Conan's other self

The return of Officer Takagi does not mean anything to Xiaolan and others, but it means significantly different things to Conan and Hattori Heiji.

As soon as they saw the calendar in his hand, Conan and Hattori Heiji understood what they felt was wrong before, and they looked at the idol calendar hanging on the wall together.

Next to him, the Megure Police Department was in a good mood. Even though Takagi was more like a subordinate of a primary school student than his own, he didn't care and patted Takagi's shoulder in a friendly manner.

"Takagi! You just missed Hattori's wonderful reasoning. The culprit is Iwatomi..."

"Mr. Iwatomi?" Officer Takagi was stunned for a moment, "But shouldn't the prisoner be Mr. Hasami?"

"ah?"

The Mumu Police Department, Kazuye, Xiaolan and Uncle Maori were all stunned for a moment.

Hui Yuan Ai glanced at Feng Yuan, and Feng Yuan gave her a good luck gesture.

It seems that Kudo probably doesn't want to reason on his own anymore...

Haibara Ai was a little unhappy, so she was not interested in listening to Officer Takagi's reasoning.

"Oh, you didn't hear it just now," Police Department Megure said, remembering Takagi's absence just now, "Anyway-"

"Anyway, let's listen to what this police officer has to say first?" Hattori Heiji, who had just rushed back to the table and looked at the table, interrupted.

The Mumu Police Department was a little surprised. But Takagi is from the Metropolitan Police Department after all. Although he trusts the detectives more, it would be good if one of his own can perform well...

"Ahem, tell me about it, Takagi..."

"It must be to help eliminate the wrong reasoning of the prisoner..." Uncle Maori muttered to the side. Everyone's attention was on Takagi, and no one except Maplehara heard it.

"That, it's because of this..."

Officer Takagi showed the calendar in his hand to everyone. It was the calendar for June. "Look, you guys, there is a stain on the upper right corner of the calendar, which is your upper left corner..."

"Well, that's right..."

"Although it's not obvious, it's the trace left after wiping away the blood."

"W-what!"

"This torn-off calendar is from June, and there is a schedule for the 30th. The president was killed on the 29th, so although it has not been identified yet, it should be after the prisoner saw blood on the calendar. It’s true that it was torn off…”

"It's stained with blood... that's right!" Memu Police Department suddenly realized, "The coat the prisoner wore when committing the crime! The blood stain on the left shoulder has indeed been wiped off..."

"Well, prisoner..."

Because Maplehara just said it briefly, Officer Takagi was a little stuck, so Maplehara helped answer the sentence.

"After killing the president, the prisoner breathed a sigh of relief and leaned against the wall, so the blood stains were stained on the calendar. Is that right, Uncle Takagi?"

"No, that's right..."

Officer Takagi breathed a sigh of relief, "The president has the habit of collecting torn calendars. It may also be because when the prisoner noticed blood stains on the calendar, it was already the second day after he and others found the body, and there was no way to throw it away. So I had to tear up the calendar and hide it in the president’s room…”

"I see!"

"Then why is it said that the prisoner is Mr. Hasami?" Kazuha is both curious and worried, because what Heiji is saying now seems to be different from what Heiji just said, and she is quite concerned now.

Although if Officer Takagi is right, Heiji's reasoning just now cannot be considered a victory, but Kazuha does not want to see his reasoning go wrong.

Glancing secretly at Heiji, Kazuye was surprised to find that he had returned to his previous confident appearance.

This is Heiji...

"It's because of the height, right?" Hattori Heiji took over.

"Ah... yes," Takagi replied, "Among the four suspects, only Mr. Hasami is taller, and the calendar is hung very high. The others are standing next to the calendar, and there is no way their shoulders can touch the blood stains... "

The Megure Police Department, who had also met those four people, briefly recalled it and understood that the height difference between Mr. Hasami and the others was very obvious.

However, he had other questions.

"Hey, Takagi," Megure Police Department questioned, "It's possible that the blood stain was so high on purpose to frame the blame..."

"No," to the surprise of the police department, Hattori Heiji, whom he was supporting, rebutted him, "If it is to frame the blame, there is no reason to tear off the calendar. The real purpose is..."

Hattori Heiji paused, "Death message."

"Ah? But Brother Hattori, you just..."

"That's what the death message means, right!" Hattori Heiji defended with a guilty conscience, "But it was actually deliberately designed by the prisoner."

