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"Well!"
Conan suddenly opened his eyes and sat up in bed.
The pale room, the smell of disinfectant, the hospital gown on his body, is he... in the hospital?
Sitting blankly on the hospital bed, Conan fell into an unconscious confusion.
Weird? What was he doing? Why was he in the hospital?
Subconsciously raising his hand to touch the back of his head which still felt a little painful, Conan began to try hard to recall his memories before he fell into a coma.
He remembered that he seemed to have attended a party with Xiaolan and the others... Was it a party held by Ed Company?
Then he solved a murder case there. I remember he met Vermouth, the second Miyano Shiho, and that pretentious Kid...
Kidd?
Oh, right! Kidd!
The fragmented memories connected together at this moment, and Conan finally remembered what happened before he fell into a coma.
At the foot of the East Tower of the Ed Twin Towers at that time, he discovered a person with strange movements. After he followed this mysterious person to the president's office on the 53rd floor, he was careless and was attacked from behind by this person and was knocked unconscious!
Then, when that person wanted to kill him, it seemed that it was Kidd who saved him...
and many more……
Conan held his aching head and tried to recall the scene with a painful look on his face.
He remembered that he seemed to have seen something before he was knocked unconscious...what was it?
Damn it, I can’t remember, my head suddenly hurts…
"Click."
The door of the ward was suddenly opened, and when Karasuma Ying came in, she saw Conan lying on the bed, holding his head with a painful look on his face.
"Conan? Are you awake?"
"Xiaoying...Sister?" Conan was startled, but he was relieved when he found out that the person coming was Karasuma Ying.
"What's wrong? Is your head still hurting? Do you want me to call a nurse for you?" After pouring a cup of warm water from the thermos for him, Wu Wanying asked with concern.
"Thank you."
Taking the cup, Conan shook his head vigorously, trying to get rid of the pain lingering in his mind.
"No, I feel fine..."
"Okay, let's go get another checkup later. If there's really nothing wrong, let's complete the discharge procedures today."
"Um... by the way, where are Sister Xiaolan and the others?"
"Classes are normal today. I've asked for leave. Xiaolan is still in school, and Mr. Maori is in the office."
As she said this, Karasuma Ying sat down on the chair next to the bed, opened the notebook she had placed on the table, and her expression became increasingly solemn.
In this notebook, the names of Ichiro Yamatoda, Tetsu Sugimoto, Kimiko Arai and Shoko Kawai were written in large letters.
Same murder, same case, but different from any she had handled before.
These two recent cases clearly occurred at different times and places, but they made her feel a vague connection.
The most important ones are the murderers of these two cases, Shan Qizhe and Kawai Shoshi. According to the descriptions of these two people after their arrest, there seems to be a mysterious person behind their crimes, fanning the flames.
Wu Wanying keenly realized that there might be a big secret behind this.
But she couldn't figure out what kind of secret could connect these two deceased people whose identities and statuses were completely mismatched?
She didn't know Ichiro Yamato.
During the subsequent police investigation, it was discovered that Kimiko Arai had been secretly engaged in "illegal lending" on a large scale, and her fortune teller colleague Ms. Edano was one of them.
But apart from this, there was no other problem with her, and there was no intersection between her and Ichiro Yamato.
As for her two daughters who were once regarded as cash cows by her, the police have also identified them in subsequent investigations.
Kawai Souko is indeed the biological daughter of Kimiko Arai, and her description of her mother after her arrest was basically true.
It is true that Kimiko Arai abandoned her young daughter in the countryside a long time ago and came to live alone in the big city.
And the youngest daughter, Noriko Kawai, did die in an accident twelve years ago, just as Kawai Shoko said.
The eldest daughter had no savings and the younger daughter died early.
From any perspective, the sisters do not meet Kimiko Arai's criteria of being a "cash cow".
So why does she treat her daughter as a cash cow?
Could it be that Mr. Narisawa, whom she commissioned, made a mistake in the investigation?
No, that shouldn't be possible...
Karasuma Ying shook her head, and Conan next to her looked at her curiously.
