Chapter 156 Three conflicting eyewitness reports
On the other side, Yuya and Conan slipped out in time, found an empty corner and squatted down to continue their phone call.
"Ah, you really didn't see the message." Youye sighed, "Anyway, there's still some time before the sun sets, so tell me the details of the robbery and I'll help you solve it, and then you hurry over."
Conan rolled his eyes. He was a little envious of Yuya's identity. He could solve cases without restraint and even say to the police in a light-hearted and cool way, "I'll help you solve the case."
"What will happen when the sun sets?" Takagi Wataru asked nervously. Why did Yuya specifically mention this time point?
Yuya said dimly, "Just now, Officer Sato and Inspector Shiratori made a bet. If you can't get to the Water City Building in Beido City to pick her up before the sun sets, she will become Inspector Shiratori's bride."
"You don't want Officer Sato to marry Inspector Shiratori, do you?"
Yuya waited for a while but didn't get any answer from the other party. He looked at Conan in confusion. This reaction was wrong?
"Moshimoshi~Officer Takagi? Are you listening? Moshimoshi?"
At this time, Takagi Wataru's eyes were dull and he collapsed weakly on the seat.
But he was immediately stimulated by the fact that Officer Sato might marry Inspector Shiratori, and he cheered himself up and quickly gave some information about the robbery case.
“In short, we have now identified three suspects in this robbery, two men and one woman.
One of the men, named Hiroshi Zama, is 21 years old, unemployed, about 180 cm tall, wearing a blue sweater and earrings.
The second man is called Kamie Yasuo, 32 years old, a cram school teacher, about 170 cm tall, wearing a green sweater.
The last woman is called Yueshui Yingzi, an office worker, about 160 cm tall, wearing black clothes and two watches on her hands.
When the criminal committed the crime, he wore a helmet, a coat, and gloves. After taking out the knife, he held a piece of white paper with the words "Hand over your money" on it to threaten the clerk. His specific identity is unknown.
Afterwards, the criminal threw away his helmet and coat and ran into the public toilet, where these three people were at the time. Chiba and I can confirm this.”
Takagi Wataru looked at his manual, scratched his head and continued, "The trouble is that the witnesses' information about the criminal is completely inconsistent."
“The old man who was hit in front of the toilet said that he saw a woman in a blue dress;
The girl in the clothing store said that among the crowd of people, only the prisoner was a head taller than the others, so he should be a man over 180cm tall. She also saw that he was wearing a green coat under his coat.
Finally, the coffee shop manager with glasses passed the criminal outside the shop and said that he was about 170 cm tall and wore a black shirt under his coat.
"That's the information we've collected so far."
"I see," Yuya stroked his chin, "There are three direct witnesses, but the characteristics of the criminal they saw are different. It's quite interesting."
"What's so interesting about this!" Takagi Shigeru shouted anxiously, "Brother Kamiya, you need to help!"
Takagi Shigeru was so anxious that he even called him "brother".
"Don't worry, help me verify a hypothesis first. If you confirm it, I will know who the criminal is." Yuya said, "Let's go to the coffee shop right now and ask Mr. Douyuan."
"Huh? How do you know the manager's name?" Takagi Shi was stunned.
"I often go there to buy coffee beans, so I'm quite familiar with the manager." Youya explained lightly.
Miss Shiho is a big coffee consumer, and You often goes there to drink a cup, because the coffee beans in that shop are of good quality and taste good. After a few visits, the two of them became familiar with the store manager.
"okay, I get it."
Takagi Wataru rushed to the coffee shop and called Mr. Douhara outside.
"You mean Yuya-kun?" Mr. Douhara was a little surprised. "What does he want to ask?"
"Well, he said...ah!" Takagi Wataru suddenly looked at Mr. Douhara's face in surprise, "Why did your glasses change color?"
Mr. Douyuan was stunned for a moment, then explained with a smile: "I saw this by chance before. It is a dimming lens that automatically changes color in the sun. I thought it was interesting, so I bought it and tried it on. How about it? It turns from ordinary glasses into sunglasses. Isn't it interesting?"
"So," Takagi Shige's mouth twitched slightly, "you said that you saw the prisoner's clothes were black, and you saw it through these sunglasses?" What you see through the sunglasses is not black!
Mr. Douyuan reacted and said embarrassedly: "That's right, but the criminal's height is definitely around 170cm!"
Takagi Wataru asked: "But another girl said that the criminal she saw was over 180cm tall!"
Yuya quickly asked, "Where did you see that girl?"
Takagi explained: "I saw it in a clothing store about 100 meters away from the coffee shop."
Yuya thought about the terrain nearby and suddenly realized, "I see. Officer Takagi, you can go over and take a look and you'll know."
Takagi Shigeru walked over as he was told, but didn't find anything special.
"Yuya-kun?" Takagi Wataru called out tentatively.
"Well, look at the side of the road. Is there a raised curb?"
Takagi Wataru looked down and said, "Indeed, but this..."
"If I remember correctly, the clothing store should be next to the subway station exit. The girl said she saw a crowd of people, which means that there were a lot of passengers coming out at that time, and the criminal went against the crowd."
Takagi Wataru nodded, and suddenly realized that Yuya couldn't see him, so he said: "It's like this, according to the criminal's escape route, he will indeed go against the passengers."
As soon as he finished speaking, he realized what was going on: "So that's what happened! The criminal was in a hurry to escape, but he was running very slowly against the flow of people, so he ran along the curb. The girl saw the criminal running along the curb!"
Youye smiled and said, "Yes, these evidences seem confusing and difficult to match, but as long as we combine them with the environment at the time, we can extract the correct information."
"In other words, we now know that the criminal is about 170cm tall and wearing green clothes. We can basically confirm who the criminal is."
"But," Takagi Shigeru was still a little puzzled, "the old man said that the person who knocked him down was a woman? Could it be that the criminal is Zama Hiroshi wearing earrings? But the height and the color of the clothes don't match!"
Yuya touched his chin, thought for a moment and said, "Describe to me in more detail the man in green."
Takagi Shigeru was stunned for a moment and described it again, but the old man's testimony still did not match that of Kamie Yasuo in green clothes.
Yuya frowned slightly. His reasoning could not be wrong. In other words, there must be some characteristics on Kamieeda Yasuo that made the old man mistakenly think he was a woman, and Takagi Shigeru did not notice this, which led to the deviation of the information he obtained.
"Officer Takagi, think carefully again. Is there anything about Kamie Yasuo that would make others mistake him for a woman? You must have missed something."
Yuya glanced at the time and reminded, "Hurry up, it's already past 4 o'clock, and there's not much time left before the sun sets."
"It's so late already?" Takagi Wataru was startled and suddenly thought of something, time?
"I know who the criminal is! Thank you, brother Kamiya!" Takagi Shigeru shouted and hung up the phone.
Yuya stared at the buzzing phone in a daze. No, you told me first when you knew it? What characteristics of that person did you miss?
Don't break my record of 100% crime-solving rate!
Also, when did you start calling Inspector Megure "brother"?