Chapter 244 The wild cat is about to cover the ‘Moon Shadow’
Because of Yu Jiang's deliberate interference, they had to go out and check the beach under the warehouse bed.
Obviously, there are no traces of anyone walking here, and there are no shoe prints on the windowsill.
Conan was relieved when he saw this.
Will reasoning finally return to the right path now?
If he doesn't find the murderer soon, he is always worried that Hideo Kawashima will not be the last victim.
"Since the murderer could not leave the activity center through other means...that is to say, the murderer returned to the ritual venue by the same route after killing the people." Mouri Kogoro finally reasoned according to Conan's wish.
While Conan was relieved, the villagers who participated in the ceremony showed strange expressions.
"You mean..." Kuroiwa Tatsuji's daughter Reiko couldn't help asking, "The murderer may be among our group of people?!"
"Yes, if he didn't take advantage of the chaos to escape."
"Did anyone see Mr. Kawashima leaving before the ceremony?"
"Ah, I, I saw it." Kuroiwa Tatsuji said, "At that time, he only said he wanted to go to the bathroom, but he never came back. I was already worried at that time."
"Stop crying like a cat and pretending to be compassionate." Someone in the crowd sneered, "Once Mr. Kawashima dies, won't it be more likely that you will be elected as the village chief?"
"That's right, Mr. Qingshui, you have to be careful, maybe the next target of the Black Rock Village Chief is you!"
Masato Shimizu touched the tip of his nose awkwardly, not knowing what to say.
Kuroiwa Tatsuji was as angry as a moving steam train. He glared at Masato Shimizu fiercely and turned around to leave.
"Wait! Since everyone is suspected, please stay here and don't go anywhere until the police arrive." Mouri Kogoro took a step forward and firmly blocked the way Kuroiwa Tatsuji left.
"Well, I know who the person who followed Mr. Kawashima left the venue was." Asai Narumi was afraid that someone would see her, so she took the initiative to stand up and clear up the suspicion, "That person is me!"
The more frank she is, the less likely Mouri Kogoro and Conan will be the target of suspicion on her.
Yu Jiang also had to admit that Aso was indeed a very smart person.
If there is no irreconcilable conflict between him and the organization, perhaps Aso is qualified to join the organization and obtain a code name.
Now Yu Jiang wants to recruit soldiers for the organization wherever he goes.
There is no way, the backbone is too weak.
There are only a few official members, and the mainstay are undercover agents from Scotland and Bourbon.
If this continues, the organization will be finished one day!
Yu Jiang doesn't want his long-term meal ticket to disappear just like that, and he will hold on until the day he dies no matter what.
"Anyway, the murderer must be someone who participated in the ritual today. As long as we confirm whether he is a man or a woman, we can narrow down the scope..."
As soon as Mouri Kogoro finished speaking, Conan said: "The murderer should be a man. After all, with the body size of the deceased, it should be difficult for a woman to drown him, not to mention that the murderer had to lay the body down on the piano."
A corpse feels heavier than a living person. This is because people subconsciously exert force when being pulled, but corpses do not.
In this case, people with physical qualities like Asai Narumi’s were first eliminated from the list of doubts.
Upon seeing this, Yu Jiang lost interest in continuing to listen. Anyway, the detectives would only get further and further away from the truth.
"Well..." he suggested, "I was staying with you, Mr. Maori, without any suspicion, right? Can I leave now?"
Mouri Kogoro was stunned and was about to refuse: "I think it's best for you..."
"Tomorrow I want to catch the morning ferry to the next island. If I don't go to bed early, I might not be able to get up."
"This..."
"Anyway, I have an alibi and lack of motive for the murder, so I can't be the murderer." After Yu Jiang finished speaking, he walked straight out the door regardless of Mouri Kogoro's reaction.
Because of his leadership, some villagers soon expressed their desire to leave, which caused a lot of trouble for Kogoro Mori's work.
He couldn't help but secretly complain: "What, this teacher is so willful."
Conan looked at Yu Jiang's back with a look of hesitation on his face.
On the one hand, he wanted to follow Yuzuru Shimizu to see what his intentions were - he still didn't believe the other party's lies about traveling - but on the other hand, he wanted to stay and continue investigating the case.
After Yu Jiang left the activity center, he first went to the hotel to check in, then climbed out from the window of the room and walked towards the archives room with a clear purpose.
At present, most of the villagers of Moon Shadow Island are gathered in the activity center. Kogoro Mori and the annoying Conan are also stumbled into the case, which is just the right time for him to start his own investigation.
The archives on Yueying Island are much easier to break into than the Metropolitan Police Department.
But in Yujiang's opinion, it's just a matter of how much time it takes, and the difficulty is almost the same.
He put on his gloves and looked through the files from twelve years ago, hoping to investigate from Keiji Aso's name.
In fact, the organization also has some mission data from twelve years ago, but accessing those data requires going through an administrative class. There are a lot of procedures to go through, and Yu Jiang finds it troublesome.
He used his body camera to take photos of the clues that needed to be dug out, and passed them on to William Drake, who would complete the rest of the intelligence work beautifully.
From this point of view, Karasuma Renya has done a good thing.
There is very little information about Keiji Aso.
Yu Jiang watched for a long time and only took two pictures.
But his attention was soon drawn away by the name of Keiji Aso's son.
【Aso せいじ】
Perhaps because Aso Minoru was too young at the time of registration, his name is written in hiragana on the resident file.
Seeing this, Yu Jiang suddenly realized that the secret that really prompted Asai Narumi to dare to return to Yueying Island without changing her name was here.
Asai Narimi's "narumi" is written exactly the same as Aso's "naromi", but the pronunciation is quite different.
Aso Minoru's せいじ sounds like a boy's name, while Asai Narumi's なるみ sounds perfectly appropriate when used as a girl's name.
"Shua——"
A burst of light suddenly swept towards the archives room.
Yu Jiang hurriedly hid behind the bookshelf.
Immediately afterwards, an old man in police uniform poked his head out: "Huh? No one? Is it a night owl?"
He muttered, "Really, there are more and more wild cats on the island. If this continues, the wild cats will cover the 'Moon Shadow'." and slowly left along the corridor.
This was the second time today that I was almost discovered, but this time Yu Jiang’s expression was particularly serious.
That policeman just now seemed to have something.
He said, "Wild cats are about to cover the 'Moon Shadow'". Is he implying something?
After the police left, Yu Jiang stayed in the archives room for some time.
It wasn't until late at night that he left the archives and returned to the hotel.
On the way back, Yu Jiang noticed that the lights in the activity center were still on. Maybe the detective was still investigating.