Chapter 15: Beast Murder Case
◎The dark detective turns into a stalker◎
Upon hearing Kogoro Mori's speculation, Yokomizo Kazuo asked in confusion, "Tiger, Detective Mori, as far as I know, there don't seem to be any tigers raised here."
Maori Kogoro said, "It must have escaped from the nearby zoo, and the deceased happened to encounter it and was attacked by it. That's what happened. The case can be closed. It was an accident."
Yokomizo Kazuo was still a little hesitant. "Is it really that simple, Mr. Mori? Is there something he hasn't discovered?"
"It's that simple. The whole thing is probably like this. The deceased was drunk and lost on his way home. He took the wrong road, encountered a tiger, and was killed by it. You still don't believe my reasoning, Maori Kogoro. I don't know how many cases I have handled. I can see through such a simple case at a glance."
"Then..." Kazuo Yokomizo was interrupted before he could finish his words.
Amuro Toru had run in at some point and now ran back, quickly stopping him and saying, "He was murdered, not died in an accident."
The people at the scene were shocked and shouted, "Ah!!"
Amuro Toru raised his white-gloved hand, holding a yellow hair. "I just found this at the scene. The tiger hair is artificial, not real tiger hair, so I can conclude that this was murder, not an accident."
Maori Kogoro quickly stretched his head to look, "Really? How did you tell the difference?"
Amuro said: "I once studied how to distinguish real hair from fake hair when I was bored, so I know this."
Upon hearing this, Mu'an Jiaxi thought to himself: You have such a wide range of interests.
The forensic doctor from the police team stepped forward, took the hair, and examined it carefully. "Officer Yokomizo, he's right. This is fake. It's not tiger hair at all."
Now that it's confirmed to be a homicide, Yokomizo Kazuo has launched a new round of investigation, and the detectives are back to work. With Kogoro Mori in tow, Meyasu Yoshiki naturally has to stay and listen to his brilliant reasoning. It's a rare opportunity.
There was no one around Mu'an Jiaxi, and there was nothing wrong for her to stand there, so she went into the crime scene. She saw the horrific corpse at a glance. It was covered in blood, with torn clothes. There were bloody tiger claw marks all over its face, neck, and arms. It was lying on the ground with its body twisted. It must have suffered great torture and pain before its death.
Mu An Jiaxi couldn't bear to think about it. Who could be so cruel? How much did they hate him? It was too cruel!
At this time, Conan's voice came from the side, "Big sister, are you living with your boyfriend?"
Muan Jiaxi looked over when he heard the voice, and saw Conan standing in front of Chiyo Yuhe, looking up at her. Chiyo Yuhe heard Conan's words, bent down and looked at him at eye level and said: "We are a couple, of course we live together."
"Thank you, sister." Conan got the answer and ran away.
Muan Jiaxi also went to the river to investigate. Without gloves, she couldn't touch anything, so she could only bend over and look. She walked up the river bit by bit, and suddenly found something in the grass beside the river. Muan Jiaxi immediately called out to Amuro Toru, who was closest to her, "Mr. Amuro, there's something here."
Hearing this, Amuro Toru quickly came over and picked it up. It was a commemorative coin. "It's a commemorative coin."
Judging from the words on the back, it's a commemorative gift from last year's boxing match. And now, the one who fits the description best among these three people is probably the bar owner. He also likes boxing. Before opening the bar, he seemed to have been a sparring partner for boxers.
Amuro Toru took the item to Yokomizo Kazuo and gave it to him. Yokomizo Kazuo took the item and walked in front of the three people, "Whose is it?"
Two of them shook their heads, indicating that they were not theirs. The bar owner, Nobita Nobihara, went up to take a look and said, "It's mine. I threw it away a few days ago, right in this area."
Amuro Toru asked, "Why did you suddenly throw it away?"
Nobihara said, "If you want to throw it away, just throw it away. There's no need for so many excuses."
When Toru Amuro wanted to say something else.
Suddenly, Maori Kogoro shouted: "I know, I know who the murderer is."
Yokomizo Kazuo said excitedly, "Who is it, Detective Mori?"
Seeing this familiar scene, Mu'an Jiaxi immediately occupied a position with the best viewing angle, and he wanted to hold a handful of melon seeds in his hand to watch the show.
At the beginning of the drama, Maori Kogoro raised his hand and pointed confidently, "It's you, Nobi Harai, the murderer is you."
Kazuo Yokomizo asked, "Detective Mori, why is he the murderer?"
"The reason is simple and easy to deduce. Nobihara had been pursuing Chiyo Yukazu because he liked her, even ignoring the fact that she had a boyfriend. Although Chiyo Yukazu had always rejected him at first, she was gradually moved by his sincerity and slowly fell in love with him. However, the deceased later noticed something and got drunk. While drunk, he insulted Chiyo Yukazu, and Nobihara heard it. Nobihara fought with him, and in order to get her beloved to stay away from him and be with her, she killed him. When she left, the commemorative coin accidentally fell here."
The story is really wonderful. It is amazing that such a tortuous love story was made up in such a short time. If it were not for the inappropriate occasion, Mu An Jiaxi would have wanted to clap his hands.
Nobihara asked, "I didn't leave the house during the time of the crime. You said I killed him, so how did I get out?"
Maori Kogoro was choked by the question, "That."
Mu'an Jiaxi was watching everything from the side and just wanted to say, thank you Uncle Maori for removing one person. Now there are two choices, the deceased's girlfriend or the receptionist.
