In Conan, people have a brain option system.

Chapter 6 Suspicion
"Mr. Akikawa, let me accompany you inside."

When they arrived at the bathroom door, the detective who was playing the nurse said this to Akikawa Sosuke.

"Thank you, I can do it myself."

"Okay, I'll wait for you at the door. Just call me if you need anything."

Even though Akikawa Sosuke politely declined, the detective still showed no displeasure on his face.

She really looks like a nurse who cares about her patients and has an excellent attitude.

There is a window at the end of the sink in the bathroom, which should be enough for a thin adult or a child to get out.

On the other side of the window, morning clouds were already rising from the mountains.

There were basically no pedestrians in the dim light of dawn, and only the chirping of birds indicated that a new day had begun.

As it was still early, there was no one else in the bathroom.

Akikawa Sosuke came to the sink and looked at the mirror opposite.

It was not until this time that he finally faced his body after traveling through time for the first time.

In the world on the other side of the mirror stood a pale and lifeless young man.

He was thinner than most people, with a bandage on his head, a hospital gown on his body, and an IV stand connected to a hose in his hand.

Although he had just been admitted to the hospital, he looked like a patient who had lived in the hospital for many years.

"It's even weaker than I thought. This body feels like a dead branch. It will break if you step on it lightly."

But surprisingly, the young man in the mirror had very regular facial features.

This also made Akikawa Sosuke sigh in his heart,

For people with good facial features, even if their heads are wrapped in gauze and their hair cannot be seen, and their bodies are so weak, their appearance is still pleasing to the eye.

Of course, Akikawa Sosuke came to the bathroom not just to use the toilet.

Even though there are very few means to obtain intelligence now,
But just by observing yourself, you can learn some basic information about yourself.

Akikawa Sosuke discovered that not only his cheeks, but also his palms and neck were an unhealthy white color.

Even though these people's skin is often exposed to the outside, it appears paler than that of ordinary people. In addition to pathological reasons, there is another possibility -

"I'm a stay-at-home who doesn't get any sunlight all year round."

Akikawa Sosuke lifted up his sleeves and trouser legs and gently pinched the muscles of his arms and legs.

The relaxed muscles further proved that Akikawa Sosuke's inference was correct.

"My skin is a little dry and rough, and the area around my eyes is a little dark. It's not from staying up late, but more like anemia caused by malnutrition."

"I should still be in school, but I'm not going to school at all."

"They are able to take care of themselves but are suffering from severe malnutrition."

"If the person lives alone, it's likely that he or she has been hit hard and has given up on himself or herself. If the person lives with others, it's likely that he or she is overprotected or has been abused."

Akikawa Sosuke reached out and touched the hair on the back of his forehead and neck, and then made a judgment.

"It's the latter."

The length of his hair was obviously not the length of a NEET (shut-in) who stayed at home all year round, so he obviously had it trimmed.

It was obvious that Akikawa Sosuke could not feel the original owner's desire to live, but his hair was still being taken care of normally.

If you really care about your appearance, you wouldn't let your physical condition be so bad.

So it can only be that someone is doing these things for the original owner.

Looking at myself in the mirror, I saw that I was not exercising enough and was malnourished. Then I considered the information revealed by the criminal police who had just helped me in.

The scale in Akikawa Sosuke's mind also tilted towards "abuse".

"Assuming that the original owner was really abused, then the woman who was in the same car with him should be the one who lived with the original owner."

"This is not good. The original owner seems to have a sufficient motive to kill..."

Akikawa Sosuke quickly unbuttoned the top of his hospital gown and carefully observed his frail body.

But after carefully examining his upper and lower body, Akikawa Sosuke did not find any old scars on his body, except for the new bruises that were probably caused by the car accident.

“The absence of trauma does not mean the absence of abuse.”

"At the same time, under such circumstances, the police concluded that the original owner had committed suicide, which means that this was something they discovered after I was sent to the hospital for examination last night."

In other words, it was certain conditions in one's body that revealed this.

"Did the test reveal some substance left in my body? Poison? Sleeping pills?"

"But no matter which one it is, it couldn't be a spur-of-the-moment decision. The original owner must have made preparations in advance."

"Then the question is, did the original owner commit suicide before the woman died or after she died?"

"Come to think of it, the original owner actually had blue eyes, and her hair color was not the traditional black of Japanese people, but chestnut."

In addition to the facial features that looked handsome even though she was thin, what also particularly attracted attention was the original owner's eyes as blue as the night sky.

Just now, when Akikawa Sosuke was examining his body, he also noticed that not only his hair, but also the hair on other parts of his body was chestnut.

This means that it is not due to hair dyeing, but it is natural.

"Is he a mixed-blood?"

Just as Akikawa Sosuke continued to examine his body, trying to see if there were other details on himself that he had not discovered.

Suddenly, I saw from the reflection in the mirror that the bathroom door was quietly opened.

"They even monitored the owner when he went to the toilet. The police were convinced that the owner was suicidal."

All the clothes on my body have been changed, so there is no way that I would have any tools on me that could cause harm.

Plus, there's no one else in the bathroom, so there's no risk of hurting others.

Then the police are monitoring themselves to prevent themselves from committing suicide again.

"Since the police are monitoring me, it means that the original owner's suicide happened after the woman he lived with died."

"Because only in this case, 'I' will probably do the same thing again after discovering that I am not dead."

"The original owner had been abused for many years, so he chose this day to travel together, intending to kill the woman and then commit suicide?"

"Isn't this murder? It seems the police have made the same conclusion."

Akikawa Sosuke held his forehead with a headache.

Japan is not a country where the death penalty is easily imposed.

Even criminals who are extremely vicious and have killed many people are often difficult to be sentenced to death.

However, there is an essential difference in the sentencing standards between spur-of-the-moment murder and premeditated murder.

Obviously the latter is more serious.

Akikawa Sosuke always hoped that some clues could prove that he was not the murderer and reduce his suspicion.

But the more he understood the situation, the more he realized that he was a serious suspect.

(End of this chapter)