Chapter 1488 1496 [Wanted Okiya Subaru] Ask for monthly ticket (づど)
Inspector Yassa glanced at his men.
The young subordinate understood and whispered in his ear: "'Gothic Lolita' is a popular outfit recently. The style is rather strange - it's the kind of clothes the dead person was wearing."
Another female police officer overheard and corrected her, saying, "Gothic lolita clothing has been popular for quite some time, but it's not very popular here, so people of Inspector Yasa's age don't know about it."
Inspector Yasa, who is over 40 years old: "..."
Humph, what do you mean by “people of this age”? Forty is clearly the prime of life!
He didn't bother to argue with his subordinates and continued to do his business. He stared at the two ice cream bandits with a gloomy look: "The deceased is indeed dressed like this, so what?"
One of the ice cream bandits remembered something, rubbed his stomach, and looked unhappy:
"When we got there, the Asian man just came out of the public toilet. And before him, the lady in gothic lolita clothes just came out of the toilet.
"The man looked at her several times, then he touched his neck, and the expression on his face became very scary - we didn't dare to look at him anymore and left quickly... Believe me, that guy definitely has a violent tendency! He must have caught up with the lady, brought her back to the public toilet, and finally killed her!"
Inspector Yassa: "...violent tendencies?"
He recalled the appearance of the deceased - except for the fatal strangulation mark on her neck, she had no other injuries and had not been beaten. This did not match the situation emphasized by the ice cream robbers.
However, in terms of time...
Inspector Yassa: "When did you see them in the public toilet?"
The Ice Cream Bandits hesitated: "I don't remember. Our, uh, our work is quite flexible and we don't really care about the time. I just remember it was around noon."
"Noon?" Inspector Yasa's eyes narrowed - the time of death of the deceased was exactly between 12:30 and 1:30. By this calculation, the Asian man was indeed very suspicious!
In any case, this is an extremely important clue.
Inspector Yasa carefully asked about the characteristics of the "brutal and terrifying Asian man" and asked his subordinates to organize people to find the man as soon as possible - perhaps this will be an important step for him to defeat the young Tokyo detective.
…
Inspector Yasa assigned the personnel and asked them to intensify their efforts to search for the mysterious Asian man.
Then he returned to the crime scene as if nothing had happened.
When Inspector Yasa entered the public toilet, his eyes twitched slightly - while he was out chasing someone, Jiang Xia had actually become familiar with his subordinates.
At this time, the foreign detectives were getting together with the sheriff. Sheriff Anna flipped through her notebook and shared with Jiang Xia what her subordinates had found:
"The time of death was probably between 12:30 and 1:30. The victim was a Japanese resident in London. His name was... "
Jiang Xia looked at the string of Roman letters and read it out for her: "久緒米纮."
"Yes, that's right, that's the pronunciation!" Anna nudged him with her elbow and praised him generously, "You're amazing!"
Inspector Yasa: "..." What's so great about this? I didn't hear you praise me for being good when I spoke English!
He walked over and interrupted his enthusiastic subordinates: "Stop mumbling and hurry up and do your work!"
After sending Sheriff Anna away, Inspector Yasa turned around and looked at the compartment where the body was.
The evidence collection has not yet been completed, and the deceased is still sitting on the toilet lid.
Inspector Yasser glanced inside and his eyes quickly fell on the neck of the dead woman. The dead young woman's skin was pale, and in contrast, the dark marks on her neck were very conspicuous.
Huihara Ai was still following Jiang Xia around the scene. Although she was not very interested in the murder case, there was nothing else she could do at the moment.
So soon, she also looked at the corpse.
When her eyes fell on the scratches that were almost perpendicular to the strangulation marks, Huihara Ai sighed softly: "Such obvious Yoshikawa lines, it seems that she struggled for a long time. She is still so young, it's really pitiful."
Mao Lilan had gradually gotten used to the mature appearance of this little girl, so her attention was attracted by another familiar word: "Yoshikawa Line?"
Conan nodded and explained, "When a person is strangled, they will desperately pull the rope around their neck to free it, driven by the desire to survive. But the rope is often strangled very deeply and embedded in the flesh.
"In order to grab the rope, the deceased scratched hard, inevitably scratching his neck, and even scratching deep scars. Yoshikawa Sumichi, who served as the head of the surveillance section of the Metropolitan Police Department during the Taisho period, was the first to point out the meaning of these scratches, so later police called it the 'Yoshikawa Line'."
Mao Lilan was no longer shocked by the amount of knowledge the children had, and said numbly, "...So that's how it is."
Inspector Yasa couldn't help but twitch his eyes and glanced over here: "..." Tokyo's children are too outrageous. What kind of education do they usually receive? Detectives start from first graders?
...Or is it that only the child next to Jiang Xia was instilled with this skill?
At this moment, a voice suddenly floated over: "By the way, Inspector."
"Huh?" Inspector Yasa suddenly came to his senses and looked in the direction of the sound.
Jiang Xia pointed at the dead man and said, "We seemed to have seen this person at noon."
"You saw her at noon?" Inspector Yasa was stunned. "Are you sure?!"
Jiang Xia nodded: "We won a 50% discount coupon for a coffee shop in the west in the lottery. When we went to take a break and eat, she also went to the store. It's about fifteen minutes away from here."
Inspector Yasa didn't expect that Jiang Xia would be related to this case.
The next moment, the "suspicious Asian" mentioned by the two ice cream robbers flashed through his mind. He suddenly had some guess and looked at Jiang Xia abruptly.
...Then he silently looked away.
Inspector Yasa: “…” No, according to the description of the Ice Cream Bandits, Jiang Xia and the “brutal Asian man” don’t quite match each other, so they should not be the same person.
After coming to this conclusion, for a moment, he didn't know whether to be glad or regretful.
Just as he was thinking, Jiang Xia suddenly asked in a low voice: "What's wrong? Are you hiding something important?"
“?!”
Inspector Yasa's thoughts were revealed, and he suddenly felt guilty when he recalled the clues he had previously obtained from the ice cream robbers.
But soon, he tried to make himself sound justified and snorted, "I didn't hide anything!"
...This kind of case-related secrets should not be told to outsiders.
And why should he feel guilty about a detective who is visiting? He is a local police inspector!
(End of this chapter)
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