As soon as these words came out, even Lin Xinyi was stunned.

He was already desperate.

Forensics also have limits.

This kind of old case with the passage of time and the lack of evidence, he did not report too much hope in his heart.

When he found out that Shimoda had actually gone to Minako's funeral and knew that the evidence had been cremated with the body, he was even more desperate.

Because Lin Xinyi knows very well that after knowing that the police have no evidence in their hands and it is impossible to find evidence again, suspects rarely find out in conscience and consciously admit guilt.

As an individual, he was furious.

As a medical examiner, he had to accept it.

Because insufficient evidence cannot prove a person's guilt, subjective feelings must be subordinated to objective reality.

This is the professional ethics of medical examiners.

But now, when Lin Shinichi had given up, Akiko Yonehara said:

Minako's leather shoes are there for her.

How could it be with her?

Including Lin Xinyi, everyone present had this question.

"Because I already knew that Minako's death was problematic."

Yonehara Akiko sighed deeply and told everything she knew:

"I was Minako's homeroom teacher at the time, and I had the best relationship with her."

"And three years ago, the day before Minako died..."

"Minako told me privately that she had accidentally discovered that Sugiyama-sensei, along with another teacher she admired very much, was in the business of illegally buying and selling admission qualifications."

"Because the stakes are high, I asked her to keep quiet."

"And because the second murderer had a good relationship with her, Minako refused to tell me the name of the teacher at that time.

"But I didn't expect that it was only the next day..."

She bit her lip quietly, and infinite pain and self-reproach appeared in her eyes:

"Just the next day, when I went to the utility room to get something, I found Minako's body!!"

"I knew at the time that she must have been killed by Sugiyama-sensei and his accomplices."

"That's why I designed to kill Sugiyama."

"Then I invited the teachers who were closest to Minako to this villa, and through a scene, I found out what Minako said, the teacher she 'admired very much'."

"It turns out that the second murderer is Shimoda!"

Yonehara-sensei looked at Shimoda coldly.

Shimoda narrowly escaped with his life, and he was completely frightened.

He was trembling all over, and he was almost frightened into confessing his guilt by this glance from Akiko Yonehara.

But he still held back, he was still waiting, waiting for Yonehara Koko to come up with that evidence that would make him powerless to refute.

And Yonehara Koko finally fulfilled his wish:

"It was the body I found."

"And when I accidentally found Minako's body, she had just died."

"At that time... The saliva spots on the soles of her shoes hadn't even dried up. ”

"So it's easy for me to notice that Minako's soles seem to be spittle-like on the soles."

Akiko Yonehara tells the amazing truth:

It turned out that the key evidence that Lin Xinyi noticed today had been noticed by Mihara Akiko three years ago.

So why didn't it attract the attention of the police at that time?

Everyone has this question in their minds.

And the answer is still as simple and absurd:

"Because the police didn't listen to me at all."

"They felt that this case was just a simple suicide."

"I pointed out to them what kind of saliva Minako had on the soles of her shoes."

"But when they saw the dried water stains, they just thought it was just the stagnant water on the ground where she stepped on it before she died."

"They just want to solve the case as soon as possible, in the name of 'suicide'."

"I really have no choice but to pester those investigators and ask them to at least take pictures for evidence."

"That's why there's the photo you saw, Officer Lin."

Yonehara Akiko picked it up, the photo that Lin Xinyi showed before:

"See the lights next to that?"

"It's my flashlight."

"This..."Lin Xin was stunned for a while:

He wondered how the master photographers, who only used the naked eye to find evidence, would have thought of using the sidelight shooting method to record this dry saliva spot that is difficult to detect with the naked eye.

Co-authoring, this is no coincidence.

Instead, after Mr. Yonehara discovered the strangeness, he deliberately used a flashlight to light up the contrast and let them take pictures to record it.

"Then, the police quickly closed the case as 'suicide'."

"The shoe that I thought was problematic was also taken back by Minako's parents along with their daughter's body."

"Because I just instinctively feel that there is something strange about that shoe, and I can't find so much information from the spit on the soles of my shoes like you, Managing Officer Lin, and restore the details of the crime."

