The Savior of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department

"...I understand, please wait a moment."

The middle-aged man who is the person in charge of the studio sensed the seriousness of the matter, changed the subject, and politely invited the uninvited guest in front of him to have a cup of tea.

Although he didn't know what the criminal policeman in front of him meant by bringing an elementary school student here to investigate the case, but considering the reputation represented by Yamashita Atsuto's face, he still chose to cooperate.

"Excuse me, Manager Sawaki." After providing a precise time period, Yamashita Atsuto took Conan to a seat, releasing his apology, and a set of emotional processes was extremely precise.

Cooperate with the police and the public, you must pay attention to your attitude, although he has long been used to being criticized by Mu Mu.

"Shanshita, if the woman captured on the surveillance camera is also in disguise..."

"90% of it may be a disguise, but for the last 10%, I will still ask my colleagues to check it later."

Loosening his tie, Atsuto Yamashita blew on the steaming teacup, and took a sip: "Now we just need to confirm the time when they enter the theater, and we can find out the others by chance. If we Thoughts are facts.”

If it is true, then the scope of the investigation on the real culprit can undoubtedly be narrowed down a lot.

【20 years ago... If it was true, what happened 20 years ago...? 】Atsuto Yamashita held his chin in one hand, and the index finger of his right hand, which put down the teacup, frequently and regularly tapped the table, with a thoughtful expression.

"As long as we know what happened between the three of Harada Koki and Yukimura Emi 20 years ago, then the case will definitely come to light."

On the campus of Dongda University, Koshimizu Nanatsuki, wearing denim shorts, a white T-shirt and a blue peaked cap, sipped her dry lips from not drinking for a long time, and sat on a bench watching the people passing by. The students and faculty members muttered to themselves.

The case started when the 36-year-old freelance designer Yukimura Emi had an extramarital affair with the son of Harada Koki, who had been working in Tokyo University for more than 20 years, and became a mistress and destroyed the family.

Logically speaking, this should be just an ordinary family rape plot, but after Harada Hongyi's son Harada Jun was identified as a suspect by the police with an extremely obvious "disadvantage", two more dead people appeared one after another-mountain bikers. The owner, Fujiwara Kihara, and Waseda Professor Hiba Ito.

There should have been three murders that had little connection, but Koshimizu Nanatsuki smelled something wrong after discovering some abnormal behaviors of Harada Koki.

Fujiwara Kihara, Ito Hiba, and Harada Koki, all three were teachers of Tokyo University 20 years ago. Afterwards, the first two left Tokyo University for unknown reasons. Only Harada Koki stayed there until now.

The relationship between these three people is also very clear from the police investigation data-Fujiwara Kihara and Harada Koki still occasionally contact each other, and they can also be called friends.But Ito Hiba is different. He is familiar with Fujiwara Kihara, but he has not been in contact with Harada Koki for more than ten years.

【Everything I do now is done on the basis that all my reasoning is correct, and I want to put my reasoning into practice...】

Koshimizu Nanatsuki took off her peaked cap and used it as a fan, watching the school staff coming and going.Students are admitted every few years, and if she wants to find out what happened 20 years ago, she must find those experienced teachers or professors.

"Teacher, please wait a moment, may I ask if you know anything about Professor Hongyi Harada of your school?"

"No, no, I'm not a reporter. My name is Koshimizu Nanatsuki, I'm a detective, and Professor Harada is my client."

"Don't you know...well, I'm really sorry to bother you..."

Nanatsuki Koshimizu looked for several people in succession but found nothing until she met an old woman who had just walked out of the administrative building—the wisdom given by time flowed in her eyes that had been honed over the years, and her obviously old body walked up. Lu Lai walked like flying: "Miss Detective, are you the private detective Hong Yi is looking for?"

Nanatsuki Yueshui was stunned for a moment, and then quickly realized that there might be something wrong with it, and nodded hurriedly: "Yes, my name is Nanatsuki Yueshui, may I ask who you are?"

"Fujita Kaoru, Professor of Law at Waseda, hello."

"Waseda?" Koshimizu Nanatsuki, who thought the old lady in front of him was a faculty member of Dongda University, had a flash of surprise in his eyes.

"Professor Hongyi and I are old friends. I have been worried about his physical condition since I heard that his son was suspected of murder and was taken away by the police for questioning."

The old lady's face showed a little worry: "I asked him about the specific situation before and he was vague, so... If possible, can you please tell me about the current progress of the case?"

"Is that so? Professor Fujita, please rest assured. Professor Harada is in good mental and physical condition. The police have not yet arrested his son Harada Jun on charges of intentional homicide."

Koshimizu Nanatsuki blinked: "However, he has suffered a bit of a blow these days. First, his son was taken away on suspicion of murder, and then his friends Mr. Fujiwara Kihara and Mr. Ito Hiba, who had been with him for 20 years, both died unexpectedly. well……"

"..." The old lady was a little puzzled: "Wait a minute, are you saying that he is not in the right state now?"

