Chapter 367: Strange Charm Increases (Combined Chapter)
Although there has never been a clear rule, in this world, generally speaking, before the person who first points out the murderer has finished reasoning, no matter how many loopholes there are in his reasoning, others can only question it and cannot interrupt and start a new reasoning.
Vermouth also had this default idea in his mind.
Therefore, after she interrupted Jiang Xia's words, she thought that Wu Zuo would not have the opportunity to frame her in the short term.
——Fortunately, it happened suddenly, and Wu Zuo didn't have time to make thorough preparations. Besides, it wasn't that easy for her to be arrested... Vermouth smiled at Jiang Xia.
Jiang Xia smiled back subconsciously, feeling even more confused.
I didn’t expect that Vermouth has a hobby of solving cases... or did she remember that Toru Amuro is a private detective, so she is playing this role professionally?
Jiang Xia touched the murderous aura in his arms and the mermaid who was clinging to the murderous aura and refused to let go without much feeling.
At present, he does not need to rush to increase his popularity. On the contrary, in order to make more criminals dare to come to him as eyewitnesses, he even has to control his reputation in solving cases... In this case, if Vermouth wants to solve the case, let her do it. Anyway, we have both the murderous aura and the shikigami today, so there is no need to add another worker.
Inspector Megure didn't have too many doubts - Brother Jiang Xia solved the case so quickly, and as the boss of his agency, Toru Amuro wouldn't be bad either.
He approached skillfully and asked for details: "Brother Amuro, the murderer you mentioned...?"
"Toru Amuro" smiled mysteriously like a serious detective, turned and walked towards the warehouse.
A group of people followed and saw Matsui Hidehiro, who played Godmera, sitting on the ground in the warehouse, covering the wound on his leg, waiting for the stretcher to come upstairs.
Vermouth walked straight up to him.
When Matsui Hidehiro realized something was wrong and looked up in panic, she suddenly squatted down, raised her hand, and used a knife that was hidden somewhere to cut open the tight gauze on the wound.
At the same time, she tore open a piece of the cloth that was cut by the knife, revealing the blood-stained wound inside.
This behavior is really out of line in the eyes of law-abiding police officers.
Honest Officer Takagi was stunned and ran forward to stop it.
But suddenly, "Amuro Toru" raised his eyebrows in understanding, raised his hand and gestured: "This shape and angle don't look like the wound caused by a sudden attack, not to mention the location of the stab wound.
"Rather than what Mr. Matsui said, 'I saw a knife-wielding Godmera after entering the warehouse and was stabbed by it in panic,' it seems more like he stabbed himself to get rid of suspicion."
As Vermouth was talking, she suddenly had the feeling that she was cosplaying as Jiang Xia or Kudo Shinichi.
She subconsciously looked at Jiang Xia, savoring it for a moment, and felt it was very good.
The rest of the conversation went more and more smoothly: "The truth should be that after Mr. Matsumoto came to the warehouse, he poured the blood plasma from the studio on his legs, pretending to be injured, and then showed the children a way to the crime scene.
“Once the kids leave, he can just follow the warehouse down the corridor and get to the studio before the kids with short legs and kill Producer Kamei in front of them—if he follows that path, he might find some fake blood splatters.
"Then he created the illusion that 'Gomera' ran to the rooftop but fell down in flames, and then returned to the warehouse to actually stab himself, so that witnesses would think that he had stayed in the warehouse after being injured, and that the murderer was someone else."
Having said that, Vermouth suddenly thought of something and paused slightly.
...If this was a spur-of-the-moment guidance by Usa, then where did the knife that Matsui Hidehiro used to kill producer Kamei and the knife that he used to stab himself in the leg come from?
Vermouth wanted to stop and think carefully.
But at this moment, as she was the center of reasoning, everyone was staring at her intently; this was not a good time to think.
Because the timing and characters are too coincidental, Vermouth is currently convinced that "Uzo directed this incident."
Under this premise, she relied on her brain's reasoning instinct and the principle of suspecting her neighbor of stealing her axe to fill the gap in an instant.
——Hidehiro Matsui may have had the idea of killing producer Kamei for a long time, but he was hesitant and unable to make a decision. There are countless people like this who have already bought the murder tools but have been unable to make up their minds to do it.
If this was also the case with Matsui, then it would be very reasonable for him to hide a knife in the studio.
As for the other knife...
