Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 235 The Maori family really doesn’t keep idle people
Shiraishi quietly arranged the "Legend of the Bloody Robe" in Dorobiga Park, and then returned to the apartment to rest.

The next morning, when Shiraishi arrived at the police station...

"Kawaai, have you heard? Last night in Dorobiga Park, someone found a set of women's clothes, from coat to underwear, everything was complete, only... the person wearing it was missing!"

"Yes, there is news online saying... the clothes are covered with blood and human tissue fluid!"

In the corridor, Gen and Yamada were just sitting around doing nothing, so they tried to scare Kawai, who came back to change clothes after the night shift. As expected, Kawai was frightened so much that his face turned purple.

But just then...

Bang - Bang -

Teng suddenly attacked from behind and hit one of them on the head with a rubber baton!

"You two, why are you scaring people?" Fujibaike said - she couldn't stand others bullying Kawai, but... if she heard this "gossip" first, maybe she would be the one to scare Kawai.

"Minister Fuji! It is indeed fake, right?" Kawai quickly pulled Fuji and asked.

"Of course, otherwise would the people in the Criminal Division be so idle?" Fuji said as a matter of course.

Seeing Kawai looking at him angrily, Yamada said awkwardly, "Not all of it is fake! At least there was one person who called the police, but... there was red paint on his clothes. I don't know who had so much free time."

"That's right, didn't we say it... 'There's also news online', you see... I don't know who posted the photos of the patrol police inspecting the scene on the ghost story website." Yuan showed the forum interface on his mobile phone and said confidently.

It was because he saw the ghost story in Beika Town that he noticed this matter. Otherwise, he would not have specially notified the Criminal Division about this kind of prank.

“But this rumor is quite conscientious. Although it exaggerates by saying it’s blood and human tissue, it actually codes the clothes…” Yamada also complained at this time.

"Well, the Regional Affairs Division also said that what was found after the police were dispatched was actually men's clothing. The guy who spread the rumor is making it seem plausible."

Suzuki Atsushi, who was listening nearby, nodded seriously and said, "He has a sense of public morality, but not much."

Shiraishi:……

"What are you chatting about here? Look how dirty this corridor is...just clean it if you have nothing to do!" Bai Shi assigned them a task directly.

That's right, from calling the police to posting the photos online, Shiraishi did it anonymously.
Of course the clothes are coded - although the probability is small, but what if Xiaolan happens to see it?

As for the police officers inside the Mihua Police Station, even if they saw it, they knew it was just a prank and someone had filmed it and spread it around, so no one thought it was strange.

"By the way, I still have to file a report on the kidnapping."

"I also have the kidnapper's statement..."

Minamoto and Yamada immediately made excuses.

Bai Shi was stunned when he heard this: "Huh? What kidnapping case?"

"Ah! Director, the section chief should be waiting for you in the office. I was just about to report this matter... The daughter of President Tani from 2-chome was kidnapped last night... But the case has been closed. President Tani did not call the police. Instead, he consulted with Detective Mori from 5-chome. He only called the police after the kidnapper was caught." Yuan said that this was a case that he picked up for free.

Shiraishi:……

My goodness, what time was it when Xiaolan brought Conan home last night?
Is this a case of working overtime on the spot without even eating a bite of rice for your father-in-law?

As expected, Shiraishi saw Kunikida at the door of the office. Although the case had been closed when the Beika Police Department found out, it was a serious case of "kidnapping" after all, so he still reported it.

"Well, after that... Section Chief Kunikida, you have to educate that Detective Mori! It would be fine if ordinary people didn't understand, but he used to be a criminal policeman, so doesn't he understand? Why didn't he call the police immediately?" Shiraishi directly assigned a task to Kunikida.

Anyway, when Mao Li was in Souichi, Kunikida was his senior. Although he was not his direct superior, he didn't dare to object when Kunikida talked about him now...

Considering that Conan was already in place, Shiraishi was not too nervous while working that day, but he was quite worried. However, no news came from the Criminal Investigation Department until the end of the day.

Bai Shi also breathed a sigh of relief - Well, it's not necessary to start practicing on the first day, right?

In the evening, when Shiraishi and Ayako were having dinner, Ayako was a little hesitant...

"Xiao Hei, you lost to me in one thing before..." Ayako seemed to have some difficult request and her face was a little hesitant.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Bai Shi asked directly when he saw this.

Shiraishi guessed that it was not a legitimate request and might make him feel a little embarrassed, so Ayako had that expression.

But Shiraishi still asked, but just when Ayako was about to speak...

beep beep-

Shiraishi's cell phone rang.

"Oh, sorry." Shiraishi took a look at the incoming call and found that it was not the office's landline as he had imagined, but...

"Hmm?" Bai Shi was a little confused before picking up the phone.