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"It's really not right."

In the eye-catching Mercedes-Benz coupe, Atsuto Yamashita buckled up his seat belt, threw the surveillance video taken from the theater manager to Conan who was sitting in the passenger seat, and started the car.

The roar of the engine at the start almost overwhelmed Conan's response: "Because of the video?"

"That's right, because of the video."

Atsuto Yamashita nodded, and then changed his tone and asked, "Kudo, let me ask you, if you were a murderer who is proficient in disguise, would you allow yourself to be caught by surveillance equipment after committing the crime?"

"Are you too sensitive, Yamashita?"

Conan frowned and gave different opinions: "If it weren't for the Las Vegas videos in your hands, we would not be able to target these people at all.

In other words, considering that the distance between Fujiwara Kihara's store and the theater is not far, the other party most likely never thought about paying attention to the theater's surveillance after killing someone. Maybe they just wanted to go to a movie? "

"..." Toshita Yamashita stared at the road ahead without speaking.

The men and women who appeared in the airport bathroom were found to be no such person, and now the police reported that the men and women who appeared in the surveillance video were also found to be no such person.To put it bluntly, this might be the two of them changing faces, but if you think about it, it is very likely that this is a criminal gang with many people committing crimes.

"In my opinion, the reason why the murderers dare to be so indifferent is most likely because they know that this disguised identity will not reappear after this time, so it doesn't matter if they are exposed to surveillance.

At that time, even if the police see them in the surveillance, as long as all the disguise materials are burned, there will be no such people in the world.In a sense, this should also be regarded as the contempt and provocation of this kind of murderer to the police? "

"........."

Conan on the side rested his chin in one hand and talked about his guesses. Atsuto Yamashita still didn't speak, but he squeezed the steering wheel so hard that the traces of bulging veins could be faintly seen on the back of his hand.

[I followed secretly and saw it with my own eyes.I saw that your teacher brought a lot of rubbish out and burned it. If you send someone to bring the pile of ashes back to test it now, maybe there is still time...]

What Koshimizu Nanatsuki said before kept circling in Yamashita Toruto's mind until a phone rang——

"Yamashita, what Koshimizu Nanatsuki said is correct. There are indeed traces of burning in that place. Now Shiratori and I have checked everything and brought back all the ashes." Sato, a capable detective from the third division With one hand on her hip, Miwako looked up at the gate of the Metropolitan Police Department.

"Understood, the informer will go over to check immediately, just tell me what I said, if anyone is dissatisfied, let him come to me directly." Hanging up the Bluetooth, Yamashita Atsuto's unquestionable tone made Conan in the passenger seat turn his head and look over. , puzzled.

【This guy……】

For a moment just now, he had the illusion of encountering gin before.

[Speaking of which, I don’t know how the kidnapped Gin is now, has he confessed to the organization in black...] Looking at the pupil’s face reflected in the car window, Conan’s thoughts could not help but drift to Gin, Or the black organization.

It was about the antidote to APTX-4869 that would turn him back into a high school student.

Chapter 450 His purpose is to inform (2)

Atsuto Yamashita once told him that gin and vodka, and Curacao were arrested by a group of insiders after backstabbing one after another, but they were taken away by the public security and detained. There is no more text.

No way, the Public Security Bureau is not the Metropolitan Police Department after all. There is a man from Yamashita in the Metropolitan Police Department who can walk in and out freely as if he were his own home.But the police... Conan felt that he couldn't even enter their gate without knowing anyone.

After all, the noses of this group of dogs are not ordinary spirits, but any stranger who appears on the edge of their office building with a tricky mind may be invited into the interrogation room for pork chop rice in the next second.

Conan also thought about urging Toshito Yamashita to ask the police to see if there was any major progress, but he was so desperate that he encountered Jun Harada's case at this time, so he had no choice but to shelve it.

I thought it was just an ordinary homicide and insurance fraud case, at most there was something unknown.But judging from the current situation, Conan feels that the hidden secrets may be a bit involved.

He could see this from Yamashita Toruto's expression, this dog man is usually fine, but he is always laughing and joking, looking skinny, faceless, and upright.Now, it looks like someone owed him tens of millions.

"Mountain." After thinking about it, Conan still couldn't hold back, and asked, "Are you sure you're okay? If you have any questions, you can tell me."

"...Before, a private detective named Koshimizu Nanatsuki told me that Harada Koki secretly burned a pile of garbage this morning..."

After a moment of silence, Yamashita Toshito let out a "tsk" and told about Yueshui Nanatsuki.

"In other words, she suspects that the Yukimura Emi case, the Fujiwara Kihara case and the Ito Hiba case are all due to an intersection 20 years ago?"

"Ah."

"Then have you checked?"

"The previous three cases were all separate. Later, I found out that the case of Fujiwara Kihara and the case of Ito Hiba were both teachers of Tokyo University 20 years ago, so I suspected that there might be some connection between the two, so I went to investigate once. , did not find anything abnormal, too much time has passed."

