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## Chapter 1111: The Possibility of Homicide
Seeing Chi Feichei walk towards the entrance cabinet, Aikawa Etsuko followed him. After seeing the photo on the entrance cabinet, she immediately reached out, "It's this man! The one I saw was..."
Before Aikawa Etsuko's hand touched the photo frame, Chi Feichei reached out and blocked it. "Don't touch it."
Officer Kinoshita quickly followed them in through the door. "That's right, Ms. Aikawa, I can let you come in, but please don't touch things inside the room randomly."
"Ah, okay, I understand," Aikawa Etsuko nodded, then looked towards the photo again. "But, the man I saw this morning was the man in the photo, there's absolutely no mistake!"
In the photo, a man and a woman were standing in front of a car trunk, lifting a fishing cooler together, seemingly planning to lift it into the car. The two of them were also wearing inflatable vests and smiling towards the lens.
Chi Feichei picked up the photo, took a glance, and handed it over to Conan, who was next to him, trying hard to stand on tiptoes but still couldn't reach the cabinet.
Conan gave up on standing on tiptoes, received the photo, and lowered his head to look.
His little partner is considerate after all.
He decided that in the future, he would grumble about his little partner less in his heart about bringing death to Beika Town.
After Conan finished looking at the photo, Chi Feichei received it back and put it back on the entrance cabinet. "How old is Miss Ozawa this year?"
"Uh, 24 years old," Officer Kinoshita took off his shoes and went inside the room. "She's an ordinary employee who works at the Consumer Finance Association..."
Chi Feichei followed. "Doesn't have many friends?"
Officer Kinoshita was stumped by the question. "This..."
"She doesn't have many friends, but it's definitely not because she has a bad temper," Aikawa Etsuko's voice was very soft. "Just the opposite, she has a very good personality, and is very gentle to everyone, almost never getting angry with people."
Chi Feichei looked back at Aikawa Etsuko who had followed him over, and noticed the suppressed grief in her eyes. "You have a very good relationship with her?"
Aikawa Etsuko was stunned and sighed. "I've known her since she was very young. She always treated me like her mother, that's why I wanted to ask Mr. Mouri to help catch the person who killed her."
"Ms. Aikawa, I've already told you many times..." Officer Kinoshita sighed powerlessly, not wanting to argue with Aikawa Etsuko anymore, and said to Chi Feichei, "Miss Ozawa wrapped the iron wire that was hung on the shower head hook around her own neck, leaned against the innermost wall of the bathroom, and ended her life in a sitting position."
Conan lowered his head and pondered. This method of suicide is very special...
Officer Kinoshita walked to the front of the desk inside the room, turned sideways, and pointed at the turned-on computer, saying, "Please look here, she even typed a suicide note on the computer."
Chi Feichei stepped forward and looked at the text box displayed on the computer screen.
[To Director Shimizu of the Lending Department: I am very sorry for causing you trouble. I can only atone for my sin with death...]
Conan, who couldn't see the screen, was stomping his feet aside. "Brother Chi! Brother Chi!"
Chi Feichei reached out and picked up Conan, allowing Conan to see the content on the screen.
"This suicide note was sent to her supervisor," Officer Kinoshita explained. "The content is probably that she embezzled 30 million Japanese Yen of company funds, so she could only atone for her sin with death. This email was sent out around 5:45 PM yesterday. It is speculated that she should have committed suicide after this..."
Conan looked at the bookshelf on the desk that wasn't full of books, lowered his head, and saw the mobile phone placed next to the computer mouse. He reached out to take it.
"Hey, younger brother..." Officer Kinoshita broke out in a sweat, but seeing Chi Feichei's appearance of letting things be, he didn't say anything more, just muttered in his heart.
Although this child is wearing gloves, is it really okay to let a child touch things randomly at the crime scene?
"Did Miss Ozawa have any traces of struggle on her body?" Chi Feichei looked at Officer Kinoshita and asked, "For example, attempting to untie the iron wire, leaving scratch marks on her neck, or attempting to stand up..."
Officer Kinoshita shook his head. "No, her resolve to die was very firm. I speculate this is suicide, also because she had no signs of being restrained or traces of struggle before death on her body."
Conan pressed the screen of the bar phone to light it up, and spoke out in doubt. "The mobile phone is on vibration mode. Isn't this her home? Why did she still turn on vibration mode?"
