Science: The Little Shota of the Maori Family

Didan Primary School.

After school, Toru Watanabe carried his schoolbag and walked out of the campus with his friends.

"Xiao Che."

At the school gate, Xiaolan waved and called Watanabe Toru's name.

"Sister Xiaolan?" Watanabe Toru stepped forward in surprise: "Why are you here?"

As he spoke, he did not forget to greet Yuanzi who was beside Xiaolan: "Hello, Sister Yuanzi."

The little friend behind him also greeted politely: "Sister Xiaolan, Sister Sonoko."

"Hello." Xiaolan responded with a smile, and then said to Watanabe Toru, "There is a fireworks display at Tropical Paradise tonight, and Sonoko asked if we would like to go with her."

"Then you don't have to come to school to wait for me." Watanabe Toru was puzzled: "For things like this, you can just talk about it at home."

Sonoko said with a smile, "I know there's a really good restaurant that just opened near Tropical Paradise. If we go to see the fireworks display, we can stop by there for dinner. How about it, Che, do you want to accompany your sister to watch the fireworks?"

"Okay." Watanabe Toru responded, "Then what about uncle?"

"Dad seems to be meeting with a client tonight and won't be back until later." Xiaolan said, "So we don't have to worry about him."

"Okay." Watanabe Toru nodded.

As to whether Uncle Maori really went to meet the client, he reserved his opinion.

……

Tropical paradise.

At the skating rink, looking at Watanabe Toru skating smoothly, Sonoko was amazed: "Toru, I didn't expect you to skate so well."

Watanabe Toru scratched his head and smiled: "It's okay, I..."

Before he could finish his words, a woman on the ice rushed over, out of control. "Ah! Get out of the way! Get out of the way quickly! Someone, get out of the way!"

Toru Watanabe quickly slid to the side and watched the woman hit the platform with a bang, then fall backwards and land on her back.

The woman took a moment to relax (money please), then sat up: "It hurts... it hurts..."

Then, a man slid over from the crowd and asked, "Are you okay? Are you not hurt?"

"It hurts so much." The woman said to the man coquettishly: "Come and help me, Kang Zhi... Mao"

The man sighed and said, "Look, you're not very good at skating yet, so why are you skating so fast?"

The woman said with a look of grievance: "How should I know..."

"Now is the only time you can act cute and attract boys' attention." The long-haired woman beside him sneered, "Chihiro, a rich girl like you who is full of curiosity and liveliness will become an old woman once you turn 30."

"What are you talking about?" Chihiro Itami was helped up by the man and turned around and said dissatisfiedly: "Why do you always like to make fun of me?"

The red-haired woman said impatiently, "Whenever I see you, my heart burns."

253. Xiaolan: Yuanzi, did you pick up the wrong person?

"Alright," a hatted woman slid over and said with a smile, "We clay shooting friends finally get to meet each other, so let's stop bickering."

"Ah... So you are involved in clay shooting activities?" Sonoko exclaimed in surprise.

"What is that?" Xiaolan asked in confusion.

The man who had pulled Chihiro Itami up turned around and explained, "It's an activity where you aim at small clay plates and shoot with a shotgun."

"We came here today after playing clay shooting together," the red-haired woman said.

The woman in the hat still smiled: "It's much more fun to shoot together than to shoot alone."

"We haven't seen each other since that incident half a year ago." Chihiro Itami also laughed.

Yuanzi was stunned: "Huh? Something happened half a year ago?"

Chihiro Itami nodded: "Yeah, this is a very scary story."

"Okay, stop talking." A gloomy man came over. "Are you kidding me? How can you casually tell others about something like that? And I've already made it clear that if you mention that guy, I'll turn around and leave immediately."

After the man finished speaking, he turned and left.

"Oda, are you going back?" The man who helped Chihiro Itami up in 843 said, "We still have to go drink later..."

Oda Kunitomo stopped and said, "Who said we should go back? I just wanted to go to the side to smoke a cigarette. If it weren't for that stupid guy, I wouldn't think of that disgusting thing."

"What? You act cool just because you're handsome." The man's attitude made Itami Chihiro very unhappy. She snorted and complained.

"But you were wrong in the beginning," said the woman in the hat. "You shouldn't have mentioned that..."

