Akikawa Sosuke was a little surprised.
Not to mention they were in a hospital room, there were also two outsiders standing behind this beautiful police officer!
"Is this how the Detectives of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department usually are?"
"Just openly bringing outsiders to observe like this?"
Akikawa Sosuke had originally thought that if they were all characters like Nakajima Takuto, who had a little bit of intelligence but not much, he should be able to handle them.
But he hadn't expected that the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department would actually be willing to let that "handsome" Detective and the Grim Reaper Kid observe the interrogation.
"It seems the Detectives in the world of Detective Conan all have incredibly high IQs. If I show any flaws, they'll definitely notice right away..."
Akikawa Sosuke thought to himself, then looked towards Conan and Sera Masumi.
"Excuse me, who are these two...?"
"They are Conan-kun and Miss Sera. They might also have some questions they'd like to ask Mr. Akikawa."
"Okay..."
Akikawa Sosuke saw that Sato Miwako had no intention of asking the two Detectives to leave, so he nodded slightly.
"Thank you for your cooperation. Without further ado, could I please ask Mr. Akikawa to recount yesterday's schedule?"
"Recount my schedule? Is this just a simple question, or are you trying to confirm if my answer conflicts with Nakajima's previous recording?"
Akikawa Sosuke pondered, then spoke:
"Yesterday was my twentieth birthday, so I planned to go out and celebrate with my mother."
"After the celebration was finished, we were preparing to go home..."
"Excuse me, could you please be more specific about how you celebrated? For example, where did you go, what did you do?"
"We just had a normal meal."
Akikawa Sosuke, of course, didn't know what the original owner and his mother had done yesterday.
However, considering the original owner's physical condition, he likely couldn't do most activities.
Furthermore, he hadn't felt hungry until this morning, and since the car accident happened around 9 PM yesterday, the original owner and his mother must have eaten out.
"Could you please tell us which restaurant you went to? What did you eat?"
"Sorry, I don't remember..."
"Oh dear, do normal people forget what they ate last night? And wasn't last night Big Brother's birthday? Could he really forget even that?"
Suddenly, a childish and affected voice rang out.
Conan blinked his innocent eyes, his gaze filled with confusion as he looked at Akikawa Sosuke.
"It was his birthday yesterday, how could he forget what he ate?"
"Since he wants to hide the matter of eating, that means if the restaurant where he and his mother dined is found, it's very likely something will be exposed!"
"For example... putting sleeping pills in his mother's food or something..."
Conan keenly perceived Akikawa Sosuke's intention.
He curled the corner of his mouth and lightly pinched his collar.
He was preparing the miniature microphone on his collar to tell Takagi Wataru, who was taking notes outside, about this matter.
However, the words Akikawa Sosuke said next caused Conan's actions to stop.
"For me, eating itself is painful, so it doesn't matter what I eat."
"Any food is difficult for me to swallow."
"Every time I eat, I have to take a whole lot of pills just to barely swallow it, but even if I eat a little more, I'll just throw it up."
"Even if I had eaten sushi last night, I don't think I would have any memory of it."
Listening to the words Akikawa Sosuke spoke with his head lowered and a lonely look in his eyes, Conan's expression suddenly froze on his face.
"I actually forgot! It's true that normal people wouldn't forget what they ate yesterday, but this Akikawa Sosuke isn't a normal person!"
"As a patient with chronic liver failure, he lost the ability to enjoy food a long time ago."
Realizing this, Conan suddenly felt a little awkward.
He had originally planned to play the role of an innocent child and point out the unreasonable parts of Akikawa Sosuke's words.
Unexpectedly, he ended up being a bratty kid who spoke carelessly and poked at someone's sore spot.
"Even if I had eaten sushi last night, I wouldn't have any memory of it..."
Sera Masumi quietly repeated Akikawa Sosuke's words.
"For him, is sushi the best thing?"
Sera Masumi had heard that for children from ordinary families, sushi was the most high-class food.
