Chapter Nineteen It's Really That Woman
When Matsuda took the elevator to the fifteenth floor, he saw Conan, the little head, also when he got out of the elevator. Conan happened to hear the movement of the elevator and turned his head to see Matsuda walking out of the elevator.
The two of them changed their faces at the same time. Unlike Matsuda's relaxed and meaningful smile, Conan pulled a few hard and forced a smile: "Uncle Matsuda, I'm lost. Do you know where this is?" His voice was always crisp and tender.
Matsuda looked at Conan pretending to be young with a funny smile, and wanted to keep watching like this. Seeing him gradually becoming dirty. But when he looked at Conan a little angry, he immediately said with a smile: "It's like this! Human beings are indeed terrible, and their potential is so endless. A seven-year-old child can get lost onto the fifteenth floor, which is terrible and terrible." After saying that, fortunately, he looked around in a good manner and locked the emergency passage locked from inside: "Fifteenth floor, did you climb up from below?"
How could such a thing happen? Conan rolled his eyes and replied, "I got into the elevator and then it came up. Until now I don't know where this place is. Is it really the fifteenth floor that Uncle Matsuda said?"
"Is that so pitiful? I'm lost, so pitiful." Matsuda squatted down and touched Conan's head, and pointed to the emergency passage with a pity: "You can go back to the first floor wherever you go. Go quickly, your sister Xiaolan has been waiting for you."
Haha~~~Don't use this tone of coaxing children to deceive people, okay? Conan angrily pulled off the palm of Matsuda's hand that was placed on his head. Only the ghost would believe you and walk back to the first floor from the fifteenth floor.
"Hey, don't deliberately resist my kind and warm smile in your heart." Matsuda unconsciously put his palm on Conan's head and shook it twice. As Conan couldn't understand his broad mind, it seemed that he didn't cooperate with him. Conan shouldn't have slid his palm away.
Conan was about to say something and give Matsuda a look. Matsuda's oily and smooth approach changed the topic: "Did you know? You were there at the time, so you should have noticed the unusual parts of Toya."
"What!?" Conan was stunned by the insane words. When he came to his senses, he thought of what Matsuda meant: "Is it an unusual place? That's right."
"For example..." Matsuda smiled mysteriously: "In less than two minutes after Toya went to the office on the 15th floor, he returned here again. He took you to the eighth floor. The seemingly impeccable alibi, but it has increased her suspicion."
"Yes." Conan organized a language response to Matsuda, and it was the first time he did not talk to Matsuda in a childish tone: "I took a different elevator upstairs from my secretary, and within two minutes, no one answered the secretary's phone and suspected something had happened. This far-fetched reason is too questionable."
"As long as you pass by, you will definitely leave traces. I believe that there will be a little bit between Toya and Miss Taniguchi in this building." Matsuda said confidently: "I will definitely find it."
"Then you haven't found it yet." Conan shrugged: "Don't say such big words, be careful of retribution. In such a short time, it is impossible for Toya to go to the eighth floor."
"Yes. Toya cannot reach the eighth floor." Matsuda turned his head and locked his eyes at the elevator next to him. The victim Mika Taniguchi was killed in the elevator parked on the eighth floor. In the narrow and closed space of these two elevators, there is only the fifteenth floor that can meet.
"Little kid, have you seen the petals on the ground?" Matsuda asked suddenly.
"Peel?" Conan followed Matsuda's gaze and saw the petal falling on the ground, and leaned forward to identify it: "Well, when we came, Sister Xiaolan brought a bouquet of flowers. Hey? There is still pollen on the ground?"
After saying that, he picked up the petals, smeared a handful of pollen on the ground, turned around and ran into the president's room, which is Toya Hideko's room.
When Conan came out of the president's office, he saw Matsuda staring at the elevator in the middle, and walked in and saw: "This? Is this a trace of tape?"
"Well, have you discovered it too?" Matsuda lowered his head and asked Conan: "What has been discovered in the president's office?"
"I discovered the flowers given by Sister Xiaolan." Conan looked at the middle of the two elevators: "It should be the petals that fell from the bouquet of flowers. The petals can barely explain, but the pollen on the ground should not appear."
"What you dare not appear appears in places that shouldn't appear." Matsuda's lips raised: "Miss Taniguchi's falling posture and the folds on her shoulders can be explained clearly now. Let's go, little kid, it's time to reveal her true face."
When Matsuda and Conan returned to the first floor and came out of the elevator, they happened to hear Toya ask Meguri: "Mr. Police Officer, can I go back?"
"Huh?" Megu was interrupted while thinking and said casually: "Then let's get here today."
"Miss Maori, I'm sorry, let's continue another day." Toya said as he stood up: "Then I'll leave first."
"I'll take you to the door." Kogoro, who was standing beside him, also stood up.
