Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 870 Take Subaru Okiya

"Here, here are the bills for this month and letters from fans."

At Kido Detective Agency, Xiao Ai held a stack of letters and put them in front of Gao Cheng.

"How did you save so much?"

"Because it was sent to the TV station, it was delivered to Daily TV today," Xiao Ai said as she began to make a schedule. "There are only two cases this month, and you have to meet with the client the day after tomorrow..."

Gao Cheng looked through the letters one by one, and they were mostly student fans. There was only a thank-you letter from the countryside of Fukushima Prefecture, and the sender was Kaori Nakahara.

Gao Cheng was taken aback for a moment before he remembered that it was the pregnant woman he met in the Kirin Wing incident.

The letter described the current situation of Kaori Nakahara, who is now working and living in a small shop in the country with her son, and then thanked her as usual.

It's really hard for Kaori Nakahara to think of him as a detective now. In most cases, the relatives of the victims rarely write thank you letters.

"What's more," Xiao Ai glanced at Gao Cheng, who was looking at the letter and giggling, and continued with lowered eyelids, "Everyone is going to go skiing together on the weekend, so we should start preparing now, right?"

"Huh?" Gao Cheng came back to his senses, "It's me again?! Where's the doctor?"

"The doctor has gone to a friend's house and has no time."

"I……"

"By the way," Xiao Ai found three envelopes from the bottom of the letter, "This is a thank you fee from the adults of Xiaodao, who said they have troubled us all the time."

Gao Cheng opened the envelope blankly and returned it to Xiao Ai.

"Can I leave Conan with me?"

He felt that when there was no Conan, the children were not so bad, and this guy was the culprit who led the children to bear, and he set a bad example.

Because Conan ran into the murder scene, because Conan chased the criminals, because Conan likes to take risks and try to be brave... These are not problems that children should deal with.

Xiao Ai didn't make a sound, just looked at Gao Cheng indifferently, as if saying that you can try.

"Forget it then." Gao Cheng said discouragedly.

Without Conan, he still has to take care of a few children, and he seems to be even more tired. With Conan, he might just come across some cases. He has had enough of passing the case by chance.

In terms of cases, Conan is the real master.

……

As before, the ski equipment was sent to the ski resort first. On weekend mornings, we only need to get up early, put on warm clothes and gather at the coffee shop downstairs of the office.

This morning Gao Cheng was still in a daze when he heard some excited shouts from Ayumi downstairs, and then he was dragged out of the bed by Xiao Ai.

She brushed her teeth and washed her face sleepily, only ate a pancake for breakfast, and hurried downstairs.

Ayumi has been taken care of by adults for several mornings, put on new winter clothes, and had fun with Manguno in the coffee shop and a group of small animals in the gap between waiting for the high school.

Since it was converted into a zoo coffee shop, there have been a lot more customers downstairs, even in the early morning...

Gaocheng glanced casually and saw Okiya Subaru who was leisurely drinking coffee by the window.

Especially since this guy stays here every weekend, it's really too free.

"Huh?" Gao Cheng suddenly noticed that Conan was not there, and asked in surprise, "Isn't Conan here yet?"

"Conan seems to be helping Uncle Kogoro to record a statement today," Ayumi explained, "so I can't leave until it's over."

"is it?"

Gao Cheng's eyelids twitched.

Well, he doesn't need to think about it anymore. If he doesn't take a special bus, Conan probably won't be able to get to the ski resort at night, and it seems that he won't be able to go there.

Let's go skiing honestly today, it just so happens that I haven't skied for a while.

"Ah!"

Mori Detective Agency, Conan sneezed uncomfortably, and looked sullenly at Mori Kogoro who was snoring on the bed.

By now everyone should be ready to go...

Really, it was all because the old man had been drinking last night, so he had to stay temporarily to take a statement, although the old man knew nothing about the case.

"Oh?" In the animal coffee shop, Okiya Subaru put down his coffee, squinted at Gao Cheng and a group of children, "Do you want to go skiing together? That's great, I'm fine anyway, how about letting me join in? I haven't been out much recently, my body is a little rusty..."

"Are you going too?"

"Yeah, everyone can take my car to the ski resort, it's faster, isn't it?"

Gao Cheng didn't reject Okiya Subaru very much. After all, he was Akai Shuuichi who used his identity as a masked man to help him, and it was because of him that Okiya Subaru was present.

