Chapter 10 chapter Ten

"It's one of those Colt automatics with a suppressor." Shirai said. "A Colt?" "Yes! It seems to be the gun thrown by the New York City detective Bart." "Really?" "After looking at the number of the pistol, Bart yelled that it belonged to him." "But when he showed us, didn't he say he didn't have a muffler?" The Tenjin River is like falling into the fog for five miles. "But the gun that was found did have a suppressor." "Then Officer Bart is also inexplicable?" "Officer Charles of the Paris Police Department said that the investigation will be formally opened after arriving in Paris."

Shirai said. Matsuno Yuki's body was unloaded at a halfway stop and transported to Paris by car. Probably after arriving in Paris, an autopsy will be arranged on the body. "You know about the Mask of Justice, right?" Totsukawa tentatively asked Ugaki and Shimazaki Yayoi. "What? What are you talking about?" Ugaki asked back. Yayoi asked: "Is it the protagonist of the TV series?" "It's fine if you don't know." Totsukawa said. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the train arrived at Paris Lyon station. French train stations do not have ticket gates like those in Japan, so journalists crowd the platforms.

Reporters from the Nippon Shimbun Paris bureau also came.A passenger on the express train was shot dead, which is also a major news in France, and it is also on TGV, which France is proud of in the world. It took a lot of effort to force a way out among the reporters, and the people concerned got into the car and were taken to the Paris police station.For this reason, several police cars were dispatched and roared past on the streets of Paris. The children on the streets of Paris did not know what had happened, and they stopped and watched in groups on the street, with surprised expressions on their faces.

Those who were taken to the Paris police station were: the Ogoshi couple, the Japanese couple, other passengers in carriage 3, the New York Police Department's Bashi detective whose pistol was stolen, his colleagues, and Totsukawa and his party. Totsukawa believes that the Paris police department, more precisely, the French criminal police are deliberately creating tension. TGV is equivalent to Japan's national railway.The logo of the front of the car is prominently mounted.Perhaps this makes the police automatically think of the country's reputation. This murder implicated the Dai Viet couple, so the Japanese ambassador to France also came.

In the corridor of the Paris police station, Ambassador Hotta asked anxiously as soon as he saw Totsukawa: "how is the situation?" "I don't know. It seems that Dai Yue was really going to kill him, but he killed Matsuno Yuki by mistake." "Then, Dai Viet wasn't under suspicion?" "certainly." "Then number!" Ambassador Hotta lowered his voice in relief and said. Dai Viet is a powerful figure in the financial world and the chairman of the Japan-France Friendship Association.No matter how you look at it, if he is involved in a murder case, one can imagine the bad influence.

Officially in charge of the case was Sergeant Pierre Guillet.The incidents in the SNCF trains were handled by the Paris police, because they were involved in the incident from the very beginning. Pierre Gillette was around 50 years old, and when he was first introduced, Totsukawa wondered who he looked like?Sniff, come to think of it, he looks like Gian Overtime. Later, I learned through Shirai that Christina had also said that in the Paris police station, Pierre Gillette was known for his resemblance to Gian Gapin.I heard that he himself dislikes people saying that. When Pierre invited Totsukawa to help solve the case, Totsukawa firmly put forward:

"I'm glad I can assist you, but you can't be mystified!" Pierre frowned. "What do you mean?" "For example, if fingerprints are found on the found pistol, we must truthfully tell us whose fingerprints were there. Anyway, it was a Japanese woman who was killed." "Your request must be met." Sergeant Pierre said. On the second day, that is, the 18th, there was still no information about fingerprints, and there was no statement about whether a forensic autopsy had been performed on Matsuno Yuki's body. On the contrary, Totsukawa and his party took the same train, and asked the same question several times.

Officer Bart of the NYPD was furious.The two from London's Scotland Yard, although still calm, also protested because they could not get any information. Two detectives from the Manila Police Station were also interrogated because they were on the same train, but they returned home on the afternoon of the 18th due to the problem of detention fees. At 10 a.m. on the 19th, Pierre Gillette finally briefed Totsukawa, Barthes and others on the investigation. "First to report the results of the autopsy. Three bullets were fired from the Colt automatic pistol. Two hit the dead man's back and one hit the heart. The third hit the car body. The bullets all came from the pistol. There is no doubt about it. Judging from the results of the test firing, the murderer fired from a distance of about 10 meters from the deceased."

Pierre spoke in French and Christina translated into English. "How many meters is a carriage of a TGV?" Totsukawa asked.He asked in English, which was translated into French, and Pierre answered in French.Translating in this way seems to be done slowly.Maybe Pierre's English is very good, but he just doesn't want to ask questions in English. "About 20 meters." "That is to say, the murderer happened to be standing in the middle of the No. 3 carriage and shot." "indeed so." "Have any fingerprints been found on the gun?" Officer Bart of the NYPD chimed in.

"Fingerprints haven't been found yet." "That was wiped off. However, if you check the hands of the person concerned, you will see the smoke reaction." "I've seen it. As soon as the incident happened, I checked the hands of everyone in the No. 3 car." "So, what's the result?" "Not a single person," "Impossible! How about the pair of Japanese who ran to the No. 1 car?" "Of course, I also checked the gunpowder smoke reaction of the two of them's hands, and there is no problem." "Is the inspection method wrong? Isn't the pistol thrown on the luggage rack of the No. 2 car?"

