Chapter 2860 2872 [Low-key and Hidden] Asking for monthly ticketsヽ(〃〃)~
"That is to say..." Inspector Otaki understood, "The bride did not die after the groom, but died in the wooden house right after she left the wedding banquet!"
Once you grasp this point, the clue will immediately appear.
Inspector Otaki was in a good mood. He turned to look at the bride's brother and asked, "When you sent her back, did you see any suspicious people?"
"...Uncle Otaki." Hattori Heiji rubbed his face speechlessly, "You might as well change your question to, 'Did you kill her directly when you sent her back?'"
Everyone in the room: "!"
The bride’s brother: “?!”
Jiang Xia looked at him and said, "I remember that you had a large loan. Your motive for murder was probably this money. As long as the groom dies first, your sister will inherit most of his property. And your sister only has you as a relative. As long as your sister dies soon after, all the property will naturally be yours."
The bride's brother was sweating profusely. He gritted his teeth and said, "I just borrowed some money from outside. How long do you want to nag about such a small matter?! - Use your brains to think about it! My sister has married into a wealthy family. How can I be short of money? After the marriage, my sister can just give me some money from her fingers, and I can pay off the loans. How can I kill them for this!"
Jiang Xia: "What you just said should be your original plan. But unfortunately, your sister knows your character very well and does not intend to use the man's money to pay off your debt.
"Your plan failed, and you were furious and humiliated, so you had to think of another way to pay the money back - as long as the groom died first and your sister followed closely, then their huge fortune would fall into your hands.
"Tonight, you tampered with your sister's drink first, and when she felt unwell and had to leave early, you could naturally send her back to the cabin.
"After helping her onto the bed, you shot her with a pillow under you to reduce the noise and also to prevent yourself from getting splashed with blood.
“After killing her, you took her cell phone, left the villa with a gun, and hurried back to the wedding reception.
"Then you return to the dinner as if nothing had happened, and find an opportunity to use the bride's phone to send the groom a message to arrange a meeting.
"The groom arrived at the parking lot as scheduled, but he didn't see the bride. He only saw you waiting there with a gun. You killed him in the same way you killed your sister."
At this point, he suddenly turned around and looked at Calvados who was brought by Inspector Otaki:
"When you killed the groom, the bullet pierced his body and flew to the path behind the parking lot. And this... Mr. Yamaguchi? That's his name, right?"
"Mr. Yamaguchi happened to be passing by pushing a tool cart, and your bullet hit the wooden box he was pushing, leaving several fragments."
Jiang Xia smiled at the gloomy man in front of him and said, "You are really lucky - if you had walked a step faster, the bullet would have hit your body."
...So that's how it is?
Hattori Heiji and Conan could not see the murderous aura of the teething stick floating up from the air. They looked at each other in surprise and asked the "Mr. Yamaguchi" in unison: "You were almost hit by a bullet, why didn't you call the police?!"
Calvados: “…”
As an organizational cadre walking in the dark, it is his instinct to avoid contact with the police.
And tonight, as the "third person" who had a brush with the murderer and was nearly killed, if he makes this matter public, he will inevitably become an important witness and will probably be surrounded by the police for some time to come.
So, relying on the darkness and the blind spot of surveillance there, after noticing the shooting nearby, Calvados did not hesitate, let go of the tool cart and ran to the nearby bushes - as a professional sniper, he knew very well how to avoid sight from the parking lot.
Just as he hid, the murderer rushed over with a gun in hand. The gunman seemed to want to kill someone passing by, but he didn't see anyone, so he felt guilty and fled in a hurry.
After he left, Calvados pushed the cart as if nothing had happened and continued walking towards the warehouse.
They thought they could get away with it, but as they investigated, the police shifted their focus from the relatives to the staff. And the cause of all this...
Thinking of what Officer Otaki had just said, "Thanks to the ideas you provided just now!", he looked towards Jiang Xia dimly, with murderous intent in his eyes: Sure enough, this detective is incompatible with their organization and should be eliminated as soon as possible.
...Unfortunately, it was not the right time yet. Right now, instead of eliminating the detective, he should get out of this mess of troubles first.
Thinking of this, Calvados silently noted down the account.
Then he began his simple and powerful defense: "I didn't see clearly who the murderer was, and I was worried that he would kill me if I told him, so I didn't say anything."
Conan: “…”
Hattori Heiji: "..."
After walking around the manor just now, they also thought of the murderer's method of killing.
The reason why they didn't rush to solve the case was because there was one thing they hadn't figured out yet - what role did the debris that fell near the groom's death scene and the passerby play in the whole case?
If he was the murderer's helper, his presence seemed too weak, and the murderer had already planned everything and did not need help.
And if he was just an unlucky passerby, then he wouldn't have called the police, but why didn't he say a word about his experience, as if nothing had happened? - This doesn't make sense at all.
And now, the answer was revealed before their eyes.
——It was just because I was timid and afraid of trouble.
"You..." Hattori Heiji stared at this tight-lipped guy, veins throbbing in his forehead: You look like a tough guy who would rather die than surrender, but you are so cowardly? You can't judge a person by his appearance!
Inspector Otaki has seen all kinds of people, so he understands this kind of behavior. His attention quickly returned to the case itself: "Since there is an eyewitness, that's even better - although we can't see the murderer's face clearly, at least we can prove the time when the murderer was killed. Jiang Xia's reasoning is indeed correct!"
"Wait, what do you mean by right?" The bride's brother looked at the police detectives and witnesses who were talking to themselves and interrupted their pleasant conversation:
"Have you forgotten one thing? If I remember correctly, the murder weapon that killed them was found on the other side of the river. After I sent my sister back, I never went to the other side. If the murderer was really me, what could I use to kill the groom? This doesn't make sense at all!"
(End of this chapter)
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