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The barber shop was not large and the search was completed in a short time.

Maruta Ayumi came over and reported quietly: "Inspector, we didn't find any masks, but we found an old clock under the counter."

"Have you searched all the trash cans?" Aoki Matsu asked.

Maruta Ayumi nodded, "We have searched everything."

Aoki Matsu's mouth curled up slightly when he heard this. It seemed that this case was exactly as he had deduced.

There was also news from Yoji Aihara. According to the records of the telecommunications company, the victim received a call at 6 o'clock. The phone number was the number of a public telephone booth, which was not far from the address of the watch shop opened by Masao Noda.

After receiving this information, Aoki Matsu looked at Maori Kogoro and Noda Masao and said, "Detective Maori, Mr. Noda, Mr. Shimazaki, we just searched the scene and found that something is missing. You are all people who have been here. Now we have to search you according to the law. Please cooperate."

Maori Kogoro immediately asked, "What's missing?"

Qing Musong ignored him and emphasized: "Please cooperate with us, Mr. Koike. If you don't mind, you can also cooperate with our body search and investigation. This will help you clear your suspicion."

Upon hearing this, Tatsutaro Koike quickly said: "I am willing to cooperate. I am not the murderer. I am not afraid to cooperate with your investigation." He was just afraid that the police would not investigate.

With Koike Tatsutaro as the leader and Mouri Kogoro who agreed immediately, the other two wanted to refuse but didn't dare to, because if they refused, it would seem that they were guilty and that they were the murderers.

All four agreed, and Qing Musong had their bodies searched.

Aoki Matsu personally searched Noda Masao's body, and then found a mask in his trouser pocket, as well as an unexpected gain.

"Inspector, Detective Mori and the other three didn't find anything." Maruta Ayumi reported.

Aoki Matsu took the mask from Noda Masao's trouser pocket and said, "It seems that the murderer of Mr. Ebihara is you, Mr. Noda."

"Ah!" Noda Masao felt something was wrong when he saw Aoki Matsu search out the mask from his trouser pocket. When he heard what Aoki Matsu said, he became even more panicked.

After hearing what Aoki Matsu said, the others also subconsciously looked towards Noda Masao, "Ah!"

"Mr. Noda, what's wrong with you..." Shimazaki Nozomi looked at Noda Masao and asked with some confusion.

Noda Masao still wanted to struggle, and said with all his strength: "Officer, I was sitting on the chair next to Mr. Mori at that time, Mr. Mori, isn't that right?" He looked at Kogoro Mori when he said the last sentence.

Maori Kogoro looked at Noda Masao and replied, "You were indeed sitting next to me, but I didn't see your face until something fell to the ground and made a noise. When I stood up and turned around, Mr. Noda took off the towel covering your face. Only then did I see your face and confirm that you were sitting on the chair next to me."

Aoki Matsu replied, "In fact, Mr. Ebihara was not killed when he made that noise. He was killed by Mr. Noda long before Detective Mori came to this store."

"What did you say?" Tatsutaro Koike exclaimed when he heard this.

Shimazaki Nozomi also said, "How is this possible? Didn't Mr. Maori say that he saw Ebihara when he came here?"

"What Detective Maori saw was a man wearing an Afro wig, a mask, and a blue sports jacket from the darts club," said Aoki Matsu.

Upon hearing this, Noda Masao quickly interrupted and said, "That person is Ebihara!"

"No!" Aoki Matsu looked at Noda Masao and said, "That person is you in disguise."

"Cross-dressing." Shimazaki Moto was surprised.

Aoki Matsu nodded. "In order to prevent Detective Mori who suddenly broke into the barber shop from seeing his appearance, he took a wig and a mask to disguise himself as Mr. Ebihara. The evidence is this mask. We searched all over the barber shop and didn't find any masks. We only found a mask in your trouser pocket, Mr. Noda.

If it was Mr. Ebihara himself that Detective Mori saw when he came in, there were less than five minutes before he was shot dead and fell to the ground. In such a short time, even if he took off the mask on his mouth, it would be impossible for him to throw it far away, and it would be even more impossible for him to stuff his used mask into the trouser pocket of you as a guest.

