Kudo Shinichi, targeted by the media woman's pointed accusations, still stood there dumbfounded like a stupid bird.
Hearing this, Ran beside him couldn't help but grow confused. "Are you saying Shinichi let the murderer get away and they're still at large?"
"That can't be possible, right?"
Kawachi Mikari crossed her arms. "Nothing's impossible. The evidence is already conclusive."
"If you say the evidence is conclusive, then show us the evidence, okay?"
Hattori Heiji spoke up then. Following the same routine as those Beika people he had seen argue their cases, he directly demanded that she produce evidence.
Although this old woman was going after Fake Kudo right now.
Thinking about it carefully, though, even if Kudo was fake at the moment, the person whose reputation would ultimately be ruined was Real Kudo—his good buddy.
Kawachi Mikari had clearly come prepared and explained calmly.
About a year ago, Kudo Shinichi had come here to investigate a case. In the end, it had been closed as the village chief killing someone before taking his own life. The motive for the murder had been that the chief discovered he had cancer, broke down, and killed his family to take them with him.
However, according to her investigation, the chief's tumor had not been cancer at all. It had been benign, and the doctor had informed him of this the day after he learned it was supposedly cancer.
Afterward, the nurse from that time had told her that when the chief found out, he had been overjoyed and showed no signs whatsoever of wanting to kill himself.
Yet the case back then had been ruled a suicide...
Looking at it that way, the truth was obvious.
Since even the murder motive had been wrong, why would the chief have wanted to commit suicide? How