Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 81 Yukiko was right
"That's enough, Ito!" Inspector Samezaki interrupted harshly, "Lin-kun is still a minor! If you dare to speak again, I will arrest you for enticing a minor to join a gang!"

"Haha, kid, when you asked him to inspect the murder scene, why didn't you think that he was still a minor?" Ito Ichiro curled his lips, but did not invite Lin Xiuyi to join the Sumiyoshi-kai again.

According to Japanese laws and social norms, minors are clearly prohibited from participating in criminal activities, including joining gangs.

As one of the three major legal gangs in Japan, the Sumiyoshi-kai has long since changed from pure black to half black and half white. Even if it is still engaged in illegal activities in secret, it still abides by the law in public.

Lin Xiuyi didn't take Ito Ichiro's words to heart.

If there's no future in following the police, why not join the gangs?
In fact, joining the gang now is truly hopeless. Don't look at the gangs being arrogant now, that's because the Japanese economy as a whole is still strong, and the gangs are useful from top to bottom.

In a few years, once the Plaza Accord is signed and the Americans start to reap the profits, Japan's economy will fall into a long period of stagnation.

By then, as a used-up chamber pot in the eyes of the government, the gangs will face suppression from the whole society and will quickly decline.

"Mr. Ito, please turn around," Officer Matsumoto said impatiently, "We need to check the wound on your head again."

"Didn't you already check it before?" Ito Ichiro complained and turned around.

Officer Matsumoto parted his hair and showed Lin Xiuyi the wound on the left back of Ito's forehead. Although there was no bleeding, there was a red swelling where he was attacked.

"Where were you attacked?" Lin Xiuyi asked.

"It was when I went to the bathroom," Ito Ichiro thought for a moment, "I remember just as I turned the corner of that corridor, someone attacked me from behind."

"From behind..."

Lin Xiuyi gestured with his hand as if he were to attack Ito Ichiro on the back of his head, and suddenly froze in place.

"Mr. Lin, is this guy lying?"

Officer Matsumoto deliberately reached out and pressed the bump on Ito Ichiro's head, causing the gangster to gasp in pain.
"I want to file a complaint against you police for abusing the victim!"

"You admit you're the victim?" Inspector Samezaki said coldly, "In that case, I'll get you out now."

"No need, I'm still very comfortable here," Ito Ichiro laughed and quickly admitted defeat.

The person who framed him has not been found yet, and Ito Ichiro does not dare to fully trust the younger brother at the door of the nightclub. If he is really sent out by the police, what if there is a traitor among the younger brothers and they take the opportunity to stab him? If he loses his life, he will lose everything.

"Are you still going to complain?" Officer Matsumoto pressed the swelling again.

"No, I won't vote anymore..." Ito Ichiro replied with a smile, suppressing the pain.

"Mr. Lin, have you discovered anything?" asked Inspector Samezaki.

"Mr. Ito's attacker is likely left-handed. His injury is on the left rear of his forehead. He must have used all his strength to knock him unconscious. If he hadn't knocked him unconscious and allowed him to react, it might have attracted others. The murderer would never have dared to take that risk."

Lin Xiuyi explained with a strange expression,
"But for a right-handed person, if they attack from behind with all their strength, the wound should be on the right side of their forehead. It's difficult to exert force when attacking from the left side with a backhand."

Officer Matsumoto gestured with his hand: "Could it be that someone is hiding behind him on the left and attacking him?"

"Turn left at the end of the corridor. There's only a bathroom. There's no place to hide." Lin Xiuyi shook his head. "Inspector Samezaki, have Officer Megure take the forensic department to check Mr. Sada's manager's office."

"Mr. Sada?" Officer Matsumoto asked doubtfully, "Is there something wrong with him?"

“He’s just left-handed.”

Lin Xiuyi remembered what Fujimine Yukiko said last night after she found out that Mr. Sada was left-handed: In detective novels, left-handed people are very likely to be murderers.

Could it be that she was right?
……

At the end of the corridor, turning left is the separate men's and women's restrooms, and turning right is the manager's office and staff lounge.

In the manager's office, forensic officers began spraying luminol on the floor.

After Lin Xiuyi walked around the room, he reminded, "Officer Dengmi, don't spray the floor. Check the corners of the tables and chairs and the walls first."

"Why?" Inspector Megure was a little puzzled.

"Look at this dust by the wall," Lin Xiuyi pointed at the ground below. "The dust is neatly arranged in a straight line, which means this room was once carpeted. And the carpet must have been removed not long ago. If it had been longer, this dust would have been messed up or swept away long ago."

"I'll go ask a nightclub waiter," Officer Matsumoto walked out of the office.

Following Hayashi Hideichi's instructions, Officer Dengmi and his companions began spraying luminol reagent onto the desk and walls, while irradiating them with ultraviolet light. They soon discovered traces of a large amount of blood under the desk.

