Chapter 3590 3602 [Random Bombing] Requesting Monthly Tickets ()
Officer Sato looked at the shop owner's wife, who seemed suspicious from head to toe, and didn't press her further: things had come to this point, and questioning alone was no longer effective; evidence was needed to get the murderer to continue talking and close this case.
As for where the evidence is...
Looking at the trash dumped in the parking lot, the officer silently took out a mask, put it on, and then said to his subordinates, "Go find it! The murder weapon is very likely among this trash."
"Yes, sir!" the young officers replied reluctantly, rolling up their sleeves to rummage through the trash. But then, they remembered something and paused slightly. "So, officer... what exactly do you need to find?"
“Of course it is…” Officer Sato paused halfway through his sentence, his gaze drifting silently to Jiang Xia: she then realized that she didn’t seem to understand what the murder weapon actually was.
Fortunately, Jiang Xia caught her gaze and naturally followed up on her words, saying, "A blue wire hanger is probably a bit deformed."
Store manager's wife: "?!"
...
The entire site was covered in trash, and the officers, each with a large bag of garbage, pinched their noses and began searching through it.
Officer Takagi stared at his notebook for a while, then slapped his forehead, realizing that he was missing an alibi.
He turned to the shop manager's wife and asked, "Mrs. Goto, where were you and what were you doing between 8 and 11 pm last night? Can anyone testify to that?"
"What do you mean by that!" The shop manager's wife's voice suddenly rose, forcing a smile as she retorted, "Do you suspect that I killed Mika? -- Don't be ridiculous, why would I kill my own star employee!"
Conan looked at the two high school girls, only to find that Sonoko Suzuki and Ran Mouri were completely unaware of what was happening here, and were instead surrounding Ms. Jodie, continuing to ask her something.
He glanced at Jiang Xia again and saw that Jiang Xia was also looking left and right, her attention completely off the shop manager's wife.
"..."
Why is the killer in this case so low in the public eye?
There were four witnesses in total, but three of them weren't doing anything productive. Conan didn't want to let any of the murderers get away, so he had to speak up himself. He looked at the shop manager's wife and said, "Didn't you just argue with that dead hairdresser yesterday? She wanted to switch jobs, but you wouldn't allow it and said you would never let her leave easily."
The shop manager's wife stammered, "I... I did say that, but I..."
Seeing her like this, Officer Takagi nodded slightly: We have a motive, but no alibi, and the murder weapon will be found soon... It's about time to bring her back to the police station.
He looked at Mrs. Goto: "It's not convenient to talk here. Why don't you come to the Metropolitan Police Department? We have some other questions we'd like to ask you."
The store manager's wife's expression changed.
After all, she's getting on in years, and she's seen quite a few cases over the years: if she were taken to the Metropolitan Police Department now, things would get complicated.
“I refuse,” she said sternly.
"I dropped everything to come here and cooperate with your investigation. You've already wasted a lot of my time. How much longer are you going to waste?"
"In the end, you don't even have any evidence. You think you can accuse me of being the murderer just because I had a few words with the deceased? If you want to talk about motive..."
She suddenly raised her hand and pointed at Judy: "Compared to me, that perverted teacher who was caught peeping at teacher-student erotic comics by Mika is more suspicious—maybe Mika used that incident to threaten her, and that's why she killed Mika in a fit of rage!"
Amuro Tooru secretly moved the car forward a little, eavesdropping intently, when he suddenly heard this sentence.
He glanced at the store manager's wife, then at Judy, and briefly fell into thought.
He thought Jodie had infiltrated Teitan High School purely to investigate Vermouth, but now... there's something else going on?
"No wonder Judy is more often seen around these high school students who are close to Jiang Xia than 'Dr. Araide'..."
The aroma of coffee wafted up: "These FBI agents, they're all the same..."
...
far away.
"None of these police officers are good people."
A man with binoculars gazed at the unobstructed parking lot. Watching the police officers rummaging through the trash, he gave a cold smile, gripped the detonator, and said, "Blowing you up will be doing a service to the people."
...
Next to the parking lot.
Amuro Tooru suddenly sneezed, a vague sense of foreboding creeping over him.
He temporarily shifted his gaze from the deranged FBI agent and cautiously looked around. To his shock, he discovered a dark figure in a small alley across the parking lot.
He was a young man with a full head of curly hair, wearing a black suit, black sunglasses, and a black tie. He was leaning against the wall, one hand in his pocket, the other tossing something that looked like a remote control up and down.
The two men looked at each other, and the man in black suddenly smiled at him, clenched his fingers, grasped the remote control, and pressed his thumb on the detonation button.
Toru Amuro: "?!"
Fireworks, detonators, a man resembling Uzo, garbage covering the parking lot, and police officers painstakingly rummaging through garbage bags...
A series of materials flashed through his mind, instantly forming a bloody script.
Amuro Tooru kicked open the car door, jumped out, and rushed towards the man who looked exactly like Matsuda Jinpei. He shouted to Jiang Xia and the police, "Get out of the garbage bag, there's a bomb inside!"
A group of people in the parking lot: "?!"
James and Judy reacted the fastest, grabbing the nearest person and rolling away.
The police officers paused for a moment, then looked up at the figure that had dashed off like a black lightning bolt to the other side: Who is this person? What does the bomb mean?
Officer Sato was also somewhat bewildered: What do you mean there was a bomb in the garbage bag? Isn't this just an ordinary strangulation case with the only unusual aspect being the murder weapon? Why is it being linked to a bomb?
Despite her confusion, she figured it was better to be safe than sorry, so she immediately waved her hand and shouted, "Run!"
On a distant building, the bomber stared blankly at the scene. After a moment, he came to his senses and, before the police could escape, gritted his teeth and pressed the detonation button.
At the same time, seeing Amuro Tooru gritting his teeth and charging towards him, the figure in black smiled, pressed down with his thumb, and calmly activated the detonator.
Boom boom boom boom boom!!!
A series of explosions rang out.
Amuro Tooru's pupils contracted sharply, and he turned around abruptly to look at the parking lot where the explosion had occurred.
The scenes of exploding flames, shattered roads, and police officers scattered in the flames... none of these appeared.
— One by one, the garbage bags burst open with a bang, but what exploded were not bombs, but colorful paper ribbons.
Confetti billowed up, drifting in the air before slowly falling and landing on the heads and bodies of the stunned police officers.
Toru Amuro: "...?"
The bomber in the distance: "???"
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