Chapter 826 Leave it to Brother Jiang Xia and add more to the leader [Jun Mo Xi rx Wu]
"?" Kogoro Mouri stretched his neck in confusion and looked under the seat.
It was pitch black below, and he couldn't see anything. In the end, he had to conclude that he had accidentally touched the seat cover.
But after such a look, it is not completely fruitless.
——The pen he was looking for was lying under the seat, in an extremely easy-to-reach location.
Kogoro Maori successfully picked up the pen and put it into his pocket.
…
Maybe he had just taken a nap in the car and was a little sober.
Kogoro Mouri looked at Sayuri Shimamura who was driving and felt something was wrong.
He said naively, "You are dressed very formally today." - It was actually a suit, which was not something women would wear when going out for a drive.
Sayuri Shimamura's palms were sweating, and she smiled and said, "Actually, I was planning to work overtime tonight. But my roommate caught a cold, and it looked a little serious. I was worried, so I came back to check on her... Those tasks are not urgent, so I'll be more efficient if I go for a drive with my friends and relax. And since it's a leisure sport, I'm too lazy to change my clothes deliberately - going for a drive in formal clothes is also fun."
…This is a lie.
Sayuri Shimamura lied while glancing at the watch in the car.
——The time it shows is a little after eight o'clock.
But now, it was actually past nine o'clock, and she had just secretly set her watch back an hour.
Sayuri Shimamura: "..." Although I don't know why Kogoro Mori thinks it's just eight o'clock, it's normal for a drunk man to not know the time. This is simply an alibi that's delivered to your doorstep... That bastard must be the one who deserves to die.
——It’s true that Sayuri Shimamura’s roommate is at home with a cold.
But she came back from the company not to look after her roommate.
Instead, he just faked a home invasion and murder and sent his roommate away silently.
Originally, Sayuri Shimamura placed a camera at the window of her office, intending to record the situation on the street outside when the murder took place. If the police asked about it later, she would say that she was working overtime and recount the situation at that time as proof of her alibi.
Unexpectedly, now, a person suddenly appeared who had witnessed her appearing near the crime scene after she killed someone and couldn't figure out the time.
…must be used well.
If it can be handled properly, then when the murder occurs, she will be "taking a ride with Kogoro Mori", having a more solid alibi.
But on the other hand, if Maori Kogoro wakes up and realizes something is wrong, this will also expose her biggest doubt...
By then...
When Sayuri Shimamura thought of this, a few big scarlet words suddenly flashed through her mind.
——Murder to silence the witness.
…
Shibahama-cho, in the building where the rooftop restaurant is located.
After a while, the remaining band members arrived.
Inspector Megure asked them to sit down and looked at the number of people. He felt that the number of suspects today seemed a little too many.
He subconsciously turned around and glanced at Jiang Xia.
Jiang Xia was seen leaning against the wall, looking as if he was in deep thought.
Inspector Megure withdrew his gaze with peace of mind and secretly breathed a sigh of relief: It's okay, let alone four people, even if there are four hundred people, Brother Jiang Xia will definitely be able to find the real murderer.
Thinking of this, Inspector Megure looked at the suspects again, straightened his back, and cleared his throat: "From the end of the performance at the rooftop restaurant to the discovery of Miss Yukiko's body, where were you all during this period of time? Also, when was the last time you saw her?"
——When Yusuke Nakamura and Ran Mouri discovered the body, the door of the lounge was locked.
This door can only be opened and closed with a key. In other words, the murderer should be the last person to return the key before they came.
The other three band members who were called back midway looked at each other, as if they had thought of something, and were unwilling to speak in a gloomy manner.
Yusuke Nakamura is still the most cooperative.
He said under the pleased gaze of Inspector Megure: "After the concert ended and I left the rooftop restaurant, I haven't seen the other members of the band since. I have been organizing the instruments with the staff of the rooftop restaurant. It took about twenty minutes.
"I wanted to go home afterwards, but after thinking about it, I still wanted Mr. Jiang Xia's autograph..."
At this point, Nakamura Yusuke looked at Jiang Xia with admiration, and received a glance at his calves. He was startled, thinking that Jiang Xia might have been a little shy because she had not been praised in person by fans, so her eyes moved downwards.
Yusuke Nakamura didn't care. Jiang Xia was just a tool to get out of the crime anyway. He continued, "So I took the liberty to go to the roof again. I didn't expect Mr. Jiang Xia to be there. After successfully getting his autograph, Miss Xiaolan wanted my autograph, so we went to the lounge together to get a poster. What happened next..."
When he said this, his face turned sad: "You all saw what happened next."
"Yeah, so that's how it is. I understand."
Inspector Megure carefully wrote down the key points and ruled out Yusuke Nakamura in his mind.
——According to the guard in charge of keeping the keys, from the end of the band's performance to the discovery of the body, Yusuke Nakamura never borrowed a key once and had no chance to enter the lounge.
When he entered the room, there was already a dead body in the lounge, and there was also a witness, Mao Lilan. In short, his problem was not serious.
So the police officer's inquiring eyes quickly turned to the other three people in the band.
There were three people, one with red hair, one with yellow hair, and a short-haired woman wearing a dress that was just below her chest and off her shoulders. Although this was called fashion, for Inspector Megure, a middle-aged man who couldn't keep up with the times, one sentence could sum it up - they didn't look like good people.
The group looked at each other for a moment.
In the end, it was the short-haired woman who spoke first - her name was Risako Tanaka, and she was the keyboardist of the band.
"After the concert, I went to the elevator with Shota, Yukiko, and Makoto, intending to go down to the lounge. But when the elevator came, Yukiko asked us to go first and she ran to the stairs."
The "Shota" and "Acheng" mentioned by Tanaka Risako are the yellow-haired and red-haired guy next to her.
Yukiko was the dead body lying next door.
"That was the last time I saw Yukiko. After the three of us went down to the lounge, about five minutes later, I went back with Shota..." After hesitating for a moment, Tanaka Risako remembered something, snorted, and added, "But we were only 'together' until we left the building. After that, Shota said he had something to do and separated from me. During this time, the key to the lounge was in Acheng's hands - one of them must have killed Yukiko!"
She decisively put the blame on the red-haired Makoto Nishimoto and the yellow-haired Shota Aoki.
(End of this chapter)
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