Except for Sato and others, everyone was in the control room.

Next to the huge screen, Kuroda and Shiratori showed the printed information to Makino: "What is this?"

"Leonhardt's blood test results." Kuroda said. Makino frowned: "... Then what?"

"Strong alkaline poisons were detected, most likely detergent or something like that."

Kogoro and Xiaolan stood side by side in front of Makino's desk. Kogoro listened carefully to Kuroda's words: "So his mouth is rotten."

“As expected… ah…”

Conan rushed down the stairs behind the two of them and fired a shot with the watch-shaped anesthetic gun. Kogoro, who was hit in the neck by the anesthetic needle, slowly fell toward the stairs and turned around on the floor.

Then he stood up suddenly and took a step back. When he was about to fall, Professor Agasa next to him immediately handed him a chair.

Kogoro sat on a chair, his elbows resting on his outstretched legs and knees, his head lowered, as if he was sleeping soundly.

"What!?"

"This, this is, the sleeping Kogoro!!" Megure and Ed widened their eyes.

Conan quickly hid behind Makino's desk and put the bow tie-shaped voice changer in front of his mouth: "Hey, everyone."

"Sure enough, the criminal who kidnapped Naomi, kidnapped Ai, and killed Leonhardt is here." Conan said in Kogoro's voice.

Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Makino frowned and said, "Didn't he commit suicide...? You just said..."

"No! He was drugged and then killed with poison." Mao Li said firmly.

"Why use such a troublesome method..." Makino felt very confused.

Sato, who rushed over from the infirmary, walked down the stairs and stood behind Megure who tilted his head. Needless to say, the police, as well as Grace, Ed and other staff in the main control room, were all staring at Kogoro.

"Because this murder was not planned but a sudden crime, we can only use the anesthetic that was used when kidnapping Ai!"

At this point, Conan stood up from behind Makino's desk: "That anesthetic smells like ether."

After saying that, Conan immediately stepped back and put the bow tie over his mouth again: "Yes, to cover up the smell."

"So that leaves the body covered in coffee."

"…But, what about that image?" Shiratori took a step forward and asked. In the surveillance footage of the cafe, Leonhardt swallowed something like poison by himself, drank coffee, and then fell down in pain.

"It was a 'deep fake' to disguise it as a suicide."

"what!?"

"What is that?!" Everyone was very surprised, Xiaolan was also shocked: "Deep camouflage?

"To put it simply, it's a fake video," Sato said.

Xiaolan stared at Kogoro with wide eyes and said, "Ah! No way!"

Upon hearing that Leonhardt’s suicide video was a deep fake, Kuroda immediately understood something: “I see.”

“That’s why we’re in the cafe.”

"Yes, because there is no surveillance in the private room, so I used the time for regular cleaning of the cafe."

"But in fact, it was not cleaned," said Kuroda.

Conan answered in Kogoro's voice: "Yes." Then he continued: "It should be that the other party canceled the contact."

"The criminal then used the same cleaning vehicle that was used to kidnap Naomi to put the unconscious Leonhardt inside."

"Disguised as a cleaner, I came to the cafe."

"We put a sign at the entrance saying it was being cleaned to prevent anyone from entering. Of course, the surveillance footage was on a loop."

"At this time, the prisoner killed Leonhardt with poison, most likely before Leonhardt died."

"He was there the whole time to observe Leonhardt's death."

"That's too much..." Xiaolan couldn't help but say, and then immediately covered her mouth. Everyone present frowned as they listened to Kogoro's reasoning.

“Because we make the image first, we don’t know what it will look like when we die.”

"Afterwards, the criminal changed into the same clothes as Leonhardt and acted like he had died from the poison."

"I fell behind the table so that there would be no discrepancies when switching to the actual surveillance footage of the cafe."

"Same clothes...?" asked Shiratori.

"Yes! Anyway, in this image, only the face is CG, the body is the criminal's."

"What!?" Megure and the others were shocked, and everyone stared at Leonhardt on the huge screen.

“Because we use CG to create the body, we don’t have enough time.”

"But, how could it be..." Looking at the image, Shiratori had an expression of disbelief.

"Using the 'age and youth authentication' technology developed by Naomi." Conan answered in Kogoro's voice. Kuroda, who was staring at the huge screen, turned to look at Kogoro and said: "The technology used to create the face using CG."

“It is indeed very likely that the employee data was obtained in advance.”

"But, brother Maori." Megure took a step forward: "I think this is real, this is evidence of a fake video..."

Maori smiled faintly: "When I first saw this image, I felt a strong sense of disharmony."

"Sense of disharmony?" Megure tilted his head.

"Please take a close look at his hands." Everyone followed Maori's instructions and looked up at the huge screen.

In the image, Leonhardt was walking in the cafe holding a paper cup of coffee and suddenly stopped.

Put something like poison into your mouth, then drink the coffee, and then wipe the rim of the coffee cup with your thumb.

"Ah!" Xiaolan was the first to scream.

"Then..." said Sato Touxi next to him. The two looked at each other and nodded: "This is a unique action for women to put on lipstick!"

"My mom does that all the time!"

"That's right! You wipe the rim of the cup often, right...Grace!" Grace, who was lowering his head, heard Kogoro calling him and his eyes behind his glasses widened.

Conan remembered that when Grace was drinking coffee, he wiped the rim of the cup with his thumb: "You must have developed a habit, right? Because you want to be a woman so much..."

"Want to be a woman?" This sentence attracted Shiratori's attention.

"Yes, if I'm not mistaken, this person is probably not a woman."

"!!!"

Everyone was shocked and turned to look at Grace, who was wearing trousers and a scarf around his neck, with his hands on his hips in dissatisfaction.

"No rebuttal, which means you..."

"I was so surprised that I couldn't speak!"

Grace lifted her hair and said, "I never thought that someone would say I'm not a woman—"

"I heard it from Conan, Xiaolan." Conan interrupted Grace in Kogoro's voice: "One of the two people who kidnapped Ai was kicked in the neck by you."

“…..…Yes, that’s right.” Xiaolan remembered kicking a prisoner in the neck in the parking lot, and the prisoner was kicked onto the roof of a car.

"What...!" Grace shouted suddenly, and Xiaolan looked up.

Kuroda pulled the scarf off Grace's neck. "That scar...!!"

After the scarf was pulled off, a blue scar was revealed on Grace's neck.

“Yes, there is an Adam’s apple! No way!!”

Grace, who was pointed at by Ed, moved his throat.

Hehehe…Grace laughed softly, then took off his glasses and pulled off his wig.

Under the wig, her hair was braided into small braids.

The man with pigtails - Binga showed up.

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