"Pushed off?"
Inspector Yassa's voice came from nearby.
He had already heard Mouri Ran and Professor Agasa explain the situation. He had expected to feel at least a little shocked or surprised, but in reality, he felt nothing at all.
—Inspector Yassa realized that the moment he had seen Jiang Xia at the crime scene, he had apparently accepted this possibility. All along, he had been unconsciously viewing this Falling Case as a criminal case.
Inspector Yassa: "..." Sigh, so exhausting.
How had Tokyo's police worked for so long without dropping dead from overwork? The next time he went to Tokyo on business, he needed to properly learn their health-preservation methods.
"Inspector, we found it." A young officer hurried over with the freshly printed information in his arms. "The man who fell was Ogata Masaaki, thirty-seven years old. He entered the country eight years ago and opened a Loan Company—its address is in that building right next to us."
Jiang Xia leaned over to glance at the file. "The time the bystanders called an Ambulance was 12:23 a.m.? Did that person call for an Ambulance immediately after seeing someone fall?"
Inspector Yassa nodded. "Less than a minute apart."
Listening to their conversation, Professor Agasa felt that something was off. He scratched his bald head. "But when we had just gotten out of the taxi, we saw those two people fall. It seemed to be around 12:10 a.m. I happened to glance at the clock when we got out, and the digits were all zeros and ones. Since I'm rather familiar with binary, that time left a deep impression on me."
"You saw him fall around 12:10 a.m.?" Inspector Yassa suspected that this somewhat dim-looking middle-aged man had remembered wrong. "That's nearly ten minutes off from when he fell! It's not