After a moment, Maya Hashimoto hesitated and said: "There is no switch similar to the elevator hidden outside the window, and there are no seams on the ceiling - the body should not have been transported from this room to the second floor during the power outage, so the murderer is probably not Iida.
gentlemen."
As he was talking, suddenly, Officer Takagi trotted to the window: "Jiang Xia, look at that! When we searched the flower bed just now, we found that some branches were broken and there were some weird marks around it, as if to cover up.
Left behind by footprints.”
"Where is it? Let me take a look too." Mumu Police Department squeezed to the window, he looked around, and suddenly discovered something, "This... isn't this right below the study room just now? Could it be that the murderer really jumped out of the window to escape?
Already?"
This discovery made the Mumu Police Department feel happy and worried at the same time: The worrying thing is that once the murderer has escaped, it will be as difficult to find him again as finding a needle in a haystack. But the happy thing is...
"Brother Hashimoto, you are really right!"
Mu Mu Police Department patted this new junior on the shoulder, with a face full of joy: He is indeed a talent that Jiang Xia values, and he is showing signs of success so quickly - if he continues to grow like this, there will be more juniors that he can rely on in the future.
Got one?
And unlike other fledgling detectives, Hashimoto Maya has brother Jiang Xia behind him. If he can't solve the problem, then he can naturally call brother Jiang Xia...
Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard Jiang Xia sigh.
Memu Police Department: "!"
Maya Hashimoto: "?!"
——Although it was just a fake boss attached to the mission, for some reason, Maya Hashimoto instinctively shivered when she suddenly heard such a sound, as if she had really disappointed her boss.
Maya Hashimoto: "..." Wait, I'm too caught up in the drama. To say the least, even if Jiang Xia is really regarded as the boss of the detective agency, there is no need to be afraid - this kind and sensible detective can be like that.
The two adults are completely different.
"Uzo must have left a scar on my soul, which made me have a shadow of the word 'boss' from then on."
Maya Hashimoto comforted herself in her heart, adjusted her mentality, and took the initiative to communicate with Jiang Xia: "What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"
"That's correct to a certain extent." Jiang Xia said euphemistically, "This is part of the whole reasoning, because what you said is exactly the 'truth' that the murderer wants us to know."
The Mumu Police Department understood, and his eyes lit up: "In other words, the murderer did not escape from the window at all, but someone else?!"
Jiang Xia nodded.
Outside the window, Officer Takagi and Officer Chiba, who were eavesdropping on tiptoe, looked at each other, with joy in their eyes: If internal personnel were handling the case, there would be no need to look for someone outside like a needle in a haystack!
Just as I was thinking about it, the light suddenly dimmed.
The two of them raised their heads in confusion and saw Jiang Xia leaning against the window, leaning over to look at them.
"Just right." Jiang Xia nodded to them and commanded very smoothly, "Come and help me."
…
After a few minutes, Jiang Xia looked at his watch and said to the others: "It's almost time to go upstairs."
Police Officer Memu was looking forward to going upstairs, but halfway up the steps, he suddenly remembered something: "By the way, I remember Mrs. Masekage said that a man came to the house five years ago and cursed Mr. Masekage... Could it be that this time
Wasn't he the one who committed the crime?"
Jiang Xia looked at Mrs. Zhengying and said casually as if chatting: "The person you are talking about, does he have any quirks?"
"Quirk?" Mrs. Zhengying turned her head away and avoided his sight, "This... this happened five years ago. I really can't remember it clearly."
"If you think about it again, does he have the habit of holding up his sunglasses?" Jiang Xia raised a hand and pushed the non-existent spectacle frame on the bridge of his nose with his little finger, "Just like this."
"Ah, yes!" Mrs. Zhengying said quickly, "He has this kind of..."
Mrs. Zhengying: "..."
She suddenly thought of something and became silent.
Maya Hashimoto looked left and right, and soon, his eyes were fixed on Iida Riki - pushing up his sunglasses with his little finger... Isn't that this guy's habit? When he first saw it, he wanted to say,
I was just worried about offending people, so I didn't say such words. Could it be that the guy who cursed five years ago was actually...
This obvious little move was not only noticed by Maya Hashimoto, but also by others.
Suzuki Sonoko looked surprised. She looked at Iida Riki up and down: "I can't tell. You look like you miss this place very much, but you actually disguised yourself five years ago and came back to curse your mentor."
Iida Riki: "I, I'm not, I don't have it!"
Jiang Xia: "In those photo albums just now, I saw a photo of Mr. Iida and the three of them 10 years ago. Mr. Iida in it was wearing a peaked cap, a beard, and dark glasses...
"
"Just look at the group photo." Conan took out a photo from his arms and held it up for everyone to see, "How does it look? Does it look familiar? - Yes, what Mrs. Zhengying described, she came here five years ago.
"The suspicious person' looks exactly like Mr. Iida when he was young."
Maya Hashimoto: "?" When did you kid take the photo away? Rounding it off is considered theft! ... Unfortunately, Conan is only 7 years old now, and the law cannot punish him yet.
"Huh? Wait, if this kid continues like this and becomes a habit, sooner or later... he will be arrested and taken to the police station for this kind of illegal behavior!" Thinking of this, Maya Hashimoto felt happy and felt like herself
The joy of having a terrifying opponent die on its own without doing anything.
However there is a problem.
"First of all..." Maya Hashimoto looked back again, "If I want to see such a pleasing sight, I have to find a way to survive until this kid reaches adulthood."
When a passive book master secretly curses his future colleagues in his heart.
Beside, everyone is watching the photo.
"They are exactly the same, but..." Sure enough, someone noticed the inconsistency in this. Mao Lilan asked doubtfully, "But isn't Mrs. Masakage very familiar with Mr. Iida? Why didn't she recognize him five years ago?"
Jiang Xia: "Because 5 years ago, there was no such person. And when people make up lies, in order to make their words appear true, they often instinctively look for relevant materials from reality - Iida 5 years ago
Sir, he is the template for the 'suspicious person' that Mrs. Zhengying found out of desperation."
Iida couldn't help but push up his sunglasses with his little finger: "Master's wife, I actually have this image in your eyes..."
The onlookers were stunned when they heard this. After a while, they finally came to their senses: "In other words... Mrs. Zhengying is deliberately lying?!"
The Mumu Police Department looked at this honest-looking middle-aged woman and couldn't hide their surprise: "You really can't tell a person's face... Could you be the murderer this time?"