slightly. "No, officer, you misunderstood. These things... were left by my husband. I've never been willing to throw them away."

"Really?" Lin Xiuyi asked meaningfully, "If you can't bear to part with it, why did you put away the photo on the headboard of your bedroom bed? It should have been your wedding photo originally placed there, right?"

Mrs. Ota's eyes flickered and she didn't dare to meet Lin Xiuyi's gaze.

She turned her head and took a step back unconsciously, as if trying to avoid Lin Xiuyi's questioning.

At this time, Ota Yuuka, who was originally sitting on the sofa with a wandering look in her eyes, suddenly became angry after hearing Lin Xiuyi's question.

She stood up suddenly and glared at Lin Xiuyi, her face full of anger and dissatisfaction: "How could my mother have a boyfriend! What does this have to do with the case! Don't make groundless guesses and suspicions here!"

Yuuka Ota's voice was sharp and piercing, startling everyone.

After saying this, she stamped her feet heavily, her body shaking with anger.

Seeing everyone's eyes on her, Yuuka Ota turned around and sat on the other side of the sofa, crossing her arms over her chest, her expression extremely gloomy.

Lin Xiuyi was not affected by Mrs. Ota's denial and Ota Yuka's anger. In fact, the reactions of the two further confirmed his somewhat outrageous guess.

At that moment, Officer Dengmi from the Forensic Investigations Division came over. "Advisor Lin, after careful examination and analysis, we've determined that the wound on the deceased's neck does show signs of tissue delamination. It's possible the wound was previously frozen."

"The wound was frozen?" Inspector Megure asked in surprise. "Could it be that Nakajima Ryosuke had already died and had been frozen all this time? The reason there were so many water stains in the bathroom was because the murderer wanted to use hot water to thaw the frozen body?"

"No, it's probably just the wounds that are frozen," Officer Tomi said. "If the bodies were frozen, we would have detected it long ago."

"Could it be that the murder weapon was frozen before use?" Kisaki Eri speculated, "so the wound showed signs of freezing."

"Why would the murderer freeze the murder weapon for no reason?" Inspector Megure scratched his head, a confused expression on his face. "Was it an impulsive killing? The murder weapon was originally placed in the freezer for another purpose, and after a confrontation with the deceased, the murderer, in a fit of excitement, pulled the weapon out of the freezer and killed him?"

Thinking of this, Inspector Megure rushed to the refrigerator in the apartment, hoping to find something inside that might be related to the murder weapon...

(End of this chapter)