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Chapter 284 The Script of a Clumsy Novelist
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At the Tomizawa family's villa.
The three brothers have all arrived.
When everyone first saw the three brothers standing together, they were all taken aback.
Nothing else——
The Tomizawa family has three sons who are triplets!
Except for the eldest son, Tomizawa Taichi, who has two small mustaches, the three brothers look exactly alike!
"Ayako, you're here~"
Ayako followed Natsume into the villa.
Yuzo Tomizawa quickly came to greet him.
"Xiong San, how is it?"
Ayako's pretty face still wore a faint, gentle smile, and her attitude seemed exactly the same as before.
This made Tomizawa Yuzo secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
"We are currently asking for an alibi."
Let's go over there~
Seeing that Natsume had already entered the living room, Ayako didn't bother to say anything more to Tomizawa Yuzo and moved over.
Judging from his behavior, even without Natsume's deductions, Ayako could roughly guess what was going on. Ha~
in the living room.
The questioning for alibi is underway.
The eldest son, Taichi Tomizawa, said he was in Osaka at the time of the incident last night, and the evidence he provided was that he could recite the broadcast of the baseball game from the previous night, a broadcast only available in the Osaka area.
This proof is utter nonsense!
Even Officer Yokomizo didn't quite agree.
Therefore, he presented another proof:
"When we were about to win yesterday's air-to-air battle, I excitedly called both of my younger brothers because I'm a huge fan of Inspector Megure, and his performance yesterday was amazing!"
"Is that right?"
Officer Yokomizo looked at Yuzo Tomizawa.
“That’s right—” A barely perceptible struggle flashed deep in Tomizawa Yuzo’s eyes, but he still said:
"My older brother called me before 9 a.m. yesterday, and I could definitely hear the sound of that baseball game on the phone."
“Yesterday at that time, Brother Xiong San did receive a phone call and talked to someone about baseball!”
The garden spoke up as a witness.
Xiaolan nodded as well.
Tomizawa Yuzo did indeed answer that phone call last night.
“Me too—” said the second son, Fuzawa Tatsuya, with a smile.
"Anyway, the old man is dead now, so we don't need to worry about him. I was at Haomei's place last night, which is where my girlfriend is. My older brother called me, and I could hear the baseball game playing on the phone."
"Oh, who can vouch for that?"
730 "Hiromi, I was supposed to go to Okinawa for work yesterday, but Hiromi got sick, so I secretly went back to Tokyo to see her. She stayed with me to watch the baseball game last night, so she can vouch for me. My plane ticket can also prove that I'm in Tokyo!"
"Go and investigate!" Officer Yokomizo ordered his subordinate, then looked at the Tomizawa brothers and said sternly:
"You three, I need to check your phone's call logs to verify the validity of your alibis!"
"casual--"
The three Tomizawa brothers readily handed over their phones.
Sure enough, the call logs and call times on the three men's phones were completely consistent with their testimonies.
Next, the testimony from Tomizawa Tatsuji's girlfriend in Tohoku was also sent over.
Tomizawa Tatsuji was indeed in Tokyo yesterday.
His plane ticket back to Tokyo yesterday can also prove this.
This provides two indirect proofs, making the alibi of the eldest brother, Tomizawa Taichi, even more credible.
Officer Yokomizo looked at Natsume with a troubled expression:
"Officer Xia Ye, do you think it's possible that the crime was committed by an outsider? Is it possible that the murderer found out about Chairman Tomizawa's precious flowers through some other channel?"
"It was someone from this family who did it."
Xia Ye shook her head, her attitude very firm.
What's wrong with you?
When Tomizawa Taichi arrived, Natsume was still asleep, and he was being questioned when she arrived, so no one introduced him to her, and he didn't know who Natsume was. He then arrogantly accused her:
"You pinpointed the exact time of my father's death so precisely. At that time, I was in Osaka, Tatsuji was in Tokyo, and Yuzo was at the Suzuki family villa. None of us had the opportunity to commit the crime, so why suspect us?"
"I'm sure it was done by an outsider!"
"Are you sure you were in Osaka at the time?" Xia Ye asked with a teasing look in her eyes.
"Of course!" Tomizawa Taichi seemed to be angered by Natsume's doubts and shouted:
"After that baseball game, I was so happy that I went for a drive. After that drive, I went to a pachinko parlor. I only left the pachinko parlor and went home after receiving your call!"
"Oh?"
A smile appeared on Xia Ye's lips.
Behind him, Kogoro Mouri and Conan, who had been silent the whole time, were also taken aback, realizing something.
Are you sure this is a pachinko parlor?
"I'm sure!" Tomizawa Taichi said coldly, frowning.
"Are you ever going to stop? Who do you think you are?"