When she checked the wound just now, she always felt that the shape, length and depth of the wound did not match the sharp knife that fell downstairs with the monster suit.
In addition, although Matsui was bleeding, his injury was not serious... So it seems that the wound, which was not deep or sharp enough, might have been caused by a smaller knife.
Thinking of this, Vermouth nodded secretly: the whole thing is consistent, the logic and motivation are complete, so there is no big problem.
Next, all we need to do is find the second knife and everything will be clear.
…
After Vermouth sorted out her thoughts, she left behind the pale-faced Matsui Hidehiro and pulled over the weapons box next to her that contained many knife models.
She was immersed in her own thoughts. She smiled up at the police officer from the forensic department next to her and touched the officer's gloves. "Here, please lend it to me."
The police officer was stunned by her touch: What's going on? The boss of this detective agency is obviously a man, but inexplicably he seems to be full of charm in every move...
After Vermouth asked for the gloves, she lowered her head to look at the knife box, wanting to determine the approximate position of the knives with her naked eyes to avoid being scratched later.
After watching for a few seconds, the gloves still didn't appear.
Puzzled, she raised her head again and asked, "Hmm? Is it not possible?"
"Ah, no, but this is a bit dangerous. How about I go and look for it?" The police officer from the forensic department barely came to his senses and had a little bit of professionalism.
Vermouth hesitated and shook her head.
...Not everyone carries a knife with them, or can easily find one.
She was worried that if Matsui Hidehiro's props were really insufficient, then in order to eliminate "Vermouth", the organization leader who posed a threat to him and Kudo Shinichi, Usa might take the risk of crossing the line and no longer care about hiding himself, and hand over the knife on his body to Matsui Hidehiro for use.
...If that's really the case, then let her find the knife, and she'll still have a chance to erase the evidence of Uzo's involvement.
…
However, the plan was going well, but the forensic police officer was touching his gloves, hesitant.
Vermouth thought that this man was quite principled.
She was wearing the smiling face of "Amuro Toru" and was about to ask for someone else.
But at this moment, the genuine Amuro Toru, who had approached at some point in time, had a sullen face, pulled out a pair of gloves from Jiang Xia's pocket, and threw them at her face.
Vermouth raised her hand to block and barely caught it.
She snorted coldly, frowned and looked at Bourbon, then was slightly surprised to find that Bourbon had a pair of gloves on his hands.
Looking at Uzo who was busy putting his inside-out pockets back in, Vermouth's expression eased slightly and she unfolded her gloves and put them on.
She reached into the knife box and rummaged around for a moment, quickly pushing aside the other prop knives and finding her target.
It was a fruit knife with a plastic handle and an old shell.
The silver blade had obviously been carefully wiped, and no blood could be seen with the naked eye. However, a little blood could be seen where the blade met the blade, as well as in the simple pattern on the handle.
Vermouth was a little surprised, this was different from her worst-case scenario - "Uzo's pocket knife".
This should be the knife that Matsui Hidehiro got himself.
After taking a closer look, the knife looked more and more familiar. Soon, Vermouth remembered that it was a fruit knife in the employee lounge, usually placed by the sink for employees to use at will.
The knife is small in size and dull in color, making it very suitable to be hidden in this knife box. Even if Matsui Hidehiro is unable to take it out in time, people who see this knife will find it difficult to associate a small knife with a murder weapon. They may even think that someone has used the knife and carelessly put it into the box.
When Matsui Hidehiro saw the fruit knife that he had not had time to do much with, and heard "Amuro Toru" recreate his key action just now, he leaned back dejectedly.
He raised his hands to cover his face and said with a sarcastic smile: "Yes, I killed him."
…
After a heartfelt confession, the police took away Matsui Hidehiro.
When Matsui Hidehiro was lifted up from the ground, Jiang Xia stepped forward and patted his shoulder sympathetically, gave him some mass-produced inspirational quotes, and picked up the shikigami hanging on Matsui.
While going downstairs with the police, Jiang Xia flattened the shikigami and put it away with satisfaction, then remembered his gloves.
At this time, a group of people had already arrived at the entrance of the cinema.
Jiang Xia turned around to look for "Amuro Toru", but after searching for a long time, he saw that there was only the genuine Amuro Toru left at the scene.
Vermouth had left without anyone noticing.
All the murderous aura that could be removed from Vermouth's body had already been removed by the ghosts just now, so at this moment, there were no ghosts hanging on her body, and Jiang Xia didn't know where she had gone.
