Chapter 74 Twenty-five Shotas
The truth behind the so-called murder in a locked room is actually quite boring—at least that's the case for Akajyo Nayue herself.
Committing crimes with supernatural powers may seem like the perfect crime, but it makes him unable to take it seriously. After all, the latter relies on their poor but quick-witted brains, while the former relies entirely on the arrogance of the supernatural power holder.
If it weren't for the time constraints, Chi Jiang Na Yue might have really spent some time designing a fairly scientific secret room for Zhu Fu Gao Ming and others to solve the case, instead of using force to defeat the opponent and using supernatural powers to attack them at a lower level.
As mentioned before, the real case from 20 years ago was switched by Chi Jiang Na Yue, and the memories of insiders such as Zhu Fu Gao Ming were also slightly changed by him, all for the sake of the script.
Chi Jiang Na Yue first chose the room where Lei was still searching for the target in the hotel so as to divert his actions from the other party, and then went to the cake shop under the identity of a certain Granty. This was so that when Lei followed the invoices in the room to find the cake shop, he could quickly catch up with Lei and pretend to pass by him, thus leading the other party to suspect him.
As for what Chijiang Nayue did during the time he stayed alone in the bathroom, it was actually very simple. It is said that one regrets not having enough knowledge when one needs it. However, even Chijiang Nayue could not remember how many superpowers he had copied and learned. Most of the time, his [Klein's Kettle] was more useful than the [Book] wish-granting machine.
The corpse that Lei Yi, Zhu Fu Gao Ming and others saw was just a puppet prop that Chi Jiang Na Yue set up to look like a mission target. In addition to this, he also superimposed a layer of illusion on it to ensure that even if someone came before Lei Yi opened the door, they would not find anything wrong here.
The doll is a gift from the former boss of the mafia, a well-known Mr. Mori, and the illusion is from Tanizaki, a high school member of the [Study] Self-Detective Club. For Akae Nazuki, these are all special abilities that are usually kept at the bottom of the box and can only be pulled out for fun at the moment.
Well, as long as it's useful.
In short, after the scene was arranged and Lei was about to reach the door of the cake shop, Chijiang Nayue left the place in a swagger, turned into the alley next to it, and asked [Shu] to put him back in the car that had been prepared in advance in a blind spot of surveillance across the street.
This time, he adjusted his body size to be similar to the mission target, then put on his mask and went back to the cake shop in a dignified manner.
As a mission target.
In other words, the black-haired boy that Lei Yi met, and the young man who later entered the store and was found "dead" in the bathroom, were actually Akae Nayue.
When he entered the store for the second time, Lei was still talking to the clerk at the front desk, so he simply went straight into the bathroom, put the book back in for the third time, and left the scene smoothly, creating a closed loop of a locked room murder.
Unless the police officers and detectives can think of the fact that the deceased might not be the young man who entered the restroom the second time, and consider all the possibilities that he might have blended into the crowd and escaped, otherwise, this unscientific case will naturally become an unsolved case like the legendary case twenty years ago.
Ha, I forgot. This is a scientific world. No one would think of having special abilities.
So, there is no unless.
This is a cold case.
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Bourbon remembered that he had met Vogelsinger once before, but he was not sure whether Vogelsinger still remembered his face after seeing it so many years ago. If it were not for Ley's call, he would have chosen to go to Scotland to investigate other things with caution.
Until he saw the photos in the evidence bag with his own eyes.
"... Let me tell you." Bourbon bit his back teeth, glanced at Ley with a forced smile, and lowered his voice, "How did you know that the person above was mine?"
Lei Yi looked straight ahead and calmly reminded him, "You wore that outfit yesterday, right? In Kitazawa."
That being said...
The thing in the photo that is so blurry that it looks like a mosaic, except for the blond hair and clothes, how does it resemble him?
On the other hand, Bourbon also knew that the person in the photo was probably him. Who told them to come here in the name of assassinating the target? It was normal for the other party to hate him so much that they would vent their hatred on a dart board. After making this connection, he had to admit that the person in the mosaic was him.
Moreover, since Lai has already been suspected for investigating the target of the mission, when the Nagano police find that his characteristics match the target, it may not be theirs to explain whether they killed the target or not.
Bourbon understood the reason, but he still secretly took note of Lei.
At the same time, just as Bourbon worried, Zhufu Gaoming was indeed stunned when he saw the detective who introduced himself as Amuro Toru.
He had a good memory and the other person's facial features were too obvious.
Without any effort, Morofu Takaaki recognized that 'Amuro Toru' was his brother's good friend, Furuya Rei.
He couldn't help but think of his younger brother Morobushi Jingguang.
Four years ago, Jing Guang sent him a photo of himself in police uniform after graduating from the police academy. But not long after that, Jing Guang left a letter saying that he no longer wanted to be a policeman, and never contacted him again.
Morobuchi Takaaki knew his brother very well. He knew that Morobuchi Jingguang was essentially a stubborn person who would not give up his goals easily. Thinking about the vague letter and his missing brother, he quickly guessed what his brother was doing.
