The path of life, the collision of countless coincidences and coincidences, is fate. "Life" can only be reversed once, but "luck" can be changed repeatedly in the journey of a lifetime. Fate is irreversible, but it can be grasped. The point is, when you're standing at a crossroads, choose where the road leads.

- Saotome Nao

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After watching the demonstration of Nao and Shinichi, the scene was a little quiet. The constantly rotating police lights swept a ** red light on everyone's faces, illuminating one thoughtful face after another.

"Do you kill people from a distance in some way...... According to what you say, the murderer used the method just now to hang the victim up, and then hide somewhere, as long as the fishing line is cut, the victim will naturally be trapped around the neck. Sato secretly chewed on the words and frowned, "But in this way, not everyone who lives nearby is likely to commit a crime?" It's just a thin fishing line, and if you don't deliberately observe it, you won't be able to notice it even if it hangs over your head." ”

"No, in fact, when this method was deduced, the scope of the murderer had already been demarcated. The only people who can achieve this trick are the three families who live behind the woods, which means that the prisoners are among the three who are Miss Maruyama, Miss Nakagawa, and Miss Inoue. "But based on the marks on the iron thorns at the top of the wall, I found that the only person who could do this was the mansion facing the crime scene, Miss Nana Maruyama." ”

"W-What?!" the Twilight Police Department was taken aback, "But Nao, didn't you just say that Maruyama wasn't the murderer......?

"Of course, Miss Maruyama is not the murderer, it is just a trap set by the criminals. Nao stepped up with her hands in her pockets and turned her gaze to a graceful figure, "Leaving a complete mark on the iron spikes, stealing the heels and returning them...... The purpose of doing these things is to blame Nana Maruyama for the whole incident - do you say yes, the collector Kun Zisan? No, or would it be better to call you a 'choke-necked man'?"

After Nao said this, everyone's eyes went straight to the woman who had been silent. Nakagawa Kunzi's face changed, but in an instant, he regained his charming appearance, as if he had heard something funny, he covered his lips and laughed.

"How can you say that, little girl?" Nakagawa crossed his arms, and there was a smile in his eyes that could not be hidden, but Nao saw some provocation and pride in it, "Even if you say that all three of us have the possibility of committing a crime, but you also said, 'Only Nana Maruyama can do this'." And I'm a collector of high heels myself, and I have that Broadway dream myself, so why should I steal her?"

"Oh, it seems that you are quite confident in your own methods. Nao bared out a mouthful of white teeth at her, and the Okinawan dialect unconsciously melted into the Tokyo dialect, "After the victim was hoisted, the arc part of the U-shaped fishing line was hung on the iron thorn at the head of the wall, and the other end was pulled to the balcony of Nana Maruyama facing the plane tree, and then as soon as the fishing line was cut, the victim at the other end lost his support and naturally fell down...... In this way, no matter how much the police investigate, all the clues point to only the Maruyama family, plus the pair of high heels that lost a crystal, Maruyama Nana is speechless even if she denies it - is that what you plan?" she waved her index finger regretfully, "Tut-tut...... Although you have been careful, it is a pity that you have left behind an important piece of evidence. ”

"What evidence?"

"It's the chemistry of the Iron Thorns!" Nao smiled with an arrogant smile, "The humidity and oxygen are much heavier than anywhere else in the woods. The row of iron thorns at the head of the wall was more or less rusty, but the iron thorn with obvious traces was smooth...... What do you think is the reason for this?" Seeing that she was silent, Nao poked her face with a finger, "'Beautiful makeup, delicate nails, and noble high heels, these three things are indispensable for a woman!' - Miss Nakagawa, you told me this sentence. ”

"Yes, yes, nail polish!" Sato hammered his palm, and suddenly realized, "As long as you apply a layer of transparent nail polish to the iron thorn, you can temporarily cover the rust on it, and it will be smooth to the touch...... But why did she do that? Doesn't that leave an unnatural trace?"

