Chapter 2808 2820 [Organization Secrets and Disks]
Mushroom-headed man listened to this exact description, his lips trembling slightly, and cold sweat sliding down his forehead: How can it be said as if the detective saw it with his own eyes... Think about it carefully, when he came to kill Itakura Taku that day, was there really no second person following him quietly?
As he was wavering, Jiang Xia on the other side continued, "Your watch should still have his fingerprints on it. Mr. Itakura has been missing for a while, and you just bought your watch a few days ago. This is enough to prove that you have been here during this period of time and have come into contact with Mr. Itakura."
“…”
Mushroom-head looked at the brand new watch and lowered his hands dejectedly.
After a moment, he wiped his face and smiled bitterly: "I thought what I had to do today was just to follow you to the hotel and witness my friend's death from illness'... It seems that I still underestimated the current detectives."
His words came from the bottom of his heart, but Inspector Megure had heard similar remarks countless times.
He waited as patiently as possible for the man to finish speaking, then stepped forward and said, "Please take off your watch. We need to send it for inspection."
"Take it." The mushroom-headed man had lost all his fighting spirit. He stretched out his hand with the watch on it and said self-deprecatingly, "If you check it carefully, you will find that the guy's fingerprints are all over this watch."
Inspector Megure: "..." Do you need to say that? Brother Jiang Xia has already said the same thing.
He waved his hand, and Officer Takagi walked forward, took the watch, and put it into the evidence bag.
The mushroom-headed man looked at this scene and sighed reluctantly: "This watch is really great. Even the picky guy Itakura Taku can't let it go. It's because of it that I have the opportunity to put sleeping pills in the wine and easily trick Itakura Taku."
Conan now got the disk he had been dreaming of, and just wanted to go back and check it as soon as possible.
But thinking that Itakura Taku was suspected to be on the Black Organization's list of people to be killed, he couldn't help but look at Mushroom Head a few more times and asked, "Why did you kill him?"
The mushroom-headed man looked out the window with a nostalgic look in his eyes: "Twenty years ago, Itakura was just an unknown software designer, and I was just a greenhorn who had just joined a software company."
"We met at the Shogi League's award ceremony, and later we often went to izakayas together to drink and dream - we wanted to design a powerful software that could beat all Shogi players after we became famous."
As he spoke, he looked at Jiang Xia: "When I came to you for the commission, didn't I say that I asked Itakura to customize a shogi software? Actually, it was not me who took the initiative to customize it, but a while ago, That guy Itakura suddenly contacted me and said, 'The time is ripe and we can make the software we agreed on.'
"I have been collecting chess records for him for 20 years, just for this exciting moment. When I heard that he was finally willing to make software, I was overjoyed. Not only did I give him all my savings, I also borrowed money from everywhere and finally raised the funds he asked for.
“I was eagerly waiting for the release of our dream software, but soon I found that I couldn’t contact him.
"I had a bad feeling at the time, but I could only comfort myself that he just wanted to delay for a few days like before. So I waited patiently... until he posted that video, I found out that he actually took three jobs at the same time - this was not a workload he could afford at all. The guy didn't even think about making software, he just wanted to run away with the money!
"I searched like crazy for his hiding place, and finally, with my understanding of him, I tricked him into revealing his location. With the last glimmer of hope, I went to his house to ask him about the chess software... but he told me to wait a little longer."
At this point, Mushroom Head sneered: "He has no sincerity in making software at all, so I used the excuse of going out to buy wine, sleeping pills and tape, and sent him to hell.
"You all know what happened next - two other people who were also deceived by him came to me and wanted to join forces with me to catch him and ask for the software.
"As we were chatting, they mentioned hiring a detective. Although I was not happy about it, in order to avoid suspicion, I had to pretend to agree and even offered to make some contributions to appear to have a clear conscience."
"But in a sense, I have a clear conscience and I don't regret killing him." He looked at the body lying on the ground and sighed silently, "20 years is enough time to change everyone beyond recognition."
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The murderer seemed to have a lot of story to tell, but the tired Inspector Megure didn't want to listen. When the other party finally finished speaking, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief, waved his hand, and asked his subordinates to take the man away.
After hearing the whole story, Conan came to his senses and secretly slipped towards the door.
As soon as he got out of the door, he ran all the way and slipped out the side door with the copy of the diary hidden on his body.
"Just now Jiang Xia seemed to be a little interested in this disk, but fortunately he was led away by the murder case. And now the murder case has come to an end..." Conan was running away while secretly calculating in his mind:
"I have to find out the secrets of the Black Organization in the disk before Jiang Xia remembers it again, and then hide it somewhere no one can find it, so that Jiang Xia won't know too much and follow in my footsteps."
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When the famous detective was busy running away.
On the other side, the hotel managers gathered downstairs nervously, discussing what happened today.
"It's fine if there's a murder, but the body has been in the house for two full days." The hotel manager felt a headache. "If this gets out, the whole floor will be considered a haunted house."
The other manager was well-informed and calmly said, "What are you afraid of? Our hotel is far from the city center. The incident happened suddenly and the reporters haven't had time to come yet. When they come, they will say that there was a drunk fight in the store and the details cannot be disclosed. If we delay for a day or so, when other murders occur, the reporters will have no time to stare at us."
"Great!" Others thought he was a genius.
Soon, all the staff on duty today were given strict instructions. For the sake of their own salaries and bonuses, the hotel staff worked together to deal with the incoming reporters.
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Meanwhile, Conan ran out into the street and jumped onto a passing bus.
"If I go home directly, Jiang Xia might stop me on the way." Conan held the disk in his hand, feeling guilty.
"I'll just take a random walk first. Jiang Xia is so busy. Once he goes to Uncle Maori and Dr. Agasa's house and finds that I'm not there, he will probably leave. Then I'll sneak back and check the disk.
"After reading it, I immediately memorized everything in my head and hid the disk where no one could find it."
(End of this chapter)
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