Chapter 20 The Assassin in the Eyes (1)(1/2)
Rice Sun Hotel
Today is Shirato Ren Saburo's sister, Shirato Saburo's wedding celebration party, and some friends were invited, including the Maori family.
"Officer Shiraki's sister is really good at picking the time." As she walked into the hotel, Uncle Maori muttered, obviously not very satisfied with this time.
Xiaolan naturally knew what the uncle was saying: "They had no choice. This day was decided a month ago. Who would have thought that such a thing would happen?"
Yuanzi was also traveling with him, and Yuanzi asked in a daze: "Is there something disappointing happened?"
"This... Yuanzi, listen to me." Xiaolan felt that it was not good to talk about that matter in public, and it was close to the venue for the celebration. She whispered in Yuanzi's ear: "Just two days ago, two detectives were shot dead."
"I think it seems that my father mentioned a sentence when he was reading the newspaper." Yuanzi usually only reads the fashion sector when reading newspapers, and except for celebrities, he only cares about the monster thief Kidd.
"It's not just the newspaper, but even a lot of it was said on TV." Conan whispered with a dead fish eye. Just think about it and know that for Yuanzi, news is a program that delays her watching soap operas - there are no handsome guys in the news.
Two detectives were shot and killed in a row. According to the information released by the police, through the inspection of the bullet, the weapon was the same nine-mm pistol. The media has been making noise during this period, and it is speculated whether it is the result of a political movement or the revenge of the violent group.
The four of them talked for a while and walked into the elevator. The venue for the wedding celebration was on the 16th floor.
Yuanzi wanted to change the topic: "Xiaolan, do you know what kind of person the groom is?"
"Well, I heard it's a painter." Xiaolan had never met the groom, but she had heard some mentions.
"Painter..." Yuanzi was a little disappointed, not the type she liked.
Uncle Maori lost more news and interrupted, "And he is still an unknown painter." This is why this painter has no reputation.
"I don't want to be friends with an unknown painter..." Yuanzi muttered straightforwardly, which made Xiaolan smile knowingly.
There was a reception at the entrance of the venue, and everyone wanted to sign the guest list. Uncle Maori walked to the list of relatives and friends of Shirato's family and wrote down his daimyo.
"Your words have never become rough since elementary school." A sarcastic voice came from behind Uncle Maori.
"Mile!?" Uncle Maori turned around and looked at Eiri in surprise.
"Mom? You're here too!" Xiaolan was also surprised. This time she wasn't the one who was trying to meet her parents.
"They invited you too." Uncle Maori said with disgust on his face, quickly covering up his previous surprise.
Fei Yingri didn't have the same knowledge as him, so she walked to the table and wrote down her name, and explained by the way: "Sara is my junior in the legal world, so of course I will come."
"Wow! Auntie's handwriting is so beautiful!" Yuanzi leaned over and looked at it and exclaimed. It can be said that she was very disrespectful to the uncle.
"Hmph." Uncle Maori walked in unhappily, and the rest of them followed. Because of Xiaolan, Eiri was also with them.
"Tsk tsk, there are so many policemen." As soon as I entered, Uncle Maori found that the atmosphere here was essentially different from the parties I attended other places.
"As long as you pay a little attention, you can see that. With his fierce eyes and nervous look, it is obvious that they have no intention of focusing on the celebration." Eiri Ni expressed his rare agreement with Uncle Maori's words.
Uncle Maori glanced around and saw a bloated figure, and ran over happily.
"Officer Meguro! There is also Shiraki here. Congratulations to your sister for her wedding first."
"It's Maori." "Mr. Maori."
"Police officer, that, I care a little about the two previous cases..."
"Sorry, I don't want to tell you about this." Before Uncle Maori finished speaking, Meguri's police department interrupted him very simply: "I can't tell you anything about this." After that, he turned around and left with Shiraki.
Uncle Maori, who was blessed with face again, was not angry, but was just a little strange about the attitude and...worry of the Meguro police department.
If it were an ordinary person to inquire, he would probably be afraid that you would talk nonsense everywhere with big mouths, but Uncle Maori doesn't think there would be such a problem.
Then there are only two possibilities left. One is that what Uncle Maori is most worried about is that he himself has some connection with the case, and it is a bad aspect; the other is very likely, just because this case involves very sensitive things, and outsiders will never allow them to know.
Uncle Maori's eyes lit up, and he saw the Minister of Criminal Department Joe Oda-chan, and ran over to say hello.
But the two of them had just said nothing, and Uncle Maori, who wanted to get to the point, was rejected by Minister Oda Choi, who had already seen his intentions.
"Can't you find out?" Seeing Uncle Maori's appearance, I couldn't guess what he did and what he experienced, and I was a little surprised.
"I don't know what is hidden in the case here. I hope it has nothing to do with us." Uncle Maori shook his head.
Conan lowered his head and hid his expression. As a detective who had an extraordinary sense of sensitivity to the incident, the abnormality of this case made him feel a bad breath.
While Conan was thinking, the guests were already all over, and the spotlight was on the front of the venue, and the emcee began to speak its opening remarks.
Because it is just a wedding celebration rather than a wedding, the emcee only needs to say a few words casually, and then invite the bride and groom to enter and meet everyone.
To put it bluntly, the celebration party is a party. After a few simple words, everyone can eat and have fun. Baibi Salo pulled the groom to greet relatives and friends with good relationships everywhere.
Unwilling to give up, the Maori uncle went to say hello to other senior police officials. After all, he has resigned for nearly ten years. Many old colleagues of that year have become senior officials as long as they have not sacrificed. He doesn't believe that no one will explain it to him clearly.
