Takagi Wataru: "What is your relationship with Nishikawa Mutsumi?"
Chi Feichi: "None."
Takagi Wataru: "Nishikawa Mutsumi had plastic surgery to look like the old lady of the Mamiya family, Mamiya Masuyo. Until she attacked the children staying at the castle, did she exhibit any abnormal behavior?"
Chi Feichi: "She was pretending to be a senile old person."
Takagi Wataru choked. "Can you be more specific? Besides pretending to be senile?"
"That's it." Chi Feichi answered crisply.
Pretending to be senile made her whole demeanor off. What would count as abnormal behavior in that context?
Takagi Wataru coughed lightly. "Then, what was the date of the incident?"
Chi Feichi was silent for a while, then took a deep breath. "Officer Takagi, you are making things difficult for me."
He hadn't checked the calendar that day. Given the timeline of this world, he couldn't deduce the date even if he tried.
Since he didn't bring Feichi today, asking him about the date was definitely asking the wrong person.
"What?" Takagi Wataru was puzzled.
"The MPD should have inquired about me at the hospital. I have a time perception disorder," Chi Feichi looked calmly at Takagi Wataru. "And you're asking me the date of that day?"
Ayumi wanted to remind him, but Conan shushed her. Taking statements together was already against regulations; they absolutely couldn't talk out of turn while being recorded.
Takagi Wataru looked down at the record. "Uh, but earlier you answered the date you went to the Mamiya house..."
"That day I was discharged from the hospital. When Mr. Mamiya Mitsuru signed the papers, I saw the date at the bottom of the document." Chi Feichi said.
Takagi Wataru broke a sweat and laughed awkwardly. "Hahaha, in that case, you can use the arrival date and the number of days you stayed to calculate the date of the incident, right?"
Chi Feichi fell silent, his gaze turning cold.
If he could calculate it, he would have answered long ago.
Takagi Wataru felt a chill down his spine: "..."
Why stare at me like that? Did I say something wrong?
Conan observed quietly from the side. Chi Feichi's gaze did change, but it was just the difference between calm, calm with a hint of coldness, calm with some coldness, and calm with extreme coldness...
Indeed, it would be better to ask at the hospital.
Chi Feichi reminded Takagi Wataru again, "I have a time perception disorder."
"O... Okay," Takagi Wataru sweated, looked down to continue recording, and sighed in his heart. He, a police officer, was threatened by a gaze in the MPD, and he compromised. It feels a bit aggrieved. "Mr. Chi Feichi has a time perception disorder, so questions about dates indeed shouldn't be asked. Then, please describe the events of that day in detail."
When saying 'detail', he emphasized the word slightly.
Chi Feichi: "That day around 6 PM, Professor Agasa brought Edogawa Conan, Haibara Ai, Yoshida Ayumi, Kojima Genta, and Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko, these five children, to stay at the Mamiya house. Before dinner, Conan went missing. While staying there, I discovered a secret passage in the castle. I guessed Conan had entered the secret passage, so I went to look for him..."
Takagi Wataru breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't expect Chi Feichi to cooperate so well with the statement. That was good.
Chi Feichi was indeed cooperating patiently.
"In a secret room within the passage, I found Conan tied up.
"When taking Conan out, we almost ran into Nishikawa Mutsumi. I suspected she was taking another attacked person somewhere. After bypassing her, I returned to the secret room and found Professor Agasa tied up.
"When leaving the secret passage, I found Genta who had fainted, and met Mitsuhiko who came looking for us.
"Learning from Mitsuhiko that they all entered the secret passage, we used the tracking glasses Professor Agasa made for Conan and found they were moving towards the annex. We exited the secret passage, chased after them from above, and found them in the annex, along with Nishikawa Mutsumi who was chasing them."
Takagi Wataru lowered his head to record, feeling more and more strange the more he thought about it.
Simply put, it was a group of people playing hide-and-seek?
