[Comprehensive] This onmyoji is a bit European

"Did you find anything, Edogawa-kun?"

I've noticed that the child has been spinning around the corpse just now... By the way, wouldn't an elementary school student be afraid of seeing such a scene?Tou couldn't help being a little puzzled.

"Ahaha... I just took a look. If I find valuable information, I can tell Uncle Maori." Conan immediately put away the small sawdust he just found, raised his small head and showed a look of "I'm very sorry." Obedient", "Speaking of which, Brother Kirishima, now can I know what relationship you have with the owner of this house, Mr. Aida Ryuichi—"

The voice stopped abruptly, before Conan finished speaking, his head was hit hard by a fist, and he clutched the back of his head in pain, Conan couldn't help shouting "It hurts".

"Huh, if you don't pay attention, you little brat will run around the scene." The perpetrator Mori Kogoro withdrew his fist, grabbed Conan by the back collar and threw it to Mao Lilan, "Hurry up and go downstairs." Go to the living room, Officer Mumu and the others are about to learn more details."

In the end, he turned his head to look at Touye: "And you, little brat, go down now too."

Wen Yantou also nodded, glanced at the kid in glasses who was covering the back of his head and rolling his eyes at Kogoro Mouri, then left the study with Mao Lilan and the others, and came to the living room on the first floor.

Tonight, the people in this mansion were basically gathered in the living room, except for the three of Mori Kogoro's family, the rest were sitting on the sofa waiting for the police to interrogate.

Touya took a sip of the black tea that the housekeeper made for them, and couldn't help but glance at Aida mother and son sitting opposite.Aida Naoko was still emotionally unstable at this time, covering her face and weeping in a low voice, Aida Yuki who was beside her supported her shoulders and comforted her warmly, there was nothing particularly noteworthy.

Putting down the teacup, Touya squinted his eyes, looked up and down Aida Koyuki, and finally stopped at his right index finger for a moment.

Sensing that the person opposite was looking at him all the time, Aida Yuki looked up suspiciously, and happened to meet the gaze of Touya who was sitting opposite.

He didn't reveal the embarrassment of being discovered because of secretly looking at him. Toruya looked at Yukiyuki Aida without hesitation. There was no emotion in his dark eyes, but it seemed to dissect his whole body, revealing him nakedly. in front of this person.

Feeling uncomfortable for some reason, Aida Koyuki looked away first, with a slightly unnatural expression on his face.

Conan, who had been watching the people in the living room back and forth, naturally did not let go of this scene, a sharp light flashed in his eyes, and Conan unconsciously began to look at the son of the deceased.

Just when there was a stagnant atmosphere in the living room, Police Officer Megure came over with several police officers and started a routine questioning.

"The deceased, Mr. Ryuichi Aida, was the chairman of a home appliance company in Tokyo. He lived in this mansion with his wife, Ms. Aida Naoko, and his son, Mr. Aida Yukiyuki. Shimatoya-kun had dinner here together, right?" Officer Takagi asked several people.

After a few people nodded, Police Officer Mumu set his eyes on Touya and asked, "Let's not talk about it for the time being, Brother Mori, after all, we are old acquaintances, so this Kirishima-kun, can you tell us that you are coming to Aida tonight?" Is it the purpose of home?"

After Officer Megure asked this question, Mao Lilan and Conan immediately turned their attention to Toya.

Pursing his lips, Tou also began to organize his words, and said slowly: "Mr. Aida contacted me a week ago and asked me to come here today to help him investigate whether there is..."

Pausing for a moment, Tou also thought about how to express what he wanted to say.

"What?" Inspector Meguro asked.

"Hmm... Mr. Aida wants me to investigate whether there is something unclean in this mansion."

After thinking about it, Tou still felt that it was better to express it this way. Since the client was dead now, he didn't have to continue to keep the content of the commission secret.

"No, unclean things???" Officer Megure was a little puzzled, before he could ask further, Mori Kogoro frowned and spoke first:

"Excuse me, Kirishima-kun, but what kind of work do you do?"

"Exorcist." Tou also replied without hiding anything.

As soon as the words fell, there was a sudden suspicion in the living room. Everyone obviously did not expect the other party to give such an answer, and the gazes that fell on the young man couldn't help but began to examine.