"So my suspicions can only be made out of thin air."

"To outsiders, it even looks like crazy."

"I can't convince Minako's parents, who are overly grieving, to believe my speculation, and I can't get the Metropolitan Police Department, which is determined to close the case perfunctorily, to reopen the investigation."

"I can only go to Minako's parents and ask them to at least leave those shoes to me."

Yonehara-sensei asked.

Lin Xinyi immediately couldn't wait to ask:

"How did you keep those shoes, they weren't contaminated, right?"

Private forensics, strictly a procedural violation, can invalidate evidence.

But if the shoe is kept with sufficient care, it is still perfectly maintained in its original condition.

By comparing the photos of the scene with the shape of the dust traces on the soles of leather shoes...

Not only can it be proved that this leather shoe is the same leather shoe that Minako wore when she died.

And it can also prove that this shoe has not been tampered with since then.

This is already strong enough proof.

With such proof, unless Mr. Shimoda can afford to hire a lawyer at the level of Concubine Miles, don't think about learning from Simpson and taking advantage of the loophole of "procedural violations".

Lin Xinyi is very concerned about the custody of the evidence.

And Mihara Akiko's answer was not only satisfied, but even gave him a surprise:

"Don't worry, I'm in good hands."

"The Metropolitan Police Department is unwilling to collect the evidence, so I will come myself."

"I asked the police officer who was handling the case at the time to come forward and do evidence preservation notarization in the name of a private person at the notary office."

"These, the notary office, the police officer back then, can prove it."

Hearing this, everyone's expressions changed slightly:

Yonehara Koko kept the evidence very well, and even privately found the police officer who handled the case and did evidence preservation notarization.

What does this mean?

This means that in the beginning, Yonehara-sensei didn't even think about killing people.

She has been trying to solve the problem in the right way.

However, everyone now knows the result...

"I failed."

"I went to the school, and the attitude of the school was just to try to suppress the scandal."

"I went to the police, and the police only prevaricated me with the words 'there is no indication that this case is suspicious.'"

"I went to the media, and the media quickly became silent under some mysterious force that might exist."

Yonehara Akiko was just stating calmly.

But everyone could hear the desperation in her words:

It was obviously a problematic case, but neither the unit, the police, nor public opinion helped her expose the problem.

And Lin Xinyi also faintly heard some flavors:

Minako was killed because she found out that Shimoda and Sugiyama were illegally buying and selling new student admission qualifications.

But Shimoda and Sugiyama are just ordinary grassroots teachers, and the two of them really have the power to buy and sell the admission qualifications of that powerful local famous school, Kabito Elementary School?

Could it be, they are just representatives on the surface.

Behind them, there are even more powerful forces?

Why did the school avoid it?

Why the police are perfunctory.

Why is the media silent?

Is it a simple corpse meal, or is it not a simple murder case at all?

But no matter whether there is something hidden behind this or not, and what is hidden, Yonehara Akiko has been forced to a dead end.

She tried everything she could.

But he still couldn't find justice for Minako.

"So I chose revenge."

"I'm going to kill Sugiyama, and I'm going to kill Shimoda."

Yonehara Akiko frankly admits that she is the murderer.

She looked at Lin Xinyi with a complicated expression:

"Steward Lin, you're too late."

"If there had been a police officer like you three years ago, maybe things wouldn't have turned out the way they are today."

Lin Xin was silent for a while.

Justice that is delayed can hardly be called justice anymore.

He had nothing to say, just a shame for those colleagues.

"I'm sorry."

As a member of the Metropolitan Police Department today, Lin Xinyi can only apologize to the murderer in front of him.

And Yonehara Koko was not interested in hearing such an apology for being late.

She just turned her head and looked at Mr. Shimada:

"Shimoda, I don't have a knife in my hand anymore."

"It's not coercion, it's just questioning:"

"Please tell me seriously, who killed Minako Mochizuki in the first place?"

"I..."Shimoda-sensei was speechless for a moment.

The ironclad evidence was in the past, and after experiencing the shock brought by Akiko Yonehara, his psychological defense line finally collapsed completely.

