My neighbor's name is Conan

"Please stop talking nonsense. I haven't been here at all. Do you think I said you were here and caught you, so you deliberately framed me?" Ishigami Yasushi argued.

"No, you did!" Murai Chika pointed at Ishigami Yasushi and said, "You almost hit me, I remember it clearly. It must be you who came in after I left and killed Kanemaru Kenzo!"

Chika Murai became more and more excited as she spoke, because if this was true, then she would not be charged with murder but injury, and the charge and sentence would be much lighter.

"Alright!" Aoki Matsu stopped the quarrel between Murai Chika and Ishigami Yasushi, and said to them, "Ms. Murai did hit Mr. Kanemaru with the lucky cat on the shelf, and the location was in this office. But Mr. Kanemaru was hit by Ms. Murai, and he should have just fainted."

As he spoke, Aoki Matsu had someone bring a mechanical flip clock, turned to 12:59, and showed it to everyone.

Then Qing Musong looked at everyone and said, "There is blood on this page of the mechanical page-turning clock. I think it should be the blood splashed from Mr. Jin Wan's head after being beaten. This mechanical page-turning clock is placed in the inner room, and the time is 12:59.

That is to say, the time and place where Mr. Kanemaru was killed were not where Miss Murai did it. Miss Murai was no longer at the scene at that time. That is to say, there was another person who came here and killed Mr. Kanemaru after Miss Murai left. "

"It shouldn't have been a long time. When Miss Murai fled in panic, you, Mr. Ishigami, came here holding something. You just happened to see Mr. Kanemaru getting up from the ground, and learned from him that Miss Murai had hit him with the lucky cat.

The item you brought was supposed to be a ceramic fortune cat, and you were going to give it to Mr. Kanemaru to please him and ask him to extend the repayment time. But you didn't know Mr. Kanemaru's preferences, and bought a fortune cat with its left hand raised, so Mr. Kanemaru got angry and probably scolded you.

In a rage, you remembered that Miss Murai had hit Mr. Kanemaru before, so you thought of smashing Mr. Kanemaru to death and putting the blame on Miss Murai.

Although you noticed this, Mr. Ishigami, and wiped off all the bloodstains, the numbers on the mechanical clock changed at that moment, so you didn't notice it. And even if you wiped off all the bloodstains, the luminol reagent could still detect the bloodstains on the TV and chairs. "

Aoki Matsu showed the contents of another evidence bag and said, "Mr. Ishigami, although you have carefully vacuumed away the porcelain fragments on the carpet in the room, there are still some residues at the scene. This fragment of the lucky cat's left hand is what we found under the sofa.

Mr. Kanemaru doesn’t like the lucky cat with its left hand raised, so the fragment of the lucky cat’s left hand must have been left by the criminal who murdered him.”

Then Aoki Matsu picked up another evidence bag and said, "Mr. Kanemaru has the habit of recording his schedule on a note. When Ms. Murai came today, he wrote on the note 9/3 12:30PM Murai Chika. Under this piece of paper, although it is a blank sheet, you can clearly see the pen marks.

So Mr. Kanemaru should have written the time he and the murderer agreed on and the murderer's name, but the murderer tore it off after the crime. After I used a pencil to erase it, it showed: 9/3 1:00 Ishigami. "

"I... I had made an appointment with Mr. Kanemaru before, but because I was too busy at work in the store, I couldn't come here..." Ishigami Bao argued cunningly with an evasive look.

"Is your store really busy? You have time to observe Miss Murai, but no time to come over? Moreover, Detective Mori has been in your store all the time. Apart from him, there is no other customer in your store. How can you call this busy?" Aoki Matsu sneered.

"You said you didn't come here, but why did the cat in your arms appear here? We found the cat's bloody footprints on the window frame in the room. It was still a kitten, and it was impossible for it to open the door and come in here by itself.

Although the windows in the room were open, they were barred to prevent theft. Even if it was a cat, I don't think it could have jumped in from outside. Therefore, the most likely scenario is that the cat followed Mr. Ishigami in here. Mr. Ishigami came here at 1 o'clock as scheduled to meet Mr. Kanemaru. "

"No! I didn't!" Ishigami Bao shouted excitedly.