It's just that this guy is always making people uncomfortable when he's walking around...

"This is very good," Xiao Ai looked at Okiya Subaru for a while, then turned to the very happy Ayumi and agreed, "It is indeed more convenient to take a car."

"Great!"

A few children really liked Okiya Subaru, who was like a big brother next door, but Gao Cheng didn't feel so good.

……

Since the last kidnapping case, Takagi's body has been somewhat affected, not only minor troubles such as frostbite, but also mentally affected, and it took several days before he could return to work.

"But sometimes I still dream about it now," Takagi said shyly on the way to pick up Xiaolan and Conan to the police station, "I dreamed that I was still trapped on the wooden board, and then the moment the board fell When I woke up, I was still lying on the bed without falling off..."

"falling down!"

"Someone fell!!"

Takagi was startled by a sudden scream on the way. After realizing that the sound was coming from the opposite street, he hurried to the scene.

"What happened?"

The incident happened under a high-end apartment building, and there were already many people around the roadside. After getting off the car, Takagi hurriedly took out his ID and squeezed into the crowd.

"Let me go, I'm a policeman, what happened?"

"That," said a man in tracksuit, "I was jogging down this road when this guy fell off."

Lying on the road bricks was the body of a man in pajamas and robes, with blood spattered from his head, and died on the spot.

"I, I saw it too," said the woman next to her with her pet, "This is exactly where I would walk my dog..."

"Then does anyone know this person?"

Takagi looked at the people around him, but the passers-by who were talking a lot didn't seem to know him, but Conan first pointed to the flip phone exposed in the chest pocket of the corpse's pajamas and said, "Maybe there will be clues in the phone!"

"Too."

Takagi put on his gloves and opened the mobile phone interface, and found that it was an email. The victim seemed to have sent a strange email before falling down, and it was sent in groups.

Before Takagi could figure it out, Conan poked his head over, suddenly pressed his finger and pressed the button, and chose to send again.

"You should try mass sending again."

"Ah, wait……"

……

On the way to the ski resort, Takamari huddled in Okiya Subaru's small classic car and received a call from Conan.

"Really? There was a murder case on the way to record the statement..."

"The time of the incident was around 7:[-]," Conan explained on the phone. "Because we heard the shouts of someone falling from the building, we rushed to the scene to check, and then found the body. According to the witness's testimony, it was from the side. Apartment high rises fall...

"The deceased was Dasaku Katsumoto, the president of a publishing house. The mobile phone in his chest pocket showed that he had sent a group email at 7:25 just before he fell from the building."

Conan said in a deep voice: "The content of the email is, 'If you want to kill me, then come, I will open the door and wait for you, you are ready to die in my hands!'

"After I sent it again, among the crowd of onlookers, the mobile phones of three people rang together."

"Three people?" Gao Cheng waved away the Ayumi who were eavesdropping, and continued to ask: "The only group senders are the three people at the scene?"

"Yes, all three are members or freelance writers of that publishing house, and they also live in that apartment, but the victim lives on the 26th floor, and they all live on the third floor."

"It seems that the three of them are very suspicious..."

Gao Cheng rolled his eyelids.

He was killed within 5 minutes after sending provocative emails in groups, which means that it is very likely that the murder was impulsive. Why would Conan call him about this kind of thing?

What are you thinking again?

"The problem is," Conan frowned, "we went to their room to check right away, and we saw the beer foam, the heat on the coffee cup, and the smoke from the remaining cigarette...

"If one of the three is the prisoner who pushed President Katsumoto down, he has to rush downstairs immediately after the push, and be seen as soon as possible so that he can say that he heard the commotion when he was questioned afterwards. Come here, but the above 3 evidences show that they have been in the room all the time...

"The elevator monitoring did not capture 3 people. It takes about 7 minutes to go back and forth by taking the stairs, because we just happened to pass by, so we decided to check the room immediately. Prisoners who cannot predict this should not return to their room for decoration after the murder. .”

Conan wondered: "Counting the time it took us to enter the room of those three people after the incident, if one of them is a prisoner, it means that there is a room that is empty for at least 3 minutes. In this case, beer foam, coffee The heat, the smoke from the cigarettes will go away."

"So that's how it is..."

