Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 899 The Last Sakura Snow
At night, Xueying junior high school.

The short-haired girl, Ayaka, flashlighted, and hurried to the tennis club activity room with a light bulb bought from an electrical appliance store.

"Unfortunately, because of Kido-kun, I didn't notice..."

The girl walked into the dark activity room, put the replacement light bulb and the flashlight on the table, moved out the chair to set up a platform, and took off the lampshade to replace the broken light bulb.

"I have to quickly replace the light bulb and find that one. If someone picks it up tomorrow..."

"Da da."

There was a sudden sound of footsteps outside, and someone followed into the activity room. The girl was frightened and picked up the flashlight to shine on it, but she was relieved the next moment.

"What, you startled me, why did you come to this kind of place?"

The person who came did not make a sound, took a few steps closer, and raised the short arrow in his hand under the girl's confused gaze.

"what?"

The girl froze for a moment, and ran away in fright, but was grabbed by someone who came and fell heavily to the ground.

"do not want!"

"Student Shimadzu," Gao Cheng appeared at the door, calling to stop the shadow chasing the girl, "Stop it."

The black figure stopped, breathing quickly and turned around suddenly, revealing the sweaty face of the baseball team Shimadzu under the light of the flashlight.

"How could you..."

"I wasn't sure who the prisoner was at first," Gao Cheng said into the activity room, "but the prisoner is among the people who go to campus in the morning. No matter how you plan, it's hard to guarantee that everything will go according to your own ideas, so Prisoners need to be actively involved and at the same time be able to provide themselves with an alibi."

"What are you talking about?" Shimadzu picked up the short arrow in his hand and explained with a dry smile, "I was just a little worried, so I came back to check, and then I found this, I didn't expect to scare Ayaka..."

"I've seen it all," Gao Cheng glanced at the girl leaning against the wall in shock, turned to Shimadzu and said calmly, "There's no need to say anything, if you just came here because you were worried, why did you put gloves on your hands?"

"that is because……"

"The cause of Haruna's death is indeed suicide, the key is the cause of suicide," Gao Cheng said while looking at Shimadzu, "I've been thinking about what Fuyumi did to make Haruna hate her father so much that she committed suicide, and now I finally understand. It's a happy color, but it's an unforgivable color... Haruna is pregnant, right?"

Shimadzu's eyes shrank suddenly, and he looked at Gao Cheng with a tense face.

"It seems that's right," Gao Cheng continued, "What Haruna said was indeed the color of the pregnancy test stick. I heard from Haruna's mother that she recently came home from work at a restaurant in Misaki, and found that Haruna began to become a little strange. It's just that Haruna is temporarily pregnant without telling her mother...

"It was originally a happy color, that is, the pregnancy test stick reacted, and suddenly changed into an unforgivable color, which means that something happened in the middle that made the matter of pregnancy unforgivable...

"Haruna points the responsibility to her father, and considering the name 'Imai Tatsuya' which is easy to duplicate, what I can probably think of is whether Haruna feels that she is pregnant with the child of her half-brother or younger brother."

Gao Cheng looked directly at the silent Shimadzu.

"I heard that Shimadzu-san reorganized the family, and I found out that your biological father is also named Imai Tatsuya, who also lives in Misaki Town, and is a frequent visitor to the place where Haruna's mother works, so I vaguely understand why Fuyumi will be attacked. Retaliation, is it sending the wrong message to Haruna?"

The high school student was pregnant, and he didn't even think about it at the first time, let alone talk about happy colors.

Pregnancy out of wedlock, in his mind, is not considered happy for high school students, but the facts do point to pregnancy, and what he has seen now also confirms his guess.

"Haruna is pregnant with your child, isn't it, Shimadzu? It's still too late to investigate."

"Hahaha," Shimadzu clenched his fingers, and suddenly smiled, "So what if Haruna is pregnant with my child? Didn't you also say that? The murderer went to the campus to kill Fuyumi before the snow fell, and after the snow accumulated Regressing backwards, leaving footprints in disguise of Fuyumi...

But in the morning, I have been with everyone since before the snow started. How could it be possible to wait for the snow to accumulate on the campus with the dead body? ! "

"You know very well," Gao Cheng asked rhetorically, "not to say that it is impossible to leave footprints, but to guard the corpse...why do you avoid footprints?"

