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"Yeah, that's great!"
Ayumi hugged Natsume's arm and cheered sweetly!
Mitsuhiko and Genta also breathed a sigh of relief.
Brother Xia Ye is so kind. If we could ask him to send only a letter of praise and not say anything bad about me, wouldn't that be wonderful!
Only Conan could probably guess what Natsume was thinking. Although he had the body of an elementary school student, his mind was that of a high school student, a time when he was yearning and anticipating something. Looking at the smile on Natsume's face, a terrible picture was already flashing through his mind.
That guy Xia Ye!
He's really lucky with women!
hateful!
"Officer Sato!"
At that moment, a police officer on duty pushed open the door, saluted Miwako Sato, and reported, "The person in charge of the East Capital Bank has been brought to you!"
"You've worked hard, please let him in."
Sato Miwako smiled at him and said.
The beautiful policewoman's smile made the officer on duty instantly weak in the knees. He quickly brought the person behind him inside, then tactfully took his leave.
The person who walked into the office was a plump middle-aged man in a suit. Before he could even greet anyone, he glanced nervously at his watch and exclaimed, "Perfect timing! I made it in time!"
“Natsuyo, this is Keizo Masuo, the head of the Beika branch of Toto Bank—” Miwako Sato introduced to Natsuyo, “Toto Bank was robbed of 200 million yen by a group of thugs a couple of days ago. Mrs. Masuo was also at the scene. She called yesterday to say she has some clues to provide us—”
"Huh?" Officer Sato glanced behind Keizo Masuo and asked with some confusion:
"Didn't your wife say she was coming with you? Where is she?"
“Well—my wife suddenly had to go to the bank, so we agreed to meet here—but she hasn’t arrived yet?” Masuo Keizo looked surprised, then glanced at his watch again and frowned. “That’s strange. It’s so late, is she still sleeping?”
"How about this—" Masuo Keizo looked around, his gaze settling on a landline phone, and asked:
"I don't have my phone with me. Could I borrow your phone to call my wife and ask her to come over right away?"
"Please do as you wish."
Sato Miwako gestured for them to proceed.
At the desk.
Conan moved closer to Xia Ye, tugged at his clothes, and whispered, "Don't you feel like something's off about him?"
"It's more than just something's not right—"
Xia Ye gave a cold smile and strode towards Masuo Keizo, who had just made the call. Her calm voice reached Conan's ears: "He's incredibly suspicious, practically wearing the problem on his face!"
click -
Just as Masuo Keizo dialed his wife's number, before he could even speak, Natsume snatched the microphone from his hand.
Hearing the woman's voice coming from the microphone, Xia Ye quickly said:
"Madam, I am Inspector Akiyama from the Metropolitan Police Department. Whatever you are doing right now, please stop everything and wait for us to come over. Do as we say, and I will explain in a moment!"
Masuo family.
Mrs. Masuo was riding her bicycle and making a phone call.
She was surprised to hear Xia Ye's voice.
But the voice was strangely convincing, so she instantly stopped all movement, not even daring to move her feet—
"I understand!"
"What exactly is this officer—?"
"We'll be there right away—"
Xia Ye hung up the phone abruptly and turned to look at Sato Miwako, "Miwako, come with me!"
"What are you doing?"
Masuo Keizo was so shocked that it took him only now to react. His eyes flashed with panic as he loudly reprimanded:
"I came here to provide you with clues, but you treat me like this. I'm not going to keep you company any longer!"
After saying that, he turned to leave.
At this time.
Miwako Sato already understood.
Xia Ye must have figured something out.
So she grabbed Masuo Keizo and, in a tone that was both soft and firm, "advised" him:
"I'm sorry, Mr. Masuo, it was our oversight."
"Since we need you two to provide clues, we'd better show our sincerity by visiting you in person."
"Madam is already home—"
"Is this inconvenient for you?"
"I remember you said you took the day off today!"
"Me!" Masuo Keizo was speechless.
Natsume drove her own car, Conan sat in the passenger seat, and Miwako Sato sat in the back seat with Keizo Masuo.
As they got closer to the Masuo family home, Masuo Keizo's face grew paler and paler.
When he reached the door, his body began to tremble.
"I'll go in first and call my wife!"
Keizo Masuo tried to seize one last opportunity and took out his key to open the door.
However, now anyone can see how nervous he is.
Xia Ye took the key from his hand without any hesitation, opened the door, and went inside.
Sato Miwako subtly supported Masuo Keizo, but still wore a bright smile on her face: "No need to trouble yourself, we are not important guests, there is no need for Madam to greet us, Mr. Masuo, please take us in, we will go to see Madam ourselves!"
"But--"
Keizo Masuo wanted to say something more.
However, Officer Xia Ye and that kid were almost in the living room.
His face darkened, and he quickly followed.
A playful smile appeared on Sato Miwako's lips:
Sometimes, we really need a police officer like Xia Ye who does things his own way.
If this were a normal police officer...
Without any evidence, he would likely be shut out by Keizo Masuo.
But when he encountered Xia Ye, she wouldn't listen to him at all and just barged in, leaving him completely helpless!
