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File 1014: Attending the crime scene
The targets are police officers?! The Metropolitan Police Department trembles— Chapter 2 of the new series!!!!
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Side note: Happily going to school while following the rules!
*honk*
DB: Hm?
Yumi: Hey kids!
Yumi: How well-behaved you all are, crossing the street with your arms raised!
DB: Yesterday we learned about traffic rules from Naeko-san, so afterwards we researched a lot about them!
DB: Children are small and hard to see so they should raise their arm, right?
Yumi: Oh? Miike tought you…?
DB: Japan’s traffic signs are inspired by England’s, right?
Yumi: Y-yes…
Yumi: Did you know that, Miike… ?
Naeko: Ah, yes!
Naeko: That's how I learned it...
Operator: Calling all units!
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Operator: We received a report that the corpse of a woman that was beaten to death has been found in Beika East Park!
Operator: All units should...
Yumi: No way...
Yumi: That's nearby!
Yumi: We should get to the crime scene and secure it!
Naeko: R-right, we need to keep away the onlookers and everything.
Mitsuhiko: We still have time before the first lesson, don't we?
Genta: Should we go too?
Ayumi: Let's go, let's go!
Conan: Geez, I guess it can't be helped...
Conan: We'll only take a quick look, understood?
DB: Yeah!
Haibara (thoughts): The one who wants to go the crime scene the most is clearly you, Kudou-kun...
Naeko: N-
Naeko: No way...
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Naeko: M-Momosaki-san?!
Naeko: Momosaki-san?!
Naeko: Momosaki-san?!
Takagi & Satou: I thought she looked familiar... so she was a police officer...
Yumi: Yes...
Yumi: Just like us, she was part of the traffic division...
Yumi: Sergeant Momosaki Touko...
Yumi: But why would a Judo 3rd dan holder like her...
Naeko: *sob* *sob*
Yumi: Speaking of which... you said something about going out for karaoke with Momosaki-san and a few others last night, no?
Naeko: Y-yes...
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Naeko: I-I got really drunk...
Naeko: And the only thing I remember is Yagi-san, who was with us, bringing me home...
Satou: Which Karaoke place?
Naeko: Karaoke Beika in Beika's 4th district... The one opposite the planetarium that is being remodelled...
Takagi: But that's right around the corner!
Satou: Then she was likely attacked when went to use the toilet in the park on the way home...
Takagi: B-but...
Takagi: The suspect must be quite the expert, considering that they beat a Judo 3rd dan holder to death...
Satou: Either that or...
Satou: They knew she was a police officer...
Satou: And had prepared a way to deal with her...
Satou: In any case, the only clue we have so far is this bent 100 yen coin...
Satou: That was lying next to the body...
Takagi: Is this the act of someone with a grudge against money...?
Satou: That's something we can only decide after questioning people and gathering information...
Conan: No...
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Conan: That's not the only clue!
Satou: Co-
Satou: Conan-kun?!
Conan: Look
Conan: On this woman's left hand...
Conan: Even though the index finger is completely fine...
Conan: The middle, ring and little fingers have scratches on the first joint!
Conan: And if we turn the hand...
Conan: The lower part of the palm is also scratched...
Conan: Yet there's no sign of her body having beeen dragged, which means...
Conan: Originally, her left hand was positioned on the ground like this…
Conan: But someone kicked the hand or something similar…
Conan: And it moved towards her lower body, causing scratches like that. Don't you think?
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Satou: So that means she was pointing somewhere...
Satou: In order to tell us something?
Satou: But where on earth?
Conan: Look at the finger tip!
Conan: There's a bit of blood on it, right?
Satou: Y-you're right...
Conan: Which means...
Conan: This woman probably thought that, even if she pointed somewhere... the culprit would likely erase the clue... so she left a hint that couldn't be erased, with her own blood...
Conan: Ah!
Conan: Look!
Conan: There's still a mark where the bloody finger touched!
Conan: In other words, the place she pointed to...
Conan: Was actually over there...
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Satou: The swings?
Satou: What does tht mean?
Conan: N-no idea...
Takagi: More importantly, what are you guys doing here?
Conan: On the way to school we met Yumi-san and Naeko-san in their patrol car and heard the operator talk about the case...
Conan: And what about you? It seems like you arrived at the scene even before the mobile investigation unit...
Takagi: We happened to be on a stake-out nearby... And since we'd just finished the stake-out...
Yagi: Let me through! I am also a police officer!
Yumi: Hm?
Yumi: Yagi?
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Yagi: Yeah, that's right! Last night, Touko, Miike and I went out for Karaoke...
Yagi: And I separated from Touko outside the Karaoke place, saying I would bring home Miike, who was pretty wasted...
Yagi: Who'd have thought that it would turn out like this afterwards...
Satou: It seems like she went to use the toilet in the park...