Chi Feichei put Conan down. "My mobile phone is always on vibration mode."
Although this incident indeed has abnormalities, what's wrong with having vibration mode on at home?
Who says you can't have vibration mode on at home?
Conan looked up at Chi Feichei and said thoughtfully. "Then Miss Ozawa might have neurasthenia? Then do you think the possibility of her committing suicide is higher?"
Chi Feichei: "..."
Looking at him saying neurasthenia, what does Conan mean by this?
Moreover, from the current situation, the possibility of Ozawa Fumie committing suicide is rather small.
Without waiting for Chi Feichei to speak, Aikawa Etsuko, who was standing aside, turned around and, pointing at the wall calendar on one wall, said, "No way, look at the calendar, didn't she also write down the schedule to see the dentist? Since she has an appointment today, how could she commit suicide?"
Conan ran over, standing on tiptoes and looking at the wall calendar. "It indeed says 'see dentist' in the box for today... But the landlady's eyesight is really good! She could actually see such small characters from over there. If I don't get closer to look, I can't see what's written on the wall calendar at all!"
"That's right," Officer Kinoshita stepped forward. "Although this younger brother is nearsighted, his eyesight might not be very good, but even I can't see the characters clearly from here. Landlady, your eyesight is really good."
Conan, who wears glasses: "..."
No need to say that sentence about his eyesight not being good, thank you.
Aikawa Etsuko was stunned, and her gaze flickered a bit. "Ah... I saw it just now when I walked past."
"This could also be that she made a reservation with the dentist a few days ago, and then suddenly felt life was hopeless in these two days, and only then did the thought of suicide arise," Officer Kinoshita said.
"But..." Aikawa Etsuko frowned, but didn't know how to refute.
Conan didn't say anything and walked towards the desk.
The landlady could see such small characters on the wall calendar from so far away. When asked, she didn't explain that she had farsightedness or some other reason. There's a problem.
But, what kind of role did the landlady play in this incident?
Chi Feichei took out his mobile phone and called Wataru Takagi.
"Police Officer Takagi, it's me, Chi Feichei..."
Conan, who walked to the front of the desk, turned his head in surprise.
Cases like suicide and burglary are generally handled by the local police officers, which means police officers like Officer Kinoshita who wear uniforms.
While cases involving suspected murder, only then will police officers from the Criminal Investigation Department, including Major Crimes Investigation Division 1, intervene. Those police officers usually don't wear police uniforms, but wear suits and casual clothes.
Chi Feichei called Police Officer Takagi. Is it because he judged this incident to be a criminal case? Or just simply wanted Police Officer Takagi to investigate something?
But no matter which reason, Chi Feichei should already have a clue pointing to a certain answer.
"You're not on vacation, right?... A suicide incident that occurred around 9 AM this morning in Beika Town 4-chome..." Chi Feichei waited for Wataru Takagi on the other end of the phone call to check the case and reply, only then did he say, "The possibility of homicide is very high... Yes, I'm at the crime scene... I'll wait for you."
Officer Kinoshita waited for Chi Feichei to hang up the phone call and spoke out in surprise. "You think..."
"Just as I said on the phone call, the possibility of homicide is very high," Chi Feichei said. "So I'll ask the police officers from the Criminal Investigation Department to come over and investigate together."
"Ah, then no problem," Officer Kinoshita turned his head and looked at the computer with the suicide note, hesitating whether or not to remind Chi Feichei. "But Mr. Chi..."
"Miss Ozawa left a suicide note, and the room is also very tidy," Conan looked at Chi Feichei and spoke out the doubts of Officer Kinoshita and himself. "Although this could also be a trap set by someone, but without having finished looking at the crime scene, Brother Chi, why do you think this isn't suicide?"
He wasn't trying to pick a fight with Chi Feichei, he just wanted to know the basis for Chi Feichei's judgment.
Chi Feichei put away his mobile phone. "If Miss Ozawa committed suicide, do you think it was an impulse or premeditated?"
Conan turned his head and looked at the surroundings, his face gradually became surprised and heavy.
"It should be a premeditated suicide, right?" Officer Kinoshita thought that Chi Feichei was probably not asking the child, and it had to be him, the police officer, to answer, and analyzed, "Her embezzlement of company funds was something that happened half a month ago, and the money should have already been spent. Presumably, she has been in a state of apprehension during this period, feeling that she couldn't escape legal punishment, that's why she prepared the iron wire and committed suicide..."
