Establishing the Teyvat Organization in KO

Chapter 43 Strange Water Marks

Although Conan had a series of guesses in his mind, he remained calm and asked Mona about the commission.

Only then did I realize that the flowers in the garden in front of the house had been frequently picked some time ago, and every time I couldn't find who did it, so I decided to hire a detective to investigate.

When Noelle was working in Shikoku, she heard about the high school detective Junya Tokitsu, who was said to have helped the police solve many cases. She heard that he had recently come to Tokyo. He left Shikoku after seeing the report on the Shikoku Lavender Villa case, so she commissioned him to investigate.

Later, Shijin Junya also gave the result of the investigation, that it was the neighbor's child who ran over to pick it up out of play, and he also produced the evidence of the child's shoe prints on the grass. Mona also accepted this result at first, but at that time, well, there was no money, so he just asked him to come back to collect the commission fee after a while.

Later, Noel accidentally saw that the flowers were picked by stray cats around, and there were messy cat paw prints around the flowers. After Mona told Junya Tokitsu, he firmly denied that his investigation was wrong and believed that Noel was lying. Therefore, Mona was angry for a while and didn't want to give a penny.

After hearing the whole story, Conan frowned. In fact, he thought that the evidence provided by the detective named Shijin was indeed insufficient. Just based on the footprints, it was not certain that the child did it. Moreover, when the client had doubts and provided evidence, the most important thing to do was to re-investigate to see if it was indeed a clue that he had missed, rather than blindly insisting on his own investigation results.

and......

"Sister Mona, aren't you an astrologer? Can't you predict who picked this flower? Or is it that Sister Mona's astrology can't do this?" A layer of white light flashed on Conan's glasses.

"Of course I can do that. But astrology is used to predict the fate of others. How can you use such a trivial thing casually?"

This little brat is really unlovable, especially his attitude of digging deep into the matter, Mona muttered secretly.

At this time, the questioning on the other side also came to an end, and they were ready to ask Mona about the relevant situation. Mona also took the opportunity to take out the surveillance video facing the study.

Obviously, for such important evidence, Conan would definitely squeeze in and watch quietly.

From the surveillance video, it can be seen that before Shi Jinjunya entered the study, the books on the table were intact from the open door. After closing the door, it was never opened again, and no one entered or left during that time. In addition, the study only had a sealed window on the top - in other words, it was a secret room.

When he opened the door again, the book had been destroyed.

After watching the surveillance video, Tokatsu Junya shouted, "Impossible! There is something wrong with this surveillance video! Someone must have framed me!" He then watched the video over and over again several times, but still could not find any flaws.

Conan also finished watching the video. At present, all the evidence proves that Tokatsu Junya did this to take revenge on Mona. Unfortunately, he didn't have time to leave and was blocked by Mona at the door.

But Conan looked at all Tokatsu Junya's performance so far, and the connection between Mona and Noelle, and felt that this matter was not that simple. But if it was not him, why did Mona and Noelle frame him? Did they have a grudge? But looking at Tokatsu Junya's performance, it didn't seem like they had met before. Just for a commission fee, they wouldn't do this, right?

And it is obvious that based on the content of the video, Officer Takagi has already determined that this incident was done by Junya Tokatsu.

But Takagi Wataru was also muttering to himself: How come we caught the criminal so easily today? Usually there would be a detective to help out in the past, but today there was no detective! He always felt like something was missing, and he felt a little uneasy.

Takagi Wataru smiled and thought that he was overthinking it. The evidence was conclusive and it was impossible for him to be wrong.

"Well, Mr. Tokitsu, I'm afraid you will have to go with us, and you will also be responsible for the loss of Miss Mona's books." As he said that, Takagi Wataru casually asked Mona how much these books cost.

"About 3500 million." Mona walked to the table, looked at the title of the book and made a rough estimate.

"3500 million!" everyone was shocked.

Tokatsu Junya was even more furious: "Why don't you just rob?!" He had originally planned to give up, it was just a few books anyway, the compensation wouldn't be much, he could just pay the money first, and then think of a way to maybe not have to go to jail. But when he heard that it would cost so much money, it was just the same as his savings from doing commissions over the years, and he immediately couldn't sit still.

"Why are you so surprised? I'm not kidding. Didn't I tell you that this is an out-of-print book! It's very valuable." Mona emphasized.

This price was specially chosen to drain all his savings. Anyway, he was not worthy of the title of detective, and who knows how many wrongful convictions his reasoning had caused. He was very conscientious to ask for a little money, because others might want his life.

“In fact, the cheapest book in Miss Mona’s study costs 50, so I said that it is impossible for Miss Mona to be short of money to pay the commission.” Noel added seriously.

Conan was also a little surprised. The minimum price of a book was 50. How much did all the books in this study cost? No wonder Noel said before that Mona was not short of money. On the contrary, she should be very rich. Then, was it true that she said that her poor life was just a path to true practice?

When the policemen around heard that these books were so valuable, they immediately slowed down their handling, for fear that they would accidentally damage some and lose several months or even years' salary.

Conan still felt that this person was not the one who did it. He watched the surveillance video several times but still couldn't find any flaws - the door was indeed not opened again after Tokatsu Junya entered, and there were no signs of editing in the video. Unless someone could enter the study with the door closed, there was no way to explain how someone could knock Tokatsu Junya unconscious in this secret room and then leave without anyone noticing.

Apart from the strange water stains at the study door, Conan could not find any other clues.

"Oh, these water marks at the door are so strange, as if something wet had passed by them." Conan was still unwilling to give up without finding the answer, so he ran to the study door, pointing at the water marks and shouted.

"Ah!" Just as he finished speaking, he was hit on the head by Yuanzi, "Little boy, why are you running around again? It's just water that was accidentally spilled on the ground, what's so strange about it."

Conan looked over and found that Tokatsu Junya's resistance was quickly stopped by the police. They were handcuffing him and preparing to take him back to the police station for further investigation.

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