conan but winery

Chapter 858 Miyano Akemi, the little troublemaker

"Hello? Dumb tape?"

In the dark sewer passage, after Shirakawa Shizu and Lupine III had left, a man came out, squatted next to Mouri Kogoro who was unconscious on the ground, and patted his face gently.

"Are you okay? Hello ~ this police officer?"

"Ah? Ah!"

Finally being woken up, Mouri Kogoro suddenly opened his eyes and sat up, subconsciously grabbed the gun in his hand and aimed around.

"Damn! Don't even think about you two thieves..."

"Those two people have already run away, police officer."

The man interrupted him. Only then did Mouri Kogoro realize that there was someone beside him. He turned around and saw that he was an ordinary man. He was also wearing a set of overalls and looked like a sewer maintenance worker.

"Who are you? Why are you here?" Mouri Kogoro stood up quickly and looked at the man who seemed to have woken him up with some caution.

"Don't be nervous, police officer. Look, I'm in charge of sewer maintenance. I usually like to read detective novels... I saw you fainting here, police officer, so I came over to wake you up."

Shirakawa Kiyoya stood up and explained with a smile, an innocent smile on his face.

His words, coupled with his attire, successfully confused Mouri Kogoro's judgment and no longer doubted his identity.

"I see."

Nodding, Mouri Kogoro stopped asking any more questions, as if he felt the pain just now. He raised his hand and touched the place on his forehead where Shirakawa Shizu had hit him with a stone, and bared his teeth.

"Damn, that woman is so strong, it hurts me to death..."

"Officer, are you talking about the thief who was suspected of being Lupine III and his companion who attacked you?"

"Huh? Did you see that scene just now?" Mouri Kogoro suddenly turned his head and looked at Shirakawa Kiyo, with a questioning look in his eyes.

"Look, I saw it..."

A frightened expression immediately appeared on his face. Bai Heqing scratched his head and replied in a low voice:
"I was hiding in that corner before, but I felt they were so dangerous, so I didn't dare to come out..."

"Well, what you did is right. When faced with such a dangerous thief, it's better for ordinary people to stay away... By the way, you actually know that it is Lupine III?"

"Haha, because I usually like to read detective novels and police movies, so I have learned a lot about it..."

"I see, okay, if you have nothing to do, leave as soon as possible. I don't know if those two guys will come back again. It's not safe to stay here. Do you understand?"

"Ah, please wait a moment, Mr. Officer! I-I have an important clue to provide you with!"

"..."

At the same time in the Sakura Hotel, Yoko and Miyano Akemi coaxed Shirakawa Ying to sleep. They first investigated separately, and then came to the coffee shop opened in the hotel to meet.

"Yoko, let me ask clearly, the hotel does not provide Italian newspapers."

When Miyano Akemi came over, Yoko had already sat down at a table by the window.

"Huh, that's true..."

After receiving Miyano Akemi's answer, Yoko raised the corners of her mouth slightly with a proud expression.

"I see. I really didn't expect... I already know the answer to the question."

"Huh? Yoko, do you already know who sent the threatening letter?" Miyano Akemi asked in surprise.

"That's right!"

Taking out a piece of Italian newspaper that had obviously been cut up with scissors, Yoko announced with great pride:

"The mysterious man who sent a threatening letter to Emilio and threatened his death to force him to stop the concert! In fact, he is himself!"

"Eh?!"

Miyano Akemi opened her eyes in cooperation, showing an extremely surprised expression.

"H-himself? Wait! Why did Emilio do this?" "I don't know!"

"……what?"

"Although I don't know the motive, I already have conclusive evidence!"

Raising her index finger, Yoko slowly explained:

"There are two key points. The first is the threatening letter in Italian. You saw that threatening letter Mingmei at the time. The content on it was obviously cut out from different newspapers and spliced ​​together by the person who sent the letter. "

"Yes, that's right."

"However, this hotel does not provide Italian newspapers, and except for Emilio, this hotel has not had any tourists from Europe in the past half month."

"Where did you get this information, Yoko?"

"There is no need to worry about such details... In short, based on the above two points, we can roughly draw a conclusion that the threatening letter did not come from other passengers in the hotel, but most likely came from someone traveling with Emilio. "

"Um, is it possible that the murderer was an Italian newspaper found outside the hotel?" Miyano Akemi raised her hand and asked.

"Mingmei, it's already pretty good that you can find English newspapers in Japan. Do you still want to find Italian ones?" Yoko looked at her like she was an idiot.

"Yeah, that's right, hehe~" Miyano Akemi stuck out her tongue.

"In short, through the above, we can narrow the scope of prisoners to those who were traveling with Emilio...

And the reason why I am sure it must be Emilio is because of this! "

As she spoke, Yoko pointed again at the small piece of Italian newspaper she had just taken out.

"This! This is what I just found from Emilio's room!"

That's right, while Miyano Akemi went to inquire about the newspapers provided by the hotel, Yoko quietly slipped into Emilio's room and rummaged around.

Finally, this crucial piece of evidence was found in the gap under the desk.

"It's really strange. As the person who was threatened, how could Emilio have such newspaper fragments in his room? Unless..."

"Unless the threatening letter was actually written by him?"

Miyano Akemi finally understood what Yoko meant, but she quickly frowned and raised questions.

"But Yoko, this doesn't completely prove this, right? It could also be the agent, Miss Claudia, and the fat company boss. Maybe they secretly put the threatening letter into Emilio's room. When I was there, I accidentally left some unhandled newspaper fragments in the room without noticing it?”

"Well, it is indeed possible."

As if he had expected Miyano Akemi to be here, Yoko nodded and said in a light tone:

"So, in order to confirm my guess, I just went to verify another thing."

"Huh? Obviously I just went to the hotel front desk to ask, Yoko, why can you do so many things?"

"Mingmei, do you know? The garbage in this hotel is stored in a special place and will be disposed of in a unified manner late at night."

"Yoko, where did you get this strange knowledge?"

"This means that if Emilio asked the waiter to clean up the garbage in his room in the morning, then they must still be in the hotel's garbage storage area now!"

"Have you tried it, Yoko?"

"Yes! I also found the garbage bag with Emilio's room number on it! Mingmei, guess what's in it?!"

"No way? Yoko, you actually turned it over?!"

"You guessed it right! It contains a lot of cut-up pieces of Italian newspapers!"

"Isn't it?!"

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