Conan: I'm really not the mastermind behind the scenes

Rice Flower Detention Center.

The clock in the visiting room was almost eleven o'clock, and after Masayoshi Sakaguchi asked that question, the whole room fell into an eerie silence.

"Or, I can call it something you know... the murder of the son of a senior public security official?"

The lawyer, who indirectly lost his son because of this case, had an extremely complicated expression after shouting out the name of the case. It looked like disgust, hatred, and self-mockery, and finally turned into a deep powerlessness.

In such a strange atmosphere, the public security colleagues traveling with him couldn't help but secretly glance at Zhu Fu Jingguang beside him.

They went to check on Eto's house and entered Eto Daizo's room. His computer was on and they saw a video in it.

The video was shot with a mobile phone. Eto Daizo, still wearing his middle school uniform, stood by a pond. In the twilight, amid the shouts and cheers of others, he laughed and pushed a soaked woman into the water.

In the background there was the boy's sharp cries. They watched the woman, soaked all over, trying to climb out of the pond again and again, and then being pushed back down again and again amid laughter until there was no movement at all.

The video is half an hour long.

The moment the colleague saw the video clearly, he was shocked. He had heard that the son of Manager Jiang Teng had been absurd for a while, but he didn't know that he had done such a thing.

The torture lasted so long, it was simply a massacre. For some reason, it was even recorded.

He had been a police officer for several years and had seen some people recording crimes during their crimes. Those people usually had two psychological reasons:

Either they take pictures of others to leave evidence so as to control them, or they take pictures of themselves, which is even worse, simply to show off and reminisce, to demonstrate their "strength" among their peers and to gain attention and admiration.

...So why did Eto record the video at that time and keep it in his computer until now?
as well as……

...Why did he want to kill people?
My colleague felt awkward when he thought about these two questions. Although he continued to collect intelligence and try his best to save people, his inner speculation could not help but slide in a dark direction.

Compared to him, Zhufu Jingguang was much calmer.

His expression was cold and he looked directly at Masayoshi Sakaguchi: "Yes, we need you to explain the details of the case. I hope you still remember those details."

Lawyer Sakaguchi looked at him and raised his lip in mockery: "Wouldn't it be better to ask your superiors about these things? That senior public security official did a lot of things to save his son."

My colleague felt as if something had been stabbed in the back and felt a little uncomfortable, but he didn't show it on his face.

Zhu Fu Jingguang's expression did not change at all throughout the whole process.

"Please cooperate."

He himself did not look fierce, and he even looked friendly - otherwise Matsuda would not have added a beard to his photo when he had just graduated to make him look more mature - but the experiences of the past few years had accumulated a lot of pressure on him, and when his face was completely gloomy, even gangsters taller and stronger than him would be completely shocked.

Sakaguchi Masayoshi's body shook uncontrollably.

He had killed people and had come into contact with many criminals in the past, but he himself could not be considered a real villain. He sat up straight and looked at Zhu Fu Jingguang deeply, with an indescribable complexity in his eyes.

"Eto... should be that his name? He went straight home after the murder. The people who called the police were students from that school. They passed by the park after school and saw the victim's son crying by the pond. They found the body and called the police immediately."

"The victim's surname was Kadokaya, and her first name... I'm sorry, I've forgotten... She was a single mother who raised her son alone. After the incident, her brother came to the police station to claim the body and sent his nephew to the hospital."

"The child witnessed the whole thing. He recognized the school uniform. After the police showed him the school roster, he quickly identified the murderer. The police came to the door. Then..."

Sakaguchi Masayoshi glanced at the two public security officers.

"Your police are involved."

Zhu Fu Jingguang frowned slightly.

"Both physical evidence and witness testimony are important in criminal trials. If we compare the two, physical evidence is more objective and more convincing."

"I don't know what Mr. Jiang Teng did. Maybe he just gave a few instructions. The surveillance footage of Jiang Teng climbing over the wall in the school is gone. The blood left by the victim struggling and scratching the criminal was contaminated and was considered invalid evidence. The skin flakes and blood stains under her fingernails were tested and found to be inconsistent with Jiang Teng's DNA."

"——In short, there is no valid physical evidence."

Masayoshi Sakaguchi concluded, "This is your routine operation, right? It's done very skillfully and beautifully... It's very helpful for my defense of innocence."

The younger colleague couldn't help but secretly glance at Zhu Fu Jingguang again.

Zhu Fu Jingguang remained unmoved: "But Jiang Teng still spent a year in prison. Did the victim's family do anything?"

"This..."

When mentioning the victims' families, the sharpness on Masayoshi Sakaguchi's face disappeared, his shoulders slumped, and his whole body seemed to sink into the chair.

"Mrs. Kadokawa's family was in financial difficulty. In addition to her own odd jobs, her younger brother often helped out and subsidized their living expenses when they were in trouble, so that they and their son could survive. After the case happened, he was also the one who kept running around for his sister and nephew."

The colleague interrupted him at this time: "Where is the child's father?"

Although I don't know why they didn't get married, she is the woman who gave birth to my child after all. After the case happened, the person who provided the child with the other half of his flesh and blood should come forward, right?