"No, it's not like that!" Aikawa Etsuko's emotions were agitated. "I've already said, this morning..."
Chi Feichei turned his head, looked at Aikawa Etsuko, and interrupted, "Don't speak."
Aikawa Etsuko: "..."
Understood, understood, she won't say it anymore, don't be fierce to her.
"Then if you say so, Miss Ozawa should have been living in despair or apprehension for a period of time, right? But her room is still cleaned so neatly," Conan looked at the room, and then pointed at the magazines on the bookshelf on the table. "She even bought the cooking magazine and travel magazine that were just released two days ago, and moreover, there are also traces of them being flipped through!"
"Well..." Officer Kinoshita attempted to explain from the angle of suicide. "Cleaning the room, perhaps she wanted to be in a clean and tidy environment, leave with dignity from this world. As for the cooking magazine and travel magazine... Perhaps she wanted to change mood, and after buying the magazines, she casually flipped through them, and then suddenly became distraught, realizing that her embezzlement of company funds could be discovered at any time, and that she would have no more opportunities to cook or travel in the future, so..."
Chi Feichei saw that Kinoshita was about to confuse himself and spoke out. "Officer Kinoshita, the reasons for suicide can be roughly divided into two types. One type is due to suffering a major blow or encountering a setback. This type of person, when the thought arises, formulating the plan, and executing the plan, in this process, either they have many concerns and repeatedly hesitate due to whether the plan is painful, or they are too impulsive, and the entire process from the thought arising to execution is very short. And this type of person usually, when the plan is halfway through execution, will feel regret, it's just that because they often execute it using irreversible methods like jumping from buildings, even if they regret it after jumping, it's useless.
Another type is to seek release, for example, losing hope due to a terminal illness. It is a choice made after a period of careful consideration. This type of person formulates the plan, and the process of executing the plan is relatively calm and is relatively firm during execution. Even if they are discovered before execution, it is difficult to persuade them to give up. But even if it is a carefully considered suicide, when it is halfway through execution, they may also experience regret..."
(End of Chapter)
Seeing Chi Feichei walk towards the entrance cabinet, Aikawa Etsuko followed him. After seeing the photo on the entrance cabinet, she immediately reached out, "It's this man! The one I saw was..."
Before Aikawa Etsuko's hand touched the photo frame, Chi Feichei reached out and blocked it. "Don't touch it."
Officer Kinoshita quickly followed them in through the door. "That's right, Ms. Aikawa, I can let you come in, but please don't touch things inside the room randomly."
"Ah, okay, I understand," Aikawa Etsuko nodded, then looked towards the photo again. "But, the man I saw this morning was the man in the photo, there's absolutely no mistake!"
In the photo, a man and a woman were standing in front of a car trunk, lifting a fishing cooler together, seemingly planning to lift it into the car. The two of them were also wearing inflatable vests and smiling towards the lens.
Chi Feichei picked up the photo, took a glance, and handed it over to Conan, who was next to him, trying hard to stand on tiptoes but still couldn't reach the cabinet.
Conan gave up on standing on tiptoes, received the photo, and lowered his head to look.
His little partner is considerate after all.
He decided that in the future, he would grumble about his little partner less in his heart about bringing death to Beika Town.
After Conan finished looking at the photo, Chi Feichei received it back and put it back on the entrance cabinet. "How old is Miss Ozawa this year?"
"Uh, 24 years old," Officer Kinoshita took off his shoes and went inside the room. "She's an ordinary employee who works at the Consumer Finance Association..."
Chi Feichei followed. "Doesn't have many friends?"
Officer Kinoshita was stumped by the question. "This..."
"She doesn't have many friends, but it's definitely not because she has a bad temper," Aikawa Etsuko's voice was very soft. "Just the opposite, she has a very good personality, and is very gentle to everyone, almost never getting angry with people."
Chi Feichei looked back at Aikawa Etsuko who had followed him over, and noticed the suppressed grief in her eyes. "You have a very good relationship with her?"
Aikawa Etsuko was stunned and sighed. "I've known her since she was very young. She always treated me like her mother, that's why I wanted to ask Mr. Mouri to help catch the person who killed her."