"She certainly did it for a reason. Shinichi Kudo stepped forward and explained, "Although nail polish will coat the iron thorn with a film, it will also make it easy to leave obvious marks when the fishing line is rubbed. She's doing it just in case. If the police hadn't found the trace, the case would have been a headless case, but if the police were aware of the murder method, they would have been able to trace the Maruyama family back to the Maruyama family from the conspicuous traces on the iron thorns. That way, no matter what the outcome, she won't be treated as a murderer. ”

"In fact, when we first saw that obvious trace, we were really misled. Nao continued, "It wasn't until I went to Nakagawa's house to pick up my and Sato-san's bags that I met the housekeeper who had just finished cleaning and saw the pair of heelless heels, that I became suspicious of the mark again. She lowered her head and pulled out a photo from her fanny pack and held it up to everyone, "This is a trace found at the scene of the Ice Emperor Elementary School attack yesterday, you should remember it, Officer Twilight?"

"Ahhhhhhhhhh ”

"That's right," Nao nodded, "The hole was narrow and deep, and I thought it was a sign of an umbrella tip stuck in the dirt at first, but after a friend of mine reminded me and the citrine, I decided it was a heel mark...... But don't you think it's strange that she would have sprained her foot if she could have made such a deep mark in a hurry. And according to the victim's testimony, the prisoner approached her silently -- and the heels of the Broadway Dream shoes were more than 10 centimeters tall, and the shoes were already on tiptoe, and there was no such thing as 'walking on tiptoe'. Unless ......"

"Unless the prisoner wasn't wearing those shoes at all!" Kudo Shinichi said firmly, "Whether it's the heel marks or the citrine in the hole, it's all intentional marks left by the prisoner." The goal was for the police to investigate the person involved in the limited-edition heels in order to blame someone who owned the shoes for the entire attack. ”

"But what does that have to do with the missing heels?"

"Because it was so inconvenient to carry a high-heeled shoe in his arms to commit a crime, the prisoner only had to pry off the heel part of the high-heeled shoe and put it on his body. Before committing the crime, he placed citrine on the ground and pierced it with the heel of his shoe - and the hole was formed...... Of course, this is also my speculation. What really exposes this technique is the angle of the hole left at the site and the state of the surrounding soil. Nao shrugged, "The hole is almost perpendicular to the ground, close to ninety degrees, and there are no signs of friction on the side of the hole...... Don't you think it's too clean, and generally speaking, when the heel sinks into the ground, the hole should be slightly sloping. It's basically impossible to create such a clean hole that is almost vertical while wearing shoes, and that's the root cause of my suspicions. ”

"I see, I am. Sato nodded, and his eyes became colder and colder as he looked at Nakagawa, "In other words, yesterday's attack is just today's incident...... Prologue?"

"Wait, wait, even then, I'm not sure I did it!" Nakagawa finally panicked, "And even if the hole you said is true, there are a lot of people with that kind of high heels, right? Just because I happen to have a pair of heelless high heels, I can conclude that I am a murderer or something...... There must be a limit to being vexatious!"

"Whether it's vexatious or something, please listen to me explain the next method, and then let the police officer make a decision. Nao sneered and continued, "If it was a hoax last time, what about this one?--it was because I figured it out that I became suspicious of the overly obvious trace at the scene. So, I went to the scene again, and I finally found evidence of this second hoax. She stretched out her right hand and twisted her fingers, and a few grains of red powder fell from her fingertips, "Just as I suspected, there were indeed some marks on the other iron thorns adjacent to the iron thorns. Because each of the iron spikes had a thin layer of rust on them, the prisoners had left crucial evidence where they thought they would not leave traces—thin lines that were shallow, not easy to spot, on the back of the thorns...... It stretches all the way to the front of the residence of Kun Zi-san in Nakagawa. ”

"So......" Twilight and Sato looked at Nakagawa, who was frowning.

"You can't be wrong, that's how the prisoner thinks he's smart. Kudo Shinichi nodded confidently, "The prisoner didn't put a U-shaped fishing line on the iron thorn with nail polish as we thought, but just made that illusion. She first put a rope under the victim's armpit and hung him from a tree, then used a double-strand fishing line to pass through the victim's belt, pulled it up the fence, put it on the back of the iron spikes, and pulled the line to the front of her house, and then used the last of the whole row of iron thorns as a fulcrum to pull it 90 degrees to the bathroom on the second floor of her mansion. ”

"As for how to pull the line to the second floor, I think she tied a weight to the line and threw it from downstairs into the window of the bathroom on the second floor. "Then she went up to the second floor, put the arced end of the U-shaped fishing line on the sink switch, and tied the two fishing lines at the other end to the water pipe, and the whole process was completed." Then she only had to go to the scene of the crime, move the rope loop under the victim's armpit to the neck and tighten it, and then go home and wait for someone to prove that she was not present at the time of the crime. With an alibi, she simply says 'I'm going to get something' or 'I'm going to the bathroom' in front of the witness, then cuts the line that is attached to the sink switch and recycles the line after confirming that the victim has fallen from the tree...... There is a perfect alibi. ”

"The one who proves that she has alibi evidence is that we who went to the Nakagawa house to investigate. Sato bit his lip.