Mu'an Jiaxi didn't care what happened next and ran out of the scene. He went to the supermarket, the same one Chiyo Yuhe had visited last night. He walked in. The supermarket was not big, just a convenience store. When Mu'an Jiaxi came in, he found a surveillance camera at the door facing the road.
The clerk saw her and bowed respectfully at a 90-degree angle, "Welcome."
Mu An Jiaxi took a few steps back uncomfortably and half-bowed, "Hello, hello." Then he asked her, "A murder just happened next to the hotel. I need to check the surveillance at the supermarket entrance. Is that okay?"
"Oh, sure."
Mu An Jiaxi thought he would have to spend some time explaining it, but it turned out that there was no need at all. "It's just the surveillance footage from 10:20 last night."
The clerk turned the surveillance camera to the 10:20 time period, and the footage came out. There were few people on the street late at night. After a while, a woman in work clothes walked over from a distance with a bag and entered the supermarket. Not long after, she came out of the supermarket with the bag, squatted on the ground and played with the cat for a while, and she left in less than two minutes.
Muan Jiaxi fell into deep thought. Chiyo Yuhe had only taken five minutes to get from the hotel to the supermarket and back. Considering the distance from the hotel to the supermarket, she must have run. There was no need to rush to buy things. She said she was lazy and playing with the cat, but it took less than two minutes. Besides, there were seats in the supermarket; she could have sat down if she wanted to, but she didn't. So where had she been during those few minutes? What was there to hide? And what about that bag?
"Suspicious, have you seen anything?" Suddenly, a familiar voice came from his ears. Mu An Jiaxi sighed imperceptibly, and then kept comforting himself, silently saying in his heart: He is Toru Amuro, he is Toru Amuro, your idol, you can't beat him.
Then she held her forehead helplessly, and continued to complain in her heart: He really has too much free time. Usually detectives like them are always running around the crime scene, but he always keeps his eyes on her. Oh, the little tail of the Amuro brand, I am a little flattered.
Then he turned around, his expression suddenly changed from helpless to bright, and said with a smile: "Why are you here, Mr. Amuro? Aren't you investigating the case at the scene?"
"I'm here to investigate clues. Who says you have to be at the scene to investigate a crime?"
Investigating clues, but I don't believe them. After watching so many episodes of Detective Dee, their cameras are just for show. They clearly only need to check the surveillance footage to find out what's going on, but they're running around looking for clues and reasoning on their own, not even bothering to check the surveillance. Now they're talking about finding clues, but what else can they do besides checking the surveillance?
According to their attitude of turning a blind eye to surveillance, now they come out to investigate the surveillance to find clues. My God, have you finally seen it! After so many years, you finally know the existence of surveillance.
Moved, tears!
Mu An Jiaxi made way, "Oh, then you can take a look."
Amuro Toru refused, "No need, I also watched it from behind when you were watching it just now."
"Well, I'll be leaving now. You're busy."
"Are you going to the hotel to look for clues? I'm going the same way, so let's go together."
Mu An Jiaxi didn't care. It wouldn't hurt to follow him. It would also be a feast for the eyes. Such a handsome guy was worth looking at a few more times.
The two of them quickly arrived at the hotel front desk. Mu'an Jiaxi was the first to speak: "Hello, there was a case next to the hotel and we are investigating. I would like to ask who was on duty with Chiyo Yukazu last night."
The waitress at the front desk said, "It's me. I was on duty with her yesterday. What's wrong?"
"Oh, it's okay. I just want to ask a few quick questions. Did Chiyo Yuuka carry a bag when she went out yesterday? Did she carry it when she came back?"
"Bag... Yeah, yes, she did have it. I saw her with it when she came back. I don't know if it was my imagination, but I felt that her bag was different from the previous ones."
Mu An Jiaxi asked excitedly, "What's the difference?"
The waitress recalled, "It felt much deflated. Maybe I was seeing things."
At this time, Amuro Toru, who was standing beside her, smiled and asked her kindly, "Miss, do you know how her relationship with her boyfriend is?"
Hearing this, the waitress looked at Toru Amuro and said, "Her relationship with her boyfriend isn't that good. I used to accidentally see her taking medicine secretly. I've studied a little medicine, so I recognize that kind of medicine. It's a kind of medicine for recovery after an abortion. I used to see her taking it every few months. My family runs a clinic, and she often asked me to bring her tonics. But in the past few months, I haven't seen her take it, and she hasn't asked me to buy tonics. I asked her, and she said she didn't need it. Tell me, can this relationship be good? Besides, she really likes children. She got pregnant and didn't give birth to the child, but she aborted it. This kind of thing can only be forced by her boyfriend, otherwise why would she do it?"
Mu An Jia Xi asked in confusion, "Then why doesn't she break up with her boyfriend? It's already like this."
"Who knows? I don't know what she thinks."
Amuro Toru said: "How far is it from here to the staff dormitory? It will take about a few minutes to get there."
"The staff dormitory is right next to the hotel, very close. It takes about two minutes to get there. If you walk faster, it will only take one minute."
Muan Jiaxi knew why Amuro Toru asked this, and in fact she had some rough guesses in her mind.
After the two of them came out, Mu'an Jiaxi suddenly paused, looked up at the giant tiger doll placed at the door for the tenth anniversary event, and thought of something. He turned back to the hotel and asked, "When are you going to put up the tiger doll at the door of your hotel?"
The receptionist heard the reply, "A few days ago, when we first put it up, we thought it looked nice, so we ordered a few smaller copies online as a souvenir."
Mu'an Jiaxi: "A smaller version."
Amuro Toru behind him also narrowed his pupils when he heard this.
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