Gao Cheng didn't care to drive away the eavesdropping Ayumi, in fact, Conan's voice could probably be heard in the whole car.

Judging from Conan's description, the suspects should be those three people. The problem can only be found in the alibi.

"Are there any photos of the scene?"

"I took a picture and emailed it to you."

Conan didn't expect Gao Cheng too much, but thought that several helpers might be able to be inspired.

Of course, he rarely chooses Hattori as this helper, for no other reason than that black charcoal face always wants to put "Kansai's Hattori" first.

After a while, Gao Chenggong received an email from Conan.

The first photo is of the three suspects at the murder scene. The man with the horse face is the photographer Keisuke Ogino, the man with the shoehorn face and the glasses is the reporter Kazutomo Sodesaki, and the last is a woman, the magazine editor Kazukihara.

The reason for the conflict with the president is because of the lawsuit, and the three plan to sue the president next month.

The reason is that a famous actress committed suicide in a fake report. The photo came from a photographer. The reporter was responsible for writing the article. Finally, the magazine editor was in charge. Several people who knew the truth before printing planned to delete the report. As a result, the president Katsumoto not only Published the report on his own initiative, and rewrote the content with embellishments, and released the magazine the day before the actress announced her engagement.

Because they were dissatisfied with the president's signature on the problem report, the three suspects jointly sent a life email to President Katsumoto last night. Today's provocative email should be President Katsumoto's reply.

There are still a few photos in the back, showing three people holding foamy beer, steaming coffee, and smoking cigarettes. Only the steam from the coffee is not clearly visible, so I added a short video.

Indeed, as Conan said, there are alibi.

In addition, according to the police investigation, after sending the email, Katsumoto called the person from the decoration company on the landline in the room on the 26th floor. While measuring the actual length of the fluff on the carpet, he complained on the phone until the doorbell rang. He said he would call later and hang up.

Then it's time for the incident...

Both the porch and the balcony door of the victim's room were open, which means that the victim was at home until he fell from the building, and the prisoner who received the provocative text message was more likely to find him.

Gao Cheng touched his chin.

This is a very interesting case. If it's just the criminal, he probably knows who it is. The problem is the alibi puzzle...

After a pause, Gao Cheng contacted Conan again.

"Are you sure the three people didn't touch anything when they checked the room?"

"Probably not," Conan was still thinking, when he received a call from Gao Cheng, he responded, "When the inspection started, the other two were waiting at the entrance, and there was no time to go back to the room to fake it."

"No, what I want to ask is," Gao Cheng asked earnestly, "during the inspection, did the owner of the room do something wrong? It sounds like he entered the room with you."

"Yes, that's true," Conan said in a daze, "but there's almost no time for tricks..."

"No, even a small possibility is a clue." Gao Cheng's head was full of black lines.

Conan, does reasoning rely entirely on talent?
That talent is so good that it is enviable...

However, it was Takagi who was in charge at the time, so he really couldn't blame Conan, after all, he was not a professional forensics and evidence collection personnel.

"But it's not Superman," Yuan Tai scratched his head in the back and thought hard, "Could it be possible to transform it all at once?"

"Wait," Mitsuhiko also thought, "The beer is bubbling, the coffee is steaming, and the cigarette is smoking... Could someone be a magician?"

"If it's Kaitou Kidd, there must be a solution."

"Idiot," Conan wondered when he heard the voices of several children on the other end of the phone, "How could there be Kidd in this kind of case? Those three people are not magicians."

"If it's magic, I know a little bit," Okiya Subaru, who was driving, pushed his glasses, and suddenly interjected, "sprinkle some salt or sugar particles in the beer, and foam will appear immediately..."

"Why do you know this?" Ayumi asked curiously.

"Ah, because I tried it by accident before." Okiya Subaru smiled slightly.

"In this case, the alibi is not sufficient," Gao Cheng glanced at Okiya Subaru, and continued to contact him on the phone, "The murderer should be the cameraman, right? Teacher, when he rushed to the scene of the accident, he did not bring the camera he used to shoot the material.

"That's not right."

After finishing the call, Gao Cheng silently put away the phone.

It should not be difficult for Conan to find evidence, and the case will probably be resolved soon...but he is not the one who solves the case, and the system does not have any response to prepare for settlement.

What a bad day...

(End of this chapter)