Chapter 65: Fake corpse? !
Hattori Heiji's face looked a little unhappy. He looked at Yuya and opened his mouth but hesitated to speak.
You didn't have the idea of mocking or provoking him. He walked to the desk and pointed at a pile of books on the table and said, "Hattori, do you have any thoughts after looking at these books?"
Hattori Heiji was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked at the stack of books. He suddenly felt that the stack of books was a little unnatural, but he couldn't say it for a while: "What do you think?"
Yuya came to the player again and asked, "Do you remember anything that impressed you when we came in?"
Hattori looked at Yuya, then at the player: "You mean the music is playing very loudly?"
Youya nodded: "Do you still remember what we were doing at that time?"
Hattori frowned and thought carefully: "At that time, we seemed to be discussing classical music?"
Yuya: "Yes, our attention is focused on this abnormally loud player."
Hattori agreed: "Yes, I was a little annoyed by the noise and wanted to turn down the volume, but I was worried about Tsuji... the deceased just liked to turn up the volume very loud, so he didn't..."
Yuya smiled, Hattori was quite polite: "So, do you remember what Mrs. Tsujimura was doing at the time?"
Hattori was stunned: "Isn't she waking up the dead?"
Youye said: "So, do you remember what position we, the deceased, Madam, are in?"
Hattori thought back carefully: "Isn't it just like you said, we, the deceased, and the wife are exactly in a straight line? Oh, yes, there are these books between the deceased and us."
"Then do you remember whether you could see the face of the deceased at that time?"
Hattori frowned, he couldn't remember clearly.
They looked at the book carefully and calculated the height of the deceased in their minds, and found that if the deceased kept supporting his chin, they would not be able to see the deceased's face at that time.
Hattori Heiji was a little confused: "What does this mean? By covering the dead man's face, are you trying to hide something?"
Yuya looked at Hattori and said word by word: "The one the murderer wants to cover up is you! Hattori Heiji!"
Hattori Heiji's eyes widened: "What did you say?"
Yuya looked around the room: "To be precise, it's not just you, but also me, Uncle Maori, Xiaolan, Conan. The murderer wanted to cover the eyes of everyone who entered the room at that time."
Hattori Heiji is not a fool. Yuya has already given such an obvious hint, and he also reacted. He immediately showed a look of shock: "Could it be that..."
Yuya turned to face the crowd, slowly raised his hand and pointed at one of them: "That's right, the murderer covered our eyes and killed the victim at an angle we couldn't see, and this murderer is you!"
"Mrs. Tsujimura!"
After Yuya finished speaking, his hand happened to point at Tsujimura Kimie who was standing in the middle of the crowd.
"what?!"
Everyone was shocked and subconsciously looked at Tsujimura Kimie, only to find that she had her eyes closed and said nothing, with no intention of defending herself.
"If my reasoning is correct, Mrs. Tsujimura should have used a strong sleeping pill to make the deceased fall asleep in advance, and when she came in with us, she took the opportunity to wake the deceased up and stabbed the poison needle behind the deceased's ear to kill him.
The loud music and stacked books were to cover up the screams of the deceased who might wake up early, the painful changes in her expression due to poisoning, and the movement of her poison needle piercing her body. "
Inspector Megure raised his own doubts: "But if, as you said, sleeping pills were used to make the deceased fall asleep, then it would be found out during the autopsy."
Before Yuya could speak, Hattori Heiji, who had already figured it out, explained for him: "This is easy to cover up because we believed from the beginning that the deceased was killed before we entered the room. In this way, even if residues such as sleeping pills are detected, it will not have any impact. The murderer took advantage of the psychology of not killing in front of others."
"It's indeed a good strategy to keep it to yourself. Even I fell into it." Hattori Heiji clenched his fists.
Inspector Megure nodded in agreement, but as a police officer, he still asked the most crucial question: "What about the evidence? Do you have evidence that the murderer is Mrs. Tsujimura?"
Yuya smiled: "Of course, if I am not absolutely sure, I will not stand here."
"Mrs. Tsujimura, can you please take out your keychain?"
Inspector Megure's expression became serious, and he called his men, "Go check her keychain."
Kimie Tsujimura did not resist at all and allowed the police officer to take away her key chain.
Hattori Heiji hurried over. Tsujimura Kimie's keychain was the same model as the deceased's, so it could also be opened. Once it was opened, a small, thin groove was revealed on the inside, which was just the right shape and size to fit a needle.
Although drug tests have not been conducted on him yet, judging from the changes in Tsujimura Kimie's expression, Yuya's reasoning is undoubtedly correct.
"···"
Hattori Heiji remained silent, a strong sense of frustration rising in his heart.
