"So why am I a suspect?The victim is my son!Will I kill my own son?!" Nana Maruyama, who was covering her tiredness with heavy makeup, shouted, waving her arms nervously up and down, making Nao wonder if she was about to knock the head of the Twilight Police Department. But the information revealed in her words really surprised her, and she stopped walking forward.

"But according to our investigation, you don't have a good attitude towards Ling Gongzi, and you even have a record of abusing him. "The medical staff have examined Ling Gongzi's injuries, and in addition to suffocation, he is also mildly dehydrated, and it is obvious that he has not eaten or drunk water for a day. Just because you're the victim's mother doesn't mean you're not suspicious. So please tell us where you were between four and half past four, and who can prove it. ”

Hearing Twilight's "antecedents", Maruyama's face froze for a moment, and a trace of guilt and pain flashed in his eyes, but he quickly returned to his original state, but his attitude was not as fierce as before. Her pale lips trembled, as if she was holding back something, but finally took a deep breath and said to Twilight, "Xiao Mu went out early this morning, saying that he was going to practice at a nearby club. I have been sleeping hard at night lately, I felt a little uncomfortable after he left, so I took medicine to rest at home, I don't know when I fell asleep in a daze, and I didn't wake up until you knocked on the door just now. ”

"Slept all day?" Twilight was stunned, "Is there anyone who can prove that you've been home all along?"

"Xiao Mu was not at home today, and I was not feeling well and didn't want to eat, so I asked the maid to go back to rest...... I'm the only one in the house. ”

"That's what no one can prove......" Twilight groaned for a moment and turned her gaze to Inoue Yona, "So, Miss Inoue, do you have an exact alibi?"

"I? I went home around three o'clock, and then I practiced in the practice room, and I never went out. Inoue waved his thick palm, "But the sound insulation in the practice room is very good, and usually no one will disturb me when I practice, so ......"

“...... Is that gone?" Twilight pressed her hat with a headache, "What about Miss Nakagawa?"

"Police, I happened to be at Miss Nakagawa's house when I received the call. "We arrived at her house at four o'clock, and she didn't go out until the victim was found, and she had a servant at home to testify." ”

Hearing this, Nao already had a general understanding of the situation of the three people, and finally stepped forward and said, "But we didn't see her at the time of the crime, and Miss Nakagawa just appeared at about four o'clock and went upstairs." While this alibi may seem explicit, it is actually vague. She said quietly as she looked at the three suspects, "We just went to the scene of the crime, and the houses of the three of them happened to be adjacent to the woods, and they were all side by side. If you climb the fence and walk from the top of the fence to the woods, it won't take you more than five minutes to go back and forth. Therefore, regardless of whether there is an alibi or not, there is a possibility of committing a crime. ”

"Indeed, that's true......" Twilight looked at Nao in surprise and nodded a little stunned.

"It's just that there are iron thorns on the fence to prevent thieves, and the distance between each thorn is about 10 centimeters, and the weight of the tree branch from which the victim is hung is very limited. Kudo Shinichi also walked up, looking at the opera artist on the side, "So judging from the situation at the scene, Miss Inoue will not be a prisoner." ”

"That's true......" Twilight continued to nod as she looked at Inoue's "healthy" figure.

"You, you're ......" Nakagawa was visibly surprised by Nao's appearance, his sexy red lips slightly open.

"Hello, we've just met. Nao smiled at her kindly, "But I was in a hurry just now, and my bag and materials are still on the sofa." Can I go and get it back now?"

"Ah, and my bag, too,......" Sato remembered that his bag had also left there.

"Of course you can, my maid should be at home, you can just go over and get it. As a director, Nakagawa Kunzi quickly understood what was going on, and put his right index finger on his lips and smiled softly at Nao, "But little girl, your red hair looks much better than black hair." ”

"Thank you. Nao seemed to be a little embarrassed and lowered his head, removing a glint from his eyes, "Then we'll be rude first, and I'll take out Sato-san's bag together." ”

"Then please. Sato said.

Nao turned his head sideways and glanced at the two beside him, and Kudo and Ran hurriedly said goodbye and left with Nao.

