The Split-Actress in Conan's World

"It must be Ye Sancai. He's here to seek revenge on us!" Kujirai Sadao covered his shoulders with his hand, his face pale.

Conan walked around the body, poked his head out of the railing, and suddenly shouted in surprise: "Look!"

I saw a rope ladder hanging on the hull outside the fence, swaying in the air with the sea breeze.

"This is...so that's how it is." Kogoro Mori looked at the rope ladder, thoughtfully.

"As long as he hides here, we won't be able to find any trace of him on the ship no matter how hard we look."

"So Ye Sancai hid here and killed Kameda and Kanie!"

Kujirai Sadao grabbed Samezaki Shimaji's arm and shouted in fear: "You must save me, Ye Sancai will definitely come for me!"

Samezaki Shimaharu shook his hand away in disgust.

Although the wanted warrant for this guy has expired, he is still one of the robbers who killed his daughter.

Lin Chiyu looked at a certain spot on the railing, frowned slightly, then relaxed again with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

He waved at Conan, motioning him to come over.

Conan came over, not knowing what was going on, and looked at him in confusion. He was about to hear if he had any new discoveries, but he didn't expect to be grabbed by Rin Chiha's wrist.

“Hey hey…!”

Before he could react, Rin Chihaba opened the sight on his watch and pressed the fire button accurately at Maori Kogoro not far away.

call out--

"Ah..."

Uncle Maori's body went limp, and he turned around on the spot. He stumbled to the wall and fell down.

"Dad?" Mao Lilan looked over with confusion.

"Oh, could this be the legendary 'Sleeping Kogoro'?!" Samezaki Shimaharu was quite surprised.

Conan's scalp tingled and his eyes widened. He looked at the fallen Uncle Maori, and then at the culprit who caused all this.

Lin Chiyu ignored his gaze and untied his bow tie very naturally. He looked at the adjustment knob behind it and tentatively brought it to his lips.

"Cough cough."

The voice that came out was that of Mao Lilan.

"Huh?" Mao Lilan looked around and suddenly felt a little scared.

Rinshakuha turned the knob half a turn again, and this time it was Mouri Kogoro's voice.

"What are you doing?" Conan looked at the suspicious Mouri Ran in panic, and said to Rinshakuha in a low voice.

Lin Chiyu made a gesture to him to calm down, put the bow voice changer to her lips, and suddenly spoke.

"I already understand the truth of the matter."

"what?!"

"really?"

Everyone looked in surprise at Kogoro Mouri, who was sitting against the wall with his head down and no expression could be seen. Everyone had different expressions.

Lin Chiyu found it quite magical.

No one noticed that the voice of "Mouri Kogoro" did not come from there at all.

It's a bit fun.

He continued: "Yes, let's start from the beginning."

"First, there was the charred body in the emergency escape ladder box. Until Mr. Kanie's body appeared just now, we all thought it was Mr. Kanie."

"But in fact, that was Mr. Kameda who had disappeared for a long time!"

"The reason why we were supposed to mistake him for Mr. Kanie was to create an illusion: to make us think that Mr. Kanie killed Kameda and then had him disguise himself as himself to 'faked his death and get away with it'."

"That way, when Mr. Kanie's body turns up again, we'll naturally assume that he committed suicide. He killed Kameda and hid in the dark, intending to kill Mr. Kujirai and pocket all the stolen money."

"But why did he do that? The statute of limitations has clearly passed, and unlike keys and seals, the handwriting that Mr. Kujirai has cannot be taken away." Ran Mouri was very puzzled.

Rinshakuha continued, and Maori Kogoro's voice followed: "It doesn't make sense, does it? You are about to have a wonderful life after all the hardships, but you ruin it all because of your greed."

"However, this irrationality is exactly what the real murderer wants us to notice!"

"If Kanie is really one of the three robbers, it certainly doesn't make sense, but if..."

"The real Kanie didn't even get on the boat. Is this 'Kanie Shiku' actually someone else's impersonation?"

"Wha, what?!"

Everyone was shocked.

"If Ye Sancai pretended to be Kanjiang and boarded the ship in his place, and had revenge in mind from the beginning and was determined to kill the other two robbers, this would be much more reasonable, right?"

"Impossible!" Isogai Nagisa immediately denied, frowning, "My father doesn't look like this at all!"