So there is only one possibility, that is, this mask is yours, and the Mr. Ebihara that Detective Maori saw at that time was you pretending to be. As for the body of Mr. Ebihara who had been killed by you at that time, I think it should be lying on the chair next to Detective Maori.

I asked Detective Maori, and he said that the person next to him was wearing a shawl and had a steamed hot towel covering his face, so tightly that you couldn't tell who was lying there.

Mr. Noda, you who killed Mr. Ebihara in this store originally wanted to leave the store as if nothing had happened, but you happened to meet Detective Mori who suddenly came to the door. Detective Mori was in a hurry at the time and did not think much about it. Since he was not a regular customer, he did not know the store manager, so he mistook you who was in disguise as the store manager.

So you put a hot towel on Detective Maori's face and covered his eyes, trying to take the opportunity to escape. But you didn't expect that there were people at the front door and at the back door, so you couldn't escape. Under the attack from both sides, you were like a turtle in a jar.

At this time, the shuttle bus from the nearby swimming class came, and the bus was playing noisy music, so you thought of a way. So you exchanged positions with the body lying on the chair while the music continued. In such a loud music, any sound would be covered.

So you took advantage of that moment to quickly let the body fall in front of the counter, open the window, and then lie down on the chair in place of the body."

"Then how did he make the things on the counter fall down?" asked Shimazaki Nozomi.

"A dart!" Qing Mu Song pointed to the dart on the left side of the window. "Don't you think the position of that dart is strange? If you shoot it from outside the store towards the store, there is a window blocking it, so it should be impossible for the dart to land there.

So the dart that could have landed there could only have been shot from the chair where Mr. Noda was lying, toward the counter. Mr. Noda then pretended to be awakened by the noise, and together with Detective Mori who was awakened, he became the first to discover the body.

"So that's how it is." Tatsutaro Koike said with sudden realization. It was really a good thing that he was not considered the murderer.

"But there is one thing that is a little strange." Maori Kogoro looked at Aoki Matsu and said, "Why did Mr. Noda deliberately let the body lie on the chair? He probably didn't expect that I would suddenly come here."

"Because Mr. Ebihara was sitting on that chair when he was killed." Aoki Matsu explained: "I think the time of the new clock that Mr. Noda sent to Mr. Ebihara was not yesterday, but this afternoon.

After Mr. Shimazaki left, Mr. Noda came with the new clock, and Mr. Ebihara sat where customers usually sat in order to confirm the position of the clock and the effect of the presentation.

We just found the old clock under the counter. In addition, the landline here received a call at 6 o'clock. We checked the phone number and found that it was a public telephone booth very close to Mr. Noda's watch shop. It should be that Mr. Noda confirmed the situation with Mr. Ebihara before coming.

But Mr. Ebihara didn't expect that after the new clock was installed, he sat on the chair to determine the position of the clock, and was attacked from behind by Mr. Noda, who stabbed him to death with a poisoned dart. Then he covered his face with a hot towel and a shawl. If someone saw the state of the store from outside, at most they would think that the customer was waiting to be shaved.

This would delay the discovery of the body, giving him more time to escape or create an alibi. But he didn't expect that when he was ready to escape, Detective Maori suddenly broke in.

"No!" Noda Masao suddenly yelled at Aoki Matsu, "It's just a mask. Can't I wear a mask if I'm sick? Why can't you criminals be incompetent for not searching carefully if you didn't find a mask in the store? Is there any evidence to prove that the person Detective Maori met at the beginning was me in disguise!"

Aoki Matsu raised his eyebrows slightly when he saw this.

The uncle is brave enough!

It is rare to find a prisoner who has produced evidence but still refuses to plead guilty in the world of science.

He must be hit hard for this!

"Mr. Noda, the shirt you're wearing should be the sports jacket of the dart club." Aoki Matsu looked at Noda Masao and said, "Can you please take it off so we can see it?"