Walking slowly away with his back to the police and the suspect, Nao smiled out of sight.

Looking at the table of the three of them, the operatist obviously didn't know anything about himself, while Nana Maruyama and Kunzi Nakagawa both showed surprise at different times. Nakagawa's surprise is easy to say, because Nao's appearance before was short black hair, and it is possible that he will not be able to react for a while after suddenly changing his image, but Maruyama's reaction is intriguing. Nao was confident that she hadn't seen her before, but why was she surprised by her presence? and there was a hint of surprise and inquiry in that surprise, as if she had known her before.

If you want to talk about people who know her and haven't seen her face...... There's only one.

-- The "chokeholder" who attacked Natsu himself!

Nao was thoughtful, and Kudo Shinichi was obviously thinking about something. Mao Lilan looked at the two who were trapped in their own world, and lowered their heads a little gloomily, saying nothing all the way.

Two minutes away, the three of them walked to the front of the Nakagawa family's mansion. Nao was about to press the electric bell, but found that the housewife aunt of the Nakagawa family was walking through the courtyard wearing a mask and holding a cardboard box in her arms. Nao frowned and quickly rang the doorbell several times. The aunt raised her head and saw the three people standing at the gate of the courtyard, and her duties as a housekeeper made her put the box aside and walked over, looking at Nao with a faint doubt in her eyes.

"Who are you?"

"Hello, it was Officer Sato who asked us to get her information, and I forgot to go on the sofa in a hurry just now. Nao and Ran bowed to the housekeeper together, and succeeded in winning her favor. The eldest aunt's eyebrows softened, and she walked up and opened the door for the three of them. Nao looked at the dust on her body, then at the cardboard box on the ground, and asked, "Are you cleaning?"

"Yes, Mademoiselle doesn't usually let people touch her collection, but she complains when it falls into dust, so I can only clean it up while she's away. Some of the fat aunts bent down to pick up the cardboard box, and the fine lines at the corners of their eyes were stacked together with a smile, "No, I picked up another pair of broken shoes, and I was about to put them in the garbage classification." ”

"Isn't it common for collectibles to be treated with great care?" asked Maoliran, puzzled, "and it would be a shame if it were a very expensive collectible......

"Our lady's collection is all high heels, so I occasionally wear them out a few times, and I guess I accidentally broke the heels. "The housekeeper seemed to see them as children, so she didn't hesitate to say anything. But this sentence has a different meaning to Nao, who is aware of the information about the Natsu attack.

"Twisted the heel ......" Nao was stunned, and then a strange feeling rose. Although she had already seen Nakagawa's intact pair of golden high heels, she always had a wonderful feeling of "she must have another pair", and couldn't help but ask urgently, "Auntie, can you let me see these shoes?"

"Ah, it's not impossible to ......" The aunt was a little strange, but still opened the box in her hand. Nao looked closer with some excitement, and was immediately disappointed. The shoes in the box weren't the "Broadway Dreams" she had imagined, but a completely different style and color, except that one was missing a heel.

"Good, such tall roots!!" Maolilan gasped, "It's ten centimeters, isn't it?...... it hurts to wear it on your feet."

"Anyway, you lady can't get up, I'm afraid you won't be able to wear it in this life. Kudo Shinichi teased viciously on the side, "But it's okay, with such a pointed heel, you stomped into the ground while wearing it, maybe you will stab yourself to death if you fall!"

"That's not the case!!" Maolilan's face flushed, and he yelled at Shinichi, who grinned at the side. And Nao heard Kudo Shinichi's words, but he was like an electric shock, and quickly grabbed the intact shoe and opened his eyes to look at it carefully.

"The height and thickness are exactly the same...... Footsteps...... Window...... Footprints......" she thought as she put her hand under her lips as she looked at the pointed heel and muttered, "and the wound...... So that's it...... But what about the motive? What about that method......

"Na, Nao?" Mao Lilan looked at Nao, who was lost in thought, and stopped arguing with Kudo, looking a little worried.

"Did you think of anything?" Kudo also noticed, and asked with some excitement.

"Kudo, do you have a mobile phone?" Nao lowered her head and hid her expression under Rukai.