"Ms. Aikawa, I've already told you many times..." Officer Kinoshita sighed powerlessly, not wanting to argue with Aikawa Etsuko anymore, and said to Chi Feichei, "Miss Ozawa wrapped the iron wire that was hung on the shower head hook around her own neck, leaned against the innermost wall of the bathroom, and ended her life in a sitting position."
Conan lowered his head and pondered. This method of suicide is very special...
Officer Kinoshita walked to the front of the desk inside the room, turned sideways, and pointed at the turned-on computer, saying, "Please look here, she even typed a suicide note on the computer."
Chi Feichei stepped forward and looked at the text box displayed on the computer screen.
[To Director Shimizu of the Lending Department: I am very sorry for causing you trouble. I can only atone for my sin with death...]
Conan, who couldn't see the screen, was stomping his feet aside. "Brother Chi! Brother Chi!"
Chi Feichei reached out and picked up Conan, allowing Conan to see the content on the screen.
"This suicide note was sent to her supervisor," Officer Kinoshita explained. "The content is probably that she embezzled 30 million Japanese Yen of company funds, so she could only atone for her sin with death. This email was sent out around 5:45 PM yesterday. It is speculated that she should have committed suicide after this..."
Conan looked at the bookshelf on the desk that wasn't full of books, lowered his head, and saw the mobile phone placed next to the computer mouse. He reached out to take it.
"Hey, younger brother..." Officer Kinoshita broke out in a sweat, but seeing Chi Feichei's appearance of letting things be, he didn't say anything more, just muttered in his heart.
Although this child is wearing gloves, is it really okay to let a child touch things randomly at the crime scene?
"Did Miss Ozawa have any traces of struggle on her body?" Chi Feichei looked at Officer Kinoshita and asked, "For example, attempting to untie the iron wire, leaving scratch marks on her neck, or attempting to stand up..."
Officer Kinoshita shook his head. "No, her resolve to die was very firm. I speculate this is suicide, also because she had no signs of being restrained or traces of struggle before death on her body."
Conan pressed the screen of the bar phone to light it up, and spoke out in doubt. "The mobile phone is on vibration mode. Isn't this her home? Why did she still turn on vibration mode?"
Chi Feichei put Conan down. "My mobile phone is always on vibration mode."
Although this incident indeed has abnormalities, what's wrong with having vibration mode on at home?
Who says you can't have vibration mode on at home?
Conan looked up at Chi Feichei and said thoughtfully. "Then Miss Ozawa might have neurasthenia? Then do you think the possibility of her committing suicide is higher?"
Chi Feichei: "..."
Looking at him saying neurasthenia, what does Conan mean by this?
Moreover, from the current situation, the possibility of Ozawa Fumie committing suicide is rather small.
Without waiting for Chi Feichei to speak, Aikawa Etsuko, who was standing aside, turned around and, pointing at the wall calendar on one wall, said, "No way, look at the calendar, didn't she also write down the schedule to see the dentist? Since she has an appointment today, how could she commit suicide?"
Conan ran over, standing on tiptoes and looking at the wall calendar. "It indeed says 'see dentist' in the box for today... But the landlady's eyesight is really good! She could actually see such small characters from over there. If I don't get closer to look, I can't see what's written on the wall calendar at all!"
"That's right," Officer Kinoshita stepped forward. "Although this younger brother is nearsighted, his eyesight might not be very good, but even I can't see the characters clearly from here. Landlady, your eyesight is really good."
Conan, who wears glasses: "..."
No need to say that sentence about his eyesight not being good, thank you.
Aikawa Etsuko was stunned, and her gaze flickered a bit. "Ah... I saw it just now when I walked past."
"This could also be that she made a reservation with the dentist a few days ago, and then suddenly felt life was hopeless in these two days, and only then did the thought of suicide arise," Officer Kinoshita said.
"But..." Aikawa Etsuko frowned, but didn't know how to refute.
Conan didn't say anything and walked towards the desk.
The landlady could see such small characters on the wall calendar from so far away. When asked, she didn't explain that she had farsightedness or some other reason. There's a problem.
But, what kind of role did the landlady play in this incident?
Chi Feichei took out his mobile phone and called Wataru Takagi.
"Police Officer Takagi, it's me, Chi Feichei..."
Conan, who walked to the front of the desk, turned his head in surprise.