Noda Masao was stunned when he heard this and did not take any immediate action.

Seeing this, Maruta Ayumi immediately stepped forward and said to Noda Masao: "Please cooperate!"

Noda Masao did not panic when he heard this, because he had thought about this problem before. "I know." Then he unbuttoned his coat, opened it and showed the clothes inside to everyone.

"Ah! There is no pattern at all!" exclaimed Kogoro Mouri.

Noda Masao smiled smugly, "What a pity!"

Seeing this, Qing Musong said calmly: "Mr. Noda, did you not hear me clearly? I asked you to take it off. Your trick of deceiving children is too low-level. Maruta, go and take off Mr. Noda's coat."

"Yes!" Maruta Ayumi replied, then stepped forward to take off Noda Masao's coat.

Noda Masao got anxious now. While trying to stop Maruta Ayumi's behavior, he shouted in a clearly exhausted tone, "You, what are you doing... Stop it... Let me go..."

Noda Masao's struggling appearance was in stark contrast to his previous cooperative appearance. Even a fool could see that there was something wrong with him.

Sure enough, Maruta Ayumi relied on her younger body and well-trained martial arts skills to successfully strip off the coat that Noda Masao was wearing.

Then everyone saw that on the back of the clothes Noda Masao was wearing was the logo of the Darts Club.

"Wear your clothes inside out." Kogoro Mouri said as he watched the scene.

Aoki Matsu said: "When Mr. Noda exchanged positions with the corpse, he probably thought of this, so he deliberately put his clothes on inside out. I think this evidence is enough. There is no reason for anyone other than the murderer to wear a sports jacket inside out."

Upon hearing this, Koike Tatsutaro looked at Noda Masao and asked, "Noda, why is this?"

Noda Masao stopped pretending and said angrily, "When I borrowed money from Ebihara, he asked me to write a promissory note. I don't know when he gave it to an underground bank that lends money at high interest rates."

"Ah!" Tatsutaro Koike and Nozomi Shimazaki took a deep breath when they heard this.

As for usury, anyone who has been in society knows that it is not easy to get rid of it.

"My wife is going crazy because of the debt collection they carry out every day. She has returned to her parents' home and filed for divorce from me," said Masao Noda sadly.

"Why would Mr. Ebihara do such a thing?" asked Kogoro Mori.

Noda Masao replied: "In the beginning, he actually borrowed money from an underground bank, and in order to offset his own debt, he betrayed me."

"How could this be..." Tatsutaro Koike didn't expect it to be such an outrageous thing.

"I can't forgive him. No matter what I say, I can't let him go." Noda Masao cried.

Aoki Matsu sighed inwardly when he heard this.

In Noda Masao's case, he just met the wrong person. It was originally a normal matter of borrowing money from someone, but he didn't expect that because he met a selfish and unreliable person, his wife would leave him.

It really fits what he had thought before - if you endure it for a moment, the angrier you get; if you take a step back, the more you think about it, the more you lose.

Then just fuck him.

Masao Noda tried, succeeded, and failed.

He successfully killed Hideo Ebihara, but failed to escape and was arrested by the police.

Aoki Matsu asked Maruta Ayumi to handcuff Noda Masao and then took him back to the Metropolitan Police Department.

After leaving the barber shop, Aoki Matsu looked at Maori Kogoro and asked, "Uncle Maori, didn't you say you were going to a party? Do you need me to send someone to take you there?"

"Ah!" Maori Kogoro was stunned at first, then he quickly glanced at the time and screamed, "Ahhh, it's over, ah..."

It seems that it is no longer necessary.

Although I don't have to send Kogoro Mouri to the party, I still have to send the little members of the Junior Detective League home, and it's already 9 o'clock.

Because tomorrow is not the weekend, Aoki Matsu decided to stay at his own home so that he could go to work tomorrow. Therefore, Aoki Matsu arranged for a police officer who lived in Beihua Town to drive the group back, while he followed the police car back to the Metropolitan Police Department first and then went home.