The famous criminal in the world of Conan

Chapter 124: The Cottage by Tokyo Bay

"We're here, let's get off."

Koshimizu Nanatsuki said this and got out of the car with Haibara Ai.

Bai Masong's Porsche followed closely behind and stopped nearby.

Seeing Hakuba Song coming down, Koshimizu Nanatsuki led him and Haibara Ai forward.

As he walked, he said to him,

“This is the birthplace of Kawashima Yumi—a small fishing village beside Tokyo Bay.”

"His family has been fishing for generations, and their lives were once very poor when they were young."

Bai Masong followed Koshimizu Nanatsuki, listening to her talk while looking at the surrounding environment.

They were now walking from where they had parked their car into a small alley.

As you first enter the alley, you can smell a strong odor.

This smell is like the stench of a sewer mixed with the sea breeze blowing from Tokyo Bay.

On the streets around here, you can see shirtless men busy at work, and women sitting together and chatting.

If the three of them walked further, they could see Kawashima Yume's house.

Her house was built at the mouth of a small river. As mentioned before, one side of her house was below the river bank, and the other side led to a path on the bank.

Bai Masong felt the harsh environment around him and looked at the lonely house standing on the beach in front of him.

He might be able to understand why Kawashima Yumi looks so utilitarian in the information.

When Nanatsuki Koshimizu came here again, she couldn't help but sigh,

"Kawashima Yumi has been very motivated since she was young. She studied hard and was even admitted to Waseda University. After graduation, she worked very hard."

"But she has known her talent in appearance since she started college."

"She can skillfully use her high emotional intelligence and rhetoric to make men willingly pay for her, and even easily get away from men after meeting them one by one."

When Bai Masong heard this, he nodded secretly in his heart. This woman has both emotional intelligence and IQ, is willing to work hard, and knows how to make full use of her innate advantages. She deserves to be able to climb up.

"Dong dong dong..."

Nanatsuki Koshimizu walked up and knocked on the door.

"Squeak..."

The door opened quickly, and out came a couple who looked to be in their fifties or sixties.

Their faces were covered with wrinkles and their skin was very dry, which were the marks left by years of exposure to the sea breeze.

The two are Kawashima Yumi's parents.

"Hello, uncle and aunt."

Koshimizu Nanatsuki walked forward and greeted him.

"Yes, it's Detective Yueshui!"

The two replied tremblingly.

When they saw Nanatsuki Koshimizu, they showed some hope on their faces.

"Detective Yueshui, have you found............?"

"No."

Koshimizu Nanatsuki shook her head regretfully.

"I still haven't made any discoveries or clues during this period of time."

"Ugh!"

Kawashima Yumi's father sighed, but didn't say anything.

Perhaps, after a week, after going through all this, they no longer had any hope.

Nanatsuki Koshimizu looked at the two old people in front of her and felt a little distressed.

No matter what Kawashima Yumi is like, she is also a child.

Even if she has some emotional problems, it doesn't deserve the death penalty!

"but,"

Nanatsuki Koshimizu continued speaking quickly, pointing at the white horse pine.

"But I brought a friend with me. He is the famous criminal in the Metropolitan Police Department who has solved the most cases recently - Inspector Hakuba. I believe he will be able to find a way."

Nanatsuki Koshimizu's words rekindled the hope of Kawashima Yumi's parents.

Kawashima Yumi's father looked at the cold-faced man in front of him, quickly snatched his hand and held it tightly.

"Inspector Hakuba, I'll leave the beautiful matter to you!"

Bai Masong felt the warmth coming from his hand and nodded.

"I see."

"Take us to see her room first."

Bai Masong said this to Kawashima Yumi's father.

"Okay, okay."

Kawashima Yumi's father replied quickly.

After he agreed, he first gave instructions to Kawashima Yumi's mother and asked her to prepare some tea.

Then, he took Baimasong and the other two upstairs.

There is only one room on the second floor, which is Kawashima Yumi's bedroom.

Although the fallen hanger had left the room in tatters on the night of the incident, the couple restored the room basically according to their memory in order to facilitate the investigation.

The bedroom is not big, only about ten square meters.

However, this small bedroom is filled with a large amount of furniture and crockery.

Yes, pottery!

The floor, the closet, and the bedside are all filled with pottery.

Kawashima Yumi is a pottery collector with a serious collecting habit!

I don’t know when this hobby started, probably when Kawashima Yumi was in college.

Anyway, no one is going to investigate it further now.

All I know is that her room is now full of pottery and there is no more room for it.

Therefore, the hangman that killed her was created as a response to the emergency.

It was a wooden stick extending from the wall of the room, with a wooden board underneath. The board, the stick and the wall formed a stable right-angled triangle structure.

Room appearance

Kawashima Yumi once said with a smile that the sturdiness of this hanger is beyond doubt and it would not fall down unless an earthquake occurs.

The wooden board on which things were placed in the hanger was about fifty centimeters wide and not far from the ceiling.

Now there is nothing placed on this hanger.

However, before the incident, the hangers were also filled with a large number of pottery.

There was even an old TV on the hanging rack that had long been put aside because it was too dilapidated.

It was also because of this TV that Kawashima Yumi had no chance of survival after the hanger fell.

As for why they put a useless TV series on it, to be honest, no one knows. Maybe they simply didn't want to throw it away.

Directly below the hanger is Kawashima's beautiful bed.

There is a window between the hanger and the bed. The window opens outwards, so you can clearly see the scenery on the sea outside the window and feel the sea breeze.

The original accident also caused the bed to collapse, so what is placed there now is just a symbolic mattress.

After Bai Masong took a quick look at the bedroom structure, his eyes first focused on a wardrobe about one meter long.

He opened the wardrobe and saw a horizontal rack on top, which was full of clothes, and a wooden board underneath with pottery on it.

Bai Masong turned around and asked Kawashima Yumi's father,

"Has this closet always contained so many clothes and crockery?"

"Yes, yes,"

Kawashima Yumi's father replied,