SailorStar9: So with Chapter 88 uploaded, this is Chapter 89 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?

Pairings: Established!Furuya Rei (Amuro Tooru)/Mizuno Ami

Disclaimers: I own absolutely nothing, except this plot and pairing.

Chapter 89: The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department, Part Three

Later that night...

Sato, Shiratori and Chiba were interviewing nearby residents when a horrified scream from a resident living on a higher level sounded.

Sato took off and was stunned to see a fallen Yumi lying on the road.

"Huh?" said traffic policewoman mumbled, fluttering her eyes open "Whoops." she yawned. "I fell asleep."

"Yumi..." the sobbing Sato twitched.

"Sorry!" Takagi hurried over. "I forgot to tell you. Yumi-san asked me for a favor. Apparently, Yumi-san noticed something and asked to lie on the ground in the same position as the body. In any case, it seems that Yumi-san had an idea and forensics had finished examining the scene, so I thought it's be all right. I didn't think she'd fall asleep."

"So, what did you notice?" Sato turned to Yumi.

"When I saw the photo of Yagi's body you sent me, I realized what was in the direction Yagi forced herself to face." Yumi pulled out the enlarged photo from her gallery. "Since we drive past this alleyway on our patrols, anyone from the Transportation Department would know what's there." she laid back on the road. "Yagi faced this direction before she died because she knew what was here. She wanted us to focus on that."

"A no parking sign?" Sato turned to the blue signboard by the street. "What does it mean? That sign is the only obvious thing in that direction. Sergeant Momosaki, who was killed first, was pointing to a swing set in the park. What does that have to do with this?"

"Try to remember, Miwako." Yumi reminded, getting up. "What else was in the direction Momosaki pointed besides the swing set?"

"A no parking sign." Sato recalled.

"That's right." Yumi confirmed. "Momosaki wasn't pointing at the swing set, but the no parking sign behind it. Since Yagi knew the same sign happened to be here, she forced herself to face the same direction. Yagi realized what message Momosaki was trying to convey with that sign, and this happened when she went to confirm it. But she was trying very hard to tell us something until the very end."

"But that would mean the no parking sign is some kind of direct hint to the identity of the suspect." Shiratori mused. "Something that led Lieutenant Yagi here."

"It must be the three men Yumi-san mentioned." Chiba realized. "The three traffic violators Sergeant Momosaki and Lieutenant Yagi arrested one week ago. One of them must have parked illegally."

"About that," Yumi voiced. "Aono was using his phone while driving and didn't have his license. Akamine was driving a motorcycle against traffic without a helmet. Shiroyama was driving with an expired inspection and wasn't wearing his seat belt. None of them parked illegally."

"Then, why point at a no parking sign?" Chiba asked.

"Who knows?" Yumi shrugged. "If anything, I guess they contain the characters for the red, blue and while used in the sign."

"But that doesn't tell us which one of them did it." Sato pointed out. "OR how Yagi arrived here."

"None of them have present addresses in this building." Yumi sighed. "Come to think of it, what about the building's security cameras?"

"Apparently, this building doesn't' have security cameras installed." Takagi supplied. "The opinions of the residents are divided. And I just received a call from the forensic investigators; they figured out the last number Lieutenant Yagi tried to call. We may have figured it out, but calling the number 7155 didn't connect us to anyone."

"Perhaps her mind was hazy since she was on the brink of death." Shiratori reasoned.

"No, she wasn't trying to call that number." Sato corrected. "She pressed the call button because she wanted to preserve the number 7155. That way, it would be left in the phone's records, even if the suspect broke her phone."

"Maybe it's a request number for a song?" Yumi suggested. "They went to karaoke just before they met the suspect."

"Didn't Miike go with them?" Sato recalled. "Could you call her and check?"

"Yeah, but she seems like her memory would be worse than a cat's." Yumi frowned.

"Oh right, Takagi." Shiratori started. "It's still unclear how it's connected, but a week ago, one of this building's residents committed suicide."

"Sounds like we should ask the local jurisdiction about that." Takagi noted.

Later...

Everyone split up; with Shiratori and Sato patrolling the neighborhood, Takagi heading off the local jurisdiction to find out more about the suicide and Chiba returning to the first crime scene to find more clues.

I don't see anything. Chiba looked around.

"Huh?" Conan entered the park. "Detective Chiba, what are you doing here at this hour?"

"Conan, I could ask you the same thing." Chiba chided.

"I saw the body of the policewoman here this morning." Conan replied. "At first, I thought she was pointing at the swing set, but I thought she might be pointing at the no parking sign instead. That's why I came here. The same sign was near the second female officer who was murdered. Both of the victims belonged to the Transportation Department, so you suspected the traffic violators they arrested, right? So I thought there might be some meaning behind those road signs."

"Sato-san and Yumi-san said the same thing." Chiba admitted. "But we couldn't figure out anything else."

"Did you come to confirm their suspicions?" Conan inquired.

"There's that." Chiba added. "And we also determined that the second victim Lieutenant Yagi entered the numbers 7155 into her phone before she died. I thought there might be something related to those numbers at this park, so I came here."

In Chiba's car...

"By the way, Yumi-san told me." Chiba started. "She said you studied road signs together. I had no idea Japanese road signs were based off English ones."

"I doubt most people now." Conan surmised

"When I said that to Yumi-san, she responded that it was only natural for a Transportation Department officer to know; that there was no way she wouldn't have such common knowledge." Chiba added.

That's it. Conan realized what the two dead female officers were hinting. So, that's how it is. "Listen, Detective Chiba."

"Sorry, someone's calling." Chiba took the incoming call. "Hello?" he frowned when his earpiece was silent.

SailorStar9: Any OOC-ness is regretted, by the way. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Read and review.