Conan's other self

The word "wily and calculating" was obviously not referring to Heiji Bei, but to Uncle Mori.

When the group of people followed him to the scene of the crime, the Mumu Police Department was already waiting here with people. Uncle Maori obviously held the water on purpose, so that he could have a good excuse to propose a reasoning showdown and ask everyone to help him think of a case.

"Oh, brother Maori, I'm waiting for you," said the Megu police officer who answered the door, "I'm sorry, I asked you to come here just once..."

"Where..." Uncle Maori just showed his true colors after being humble, "If you don't mind, please leave it to me who just exposed the bribery incident of a scumbag member... Please feel free to say it!"

"Haha... Anyway, let's come in first..."

"Excuse me..." Hattori Heiji, who was following Uncle Mori, said this and walked in first.

Conan was with him.

"Hey! No, let irrelevant people enter the scene..."

"That's Hattori Heiji-nii," Maplehara helped explain to the Megure Police Department, "Have you seen Uncle Megure in the previous murder of diplomats and the Moritani Teiji incident..."

"The murder of a diplomat?"

The Mumu Police Department thought for a while, but with so many cases happening every day in Mihua, he really didn't remember such a thing...

"It's the high school detective who made a mistake in his reasoning and then corrected it..." Maplehara struggled for a while and decided to say what impressed the most about the Megure Police Department.

"Oh!" Megure Police Department suddenly realized, remembering that he had seen Hattori Heiji several times since then, "It turns out to be Hattori's brother!"

Hattori Heiji, who walked into the house with his hands in his pockets, stumbled and almost fell to the ground, then looked back at Maplehara with a speechless expression. Feng Yuan blinked innocently.

This guy Kudo must be seeking revenge...

Speaking of which, it seems that every time I use the word "your woman", I end up like this...

As he was thinking about this, Uncle Maori also helped.

It had been several days since the crime occurred, and the scene had already been inspected by useless forensics personnel, so the Memu Police Department no longer dwelled on such a trivial matter.

Feng Yuan and Hai Yuan Ai also walked in behind Uncle Maori, with Xiao Lan and Kazu Ye walking at the end.

Go through the hallway and come to the innermost living room-like room, which is the scene of the crime. There is a table in the middle, which is full of various design tools such as drawing boards and set squares.

The Megure Police Department began to introduce the basic situation of the case, "The person who was killed was the president of the toy company, Kento Tsujiya, 53 years old...

This is the president's own home and manufacturing facility.

The estimated time of death is around 5 pm on Sunday, June 29. It was discovered the next day, around 10 a.m. on Monday... The discoverers were four people in total, all employees of this company. "

As he spoke, he glanced out the window and downstairs, "These four people always come to the snack bar in front of this building before working hours, eating breakfast while waiting for the president to greet them...

Because it was past the nine-thirty working time and the president hadn’t come to call them yet, the four of them entered here with spare keys..."

"So, I found the president who was tied with a rope and beaten to death with a golf club... fell in the shadow of this table..."

Hattori Heiji took over the Megure Police Department's words. He was squatting with Maplehara and Conan by the fixation line where the corpse had been removed. His tone was deep, and he seemed to be very serious about the reasoning duel.

I don’t know if I really want to watch a baseball game or if I just value the reasoning showdown... Kaedehara thought. Speaking of which, in the diplomat incident last time, no one told Hattori Heiji that there was no winner or lose in his reasoning, which was a bit cool. In the American Island Mermaid Incident, he helped him get cheated...

No wonder this guy keeps calling me to harass me and want to compete with me in reasoning...

Maplehara understood.

Others were a little surprised by what Hattori Heiji just said.

"How do you know, Heiji?" Kazuha asked curiously.

"There was some ink spilled on the back where the corpse fell, right? I'm afraid it was spilled when the prisoner had a dispute with the president, and the president was tied up without being helped up... so the rope stained with ink There are traces of them all over the floor, which is evidence that the president was tied up and struggling..."

"Then why use a golf club?" Kazuye then asked.

