Chapter 506: I picked up 1 yen on the road and gave it to the patrol uncle
Chapter 506: I picked up yen on the road and gave it to the patrol uncle~
"An extra thousand yen, what... ah!"
Kogoro Mouri suddenly realized that what the staff told him at that time was that [there were about ten banknotes in the envelope], which means that the number of banknotes in the envelope was very likely to be more than nine!
Moreover, if you think about it carefully, how could there be such a coincidence that there happened to be no parents to take them to the cafeteria to order food, and they happened to use envelopes to pack their living expenses, and the living expenses happened to be 1,000 yen bills...
"What were you talking about just now? The only person who could have brought the envelope without his parents could have been Yazaki Yasushi! Because there is no way there could be another student who is exactly like Yazaki Yasushi!"
Uncle Maori said loudly, directly shattering Conan's previous scenario assumption. Conan pushed his plain glasses and decided to stop for the time being to see what would happen next.
Now, Kogoro Mori and the Junior Detective League have proved that Yazaki Yasuji did go to the cafeteria to buy food, and the number of banknotes in the envelope is likely to be more than the nine that Yazaki Yasuji said, and the situation suddenly becomes clear.
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya slammed his left hand on the table, and then he felt pain in his left hand. He subconsciously raised his hand and blew it twice. When he realized that others were looking at him, he pretended to be calm and said.
"Because the student the cafeteria staff was talking about was indeed Yazaki-san, and the number of bills in the envelope he saw was most likely more than nine, so it makes sense that Yazaki-san used 1,000 yen to buy food!"
"If you want to prove this, all we need to do is look inside Yazaki-san's pocket to see if there is 700 yen in change! Yazaki-san, can you please let us see your pocket!"
Mitsuhiko's words left Yazaki Seiji silent. Then he reached into the pocket of his school uniform and pulled it out. Nine hundred-yen coins fell to the ground with a sound.
Obviously, just like Yazaki Yasuji stayed in the classroom and did not go out before, the other party's statement that there were only nine bills in the envelope was also a lie, otherwise there should be seven bills in the envelope now.
When Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya saw this scene, he felt that his logical thinking was directly opened up. He became even more excited. He looked at Genta and Ayumi, and after getting the support of his companions, he spoke with certainty.
"Yazaki-san, there aren't actually nine 1,000 yen bills in your envelope, there are actually ten 1,000 yen bills! You used one in the cafeteria and lost one, so there are only eight bills left!"
The situation is obvious. If there were only nine banknotes in Yazaki Yasuji's envelope, then the lost banknote that the other party mentioned must be the 1,000 yen banknote that he spent in the cafeteria.
In other words, if we consider it from this perspective, Yazaki Yasuji's behavior is to use a banknote that he spent with his own hands to slander a classmate who also behaves in an unsociable manner - and the Junior Detective Team has never thought of this possibility.
Whether it was Mitsuhiko, Genta or Ayumi, they all thought that Yazaki Yasuji lied about the number of banknotes in the envelope, and did not suspect that there might really be only nine banknotes in the other party's envelope.
(As expected, they are all good kids. Otherwise, this class trial might turn out to be like the one Phoenix Wright experienced when he was a child, where those who were wrongly accused of theft or lost property were targeted by everyone.)
Xiang Yuanguang touched his nose. He knew that Kobayashi Sumiko asked the students to resolve this emergency through class refereeing because she trusted her students, but this real scene still made him sigh.
(It seems that they did not disappoint the teacher's trust. A good teacher brought out a group of good students... Yazaki Yasushi said that there were nine bills in his envelope instead of ten bills, which was probably a show effect created by Conan.)
After this result came out, Conan from the prosecutor finally nodded in agreement, and he continued to ask.
"If that's the case, then there should have been ten bills in the envelope at first. But after spending one bill in the cafeteria, there's still one bill missing. So, where is that bill?"
Normally, this question should be answered by the police, but unfortunately, the 1,000 yen bill was really lost, so no one can answer this question.
However, as a former partner in the court, Xiang Yuanguang knew very well that Conan would not do something without reason. Since the other party dared to ask this question, it meant that the court could indeed get the answer to this question. So, where is the lost 1,000 yen bill?
Xiang Yuanguang touched his chin. He was thinking, and the members of the Junior Detective League were also thinking, but the members of the Junior Detective League had no idea at all——————
"I know! The missing 1,000 yen bill is right here!"
Several more students in the audience raised their hands and spoke loudly, attracting the attention of others. Even Conan's eyes flashed a hint of surprise, as if this situation was beyond Conan's expectations.
In fact, this was indeed beyond Conan's expectations, because Yazaki Yasuji said that he had stayed in the classroom and did not go out, so the one thousand yen could only have been dropped on the way to school, so the other students left the school to investigate.
Conan judged that Yazaki Yasuji's 1,000 yen was lost on the way back from the cafeteria to the classroom, so the only ones who could find the lost 1,000 yen bill were the Junior Detective Team, and no one else.
But now, those students who had left school and had no chance of finding the lost one thousand yen said at this time that they had found the lost one thousand yen. How could Conan not be surprised?
This scene was beyond everyone's expectations, except the parents who had no feeling about it at all. They just thought it was a deliberate effect for the show, otherwise there would be no such coincidence.
Kobayashi Sumiko hesitated for a moment, then nodded and asked them to speak.
And a student pulled a crumpled 1,000 yen bill out of his pocket and spoke loudly.
"On the way to school, we asked the patrolman nearby if anyone had found a 1,000 yen bill. The patrolman took us to the nearby Koban (police box) and gave it to us!"
"This is the bill that the patrol uncle was given by an elementary school student he met on the road today! I think this should be the 1,000 yen bill that fell out of the envelope of Yazaki-san!"
“…Is that so?”
Yazaki Seiji was stunned. He spoke in a stammering voice, looking a little at a loss.
In fact, he was really at a loss, and he had checked the amount of money before buying things in the cafeteria. Therefore, he could conclude that the one thousand yen bill he lost was definitely not dropped on the way to school.
But now, several classmates said with certainty that a student picked up a 1,000 yen bill on the road and handed it to a patrol police on the roadside, and then the patrol police returned the 1,000 yen to these students.
In other words, could it be that he really had dropped a thousand yen on the road, and then was careless and didn't count it clearly, which eventually led to this blunder?
(End of this chapter)