Chapter 47 All Roads Lead to Polo
"What are you looking at? Do you think I'm the murderer?" the man was furious.
Cheng Xiaoyu: Well...why not?
Officer Megure skillfully calmed the suspect: "Mr. Matsushita, please calm down. If you are innocent, we will definitely clear your name."
Matsushita: "Is there any need to investigate? These two people know each other. Maybe they worked together to frame me! I'm just doing a part-time job, and you guys are inexplicably accusing me of being a murderer. What did I do to offend anyone?"
Cheng Xiaoyu couldn't sit still after hearing this. She was the most innocent. She was just carsick and wanted to find a place to relax when she was dragged into this! She even got carsick because she was working!
Cheng Xiaoyu: "So, according to you, I'm the most innocent. You all heard that the deceased ate chocolate tainted with narcotics. He took the chocolate from the venue. I wasn't even there from the beginning to the end. I only encountered the deceased in the utility room. I even nearly became the second deceased. How could I have poisoned him? I knew he had poisoned chocolate in his pocket, then tied this big man up in the utility room, and while we were fighting, I precisely took the chocolate out of his pocket and stuffed it into his mouth? Even then, I didn't get angry when I was suspected. Why are you angry just because you were looked at a few times? Do you think I didn't hear you just say I was the murderer and asked the police to close the case quickly? I fainted, not died."
Everyone: ...Indeed. Based on the current investigation, Ms. Umekawa, who nearly died suddenly, is the least likely to have committed the crime. Neither the motive nor the timing match.
At the beginning, Conan and Shuichi Akai suspected that Miss "Umekawa Kuko" was sent by the organization to silence the exposed person. After all, this had happened many times before. But after investigation, the two were speechless to find that the dead person did not seem to be silenced by the organization, but more like the previous member of the organization [Tequila] who was accidentally killed.
Matsushita hadn't expected this sickly-looking woman to still have the energy to confront him. She'd heard what he'd said earlier, and feeling guilty, he didn't dare look Cheng Xiaoyu in the eye. "I'm just making a reasonable suspicion. All three of us are suspects. And there was blood at the scene. Maybe you tried to stab him but failed."
Megure: "No, Mr. Matsushita. The blood on the wall was from a shoulder injury from yesterday's car accident. The wound opened up during the struggle, causing blood to stick to the wall. The autopsy report didn't even show any signs of a struggle, so we say he died from accidentally ingesting narcotics."
Matsushita: "...Then, maybe it's this Huibara! You didn't find any problems with the other chocolates on the plate, and he was the only one who came near the plate!"
Huiyuan Xiong was quite speechless: "I just wanted to take a cookie. I don't even know anyone at the venue. Why would I kill him?"
The police suspected that the sorcerer had used cyanide to kill people. If this matter were to get out, people in the industry would laugh for a long time.
...No, not to mention the industry, Yushiro will probably laugh at him when he returns.
No. 233: Do we have to wait until we get back? I'm already laughing at you, hahahahahahaha!
The subsequent investigations were all the same: one suspect was chosen from three to find the murderer. The murderer, realizing he was exposed, knelt down and wept bitterly, crying out in regret, "I didn't mean to kill him, but he took that chocolate! I clearly wanted to kill xx!"
The only difference from usual is that there was Shuichi Akai on the scene, who knew Conan's background and was equally smart, so he didn't use a tranquilizer gun or a voice-changing bow tie, and just let Shuichi Akai do the talking himself.
Cheng Xiaoyu watched the sobbing Mr. Matsushita being taken away and couldn't help but sigh inwardly: "So if you had confessed earlier, wouldn't that have been the end of it? You could have even turned yourself in. Look at what's happened now. You didn't even turn yourself in, and you still wasted all this time."
With someone dead, the charity auction dinner was naturally canceled, so Huiyuan Xiong simply left with Cheng Xiaoyu. He wanted to catch up on the past and tell her about the changes over the years, after all, they hadn't seen each other for ten years.
Looking at Cheng Xiaoyu's disappearing back, Edogawa Conan suddenly activated his detective intuition - there was something he had overlooked!
So he stopped Judy and asked quietly, "Did Ms. Umekawa Kuko react when she was recording her statement in the room?"
Judy: "Although she was sobbing, she still gave her statement fluently and cooperated very well with the investigation."
Edogawa Conan had a flash of inspiration.
Yes, this is what’s wrong!
There is no problem with "Umekawa Kuko's" testimony in this case, but the biggest problem is - would an ordinary person calm down so quickly after waking up after being frightened and fainting, and explain all the doubts about himself in a clear and orderly manner?
Similarly, when Haibara Yu saw an acquaintance or even when he himself was involved in a murder case, he showed no signs of panic, and he did not show the fear that a normal person would have when he saw a corpse.
Just because these two people are not the murderers in this case does not mean that there is no problem with their identities.
Weren't Gin and Vodka also implicated as innocent suspects in the amusement park murder case? They certainly didn't commit that crime, but these two are anything but clean.
Realizing that something was wrong, Conan Edogawa immediately rushed to the monitoring room. Although Judy and Shuichi Akai didn't understand why, they still followed him.
Conan Edogawa: "Check the surveillance footage of Kuko Umekawa entering the hotel!"
After checking the surveillance footage from several time periods, Shuichi Akai and Judy also realized that something was wrong.
Because there was no footage of Kuko Umekawa entering the hotel in the surveillance footage.
Why would someone with a clean background sneak into a hotel? Especially since there was a criminal gang going on in the hotel!
Further investigation made it even more suspicious. There was no such person as "Meikawa Kuzi" in the database, and no result could be found even by face search!