"Because only the head was stained with blood, there were several slender marks of about ten centimeters on the side of the head. These were caused by the metal part of the bat head that was deflected several times when hitting the victim's head. trace…"

"Then why do you have to tie him up and beat him later?" Xiaolan also asked curiously. Their other teammate, Haibara Ai, was curiously looking at some toys placed in the room.

"You must be asking for the password of the safe or something, right?" Conan turned to look at the safe on the shelf on the other side of the table. "Look, isn't the door of the safe over there open..."

"I-I see..." Uncle Maori, who was standing by the safe, suddenly realized, "In other words, the prisoner is an outsider who aims at money..."

"I don't know if they are from outside, but the prisoner tied up the president and forced him to find out the password to the safe, and then used a golf club to kill the president who saw his face. This should be correct!"

Hattori Heiji looked at the Megure Police Department, "Really, the Police Department?"

"Ah, that..."

Seeing Hattori Heiji's progress so quickly, Kazuya and Xiaolan were a little worried that they would lose the game. They didn't expect Ai Haibara who seemed to be uninterested in the reasoning showdown, so they looked worriedly at Uncle Maori, who didn't seem to be asleep.

"Hey, daddy, are you okay?"

"They had the upper hand right from the start!"

"Y-really?"

Uncle Maoli rubbed his head in embarrassment.

Unfortunately, there should be no sleeping Kogoro here today. Kaedehara thought, and then listened to the conversation between Hattori Heiji and Megure Police Department.

Because Uncle Maori said before that there were many doubts about the case, and now what they discovered were things that even the police could know, so there must be something that the Megure Police Department did not say.

Under Hattori Heiji's questioning, Megure Police Department took out a set of photos from his arms, "Well...these four blocks fell around the president."

"As for building blocks, there are also ones next to the corpse..."

Next to the trace line, against the wall, there is a small pile of blocks, with dozens of katakana engraved on all six sides.

"But only these four have the president's fingerprints and ink on them..." Police Department Megure placed the four photos on the table in order, "If we line up the faces stained with ink..."

The fronts of the four building blocks in the photo are also engraved with words, and the Roman pronunciation is "o, mo, chi, ya". And according to the way the Megure Police Department just arranged them, they are toys (o mo cha).

"Toy?" Uncle Maori said, "No, is it a cake shop (o mo chi ya)?"

"It should be a rice cake shop, right?" Heye squatted beside the pile of blocks to express his opinion, and Xiaolan agreed.

Haiyuan Ai leaned next to Fengyuan and looked at the photos together.

"Hey, police department, can you tell me where the four blocks fell in this photo?" Hattori Heiji said.

"Well...this is the photo when the body was found..."

The Megure Police Department took out another photo. Hattori Heiji very thoughtfully took the photo and placed it on the table so that the three elementary school students could see it clearly.

In this photo, a tied man is lying on the ground with his head in a mess.

"Then, the one lying there with blood on his forehead is..."

"Yes, the president of the toy company Tsujitani who was beaten to death..." Police Department Megure said, "The positions of the four building blocks are in the stack of blocks on the lower left of the president...and that's why only these four building blocks have The president’s fingerprints and ink…”

"The ink that was stained was the bottle that was tipped over on the president's back when he collapsed, right?" Uncle Maori also noticed the overturned ink bottle on the table, "The question is who stained the ink on the building blocks..."

"Yes. There are the president's fingerprints on the building blocks, but it's also possible that the prisoner deliberately let the dead president get them on..."

"Are these four bricks really the only ones with the president's fingerprints on them?" Conan asked.

"Ah, no, the president's fingerprints were also on the other blocks that fell on the ground... But only these four blocks had the most stains. They were everywhere, not just on the six sides, but even on the recessed places where the words were engraved. …”

"That is to say, these four building blocks..."

Hattori Heiji said, "It was the death message left by the president before he was killed..."

Feng Yuan was a little depressed, he hated this thing the most.

If it were him, if he had the skills to leave a death message, he would definitely find a way to escape first, but these guys always leave death messages as if they have resigned themselves to their fate, and it is a puzzle that the police cannot understand at all...

And this is still a very "Japanese" puzzle...

Thinking that Hattori Heiji and Conan were here anyway, Maplehara decided to skip this puzzle-style death message and look for other clues.