Conan: I'm a zaibatsu in Tokyo

Chapter 39 The Metropolitan Police Department, defiled.

Conan was stunned.

They quickly recovered and realized that neither Sonoko nor Inspector Megure had much to do with it.

He immediately adjusted the bow tie, replacing it with Inspector Megure's voice.

After coughing, he said, "Actually, Choso is right. Sayuri did commit suicide."

"What! Megure, you bastard?" Matsumoto Kiyonaga looked at Inspector Megure in disbelief.

You were just stopping Chosokazu and Masakazu from closing the case as suicide, and you changed your mind in the blink of an eye? I thought you were upright and incorruptible.

“Officer, Sayuri did indeed drink the lemon tea containing sodium hydroxide voluntarily,” Inspector Megure said.

The Metropolitan Police Department personnel are not afraid of the powerful and wealthy.

Forensic pathologist Nagamune dared to speak frankly to the superintendent, and Inspector Megure also dared to directly refute and confront the superintendent.

The fact that the Metropolitan Police Department is full of such righteous people makes Masakazu feel very reassured.

"Megure, you'd better give me a reasonable explanation," Matsumoto Kiyonaga said.

Whether Inspector Megure has become Shoichi's henchman is something Matsumoto Kiyonaga doesn't want to concern himself with right now, but if he wants to use his daughter's situation to pledge allegiance to Shoichi...

Matsumoto Kiyonaga will absolutely not let them get away with this!

“Ahem, if Mr. Toshihiko had put the sodium hydroxide in there, Sayuri might have drunk it herself,” Inspector Megure said.

"Me?" Junyan pointed to himself.

"That's right, everyone can take a look at the videotape that Xiaolan filmed."

"Wait!" Shoichi interrupted Inspector Megure's reasoning.

He looked at Inspector Megure with amusement and said, "Inspector Megure, you haven't looked at that videotape since you came into this room, have you? How do you know there's evidence in it?"

"Uh~"

Conan, hiding behind the chair, was speechless for a moment.

Oh no, I didn't pay attention to the details and someone found out.

Matsumoto Kiyonaga's gaze toward Inspector Megure held a hint of danger.

In an effort to clear Zheng Yi of suspicion, have they started fabricating stories?
Do not!
Perhaps it's not entirely fabricated.

Matsumoto Kiyonaga glanced at Ran.

Kogoro Mouri is Shoichi's personal detective, and his wife is also Shoichi's company's personal lawyer. Their whole family is untrustworthy.

There's definitely something fishy about the stuff Kogoro's daughter filmed.

Then he looked at Zheng Yi suspiciously.

Why would someone who is actually trying to clear Zheng Yi's name find loopholes in his defense?

"Ahem, Conan told me. He saw a clue in the videotape," Inspector Megure said, trying to salvage the situation.

“I’m afraid you saw it yourself, didn’t you?” Matsumoto Kiyonaga said.

Conan's heart skipped a beat. Had he been exposed?
Matsumoto Kiyonaga said, enunciating each word clearly, "But you didn't see it now; you saw the video on the tape before you came to the wedding."

Matsumoto Kiyonaga's words confused Conan even more.

What is this talking about?
Why can't I understand anything?
"Manager, what are you saying?"

“You should know very well what I’m talking about!” Matsumoto Kiyoshi glared at Megure.

The Metropolitan Police Department has become corrupt.

Originally, only a junior forensic doctor fawned over Zheng Yi.

The junior forensic doctor has been promoted in a very short time, and many people in the Metropolitan Police Department are feeling uneasy, even veteran Inspector Megure. Conan is baffled and can only ignore him for the time being. He secretly uses the remote control to turn on the videotape, drawing everyone's attention to it in an attempt to move on.

The videotape did indeed record very important information.

The lemon tea that Sayuri took before and after wasn't from the same bottle. She mistakenly took Sonoko's bottle later, but the lemon tea containing sodium hydroxide was Sonoko's bottle.

Only Sonoko, Sayuri, and Toshihiko came into contact with that bottle.

Excluding the possibility that Sonoko intended to commit suicide, the only person who could have added sodium hydroxide was Toshihiko.

"Tell me! Did you do it or not?" Matsumoto Kiyonaga grabbed Toshihiko's collar and asked.

Junyan gritted his teeth, pushed Matsumoto Kiyonaga aside, and shouted, "That's right, I did it!"

He made no attempt to cover it up and directly admitted that he had done it.

"Did Masaichi make you do it?" Matsumoto Kiyonaga asked angrily.

Although he didn't particularly like this son-in-law, he knew the man's character well and knew he wasn't some lawless person; otherwise, he wouldn't have reluctantly agreed to his daughter's marriage.

Therefore, the only possibility is that Zheng Yi was behind it.

He is really not the kind of person who can manage a conglomerate. If the Takasugi family wants to continue its legacy, they can only rely on Shoichi's help.

“It has nothing to do with Zheng Yi,” Junyan said.

However, when Zheng Yi came in, he said that he would make up for the gift when he got married next time, and a look of hesitation appeared on his face.

Matsumoto Kiyonaga keenly noticed this hesitation.

Sensing the murderous aura emanating from Matsumoto Kiyonaga, Masakazu silently retreated behind Ai.

Junyan, regaining his composure and stopping thinking about Masakazu, said to Matsumoto Kiyonaga, "Twenty years ago..."

He revealed a feud involving two generations: twenty years ago, Toshihiko's mother died in an accident caused by Matsumoto Kiyonaga while chasing a criminal.

He pleaded for help from Matsumoto Kiyonaga, but Matsumoto Kiyonaga paid no attention to him, and Toshihiko could only watch helplessly as his mother died in his arms.

So he pursued Sayuri in order to make Matsumoto Kiyonaga experience the feeling of losing a loved one.

"That woman is really stupid. She has no idea that I contacted her just to get revenge on you now!" Junyan shouted.

Hearing this tragic story, Ai Haibara was speechless.

She thought of her silly older sister, who had also been used and approached by Shuichi Akai in the same way.

Although she wasn't ultimately killed by Shuichi Akai, her death was still closely related to him; Gin would never let go of someone who had dealings with an undercover agent.

After a moment of dejection, she slapped away the two hands that were pressing on her shoulders.

You killed my sister, don't try to comfort me!

Masakazu patted Ai's head and said, "Don't be sad, there's still a twist in the story."

As soon as Zheng Yi finished speaking, Xiao Baihe's best friend rushed over and slapped Junyan.

"You know absolutely nothing! When you were pursuing Sayuri, she said you looked a lot like her first love, so she asked me to investigate your background."

She learned about what happened twenty years ago, and she also learned that you were her first love. "Little Lily, she must have drunk that poisoned lemon tea herself," her best friend said.

"Little Lily, she..."

Ai opened her mouth wide.

There was actually a plot twist.

She looked at Zheng Yi suspiciously. How do you know so much about all of this? Are you really not the one pulling the strings behind the scenes?

However, there's a plot twist here, but not for her sister.

(End of this chapter)