Two old-fashioned guns that had been soaked in water would have been placed in the Police Station as evidence in the Murder Case anyway. Even if they forgot to return them for a while, they could only play with them for a few days before the police noticed.
They were merely losing a few days of openly carrying guns.
Thinking this, Jiang Xia took them out, glanced down at them a few times, and casually tossed the guns to the police.
Nearby, Conan was reviewing the earlier case in his mind when he suddenly felt a chill down his back.
Startled, he immediately frowned toward the Police Station, forming a guess: Kasuga Teruhiko must be cursing them out. Hmph, what a sore loser. Who told him to choose Ran as a hostage... He was the very model of reaping what he had sown.
Not long afterward, the police finished collecting evidence by the lake and brought back Dr. Tanaka's body.
"I did fire the gun." Thinking of the Kasuga Conglomerate that was nearly within his grasp, Kasuga Teruhiko realized that if he was arrested now, that fortune would probably fall into his younger brothers' hands.
He did not want to admit it just like that, so he snapped without much conviction, "You can't just listen to a one-sided story! That gun was actually Jiang Xia's. He killed Dr. Tanaka, and I got hold of the gun while taking advantage of the chaos. I wanted to fight back, but I missed. Then I was unfortunately beaten by them too... They're all in on it! They colluded to frame me for murder!"
"But..." The stout police officer looked at him speechlessly. Though he felt the man was being utterly unreasonable, they could not completely disregard his testimony, so he did