“Are you still bothered by that case? I mean the case you hid under that hat.”

After the riddle was finished, he went to Sato to learn about the progress of the case. Megure was thinking with his arms crossed, and Conan and he maintained a relatively consistent state. So far, there has been no progress in the case. Winette was not interested in the process of solving the case, but it was difficult for Sonoko and Xiaolan to leave first; after the accident mentioned by Sato, she thought it was still a revenge drama. In order to protect the identity information of the party who caused the accident, the police would not disclose their real identity information, which led to the criminal’s activities around the place where she worked before, and even chose a wide-area attack because they could not determine the real identity of the person.

She attacked them because they had something in common, but she had no idea what that commonality was.

The makeup is really too simple. The last time, the killer who specifically attacked brown-haired women was easier to understand.

In this quiet and dull atmosphere, Sonoko whispered to Kogoro:

“Uncle Maori, can you lend me your car keys? I think I’ll have to stay here for a while, so I want to put my things in the car and go to the restroom in the department store first.”

“Then you have to hurry up, the department store should be closing soon.” He took out the key.

“No problem! I’ll take Miss Winette with me.” Sonoko hugged Winette’s shoulders, and then Xiaolan also asked them to put the things in the car; Winette was dragged away.

Then, Sonoko said that she could see that Winnett didn’t seem very interested in the case, and compared to her and Xiaolan, Winnett actually bought more things, and the bags of clothes she had changed into were dense and heavy. Although she had good physical strength, Sonoko thought it was a hard job.

They looked for the car in the parking lot for a while, but because the red sedan that Kogoro rented was too small – and it happened to be blocked behind a white truck, it took a lot of time.

“Miss Winnet, please help me put it down. I’m a little anxious.”

“Yeah, no problem.” Winnet took the key.

The truck next to her was parked too close, so she had to open the driver’s side door and put all her things in.

After doing all this, Winnet no longer wanted to return to the crime scene. She thought that since the real murderer who hit the child to death was dead, the criminal should decide to stop; he preconceived that he did not kill people in the previous times because of revenge, and this time he killed the person because he found the real person. In her opinion, this is a normal choice – the result of revenge.

She decided to look for Sonoko. She noticed the direction she left, guessing she would go to the toilet on the floor they had been to before—knowing the location more precisely.

It’s easier to go to a toilet in a known location than to go to a new floor to find one.

Winnet walked towards the elevator and pressed the sixth floor. She felt someone was still looking at her and thought that this outfit was really special, a bit like role-playing. After arriving at the sixth floor, she found that the toilet was being cleaned and there was a sign saying, “Yuanzi probably went upstairs again.”

As she reached the stairs, she heard the announcement that the department store was about to close.

The lights suddenly dimmed.

Winnet heard Sonoko’s voice and realized that she was upstairs on the seventh floor. She waited for a while in the stairwell with emergency lights on, but did not see Sonoko, so she thought she continued to go upstairs.

When she was about to reach the seventh floor, she felt the presence of someone else.

Very weak.

The person who came was probably holding his breath or covering his mouth, and had been waiting at the corner.

“Sonoko, you want to scare me, right?” Winette’s tone revealed a hint of helplessness.

After she spoke, she didn’t get a response. Winnet thought for a moment, maybe Sonoko thought she was scared, and she might have planned to suddenly show up and scare her; but she wouldn’t succeed, Winnet decided to take the initiative to fall into Sonoko’s trap, “Sonoko…”

However, after climbing a few steps, Winnet found something wrong. She heard the sound of air flowing, as if some blunt instrument was ready to go. Could it be that the murderer had not given up yet? Winnet frowned slightly. Yuanzi might have been killed, but she did not wear that kind of mountain-clad makeup… No, it must not be this reason. At this moment, the criminal was already attacking her, but she was not panicked at all, like a fish tasting the bait on the hook, she welcomed the trap.

The sound of air vibrating.

A fully armed figure appeared from the corner of the stairs, wearing a round knitted hat, sunglasses, a long scarf covering his face, and a thick coat.

He held the bat high and performed the “straight strike” exercise from kendo.

Clearly, he was not professional.

The forward swing is too long.

He was too slow to charge and swing. Not to mention her, even ordinary people could react. Winnett saw that his physical fitness was declining, and he was probably over 40 years old. She just leaned sideways and dodged the attack.

The bat hit the thick handrail and the iron-clad surface, making a vibrating roar.

After missing the first strike, the criminal adjusted his posture.

At this moment, Winnett subconsciously jumped onto the handrail. But at this time, the incoordination of the thick-soled shoes affected her balance. She wanted to knee him, but she changed her angle and did a backflip behind the gangster. She was about the same height as him, so she strangled his neck with her arms and pressed her knees against his joints. Because he was facing the stairs, he was temporarily unbalanced and fell to the side of the stairs. Winnett dragged his neck, making him fall on his back, and stepped on his wrist.

The thick-soled shoes finally played a little positive role, providing some cushioning and protecting the prisoner’s body.

After such a drastic change, the scarf on the prisoner’s face was removed.