Her expression was gloomy, and she continued, "And he died 20 years ago."

Lin Chiyu was not anxious, but continued: "You know, on the face of the corpse in the fire, you can see burnt silicone, which means he had plastic surgery."

"It's the same for Mr. Kujirai. In order to escape, he had to change his appearance and live with a new identity."

Kujirai Sadao nodded silently.

"So it's normal to look different than you remember."

"Officer Samezaki, please lift up the body's clothes and see if there are any scars from gunshot wounds that appear to be serious."

Upon hearing this, Samezaki Shimaji went up to the corpse, lifted up his clothes, and sure enough, he saw a hideous scar on his body.

"Really, it really is!"

He turned his head in shock so that everyone could see the scar.

"How could this be..." Isogai Nagisa looked at the corpse in disbelief.

Lin Shakuha continued in Maori Kogoro's voice: "If Ye Sancai survived that year, it would be understandable that he had such a scar on his body, right?"

"Dad...?" Isogai Nagisa looked at Kanie Jūhisa's body with tears in her eyes. She didn't expect that she would have to suffer the pain of losing her father again just after they met.

"Don't worry, although it all sounds so reasonable, it's actually just a beautiful coincidence."

Mouri Kogoro's voice was cold, and Conan vaguely heard a hint of silence in it. He turned to look at Rin Shakuha and found that he had a strange expression.

"In fact, this Mr. Kanie is himself. He was one of the three robbers that year and was not replaced."

Isogai Nagisa's crying stopped and she was suddenly at a loss, not knowing what to do.

Halfway through my crying, you tell me I'm crying for the wrong person?

"What about this bullet mark..." she asked hesitantly.

"Before Mr. Kanie participated in the robbery, he worked as a mercenary in a small country. Later, he was hit by a stray bullet and had to retire to recuperate. That's why he has this scar on his body."

Rin Chiyu explained calmly.

Of course, this information was not given to him by the so-called "seniors of the Suzuki Group", but was found on Shangri-La through Mr. idea's account.

Of course, they don’t know either.

"It is precisely because of this scar that the real murderer came up with this trick, intending to make us mistake Mr. Kanie for Ye Sancai."

"In other words, the real Ye Sancai is actually someone else?" Mao Lilan asked with a frown.

"No, the real Ye Sancai died 20 years ago. The body was salvaged by the police and his identity was confirmed."

After several twists and turns, they finally returned to the starting point, and Isogai Nagisa almost fainted.

"The reason why this matter was not made public is, on the one hand, because there are still three robbers on the run and the case has not been concluded; on the other hand, we hope to catch the traces of the three robbers through this information gap."

"Although they have been careful not to take the bait for 20 years."

Samezaki Shimaji looked at Maori Kogoro who was standing by the wall, and opened his voice anxiously: "Kogoro, why are you so fussy after you changed your career to become a detective? Don't keep us in suspense. Since Kanie is not the murderer and Ye Sancai is dead, who is the real murderer?"

Maori Kogoro chuckled and said, "You are still so impatient, Officer Samezaki."

"The real murderer is actually right in front of us."

"That is--"

He paused, his smile suddenly froze, and his voice was like a sharp knife stabbing a fatal blow.

"Mr. Kujirai Sadao!"

"You are the murderer!"

When they heard the answer, they looked in shock at Kujirai Sadao, who was covering his shoulder with a pale face, and subconsciously distanced themselves from him.

Kujirai Sadao laughed forcefully, "Mr. Maori, are you kidding me?"

"I was just beaten by the murderer, and I was with you when the fire started..."

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Kogoro Mori.

"As long as you set the trap in a fixed position, it is not difficult to injure yourself with a pistol. The same goes for arson."

"The evidence is that there is strange ashes on the opening of the box. I also found such ashes on the deck and the mast."

"That's cigarette ash."

"You just made a time-delay device out of cigarettes. When the cigarette burns to a certain degree, it will fall out of the gap, fall into the box, and ignite the gasoline inside."

"That's why you went to the stern around midnight. Don't deny it. The crew won't lie for you."

Kujirai Sadao was confident: "That's because someone secretly slipped a letter into my room through the crack of the door, asking me to go to the stern!"

"Of course I know that."

Kogoro Mouri's voice was neither hurried nor slow.

"Conan."

Rinshakuha quietly touched Conan's shoulder.

