Chapter 1477 [Busy Knitted Hat]
Next to her, the more Chizuru Tachikawa listened to this experience, the more familiar it sounded.
She recalled how she had knocked on the door to look for the deceased but was turned away. She suddenly realized that the person who responded to her in the bathroom was actually Edward. She couldn't help but roll up her sleeves: "...Who do you think is easy to fool?!"
Jiang Xia looked at the four suspects and randomly ranked them:
"In other words, the sequence of actions at the time was that the deceased's girlfriend, Ms. Amano, felt airsick and asked the flight attendant for airsickness medicine.
“Before the flight attendant went to get the medicine, the ‘sleeping deceased’ was still sitting next to Miss Amano, but when she came back with the medicine a minute later, there was no one next to Miss Amano.
“About 20 minutes after that, Mr. Edward went to the bathroom to trade with the deceased, but the deceased was already dead in the toilet.
"At this time, Miss Tachikawa also went to the bathroom to look for the deceased. When she knocked on the door, Mr. Edward knocked on the door from the inside and responded. Miss Tachikawa thought everything was normal and returned to her seat. Later, Mr. Edward also slipped back to his seat.
"And while all this was going on, Mr. Saginuma was sleeping."
Sagi Noboru nodded vigorously: "That's right!"
Edward frowned and looked at Jiang Xia: "The deceased was traveling with a group of four people. The other three just filled up a row. Only Lu Nu was sitting right behind the deceased. I will never remember it wrong.
"The only thing I didn't lie about is this - I did notice that the seat behind the deceased was empty. Saginuma definitely didn't stay in the seat the whole time. After all, the journey is so long, who can really sit there for ten hours?"
Sagi Noboru was unconvinced: "I just can!"
Jiang Xia's eyes immediately fell on them.
Unfortunately, this time, the battle was interrupted by the alert Inspector Yasa before it even started.
Jiang Xia sighed inwardly and looked at Edward:
"Mr. Saginuma has nothing to do with you. You paid attention to him because you were paying attention to the deceased who was about to trade with you, and in the process, you noticed Mr. Saginuma who was sitting right behind the deceased, right?"
Edward nodded once to indicate that this was indeed the case.
Jiang Xia: "The deceased wore a knitted hat on his head, and wore an eye mask and a blanket when he slept, with only his chin exposed. The lower half of the face of the deceased and Mr. Saginuma happened to be thin. The light in the cabin was very dim at the time. Are you really sure that the 'person sleeping in the seat' you saw at that time was the deceased, not Mr. Saginuma?"
Edward seemed to realize the problem, and his tone became hesitant: "But the person I saw was wearing the same knitted hat as the deceased, and the deceased's girlfriend was sitting next to him. If he is not the deceased himself, who else could he be?"
Jiang Xia: "It could also be Mr. Saginuma who is sleeping soundly with an eye mask, a blanket over his head, and a knitted hat on his head."
“…”
A group of people gradually realized something was wrong and looked at the deceased's girlfriend, the short-haired woman.
I remember that there was a knitted hat of the same style as the deceased's in her luggage.
Before, everyone thought that it was a couple's hat used to feed dog food.
But now it seems...
Jiang Xia rearranged the order:
"The seats on the side where the deceased was sitting were just enough for three people. Among them, Ms. Tachikawa was sitting closest to the window, the deceased was near the aisle, and the deceased's girlfriend, Ms. Amano, was sitting right between them.
"An hour or two ago, after her friend who sat by the window fell asleep, Miss Amano made an excuse to let her boyfriend go to the bathroom. Then she followed him, brought a handkerchief soaked in anesthetic, knocked the deceased down, and then stabbed the murder weapon into the back of his head.
“After killing the deceased, she did not return to her original seat, but crossed her seat and sat next to the sleeping Saginuma Noboru.
"She put a knitted hat on Saginuma and pulled up the blanket, dressing him up like a dead person - plus with her as his girlfriend, others would naturally mistake Saginuma for a dead person who was still alive.
"Afterwards, Ms. Amano pretended to be airsick, called the stewardess, and spoke to her through the sleeping deceased, so that she could become an eyewitness who could prove that the deceased was still alive at the time.
"After the stewardess went to get the motion sickness pills, Ms. Amano quickly put away her knitted hat, stood up and moved forward one row, returned to her seat, and then deliberately made some noise.
"The friend sitting by the window was awakened by her movement and found that the deceased's seat was empty. At this time, the stewardess also came back with medicine. So in the impression of both people, the deceased left and was killed after Miss Amano returned to her seat. Miss Amano therefore had an alibi.
"And Mr. Edward believed that Mr. Saginuma had left his seat, probably because when Ms. Amano was still sitting in the back row, the seats behind her and the fake 'dead person' happened to be empty.
“There are many empty seats on today’s planes, and as long as you reserve the seat you want in advance, the seat you need will be available.
"Also, Mr. Saginuma often takes various motion sickness pills and often tries new medicines given by his friends. As long as I slip him a sleeping pill secretly, he will fall into a deep sleep and won't be disturbed."
“…”
Inspector Yasa was stunned - not to mention the speed of solving the case, this young man seemed to be able to read minds. He filled in all the loopholes on his own before others raised any questions.
After finally waiting for a break, Inspector Yasa was about to ask about the missing film and the murder weapon.
But just as his lips moved, Jiang Xia glanced over and continued as if he had anticipated his question:
"After the murder, the killer used the mini scissors in his sewing kit to cut the victim's precious blackmail film into pieces and flushed it down the toilet, hoping to make people mistakenly believe that the film was taken by the killer, and then let the police investigate the motive of 'robbing the film'.
"During this process, a small piece of film was attached to Miss Amano due to static electricity, and was brought back to the seat next to Sagi Noboru." Jiang Xia patted Conan's head, "The film on the seat was taken by this child with a camera just now."
"I see." Inspector Yasa heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the result. "Where's the murder weapon?"
Jiang Xia: “…”
He was silent for a moment, then looked down at Conan.
Conan had a naive expression like a little kid and secretly moved back.
The blonde female police officer, who had been watching in silence, seemed to understand.
Her eyes fell on Amano's chest, and she suddenly spoke softly: "The wire loop in the underwear can be sharpened at one end to become a needle-shaped weapon. And its curved shape is equivalent to a natural handle.
"Put the person down on the toilet and use their body weight to push the sharp steel wire into the back of the head. The length of the wire is enough to penetrate the fatal area. The scratch on the back of the deceased's neck was caused by the other end of the steel wire ring rubbing the skin when it penetrated the back of the head."
(End of this chapter)
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