"Exorcist???" Officer Megure exchanged eyes with Kogoro Mori in surprise, and they didn't expect the other party to reveal his identity.It's not like he hasn't seen some wealthy business families or some politicians invite some people in the name of eliminating demons and wizards to catch demons, and the materialist himself has always sneered at this kind of thing, but they didn't expect it at all Would this boy who looked like a high school student in front of him say that he was an exorcist?

Seeing the surprised looks of these policemen, Touya opened the backpack next to him, and handed over the entrustment letter that Ryuichi Aida had sent to him before, to Police Officer Megure, "This is what Mr. Aida sent to me a week ago. , if you don’t believe me, then I have no other evidence to prove my identity.”

After receiving the entrustment letter from Touya, Police Officer Megure carefully read the contents, and then gave it to Naoko Aida for confirmation.

"Yes, this is indeed my husband's handwriting." Aida Naoko nodded.

After being confirmed by Naoko Aida, Police Officer Megure returned the entrustment letter to Touya.On the surface, the identity of this young man has been temporarily answered, but they can't relax their investigation just because the other party is a high school student.

After finishing his questioning, Touya picked up the black tea again and took a sip.He said clearly what he had to say, and how those few policemen weighed and how to solve this murder case was out of his consideration.

"Tsk, this Aida Ryuichi is really weird. While entrusting me to help investigate whether outsiders have sneaked into his house recently, he also invited some exorcist over here." Mori Kogoro said in a low voice, he was very dissatisfied with this behavior .

"Outsiders? Did he tell you specifically?" Police Officer Mumu asked.

"Not really, but he told me about the reason why he entrusted me to come here." Mori Kogoro approached Police Officer Megure and said in a low voice, "He said that he felt that some unknown person sneaked in his house recently, please let me take this People were caught."

"Then what does this matter have to do with this murder..."

Over there, Kogoro Mori continued to discuss in a low voice with Police Officer Megure, and Conan sneaked up to the study on the third floor while Mao Lilan was not paying attention, wanting to continue looking for valuable information.

As for the boy who claimed to be an exorcist just now... Conan twitched the corner of his mouth. He didn't believe this kind of statement, but the entrustment letter that the other party showed had to be convincing. As for getting along with him before Some discomfort... Conan only thought it was an illusion.

Since that person has nothing to do with the murder case, I don't need to distract myself too much.

Arriving at the study room on the third floor, Aida Ryuichi's body had been moved away. Conan came to the desk and lay down on the carpet looking for something.That tiny piece of sawdust was found here, and if nothing else, there should be other clues.

Sure enough, Conan found another piece of sawdust on the carpet, which was about the same size as the previous one, as if it had been peeled off from some wooden object. The only difference was that there were some red marks on the surface of this sawdust.

Because he was lying on his stomach, the light was very dark and he couldn't see clearly. Conan raised his head to observe the light, but just as he raised his head, he bumped heavily into the hard object above.

"It hurts..." Holding the place where he was hit in pain, Conan sat on the ground and raised his head slightly.

It was the drawer under the desk that bumped into him. At this time, most of the drawers had been pulled out, and Conan saw the rollers on both sides of the drawer.

"It's a roller drawer..." Conan continued to rub his head and waited for the pain to subside. Conan took the wood chips he just found and wanted to find a place with good light to check.

"Ah, it's here." Tou, who came to the study, saw Conan looking around inside as expected.

"Uh, brother Kirishima." Conan greeted awkwardly, "Why are you here?"

"Miss Mao Li was looking for you just now, and I was very worried, so I came up to take a look." Tou also replied.

How did this guy guess that I would be here...

Conan slandered helplessly in his heart.

Seeing that the child didn't intend to leave, Tou also stepped forward, bent his fingers and tapped on the table, "If you don't find anything, come with me."

"Okay~" Conan responded obediently. So far, I really haven't found any major discoveries, so I have to leave here now.

