The Poisoned Apple of Port Mafia

Sakunosuke Oda bought materials for dinner while introducing the surrounding shops to Atsushi Nakajima. On the way home, Sakunosuke Oda remembered that there was one more thing he didn't say.

"By the way, I don't know why, murders often happen in this city." Oda Sakunosuke said, "It also happens often around here. Dazai picked up corpses several times when he entered the water, and then he was regarded as a suspect."

"Cough..." Fran, who was eating a crepe, choked.

"Wow! Fran, are you okay?" Atsushi Nakajima patted Fran on the back.

"It's okay..." Fran gave the rest of the crepe to Atsushi Nakajima, "here, I can't eat any more." He looked up at Sakunosuke Oda, "And then? Was he caught?" Fran eyes full of anticipation.

"No, every time Kudo-kun will catch the real criminal."

"Tsk."

"Go back and have pork chop curry rice tonight."

"it is good--"

.........

……

Fran, who didn't take Oda Sakunosuke's words to heart, picked up a corpse the next day. To be precise, he was almost hit by a corpse.

After breakfast, Fran took Atsushi Nakajima out for a walk. After seeing an ice cream shop, Fran asked Atsushi Nakajima to buy it. He sat on a bench nearby to bask in the sun. Not long after sitting, he found Where I am, I can't get the sun.

Fran looked up, because the sun was very strong, Fran couldn't see anything at first, but in the next second he found that it was a person, and that person was falling from directly above him.

"...What the hell?" Fran, who hid in the past, was a little confused. He had never seen a scene of a corpse falling from the sky in Yokohama. Fran raised his head and looked at the place where the corpse fell, but the glare of the sun made him feel uncomfortable. He couldn't see clearly, so he looked down at the corpse.

Hmm... a bit of a problem.

There were screams from the crowd after the body fell.

Atsushi Nakajima, who came back with ice cream, squeezed in from the hard-pressed crowd. As soon as he entered, he saw a child staring blankly at the bloody corpse.

"Fran! Are you okay?" Atsushi Nakajima hurried over.

"Huh?" Fran, who was just thinking about what to have for lunch, looked at Atsushi Nakajima, "You're back." Fran said as he took the bright red watermelon ice cream from Atsushi Nakajima, "I'm fine."

"What's going on here?" Atsushi Nakajima couldn't bear to look at the bloody corpse on the ground, and quickly picked up Fran and walked to the side.

"I don't know." Fran, who was licking the ice cream, blinked, "I sat there well, but a corpse fell from the sky. If I didn't hide quickly, I almost got splashed."

While Fran was talking to Atsushi Nakajima, three people ran out of the crowd, a woman and two men, who obviously knew the corpse.

After a while the police car and ambulance came.

A chubby man wearing a hat got out of the police car. He came to the side of the three men and took out his police/police ID. "I'm Mumu, do you know this man?"

The other police/policemen started their work.

"Yes, yes." A woman inside replied.

"What is your relationship with him?" Police Officer Mu Mu asked.

"He is our minister, and we are all employees here." The man wearing glasses pointed to the building behind them.

Fran, who was standing in the crowd, licked the chocolate ice cream he had just snatched from Atsushi Nakajima, and said in an affirmative tone, "The prisoner is among the three of them."

"Huh?" Atsushi Nakajima was struggling to lick the watermelon ice cream that had melted into the crispy cone, with a confused face.

"It's probably because of a problem in the workplace."

While Fran was chatting, Kudo Shinichi came. After observing the scene carefully, he came to the conclusion that, as Fran said, this was a murder case, and the culprits were among the three.

So Officer Meguro began to ask what the three were doing at the time.

"I'm Taguchi. I didn't know what happened at the time. I was working in the office. I went to the pantry to drink some water when I was thirsty. Then I heard screams. I looked through the window and found A person fell on the ground, and there was a big puddle of blood under that person, because it was near our company, so I came down to take a look for fear of something, but I didn't expect it to be the minister..." The man in a white shirt wiped it with a handkerchief The sweat on his forehead.

"I'm Ando, ​​the minister texted me in the morning and asked me to buy a magazine for him when I came to the company..." The woman in business attire held a plastic bag from a convenience store in her hand, "Because this kind of magazine is only There is a convenience store near the apartment where I live, but the convenience store is in the opposite direction of the company, so I leave home in the morning to go to the convenience store first, and then take the subway to the company after I buy it, but because the subway at that time I don't know what happened, it was out of service for a while, so I just arrived at the company."

"I'm Nakano. I just rushed back to Tokyo overnight from Osaka just to bring this document back to the company to the minister, but now..." the man wearing glasses sighed.

After listening to the three people's words, Kudo Shinichi frowned and looked at the surrounding crowd, and then asked, "Who called the police?"

"It's me." A woman raised her hand, "I called the police and an ambulance when I saw someone jumping off the building..."

"Then you weren't the first to notice him fall?"

"Yeah." The woman nodded.

"Well, when I came, I saw that white-haired boy walking away from the minister." Ms. Ando pointed to Atsushi Nakajima in the crowd.

"That's right, you can ask that kid," Taguchi said.

Shinichi Kudo and Officer Megure looked over, and when they saw Fran and Atsushi Nakajima, Shinichi Kudo was taken aback. What a coincidence?