"It's the luggage rack in the center of the No. 2 car." "That's right. After the Japanese couple shot and killed in car 3, they fled to car 2, threw the Colt automatic pistol on the luggage rack, and then fled to car 1, pretending nothing happened look." bart said loudly. He appeared to be a combative man, but Pierre remained calm. "This reasoning is very interesting. But as long as there is no smoke reaction, it is difficult to determine who the murderer is." "Is there something wrong with the inspection method?" "The inspection equipment we use was purchased by the United States!" Pierre took the defensive as the offensive, and his words were not lacking in sarcasm. Bart was furious, glared at Pierre, and asked: "Then the murderer was among the passengers in carriages 2 and 1. What do you think of that?" Totsukawa felt the same way. Totsukawa knew that no suspicious person had run from the No. 3 car to the bar in the No. 4 car. That is to say, the murderer was either in the No. 3 compartment, or fled to the No. 2 compartment or the No. 1 compartment. "The names and addresses of the passengers in carriage 2 and carriage 1 are recorded. There are 27 people in total, 18 of whom are French, and the rest are tourists." Pierre still spoke in a calm tone. "Have they checked their hands for the smoke reaction?" "That's not checked." "Why don't you check?" Bart growled loudly. "Because the seven passengers in the No. 3 car all proved that after the incident, only the Japanese couple got out from the No. 3 car." "But as policemen, we should know that human eyes are often unreliable. Besides, none of the seven passengers in carriage 3 could see the murderer and the victim clearly. Because of the use of the muffler, no gunfire was heard. In this way, besides the pair of Japanese, even if other people escaped, wouldn’t it be possible for them not to be discovered?” "I trust the eyes of those seven passengers." "So, is there no need to investigate the passengers in the No. 2 and No. 1 cars?" "Of course. The victim and those related to Mr. Ogoshi will also be investigated. The motive for the killing will also be investigated. The results will be reported." Pierre said. "My pistol, when will you return it to me?" "Your pistol is a murder weapon and cannot be returned for the time being." After finishing speaking in a calm tone, Pierre asked again: "You don't seem to have a muffler on, do you?" "We are all criminal police, isn't there no need to use mufflers?" Bart shrugged. Then, Sergeant Elizabeth of Scotland Yard in London took notes and asked: "The murderer's target was Mr. Ogoshi, but he hit Ms. Toyo Matsuno next to him. Is this roughly certain?" Seeing that the other party was a woman, Pierre said solemnly: "To tell you, the bullet that missed went into the car and just grazed Mr. Dagoshi's body. Besides, he was often threatened. From this point of view, the real target of the murderer is indeed Mr. Dagoshi, Elizabeth. Miss." "Haven't you seriously considered the possibility that she herself was the target?" "'Go to hell!' 'Kill you!' It was Mr. Ogoshi who was constantly intimidated like this. At the same time, the murderer shot very hastily. Although he wanted to kill Okoshi, he hit Secretary Matsuno next to him. I think something happened. That's it." Pierre said. "What did Mr. Ogoshi himself say?" Dennis from Scotland Yard in London asked instead of his boss, Elizabeth. "Of course he was the target, he said. Explosives had been received at his own house and he showed us the threatening letter sent to the restaurant in Grenoble. The letter was translated into French and English. The text, I will show you below." "Then, are the killers limited to Japanese?" "It would be very dangerous to think like this. Mr. Ogoshi is a financial figure who is active all over the world. Because of this, hitting him is hitting Japan, and he is just such a suitable person. Look. , He recently bought real estate and mansions in New York and Hawaii, and bought castles in France, which is bound to arouse some people's resentment and jealousy. I remember that I have seen articles condemning the sale of castles to the Japanese in newspapers recently. Therefore, It is not ruled out that the murderers are French and American." "Is it more likely that the murderer was among the passengers in the No. 2 and No. 1 cars?" Officer Bart of New York chimed in. Totsukawa felt that the question had come full circle, and Pierre felt the same way. Just now they were calmly exchanging views with each other, but at this moment, Pierre's expression suddenly became serious. Totsukawa thinks that the French have a conceited mentality, thinking that their own country’s culture is the source of American culture. This time I came to France and talked with the police from various countries, and I felt this more strongly.This is the intense self-centered consciousness of the French.The Japanese, for example, have largely introduced English or American English into the Japanese language, while the French have almost stubbornly rejected it.In Shirai's words, the French themselves seem to feel oppressed, probably because of their stubbornness. There are quite a few French people who are very Japanese in temperament, but in Totsukawa's view, they seem to be more like Chinese. "This is France, and this case also happened in France. It is our French police who play a decisive role." Pierre said that all over his face. However, Officer Bart was unimpressed, saying: "In any case, it is a serious mistake not to carry out the smoke reaction test for all the passengers in the No. 2 and No. 1 compartments!" Just when he said this in English, Pierre's face became more and more ugly. It seems that his English must be good. Totsukawa thought, this is going to be difficult, and it's not a dialogue between Japanese people, so how can we persuade them? Fortunately, Inspector Elizabeth of Scotland Yard in London also thought of this, and interjected: "The smoke response is not 100% accurate. Fortunately, the names and addresses of all the passengers are known. We look forward to the future investigation by the Paris Police Department." Her gentle whisper seemed to be having an effect.Pierre smiled and said to Elizabeth: "I don't think it will disappoint, madam." Bart didn't even smile and said, "I'm trying to get my Colt automatic back as soon as possible."

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