"Not necessarily. Trust us to investigate, it wasn't in her plans. Nao smiled at her, "I remember Miss Nakagawa saying that it seems like she was going to meet an important investor in a moment. ”

"Hahaha! What a perfect explanation!" Nakagawa Kunzi suddenly applauded and snorted contemptuously, "But, the key is that do you have any evidence? Evidence to prove that I am a prisoner! It's just lip service, but there is no way to make me confess." ”

"Hehe, just waiting for you to ask. Nao smiled weirdly, her golden-green eyes shining like some kind of beast, "If we want proof, we've got a lot of them here...... Isn't it, Kudo-kun?"

"Fortunately, I called the police in time and didn't let her have time to destroy the evidence, but thank me!" Kudo Shinichi pulled up the hem of his clothes, took out a plastic bottle wrapped in a plastic bag from behind, and shook it at Nakagawa in his hand, "This, it's very familiar, right? I found it in the bathroom of the bedroom on the second floor of your house!"

"Shampoo, shampoo ......" Nakagawa was stunned, his face flushed with annoyance, "You guys!Who told you to go to other people's houses casually?!Do you have my permission!" She shouted as she walked up quickly, trying to snatch the bottle from Kudo's hand. Nao on the side narrowed her eyes when she saw this, and as soon as she was short, she jumped in front of her in one step, and grabbed her hand that was stretched out to Kudo Shinichi.

"Oh, Nakagawa-san, don't move!" Nao's fingers tightened, and he looked coldly at Nakagawa's face distorted by pain and fright. She slowly moved her hand from Nakagawa's wrist to her fingers, lightly pressed her index finger, and grinned in satisfaction, "I noticed just now, you obviously want to reach out and poke my face, just like in the afternoon...... But why did you stop on the way and put it on your lips instead?"

"That's—that's because ......"

"Because you accidentally scratched your finger while recovering the fishing line, right?" Exotic Japanese floated out of her smile, her slender eyes shining with an invisible aura. Nao looked at Nakagawa's abruptly changed face, and asked again without waiting for her to answer, "When I went to your house with Sato-san to investigate, your finger was still intact, why did you have an extra scar after only a while?

"What happened all of a sudden?" Twilight opened her mouth, "what about the shampoo and binoculars?"

"Let me explain, Dusk Police. Kudo glanced at Nao and Nakagawa, who were facing each other, and turned to hand the evidence to Twilight, "When Saotome returned to the scene to look for evidence, Ran and I happened to be at Nakagawa's house. According to her contacts, we found a telescope behind the bathtub curtain in the bathroom on the second floor, and found the wet shampoo bottle on the sink next to it. The binoculars must have been used by the prisoners to observe the state of the victims, and the shampoo bottle ...... I'm afraid that when she was about to use the above method to recover the fishing line, she saw me and Lan who found the victim through the binoculars, so she was scratched by the line when she hurriedly recovered the fishing line. In order to improve efficiency, she can only grab the shampoo bottle next to her, wrap the fishing line around the bottle, and turn the bottle like a spool to recycle the fishing line. ”

Kudo looked at Kunzi Nakagawa, who was suddenly stunned, and picked the corners of his mouth to continue to Twilight, "In the process of turning the bottle, the prisoner accidentally imprinted the blood on the wound on the bottle. She knew that she had become one of the suspects as originally planned, and that it would not be long before the police would come to question, so she did not have time to carefully process the blood stains on the bottle, so she could only peel off the recovered fishing line and hastily wash the bottle in water. ”

"Binoculars aside, how did you tell there was something wrong with the shampoo bottle?" asked Twilight, puzzled, "and where is the key fishing line?"

"I'm afraid the fishing line has been flushed off the toilet by her. And shampoo words...... Normally, would anyone put shampoo on the sink? If it's her habit of washing her hair with a sink, it's okay to say, but the spout is too low to do that. So, that's why I suspect there's something wrong with that shampoo bottle, and the facts show that my suspicions are not wrong. Kudo pursed his lips, his eyes shining, "I found it, on the switch of the faucet! Although there is only a shallow red mark, it is stained with dark red powder - that is the evidence that confirms that Nakagawa Kunzi is the 'choke man'!"