"It's Sugiyama, and..."

Shimoda said everything tremblingly:

"And me."

"I am the murderer, I plead guilty."

................................

Koko Yonehara pleaded guilty, and Shimoda-sensei also pleaded guilty.

Both cases came to an end in a shocking way.

But the air behind the tragic end has become colder.

"Alas..."Lin Xinyi stood by the window, looking at the moon alone and sighing.

Belmode walked up to him silently, smiled, and winked at him:

"Why sigh, Boy..."

"The murderer pleaded guilty, and Yonehara didn't kill again."

"Isn't this the ending you are looking forward to the most?"

"This..."Lin Xinyi was slightly stunned.

Hearing this witch who has always been unfathomable, this seems to have a deep meaning...

He couldn't help but react with some shock:

"Belmode, is it..."

"You knew from the beginning that Yonehara-sensei had evidence in his hands."

"So you didn't stop Yonehara from wielding the knife at that time, but indulged her to vent her emotions?"

Speaking of which, Lin Xinyi even had worship in his eyes.

Belmode, however, just shook his head:

"How is that possible?"

"I just know how to appreciate performances, and I can't read minds."

"At that time, tsk... I thought she was going to kill someone with a knife. ”

Lin Xinyi: "......."

"Then why don't you stop it?"

"Didn't you hint at me and help me stop Yonehara-sensei?"

Lin Xinyi couldn't help but be a little afraid.

To co-authorize Belmode is to deliberately indulge in murder.

If it weren't for Yonehara Akiko who stopped her killing intent by herself, she would probably have another life on her hands.

"When did I say that?"

Belmode didn't mean to admit his mistake at all.

This is not a mistake at all in her eyes:

"Yonehara wants to kill someone, what's my business?"

"It's just killing someone, why should I stop her?"

"Uh..."Lin Xinyi's face was strange:

Also... What did he think before, how could he let a super-criminal help him prevent crime?

Isn't this for the rats to look at the granary?

"I don't have such a strong sense of justice."

"If anything, then..."

Belmode gently patted Lin Shinichi's face:

"You, me, and your little girlfriend."

"They should all go to jail first... No, according to our crimes, we should be shot directly. ”

Lin Xinyi heard it for a while.

He finally remembered that he was a criminal himself.

I don't know if the original owner has killed anyone, how many have he killed, and how much of a mess he has left him...

Think about that guy growing up in this kind of shabby organization, and following behind dangerous people like Belmode and Gin... It is estimated that it is impossible to come up with the mud without staining.

"In short, I'm not interested in upholding justice."

"All I care about is you."

Belmode's voice quietly became emotional.

This voice quietly drew Lin Xinyi's attention:

"I'm sitting there to help spy on Akiko Yonehara, just to keep you happy and happy."

"But at that moment, I could feel..."

"You're upset."

"I..."Lin Xinyi froze slightly:

Indeed, at that moment when Shimoda turned the tables arrogantly, his anger was almost uncontrollable.

Maybe Belmode is right.

If Yonehara had killed Shimoda at that time, he would have been happy in his heart, even if it wouldn't have been shown on his face.

Try to think about it, it feels like a free maid in the house:

You don't have to do the dirty work yourself, you can watch the garbage disappear from your eyes.

With such a terrible thought in my heart, I thought of the big words I had said before.

Lin Xinyi couldn't help blushing a little:

He has reason in his mouth, but at the end of the day, he is just an impulsive young man.

Belmode just continued to smile at him.

There was an unconditional pampering in that smile:

"If Shimoda had died at that time, then I wouldn't have told you what I just said."

"You can blame Yonehara for not being able to stop him on my 'willfulness'."

"You will be the good guy, and I will be the bad guy."

"That way, you won't feel a little guilty in your heart anymore."

Lin Xin was silent for a while.

He finally knew what Belmode really meant when he winked at him.

He sighed softly, lowered his head again, and replied helplessly: "Thank you." ”

"You're welcome."

Belmode shrugged.

Her demeanor is so relaxed and comfortable, but it makes people feel inexplicably serious:

"Trust me, Boy."

"I'll always give you the ending you want most."