Chapter 42 The disappearing time

Author: Return in three days

Chapter 42 The disappearing time

Because her alibi was exposed, Ito Anna became a serious suspect and was taken directly to the Metropolitan Police Department for investigation.

"Tell me, what really happened last night."

Looking at the woman in front of him, Shirakawa Yuki asked indifferently.

Anna Ito already knew that the police had seen through that her alibi was forged, so she did not continue to lie.

"Last night the professor asked me to revise my thesis, but everyone in the school knew who he was. I wanted to refuse, but he said that if I didn't go, I wouldn't be able to pass the final course.

So I went, but when I got to his house, he really started to touch me. I was a little scared, so I picked up the ashtray and hit his head a few times.

I really didn’t mean it, I didn’t expect that he died after just hitting it a few times!”

At this point, she was a little frightened.

Officer Megure wanted to say that the fatal injury was a stab wound on the left chest, but was stopped by Shirakawa Yuki.

Shirakawa Yuki continued to ask: "What then?"

Anna Ito continued: "After he fell, I thought he was dead, so I went to find Kazuya in a panic, and he decided to help me dispose of the body."

Hearing this, Shirakawa Yuki interrupted her, "Is this Kazuya too?"

"Narita Kazuya, my boyfriend."

Hearing her words, Shirakawa Yuki nodded and motioned for her to continue.

"Later when we went to dispose of the body, we found that Goto Takaaki had been stabbed in the left chest, but I obviously didn't do that. Kazuya confirmed with me many times, but I'm pretty sure I didn't stab him that way.

"

After saying this, Anna Ito was taken away by the police.

Officer Megure looked at Shirakawa Yuki who was thinking beside him, "How is it?"

Shirakawa Yuki said: "It's not like she was panicking, and she still feels that she killed Goto Takaaki, and there is no need to hide the knife incident."

After thinking about it, Shirakawa Yuki suggested: "Let's talk to that Narita Kazuya."

Officer Memu nodded, "We have already sent someone to look for him."

Not long after, Narita Kazuya was brought over, "Tell me, your little girlfriend has already explained everything about last night."

Hearing this, Narita Kazuya told everything. Generally speaking, it was no different from what Ito Anna said.

They didn't even admit that the knife was done by them.

After questioning, Shirakawa Yuki followed the police to see Narita Kazuya's car. Although it had been cleaned, a small amount of blood was still found on it. After testing, it was indeed the blood of the deceased.

Then they sent the tire tracks they took to the Kyoto police, and they confirmed that the tire tracks where the body was dumped were the same car as this one.

It was confirmed that Kazuya Hirata had indeed gone to the place where the body was dumped.

But this was difficult to handle, as neither admitted that he had stabbed him, and the case once again reached a deadlock.

Shirakawa Yuki asked Asaba Youhei to help hack into the surveillance camera near the crime scene and watched it carefully.

She repeatedly watched the surveillance video from 20:00 to 22:00 last night. After watching it several times, she suddenly realized that something was wrong. When she went back and took a closer look, she found Iryotaro's car in the surveillance!

I took a look at the time in the surveillance record, 20:22. How is this possible? According to Ryotaro Ii, he was drinking at Akimoto's house last night, and his car was parked downstairs at Akimoto's house. How could he appear here?

An idea emerged in her mind, and she already had a preliminary inference. If nothing unexpected happened, the murderer would be that person.

Shirakawa Yuki first went to find Ryotaro Ii. According to him, after arriving at Akimotoji's house, he only slept for five minutes before waking up.

This made her more certain about the murderer.

Then she arrived at the crime scene, and then took a police car from the scene to Akimotoji's home. Shirakawa Yuki looked at the time and saw that exactly 20 minutes had passed.

Because they had just received their marriage certificate and Akimotoji and his wife were not at home for their honeymoon, Shirakawa Yuki asked Officer Megure and the others to pick the lock.

Originally, Officer Megure was still a little resistant. After all, there was no evidence to prove that Akimotoji was the murderer. This was regarded as breaking into a private house.

However, Shirakawa Yuki picked the lock despite saying that he would be treated specially under special circumstances.

After entering the room, the police began an extensive search and eventually found a bottle of sleeping pills in a drawer in the bedroom. As far as they knew, the Akimoto couple had no symptoms of insomnia.

Finally, the police took away all the knives in the kitchen and decided to go back to the Metropolitan Police Department to have people from the laboratory check whether there was DNA belonging to Takaaki Goto on them.

Eventually, the deceased's DNA was found on a Japanese Santoku sword.