Chi Feichi was the 'it' looking for people everywhere, found everyone, and incidentally blocked a suspect.
Professor Agasa and the others all had strange expressions. After solving the case, they hadn't thought about it carefully. Hearing it now, Chi Feichi really worked hard that day...
Takagi Wataru finished recording and continued asking, "Regarding Nishikawa Mutsumi's arson and murder four years ago..."
Chi Feichi said, "It was Professor Agasa's deduction. The culprit Nishikawa Mutsumi confessed."
"Can you confirm that?" Takagi Wataru asked again.
"Confirmed." Chi Feichi affirmed.
Takagi Wataru asked two more questions, looked over it, and saw nothing else to record. The length seemed concise as always, but it was clear enough. He let Chi Feichi verify it, printed it out for Chi Feichi to sign, and immediately went to take statements from Professor Agasa and the Detective Boys.
Haibara Ai used feeling unwell as an excuse to refuse giving a statement and stayed aside with Chi Feichi.
On the surface, the case was solved by Professor Agasa's deduction, but in reality, Conan did the heavy lifting. Conan encouraged the other three children to supplement and remind, turning the group's statements into a single one directly.
This wasn't impossible, but the printed document required everyone to sign.
Takagi Wataru collected the signed documents. "Next is the movie theater murder case. Mr. Chi and the children need to give statements..."
Chi Feichi got inspiration from Professor Agasa. "Let them talk, I'll supplement."
Takagi Wataru was stunned for a moment before realizing Chi Feichi meant supplementing each other and recording together. "That... that works too..."
"I'll wait to sign." Haibara Ai said.
Takagi Wataru: "..."
Look, I found two people too lazy to even give a statement!
After that, the three children chattered away, with Conan supplementing occasionally. Not to mention, it was much more detailed than Chi Feichi's concise style, describing the entire deduction and demonstration process vividly.
Chi Feichi just said 'Confirmed' twice, then signed together with them.
"Next is the Magician's Lover case at the Snow Mountain Villa," Takagi Wataru smiled. "Professor Agasa and the other children can rest for a bit..."
Chi Feichi hadn't realized he had accumulated so many statements.
Checking the time, it was already past 6 PM. He wanted to rest too...
"Let Conan speak, I'll supplement."
"Me?" Conan looked at Chi Feichi speechlessly. "You completed the deduction for this case, and you were the one who drew the diagram of the trick for the police later..."
"I told you about it," Chi Feichi stared at Conan. "Right?"
Whoever brings death takes responsibility. Anyway, Japanese elementary school students have really little homework. Isn't it good to treat this as another extracurricular assignment?
Conan: "..."
Yes, I saw through the trick, but I saw through it myself. When did Chi Feichi tell me?
This bastard Chi Feichi is counting on the fact that I know the trick, isn't he?
Isn't this bullying him for having strong deductive abilities?
Conan wanted to retort, but after staring for two seconds, he was oppressed by the gloomy gaze. He withdrew his gaze and turned to look at Takagi Wataru.
He, a famous detective, was actually threatened by a gaze in the MPD. Do the police care or not?!
Takagi Wataru not only didn't care, but decisively stood on Chi Feichi's side, smiling gently. "Conan, you tell it."
Conan's mouth twitched slightly, swallowing the grievance in his heart. "Okay~ That day was..."
Takagi Wataru noted down quickly, feeling very comfortable.
Letting Conan speak was really the right decision; he even reported the date skillfully!
Midway through, Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Ayumi couldn't sit still anymore. Once Sato Miwako finished her work, she took the three children out for a walk with Professor Agasa.
After signing again, Takagi Wataru stood up and poured a glass of water for Conan. "Conan, drink some water first, take a break..."
Conan felt aggrieved but held it in, putting on an innocent child's smile. "Thank you, Officer Takagi~"
In the past, Professor Agasa and the Detective Boys would talk with him during statements, so he didn't feel so tired. This time, encountering this lazybones Chi Feichi was simply abusing an elementary school student!