Guided by the continuous strange noises, Yuanzi, holding her cell phone, rushed over anxiously and looked down from the upstairs. As a result, she saw Winnet subduing the man. She held up the microphone and said to Xiaolan on the other side:

“I saw Miss Winnett knock a heavily dressed man to the ground.”

She went to the eighth floor to use the restroom, and it was too late, so she received a call from Xiaolan, asking why she and Winette had not returned yet. In the middle of the conversation, Yuanzi heard the vibration, and mentioned it during the call, revealing a look of fear.

Meanwhile, Xiaolan has made a breakthrough in the case. They discovered a problem with the victim’s shoes, and based on the testimony of previous victims, they deduced that the suspect was about 160 cm tall. Not only that, Officer Takagi discovered through investigation that the mall’s security guard, Yoshio Kimura, was the father of the boy who was hit and killed a year ago. The boy’s accident was mainly due to the thick-soled shoes affecting the brakes – the criminal’s target was the girl who drove while wearing thick-soled shoes.

Conan immediately realized that Sonoko had borrowed Kogoro’s car keys and was wearing thick-soled shoes, so she might be seen as a target of attack. Xiaolan immediately conveyed this point, but Sonoko replied that she asked Winette to drive.

Conan’s anxiety turned into an indescribable complex expression.

Especially when he saw Megure taking the lead in rushing out to look for the criminal.

Not long after, the garden side announced that Winnet had subdued the prisoner.

Conan showed an embarrassed look, as if to say “as expected”.

“There’s no need to worry now… No, the one who should be worried is the criminal,” he complained in his mind.

……

537 Medal of Glory

Yuanzi carefully walked down the stairs, touching the handrail, and approached Winnet. When she came over, Winnet changed her posture and put the suspect’s hands behind her back. Because the suspect was facing the ground, he couldn’t help but turn his face to the side, and the sunglasses on his face fell off, revealing his true face.

It’s the guard in the parking lot.

Sonoko covered her mouth and reported the incident to Xiaolan on the phone. This fact was consistent with Conan and the others’ reasoning. Then, Sonoko told Winnet what Xiaolan had relayed Conan’s words, asking her to wait for the police to arrive.

The department store was closed and the elevator was out of service. Megure rode away, and Sato and Takagi were amazed at his mobility.

At this time, Megure ran around the corner of the seventh floor and Winnet was right in front of him.

“Miss Winnett, it’s too dangerous for you to fight with the suspect like this.”

“Um,” she said, stuttering, “He suddenly attacked me, and I just defended myself…”

He saw Winnett’s more precise control of movements than the police academy students, and he couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief and put aside his inner worries; he thought, although she was a girl, her fighting ability was extraordinary. The last stalactite cave incident was more dangerous than this time. Realizing this, he blamed himself for not being steady enough because of the past.

“Dingjin Fangxiong! You are under arrest!” he said.

The man was pinned down by Winnet and gave up as if he accepted his fate.

Seeing Megure take out the handcuffs, Winnett relaxed her grip and slowly left his body; during this process, he remained very quiet. Just as she was a little away, Ding Jin Yoshio crawled towards the bat that fell to the ground and aimed at Winnett.

I don’t know if it’s because she’s more threatening or because of hatred.

He swung the bat.

Facing the weaker Megure.

Winette wanted to attack, but Megure’s body moved very fast, unlike his fat body. She realized it was unnecessary and stayed where she was. As she imagined, Yoshio’s bat just brushed past Megure’s hat. Although it didn’t hit him, the orange bowler hat flew out.

It turns out that Inspector Megure is not bald.

Miss Winnet thought without any tension.

It’s not even a Mediterranean bald hairstyle, just an ordinary short buzz cut.

However, the color of some of his skin was obviously different. Winette guessed that he had suffered a head injury and had scars.

Isn’t this a police officer’s medal?

Winnet wonders why he wears a hat.

But Megure obviously didn’t have time to answer such questions.

“Are you still going to persist?” Megure looked at him and said, “I understand. You may want to use this hammer to enforce justice on people who have poor driving skills, right? But unfortunately, this girl can’t drive at all.”

Megure glanced at Winnet and took off her glasses.

Uh uh, Miss Winnett doesn’t want to be a real-time teaching material.

Her eyes lacked focus, and anyone who saw her for the first time would think that she couldn’t see clearly.

Ding Jin Fangxiong, who was holding the baseball bat, took a breath in surprise.

Just now, he still thought of her as a tyrannical, rule-breaking woman in his mind, but now he seemed distraught as if he had lost his target.

Megure’s eyes glowed deeply from under his hat as he said:

“Your actions are not for justice, nor for revenge for your dead son. They are just a vent of anger. It is all your arbitrary behavior, playing with human lives, and venting your anger without any meaning. Don’t you understand?”

“what……”

Megure’s excited roar made him repent, and then the same action as in the Edogawa film set happened, the criminal knelt on the ground and began to repent in tears.

“Actually… I just want that girl to apologize to me. I want her to change into proper shoes and apologize to my son in heaven, so as to comfort his soul there.”

He was in tears, and his tears dripped onto the ground.

