Thinking that something had happened, Katsumi Uehara and Miwako Sato hurried to the office area, only to find that the person who was slapped was Toshihiko Takasugi in a purple suit-

I don't know when he appeared in the first section of the search section of the three departments of violent crimes, and the management officer Matsumoto Kiyonaga slowly lowered his raised right hand, and it was obvious on his cheeks that he was restraining his raging anger.

Twilight Thirteen, who didn't have time to stop his boss's behavior, hurriedly gave them a look when he saw Ai Sato and Katsumi Uehara come out.

On an empty desk, a voice recorder is playing a recording of a conversation between two women on a loop—

"Mrs. Miyazawa, what do you mean?"

"Miss Matsumoto, I don't mean anything else, I just want you to see the true face of your fiancé, he killed my husband because of this secret."

"There is no evidence that Toshihiko killed your husband, Mrs. Miyazawa. I know you're sad, but please don't say that kind of thing, Toshihiko is a very good person. ”

"Good guys? Are you kidding! Don't you see that I show you these things? He's going to kill you, he doesn't love you at all, he's going to poison you on your wedding day! You've seen—"

"I know all of that."

In the recording, Sayuri Matsumoto's words directly silenced Yuka Miyazawa for nearly half a minute.

"Wait a minute, Miss Matsumoto, you mean you know your fiancé is going to kill you? Are you still willing to die? ”

"Hmm."

"Why? Are you crazy?! ”

"You won't understand, Mrs. Miyazawa."

"Huh? It's not ......"

The cacophony that was clearly starting to rush gradually overshadowed the conversation, until the recording ended, and the loop began again.

Matsumoto Kiyonaga, whose face sank like water, stared at the prospective son-in-law in front of him and said in a condensed voice, "Takasugi Toshihiko, why? ”

The silent Takasugi Toshihiko completely lost his former spirit, frowned, stared at the recorder in disbelief, and then turned his gaze to Yuka Miyazawa, who was obviously a little overwhelmed.

"It's true! It's all true, Miss Matsumoto is genuinely willing to be killed by you, and I don't understand why-"

"Answer me! Toshihiko Takasugi! ”

His daughter was kidnapped by a mysterious serial murderer, and his son-in-law was revealed to have been plotting to kill his daughter for so many years.

"Shut up! You're not qualified to question me! You murderer! Takasugi Toshihiko, who had a chaotic inner mind, turned around with an angry roar, and the temperament of a wealthy and noble son cultivated for more than 20 years disappeared in an instant!

"What do you call me?"

The anger on Matsumoto Kiyocho's face became more and more obvious, and Twilight Thirteen, who noticed that something was wrong when he saw this, hurriedly went up and stopped his boss: "Police! Calm, calm down. And you, Mr. Takasugi, are you making a mistake, how can Matsumoto be a murderer after being a police officer for decades. ”

"Of course he's a murderer! A murderer who strangled my mother's life with his own hands! ”

Toshihiko Takasugi, who was a mess in his mind by this recording, forcibly suppressed the increasingly uneasy in his heart, and stared viciously at Matsumoto Kiyocho, who was also unkind on his face: "If you don't believe it, ask him yourself, did he cause a car accident twenty years ago, which led to the death of a woman!" ”

"Twenty years ago?"

Hearing this, Matsumoto Kiyocho's expression suddenly relaxed, and the long-term memories instantly hit like a wave.

"That's right, twenty years ago, I remember your face very well. Twenty years ago, you drove after a prisoner, but the vehicle of the prisoner in a panic hit my mother directly.

"If you could have taken her to the hospital immediately in a police car, she wouldn't have died! But you didn't! I still remember your cold and unforgiving face, when you got out of the car and only said to me that little ghost get out of the way, which caused my mother to die of blood loss! ”

The anger at Matsumoto Kiyocho overwhelmed the uneasiness after hearing the recording in an instant, and Takasugi Toshihiko pointed at the enemy whose face gradually changed, and scolded angrily.

Twilight Thirteen, who heard that there was still such a thing at first glance, was stunned on the spot: "Police, police, is what he said true?" ”

“……”

Matsumoto Kiyocho closed his eyes in pain, and his clenched fists fully explained his mood at the moment: "Yes, I was still working on the front line twenty years ago. That prisoner had committed many big crimes one after another, and if he had run away, many people would have suffered, so I was thinking that I couldn't let him go.

"At that time, I didn't see that the prisoner had hit anyone, because my car was behind the prisoner's vehicle, and the place where the accident happened to be on the edge of an intersection, which was covered by a wall, so when the prisoner abandoned the car and fled, I thought he was going to take a small road, so I immediately got out of the car and chased him.

"In that case, when a child came up, I thought it was a child from a nearby family, and I was afraid that he would be taken hostage, so I asked him to leave as soon as possible. After I caught the prisoner, I realized that there had been a car accident at that intersection, and the prisoner's car hit and killed a person.

"I wanted to compensate the kid and apologize to him, but I couldn't find anyone."

Takasugi Toshihiko couldn't help but sneer: "That's because I have no other relatives besides my mother, and after being sent to a welfare home, I was adopted by the Takasugi family, who had no children at the time, of course you can't find me." ”

"If you want to seek revenge, you can find me, you can kill me directly, why do you want to attack Sayuri!"

"Because I want you to experience the pain of losing a loved one! I felt the pain of losing my loved ones! ”

Toshihiko Takasugi, who had a louder voice than Matsumoto's Kiyoshi voice, roared and pulled his tie, and the audience fell silent.

"So, that's why you called Sayuri Matsumoto out in the middle of the night and kidnapped her?"

After a while, there was a sudden cry of doubt in Ben's silent crowd. Takasugi Toshihiko looked back, and the man with a ballpoint pen on his lips immediately came into view.

"No, I didn't, it wasn't my plan at all!"

"Judging from the recording and the clues we have so far, Miss Sayuri Matsumoto should be the most likely to be called out by the prisoner in your name."

Katsumi Uehara, who was not affected by the atmosphere at all, turned his head to look at Yuka Miyazawa on the side: "Besides you, how many people know this secret?" ”

"If you don't count your words, there should be none, I haven't told anyone."

Yuka Miyazawa's words caused everyone in the office area to fall silent again, and even Conan, who had always been fond of movement, had in his mind the face of the teacher who had loved to pinch his face.

"But why did Miss Matsumoto know that Takasugi Toshihiko was going to kill him, but she would rather die?" Miwako Sato on one side was puzzled.