Being repeatedly criticized, Itami Chihiro also became angry. "I just said it out loud, but he said I was stupid. It's clearly that guy who is wrong. Honestly, I hate that kind of person the most. He's not cheerful and his words are mean. If I had to choose someone to exclude, I would definitely choose him first."

"Wait a minute, Chihiro," the red-haired woman asked, "I've always felt that something was wrong with you. What's going on?"

"No way, you don't know?" Chihiro Itami asked in surprise.

At first, Raidan Chihiro's man was puzzled: "Actually, I don't understand what's going on between you two. (bhcj)"

"Me too." The woman in the hat also looked confused: "Why do you want to exclude him?"

Itami Chihiro was still surprised: "No way, this is impossible, how could you not know..."

"Then tell us quickly. We're so anxious." The red-haired woman said impatiently.

"No, I won't tell you. I won't tell you." Itami Chihiro said proudly, stuck out her tongue, and slid away: "You young ladies with no curiosity will never understand..."

"Where are you going?" the man asked.

"Restroom," Itami Chihiro smiled and slid away. "When I come back, if you still can't figure it out, I'll give you another hint."

"It's so infuriating." The red-haired woman muttered softly.

"How's it going?" Xiaolan turned to Sonoko and jokingly asked, "Our curious eldest daughter of the Suzuki Group, do you understand?"

"I don't understand..." Sonoko thought for a moment, turned around and looked around, then changed the subject: "But there are really a lot of people here to watch the fireworks today."

"From this skating rink you can see the fireworks and the castle over there at the same time. It's a premium seat." Xiaolan said with a smile.

"You seem to know a lot about this," the woman in the hat said, coming closer to chat with him. "Actually, that's why we're here too."

"But I'm not going to watch it anymore." The red-haired girl skated away directly: "I've seen the fireworks here many times. I'm going to have a cup of coffee nearby."

"I'm suddenly a little hungry." The man who helped Chihiro Itami also left: "I'm going to buy something to eat. I'll be back before the fireworks start. You wait here for me."

"Why did you ask me to wait for you?" The woman in the hat said helplessly, "I just wanted to go to the bathroom and didn't tell you."

"Then go ahead now." Xiaolan said kindly, "We'll stay here and skate forever anyway."

Sonoko also said, "When your friends come over later, we will tell them to gather here."

"I'm so sorry." The woman in the hat thanked them and said, "I'll be right back. Thanks for the trouble."

"it is good."

……

after a while……

Sonoko suddenly said, "I'm sorry, I need to go to the bathroom. Xiaolan, can you wait here for me?"

Xiaolan looked at the time and said, "You better hurry up, the fireworks are about to start."

"I understand." Yuanzi waved her hand and slid away.

Five minutes later, fireworks of different colors exploded in the air.

Xiaolan looked up and exclaimed, "Wow, it's so beautiful."

"Yeah." The red-haired girl came to Xiaolan's side without her knowing when, and put one hand on the platform: "For those who see it for the first time, it is indeed true."

"You finally came to see the fireworks." Xiaolan said with a smile.

"Yeah," the red-haired girl looked at the sky, "I haven't seen it for a long time. It's nice to come and see it once in a while."

"Finally I made it. I thought I wouldn't make it."

Behind them, the man who had helped Chihiro Itami up and the woman in the hat also arrived.

The man was panting, and the woman asked curiously, "Where are Chihiro and your friend?"

"Huh? Didn't you see her in the bathroom?" Xiaolan asked in confusion.

"Maybe I just missed it." The woman in the hat turned and looked behind her. "Because the restroom was being cleaned, I simply changed into my skates and went to another restroom."

"Strange, why is Yuanzi so slow..." Xiaolan muttered in confusion.

Just then, a familiar scream came from the direction of the toilet.

"This... this is Yuanzi's voice." After a brief moment of confusion, Xiaolan reacted.

The group slid hurriedly towards the toilet.

There were already a lot of people gathered outside the bathroom. Yuanzi stood in front of the bathroom cubicle, staring into the bathroom in horror.

Xiaolan and Watanabe Toru ran forward and asked anxiously: "Sonoko (Sonoko sister), what happened?"

