Conan: The truth lies only within the range of fire

"Ah, now I remember, Mr. Yonekura was staring at his phone with a bad look on his face."

In front of Conan and Hattori Heiji was the female staff member that Koto Yonekura had met in the corridor before.

Conan and Hattori Heiji are asking the female staff about Koto Inari.

After all, it can be said that this female staff member was the last person that Koto Yonekura saw besides Xiao Hei.

Conan asked, "Do you remember when that was?"

The female staff member recalled: "Well... I remember it was after the meeting at around 1pm, so it should be around 2:20pm."

"Heiji, we're all ready!"

Officer Otaki called out to Hattori Heiji from the other end of the corridor.

"Okay, I'll be there right away." Hattori Heiji responded and thanked the female staff member, "Thank you so much."

Hattori Heiji and Conan followed Officer Otaki.

Officer Otaki replied as he walked away, "We have checked the staff with the warehouse access cards. At the time of the incident, there were only two people in the employee area besides Mr. Kosugi."

Hattori Heiji said: "That's great, by the way, where are those two people?"

"I asked them to wait in the conference room just now." Officer Otaki opened the door of the conference room: "Sorry to have kept you waiting for so long."

Waiting in the conference room were Yoshito Mihara and Takane Takashi, producers of the Nichimi TV film department.

Mihara Yoshito and Takauchi-no-mikoto started to complain.

"Really? How long are we going to have to wait? We are different from you police officers. We calculate our working time in seconds!"

"Besides, something happened to Mikura all of a sudden. Without him, we are all in a mess."

Hattori Heiji said in a strange voice: "You guys are really aggressive, don't tell me there is something you don't know how to answer?"

As soon as Hattori Heiji said this, he was met with dissatisfied expressions from Mihara Yoshito and Takauchi-no-mikoto.

"Who are you?"

Hattori Heiji puffed out his chest slightly: "Me? I am the high school detective, Hattori Heiji!"

Mihara Yoshito sneered, "I've heard of you. You're a Kansai high school detective who's as famous as Kudo Shinichi. But you're actually just a conceited brat, right?"

A vein popped up on Hattori Heiji's forehead.

Gao Nei Zun also sneered: "If you ask me, you want to rely on your father's relationship to come here to make merit or something, right?"

Several more blue veins appeared on Hattori Heiji's forehead.

Conan looked at Hattori Heiji with some gloating.

Officer Otaki said unhappily: "Hey, you two..."

Before Officer Otaki could finish his words, Hattori Heiji put his hand on Officer Otaki's shoulder.

Although Hattori Heiji was very angry, he still had to focus on business, so he said, "Forget it, forget it. I have something to ask you about Mr. Yonekura's death."

Gao Nei Zun frowned and said, "Yonekura should have died in an accident. Why would a detective come here to meddle in other people's business?"

Mihara Yoshito also snorted coldly: "You don't mean to say that he was actually murdered?"

Hattori Heiji stared at the two and asked, "From what I understand, you two are Mr. Yonekura's subordinates, right?"

"Yeah, that's right. We are called the Yonekura Team. It's quite prestigious."

"But speaking of it, the recent plans were basically all thought up by us. Although he is called a gold medal producer by many people, he is at most just a facade now."

Yoshito Mihara and Takauchi-sama answered Hattori Heiji's questions.

Hattori Heiji narrowed his eyes and said, "So, if it weren't for Mr. Yonekura, you would have become the boss? You have a full motive to kill."

Gao Nei Zun said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about!"

Mihara Yoshito questioned, "That's not right! Isn't there Kosugi? He is also a member of the Yonekura team, why isn't he here?"

Hattori Heiji said, "Why do you care about other people? I think you should worry more about yourself. Where were you around 2: this afternoon?"

Mihara Yoshito sneered, "Huh, confirming our alibi? At the time you mentioned, I was in the conference room on the third floor, confirming the shooting schedule for today. I was alone at the time, so I don't have an alibi."

Conan looked at Mihara Yoshito and Takauchi-no-son and felt something was strange.

These two people are inexplicably very confident.

Logically speaking, when a murder has occurred and they are involved in a crime, they should not be so confident. These two are a little too confident, not to mention that they have no alibi.

Mihara Yoshito suddenly said, "Oh no, I suddenly remembered that at about 2:, I asked a female staff member to help me get painkillers from the car in the underground parking lot. You see, I was injured..."

Yoshito Mihara raised his right leg. His right foot was bandaged.

"Three days ago, I fell and sprained my foot. I remember it was around 2:20 p.m. when I asked the girl to get the car keys. She brought the medicine around 2: p.m."

Conan asked, "It's just to get some medicine, why did it take her so long?"

Mihara Yoshito replied: "After all, there is a press conference here today, so there must be a lot of people taking the elevator up and down. There are also a lot of people on the stairs from the first floor to the basement, so it took some time. I think this is understandable."

Conan and Hattori Heiji fell into deep thought.

The time without an alibi is about 10 minutes, and if you can't use the elevator, you can only climb the stairs.

This person had sprained his foot, so it would be unlikely for him to travel back and forth between the third and sixth floors within 10 minutes and commit a crime.

At this time, Officer Otaki asked Takauchi: "So, Mr. Takauchi, what are you doing?"

Gao Nei Zun propped his chin with one hand and said, "During that time, I was alone in the toilet and in a place where there were not many people, checking for any suspicious persons. I didn't meet any acquaintances, so I don't have an alibi, but it's impossible for me to kill Mr. Yonekura."

Hattori Heiji asked curiously: "Huh? Why? What's the reason?"

Gao Nei Zun said seriously: "Because I have acrophobia, my acrophobia is very serious, I can't stand places with a little height, and I can't climb ladders at all.

I just heard that Mr. Yonekura was crushed to death by a monster hanging on a shelf. In that case, the murderer must have climbed up the shelf first and then cut the rope used to fix the monster. However, I can't climb up."

Mihara Yoshito was still in the mood to tease Takane: "Are you telling the truth? Who can guarantee that you are not lying?"

Gao Nei Zun smiled and said, "What? Don't you all know that?"

Conan and Hattori Heiji frowned slightly and looked at Mihara Yoshito and Takauchi Takane. These two guys were really weird.