Chapter 415 Witness
Chapter 415 Witness

"Sorry to bother you~~"

"Sorry to bother you~~"

"Sorry to bother you~~"

Dozens of minutes later, the man named Hideo Goda came to his apartment with the children.

"Wow, what beautiful flowers!" As soon as she entered the door, Ayumi was attracted by the potted plants placed at the door.

"But the flower seems to be a little withered." The doctor asked after looking at the state of the flower.

"This is the flower my wife put in before she died. Although I change the water every day, it looks like it won't last much longer."

"So, your wife passed away not long ago?" After getting an important piece of information, the doctor continued to ask questions.

"Yes, three weeks ago, my wife was in a traffic accident." Hideo Goda said with regret.

"What is this place?" The children, whose attention had long been diverted, have begun to explore this place. Perhaps their so-called detective team is just to satisfy their own exploration of unknown things and the excitement brought by unknown events?
"Wow!! That's great!" After entering a special room, Yuan Tai rushed in shouting. It turned out that the room was full of imaging equipment.

There is a huge TV, a huge speaker, remote controls for various devices, CD boxes, and a wide variety of promotional posters. It is like a private cinema.

"With so many messy things, it wouldn't be surprising if one or two were lost." Shiho complained softly about the mess in the room.

"Hahaha, actually, this is the only place that's going to be a mess. After all, here..."

ding dong~
Before I could finish my words, the doorbell rang softly. Hearing the sound, I looked up at Hideo Goda's face and saw that he was confused and a little nervous, and even his heartbeat quickened at that moment.

"I knew it..." Shaking my head slightly, I lost interest in this place.

"What did you find?" Shiho nudged me with her shoulder.

"Nothing." I shook my head. "It's just that I guess something strange is going to happen here soon."

"Eh?" Shiho didn't understand what I meant.

"Well... just keep watching." I didn't care what might happen next. "Hurry up and find the watch. We'll go back after you find it."

Just as I was about to go out and check other rooms, Hideo Goda walked in with a woman who was too plump.

"What's going on with these little kids?" The fat woman was a little surprised to see a room full of children.

"Oh, sorry." Hideo Goda hurriedly stepped forward and said to the children. "Sorry, kids, could you please leave here for a while and wait for me at the door."

"Who is that person?" The children walked out of the room with a puzzled look on their faces. Yuan Tai even asked directly

"Maybe he is an acquaintance or a friend." Mitsuhiko said after thinking for a while.

"Well, just think of it as the interest on borrowing money and borrow it here for a while. Hahahaha." Before the children could finish their doubts, the woman had already given the answer and closed the door.

"Next, let's go to the other room, okay?" Dr. Agasa seemed to have realized that this fat woman did not have as good a relationship with Hideo Goda as it seemed, and quickly changed the subject.

"Then, let's go to the living room first." Hideo Goda put away the gloomy look on his face and walked towards the living room with the children helplessly.

"Xun, do you feel something is wrong?" Conan's detective sense suddenly came online, and he turned around and whispered to me.

"Just a little?" I grinned. "It's very wrong, isn't it?"

"So, what did you find out?"

"No, but my intuition tells me that something will happen here soon. But I am not interested and I don't want to get involved."

"..."

————The scent of orchids, the scent of lavender, the scent of home & the wings of angels, the wings of demons, the wings of guardians————

"I'm so hungry. How come I haven't found anything after searching for the whole afternoon?" Time flies, and it is almost sunset. The children have worked hard for an entire afternoon but have gained nothing. The only thing they gained is probably the amount of exercise they got that afternoon.

"I've been looking for that watch all afternoon but couldn't find it." Ayumi said as she searched the corners of the room.

"On the contrary, the sound of that old lady watching the movie is getting louder and louder." Conan complained with narrowed eyes.

"Hahaha, you guys have worked so hard. In that case, I'll make you a sandwich. Don't look at me like this. I used to be the manager of a coffee shop. I have prepared all the ingredients."

"Really? That's great!" Yuantai was naturally the happiest about this kind of thing.

"Then let's look for it again before the sandwiches are ready!" In return for the afternoon tea, the doctor encouraged the children and asked everyone to look for it again.

Another forty minutes passed, and Hideo Goda walked into the living room with a plate full of sandwiches.

"Come on, eat as much as you can~" Hideo Goda's cooking skills are indeed impeccable. The sandwiches served are indeed made with the skills of a cafe. "By the way, I wonder which kid is willing to help me deliver one of them to Miss Dezuki who is watching a movie?"

"Then I'll go." Conan volunteered.

"I'll go too." Ayumi took the initiative to follow.

"Oh, please."

"Haha, interesting." Picking up a sandwich, the corners of my mouth curled up slightly.

"What's wrong?" Shiho also picked up the tea and asked me in a low voice.

"He is the host, how could he let the guests help serve afternoon tea?" I glanced at Hideo Goda who was still instructing Conan and said slowly.

"You mean, he did this for a purpose?" Shiho also understood what I meant.

"Maybe we need a witness? Well... who knows." I spread my hands and put the last piece of sandwich into my mouth. "Witness? Witness what?"

