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Chapter 51 Identifying the Murder Weapon
Koichi Nishihara returned to the backstage only after Akikawa Sosuke was carried out of the Imperial Theater on a stretcher.

As soon as he returned backstage.

Then I saw Yoko Okino kneeling on the floor with her head lowered.

Koichi Nishihara looked at Yoko Okino's distraught appearance, his cheek twitched slightly, and the flame of jealousy ignited in his heart again.

He felt a little unbelievable.

Yoko Okino actually had such strong negative emotions because of Akikawa Sorasuke.

However, the jealousy in Koichi Nishihara's heart only lasted for a few seconds.

Because he believed that within a day.

The murder scandal of Wonderful rookie artist Akikawa Sosuke will be on the news sections of all major news outlets.

Koichi Nishihara felt that his actions were quite thorough.

First, he chose her as the dead person to frame her.
In fact, it was a stranger whose name he couldn't even pronounce.

This way, he had no connection with the deceased.

The second is the technique.

During both attacks he wore a full set of protective clothing, a motorcycle helmet and gloves.

There was no way Akikawa Sosuke could recognize himself.

Even though Akikawa Sosuke woke up early and ran away in fright.

But the rope used as the murder weapon would only have his fingerprints.

In addition, Akikawa Sosuke's uniform, the only English-style student uniform in the entire Imperial Theater, was stained with the blood of the deceased inside and out.

It was basically inevitable that Akikawa Sosuke would be identified as the murderer.

Take a thousand steps back.

Even if Kogoro Mouri was really as powerful as the rumors said, he realized that there might be someone else who committed the crime.

Then the other party would definitely not be able to suspect me.

after all.

In such a short period of time, the police had no way of determining the exact time of death of the deceased.

The time he arranged for the deceased to be discovered was after he appeared in the fourth act.

And I already had my alibi in the middle of the third act.

In other words, he had a perfect alibi during this period.

The person whom he asked to pass the message to Akikawa Sosuke, and the cleaner who was later assigned to the laundry room, had never seen what he looked like.

Even if those two people were found by the police, they would not suspect me.

"I can't find any connection with the deceased, nor can I find any connection with the murder weapon."

"I even have the most perfect alibi in the whole venue."

"So the criminal can only be Akikawa Sousuke!"

Koichi Nishihara thought to himself, his heart full of confidence.
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In the laundry room.

Megure Juzo sent out police to question everyone backstage one by one.

While asking if anyone had sent a message to Akikawa Sosuke to go to the laundry room to get his hat.

While asking if anyone felt that there had been any friction or conflict with Akikawa Sousuke or the deceased.

"Okay, there are only two things left. Identify the murder weapon and determine the time period when we will need to confirm the suspect's alibi."

Megure Jusan said.

Wearing white gloves, Masumi Sera reached out and pinched the deceased's jaw, preparing to check the marks on the deceased's neck again.

However, Sera Masumi only gently moved the dead man's head.

The deceased's jaw fell apart in an instant, like a fragile building block.

A large pool of blood leaked out of the deceased's dislocated mouth.

Several younger policemen in the room couldn't help but cover their mouths.

"The deceased's entire jaw was broken."

Sera Masumi said.

"What's that for? I remember it takes a lot of strength to break the jaw of a grown man?"

Kogoro Mori was puzzled.

"Generally speaking, there is only one reason to break a jaw—"

"To close or open the dead person's stiffened mouth."

Sera Masumi said.

"Assuming the deceased's mouth was open when he died, if rigor mortis occurred, the deceased's mouth would not be able to close."

"At this point, if the murderer had to close the victim's mouth for some reason, the only option was to break the victim's jaw."

"But the deceased has not yet developed rigor mortis, so there should be no situation where the deceased's mouth cannot be closed or opened."

Kogoro Maori asked in confusion.

"Then there is only one explanation. The murderer broke the victim's jaw purely for sadism."

“There are several points to prove it.”