His eyes inadvertently glanced at the wide open table on the desk, and Touya looked at Conan who was thinking, lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, and then slowly said: "Remember to close the drawer next time, Edogawa-kun. "

"Huh?" Conan turned his head, thinking that the other party thought he opened the drawer, "Didn't that drawer—"

Before Conan finished speaking, Tou also said to himself as if he didn't hear it: "Ah, it's a roller drawer. I remember that it often got stuck when I used it, and it took a lot of effort to pull it out."

scroll wheel...?stuck?

Conan froze for a moment, and then a flash of light suddenly flashed in his mind. He opened his eyes wide, and immediately ran back under the desk to inspect the wide-open roller drawer.

Toru also took a few steps back, seeing the child looking back and forth between the drawer and the bookcase next to Aida Ryuichi's body with an unfathomable expression, Toru couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth, thought for a while, and then said:

"Okay, let's go down, and we will go to Mr. Xingzhi's room to find Band-Aids later."

"Huh? Band-Aid?" Conan asked suspiciously, "Is Mr. Xingzhi injured?"

"Well, it seems that the finger was scratched by something."

Turning his gaze to the piece of sawdust he had just found, the glasses on Conan's nose suddenly flashed white, and his immature face was not mature like a child at this time.

Tou also squinted his eyes, and the spirit behind the child ran out again.

Taking Conan downstairs and back to the living room, Mao Lilan first expressed his gratitude to Touye, and then taught Conan that he always likes to run around, and Conan still smiled and acted like a baby to Mao Lilan.

Sitting back on the sofa again, Tou also quietly waited for the case to be resolved.

After the interrogation, Officer Megure and the others concluded that everyone in the mansion had a clear alibi at the time of Aida Ryuichi's death.

"Hmm... the deceased went upstairs and entered the back door of the study room was locked, and there was only one key, so it was impossible for the murderer to enter the study room and then kill the deceased." Police officer Mu Mu pondered.

"In addition, Mr. Aida drank a lot of wine before leaving, probably because he accidentally bumped into the bookcase because of his unsteady steps, and the metal bottle on it fell down and hit him on the head." Kogoro Mori continued, " So the murder was an accident."

"That's the only way to understand it." Police officer Mu Mu nodded.

Mori Kogoro thought that this troublesome murder case was finally solved, and was about to turn around to greet Mao Lilan to go home, but at this moment, the familiar numbness suddenly hit again, and Mori Kogoro's standing posture immediately became unsteady.

"Again, again..." Kogoro Mori stumbled back, until he sat on the sofa.

"Wait a moment, Officer Megure." Mori Kogoro called to stop Officer Megure.

"What's the matter?" Officer Mu Mu turned his head, and suddenly became excited when he saw the other party's posture, "Oh! This posture means that your reasoning show is about to start again!"

"Ah, that's right." Mori Kogoro replied.

Toru also leaned on the sofa, crossing his arms and squinting at Kogoro Mori sitting on the sofa in front of him on the right.If he read correctly, this Mr. Detective is... asleep, right?

You can still reason while asleep, so it's called Sleeping Kogoro...

Subconsciously looking for the kid with glasses, he found that he hadn't seen Police Officer Megure since Mori Kogoro called to stop him.

Squinting his eyes, Toru seemed to understand something.

"However, judging from the current situation, this murder case is indeed an accident." Takagi said, "The room where the body was found was locked from the inside. If someone really entered the room and killed the deceased, they can only We started from the window in the study, but we also investigated it just now, and there are no traces of anyone stepping on it, and we found no tools such as ladders."

"Hmph, of course there won't be any traces outside." Mori Kogoro snorted, "Because the murderer didn't enter the room at all, he successfully killed Mr. Aida."

"What, what???" Everyone was surprised, but Police Officer Meguro questioned incredulously, "Killing the deceased without entering the room? How is this possible?"

"Could it be that there is something unclean in this mansion..." Takagi whispered, but was heard by Police Officer Megure.

"Idiot! How could such a thing exist!"

"Yes, sorry!"

"There are no ghosts at work, this kind of trick can be done by humans." Mori Kogoro said with a smile.

"Then tell me how the murderer killed my father without entering the study." Aida Yuki, who had been silent before, suddenly said.

"This method is very simple. Officer Megure, do you remember what it looked like when we investigated the study?"