"That is to say, Yukimura Emi?" Conan pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, focusing on the woman who died at the airport.

"I checked her. She is a genius. At the age of 15, she was admitted to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. After graduation, she worked in film and television costume design, and then established her own personal design brand relying on her son's reputation as a magician.

Her husband was the Japanese-American who took her in when she was in distress in New York. He got into a conflict with some gangsters on the street a year and a half ago and was shot dead. "

"15 years old? Wait a minute, she was admitted to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts at the age of 15 just now?" Conan frowned after hearing this: "I read the death report that she is only 36 years old now?"

"According to public information, Genichi Yukimura and Emi Yukimura were born on the same day. Considering that she went to school in Japan before, this is not unbelievable." Atsuto Yamashita nodded, with some thoughts inevitably showing between his brows.

[If all these are really connected, then the intersection of the case all points to 20 or 21 years ago...]

"For example, 20 years ago, was there a girl named Yukimura Emi who had an intersection with Harada Koki who was at the University of Tokyo at the time? It looked like this."

On the campus of Dongda University, Koshimizu Nanatsuki used a reason to dig out secrets that might have existed 20 years ago to the old man from Waseda University beside her, but the answer she got disappointed her.

The old woman wearing reading glasses looked at the photo carefully for a long time, and finally shook her head: "No, neither Ito nor Harada have ever heard them mention the name [Yukimura Emi], the woman in this photo is me No impression either."

20 years is really too long.

"Is that so... Then do you know that there was any conflict between Professor Harada and Professor Ito 20 years ago? Or with Mr. Fujiwara?" Nanatsuki Koshimizu took back the photo and changed his mind.

"No, the three of them didn't communicate frequently at that time, and they didn't have much intersection except for the occasional after-work party. After Ito and Fujiwara left Tokyo University, there was even less contact between them. That is, after Fujiwara After leaving the mountain bike shop, he and Harada slowly began to communicate again.

Oh, by the way, speaking of it, at that time, Harada was in a good mood and bought a shop in his hometown, planning to resign and open a shop, but in the end he was stopped by his surviving wife.

Later, because of the gradual decrease in the flow of people, the place gradually became a private leisure place for Harada and her wife on vacation. When Ito went there for the second time, he had a quarrel with Harada, and the two almost got into a fight. After that, Ito had no contact with Harada at all. "

When talking about the past between Hongyi Harada and his wife, the old woman showed a bit of sadness between her brows.She was a loser back then, and her love is still not accepted by Harada Hongyi until now. This man's long love broke her heart.

"What?" Koshimizu Nanatsuki's ears pricked up when he heard that Ito Hiba and Harada Kotake almost had a fight.

"Where is this place?"

The Metropolitan Police Department searched the office area of ​​the third department.The returned Takeuchi Masakazu asked with a frown as he looked at the detailed record in his hand.

"Professor Harada's hometown, Chiba has brought people there." Sato Miwako completely ignored Conan who was following around Yamashita Atsuto, she was no longer surprised.

For the sake of the cuteness of the child, she didn't bother to care about it: "Besides, I didn't find anything new in the ashes I brought back from the scene that Koshimizu Nanatsuki mentioned. That is to say, except for this Apart from the unrecognizable pen, we can't find a second valuable thing at all."

Following the actions of Miwako Sato, the transparent evidence bag was placed in front of Atsuto Yamashita. Atsuto Yamashita put on his gloves, took it out and observed it carefully: "Have you compared the wounds on Hitoha Ito?"

"I've done a test, and now I'm waiting for the results. However, this pen has been burnt to such an extent that I don't think there is much hope. The size of the wound is correct, but it is the standard specification of the pen, and it has no reference value at all."

"...Take Harada Hongyi back and do it again, I want to ask him something." Yamashita Atsuto stuffed the pen back into the evidence bag, his tone undeniable.

Miwako Sato gave him a worried look, but she still didn't say anything.

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Harada Hongyi's hometown, a private residence that has been vacant for a long time.

Nanatsuki Yueshui quickly climbed over the wall and across the courtyard, and stepped into the living room where there was not much dust.

"It is said to be cleaned on a regular basis, but judging by the accumulation of dust, it means that at least it has been cleaned in the past few days, but the hours of housekeeping services are all fixed..." The gloved right index finger brushed across the handrail, and Rubbing her thumb, Koshimizu Nanatsuki turned on the light, turned on the flashlight and began to focus on every corner.

Considering that the Ito Hiba and Fujiwara Kihara cases happened within the past few days, Koshimizu Nanatsuki aggravated his suspicions.

After leaving the campus of Dongda University, she called the housekeeping company in the name of Harada Hongyi as her client, and checked when was the last time this small villa was cleaned, and the answer she got was half a month ago .

The contract that Hongyi Harada signed with them was to clean once a month.