"Then how do you explain this!" Aoki Song took out the most important evidence bag and pushed it in front of Ishigami Yasushi. "We found this in the trash can behind the coffee shop. It contains not only the vacuum cleaner dust bag, but also the lucky cat fragments stained with Mr. Kanemaru's blood. I think there is not only Mr. Kanemaru's blood on it, but also the blood of the cat, and your fingerprints, Mr. Ishigami."

When Ishigami Bao saw the lucky cat fragments found by the criminal, he finally stopped hoping for the best and lowered his head. "Everything is exactly as you said, officer. But if I don't pay Kanemaru today, my coffee shop will fall into his hands."

Qing Musong shook his head when he heard this, but he no longer gave his fatherly comments as before.

Can a coffee shop be equal to life?

In Aoki Matsu's opinion, they are not the same.

Moreover, although Kenzo Kanamaru is a loan shark and it is abominable, he is not the kind of person who would force you to borrow usury with a gun or a knife. When Chikaka Murai and Yasushi Ishigami borrowed usury before, they did so voluntarily.

Ultimately, both Chikaka Murai and Yasushi Ishigami are people who lack self-control.

They cannot afford their own "expenses" with their own abilities, but they are still stubborn and even borrow money from loan sharks.

Ultimately it's because of the lack of self-control that leads to spending beyond what one can afford.

However, self-control, like losing weight, is easier said than done, and not everyone can do it.

Most people can only do half of this – not spending money when they are out of it, and not borrowing from loan sharks.

In short, don’t touch usury, because the interest will compound and it will really scare you to death.

After Ishigami Yasushi pleaded guilty, Aoki Matsu and others took Ishigami Yasushi and Murai Chikaka back to the Metropolitan Police Department, where they were charged with different crimes.

After Aihara Yoji finished the information, he came to ask Aoki Matsu to sign it. Aoki Matsu took it and checked it carefully. After making sure there was no problem, he signed his name.

Slack off and get off work.

Since Shinna Kaori has nothing to do recently, Aoki Matsu would accompany her out to play from time to time, and they would not go far, just around Tokyo.

It can be considered a combination of work and rest.

After a few days of peace and tranquility, Aoki Matsu received a call from Mao Lilan's office - a murder had occurred in a villa in Okutama.

So Aoki Matsu took Maruta Ayumi and others to Okutama.

It’s still the same old rules, following the basic process of handling cases.

Because the crime scene was in the master bedroom of the victim's villa, the identity of the victim was quickly known.

Maruta Ayumi held up a small notebook and said, "The deceased is a mystery novelist, Mr. Moroguchi Masuki, 52 years old."

This mystery novelist named Morokuchi Masuki was planning to collaborate with Kogoro Mori to discuss mystery suspense novels, and then write new mystery novels. This matter was widely reported by the media.

So last night, Kogoro Mouri brought Ran Mouri and Conan here. After a brief chat with Morokuchi Yoshiki, they planned to have a detailed discussion this morning, and then stayed in Morokuchi Yoshiki's villa for one night.

Who would have thought that at 5 o'clock this morning, Anabuki Haruei, the writer for his magazine, knocked on his door but it didn't open, and there was no movement from inside. Later, he found that Morokuchi Yoshiki was dead, so he quickly called the police.

"The preliminary cause of death is suffocation caused by cyanide poison! Judging from the coffee stains flowing from the deceased's forehead and mouth, the deceased should have drunk coffee with cyanide! But it is not yet clear whether the deceased drank it himself or was forced to drink it by someone else."

"It's impossible that someone forced the drug in his mouth." Maori Kogoro said at this time, and then explained: "The door and windows of this room are all locked tightly, isn't it a secret room? In addition, Mr. Morokuchi was holding the key to this room, and there was no spare key, so it must have been suicide."

Maruta Ayumi asked in confusion: "Why? If someone put cyanide poison into the coffee cup in advance, it is also possible to kill someone in a secret room! Of course, the premise is that the murderer should be someone who knows that Mr. Moroguchi drinks coffee every morning."

There is something wrong with what he said, and it is indeed possible.