Masamune Sera pointed to the dead man's jaw and said, "If a person's jaw is broken while alive, the cheek will swell up rapidly in a short period of time."

"Since there is no sign of swelling on the deceased's cheek, it means that his jaw was broken after his death."

"At the same time, I found that the deceased's tongue was broken, and the muscles inside the deceased's mouth showed signs of contraction and spasm."

"This means that the deceased's tongue was brutally tortured when he was alive, and his lower jaw was broken for no reason after his death."

"It is clear that the murderer was enjoying the pleasure of torture and did not regard the deceased as a human being at all."

"Even after the victim was dead, he continued to torture the corpse."

Sera Masumi's words once again made everyone in the room feel a chill down their spines.

"This was a premeditated murder, and it was a brutal massacre of an extremely heinous nature!"

Megure Jusan said in a deep voice with a serious expression.

This case was an impulsive murder, and the possibility of a spur-of-the-moment murder has been completely ruled out.

And the nature of this crime is much worse than ordinary premeditated murder.

"We must not allow such a murderer to continue to go unpunished. He must be severely punished!"

Chiba and Shin also had anger on their faces.

"The murder weapon should be a black rope, just as Qiuchuan said, right?"

Kogoro Mori guessed.

"No, not the rope!"

Conan directly denied Mouri Kogoro's reasoning, and Mouri Kogoro's face showed anger again.

Then Conan was seen pointing at the marks on the victim's neck.

"Look, if the murder weapon was a rope, shouldn't we be able to see rope fibers and debris from the marks of strangulation?"

"But there is clearly no rope residue left on the deceased's neck."

"Is that the rope that won't leave any fibers?" Chiba Kazunobu guessed.

"No, no matter what kind of rope it is, it is impossible to leave such marks on the dead man's hands."

Conan said, raising the dead man's palm.

Then everyone saw that there were several horizontal cuts on the fingertips of the deceased's hands.

It was as if it had been cut by a knife, and the wound was long and thin.

"If a person is strangled by a rope, he will definitely grab the rope around his neck with both hands and try to struggle, right?"

Sera Masumi took over the conversation again.

Megure Juzo, Mori Kogoro and others all nodded in agreement.

"If this is the case, there should be abrasions on the fingertips of the victim, and there should be rope fragments and fibers between the fingers of the deceased."

"But there was no rope scraps between the deceased's fingers, and the wounds on the fingertips did not match the marks left by scratches from grabbing the rope."

"It can be seen that the murder weapon was not just a rope."

"But what on earth could leave marks like those cut by a knife?"

Megure Juzo was confused and muttered to himself.

"If such a sharp object was really used as a rope, the deceased should have similar scars on his neck."

“How strange!”

Kogoro Mori was also confused.

"This is simple."

Seeing that the police officers present were all confused, Sera Masumi chuckled and once again attracted everyone's attention.

"Just like a toothpick, a single toothpick is easy to break, but when many toothpicks are gathered together tightly, it has enough strength."

"At the same time, you still run the risk of cutting your arm because of the sharpness of the toothpick."

"The things that are used as murder weapons are things of this nature."

“And this is something that accompanies us in our daily lives and that everyone has.”

"Everyone has it?"

Maori Kogoro touched his body everywhere.
I didn't feel like there was anything so sharp on my body that could scratch my fingertips and could be used as a rope.

When he finally gave up and looked up at Sera Masumi.

She saw the handsome tomboy detective in front of her using her slender fingertips to curl the short wavy hair beside her ears.

"That is, hair."

"Of course a single hair is not strong enough to hurt a person, but when numerous hairs are twisted together, they become as strong as a rope."

"Hair won't leave debris between fingers and wounds."

"If you grab the hair on your neck and struggle, the tiny hairs will act like blades and cut the skin on your fingertips, leaving these long, thin wounds."

As Sera Masumi said this, she also stopped curling her hair.

"The murderer has been identified as a male."

"Then the murder weapon we are looking for is a black wig that is long enough!"

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