"The woman watching the movie now is still alive." "Huh?"

"I always find it a little strange. He was obviously going to find a detective, but why did he back off immediately after hearing my father's name? But when the Junior Detective Team showed up, he agreed to let such a big family help him find something."

"Perhaps you're afraid your father's offer is too high? After all, he's just looking for a watch, so why would he trouble such a famous detective?"

"Yeah, that makes sense." I nodded. "But I don't understand it that way. It feels to me like he just wants someone to be a witness, to bear witness..."

Click! ! !
Before he could finish his words, a loud noise was heard in the movie room, like the sound of ceramics breaking.

Hearing the sound, the children ran over hurriedly.

Dadada. Bang!

A strange sound came from a distance. It sounded like running and a door closing. When we got to the source of the sound, we saw a bloody body lying on the ground. It was Miss Izuki who came to watch the movie. Next to her, there was a broken vase. The pink flowers were now like petals at a funeral, scattered on the ground one by one.

"Maybe... this is what is called a witness." Looking at the body in the room, Conan who had already stepped forward to investigate, and Hideo Goda who was hurriedly making a phone call, I twisted my neck and pulled Shiho away from the scene. "To create a witness to prove his absence for himself."

. . .

About half an hour later, the police arrived in a hurry. It was Officer Megure and Officer Takagi who came. Hu Niuer seemed to have other tasks and did not come this time.

"Judging from the scene, the murder weapon should be this vase filled with water and flowers." After a half-hour of investigation, Officer Takagi began to summarize the scene.

"I think the criminal must have taken the vase placed in the entrance hall, sneaked up behind the victim, hit him hard on the back of the head and fled in a hurry."

"The victim's name is Izuki Eiko, 46 ​​years old, and she is also a resident of this apartment building."

"Hmm..." After learning some information, Inspector Megure began his interrogation. "As far as I know, Mr. Hideo Goda should be the owner of this house, right? May I ask what is your relationship with Ms. Izuki?"

"I...I borrowed some money from her recently, and she came to collect it today." Hideo Gota answered one by one. "But after I lent her the money and the video she had always wanted to watch, she said she wanted to watch it immediately, so I lent her this room."

"And this auntie turned the volume up so loud, it was so noisy." Just as Hideo Goda was about to continue speaking, the children who had been observing for a long time finally found a point of entry.

"Huh? Why are you here too?" Officer Takagi then saw a group of seven people.

"Ah, we were asked by Mr. Hideo Goda to help him find a watch."

"Commission? Commission the children?" Inspector Megure looked confused.

"Well... I originally wanted to ask Mr. Mori, but he refused. So I accepted the help from Dr. Agasa and the children."

"Is that so? That means Brother Mori is not here today." Officer Megure said, resting his chin on his hand. It seemed that he wanted to find his father to discuss something.

"Why, do you want to ask Mr. Maori for help?" Dr. Agasa asked.

"Ah, no. It has nothing to do with this case." Takagi waved his hand hastily, "We just want to confirm some other things with Mr. Maori."

"Anything else?" I immediately turned my attention to him. I looked at Officer Takagi, but he didn't say anything. Instead, he continued to handle the case at hand.

"Is there something hidden?" I narrowed my brows but didn't ask any further questions.

"Xun, do you feel like something is fishy?" Conan came up to me and asked me.

"Have."

"Did you find anything?"

"Remember the footsteps and door closing we heard before you came in?"

"Yeah, I remember."

"All I can tell you now is that the footsteps and the door closing sound were both in this room and did not go outside at all. In other words, the door closing sound was not from the entrance door, but from this room."

"What?!" Conan was shocked. "Are you trying to say that the voice was fake?"

"It should be correct. My ears won't deceive me. As long as the police investigate, they might be able to find out..."

"Excuse me, Mr. Goda Hideo, I have another question for you." Before he finished speaking, Takagi took out his notebook and asked Goda Hideo again. "Excuse me, when you were visiting Mr. Mori, did you see any suspicious people nearby?"

"Well... not really." Hideo Goda shook his head.

"Is that so? Thank you." After saying that, Takagi lowered his head and continued to read his manual.

"Officer Takagi." I looked up at Takagi. "You've been talking about Uncle Maori from the beginning. Excuse me, what happened?" My intuition told me that Takagi's concern for his father was definitely not that simple.

"This..." Takagi looked embarrassed, and finally glanced at the position where Officer Megure was, then squatted down and whispered in my and Conan's ears. "In fact, Officer Megure and I both suspect that someone has been secretly investigating Mr. Mori recently. But we are still hesitating whether to tell him about this."

"Oh? Why?" My face turned a little cold.

"We discovered that all records of cases that Mr. Maori had assisted with in the past were missing from the police department."

"Nani?!"

"..."

"Isn't it strange?" Gao Mu continued. "What's even stranger is that all these records were suddenly sent back to the police station last night, and the sender didn't sign the letter."

"When did this happen?" I asked expressionlessly.

"I remember it was after the bus robbery incident, the bomb robbery incident that implicated you all."

"!!!"

(End of this chapter)