Conan: I'm really not the mastermind behind the scenes

Chapter 51: A case in which Kudo Yusaku’s reasoning was wrong? ([-]-in-[-])

One day three years ago, another company president was murdered somewhere in Mika Town.

It was just a small case at first, but it became a hot topic among netizens afterwards. In the end, the Metropolitan Police had to hold a press conference.

Faced with the surge of suspicion, they repeatedly emphasized that the person arrested was the murderer and that the police did not arrest the wrong person.

The case aroused such controversy because the murderer had a brother.

——A twin brother who is almost identical to him, even his biological mother would admit it.

……

In the last century, a writer once proposed ten principles for writing mystery novels. One of them is: if there are twins or people who look very similar, the readers must be told in advance.

Twins in fiction can confuse readers, just as they do in reality.

"The person who was arrested was his elder brother, named Koichi Koshiba; and many people believe that his younger brother Koichi Koshiba is the real murderer."

Officer Megure was the police officer handling the case at the time. After remembering it, he gave more detailed information.

As a police officer in the explosive ordnance disposal squad, Matsuda Jinpei was equally impressed by that criminal case.

In order to ensure that the president was killed, the prisoner planted bombs not only in the office, but also in the underground garage and in the car.

He went to defuse the bombs. Because the bombs were made with fine workmanship, it took him a while to defuse them. When he came out, he saw the whole process of the prisoner crying, kneeling, and repenting.

There are no new clues at the moment. The police who went to investigate the whereabouts of Kudo's nanny and Koji Oshiba have not returned yet, so Officer Megure briefly explained the case.

"Brother Xiaochai's parents are well-known pianists. Influenced by their parents, they have been learning piano together since they were young. The elder brother has outstanding talent, while the younger brother has average ability."

"When they were 16 years old, they applied for the Vienna Conservatory of Music together, but only the older brother was admitted, not the younger brother."

Qingliu Binguang suddenly said softly "Eh".

When they looked at him, he answered frankly: "I didn't expect that I almost became college classmates with Koji Koba."

"Teacher Aoyagi is a top student who graduated from the Vienna Conservatory of Music." The academic director spoke appropriately.

"..."

Amuro was silent.

Vienna Conservatory of Music... It sounds nice. Judging from the information Rum gave him, Aoyagi Binguang clearly graduated from New York University's law major 4 years ago.

However, Tohru Amuro did not expose the fraud of the other party's graduation school to his face. When he went to various companies to investigate, he found dozens of fake graduate schools.

"Perhaps out of sympathy for his younger brother and not wanting to hurt him too much, Koichi Koshiba did not enroll in school in the end. Instead, he returned to Japan and planned to take the exam at Domoto Music College."

"It's a pity that they didn't go. That year, their parents died in an accident, and their relatives took advantage of legal loopholes and took away most of their inheritance."

"The two brothers moved around in various low-cost apartments and gave up the piano. Later, they both went to college, but the expensive tuition fees meant that only one of them could continue their studies..."

Mumu Shisan lowered the brim of his hat. He knew that this prisoner's experience was unfortunate, but he had to tell it and let everyone listen and analyze it together.

"...In the end, it was the elder brother who gave up. He chose to let his younger brother continue studying, and he entered society early and started working."

Japan is a place that values ​​academic qualifications. Take the police academy as an example. The training time for high school graduates and college graduates is different. For those with lower academic qualifications, the training time must be doubled.

"Koshiba Koichi, who graduated from high school, has been doing odd jobs, and then joined a blasting engineering company and became a security guard in an underground garage."

"As for Koshiba Koji, although his grades in school were unstable and sometimes good or bad, he still successfully graduated from college and joined the same company as his brother and became a demolition engineer."

Almost everyone present fell silent.

A pair of twin brothers. It turns out that the older brother is a genius and the younger brother is a mediocre person.

As time passed, the elder brother became a security guard who was often annoyed, and the younger brother became an engineer whose salary, treatment and status were better than his...

"So my brother is unbalanced?"

Another police officer, learning about the case for the first time, asked curiously.

Officer Megure nodded: "Yes, according to the neighbor's testimony, he heard the brothers quarreling. Although the specific content of the quarrel was not heard clearly, the noise was very loud."

