Chapter 499: The Junior Detective Team's Interrogation of the Plaintiff
Chapter 499: The Junior Detective Team's Interrogation of the Plaintiff
After the homeroom teacher, Sumiko Kobayashi, announced the start of the class referee rehearsal, the children came out with their parents one after another and went to specific places to look for the lost props according to the process that Sumiko Kobayashi had said.
However, the members of the Junior Detective Team stayed. After all, unlike other students who served as witnesses, the Junior Detective Team acted as lawyers in the class trial, and what they had to do was more than just searching and collecting evidence.
"Yazaki Yashiro should have told you in class where he went today, right?"
Surrounded by the members of the Junior Detective League, Xiang Yuanguang touched his chin and asked.
In response, the three members of the Junior Detective League nodded in unison, and Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya asked in confusion.
"Yes, Uncle Xiang Yuan, we already know where it might have fallen. Can't we just go and look for it?"
"It may not have fallen on the road, it may have fallen inside the school."
Xiang Yuanguang said meaningfully that unlike other parents, he listened to the conversation between students and teachers in the classroom, and his understanding of this incident was actually better than that of the Junior Detective League.
Therefore, he almost immediately realized that there was a problem in Yasushi Yazaki's description, because Yasushi Yazaki did not mention what happened inside the school, which meant that Yasushi Yazaki went straight to the classroom after arriving at the school and has been there ever since.
However, this is impossible. Even if there is a lunch box in Yazaki Yasuji's schoolbag, which proves that he spent his lunch time in the classroom, it does not mean that he really did not leave the classroom.
The reason is very simple - if Yasuji Yazaki really had never left the classroom, then Haibara Ai had been within Yasuji Yazaki's sight from the time she entered the classroom until the time Yasuji Yazaki discovered that his living expenses were missing.
Well, unless Haibara Ai reached into the envelope and took out a banknote in front of Yazaki Yasushi, there is absolutely no way that Haibara Ai would be suspected of theft and she could not be a criminal suspect.
From this, Xiang Yuanguang can quickly deduc the hidden information in this contradiction—either Yazaki Yasuji is playing a trick and deliberately tricking Haibara Ai, who is also taciturn and has a bad relationship with other students.
Either Yazaki Yasuji lied and he did leave the classroom, but for some reason he was unwilling to reveal this information, yet he felt that it was possible that Haibara Ai did steal his living expenses, which led to this situation.
"I think you need to confirm the specific situation with Yazaki Yasushi. As a lawyer, you should be skeptical even of the information given by the defendant, let alone the plaintiff in the case."
As one of the best lawyers in Tokyo's legal community, Xiang Yuanguang's words were recognized by several parents. It's not that they have deduced what Xiang Yuanguang just deduced, but they simply feel that...
Because Xiang Yuanguang is a professional lawyer, there will be absolutely no problem in letting a professional give guidance in the case of the academic referee's lawyer status.
Of course, Xiang Yuanguang did not avoid Haibara Ai who was beside him when he said this, so that he once again attracted Haibara Ai's attention. However, Haibara Ai knew why Xiang Yuanguang said this.
There are actually a lot of files stored in Xiang Yuan Universal Law Firm. Every time Xiang Yuanguang solves a case, he will write down the case details himself to facilitate later review or retrieval, and those files are kept in the office on the second floor.
Haibara Ai had once entered the office to check the contents of the files, and naturally knew that she had encountered cases where the defendant lied more than once during her defense career as a defense lawyer for Genmi Mitsuko, so her hedgehog friend should have been simply reacting to stress.
As the prosecutor of this case, Conan will not act with the members of the Junior Detective League. In his eyes, there is no room for a detective to intervene in this incident. It only requires mechanical evidence collection by manpower.
Although he felt that Xiang Yuanguang's reasoning ability might not be very reliable, in the atmosphere of the school judgement which was similar to a trial court, the other party should have expanded his domain and his ability value increased significantly, so there was no need to worry too much.
All Conan needs to do is wait for the class trial to officially begin, reject the false evidence presented by the Junior Detective Team, and then guide them to deduce the whole situation of the incident.
(But then again, why did Yazaki Yasuji hide some information? It would be a good thing for him to get his living expenses back, right? Doesn't he want his living expenses back?)
The Elementary School Student of Death's gaze fell on Yazaki Yasushi, who was surrounded by the Junior Detective League and questioned about the situation. Based on the current situation, the other party had hidden at least one, two, or even more key pieces of information.
(No, if you take all the information into consideration... then, if you exclude all the impossibilities, the remaining possibilities are true no matter how unbelievable they are. There is only one truth -)
"Yazaki-san, did you go out at noon?" Yoshida Ayumi asked curiously. Faced with this question, Yazaki Yasuji hesitated and stammered.
"Well, I shouldn't have been out, right...?"
...You probably haven't been out?
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya, who was standing next to Ayumi Yoshida, was a little confused. How could the word "should" be used for such a thing?
As the think tank of the Junior Detective Team, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya was a little confused, so he asked directly.
"Yazaki-san, if you haven't been out, then did you eat your lunch in the classroom at noon?"
Faced with the verbal attack, Yazaki Yasuji looked a little flustered. He thought about it and finally decided to say that he did eat a lunch box in the classroom at noon, but he was not sure what the content of the lunch box was.
However, Kojima Genta spoke loudly.
"Mitsuhiko, do you even need to ask? Since he didn't go out, he must be eating his lunch box in the classroom. I remember many people brought lunch boxes to school! If it were me, I would definitely prepare a full box of eel rice!"
Even another member of the Junior Detective League, Ayumi, nodded.
"Yes, I saw Huiyuan and Uncle Xiangyuan taking out lunch boxes from their school bags at noon. It's normal for Yazaki to eat lunch boxes too, right?"
The words of the two people disturbed Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya's thoughts. He wanted to say something but couldn't remember it for a while. Just when he was distressed, the defendant Haibara Ai quietly approached and said calmly.
"Book."
"Book?"
The members of the Junior Detective League all made puzzled sounds, and then followed Haibara Ai's gaze to look at Yazaki Yasuji's schoolbag. Yazaki Yasuji subconsciously put his hand on the schoolbag and said in panic.
"Wh, what book? My schoolbag contains a lunch box..."
"No, your bag contains books, because the specifications of books and lunch boxes are completely different."
Haibara Ai stabbed him again and looked at Yazaki Yasushi with some suspicion.
"Also, if you had eaten lunch in the classroom at noon, you should be able to smell the aroma of food here, but there is no smell here, right?"
As soon as the smell was mentioned, Yuantai immediately became interested and he agreed loudly.
"Yeah, if you open the bento, there will definitely be a smell of food, just like the eel rice I usually eat! Yazaki-san, you didn't actually eat in the classroom, right!"
Yazaki Yasushi opened his mouth to speak, but didn't know what to say.
Once the lie is exposed, the loopholes behind it will be exposed.
At this moment, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya had an idea and immediately knew where to go to continue his investigation.
(End of this chapter)