Conan: I can hear the murderer's voice

Even when refuted by the witness, Lin Xuan remained calm, which came from his composure after understanding the entire case.

He asked Yajima:

"Are you so confident in your memory?"

The female college student said confidently:

"Of course, I've been in the living room since dusk so I won't miss it."

"The only people who went up the stairs to the second floor were Ms. Garner, who was killed, and Mr. Suzuki, who came later."

Suzuki, who was almost taken away as a suspect, once again protested his innocence:

"Unfair! The message asked me to go to the second floor at a specified time. When I entered the room, Garner had been killed..."

However, no one cared about him, and everyone in the living room was waiting for Lin Xuan to continue speaking.

Lin Xuan shook his head slightly to Yajima and said:

"Unfortunately, overconfidence can lead to blindness and even allow the murderer to take advantage of you."

"Officer Takagi."

Lin Xuan skillfully gave orders to the detectives present, and Megure certainly had no objection.

"Can you open the refrigerator, please?"

Takagi immediately obeyed the order and ran to the wall between the living room and the stairs and opened the refrigerator door.

"what?"

"Is this the murderer's trick?"

Seeing the scene in front of them, Megure and his subordinates suddenly came to their senses.

The landlord had previously placed green plants taller than a person in the corner of the living room, covering half of the window on the wall shared by the staircase and the living room.

Now the refrigerator door that Takagi opened just happened to block the other half of the window.

In other words, at the moment the refrigerator is opened, even if you are in the living room, you cannot monitor through the window who is passing by the elevator!

Yajima's face was filled with shock.

[No wonder Xiaolan likes him. Besides being handsome, he is also very smart.]

The female college student looked a little hesitant and gave Suzuki an uneasy look, but she still said stubbornly:

"Opening and closing the refrigerator door takes at most ten seconds."

"The prisoner could not have predicted when the refrigerator door would be opened, let alone passed through the elevator in such a short time."

The murderer, whose tricks were discovered, seemed to have grasped the last straw. The female office worker who lived downstairs from the deceased pressed her left shoulder and jumped out to refute in a casual manner:

"Yeah, who knows at what moment the refrigerator will be opened? This is ridiculous."

Kawakami also did not forget to bring up the Maori authority to suppress:

"Detective Maori has clearly made a conclusion, but this kid who appeared out of nowhere is so arrogant as to question the famous detective."

Lin Xuan ignored this ridicule. After all, he would soon use the truth to make the criminal kneel down and repent.

"Xiaolan."

Lin Xuan looked at the little cutie standing behind Yajima:

"Remember what we talked about on the sofa when the police were searching for clues?"

The girl's face instantly turned red.

[Senior, how can you talk about private topics in front of my father and Inspector Megure?]

Under the pretext of comforting the frightened schoolgirl, Lin Xuan had just taken advantage of the girl.

Of course Xiaolan did not resist. She even pretended to be scared and put her head on Lin Xuan's chest like a little bird.

[Even though I enjoy the feeling of secretly being intimate with my senior, it’s too… to talk about it in front of everyone.]

[And Conan is here too. If he hears something inappropriate for children, how can he grow up healthily?]

Xiaolan misunderstood why Conan looked at a loss.

At the same time, she also misunderstood Lin Xuan's meaning.

While comforting the girl, Lin Xuan asked for the key clue that could connect everything together.

"Xiaolan, you said before that you had two different flavors of dessert tonight."

Lin Xuan added:

"And it was only after Yajima-senpai saw the message on the phone that she opened the refrigerator and took out the dessert for you to taste."

[Senior, do you actually want to talk about this? ]

Realizing that she was overthinking, Xiaolan's face flushed and she nodded quickly.

And Yajima finally realized that she had been tricked by the murderer, as if someone had poured a bucket of cold water on her from head to toe.

She looked at Kawakami with disbelief and murmured to herself:

"Ms. Inoue sent me messages both times, asking me to treat Xiaolan with the fruit cake and chocolate she made herself."

The real murderer was left with helplessness and panic; everything she had planned was spiraling out of control.

"Ms. Kawakami left a message for Suzuki on the sign at the entrance this morning, asking him to enter the victim's room at night, planning to make Suzuki a scapegoat."

"They added sleeping pills to the victim's drink to make her unconscious. Living under the same roof for a long time and being familiar with each other's schedule and habits, it is not difficult to do this."

"When I first sent a message to Yajima asking her to treat Xiaolan with fruit cake, you were hiding behind the wall shared by the restaurant and the stairs, or to be more precise, at the edge of the window."

Lin Xuan continued to explain:

"If I rush over when the refrigerator door opens, I can create the illusion that I didn't take the elevator tonight."

"After killing the unconscious Ms. Gana, you generously let Yajima entertain the guests with the chocolates you made, then quickly ran down the stairs and went to the bathroom to take a shower and clean up the blood."

"As for the bloody towel found in the shoe cabinet, it was deliberately stuffed in there to frame Suzuki."

Kawakami couldn't help but tremble slightly, and the wound on his left shoulder became more painful.

[Is it possible that the little ghost was hiding and peeking at you while you were doing all this? ]

[Otherwise, how could you know so much? ]

But the murderer still struggles to death:

"Where's the evidence? You've been talking nonsense for so long, there must be evidence, right?"

Lin Xuan smiled slightly:

"Of course there is evidence."

"When I passed the elevator earlier, I noticed that a small area on the left side of the window had been recently removed from the decoration, with half a nail sticking out."

"Coincidentally, the nail was stained with blood. Unless someone ran along the wall, it would be difficult for a normal person to touch the nail using a ladder."

"Ms. Kawakami, it seems that your left shoulder has been feeling uncomfortable tonight."

The murderer's body shook even more violently.

[You beastly landlord, you took the painting away at noon and injured my shoulder! ]

Conan looked at Lin Xuan with disbelief.

[The pervert obviously spent most of his time taking advantage of Xiaolan]

[Could it be that he noticed the clues and deduced the whole truth after only passing by the stairs once? ]

Of course Conan didn't understand. His investigation played a big role in Lin Xuan's easy deduction.

Then, Lin Xuan pointed out the key evidence that can prove the integrity of the technique:

"The body's neck and head were almost separated and the amount of blood was extremely high, but Ms. Kawakami's clothes were not stained with the dead person's blood."

"I think you killed someone naked, and thought you could wash away all the evidence by taking the stairs back to the first floor bathroom and taking a shower. Unfortunately, the police have the means to detect residual blood in the bathroom drain."

"The two witnesses in the restaurant only saw Mr. Suzuki going upstairs. He could not calculate the time when the refrigerator door opened and passed the elevator in an instant."

"Yajima has been staying in the living room with Xiaolan. In other words, the residue in the drain pipe of the bathroom on the first floor..."

Before he could finish his words, the murderer who had been mocking Lin Xuan a few minutes ago had his psychological defenses completely collapsed.

Kawakami fell to his knees, crying and confessing:

"It's all that woman's fault. She's the one making the noise all the time."

"I, I really had no choice but to kill her."