Chapter 619 Red, White, Yellow
Inspector Yumio nodded and said, "That's what we inferred as well."
Yuya asked, "Where is the child and his father?"
Inspector Yumio sighed, "Both of them were injured and are currently receiving treatment in the hospital. We won't be able to question them directly in the short term."
"Is that so? That's a pity." Youye sighed. If he could ask the person himself directly, he would immediately know who the yellow person was.
"What about the three tenants?"
Inspector Gong Chang pointed to the three men on the other side and said, "Those three are the ones."
"The one on the far right with dark skin and a band-aid on his face is called Nishii Ryuhei, a carpenter; the one in the middle with squinty eyes wearing glasses and an old-fashioned sweater is called Okiya Subaru, a university graduate student; the one on the left who is a little chubby is called Makabe Ginya, a freelance worker."
"When the fire broke out last night, the three people were out and didn't return until the morning."
Youya raised his eyes and observed the three people - one of them happened to look over, and their eyes met for a moment without leaving a trace.
Inspector Yumio continued, "Now it seems that the yellow person in the diary is the arsonist, but the child used colors to refer to the three people, and none of the three people's names have anything to do with colors. There is also no one wearing yellow clothes, and their jobs don't seem to have anything to do with colors."
Yuan Tai crossed his arms and looked at the three people seriously. Suddenly he said, "There is a black man."
"Black?"
"It's that dark man."
Mitsuhiko suddenly realized: "Ah, so the person in the middle is the white one? Then the red one is the uncle on the far left?"
"What about red?" Youya asked with a smile, "Who is the red person?"
"Ah, this..." Genta and Mitsuhiko were speechless.
Yuya said regretfully, "It seems that color doesn't refer to skin color."
“That’s true…”
Inspector Yumio said in a deep voice: "Anyway, the most important thing now is to find out who the yellow man is and what he did last night."
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Inspector Yumio separated the three people and began routine questioning.
The first one is the dark-skinned man wearing a Band-Aid, carpenter Ryuhei Nishii.
Faced with the question, he said impatiently: "Haven't I already asked? Did you go drinking with the foreman and a few seniors last night?"
Inspector Yumio put one hand in his pocket and said, "But we just checked and they said you disappeared after one o'clock."
"Ah, that's what happened," Nishii Ryuhei scratched the band-aid on his face uncomfortably, "I haven't drunk for a long time, so I was a little drunk, so I found a bench to rest and sober up, but I fell asleep. When I woke up, it was already this morning."
Inspector Yumio: "So, no one was with you around 2: in the evening when the fire broke out. Is that correct?"
Nishii Ryuhei nodded helplessly.
Conan pulled on Yuya's clothes, and the latter nodded in understanding.
"Excuse me, why do you have a band-aid on your face?"
Xi Jing Longping was stunned: "Who are you? No, you look familiar..."
"That's not important," Youya smiled, "Can you answer the question first?"
Nishii Ryuhei was stunned for a moment: "Ah? Ah! This was when I was hit by wood while working. I'm still a novice so I get injured often."
As he spoke, he showed off his hands, with almost every finger wrapped in a band-aid: "Look, this has become a daily routine."
Inspector Yumio nodded and asked, "May I ask what your favorite color is?"
"Color?" Nishii Ryuhei thought for a moment and replied, "The blue of the sea, right? I go surfing sometimes."
The second person is Subaru Okiya, a graduate student in engineering at the university. He has squinty eyes and wears glasses, and he always looks smiling.
"I went for a drive alone last night. Sometimes when I'm overwhelmed by the professor's papers, I'll go out for a drive to relax. Plus, I'm having a headache finding an internship lately..."
Inspector Yumio asked, "Where did you go for a ride?"
Subaru Okiya replied, "I went to the tree-lined path along the Timujin River. I go there often because seeing a whole expanse of green can calm my mood."
"In addition," he looked at the burned courtyard, "I also watered and cared for the flowers and plants in this yard every morning."
Inspector Yumio thought for a moment, "So your favorite color is green?"
Yuya: "..." Hold it in, you can't laugh.
"No," Okiya Subaru pinched his chin and thought, "If I really have to say, it should be black, right? Because it can hide the unknown side of myself, but for the same reason, the color I hate the most is also black."
Yuya: I strongly suspect that this man is pretending to be deep. Didn’t you see that those three little brats were looking at him in a silly and cute way?
Inspector Yumio: I really don’t understand what young people today like and dislike.
The third person is a freelance worker, Ginya Makabe.
He said that he watched a whole night of movies in Haido Town, from 10 pm to 5 am, and all three Godzilla movies were shown consecutively.
"Are you alone?" asked Inspector Yumio.
"Ah, yes, the friend I had planned to meet with couldn't come due to some unexpected matter."
"What kind of netizens?"
"Ah, it's just chatting with people I met online, and sometimes I sell some material information to them..."
"You said you are a freelance worker. Is this how you make your income?"
"No, I have other temporary jobs that are paid daily..."
Suddenly, Conan grabbed his hand and asked, "Are you moving bricks at the construction site? I see there's a lot of dirt between your fingernails."
Makabe Ginya looked a little flustered: "No, no, that was left over from the last time I played the survival game, when I was running around in the mountains..."
Inspector Yumio: "Well, let me ask you, what is your favorite color?"
“It’s army green…”
At this time, the other two also came over.
Nishii Ryuhei asked, "Inspector, do these questions have anything to do with the fire?"
Inspector Gongchang said vaguely: "No, it's just a routine inquiry."
After asking around and not getting any useful information, Inspector Yumio looked at the diary with a headache: "So what does this yellow mean?"
Inspector Yumio's deputy came over and whispered, "Inspector, is it okay for us to believe what the kid said in his diary? Maybe the kid just made this up."
"That's not the case!" Ayumi suddenly objected loudly.
"He told us himself that there were suspicious people doing strange things at night!"
“That doesn’t sound like nonsense at all!”
The three little brats spoke one by one, and finally said in unison: "We all believe in him!"
Inspector Yumio was stunned for a moment, and looked at Yuya with some embarrassment: "Yuya-kun, do you have any opinion?"
Yuya smiled and said, "What's wrong with that? Inspector Yumio, let me ask you a question. If a child makes a mistake, how would you start the investigation?"
Inspector Yumio was stunned for a moment, then replied subconsciously: "Of course, we should start by asking the adults around the child."
Yuya smiled faintly: "If that's the case, the same principle applies in reverse, right?"
"Although he is a child, he has recorded his daily life in detail in his diary, and he has given nicknames to all three of them. Doesn't this mean that he is always observing the three tenants carefully?"
"Is it the Copper Beech Villa?"
Yuya was stunned for a moment, then turned around and saw Subaru Okiya walking towards him.
He squinted his eyes as if he were smiling. "That's what Holmes said to Watson in the Copper Beeches case, right?"
"Watson, as a doctor, in order to understand a child's constitution, you always start by investigating the child's parents, right? Don't you think the reverse is also possible?"
"Is that so?" Okiya Subaru looked at Yuya with a "smile".
Yuya was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "I didn't expect Mr. Okiya to know so much about Sherlock Holmes?"
Conan also looked at Okiya Subaru with a slightly shining look in his eyes.
Subaru Okiya smiled and said, "Yeah, I have all the books of Sherlock Holmes. But unfortunately..." He turned his head and looked at the apartment that had become a ruin, "Now it's all burned down."
The three of them looked at the villa together and suddenly sighed in unison.
Miyano Shiho, who had been watching quietly, tilted her head:?