Chapter 33 The Secret Behind
Yayoi Kazukage pushed her wheelchair and ignored the "Under Cleaning, Do Not Enter" sign at the entrance of the men's restroom, and pushed open the door of the restroom.
The first toilet door was tightly closed, and pink blood oozed through the crack. Kazukage Yayoi gently pushed the door open, and on the toilet seat behind the door lay a middle-aged male corpse with a bloody face. The corpse's left sleeve was turned up, and his arm was covered with needle holes. A half-injected needle fell on the ground. There was also a mobile phone on the ground, and a bloody fingerprint was printed on the home button of the phone.
He tried to push the second door open, but encountered some resistance, so Kazukage Yayoi had to increase his strength. After finally opening the door, he saw Matsumoto lying on the ground with a pale face. There was a circle of flat, very fine purple marks on his neck, and his chest was almost invisible. There was a large bucket and a bent iron rod on the ground.
"Matsumoto..." Kazukage Yayoi suddenly envied Asclepius. If it was him, he could take out his own blood and treat Matsumoto immediately. However, the power of the god of death was not useless. He could see that Matsumoto had not yet left the world, but he could not relieve his pain. Thanatos moved his fingertips and felt helpless for the first time.
"Wakage... cough cough" Matsumoto felt his body moving and struggled to open his eyes. He opened his hands to signal something to Wakage Yayoi, but he couldn't move.
He Jing Yasheng frowned and bent down to stop him from getting up: "Don't move, you will be fine, I will call the emergency number first."
"Po, cough cough, po..." Matsumoto said some incomprehensible words intermittently, and before Jing Yayoi could hear clearly, he fell into coma again.
Kazukage Yayoi rushed to the front desk while calling the police and the ambulance. The KTV manager who was passing by was very smart and heard the content of his call. He responded quickly and blocked the entire KTV, stopping a group of people who were about to leave after paying their bills. Fortunately, the police and doctors arrived very promptly, and Matsumoto was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment.
The surveillance cameras in this KTV are rare and not only exist, but are also usable. Unfortunately, the surveillance cameras are mostly facing indoors, not outdoors. The corridor only leads to two toilets and the vending machine, and the surveillance cameras for these three are less than five meters long. The rest of what can be seen are the interiors of the private rooms, the front desk, and the main entrance. In other words, you can see who left the room, but you can't be sure where they went, unless they went to the toilet, the vending machine, or the front desk. The manager explained that it was because there were always people who liked to be intimate in the corridor before, and after being complained about, they removed the surveillance cameras in the corridor. The complaint is good, don't complain again next time.
But no matter how much you complain, this surveillance is still useful. Guests in other rooms who did not leave the room after the deceased Okubo Asori can leave after leaving their phone numbers. The other high school students of Teitan High School did not leave the room, so most of them left under the advice of Kazukage Yayoi. Kobayashi Ken and Nakajima Muramasa were left to take care of Kazukage Yayoi, and for the girls, Suzuki Sonoko stayed to take care of Sakurai Kiriko, who had been dazed and pale since the incident. As for the remaining two rooms, because they were all preparing to leave, everyone walked out of the room and was left behind. Among them, there was a man and two women in the Sakura room where the deceased was, and there were two men and one woman in the Orchid room next door.
After checking the surveillance footage, the police discovered two problems.
First, after investigating the surveillance footage, it was discovered that the sign at the door of the men's restroom was placed by the deceased, Okubo himself. Why did the deceased place the sign? Did he know the murderer and the two had an agreement?
Second, because of this sign, all the men went back to another toilet after seeing it. The only person who went into the toilet was wearing different clothes from the people present. From the blurry surveillance video, it can be identified that he was wearing a very conspicuous bright yellow coat, a black hood on his head, and a metal rod could be vaguely seen stuck behind his clothes.
After Nakajima and Kobayashi finished their questioning, they walked over to Kazukage Yayoi. Nakajima looked Kazukage Yayoi up and down, confirmed that he was fine, and breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately you're okay. I should have gone with you at the time. If I had met the murderer, you would have had to lie down too."
Kazukage Yayoi shook his head, "I didn't see the murderer. I walked in and saw... the scene."
Xiao Lin looked at Matsumoto's schoolbag in his hand with worry, and his fingers rubbed the straps of the schoolbag unconsciously. "What do you think, Matsumoto...will he be okay?"
"It'll be fine. Matsumoto is strong and healthy. He won't be defeated by this injury." Nakajima comforted him, but his expression didn't look confident at all.
Even Kazukage Yayoi is not sure whether Matsumoto will be safe this time. He can only guarantee that Matsumoto's life span is not over, but disability or vegetative state can be considered as not over. But it doesn't matter. If it really comes to that, he doesn't mind trying to change the other party's lifeline for Matsumoto. He has never thought of changing the fate of mankind before, but he is willing to make an exception for his friend now. Matsumoto is a good person, not to mention he is still young, there are too many things waiting for him to experience, Kazukage Yayoi does not want to stay on this misery with his memory.
He wants to save, he has the ability to save, that is enough.
Everyone was feeling sad when there was some noise at the door. It was the Maori family who came over after receiving a call from Sonoko. Maori Ran was the first to meet up with Sonoko and Sakurai. They got to know each other. Maori Ran held Sakurai's hand and said some comforting words. Seeing that her friends were all fine, Maori Ran began to look around. Seeing Kazukage Yayoi in a wheelchair, she was stunned for a moment and asked in confusion, "Are you the boy that night?"
