nownovels Chapter 855: Is Ayumi being targeted?
Chapter 855: Is Ayumi being targeted?
Chapter 855 Is Ayumi being targeted?
Someone had died, and the weather had not improved, so Aoki Matsu and the others lost interest in sightseeing and returned to Tokyo on a yacht in the afternoon.
After returning to Tokyo, Genta couldn't wait to ask Aoki Matsu for "benefits".
The clues he provided helped Aoki Matsu solve the case, so according to the "conditions" agreed upon by both parties, Aoki Matsu had to take them out for a big meal.
In this regard, Qing Musong had no intention of shirking his responsibilities.
That night, the Young Detective Team was invited to a long-awaited seafood buffet.
Suzuki Sonoko thought it was interesting and came along, but she and Mao Li Ran paid for their own expenses.
Aoki Matsu only needs to bear the expenses for himself, Shinna Kaori, and the Junior Detective League.
Yuan Tai was very satisfied with the meal and shouted, "Let's have another case soon, so that Brother Aoki can treat us to a big meal again."
Aoki Matsu and Conan were both confused by this.
Oh my goodness, it turns out that the Grim Reaper of Tokyo is not Conan, but Genta!
I don’t know if there are some things that cannot be talked about, but not long after, Yuantai and his friends really encountered a “case”.
The flower clock at Beika Park is about to hold a completion ceremony, and Ayumi has been selected as one of the elementary school students to perform the baton performance at the completion ceremony.
How did Aoki Matsu know this? Of course it was because Sayuri was not chosen and was disappointed for a while.
Because Ayumi was selected, she would go to Beika Park every morning to practice very hard.
On this day, the members of the Junior Detective League were practicing with Ayumi in Beika Park.
But not long after, a man dressed in black came towards the Junior Detective Team in a crooked and weird posture. He looked like he was drunk, but it was really weird in broad daylight.
It is also worth mentioning that the other party was not only wearing a black windbreaker, but also black gloves, a hat and sunglasses. The most important thing is that it is summer now and everyone is wearing short-sleeved shirts and shorts, so the other party's outfit is obviously problematic at first glance.
Ayumi had also practiced here before, and she felt that the other party was targeting her. She was very scared, so she told her friends in the Junior Detective League.
then……
Yuantai, who was thinking about the big dinner, immediately asked Sayuri to call Aoki Matsu and ask him to come over - in case it was a case, wouldn't it be possible to ask Aoki Matsu to treat him to a big dinner again?
Beautiful!
Originally, Conan wanted to investigate alone first, but was "suppressed" by Genta and Mitsuhiko.
There were no murders in Tokyo in the past few days. After receiving a call from Sayuri, Aoki Matsu said hello to Inspector Megure and took Maruta Ayumi to Beika Park.
"Brother Aoki, it's him." Ayumi saw the man walking towards them, and hurriedly approached Aoki Matsu, hiding behind him and whispered.
"I understand, that guy is the stalker, right?" Aoki Matsu asked.
Ayumi nodded and said fearfully, "I came yesterday and the day before yesterday."
Upon hearing this, Yuan Tai and Mitsuhiko immediately said, "Fortunately, we are here to serve as your personal bodyguards today, and we also called Brother Aoki."
"You guys stand back a little." Qing Musong instructed the little ones.
When he got closer to the other person, he smelled a pungent smell of alcohol. It turned out that he was really drunk.
Unexpectedly, after the other party took a few crooked steps forward, instead of walking towards Aoki Matsu, he actually climbed up the iron frame that was built to celebrate the completion of the flower clock in the Rice Flower Park.
"You're so drunk and you still want to go upstairs?" Maruta Ayumi was shocked when he saw this scene.
"He is drunk, right?" Mitsuhiko asked curiously.
Qing Musong nodded, "He smells strongly of alcohol."
The man in black climbed to the top of the iron frame in a short while, and then stood up. However, he didn't expect that his center of gravity was unstable, and he began to twist and turn on the iron frame. It looked like he might fall down in the next second, which was very dangerous.
"It's impossible to be okay after falling from such a height." Conan frowned and said seriously.
As soon as Conan finished speaking, the man in black slipped, lost his balance, and fell off the iron frame.
"Ah!" Ayumi and Sayuri closed their eyes quickly after seeing this scene.
