Kindaichi of Kexue World

Chapter 204 How Do You Know?

"What are you talking about!" Mori Kogoro said dissatisfied: "Matsuo Takashi is an important criminal suspect. He has already admitted that he planned to kill Suwa Michihiko. How can his testimony be accepted!"

"Takashi Matsuo is indeed suspected of committing the crime, but in fact, if he is really the murderer, he only needs to lie about the time period when he killed himself. There is no need for him to lie about the details of this failed plan!"

"But so what?" Mori Kogoro said, "Even if there was someone in the office at the time, it wasn't necessarily the murderer. Besides, the deceased died after the nine o'clock show ended!"

"Who said Suwa died after nine o'clock?"

"It's not Matsuo before...huh? That's right..." Megure Police Department suddenly realized.

"It seems that everyone has overlooked one thing. If Mr. Matsuo killed the man, Mr. Suwa's death time can only be after nine o'clock, but after excluding this option, our presumed death time is seven fifty-five at the beginning. At 55:09, if the murderer is someone else, the time of death can be brought forward to before nine o'clock!"

"Then we are not suspected, we have been broadcasting live during this period." The executive director said.

Other staff also echoed.

"It's true that most of you don't have the time to commit crimes, but there is one exception. This person has no alibi."

"Impossible! All of us are in the studio during the live broadcast of the show. No one can go back and forth between the studio on the ninth floor and the office on the fourth floor in just 5 minutes!"

"It is true that no one can go back and forth between two locations in just 5 minutes, but it is possible to simply go from the crime scene to the studio!"

"Simply going to the studio?"

"Yes, there is one person who is not in the studio for the whole live broadcast, am I right, Ms. Yuko Suzuki!" Kazuto Kaneda pointed to Yuko Suzuki who was silent all the time, as if it had nothing to do with her.

"I heard that although you came to the studio before the show, you were not there during the first half of the show. No one knows where you have been during this time."

Everyone looked at Yuko Suzuki in surprise, and subconsciously walked away from her.

Suzuki Yuko was unmoved by Kindaichiji's accusation, but smiled contemptuously: "Little detective, do you mean that I am the murderer?"

"That's not right! Kindaichi." Megure Police Department asked curiously: "Although Ms. Suzuki Yuko participated in the program halfway, it is not wrong that she did not go before 35:[-], but there is no surveillance showing that she has been here during this time." Pass the fourth floor?"

"The problem is precisely that she is not in the monitoring!"

"What do you mean?"

"Actually, it's not just that she isn't in the surveillance on the fourth floor. I've searched all the surveillance cameras tonight, and there's no sign of her!" Kazuto Jintian said, "The last time he appeared on the surveillance was at five o'clock in the afternoon. Fifteen minutes when she left from the main entrance of the TV station."

"Can you explain to us?" Kanedaichi looked at Suzuki Yuko: "Why is there no sign of you in the surveillance video, and how did you get in?"

"What's so strange about this?" Suzuki Yuko calmly said, "The TV station's back door and the stairwell are not monitored. I just happened to walk through the unmonitored back door and climb the stairs for exercise, that's all."

"Then can you explain why you came back after you had already left work?" Jin Tianyi Er said tit for tat: "I have inquired, but there is no program for you tonight."

"I want to come over and watch the "All Japan's Detective" program that I'm about to host. Why, is it not allowed?"

"Then where did you go when you disappeared for half an hour?"

"I just didn't think the show was interesting, so I went to the stairwell to get some air."

"You just disappeared for half an hour, you just avoided all the monitors, and you came to the studio just 3 minutes after the last time when Suwa Michihiko was still alive. So many coincidences are too coincidental!"

"It just so happens, I can't do anything about it!"

"Then are you sure you haven't been to Suwa Michihiko's office after eight o'clock?"

"no!"

"Wait a minute!" Police Department Megure interrupted the conversation between the two: "Brother Kindaichi, you just said that Ms. Suzuki arrived at the studio 3 minutes after Suwa Michihiko's last surviving time. Isn't that just enough to prove that she Isn’t he the murderer? The terrain of this TV station is so complicated, it should be impossible to take the stairs from the fourth floor to the studio within 3 minutes!”

"Besides, you just said Suwa Michihiko's last surviving time, and you didn't say that 32:[-] was his death time?" Mouri Kogoro also interjected to retort.

"Whether we can run to the studio within 3 minutes or not, we will not decide for the time being, but I have definite evidence to prove that Mr. Suwa died at 32:[-]!" Kanedaichi said confidently.

"What?!" Everyone exclaimed.

"What evidence?"

"The evidence is the clock in this room!" said Kindaichiji.

"bell?"

"You may not know that there is a clock in this room. It was intact before eight o'clock tonight, but it broke after the murder. It must have been broken when the murderer was fighting with the deceased. The time he broke down was 32:[-]!"

As soon as this remark came out, there was an uproar at the scene, because even the police did not notice this clue.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Suzuki Yuko still looked calm: "That desk clock is neither a digital display nor a mechanical clock, it's just a voice clock. What time it will report after it is damaged is simply random!"

After Suzuki Yuko finished speaking, Kinda Kazuo did not refute, but just looked at her with a rather amused look.

Others looked at her strangely.

"What do you mean? Why are you looking at me like that?"

"What are you talking about?" Mumu Police Department said strangely: "Isn't that broken clock the mechanical clock? Take a good look, it's the one hanging on the wall?"

Mumu Police Department raised his hand and pointed, there was indeed a broken mechanical clock hanging on the wall, and the position where the hands stopped was exactly 32:[-].

For the first time, a look of panic appeared on Suzuki Yuko's face.

"It's not surprising!" Kazuto Kinda said, "Because the clock that Ms. Suzuki mentioned just now does not refer to the one you see now, but a clock that everyone has ignored!"

"what?"

Jin TianYiEr found the forensic personnel and asked to take out the murder weapon, that is, the "Thinker".

Before the reasoning show, he used his skills and a little trick to replace the [Thinker Alarm Clock] back.

Fortunately, no one was found.

"Isn't this a sculpture?" Everyone asked strangely.

"This is a gift from me to Mr. Suwa." Kazuto Kaneda said, "You may not know that this murder weapon is a sculpture of a thinker on the surface, but it is actually an alarm clock, the kind that tells the time by voice, so just look at it on the surface It is absolutely impossible to tell that this is an alarm clock."

"Miss Suzuki Yuko, please tell me now, when and where did you know that this thing is an alarm clock?"

Suzuki Yuko's face instantly turned ugly.

Kanedaichiji looked at the woman in front of her whose defenses had begun to loosen, and the magic mirror in her hand began to spin like a butterfly wearing a flower.

(End of this chapter)