"Ptooey! Ptooey! Ptooey!"
This is Kindaichi's answer to Toyama Yoruichi.
Why don't you talk about yourself?
“Every time I run into you, something happens, right?”
"For example, the incident at Gunkanjima Island in Izu, and the incident at the Grape Pavilion in Karuizawa..."
On a whim, Kindaichi started counting on his fingers.
Although what he said wasn't wrong, Toyama Yoru shut him down with just one sentence.
"However, Kindaichi-kun, I didn't participate in that time you went to work for the pharmaceutical company!"
The thought of having raised someone else's dog for several days for nothing, and almost being used as a guinea pig to test poison, made Kindaichi fall silent.
"That, that was just a coincidence... Oh, right, just this recently, Miyuki and I went to the amusement park and had a nice time, if it weren't for running into you..."
Mr. Itsuki, who had not heard of this incident before, suddenly brightened up and took over the conversation.
"Kindaichi, what incidents have you and Mr. Toyama encountered lately? Why haven't you told us?"
"Ah, that..."
Kindaichi suddenly stared, mouth agape.
It wasn't that he was unwilling to share his adventures with Mr. Itsuki, but he was completely captivated by Mika Merlin's case shortly after boarding the bus.
While Yoruichi Toyama was trying to get information out of Mika Maki at the hospital, he was chatting with the nurses at the nurses' station and didn't catch up on the case at all.
What does he have to say?
Receiving Kindaichi's rare pleading look, Yoruichi Toyama smiled and took over the conversation.
"This is what happened..."
This was a conversation that Yuanshan Ye had planned long ago. With the treasure-hunting team all present, she recounted the bus robbery case concisely yet effectively.
The names of Mika Muguru and Shiho Shimomura, among others, were simply omitted.
Mr. Itsuki, having known Kindaichi for a long time, had developed a certain tolerance for all kinds of cases and was listening with great interest.
They didn't even notice that Yoruichi Toyama had slightly raised her voice.
The male team members, who had been chatting in twos and threes in the hot spring, gradually became attracted to his words and quieted down.
"So, that madam orchestrated this murder so that her daughter could inherit the female CEO's vast fortune?"
Mr. Itsuki, who works in news reporting, quickly grasped the key points after listening to Yoichi Toyama's account of the incident.
"But there's something strange. Although her ex-husband later married the female CEO, the female CEO's assets were all earned independently after her husband's death, right?"
Does the madam's daughter have inheritance rights?
This is another key point of the incident, which was discussed with Akechi after Toyama Yoruichi's death.
"Well, Inspector Akechi passed the bar exam when he was in college, right? I consulted him about this."
"Regarding inheritance rights, the key point is actually the 'order' of inheritance."
The real intention was not in the wine; Yoruichi Toyama, while copying Akechi's analysis, casually glanced around.
Perhaps because treasure hunting always involves issues of property ownership, everyone's face was filled with curiosity and inquiry.
"Logically speaking, the female CEO's assets are the result of her running the company on her own, so her son is her only first-in-line heir and has no relation to her daughter from her late husband's previous marriage."
"But assuming the female CEO passes away and her son inherits all the assets, then the daughter who is the son's half-sister, that is, the madam's daughter, becomes one of the son's heirs because of this blood relationship."
"It is said that the female CEO's parents have passed away, and she has no siblings. Therefore, her son has no other relatives besides this sister."
"In other words, as long as the son inherits the female CEO's assets first, the madam's daughter will become the son's only heir."
The last sentence was a bit convoluted, but because of the background of a premeditated murder case, Mr. Itsuki thought about it for a moment and then suddenly slapped his forehead.
"You mean, that madam planned it all along, to kill the female CEO first, and then kill the son?"
"This...this is like eating the blood of the childless!"
“Yes, that’s really despicable…” The people around, including the antique dealer Yagi and the college dropout Akamon, couldn’t help but sigh.
“However…” a weak voice rang out from between the people. Editor Wada’s eyes flickered as she cautiously offered her opinion, “I think that madam isn’t so bad a mother after all…”
"Watching her own daughter accumulate huge debts and be forced into prostitution, working as a hostess in her own bar, must have been more painful than anyone else's..."
"She resorted to this desperate measure for her daughter's sake, didn't she?"
Anyway, Yoichi Toyama can't understand the Japanese way of thinking.
It seems that no matter how unreasonable one's arguments are, as long as one plays the family card, cries a few times, and plays the victim, even the most heinous person becomes sympathetic.
And judging from the expressions of the gentlemen present, they really bought into it.
“That seems… to make sense…” Mr. Itsuki, who had just been indignant, turned around and nodded with emotion.
“I also have a daughter, although she’s not my biological child, but I think I can understand the feelings of being a parent…”
Wada smiled cautiously, as if he had found an ally.
"Right, Itsuki, you think so too."
"So we're all doting fathers, haha!"
The conversation progressed as smoothly as Yoruichi Toyama had imagined. He suppressed his burning urge to complain and stared at Mr. Itsuki with curiosity.
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