Conan kissed me again and again, and Huiyuan was stunned

During this period.

Tomoko Hayasaka, Shigehisa Noguchi, Chinatsu Miyazaki, Yoshinobu Morimoto and the police officers looked at Kogoro Mori's honest face which revealed a lively color that did not belong to him, and stood there in surprise.

At this moment.

"Hey, wait a moment, please."

Sawai Manabu didn't pay attention to the change in Maori Kogoro's expression. He looked at him calmly, smiled in agreement and clarified:

“I did use the fax at the convenience store.

But it was a fax I sent to a friend who wanted me to come up with a good title for his novel."

Sawai Manabu suppressed his smile and added methodically:

"I sent the fax because I thought of the novel's title while singing karaoke!

After all, it was late.”

“Wow, faxing a friend.”

Kudo Shinichi quietly slid behind Maori Kogoro, with his back to the office chair, and adjusted the bow-tie voice changer with both hands to hang it on his lips. He smiled disapprovingly in Kogoro's voice and questioned calmly:

“So how do you explain a receipt for sending a fax at a convenience store?

That's the kind of thing you get after using a fax machine, right?

You gave the convenience store manager the receipt, which had the date, time, recipient’s phone number, and your fingerprint on it.”

"what?

really weird. "

Sawai Manabu put his left hand in his trouser pocket, supported his chin with the base of his right hand, and looked up at the warm-colored ceiling, saying in confusion:

"I thought I sent the fax properly, how could this happen?

Oh, yes, I must have pressed the wrong button by accident!"

Sawai Manabu pondered for a moment, then suddenly realized something and took out a small black notebook from the right pocket of his trousers and spread it out to the right side of his face, smiling sheepishly and saying:

"Look, I wrote down my friend's phone number and the phone number of this villa in a notebook."

Sawai Manabu slowly put away his notebook, spread his hands, and asked as a matter of course:

"Besides, I'm the president of the Toudou University Mystery Research Club, right?

How can I put it into action if I don’t know whether it will work?”

"Is that why you tried it once?"

Kudo Shinichi smiled with confidence.

A drop of cold sweat ran down Sawai Manabu's cheek, and he subconsciously suspected that he had heard it wrongly:

"what?"

"Yes, before the fire, you placed a wooden chair and a cake in front of the fax machine to make sure it would light the fire successfully."

Kudo Shinichi reasoned solemnly:

"You used the copy function on the fax machine and had it spit out a blank piece of paper into the candle.

As we all know, if you want to use the copy function of a fax machine, you must insert the original document to be copied.

So you casually copied the birthday wishes that Professor Takamura had sent you shortly before.

Not only that, you also use the white paper you get from the convenience store to send faxes to your living room.

Because the white paper fell on the cake and stained the buttercream, the convenience store manager complained that you got the sticky stuff on the store's fax machine.

He even kindly reminds you that if you put the white paper upside down, it will send out a blank fax paper. "

Kudo Shinichi paused for two seconds and said sarcastically:

"No wonder, you deliberately faxed the back of the blank paper without any writing on it.

It would be unnatural to find two burnt blank papers with the same information on them at the crime scene."

"enough!!"

Sawai Manabu could not suppress the shame and anger that was overflowing in his chest. He stretched out his hands with his five fingers hanging down on both sides and shouted hysterically:

“I’m tired of baseless, imaginary talk!!!

If you insist on saying that, then show me your proof..."

"Really? You're playing dumb again."

Kudo Shinichi smiled slightly, calmly exerted psychological pressure and said:

"You still have it with you, don't you?

The fax paper in question."

"What!?"

Sawai Manabu's pupils suddenly shrank in shock.

"Humans are such strange and incredible creatures."

Kudo Shinichi smiled lightly and said philosophically:

“It’s not so easy to throw away something that puts you in danger.

I always think in my mind... this thing might be picked up by someone else.

You are the best example, even taking the trouble to bring it back from the convenience store."

Dongfang Haoyue was fascinated by what he heard, and praised sincerely in his spiritual world:

"Shinichi is really good at reading people's minds!"

at the same time.

Sawai Manabu's previous restlessness disappeared completely. His hands fell to his sides, his head slightly lowered, and he stared at the cold floor in silence.

Morimoto Yoshinobu stared at Sawai in a daze, unable to accept the reality and murmured:

"No way......"