This was a trap deliberately laid by the criminals. Just like the name of the mystery novel that Hattori's mother bought for him that morning...

A suicide note planned by the devil.

"So, deliberately designed?"

"Didn't you notice? There is something very incongruous about this table..."

"Uncoordinated?" Uncle Maoli took a look and couldn't see anything wrong.

"Ah, it's so strange..."

Conan, who also came to the table, made a cute statement, "If he hit the table hard while struggling, would the ink spill over?"

"Ah?" Uncle Maoli was puzzled.

"Then why didn't the other pen holders fall down?" Conan sighed and had no choice but to click on the prompt directly.

"Really, really..."

"It's almost like..." Conan paused, "The prisoner accidentally knocked over the bottle of ink!"

"Idiot! How could a prisoner do such a thing? The ink spilled on the president's hand! Who knows what clues the president will leave behind..."

Uncle Maori was halfway through speaking angrily when he suddenly remembered that the result of the death message was in conflict with the analysis result of Officer Takagi just now. He realized something and stopped talking.

The Megure Police Department also remembered that Hattori Heiji had just said that this was a deliberate design by the prisoner.

"Could it be that…"

"Yes," Hattori Heiji said, "The prisoner accidentally spilled the ink and asked the president to leave a death message..."

"But the president thought the prisoner was Mr. Iwatomi...?"

"Yes, the president was deceived by the real prisoner. He was probably attacked by the prisoner who entered the room in advance and ambush him. He was knocked unconscious without being able to see the prisoner's face. When he woke up, he found that he He was tied behind his back and lying on the ground, and his sight was blocked by the table. He could only see the prisoner's feet on the other side of the table through the bottom of the table..."

"Ah, that's right!" Officer Takagi clapped his hands with his fist, "Mr. Iwatomi likes to collect white brand-name golf shoes. He has more than thirty pairs, and he takes them out and cleans them once a week!"

"Huh? Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"Well, because I feel like it has nothing to do with the case..."

Officer Takagi was a little embarrassed. Although he did feel that it had nothing to do with the case at the time, he was ready to find an opportunity to talk about it, but he was pulled away by Feng Yuan before he could speak.

The Megure Police Department thought for a while, "In other words, the real murderer was actually Mr. Hasami. He wore the white shoes collected by Mr. Iwatomi, making the president mistakenly think that Mr. Iwatomi did it, and deliberately made the president make a mistake. Death message…”

"Placing a camera in a blind spot where the president cannot see is the evidence," said Hattori Heiji, "and then connected a monitor to monitor the president and kill him after he leaves a death message. However, if it really depends on the shoes, If I’m misleading, how did the prisoner get Mr. Iwatomi’s shoes…”

"Maybe it's the same style..."

"I know this too," Officer Takagi became even more embarrassed. "The four of them often live in Mr. Iwatomi's house, and they even drank together at his house on the day of the crime..."

Therefore, the pair of shoes that deceived the president was probably stolen by the criminal from Mr. Iwatomi. In order not to arouse suspicion and expose his culpable tactics, the prisoner would most likely return the crime quietly after committing the crime.

Thinking of this, the Mumu Police Department simply called someone to call the four people and rush to the scene.

It can be seen at a glance that Mr. Hasami is the only one who can stand and rub the blood stains on his coat onto the calendar.

At this time, police officer Chiba, who was continuing to investigate the alibi by checking the program video on the TV station, also saw Iwatomi in the video, confirming his alibi.

This means that the death message is indeed a frame-up technique.

After noticing that the shoe sizes of Hasami and Iwatomi were also very different, they realized that if the prisoner wanted to put on ill-fitting shoes, he would probably have to take off his socks.

And this means that shoes that have not been scrubbed by Iwatomi will leave evidence of odor.

"However," Hattori Heiji looked at Hasami, who had been silent, "Mr. Hasami, there must be other reasons for wearing these very tight shoes..."

"..."

"Can you tell us the reason?"

Hasami was silent for a moment, and then spoke, "The reason is that after killing Mr. Tsujitani, he put the blame on Vice President Iwatomi, and then kicked him out of the toy production site...just because of this..."

"I don't remember anything that made you hate me so much..." Iwatomi said.

"It's not me who hates you, it's the children...it's the children who bought the toys you and the president planned to sell this time..."

"Huh? What's going on?" Megure Police Department asked.