Shimadzu trembled slightly, and was interrupted by Gao Cheng just as he was about to speak.

"That's right, because there are ways to leave footprints even if you don't guard the corpse," Gao Cheng reasoned in front of Shimadzu, who was emotionally fluctuating, and the girl sitting paralyzed against the wall inside, "The method of footprints is not at all for Disguise the scene as a suicide, because in that case, there is no need to go to Dongmei’s house to steal shoes to arouse suspicion. Sooner or later, the police will re-investigate because of this. After all, Dongmei’s fatal injury on the back of the neck is very suspicious...

"That is to say, by leaving footprints on the snow that look like the murderer left the scene backwards, it makes people think that the murderer did not leave until the snow covered the ground. This is the real purpose, the murderer is for his own alibi! "

"Then tell me!" Shimadzu argued, "What's the matter with that footprint? Besides walking backwards, is there any other way to leave footprints?!"

"Salt."

Under Hasunuma Ayaka's bewildered eyes, Gao Cheng replied easily.

"Of course, even though it's just simple physics knowledge, it's hard for ordinary people to think about it all at once. You are really smart to come up with this method. Before it snowed, you used salt to sprinkle a string of footprints on the campus. After the snow has accumulated, it will naturally look like someone walking by, and the subsequent rain will wash away all traces, and the police will not be able to find out...

"Unfortunately, no matter how smooth this method is, it still requires the murderer to participate in person, and the witnesses cannot discover the clues."

Shimadzu looked at Gao Cheng with a sullen face for a while, and when Gao Cheng finished speaking, his lips became dry and he asked solemnly: "Who are you?"

"I've already said that, the Special Advisor of the Metropolitan Police Department's Search Division [-]... But this is not Tokyo, so it doesn't matter who you are," Gao Cheng responded, and finally persuaded, "Surrender yourself, Shimadzu-san, although Fuyumi They were wrong, but it would be too sad to kill their good friend because of it."

"I'm not reconciled!" Shimadzu grabbed the short arrow in his hand tightly, his face squeezed together, and he buried his head in pain and choked up, "Just because I have the same name as Haruna's father, I made up that we are brother and sister, if it weren't for them How could Haruna be so painful that she committed suicide by making up such a silly lie?! Haruna, she..."

"I'm sorry!" Ayaka cried, "If I knew Haruna was pregnant..."

"I didn't know at first!" Shimadzu looked at Ayaka again, "But on the night after attending the funeral, I heard the conversation between you and Fuyumi. It's not your fault that Harumi made a mistake... What a joke!"

Frightened by Shimadzu's scolding, Ayaka shrank back, screamed as Shimadzu grabbed the short arrow and continued to rush towards herself: "Don't!"

Gao Cheng raised his toes, kicked the mop of the activity room with a trembling calf, grabbed the end of the mop in a flash, and thrust forward, hitting Shimadzu's soft rib and arm.

"Bang!" Shimadzu felt his body go numb, and he fell to the ground uncontrollably. He couldn't even catch a short arrow, and curled up on the floor in pain, sweating. After a while, the pain dissipated, but he had no strength. Stand up again.

"I also understand that Haruna's suicide is not only the fault of Fuyumi and the others," Shimadzu cried bitterly facing Gao Cheng who was approaching, "That day Haruna came to my house to confirm, and suddenly said that she wanted to see my childhood photo album...

"I was expected to go to Koshien, but I couldn't pitch because of my shoulder injury. At that time, I was full of this matter. I just handed the photo album to her and didn't say anything...

"It wasn't until she left that I realized that there happened to be a photo of Chuncai's father hugging me...

"Chunca's father happened to live near my house, and my mother put all my photos in the album, but Chunca got it wrong!"

Shimadzu held his head in tears, unable to hold back his tears.

"I don't know anything, not only do I not know the pain of Haruna, but I also personally gave the last blow to Haruna who was facing desperation!! It was actually me who drove Haruna to death..."

"Do you regret it?" Gao Cheng stepped forward to pick up the arrow with a handkerchief, "But no matter what, Haruna will never come back. Even if you kill Fuyumi and the others, or even yourself, what can you do? Let's play together and make big friends And your death, will Haruna be happy? Stop, Shimadzu, living is more important than anything else."