"Are you leaving now?" Matsuda blocked the way of Toya and Kogoro: "It's really ruthless. Your secretary was killed. Can you just go home in a hurry?"
Toya was pulled down by Matsuda's words: "I am of course very sad for Mika's death, but I believe that the police officers will find the murderer and will notify me as soon as possible. And I will go back to deal with Mika's funeral."
"Is that right?" Matsuda Ichi said, "Then Ms. Toya, now I'll inform you that the murderer who killed Miss Taniguchi has been found."
"What!? Who is it?" "What!? Brother Matsuda, is it true?"
Meguri and Kogoro both surrounded him.
"Of course." Matsuda pushed away the two uncles with bad intentions with malicious speculation.
"I won't say that the murderer is Ms. Toya." Kogoro thought for a while and asked Matsuda suspiciously: "If there is no evidence, you can't just say such unfounded speculation randomly."
"Don't worry, although I haven't seen the evidence yet, I know where it is." Matsuda was very confident.
"What?" Meguri also began to doubt Matsuda: "Brother Matsuda, please tell me first."
"There is only one reason why Ms. Toya cannot become the murderer, right?" Matsuda asked, looking at Toya.
"Yes, Ms. Toya cannot have time to kill Miss Taniguchi on the eighth floor." Kogoro said immediately.
"But the premise of all this is that Miss Taniguchi was really killed on the eighth floor." Matsuda glared at Kogoro who was making trouble.
"What!? Not on the eighth floor!?" Meguro and Kogoro felt incredible: "The body is obviously on the eighth floor!"
"To be precise, the body is in the elevator on the eighth floor." Matsuda corrected their words: "And that elevator can reach the fifteenth floor where Ms. Toya is located."
"Can I say that Miss Taniguchi was killed on the fifteenth floor?" Kogoro kept on the ceiling: "So how did those shoe prints appear on the eighth floor?"
"Half an hour before the incident, Ms. Toya went up alone?" Matsuda turned her head and looked at Toya: "Those shoe prints were left at that time, in order to clear her suspicion. But it was these shoe prints that hide the first suspicion. That is, the murderer left too calmly. Judging from the gap between the shoe prints, it was like taking a walk."
"Yes, it's indeed a questionable place." Meguchi recalled the shoe prints on the eighth floor: "But this does not prove that Ms. Toya is the murderer."
"After Ms. Tomoya arrived at the fifteenth floor, she called Miss Taniguchi's cell phone and asked her to go to the fifteenth floor." Matsuda explained the scene simulated in her heart: "On the elevator button on the fifteenth floor, there were traces of tape flowing down. It should be that you used tape to stick the coins there to prevent the elevator from closing suddenly. Then you were waiting for Miss Taniguchi's arrival."
"How is that possible?" Kogoro shouted: "So how did Miss Taniguchi appear on the eighth floor!"
"Of course I passed the elevator." Matsuda then replied: "This is the second doubt, the direction where Miss Taniguchi fell. If she was assassinated when she walked out of the elevator, the direction of the fall should be inside. In contrast to the direction we saw, Ms. Toya, you moved Miss Taniguchi's body."
"Turn Miss Taniguchi's back facing the corridor, then press the eighth floor to close the elevator. In this way, the elevator will automatically open the door when it reaches the eighth floor... We saw the scene on the spot."
"It's a very interesting story. It's a waste for this police officer not to write detective novels." Toya calmly retorted: "If Mika had been to the fifteenth floor, then the elevator button on the eighth floor should have left her fingerprints. What's the result? Mr. Police Officer."
The police officer on the forensics class side read the record and replied: "No, there is no fingerprint on it."
"This is the third doubt." Matsuda asked: "According to Conan's account, you had approached the elevator before we arrived. And Ms. Toya pressed the elevator button at that time? So why is there no fingerprint on it?"
Toya's face changed and became gloomy, and he no longer answered Matsuda's words.
"I guessed the reason you wanted to go back in such a hurry." Matsuda Mitoya gave up resistance and immediately gave out decisive evidence: "You should have used gloves when you committed a crime. In theory, there is no time to deal with gloves stained with Miss Taniguchi's blood. This kind of dangerous thing will not be placed in your own office, right?"
Seeing Toya holding his bag tightly, Matsuda said, "It seems that you are quite confident in your elevator technique. Those blood-stained gloves are in the bag in your hand."
"That's right." Toya, who was struggling in her heart, the more painful it became. Finally, she relaxed her hands: "I killed her. Taniguchi, she betrayed me and secretly sold my clothing design to a competitor company. After I discovered this, she said it was okay to tell the police, and it would only cause the brand Hideko Toya to suffer greater harm. She then proposed her resignation, so I wanted to kill this woman before leaving the company anyway."
"Is this really good?" Matsuda whispered after he was silent: "The brand of Toya Eiko has always had a good reputation. Is it worth it for that kind of woman and for a company that only makes small moves in the dark?"
Chapter completed!