Chapter 319 Date's Last Name
You also didn't remember the origin of the human skull, and it was impossible for the two of them to know based on their guesses. They could only hand it over to the police for investigation afterwards.
"Now, the only one left is the murderer." Youye put his hands in his pockets and looked in the direction of the hotel with deep eyes.
Conan nodded slightly and also looked in the direction of the hotel. His movements and expressions were exactly the same as Yuya's.
"What do you say? Just go and catch him? I'm confident that I can make him incapable of moving within 1 second." Youya said.
Conan's mouth twitched slightly: "Come on, we are detectives, okay? Don't always think about fighting and killing."
"Hmm?" Youya raised an eyebrow, "Do you want me to tell Xiaolan what this means?"
Conan: ??? Can you be a human being?
You are not my childhood friend at all. I committed a sin in my previous life and you are here to collect the debt, right?
Conan glared at Yuya with empty eyes, took out his cell phone and called Mao Lilan: "Hello, Ran, are you still in the hotel?"
"The three of us are here. Where did you and Yuya go?" asked Mao Lilan on the phone.
Conan replied, "Yuya and I did some research. What about those three people?"
Mao Lilan replied, "He's here too. But Officer Yamamura said it's too late today and there's no evidence or clues, so he plans to temporarily end today's investigation and let them go to the police station to inquire about the situation another day."
"Is that so... Is Sonoko around? Let her answer the phone."
Mao Lilan was a little confused, but she still handed the phone to her as she was told.
"Little brat?" Suzuki Sonoko took the phone. "What's the matter? Ah? Of course I remember it. It's the tree where I thought the handkerchief was hung this morning, right?"
"Indeed, that tree is quite far from the rock in the last scene of the play. It would take about ten minutes to walk there. What's the matter? Why did you mention that tree all of a sudden?"
"What? That tree could possibly appear in the show? How is that possible? The red handkerchief on the tree was just hung there by a fan. The only thing that appeared in the show was the maple tree next to the rock. Have you seen that show, kid?"
"I'm telling you..."
Seeing that Suzuki Sonoko was about to start a long speech, Conan spoke quickly: "That's true, maybe I made a mistake, thank you, Sister Sonoko." After that, he hung up the phone.
Suzuki Sonoko listened to the busy tone on her phone and looked at Mao Lilan blankly: "That little brat, how dare he hang up on me?"
Mao Lilan laughed dryly: "Well, kid..."
If it was Conan she might be surprised, but if that person was Shinichi... then there would be nothing strange about it.
There was no intention to conceal the voice of Suzuki Sonoko when she spoke. Xiao Hei, who was hiding in the shadows, heard it clearly and immediately revealed a sinister smile.
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After a while
A dark shadow, Xiao Hei, walked quickly in the maple forest and came to the tree where the bones were buried.
He quickly dug around on the ground for a while and soon found the human skull. He couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"I thought you would be happier. After all, it's a long-awaited reunion, right?" Suddenly, a voice sounded in the darkness.
Xiao Hei was startled. Just as he turned around to see who was talking, he was blinded by a beam of light.
As the light shone, Xiao Hei's true face was revealed - he was the old man wearing glasses and squinting his eyes, Tamakuni Tatsuzo.
Tamano Tamano squinted his eyes and looked up at Conan who was sitting on the branch. The flashlight seemed to be coming from the watch?
Conan glanced at the red handkerchief that happened to be next to him, and said slowly: "Although I don't know who this skeleton is, you should have buried it here after killing it, and then tied this red handkerchief as a mark, so that you can move the body away at any time in case of an emergency."
Yuya walked out from behind the tree with his hands in his pockets. "The reason I used a red handkerchief is to make it less conspicuous among the maple leaves."
"But you didn't expect that this maple forest and the red handkerchief would become unexpectedly popular because of a TV series. As a result, all the maple trees here are covered with red handkerchiefs, so you can't even tell which maple tree was the original one."
"In order to prevent the body from being discovered accidentally, you deliberately got acquainted with the crew member Hozumi and paid him to find the tree."
"And he did find the tree, so you met him at the agreed rock, but he discovered the bones buried under the tree, perhaps using them to threaten you, but you killed him instead."
"And the reason why you acted so decisively was that you thought that since he had found the bones, the soil in the dug area would definitely be different from other places, but you didn't expect that the tree was not near the rock at all."
Yuya spoke very quickly, not giving Conan a chance to interrupt, and directly told him what happened in the case.
Conan opened his mouth but no sound came out. Who understands how frustrated he was when his lines were snatched away?
Tamanoku Tatsuzo listened to Yuya's words in silence, then he chuckled and stood up: "Young man, I admit that you are a little smart, but what would you have done if I hadn't come over tonight?"
Youye smiled slightly: "It's very simple. When the time comes, it won't be you who comes here, but I will bring the police to your door to find you."
"After all, it's clearly written in Mr. Hozumi's notebook that you are the murderer."
Menguan Chenzo was surprised: "How is it possible? There is only one date marked on his notebook. How could you know it was me?" Menguan Chenzo had no point in making excuses and just admitted it openly.
Yuya smiled faintly: "It's very simple, because April 4st does not refer to a date, but a surname. April st comes from 'April is an important season for cotton harvesting', pronounced as わたぬき (watanuki), which is the cotton of your surname."
"By the way, Hozumi's last name is August 1st, which comes from the agricultural activity of newly emerged rice ears. The kanji is written as 穗积, but there are many ways to read it, so Mr. Hozumi deliberately wrote his name in katakana ほずみ to prevent others from reading it wrong."
Cotton Kan Tatsuzo smiled, and the wrinkles on his face were squeezed together. He clapped his hands and said, "Not bad, not bad. Your reasoning is very interesting. It seems that you are not an ordinary boy. Who are you?"
Yuya put his hands in his pockets and smiled faintly, "Kamiya Yuya, he's a detective."
"I'm Edogawa Conan, and I'm also a detective!" Conan quickly took over the conversation to avoid Yuya being the only one to act like a detective.
"Detective..." Tatsuzo Kogane slightly raised his head, his eyes, which had been narrowed, had opened without him noticing, with a cold smile on his face, "Since you are so good at reasoning, can you guess why I just left his body there and left?"
"Because you are sure that no one will come after dark, you plan to wait until late at night to bury the body?" Conan finally found an opportunity to interrupt and spoke quickly to satisfy his desire.
"Yes," the smile on Tatsuzo Cotton's face became even more cruel, "with these people!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a large group of people suddenly walked out of the maple forest. Conan was startled. He took a quick look and roughly counted them. There were more than fifty people.
He quickly hid behind Youya: "Youya, I leave it to you!"
Yuya's forehead darkened: "Didn't you say not to fight and kill?"
Conan said without even looking up: "This is not a fight, this is self-defense..."
Seeing these fifty or so big men approaching with baseball bats or shovels in their hands, Conan shouted: "If you don't do something, we will all be buried today!"
He was somewhat aware of his short arms and legs. Although he had a quickly inflated football and an anesthetic watch, he could only deal with one or two people at best.
There were over fifty people on the other side all of a sudden. What could he do? Should he just hit them with his head?