"Idiot!" Maori Kogoro looked at Maruta Ayumi like a fool and said, "Would a normal person hold his own key while drinking coffee? Of course, it's not impossible that he grabbed the key immediately after drinking the coffee to stop vomiting and found out it was poisonous. So the key over there might have been in his hand before he drank the poisoned coffee, and he wanted to convey some message."

"But didn't Mr. Morokuchi agree to have a formal conversation with Mr. Mori this morning?" said Maruta Ayumi.

How could someone who has something to do break a promise or commit suicide?

When Kogoro Mori was asked this question by Maruta Ayumi, he was speechless for a moment.

"So, it is also possible that he overslept and hurriedly took the key to drink a cup of coffee before leaving the room in order to wake himself up. This is also possible." Maruta Ayumi proposed another possibility.

Maori Kogoro was able to refute this and immediately said, "Really, look carefully, the place where the coffee cup fell is next to the bed. The coffee machine is located in the kitchen on the other side. If you are in a hurry, you should go to the kitchen to pour coffee and drink it directly there. You won't put the coffee cup on the saucer and then take it to the bed to drink it."

Following Kogoro Mori's gaze, everyone looked over.

I saw a cup and saucer on the bedside table, which looked like a set with the coffee cup.

"But, is there another possibility? When Mr. Morokuchi got up in the morning, someone came and mixed cyanide into the coffee that Mr. Morokuchi was going to drink, then brought it to his bedside, urged him to hurry up, and asked him to take the key and leave the room." Maruta Ayumi proposed another possibility.

"That's impossible!" Maori Kogoro retorted, "If that's the case, that person has to leave the room before Mr. Moroguchi drinks the poisoned coffee, and Mr. Moroguchi must also lock the door, which is impossible. Although I don't know if Mr. Moroguchi will drink the freshly brewed coffee, but if he is urged, he can only drink it."

Maruta Ayumi heard this and proposed another hypothesis, "But maybe Mr. Morokuchi is afraid of heat, so he won't drink hot things right away."

"That's impossible." At this time, Anabuki Haruei, who had been listening to the police, interrupted and said, "Mr. Zhukou likes to drink coffee very much, whether it is hot or warm. He once said that coffee tastes good no matter how you drink it. Is that right?"

Anabuki Haruei said this and looked at the two people beside him.

"Yes!" responded Dejima Kakuji, a freelance writer who was sent by the magazine to write the report on the conversation between Morokuchi Masuki and Mori Kogoro.

The magazine's photographer, Tarumi Wataru, also said, "Yes, this habit of his is well-known in the editorial department."

These three have been staying here since last night because if they rush here at 5 o'clock in the morning, the time will be too tight.

In other words - these three people are very suspicious, and it is very likely that one of them is the murderer!

What surprised Aoki Matsu was that none of these three people was Morokuchi Yoshiki's student or writing assistant.

It seems that this case is not a common copyright fighter case.

Aoki Matsu thought for a moment and looked at Maori Kogoro and asked seriously, "Detective Maori, if this is a secret room, then may I ask how you got in? I see the door to the room is not damaged."

It doesn't look like they broke in.

"Well, it's this little brat..." Maori Kogoro was furious when he mentioned this. He grabbed Conan by the back of his collar and lifted him up. "Humph!"

Mao Lilan, who was standing at the back, saw this and quickly explained: "Conan climbed in through the air vent. After opening the door from the inside, we were able to come in from the outside. When we came in, we found Mr. Moroguchi lying on the bed and dead."

"So, that window should be open." Aoki Matsu asked.

"Yes, it's open." Conan nodded in confirmation.

"But this air vent is only big enough for a child to pass through. It should be impossible for anyone to pass through here," said Yoji Aihara.

[Humans are indeed not capable of this, but the piano wires, fishing lines, and tapes used by veteran actors in the science world are all capable of this.]

Aoki Matsu saw the deceased, Morokuchi Yoshiki, lying on his back on the bed, with a painful expression on his face and coffee stains at the corners of his mouth. His right hand was placed on the bed with the palm facing down. His left hand was placed on the bed in the posture of a lucky cat, with five fingers spread out, but the fingers were slightly bent, and a key was placed in the middle of his palm.

Seeing such strange postures, Aoki Matsu immediately thought of these old actors.