"The next case is that case." He continued, "There was an explosion in the president's office of that company, and the president was killed on the spot. Afterwards, the police monitored the corridor and quickly identified Brother Xiaochai."

"Koshiba Koji made a mistake during the blasting operation a week before the case, which caused serious losses to the company and required high compensation. In addition, the suspect was wearing work clothes in the video, so the police first suspected Koji Koba."

"However, Yusaku Kudo, who happened to be dining in the restaurant next door to the building at the time and heard the noise and came to help solve the case, saw the scene and said that the murderer was actually Koichi Oshiba."

"Their brothers have almost the same appearance and body shape. Even colleagues who see them all the time can only identify them by their clothes. It was the older brother who put on his younger brother's clothes and deliberately disguised himself as his younger brother and committed the crime."

"Furthermore, the owner of the izakaya and several other guests can prove that Koshiba Koji had been drinking in the izakaya while surveillance showed that the prisoner went to plant the bomb, and did not leave until the next morning."

Qingliu Binguang said at this time: "Is there no other conclusive physical evidence?"

Mumu Thirteen was silent for a moment and sighed.

"On other dismantled bombs, the fingerprints were wiped clean, but there was a little blood stain left on the inner edge of the shell of one of them. Maybe it was because the shell was black and I didn't see it... But... …”

Anyone with a little knowledge of biology knows what the latter refers to.

In most cases, DNA is one of the ironclad pieces of evidence that can confirm a crime.

But in this case, the murderer had twin brothers. Their DNA was exactly the same. The only things that could truly distinguish their identities were fingerprints and irises.

Amuro Toru frowned when he heard this.

He had only seen TV reports about this case and did not know the specific process - after all, it was an ordinary homicide case and was not under the jurisdiction of the police. He remembered that the reason why people questioned it later was...

"This case should have been closed at this point, but when Koshiba Koichi was taken to the detention center and he was examined, it was found that there were no injuries on his body."

"And that night, Koji Koji went to the izakaya again. After drinking a lot of wine, he suddenly laughed and said that he wanted to thank Kudo Yusaku for helping him get rid of a waste who relied on him. After saying this, he looked flustered. He changed his story and said he was drunk, and he was very sad that his brother did that."

"Not only that, the boss also discovered that when Koji Koji went to the izakaya the day before, he had medical tape on the back of his right hand. When he went there, the tape was gone. He also deliberately concealed it and used his left hand to hold the wine glass."

"The boss who saw the case on the news felt something was wrong and immediately called the police. He suspected that the police had arrested the wrong person."

"I called Yusaku again to ask about this. He made it clear that the culprit was his brother. After I told him about Koji Koba's strange behavior, he was silent for a long time, and then said..."

"Police!!"

Two police officers suddenly burst in, interrupting Officer Megure's next words.

"We have checked and found that Koji Koba's residence in the employment file is empty. The landlord said that it has never been rented out!"

"What?!" Officer Megure's eyes widened.

The other policeman's face was filled with joy.

Behind him, a pale middle-aged woman, surrounded by two policewomen, walked in with her head lowered, her hands rubbing her apron uneasily. "When we went near Kudo's house, we happened to find his hired nanny! When she saw us, she came over and surrendered!"

The middle-aged woman raised her head and saw so many people looking at her. Her body trembled and she began to sob softly.

"Where are those two kids now?!"

Faced with the confirmed suspect, Officer Megure lost his previous politeness and questioned him sternly.

"I have no idea!!"

The woman slipped to the ground, covered her face with her hands and cried.

"Yesterday, I put medicine in Shinichi-kun's rice. He fell asleep on the spot after eating it. Then Xiaochai drove over and carried him away... I had no idea where he would take him!"

Miwako Sato then asked, "Why would you do such a thing?"

"That man kidnapped my child and asked me to help him. He didn't allow me to call the police, otherwise he would kill my child...I, I was really coerced!!"

Hearing her shrill cries, Matsuda Jinpei looked at the policewoman who escorted the female suspect in: "How is her child?"

"It has been found. There is no serious problem." The policewoman replied, "She came over and surrendered immediately after seeing her child returned safely."

Matsuda Jinping doesn't usually deal with criminal cases, so when he encountered a suspect who was completely coerced, he didn't know what to say.