"Hello, I'm Shiraishi... Cooperating with the investigation? You said... um, that's right... Inspector Megure? Hello... Kakunobu Apartment? Wait, I'm nearby too... Inspector Megure, I'll be there right away..."

After Shiraishi answered the phone, he made an "apology" expression to Ayako.

"Another case? Kakuko Apartment...it's indeed not far away, but this is not within the Beika Town area, right?" Ayako said, turning her head to take a look.

At this time, the two were standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of a high-altitude restaurant. Looking back, they could see the Kakuhong Apartment, but this was not Beika Town. Ayako was still a little puzzled as to why they were looking for Shiraishi.

"It's not a case in the agency, it's... You know Okino Yoko, right? She came to Beihua to work as a director for a day, and she left her and her agent's phone numbers at that time. The number just now was her agent's phone number. It seems that a murder occurred in Okino Yoko's apartment. The deceased... I should have seen him before. I hope I can identify him."

Shiraishi explained.

"Director Yitian?" Ayako nodded when she heard that.

"Sorry, let's talk about your request next time. I'll go over there now, you..."

Ayako interrupted, "I'll come too. I'll wait for you outside the crime scene. It's just to identify the body anyway."

"Okay." Bai Shi thought about it, felt it made sense, and nodded in agreement.

Soon the two arrived at the apartment where the crime occurred. There were already several Metropolitan Police Department police cars parked outside, but this large apartment would not be completely blocked off. There were only some patrol officers asking for witness statements.

"Ah! Officer Shiraishi is here!" Someone recognized Shiraishi and immediately saluted and greeted him.

"Well, let me testify... Inspector Megure is still on the 25th floor, right?" Shiraishi asked.

"Yes! This way please."

A police officer immediately came and pressed the elevator button for Shiraishi.

Arriving at the 25th floor where the crime occurred, Shiraishi followed the sound and found the blocked crime scene.

The patrolman guarding the blockade also recognized Bai Shi and immediately let him go - after all, his features were too obvious and most of the police officers in Dongdu could recognize him.

As a result, just as Bai Shi approached the door, he heard...

Ahhh——

Shiraishi:……

Are you here to perform a ritual?
"Brother Shiraishi, I'm sorry... I have to make you come here in person." When Megure saw the huge body outside the door, even though his head was blocked by the door frame, he immediately recognized him and spoke politely again and again.

"It's okay. Ayako and I are nearby." Shiraishi said generously.

"Ah, Ms. Ayako is here too... Sorry, sorry." Megure felt even more embarrassed when he saw Ayako.

"It's nothing. This is what we should do." Ayako's tone was as if she was already a "police officer's relative."

"As expected of you, Brother Shiraishi..." Inspector Megure echoed, and then said, "By the way, take a look at this victim..."

"Excuse me." Shiraishi said as he walked into the boudoir which was already the crime scene. He nodded to Yoko who was also inside, and... glared at Conan who was also at the scene.

Yoko was a little dazed at this time. After all... it was probably her first time seeing a corpse, and she couldn't adapt to it so quickly!

"Director Shiraishi, Sister Ayako." When Xiaolan saw Shiraishi, she also greeted him.

That’s right, Maori’s family of three was also there at this time.

(The Teitan Three Idiots are here in the anime, but they haven’t appeared in the manga yet. If there is no need for the Three Idiots to appear in a case, then they won’t appear!)

"Mr. Xiaolan, you should wait outside with Ayako first." Shiraishi picked up Conan and handed him to Xiaolan.

"Hey, wait... there's water behind you... the air conditioner was really hot when I first came in... there's water!" Conan said quickly.

"No! Conan, you can't cause trouble for the police!" Xiaolan carried Conan out.

……

Bai Shi then noticed the body in the house - it was a slightly fat adult man with a sharp knife stuck in his back...

"Huh?" Bai Shi hadn't even seen the face yet, but just saw the fatal wound and he let out a puzzled sound.

"Director Shiraishi, please take a quick look... Is this the same stalker from before?" Yamagishi Eiichi asked hastily. Normally, if you met someone once a few months ago, you would definitely not have any impression of them. As a manager, Yamagishi only felt that they looked slightly familiar.

However, Megure heard that it was Shiraishi who drove him away personally, and thought that Shiraishi should still have some impression of him. After all, he also knew Shiraishi's memory...

Bai Shi walked to the side of the head, squatted down and took a look, and said: "Yes, it's the person who followed him that day... So what's going on? Could it be self-defense killing?"

"Of course not!" Yamagishi Eiichir quickly denied - killing in self-defense, doesn't that mean Yoko killed the stalker!

"Don't be nervous, I was just saying it casually... This is obviously not something Miss Yoko can do." Shiraishi said as a matter of course.

"Huh?" Yamagishi was stunned when he heard that.