His younger brother becomes an undercover policeman who cannot leave behind his name and identity and who does not know when his future will end.
Afterwards, he secretly paid attention to his brother's classmates and found that among the few people who played well with his brother, one of them had also disappeared from the police system. That person was Rei Furutani.
Since the childhood sweethearts were most likely to be undercover at the same time, even if it was not confirmed whether they were undercover in the same organization, the moment he saw Bourbon, the thought "Maybe Kagemitsu has also returned to Nagano" flashed through his mind.
It's embarrassing to say that although I haven't heard from my brother for a long time, Zhu Fu Gao Ming has never been particularly worried, because for an undercover job, no news is the best news.
Now seeing Bourbon appear here, he was only worried for a few seconds before he temporarily put his mind at ease.
If this Mr. Fūya is really the person in the photo, then the murderer is probably just as he guessed, not an individual, but an organization.
And it is very likely that it is Fūya-kun and that Moroboshi-kun... and probably Kagemitsu as well, and the organization they belong to.
On the other hand, Bourbon frowned after learning the details of the case from Lei.
"Inspector Zhufu, can you help me clear up my confusion?" Bourbon looked at Zhufu Gaoming and asked directly without any hesitation, "Before I came in, I overheard a police officer mention that the bodies were 'exactly the same'. What does that mean?"
Zhu Fu Gao Ming pondered for a moment and said, "I think they are referring to the deceased found this time, whose cause of death is exactly the same as that of the deceased in an unsolved case 20 years ago."
Both Ley and Bourbon became alert.
It's nothing, it's just that the word "twenty years ago" has appeared too frequently recently. The phone number, the time when A was captured by the organization, and even the case that inexplicably involved them now, all happened twenty years ago.
Maybe it was really a coincidence, but they instinctively felt that it was not that simple.
"Even Inspector Fu said so. Are these two cases really related?" Bourbon asked with a serious expression. "In that case, maybe we can take a look at the data of the other case? As detectives, maybe we can be of some help. The sooner we catch the criminal, the sooner we can clear our name."
The reasons he gave were indeed very legitimate, as if "it was all to clear ourselves of suspicion". Even though Zhu Fu Gao Ming knew that their purpose was definitely not that simple, he could not find any fault with it.
The police officer named Kong Ming narrowed his eyes and looked at Bourbon, who was standing there openly allowing him to observe.
No one knew what information the two exchanged in this glance. The next second, Zhu Fu Gao Ming readily agreed to the request, opened the laptop he took down from the police car, retrieved a folder, and handed the computer to the two.
"That's all," he said. "To tell you the truth, my father was the only eyewitness back then, so I have kept the information about the case."
Bourbon was silent. He also knew the time of death of Scotland's parents, which seemed to be exactly twenty years ago.
In other words, this case happened shortly before Hiro's parents died? Only in this way, the witness, Morobuchi's father, died without leaving a description of the murderer, making the case an unsolved case.
Although Lei didn't know so many details, he knew something that he hadn't told Bourbon yet.
The boy who passed by him.
Before the police arrived, Ley asked the clerk about the boy's appearance. The conclusion he got made him think of a person that neither he nor Bourbon had expected without any hesitation - Granty.
The mission they have to solve is a mission assigned by the organization. Since the young man is the real murderer who may have killed the target, it is very likely that he is related to the organization.
A young killer who had never been seen before and was related to the organization. He had black hair and red eyes and looked very similar to the photo of A that he showed to the clerk... Lei quickly determined that the person who killed the target of the mission was most likely Granty, whom they didn't even know.
But why did Granti kill the target before they did? Who told him to do this?
Also, if it was really Granty, then was the case 20 years ago that was said to be very similar to this case really just a coincidence? Judging from the time, Granty had already been created at that time!
Therefore, Lei suspected that Granty was the murderer in both cases.
To verify this conjecture, we must look into the identity of the deceased twenty years ago...
No, it seems that it is not necessary to do so.
Lei's eyes rested on the photo of the deceased from twenty years ago on the screen.
He recognized this person. This was obviously an important informant who had resumed contact with the FBI intermittently in recent years!
Unlike Ley, Bourbon focused mainly on the photos of the deceased's bodies, comparing the similarities and differences between the two bodies.
Then Bourbon also discovered something was wrong.
"From the angle of the wound, the killer stabbed the bayonet from bottom to top." He frowned and stretched out his hand in the air to simulate, "It seems..."
"It seems that the murderer was squatting. Of course, some people also speculate that the murderer was a short dwarf, so he was able to escape through the ventilation duct that even women could not pass through." Zhu Fu Gaoming took over his words and explained calmly.
Bourbon said subconsciously: "Or, it was a petite child."
He had received too much information in the past two days, and suddenly a figure appeared in his mind, a figure belonging to the young Granty, just like A...
Thinking of this, Bourbon's heart suddenly tightened, and he suddenly remembered what he had forgotten.
It’s over, A was left in the hotel by him!