Cases like suicide and burglary are generally handled by the local police officers, which means police officers like Officer Kinoshita who wear uniforms.
While cases involving suspected murder, only then will police officers from the Criminal Investigation Department, including Major Crimes Investigation Division 1, intervene. Those police officers usually don't wear police uniforms, but wear suits and casual clothes.
Chi Feichei called Police Officer Takagi. Is it because he judged this incident to be a criminal case? Or just simply wanted Police Officer Takagi to investigate something?
But no matter which reason, Chi Feichei should already have a clue pointing to a certain answer.
"You're not on vacation, right?... A suicide incident that occurred around 9 AM this morning in Beika Town 4-chome..." Chi Feichei waited for Wataru Takagi on the other end of the phone call to check the case and reply, only then did he say, "The possibility of homicide is very high... Yes, I'm at the crime scene... I'll wait for you."
Officer Kinoshita waited for Chi Feichei to hang up the phone call and spoke out in surprise. "You think..."
"Just as I said on the phone call, the possibility of homicide is very high," Chi Feichei said. "So I'll ask the police officers from the Criminal Investigation Department to come over and investigate together."
"Ah, then no problem," Officer Kinoshita turned his head and looked at the computer with the suicide note, hesitating whether or not to remind Chi Feichei. "But Mr. Chi..."
"Miss Ozawa left a suicide note, and the room is also very tidy," Conan looked at Chi Feichei and spoke out the doubts of Officer Kinoshita and himself. "Although this could also be a trap set by someone, but without having finished looking at the crime scene, Brother Chi, why do you think this isn't suicide?"
He wasn't trying to pick a fight with Chi Feichei, he just wanted to know the basis for Chi Feichei's judgment.
Chi Feichei put away his mobile phone. "If Miss Ozawa committed suicide, do you think it was an impulse or premeditated?"
Conan turned his head and looked at the surroundings, his face gradually became surprised and heavy.
"It should be a premeditated suicide, right?" Officer Kinoshita thought that Chi Feichei was probably not asking the child, and it had to be him, the police officer, to answer, and analyzed, "Her embezzlement of company funds was something that happened half a month ago, and the money should have already been spent. Presumably, she has been in a state of apprehension during this period, feeling that she couldn't escape legal punishment, that's why she prepared the iron wire and committed suicide..."
"No, it's not like that!" Aikawa Etsuko's emotions were agitated. "I've already said, this morning..."
Chi Feichei turned his head, looked at Aikawa Etsuko, and interrupted, "Don't speak."
Aikawa Etsuko: "..."
Understood, understood, she won't say it anymore, don't be fierce to her.
"Then if you say so, Miss Ozawa should have been living in despair or apprehension for a period of time, right? But her room is still cleaned so neatly," Conan looked at the room, and then pointed at the magazines on the bookshelf on the table. "She even bought the cooking magazine and travel magazine that were just released two days ago, and moreover, there are also traces of them being flipped through!"
"Well..." Officer Kinoshita attempted to explain from the angle of suicide. "Cleaning the room, perhaps she wanted to be in a clean and tidy environment, leave with dignity from this world. As for the cooking magazine and travel magazine... Perhaps she wanted to change mood, and after buying the magazines, she casually flipped through them, and then suddenly became distraught, realizing that her embezzlement of company funds could be discovered at any time, and that she would have no more opportunities to cook or travel in the future, so..."
Chi Feichei saw that Kinoshita was about to confuse himself and spoke out. "Officer Kinoshita, the reasons for suicide can be roughly divided into two types. One type is due to suffering a major blow or encountering a setback. This type of person, when the thought arises, formulating the plan, and executing the plan, in this process, either they have many concerns and repeatedly hesitate due to whether the plan is painful, or they are too impulsive, and the entire process from the thought arising to execution is very short. And this type of person usually, when the plan is halfway through execution, will feel regret, it's just that because they often execute it using irreversible methods like jumping from buildings, even if they regret it after jumping, it's useless.
Another type is to seek release, for example, losing hope due to a terminal illness. It is a choice made after a period of careful consideration. This type of person formulates the plan, and the process of executing the plan is relatively calm and is relatively firm during execution. Even if they are discovered before execution, it is difficult to persuade them to give up. But even if it is a carefully considered suicide, when it is halfway through execution, they may also experience regret..."
(End of Chapter)