In the process of cracking the secret room technique, Hattori Heiji always devoted a small amount of energy to observing Yuya.
Therefore, he was very sure that Kamiya Yu had not contacted anyone, and all this was his own reasoning.
However, he only confirmed the death of the deceased at the beginning, and although he also checked the scene afterwards, now thinking about it carefully, he was absent-minded during the inspection.
Could it be that he had already...
Heiji fell into deep thought. He had always regarded Kudo Shinichi as an imaginary enemy, but suddenly he discovered that this high school detective named Kamiya Yuya might be much stronger than Kudo Shinichi.
At least in today's case, his performance completely surpassed his own.
He even had the lingering feeling that he had deduced a wrong locked room method according to the murderer's train of thought, and this wrong method was also the trap he stepped into...
And just when Hattori Heiji was doubting himself, Takayoshi Tsujimura yelled at his mother: "Why?!"
Tsujimura Kimie shuddered.
At this time, a slightly hoarse and somewhat tired voice suddenly sounded: "I think it's because of Miss Katsuragi."
Everyone looked over and showed shocked expressions again.
Megure Police Department: "Brother Kudo?!"
Maori Kogoro: "Detective kid?!"
Mao Lilan, who just came in to look for Conan: "Shinichi?!"
Youya: “···” I finally waited for you, and you managed your timing just right.
Next, I will let you perform reluctantly.
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When Yuya started to reason
Mao Lilan carried Conan, who had a fever, to Takayoshi Tsujimura's room, carefully placed him on the bed, and touched his forehead: "It's so hot! How did you suddenly have such a high fever!"
He hurriedly took a wet towel and put it on Conan's forehead.
"Water...Sister Xiaolan, I want to drink water..." Conan shouted in a daze.
"I'll get you some water right away!" Ran Mouri got up hurriedly, but there was no water in Takayoshi Tsujimura's room. Ran Mouri had to ask the housekeeper for help. When she returned to the room, Conan was no longer on the bed.
"Conan?"
Mao Lilan was very anxious. The child had a fever, so why was he running around?
He wouldn't run back to the study, would he?
Thinking of Conan's habit of running to the crime scene, Maori Ran rushed back to the study as soon as possible, but when she asked Maori Kogoro, he said that he did not see Conan.
And just when Mao Lilan was getting anxious...
"I think it's because of Miss Katsuragi."
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"Shinichi, why are you here?" Mao Lilan was the first to rush over.
Kudo Shinichi held onto the door frame and forced a tired smile on his face: "I heard from Conan that there was a murder in a locked room here. I happened to be nearby so I came to take a look."
After hearing what Kudo Shinichi said, Mao Lilan reacted: "By the way, Conan, you met Conan? He..."
Kudo Shinichi raised his hand to interrupt her: "Conan is fine, don't worry."
Mao Lilan breathed a sigh of relief, but she immediately realized something was wrong: "Shinichi, are you okay? Why are you sweating so much? Is your cold getting worse?"
Kudo Shinichi waved his hand: "I'm fine, I just ran here so I'm a little sweaty. Let's not talk about this, where was I just talking about..."
Turning back into an adult didn't seem as easy as he had imagined. All his energy seemed to be exhausted, and even speaking was difficult.
Inspector Megure was very excited to see his long-lost brother and quickly reminded him: "You said Mrs. Tsujimura killed people for Miss Katsuragi?"
Kudo Shinichi covered his still dizzy forehead and said, "That's right."
"But..." Katsuragi Sachiko didn't understand. Tsujimura Kimie clearly hated her, so how could he kill someone for her? And the person he killed was her husband.
Kudo Shinichi coughed a few times and said, "If you want to know why..." Under the gaze of everyone, he walked to the bookshelf and picked up a photo frame from it.
"You will understand after looking at this."
Everyone gathered around. The photo showed a young couple, the Tsujimura couple when they were young. They were smiling and seemed to have a good relationship.
"Is there anything wrong with this photo?" Inspector Megure asked puzzledly.
Kudo Shinichi smiled and said, "Inspector, please take a closer look."
Inspector Megure frowned, but still couldn't see any problem.
Mao Lilan walked over and took a look, and shouted in surprise: "She looks like Miss Katsuragi!"
Inspector Megure's thoughts are all about solving the case, so he can't see the connection between the photo and the murder case at first glance; but Mouri Ran doesn't pay too much attention to the case, so she can see the special thing about it at a glance.
After her reminder, Inspector Megure also immediately noticed it.
Everyone looked at Katsuragi Sachiko in surprise again, but Katsuragi Sachiko looked confused.
"Humph, it's only natural that I look like her," Tsujimura Kimie suddenly laughed bitterly, "Because, I am Sachiko's biological mother!"