I just know that she is not nearby, otherwise the ghosts would still be able to sense her remaining murderous aura... I guess Vermouth left in the chaos in order to avoid contact with the police.
Jiang Xia thought about Vermouth who had just been stripped of all her clothes, and was not in a hurry to look for her gloves. He decided to wait a few days until her murderous aura had grown back before asking for them back.
His attention quickly shifted elsewhere.
——Kojima Genta suddenly tiptoed up to him, looked at him evasively, not daring to look him in the face.
The other two children were still crying as they looked at the wreckage of Godmera nearby. Conan was confirming some details of the reasoning with Matsui Hideho. Amuro Toru had already gotten into the police car and seemed ready to take the statement.
There was no one else around for a while.
Jiang Xia looked down at Kojima Genta.
He thought the kid was a little afraid of him, but he didn't expect Yuantai to suddenly become so brave. Something out of the ordinary must be murderous...
Jiang Xia asked with a hint of curiosity: "What's wrong?"
Yuan Tai took a deep breath, then suddenly put his hands together, bowed to Jiang Xia and said, "I've already played with you, please let me go!"
Jiang Xia: “……?”
Did he do anything to this rice ball head kid? ...Although he did imagine some efficient ways to use the Junior Detective Team, he probably never put them into practice in the end.
...Could it be that while sleepwalking one day, I went to Kojima Genta's house?
No, he wouldn't sleepwalk. If he really did, the ghosts would tell him... Jiang Xia thought about it, and looked at his ghosts with a guilty conscience, trying to confirm.
Then he got the feedback he wanted - he really didn't have the habit of sleepwalking, and he had been staying quietly in bed at night for the past two weeks, and had never gone out to look for innocent children.
Jiang Xia suddenly became calm and asked Kojima Genta: "Why do you say that suddenly?"
Kojima Genta looked at him timidly and found that Jiang Xia was indeed confused, so he also became confused.
He scratched the back of his head and said hesitantly in a low voice: "When I passed through the bridge tunnel a few days ago, I heard strange footsteps following me from behind. When I was getting off the overpass, I was pushed..."
At this point, Kojima Yuantai discovered something was wrong a few days later.
...If Brother Jiang Xia wanted to beat him, it doesn't seem necessary to go through so much trouble?
Jiang Xia glanced at Yuan Tai’s silly face.
In fact, when Jiang Xia heard Yuan Tai say that he was being followed, he realized that this simple and lovely elementary school student might have brought him another case.
Because in Jiang Xia’s spoiler library, there is a similar memory - he remembers that once, when Kojima Genta was getting a haircut sleepily in the hair salon, a wanted criminal was sitting next to him.
A few days later, Yuantai saw the wanted poster, recognized the man, and wanted to call the police, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him.
Not long after, another case happened near Yuantai's home. When he went to watch, he saw a yellow-haired man in the crowd.
Yuantai vaguely remembered that when he saw the wanted criminal, the yellow-haired guy was also sitting next to him. He therefore thought that the yellow-haired brother must have also seen the wanted criminal, so he grabbed the yellow-haired guy and wanted to provide information to the police together with him.
However, Huangmao is actually the criminal on the wanted list.
He went to the barber shop that day just to change his hairstyle.
After being recognized by Yuantai, the yellow-haired wanted criminal found an excuse to fool the police and hurried away.
After that, he began to look for opportunities to create accidents in order to kill Genta Kojima.
Jiang Xia was just thinking about it when the mermaid who was most sensitive to murderous intent suddenly pulled him and pointed at the distance.
...murderous intent?
Jiang Xia turned his head slightly and looked over with his peripheral vision. He vaguely caught a glimpse of a man with murderous aura under the shade of a tree across the street.
The man was sneaky, his yellow hair shining in the sunlight. It was unknown whether he had been following Kojima Genta, or if he passed by here and was attracted by the police car and saw Genta.
In short, although the murderous aura on this person is of average quality, it is worthwhile to pick up this murderous aura on the way home from get off work...
Thinking of this, Jiang Xia's focus fell back on Kojima Genta: "Go back, don't worry about this anymore."
"..." Kojima Genta seemed to be hesitant to speak.
In fact, until now, he still hasn't figured out whether it was Jiang Xia who was following him.
But since Jiang Xia had said so, Yuan Tai did not dare to ask. In the end, he just nodded timidly and walked home with Mitsuhiko and Ayumi.
(End of this chapter)
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