MTL - How Real Wine Became the Light of the Metropolitan Police-Chapter 22 Cafe Murder

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"This gentleman! Please explain honestly why you found this kind of thing under your desk!"

As soon as Xin Haikong stepped into the coffee shop, he heard the familiar questioning voice full of energy, and Officer Mumu hadn't been so angry for a long time. He looked over his head:

In the middle deck of the coffee shop, a young man was lying on the ground, with half of his feet leaning on the sofa, maintaining a twisted posture, but no one helped him up. His eyes were wide open, but he didn't move for a long time. He probably stopped breathing, and half of his face outside had a grim expression.

The overturned stool has been put aside. There should be a man and two women who came with the deceased. The man stood with his arms crossed, and the two girls were half-squatting looking at the deceased with red eyes.

The circle of police around him hadn't dispersed yet. Officer Takagi, who was standing beside him, was holding a small box wrapped in a plastic bag, while Officer Mumu was questioning the young man with a serious face.

The scene where people are stolen and taken.

He followed the sight of the police officer Mumu to the young man.

In his early twenties, he was wearing a coffee-colored windbreaker with a black inner layer. His exposed arms and neck were covered with bandages. There was a circle of dark purple around his left eye, and his dark brown eyes blinked. innocent face. It doesn't seem to understand what's going on at all.

But to be able to lean on the sofa with a nonchalant face at the murder scene is not something ordinary people can do!

And isn't this guy the man he bumped into on the way home from shopping before?

At that time, he naively thought that this game was a Conan special, and he didn't think about any other possibilities at all. He thought that this guy was someone who just ran out of the hospital. Looking at it now, this game has begun to add settings secretly early in the morning!

"Officer Xinhai!"

The immature child's voice resounded again, and Xin Haikong lowered his head, looked at Conan who had just moved in front of him, and smiled.

The power of the **** of death should not be underestimated, so what about the writers, who came to Ke Xue's site and were still punished.

Hearing Conan's voice, police officers Takagi and Meguro who were working on the case also turned around and greeted Xin Haikong.

"This, what happened?" Xin Haikong didn't want to intervene, but had to intervene, he stepped forward to inquire about the case.

"This guest had an accident while dining... He smelled bitter almonds in his mouth, so we inferred that he might have been poisoned, and after searching the cafe, we found under the gentleman's table cyanide, cyanide, Potassium's little box."

Officer Mumu looked at the young man who was still sitting on the sofa. This guy is probably the only person still sitting here in the entire cafe.

"I didn't do anything, officer." The young man's amber eyes stared at Xin Haikong.

"I think, there may be some misunderstanding in this-" Xin Haikong tried to defend Dazai.

"But we searched the entire cafe, and only found cyanide, cyanide, and potassium under this guy's desk!" Officer Takagi retorted excitedly, as if he was about to arrest the criminal.

The situation is not good.

Xin Haikong went directly to the special search headquarters after he was reinstated yesterday. As soon as he arrived at the scene, he learned a "bad news". In order to better prevent the transaction between the Hashima group and the Hong Kong black, the police have contacted Yuan through the special affairs department. At the Armed Detective Agency in Yokohama, ask them to send someone to Tokyo to assist the police.

And just after taking office in the search headquarters, he was directly arranged by the Matsumoto police to be the person in charge of the connection between the police and the Armed Detective Agency, who had not intervened in the intelligence collection work, which is why he came to this cafe after work.

Unexpectedly, it was Dazai Osamu who was sent by Butei. Although it was not the Edogawa Ranpo who could see through everything, he was really relieved, but Dazai, who was in control of people's hearts, didn't get any better!

"This gentleman! Please stop ignoring the police's words! Please explain quickly why this thing was found under your desk. Did you kill someone on a whim!"

Officer Mumu asked again.

Dazai Osamu stared at the potassium cyanide held in the hands of Officer Takagi with a completely empty expression, his eyes flashed a little light, but he glanced at the deceased lying on the ground again, and his eyes fell on the ferocious side of the deceased face. After a moment, he shook his head with a defiant expression.

The police at the scene also paused, their eyes closely following Dazai Osamu's, looking at this guy's performance suspiciously, thinking that he was going to explain something.

Even Conan, who was already skeptical about this case, looked at Dazai expectantly, meaning he could tell something.

Ugh-

Xin Haikong knew that Dazai would definitely not be the murderer. After all, when this guy communicated with the police on behalf of Butei, he made an appointment to meet at this cafe. He knew that the police would come soon, and the murder would be too inexplicable.

But this world seems to have a very high level of secrecy regarding supernatural abilities. Yokohama is like an island of psychic abilities. The residents of the island are accustomed to the situation of dividing and conquering the three organizations, while other places do not know about psychic abilities at all.

In the Metropolitan Police Department, only professional policemen above the police level and some old detectives from the non-professional group knew about this kind of thing. Among the policemen who searched the headquarters, only he and Matsumoto Kiyotaka knew the specific situation. All other police officers only knew about them. The task is to stop the intercolumn group only.

