Rest 20

Rest 20

"Conan-kun, could you please repeat the situation when the body was found?"

Inspector Megure slowed down his tone. The murders in the Komatsu residence were still going on, but before anything happened, most people were still hoping for a lucky break. Komatsu Masao was already stunned. He stood there in a daze. Sayaka and Taiyang stood at a distance from him, maintaining a delicate safety boundary between the three of them.

"Around 15:00," Edogawa Conan took a deep breath, Hattori Heiji put his hand on his shoulder, the warm touch gave the boy some psychological support, "I, Heiji brother and Ye sister were investigating Ms. Chizhi's bedroom, and suddenly heard the sound of the door opening, and then a few minutes later I saw brother Taiyang," he turned his head to Komatsu Taiyang, and looked at the eldest child of the Komatsu family carefully - this boy who was slightly thinner than his peers already had dark circles under his eyes, and the successive things at home forced him to look up from the desk. Taiyang pursed his lips, and Edogawa Conan noticed that he looked up at Komatsu Masao from time to time, but his sight shifted quickly, as if he was dodging, "Brother Taiyang asked our sister Xun if she ran out, and whether we saw her, because sister Xun's mental state has not been very good. He saw sister Xun in a trance in the corridor on the second floor, so he told her to be careful..."

"But Sister Xun didn't seem very happy. She talked back to Brother Taiyang for a few words and suddenly ran downstairs. Brother Taiyang didn't care much at first, but after returning to the room, he felt something was wrong, so he went downstairs to ask the people on the first floor if they had seen Sister Xun. Brother Heiji said that the sound of the door opening just now might be Sister Xun." Taking the opportunity to ask, Edogawa Conan also sorted out his thoughts bit by bit, "We went out together to look for her. The neighbor lady who was watering the flowers said that she saw Sister Xun running out, and she was still wearing her favorite red coat. Sister Ye and I went back to the house and called everyone in the house out to look for Xun, but we never found her..."

"It was around 16:00," the little detective clenched his fists, "I thought maybe Sister Xun would go home by herself, so I decided to go back to Xiaosong's house to take a look, and then..."

"The body was found in her room."

The girl's favorite red coat was still hanging by the bed. Her thin body was curled up in the quilt. If it weren't for the purple marks on her neck, she would have looked like she was asleep.

"Thank you for your hard work, Conan," Officer Megure put away his notebook. Murders involving children are always heartbreaking. Toyama Kazuha brought Edogawa Conan to her side and comforted the boy in a low voice, "That means the estimated time of death is 15:00-16:00," the fat officer turned his gaze to the people next to him, "Can you tell me what you were doing at the time?"

"Miyake-kun and I were no longer at the Komatsu residence at 14:30," Sosuke Fubuki came out to explain, "Something happened at the company, so we drove to a nearby coffee shop to look at some reports. After all, we are not detectives, and staying at the crime scene all the time..." He smiled bitterly, "Sorry, we just found out what happened..."

Shota Miyake nodded. To be honest, it was not convenient for them to go into the case of Komatsu Zhai in depth, but because Komatsu Masao looked confused, they stayed to help out of humanitarianism. "There are surveillance cameras in that coffee shop." They even added an alibi that was rare in the Conan world.

"I was smoking alone in the yard," Komatsu Masao pulled his temples in annoyance, "After hearing Taiyang say Xun was missing, I started looking for her nearby, and I didn't come back until I found Xun..."

There was a kind of depressed emotion in his tone, "Why do so many troubles happen in my family?", which made people present look at him a few more times.

"...I went to the shopping street," Taiyang has reached the age of voice change, and his voice is as low as his father's, "remembering that my mother used to take Xun to the family restaurant there," he glanced at Sayaka and continued, "Sayaka was with me. After Ms. Toyama informed us that Xun had run away, I ran back to the room and called Sayaka to go find her together. Many people in the shopping street saw it."

Sayaka nodded silently.

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