Chapter 95: The Accident Ago
Coffee shop on the second floor
Everyone found a seat in a corner and sat down.
Perhaps because there were so many people around her, the woman didn't look so scared anymore and whispered, "My name is Okazaki Sumie."
Yuya winked at Hattori Heiji: This is Osaka, you ask the questions.
Hattori Heiji nodded and asked, "Do you know the deceased?"
Okazaki Sumie shuddered and nodded. "Twenty years ago, we studied at a driving school. There were six of us at the time... and three of us have been killed. Woo woo woo woo."
The woman started crying as she spoke, and Mao Lilan considerately handed her a tissue.
The woman whispered thank you.
Hattori Heiji's eyes were solemn. Three of the six people who had studied together at the driving school had already been killed?
Could it be that these are three cases with the same modus operandi and are related to the driving school back then?
"Who are the other two people?" asked Hattori Heiji.
Okazaki Sumie sniffed and said, "One is Sotaro Gosei, who is currently a member of the Osaka Prefecture Council. The other is Kiichiro Numabuchi. I saw a wanted poster for him on the news a few days ago."
"Numabuchi Kiichiro?" Hattori Heiji was shocked. "The robber and murderer who is on the run?"
Okazaki Sumie nodded: "Yes."
"Then why did you come to the crime scene today?"
"Someone left a message on my phone, asking me to come meet an old friend, so I came..."
"So that's how it is..." Hattori Heiji pondered. It seemed that the criminal of this serial murder case had already targeted Okazaki Sumie.
Yuya suddenly asked, "Did anything happen at that driving school 20 years ago?"
Okazaki Sumie's body trembled violently, and he stammered, not daring to speak.
Youye frowned: "Don't be afraid. Even if it's a criminal case, the statute of limitations has expired. But if you don't tell us, we won't be able to help you. If the murderer who killed those three people targets you..."
Okazaki Sumie raised his head suddenly, his eyes widened with fear: "Save me! You can definitely save me, right?"
Yuya and Hattori Heiji looked at each other and said, "Then tell us what happened back then, so that we can help you."
Okazaki Sumie's pupils shrank slightly, and he lowered his head: "I understand."
"There were six of us studying at a driving school and we were all assigned to one instructor. This instructor was very strict with students. If there was even a small mistake while driving, he would scold us. He was a well-known devil instructor in that school."
"We didn't know how many times he scolded us. Later, when we graduated, we wanted to scare him as revenge. We forced him to drink a lot of alcohol, and then made him get into a car with faulty brakes, saying that we wanted the coach to teach us one last time. In the end... the car had an accident and the coach died."
"We, we didn't do it on purpose, we just wanted to see how scared he would be when he found out the brakes didn't work, to scare him."
As the woman spoke, she burst into tears.
However, no one knew whether she was doing this out of guilt or fear of being killed.
Everyone looked at each other and saw the contempt in each other's eyes.
"Hattori, can this situation be considered intentional murder?" Yuya whispered, while glancing at Sakata Yusuke, whose face was a little gloomy.
Hattori Heiji nodded and shook his head: "They knew that the brakes of the vehicle were out of order, and they let a drunk person drive. This can be considered intentional murder, but... as you said, the effective prosecution period for criminal cases is 15 years. Now 20 years have passed. Even if they want to prosecute, it's useless..."
Yuya sighed.
"But who killed those three people?" Hattori Heiji pinched his chin and thought, "Could it be that Numabuchi Kiichiro? He wanted to use the incident of that year to blackmail the councillor Xiangsi, and after being rejected, he killed everyone related to that year one by one, and finally threatened the councillor?"
"Or maybe Xiang Si, who was planning to run for the seat again this time, used Numabuchi Kiichiro to kill people in order to cover up the scandal?"
Yuya nodded: "Both possibilities are possible."
"What do you think? Could it be that the coach's child knew the truth of what happened back then and wants revenge?" Conan suddenly appeared.
"Huh?" Everyone looked at Conan in surprise.
Conan still didn't realize anything, and reasoned on his own: "It's been 20 years, the effective prosecution period for criminal cases has passed, and there is no way to punish those people with legal weapons, so they killed people themselves?"
The veins on Yuya's forehead bulged suddenly, and he stared at Conan with a vicious look: I told you to be quiet, but you insisted on butting in, right? You think I can't see it?
After punching Conan hard, Youya coughed, drawing the attention of others to himself, and said, "This possibility is also possible. We can investigate in three directions."
Conan covered his head and looked at Youya with an aggrieved look on his face, "Why do you always hit me?"
Yuya glared at him and whispered, "Can't you control yourself? Do you think Hattori and I can't solve this case? Or do you insist on letting Xiaolan know your identity?"
Conan was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked at Mao Lilan, and found that she was talking to Yuan Shanheye, and he breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay, Xiaolan won't doubt it."
Yuu had nothing more to say. He gave him a look that said he was going to make a fool of himself, then looked at Hattori Heiji and said, "In short, based on the current clues, all three possibilities exist. Let's investigate from these three directions."
"But there might be some trouble with that congressman. For the time being, let's have someone keep an eye on him and focus on investigating the coach's child and Kiichiro Numabuchi."
Hattori Heiji agreed and said, "What you said makes sense, but Kiichiro Numabuchi is still on the run and the police haven't found him yet. Should we investigate the coach and his child first?"
He looked at Okazaki Sumie and said, "Auntie, you should go home now and don't go out casually until this case is over."
Okazaki Sumie nodded repeatedly: "I understand."
Hattori Heiji took the lead and stood up: "Let's go, let's go investigate the coach's situation first."
Sakata Yusuke took the initiative to say: "Brother Heiji, how about I send Mrs. Okazaki back? I'm worried that the criminal will..."
You also frowned. You are not sending him back, you are sending him on his way, right? Do you know that you can't hide any longer, so you plan to act as soon as possible?
Hattori Heiji said: "Then Officer Sakata will be in your hands."
Youya opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything.
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