“Really,” he continued, “I really only had this thought at the beginning… Yes, it’s true…”

I couldn’t cry.

Miss Winnet, a pastor, took out her cross ornaments and read the Lord’s Prayer for his children, quoted the Lamentations of Jeremiah, and talked about the contents of the Prayer Book. Her beautiful voice made her become a compassionate angel in the eyes of Ding Jin Fangxiong. She advised him to atone for his sins instead of being a coward, and he might have a chance to go to heaven in the future.

At this time, not only Sato Takagi, but also Ran and Conan rushed over and happened to see Megure without a hat.

They were also surprised when they saw Megure’s head.

There’s nothing special about it.

It’s just a scar.

Kogoro asked Megure why he covered up his scar, but was ignored. Megure ordered Sato Takagi to take the criminal away.

Sonoko gave Ran a hug, and Ran asked how Winette was, and the answer was of course that she was intact. Conan kept staring at the prisoner who was leaving, and was relieved to see that he had all his limbs intact. He was afraid that she would beat him to death, and it would be fine if she did it once, but if she did it more than once, she might be prosecuted.

Seeing that the matter was over, they were also preparing to return. When they returned to the underground garage, the police were preparing to transport the body, and Matsumoto Seinaga was still there.

Maori Kogoro and Conan are still curious about Megure’s secret. Kogoro asked:

“Officer Matsumoto, do you know what the scar on Officer Megure’s forehead is?”

“That’s an old wound he had from a past case.”

As he walked he said:

“Yes, Megure wears that hat wherever he goes just to hide the scar.”

Kogoro asked, “But for a police officer, getting injured while on duty is like a medal. He doesn’t need to hide it.”

Matsumoto talked about the past. It was an incident 20 years ago, when Megure was still a detective. It was the case mentioned by Maori that he repeatedly hit high school girls with his car and fled. The suspect’s motive was because he was threatened by bad high school girls, and he would take advantage of the opportunity when these high school girls were alone to drive and hit them, and his behavior was despicable. At that time, bad girls were still popular with long uniforms, with skirts covering their ankles, which was obvious at a glance.

The murderer initially just ran away after hitting someone, but later on he would not stop until he hit someone to death. The police had no choice but to warn nearby high school girls not to wear that kind of skirt, and indeed no new cases occurred.

“At that time, a female high school student expressed her willingness to lure the criminals out, saying that this was to avenge her dead friend. Of course, we tried our best to stop her, but the girl has always been very disgusted with the police and ignored the police’s attempts to stop her. In desperation, we specially sent Megure to protect that student.”

The rest of the story is extremely clear. Thanks to the efforts of Megure and the girl, the suspect was finally arrested successfully.

This should have been the case, but Matsumoto used a suspenseful statement, saying that Megure suffered a serious head injury, and the other girl suffered serious head and body injuries and fell to the ground covered in blood.

“So the reason why Inspector Megure refused to take off his hat is…”

“That’s right. Anyone who sees the big scar on his forehead will ask him where it came from, which forces him to recall the case from that year. So Megure covered the wound with a hat. After all, the scar represents a painful memory.”

The story he told moved the two girls to tears.

The two believed that this was the reason why Megure opposed the plan to lure out the murderer, no longer wanting to have another victim like that girl.

At this time, Matsumoto gave them a big twist, saying that she was not dead. Not only that, she became Megure’s wife.

The feeling of being moved came to an abrupt end.

They all thought of the same thing: Megure wore a hat because he didn’t want others to see it and make fun of him for knowing his wife.

Miss Winnett’s thinking was completely different. She felt that it was an honorable wound in love and there was nothing to be ashamed of. She stroked her right arm, and the scars from the past seemed to be slightly warm. This was also her medal and one of the opportunities for them to meet.

When she heard that they were still together despite the big age difference, she felt a little relieved. Although she was about the same age as Ai, she always felt like an old woman. They didn’t squeeze into Kogoro’s mini car until they saw Matsumoto off to the police car. Because they bought too many things, there was not much space left, and the car was even more crowded. Winnet felt like a hamburger patty.

Miss Winnett said that her muscles were very strong and it would definitely not be comfortable if she was squeezed.

Soon, the two girls fell asleep. The fatigue of today’s shopping and the excitement of the evening caused this result. Miss Winnett was a human pillow for a while, thinking about today’s harvest. She was different from the vulgar people. When she got the golden words, she would immediately analyze the truth when it was beneficial to her. She wanted to understand it as soon as possible. She didn’t respect the rules in her heart, even those set by God. She thought that compared with St. Augustine’s ridicule of God, her rebellion was just an insignificant part of the crowd.

The story of a repentant villain regaining grace was the one she hated most.

Her existence is the aggregate of this disgust, the evil itself.

Kogoro took the initiative to take a detour and send her home first. Winnet was carrying bags and bags, and before she even walked into the house, she saw Mingmei, who was very enthusiastic, coming over to help her carry things. Seeing her like this, Winnet knew that her boastful words were in vain, because she didn’t want Winnet to mention it, so she was only briefly attentive.

Mingmei was unwilling to admit that she had not found new love.