There must be some secret hidden in Kimiko Arai, and this secret was the main factor that led to her eventual murder.
"Kawai Zhuangzi..."
Conan leaned over curiously and looked at the name written by Karasuma Ying in the notebook. Suddenly, something flashed through his mind.
"Strange, Kawai-sho, Kawai... seems to be, Kawai?"
He raised his hands to cover his head again, his face full of pain.
"What's wrong, Conan? Is your head still hurting?" Karasuma Ying put down her notebook and quickly stood up.
"Kawaai-shoko? No, I remember it was... Noriko! Yes! Kawai-shoko!"
Looking up suddenly, Conan shouted loudly.
He finally remembered the document he saw before being knocked unconscious by the mysterious man!
"I remember now! The document I saw in the president's office was a person's file! The owner of the file was Noriko Kawai!"
What? "After hearing what he said, Wu Wanying was a little confused for a moment.
Noriko Kawai, the file of a high school girl who had died long ago, actually appeared in the office of the president of Aid Company?
Conan covered his head, and quickly recalled what he had seen in that quick glance.
"Noriko Kawai, 17 years old, high school student, from a poor family, died in an accident 12 years ago...
I remember, I remember that there seemed to be a photo of Mrs. San Dong attached to that document."
"Mrs. Sandong?"
There is a photo of Yamato Mifuyu pasted on Noriko Kawai's file?
In an instant, Karasuma Ying suddenly connected this series of events together in a very incredible way.
【Are you kidding...】
Thinking of the possibility that even she herself found absurd, Karasuma Ying's face became solemn. She quickly took out her cell phone and immediately called Sato Miwako.
"What's wrong, Xiaoying? Have you encountered any case again?" After the call was connected, Sato Miwako teased her with a smile.
There was some noise coming from her end, and it sounded like she was in the police station.
"Officer Sato, I would like to ask you for a favor." Karasuma Ying said seriously.
"What help do you need?" Hearing her serious tone, Sato Miwako also put away her smile.
"Can you arrange for me to meet with Kawai Shoko, the criminal from the fortune-telling hall yesterday?"
Chapter 123 It's You, Yamatoda Mitsufuyu
"Can you arrange for me to meet with Kawai Shoko, the criminal from the fortune-telling hall yesterday?"
Karasuma Ying asked seriously over the phone.
She now has a lot of questions in her mind, and she needs to confront Kawai Souji one by one.
"Kawaai-sho...?"
After hearing Karasuma Ying's request, Sato Miwako seemed to have some concerns. She did not answer immediately, but got up and left the police station. After coming to a remote and deserted corner, she asked back:
"Xiaoying, why do you want to see her?"
Sensing a hint of something unusual in her tone, Karasuma Ying replied truthfully:
"It's about her deceased sister. I just found something strange, so I want to ask her some questions in person."
"That's it..."
After hearing Karasuma Ying's answer, Sato Miwako hesitated for a long time, and finally sighed softly and said:
"Xiaoying, you called too late..."
"why?"
"Because just last night, Kawai Souko committed suicide in the detention center where she was temporarily detained."
"what?!"
Upon hearing this, Wu Wanying suddenly stood up from his chair, his shock evident in his words.
"Are you sure it was suicide?" she asked quickly.
“I’m not sure about this, I just learned about it from other colleagues this morning.
I heard that Kawai Souko was in a very stable mood after being arrested, but last night, she took advantage of the guards' negligence and suddenly cut her throat with a fork she borrowed temporarily.
Although her colleagues at the detention center rushed her to the hospital for emergency treatment, the result was still..."
"What about her body? Where is it now?" Wu Wanying continued to ask.
"After the rescue failed and her death was confirmed, her body was immediately sent for cremation."
"So fast?"
"Well, I heard it was an order from the superiors. Because the suicide of a prisoner in the detention center is likely to have a negative impact on the reputation of the police in the outside world, they ordered that this matter should not only be handled quickly, but also kept secret...
We will probably have to wait for a while, until the heat of this case has passed, before the police will officially announce Kawai Souji’s death...”
At this point, Sato Miwako shook her head and smiled, her expression seeming to be self-deprecating.