But after a few seconds, there was no sound of a body falling to the ground, only Aoki Matsu's voice: "Maruta, call the police and get someone to bring an inflatable cushion."
what……
Ayumi and Sayuri heard something wrong and opened their eyes quickly. They saw that although the man in black fell off the iron frame, he was lucky enough to hook his feet on the headlights above and did not fall off the iron frame for the time being.
Not long after, the police arrived with an inflatable cushion and rescued the man from the iron frame.
As for the Junior Detective Team, of course when the time was up, Aoki Matsu sent them back to school.
The man in black was sent to a hospital cooperating with the police. Before the police could question him after he sobered up, he secretly left the hospital after waking up.
Qing Musong frowned slightly after hearing this. This was not the reaction of a normal person, unless the other party had something to hide!
Everyone was busy rescuing people at the time and did not see the other person's face. Moreover, it was not easy to find the other person in Tokyo, which is one of the most densely populated cities in the world.
But Aoki Matsu didn't expect... when he received a call from Sayuri the next day, it was that the man had died in front of the flower clock in Beika Park.
After receiving Sayuri's call, Aoki Matsu immediately took his team members to go out on the scene.
"Brother Aoki, that man must be a stalker. He was staring at Ayumi who was practicing conducting with her baton early in the morning." Genta said to Aoki Matsu.
Mitsuhiko followed suit and said, "Brother Aoki, you saw it yesterday. He was here yesterday, too."
Qing Musong nodded, "I know."
In fact, if the target was not Ayumi... based on what Genta and Mitsuhiko said, Ayumi would be a major suspect in murder!
There are many cases of killing people who are following you in the world of science.
But the target is Ayumi, so naturally Ayumi cannot be the murderer.
Aoki Matsu went forward and examined the body.
The man in black still smelled strongly of alcohol. It seemed that he had drunk a lot of alcohol last night, or maybe this morning.
First, look at the face of the man in black. There is a scar on his left cheek. It looks like his face was cut by a sharp weapon, but it is definitely not a fatal injury.
After examining the man in black, Aoki Matsu concluded that he died from a severe blow to the head.
There was a bottle of wine that was almost four-fifths full next to the black-clothed man's left hand, and there was a lot of paint on his right hand.
There was a strange thing: the pair of gloves the man in black wore yesterday were not on his body or next to him.
In addition, blood stains were found on the top, pointed part of the long pointer of the flower clock.
It seems that the thing that scratched the black-clothed man's left cheek should be the long hand of the flower clock.
At this time, Maruta Ayumi brought a security guard and said, "Inspector, this is Mr. Takakuma Mitsuru, the security guard who was patrolling the park last night."
The other party saluted towards Aoki Matsu.
"Thank you for your hard work." After some politeness, Qing Musong got to the point. "Excuse me, when did you start patrolling near the flower clock?"
"The patrol starts at 3 a.m., and the time near this flower clock is around 3:50," Gao Sangman replied.
Upon hearing this, Qing Musong asked, "Did you see the body at that time?"
"I didn't see any sign of it, and the flowers didn't show any signs of being disturbed," Gao Sangman replied.
Before Qing Musong could speak, a familiar male voice interrupted, "It seems that this was an accident!"
Upon hearing this, Aoki Matsu subconsciously turned his head and saw Maori Kogoro standing in front of the flower clock with his hands on his hips, speaking confidently.
[Haha, I don’t believe you! ]
How could a case involving Conan be an accident?
"Detective Mori, why are you here too?" Aoki Matsu asked curiously.
"Ran said Conan will be home late today and asked me to pick him up." Kogoro Mouri said with an unhappy look on his face.
So the family status is self-evident.
Maori Kogoro was unhappy and pointed at the body of the man in black and said: "The stone at 6 o'clock on the dial of the flower clock is just below the iron frame, so he climbed up the iron frame after getting drunk and fell down, and hit his head on this stone and died. That should be it.
The time of his death should be between 3:50 and 4:30. There are traces of scratches on the man's face caused by a long needle. That's because after he fell, the long needle just turned to the -minute position. "
Qing Musong thought for a moment and looked at the little ones and asked, "What time did you get here?"
"Well..." Mitsuhiko thought for a moment and said, "It's probably around 5:20."
"So, the man's face was scratched at 4:." Kogoro Mori said immediately after hearing this.
Qing Musong frowned when he heard this and said, "Something is wrong."
"What's wrong?" asked Kogoro Mouri.
"Given his current posture, if the long needle really cuts his face, the scar should not be in this position. The arc should be larger than this scar," said Aoki Matsu.
