Everyone was stunned. Komemon Seizo did not expect that she would really seriously study the possibility of Santa Claus' existence, and he didn't know what to say for a while.
The only sound left in the study was Xiao Ai's calm analyzing voice.
"...To sum up, if Santa Claus really existed, he would be crushed at a speed of one thousand kilometers per second.
Assume that both Santa Claus and the reindeer have dense enough body structures that can withstand the high temperature and pressure at Mach 3,000, as well as the internal high temperature and pressure caused by generating such large power.
Then their masses may be large enough to produce visible gravitational effects.
Then during Santa's 31-hour day trip, the gravitational influence may cause tidal changes and even earthquakes.
The high-speed airflow driven by shock waves will tear apart humans and buildings on the ground, and may also cause climate change.
Every year on Christmas Eve, the Christian areas of the earth will suffer a huge disaster!"
After Xiao Ai finished speaking, there was silence for a while.
It took a long time before Gu Meimen Qingzang came to his senses, nodded, and said dryly, "Not bad."
After a pause, he asked again, "Do you know why you ask this question?"
Xiao Ai answered without hesitation: "Being a prosecutor requires rigorous logic and conclusive evidence to prove your point of view, not personal intuition, nor the so-called 'truth'."
"very good!"
Koumemon Seizo's face was full of unconcealable affection. Although this answer was beyond his expectation, it was also very good.
"Ai-chan is so powerful..." Ayako murmured, and then asked curiously, "Uncle Gu Meimen, how did Shizu-kun respond back then?"
Instead of asking Komemon Shizuo directly, he asked Komemon Kiyozō. The purpose was obvious. He wanted to find a topic to ease the relationship between the two.
After all, she had heard that the relationship between father and son was actually good when they were young.
Sure enough, Gu Meimen Qingzang was startled for a moment, and showed a look of reminiscence, "His answer back then was... prove it or not."
"Do you prove it or not? What do you mean?" Ayako was a little confused.
Shizuo Komemon said calmly: "A fact that exists is relatively easy to prove, while a fact that does not exist is difficult to prove. The difficulty of obtaining evidence is very different.
In the law, it is the presumption of innocence. Whoever asserts a positive fact, that is, "has", bears the burden of proof.
So it should be the people who believe Santa Claus exists to give evidence, not the people who think Santa Claus doesn’t exist.”
This answer is obviously more in line with the positioning of the Gu Meimen family, which is why the old man was so optimistic about Shizuo back then.
"It's amazing~ Did Shizu-kun understand this when he was seven years old?" Ayako looked amazed.
"Hmph." Gu Meimen Qingzang snorted coldly, "The bigger it gets, the more outrageous it becomes. Now it's just like..."
Shizuo Komemon interrupted directly, "It's still too late to rein in the situation now. I finally came back for once. I don't want to do it in front of Ayako, and you don't want to embarrass yourself in front of your granddaughter, right?"
Komemon Seizo choked and looked a little bad. Seeing this, Ayako quickly interrupted the conversation.
"Well, I have a question. I heard that the suspect is often required to provide an alibi. Isn't this proof of 'none'?"
Shizuo Komemon tilted his head slightly and explained: "The alibi does not directly prove that you were not at the scene when the crime occurred, but proves that you were somewhere else when the crime occurred.
Being there at the same time, naturally you cannot be here, and you still have to achieve the goal of realizing ‘nothing’ by realizing ‘being’.”
"I see..." Ayako nodded.
Being interrupted, and seeing that Ayako was trying to ease the atmosphere, Komemon Seizo didn't say anything more, turned to look at Akemi, and her expression softened a little.
"What did you say? Why did you say there is Santa Claus?"
Mingmei smiled, "In the 19th century, the New York Sun once published an article titled "Does Santa Claus Exist?"
The origin of the article was an 8-year-old little girl who asked her father if Santa Claus existed. The children all said it was fake.
Her father told her, you can ask the Sun. If the Sun says it is false, then it is false.
Francis Church, the newspaper editor at the time, had experienced the Civil War, witnessed many bloody scenes, and felt the despair permeating society.
So after receiving the letter, he answered - yes!
This topic inspired the public at that time to face difficulties bravely and optimistically.
I still remember the sentence at the end of the article, as if the author was shouting - Thank God, he is alive now, he will live forever, a thousand years from now, Virginia, no, ten or ten thousand years from now
Later, he will continue to bring happiness into the hearts of children."
Gu Meimen Qingzang shook his head, this kind of perceptual thinking is really incompatible with the Gu Meimen family.
But then he smiled again, feeling that the child Ai-chan looked a bit like Ayako, and at the same time also looked a bit like... Shizuo's mother.
Gentle, kind, careful, and loves to laugh.
"Although it's not the answer I want to hear, but... you can continue to insist on this idea."
Shizuo Komemon glanced at the old man with disdain. The difference in treatment was too obvious. If it were a boy, he would definitely be scolded - what a stupid thing to say!
Next, Gu Meimen Qingzang asked some simple legal knowledge and some legal thinking questions, and Xiao Ai's answers were all perfect.
As he talked and talked about the case that the two children were involved in yesterday, Gumeimon Qingzang obviously knew about it and asked with great interest:
"Evidence alone does not stand up. The stab wound on the suspect's finger can only prove that he has touched the cactus, but it does not directly prove that he killed the deceased.
Of course, he finally confessed, and with the confession as direct evidence, he can be prosecuted, but if he continues to deny, what are you going to do?"
As he spoke, he glanced at Shizuo Komemon, obviously dissatisfied with the fact that the latter was not careful enough in his work, that the case was handled too roughly, and that the law enforcement was violent.
Mingmei replied: "The suspect should have the key to the victim's home. We can start from this aspect and also investigate his whereabouts on the day of the crime."
Xiao Ai said: "Perhaps the salesperson at the mall still has an impression of the purchase records of bed sheets, or there may even be surveillance video.
In addition, the connecting cable of the video recorder should belong to his own home. It was the fingerprint left when he asked Higashida-san to help repair it.
Therefore, we can verify the wear and tear of the plug of the connecting cable, whether it matches the video recorder at the suspect's home, and whether there is a missing connecting cable in his home."
Komemon Seizo nodded, looked at the time, and found that it was already very late, long past lunch time, and if the delay continued, both children might be starving.
"Let's eat first." He stood up and said to the two children, then looked at Ayako and Gumemon Shizuo, "You guys come too."
"Hey, excuse me for bothering you." Ayako responded with a gentle smile, and Shizuo Komemon didn't say much.