In Conan, people have a brain option system.

Chapter 98: Calm (25)

Akikawa Sousuke's remarks undoubtedly run counter to Conan and Sera Masumi's reasoning.

This also aroused the vigilance of the two detectives.

"If the murderer is really Ohkawa Takao, then there is no reason for him not to open the door for Akikawa."

"Could it be that something unexpected happened, causing Takao Ohkawa to be unable to open the door for Akikawa?"

Conan's train of thought was disrupted by Akikawa Sosuke's words, and for a moment he was unable to understand how things were going.

Both detectives noticed that something was wrong.

So he hurried into Yoshitoki Horita's exhibition hall.

Several detectives were standing in front of the tightly closed door of Yoshitoki Horita's personal lounge.

"I knocked on the door, but there was no response."

"And the room was locked from the inside. There must be someone inside."

"But we shouted for a long time and didn't get any response."

Megure Jusan said to Sera Masumi and Conan.

Masumi Sera walked to the door and after checking it, found that there was nothing wrong with it.

“It’s actually locked.”

She tried to open the door while wearing gloves.

It turned out that just as Akikawa Sosuke and Megure Jusan said, the door could not be opened.

"Something's wrong."

Sera Masumi whispered softly.

In order to prevent the clues from being destroyed, Masumi Sera did not choose to break the door violently.

Instead, they waited until the official staff of the film festival came with the keys, and then the well-equipped police officers stepped forward to open the lock.

The detectives from the third department of the forced criminal search held their breath and were ready.

Masumi Sera and Conan also hid to the side to prevent possible shooting.

at last.

The detective in charge of opening the door turned the key twice and unlocked the door.

A group of fully armed criminal police rushed in.

However, the scene they saw before them made many people feel very surprised.

——The first thing they saw was a man lying on the ground.

The man was dying, as if he had exhausted all his strength.

His cheeks were covered with traces of tears and snot, and there was a pool of vomit on the man's clothes and on the ground beside him.

Masumi Sera recognized at a glance that this was Takao Ohkawa, who had helped her to provide first aid to Tsunekazu Kousaka last night.

But his current disheveled appearance is very different from his appearance yesterday.

Megure Juzo quickly sent police to hold down Ohkawa Takao and search him.

However, no pistol was found on Takao Ohkawa.

After confirming that Ohkawa Takao was unable to move, Megure Juzo ordered the police to let down their guard. After calling an ambulance, he sent people to search the room.

'It's not like intoxication, it's more like withdrawal symptoms.'

Masumi Sera looked at Takao Ohkawa and made a judgment.

She thought to herself, then turned to look at Conan.

Conan was seen with his fist against his mouth, staring at Ohkawa Takao on the ground, with a thinking look on his face.

Then Conan raised his head, looked at Sera Masumi, and nodded at her.

The two detectives came to the same conclusion -

At this moment, Takao Ohkawa is showing symptoms of withdrawal.

"Officer Megure!"

At this time, the voice of a police officer in charge of searching the room rang out.

Everyone looked towards him and saw the police officer staring at the back of a cabinet in the room.

When Megure Jusan walked over, he saw a pistol hidden behind the cabinet. He was startled and quickly took the pistol to check.

Then he took out the bullet, and after watching it again and again, he said in a deep voice:
"This is a 9mm Sig Sauer P226. The bullet is the same as the one that killed Sogabe Ryo and Soma Miho. If nothing unexpected happens, this should be the murder weapon."

Afterwards, Megure Juzo handed the pistol to the forensic police officer nearby to compare fingerprints.

As for the rifling, it has to be sent to a laboratory for comparison, so it cannot be done now.

During this period, Masumi Sera was observing Takao Ohkawa's reaction.

But she found that Takao Ohkawa did not make any special reaction when he heard the police say they found a pistol.

'Why is he so calm? Could it be that he is confident that there won't be any traces of himself on the gun?'

Sera Masumi pondered in his heart.

at the same time.

Another detective who was searching the room made a new discovery.

He found a cardboard box and a syringe in a utility box in the room.

There are also many ampoules filled with liquid in the paper box.

Sera Masumi leaned over to take a look, and only breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the label on the ampoule.

"Medical morphine and naloxone hydrochloride. Sure enough, my guess was correct. Tsunekazu Kosaka and his group were abusing opioids."

Sera Masumi's words were like a bolt of lightning striking through Ohkawa Takao's mind.

The shock made him feel dizzy.

He was a little confused about the situation.

"The autopsy report of Tsunekazu Kosaka hasn't come out yet, why is it that Akikawa Sousuke and now Sera Masumi are still here?"

"How could they have guessed so accurately that Kousaka and the others were abusing morphine?!"

Ohkawa Takao had no idea how Sera Masumi noticed the clue.

He opened his mouth and tried to refute what Sera Masumi said.

But he found himself unable to refute.

Because once he opened his mouth, it would be equivalent to admitting that he knew about Takasaka Tsune and their abuse of morphine.

"That's a little confusing to me."

"How did he become like this?"

Megure Juzo asked in confusion. He looked at Ohkawa Takao who was lying on the ground like a corpse, and felt puzzled.

According to Masumi Sera's previous reasoning, this Ohkawa Takao should be the murderer.

But as a murderer, why does he look like he has been murdered now?

"It must have been an accident."

Sera Masumi said.

"Before we opened the door, the room was in a 'locked' or 'secret room' state."

"In this case, unless the crime was committed by a staff member of the film exhibition who had the key, it could only be Takao Ohkawa himself who caused the current situation."

'! ! ! '

After hearing this, Ohkawa Takao suddenly felt a strong sense of dizziness rushing to his head.

Under the circumstances at that time, did I have any other choice besides locking the door?
I have been almost deprived of all my ability to move because of morphine and naloxone.

If I hadn't locked the door,
Once someone discovered his situation, the medicines and pistol left in the room would immediately expose the fact that he was the murderer.

not to mention.

At that time, Akikawa Sosuke also said "See you later", which meant that he would soon return to Yoshitoki Horita's personal lounge.

And the only thing that can separate himself from the devil who seems to have the ability to see through people's hearts is this small door.

But Takao Ohkawa didn't expect it.

He was not able to wait for the devil to come back, but his act of locking the door distorted the detectives' direction of solving the case.

"But it doesn't matter. There are no fingerprints of mine on the gun or the medicine box. As long as I deny it, they shouldn't be able to do anything to me."

Ohkawa Takao thought to himself.

(End of this chapter)