Maori Kogoro heard this and leaned over to take another look, then said speechlessly: "This is totally invisible! Aoki, how did you know something was wrong?!"
"Ah!" Yuantai suddenly screamed.
Maori Kogoro was startled and said to Yuanta in a bad tone: "What's wrong? Why are you shouting suddenly?"
"I finally remembered where I saw this uncle." Yuan Tai looked at Qing Mu Song and said, "Brother Qing Mu, I remember he came to my house to buy wine before."
"Really?" Aoki Matsu asked
"Really." Yuan Tai replied.
Then Aoki Matsu called Genta's father directly based on the other party's testimony.
The deceased was a worker at a nearby advertising sign factory called "Mitian Billboard".
So Aoki Matsu immediately took people to the Yoneda Kanban factory, explained the situation to the boss, and handed the boss a photo of the deceased for identification.
"It's his fault." The boss recognized him as soon as he saw the photo. "He was a factory worker named Yota Changsaku. He got drunk and fell to his death! It's just like his style."
Hearing the boss say this, Qing Musong quickly asked, "Is he the type who gets drunk and crazy?"
"Yes, he gets angry and causes trouble when he drinks," the boss replied.
The young detectives gathered around a painting and praised it, saying, "This is a great painting."
The boss took a look at what he said, but didn't scold the little ones. He just said, "That was the last painting that Yutian made before he died."
"It's strange that this part is damaged." Mitsuhiko discovered the flaw in the painting.
The boss sighed and said, "He was drunk last month when he installed the billboard, and the whole billboard fell down. Ever since that incident, Yota has developed a fear of heights and doesn't come to work. He drinks all day."
"Ah!" Qing Musong was stunned when he heard this. "You said he is afraid of heights?"
Conan and Haibara Ai were also stunned.
But that person yesterday...
Qing Musong also thought of this. Could it be that the person they met yesterday was not the deceased, but the murderer pretending to be the deceased, with the purpose of making people see that the deceased had a history of climbing up the iron frame, so his death by falling today must have been an accident?
"Yes!" the boss replied.
Upon hearing this, Qing Musong immediately said: "Can you describe the situation in more detail?"
"Sure!" the boss replied, and then he explained it again carefully, and said that Yoshida Changsaku had been to the hospital for treatment of acrophobia, and the hospital should have his medical records.
Aoki Matsu got this clue and immediately sent someone to the hospital to investigate the matter.
The murderer probably didn't know that Masasaku Yoda was afraid of heights, so he pretended to be him and climbed up the iron frame. In order to impress Aoki Matsu and others, he deliberately did some strange things to make them witnesses. Then he killed Masasaku Yoda and disguised it as an accident.
So... we have to check the crime scene carefully again.
This time, Qing Musong not only checked the area around the corpse, but also expanded the inspection to the entire flower clock.
Then I found bloodstains on the stone at 12 o'clock. In addition, there were faint footprints at even distances on the short and long hands.
footprint!!!
This is very strange.
Aoki Matsu asked the criminal identification department to retrieve the criminal photos.
At this time, Maruta Ayumi found Aoki Matsu with the information from the investigation and said, "Inspector, Mr. Yota's fear of heights is real. We checked his medical records at Beika Hospital. In addition, I found that Mr. Yota was involved in an accidental death three years ago."
Upon hearing this, Qing Musong immediately asked, "What's going on?"
"Three years ago, Mr. Yota was an art teacher at Niigata High School. His girlfriend at the time was snatched away by Mr. Kawaguchi Kyoichiro, who was a physical education teacher at the same high school. It is worth mentioning that the girl also taught English at the same high school.
One day, Mr. Yoda insisted on taking the young lady out for a ride, but an accident happened on the way. The young lady died, but Mr. Yoda survived. So Mr. Kawaguchi always believed that the car accident was not an accident, but a murder deliberately created by Mr. Yoda. "Maruta Ayumi replied.
"In other words, Mr. Kawaguchi had reason to kill Mr. Yota," Aoki Matsu concluded.
Indeed, such cases of revenge for one's other half are common in the world of science, but there are not many like this one.
Maruta Ayumi nodded. "I think he is a major suspect because he has been staying at the Haido Station Hotel since a week ago."
Niigata High School is in Niigata Prefecture, not in Tokyo.
Niigata Prefecture is quite far from Tokyo, and it takes nearly three hours to get there by Shinkansen.