How to start Meursault

After receiving the news, the forensic personnel, three members of the Takeda group, and the newly arrived police inspector Kuroda arrived at the scene of the corpse sighting on the bank of the Chikuta River.

Among them, Kuroda Hei, whose image is quite scary, reminded Edogawa Conan of Rum, and everyone present looked solemn.

because--

"What did you say?" Yamato Gansuke asked in disbelief.

"A large amount of blood and a bullet in the grass were found on the bank of the Chikuma River, about 2000 meters from here, and a dagger and a pistol/gun were found at the bottom of the river near there, but... that The gun is not a standard-issue gun." The forensic officer repeated the search results.

"Where are the fingerprints on it?" Conan interjected.

Although the murder weapons were all found in the river, usable fingerprints should be collected in such a short time.

"...The preliminary judgment is that there are five fingerprints of the left hand of the dead robber Tamako Yura on the dagger, and the fingerprints collected on the trigger of the hand/gun and the handle of the gun match the fingerprints of the right hand of the Taketa Police Department."

The discovery made the case suddenly embarrassing.

If what was found in the river was a normal police gun, Taketa Shigeru died in the process of chasing the robber, but if Taketa used an illegally held gun at that time, his behavior of going to the robber alone would be unreasonable. Appears rather subtle.

——Mori Kogoro, who understood what this meant, wanted to leave immediately in embarrassment, but because he was a witness and a detective, it was inconvenient for him to speak up for a while.

It's rare that even Conan doesn't really want to reason deeply—it's not that he also thinks this is a secret and internal scandal of the police, but it's just that it's much more convenient for the police to check the source of guns and bullets directly in this case than reasoning.

And he has considerable confidence in the police in Nagano Prefecture.

Just when Conan was thinking this way, he suddenly noticed that someone beside him clenched his hands into fists.

——This is the blind spot that Conan, who is the shortest, can notice among the people standing together.

He vaguely raised his head slightly to confirm the other party's identity with his peripheral vision.

Akira Kano.The police make up.One of the three remaining members of the Takeda class.

If it was because of his deep feelings for the dead Shigeru Taketa and his boss that he reacted like this, it would actually make sense, but the expression on Shikano's face was just a sullen brow with a hint of dullness.

This man was the one who knew where the gun came from.Conan made a judgment instantly.

He raised his head again and looked secretly at the other two in Zhutian class.

Sanzhi Mamoru looked angry.Akiyama Shinsuke frowned slightly, with a look of surprise on his face.

Speaking of it, it seems that all three of these three people have been silent since they listened to the report of the forensic personnel.

Could it be that the entire Zhutian class...

"Well, do I think Father Takeda is being tricked by someone?" Akiyama Shinsuke said in a quiet voice, "With his personality, it is normal to kill the prisoner directly with a gun, and it is completely unnecessary. Use another gun? By the way, Dad Zhutian’s own gun, if this is missing, it means someone replaced the gun!”

When he said the last sentence, his voice became a little higher.

Akiyama Shinsuke was in a very calm mood when he said that sentence that could be easily falsified.

When Akiyama slit Takeda Shigeru's neck with a dagger a few hours ago, his hand was also steady.

It is not easy to kill this experienced boss by hand-to-hand combat. Fortunately, Akiyama is young and powerful, and he kicked Taketa's gun away when he came up. Take advantage of the situation with a dagger to smear.

Well, since you're chasing a mugger, it's understandable to have other blunt trauma marks, no?

Of course, the robber was killed by a headshot by him in advance-in fact, Akiyama used the excuse of killing the suspect himself to ask Shigeru Taketa to come forward to check and then carry out a sneak attack.

As for why Taketa rushed here without informing anyone else...

Because the gun used by Akiyama to kill the robber Yu Liang Tacheng was a gun inside the Woodpecker Club.

After creating two corpses on the river bank, Akiyama Shinsuke handcuffed the two corpses together with Shigeru Taketa's handcuffs, wiped off his own fingerprints on the two murder weapons, and printed "should" on them.

After making sure that the blood stains on the clothes of the two people and the blood stains on the ground were logical, he pushed them into the river.The same goes for the murder weapon.

Then he changed into another set of clothes that he had prepared long ago, took away Zhutian's gun, put it back at Zhutian's house, and rushed to the Hachiman Shrine to gather.

——If it was that person, he would definitely think that the part where I changed the gun was superfluous.

Akiyama thought of this when he put the gun on the bedside table of Takeda's house.

However, it is still too difficult not to reveal the inner ridicule at all.

When he went out with two guns, he was ready to accept all possible outcomes, but it was really a coincidence that the two corpses would just float up in front of Yamato and those people.

This is not impossible.

As a member who has stepped into the other side, Akiyama even looked at the policemen present with a little expectation.

And, a detective.

Come on, let me see the difference between a detective and a detective.

After completing the preliminary investigation, Mori Kogoro wanted to take his daughter and Conan to leave as soon as possible, but he didn't expect Kuroda Heibei to ask them to act together with Uehara Yui for the time being.

"...I hope I can use your reasoning." Kuroda Hei ended with this sentence.

Although I don't know what else to reason about in such a case, the person in front of me is a police officer.

Mori Kogoro could only agree with a smile.

The six people who found the body finally went back to the county police station.The three members of the Zhutian group went to the vicinity of the death scene found upstream to ask if there were any witnesses.Taketa Shigeru's guns were immediately inspected by the police from the nearest jurisdiction.

