Chapter 24222434 [Solving the Case]
Jiang Xia glanced in the direction of the locker room: "Just like what the other detective demonstrated just now, when you were kissing Mr. Ohba, he put one hand behind your neck and pressed hard on your ear. And his other hand..."
He stretched out his hand and pointed at the elevator button: "Press the door open button here. The pre-lubricated door silently opened behind you, and while you were indulging in intimacy, Mr. Ohba used his free right hand to draw his gun and shoot, killing the president who was standing in the elevator at the time.
"The shooting was deliberately timed to coincide with the start of the memorial reception. The cheers and the sound of paper salutes at the reception could effectively mask the sound of the silenced gunshot and the sound of the bodies falling to the ground.
"And if the elevator door is left unattended for a period of time, it will automatically close, hiding the body in this VIP elevator that few people use. When you come to your senses after the kiss, all you see is an ordinary elevator."
Tatsumi Sakurako's pupils trembled when she heard this. She instinctively wanted to refute, but she felt that these words seemed to make sense. Once the matter was pointed out, all the details that were ignored at the time seemed to become clear in her mind again.
Minister Ohba saw that the situation was not good and snorted coldly: "You have a good imagination, but no matter how much you like to make up stories, you should respect the facts."
He strode forward and gestured the speed of the elevator: "When Sakurako and I were kissing, more than a minute had passed since the president got on the elevator. This time was long enough for the president to take the elevator back downstairs. Even if I really took the opportunity to press the elevator door, I would only be faced with an empty elevator. The president is not a fool. How could he stand there and wait for me to kill him? Your reasoning is totally untenable!"
Jiang Xia looked at him and said, "President Tatsumi certainly won't wait there just to be murdered by you, but if it's for another reason, he won't mind waiting in the elevator for a while longer.
"——You suggested to the president in advance that he should pretend to be unwell and leave early, but suddenly show up at the reception wearing the souvenir clothes to give the employees a surprise.
"Whether the employees thought it was a surprise or not, the president readily accepted this idea, which sounded very interesting. So he used the excuse of feeling unwell to get on the elevator alone and did not press other floors. Instead, he quietly waited in the elevator for you, his accomplice, to bring him the souvenir clothes.
"The reason why the deceased's clothes had been undone was because he was preparing to change his clothes. It's just a pity that what the president was waiting for was not a loyal employee who came to him with souvenir clothes, but a fatal bullet."
"I see!" Inspector Megure had been wondering for a long time but couldn't get a word in. When he heard this, he suddenly felt that everything made sense. "When the elevator reaches a new floor and before the door opens, it will make a 'ding' sound. But if it has been parked on this floor, then even if someone outside presses the door closing button, it will not make another prompt before opening the door... No wonder Miss Tatsumi was not startled by similar sounds when the crime happened."
"How is that possible? Mr. Ohba would never do such a thing!" Tatsumi Sakurako turned to look at Ohba Satoru expectantly, and then was slightly stunned by the other's expression, "...Uh, you wouldn't, right?"
"Ah? Yes, of course." Ohba Satoru took a deep breath, envisioned a happy life with his lovely wife in his arms and a large inheritance, and said firmly, "Don't forget, I don't have any reaction to gunpowder! If it is true as you said, I must have been stained with gunpowder splashed after the shooting, but the police clearly didn't detect it just now. This is the ironclad evidence that I am not the murderer!"
Jiang Xia thought of the eye-catching pink star frog and raised his hand to press his eye sockets: "This has to start with the mascot that you favored so much--"
He turned and looked behind Ohba Satoru.
Ohba Satoru was startled and looked over suspiciously. When he saw what was behind him, his face suddenly changed.
——The big pink frog with a peculiar aesthetic that not many people were willing to approach was actually carried over by two policemen.
When the frog landed, Jiang Xia walked over, put on the gloves purchased with the organization's funds, squatted down and helped the police to twist open one of the frog's eyes.
The big black and white plastic eye tilted to the side, revealing a black and white mass inside - inside was a wrinkled plastic bag, and inside the plastic bag was a pitch-black glove. In addition, there were a few light yellow rubber bands scattered next to the glove.
"This is the tool you use to avoid the smoke reaction." Jiang Xia handed these things to the forensic police officer next to him, and then looked back at the livid Ohba Satoru:
"You put the gun and gloves in a plastic bag, then tie the bag with a rubber band to make a 'gun glove' that is easy to wear.
"Before the elevator door opened, you reached into this unique glove and grasped the handle of the gun. As soon as the elevator door opened, you immediately used it to shoot the president who appeared through the door.
“The smoke from the shooting is blocked by the plastic bag and does not splash on you, and the bullet shells also fall into it, so there is no need to specially recover them.
"Wearing something like this on your hand certainly attracts attention, but you had already considered this. Before the incident, you dimmed the light in front of the elevator on the pretext that 'a darker corridor would be more conducive to the surprise appearance of the president in a mascot suit.' This way, even if you were a little slower in retrieving the gun, Ms. Tatsumi, who was present at the time, would not notice it."
Jiang Xia looked at Tatsumi Sakurako's neck again: "He gave you this necklace tonight so that you could go to the bathroom to adjust it. While you were putting on the necklace and touching up your makeup, Mr. Ohba took the opportunity to throw the gun into the garbage channel near the handwashing machine, and it fell into the garbage collection point underground."
Inspector Megure was very happy, and he felt like he was getting off work. He said to his subordinates, "Check the fingerprints on this plastic bag immediately! As for you..."
He turned to Obara and was about to seriously ask this guy to go back with him to the Metropolitan Police Department to cooperate with the investigation. However, when he looked closely, he found that the murderer was actually smiling.
Inspector Megure was stunned for a moment: "What are you laughing at?"
"Even if there are my fingerprints on the plastic bag, does that prove that I'm the murderer?" Ohba Satoru felt the pleasure of a successful hunter, leisurely harvesting his own prey. He turned to one of the male members and said, "There are not only my fingerprints on the plastic bag, but also yours, right?"
The male member was stunned at first, and then broke out in a cold sweat: "That's true, but, but I didn't kill anyone!"
Inspector Megure realized something was wrong. He frowned and asked the passerby who suddenly appeared: "What's going on? Are you his accomplice?"
(End of this chapter)
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