Conan: Live in the Maori Detective Agency at the beginning

"It's not difficult at all, because the corner of the apron he was wearing happened to be sticking out from the lower right side of the closet door," Suzuki Sonoko continued to explain.

"So do you know when that corner of the clothes was revealed?" asked Takagi Shigeru.

"I don't know about this." Suzuki Sonoko shook her head slightly.

"Now that I think about it, we hadn't seen the apron when we came here to clean up the broken pieces of the dishes," recalled Mao Lilan.

"What plate fragments?" Takagi Shigeru asked in confusion.

"It's like this. I accidentally dropped a plate in front of the cabinet today." Mino Muneno said, "A few students heard the noise and rushed over here, so I asked them to help clean it up."

"I remember the plate. It was broken right after Sofu put on his apron and left the warehouse." Mino Muneyuki tried to lie.

"So, you were in here with the victim," asked Takagi Wataru.

"Yes, because the aprons for the pottery classroom are usually placed in this cabinet." Mino Muneyuki nodded and said, "So Sofu usually changes into his apron here."

He pointed inside the closet and said, "Look, his suit jacket is hanging there, too."

"There are several thin cloth jackets hanging next to his suit jacket. What are they for?" Officer Megure asked after walking forward and taking a look.

"Those coats are for students to wear during class, because when making large water tanks, aprons alone cannot cover the clothes," explained Mino Muneyuki.

"Oh, then what were you doing in the warehouse with the victim?" asked Officer Megure.

"I was looking for Miss Kikuyo, and I happened to see Miss Kikuyo and Sofu in the warehouse." As he said this, he looked at Kikuyo Kasama with a hint of sarcasm on his lips.

"Is this true?" Inspector Megure looked at Kasama Kikuyo and did not notice Mino Muneyuki's little movement.

"Yes, I was here helping Mr. Sofu change his clothes." Kasama Kikuyo only realized something was wrong now, but she still told the truth, "Then the teacher came to the warehouse and said he had to go to the kiln room and asked me to take care of the students."

"And how did you respond?"

Kasama Kikuyo said, "I went back to the classroom immediately as the teacher said."

"So, Mr. Mino, after that, there were only you and the victim left in this warehouse, right?" The police officer looked at Mino Muneyuki suspiciously.

"Wait a minute, Mr. Policeman. You don't suspect that I killed Su Fu, do you?" Mino Muneyuki defended himself, "As I said just now, Su Fu changed his clothes and left here just before I dropped the plate."

"If I had killed him and stuffed him into this cabinet, then the students who came here to help me clean up the debris would have noticed the piece of cloth from his apron sticking out from under the cabinet."

"But it is also possible that after the students who helped you clean up left, you accidentally let a corner of his apron show in order to confirm that the victim was really dead." Inspector Megure still felt that this person was very suspicious and continued to question him.

Xingchen looked at the scene in front of him, and he also felt that this person was very suspicious, and when he first came, was Mino Muneyuki collecting something?

"I don't think that's possible, because the teacher went to the kiln room while we were still cleaning up the debris." Mao Lilan helped speak up, "When we finished cleaning up and returned to the classroom, the teacher had already returned to the classroom."

"Besides, after that, the teacher has been working on the pottery next to Xingchen." Mao Lilan said, and then looked at Xingchen to confirm, "Right, Xiaochen."

"Yeah." Xingchen looked up and responded. Then how did he kill the victims without being discovered by them?

"From that time until we found Mr. Sofu's body, the teacher had been with us students and had no time to put the body in the cabinet," Suzuki Sonoko continued.

"I see." Officer Megure nodded.

Takagi Wataru next to him was taking notes the whole time. Inspector Megure continued, "So the murderer should be Xiaolan. After you guys cleaned up the broken pieces of the plate, you brought the victim to the warehouse and killed him."

"Or maybe he killed the victim somewhere first, and then secretly stuffed the body into the closet when no one was paying attention."

"Oh, that's right." Mino Muneyuki suddenly remembered something and said, "I think Miss Kikuyo might have seen this murderer."

"Huh?!" Kasama Kikuyo said in surprise.

"To be honest, I accidentally cut my finger while plastic surgery. At that time, I asked Miss Kikuyo to come to the warehouse to get the first aid kit for me." Mino Muneyuki said, holding up the injured finger.

He went on to say that they were just looking for something that happened to Su Fu not long ago.

"Excuse me, have you seen anyone?" asked Takagi Wataru.

Kasama Kikuyo was stunned for a moment and shook her head: "No, I didn't see it."

"That first aid kit is usually kept there." Inspector Megure asked.

"The first aid kit is in the cabinet on the upper right." Kasama Kikuyo said, pointing to the upper right corner of the cabinet.

"Oh, so you opened the door when you came." Takagi Shigeru said in surprise.

"I did open it, but there was no one inside." Kasama Kikuyo said quickly, afraid that they would not believe her, and then she added, "This is true."

"Inspector." The forensic officer stood up and picked up a tie and said, "From the marks on the victim's neck, the murder weapon should have been the tie wrapped around the victim's neck."

"Yeah." Inspector Megure nodded slightly in agreement, and then said, "But I can't understand why the murderer tied the tie around the victim's neck."

"What a pity! That tie was a birthday present from Kikuyo-san to Sofu," Mino Muneyuki lamented, "and now it has become a murder weapon."

Xingchen looked at this man and thought to himself, what an old fox. He kept mentioning Miss Kikuyo in his words. He just wanted to pin the crime of murder on Miss Kikuyo.

This is why Mino Muneyuki has such strong hostility towards them.

What was the reason? Xingchen looked at Conan who was in deep thought. At that time, Conan seemed to know something in the bathroom.

Thinking of this, he moved closer to Conan and asked in a low voice: "Conan, do you know the murderer's motive?"

"motivation?!"

"Yes, I saw from your appearance, and when you went to the bathroom, didn't you happen to pass by this warehouse?" Xingchen asked softly, glancing at them from time to time.

"Yeah, of course I know." Conan was speechless when he saw Xingchen's expression. He knew that Xingchen was just getting curious.

"Tell me something." Xingchen touched his arm.

"This is roughly what happened..." Conan told Xingchen roughly what he heard.

Xingchen's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he suddenly realized, "So that's it."