"What's the matter, Brother Kudo?" Officer Megure asked.

"It's nothing, it's just that those two people live next door to my house now." Kudo Shinichi shook his head.

Atsushi Nakajima, who finally finished the watermelon ice cream, couldn't help shaking when he saw the police approaching them. Could it be that they were caught racing yesterday?

"It's okay, I guess I'm here for questioning." Fran, a mafia member, wasn't nervous at all.

"Nakajima-kun, and Fran, we meet again." Kudo Shinichi walked over, "Did you see anything here?"

"Yes." Fran handed the crispy cone to Atsushi Nakajima, "At that time, I was almost about to be smashed."

"Why did you witness him fall?" Police officer Mu Mu asked, his expression was a little surprised, and ordinary children would be frightened when they saw such a scene, but this child didn't have any expression, and his tone was flat, almost hitting him It is not a person but a piece of paper.

"Well, I was sitting on that bench basking in the sun, and then I found that the sun was blocked by something. When I looked up, I found that it was a person." Fran pointed to the bench next to the corpse.

"Did you see anyone when you looked up?" Kudo Shinichi asked.

"No." Fran shook his head.

"What about you?" Officer Megure asked Atsushi Nakajima.

"I didn't see it." Atsushi Nakajima shook his head, "I went to buy ice cream, and when I got it back, I found a lot of people watching here, and then I knew someone..."

"Wait, you weren't here at the time?" Kudo Shinichi's eyes lit up.

"Ah... yes." Atsushi Nakajima nodded.

"The murderer is the man who has been wiping sweat." Fran said after eating the ice cream.

Kudo Shinichi on the side raised his eyebrows.

"Ah?" Police officer Mumu bent down, "Kid, you can't talk nonsense about this kind of thing, didn't you see something just now?"

"Me didn't talk nonsense." Fran wiped his hands with a handkerchief, "Although I didn't see anything, but this kind of thing can tell who the murderer is."

"This is not a game, kid." Officer Megure wanted to say something, but Kudo Shinichi stopped him.

"Actually, I also think the murderer is that person." Kudo Shinichi said, he bent down to look at Fran, "I'm more curious about how you know?"

"There is red paint on the trousers of the corpse, which is the same as that on the man's handkerchief. It is probably the red paint that has just been renovated on the roof of the company and has not yet dried." Fran pointed in a direction, "I saw it there and it has not been cleaned up yet. Decoration Materials."

"Wait, you saw red paint on his handkerchief here?" Police officer Mu Mu felt that Fran was talking nonsense. He hadn't noticed the paint just now, but Fran was so far away, how could he see it? Clearly.

And Shinichi Kudo had already run over to see Taguchi's handkerchief and ran back, "He's right, there is indeed a little red paint." His eyes lit up, "I already know the truth, Officer Megure, and there is evidence gone."

"Really?" Officer Megure looked back at Kudo Shinichi.

"Well, thanks to Fran! You..." Kudo Shinichi was about to say something to Fran when he found that Nakajima Atsushi and Fran had disappeared.

"...Is this a big city?" Atsushi Nakajima, who was carrying Fran behind his back, noticed that the onlookers seemed to be familiar with this kind of thing.

"I don't know, this is the first time I have encountered this kind of situation." Originally, he just went out for a walk with Atsushi Nakajima, but Fran, who was almost hit by a dead body, was tired.

"What Oda-san said yesterday is actually true..." Atsushi Nakajima recalled what Oda Sakunosuke said yesterday. He said that murders often occurred in this neighborhood.

"Do you think we will encounter corpses floating on the river bank now?" Fran asked.

"...Farewell, let's go home..." Atsushi Nakajima returned home with Fran on his back.

When I got home, I happened to meet Oda Sakunosuke who came down to make coffee, "You are back." He was a little puzzled when he saw Atsushi Nakajima, who was sweating profusely, "Aren't you going for a walk? Why are you sweating profusely? "

"We had a murder case just now..." Atsushi Nakajima replied, panting.

"Well, then you should have met Kudo-kun too?" Oda Sakunosuke gave Atsushi Nakajima a glass of water.

"Eh? How do you know?" Atsushi Nakajima took the water.

"Ah, I don't know why every time there is a case, Kudo-kun is always there." Oda Sakunosuke replied.

"..."

"I'm telling you, today I experienced an experience that I have never had before." Fran said after changing his shoes.

"What?" Oda Sakunosuke was curious.

"Me was almost hit by a corpse."

"This is something Fran has never experienced before." Oda Sakunosuke bowed his head. After all, Yokohama doesn't happen often. "Although there are many murders here, the people here are easy to get along with."

"..." Atsushi Nakajima didn't think so.

"I think so too." Fran nodded.

"Ah, by the way, did you go to the river bank when you went for a walk?" Oda Sakunosuke asked.

"No." Atsushi Nakajima shook his head, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, it's just that the weather is too hot, and Dazai said he was going to go into the water." Oda Sakunosuke took out his mobile phone, "It seems that we should call directly and ask him to buy some soy sauce when he comes back."

"Ah, it's a good thing I didn't go to the river bank at that time." Fran nodded, "Otherwise, I'm afraid there will be another corpse if I can't hold back."

"..." Atsushi Nakajima felt that he seemed out of place here.