Putting away the upward arrow as evidence, Takamari reached out to the frightened Hasunuma Ayaka.

"never mind."

"I'm sorry!" the girl came back to her senses, covered her face and cried, "It's all my fault, I just lied because I didn't want Haruna and Shimadzu to be together, we killed Haruna..."

"Wait until tomorrow to pay homage to Chuncai again."

Gao Cheng didn't have much to say, he pulled the girl up and took her out of the activity room, just in time to bump into Xiaodu and Xiaosuke who were hiding outside the door.

"That," Xiaodu said awkwardly, "we were a little worried about Kido-kun, and thought that maybe he came to the school... But, we didn't expect Shimadzu to be the murderer..."

Xiaosuke looked at Hasunuma Ayaka who was crying, and then looked into the activity room.

"Shima, Shimadzu, is he alright?"

"It's okay, it will be fine in a while."

Gao Cheng glanced back at Shimadzu, and put away his plan to contact the Akita prefectural police immediately.

"Tomorrow morning, dig out the time capsule you buried and have a look. Isn't Haruna looking forward to it? At least this agreement should be fulfilled."

"Ah? Is it okay?"

The next day, before dawn, a group of students gathered again on the campus of Xueying Junior High School. The fat boy and the fisherman's son who received the news each brought a shovel.

Compared with the junior high school days in the photos, now there are only 6 people left, and they can no longer gather together.

Shimadzu has also surrendered to the police by phone, and he will be taken away soon...

The so-called time capsule is a metal bucket buried under a tree, which contains things encapsulated by everyone who was still a junior high school student at that time.

What Shimadzu played was a baseball commemorating the victory of the elementary school baseball game. When I took it out, I was staring at the baseball.

Ayaka's was also a ball, a tennis ball with the commemoration of the Wimbledon champion written on it, and she hid it in her arms blushing as soon as it was taken apart.

Xiaodu's is his own diary.

Haruna’s is a sketchbook, where she drew sketches for everyone, whether it’s Shimadzu or Fuyumi who also died, everyone is doing what they like, lifelike, as if their faces are radiating brilliance.

"She observes really carefully," Xiaodu said sadly, "Although Chuncai doesn't like to talk and is always on the sidelines, she really likes being with everyone..."

"The next one is Fuyumi's..."

"Isn't this a photo of Shimadzu?" The fat boy said in surprise, "It was during the competition..."

"There are still words behind."

"I hope that when this time capsule opens again, I can become the girl Shimadzu likes...Fuyumi..."

Looking at the message behind the photo, everyone at the scene fell silent.

"That guy... has liked Shimadzu since then, and he has really become a beautiful woman..."

Snow fell in the sky again, gradually covering the cherry blossoms and the ground. Several police cars drove into the school and took away Shimadzu and Hasunuma Ayaka under the watchful eyes of everyone.

The remaining people filled the dug out pits again, and left the school with full of memories.

Xiao Du saw Gao Cheng who was waiting at the school gate again, opened his mouth, and said with loss in his eyes: "So... Is Kido-kun the famous detective? I thought..."

"If there is a chance," Gao Cheng said with a smile, "I will come to you again in the future."

"Are you going back?"

"Yeah, work hard, and hope to see your mystery novel one day."

Gao Cheng handed a few people his own business card, nodded and turned to leave.

Although such a bad thing happened, he still likes this special village very much, and he doesn't want these short-lived friends to be destroyed because of the incident. Life is still long, and everything is possible in the future.

"Yeah," Xiao Du watched Gao Cheng disappear into the snow, and couldn't help crying under the frame of the mirror. He couldn't wipe it off, "I, I will become a mystery writer!"

……

The snow fell so hard that day that Gao Cheng almost couldn't find the balcony hotel. Fortunately, Xiao Ai put on a coat and waited outside, calling Gao Cheng to stop him covered in snow.

"finished?"

"It's over," Gao Cheng was shivering from the cold, and entered the hotel with Xiao Ai to drink hot water, "I wanted to attend Dongmei's funeral, but I'm going back today."

As a result, I couldn't see the Sakura Snow Festival in the end. After all, something happened to Fuyumi who played the witch.

Unfortunately, he failed to prevent the tragedy from happening.

(End of this chapter)