Who I am is unimportant—
Xia Ye waved casually, turned to look at Kogoro Mouri, and asked with a smile, "Uncle Mouri, you figured it out, didn't you?"
"I can tell!"
Kogoro Mouri nodded, then scoffed, "As expected of a rich young master. Even if he wants to pretend to like the hobbies of us commoners, he won't even bother to learn a little about them. Tsk tsk, he's given himself away here. Really—"
"What do you mean!"
Tomizawa Taichi's expression changed, revealing a hint of bravado masking underlying weakness.
"Uncle Mori means—"
Conan looked at Tomizawa Taichi with feigned innocence and added insult to injury in a cute child's voice:
"Japanese law stipulates that pachinko parlors are prohibited from operating after 11 p.m., and this is a nationwide rule. However, the police notified you last night that it was almost midnight. Uncle Tai, which pachinko parlor would dare to operate for you alone?"
"I, I remembered it wrong!"
Tomizawa Taichi looked flustered, sweat beading on his forehead:
"I went to... yesterday..."
"No need to make things difficult for me," Xia Ye said with a light laugh.
"You're being so hesitant because you're afraid that the store you just made up might have some weird rules, right?"
"You are so slanderous!"
Tomizawa Taichi calmed down a bit and complained:
"I only said one wrong thing, and you're already doubting me! If that's the case, then show me the evidence. If you don't have any, I'll sue you for defamation!"
“Mr. Taiyi, your father says you’re obsessed with writing novels all day long, but your skills aren’t very good—”
Xia Ye smiled and shook her head, saying:
"Narrow knowledge base—they don't even know that pachinko parlors close at 11 PM; their ability to come up with plot ideas is terrible—they can't even make up a reason on the spot; they have serious stereotypes—they only talk about suing the police for defamation, that kind of stupid stuff only happens on TV, nobody cares about you in real life!"
“I think your father is right—”
"You'll really starve to death if you write novels!"
"you!"
It's currently unknown whether Tomizawa Taichi will starve to death.
But he was almost driven to his death by Xia Ye.
After writing novels for so many years, to be belittled like this, who the hell can stand it!
“I think—” Xia Ye ignored his anger and continued:
"Lying at such an unnecessary time is probably because this whole case is like a pre-conceived novel script; you only have the ability to read from the script, but not the ability to modify it on the spot. How pathetic~"
"Enough!" Tomizawa Taichi shouted angrily.
"Evidence? Since you suspect me, then produce the evidence, otherwise I won't say a word!"
"Heh, Mr. Taiichi~" Xia Ye's eyes were filled with mockery:
"Solving cases is actually quite simple; you just need to use your brain a little!"
"Let's assume you're the murderer. After killing someone, you'd definitely need to get back to Osaka. There are no flights from Izu to Osaka, and the Shinkansen requires identification, so you'd most likely drive—"
"If you're driving your own car, there are cameras along those 400-plus kilometers that can track your movements. If you're renting a car, it's even easier. All rental cars are equipped with GPS satellite positioning, and the database can even retrieve the specific routes—"
Even if you rented the car under a concealed identity—
"If we check every car rental company in Osaka that came to Izu yesterday and then left, we can find traces of you!"
"This world is changing rapidly, and old-fashioned criminal methods are becoming obsolete. Let's learn more new knowledge!"
"How could this be?" Tomizawa Taichi's eyes were glazed over, and it seemed that even his worldview was somewhat collapsing.
“Ayako—” Natsume turned her head and asked, “What kind of novels does this girl write?”
"It sounds like a romance novel!" Ayako covered her mouth to suppress a laugh.
"No wonder—" Xia Ye sneered.
"Romance novels, especially bad ones, require the least amount of intelligence. Readers don't need it, and even the authors don't need it!"
"There's just one thing I don't understand?"
"Xia Ye, is there something you don't understand?"
Yuanzi joined in and became a perfect straight man.
"I don't understand how someone could act in such a terrible script written by such a terrible novelist—"
"Is it just because of deep brotherly affection?"
"Otherwise, it just doesn't make sense!"
Xia Ye looked up at Tomizawa Tatsuji and Tomizawa Yuzo and said calmly, "Gentlemen, could you tell me why this is?"
"what?"
Even though the clues were already so obvious, everyone present still gasped in surprise after Xia Ye said those words. They were astonished that not only was Tomizawa Taiichi the murderer, but the other two brothers also seemed to be accomplices!
Aside from Conan, whose reasoning is similar to Natsume's.
Ayako had basically guessed what had happened.
—And there's Kogoro Mouri, deep in thought.
"It's actually like this!"
Officer Yokomizo was greatly encouraged and immediately ordered his subordinates, "Investigate according to the method provided by Officer Natsume!"
"Yes!"