Yoko, who had been still in a panic, came to her senses and looked over.

"Chief Shiraishi..." Yoko looked over with great emotion, but then she sensed something and turned her head to see the "Miss Ayako" mentioned by Inspector Megure, smiling at her outside the door. She immediately blushed and looked away - this should be Chief Shiraishi's girlfriend, right? She didn't misunderstand anything, did she?

"Brother Shiraishi, have you found anything?" Megure heard that Shiraishi was hinting at something, so he asked quickly.

"This...what's the matter with this case?" Bai Shixian asked back.

"Oh, it's Ms. Yoko. She's been troubled by someone following her recently, and there are signs of intrusion into her house, so she went to ask for help... Detective Mori!" Megure said, glaring at his "old subordinate" Kogoro Mori next to him - this guy has encountered serious cases for two consecutive days!

"As a result, when they returned to the apartment together and wanted to investigate the matter, they saw the dead body," Megure continued.

"That's right! That's why... Director Shiraishi also thinks that if Miss Yoko is the real murderer, she would definitely not dare to ask a famous detective like me to witness the incident? Hahaha... hiccups." Maori restrained himself after being glared at by Megure.

At this time, Shiraishi said: "It is not certain whether we will find a famous detective to witness the incident, but... this injury is not something that Miss Yoko or Mr. Yamagishi can do."

After Bai Shi finished speaking, he explained without leaving anyone in suspense: "The insertion of this dagger is not only very deep, but also very straight. After entering the flesh, there is almost no deflection. It is inserted horizontally like this."

As Bai Shi spoke, he stretched out his finger and traced along the blade. It was indeed straight...

"And judging by the location of the attack, it was directly inserted into the upper spine joint. The blade was also horizontal, which shows that it is impossible to stab with the backhand grip. And judging by the straightness of the blade after entering the flesh, it doesn't look like a run-up stab...

"It was a flat stab into the body, killing the person in one blow. Either the person was an experienced professional killer, who stabbed the person precisely in the gap between the spine joints, or the person was a strongman with much greater strength than a normal person."

Bai Shi also demonstrated the horizontal blade holding posture: "Holding the knife like this is far less convenient than holding it with the backhand. A professional killer is unlikely to stab the knife like this. And considering the angle of the knife, it is either holding it with both hands like this, or swinging it horizontally from the side with one hand...

"Looking at the height of the stab wound and the height of the murderer, it would have taken a sturdy man who was slightly shorter than me and at least two meters tall to do this, otherwise the blade would have been pointed upwards."

Shiraishi analyzed the fatal injuries from different angles and in terms of intensity.

In short, the "murderer" used a posture that is very uncomfortable for a normal person and used strength far beyond that of a normal person to cause such injuries!
Whether it is Yoko Okino, who is slim and has not received professional training, or Eiichi Yamagishi, the manager of the dog, they obviously do not have the hard conditions to commit the crime...

"Eh? In that case..." Megure was stunned when he heard this - Shiraishi's analysis made a lot of sense, but... in this case, all the suspects would not meet the requirements.

Even an external offender is unlikely!
After all, a two-meter-tall burly man is very eye-catching, and it is impossible that there is no eyewitness testimony.

Just then, there was a noise in the corridor...

"Let go! Believe it or not, I'm going to sue you for harassment!"

"Um...I didn't do it..."

One was a female voice that sounded quite difficult, and the other was... the weak Takagi.

Soon everyone saw that Gao Mu brought a woman with long wavy hair to the scene...

Originally, this lady was quite arrogant, but...

Gollum—

After seeing Bai Shi at the door, the other party swallowed hard and then became much more obedient.

"What... do you want to see me for? I'm just passing by!" Big Wave said with some difficulty.

"You are Ms. Yuko Ikezawa, right?" Megure said, glancing at her left ear - there was an earring on her left ear, but not on her right ear.

"Can you explain why your earrings are here? When did you enter this room, and... do you know this victim?" Megure asked directly.

Earlier in the room, her fallen earrings were found, and Yoko recognized them as the earrings of fellow idol "Yuko Ikezawa", so Megure asked Takagi to go find that person.

There was no need for Takagi to put in much effort. He immediately spotted Ikezawa Yuko watching from outside the apartment.

When she saw the detective looking at her, she wanted to leave, but was stopped by Takagi and brought up.

Yuko saw this and realized that she had been discovered, so she said, "You... don't suspect me of stealing something, do you? I..."

"It's not about stealing." Bai Shi then made way for the door.

Shiraishi was standing here just now, and Yuko didn't see anything about the situation inside. She only heard that "something happened" when she was outside. When she saw the corpse, her face turned pale.

"Are you trying to say that I killed someone? Stop joking!" Yuko said immediately.