"Officer Yuyi, I want to know what's special about that robber?"

Conan pulled Yui Uehara's sleeve and asked.

Because the three policemen in Nagano Prefecture knew Conan's reasoning ability well before, he asked his doubts without much hesitation.

"Tomako Hagara is a wanted robber. His hiding place has just been found out by the police. It was expected to be captured by the Takeda class today. There seems to be no special place." Yui Uehara squatted down to answer.

——This is strange.Police Kuroda asked the uncle to stay because he was convinced that the case was murder, but there was no clear evidence at the scene pointing in this direction?

Or, in fact, Kuroda has some clues about the source of the gun. Is there another person based on this speculation?

Although he was wary of this new vigilance because of Rum, Detective Conan's instinct still made him focus on the case.

Suppose, Shigeru Taketa and Tamako Hara did not die in a fight with each other, or not all died in the fight with each other, but another person killed someone, and then forged the scene.

And it was the gun that made Kuroda judge like this.

As Akiyama Nobusuke said, even if Taketa and Yuliang Tamako have a secret secret to kill him, he can use his own gun.

In fact, even chasing the murderer alone can be explained by saying that he found that the other party was fleeing on the way to the assembly, and it was not the first time that Taketa shot/killed a suspect.

He didn't need to shoot Makoto Yuliang with a gun that couldn't explain the source. After all, if he compared the ballistics afterwards, it was possible to find out the problem.

To rule out the possibility that Shigeru Taketa hoped that the death of Hara Tamako had nothing to do with him or simply prepared to destroy the corpse from the beginning, this logic was the most supportive of the murder theory that Conan could think of for a while.

Then go on to infer.

Someone who wasn't Shigeru Taketa brought that gun and shot Hagara Tamako with it and blamed it on Shigeru Taketa.

It should be this person who cut Shigeru Takeda's carotid artery with that dagger.

However, Shigeru Taketa only had that knife wound on his body.If it weren't for the situation where two people were close together because of the handcuffs, it would not be easy to accurately cut open the carotid artery of an elite policeman.

A terrible conjecture emerged in Conan's mind.

Assume the previous reasoning is correct.

Then the real culprit either had a very high force value, or was very familiar with Zhutian, or both.

Considering the distribution of blood at the scene, if it was Tamako Hara who died first, then Shigeru Taketa should have been able to see the body when he was still alive, but he still walked to that position...

The range of suspects is narrow.

As for the possibility of killing Shigeru Taketa first and then shooting Makoto Hagara, since Hagara Tamako doesn’t know Shigeru Taketa, unless the real murderer has a special connection with Tamako Hagara and asks the other party to get closer, it should be difficult to be in the same position. Shoot Yu Liang Duocheng.If this is the case, the real culprit also needs to know Zhutian's whereabouts.

Conan realized with some pain that the real culprit was an acquaintance with the robber Makoto Hara, who was able to get the gun by himself, and who had a feud with Shigeru Taketa so much that he wanted to fake the scene and frame him as the most "gentle" person in this case. possibility.

If it was another kind——

"I, Luye, Qiushan and the others have asked the residents near the upstream. Few people would go there, so there are no witnesses. Only two residents said that they heard a faint sound at five o'clock in the morning. I give They looked at the photos, and one of them recognized Tamako Hara." Said Mamoru Saneda, who hurried in from the other side of the corridor.

There was a moment of silence in the air.

"...Where are the Luye and Akiyama people?" Yamato Dasuke asked.

Although Saneda Mamoru was surprised why Yamato asked this question, he still answered: "Lu Ye said that there is something he cares about and he is going to check it out by himself. Akiyama went there after he heard that he found a gun in Taketa's house. He seemed to want to see if there was anything wrong. What's suspicious. What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Zhu Fu Gaoming said.And Yamato Gansuke had already walked out while pressing the phone.

"Sanzhi, you stay and work overtime today." Heihei Kuroda, who appeared here at an unknown time, gave the order, but did not explain.

Looking at Mamoru Saneda, Yui Uehara, and Kogoro Mori who remained in the corridor with confused expressions after 1 minute, Conan sighed silently.

—Of course it can’t be nothing.

The news brought by Saneda Mamoru just now is equivalent to confirming the order of death of those two people.

This means that the murderer is a person who is very familiar with Shigeru Taketa.Moreover, the problem of the gun may not be able to escape in the end.

"Damn it, Lu Ye can't get through the phone."

Yamato Gansuke dialed several calls in a row but no one answered, and started to press another one. To his surprise, he was answered quickly this time.

"Hey, Akiyama, where are you now?" He asked almost anxiously.

"Yamato Police Department? I just came out of Father Taketa's house, what's wrong?" Akiyama's puzzled voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Report the specific location."

"Uh, let me see...just near Ueda Station." Akiyama replied.

"Then you can take the tram directly back to the county police station. That's it." Yamato dared to help in a blunt tone.

After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone and turned to look at his partner Zhu Fu Gaoming in the driver's seat.

"Go to Lu Ye's house."

Zhu Fu Gaoming told the destination before Yamato opened his mouth.

After these words, there was silence in the car, and neither of them spoke anymore.

Although before calling, they were only suspicious.Because although the three people in the Takeda group are the most suspected, it is also possible that the murderer is someone else.

However, when Akiji Kano's phone failed, the situation was completely different.

——Lu Ye is the murderer preparing to abscond, and Lu Ye was attacked by the real murderer.

Neither of these two possibilities is acceptable.

"Second, done."