Chapter 3240 3252 [Bad Friend] Asking for a monthly ticket (づど)
Hideo Goda was still immersed in some kind of shock and hadn't come back to his senses. He was in a slightly depressed mood at this moment.
But now, apparently no one cared about his mood. Noticing the suspicious gazes of the policemen, he had no choice but to speak: "A while ago, I borrowed some money from Mrs. Izuki. She came to me today to collect the debt."
"After all, I owe her a favor. I know that Mrs. Izuki really likes an out-of-print movie, so I specially borrowed the videotape from a friend to give it to her to express my gratitude to her."
"I didn't expect Mrs. Chu Yue to be so impatient that she wanted to watch it right then and there. It just so happened that I had a video room at home, so she came into my room and started watching the movie."
"The detective and I continued to do our work elsewhere. After a while, we suddenly heard the sound of a vase breaking in the house, and then the sound of someone running away. Someone rushed out the door."
"When we heard the noise, I and the detectives rushed over and found that the vase on the shoe cabinet was gone. When we opened the door to the audio-visual room, we saw Mrs. Izuki lying on the ground with a bloody head... Alas, why did this happen?"
Officer Takagi quickly remembered it, and then he came to his senses and felt that something seemed wrong: "Speaking of which, why are Jiang Xia and Mr. Amuro in your house?"
The other police officers were also startled: Yes, why is Mr. Jiang Xia here? Although they all assumed that a detective would suddenly appear at the crime scene, but today...
Jiang Xia: "Of course it's because of a commission - Mr. Hutian lost something and wants us to go to his house to look for it."
"I see." Sato Miwako was a little confused. "But why did they invite such a famous detective like you just to find something that was lost at home?"
Hideo Goda smiled bitterly, "I was just desperate and looked for a detective agency that was in business, but I didn't expect... Why does Jiang Xia work at the Amuro Detective Agency? This doesn't make sense."
Amuro Toru: "..." What's unreasonable about this? Can you be more careful with your words? You really deserve a beating.
Next to him, Calvados didn't care at all about the name of the detective agency. He was looking at Toru Amuro with some surprise. He didn't expect to see this colleague from the organization here.
Calvados: "..." Although his relationship with Bourbon was not very good, some time ago, he even suspected that this black man had stolen the custom-made pistol he gave to his goddess outside a public toilet... But at this moment, surrounded by a group of police officers, he suddenly saw an acquaintance who shared the same position, and Calvados suddenly felt a sense of intimacy.
Amuro Toru was keenly aware of his gaze and looked back: "......?" What are you looking at? I am not like you, an outlaw...
Behind the two people.
A hidden gaze looked at this and that, as if thinking about something.
Conan: "..." Is this an illusion? I feel like these two people know each other... Wait, Vodka and this "Mr. Yamaguchi" have worked together before, so Mr. Yamaguchi is most likely a member of the organization, and if he knows Toru Amuro...
"Could it be that my premonition has come true?" Conan's heart skipped a beat. "Is this boss really not a good person?"
The police knew nothing of what the mini detective was worried about.
Rather than the vague and mysterious organization, their current attention is completely focused on the current case.
As the crime scene, all the lights in the audio-visual room were turned on.
Officer Takagi, wearing gloves, walked to the body and carefully took out a videotape from her left hand. "The deceased held the videotape in her left hand and the remote control of the machine in her right hand... It seems that this was the movie she was watching before she died."
Inspector Megure nodded: "Put it in and see."
Officer Takagi inserted the videotape, and soon, the image began to play on the screen - cherry blossoms floated up on the black screen, and a title consisting of several white letters "Sakura Sanjuro" appeared in front of everyone.
Jiang Xia pressed the pause button and took out the videotape: "It seems that after the whole movie was finished, it automatically rewound to the beginning."
"No wonder the deceased was in that position." Inspector Megure nodded. "She must have seen the movie was over, so she wanted to take out the videotape, but when she squatted down, someone hit her on the back of the head with a vase from behind."
He looked at Hideo Goda - cases of borrowers murdering their creditors were not uncommon, and no matter how you looked at it, this landlord was the biggest suspect.
Inspector Megure asked him seriously, "Where were you when Mrs. Izuki was attacked?"
Hideo Goda thought for a moment and pointed to the other side: "I was in the bathroom with Mr. Jiang Xia and others at that time. They helped me find my wife's lost watch in the washing machine. I was very happy when I suddenly heard the noise outside."
Inspector Megure was stunned: "So... you have an eyewitness?"
And the person involved is actually an eyewitness of Jiang Xia’s importance!
He looked at Jiang Xia inquiringly: "This Mr. Hutian, has he really been with you all along?"
"That's the case most of the time." Jiang Xia said strictly, "But there was a period of time when he went to the kitchen with Boss Amuro to prepare sandwiches, so he wasn't always with me."
"This..." Inspector Megure had no choice but to look at Amuro Toru again - he didn't know why, he was just a little-known detective, but every time he faced Jiang Xia's mixed-race boss, he felt a little scared in his heart.
But now, after all, he had to ask for testimony, so he could only put aside the strange feeling in his heart and asked, "Have you two been together since you entered the kitchen?"
"Of course not." Amuro Toru denied it mercilessly, "We ran out of coffee beans on the way, and Mr. Goda went to the storage room to look for it for a long time. During that time, I was the only one in the kitchen."
"Oh?" Officer Megure looked at Goda Hideo suspiciously again, "Where is the kitchen? Take us over there to have a look."
Hideo Gota had no choice but to walk to the other side of the living room: "It's right here."
When they entered the kitchen, Sato Miwako suddenly discovered something.
She walked to the stove, opened an inconspicuous door, and then discovered that two or three meters away from the door was the audio-visual room where the murder took place.
"So close? And Mr. Amuro was in the kitchen, Jiang Xia and Conan were in the living room, and the location of the audio-visual room was a blind spot for all of them." The policewoman touched her chin and looked at Goda Hideo with a sharp gaze:
"Could it be that you sneaked out from here under the pretext of looking for coffee beans and knocked Mrs. Izuki to death?"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