"I don't know." said Lawyer Sakaguchi.

The colleague was stunned for a moment: "Don't know?"

"She has a mild intellectual disability, her intelligence is only that of a seven-year-old child, and she also has some mental problems. All the neighbors know about it. It was her brother who discovered that she was pregnant when he noticed her belly was bulging one day. She herself doesn't know who the father of the child is."

Sakaguchi Masayoshi said lightly.

"I also seized on this point and defended her by saying, 'She was crazy and wanted to jump into the water. They actually wanted to hold her back. They had no intention of killing her.'"

"What about the child?"

Zhu Fujingguang interrupted him, scanning the lawyer's face with a cold gaze. "The child was already ten years old at the time. Although the testimony of a child is limited, as the only eyewitness, his testimony will still be considered."

However, this time, Masayoshi Sakaguchi was no longer afraid of this gaze.

"With so much physical evidence that can be solved one by one, it will be even easier to completely shut up a ten-year-old child who was still terrified by the murder at the time." He said lightly.

"..."

Zhu Fujingguang's hand on the visitor's table finally tightened slightly, "What... did you do?"

"The child suffered severe psychological trauma after witnessing his mother being tortured and killed. He stayed in the hospital for a long time and has been receiving psychological treatment."

Masayoshi Sakaguchi sighed softly: "Then one day, his doctor diagnosed him with severe hallucinations, a precursor to schizophrenia, and he had already shown violent tendencies - he tortured and killed the pet cat his uncle brought him."

"The doctor suspected that this was hereditary and recommended that he be transferred to a mental hospital for more professional treatment."

"His uncle agreed."

silence.

A suffocating silence like a grave spread in the small visiting room.

The younger colleague was speechless, and he didn't know what to say for a moment; and Zhu Fu Jingguang's fingernails unconsciously pierced into his palms.

Mentally ill people are regarded as people without civil capacity in society.

It is not illegal for them to kill people, they will only be admitted to the hospital; similarly, the testimony they give has no legal effect.

"..."

Zhu Fu Jingguang could not feel the pain in his palm. The phone call he made to Manager Eto when he was at Eto's house just now came to his mind.

——"Murder? ...Yes, Daizo did make some mistakes in the past."

——"I didn't educate him well, but I can't watch my son go to jail and be ruined... This is my selfish desire as a father..."

This is the case with the father, but what about the son?
——"People...can make mistakes, but they can also atone for their sins!"

——"It's nothing, Zhufu-senpai, I just came here out of curiosity... My father knows and agrees."

Morobushi Keiko recalled the previous meeting on the embassy bombing, when Eto Daizo heard Aoyagi Akimitsu's comments about the criminals, and he instantly became emotional;

And this Tuesday, I saw Eto Daizo, a junior who casually entered the archives room and looked through relevant information about the Black Organization that was beyond his authority.

...It turns out that many things have been reflected in the details.

While Morobushi Keimitsu was silent, Lawyer Sakaguchi, who was sitting behind the glass wall, also sighed deeply.

"What a good father."

The lawyer, who advocated justice, leaned back in his chair and muttered to himself.

"He killed someone so cruelly, but he was able to use the Juvenile Law to completely erase his criminal record and continue to be a superior person thanks to his father. But I can't even protect the decent people who are mine..."

Morofushi Keimitsu came to his senses and looked at Sakaguchi Masayoshi again.

Just when he was about to ask whether Kadokawa Nobuyuki had come to his house recently and whether he knew where he lived now, his cell phone suddenly rang.

Zhu Fujingguang took out his cell phone. As a public security officer, he naturally did not have to abide by the rule that prohibits bringing communication devices in when visiting a prison.

As soon as he pressed the connect button, the voice of a colleague who stayed on duty at the Metropolitan Police Department came over impatiently: "Moruobushi! Kadoya has been caught!"

"?!"

The two police officers who had been running around outside for several hours looked at each other in surprise.

……

Metropolitan Police Department.

In the rain, bursts of sirens were heard, and the criminal suspect who kidnapped a police officer and live-broadcast the process was brought to the Metropolitan Police Department.

He was caught by detectives from the Investigation Division 1. Since the TV station broadcast the incident live, many people saw it and called the police, so they started investigating the case simultaneously with the police, and even caught the man first based on the information reported by the public - people with similar figures and the same clothes were seen on the roadside.

Unfortunately, as soon as they arrived at the Metropolitan Police Department, they were taken away by the police.

Inside the special interrogation room.

"Where on earth did you lock him up?!"

Ishigami slapped the table, shaking the whole table. He stared fiercely at the young man who was sitting behind the table with his hands handcuffed...or rather, the boy.

Seventeen-year-old Kadokuni Shinnosuke frowned, with greasy and messy bangs falling in front of his forehead.

He looked at the aggressive face in front of him, and saw that the other person's eyes were about to pop out, but his expression did not fluctuate at all.

He just stood straight without saying a word.

It seemed as if no matter how strong the wind or how heavy the rain was, it would not be able to knock him down again. (End of this chapter)