Ke Xue: Shinichi and I are childhood friends

The sudden fall startled Conan and Hattori Heiji, but they reacted immediately and calmly analyzed the body. (To be honest, it is quite outrageous that the body is still intact after falling from such a high building.)

"Died on the spot." Hattori Heiji said in a deep voice.

"But where did he fall from?" Conan looked up and didn't find anything unusual.

"I think he should have fallen from the 21st floor." Judy suddenly said.

Hattori Heiji looked at her in surprise: "How do you know?"

Judy explained: "I know him, he is Mr. Takai who lives next door to me."

"What?" Xia Tian, ​​who was frightened half to death by the falling man, heard her boyfriend's name and was a little unbelievable. She ran over in panic and took a look. Her face turned pale and she knelt on the ground with her face covered in pain, "How could this happen?"

Hattori Heiji glanced at the woman and asked: "After you left with the two men just now, did Mr. Takai stay in the room?"

Xia Tian sobbed a few more times, raised his head and answered with tears in his eyes: "Yes, he was drunk and sleeping on the bed. But I don't understand why he committed suicide?"

Hearing Xia Tian's firm statement that Takai committed suicide, the two detectives and the FBI were shocked.

Judy asked in confusion: "Why? How do you know that Mr. Takai committed suicide? He could have been pushed down by someone in the room?"

"Of course I know!" Xia Tian's voice was a little hysterical, "He was the only one in the room at the time. I also locked the door when I left. Besides, he was sleeping in the bedroom and couldn't hear the doorbell."

"If this isn't suicide, then what is?"

Conan and Hattori Heiji looked at each other.

Conan said: "Not necessarily!"

Xia Tian looked at Conan in surprise.

Conan held up the phone he had just picked up through his handkerchief and said, "Before Mr. Takai fell, he was talking to a man named Mr. Kawakami, and one minute before that, he also read a text message from Mr. Nakamachi."

"Besides that," Hattori Heiji continued, "before Mr. Takai fell, you were still taking pictures under this dim building at night. Don't you think it's suspicious?"

Natsuta was stunned and said, "I took pictures for my friends."

Hattori Heiji certainly wouldn't believe her words casually. He put his hands in his pockets and said, "Anyway, wait until the police and the two people who contacted Mr. Takai arrive, then you can slowly explain to the police."

···

Soon, the hardworking Inspector Megure arrived at the scene with his men.

It was late at night, and I thought there would be no case today. I received a call to the police just as I was about to go home.

Inspector Megure first glanced around the scene, but did not see the familiar figure.

Without a detective present, it shouldn't be a murder case, right? A-Lu is still waiting for me at home! (A-Lu is Midori Megure, the wife of Inspector Megure. She was mentioned in Chapter 90. Hey.)

After inspecting and handling the scene downstairs, Inspector Megure looked at Natsuta, and Nakamachi and Kawakami who rushed over after receiving the call.

He first asked Xia Tian: "So, you took pictures here to show your friends the appearance of your boyfriend's apartment, right?"

Xia Tian covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, sobbing, "Yes, it's my first time here today. I wanted to go back to the room immediately after taking pictures, but suddenly someone fell down, and it turned out to be Takai, wuwuwu..."

Inspector Megure sighed, frowned slightly and asked: "However, when you left Mr. Takai's room, it was around 5 o'clock, and he fell from the building at 6 o'clock. What were you doing in the hour in between? You didn't take pictures here all the time?"

Xia Tian shook his head and explained: "No, before I took pictures, I used Takai's car to send them back home. They drank a lot of alcohol like Takai."

Inspector Megure nodded, walked up to Kawakami and Nakamachi and asked: "So, what is your relationship with the deceased?"

Kawakami looked like he hadn't sobered up yet, his face was red and he was swaying from side to side.

Nakamachi took the initiative to explain: "We are employees of the same company. In order to congratulate Section Chief Takai on his promotion to manager, we held a small celebration at his home, and we have been drinking since noon."

"We were planning to go back later, but Section Chief Takai was really drunk..."

Kawakami burped and interrupted the conversation, saying: "Then, he started to taunt us when he drank too much, saying that if you want to get ahead, you have to disregard human feelings, and people like us will never be able to climb over him in our lifetime."

"Wow, he said such a thing." Inspector Megure said thoughtfully.

"Yes," Nakamachi said with a bit of embarrassment,So after I got home, I sent a message to my classmate, hoping that he could understand the feelings of his subordinates, otherwise Senior Sister Hiraya is a lesson for us. "

"Senior Sister Hiraya?" Takagi Wataru, who was standing behind Inspector Megure and recording, heard a new name and asked subconsciously.

Kawakami saw that Nakamachi looked very unhappy, and took the initiative to explain: "Junyo Hiraya, who committed suicide last month, is also an employee of our company. She was Nakamachi's senior in high school, and happened to be my and Takai's junior in college."

He looked at Natsuta again: "Speaking of which, Hiraya entered the company at the same time as you, Natsuta, right?"

Natsuta was stunned for a moment, and quickly nodded and said yes.

"I see," Inspector Megure nodded slightly, "Why did Hiraya commit suicide again?"

Nakamachi sighed and said: "She committed suicide because she couldn't stand the pressure of work. Maybe it was because Section Chief Takai had said before that people with poor performance would be fired. In order to keep the job, she worked very hard, and finally couldn't stand it anymore..."

Kawakami said angrily: "But Takai seemed to be joking and forgot what he said."

Kawakami said that after returning home, he called Takai and scolded him as a villain who stepped on other people's corpses to get to the top.

But he suddenly received a call saying that Takai fell from the building and died.

"Mr. Police, although I scolded him, I didn't say that he would die immediately, and what I said was all true. Even if he committed suicide by jumping off the building because he couldn't stand it, it can't be considered as murder, right?"

Inspector Megure frowned at the smell of alcohol coming out of Kawakami's mouth and said, "That's true."

"That's enough, let me go back quickly, I don't want to say the same thing for the third time." Kawakami said with a headache.

Inspector Megure was stunned: "The third time? "

Nakamachi explained: "It's like this. Before the police came, we had been asked the same question. It was a blonde foreign woman, a dark-skinned boy, and a little boy wearing glasses."

"Huh? Are you talking about..." Inspector Megure was stunned.

The scene of the crime, and this familiar appearance, why does it feel like an old acquaintance? If he remembered correctly, the dark-skinned boy was Hattori Heiji, right?

He is also a detective...

From Xia Tian, ​​I learned that the three had taken the key from her and went to Takai's house.

Inspector Megure hurriedly led people to rush up and saw Conan, Hattori Heiji and Judy standing at the door of Takai's house, all three of them were thinking.

Inspector Megure breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately you didn't go in, okay, just leave it to us police next."

Hattori Heiji said dissatisfiedly: "You came too late, we have investigated it clearly. "

Judy raised the camera in her hand and said with a smile: "I took a lot of photos!"

Inspector Megure was speechless. How could these people just...