The officers from the Third Division, who had previously investigated a police shooting case and had stopped investigating after discovering these details, couldn't help but cover their faces with their hands.
I wonder who can control this big-mouthed newbie.
"Kobayashi!" Akechi finally spoke, "Why are you still so reckless?"
Everyone breathed a slight sigh of relief, suddenly realizing that this young master of the gold watch group wasn't entirely heartless.
However, Wise's next words shattered their illusions.
"Didn't you notice a flaw in your previous speculation?"
When he met Kobayashi's questioning gaze, Akechi couldn't help but raise a hand and flick his fingers in mid-air.
"If there was indeed a murderer in the case a year ago, he wouldn't have been discovered by the police yet. Why would he attack the police officer who investigated that case a year later?"
"Isn't he afraid of being exposed?"
This is certainly not reasoning, or rather, it is an inspiration based on existing facts.
Yoichi Toyama thought about it and then smiled as he continued.
"One possibility is that the murderer discovered that the case, which was originally closed as a suicide, had been reopened for investigation a year later."
"And the team investigating the case from back then was the same one: Officer Narasawa, Officer Shiba, and Officer Sato."
"Perhaps the crime wasn't entirely clean from the start, and in order to eliminate the threat, the killer decided to get rid of it once and for all."
In fact, this is indeed the truth.
However, Yoruichi Toyama did not name names, so her words sounded more like a direct attack on Department Head Odagiri.
Kobayashi stared at him with wide eyes, as if she had just discovered his existence.
Inspector Megure and the others also looked like they had seen a ghost.
"How did you know?" Inspector Shiratori blurted out inadvertently, "Weren't they conducting a secret investigation?"
Yoruichi Toyama shrugged, offering no explanation.
Even if I were to explain, I could only say it was a "guess".
Mingzhi, however, was already used to this kind of empty-point shooting, and pushed up his glasses again, laughing:
"Because the three police officers reopened the investigation, it was Chief Odagiri who personally gave the order."
"In other words, the one who is determined to find out whether his son was the real culprit in the murder case a year ago is Minister Odagiri himself."
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