"It looks like inside..." Police Officer Meguro recalled, "It's just that a metal bottle fell around the deceased, and it was not far from his desk. That's all, is there anything wrong?"

"Remember that desk?"

"It's a very ordinary desk, and the drawer in the middle is wide open. According to you, Mr. Aida opened the drawer because he wanted to go back to the study to get something. What's wrong with that?"

"Hehe, the key lies in that drawer."

"Ah? What happened to that drawer?" Officer Megure really didn't understand what Kogoro Mori wanted to say.

"The wide-open drawer in the study room is a roller type, and it only needs to slide the roller inside to open it, and the murderer just took advantage of this."

"Using the scroll wheel?"

"According to our previous understanding, Mr. Aida is a person who will not lock the study room casually if there is no important matter, so the murderer probably took advantage of us before we came here, sneaked into the study room that had not had time to lock and laid a organ."

"Mechanism?" Officer Meguro suddenly realized, "You mean, Mr. Aida's death was triggered by the mechanism arranged by the murderer?"

"That's right." Mori Kogoro replied, "And this mechanism is also very simple, it can be done by using the rollers in the drawer and the grooves on the edge."

"Here, how to do this?"

"It can be done as long as you prepare a wooden stick with a raised part and a strong fishing line. The murderer took advantage of the fact that several of us have not come here and the study room is not locked, and put the wooden stick prepared in advance. block and fishing line brought in."

"First tie one end of the fishing line to the handle of the metal bottle, and then tie the other end to the wooden block. After measuring the distance between the bookcase and the desk, put the wooden block in the groove on the left side of the drawer, and the wooden block The protruding part of the block happened to be stuck on the roller, and in this way, the trap set by the murderer was completed. As long as the fishing line was pulled by an external force, the metal bottle on the bookcase would fall smoothly, and then smashed. To Mr. Aida's head."

"So that's the case, and there's this trick." Police Officer Mu Mu sighed, "But according to your statement, the deceased triggered the mechanism to cause the metal bottle to fall, but how did the deceased..."

"It's very simple. After dinner, Mr. Aida told me to go to the study to show me an important document. I think that important document should be placed in the drawer. While Mr. Aida was pulling the drawer, he put the The wooden stick in the groove will definitely get stuck on the roller, so Mr. Aida will naturally check the groove in the roller when the drawer cannot be opened, take out the wooden block stuck in the groove, and pull it out. If the fishing line is caught, the metal bottle tied to the other end will fall and hit Mr. Aida on the head, so that the murderer can successfully kill Mr. Aida without entering the study."

"What about the tools of the crime? The murderer didn't have time to recover the dead body during the time between the death of the deceased and the time you found the body, right? And will the deceased not be able to see the trap set by the murderer after entering the study?" Police Officer Meguro asked.

"Mr. Aida was already slightly drunk at that time, and the carpet in the study was very light off-white, and the lighting in the room was also very soft. If you don't pay attention, it is difficult to find the existence of the fishing line. As for how the murderer recovered the crime Tool's..."

The voice paused for a moment, and Mori Kogoro turned to Aida Koyuki: "Mr. Kogoro, I'm going to ask you this question."

Hearing this, Koyuki Aida's pupils constricted slightly, and then he smiled gently: "What do you mean, Mr. Mori?"

"After we forcibly opened the door, you were the first to rush in, right? At that time, we only noticed Mr. Aida's fallen body, and while you rushed up to help Mr. Aida, you borrowed the rice Under the cover of the white carpet, I quietly recovered the sticks and fishing lines, am I right?"

"I have to say that the idea of ​​a famous detective is different." Aida Xingyu smiled lightly, "But have you seen the process of me recovering the crime tools? It's rude to say nothing, and judging from your reasoning just now , anyone in this mansion may have committed the crime, you can't easily convict me just because I was the first to rush into the study, Mr. Maori."

"Mr. Xingzhi, you must like tonkatsu rice bowl very much!" At this moment, a childish voice suddenly sounded behind Mori Kogoro, and Conan appeared from nowhere.

"Why, why do you say that?" Aida Xingyu was stunned imperceptibly.

"Because it's almost dinner time, Mr. Xingzhi, you specially ordered a takeaway tonkatsu rice bowl, didn't you! You must like this very much!" Conan said with a smile.

