Chapter 3611 3623 [Flaw]
While a capable lieutenant was helping his organization expand its business.
Not far from her, the case is still ongoing.
The silence lasted for a long time. Under the varied gazes of everyone, Dr. Ze Mu looked at Jiang Xia and said in a calm tone:
"What you're saying sounds more reasonable than the high school girl's speculation, but frankly, there's still no evidence."
"I did drive into the construction site, but that was because I lost focus and drove the wrong way on my way home just now."
"As for the two similar rooms, it's just because my aesthetic sense is very fixed, and decorating them like this makes me feel at home even when I'm at work."
"Perhaps my alibi is not complete under these circumstances, but that doesn't mean I'm the murderer of President Nakamoto."
Inspector Takagi felt a headache coming on: the worst situation had occurred! The suspect was riddled with inconsistencies and extremely suspicious, yet there wasn't enough concrete evidence. This meant the case would likely drag on for even longer…
“There is evidence.” Jiang Xia’s voice interrupted his wild thoughts.
Officer Takagi's eyes lit up.
Dr. Zeki paused, then thought carefully for a moment: "If you mean the child's fingerprints and hair were left on the sofa..."
Jiang Xia: "You have successfully returned to your apartment as a passerby. You should have removed the traces that Ayumi left on the sofa."
Dr. Zeki: "Then you..."
Jiang Xia continued, "The evidence I'm referring to isn't these things, but something else—do you keep a deck of cards on the coffee table in your room and on the coffee table in your clinic?"
"?!" Dr. Ze Mu's pupils contracted slightly, and her heart leaped into her throat—although she didn't know what was wrong with the deck of cards, she had heard of Jiang Xia's reputation. This famous detective suddenly mentioning cards at a time like this... gave her a very bad feeling.
For a moment, she almost wanted to shake her head in denial. But at that moment, the junior police officer who had gone to check her apartment ran over and, after hearing Jiang Xia's words, answered quickly: "That's right! There is indeed a Kamen Rider themed deck of cards on the coffee table in Dr. Ze Mu's room."
Jiang Xia nodded: "Just now, Ayumi said something strange on the phone—she 'took Dr. Sawaki's playing cards without permission, but has already returned them.'"
"If she had just picked it up and looked at it, she wouldn't have specifically emphasized 'returned'. The fact that she used that word suggests that Ayumi likely took the playing cards out of the lounge and put them back some time later."
"When I heard that phone call, I was thinking, why would a child who was about to have a tooth pulled inexplicably take away a deck of cards?"
"But now, considering the contents of that deck of cards, the situation at the time is quite clear—Ayumi must have felt nervous before having her tooth pulled, so she drew a card with Kamen Rider on it from that deck and carried it with her as a talisman."
After having her tooth extracted, Ayumi fell into a deep sleep under the influence of anesthesia and didn't wake up again until Kamen Rider started airing. Having been moved to an apartment, she remembered the playing card after waking up, so she took it out and put it back in the deck.
"If Ayumi had remained in the dental clinic's break room the whole time, then after the borrowing and returning of the deck of cards was completed, it would still have remained just an ordinary deck of cards."
"But in reality, she moved her position halfway through, so the action turned into taking a card from the dental clinic and putting it in Dr. Sawaki's apartment."
At this point, noticing that the police officers beside her were still listening in a daze, Jiang Xia had no choice but to remind them, "Go check the deck of cards in Dr. Ze Mu's room. Is there an extra card in it?"
Officer Sato then snapped out of his daze, waved his hand, and tossed two more of his subordinates out: "Go quickly, and remember to be quiet, don't wipe off the fingerprints on the card!"
The young officers rushed out: "Yes, sir!"
Not long after, the deck of cards was brought over.
To avoid being blamed, the junior officer only started counting the cards in front of Sato Miwako. He borrowed the deceased's coffee table and arranged the cards by suit. Soon, two identical cards appeared on the spread-out table.
—Two Aces of Hearts.
Eri Kisaki pushed up her glasses, her gaze sweeping back and forth between the two cards, and nodded slightly: If we can find Ayumi Yoshida's fingerprints on these, we'll have the key evidence.
Beside her, as the second Ace of Hearts was revealed, Dr. Sawaki's calm demeanor finally broke. She closed her eyes and clenched her fists, trembling.
After a long while, as Officer Sato had the playing cards compared to fingerprints, Dr. Sawaki gave a complicated smile:
"Such a perfect plan was ruined by a child's lucky charm. I just thought that if I put out the playing cards that Ayumi likes, her attention would be drawn to the cards, and she would ignore her surroundings and not notice that she had moved to a different place. But I never expected..."
She shook her head and sighed, "Using playing cards as a talisman, children's wild imaginations are really hard to guard against... This is probably retribution for using innocent children as tools."
Curaçao: "..." No, it's neither retribution, nor an innocent child, nor a wildly imaginative thought—you were simply being confined by a more advanced script while constructing your own.
However, one thing is true: we cannot underestimate children, especially the group of things next to Uzo.
Officer Takagi was also deeply moved, but he didn't forget his work while reminiscing. He took out his notebook and asked about the motive: "So you actually knew that the president of the company next door, Nakamoto, was a suspect in your brother's case 26 years ago? After all these years, you still remember what President Nakamoto looks like?"
"How could I possibly forget!" Dr. Zeki exclaimed angrily.
"I will never forget his hateful face in my life—26 years ago, I saw Nakamoto drive my brother away in a car!"
"I told the police about it, but they said I was only 7 years old at the time, so their statement couldn't be fully accepted. Later, due to insufficient evidence, Nakamoto escaped prosecution!"
"If... if there had been a great detective or a great policeman back then, this might not have happened."
...
Dr. Sawaki was taken away.
The police officers fell silent briefly because of her last words.
Perhaps to break the dull atmosphere, someone spoke up: "Speaking of which, as expected of Mr. Jiang Xia, he actually deduced so much just from a casual remark by that elementary school student!"
Curaçao: "..." Finally, someone realized something was wrong!
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