Sawai Manabu didn't move.

Kudo Shinichi made a quick and decisive move:

"That's right, I'm sure Mr. Sawai still has that thing hidden somewhere on his person.

A butter-stained fax paper with a message from Professor Takamura.

Sawai Manabu was sweating profusely, but still remained silent.

The middle-aged police officer stood half a meter behind Sawai, taking in the overall situation. He casually put down the fire extinguisher on his left, strode up behind him, reached into the left pocket of his trousers with both hands, and told him without question:

"Excuse me, I need to search you."

"Do not touch me!!"

Sawai Manabu suddenly came back to his senses, turned his head to look at the middle-aged policeman, and slapped his hands away. Seeing that he stopped moving, he turned his head, lowered his head, closed his eyes, and said with a self-deprecating smile:

"Oh, I am so stupid."

Sawai Manabu reached into his trouser pockets with both hands, took out the paper ball from the right pocket, and threw it gently to the right front. He looked down at its simple parabola, gave up struggling, and said calmly:

"I really should have thrown away stuff like this earlier."

After hearing this, Shigehisa Noguchi looked at Sawai Manabu with mixed feelings, holding on to a glimmer of hope that he was not the criminal, and said:

"So, so...it's really you, President..."

"Yes, I set the fire."

Sawai Manabu opened his eyes, turned to look at Noguchi Shigehisa, and confirmed in a self-deprecating manner:

"Everything is just as the detective said."

Sawai Manabu wanted to be arrested more clearly, so he turned his head to look at Maori Kogoro and asked incomprehensibly:

"How do you know the criminal is me?

Anyone could use that modus operandi.”

"Earlier at the karaoke bar, when everyone was rushing downstairs, Mira wanted to call and wake up Ms. Asami, but you said the phone was on fire."

Kudo Shinichi gave an explanation calmly.

Maori Kogoro's spirit body was slightly stunned, and he clarified in his mind:

"I was in the front and didn't hear what Sawai said!"

"So that's it."

Sawai Manabu lowered his head, closed his eyes, and said as if it had nothing to do with him:

"Only someone who knows where the fire is located can tell that the phone is on fire."

Miyazaki Chinatsu looked at Sawai Manabu in confusion and asked excitedly:

"B-but why did the president want to murder Asami!?"

"I hope she looks back at me!"

Manabu Sawai opened his eyes and stared at the floor with madness.

Miyazaki Chinatsu stood there in a daze, suspecting she had misheard the words:

"what?"

"I want to be the man who risks his own life to save Asami from the fire, because..."

Sawai Manabu turned to look at Miyazaki Chinatsu and said unwillingly:

“I…I was rejected by her last month.

This had never happened to me before and I was very frustrated.

Honestly, I just wanted to start a small fire, but it became more intense than I expected.

Now that I think about it, I was so stupid.”

The voice just fell.

"Yeah, that's stupid."

Uchida Asami walked along the corridor to the door in front of Kudo Shinichi's left, facing the house, holding the sleeping Dongfang Haoyue in her arms, with her feet flat on the slightly charred floor of the corridor. She looked at Sawai Manabu's regretful back with indescribable feelings and called out with regret:

"President."

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During this period.

The entrance is narrow, and the soft moonlight shines through the open door of the villa and into the house.

Uchida Asami stood outside the door and walked in. She immediately noticed that not far to the left in front of her, Dongfang Haoyue's real body was sleeping on the ground with his back against the wall. She said in surprise and concern in her heart:

“Why is he sleeping sitting on the ground?

Is there no adult here to take care of him?

Ah, there is no time to think about it, he will definitely catch a cold like this."

As Uchida Asami was thinking, her body automatically walked to Dongfang Haoyue, half-knelt on the ground, and gently picked her up.

Kudo Shinichi had been standing behind his office chair, facing the corridor, witnessing the scene with his own eyes. His pupils gradually dilated, and he came to his senses at the risk of his life. He quickly turned back on the bow voice changer, put his hands in his pockets, and pretended nothing had happened as he watched Asami walk over.

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At this moment.

Bright living room.

Uchida Asami let Dongfang Haoyue's small chin rest on her right shoulder, with her left hand around her back and her right hand supporting her buttocks. She looked at Sawai Manabu, who was stunned, with indescribable feelings and said with regret:

"I never thought that the president would do something illegal to change my mind."