Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 82 The Good Brother Who Killed His Sister

"……go out!"

Although Inspector Samezaki looked unwilling, he had no choice but to leave the apartment with the two police officers.

Lin Xiuyi did not follow her out, but stepped forward and reached out to feel the woman's pulse.

Mr. Sada didn't stop him, but just picked up the wine glass and drank it all.

Then, he placed the glass on the table and was about to pour the wine, but Lin Xiuyi had already picked up the bottle and filled it for him: "Mr. Sada, she is your sister, Miss Sada Wakaba?"

"Yes," Mr. Sada said, tears welling up in his eyes, but a smile appeared on his face. "Ruoye hasn't been this quiet for a long time because of her mental disorder."

"You killed Takashima Daiki to avenge your sister?" Lin Xiuyi asked.

"Is there any point in saying this now?" Mr. Sada asked.

"Of course it does," Lin Xiuyi said affirmatively, "Last night at the izakaya, Mr. Sada, you specifically reminded Fujimine-san not to make the wrong choice, lest she regret it for the rest of her life."

"The nightclub incident will definitely be reported by journalists and the media. Even if just one more girl saw the story of Miss Wakaba and Miss Nishikawa, wouldn't that mean there would be one less victim?"

"Ms. Nishikawa..." Mr. Sada sighed, "She was most likely killed by Takashima Daiki."

"Did you see it with your own eyes last night?" Lin Xiuyi frowned.

"No," Mr. Sada shook his head, "but after I left the izakaya, I saw her arguing with Takashima Daiki on the side of the road. At that time, I didn't know that Takashima Daiki was the culprit who killed my sister."

"As I passed by them, I heard Miss Nishikawa questioning Takashima Daiki, asking why he had deceived her and why he had let her take on a billion yen debt?"

"Takashima Daiki not only failed to apologize, but smugly said that Miss Nishikawa was just an idiot, that she had a great figure but couldn't make money from it. He said that the reason he dated Miss Nishikawa in the first place was to sell her body for a good price."

"Miss Nishikawa was furious and tried to slap Takashima, but he got there first and pushed her to the ground."

"You didn't go over to stop it?" Lin Xiuyi asked.

"Prevent?"

Mr. Sada gave a wry smile.
"In my situation, how dare I meddle in other people's business? If I miss a day of work, the money I hand over to the gang won't be enough. If a fight breaks out and I'm detained by the police for questioning, what will happen to Ruoye? Who will take care of her?"

"Although I was very angry, I could only pretend not to see it and walked past them."

"After walking a distance, I turned around and saw Miss Nishikawa and Takashima Daiki entangled and heading towards the river."

"The police found a button in Miss Nishikawa's hand, the same one that was missing from Takashima Daiki's clothes," Lin Xiuyi confirmed. "You're right, she was indeed killed by Takashima Daiki."

"Isn't the law just?" Mr. Sada clenched his wine glass and asked in a deep voice, "Then why doesn't it punish scum like Takashima Daiki!"

"...The existence of the law has never been to uphold justice," Lin Xiuyi said softly, "The law is only a tool to maintain social order."

"Social order?" Mr. Sada said angrily. "Women like Wakaba and Ms. Nishikawa, who were deceived, deserve to be deceived just because they can't influence social order?"

"That's the reality," Lin Xiu said expressionlessly. "That's the nature of society."

Mr. Sada drank several more glasses of wine in a row. After he calmed down a little, Lin Xiuyi continued to ask, "You just said that you didn't know last night that Takashima Daiki was the one who killed Miss Wakaba?"

"Yes," Mr. Sada nodded, "When I arrived in Tokyo to see Wakaba, she had already become mentally ill because of her parents' suicide."

"In the past five years, I have tried many ways to get information about the man who deceived Ruoye, but unfortunately, I have failed."

"For five years, I had nightmares most nights. I dreamed that my parents blamed me for not avenging Ruoye. Gradually, I developed insomnia and could only rely on sleeping pills to stay asleep."

"Until tonight, I met Takashima Daiki in a nightclub. Because of Miss Nishikawa's incident, I paid more attention to him. Unexpectedly, I saw the pendant my mother gave to my sister on his neck!"

"When Ruoye insisted on coming to Tokyo to make her own living, Mom went to the temple to buy it specifically to protect Ruoye's safety."

"Takashima Daiki was borrowing money from someone at the time. From what he said, it seemed like he wanted to leave Tokyo and hide out for a while."

"I pretended to want to buy the pendant, brought him to my office, and asked him about its origins."

"That guy had the audacity to tell me without a trace of shame that he had swindled the pendant out of a stupid woman and that he had been wearing it because it worked."

