Conan's other self

Uncle Mori still doesn't understand why Hattori Heiji is so sure that this is the death message.

Hattori Heiji explained to him:

"Are the president's hands tied behind his back? This way he can't look at the bricks he wants to choose... The reason why there are fingerprints on all six sides is because the president used his fingers to find the inscriptions of the words. Judgmental...judge which side to get the ink on...

However, when you find these four blocks in a pile of blocks, the other blocks do not have too many fingerprints on them. That is because these blocks have the kana of the same consonant engraved on one piece. You can tell if it is correct by just touching it. …”

"I see, so only these four pieces are full of fingerprints..."

"That's right. Fingerprints mainly rely on the sweat and oil on the fingers to leave traces. They will no longer be secreted after death. So even if a dead person holds the building blocks, only the earliest one or two blocks will be stained with fingerprints. No. Maybe it’s all over the place like this…

The traces of rope stained with ink on the floor are also evidence. I am afraid that the president secretly selected these four blocks from behind, stained the selected side with ink, and then put it back into the pile of blocks...

Because he didn't know when he would be killed, he was so scared that his hands were sweating... In other words, he was eager to leave information before the prisoner found out, and he might make a mistake in capitalization..."

After thinking for a moment, Hattori Heiji continued, "But this is a toy company. Does he really want to leave information about the toys?"

"It's amazing..." Xiaolan showed an expression of admiration, "I just got here and I already understand so many things..."

"Yes, yes! What is Heiji?" Kazuha agreed, and then his face suddenly changed, "No, Xiaolan! You can't be led away by Heiji! This is Heiji's reasoning competition... The bet is Koshien And Takarazuka!"

"Well…"

Only then did Xiaolan react.

She glanced at her teammates. His father was still following Hattori Heiji, without giving any useful information, while Xiao Ai followed Xiao Sora, not knowing what he was looking at...

I feel like there is no hope of winning at all...

"Anyway!" He Ye worked hard, "Before Heiji solves the incident, we must first solve the mystery of the death message [toy]..."

"Yeah, maybe there are some hints in the toys here..."

"No, there is no suspicious toy." Police Department Megure said after hearing their conversation.

"Why?"

"Really?"

"Yeah. We thought these four building blocks might be clues to the death message, so we searched the entire office carefully..."

"Maybe it has other meanings..." Conan said.

"What else do you mean?"

"Do you mean there are other combinations of these four characters?"

Heye and Xiaolan quickly tried new permutations and combinations in their notebooks, but soon found that no other effective information could be combined.

Hattori Heiji obviously organized it in his mind and asked directly to the Megure Police Department: "Is there really nothing else suspicious?"

"Ah, here we come..."

At this time, a police officer happened to come over with two evidences wrapped in plastic. The police department showed them to everyone, "The murder weapon found here is the golf club used by the prisoner... and the clothes the prisoner wore when committing the crime." This high-end fur coat stained with the president’s blood…”

"But," the Megure Police Department paused, "the golf club and coat belong to the president himself, and it is said that he put them in the room inside. No information about the prisoner can be found from these two things...

What’s more, what’s confusing is why the prisoner wears this coat, and the president’s room has not been disturbed…”

"The prisoner must have sneaked in when the president was out and saw this high-end coat. He wanted to try it on to see if it suited him, so he put it on, right?"

Uncle Maori said, "Then the president came back. The criminal tied him up, asked for the password to the safe, and killed him. Of course he couldn't wear the coat with blood stains on it. He took it off and ran away..."

"Huh?" Hattori Heiji, who took the coat from the Megure Police Department and inspected it, asked, "The blood stains on this coat are only blurred on the left shoulder... It seems like it was rubbed by something..."

"This is another mystery," said the Megure Police Department. "I can't find anything consistent with this blood stain anywhere in this office..."

"Maybe my hand touched it when I was taking off my coat..." Uncle Maori said, "Did you find the gloves used by the prisoners or anything like that?"

Memu Police Department shook his head.

"Speaking of blood stains," Conan was currently lying on the ground looking at the dried blood stains, "there are also strange blood stains here!"

"Um?"

"Look, this is it," Conan pointed to a blood stain near the side of the table. "You can't tell it if you don't look carefully. There is a little trace of being cut off... What was once placed here?"