He couldn't justify Dazai Osamu's identity directly.

But this guy must have long known who the murderer is, and he has been holding it back to watch the fun.

"This gentleman, do you know anything about it?" Officer Mu Mu patiently asked again.

"Ah, I'm just thinking about what it's like to commit suicide with potassium cyanide, but just thinking about it makes it hurt, so let's forget it." Such a tone is too flat for such an occasion.

Officer Takagi, who was standing beside him, was instantly furious.

"You guy-"

"Officer Takagi, please wait a moment." Xin Haikong interrupted Officer Takagi who was about to break out.

"Although the poison was found under this gentleman's desk, what's the motive? He and the deceased are probably just strangers." Xin Haikong looked at the people who were still beside the deceased, "I can ask Can you restate the story of the case?"

"Xianzai, uh, Kubo Xianya is this guy's name." The man who was still standing there was obviously much calmer, his voice was still shaking, but he could already explain the situation to the police.

He pointed to the deceased lying on the ground and said, "Xianzai's birthday is today, and he asked me to play with Kurumi and Yue, but the restaurant that I originally booked suddenly closed today, so I can only change one temporarily, and it takes too long to wait. , everyone is hungry, so let's go to this cafe to have a rest first."

"Excuse me, is your relationship just friends?" Xin Haikong's gaze fell on the two ladies who were still kneeling on the ground. The lady in a white dress had a mid-priced ladies watch on her wrist, and this watch The matching men's watch was worn on the wrist of the deceased.

However, what is interesting is that another girl wearing a floral shirt and hot pants has earrings from the same brand and series on her earlobe.

"Huh?" When the two girls kneeling on the ground heard this question, they raised their heads almost at the same time and looked at Xin Haikong.

"Ah, Kurumi is Kenya's girlfriend. They and I and Yue have been good friends since college." The man pointed at the girl in the white skirt and said with certainty.

"That's right." Xin Haikong's eyes stayed on Kurumi in a white skirt. She should have put on full makeup when she went out. The eyeliner and mascara at the end of her eyes were smeared with tears, and her lipstick was rubbed off at some point. , his lips were pale and haggard. It looked like her boyfriend's death really made her very sad.

And Yue beside her, the kneeling posture made her hot pants look a little embarrassing, she seemed to realize it herself, pulled Kurumi and stood up slowly. She was also wearing full makeup, with bright lipstick on her mouth.

"Then do you have any conflict with this guest?"

"It's not that this guy is inexplicable. As soon as he came in, he ran to Yuhui's side and said 'beautiful young lady', what's 'die for love with me' and other nonsense, we were very angry, and Xianzai beat this guy. Fist. I think this guy was so angry that he poisoned Kenzai to death!" said the standing man, waving his fist, and it seemed that he wanted to punch Dazai again.

The description is detailed enough to imagine someone's behavior.

Xin Haikong reluctantly maintained a smile, "But all the food in the cafe is served by the waiter, right? As a guest, this gentleman should not have the opportunity to touch the food of other guests?"

"Generally speaking, this is the case, but I accidentally brought the milk tea from table 3 to table 4. I was a guest of table 4. Well, that's the gentleman who brought the milk tea to table 3 himself." The waiter on the side stepped forward stubbornly, and stumblingly explained the situation.

"So the person who was punched by him just gave him the milk tea, and the deceased drank it like this? And there's no leftover?" Xin Haikong looked at the empty milk tea cup on the table, and was rarely puzzled.

"Who knew this guy would poison in public!" The man standing beside him was a little embarrassed.

"Officer Xinhai, although there is no more milk tea left, we have detected toxins at the mouth of the cup." A police officer from the forensics department ran over to provide the latest news.

Cup mouth? I see.

"Huh? What's the red thing on this big brother's mouth?" Conan didn't know when he took advantage of his height to get to the deceased's side and pointed to the red mark on the corner of the deceased's lips.

"Is it the symptoms after being poisoned?" Takagi bent over to observe the mark, "I always feel a little unwilling, as if it was glued on, as if..."

"It's lipstick."

"Lipstick? But how could the dead wear lipstick—"

"Of course he didn't put it on. It should be his girlfriend who put on lipstick."

"But…"

Before Officer Takagi finished speaking, everyone present understood. The lipstick on Xianzai's girlfriend Kurumi's mouth had long since been rubbed off. Instead, it was the lipstick on Yue's mouth, which seemed to be the same shade as the deceased's lips. .

This wave is the scene of derailment. For a while, everyone looked sympathetically at Kurumi, who was still kneeling on the ground with tears on her cheeks. When my boyfriend just passed away, he knew that he was a cheating scumbag, and he didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

"Mumu Police Department, please call an ambulance." Xin Haikong couldn't help but interrupt.

"But the deceased has died?" Takagi interjected puzzled.

"Yes, but there will be new casualties soon."