Wrongful Conviction
"The weather has been really bad lately..."
Ishii Kazuki had just received the gloves from the forensic department and entered the scene from under the yellow cordon when he heard his colleague complaining, "At least it didn't rain," the thief police officer shrugged. Anyway, he had given up looking at the calendar since the beginning of the first year. All the staff at the water plant had set up an automatic weather alarm in the system. Otherwise, wearing summer clothes one day and winter clothes the next would be really troublesome. "Kenji, a handsome guy is still a handsome guy even if he is moldy. By the way," he raised his chin and pointed in a direction, "Again?"
"Again," nodded Kenji Hagiwara, the handsome man who kept a cool face even in the rainy weather. "To be honest, I think what Inspector Megure said makes sense. Detective Mori should go to the temple to pray, and bring his whole family with him."
It's useless, absolutely. Ishii Kazuki looked at Maori Kogoro who grabbed Conan by the collar and yelled at him with pity, and Maori Ran who tried to dissuade him. "By the way, this is really a big shot." You can tell by looking at the situation at the scene, people coming and going, and the media's flashbulbs almost blinding you. "How did Detective Maori and the others meet?"
After leaving the meeting venue, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism was murdered by a gangster in the parking lot. His personal bodyguard did not even see the shadow of the murderer until the minister himself fell to the ground and realized something was wrong.
"Ah, this is..." "Because the uncle remembered the wrong place to eat sushi, he drove to this parking lot!" Before Hagiwara Kenji could finish his words, he was interrupted by Conan, who had finally escaped from the clutches of Maori Kogoro. The little detective showed his signature silly smile, which made Ishii Kazuki's teeth ache. "Just when we were looking at the map on our phone in the car, we heard a loud noise, and the old man suddenly fell down. The uncles around him looked very panicked!"
"Wait, Conan!" The reliable girl Mao Lilan trotted over and scolded the disobedient boy, "Didn't Dad just tell you not to run around? Don't hinder the police from investigating the case. Come with me and wait by the police car!"
"Don't be impatient, Xiaolan," Hagiwara Kenji waved his hand to stop Mao Lilan from taking Conan away, "Conan is also an eyewitness, and he is a child with sharp observation skills. Let us listen to his findings together."
"I think Conan might be able to become a detective like Shinichi in the future," Ishii Kazuki's roundabout way made Edogawa Conan sweat profusely, "From the temperament, he looks very similar, but there is a wooden box sound, it seems that there should be no silencer..."
"From the perspective of shooting distance, it doesn't really matter whether there is a silencer or not," Hagiwara Kenji stroked his chin and followed his peers' thoughts. "It's impossible to completely silence the gun. We can only try to reduce the noise as much as possible..."
"There was only one shot, the rest were just echoes, right, Xiaolan-sister?" Conan was glad that his acquaintances were all focused on the case, skipping a topic that was not good for him. He asked his childhood sweetheart in a cute way, and after getting a positive answer, he naturally joined the discussion of the case. "The criminal should have only opened one shot, evacuated after the successful shot, and did not recover the shell."
Forensic personnel walked past them, carrying a plastic bag wrapped around brass-colored metal. According to the original procedure, this would be sent to the Science and Investigation Office to record the rifle marks and compare them with the information in the database to help infer the type of murder weapon.
Ishii Kazuki is looking forward to that result.
"Killed with one strike," Ishii Kazuki concluded with certainty as he looked at the body that had been put into the body bag and was about to be carried away. "The strike was quick and decisive, and he dared to do it under so many bodyguards. The criminal must have made plans against the minister in advance... But, I think there is a bigger problem now."
"I think so too," Hagiwara Kenji responded with a wry smile, "Ikki-chan thinks the same as I do, right?"
"Let's go back to the Metropolitan Police Department and take their statements," Ishii Kazuki sighed, with the sound of shutters echoing in his ears and the advice of his colleagues who were maintaining order. "If we continue like this, it feels like we're not solving the case, but just putting on a show."
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