"For example, the corners of this building block were originally supposed to be rounded, but in order to cut costs, the president and vice president decided not to do this... Not only the building blocks, but other toys as well..."

"It does look good and sell well, but the children who buy it to play with are easily injured, but the president threatened that if they objected, they would be fired..."

The other two employees said one sentence at a time, obviously also complaining about the president and vice president.

"But, but there's no need to kill people, right?" Vice President Iwatomi was a little shocked, "After all, the company's operating conditions are not good..."

"The business situation is not good? Haha, do you know what President Tsujitani said when he was tied up? He said - Hey, Iwatomi, don't you just want money? If you want money, you can get it as much as you want. If you don't believe it, If so, just open the safe and take a look..."

"ah?"

"Do you have money?"

"Yeah, although I don't know how he got the money..."

Bozuo responded, and then remained silent for a moment before continuing, "I just don't want to sell those half-finished toys to innocent children... That's all..."

It's really... a very unreasonable motive for the murder.

Maplehara thought.

In any case, with the starring roles of Takagi and Hattori Heiji, this case has been solved, and what follows is another highlight of the night.

Megure Police Department praised Takagi and sent the prisoner downstairs with him. Everyone who stayed in the room fell silent for a while.

Hattori Heiji cleared his throat, "Okay, we can also prepare to go to Koshien..."

"What!" Kazuha said dissatisfied, "Heiji, your reasoning is obviously wrong!"

"Idiot! I already said that the death message points to 'that person', but you must understand him as the criminal!"

"Haha..." Conan looked contemptuous.

Feng Yuan and Hai Yuan Ai decided to watch the show.

"I don't believe it. Heiji, you must have made a mistake. You only changed your words mid-sentence..."

Hearing Kazuha's words, Hattori Heiji couldn't help but frown.

This stupid woman was so stupid when reasoning, why is she so sharp now...

"Idiot, I already told you that's not the case! And I also gave a complete reasoning in the end..."

"That was what Officer Takagi said first!"

"Yes, but as for Officer Takagi, I don't know who will win..." Xiaolan said.

"That must be Kudo——"

"Kudo?"

"Slip of the tongue," Hattori Heiji quickly corrected himself against the threatening looks from Maplehara and Conan, "I just wanted to compete with Kudo so much..."

Kudo, this guy, clearly came up with his own reasoning, but he didn’t say it himself. He insisted on letting others say it... He was still watching the show, so he quickly came out and said "Koshien"...

"Forget it," Heye habitually decided to give up after arguing with Heiji. After all, he did have more reasoning to do than himself, "I——"

"That..." Officer Takagi, who had just left, rushed back.

"Um?"

"Uh... I just heard from the police department that you were engaging in a reasoning showdown," Officer Takagi said, "So I just wanted to come up and talk about it... In fact, those words I just said were all told to me by Xiao Kong..."

"..."

There are very familiar people on the field now, and Fengyuan doesn't care. I just feel a little embarrassed to be looked at by everyone like this...

What made him feel even more embarrassed was that he actually felt a little happy...

It's all Kudo Shinichi's fault, he's not that kind of person.

Feng Yuan thought to himself.

But no matter what, the reasoning showdown has come to an end.

Although Kazuha was a little disappointed, they finally went to watch the decisive battle at Koshien.

"Hey, Kudo."

While waiting for a taxi, Hattori Heiji quietly pulled Maplehara aside, "I asked, why do nothing good happen every time I go out with you?"

"Ah?" Fengyuan looked at Hattori Heiji in surprise.

"When I first met you, my reasoning...well, there was a slight mistake. Then for the next explosion, Kudo and I waited there for a long time, but it turned out that you had solved it secretly and hidden it from us...after that I've met you several times and encountered various incidents, not to mention today..."

"It's not because you are too impatient."

"Huh?" Hattori Heiji reflected for a moment. Indeed, if he had chosen to wait a little bit today, he wouldn't have been so entangled...

"There is no difference between winning and losing in reasoning..." Fengyuan said seriously, "Because..."

Fengyuan paused, "There is always only one truth."

"..."

Conan, who sneaked over to eavesdrop, rolled his eyes speechlessly. Even though it was his other self, when these words came out of Maplehara's mouth, Conan always felt as if his lines had been stolen...

Hattori Heiji was slightly startled.

He felt that Kudo's tone sounded like he was reciting lines, and some of his answers were incorrect...

But...it makes sense...