"Takagi!"
On the first floor of the East Tower Building, which has been cordoned off by the police, Takagi Wataru was standing guard in front of the only elevator that was still in operation.
"Officer Sato? And Xiaoying? You are finally here..." Seeing the two people rushing over, Takagi Wataru finally had a smile on his anxious face.
"Do you know everything about the situation?" asked Kuroba Kaito, who was disguised as Sato Miwako.
"Well, Officer Megure just called me to inform me that President Owada..."
"I'm not completely sure yet... Where is the elevator? Why is it on the 40th floor? Who went up before?"
"Oh, Mr. Kenta and Mr. Shang Qizhe have been there before and have already registered with me."
"What about the other elevators? Can they be started now?" Karasumaying asked.
In order to restrict Kidd, only one elevator in the East Tower Building was in normal operation tonight, and the rest were all shut down.
"I have contacted the engineer to go to the control room, but it may take a while..." Takagi replied.
"It seems we can only wait here for a while..." Kuroba Kaito frowned slightly and said helplessly.
As for climbing the stairs?
Are you kidding, that's the fifty-third floor! Half of my life is almost gone by the time I get up, so I might as well just wait for the elevator...
"Officer Takagi."
Karasumaying glanced at the notebook used by Takagi Wataru to register elevator users and asked:
"Do you still remember which floor Kenta and Mr. Sugizhe went to?"
"I remember, Mr. Sugizote told me that he was going to the observation room on the 48th floor, while Mr. Kenta went to the president's office on the 53rd floor.
The elevator did stop at these two floors before, so this should be correct..."
"Understood."
Nodding her head, Karasumaying continued to ask: "Officer Takagi, do you remember which floor the elevator was on when the second wave of fireworks was released?"
"The second wave of fireworks? Let me think about it...oh! I remember it! It's on the 40th floor!"
"Forty floors..."
Karasuma Ying's eyes narrowed slightly, and Kuroba Kaito immediately understood what she meant.
"This means that when we noticed the body of President Owada in the West Tower, there was actually no one else on the 53rd floor of the East Tower at that time?"
Long ago, in order to prevent him, the police had evacuated all the people in the East Tower.
Kenta and Suki Tetsu, who rushed to the East Tower after the first wave of fireworks, only reached the fortieth mark when the second wave of fireworks went up and President Owada was found hanging outside the East Tower. It's just a building, so it doesn't have the conditions to commit murder.
Is this suicide?
Or "impossible crime"?
"Ding!"
In deep thought, the elevator finally went down to the first floor.
"Takagi, please stay here. Xiaoying and I will go up first to check the scene."
With these words, Kuroba Kaito and Karasuma Ei entered the elevator and pressed the button for the 53rd floor.
The elevator rose slowly, and neither of them spoke in the small space.
"Ding!"
Time passed quickly, and as the bell rang again, the elevator stopped on the 48th floor.
"Huh? Officer Sato? Why are you here?"
When the elevator door opened, Shan Qizhe looked at the two of them in surprise.
"Come in first, Mr. Shangqi, is President Owada here?" Karasuma Ying asked.
"No, I just looked everywhere, Master, he is not here..." Shan Qizhe replied after walking into the elevator.
"Is that really the case..."
"really?"
"We saw President Owada hanging himself outside the balcony of the president's office before."
"What?! Master, he hanged himself?!"
Hearing Karasumaying's words, Shan Qizhe's face looked extremely shocked, and his original calm and serious expression completely collapsed at this moment.
"How is this possible?! Master, how could he... Is it because of that incident? If that's the case, he could have come to me to discuss it. How could he..."
Shan Qizhe's expression was very flustered, and he kept mumbling a bunch of words that Karasuma Ying and Kuroba Kaito couldn't understand.
"Ding!" The elevator bell rang again, and the 53rd floor was reached.
Although Karasumaying wanted to ask the old housekeeper some questions, there were obviously more important things to do now.
"Mr. Shanqi, take us to the president's office first."
"Oh, okay, okay..."
Under the leadership of Shan Qizhe, the three of them walked quickly through the corridor and arrived at the door of the president's office.
Kuroba Kaito stepped forward to open the door first, but the door handle didn't move at all.
"The door is locked?"
He was a little surprised.
Shouldn't that young master Kenta be in the president's office already?
"Please wait a moment, I'll open it right away."
Shan Qizhe quickly stepped forward, took out a door card from his breast pocket, and pressed it on the door handle.
"drop."
There was a crisp sound and the door opened.
"Sorry, this door requires a keycard whether it is locked or unlocked..."
Opening the door, the three of them walked straight past the president's room and came to the balcony outside.
"Dad! Wake up quickly! Dad!"
On the balcony, a long hemp rope was tied to the guardrail. Kenta Owada was throwing himself on the ground, crying bitterly in front of a corpse.
"Jian, Master Kenta, he..."
"Shan Qi?"
Kenta looked back at Shan Qizhe, his eyes were red and swollen, full of tears.
"When I first came in, I saw dad hanging outside the balcony. I put dad down immediately, but, but dad was already..."
"calm down!"
Kuroba Kaito shouted loudly, while stepping forward to check on Yamada Ichiro.
"Normally, there is a possibility of survival within ten minutes of hanging. He was still in the observation room on the 48th floor during the first wave of fireworks. There may be enough time. I will perform CPR on him now. Maybe there is a chance of saving him. …”
Saying this, Kuroba Kaito rolled up his sleeves and immediately started cardiopulmonary resuscitation for Yamada Ichiro.
"Huh? What is this?"
However, just after pressing it, he felt a hard object on Ichiro Owada's left chest.
"Mobile phone? Xiaoying, take it first."
Taking out Owada Ichiro's mobile phone from his left breast pocket, Kuroba Kaito handed it to Karasuma Ei, and then continued to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
【wrong! 】
After receiving the old-fashioned mobile phone, Karasuma Ying frowned.
She remembered Dr. Agasa saying that Owada Ichiro had a bad heart and even had a pacemaker.
Such a person would actually put something like a mobile phone in the left breast pocket closest to his heart?
Although with the advancement of technology, many new mobile phones now have no impact on pacemakers, this is an old-fashioned mobile phone with a very old style...
Could it be that the murderer put it there intentionally?
Is this murder?
"Huh...huh..."
While Karasumaying was deep in thought, Kuroba Kaito, who was breathing rapidly, had stopped what he was doing.
"S-Officer Sato?" Kenta looked at him, the little hope in his eyes gradually extinguished.
"Feel sorry……"
Avoiding his gaze, Kuroba Kaito said sadly:
"Unfortunately, President Owada...has passed away."
