Chapter 2395 2407 [Kudo Shinichi has lost color]
Hattori Heiji struggled out of Toyama Kazuha's grasp with a look of frustration: after applying foundation and looking in the mirror, he felt that his disguise was perfect! So just now he had carefully thought about how to calmly and elegantly reveal that he was not "Kudo Shinichi"... But who knew that Jiang Xia, a detective with extremely keen observation skills, would recognize him as soon as he saw him.
"How can this be possible? What's wrong with me?!" Hattori Heiji wanted to struggle a little longer, but when he quietly took out the mirror and looked at himself, he fell silent.
——In the mirror, the foundation that he had carefully applied on his face had been rubbed into pieces by a classmate who was quite strong, completely revealing the unique skin color underneath.
“…”
After a moment's silence, Hattori Heiji took out his handkerchief in despair, wiped off all the remaining foundation, and then changed his hairstyle back to his usual style: "..." It's not a big problem, it was going to be exposed anyway. This is not a mistake in disguise, this... this is just part of the plan!
"It's really you. You're not staying in Osaka, but coming here to cause trouble for us." Beside him, Inspector Megure looked at the dark face, speechless.
He wanted to reprimand him a few more times, but then he remembered that the kid's father was the head of the Osaka Prefectural Police. After a moment's silence, Inspector Megure decided to get on with his job.
"Okay, let's continue investigating the case." He left the childish, dark-skinned high school student who loved to play pranks behind him and turned to the deceased's friends as if nothing had happened. "Judging from the paper cup used to hold the coffee, the drink the deceased drank before his death was bought from the stall over there?"
The nurse nodded, but soon she suddenly remembered something and shook her head seriously: "He ordered it, but he didn't buy it himself."
Next to her, the short-haired female clerk raised her hand carefully: "I bought all the drinks for us. I like coffee to begin with, and today I smelled the aroma coming from the stall over there as soon as I walked in, so I planned to buy a cup."
She pointed to a drink stand near the auditorium and said, "There are four of us here. I can't just order for myself, so I asked everyone what they wanted to drink. Then they went to find a seat, and I lined up to buy four drinks."
Hattori Heiji thought of the poor Tokyo classmate who was being watched by the organization, and decided to show his presence to help Kudo Shinichi divert attention. He began to doubt everything: "You bought the drinks and went straight back to your seat without doing anything extra?"
The female clerk was stunned for a moment, then realized what he meant. She waved her hands in fear: "It did take some time to line up, but as soon as I got the drink, I immediately went back to where everyone was - at that time, I was holding four drinks in my hands, so I couldn't do anything even if I wanted to!
"After meeting up with everyone, I gave the drinks to Mr. Mitani who was sitting next to me and asked them to share them. Then I went to the bathroom by myself."
"I see." Inspector Megure took out his notebook and wrote down some notes. Then he turned skillfully to Mr. Mitani mentioned by the previous suspect, who was the hospital security guard among the four people. "In other words, you were the one who handed the drink to the deceased?"
The security guard was alerted when he heard this. As a fellow Tokyo native, he was well aware of the current situation, so he quickly explained: "I didn't hand the coffee to him directly! The person sitting next to me was Yume, and next to Yume was the deceased Kohei. When the drinks were distributed, they were passed from person to person... I didn't poison him!"
"I see..." Inspector Megure's gaze fell on Miss "Meimeng" he mentioned, the fashionable female nurse.
The fashionable nurse was shocked. "Why are you looking at me? I didn't poison anything! At that time, Sangu handed me two drinks, one was my own orange juice, and the other was Kohei's coffee. My hands were both occupied, so I couldn't poison anything. And I just turned around and handed it to him right after I got the drink. The whole process took less than two seconds. I didn't even have time to open the lid of the cup!"
The security guard muttered, "Same here. You were watching me the whole time when I was getting the drink. I didn't have time to poison it."
The two looked at each other and instantly reached an agreement. The fashionable female nurse looked at the female clerk who was responsible for buying drinks before and said, "Although we all believe you, after thinking about it, only you had the opportunity to poison - the scene was very chaotic at the time, and we didn't notice whether you came back immediately after buying the drinks, or if you did something along the way."
The female clerk was not to be outdone: "Who said the poison must have been put in when the drinks were distributed? Kohei died some time after the play had begun. We all work in the hospital, and we know how quickly cyanide takes effect. If it were you, I would say that someone might have quietly put the poison in his cup while he was concentrating on watching the performance."
"To do this, you have to be very close to Kouhei." She raised her hand and pointed at the fashionable nurse. "You, who are sitting to Kouhei's left, undoubtedly meet this requirement. In addition..."
The female clerk waved her hand and decisively included Akai Shuichi in the list: "The same goes for the gentleman sitting on Kohei's right! Don't forget, when Kohei fell, he was holding onto his trouser legs tightly."
The other two were stunned at first, and then they suddenly realized.
——Why rush into internal strife? Isn't there a ready-made suspect?
"Think about it carefully. Kohei is a doctor." The security guard hesitated and spoke. This honest-looking man was very smart. "Although he has superb medical skills and is very talented, it is difficult to have a 100% success rate for any surgery. If the patient's family members are angry with him for this and find this opportunity to murder him, it seems reasonable."
The fashionable nurse quickly added, "In addition to family members, it could also be a lover or secret admirer who is not registered in the file - I suggest you check if there are any people around this gentleman who have died of a serious illness!"
In the blink of an eye, Akai Shuichi became the target of public criticism: "..."
He was silent for a moment, adjusted the hat on his head, and remained calm: It's not a big problem. In fact, when he saw Judy going in and out of the police station, he had already prepared himself for the current situation.
As for the countermeasures, Shuichi Akai already has an idea in mind.
Under the gaze of the police and several other suspects, he spoke calmly: "Everyone is a suspect and everyone may have a motive. Instead of wasting time guessing like now, it is better to find evidence first."
That's right, Shuichi Akai's countermeasure was: he never poisoned the deceased, and he believed that with his own vigilance, no one could force physical evidence on him to shamefully frame him.
In this situation, with the sharp-sighted detective Jiang Xia around, as long as he remains calm, his chances of escaping the police smoothly are actually quite high.
(End of this chapter)
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