Being left-handed fits the description of the murderer who attacked Ichiro Ito. Now a large amount of blood residue has been found in his office, so it has been basically confirmed that the murderer is Mr. Sada.

"Damn it! It's actually the manager here!" Ito Ichiro's face was filled with rage. "I don't even know him. We've never crossed paths. He must have taken money from someone else to frame me!"

"Megure, come with me to catch him!"

Inspector Samezaki greeted and was about to walk to the door when suddenly, the light on the ceiling of the office went out and the room was plunged into darkness.

Only the bloodstains under the table emitted a bluish-white glow.

"What happened? Is there a power outage?" Officer Megure asked in surprise.

Everyone walked out of the office in the dark and headed towards the ballroom. Before they reached the door, they heard a commotion coming from inside. Many gang members had broken into the ballroom. "Brother! Brother!"

"Brother Ito must have been taken away from somewhere else by these policemen!"

"Hurry and find him! Big Brother has ordered that the police must not be allowed to take him away from the nightclub!"

……

The noise inside the ballroom made Ito Ichiro's face turn pale. He quickly pushed open the door, walked in, and shouted, "What are you yelling about? I'm right here. Who let you in?"

At his shouting, the gang members who broke into the dance hall gradually calmed down.

At this moment, the lights above the dance hall flashed twice and then became bright again.

"idiot!"

After seeing the surrounding situation clearly, Ito Ichiro slapped the scarred man closest to him.

"Takigawa, who let you in?"

"Brother," Scarface covered his face and explained with his head down, "someone just came to the door and said that the police were beating you inside and wanted to force you to confess to murder. We were worried, so we ran in."

Just now, in front of the police, Ito Ichiro's friendly attitude exposed his true nature. He kicked Scarface over and cursed fiercely, "Idiot, do you believe everything anyone says?"

"A mob," Inspector Samezaki snorted coldly.

At this time, Officer Matsumoto also walked in with a waiter: "Inspector, someone just turned off the switch, which caused the power outage."

"Where's the club's manager, Sada Ken'ya?" Inspector Samezaki searched the chaotic crowd. "Has anyone seen him?"

"Manager Sada just said, Inspector, you have something to talk to me about," the officer guarding the dance hall replied, "so I came to find you."

"you……"

Inspector Samezaki was so angry that his face turned pale.

Ito Ichiro sneered, "It seems that these police officers under your command are not much better than my brothers."

"Mr. Sada should have escaped," Lin Xiuyi guessed. "Just now, Officer Matsumoto questioned the waiter and alarmed him."

"After tricking the police officer guarding the dance hall, he turned off the power to the nightclub, went to the main door, tricked Mr. Ito's men in, and then slipped away."

"Mr. Sada has a mentally ill sister, and they have a very close relationship. He most likely ran away back home!"

……

Officer Matsumoto and his men stayed behind to continue searching the nightclub, while Inspector Samezaki and Hayashi Shuichi got into the police car driven by Officer Megure and, along with several other police officers, went to arrest Ken'ya Sada.

Officer Megure had just been here once in the afternoon and remembered the address very clearly. Two police cars soon stopped downstairs of an old three-story apartment building in the suburbs of Beika.

"Mr. Sada lives in room 206," Inspector Megure looked up, "that's the room with the light on."

Everyone walked up the stairs, and as soon as they reached the door of Room 206, they couldn't help but wrinkle their noses.

"Oh no! It's gasoline!" Inspector Samezaki hurriedly ordered Officer Megure, "Go wake up everyone in the other rooms! The gasoline smell is so strong! If it catches fire, this old-fashioned apartment building will probably catch fire!"

"Don't forget to call the fire department as well," Lin Xiuyi reminded.

Inspector Megure led his men to wake up the residents in the apartment building.

Inspector Samezaki went forward and turned the door handle of Room 206. When it failed to open, he called on the remaining two police officers to break down the door.

Lin Xiuyi looked at his pajamas and realized that he didn't have his wallet with him. He didn't have the card to open the door, so he could do nothing and could only stand by and watch.

The three big men took turns ramming the apartment door with their shoulders, and after a while, they finally broke the door open.

As the door opened, the smell of gasoline became stronger.

The apartment is very small. When you enter from the door, the bathroom and kitchen are on the right, and further in is the living room which is also the bedroom.

Mr. Sada was sitting cross-legged at a small table, eating peanuts and drinking wine.

A woman with disheveled hair and messy clothes lay motionless on his legs.

Just as Inspector Samezaki was about to lead his men to arrest him, Mr. Sada raised his right hand, which held a lighter.

"I poured gasoline all over the house, and if there was even a spark, it would burst into flames."

"Please leave. I don't want to implicate innocent people. Just let me leave this world in peace."

There was a commotion in the corridor outside the apartment building. It was obvious that Inspector Megure had not yet finished calling on the residents to evacuate.

If the room were to catch fire at this point, I'm afraid the entire apartment building would soon catch fire...

(End of this chapter)