Ke Xue Lu Ren Wang

Chapter 14 Scene

"Name."

"Naka...Nakano Yuna."

Takagi Wataru was holding a laptop and questioning the blond girl who had been sleeping on the sofa.

She was barely woken up after the staff gave her a few sips of sobering water. At this time, the girl named Nakano Yuna still had a dazed look in her eyes and was obviously not fully sober yet.

"What was your relationship with the deceased?" Takagi continued to ask.

"T-classmate." With the help of her friend, Nakano Yuna stood up with difficulty. As soon as she finished speaking, her face suddenly changed, she covered her mouth and rushed into the nearby toilet, followed by a violent vomiting sound.

A short while later, Yuna Nakano came out. Although her face was a little pale, her eyes were much clearer.

"What were you doing before the incident?" Takagi asked, seeing that she seemed to be in better spirits.

"I was drinking... Mio said we should all go out and relax after the exams, but I can't hold my liquor very well, and I drank too much. I ended up falling asleep on the sofa, and when I woke up I found that Mio was..." As she said this, Yuna Nakano's eyes quickly welled up with tears, and her voice became choked with sobs, as if she was about to burst into tears at any moment.

Seeing that he couldn't get much more out of her, Takagi nodded and turned to the two girls who had appeared at the door earlier.

The two girls are named Rina Yano and Miyuki Horie.

Similarly, these two girls were friends with Yuna Nakano and the deceased Mio Nagamasa.

The girl wearing black-rimmed glasses is Rina Yano, and the other girl, dressed head-to-toe in designer brands and very stylish, is Miyuki Horie. Both girls showed extreme surprise and disbelief at the death of their friend, Mio Nagamasa.

"We had planned to go to a karaoke bar today to drink, sing, and relax, but I only went to the bathroom for a short while, and this happened when I came back," Yano Rina said, her expression somewhat sad.

"Sister, did you go to the restroom together or separately?" Conan, who had been quietly standing by, suddenly interjected and asked.

"Um...we went separately." Rina Yano adjusted her glasses and answered, then continued, "Mio got drunk and lay down on the sofa. I felt a bit of an urge to pee, so I went to the toilet first. As for Miyuki, I don't know when she left."

"I went out shortly after you left." Horie Miyuki, arms crossed, pouted and continued to complain, "I don't know if it's because the wine you bought was too bad, but my stomach started feeling a little uncomfortable after drinking it for a short while!"

"So, neither of you were in the room at the time, and only the drunken Yuna Nakano and the deceased Mio Nagamasa were in the room, right?" Takagi summarized the testimonies of the group and confirmed it again.

"Um... they all went to the bathroom at the time, but I was also drunk at the time, so I had no idea what happened afterward. I only know that after you came, you told me that Mio... she had an accident." Yuna Nakano, who had just sobered up a bit, leaned against the wall and added weakly.

"Okay, I understand." Takagi quickly jotted it down in his notebook, already having formed a preliminary judgment in his mind.

Just then, the forensic doctor standing nearby stood up, took off his gloves, and shook his head in front of Takagi.

"According to the preliminary autopsy, the fatal wound to the back of the head caused immediate death. The murder weapon was the broken glass bottle on the ground. In addition, alcohol was detected in the victim's mouth. Based on the degree of rigor mortis, the time of death was most likely around half an hour ago."

Takagi and Inspector Megure exchanged a glance, then walked together into the crime scene to begin a more thorough investigation.

Conan, who was standing nearby, wanted to follow, but as soon as he took a step, Ran Mouri grabbed him by the back of his collar, preventing him from running off.

Tetsuyu Hanyu and Sonoko Suzuki stood quietly at the entrance outside the police line.

"Um, Yuzuru-kun, aren't you scared when you see a corpse?" Sonoko Suzuki looked up and asked in a low voice, a hint of curiosity in her voice. The bloody scene she had accidentally witnessed earlier still made her feel nauseous.

"No, it won't." Yuzuru shook his head.

"Why?" Sonoko Suzuki asked, even more curious.

