If you want your guess to be correct, you must prove it with actual actions.
Fujiwara Yuu, always a man of action, came to this conclusion and ran to the entrance to remove his shoe covers, intending to head towards the backyard. However, he didn't expect to find the two onlookers still standing outside the cordon. The man in the red plaid shirt even waved at him.
He was slightly curious whether these two people were bored, but he still walked towards them and asked patiently:
"Do you have any clues to provide? If not, please stay away from this area. I will deal with you according to the law if you disturb the police."
"Didn't I provide you police with useful clues? I saw Chiyo return home at 7:35 p.m. with my own eyes, and the lights in the living room were on after she came home." The man in the red plaid shirt replied, even showing a hint of dissatisfaction on his face, thinking that the police actually thought that providing eyewitness testimony would violate order.
"Are you Mr. Morita?" Fujiwara Yu had heard a detailed description of the case in the living room before, and naturally judged the identity of the gossipy uncle in front of him, but in order to ensure the identity was correct, he still asked an extra question.
Morita Takuma straightened his back as if he was very proud, and explained while gesturing with his hands:
"Yes, I was. My wife and I were about to go out to the supermarket to buy groceries. The time was definitely correct, so I can be sure that at 7:35 PM, Chiyo was still at home and safe."
"Thank you for the clue. Goodbye."
Fujiwara Yu had no intention of chatting with these two gossipers. He put on his shoe covers and walked quickly towards the backyard. When he walked around to the backyard, he noticed the flower bed diagonally below the second-floor balcony.
The edge of the flower bed is one meter high, and there are many camellias planted in it, including the common light pink and red, as well as the uncommon yellow. The different colors are very harmonious together, but if there is any disharmonious place, it is probably the part close to the wall that shows obvious signs of being trampled on.
There was no need to observe carefully, as long as you approached the flower bed and looked inside carefully, you could find it. Therefore, the police officers from the Suminoe Police Station did not carefully inspect the entire house, otherwise they would not have treated it as an ordinary runaway.
Fujiwara Yu looked up along the trampled area and found half a footprint on the outer edge of the second-floor balcony, with a few brown soil particles on it. It seemed that his guess could be confirmed.
After putting on his shoe covers again, he stepped on the edge of the flower bed like a kidnapper. Using the one-meter edge of the flower bed and his height, he easily grabbed the railing of the second-floor balcony at an altitude of nearly three meters, and used his waist to easily reach the second-floor balcony.
Otaki Goro rushed to the backyard and witnessed the whole process. He raised his voice and said:
"Takashi! Quickly check the balcony door lock to see if there are any signs of tampering. If there are, we can investigate it as a kidnapping case instead of an ordinary missing person case!"
For an agent who often conducts infiltration investigations, it wouldn't take long to pry open a simple door lock. After Fujiwara Yuu leaned over and noticed the numerous scratches on the door lock, he realized that the kidnapper wasn't very good at picking locks, otherwise he wouldn't have left so many marks around the door lock.
"Not only had the door lock been pried open, but there were also numerous scratches on the outside. The kidnapper must be inexperienced."
While Fujiwara Yu opened the balcony door, he checked the surroundings for any other suspicious signs. Apart from the presence of dirt particles on the balcony countertop, no complete footprints were left. If the kidnapper wanted to return the same way and take Tokui Chiyo away, it should be impossible.
That means the kidnapper left openly through the main entrance. He should be very familiar with the surrounding area and knew that there were no surveillance cameras installed on the street. It is very likely that the crime was committed by a street resident.
Having come to this conclusion, he pushed open the door and walked into the master bedroom on the second floor connected to the balcony. After walking down the stairs, he noticed a blind spot in his vision. It seemed that the kidnapper must have taken advantage of this to commit the crime.
Fujiwara Yuu was standing in the living room when he noticed that Officer Otaki hadn't returned yet. When he reached the entrance, he noticed that he was actually chatting with two gossipy neighbors. He frowned and walked forward, leaning forward with a rather helpless tone:
"Otaki-senpai, I'm planning to simulate a eucalyptus outbreak. Could you please cooperate with me?"
"Hey? Okay, let's go then."
Fujiwara Yuu didn't leave immediately, but instead raised the yellow cordon. His expression didn't reveal why he said this:
"You two are also witnesses to this case. Come in together. Aren't you very interested in the case?"
"Really? You won't put us on the suspect list, will you?" As a neighbor living alone, Akimoto Miharu was quite cautious and alert. She didn't want to be arrested for just watching the fun. When she was listening to gossip, she heard that some policemen would use illegal means to intimidate innocent suspects and force confessions for the sake of performance.
"Don't worry, it won't happen."
Fujiwara Yuu naturally wouldn't say what was in his mind. You know, he has already put all the residents of the entire street on the suspect list, and there are exactly two of them here. Closely observing their facial expressions might help solve the case.
After everyone gathered in the living room, Fujiwara Yuu told Otaki Goro to just sit on the sofa and watch TV with the remote control. He didn't need to prepare anything else. He picked up Officer Otaki's phone, placed it on the coffee table, dialed his own number, and turned it on speakerphone.
[To be honest, I've been using Yeguo Reader to keep up with updates lately. It's easy to switch between sources, and has a variety of reading voices. .yeguoyuedu is available for both Android and Apple devices.]
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