"Do you remember what happened when you called me before?"
Her eyes fell on the canvas bag containing midnight snacks in Aso Minoru's hand. Miwako Sato, who woke up from the memory, narrowed her eyes slightly and turned her head.
"Previous phone calls? There are quite a lot of call records between the two of us."
"When you opened that black box."
Katsuki Uehara, who quickly positioned his memory, raised his eyebrows in surprise: "...Megure Police Department?"
Miwako Sato nodded: "You were not at the Metropolitan Police Department at the time, so you didn't know. In fact, when the Megure Police Department brought Counselor Uno's wife back to the Third Department for interrogation, she had a handbag that was quite large. Not too small.”
Raising her right hand and pointing at the canvas bag used to hold midnight snacks in Aso Minoru's hand, Miwako suddenly looked hesitant: "However, I don't know if this guess is correct."
"..."
"Then go and talk while looking at the bones. I hope you won't be frightened and forget your thoughts." Uehara Katsumi, who understood his partner's thoughts in the blink of an eye, encouraged with a smile.
"I should have been a detective longer than you, so I should probably be the one qualified to say this." Being interrupted by the man, Miwako spread her hands as her hesitation and worry disappeared. As the scene at that time kept flashing back in my mind, a new speculation that was almost unbelievable but unexpectedly reasonable came to my mind.
"In fact, if you come here this late at night just for those bones, I think you will most likely be disappointed."
Although he didn't know the reason, Aso Minori, who still led the two people to the autopsy room, put the canvas bag aside, pointed to the test report that had been issued on the table and said: "This body is not the one you expected." Kenzo, what’s even more regrettable is that I sent the relevant information to the Metropolitan Police Department, but so far I haven’t found any matching information.
“In other words, he is most likely an ordinary person.
"If you want to use this corpse as a breakthrough, then I think it should be impossible, at least not at this stage."
After taking two pairs of gloves and throwing them to the two of them, Aso Minoru, who had changed his coat, reached out and fiddled with the bones on the stage without looking back.
"Can you confirm the basic information about the deceased?"
"Male, about 45 years old, with a height between 172cm and 175cm. His head has marks left after being hit with a blunt object. All other details are in this report."
Seeing the two people walking over, Aso Minoru pulled out another document and handed it to Uehara. He pursed his lips to indicate that there was no breakthrough: "If we want to find out the identity of the deceased in this direction, I think the workload will be too much. It should be quite big. There are many people who have been in contact with Masama Kenzo and meet the conditions.
"Unless you can get the murderer to speak out clearly about who the deceased is."
"I would like to, but unfortunately, the murderer is already dead. He just died in the early morning." Uehara Katsumi, who was looking through the document in hand and waiting for Kuroba Kaito's reply, shrugged and turned to look at the person who was concentrating on the inspection. Woman with corpse: "Sato?"
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"If we want to investigate this deceased, how long will it take?" Miwako Sato looked up and asked as if she had figured something out.
Aso Minoru was stunned: "It depends on your police. There shouldn't be many missing people recently. We will compile a list and investigate step by step. It is conservatively estimated that they can be found in two to three days."
"But what if this body was not brought from Tokyo? Then the police force would have been wasted on something that would not yield results at all, allowing the members of the mysterious criminal organization to leave calmly."
Miwako, whose tone became more determined, raised her eyes, met the gaze of her partner, and said seriously: "Uehara, do you still remember the files about you that we searched in Gin's villa?"
Uehara Katsumi, who was leaning slightly with his arms on the stage, looked at her, thoughtfully: "What do you want to say?"
"This is just my conjecture. I don't have any evidence at the moment."
After being the first to tell the reason for her lack of confidence, Miwako Sato expressed the sudden inspiration in her heart: "I now suspect that the person who brought the bomb into the Metropolitan Police Department was not Section Chief Wada as we suspected. Or perhaps Counselor Uno, but Counselor Uno’s wife.”
"..."
