Chapter 3268 3280 [Kudo Yukiko and Disguise]
Eri Kisaki looked at Yukiko Kudo in surprise, and subconsciously asked Jiang Xia: "She can actually speak the dialect there. Is Yukiko's hometown in Kochi Prefecture? How come I have never heard of it?"
Jiang Xia: “I haven’t heard of it either.”
"..."Hiki Eri slapped her forehead: Yes, these were all things that happened decades ago, and she actually came to ask a teenager.
Conan knew all about these things. During a break in the phone call with Hattori Heiji, he interrupted and said, "Her hometown is not in Kochi Prefecture. It's just that when she was an actor, she played a role whose hometown was in Kochi Prefecture, so she learned the dialect there - she is simply a genius in language..."
As he was speaking, Conan realized something belatedly and quickly added the source of the information: "I heard it from her fans!"
Jiang Xia looked at Kudo Yukiko. Language talent?
This neighbor aunt is indeed very talented in language, but seems to lack some talent in voice change - when Yukiko Kudo and Vermouth were both apprentices of Kuroba Toichi, they learned the art of disguise. Later, Vermouth could change her face and voice easily, but Yukiko Kudo had difficulty imitating other people's voices. Fortunately, she did learn a few tricks of the art of disguise, which could barely come in handy at critical moments.
Just as I was thinking about it, Kudo Yukiko chatted with the gardener in a difficult dialect for a while, then came back with her chin raised and jumped: "Xiao Jiangxia! Guess what I asked?"
Jiang Xia was distracted when he heard someone asking, and subconsciously said, "The gardener heard the sound of the window breaking first, and then heard the gunshot a few seconds later."
Kudo Yukiko: “?!!”
Conan: "!!!" What are you doing? ! Don't ask him nonsense! !
Hibiki Eri was also a little surprised, but unlike Kudo Yukiko who was far away abroad, this elite lawyer in Tokyo usually had more contact with Jiang Xia's cases. Some of the cases even came from her hands.
Knowing how amazing Jiang Xia's reasoning ability was, she didn't waste time asking "How did you know?" Instead, she was immediately attracted by the content of this sentence:
"The window shattered first, and then the gunshots? That's not right. The surveillance video clearly showed that there was no one else in the secret room except Fujieda Mikio. The murderer must have been standing outside the window and shooting at the victim..."
No matter how you think about it, in this situation, the bullet should have passed through the closed window, shattered the glass first, and then hit Fujieda Kan'ao... Because the bullet is very fast, the two sounds will be heard at the same time, so how could there be the sound of glass breaking first and then the sound of gunfire?
Kudo Yukiko also slowly came back to her senses from her surprise: Maybe Jiang Xia heard her conversation with the gardener and happened to understand the dialect there, or maybe Jiang Xia was purely deducing it. In any case... he was worthy of being the child she watched grow up, and he was so accurate in guessing riddles!
She decisively put the matter behind her and enthusiastically joined the reasoning discussion group in front of her: "It could be some kind of trick, or the gardener might have mixed up his memory, or it could be that the bad boys nearby are looking for trouble and are setting off firecrackers or smashing windows nearby."
She was just about to ask Jiang Xia which possibility he thought was the most likely, when Officer Takagi and Officer Chiba trotted in with their subordinates like two industrious little bees.
Officer Gao Mu spoke first: "Jiang Xia, Inspector! We have interviewed nearby residents, and it seems that no one has seen any suspicious persons in this area."
Officer Chiba brought another piece of news: "The forensic department said that the bullets that appeared with the other two threatening letters and the three bullets that shot the victim were all fired from the same pistol. It can be preliminarily concluded that those threatening letters were not pranks, and the sender is likely the murderer."
"Also..." Officer Chiba scratched his head, "Although we can confirm that the three bullets taken from the body were fired from the same pistol, for some reason, one of the bullets had a strange scratch on it."
Jiang Xia nodded: "In this case, the murderer should be..."
"!!" Conan had been alert when Jiang Xia answered Kudo Yukiko's question. Now, when he suddenly heard this beginning, he moved his fingers and put on the noise-canceling earplugs.
After doing this move that he had mastered with practice, Conan breathed a sigh of relief. Then he remembered something and looked at his phone with half sympathy and half expectation: He had successfully dodged it, but Hattori...
Um??
When did Hattori hang up the phone? !
You ran away after hearing the clue. How cunning! Come back here!
Conan pressed the redial button fiercely.
Then the plastic brother on the other side pressed the phone hard and hung up.
Conan: “…”
…
Jiang Xia glanced at the startled elementary school student next to him, and in the surprised look of Inspector Megure, he continued what he had just said: "In this case, the murderer should be very obvious."
Officer Takagi: “…” How could it be so obvious? How could he not see it at all… But never mind. Compared to such a small matter, it is more important to finish this case as soon as possible.
He immediately turned on the recording, took out his notebook, and began to listen attentively.
Jiang Xia was very considerate and made the recording very informative: "This murderer is very smart. He had already laid down the pawns to mislead us long before everything started - the two threatening letters with words like 'Watch out behind' and 'I'll send you to paradise soon', and the warhead, were not just threats, but also props to mislead us."
He looked at Officer Takagi and said, "Seeing these three things used as threats, what kind of murder method do you think the murderer will use?"
Officer Takagi was stunned for a moment: "Of course, it's like today, shooting Mr. Fujieda from the back."
Jiang Xia nodded and said, "Mr. Fujieda would relax in the audio-visual room every evening while listening to classical music and reading.
"If the murderer suddenly appeared outside the window of the audio-visual room during this process, as we imagined, and threatened him with a gun to put his hands down, he should have stood up in a panic or hurriedly dodged."
"But in fact, if you look closely at the scene, you can find a book with a bookmark on the desk in front of the deceased. The book is placed very neatly, and the bookmark is also very standard. It doesn't look like he threw it there in a panic, but just put it there normally after reading it."
"When you sit at your desk and read a book without moving, and want to take a break after reading a long paragraph, what do you usually do?"
Inspector Megure touched his chin and put himself in other people's shoes: "Rotate your neck, stretch your legs, or stretch your body... huh?!"
(End of this chapter)
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