"Yes, there is ......" Kudo took out his phone and looked up at her, his tone seemed to be very unpleasant, "What did you find?"

"I'll tell you later...... Well, but you'll probably understand it after reading the information. Nao snatched his phone, dialed his own number, and wrote down the number. After the recording, she put the shoes back in the box with a smile, returned the phone to Kudo Shinichi, took a deep breath and ran towards the door, "The information is in the sports bag on the sofa, I'll go to the scene to see, waiting for my news!"

"Shinichi, she's ......" Looking at Nao who ran away, Ran's eyes were full of question marks.

"Who knows!" Kudo put the phone back in his pocket, shook his hand and limped towards the house, "Leave her alone, let's go and see the information first." - Auntie, please lead the way. ”

**

Nao quickly ran out of the Nakagawa house, ran past Twilight and his party, who were still interrogating something, into the dark woods of the evening, and ran all the way to the big tree where the victim was hoisted. She took a moment to breathe and looked up at the leafy plane tree, her eyes shining with a golden-green glow.

It's all about success or failure. If she was right, there must be important evidence there that she had overlooked. With that evidence, she could shatter the prisoner's conspiracy—the filthy truth, as dark as the tears of a chokeholder.

But before that......

"Jinping, it's me. She dialed Matsuda Jinpei's phone and curled her lips at the man on the other end of the phone, "Are you still in the police station...... That's good. Help me check the information of Kunshi Nakagawa and Nana Maruyama, Rice Flower Town 2-chome...... Very urgent. ”

Hanging up the phone, Nao moved her ankle and climbed the tall plane tree for the third time, climbing the fence more than two meters high.

The shoulder injury started to hurt again, but fortunately it didn't crack again. She stood on the wall and touched her shoulder, secretly encouraging herself to hold on a little longer. The sun had slowly set over the horizon, and the light in the woods had become dimmer than before. She could only give up looking with her eyes, and reached out and touched the iron thorn that was facing the line on the branch.

Thank you to the man who painted the iron thorn so smooth!—she thought to herself when she felt something strange in her fingers. Sure enough, the touch of the fingers was different from what the eyes saw—it was not a full semicircle, as she had observed, but a quarter of the iron spikes from left to right. The other half of the line is just lightly drawn to hide people's eyes, and there is not much real touch.

"It's ......" Nao's eyes flashed, and she hurriedly touched the iron spike next to its right. Sure enough, the one on the right also had a thin groove on it, but it was only a short one. Touching this crack, she suddenly became as excited as a pirate who had found a treasure map, and groped in the direction of the trace, one by one, and slowly walked from the wall to the right.

One by one, the trails stretched for more than ten meters, and it was not until she walked in front of another building that the clues were broken. She straightened up and looked in the direction the last iron spike was facing, high on the high wall, her long fiery red hair fluttering in the dusk sunset.

Didi――

The text message sounded, and it was Matsuda Jinpei's message. Some bleak background light illuminated her face, and she quickly skimmed the words on the message, and a confident smile gradually appeared on her face.

So that's it...... Motivation was found.

She dialed Kudo Shinichi's phone, believing that he had already finished reading it.

"It's me. Nao's voice was filled with excitement, "Have you finished reading the information?"

"Needless to say. Kudo's voice sounded extremely confident, "Did you find the clue?"

"The house you're in now, the second window on the right side of the second floor, go there. ”

"Wait," came the voice of inquiry on the other side of the phone, the voice of the housekeeper interrupting. But within a few seconds, the teenager's response rang out again. “...... It's already there, and it's a separate bathroom in Nakagawa Kunzi's bedroom. ”

"There should be traces there, if I'm right. ”

“...... Truly. Kudo chuckled, and a surprised cry came from Ran and the housekeeper, "Not only are there traces, but there is also a large piece of evidence that has not been destroyed." ”

"Take it, let's go find Officer Twilight. Nao couldn't suppress a happy smile, but a hint of gloom flashed in his eyes, "Before the person who was falsely accused was arrested...... If the officers really found out about her past. ”

“...... OK。 ”

With a soft sound, the red-haired girl jumped off the wall with ease.

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