Hearing Akikawa Sosuke desperately trying to imagine and only being able to say something like sushi, she suddenly felt a sense of pity for Akikawa Sosuke.
"That was rude of me. Please continue, Mr. Akikawa," Sato Miwako said.
"Um... afterward, as we were heading back, a motorcycle suddenly darted out in front of us, and Mom slammed on the brakes at that moment."
"What kind of motorcycle was it?"
"A black one."
"Could you be more specific?"
"Sorry, I don't know much about motorcycles."
"And then?"
...
Afterward, Akikawa Sosuke recounted exactly as he had told Nakajima Takuto before,
giving a complete account of being rear-ended after braking, the car hitting the guardrail, him hitting his head and hand, and then his mother being killed by the motorcycle rider.
However, there were some differences.
Almost every time Akikawa Sosuke recounted something, Sato Miwako asked for detailed specifics.
"Excuse me, I'd like to ask something."
At this moment, the voice of Sera Masumi, who had been silent the whole time, rang out.
"Mr. Akikawa, you said you hit your head and were a bit disoriented at the time, but you should have noticed the order in which the killer stabbed Ryoko, right? The killer must have stabbed Ryoko in the neck first, right?"
Akikawa Ryoko's injuries were to her neck, chest, and abdomen.
The knife was ultimately lodged in her abdomen.
Since there were ligature marks on Akikawa Ryoko's body, it indicates that Akikawa Ryoko struggled violently when she was attacked.
The stab wound on Akikawa Ryoko's neck was in the throat area. It would have been impossible for her to struggle violently after being stabbed there, so it definitely wasn't the first place the knife struck.
Furthermore, there were no fingerprints on Akikawa Ryoko's body, and Akikawa Sosuke didn't have gloves.
Therefore, the ligature marks were "Police confidential information" known only to the Police.
In this situation, if Akikawa Sosuke were the killer, his answer would likely avoid the correct stabbing order to mislead the Police's judgment.
And her question happened to play into the killer's hands.
Considering that the knife was ultimately lodged in Akikawa Ryoko's abdomen, stabbing the throat first from the top would fit the impression of an outsider witnessing the victim's tragic state.
"As long as Akikawa Sosuke nods, he's most likely the killer."
Sera Masumi thought to herself, then heard Akikawa Sosuke recall with a trembling voice:
"From what I remember... it doesn't seem like it... It seems that person stabbed Mom in the chest several times first, and only then stabbed her in the abdomen and throat."
"I only remember Mom struggling very violently at the time, and I was so scared I couldn't move, and I didn't see too clearly..."
"He actually avoided Masumi Sera's trap..."
Conan sighed softly in his heart, but he didn't easily dismiss the possibility that Akikawa Sosuke was the killer just because of this.
He quietly reached out and lightly tapped the microphone on his collar twice, sending out a signal.
A moment later, there was a knock on the door of the hospital room.
Immediately after, Takagi Wataru walked in.
Sato Miwako looked at Takagi Wataru with a puzzled gaze, and then heard Takagi Wataru whisper in a voice that was lowered, but still audible to the people inside:
"There's news from the Forensic Science Division. No sleeping pill components were found in Akikawa Ryoko's body."
"That rules out the possibility of sleeping pills causing the accident," Sato Miwako nodded.
"There's one more thing. The Forensic Science Division determined through the Luminol reaction that the fingerprints on the dagger handle were wiped by the killer."
"But the killer revealed a flaw here."
"Because afterward, the Forensic Science Division used the cyanoacrylate fuming method and found the fingerprint of another person besides the victim, Akikawa Ryoko, on the dagger handle."
While Takagi Wataru was "reporting" to Sato Miwako,
Conan's eyes, behind his large round glasses, were constantly watching Akikawa Sosuke closely.
As expected.
After hearing Takagi Wataru say that another person's fingerprint was found on the dagger handle, Akikawa Sosuke's face showed a very surprised expression.
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