"In that case," Kudo Shinichi looked at Megure Thirteen, "please ask the police to take samples from this chopping board."
If the pufferfish is not handled cleanly, some parts may be poisonous, some may not be poisonous, and some may be highly toxic and some may be weakly toxic, but the chopping board used for slicing will definitely leave toxins behind.
Kudo Shinichi asked this question because he suspected that Toru Inoue was not poisoned by eating unhandled pufferfish.
He glanced at Sato Ami.
Sure enough, after he asked to test the chopping board, the woman's expression became slightly panicked.
"Sister Ami." Kudo Shinichi raised his head, stared at Sato Ami, and raised the corners of his mouth, "You know Inoue-san, right?"
Hearing this, Sato Ami pretended to be calm: "Do you mean the Inoue-san you are talking about, the customer who was poisoned just now? I don't know him. I just came to this restaurant to eat with my friends by chance."
"Really? But Brother Inoue doesn't look like a stranger to you."
"W-where is there..."
"That brother took the photo!" Kudo Shinichi pointed at Yu Jiang and said with a smile.
Yujiang:? ? ?
Although he did not avoid these two little kids when taking pictures, he still had a strange feeling. This kid seemed a little outrageous, right?
Mumu Shisan asked Yujiang: "Is it convenient for us to take a look at the photos?"
Yujiang:......
Is it wrong for a police officer to listen to a child like this?
Yujiang opened his phone and handed the last photo to Megure Thirteen.
His phone could be locked and police could only see what he was willing to show them.
The photo was specially taken by Yujie from a good angle. Not only can you see a clear frontal view of Toru Inoue, but you can also see the expression on his face at a glance.
With this photo, anyone can tell that Toru Inoue definitely knows Ami Sato.
but……
Megure Thirteen looked at Kudou Shinichi suspiciously: "Who are you?"
Kudo Shinichi confidently introduced himself as a junior high school student: "Kudo Shinichi is a detective!"
"Oh, Kudo Shinichi... wait!" Megure Thirteen realized, "What's your relationship with Kudo Yusaku?"
"Kudo Yusaku is my dad."
"Oh! So you are Yusaku's son. I often hear him mention you!" Megure Shisan laughed.
The straight-haired girl next to Ami Sato looked at this scene, somewhat speechless.
Although judging cases is just the daily work of the police, isn't it inappropriate for them to reminisce here just after Inoue Toru's death?
"Yami." She asked softly, "Do you really not know the deceased just now?"
Sato Ami lowered his eyes: "Of course I don't know him. Are you doubting me?"
"Ah, no, that's not what I meant. I just think..."
I just think the way Inoue Toru looks at Sato Ami is really strange.
Even Sato Ami's best friend thought so, not to mention other people and the police.
Sato Ami has now become the biggest suspect besides the izakaya owner.
Soon, the results of the forensic examination came out.
But to everyone's surprise, there was no tetrodotoxin in the sashimi. On the contrary, it contained another highly toxic substance - hydrocyanic acid.
But the cutting board used to cut sashimi does not contain any toxins.
This shows that the cause of Toru Inoue's death was not tetrodotoxin poisoning, but cyanide poisoning.
Both toxins are neurotoxins with similar poisoning symptoms. In addition, the deceased had just eaten puffer fish. It is no wonder that Kudo Shinichi made a mistake in judgment.
However, Kudo Shinichi was not surprised when he learned the result. Instead, he showed a confident smile and proposed:
"Megure Police Department, could you please check Miss Amei's belongings? Pay special attention to whether there are any empty bottles."
"Huh? Why is that?"
Kudo Shinichi said without concealment: "Miss Ami did not have the opportunity to leave the izakaya during the meal, nor did she go to the bathroom, so the container used for poisoning must still be on her."
What he said was equivalent to identifying the poisoner as Sato Ami.
Although Megure Thirteen felt that it shouldn't be done, Kudou Shinichi was a child after all, and he couldn't say anything, so he had to ask Sato Ami for his opinion.
In full view of the public, Sato Ami knew that her crime had been exposed. She could not calmly let the police check her, and she did not know how to defend her behavior.
"Miss Sato?" Megure Thirteen urged.
Sato Ami pursed her lips, sweat dripping from her forehead.
They, they found it out anyway.
Under high pressure, Sato Ami finally broke down and cried: "No need to check, it was me who poisoned you!"
"Yami?" The straight-haired girl looked at her slightly unfamiliar friend in shock, "Why, why?"
"Why?" Sato Ami suddenly raised his head, anger and hatred burst out in his eyes, "Because he owes me a life, and I am just asking for what should be mine!"
Ami Sato wiped away her tears and complained loudly: "Toru Inoue and I have been in love since high school. We have been together for nine years. Do you know what nine years is? I studied architectural design with him and opened a studio together. , but he stole the work that I had devoted all my energy and effort to creating since I was in school! Also, there was our nine-year relationship.
"If it weren't for the news, I wouldn't have known that he used my work to win the favor of the Westwood Consortium and suddenly became the chief designer of the Westwood Building. It was for this reason that he broke up with me and drove me abroad!
"When I first learned the truth, I looked for him out of luck, but he pretended not to know me. I even committed suicide for him! So he owed me a life, and I finally got it back today. !”
At this point, Sato Ami laughed, but the more she laughed, the more tears she shed.
In the end, she took the initiative to put on handcuffs and accepted the result.
Because for her, killing Toru Inoue was enough.
But in the end, Sato Ami still asked Kudo Shinichi: "Can you tell me what exactly made you suspicious of me?"
Kudo Shinichi's face no longer looked as complacent as before in his reasoning victory, and he said in a deep voice: "Because of Apple."
"apple?"
"The symptoms of tetrodotoxin and cyanide poisoning are similar, so I initially suspected the possibility of cyanide poisoning. And the familiarity you showed before with apples made me feel very strange. If you are not a person who particularly loves apples, you should not be able to say You have to be so professional, right? And if you are an apple lover, why did you refuse the apple that sister gave you?
"So I think you have bought a lot of apples recently, so that one kind of apple in one store can no longer satisfy you. And in order to deal with these things, you also eat a lot, which makes you not want to eat apples anymore."
Sato Ami suddenly realized: "Little brother, you are really powerful."
Mumu Shisan was confused: "What does this have to do with Apple?"
"Because apple seeds contain amygdalin, hydrocyanic acid can be generated when hydrolyzed by enzymes." Kudo Shinichi explained.
