The entrance to Room 102 of the 5-chome Green Moss No. 1 Street Apartment in Rice Flower Town.

Ritsu Sasashima silently calculated the distance from the place of the crime in the bottom of her heart, both very close to the place of the crime and the residence of the deceased Tatsuya Nagai.

He turned to look at Shinichi Kudo, who had come here with them, and saw the guy grinning at him, he had never seen such a brazen person, and he had long been told not to follow him.

Yuna Hayasaka walked to the door and rang the doorbell, and soon a beautiful young lady with long hair and a pink long-sleeved T-shirt came out, but she looked a little haggard and had dark circles under her eyes.

"Is it Ms. Minoru Nishitani?"

Minoru Nishitani nodded, her usual look was slightly confused, "Yes, may I ask who you are?" ”

"We are police officers from the Metropolitan Police Department, and there is a case that happened in the neighborhood that is related to you." Yuna Hayasaka took out Tatsuya Nagai's ID card and asked, "Do you know the man on the document?" ”

Minoru Nishitani glanced at the photo on the ID, and immediately showed a frightened expression, she nodded and replied, "I recognize, I know... What's wrong with him? ”

The scared expression is quite in place, and there are not many flaws. Ritsu Sasashima calmly took her inquiry and said indifferently, "He's dead." ”

"So, the man is dead?"

There will be loopholes in the acting skills that are improvised after all, and Ritsu Sasashima noticed that her expression did not change much, and if she knew that the man who was following her died, her emotions would not be so calm.

If it wasn't really a crime she committed, her first reaction should be to panic, for fear that the police would come to the door and misunderstand that she was the murderer.

It was too calm, like she knew the man was dead.

"Yes, because he drank Katzman doped with poison, which happened forty minutes ago." Yuna Hayasaka looked directly at the weak-looking woman in front of her, and said slowly, "Forgive me for being rude, where have you been during this time?" ”

"If it was forty minutes ago, I came back here from outside."

Minoru Nishitani rubbed his hands slightly, and took the initiative to report his alibi: "I now work in a family restaurant in Hajingdo District during the day, and we close the store at four o'clock in the morning, and after closing the store, we will do the cleaning work, and it should be around five o'clock after leaving the store." ”

Ritsu Sasashima and Shinichi Kudo's eyes fell on Miss Nishitani's constantly rubbing hands, the former could already tell that she was removing the dried glue that had been applied to her fingertips, who had asked him to use it regularly to erase her fingerprints, and the latter was still thinking about what the white powder was that had fallen.

"Did you take the train from Haido Ward to Rice Flower Station?"

"That's right."

"You walked home after leaving the station, didn't you?"

"That's right."

Yuna Hayasaka had some inferences in her heart, but she needed to confirm it further, so she couldn't help but look at Wataru Takagi beside her and instructed, "Takagi, please take out the map of this area." ”

"Yes!"

Wataru Takagi spread the map he had prepared on the dining table, and Yuna Hayasaka looked at Nishiya and asked, "Nishiya-san, can you tell me which way you took to get back to this apartment from Rice Flower Station?" ”

"Okay. I walked back from here from this road in front of the station. ”

Seeing the route she pointed out, Wataru Takagi exclaimed, "Police Department! This route can pass by the vending machine and the crime scene! ”

"Huh?! What do you mean by that? Minoru Nishitani was surprised, as if she really didn't know that the victim had gone the same path as her.

Yuna Hayasaka, who sensed that something was wrong, looked at Kitazawa beside her, and Takashi Kitazawa, who she thought was better at reasoning than herself, must have noticed Miss Nishitani's abnormality.

Ritsu Sasashima, who sensed Hayasaka's gaze, just gave her a smile back, and as for what the smile meant, Hayasaka knew.

Wataru Takagi, a good old man, hadn't noticed the problem yet, he pointed to the map very intimately and said, "Mr. Nagai fell in this place, which means that he should have been behind you at that time, Miss Nishitani, didn't you notice Mr. Nagai?" Or have you noticed any suspicious characters? ”

"How so! The police officer from the nearby police station had obviously helped me pay attention to this matter, but I hadn't seen him for a while, and I was only recently relieved. ”

Listening to Miss Nishitani's explanation, Kudo Shinichi frowned and began to look at the furnishings in the house, the doors and windows were locked, and there was a bottle of anti-wolf spray in the corner near the entrance... Did she really feel at ease? Apparently not.

Yuna Hayasaka poked her finger at Onizawa's right waist, lowered her voice and whispered, "Hey, do you think this Miss Nishitani is suspicious?" ”

"It's not sure yet, let's close the team for the time being, you and I will go to Mr. Nagai's house alone to investigate and see if you can get any clues."

"Okay." Yuna Hayasaka looked at Minoru Nishitani, who was hanging her head in front of her, and said, "Miss Nishitani, thank you very much for your cooperation, then let's take our leave first." ”

"It's okay, if only I could help."

Kudo Shinichi didn't expect the team to close so quickly, and he couldn't follow up on the follow-up investigation, but didn't these police officers find out that there was something wrong with Miss Nishitani?

As soon as he walked out of the apartment, Kudo Shinichi couldn't hold it back, and said anxiously: "Police, didn't you find out that Miss Nishitani was lying?" She's supposed to be..."

"The first thing a detective looks at when he handles a case is intuition, while the police pay attention to evidence when handling a case, and they can't wear colored glasses before they have definite evidence, and they can't be emotional."

Ritsu Sasashima glanced at Shinichi Kudo, he already knew the general situation of the case, but he also wanted to confirm one thing, if it was in line with his thoughts, he would choose to help this criminal lady.

The clever Kudo Shinichi naturally understood the meaning of Onizawa's words, and he knew that Miss Nishitani was lying, but chose to look for evidence. Thinking of the Valentine's Day case, his reasoning ability is probably very high, and it is really rare to meet such a smart police officer.

"Then I can come with you..."

Before he finished speaking, Ritsu Sasashima, who was still indifferent in the last second, showed a bright smile and said word by word: "No, yes." ”

Kudo Shinichi rubbed his hair irritably, really, is this officer having a split personality? This smile is strange, as if his thoughts are completely seen through and the other party has to pretend not to know.

"Please also ask this high school detective to take your little girlfriend home obediently, lunch will be served in four hours, and a date is not suitable for a murder scene."

Ritsu Sasashima smiled and said that after the friendly prompt, he planned to take a cigarette to relieve his addiction, even if he couldn't smoke it by Hayasaka's side, it was good to smell it.

"Who, who's his little girlfriend! Mr. Police, don't talk nonsense! New one, let's go!! ”

"Huh? Don't pull me so hard, I didn't say it! ”

“……”

His hands trembled with fright from this sudden loud voice, and half of the cigarette that he had taken out of his cigarette box fell to the ground.

Tsk, it's a shame to be wasted.

There is no three-second rule in his world, and Ritsu Sasashima bent down to pick up the cigarette and put it in the evidence bag, looked at Wataru Takagi, who was sneering, and said, "Takagi, you go back to the scene of the crime first to continue to protect yourself, and don't let idle people like that guy get in." ”

"Yes!"

"Hayasaka, let's go... Go to the victim's home. ”

"Okay."