"No, Miss Yuko, actually Director Shiraishi just..." Yoko was about to comfort Yuko - after all, Director Shiraishi had just said that Yuko could not cause such a death, and he just hoped that she could provide clues.

However, Shiraishi opened his palm in front of her and stopped her from speaking any further - judging from this guy's temper, if he knew that the police did not suspect her, he would probably be even more uncooperative.

In this case, it would be better to scare her first!

Yuko seemed to have thought of something and quickly accused Yoko: "Here... he died here at Yoko's place. If you want to suspect someone, you should suspect her first, right?"

"Ms. Yuko..." Yoko was stunned when she saw this. She seemed to have not expected that she was just trying to comfort her, but she would bite back so soon.

"Hmph, someone died in your apartment. If the media finds out, you'll soon be as idle as me, right?" Yuko did not hide her jealousy.

Just then, a forensic officer came over and whispered something to Megure.

Shiraishi also heard it...

In the room, there were not many fingerprints of the deceased, only in a few specific places, but the fingerprints of "a certain woman" were everywhere, almost as widespread as the fingerprints of Yoko, the owner of the room - although it has not been verified whose fingerprints these are, it can be seen that they are women's hands, and it should be this Yuko Ikezawa in front of us!

"Ms. Yuko, I hope you understand that fingerprints have been collected here. If you don't cooperate with the police investigation now, some subsequent things... may be more troublesome." Megure reminded seriously.

Megure also realized at this time that the stalker that Yoko had originally noticed might not be the deceased, but... Yuko Ikezawa.

"I... yes, I did sneak in using the key I stole from the lounge, but... I just wanted to see if I could find any evidence of her scandal..." Yuko had no choice but to admit it.

"Ms. Ikezawa!" Manager Yamagishi said angrily.

That’s right, Ikezawa, who also tried to “transform into an idol” but failed so badly that no one cared about him, did so purely out of jealousy!
Shiraishi looked around the room at this time, especially the "air conditioner" and the area around the corpse, as well as... a chair facing the corpse's feet.

Conan's last words just now emphasized the disharmony of the scene - there were obvious water stains around the body, and when he first entered the room, the temperature inside was extremely high...

Before Conan could think clearly, he was taken out by Xiaolan, but...

Bai Shi thought about it for a moment and understood the truth!

In other words, from the very beginning, when he saw the wound, Shiraishi roughly guessed the "truth", and the clues provided by Conan just roughly supplemented the "process".

Although the "cause" and the complete "process" are still unknown, in Shiraishi's view, the "result" has been clear from the beginning.

Shiraishi didn't need to investigate the cause or process. For things like this, sending police officers to investigate would reveal the answer sooner or later!
"Inspector Megure, the identity of the victim has not been found out yet?" Shiraishi confirmed.

"Not yet, but there should be news soon." Megure replied.

The deceased did not have a driver's license or anything like that, so his identity could not be confirmed directly, but he did not go out of his way to hide his identity. He still had his membership card in his wallet and his cell phone on him, so it was not difficult to confirm his identity.

"Suicide." Bai Shi said directly.

"Huh?" Yoko looked over in surprise.

Yuko looked even more puzzled at this time and said: "Huh? Suicide with a knife in the back? This... police officer? You are not shielding someone?" Then she seemed to remember something: "Wait, is this how you got your one-day director plan..."

Yuko said, and after looking at Shiraishi's figure, she looked at Yoko with suspicion and some "admiration" - no wonder you became famous... you are so bold!
Yoko was annoyed when she heard this: "Ms. Yuko, what are you talking about? Mr. Shiraishi...his girlfriend is still here!"

Shiraishi:? ? ?
Is this the problem?

"Um... I mean..." Yoko was also numbed by Ayako's stare, and now she was confused by Yuko's anger, so she couldn't express herself clearly...

"Suicide?" Megure didn't care about anything else and hurriedly asked Shiraishi for confirmation.

"Well, a little investigation will tell you... If no one who fits the characteristics of the murderer I mentioned before entered the apartment during the time of the crime, then the only person who could have killed him like this was himself." Shiraishi said as a matter of course.

"But..." Megure looked at him with a knife in the back and still seemed to not understand.

“For a wound like this, besides being stabbed like this or like this by someone with great strength, there is another possibility… that is, standing on a high place with your back to the fixed dagger, and jumping down with your back to the ground.

"If it's a high place, this chair meets the requirements. If it's a fixed dagger... I think the water stains around the body should be evidence of the use of ice."

Shiraishi immediately thought of Ikezawa Yuko, who actually doubted his own character, so he deliberately said: "I've heard that there are many crazy fans who worship idols among young people nowadays. I didn't expect that there are really die-hard fans... Miss Yuko, he can't be your fan? In order to cooperate with you to destroy your competitors..."

(End of this chapter)