Chapter 3552, 3564 [Eavesdropping from the Corner]
Mr. Shirakawa glanced at his haggard-looking son and snorted coldly, "Consider this a lesson—never date a woman like that again. Go find a respectable young lady with no criminal record."
“What do you mean by ‘that kind of woman’?” Shirakawa Noriyuki argued softly, “Tae is a good person…”
Mr. Shirakawa rolled his eyes and went to talk to the others.
Shirakawa Noriyuki's confidante rushed over and whispered words of comfort to him.
As the two were talking, they suddenly noticed a figure beside them. They looked up in surprise and saw a somewhat familiar face.
"You are..." Konno Yuri recognized her first, and exclaimed in surprise, "You're that high school detective who often appears on TV?"
Jiang Xia nodded, slowly gathering clues from them: "Mr. Shirakawa just said that the deceased had a criminal record? What exactly happened?"
Konno Yuri looked at the corpse beside her and sighed: "President Shirakawa must be talking about what happened last year—a year ago, a car accident occurred in this parking lot of Ms. Aizawa."
"She hit a little boy while driving, and that's why she was fired from the shopping mall."
Officer Sato suddenly remembered something and whispered to Jiang Xia, "I heard Yumi mention this to me—the child was playing soccer in the parking lot while waiting for his mother. When the driver drove by, the child suddenly emerged from the shadow of the vehicle and was unfortunately hit."
"Although the incident occurred in a parking lot and the speed was not actually too fast, both people were very unlucky - the little boy was hit in a vital area and unfortunately died."
"I think the child's name was Sakurai Akira. Yumi had a lot of trouble dealing with that car accident, and she talked about it to me a lot back then."
Kogoro Mouri shook his head and grabbed Conan, who was standing next to him: "Did you hear me? You're not allowed to run around, and don't play with your crappy soccer ball in the street. If you get hit, I won't care."
Conan silently struggled for a moment: "..." Why would I play soccer in the parking lot? Unless there's an organization executive nearby, and I'm about to kick him with the soccer ball...
Vermouth, who was eavesdropping in the distance, felt a chill run down her spine for some reason. Her expression hardened slightly, and she shrank further into the shadow of the pillar.
This action was somewhat unnecessary, as no one else had seen her. Everyone's attention was undoubtedly still focused on the case at hand.
“A car accident…” Sonoko Suzuki stroked her chin, her sharp eyes shining like a protagonist’s. “A year ago, the deceased killed someone in this underground parking lot, and a year later, she died here again… It’s too much of a coincidence. There must be something fishy going on!”
Vermouth: "..." What's going on? Is this Suzuki family's daughter really going to become Uzo's spokesperson?
Inspector Megure sensed something amiss with his younger brother and leaned closer to ask, "What's going on?"
Sonoko Suzuki was still immersed in the morning's paranormal events when she heard this and said quietly, "Of course it's a ghost—after that little boy was hit and killed, he was too resentful to be reincarnated, so he stayed in this parking lot, ready to take away the poor woman who hit him."
Mumu Police Department: "..."
He silently turned and walked away, rubbing his nose as he did so: "Let's not sniff around anymore, let's just wait for Brother Jiang Xia to solve the case."
He turned to look at Jiang Xia, only to find that his younger brother Jiang Xia, on whom he had placed high hopes, was looking left and right, seemingly not in a hurry to solve the case.
After reprimanding Conan, Kogoro Mouri actually took on the role of detective with some professionalism. He looked at the deceased's boyfriend and asked, "Excuse me, how tall is your father?"
Sato and the others seemed to have mentioned before that the perpetrator of this series of attacks was about 1.5 meters tall—and looking around the room, the one with the closest height among the four suspects was the short and stocky President Shirakawa.
Although President Shirakawa's son was confused, he wiped away his tears and honestly replied when someone asked, "I remember my father's medical report said he was a little over 1.5 meters tall, but I don't remember the exact number."
"I see." Kogoro Mouri then asked the remaining three, "And you?"
Noriyuki Shirakawa: "I'm 173cm."
His confidante: "I'm 144."
Security guard: "I'm 167cm tall."
"Oh?" Kogoro Mouri made a meaningful sound, then leaned close to Inspector Megure's ear and whispered, "In that case, that company president is very suspicious."
Inspector Megure nodded: "He arranged to meet here with his son and the deceased—that way, he would know approximately when the deceased would appear in this parking lot, and thus be able to bypass security and attack the deceased."
Officer Sato glanced at the two senior police officers who seemed to be getting along very well, and asked with some confusion, "What about the three victims earlier?"
"Of course, it's to cover our tracks!" Kogoro Mouri chuckled, a glint of wisdom in his eyes.
"He had long been very dissatisfied with his son's girlfriend, and in order to prevent the deceased from marrying into his family, President Shirakawa decided to kill the woman."
"However, at the same time, considering that the police would quickly trace the investigation back to him if they investigated based on the motive, President Shirakawa, based on his daughter-in-law's characteristics, sought out women with the same makeup to attack, wanting to disguise everything as a series of incidents and thus cover up his true motive!"
Officer Sato paused, then said, "This... seems to make sense."
She then looked at the deceased's boyfriend and began checking his alibi: "I remember you arranged to meet your father and girlfriend tonight—did your father go on time?"
“No.” Shirakawa Noriyuki shook his head sadly. “My father didn’t show up even after the agreed time had passed, so I asked Tae to check if his car was in the underground parking lot. I waited at the restaurant to make sure I didn’t miss him. But I waited for a long time, and neither my father nor Tae showed up. And then…”
Looking at his girlfriend's body beside him, tears streamed down his face once again.
Beside him, his confidante grew increasingly suspicious as she listened. After a moment's hesitation, she whispered to Officer Sato, "Do you suspect President Shirakawa is the murderer?"
Shirakawa Kiichi, who was crying, was stunned and said angrily, "How could my father have killed Tae!"
Inspector Megure quickly waved his hand: "Don't worry, we're just conducting a routine inquiry—because the other victims said the assailant was around 1.5 meters tall, so..."
"Other victims?" Shirakawa Noriyuki was stunned, then even angrier. "There were other victims? Could it be that Tae really died in the recent series of attacks?!"
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