Seeing her best friend and her boyfriend coming over, Sonoko subconsciously threw herself into Watanabe Toru's arms, hugged him, and pointed at the bathroom with a pale face, too scared to speak: "There...there..."

Xiaolan:? ?

Is this best friend afraid of picking up the wrong person?

254. Worrying

Yuanzi finally reacted and threw herself into Xiaolan's arms again, sobbing, "Xiaolan, I was scared to death."

In the compartment, there were large stains of bright red blood on the wall, and a long trail of blood was hanging down.

Chihiro Itami sat slumped in the corner with her eyes closed, and an 's' was drawn in blood on the wall next to her.

……

A moment later, Inspector Megure and a group of police officers pushed through the crowd. Seeing the victim's death, they took a breath and immediately arranged for people to investigate the scene, leaving the relevant people behind for questioning.

"Officer Megure, it now appears that the murder weapon is the shotgun that fell next to the body." Officer Takagi picked up the gun from the ground wearing gloves.

"I think so." Officer Megure nodded and said, "Then let's first find out who the owners are based on the gun's registration number."

"Officer, that gun is mine," the red-haired girl, Sano Izumi, stepped forward and said, "It's the shotgun I use for clay shooting. But all of our guns are clearly stored together in a metal cabinet with an electronic lock."

"Everyone's gun?" Officer Mumu looked shocked.

"Yes." Sano Izumi pointed to the other three people behind him: "These three are my clay shooting companions."

Inspector Megure turned his gaze to these people: "So, who was the person who installed the electronic lock on the iron cabinet today?"

"I locked it," Komatsu Yoshiko said, wiping her tears. "But we all know the password. When we came here, we set it to 9017, which sounds the same as 'clay shooting companion.'"

Inspector Megure nodded, his expression serious. "Okay, then as long as we investigate the four of you carefully, we'll have a result soon. Anyone who reacts to the smoke is the murderer."

"Then all four of us would react," said Yasuji Misawa, "because we all came here after doing the clay shooting today. Besides, the electronic lock cabinet might not be locked properly. If that's the case, someone could have taken the gun out of the cabinet without permission."

"No, that's impossible," Oda Kunitomo reminded him, "Have you forgotten? The gun cabinets we usually use to store guns are made of boxes that outsiders can't see what's inside. The box that Sano Izumi uses to store his guns is an ordinary leather suitcase, and the guns are even disassembled for storage. Most people wouldn't know how to put them together."

"I see." Inspector Megure suddenly realized and pinched his chin. "So, even if you know there's a shotgun in the box, you don't necessarily know how to assemble it? So, the most likely perpetrators are you four. Anyway, let's first investigate to see if anyone saw anyone suspicious at the time of the crime."

"Actually..." Sonoko took a deep breath and suddenly said, "I just happened to see it."

"What?" Inspector Megure immediately turned to look at Sonoko.

"I saw the murderer coming out of the bathroom," Sonoko recalled. "There was a 'cleaning' sign on the bathroom door. I knocked but no one answered, so I stood there waiting. Then fireworks started outside. I heard the noise and ran to the nearest window to watch the fireworks. That's when I saw a strangely dressed man wearing a hoodie walk out of the bathroom."

"So what then?" Officer Takagi pressed, "Did you get a good look at his face?"

"No." Sonoko shook her head: "He was wearing a hat and a scarf..."

"However, the murderer opened fire during the fireworks display and prepared this kind of jacket to escape in advance. This is clearly a premeditated murder." Inspector Megure looked at the four people who came with Itami Chihiro. "In my opinion, we should ask you four to be individually questioned in different rooms. That way, we can find out who suggested you come to this theme park in the first place..."

"Wait a minute." Sano Izumi said immediately, "We all decided to come here together."

Gao Mu waved his hands helplessly: "Miss, you can tell me later when I ask for your statement."

With the police investigation progressing, it's uncertain whether they'll ever catch the murderer. Watanabe Toru couldn't help but remind them, "Hey, there seems to be something sticky on the muzzle of the gun."

"At the muzzle?" Officer Takagi picked up the shotgun and took a closer look. "It looks like saliva... I understand. The murderer put the muzzle of the gun into Miss Itami's mouth, preventing her from calling for help. Then, when the fireworks started, he shot Miss Itami in the chest."

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