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In the evening, the sunset cast a gentle glow over Silence's office, creating an atmosphere of tranquility. Suddenly, the sound of hurried footsteps shattered the silence. Silence emerged from her study, her brow slightly furrowed, sensing a hint of unease in her heart. She slowly opened the door to find a young man, disheveled and breathless, named Yamada.
"Miss Silence, I rushed here from Osaka because I need your help with an urgent case," Yamada gasped, his eyes filled with anxiety.
Silence nodded slightly, inviting him inside. "Please sit down, Mr. Yamada. Have a glass of water first, then slowly tell me what happened." As she spoke, she poured a glass of water and handed it to him.
Yamada accepted the glass gratefully and began to recount the details of the case. It turned out that a well-known jewelry store in Osaka had experienced a bizarre theft the previous night, where a priceless moonstone had vanished without a trace. Although the police had reviewed the surveillance footage, there was no sign of anyone in the store, as if the gem had simply disappeared into thin air.
"This does sound suspicious," Silence mused after a moment's thought. "Have you checked all possible entrances and exits?"
"Of course," Yamada replied with a shake of his head. "The police conducted a thorough search but found nothing. That's why I came all the way to Tokyo to seek your assistance!"
Silence smiled slightly, her eyes glinting with confidence. "Very well, Mr. Yamada, I accept your commission. However, I will need you to provide all relevant information and surveillance footage so that I can fully understand the case."
The next morning, Silence set off for Osaka with her assistant Kouzi. They first arrived at the jewelry store where the incident had occurred. The shop still looked as it had on the night of the theft, with police tape cordoning off the area.
Silence put on gloves and meticulously examined every corner of the store. She noticed that although there were no people visible in the surveillance footage, there were some unusual light fluctuations captured on camera. She immediately instructed Kouzi to take screenshots of these anomalies for further analysis.
Afterward, Silence interviewed nearby merchants and residents in hopes of gathering clues from them. However, most claimed they hadn’t heard anything unusual or seen any suspicious individuals that night.
Just as Silence began to feel frustrated, an elderly shopkeeper named Kawasaki suddenly recalled something. "Oh! Miss Silence! I remember that just before we closed last night, there was a brief power outage in the store for a few seconds. At first, I thought it was just a circuit breaker tripping and didn’t think much of it. But now that I think about it, could it be related to the theft?"
Silence's eyes lit up at this revelation as she pressed Kawasaki for more details about the power outage. Although he couldn’t provide an exact time frame, he was certain that it was very brief—almost negligible.
"That's it!" Silence thought to herself; it was likely that the gem had been stolen during those few seconds of darkness. "We need to find out who controls the power supply!"
Upon returning to Tokyo, Silence immediately conducted an in-depth analysis of the surveillance footage. She discovered that just seconds before the power outage occurred, a small light point appeared on screen. This light moved quickly and eventually vanished onto the roof of the jewelry store.
Realizing this light point might be a clue left by the thief, she ordered Kouzi to retrieve high-altitude surveillance footage from around the jewelry store and successfully tracked its movement.
After thorough investigation and analysis, Silence finally identified the suspect: a young man named Oda Yuji. He was an electronics engineer with extensive knowledge of circuit systems and had recently fallen into financial hardship.
Silence promptly led the police to Oda Yuji's residence for a search. Inside his home, they indeed found the stolen moonstone. Faced with overwhelming evidence, Oda Yuji finally confessed to his crime.
It turned out that using his expertise, he had installed a miniature remote control device within the jewelry store's circuit system. On the night of the incident, he triggered a brief power outage using this device and seized that moment to steal the gem. Little did he know that his crime would ultimately be uncovered by Silence.
After solving the case, Silence once again earned admiration and respect from those around her. Standing atop a skyscraper overlooking Tokyo's vibrant nightscape, she felt a sense of fulfillment and pride swell within her heart. She knew that no matter how many complex cases awaited her in the future, she would continue to persevere unwaveringly.
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