Yagi: That can't be! Touko went to the toilet right before we left the Karaoke place...
Takagi: Then why did she come to this park?
Satou: Say...
Satou: Is there anyone who had a grudge against her?
Yagi: No...
Satou: Then do swings mean anything to you?
Yagi: S-swings?
Satou: It seems like she pointed at them on the brink of death...
Satou: At those swings...
Yagi: Ah, now that I think about it... it has nothing to do with swings, but...
Yagi: She was being followed by someone since about a week ago...
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Satou: What?
Satou: Did you think of something?
Yagi: No...
Yagi: I might be mistaken, so I'll get back to you once I'm sure...
Satou: I see...
Yagi: Well then, I should let our friends know about Touko...
Yumi: Yagi!
Yumi: It's your day off today... So please go home and rest!
Yagi: Yeah...
Yagi: I'll do that!
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Satou: Were the murdered Sergeant Momosaki and her...
Satou: Friends?
Yumi: Yes...
Yumi: Apparently they went to school together!
Naeko: Yumi-san as well, right? You even called again and again during Karaoke...
Yagi: You again Yumi? If you have time to call you should come and sing with us! Like back in high school ♪
Yumi: Ah...
Yumi: That's their old classmate Yumiko!
Yumi: If I recall correctly, she's a hostess in Kinza now or something...
Naeko: O-oh, is that so...?
Satou: More importantly, do you really have no idea who might have resented Sergeant Momosaki?
Yumi: Not really... since in our job, being resented is pretty much a given...
Yumi: Ah, but there were those three traffic offender that they brought in...
Yumi: Who kept complaining incessantly!
Satou: When was that? Where did the offences happen?
Yumi: It was a week ago, and all three offences took place at an intersection in Beika's 5th disctrict, I believe?
Conan (thoughts): If it's the 5th district it should be right next to the Mouri Detective Agency!
Satou: Do you remember those three people?
Yumi: Yes... Naeko and I helped out with the questioning...
Naeko: I took down the names as well!
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Naeko: The first one was Aono Kengo-san, who was fiddling with his smartphone while driving and also didn’t have his licence on him!
Naeko: The second was Akamine Manji-san…
Naeko: Who was riding his bike without a helmet and was going in the wrong direction!
Naeko: And the third one was Shiroyama Yuuzou-san…
Naeko: Who hadn’t fastened his seatbelt and was driving a car with an overdue inspection!
Naeko: All three were in a real hurry...
Naeko: And tried to get away before they could be ticketed, so they had to be forcibly taken in for obstruction of justice!
Satou: Those three do sound suspicious...
Satou: Especially since we just heard that someone had been following the victim since a week ago...
Conan (thoughts): Dammit! I thought the old man might have seen something... But a week ago he was on a trip with the neighborhood association...
Conan (thoughts): But wait… If it’s Amuro-san from Café Poirot…
Ayumi: Oy, Conan!
Ayumi: We need to go to school!
Conan: Ah, coming!
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Culprit: Great... Well done...
Culprit: I'm amazed you found this place...
Yagi: I heard about it from your co-worker!
Yagi: That you'd probably be here if you weren't at home...
Culprit: As expected, the Japanese police is outstanding…
Yagi: As I thought!
Yagi: You killed Touko, didn’t you?!
Culprit: It's outstanding and overly serious about following the rules... a real dung beetle...
Culprit: I have no business with insects... go home...
Yagi: What?
Yagi: Wait a mome--
*crackle*
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Yagi: Ugh
Yagi: Argh..
*beep* *beep* *beep* *beep*
*riiing*
Culprit (thoughts): Just...
Culprit (thoughts): one more...
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Operator: Calling all units!
Operator: We received a report that a woman bleeding from a head wound...
Operator: Has been found collapsed in a back alley in Haido's 3rd district!
Shiratori: That’s close to here, Chiba-kun!
Operator: Units stationed nearby and patrols that are in the vicinity are advised to head to the crime scene without delay!
Chiba: Let’s go!
*clack*
Shiratori: M-Managing officer Kuroda?!
Kuroda: Hm?
Shiratori: What are you doing here?
Kuroda: I just happened to pass by close to here…
Kuroda: So I decided to attend the crime scene.
Kuroda: Well, this makes it clear…
Chiba: Eh? What does?
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Kuroda: The victim is assistant inspector Yagi Shiori...
Kuroda: From the traffic division...
Kuroda: And next to the corpse...
Kuroda: There's a bent 100 yen coin stuck in her smartphone...
Kuroda: 100 yen coins have a cherry blossom engraved on them...
Kuroda: And the cherry blossom is the emblem of us, the Japanese police...
Shiratori: You don't mean this is...
Kuroda: Yes…
Kuroda: There’s no doubt…
Kuroda: This is a female police officer…
Kuroda: Serial murder case…
Side note: These terrifying words that Kuroda threw out... where is this case heading?!