Rest 27
"Where's the evidence?" Komatsu Taiyang asked back calmly. Rather than a suspect who wanted to prove his innocence through argument, he looked more like a rookie actor who didn't really put his heart into acting in a detective drama and just wanted to finish his lines and leave quickly. "If Detective said so, then there must be evidence that I killed my mother and Xun, right?"
"There are still traces of wall dust from the shopping street on that red coat," Hattori Heiji's reasoning has come to an end, "Don't say it was stained before, the shopping street just painted the walls yesterday, and..." He moved his eyes to the side, where Komatsu Taiyang's pair of canvas shoes were still placed in the entrance, "The pace of this case is too tight, you must not have much time to deal with the murder weapon, or in other words, you are very likely to use local materials to commit murder, am I right, Komatsu Taiyang," the forensic officer put the canvas shoes into a plastic bag, and tied the shoelaces into a beautiful bow, "You used your own shoelaces as the murder weapon."
"And with Sayaka and Noda's testimony," Edogawa Conan added, "your guilt has been proven!"
"It seems so," Xiaosong Taiyang touched his chin and shrugged, "Then I admit it."
"You admit it?" Inspector Megure was shocked by this hasty confession. The police officer, who had become a background in the mystery show, quickly frowned after he reacted. "Have you really thought it through? You are already 15 years old, and you can be held criminally responsible!"
Since the 1950s, Japanese law has stipulated that the age of criminal responsibility is over 16 years old. The famous "Drunkard Rose Saint War Incident" in 1997 became a turning point for the provisions. In the incident, a 14-year-old junior high school student in Kobe City successively killed local elementary school students and provoked the police. His actions were well-planned and cruel. In the following years, vicious cases such as the "Toyokawa City Housewife Murder Case" occurred one after another, in which junior and high school students were the perpetrators. In November 2000, the Neon Congress passed a resolution to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 14 years old and increase the penalties for those who are 16 years old and above.
Komatsu Taiyo is 15 this year, and he killed his mother and younger sister who is also underage. He also coerced another younger sister to give false testimony. If he continues to behave like this in court...
"I know," Xiaosong Taiyang nodded, his eyes calm, "I originally planned to study politics and law in college..."
"Then why did you...?!" Yuanshan Heye was stunned, "Why did you kill them? They are obviously a family, and you..." She turned her gaze to Sayaka, with a look of confusion, "Your brother killed your mother! You helped him conceal it, and even helped him to give false testimony after he killed your sister--"
"Is it hard to understand?" Sayaka tilted her head to look at the older sister. The expression on her face was so similar to the sun that one could tell at a glance that they were siblings. "I also want to kill my mother, sister, and grandmother," the little girl said calmly, making people feel chilled. "Ah, of course there is also my brother, but the one I hate the most is my mother."
"Me too, Sayaka," Komatsu Taiyo said with regret, "but you still have Noda as your friend... I, your brother, plan to kill you and then commit suicide..."
The two young children smiled at each other. Their attitudes were frighteningly frank. At least Toyama Kazuha had already unconsciously held Hattori Heiji's arm. "Did Miyoko do something...?" The successive blows had made Komatsu Masao confused. He could only look at his eldest son with the last bit of stubbornness. "Taiyang...she was obviously..."
"She makes me sick," Komatsu Taiyo didn't avoid his father's gaze, "Kaoru, Sayaka too."
"And me, she makes me feel gross about all this."
Fubuki Sosuke spoke hesitantly, "That is to say..." Komatsu Taiyo is at the most dangerous stage for men. He has 70% of the physical strength of an adult, but only 20% of the judgment and 50% of the responsibility. Fubuki Sosuke tried to recall the behavior of adolescent boys who tend to get stuck in a dead end, "You killed them out of a sense of responsibility?"
To clean up this house.
"Well," Komatsu Taiyang stood at a distance from everyone, his sister snuggled up to her friend and looked at her brother with a gentle smile, "if we continue to live like that, Dad will be too pitiful."
"Um, Uncle Komatsu?" Edogawa Conan called out to the man slumped on the sofa, but as expected, there was no response. "Um...what does 'continue to live like that' mean?" The detective's intuition told him that this sentence was the key.
"You mean the three of us are half-siblings, right?" It was Sayaka who answered the little detective's question. The bombshell she revealed made everyone present stare with wide eyes. But judging from Komatsu Taiyo's disgust and Komatsu Masao's bewildered expressions, this should be the truth. "When Noda and I were on the ceiling together, I heard Mom talking on the phone. I guess Taiyo heard it too. Really, Mom still likes to whitewash the truth..."
"But, brother, you can't just listen to mom..." Sayaka stared at her brother, "Dad told mom to do this," her words fried the CPU of everyone present, Inspector Megure almost pulled his hat off, Hattori Heiji didn't care about how tightly Toyama Kazuha was holding his arm, Fubuki Sosuke and Miyake Shota looked at each other, and Edogawa Conan's glasses were about to fall off, "Dad has necrospermia and can't have children at all, but he wants to have a good family, so he chooses outstanding men for mom to come..."
"Oh," Komatsu Taiyang narrowed his eyes and glanced at Komatsu Masao who was sitting alone on the sofa, "I understand."
"It seems that Dad is just as disgusting."
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