There were also issues with Haibara Yu's personal data. While his biography and family connections were available, there was no information about his occupation. All we knew was that he attended the Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High School, but nothing more. Just now, when he introduced himself, he described himself as a craftsman.
The resume of life cannot be said to be concise, it is just brief.
Akai Shuichi and Judy's hearts sank as they looked at the information: the information on Tokyo Jujutsu High School was practically blank, with only a single sentence written on it about the school's Google search results:
"Tokyo Metropolitan Technical College of Spells, abbreviated as Tokyo Technical College of Spells, is a school."
Introduction? No!
Principal? No!
Alumni? No!
Courses? No!
If this school was not included in the official database and its academic qualifications were not recognized, it would be hard not to think that it was a fake school that cheated people out of their money.
Akai Shuichi quickly realized: "It looks like a school that Japan officially trains special talents... Can you contact the 'relevant personnel' to confirm it when you have time?"
Could it be that Kuko Umekawa is also an undercover agent planted into the organization by the Japanese authorities, just like "Furiya Rei"?
It's not impossible. It's not the first time that Neon has planted an undercover agent in the organization, or that they have investigated the organization's members and found that the other party is also an undercover agent.
The last time we caught "Bourbon", we discovered that "Amuro Toru" was actually named "Furiya Rei" and was an undercover agent arranged by the Neon Public Security Bureau.
The last time we caught "Kir", we discovered that "Rena Mizunashi" was actually named "Eikai Hondou" and was an undercover agent sent by the CIA.
Even Shuichi Akai was previously an undercover agent for the American FBI under the pseudonym "Dai Moroboshi" and codename "Rye Whiskey"!
All of them were undercover agents, and each of them had three nicknames. Even Shuichi Akai had four nicknames because he had faked his death before.
Akai Shuichi and Conan looked at each other and made up their minds: go back and confirm with Amuro Toru, the Japanese Public Security Bureau, otherwise it would be bad if there was another misunderstanding and their own people were caught.
There was very little information about Tokyo Jujutsu High School on the Internet. Edogawa Conan slid down the Google page and a piece of news from eleven years ago popped up.
Tokyo Jujutsu High School second-year student Geto Suguru bravely rescues a little girl during an off-campus field trip
"What the...hell!"
After reading the report, Judy was so angry that she almost yelled "American quintessence", but considering that Conan next to her was a real minor, she changed her words and restrained herself.
"Oh my God, how could the people in that village do such a cruel thing to two innocent little girls! Fortunately, the two children were rescued."
“…”
Why aren't you speaking?
Judy turned around and found Edogawa Conan and Akai Shuichi looking at the black-haired boy in the clipping with subtle expressions.
"Suguru Geto... Do you know this person?"
I know him, of course I know him.
Edogawa Conan: "...He lives near the Mori Office now. Last year he said he was a novelist and wanted to write a novel based on Uncle Mori, so he gave Uncle Mori a sum of money hoping to become his apprentice and allow him to come often to collect materials. This year he usually works part-time at the Polo Coffee Shop downstairs."
Isn't this a coincidence? Toru Amuro also usually works at Polo Coffee Shop, and he has also approached Kogoro Mouri under the banner of "being his apprentice".
Judy suddenly remembered: "...wasn't the direction that Huiyuan Xiong left in the surveillance video also the Maori Detective Agency?"
Akai Shuichi: "If you don't change your route halfway."
Edogawa Conan: "..."
In fact, they had originally planned to go to Polo Cafe to find Toru Amuro.
It is true that all roads lead to Polo.
Cheng Xiaoyu actually followed Huihara Yu to Polo Cafe, but of course she was not going to look for Furuya Rei, she was just looking for Geto Suguru.
In the car, she learned why Geto Suguru stopped going on missions last year and went to Polo Cafe to find Kogoro Mouri.
To save my life.
Since last year, Geto Suguru has clearly realized that his tasks are becoming more and more difficult and more detrimental to people's mentality. Not only has he encountered several ordinary people who suddenly went crazy and insulted and made things difficult for him, but he has also encountered several special-grade cursed spirits besieging him alone. Fortunately, the dark killer Afu arrived in time and used a combo of moves followed by a tornado to destroy the parking lot to save his life.
It is obvious that the high-dimensional creature No. 1 has become active again and wants to kill Geto Suguru.
Geto Suguru remembered the flyer the Ghost Queen had asked Dark Killer to bring him and Gojo Satoru, one each, before she vanished. It advertised the necessity and benefits of cremation, saying they might be useful later. He knew he was dead. He immediately prepared a suicide note, boldly writing in black ink that he wanted to be cremated, and made several copies to distribute.
However, before he could distribute the suicide notes, the Dark Killer came up again and said, "The boss had already predicted this before he left, and he has a trick to save your life."
That is: use higher-dimensional creatures to deal with higher-dimensional creatures.
After so many years of real-time field observations and experiments by the four of them, they determined that the No. 2 high-dimensional creature did not care much about other places in Beika Town, but would focus on the people and things around the Mori Office and provide them with protection.
In addition, the second-level high-dimensional creatures have also become active in recent years. In these years, there has not been a single third-level cursed spirit in Beika Town and the later-appearing Jiangkotian, and there has been no incident of cursed spirits killing or injuring people.
The special curse spirits simply cannot enter, and even if they are forced in, they will escape at all costs.
It is not difficult to guess that these two high-dimensional creatures have begun to divide their territory.
Therefore, as long as Geto Suguru can enter Beika Town, find Kogoro Mori to become his apprentice or stay by his side for some other reason, and put himself under the supervision and protection of the second high-dimensional creature, the first high-dimensional creature will not dare to touch Geto Suguru, or even dare to reach into Beika Town.
Because the second high-dimensional creature can really beat him.
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