"I asked Takashima Daiki if the woman's name was Ruoye. When I saw his surprised expression, I knew that the man who harmed Ruoye and our family was him!"

"I picked up the fruit knife on the table and, as I had imagined countless times before, stabbed it into his neck and abdomen."

"That guy was still asking me who I was before he died. Haha..."

Mr. Sada smiled as he pulled out a blood-stained owl-shaped pendant from his pocket. "My mother bought this pendant for Ruoye. Although it didn't keep her safe, it still helped me find my enemy."

As he spoke, Mr. Sada gently put the pendant on the neck of the woman beside his legs.

"Now that the jade pendant is found, Ruoye can finally become a Buddha and reunite with her parents."

"What about you?" Lin Xiuyi asked.

"Me?" Mr. Sada laughed at himself. "I should go to hell. After all, I killed someone."

"After killing Takashima Daiki, you used his body to frame Ito Ichiro," Lin Xiuyi asked curiously, "Did you choose him randomly, or was it because of his gangster identity?"

"It's both," Mr. Sada said, clutching his abdomen in pain. The lighter in his right hand fell to the floor. "Ito Ichiro and other gangsters are just like Takashima Daiki. They are the culprits who harmed Wakaba and Ms. Nishikawa."

"After Takashima Daiki died, I was thinking about how to cover up the murder when I saw Ito Ichiro walking towards the bathroom."

"At the time, I thought that if I could pin the murder on Ito Ichiro, not only would I be able to exonerate myself, but I would also be able to punish this evil Sumiyoshi-kai leader."

"So I found a baseball bat, knocked Ito Ichiro unconscious from behind, and hid him in a bathroom stall."

"Then I used a trash can to move Takashima Daiki's body to the bathroom, put the two of them together, wiped the handle of the fruit knife clean, and stuffed it into Ito Taro's hand."

"I originally thought that this was a perfect plan, but the police still discovered the truth."

"Just now in the ballroom, I saw a waiter being questioned by Officer Matsumoto. I leaned over to eavesdrop, and when I heard him ask if the office was carpeted, I knew my murder had been exposed."

"If it's just me, even if I go to jail or get retaliated by gangs, it doesn't matter."

"But I still have Ruoye. If I go to jail, those gangs will definitely bully her again. I can't let Ruoye get hurt again..."

"So you found an opportunity to turn off the power in the ballroom, create chaos, and escape, and then..."

Lin Xiu paused, then looked at the woman who had been motionless since he entered the room.

"Did you feed Miss Ruoye poison?"

"...No, it's not poison."

Mr. Sada started coughing violently, and dirty blood kept pouring out of his mouth.

"Ruoye has been afraid of pain since she was a child. Poison is too painful, she can't bear it. I gave her sleeping pills, but unfortunately, there is only half a bottle left..."

Having said this, Mr. Sada could no longer hold on and rolled on the ground in pain.

Inspector Samezaki heard the noise outside and rushed in with two police officers: "This is..."

"Mr. Sada took poison," Lin Xiuyi sighed, "Ms. Wakaba also took sleeping pills."

"Hurry, hurry and find an ambulance!" Inspector Samezaki shouted.

A police officer hurried out of the apartment, but before he came back, Mr. Sada was already dead.

"Damn it!" Inspector Samezaki kicked the table hard, his face full of regret. "Two people are actually dead. If we could have found out earlier..."

"When I entered the room just now, I noticed that something was wrong with Miss Ruoye," Lin Xiuyi said calmly, "After you left, I felt her pulse, and she was already dead."

"Why didn't you remind me?" Inspector Samezaki demanded sharply, "At least we could have saved Sada!"

"He was holding a lighter in his hand at the time," Lin Xiuyi explained. "After sending his sister away, Mr. Sada was already determined to die. If you had tried to stop him, he would have definitely chosen to set the room on fire."

"By then, he will still die, and his death will be even more painful. Who knows how many people will be implicated by the fire."

After Inspector Samezaki slowly calmed down, he realized that what Lin Xiuyi said was true. He apologized, "I'm sorry, I was a little excited just now."

"It's okay, I understand," Lin Xiuyi was not angry and told everything he had just learned from Mr. Sada.

"Takashima Daiki can confirm that he is the murderer of Miss Nishikawa. The reason he took Miss Nishikawa's wallet is probably because it contained his photo or something else that could lead to his identity."

"Also, the carpet in Mr. Sada's office and the trash can he used to move the body must have been left untouched. They should still be found in the nightclub."

After saying this, Lin Xiuyi stretched himself and looked out the window. The sky not far away was already turning pale. The night was about to end and the day was about to come.

"It's a pity that the Sada siblings and Miss Nishikawa didn't get to see the daylight that belonged to them..."

(End of this chapter)