Conan: Naruto

"If the police want to use the videotape as evidence... maybe more than just police officers can hear it."

Kudo Shinichi, who did not find any suspicious items, stopped searching and tied up Hideharu Tsugawa with ease. He turned to look at Dongfang Haoyue and reminded with a smile:

"The judge and other legal personnel can also hear Haoyue's criticism."

"Wow."

Genta Kojima stood at the left rear of Dongfang Haoyue, looked down at the camera, and sighed in surprise:

"If the videotape is turned into evidence in court, wouldn't it be embarrassing for the police officers who have already searched the library once but failed to find the body?"

"Yes!"

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya stood on the right side of Genta Kojima and on the right side of Ayumi Yoshida. He turned to look at Genta and guessed seriously:

"Those legal officers will secretly laugh at the incompetence of the police officers who are worse than children!"

"When I think about it...the police officers are so pitiful..."

Yoshida Ayumi clasped her hands together and placed them in front of her collar with her ten fingers interlocked. She raised her head and looked sympathetically at the warm golden sun outside the glass window in front of her.

"cough."

After Kudo Shinichi finished tying up, he helped Hideharu Tsugawa sit half a meter to the left of the open door of the wooden cabinet, stood up, and coughed slightly to relieve the embarrassment.

Shinichi walked towards the cardboard box on the wooden cabinet with steady steps, and complained melancholy:

"It's not that I want to interrupt you, but if you continue talking...the police officers will definitely find a crack in the ground to crawl in after watching the video..."

"Hahaha~

It has nothing to do with me~~~”

Dongfang Haoyue followed Kudo Shinichi to the left, smiled sweetly and innocently, and solemnly took a camera to record Shinichi picking up the cardboard box and placing it on the floor in front of him.

Shinichi sat on his knees, picked up a book in the box with his right hand and placed it in front of his collar. With his left hand, he took the embroidery needle that Haoyue had taken back from Tsugawa Hideharu's neck and pierced the transparent packaging bag of the book one after another.

Kudo Shinichi casually tore off the packaging bag, threw it back into the box, carefully took out the books contained in the paper book box, and was surprised to find...

There is no spine on either side of the book.

“A book without a spine???”

After the trio of elementary school students gathered around Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi, they looked at the book in Shinichi's hand in surprise.

Haoyue looked at Xinyi and said in confusion:

"Even if a prisoner wants to hide something in a book, there is no need to use a book without a spine..."

"Yes, doing this will only increase suspicion, so..."

Kudo Shinichi looked at Dongfang Haoyue and rigorously deduced:

"The prisoner must have ulterior motives."

"You guys said so many things over and over again..."

Kojima Genta looked back and forth at Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi with a speechless expression, and urged anxiously:

"Let's quickly tell you why the prisoner is like this!"

"Quiet!"

Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi glanced back at Genta Kojima in unison, looked over their heads at the book, and explained angrily:

"Isn't this just thinking!"

"Genta, please be quiet."

Ayumi Yoshida looked at the depressed Kojima Genta and gently persuaded:

"Don't disturb Conan and Haoyue's thoughts."

next second.

"Conan (Haoyue), after coming to Mihua Library today, what unusual things have you discovered?"

Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi looked at each other and said a tentative sentence in unison, as if an electric current flashed deep in their heads.

They suddenly realized it with a snap of their fingers, and described it with great excitement:

"The uneven bookshelf!"

"bookshelf?"

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya looked at Dongfang Haoyue and then at Kudou Shinichi, and said in confusion:

"I didn't find any bookshelf that was uneven."

"I didn't find out either."

Ayumi Yoshida looked at Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi and nodded in agreement.

Moto Kojima is the complete opposite.

He turned his head without saying a word and carefully scanned the bookshelves with the light of the setting sun.

"Alas."

Dongfang Haoyue held the camera with her left hand and waved her right hand casually.

He calmly explained:

"What we mean is...the bookshelf is unevenly arranged."

"Hmm...really."

Ayumi Yoshida looked back at the bookshelf, observed carefully, and nodded in agreement.

"indeed."

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya looked at the bookshelf, observed carefully, and described calmly:

"Some books are completely inside the edge of the bookshelf, and other books are partially outside the edge of the bookshelf."

"I still don't understand... how foreign books without spines have anything to do with the arrangement of books on the bookshelf."

Kojima Genta withdrew his gaze, held the back of his head with his right hand, and looked at Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi honestly.

"I thought it was an unintentional placement mistake by the children. In fact..."

Kudo Shinichi looked up at the red sunset falling to the skyline, and calmly analyzed:

"Judge based on the width of the bookshelf... The books with spines facing outward on both sides of the bookshelf are large enough to stand a book without a spine, that is, three books in a row.

In other words, no matter which side of the bookshelf you take a book from, you can only see the edge of the next book.

Especially the many children who come and go here...they can't see the title on the spine and take the book with interest. "

"In this way, when the books are put back on the bookshelf, the books on the other side are pushed by the foreign spineless books and are forced to be partially exposed outside the edge of the bookshelf."

Dongfang Haoyue looked back at the trio of primary school students and concluded seriously:

"To sum up, the reason why the books on the bookshelf are unevenly arranged is because there is a foreign book with no spine and book edges on both sides sandwiched between the three books in each column."

"But...Why is Tsukawa Hideharu like this?"

Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko put his hands in his pockets and looked at Dongfang Haoyue with confusion.

"Since these strange books come from abroad, then..."

Kudo Shinichi returned the embroidery needle he held in his left hand to Dongfang Haoyue. He opened the book lip on his chest with both hands and guessed seriously:

"There are either guns hidden in the books or..."

"Contraband!?"

Dongfang Haoyue's pupils shrank suddenly, and he watched in extreme surprise as Kudo Shinichi completely opened the book, revealing the contraband hidden in the notch in the middle of the book and sealed by a transparent plastic bag.

"Judging from Jinchuan Xiuji's mental state just now, he is indeed... engaged in the business of smuggling contraband."

Kudo Shinichi focused his attention on the contraband and said cautiously:

"In my opinion, he first hid the contraband in the foreign book among the three books by arranging the books, and then sold the contraband bit by bit."

Kudo Shinichi paused for a second, and then made a solemn judgment:

"Mr. Tamada probably saw the contraband hidden by Tsugawa Hideharu, but Tsugawa happened to witness Tamada's every move when he discovered the contraband...

In the end, Yutian was brutally murdered and silenced. "