Conan: Naruto

"Oh?"

Mouri Kogoro dubiously took the receipt and placed it in front of his collar. He lowered his head to look at the place where the client signed the receipt and confirmed with a slight surprise:

"The client is Kanato Hanaoka?"

Mouri Kogoro turned around and casually put the receipt in his coat pocket. He stared at Kanato Hanaoka, who was not far to the right rear and had been leaning on the smooth floor for a long time, quietly watching the show. He questioned casually:

"It's weird, isn't it?

When Miss Choye fell from the building, the motorcycle courier you entrusted happened to come to pick up the goods... Mr. Hanaoka, how do you defend this matter? "

"Detective Maori, please don't talk nonsense."

Kanato Hanaoka spread his hands on both sides of his chest, looked at Mouri Kogoro calmly, and stated calmly:

"I told you before...

Because on the phone, Ms. Choye told me gloomily and sounded very tired...the painting was completed.

So I didn’t want her to be too tired to deal with the courier company, so I specially helped her entrust the courier company to deliver the paintings to the editorial department.

Besides..."

Hanaoka Kaneto put his hands in his pockets, looked at Mouri Kogoro attentively, and argued with reason:

"When Miss Choye fell from the building, I was staying at Hanaoka Design Office, which is dozens of meters away from here.

Although I don’t know how she, who died within half an hour after five o’clock in the afternoon, could call the office before falling, I did receive a call from her and heard her say... that she wanted to jump off the building.

Yes, the employee who received the call first did hear Dieye's voice, which proves that what I said is true.

in addition......"

Kanato Hanaoka smiled slightly and reminded him that he had a winning chance:

"Detective Maori, you were one of the people who stayed at the office at the time, so you should be able to help me prove...

When Dieye fell from the building, I stayed at the office calmly and answered Dieye's call. "

Kanato Hanaoka pointed his right hand at the thinner man, the courier, and chuckled casually:

"Could it be that...you thought I commissioned this man to move the body and throw it downstairs?"

The voice just fell.

"No, it's not!!"

The thinner man looked eagerly at Kogoro Mori and Officer Megure, and clarified hastily:

"I will never do anything illegal!"

"Mr. Hanaoka."

Officer Megure looked at Kanato Hanaoka calmly, and comforted him in accordance with the practice of criminal police interrogation:

"Please rest assured that we are just doing this on a routine basis and have not identified you as a prisoner."

at the same time.

Kudo Shinichi lowered his head slightly, held his chin with his left hand like a pistol, looked ahead without focusing on anything, and thought calmly in his heart:

"Think about it... how to control a body to fall from a building from a distance of tens of meters.

The clues we have so far are...

Iron nails for flat lay entrance tiles.

Broken flower pots inside the balcony fence.

Inexplicably missing contact lens solution.

If what I expected is correct, there must be something connecting them. "

"Well......"

Dongfang Haoyue quietly walked around Xiaolan and stood on the right side of Kudou Shinichi. He carefully observed Shinichi's facial expression and sighed melancholy in his heart:

"Xinyi is so troubled...it seems that this murder case is really difficult to solve."

The thought just fell.

Mouri Kogoro Furui glanced at Kudo Shinichi indifferently, looked at the thinner man calmly, and asked casually:

"Mr. Courier, did you notice anything unusual when you came here?"

"What's unusual...?"

The thinner man was slightly startled, looked at Mouri Kogoro dumbly, and recalled meticulously:

"Well... I pushed the door open at that time, and the door quickly opened completely."

"Ok?"

Kudo Shinichi stopped his thoughts and looked at the thinner man in surprise.

Dongfang Haoyue looked at Mouri Kogoro in surprise, and speculated in disbelief:

"It seems... the Maori detective is giving Shinichi a vague hint through the answers he asks...

If this is true, Detective Mori must have seen through the criminal methods of this murder case long ago...!

No, there are very few clues available so far. How can the Maori detective possibly decipher the criminal's modus operandi?

You can't just rely on a small iron nail to see through the complete trap set up by the prisoner! "

"Does the door open completely quickly?"

Mouri Kogoro let out a sigh, looked at the thinner man calmly, and confirmed rigorously:

"Isn't there someone hiding behind the door who helped you open the door?"

"My original thought was the same as yours, but after a cursory scan of the room, I didn't find anyone."

The thinner man looked at Moori Kogoro carefully and explained rationally:

"There was only one iron nail lying quietly on the tiles in the entrance hall."

"Oh?"

Mouri Kogoro looked at the thinner man lightly and confirmed casually:

"Iron nails?"

"Yes."

The thinner man nodded without thinking and narrated sincerely:

“I heard a clanking sound, so I looked carefully at the tiles in the entrance and found an iron nail lying on it.

After that, I quickly heard the sound of something breaking inside the house.

Although I immediately called Ms. Choye and tried to ask about the situation, no one paid attention to me. "

When Kudo Shinichi heard this, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he looked at the thinner man in inexplicable horror. He thought quickly in his mind and judged:

"It's hard...could it be said...

The key clue is indeed hidden in the drain outlet on the balcony? ! "

Before Kudo Shinichi could finish his thoughts, he dragged Dongfang Haoyue, who looked confused, towards the balcony as usual.

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Nine seconds later.

balcony.

Kudo Shinichi, who was wearing police gloves, ignored the verbal restraints of many police officers along the way and rushed to the drain outlet, half-kneeling on the ground, grabbing the hollow iron cover of the drain outlet with both hands and placing it on the cement floor on the left.

Dongfang Haoyue half-knelt on the right side of Shinichi, put his hands on his thighs far away from the ground, curiously poked his head to the left, and was surprised to find...

A fragment of clay was stuck in a gap in the hollow iron cover inside the drain outlet.

Additionally, a piece of fishing line was tied to the debris.

"So lucky!"

Kudo Shinichi excitedly grabbed the clay fragments with his right hand and lifted it up a little. With his left hand, he lifted up the hollow iron cover inside the drainage outlet and placed it on the left. He alternately pulled out the fishing line with both hands and described happily:

"The fishing line got stuck on the flower pot fragments and did not fall downstairs!"

"Small Peng......"

The police officers who were about to stop Kudou Shinichi with words were stunned not far to the left of Shinichi. They looked at the fishing line in confusion and said dumbly in disbelief:

"This...this is..."

Dongfang Haoyue heard the commotion, glanced at the police officers speechlessly, and secretly complained in her heart:

"I thought that the police officers of the Metropolitan Police Department would have become smarter after experiencing hundreds of murder cases, but who knew that they didn't even investigate the drainage outlet? It's true!"