The one-kilometer drive actually takes only about a minute according to Sasashima Ritsu's driving speed.

However, in order not to overdo it with one foot on the accelerator, he slowed down as soon as he exited the intersection. Shinichi Kudo, who was sitting in the passenger seat, pointed to the white and blue villa next to him, patted his thigh and shouted, "It's here, teacher, stop the car!" ”

"Why don't you let me find a place to park? I don't want to be caught by the traffic cops on the night shift, because I don't even have my driver's license. ”

"Who came to post a note so late, rest assured."

When they arrived at the door of the villa, Ritsu Sasashima was about to ring the doorbell when the door opened on its own. Yuzo Tomizawa, who was standing in the room, was obviously waiting at the door, and he pointed to the prepared slippers and said, "Welcome, Mr. Onizawa... Well? Kudo-kun, you're here too. ”

"Well, I'm sorry to bother you."

There was no smell of blood on his body, nor did he smell of shower gel, and it didn't look like he had taken a shower. The hair is a little messy and even upturned in one place, and the pajamas on the upper body are also wrinkled, which is completely a sign that he has just crawled out of the bed.

Yuzo Tomizawa pointed to the stairs and said, "My studio is on the second floor, please come with me." ”

It is obviously a place for vacation, but there is a special villa to make a studio, which is worthy of the Fuze Consortium, and it is indeed rich. Ritsu Sasashima observed the furnishings in the studio, and found that there were two famous paintings of great value hanging inside, and the market price was 100 million yen.

Yuzo Tomizawa pointed to one of the oil paintings that was about to be completed, and he said embarrassedly: "My painting is not finished yet, so I just felt sleepy and fell asleep for a while." ”

Could this be an excuse? After secretly speculating, Kudo Shinichi asked, "Mr. Yuzo, have you stayed in the villa all this time and haven't gone out?" ”

"Huh?" Yuzo Tomizawa was a little puzzled, and he didn't understand why Kudo asked this, but he still replied honestly: "Yes, I've been in the villa all along, what happened?" ”

Clearly, he caught the anomaly within the issue.

Ritsu Sasashima was not prepared to hide it, and said bluntly: "Your father is currently being rescued in the hospital, and he was attacked by gangsters on the way back to the villa, so I want to ask you if you have ever left the villa." ”

Father is rescuing?!

Yuzo Tomizawa's mind went blank after hearing the news, and after recovering his senses, he quickly grabbed Onizawa's shoulder and asked loudly, "How am I, my father?" You must know Mr. Onizawa, right? ”

Like a drowning person who grabs a life-saving straw, it's not acting, it's really worrying.

"Rest assured, there shouldn't be much of a problem with sending the hospital in time."

"Well, that's good." Yuzo Tomizawa let go of his hand, he realized that his behavior was a little reckless, and apologized: "I'm sorry, I was just too flustered just now." ”

"Understood." Ritsu Sasashima smoothed the wrinkles on his shoulders and asked, "At half past eleven, have you really never been out of the villa?" ”

"Really, because I just got up at half-past eleven."

"Can anyone prove it?" Shinichi Kudo asked.

Yuzo Tomizawa nodded, then took out his mobile phone to find the person he was talking to before, and said, "I have a friend who drew illustrations to wake me up, if you don't believe me, you can call back and ask." ”

Kudo Shinichi took his mobile phone and dialed the phone number, but the other side didn't answer for a long time, maybe he was sleeping. Ritsu Sasashima walked up to one of the paintings, which was covered with a white cloth, and gently pulled off the white cloth to reveal a beautiful girl.

Not Ayako Suzuki.

"Mr. Yuzo, this girl is very beautiful."

Yuzo Tomizawa looked at the girl on the painting and said with a smile, "This is the illustrator friend of mine who drew it best, and he is best at sketching." ”

"Really? I would like to ask what that illustrator friend is called? ”

"Ichiro Tsubamoto, I don't know the one he painted, maybe it's someone he likes."

Ichiro Naomoto, I seem to have heard of this name, and it seems to be the young master of the Sakimoto Foundation. Ritsu Sasashima silently covered the white cloth, looked at Kudo and said, "Isn't the phone still not working?" ”

"No, I think the illustrator named Ichiro Sakimoto is asleep."

"That..."Yuzo Tomizawa frowned and looked at the two of them, and asked, "I want to ask why do you think I'm the one who attacked my father?" ”

"Because the gangster's eyebrows are exactly the same as yours."

Eyebrow?

Yuzo Tomizawa seemed to remember something, his face instantly became ugly, he lowered his head and was a little incredulous, could it really be them? After all, he knew very well in his heart that he was not the gangster.

"It seems that you have any eyebrows about the identity of the gangster?"

“……”

Yuzo Tomizawa bit his lower lip and hesitated, but thought that after the police intervened in the investigation tomorrow, he would find out. He had no choice but to say calmly: "Actually... Both of my older brothers and I look alike, especially the eyebrows. ”

Triplets? Ritsu Sasashima and Shinichi Kudo glanced at each other, and it seemed that there were two more suspects.

"But I don't think my brothers will hurt Daddy!"

Ritsu Sasashima stretched out his hand and patted Tomizawa's shoulder, and said slowly: "There is such a thing as people's hearts, which is difficult to guess, Mr. Yuzo, as a policeman, I will naturally investigate the case clearly." ”

"But..."

"Your father, if we hadn't found out in time, would have died on this night of thunderstorms. Now, do you still want to stop me from continuing my investigation? ”

Although he is dissatisfied with his father, Yuzo Tomizawa still admires his father very much. He also knew his father's hardship, but he didn't want to believe it in his heart... Brothers will hurt their fathers.

"I understand, I will actively cooperate with the investigation."

Seeing that the time was not early, Ritsu Sasashima said: "I won't bother you to continue to finish the painting, I'll see you at the villa at nine o'clock tomorrow morning, I think your brothers will also appear according to the original plan." ”

"Okay, I'll be there."

Leaving this small villa, Kudo Shinichi got into the co-pilot and asked, "Teacher, have you ruled out the suspicion of Mr. Yuzo?" ”

"Well, actually, I ruled him out in the first place."

"Huh? How did you rule it out? ”

Ritsu Sasashima started the car and returned to the villa, and said indifferently: "Physique, the murderer's figure is a little stronger than Mr. Yuzo, and I have seen Mr. Yuzo's back running during the day, which is different from the posture of the gangster who fled the scene." ”

Can you remember this? Kudo Shinichi silently recorded in the small notebook in his heart that sure enough, the detective must remember the bits and pieces that happen in daily life, which are all conducive to reasoning.

"Then why do you want to go if you know it, teacher?"

"Go and confirm that your inference is correct, and by the way, see what clues you can have, since the eyes and eyebrows are similar, it is likely that someone related to you committed the crime, don't you get the answer?"

"I see, I still have a lot to learn."

"Your reasoning is already pretty good."

"You're still far from the teacher, and there are only two cases of successful reasoning."

"Are there anything else besides the Valentine's Day case?"

Kudo Shinichi remembered his trip to the ski resort when he was in junior high school, and he sneered, "Actually, it didn't count that time, because I got my father's prompt to solve the case." And at that time, I met a junior high school student who was on the same level as me, and I don't know if I can get in touch with him again in the future, so I really want to compete with him again! ”

"Is your dad very good at reasoning?" Ritsu Sasashima said curiously.

"Yes, my father's name is Yusaku Kudo, he is a reasoner, and he has also solved some cases."

Yusaku Kudo, Yukiko Kudo.

Oh, the child born to a reasoner and a famous actor? It's kind of interesting.

"Well, no wonder you're so fond of reasoning."