Chapter 383 Target Refuses Police Protection (Ch 383)

“It must have been Murakami-jo!” Kogoro gritted his teeth, “He tampered with Towako’s car, causing the brakes to fail halfway through the journey and causing a car accident.”

Everyone thinks so, and the police and Conan still believe that Murakami is an accomplice of Sawaki Kouhei. Only Wang Yue suspects that Murakami is not an accomplice, but a scapegoat imprisoned by Sawaki Kouhei.

“Who is Murakami Jō?” Towako had no impression of this name at all.

“This is what happened…” Inspector Megure explained the situation to Towako.

Towako felt wronged after hearing this, “That is to say, that Murakami-jo holds a grudge against Mr. Mori, so he attacks people that Mr. Mori knows according to the order of the playing cards, and the names of these people are also related to the playing cards.”

“That’s right. Towako-san, your name corresponds to the number 10 on a playing card. I’m really sorry for causing you trouble.” Kogoro apologized.

Yumi from the traffic class seemed to remember something: “We did see a playing card with a 10 on it in the car, but we didn’t pay much attention to it at the time. It turned out to be left by the criminal!”

At this point, it can be confirmed that this matter is related to the previous case.

“Brother Maori, think about it, who do you know whose name contains the word nine?” Megure asked. Number ten had been attacked, and now it was number nine’s turn. The police had to stop it no matter what.

Kogoro fell into deep thought, “Well… I can’t remember it right away.”

Conan reminded: “Uncle, didn’t you have a client named Maru Ineko before? There is “nine” in his surname.”

“That’s right!” Xiaolan also realized this, “The character ‘Maru’ is nine plus a dot!” Although Maru Ineko’s original surname was not Maru, she took her husband’s surname after marrying Marudenjiro according to R’s rules.

Wang Yue asked thoughtfully, “Isn’t her husband dead?”

“That’s right, but even if her husband died, she wouldn’t automatically change back to her maiden name. She still needs to change it herself. But it’s more troublesome to change it, and she probably hasn’t changed it in such a short time.” Inspector Megure said: “Besides, even if she changed her surname, it can’t change the fact that she used to be called Maru Ineko…”

Everyone thought that the next person to be attacked would be Maru Ineko. Mochizuki remembered that in the anime, No. 9 was Asahi Katsuyoshi, the big boss who opened a hotel under the sea, but now he was not sure. After all, No. 10 had been replaced by Towako, so it was not surprising that No. 9 was replaced.

“Okay, let’s go to Maru Ineko’s residence immediately.” Inspector Megure gave the order.

Although Mochizuki knew that Asahi Katsuyoshi might also be attacked, he still did not speak up to warn him because no one knew that Asahi Katsuyoshi and Kogoro were friends, and it would be too strange if he spoke up about it.

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Not long after, Mochizuki followed the police to a rental house.

“Why does Ms. Inako live here?” Xiaolan felt very surprised, because before, Ms. Inako lived in a luxurious Japanese-style house, but now this rental house looked very simple.

Wang Yue reminded, “Have you forgotten? According to her husband’s will, she is not eligible to inherit the estate after her affair. Her husband’s shares have been distributed to the company’s shareholders, and the assets have been converted into cash and invested in the company’s operations.”

“Oh, that’s right!” Xiaolan then remembered that Maru Ineko was kicked out of the house by her dead husband.

When Kogoro was about to knock on the door, it opened first. Inside was a woman with a teardrop mole. She was so scared when she saw a large group of people standing outside the door that she almost closed the door. But soon she saw the faces outside the door clearly and was stunned.

“Isn’t Denjiro’s case over? What are you doing here? Are you here to laugh at me?” Inako didn’t have a good attitude. “Okay, now you’ve seen it, are you satisfied? Get out of my way.”

She had been living a happy life and was able to inherit her husband’s estate after his death, but when the group investigated, they discovered that she had an affair, which caused her to lose everything. In her opinion, the police, Maori Kogoro, and Mochizuki were all the culprits, so she naturally couldn’t treat them well.

“No, Ms. Inako, we are here to protect you.” Kogoro quickly explained, “Someone wants to harm you.”

“Bad for me? Haha~” Daozi laughed, “I’m penniless now, who would have any plans against me? The only thing I have left is my body, if someone wants to rape me, let him do it!”

Are you serious? Then I won’t be polite! ——Mochizuki was afraid that Kogoro would say something like this. Fortunately, Kogoro was very serious, “Ms. Inako, I’m not kidding. Now someone is committing crimes according to the order of playing cards. K,, J, and 10 have all been attacked. There is a nine in your name, so you may be attacked next…”

Kogoro tried to explain, but Ms. Inako didn’t listen. She closed the door and left the rental house. Everyone hurriedly followed her.

“Are you guys annoying? Why are you following me?”

“Ms. Daozi, you are in a very dangerous situation now!” (To read the exciting novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

“Alright, alright! I know I’m in danger, you guys should leave quickly. It has nothing to do with you even if I get killed. Anyway, I have only one worthless life, so I might as well die!” It seems like she has chosen to give up.

She was unwilling to cooperate, but Inspector Megure decided to continue protecting her. After all, this was the police’s duty.

Daozi felt very depressed. She wanted to chase them away but couldn’t. She could only say angrily, “Follow me if you want!” Then she continued to do as she pleased, completely ignoring the existence of the police.

In this way, everyone followed her out of the residential area and came to the road.

Just as she was about to cross the road, a red BMW convertible suddenly came roaring towards her, and it showed no sign of slowing down when passing the crosswalk.

Mochizuki was the first to notice the car and shouted, “Danger!”

Then the others also noticed the car that didn’t slow down, and their faces suddenly changed! Was it going to hit someone this time? Kogoro immediately rushed over and hugged Ms. Inako, then fell to the side, barely avoiding the car and rolling on the ground several times.

“Squeak, squeak!” The sports car also braked suddenly, the tires left long marks on the ground, and finally stopped in the middle of the road.

Daozi was terribly frightened. It turned out that what they said about someone (damn it) wanting to harm me was true? They even wanted to deliberately drive a car into me in broad daylight!

“Catch her!” Megure yelled at Takagi and Sato.

Takagi Sato immediately ran in front of the car to block the road to prevent the driver from driving away. The driver was a woman with orange-red hair and a pair of sunglasses, looking very fashionable.

“How do you walk?” Before the man could even say anything, the woman took off her sunglasses and started to attack.

But she had barely finished her words when Sato jumped into the car and grabbed her – a convertible sports car, without even opening the door.

“Hey! What are you doing? I’m calling the police!” the woman screamed.

“We are the police!” Sato replied.

“What? Are you the police?” the woman asked in shock with her eyes wide open, totally unable to understand what was going on.

When Mochizuki saw the woman, he felt that she looked familiar, but Xiaolan called out directly, “Isn’t she Nana Oyamauchi?”
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