Chapter 1776 1783 [You are also good at writing scripts]

President Ishimoto looked down and couldn't help looking at him like a fool: "How could I not know? Do you think I have a bad memory?"

Inspector Megure was startled, and then he was surprised: "You really know him?!"

President Ishimoto felt that his attitude was a little strange: "Isn't this the little brat who always follows Jiang Xia? Yesterday, this kid was wandering around the banquet hall. If it weren't for Jiang Xia's sake, I really wanted to have a good chat with his parents."

"No, no." Inspector Megure was stunned for a moment, then realized that he had made a mistake and quickly corrected himself, "I'm talking about the tall and thin man in the purple shirt and suit in the background of the photo."

"Hmm?" President Ishimoto moved closer and looked at the person in the background of the photo again.

After a moment of silence, he shook his head: "I have no impression at all."

As if remembering that he had asked his secretary to do a lot of work for him, President Ishimoto looked at the female secretary next to him and said, "Sachiko, come over and take a look."

Sachiko Tanaka took a closer look and then shook her head: "Sorry, I don't know him either."

"Alas." Inspector Megure sighed in disappointment, but he did not give up. After all, his experience told him that even if the suspect was not the real murderer, there would be some contradictions between the deceased and the suspect. But President Ishimoto...

Inspector Megure decided to add fuel to the fire. He tried to show his authority as an inspector, his eyes deep: "The murderer's bullet grazed your shoulder. If it had been a little off, you would have been killed. And there was that bunch of people last night. Your life is in danger now. And because of you, Councillor Takada was unfortunately killed - think about it carefully, do you really have no impression of the person in the photo?"

President Ishimoto frowned. Perhaps the unexpected assassins last night had shaken his defenses.

After a long silence, he finally sighed: "Actually..."

"President!" the female secretary said anxiously.

"Forget it, Sachiko." President Ishimoto waved his hand, and suddenly he had a kind of broken jar calmness, "There is no need to hide it now." Compared with the ups and downs of the moment, the long-term life is indeed more important. "

He sat up straighter and looked at the policeman opposite him, his attitude much more humble than before: "Although my business is going smoothly now, when I was young, in order to prevent the company I had built with great difficulty from going bankrupt, I also... Alas, I have also taken some crooked paths.

"I originally thought that this matter was over a long time ago, but I didn't expect that 'piranha' would actually dig up such an old account - a while ago, Pinggang took the evidence and asked me for 1 billion.

“Even for me, this amount is not something I can easily afford, and once that guy gets a taste of the sweetness, every penny I earn in the future will probably go into his pocket.

"So I rejected him outright because those accounts were too old, and even the accountants had either retired or died of illness. It was not easy to threaten me with those accounts. I was ready for a protracted war with him. But who knew that after that, that guy disappeared from my life.

“Although I was relieved, the other party was after all a ‘piranha’ that would not let go once it had bitten someone, and I still didn’t believe that things would end so easily.

"So from the moment I received the threatening letter, I guessed that it was sent by the 'piranha'."

At this point, President Ishimoto glanced at Jiang Xia and said, "After all, that guy has some evidence against me in his hand, so we deliberately pretended that we had no trust in the police. This way, we could legitimately prevent the police from intervening and only hire private detectives for protection. Private detectives have strong confidentiality and are paid for their work, so they will definitely not forcefully pry into the privacy of their clients. I just didn't expect..."

President Ishimoto pressed his forehead and said, "I didn't expect that guy to be so bold as to shoot and kill people at such an important banquet. I didn't expect that after failing in one shot, he would hire so many people to kill me... It's really strange. Logically, that guy should be very stingy. I heard that he took all the money he swallowed and used it for gambling. He wouldn't spend a bit on other things. How did I offend him that he spent money to hire so many people?"

The more he thought about it, the more unbelievable it seemed to him: "Could it be that an important relative of 'Piranha' was seriously ill and needed money for treatment, and because I didn't give him money, that person died? Or did he encounter a romantic love, but lacked financial support, so he lost the love of his life? Otherwise, why would he hate me to this extent?"

Jiang Xia listened silently on the side: "..." This president has a strong ability of imagination. If he goes bankrupt one day, maybe he can consider changing his career to become a detective to make a living - after all, in addition to strong logic, a detective also needs a rich imagination, and President Ishimoto's ability to make up stories is very suitable.

Inspector Megure and Miwako Sato really followed President Ishimoto's words and thought about the hacker's motives.

Then Miwako Sato realized something was wrong: "But as far as we know, Hiraoka Shiro has no living relatives, and he doesn't seem like the kind of person who would indulge in love."

President Ishimoto shook his head and stopped trying to find out the dead man's motives. "In fact, just now, before you, Councillor Takata's secretary also came to me, hoping that I would confess everything to the police. He had followed Councillor Takata for a long time and didn't want him to die in vain..."

Halfway through the conversation, the female secretary who was standing quietly beside him suddenly turned her head and looked towards the door.

——She found that the office door had opened a crack without her knowing.

Looking more closely, there was actually a child in the crack of the door: "Are you... the kid from Jiang Xia?"

Conan's eyes jumped when he failed to eavesdrop: "..." Friends are just friends, what does it mean to add "little"? It sounds like he is Jiang Xia's son...

The sudden arrival of an uninvited guest interrupted the confession meeting.

Miwako Sato remembered that she still had a lot of work to do. She pulled herself together and decided to solve the problems one by one, such as sending the new lawless criminal to the police station.

The police station is definitely safer than outside. At least no one will be killed, and Jiang Xia won't have to guard all night exhausted.

Officer Sato looked at President Ishimoto and the female secretary and said, "Please follow me to the Metropolitan Police Department. We may need to take some notes on this case and previous events."

President Ishimoto sighed, resigned himself to his fate, and left with her.

Inspector Megure breathed a sigh of relief: "Originally, I was worried that someone was pretending to kill President Ishimoto to actually assassinate the congressman, because President Ishimoto has indeed been a well-behaved businessman over the years. I didn't expect that he actually had a conflict with the hacker - this makes sense, and the chain of evidence has been formed. The case can finally be closed!"

(End of this chapter)