Chapter XXVIII: Case Relay
"Yo, meet Mr. Police Officer again. Uncle Maori greeted heartily.
Shan Shan Gongwang took a deep breath: "Why can't Mr. Maori stay at home quietly and have to walk around?"
About six hours after the family restaurant parted in the afternoon, everyone met at a new crime scene.
Although it is said that there is almost no murder case with the shadow of the Maori family behind it, which everyone in the Metropolitan Police Department is used to, two cases a day is really unbearable.
"Ahem, the detective wouldn't have a job if he stayed at home. "Uncle Maori is also a little embarrassed, he always encounters cases This kind of thing has been complained about several times by the Twilight Police Department, the Sato Police Department, the Prefectural Police Department and that kid, maybe his luck is really more back.
"Well, it's a coincidence that the deceased this time was also cyanide poisoning, so you can ask the others for more things. How about me and a few children just sit quietly in the living room without making a mess?"
"Thank you for your cooperation. Shan County Gongwang smiled.
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The deceased was Ikuro Wakamatsu, the son of the president of Wakamatsu Design Company, who was twenty-five years old.
The cause of death was cyanide poisoning, and according to bystanders, 'just after eating the baumkuchen, the man collapsed and died straight away.' ’
In addition, his father, Kohei Wakamatsu, was killed in his villa in Nagano Prefecture last month, and the local police judged it to be a burglary and murder case.
At the time of Wakamatsu's death, the people who were at the scene at the time were the Mori family, Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama, as well as family members and guests.
Wakamatsu Celery, Wakamatsu Kohei's wife, Wakamatsu Ikuro's stepmother, vice president and acting president of a design company, 43 years old.
Yonehara Sakurako, a maid of the Wakamatsu family, female, twenty-three years old, is the one who cuts the baumkuchen.
Yoshimi Satake, secretary of the design company, female, 32 years old, was in charge of the presentation of the cake, and instructed Yonehara Sakurako to cut the cake into eight parts (Mori and his party of five, Wakamatsu Ikuro, Wakamatsu Celery, and Shiina Masaoshi), and made black tea.
The guest Shiina is Shiina, a full-time director of the design company, male, 56 years old, and he brought the Baumkuchen.
The guest, Juno Fujina, the chief designer of the design company, male, 30 years old, came with Shiina Masao, and had already eaten the cake before coming.
"I think this incident is very likely to be a continuation of last month's incident, can you tell us more about last month's incident. Yama Prefecture said, and at the same time asked his men to contact the Nagano Prefectural Police to ask for a record of the case.
"Okay, that was a month ago, and my family was at a villa in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, and there were four people in the house: me, Kohei, Ikuro, and Sakurako-san. Wakamatsu Qinxiang told it without saying a word, in fact, because it was originally meant to be told to Hattori Heiji and his party who came to analyze these things.
"The first person to find out was me, when I found the old man lying on the floor of the bathroom covered in blood, so I hurried to call Madame. Yonehara Sakurako said.
"Then I went to ask Sakurako to call the police, and I went to call Ikuro, who was sleeping in the room at the time. ”
"Madame specially instructed me not to tell Miss Satake, Mr. Shiina and Mr. Fujina, who were also in Nagano at the time, and when I came back from the police, I saw that Young Master Yurou was holding the old man's body in pain. ”
The two of you recounted the situation at that time, word by word.
"And the vanished text, too. Hattori interjected.
"That was the first time I saw the master, and I saw a handwritten letter 's' on the right hand side of the master, but when the police came, the s were gone. Yonehara Sakurako explained.
So several suspicious eyes focused on Wakamatsu Celery's body, according to Yonehara Sakurako, it could only be that Wakamatsu Celesh wiped that S off when she was away.
Wakamatsu Qinxiang knew everyone's thoughts very well, and immediately said: "The police who handled the case at that time have already considered the possibility that I or Ikuro erased the words, but after the reaction of the blood test, none of the tiles around the master have blood reflections. ”
"The 's' is written on the tile, and you can just buckle the tile off and exchange it with other tiles. Police officer Yuji Kato, who was listening on the side, couldn't help but interject, because if they were to handle such a case, they would definitely do a luminol test on all the tiles in the bathroom, and they would not feel sorry for the reagents at all.
"No, the tiles in the bathroom are gradient, and the colors of the tiles on the top and bottom are inconsistent, so they can only be changed horizontally, and as far as I know, the police in Nagano had already checked all the tiles of the same color at that time. Hattori Heiji said suddenly.
Yama Prefecture Gongwang turned his gaze to Hattori Heiji, because the case at noon Hattori Heiji gave them clues about the Kansai dialect, and his impression of Hattori Heiji was not bad.
"Another thing I learned was that someone asked me to go to their villa in Osaka in the name of the late Mr. Kohei Wakamatsu. Hattori Heiji added.
Wakamatsu apparently didn't know about it: "That villa in Osaka?
"No......" Hattori Heiji shook his head depressedly: "I was sick that day, but Kazuki didn't say hello so I took the key by myself, called a few friends to go there together, and then was startled by someone pretending to be a ghost in the toilet of the Osaka villa." ”
"And there, the other party came to a scene in the toilet under the nose of Kimono, and it was a scratch, the letter 'eye', and then it disappeared again. ”
"How did you disappear?" asked Shan Shan Gongwang.
He Ye replied: "At that time, the lights were suddenly turned off, and it was pitch black everywhere, and we had just seen a ghost, and we were so scared! ”
"Have you double-checked the tiles there?" asked Yama Gongwang.
"Yes. Kazuha nodded: "As I said just now, all of them are gradient colors, and the color near the corner of the wall is darker than the color near the roof, and then we look for tiles of the same color or close to them, but we didn't find any tiles with scratches." ”
"So are the bathrooms in Villa Osaka the same tiles in the bathrooms in Villa Karuizawa?" asked Yamaguchi Gongwang as he continued, asking about Kamatsu Celesh.
"Yes. Wakamatsu Qinxiang nodded: "Kohei likes the design of that tile very much, so the two families use one design for all." ”
Keisuke Chiju is standing behind Yama Prefecture Gongwang, studying if there is any mechanism in this that can achieve such an effect.
"Celebration, do you have any opinions?" Suddenly, Shan County Gongwang turned around and took the initiative to ask by name.
The faces of some small-minded police officers changed, and it was obvious that the county prince looked at him differently because of his outstanding performance at noon.
"According to Miss Toyama just now, when you and your companion went to the Wakamatsu family's villa in Osaka, there was no one in the villa except for the ghost pretend, right?" Keisuke Chiju asked directly without being ambiguous.
"Yes. Kazuha nodded: "The letter sent to Pingji contained the key to the villa, and after we knocked on the door and couldn't open it, we went directly to the door with the key." ”
"Then I think the first question that should be confirmed is the source of the key, and the person who sent the letter first must be involved in this case, so may I ask who of you has the key to that villa?"