Conan's face was filled with black lines. He took out the crumpled paper that Hattori had found earlier from his pocket and said in an innocent childish voice: "This is it, it says, 'See you at the stern - Furukawa Dai'."

"That's it!" Kujirai Sadao seemed to have found something to rely on, and became much more proud.

Lin Chiyu spoke again: "Although you use this as an excuse, it cannot change the facts."

"If we send it to the Metropolitan Police Department for comparison, we'll be able to tell that the handwriting on it is from you."

"I guess you know the truth better than me."

Kujirai Sadao's face turned pale.

"In addition to using cigarettes to remotely arson, the gunfire on the deck at the beginning was also a trick you did with cigarettes."

"You just stick a firecracker and a lit cigarette together with tape, and when the cigarette burns to a certain point, the firecracker will ignite, making a bang that sounds like a gunshot."

"The traces left by this kind of small device cannot be concealed. I found tiny burn marks on the mast and the railings of the deck."

"Even if all this is true, it doesn't mean that I am the murderer!" Kujirai Sadao yelled at Kogoro Mori who was sitting on the ground, with a fierce look in his eyes.

Lin Chiyu was not shaken at all by his roar, and continued with that cold and calm tone: "If that's all, it naturally cannot prove that you are the murderer."

“Even if you were the only one who had been to the stern, and your handwriting was on the old banknote, it would be difficult to ensure your conviction as long as you were dead set on it.”

"But you left a fatal flaw."

"That's the lighter."

"What, what?!" Kujirai Sadao's face suddenly changed, and a bean-sized bead of sweat flowed down his forehead.

"In order to prepare these time-delay devices, your lighter ran out of gas a long time ago. Mr. Kanie lent you his lighter."

"People like you probably wouldn't dare to set up a trap to shoot yourself, right? After all, if you're not careful, you might really die."

"You just put cigarettes and firecrackers on the glass to simulate the illusion of a bullet breaking the window, and then light the lighter hidden in your inner pocket, so that the flash of fire will be mistaken for a bullet, and the instantaneous burn mark will also look like a bullet mark."

Kujirai Sadao's eyes became more and more dangerous.

"If you are not afraid of being exposed, take off your clothes and let us see the 'bullet mark'."

"But you wouldn't dare, would you? After all, no matter how similar they look at first glance, if they are really exposed, they will be exposed upon closer inspection."

"Hehehe..." Kujirai Sadao chuckled and reached out as if to take off his coat.

However, he pulled out a pistol with a silencer from his inner pocket!

"As expected of you, 'Sleeping Kogoro'. Actually, I didn't expect you to board this ship."

"But everything ends here!" He loaded the bullet, aimed it directly at Kogoro Mouri's head, and narrowed his eyes.

"You were so calm. You didn't show any nervousness even when a gun was pointed at your head."

“Personally, I admire it.”

Calm down!

He's fainted and definitely won't respond!

Conan's ghost is rampant.

Rin Chiyu returned the bow to him and gave him a look.

Conan understood, took the bow voice changer, and watched Rinshakuha move slowly towards Kujirai Sadao who had his back to him.

He spoke quickly, trying to attract Kujirai Sadao's attention.

"But I still have a question. Although I came to this ship by chance, it was you who invited Hattori here on purpose, right?"

"Your plan is more likely to succeed if you isolate the detective, so why did you let him come to this ship?"

Kujirai Sadao sneered: "Because I want to prove it!"

"I want to prove that my plan is greater than Ye Sancai's and my talent is superior to his!"

"How ridiculous." Kogoro Mori chuckled, completely ignoring the gun above his head.

"Compared to that shadow planner, your talent is nothing."

Kujirai Sadao was furious: "What did you say?!"

"Believe it or not, I will kill you right now!"

"Even if you kill everyone here, it won't change the fact that you are just a loser."

"Ye Sancai's plan is like the hell mode in the game. He doesn't kill anyone, and he doesn't fight back when the police are chasing him. He can handle such a difficult situation with ease."

"And you, in order to prove yourself, deliberately invited the detective on board, but attacked him when he was about to find the key clue, and used violence to forcibly prevent the plan from being exposed."

"There is absolutely no trace of the beauty of a criminal mastermind."

Kujirai Sadao was furious, with his index finger already on the trigger.

Lin Chiyu had already reached behind him and could take him down in the next moment.

But at this moment——

The gun fired.