Chapter 436: Good News at the Opening
The Junior Detective Team was about to start taking statements.
A man followed the police officer into the office.
He was a man who looked somewhat old, with a broad, square face. He kept looking at the gold watch on his wrist, paying special attention to the time.
"Mr. Masuo?" Officer Sato was slightly startled when he saw him. "Didn't your wife say that in the afternoon..."
"We did agree to come together," Manager Masuo said quickly, "but I have something to deal with at the bank today, so my wife and I agreed to meet directly at the police station - she hasn't arrived yet?"
"...Not yet." Sato Miwako was a little confused.
What she actually wanted to say just now was, "Didn't your wife say that you would come over at 3 o'clock in the afternoon?" - This was the time that Mrs. Masuuo had agreed with them.
But now, from what Mr. Masu'o said, it seems that he and his wife have made an appointment to come together at 2 o'clock.
Although the two people's words were somewhat contradictory, Officer Sato thought that Mrs. Masuo's dazed look before might be the wife who had just been taken hostage and was frightened and remembered it wrongly. Or the couple did not have time to discuss it.
Officer Sato was about to remind store manager Masuo to go find his wife to ask about the situation.
At this time, Masuo Kei had already taken out his cell phone consciously: "I'll ask her if she has gone out."
As he spoke, he turned on the speakerphone of his cell phone and placed it on the table. Then he freed his hands, fumbled for a handkerchief and wiped his face.
He moved very slowly. Before he finished wiping, he could already hear Mrs. Masuo's voice on the other end of the phone through the speakerphone:
"Hello? Honey, what's up?"
Manager Zengwei picked up the phone, and the corners of his mouth, which were covered by a handkerchief, slowly stretched into a sinister smile, but quickly retracted it.
He found an excuse to let Sato talk to Mrs. Masuo for a few words, and then took the phone himself - in this way, when his wife was "assassinated" next, he would be at the police station and would have a solid alibi.
…
At two o'clock, Jiang Xia closed the door of the detective agency, picked up the cat, and prepared to go find the client "Shibata Kayo".
The address she sent me wasn't too far from here. If we set off now and step on the accelerator a few more times on the way, we'd be able to arrive at the agreed time of 2:10.
Although he couldn't associate anything with the name "Shibata Kayo", this special connection made Jiang Xia feel that a surprise was waiting for him.
So it is best to do it exactly as the client's wife requested - not a second earlier, not a second later, if it is 2:10, then it is 2:10. This is to avoid disturbing others by some of my own self-willed actions...
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The Masuo family.
Kayo Masuo continued to pedal her exercise bike while carefully talking on the phone to her husband.
Her wariness of her husband, and the gradually increasing pressure of the exercise bike, prevented her from noticing the increasing resistance under her feet.
——In a place where Masuo Kayo didn't notice, a fishing line was pre-connected to the axle of the wheel.
The other end of the fishing line extended behind her - there was a bookcase behind the exercise bike, and the fishing line was connected to the top of the tall bookcase.
As the exercise bike runs, the fishing line is drawn into the wheels and the cabinet behind it is pulled and tilted.
Finally, the bookshelf lost its balance and suddenly fell on Masuo Kayo who was on the exercise bike. A flash of cold light passed by - a dagger was secretly placed on the top of the cabinet.
Masuo Kayo heard a strange noise behind her and turned around suddenly, just in time to see the bookcase pressing down on her.
She let out a terrified scream as the dagger pierced deep into her back. She fell to the ground and gradually became silent.
On the other side of the phone.
Everyone in the Metropolitan Police Department was startled by the sudden scream.
Conan stared at the phone from which the scream came. A gleam appeared on his glasses and his expression gradually changed from sleepy to serious.
Miwako Sato snatched the phone from the store manager Masuo: "Mrs. Masuo? What's wrong?"
Manager Masuo also tried to suppress his happiness and shouted worriedly: "Kayo!!"
There was no response from the other end of the line. Mrs. Masuo didn't make a sound.
Everyone in the police station looked at each other and remembered the gangster whose face was suspected to have been seen by Mrs. Masuo when he kidnapped her three days ago. They suspected that Masuo Kayo was being targeted.
…
Soon, a police car drove towards Masuo's house.
In addition to the anxious store manager Masuo, there were two policemen, Sato and Takagi, and...
A primary school student wearing glasses sneaked onto the bus when no one was paying attention.
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2:09:01 PM.
Jiang Xia took out his car keys and walked quickly from the nearest parking lot to the address left for him by "Shibata Kayo".
And knocked on the door at 2:10 sharp.
A minute passed and no one answered the door.
Jiang Xia was just about to go to the other side of the road and wait, when he saw a flash of white passing by out of the corner of his eye.
When I looked down, I saw a new Shikigami floating out from the crack of the door.
Suddenly he found a psychic blocking the way. The Shikigami clung to the door frame for a moment and froze, then moved to the side little by little, followed the wall to bypass Jiang Xia, and continued to float slowly towards the distance.
Jiang Xia: “…”
All the shikigami have run out, it seems someone is gone.
Follow the detective's procedure, find a way to confirm the scene, try to rescue the deceased, and then call the police to start the fast forward.
Of course, it would be best if the murderer hasn't left yet, just hold him down and beat him up...
The residents of this house seemed to be particularly concerned about safety, and a rare wire mesh was placed on the wall, which made it difficult to stand on. It was not easy to climb over directly.
But there is a tree outside the courtyard wall.
Jiang Xia stood on tiptoe to look around, then glanced at the two words "Zengwei" on the doorplate. After thinking for a moment, he turned around and left the main entrance, preparing to go in from the side to take a look.
If "Shibata" is replaced with "Masuo", the name "Masuo Kayo" would be something he could associate with.
If it was the case he remembered, then Mrs. Masuo would have passed away around 2 o'clock.
There are surveillance cameras in Toru Amuro's detective agency, and Jiang Xia also passed by one or two cameras on the way here. No matter how you look at it, he didn't have the time to commit the crime. Even if he entered the house now, he would only be an enthusiastic detective who "felt something unusual and came to check on Mrs. Masuo because he was worried about her safety." He would not be considered a murderer because of this kind of behavior that high school detectives often do...
…
Not long after Jiang Xia's figure turned to the side.
A car screeched to a halt in front of Masuo's house.
Officer Sato and others jumped out of the car and ran straight to the gate.
Manager Masuo found the key, opened the door, and led people into the house.
Then he raised his hand and pointed to the living room, and said to the two officers, "I'll go over there and take a look. Can you two help me find the second floor?"
Seeing that the two policemen's attention had been successfully turned to the upstairs, Kei Masuo dragged his heavy body to where Mrs. Masuo was, ready to prop up the fallen cabinet and hide the thumbtacks on the top of the bookshelf used to fix the fishing line, disguising everything as a perfect burglary and murder.
(End of this chapter)
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