"Hello, Mr. Maori, I am Yayoi Kazukage." Yayoi Kazukage spoke politely, and then said to Conan, "Hello, Conan and Mr. Maori."
Conan saw Yayoi Kazukage as soon as he entered the door, but he was also worried about his classmate Sakurai, so he followed Mao Lilan to listen first. Seeing that Sakurai was just frightened and was fine, Mao Lilan also went to talk to Yayoi Kazukage, and then she also stood up to greet Yayoi Kazukage, "Hello, Yayoi brother~"
"Ah, so you are classmate Yayoi Kazukage. Classmate Kazukage, do you know me?" Mao Lilan was very confused. She did hear that a handsome guy had transferred to the school, mainly from Sonoko. But she had never paid special attention to him. She just saw the wheelchair from a distance and didn't see what he looked like.
"You are very famous. Many classmates have mentioned you to me. Moreover, you recently won the karate competition. Your photo was posted on the campus forum for three days." It seems that the other party really trained hard when he said he would train hard when we parted that day.
"Ah! It's just a small competition. It's still far from the goal I mentioned that day." Mao Lilan saw the ugly expressions of the two boys next to her and changed the subject considerately, "Sorry, this is not the time to bring up this. How is Matsumoto-san?"
Kazukage Yayoi sighed, "When I met him, he was still able to speak, but soon he passed out again. I can't tell how he is doing, sorry."
"Well, I hope he's safe..." Mao Lilan also sighed, and then glanced around, "By the way, who is this police officer? Why isn't it Inspector Megure?"
Kazukage Yayoi followed her line of sight and said, "It's Inspector Nagasawa, who was transferred from the Kanagawa Police Headquarters. There have been a lot of drug-related incidents recently, and Inspector Megure discussed with the people from the National Police Agency and went to a meeting. This is what Inspector Nagasawa said just now."
Conan asked in confusion: "Did he tell you all this?"
Kazukage Yayoi had a strange expression on his face, but Nakajima said, "This policeman looks stupid. He answers all kinds of questions. I'm worried whether he can solve the case..."
When Conan thought about the Miss Tomori case, Officer Nagasawa really gave people the impression of being silly and cheerful, and he really didn't look very reliable.
As they were talking, Officer Nagasawa appeared behind them. "Hey, kids, it's fine if you say bad things about the police, but you also say it in front of me. What do you mean?"
Everyone was shocked when they heard this and turned around in embarrassment. Mao Lilan was the first to apologize: "I'm sorry, Inspector Nagasawa, we are also concerned about our classmates, please forgive us."
Uncle Maori also stood up to defend the children, "Don't take it seriously, these kids were just joking."
Officer Nagasawa chuckled and held out his hand. "It's okay, it's okay. By the way, you are the famous Detective Mori, right? My name is Nagasawa, and I'm not very talented, but with you here, are you afraid that this case won't be solved?"
Detective Mori always likes to hear this kind of "truth". He straightened his collar and shook hands with Officer Nagasawa, "Nice to meet you, Inspector Nagasawa. I am the famous Detective Mori Kogoro." Mori Kogoro demonstrated what a mix of humble words and honorifics is.
"Nice to meet you. We haven't asked the first person who made the discovery yet. Would you like to listen?" Officer Nagasawa smiled and opened his police handbook to Maori. It was blank.
Conan was so shocked by Officer Nagasawa's actions that he rolled his eyes. Is this policeman any good? Why does he look like he is fighting back and forth with Inspector Yamamura? Oh, yes, Yamamura is still an inspector, and the one in front of him is a deputy inspector, not as outrageous as Yamamura.
Uncle Maori had never received such high treatment before, so he immediately agreed: "Okay, okay, who was the first person to discover it? You know, in this kind of thing, the first person to discover it is the most suspicious..."
"It's me," Kazukage Yayoi said calmly, "I saw that Matsumoto hadn't come back for a long time, so I went to the bathroom to look for him."
Conan looked at Uncle Maori with disdain, as he had made a mistake in his reasoning at the very beginning.
Officer Nagasawa didn't think there was anything wrong with Detective Mori's reasoning. "Indeed, Kazukage is a big suspect. There was a sign saying 'cleaning' at the door of the toilet, why did you go in?"
"Because I'm pushing a wheelchair, isn't it more convenient if there's a cleaning staff here? They can help me push the wheelchair."
"Ah...that's true, haha." Maori and Nagasawa both smiled awkwardly, looking silly.
Conan rolled his eyes. It seemed that Nakajima's worries were justified. He also began to worry whether the case could be solved. So Conan chose to rely on himself. He asked: "Brother Yayoi, can you tell me in detail what happened inside?"
Kazukage Yayoi briefly described what happened.
"Hmm... what exactly does Matsumoto-nii want to say? Yayoi-nii, do you have any ideas?"
The time I spent with Jing Yayoi in there was not long, less than a minute in total, and no useful information was provided. The only thing I cared about was probably the words "po" that Matsumoto said, but what was po?
"No, I can't think of one... Maybe Nakajima and Kobayashi have some ideas?" After all, Kazukage Yayoi had only been with them for two weeks, so she didn't know them as well as childhood friends.
Nakajima and Kobayashi looked at each other, and after a long pause, they said hesitantly, "po...po...pocket Monsters?"
Everyone: ...? Suddenly turned around
Isn’t this a coincidence? There really is someone wearing Pokémon clothes!
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