Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 9 Women's Friendship is So Complicated
"Go and take a look." Inspector Samezaki ordered.

Although this matter is not the responsibility of their Search Division, they cannot ignore it since they have encountered it.

"Women fighting? Shuichi, let's go and see!"

Kogoro Mouri grabbed Hayashi Shuichi and ran out.

Kisaki Eri shook her head speechlessly, but still followed him out.

After walking out of the izakaya, the three of them saw two women fighting on the balcony on the fourth floor of the apartment across the street.

There was a lot of broken glass on the ground in front of the apartment building, which was caused by them.

"What an intense fight!"

Kogoro Mouri sighed. What he wanted most now was to find a telescope so that he could see more clearly.

Inspector Samezaki and his team have already entered the apartment building to stop the fight.

But unexpectedly, at this moment, among the two women fighting on the balcony, the black-haired woman was pushed out of the balcony.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, someone reached out and grabbed her hand.

However, the person who rescued her was also a woman. Although she reached out to grab the black-haired woman, she was too weak to pull her onto the balcony.

"Save me! I don't want to die, pull me up quickly!" The black-haired woman shouted in panic, her voice particularly clear in the night.

"It happened!"

Lin Xiuyi and the other two didn't have time to watch the fun anymore and hurried to the apartment across the street.

After entering the apartment building, Hayashi Shuichi asked Kisaki Eri to find the apartment manager, while he and Mouri Kogoro ran upstairs and caught up with Inspector Samezaki and the others on the third floor.

"One of the two women who were fighting was pushed out of the balcony and is now hanging outside," Lin Xiuyi briefly explained the situation.

"Megure, go find the apartment manager!"

Inspector Samezaki gave the order while running towards the room on the fourth floor where the incident occurred.

"No need, I've already asked Eri to go," Lin Xiuyi pulled Megure.

Everyone ran up to the fourth floor and quickly found the room where the accident happened.

"We are the police, open the door!"

Officer Matsumoto banged on the door.

There was no movement in the room, either because he didn't want to open the door or didn't notice.

"Break the door!" Inspector Samezaki gave the order without hesitation.

The four police officers took turns banging their shoulders against the apartment door, but the door was of surprisingly good quality, and the four officers couldn't break it open after banging on it for a long time.

Fortunately, at this time, Kisaki Eri also arrived with the apartment manager.

The administrator took out the key and opened the door. Inspector Samezaki and the others rushed in immediately, followed by Hayashi Shuichi and the other two.

The black-haired woman who had fallen out was still hanging on the edge of the balcony. If there hadn't been a short-haired woman desperately pulling her with her hands, she would have fallen down long ago.

In the corner of the balcony, there were two women standing there, looking panicked and at a loss.

One of them had brown hair and messy clothes. He should be the other protagonist in the fight just now.

The other man reeked of alcohol, obviously having drunk quite a bit before.

Inspector Samezaki and Officer Matsumoto worked together to pull back the black-haired woman who was hanging outside the balcony. She slumped on the balcony, her face full of fear after surviving a disaster.

The short-haired woman who had been holding her hand also breathed a sigh of relief and leaned against the wall, panting.

"Police," Inspector Samezaki took out the police handbook and showed it to the four women, "What happened? Why did they fight?" "Police?"

The woman who nearly fell from the building was stunned for a moment, then seemed to remember something and pointed at the brown-haired woman and shouted,
"Officer, I'm calling the police! Not only did she steal my family heirloom ring, but she also pushed me off the balcony and tried to kill me!"

"I didn't mean to do that!" the brown-haired woman retorted angrily, "I didn't steal your ring! Why would I steal from you?"

"Why not?" The black-haired woman sneered. "Your husband's investment failed. Not only did he not make any money, but he also owed a huge debt. Do you think I don't know?"

"You must be planning to steal my ring and sell it to pay off your husband's debts!"

"I repeat, I didn't steal the ring!"

The brown-haired woman's face turned pale as she replied word by word.

"Even if my husband's investment fails, my family will not be short of money."

"If lack of money is the reason for stealing the ring, then Huizi is the most suspicious person!"

"What did you say?" Huizi, who reeked of alcohol, said angrily, "When did I become short of money?"

"Haha, at this point, stop pretending!" The brown-haired woman said with a mocking look on her face, "We've known for a long time that your husband has been embezzling company funds and is about to be discovered."

"You must have stolen the ring and wanted to sell it to make up for the money your husband embezzled!"

"Rina, I only told you this. How did Saki know about it?" Keiko looked at the black-haired woman with embarrassment. "You told her, right?"

"Haha, you told Rina about this just to get her to lend you money," the brown-haired woman named Saki sneered. "Unfortunately, Rina immediately spread your story. I guess all of us classmates know about it now."

"Rina! You bitch!" Keiko pounced on the black-haired Rina, "I must have been blind to think of you as my best friend!"

"It's not like you haven't done this kind of thing before!" Rina shouted, unwilling to be outdone. "Didn't you spread the news that my husband cheated on me and divorced me?"

The two women started fighting in front of four officers from the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division.

Officers Morimura and Megure rushed forward to pull them apart.

"...Women's friendship is really complicated," Maori Kogoro sighed softly, "It makes my head hurt."

"Me too," Lin Xiuyi nodded in agreement.

"You two!"

Kisaki Eri gave the two of them a cold look, but did not speak to defend the woman.

……

After Officer Samezaki's questioning, the whole story became clear quickly.

The black-haired woman who nearly fell to her death from the balcony was named Rina Hase.

The brown-haired woman who almost killed someone by accident is named Saki Imagawa.

The woman who reeked of alcohol and was too panicked to save anyone was named Keiko Kawamura.

The remaining short-haired woman, who had a low sense of presence but came to the rescue at the critical moment, was named Mika Hirata.

These four women are college classmates and good sisters who often play together.

Tonight, four women gather at Rina Hase's apartment.

During this period, Rina Hase showed the other three people a sapphire ring worth hundreds of millions of dollars in order to show off.

This is a family heirloom of the Hase family. It is said that many people in the Hase family died in the fight for this ring, and there is a legend that this ring will curse its owner.

In order to isolate the curse, the Hase family went to the shrine to ask the priest to make a wooden box, and then put a talisman on it to store the ring.

(End of this chapter)