"Dark red powder......" Sato jerked his head up, "Is it rust!"

"That's right, it was caught by the line when it ran through the iron thorns, and it was attached to her fingers on the way to recovery. Kudo nodded, "And even though the bottle has been washed off, it can be detected by the guòluminol reaction - even if it has been diluted to only one part per million." ”

"The evidence is conclusive. The Twilight Police Department looked at Nakagawa Kunzi sternly, "Is there anything else you want to say, Miss Nakagawa?"

At some point, Nao let go of Nakagawa's clamp and let her lean against the wall.

"Huh...... I've said it all, 'It's a perfect commentary.'" Just like these two little detectives said, from the process to the technique. The beautiful female director took out a cigarette under the gaze of everyone, put it to her lips and lit it, took a deep breath, and smiled bleakly at Twilight, "It seems that my life is really a failure, whether it is a mother or a director, it is ......" She looked back at Maruyama with resentful eyes, and slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, "But it's a shame that I didn't let you taste the pain of loss, Dr. Maruyama." Oops, I don't think I'm a doctor anymore, hehehe......"

Nakagawa's laughter wafted in the air, but tears welled up in her eyes with her delicate makeup. The originally clear liquid flowed through the black eyeliner, as if writing its sin, and metamorphosed into two lines of black torrents, reflected in the red police lights, shocking.

"Confess your sins in prison...... This is the price you pay for hurting them. Looking at the whizzing police car, Nao muttered to herself in the shadow of the fence, "Whether it's for Natsu or for that child." ”

She lowered her head and flipped through the text messages that Jinping had sent her. Under the dim street lamp, a line of words came into her eyes.

- Yosuke Nakagawa, 7 years old, died three years ago due to heart allergies.

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"Oh, it hurts—"

A wail suddenly came from the house in 21 Banji, Ni-chome, Yone-cho, and the wild cats on the wall were so startled by the roar that they exploded.

"Bear with me, who told you to twist your foot and climb a tree. The woman who crawled curly on her forehead curled in the sea smiled, but the movements of her hands were unambiguous. The black-haired boy bared his teeth and glanced disappretently at the two girls who were snickering on the side, "If it weren't for the fact that Lan guy was wearing a short skirt, I wouldn't have climbed...... Pain, pain, pain, lightness, Mom!"

"But I finally saved the victim, and there is nothing bad about it. The gentle-looking man pushed his glasses and said to his wife with a smile, "Shinichi's injury is nothing, this little girl's injury is not light." But I didn't expect that this case was actually cracked by two of you middle school students, and it seems that in a few years, I can take a back seat with peace of mind. ”

"You've won a prize. Nao, who had changed her clothes with the help of Kudo's mother, lowered her head in embarrassment, but her eyes could not be separated from her idol, the mystery novelist Yusaku Kudo, who was considering whether to ask for an autograph for herself and Yanagi.

"Okay!" the beautiful young woman patted her "work", looked at the bow on the bandage, and nodded with satisfaction, "Don't be naughty anymore, Xiaoxin, if you sprain again, you will have to lie in bed for a month." ”

"That's it!" Mao Lilan nodded in agreement, "You still have the regional tryouts of the football club next week, don't forget!

"Eh, I think there's a regional tryout for the middle school soccer league next week. Nao, who was holding the teacup, sighed and said, suddenly felt a chill down his spine, and slowly turned his head, with a panic on his face, "Speaking ......"

She also has a regional tryout for the karate club next week!!

"-I've completely forgotten!!It's over!!"

Two chorus wails rang out in the 21st place of the 2-chome in Rice Flower Town, and at the same time, there was a terrible cat meow on the wall.

The author has something to say: it's finally over......

Next, take a breath of relief and write something lighthearted. How about everyone go to the beach together? ahaha~

PS: The new medicine I bought this time is really amazing, it made me sleep for 17 hours without a dream, so enjoyable! I haven't slept so comfortably for a long time.

But there are also downsides...... I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep, so the code word was updated.

It may not be updated tomorrow, but it will definitely be updated the day after tomorrow.

We have to gradually adapt to the two-day shift, and then finally resume the fù daily shift, oh yes!!