"!!!"
Everyone was shocked again, and they found that they seemed to have been shocked too many times tonight.
First, her son, Kimie Tsujimura, killed her husband and invited a detective to be a witness to cover up her crime. Then, Shinichi Kudo, who had been missing for a long time, suddenly appeared. Now, she learned that Kimie Tsujimura had always shown that he hated his future daughter-in-law, but she was actually her biological daughter...
How can this not be shocking!
Fortunately, Takayoshi Tsujimura is a stepson and has no blood relationship with Kimie Tsujimura, otherwise it would be another case of two lovers becoming siblings.
After her secret was exposed, Kimie Tsujimura no longer concealed it and told the story of her ex-husband who was framed and imprisoned by the deceased 20 years ago.
Her ex-husband died unjustly in prison five years later, and he suffered from the injustice until his death. She was also deceived by this man and became his wife.
Tsujimura Isao desperately tried to stop his son from being with the daughter of the man he framed, and revealed the secret of the past when questioned by Tsujimura Kimie;
Kimie Tsujimura was angry that he destroyed her once happy family and deceived her feelings and people for twenty years with lies. Or perhaps, she also wanted to remove the obstacles that prevented her daughter from being with the person she loved, so she decided to kill him and planned this closed-room murder case.
The person she originally wanted to frame was Tsujimura Komitsu, who had once assisted the tyrant and was also Tsujimura Isao's father.
While everyone was shocked by this unknown secret, a voice suddenly rang out.
"Why is it so noisy! Didn't I tell you to let me stay in the study alone?"
The voice was weak but familiar, and it frightened the Tsujimura family so much that they jumped up.
“Dad, Dad you…” Takayoshi Tsujimura pointed at Tsujimura Isao who suddenly sat up with a trembling finger, his face full of a look of having seen a ghost.
Not only Takayoshi Tsujimura, but everyone was scared to death. They gathered at the door and hid far away from Tsujimura Isao.
"This, this, this..." Even though Inspector Megure had seen all kinds of crime scenes, he was so shocked by this situation that he was speechless.
"A dead body?" Kogoro Mouri was so scared that his face turned pale.
Ran Mouri, who was most afraid of ghosts, threw herself into Kudo Shinichi's arms and trembled.
Kudo Shinichi was indeed brave when facing a corpse and he didn't believe in ghosts, but the fact that the dead person in front of him suddenly came back to life still made his scalp tingle. He grabbed Yuya and stood in front of him - his childhood friend was very good at karate, he should be able to deal with a zombie... a ghost, right?
Yuya: I am...
Hattori Heiji looked much better... No, looking at his shaking legs and his eyes darting around, was he looking for a way to escape? Or was he looking for something?
Can kendo be used against a ghost... a ghost? Hattori Heiji yelled in his mind, but I don't have a wooden sword with me!
On the contrary, Tsujimura Kimie's reaction was the calmest. She seemed to have seen through life and death, and murmured, "It's okay to become a ghost, just take me to hell with you!"
Yuya sighed. Even though he knew that "resurrection from the dead" would be a bit exciting, he didn't expect this group of people to react so strongly.
It's not their fault. Everyone was immersed in a slightly absurd story, and suddenly a corpse came to life. Even the bravest person would be scared, right?
He had no choice but to take a step forward and shout, "Hey! Who are you, evildoer? Show yourself!"
After hearing his dramatic scolding, everyone's fear dissipated a lot, and they couldn't help but look at him with strange eyes.
This detective... seems a little bit immature?
Tsujimura Isao was confused. What was wrong with these people? He just took a nap, why did they act like they saw a ghost? No, why were there police officers here?
Tsujimura Isao suddenly found himself lying on the ground for no apparent reason. He subconsciously tried to stand up, but his hands and feet were weak and he had no strength, and he also felt a little chest tightness and shortness of breath.
When he saw his son, he couldn't help but roar: "Rebellious son! Why don't you come and help me?"
Takayoshi Tsujimura sighed and hid further back.
"You, you, you...Dad, are you a human or a ghost?" Takayoshi Tsujimura's voice was trembling.
"Nonsense, of course I'm a living person!" Tsujimura Isao was so angry that he couldn't speak.
Takayoshi Tsujimura swallowed his saliva, moved over with his shaking legs under the encouraging gazes of everyone, and touched his father tentatively.
Tsujimura Isao immediately glared at him: "Help me up!"
Takayoshi Tsujimura was so scared that he jumped up on the spot.
Finally, amid Tsujimura Isao's endless cursing, Tsujimura Takayoshi gritted his teeth and helped him to the chair.
"What the hell is going on? Who are you?"