Chapter 18441852 [The Awakening of the Rice Flower People]
Although Takamori Masumi didn't even go to high school, she had read a lot of case reports and had some ideas about solving the case. She said before that she was a fan of Jiang Xia, which was not entirely a lie. She had indeed read a lot of cases about Jiang Xia, and she had envied this classmate who went to the same school as her and was said to have been a delinquent, but now took a completely different path.
If he met Jiang Xia by chance at other times, Takamori Masumi would definitely be happy to go up to her and reminisce about the past, or even ask for an autograph or a photo.
But now, looking at this detective from the perspective of a criminal...
As soon as Jiang Xia's face appeared in Takamori Masumi's mind, he couldn't help but shiver as if he had met his natural enemy.
"...Don't think too much about whether it's Jiang Xia or not, just focus on the main thing!" Takamori Masumi warned himself in his heart, "Now there are two clues. One is that the murderer wants to kill Miss Naoko, so he must have a grudge against Miss Naoko. The second is that the murderer has experience in making wedding dresses and can steal the body data from the headquarters."
"Someone who meets both of these criteria..."
Masumi Takamori's eyes fell on the young assistant, and he drew up a list of suspicions in his mind: "Kirishama Sayoko, she came to the station to pick up my assistant and Jiang Xia's assistant... Although Kirishama is just a trainee designer and has no competition with the company's veteran Miss Naoko, she is often reprimanded by Naoko, so it is normal for her to have hatred. Moreover, she can make wedding dresses and steal data from the headquarters - suspicious, very suspicious!"
After selecting a suspect, Masumi Takamori went to look at the next batch: "In fact, if Miss Naoko died, it would benefit the competitors, that is, Rokujo Company the most. After all, President Rokujo was still alive at that time, and they had a great hope of winning the fashion show.
"But it's hard for people from Rokujo to get our company's body data... Oh, there must be a traitor. I'd better focus on my own side."
Masumi Takamori's eyes soon fell on Vice President Inukai Yosuke again: "Although everyone calls him Vice President, he hasn't been officially promoted yet. It's just that President Inozuka has been very optimistic about him recently, so everyone calls him that. But in fact, there is a great possibility that Miss Naoko will be promoted to Vice President. In the past, these two people often clashed over various company policies... Miss Naoko is dead, and he must be one of the biggest beneficiaries."
"And Mr. Inozuka..."
Masumi Takamori's gaze fell on the other side of the restaurant.
Seeing the last person sitting there, she shook her head. "It can't be Mr. Inozuka. Although he looks like a bad guy and has the same temperament, he has sponsored many people like me who want to change their lives. He also transferred them to suitable new jobs when they became adults. He is a misunderstood good man... After those people started their new lives, they never came back to visit the company. They are really ungrateful. I don't know how they are doing now."
As I was muttering to myself, suddenly a few shadows appeared beside me.
"?" Takamori Masumi's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly had a bad feeling.
She slowly turned her head, and a face that could make her heart stop in every sense jumped into her eyes. Takamori Masumi couldn't help but cover her heart: "Jiang, Jiang Xia, good morning, ahaha."
Jiang Xia nodded slightly at her as a greeting.
Suzuki Sonoko looked at her with mixed feelings: "..." Masumi actually likes Jiang Xia so much.
She thought those fans who said their stomachs and hearts ached after seeing their idols were just exaggerating, but she didn't expect that there were actually such people. Masumi is really...
What a good vision!
Suzuki Sonoko sat down with relief: "Good morning, what did you eat? Wow, this bread smells so good, I'll get one too."
After saying that, she stood up and left again.
Masumi Takamori looked at this classmate who came and went like the wind and was speechless for a moment.
But she soon came to her senses, turned to Jiang Xia again, and said politely: "I'm so sorry, I wanted to let you experience this beautiful villa, but I didn't expect something like this to happen."... Learn your lesson quickly and don't hang around on weekdays.
Jiang Xia smiled considerately and said, "It's okay. I don't hate the various cases around me. The injustice of the deceased needs someone to help redress it."
"..." Takamori Masumi's mind flashed with the faces of her ex-boyfriend and President Rokujo, and her smile froze. "Haha, you're such a good person. It's an honor for everyone in Tokyo to have you."
Conan jumped onto the stool and sat down. Using his identity as a primary school student, he interrupted the polite exchange between adults and said, "How strange! When did the murderer put the poison in the wine glass?"
Takamori Masumi looked at him suddenly: "...What?"
Conan said in an exaggerated childish tone: "Before the banquet started yesterday, didn't Brother Jiang Xia pick up a wine glass? Later, we suddenly remembered that the wine glass was placed on Miss Naoko's seat. It happened to be the poisoned glass. Thanks to you for taking the wine glass from Brother Jiang Xia, otherwise he might have been the poisoned person. He really loves to eat random things."
"..." Jiang Xiabang knocked on the elementary school student's head with a finger: If you want to express your murderous intent, then express your murderous intent, but don't bring any ulterior motives.
He brought the topic back to the right track: "The forensic report issued by the police wrote something strange - there was only the victim's fingerprint on the wine glass."
Takamori Masumi didn't quite understand what they were trying to say, but he couldn't just not react, as that would be too suspicious.
She had no choice but to act like a high school girl who was interested in the case, and she made random guesses based on Jiang Xia's words: "Why is it strange? This is very normal - ah, that's right! The murderer must have poisoned the wine after we left. In order not to reveal his identity, he wiped the glass after poisoning it, and wiped off our fingerprints as well. That's why there are only the fingerprints of Miss Naoko and Mr. Rokujo on the wine glass!"
Jiang Xia looked at her and said nothing.
After several seconds, when Takamori Masumi's heartbeat became more and more intense and he could no longer control his cold sweat, the detective finally nodded and said gently, "Indeed."
…
It looks like it was muddled.
However, Masumi Takamori did not relax at all.
After breakfast, she made an excuse that she had a stomachache and fled back to her room.
As soon as she entered the room, she sat down on the floor along the door in dejection: "They must have suspected me, so they said such things. Why did I leave immediately after killing my ex-boyfriend? If I had left a little later, I wouldn't have met Jiang Xia and the others. If I hadn't met Jiang Xia, I wouldn't have been so flustered to hand them the ticket. If I hadn't handed them the ticket..."
jingle--!!
The ringing of an old telephone suddenly rang through the room, interrupting Takamori Masumi's reflections.
(End of this chapter)
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