Yuanzi entangled the White Bird Sara who came to chat and began to gossip about her past with the groom.
Conan looked around and found Mikako Sato. Police Officer Takagi was behind as always in front of a follower. Everyone knows Sima Zhao's heart...
"It's better to be honest men. If a wise man is not successful, he will only deceive you." Eriki seemed to have commented on something and warned her daughter.
"Ah!" Conan sneezes loudly, looked up and couldn't find Mikako Sato and Takagi.
Unable to see an acquaintance, Conan casually found something that children usually like to eat and walked to Xiaolan.
"Teacher, how did Mr. Maori propose to you at the beginning?" Sara Shirato was unwilling to be the object of being gossiped, so he took the initiative to ask Eiri.
"I haven't heard my mother mention it!" Xiaolan was also very interested.
But Conan was not interested in gossip and observed the guests in the venue left and right.
Because his intuition told him that something big was going to happen, he wanted to carefully observe whether there were suspicious people to avoid danger, well... so as not to cause danger to Xiaolan.
Fei Eri, who was forced to question, recalled embarrassedly: "It's nothing...it's just 'I love you, more than anyone on the earth', that's it."
"Oh!" Several girls started to cheer together, Xiaolan closed her eyes and was immersed in the fantasy of starting to be free.
"Ah!" Uncle Maori, who was looking for someone to reminisce, suddenly sneezes, rubbed his nose and muttered: "Isn't someone saying bad things about me?"
Then Uncle Maori found a single Takagi, and his eyes lit up. This young man is so bullying!
Conan discovered that there were several people standing together and chatting attracted his attention. To be precise, one of the people asked him to pay special attention. The other party was just facing him, but he felt that the person had a sense of familiarity and incongruity, as if he saw an acquaintance who would never appear here.
But if you think about it carefully, no matter how tall or weight, this person is, in his memory, has no one that matches him.
"Ah chi!" Conan sneezes again.
"Conan, do you have a cold? I sneeze just now, right?" Xiaolan was a little worried and squatted down to see Conan's condition.
"No." Conan shook his head innocently. He was really healthy and showed no signs of a cold at all.
"That's good." Xiaolan breathed a sigh of relief: "Mom, I'll go to the bathroom."
Conan turned around and found that he had lost the traces of those who cared about. He looked around and finally found them at the door and was walking out the door.
Conan ran two steps and wanted to catch up and take a look. At this time, the people walking outside the door were really suspicious. There were attached bathrooms and other facilities in the venue. It was naturally difficult for those who were about to leave the venue to think about the reason.
But Conan chased after a few steps and found that there was no one among these people who he cared about.
"Conan, why are you running around?" At this time, Eiri's voice came from above his head. Conan turned around and looked up at Eiri's somewhat gloomy face, showing a smile that was pretending to be stupid and cute.
It is useless to find excuses to explain what is useless. Not to mention that Eiri is much smarter than both uncles and Xiaolan. The most difficult thing is that Eiri doesn’t like children very much, especially little boys. In addition, in Eiri’s eyes, she has the ‘shorts’ of liking detectives and the identity of ‘Shiichi Kudo, a relative who hates kids’… In short, in Conan’s eyes, the mother-in-law is not very friendly to her.
So there is no need to think about finding reasons to explain anything. To confirm the identity of a naughty child is the most economical choice.
Uncle Maori pressed Takagi down at this time.
"Brother Takagi~"
"Mao, Mr. Maori." Takagi seemed to have been frightened by something once, looking at Uncle Maori softly.
Uncle Maori happily hooked Takagi's shoulders: "Takagi, how is the case going on in the past few days? Can you tell me?"
"This...there are orders above...so...that..." Takagi was really very decent. He wanted to refuse but couldn't say it, so he had to say it more tactfully and ask Uncle Maori to find out with conscience.
Unfortunately, Uncle Maori insisted on bullying Takagi: "Just tell me, I don't know how to spread the word, and you see, I'm also your senior, not an outsider, right?"
"..." Takagi couldn't think of words to refuse and shook his head dullly.
"Are you interested in detectives and police officers? Let me confess to you." Uncle Maori has been bullying honest people for twenty years. After saying that, he raised his legs and wanted to find Mikako Sato.
"No, no! I said! I said!" Takagi's avatar instantly.
"Hmph~" Uncle Maori hummed proudly, and asked him to go find Mikako Sato... He looked around but didn't see where the person was.
"Don't tell the media." Takagi attached to Uncle Maori's ear: "Officer Shiba, who was killed last night, also held the detective manual in his hand!"
"What!" Uncle Maori instantly realized the seriousness of the situation.
There are now two detectives in this incident who were killed. In addition to Officer Shiba mentioned earlier, there is also a witness at the time of the murder of Conan and the children. So Uncle Maori knew another detail. At that time, the police officer was in the detective manual on his left chest with his right hand at the last moment.
In other words, this is the last words of their death, and the murderer is a person related to the police!
"You don't continue asking, Mr. Maori." Shirago came over.
He saw Takagi being entangled by Uncle Maori from afar, so he came over to save the scene. Unfortunately, Takagi did not hold on until he arrived and couldn't help but explain some of it.
"Need-not-to-know. Do you understand that?" said Shirakuen.
The expression on Uncle Maori's face was even more surprised.
This sentence in English is a common jargon among criminal police... Is this implying that the murderer, or the suspect who may be the murderer, is also a personnel matter in the police industry? Even the senior police industry.
Or is it the result of a water boy like that? Could it be...?
Uncle Maori's face changed for the third time. The boy Mizuma has not been caught yet...
To be continued...