"No, that's right, I usually like to eat pork cutlet rice bowl." Aida Koyuki said calmly.

Hearing that, Conan showed a puzzled expression: "Ah, that's strange. I remember that Mr. Xingzhi told me and Sister Xiaolan that you usually take care of your health at dinner, right?"

"So what?"

"That's even more strange." Conan raised the corners of his mouth, "How can a person who usually pays attention to health care order takeout during dinner, and it's fried food like fried pork cutlet rice?"

Aida Xingyu didn't answer, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"What's going on here?" Police Officer Mumu said seriously.

"The tool I mentioned before is the protruding wooden stick. I think it is the kind of disposable chopsticks that need to be broken in the takeaway lunch box." Mori Kogoro continued, "Mr. I ordered takeaway before dinner, so that the chopsticks in the lunch box would be convenient for him to commit crimes, and just now I asked the Chiba police officer to go to a nearby restaurant to investigate, and Mr. Xingzhi did order fried rice at around 05:30 Pork chop rice."

Officer Megure cast a look at Officer Chiba, and after the other party nodded, he turned his attention to Aida Koyuki who was trembling slightly, "Can you explain, Mr. Koyuki?"

"...I just wanted to eat the donburi from that restaurant at that time. Could it be that you just use this as evidence to make me plead guilty?" Aida Koyuki pretended to be calm, and stared at Mouri Xiao without hesitation. Goro.

"Just confess your guilt obediently, Mr. Xingzhi." Mori Kogoro said with a smile, "Can you show us the index finger of your right hand?"

"The index finger of the right hand?" Aida Xingyu stretched out his hand to do so, but at this time there was a shallow wound on his right index finger, and a little blood could be vaguely seen on it.

"Can you tell me how you got this wound?"

"This, this is... I was not careful..." Aida Yuki hesitated.

"It's true that you were careless. If I'm not mistaken, the wound on your hand was accidentally stabbed by a toothpick in the middle when you tore open the plastic packaging that placed the chopsticks."

"Then, what does that mean?"

"You healed the wound very quickly at that time, and we didn't let us find it at the dinner table, but it's a pity that while you were supporting Mr. Aida's body and recovering the props, you weren't too impressed by the gap formed by the chopsticks rubbing Scratched, and just the scratches leaked blood that got on to the sawdust that had fallen on the carpet."

At this moment, the forensic personnel came over, and the transparent tape in their hands contained sawdust that fell from the desk.

"This is the sawdust that Conan found at the scene. It should be the chopsticks that fell after being rubbed by the roller, and the blood stain on it, Mr. Xingzhi, if my deduction is correct, it should be the wound on your index finger The blood that leaked."

At this point, Aida Yukiyuki's complexion finally turned gray, his legs trembled and he knelt down on the ground, holding his head and choking in a low voice.

After drinking the last drop of black tea in the cup, Touya's tense face relaxed a little. Thanks to Aida Ryuichi's invitation, he saw such a wonderful reasoning show today.

Subconsciously, he began to look for the figure of the kid with glasses, and it was not until Kogoro Mori's reasoning was over that the kid came out bouncing around with an innocent expression on his face.

Condensing his expression, Tou also stood up and walked towards Conan.Over there, Mao Lilan was still holding on to his father's shoulders, trying to wake him up, and had no time to take care of Conan.

"Brother Kirishima?" Conan looked up at the boy who was walking towards him, "What's wrong?"

Staring at the kid with glasses calmly, Touya tilted his head and said that Mr. Mori's reasoning was wonderful.

"Hey, uncle, he has always been very good." Conan rubbed his head and smiled.

Continuing to stare at the child, Touya knelt down, pointed to the red bow tied around Conan's neck, and said, "Is that a voice changer?"

!!!

Conan didn't expect the boy to notice the bowknot-shaped voice changer around his neck at all, and he couldn't help thinking about how to fool him.

Seeing the child in front of him looking like an enemy, the corners of Touya's mouth could not help but twitch slightly.

"Well... Thanks to you, I saw a very exciting reasoning show today." Tou also said slowly.

"It's not so much Mr. Mori's reasoning, but... your Kudo Shinichi's reasoning?"