The evidence was conclusive, and Officer Memu immediately dispatched the police to the place where the couple spent their honeymoon to arrest them.

After catching Akimotoji, Officer Megure was still a little confused, "I don't understand, sister Hoshino, why did you know that Akimotoji was the murderer?"

Shirakawa Yuki smiled and said, "Officer Megure, do you remember the car that Ryotaro Ii found on the surveillance camera before? Ryotaro Ii was very drunk that night, so who drove the car?"

Officer Megure was a little confused, "But if it was Akimotoji who drove there, could it be that Iryotaro committed perjury? According to what he said, they drank together from eight to nine o'clock."

Shirakawa Yuki shook her head, "No, Iryotaro didn't panic, it was just that time disappeared."

Police Officer Memu's bean-eyed eyes asked, "Disappeared?"

Shirakawa Yuki gave it a try, "Do you still remember that Ryotaro Ii said that his cell phone was broken by Akimoto Haru?"

"What's the problem then? Oh, sister Hoshino, please stop showing off." Officer Megure became a little anxious.

Shirakawa Yuki had no choice but to express her reasoning.

"Iryotaro's cell phone was damaged and he didn't have a watch, so how did he know that the time he arrived at Akimotoji's house was nine o'clock in the evening? It can only come from the clock at Akimotoji's house.

According to my speculation, Akimotoji set the time forward by one hour in advance, broke Iryotaro's cell phone so that he could not obtain the accurate time, and then put sleeping pills in his meal.

So Iryotaro thought it was nine o'clock in the evening, but it was only eight o'clock at the time. Then in order to avoid being suspected, Akimoto Haru drove Iryotaro's car parked at his house to the crime scene and killed Goto Takaaki after returning home.

Set the time back to the correct time.

Remember Ryotaro Ii said he only slept for 5 minutes? Actually, I think it should be one hour and five minutes."

After listening to Shirakawa Yuki's reasoning, Officer Megure also understood the truth of the matter. It turned out that this was the so-called "disappearance of time".

But he still had one last question, "Why did he go to the scene after eight o'clock in the evening? How could he be sure that the victim was there at that time?"

Shirakawa Yuki smiled calmly, "It's very simple. After all, Akimoto Haru has been cooperating with the victim for a year. It is not surprising that he would know the victim's habit of reading documents in the office during that time."

Later, several people went to see the captured Akimoto and his wife. When they heard Shirakawa Yuki's reasoning and the solid evidence, the two people suddenly became discouraged and revealed their motives.

"Goto Takaaki has obtained evidence of my illegal production. If it is exposed, I will not be able to stay in this industry.

I have always tried my best to satisfy his blackmail, but I didn’t expect that his demands are getting higher and higher. I really can’t support it anymore. I just got married and I have a lot of money to spend, so I can’t..."

Having said this, he did not continue, but several people understood what he meant.

Sighing, Shirakawa Yuki and Officer Megure walked out together.

When the incident was over, Officer Memu quickly expressed his gratitude.

Only then did Shirakawa Yuki notice that she had not seen Mouri Kogoro until she came to the Metropolitan Police Department.

She asked with some confusion: "Strange, isn't Uncle Maoli here? Why didn't I see him?"

Only then did Officer Megure remember Kogoro Mouri. It turned out that he had never been able to solve the problem before, so he asked him to return to the office with a document on the case.

At this time, hearing Shirakawa Yuki mention it, Officer Megure quickly called the office.

"Hey, ah, it's Xiaolan, tell Brother Maori that the case has been solved by Sister Hoshino, so he doesn't need to worry about it, hahahahaha!"

…

And the detective agency on the other side.

Xiaolan looked at Mouri Kogoro, who was very drunk and sleeping soundly, with a look of helplessness.

"I understand, Officer Megure, I will tell him."

After saying that, he hung up the phone.

"dad!"

Xiaolan stood in front of Mouri Kogoro's table, akimbo and shouting.

"Ah, the case, what happened to the case!"

Mouri Kogoro was startled and woke up, grabbing the documents in front of him.

It turned out that after he returned to the office, he had been thinking about the case for a long time and had no idea, so he planned to drink some wine to relax, but unexpectedly he got out of hand.

Looking at Mouri Kogoro in front of her, Xiaolan looked angry and said, "The case has been solved by Haruna. Who asked you to sleep here all the time."

After hearing that the case was solved, Mouri Kogoro continued to sleep, leaving only Xiaolan who looked angry but helpless.
Chapter completed!