Natsume and Conan headed towards the living room, and Masuo Keizo jogged up to catch up, saying with a smile, "Officer, my wife might be watching TV in the living room upstairs. Why don't you go up first, and I'll make you some tea?"
"No, Madam is in that room!" Xia Ye pointed to a room next to the living room, her eyes filled with certainty. "There are sounds of deliberately held breathing there, and no signs of movement. Madam must have listened to me and hasn't moved since just now."
"what?!"
Masuo Keizo was dumbfounded.
We're still ten meters from the gym. You said you heard my wife holding her breath?
Is that outrageous?
Miwako Sato, standing behind, almost burst out laughing.
Spider-Man's spider sense, even in a weakened version, is beyond the imagination of ordinary people!
Masuo Keizo is really unlucky to have met Natsume today!
He ignored Masao Keizo.
Xia Ye pushed open the door and walked into the room.
The room was quite spacious, with only a stationary bike and a large bookshelf behind it.
On the exercise bike, a beautiful woman wearing loose sportswear and with a neat high ponytail is riding.
Because of what Xia Ye just said, she didn't dare get off her bicycle, and even kept her hand holding the phone raised, being overly obedient.
"police officer?"
Seeing someone arrive, and a very handsome police officer at that, Mrs. Masuo finally breathed a sigh of relief and tentatively asked:
"Can I get down now?"
"Okay~" Xia Ye glanced at the bookshelf and smiled at the lady, "Madam Masuo, you can get down now. Just be careful where you step, and don't let the pedals of the stationary bike move~"
"okay!"
Mrs. Masuo almost always obeyed Xia Ye's words. She carefully climbed off the stationary bike, and instead of going to her husband, she stood carefully next to Xia Ye, asking in a slightly coquettish tone, "Officer, why didn't you let me move just now? My arm was sore from holding the phone!"
"Of course, I'm afraid something bad might happen to you—" Xia Ye pointed to the ground under the exercise bike, "I guessed right. If you pedal a couple more times, madam, and this line gets taut, guess what will happen?"
"what?"
The lady belatedly discovered what Conan and Miwako Sato had found as soon as they entered the room—
A thin fishing line extends from the pedal axle of the exercise bike and is finally fixed to the top shelf of a large, heavy-looking bookcase behind the bike. In the center of the top shelf, a short knife radiating a chilling light rests.
Such a simple mechanism.
Even an elementary school student could tell it at a glance.
So Mrs. Masuo immediately understood what was going on!
Her pretty face was pale, and she pointed at Masuo Keizao, her voice trembling as she said, "You actually want to kill me?"
Keizo Masuo suddenly looked up, pulled out another short sword from somewhere, and thrust it at Madam Masuo, shouting, "That's right, I bought you a huge insurance payout. If I make it look like you were robbed and killed in a home invasion, I can get a large sum of money!"
Snapped--!
Xia Ye slapped the dagger out of his hand and said calmly, "If you're wrong, say it again."
"Pfft-"
Sato Miwako covered her mouth and chuckled, then realized that laughing like that was inappropriate for the occasion, so she quickly straightened her pretty face and said with the same indifferent expression:
"Mr. Masuo, you're actually the mastermind behind that robbery of your bank for 200 million yen, aren't you? You and your friends planned the robbery, but you never expected your wife to come to the bank, and you never expected your friends to kidnap her, ultimately leading to her discovering your identities—"
"That's right!"
Mrs. Masuo nodded angrily: "I recognized those people immediately back then. The reason I made an appointment with Inspector Sato to go to the Metropolitan Police Department this time was to provide the police with this clue. I just didn't expect that he would find out!"
"Does Mr. Masuo still want to protect his friend?" A smile appeared on Sato Miwako's pretty face.
"You originally planned to lure us to the second floor after Madam's death, just like you did before, and then clean up the scene, right? So you thought you could just search this room and find evidence? What do you think?"
"I plead guilty!"
Chapter 305 The Post-Case Reception Party~
Keizo Masuo confessed to his crimes.
All his plans were cut off before they could be implemented. As Sato Miwako said, the room was full of signs of tampering. Investigating these mechanisms would surely reveal clues, but—
That's not the point.
The key point is that he didn't kill his wife to cover up that he was the mastermind behind the bank robbery!
Compared to this.
There's no excuse for attempted murder.
"Officer Natsume, how did you figure out I had a problem?" Masuo Keizo just couldn't understand why, even though he had simulated it many times, and even thought about how to enter the Metropolitan Police Department, what actions to take, and how to speak, he was still found out about his flaws at a glance.
"Your acting is terrible—" Xia Ye said with no mercy, "From the moment you entered the classroom, you looked at your watch three times, glanced at the clock on the wall once, and mentioned the time twice. This deliberate act practically screams 'suspicious'!"
"Just because of that?" Keizo Masuo looked incredulous. "Couldn't it be because I was nervous when I entered the Metropolitan Police Department?"
“No way—” Even Sato Miwako was speechless this time. “Don’t you think about your persona before you start acting? The head of Toto Bank, what kind of big shots haven’t you seen? You’re nervous coming to the Metropolitan Police Department? Are you kidding me?”