Chapter 54: Don't worry about such trivial matters
The three suspects did not go upstairs and stood in a row in the living room. The little mole named Sniff wanted to climb out of his pocket as if he had woken up at this time, but Toru Asada quietly reached out and held down his pet, causing the little mole to rub his palm in dissatisfaction.
"All said, I can't kill Mr. Harada." Mizuta Nakamichi smiled and wiped the cold sweat on his face, "My sister was seriously ill before, and it was thanks to Mr. Harada that she was able to recover, so I came to thank Mr. Harada this time." β
"Did you see anyone?" The Twilight Police Department asked.
"I saw it, but Mr. Harada didn't seem to want the patient's family to thank him, so he only chatted at the door for a few words and left, and didn't even take the gift I brought," Mizuda Nakamichi shook his head and continued with a look of regret, "Mr. Gao Feng Liang Festival and excellent medical skills, I really didn't expect such a thing to happen, this is really ......"
"Stop." Toru Asada obviously didn't want to waste any more time on these divergent words, so he turned to the second person and asked, "Miss Kokaedako, right?" β
"Yes, I'm here to seek medical treatment for my son, but Dr. Harada seems to have a lot of schedules recently, so he only comforted me a few words and left." Xiao Jiazhizi is a petite woman, wearing a silk dark green dress, Wen Yan looked up at the several police officers in front of her, and there was a faint light in her eyes, "But I will definitely not kill Mr. Harada because of this!" β
Next to Xiao Jiazhizi stood a young man of about 1.75 meters, wearing a white casual T-shirt and a pair of gold-wire glasses on the bridge of his nose.
Toru Asada originally looked like he was seriously questioning and trying to find out the culprit, but at this moment he was completely relaxed, he skipped Ko Kaeko, lazily walked to the third suspect, stared at the man in front of him for two seconds, and raised his eyebrows with interest.
"Third place, Tachibana...... Hongyi, right, just now both of them said that they didn't kill anyone, you can describe your modus operandi and motives in detail. β
"Please don't say as if I killed someone," Hirokazu Tachibana's words were clearly not as much like a good student as he looked, "If I say I didn't kill either, are you going to end the case with suicide?" β
Toru Asada nodded matter-of-factly: "So in order not to let this case end with suicide, I suggest that you quickly turn yourself in." β
"I didn't kill the people!"
Tachibana Hongichi has probably never seen such a police officer since he was born, and he was so angry that he almost didn't hold his gentle face, and it took years of good education that he didn't point at the policeman's nose and scold.
"Officer Asa, Officer Asada!" The little police officer looked at Toru Asada in disagreement, and only after a while did he timidly persuade, "If you say that without evidence, you will be complained." β
The sniffer in Toru Asada's pocket squirmed and turned over, and was held down by Toru Asada with his raised hand, and he looked at Koichi Tachibana with an unchanged smile, signaling him to continue weaving.
The young man took a deep breath before gritting his teeth and continuing, "I've been interning under Mr. Harada recently, and this visit was also to discuss the details of the work, but when I got to the appointed time, no matter how I rang the doorbell, no one opened the door, so I waited ten minutes and went back. β
"Mr. Officer, I heard what you mean that the murderer has been found, so we can go back, right?" Xiao Jiazhizi was obviously impetuous in listening to the conversation between the two, and finally seized the gap in Tachibana Hongyi's explanation before asking.
Hearing this, Toru Asada turned to Kogaeda with a smile: "Miss Koga, do you really want me to make a long story short?" β
Xiao Jiazhizi probably didn't expect the brown-haired officer's spearhead to suddenly point at him, and he was stunned for a moment before he answered: "Yes, if you can, please let me go back earlier." β
"Then you may not be able to go back," Toru Asada slightly hooked the corners of his mouth, but there was not the slightest smile in his eyes, "Long story short - the murderer is you, Miss Xiaojia." β
"You just said it was the young man!" Xiao Jiazhizi's face was furious.
"Because I don't like him." Toru Asada admitted frankly, ignoring the expression on his face that wanted to complain about unemployment on his face.
"Well, then why do you say it's me?" Xiao Jiazhi took a deep breath and tried to calm herself.
Toru Asada raised his hand and pointed to the waist of Xiao Jiazhi: "The forensic staff just reacted that they found a few dark green silk threads on the tree in front of Mr. Kawano's window, maybe Miss Xiao Jia can explain why she asked for medical treatment for her son on the neighbor's tree?" β
"I ββ?!" Xiao Jiazhizi looked in the direction of her finger in shock, and several dark green silk strips on the dress had been opened, and a scratch was clearly visible.
She gritted her teeth and settled down, before she raised her eyes and asked, "I was long gone when Mr. Harada died, how do you explain my alibi?" β
"I don't need to explain." The voice of the brown-haired youth rang out.
"You explain why you climbed the tree at Mr. Kawano's house, and-" Toru Asada raised his eyelids slightly, and looked at Kokaeko with a smile, "We didn't tell you the time of Mr. Harada's death, why did you know you had an alibi." β
"Miss Xiaojia dares to frame Mr. Kawano's head, but she can't even answer a few questions?"
Xiao Jiazhizi was stunned for two seconds, only to realize that the more he said, the more wrong he became, his face changed several times, and finally raised his head with a wry smile: "That's right, I killed the person." β
"Miss Xiaojia, is this considered a voluntary surrender?" Toru Asada's momentum when he was pressed to ask suddenly disappeared, and when he looked closely, only his eyebrows were crooked.
Kenji Hagiwara, who had just finished investigating upstairs with Mori Kogoro, heard a conversation between the two and immediately understood what was happening, shook his head a little funny, and raised his hand to stop Mori Kogoro from opening his mouth to spit out the words.
"Mori-senpai, there is not enough evidence left by the murderer this time, there is no DNA left at the scene, and the fingerprints have been completely removed, even if we have come to the conclusion that it is still possible to exonerate the murderer in court," Kenji Hagiwara explained in a low voice, "It is best to get the murderer to admit the facts of the crime himself." β
Mori Kogoro let out a low voice, but also acquiesced to Hagiwara Kenji's statement, and stood aside without speaking, with a look of disgruntled expression on his face.
Kokaeko didn't hear Hagiwara Kenji's words, she brewed her emotions for a while, and then raised her head and continued: "When I came to visit Mr. Harada, I gave him an anesthetic, and when he was unconscious, I wrapped a fishing line around his neck, and tied the other end under the gramophone seat outside, as long as I tied a knot on the fishing line in advance, with the help of the automatic rotation of the gramophone, I can tighten the fishing line until it breaks, and then automatically roll the fishing line into the base." β
Outside the window, the sun was slanting in the west, stretching the shadows of several people present very long, Xiao Jiazhizi shook his head, as if a stone had finally landed in his heart, with a relieved smile on his face.
"In order to prevent the fishing line from pulling the neck of the corpse from blood, I deliberately put a piece of cowhide cloth and removed my hair fingerprints, but I didn't expect to be hooked by the branches of the tree to tear my clothes, and thus exposed the flaws, maybe this is the will of God."
"Ah, about thisβ" Toru Asada magically conjured a wire from his hand, "the forensic staff didn't find anything in the tree, and your clothes were just torn by me." β
He tilted his head to look at Xiao Jiazhi with a smile.
"But since you've all turned yourself in, don't worry about such trivial matters."