"What about Hojo? How is Shinji Hojo?" Officer Megure paid attention to another missing student.

"I don't know! He only asked me to help kidnap Shinichi!!"

The woman cried while continuing: "Xiao Chai asked me not to leave the communication tool, but after Xinyi fell asleep, I secretly put his mobile phone into his pocket, so that he could call for help when he woke up... "

Officer Megure's face was full of anger, but this time he did not have an attack. He knew that this was probably the only thing the coerced person could do for Kudo Shinichi at that time.

Amuro Toru sighed inwardly.

Koji Oshiba might search the person after taking him away. In the morning, he saw that Kudo Shinichi did not come to school. The academic director made many calls to Kudo's home and his mobile phone, but no one answered.

Toru Amuro looked at Aoyagi Binguang, and saw that his brows were slightly furrowed, as if he was thinking about something, and his eyes looked particularly dark.

"...Teacher Qingliu?" He called him.

Qingliu Binguang came back to his senses and immediately turned his head.

Seeing him return to a calm and gentle expression in less than a second, Toru Amuro smiled on the surface: "Finally the prisoner was found. I knew Teacher Aoyagi would not do such a thing."

Qingliu Binguang didn't seem to expect that he would say that, and was slightly taken aback.

After a brief look at each other, Qingliu Binguang looked away and looked at the kneeling nanny.

"It's a pity that I still don't know where Kudo and the others have gone and how they are doing now."

He sighed: "Because my father solved the case, my son was retaliated against. This kind of thing is simply..."

Amuro asked coldly: "Does Teacher Aoyagi think this is revenge? Both Kudo and Hojo are from good families. Maybe it's just that Kobab wants ransom after kidnapping them?"

"If I wanted a ransom, I would have called a long time ago." Aoyagi Binguang said, "And in a kidnapping case, the kidnapper will try his best to avoid alerting the police, but he planted a bomb under the piano of an ordinary music teacher like me. This is unreasonable."

Hearing the keyword bomb, Matsuda Jinpei also looked over.

"But he has no reason to retaliate against Mr. Kudo, right?"

Amuro showed a puzzled expression: "It was Mr. Kudo who found the murderer three years ago and saved him from jail."

"Brother Xiaochai has a good relationship."

Qingliu Binguang said suddenly.

Toru Amuro heard his calmness and certainty, and was stunned for a moment.

Officer Megure turned around and looked at Aoyagi Binguang with surprised eyes: "Brother Yusaku said the same thing on the phone back then."

Miwako Sato felt her temples twitching. She continued to ask the nanny: "What else did he say when he was coercing you? Please tell me everything."

"He says……"

The middle-aged woman raised her head with tears in her eyes and said with trembling lips.

"...He said that since he is the son of a mystery novelist, he will leave clues in the school that can deduce their location..."

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10:05am.

In a certain inconspicuous building, Koji Koba opened his eyes to the sound of the alarm clock.

His socks and trouser legs were wrinkled, as if there had been water recently and the fabric had dried naturally without being straightened.

There were empty wine bottles piled around him. He smelled of alcohol, but his eyes were quite sober.

Koji Koba sat up and leaned gently on a small box.His appearance was reflected in the full-length mirror not far away. He looked at that face and smiled back.

He turned on the TV in a relaxed manner, switched to the news channel he usually watched most, and waited for the news he wanted to watch.

"Ding-dong-"

The doorbell rang suddenly.

Koji Koba's eyes widened and his heart beat violently.

He didn't dare to touch the box behind him with force, so he turned his head carefully and looked toward the door. He remained motionless in place, as if moving would disturb the people outside.

The doorbell rang once and then stopped.

Koji Koba was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but in the next second, he heard clear footsteps coming from outside.

Da da da……

"Great, you are at home."

A hand was placed on the doorframe, and a woman with brown-gray hair appeared there.

She has fair skin and speaks Kansai dialect.Those light brown eyes were like melted honey, full of sweet smiles.

She was obviously very beautiful, but for some reason, she looked like she had just run away carrying a bucket from a construction site, and her clothes and gloves were covered in mud.

The full-length mirror next to Koji Koji clearly illuminates the current situation in the room——

There was only his reflection inside.

(End of this chapter)