Chapter 2449 2461 [The Scapegoat] Ask for a monthly ticket ()
"If it's really like what you said, then the lives of these two sisters are really completely different." Inspector Megure came back with a cup of coffee. He obviously heard what Maori Kogoro said just now, and said with emotion:
"According to our investigation, Ms. Sakihara Kei has always been a law-abiding person since she grew up. Not long after graduation, she married her colleague and then quit her job to become a housewife.
"On the other hand, her sister, Miss Kuanmei, only got into a junior college. After graduation, she has been working as a freelancer and has no fixed romantic partner. She often goes to parties with other equally idle people and lives a casual life that makes her parents very worried... Alas, I really don't know why sisters who grew up in the same family have such completely different personalities."
As he was speaking, Officer Sato walked out from the lounge nearby.
She handed Jiang Xia a cup of coffee, and then handed over the portrait drawn by the technician: "This is the portrait of the suspect restored based on Miss Sakihara's description..." Halfway through her words, she caught a glimpse of Inspector Megure next to her, and she suddenly realized that she seemed to be too handy.
After a pause, Sato Miwako cleared her throat and changed the subject as if nothing had happened: "I heard that you passed by the crime scene before - have you seen anyone like this nearby?"
"Let me see!" Conan jumped onto Kogoro Mouri's back, climbed high, and stretched his neck to look at the portrait in Jiang Xia's hand.
He fell silent as soon as he finished reading it.
"If you don't look at the eyes, this is Vodka himself. Is it true that appearance reflects the heart, and this is the common characteristic of lawless criminals?" Conan thought of something and suddenly laughed, "If the police took this portrait to search and arrested Vodka who passed by, things would be interesting. It would be best if they could give him a gin as a gift... Alas, it's a pity that those guys are mysterious and it's not easy to run into them."
Conan sighed, shook his head, and refocused himself on the case at hand.
"The uncle in the portrait..." Conan said in a child's tone, "looks a lot like a reckless speeding driver we met nearby, except that he was wearing sunglasses and his eyes were not exposed."
Maori Kogoro was a former policeman, so he knew exactly what Inspector Megure wanted to ask. He said solemnly, "We met this man about ten minutes before we arrived at the crime scene. We were in an alley about 500 meters away from the explosion site."
Inspector Megure nodded repeatedly, feeling that with the help of his brothers, the case became clear all of a sudden: "That is to say, this guy installed the bomb and was hurriedly fleeing the scene when you happened to meet him - do you remember the license plate number?"
Jiang Xia: "It's a red RV with a Shinjuku city license plate."
He took the notebook handed to him by the police officer next to him and wrote the license number on it.
After thinking for a moment, the detective added rigorously: "Some criminals are very cunning and will change the license plate before and after committing a crime, or even directly change the vehicle - don't be confused by just this one search point."
The police officers immediately decided to expand the search area again: "Okay!"
With a clear search direction, the police officers set out with great enthusiasm.
Inspector Megure was hesitating whether to join the search team, when at this moment, hurried footsteps were heard in the corridor.
A well-dressed, handsome office worker came running over. He looked a little sad, and he pulled the nurse next to him and asked, "Where's Xiaohui? Is my wife, Sakihara Hui, here? - How is she doing now?"
Jiang Xia glanced over there and asked Inspector Megure: "Who is this?"
"It should be Miss Sakihara's husband. I just asked Sato to notify her family." Inspector Megure walked over to confirm, "Are you Mr. Sakihara Kazuo?"
Sakihara Kazuo responded anxiously, "I just heard from the police that my wife was involved in a car explosion, and now she is..."
Inspector Megure: "Don't worry, your wife is fine."
Sakihara Kazuo was startled: "Ah?"
Conan: “?”
...Isn't this guy's reaction a little strange?
Just as I was thinking about it, I saw Inspector Megure said again: "Unfortunately, her sister was at the center of the explosion and died."
Sakihara Kazuo was shocked: "What?! Kuanmei actually..."
As soon as he finished speaking, he came back to his senses and awkwardly changed his address: "I, I mean... why did my sister-in-law, uh, why did she die?"
Inspector Megure touched his chin, feeling that the victim's family was a little strange, but he still answered the other party's question politely: "Because someone planted a bomb in your wife's car. When Miss Kuanmei was helping her reverse the car, she unfortunately touched the mechanism and caused the explosion."
As he spoke, he took the portrait of the suspect next to him and asked: "Do you have any impression of this person?"
Kazuo Sakihara looked at the highly realistic figure on the sketch paper, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his forehead: "I, I don't know him."
Inspector Megure looked suspicious: "But your expression doesn't look like that."
Sakihara Kazuo wiped his face vigorously, avoiding his gaze: "I just think this guy looks ferocious, so I'm a little scared..."
Maybe he felt that this excuse was a bit far-fetched. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind: "Just now, yes, just now, I saw him!"
Inspector Megure was stunned and couldn't believe it: "Really?"
Conan was also stunned: judging from the man’s reaction just now, he thought that this man was having an affair with his young and lively sister-in-law, so he hired a killer to kill his honest and dutiful wife, but ended up killing his lover by mistake... But now, this man is actually willing to give out the killer?
Conan: "..." I always feel something is strange... Is he trying to deliberately provide a wrong clue to disrupt the police investigation?
However, no matter how suspicious they are, they must listen to the clues that come to their doorstep.
At the signal from Inspector Megure, Kazuo Sakihara said very actively: "It's in the parking lot of this hospital! Just now when I parked the car, I suddenly found that there was someone in the car next to me.
"That man was sitting in the car, looking out the door of the hospital. When he saw a group of police officers passing by, he shrank back as if he was avoiding something. Officer, it's not that I'm suspicious, but that guy looks strange no matter how I look at him. I guess he is the murderer. The reason why he acted so strangely is that he was so bold that he wanted to follow me to confirm whether my wife was dead or not."
Jiang Xia: “…”
The person outside in the parking lot who was afraid to walk or get out of the car... This should be referring to his shy colleague.
It is likely that after Kazuo Sakihara encountered Vodka, he found that Vodka looked very similar to the murderer who planted the bomb, so when he was questioned by the police, he decisively brought out the former...
(End of this chapter)
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