"Yes..." Hattori Heiji came over to agree, "But what exactly is put in a place like this..."

As they said that, the next moment they noticed the TV set nearby.

Hattori Heiji picked up the remote control from the table, turned on the TV, and found that the TV was in the external input state.

"In other words, the camera placed here may be..."

"Camera? There's one in the president's room..." Police Department Megure said.

"Then let the forensic officers check if there is any blood on the camera?"

The Mumu Police Department went to make arrangements immediately, while Conan was lost in thought. So far, he and Hattori Heiji had basically the same idea, but he always felt that something was not quite right.

For example, why did the prisoner take away the camera after the crime...

And the other self doesn't seem to be interested in the death message at all... This is the key to solving the case...

"Well, Conan..."

While thinking, he heard Xiaolan's voice, looked up and saw Xiaolan approaching him.

"Conan, can I please do something for you..." Xiaolan looked pleading.

"Eh?"

"Can Kazuya win this reasoning competition? Kazuye has been looking forward to seeing Takarazuka with us...So, can you tell us what you thought of? After Dad heard your discovery, Maybe we can solve the case as usual..."

After a pause, Xiaolan clasped her hands together,

"Please forgive me - can't you?"

"..."

"Can not be done!"

Just when Conan's heart was already shaken, Hattori Heiji suddenly appeared behind Xiaolan, stretched out his hand to lift Conan aside, "This kid belongs to me! Don't try to trick him!"

"..." Xiaolan looked at Hattori Heiji angrily.

Hattori Heiji pulled Conan aside and looked at Conan with an unkind expression, "Hey, are you planning to abandon the friendship between men and turn to women?"

"Friendship? Didn't you bring me in by talking to yourself..." Conan said angrily, "Besides, why don't you care about Feng Yuan..."

"Yes! Where is Kudo?"

Hattori Heiji whispered, then looked around, "Oh... he has been whispering to his new woman since just now..."

"Hey, hey... don't say such strange things..."

"Forget it! That guy didn't even watch the scene, so there must be no progress... That's enough for the two of us!" Hattori Heiji said, "I will definitely win, and then go to Koshien!"

He was full of momentum, while Xiaolan returned to Heye with some disappointment.

Kazuo was still writing and drawing in her notebook, hoping to uncover the answer to the death message, but because she had no ideas, her concentration was not focused.

"Xiaolan, are you going to find out the news?"

"Hmm..." Xiaolan was a little embarrassed, "But there is no useful news. Heiji didn't let Conan say..."

"Hmph, idiot Heiji..."

"But, it's okay!" Xiao Lan cheered up and looked at Feng Yuan and Hai Yuan Ai on the other side, "Xiao Kong is also very smart. If he finds anything, he will definitely tell Xiao Ai..."

"Oh..." That's what he said, but after all, they are just two children, and He Ye didn't have much expectations, "Speaking of which, the relationship between the two of them is really good..."

"Yeah, yeah, I'm telling you..."

The two suddenly started gossiping for no apparent reason.

Fengyuan, who heard everything, couldn't help but look back at them, but the two people quickly realized that they were still in a reasoning duel and stopped.

Fengyuan then looked at the calendar on the wall.

The picture on the calendar is a swimsuit photo of a beauty idol.

"Does it look good?" Hui Yuan Ai asked.

"...I'm not looking at her. Didn't you notice? This isn't the only place in the room where there are pictures of her."

Haiyuan Ai thought for a moment, "The pen holders on the table seem to have photos of this person on them..."

"Hmm, so this person is probably the idol of the murdered President Tsujitani...but that's not the strange thing..."

As he said that, Fengyuan looked at the months on the calendar, "Don't you think it's strange? This is the calendar for July, and the one for June has been torn off..."

"It's July now..." Haiyuan Ai reacted mid-sentence, "Oh... the crime occurred on June 29th..."

"Almost every day's schedule is written on the wall calendar. There is no reason why the June calendar was torn off two days in advance..." Feng Yuan said, "Maybe the prisoner tore it off for some reason..."

Feng Yuan looked back at the coat that was put aside.

At this time, the Memu Police Department happened to get the news and confirmed that the camera was indeed stained with the blood of the deceased.

Immediately afterwards, Officer Takagi, who went to investigate the alibi of the four people, also rushed back.