Chapter 341 Going to the police station to distinguish suspects (Ch 341)

Last night, Megure not only asked Mochizuki to inform Iide Toshiyuki to go to the Metropolitan Police Department, but also asked Mochizuki to inform Kogoro to go with him. Although he didn’t know what Kogoro was doing, Mochizuki still took Iide to the Mori Office.

“Good morning, Mochizuki. Hello? Who is this?” Xiaolan ran down from upstairs, stood beside the car and greeted Mochizuki, and then saw Iide Toshiyuki sitting in the back seat.

“His name is Iide Toshiyuki, he’s my neighbor, and he also went to the Metropolitan Police Department for some business.” Mochizuki then introduced Iide Toshiyuki, “This is my girlfriend, Mao Lilan.”

After greeting each other, Kogoro got in the car and sat in the back seat, Xiaolan sat next to Mochizuki, and then Mochizuki set off.

Soon they arrived at the Metropolitan Police Department, parked the car on the side of the road and came to the main entrance. Mochizuki saw a woman in a kimono standing at the door with a teardrop mole at the corner of her eye. It was Maru Ineko, the wife of Maru Boss and the “610” officer.

Now she should be said to be a widow.

“Ms. Inako, why are you here?” Kogoro asked when he saw her.

Inako replied: “Inspector Megure called me to come here.”

Kogoro understood that the police had called him to the Metropolitan Police Department for the murder of Maru. After all, Ms. Inako had previously commissioned him to investigate Maru’s affair. Although it was now confirmed that the murderer was Dr. Hatano, Ms. Inako had an affair with Dr. Hatano, and it was unclear whether she was involved in the murder plan.

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After arriving at the Metropolitan Police Department, Maori Kogoro and Iide Toshiyuki were called to different places. Mochizuki was not interested in Boss Maru’s affairs. He was more concerned about the case of Vermouth sniping Hieda Mitsuhiro, so he said to Xiaolan: “Mr. Iide seems very nervous alone, I will accompany him to Inspector Megure.”

Upon hearing this, Kogoro actually began to drive Xiaolan away, “Don’t stick around me anymore, go over there with Mochizuki. Ms. Inako only needs me to accompany her.”

The first half of the sentence was fine, but after hearing the second half, Xiaolan’s pretty eyebrows frowned, with a look of suspicion on her face, “Dad, you don’t have any ulterior motives, do you?”

Kogoro almost fell down, “How is that possible? Who do you think I am? Mochizuki, do you think I am that kind of person?”

“Hehe, not like him, not at all…” Still having to give face to his father-in-law, Wangyue said this against his will.

But in fact, Mochizuki also felt that Kogoro had ulterior motives in sending Xiaolan away. Everyone knew that Kogoro was a perverted old man. It was fine before, after all, Ms. Inako still had a husband. But now Ms. Inako’s husband died and she became a widow.

It is not easy no matter how you think about it for a man who is separated from his wife to accompany a widow whose husband has just died.

Kogoro was very satisfied with Mochizuki’s answer, and said to Xiaolan, “Let’s go quickly. I am just accompanying Ms. Inako as a witness. Besides, this is the Metropolitan Police Department, and there are police everywhere.”

Xiaolan thought about it and felt that it was right, so she followed Mochizuki to meet Inspector Megure.

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Toshiyuki Iide met Inspector Megure in the identification room.

The so-called identification room is two rooms separated by a one-way mirror, one side is very dark and the other side is very bright. You can see the bright side from the dark side, but you can’t see anything from the bright side to the dark side.

“Oh, Mr. Ide, and Mochizuki, you’re here.” Megure was standing in the dark with his hands behind his back, staring at the other side of the glass. When Mochizuki and the other two came in, he turned around and greeted them.

Xiaolan looked around with a curious look on her face. She had seen this kind of scene on TV, but it was the first time she saw it in real life. At this moment, she was like a curious baby, with her black eyes shining in the dark.

Wangyue looked towards the bright spot on the other side of the glass and saw six men standing there, each standing straight against the wall. On the wall behind them were numbers from 1 to 6, and there were also scales drawn to measure their heights.

“Are all these people suspects? Why are there so many?” Xiaolan asked. (To read the exciting novels, go to Faloo Novel Network!)

Wangyue smiled and explained to Xiaolan, “No, there is probably only one suspect. That’s the rule. The suspect should be mixed in with the unrelated people for the witnesses to identify.”

Megure nodded and informed, “Mochizuki is right. In the beginning, the police did directly arrest a suspect and let the witnesses identify him. However, many wrongful convictions occurred because of this, and innocent people suffered. Later, it was changed to this.”

Xiaolan couldn’t understand it for a moment. “Why would an innocent person be harmed? Did the witness lie?”

“It’s not that I’m lying on purpose.” Wangyue said, “Because there is only one candidate, the witnesses will feel that the more they look at him, the more he looks like him. Then, due to nervousness or other reasons, they make a wrong judgment. Of course, some police officers will deliberately take advantage of this and turn an innocent person into a suspect…”

“Ahem!” Megure coughed a few times and gave Mochizuki a look that allowed him to understand.

Is it really appropriate for you to speak ill of us police officers in the Metropolitan Police Department?

Wangyue smiled and said nothing more.

“Okay, Mr. Ide, is there anyone among these people that you saw at that time?” Megure asked.

As soon as he entered, Ide Toshiyuki had been staring at a man opposite him. When he heard the police questioning him, he raised his hand without hesitation, pointed at the man opposite him and said, “Yes! That No. 3! The one I saw was No. 3!”

Mochizuki and Xiaolan’s eyes both fell on No. 3, a man with a stubbled beard who looked weathered. The most noticeable thing was the scar on his face.

It would be better to say that each of the six candidates has a different scar on their face, and no one knows where the police found them.

“Are you sure it’s him?” Megure asked.

“Yes, it was him!” Ide Toshiyuki answered decisively: “I was sitting in the park at the time and saw this man smoking under the unfinished building, and then he entered the unfinished building…”

According to Iide Toshiyuki, the man was carrying a backpack similar to a violin case. He was sitting in the 2.2 Park when he heard a strange “bang” sound. He didn’t know what happened at the time. It was not until the police came to the unfinished building to investigate that he learned that someone had been killed. The gunman fired the gun in that building.

“It’s him!” Inspector Megure said, “In fact, we also think that the criminal should be him.”

“Who is this person?” Wangyue asked.

Inspector Megure replied, “His name is Kenzaki Yutaka. He once joined a mercenary group abroad and was very good at shooting. But because his leg was injured, he returned to his country and joined a gang. He first joined the Hieda Group, but later had a conflict with Hieda Mitsuhiro and was kicked out. Then he was recruited by the Nisankai.”

Mochizuki remembered that the organization, the Mud Society, had appeared several times in the original novel. For example, Vermouth was planning to assassinate a candidate for parliament, so she disguised herself as the female leader of the Mud Society, Kiriko Dokujima.
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