"I've read a lot of medical books and observed some cadaver dissections, so I'm somewhat immune to them," Toru Hanyu replied without changing his expression.

"Huh? What's a cadaver teacher?" Sonoko Suzuki was a little confused; it was the first time she had ever heard of this term.

"It refers to the body. Some people voluntarily donate their bodies after death to contribute to the medical field. To show respect, we call them 'silent teachers'," Yuzuru explained patiently.

"So... how did you come into contact with all this?" After learning about it, Sonoko Suzuki looked at Toru Hanyu with more admiration in her eyes.

"I've always wanted to be a doctor, and after I graduate from high school, I'll apply to the medical school at the University of Tokyo," said Toru Hanyu, delivering his prepared statement.

"Wow~ That's amazing~" Ran Mouri, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

"No wonder Yuzuru wasn't scared at all when he saw the corpse." Conan, who was being held back by Ran Mouri, chimed in.

"Of course."

Yuzuru smiled and reached out to ruffle Conan's fluffy head, deliberately messing up Conan's carefully styled hair until it looked like a bird's nest before letting go with satisfaction, and successfully receiving a small eye roll from Conan.

He found it amusing; this little rascal was quite vengeful.

Not long after, Takagi came out of the private room and said to everyone, "The crime scene investigation is almost complete. If nothing unexpected happens, this case will most likely be closed as an accidental death."

"Huh? Why?" Conan asked first.

"The broken glass on the ground is the murder weapon. The deceased may have been drunk and accidentally fell, causing the glass bottle used to decorate the bouquet behind her to fall and hit the back of her head," Takagi explained the police's initial speculation.

Conan glanced at the thick shards of glass marked on the ground by the forensic personnel; he was almost certain that this was the murder weapon. But for some reason, he felt something was off.

Although the process matched Officer Takagi's account, his intuition told him that things were definitely not that simple.

"Um... Yuzuru-nii, do you want to go in and take a look? Aren't you going to be a doctor in the future? You don't get many opportunities to observe a corpse this closely~" Conan's eyes darted around, and he suddenly said to Yuzuru beside him.

"Heh..." Yuzuru sneered inwardly. How could he not guess what Conan was thinking?

It was obvious that he wanted to go in himself, but Xiaolan was holding him back, so he wanted to use her hand so that he could also sneak into the crime scene.

Think beautifully.

"Never mind, I'm not an innocent bystander. Going in would only hinder the police investigation," Yuzuru Tetsu politely declined with a smile.

As soon as he said this, several police officers and forensic doctors around him couldn't help but glance at him again, nodding inwardly in admiration. They hadn't expected this handsome young man to be so sensible and self-aware.

"It's alright, you can put on your shoe covers and gloves and come over to take a look."

Just then, the forensic doctor who had just finished reporting the situation to Takagi and Megure suddenly spoke up.

He gestured to a forensic investigator next to him to bring Yuzuru a brand new set of shoe covers and a pair of forensic latex gloves for him to put on.

"You're planning to become a doctor, right?" the forensic pathologist asked, looking at Yuzuru.

"Yes..." Yuzuru nodded. Of course, there was another half-said in his mind: being a doctor is more lucrative and has higher social status.

"Very good. My name is Yano Koji, you can call me Koji. Come with me." Yano Koji beckoned to him, gesturing for Yuzuru Toru to follow him inside.

Sonoko Suzuki and Ran Mouri stood not far away, watching this unexpected development.

Unexpectedly, Conan, who was being held by Ran Mouri, also seized the opportunity and shouted at the top of his lungs.

"I want to watch it too! I want to watch it too!"

Ran Mouri originally wanted to catch Conan, but to her surprise, the forensic doctor named Koji Yano agreed, only saying that Conan could stand at a distance and watch, and not get too close.

"Sigh, Koji's occupational hazard has struck again." Inspector Megure watched from the side, saying nothing, only shaking his head helplessly.

"Senior Koji... he probably just values ​​talent..." Takagi chuckled, trying to smooth things over for his senior.