Stay away from Conan

Chapter 398 The direction of the police investigation

Not knowing why, Kubo Kensuke felt a little strange and asked:

"Does this have anything to do with my brother?"

"No, it's nothing, just a routine investigation."

Officer Megure coughed lightly and simply replied - In this case, the possibility of the other party using the twin brothers to create an alibi can be ruled out.

"Then, let's continue talking about Miss Yukino."

Facing Kubo Kensuke, Officer Megure continued to ask:

"When did you meet Miss Yukino? As her lover, what do you know about her?"

In this regard, Kubo Kensuke thought:

"I met Yukino last year, when she came to my doll classroom... As time went by, we became together..."

"Then did you notice anything unusual about Miss Yukino?"

Officer Megure continued to ask.

"abnormal?"

Confused, Kukensuke looked at Officer Megure, as if he wanted to see from his serious expression what he wanted to ask, and then Officer Megure asked in detail:

"For example, have you noticed anything unusual in Ms. Yukino's usual behavior? Like she is deliberately avoiding something, or hiding something?"

But Kukensuke just thought for a while, finally shook his head and replied:

"No...besides, everyone has their own secrets, right? This is normal, right?"

In this regard, Officer Memu didn't know how to continue questioning him. After all, based on the existing evidence, the man in front of him had no time to commit the crime at all, and he could not be treated as a suspect.

At this moment, Sato Miwako, who went out to investigate the true identity of "Izumo Yukino", ran back. After hearing Officer Megure's inquiry just now, she couldn't help but help Officer Megure and asked:

"Mr. Kubo, does Ms. Yukino have another boyfriend?"

"Huh? Another boyfriend?"

Kukensuke looked confused, murmured in confusion, and finally shook his head.

"Sato, what did you find out?"

Officer Megure couldn't help but ask.

"Just now, I checked several unsolved crime reports through Ms. Yukino's photos, and found that the photos of the suspects in these incidents looked almost identical to Ms. Yukino."

Miwako Sato explained:

"The most recent case occurred a year ago. The suspect used the name 'Mizutani Yukino', and all previous cases used this name. After investigation under the name Mizutani Yukino, it was discovered that she had been charged with marriage fraud. , and was accused several times.”

"What did you say!"

Everyone present was speechless after hearing Miwako Sato's narration.

"It's a lie...it's a lie! Miss Yukino is actually related to marriage fraud."

Xiaolan was surprised and covered her mouth with her hands, a little unbelievable.

"So, if the true identity of 'Izumo Yukino' who died this time is 'Mizutani Yukino'. Based on the previous cases she committed, in addition to Mr. Kubo, Miss Yukino was also dating another man at the same time, "We believe there was some dispute between her and the male."

Sato Miwako seriously stated a possibility.

"In this case, it is logical that Miss Yukino was murdered in this daily rental apartment in Saitama Prefecture."

In response, Takagi Shita nodded in agreement.

"The deceased was very beautiful, and he could easily deceive men."

Officer Megure also began to lean towards Sato Miwako's idea and nodded seriously.

"So that means it's a love triangle?"

Yuanzi also felt that this possibility was very reasonable, but still said strangely:

"But why did Ms. Yukino tell us such a lie as 'being violently abused by Mr. Kubo'?"

"It must be to break off the relationship with Kubo and extract a huge breakup fee from him! Mr. Kubo is a famous doll maker and must be very rich."

Takagi Wataru blurted out such an inference as if he understood something.

In response, Miwako Sato also nodded in agreement and analyzed:

"So she used Ran, Sonoko, and Mr. Akechi as her witnesses to testify that she had indeed been violently raped by Mr. Kubo. But because she had a dispute with another man at the same time, she was unable to do so. I stayed in my apartment peacefully, so I came here to video chat with you, pretending that she was still in the apartment, but I didn’t expect that she was discovered by that person in the end and started a quarrel.”

"And ended up being killed here!"

Gao Mushe said with a look of conviction.

"I see. In this case, there will be a reasonable explanation for the case."

The more Officer Megure thought about it, the more it made sense, and he nodded seriously in affirmation.

"Is this actually what happened?"

Yuanzi was stunned and fell into a daze, feeling depressed. She was not the only one who was deeply hit, Xiaolan was also the same.

"Did we really let Miss Yukino deceive us?"

Xiaolan said with a lonely expression.

"It seems that Yukino has caused you a lot of trouble. I'm really sorry."

After hearing the conversation between the two, Kubo Kensuke faced Xiaolan and Sonoko, bowed deeply as if from the bottom of his heart, and apologized to them on behalf of Yukino.

"Ah! It doesn't matter. It was us who misunderstood you, teacher."

"I'm really sorry."

Xiaolan and Sonoko also apologized to Kukensuke in embarrassment.

"it does not matter."

Kubo Kensuke smiled gently, but his expression quickly became lonely.

"Then let's start searching for this crucial third person immediately!"

Officer Memu solemnly ordered:

"Takagi and Sato, use Mizutani Yukino's clue to carefully investigate her interpersonal relationships and interrogate her in detail to see if there are any clues about the man!"

"yes!"

The two nodded and walked out of the room. Officer Megure immediately apologized to Kubo Kensuke and walked out of the scene, leaving only some police officers remaining at the scene.

In response, Gao Yuan, Conan, Xiaolan, Sonoko and Kukensuke also followed Officer Megure and left the scene.

Along the way, Conan couldn't convince himself with this conjecture. He always felt that there was something strange about the matter. But after thinking about it carefully for a long time, he still had no thoughts. He just had a feeling——

"The culprit can only be Kubo!"

Conan thought so in his heart, but he could only keep thinking hard with his arms folded.

Gao Yuan, who was beside him, seemed not to care about this incident at all, and seemed to have acquiesced in the current direction of the police investigation.

Conan tentatively asked Gao Yuan several times, but Gao Yuan simply fiddled with Conan, indicating that based on the existing clues, there was no problem with the direction of the police investigation.

Conan had no choice but to think about this alone.

…

Reverse time and go back to the Porsche 356A driving on the road in Saitama Prefecture on the night of the crime——

"'Bourbon'?"

Vodka who was driving heard Gin's words and asked with some confusion:

"Didn't he go to trace the whereabouts of 'Shirley'? How could he find out about this matter?"

"Do you still remember that Shirley escaped our tracking in Kyoto?"

Gin sneered and explained.

"Of course I remember. It was originally a perfect opportunity, but I didn't expect that the person we sent would be such a loser. He couldn't even look down on a woman!"

Vodka said angrily.

"'Bourbon' followed this clue and discovered an interesting thing in Kyoto."

As he spoke, Gin took a puff of cigarette, and the smile on his lips became colder:

"Five years ago, when sending 'Sulli' back to China, someone took a look at 'Sulli' at the airport and became obsessed with 'Sulli' from then on, and began to pay attention to girls who looked similar to 'Sulli' Take action. And that painting was made by that person’s brother—that is, the target of that person’s failure this time!”

"Then shall we..."

"Need not."

Vodka wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Gin:

"It's just a painting, and it's just a back view... That person has actually never seen the face of 'Shirley'!"

As he spoke, Gin's smile became more and more wild, and at this moment, Gin's cell phone rang——

"Hey, 'Camu'..."