"Handbag?" Recalling what Miwako mentioned before, Katsuki Uehara frowned: "You mean, she put the bomb in the handbag and brought it into the Metropolitan Police Department openly?"
"You were not at the Metropolitan Police Department at the time and don't know the situation. When Officer Megure brought Mrs. Uno back, she brought a handbag with her, and that handbag was left to rest while she was being interviewed by the Megure Police Department. room.
"After that, Counselor Uno appeared. He suppressed his anger and appeared in the third department office area. Then, he went to the lounge to wait for his wife to come out."
Fiddled with the bones that could not speak, Miwako Sato had a particularly solemn expression on her face: "Do you remember what I just said? Uehara, Gin has studied your character very thoroughly.
“If, I mean if.
"What if all this is just a cover-up he set up specifically for you?
"You think that Counselor Uno, who was first exposed, is innocent, but all the evidence discovered later points to him. This should have led to a conviction, but the more this happens, the more you will doubt that Counselor Uno is really The authenticity of the murderer's identity, until Section Chief Wada is so-called exposed, the balance in your heart will tilt rapidly——
“Because in your opinion, and even in our opinion, Section Chief Wada’s exposure was a last resort, and it was Gin and others who were accidentally caught that forced him to take this step.
"But if you put Counselor Uno in the perspective of the murderer, then the bomb installation will make sense. Of course he does not need to bring a bomb to and from get off work, because the bomb will be brought in by the police themselves when he needs it.
"Even as to why the section chief stayed in the office uncharacteristically, what if the section chief accepted the order of Counselor Uno to stay at the Metropolitan Police Department? If he was surrounded by fraud from the beginning, he was selected Where’s the scapegoat to clear someone’s suspicion?”
When it comes to the key point, Miwako Sato's tone is a little more serious, but there is no hesitation in her eyes, even if the person she is facing is her most trusted partner.
Even if she does this, it will directly deny Uehara Katsumi's suspicion of Wada Saburo these days.
"This doesn't make sense. There are many inconsistencies. As far as the bomb is concerned, if it was Counselor Uno, why did he bomb the Metropolitan Police Department? You must know that it was an accident that I caught Gin. Without this accident, there would be no need to bomb it. The Metropolitan Police caused—”
Shaking his head, Uehara Katsumi's tone, which he subconsciously wanted to deny, suddenly stopped. After trying to change his thinking, a possibility suddenly came to mind.
"Accident."
"Accident."
The next second, the two people looking at each other said in unison.
"If that's the case, then it probably wasn't the Metropolitan Police Department that he wanted to blow up in the first place." Katsuki Uehara's eyes darkened: "It was the Miyano sisters."
Miwako Sato then took over the conversation: "But your accidental arrest of Gin forced them to change their plan."
"But this is just speculation."
"Did you learn your fishing skills in the police academy?"
The corners of Miwako Sato's lips raised: "Or do you need me to review it for you?"
"Then I suggest you pick a time and place to help me with my tutoring, preferably at midnight." Uehara Katsuki, who was leaning on the table with a smile on his brow, said, "You are the first person to correct me. The teacher should be pretty good.”
"..."
Holding his own bag of late-night snacks, Aso Minori stood aside to drink hot water, blankly looking at the man and woman in front of him as if they were playing charades, completely confused.
What is this and what?
Aren't you here to see the bones?
"I'll call Chiba and ask him to forge evidence." Miwako rolled her eyes at the man and took out her mobile phone.
"I will be responsible for the realism, if your guess is correct." Almost at the same time, Uehara Katsumi also took out his mobile phone and dialed Kuroba Kaito's number first.
"...Um, is it okay for me to hear about your perjury of testimony?" Aso Miko blinked while soaking in noodles, not quite understanding.
"..."
"..."
Miwako Sato and Katsumi Uehara, who were getting more and more excited as they talked and seemed to have forgotten that there was a third person here, turned their heads at the same time and their eyes met with the confused Aso Minoru.
"Police-citizen cooperation."
"Understand."
The two people who took out their police officer ID cards said in tacit agreement one after the other.
Aso admitted: "..."
