Chapter 514 The suspects are...
"Hey, detective boy," Maori Kogoro looked at Yuya with some displeasure, "Then tell me, how did the murderer kill Mr. Okudaira when the windows were locked and there was only one door for entry and exit?"
Inspector Megure, Conan, and others all looked at Yuya.
Conan felt a little depressed. Although he also thought that this incident was a homicide, it was only his guess and there was no substantial evidence. Yuya came in at the same time as him. Could he have found the clues in such a short time?
impossible! Absolutely impossible!
Yuya smiled faintly. While waiting for the police to arrive, he had already roughly looked at the scene. He slowly said, "Mr. Butler and Ms. Kikuyo, you just mentioned that when you opened the door, Mr. Okudaira shouted 'Don't open it', right?"
The butler nodded quickly: "Yes."
"So which of you pushed the door open?"
The butler immediately looked at Kikuyo.
Ju's sentiment was still as stinky as ever, and he looked angry after being suspected: "Didn't I tell you that I was worried about what happened in the room..."
Yuya nodded slightly without saying anything else, and continued: “Since Mr. Okudaira was still able to speak, it means that he was still alive at that time.
As for why he shouted that, my guess is that the murderer may have set up some kind of mechanism connected to the door. There is no problem when the door is closed, but once it is opened, the mechanism will be triggered and he will be killed. "
Everyone's expressions were slightly shocked, and they subconsciously looked at Kikuyo.
Kikuyo's expression finally changed a little: "You mean, I killed the master?"
Yuya shook his head: "Of course not. The mechanism is connected to the door, sooner or later someone will open it, if not you, it could be the housekeeper, or Mrs. Okudaira, or anyone else present."
"Speaking of which, Inspector Megure, in this case, generally speaking, you are not held criminally responsible, right?"
Inspector Megure was stunned for a moment, thought for a moment and said, "Generally speaking, it is true..."
Hmm? Why did Brother Shen Gu specifically add "generally speaking"? Did he have some deeper meaning behind it?
Besides Inspector Megure, the others who noticed that there was something else behind Yuya's words were Conan and Miyano Shiho.
Yuya's eyes quickly swept across the room and soon landed on a book on the ground. There was a lot of blood on the cover of the book. He walked over and picked up the book through his gloves, then looked up to confirm. The book was located just below where the Aohe corner was hanging.
Thinking of the blood on his lips, Yuya nodded slightly and showed the cover to everyone: "If I'm not mistaken, this should be the death message left by Mr. Okuda."
"Death message?" Inspector Megure was shocked, and quickly came over to take the book and took a look. "This seems to be a novel? "The Killer from the Underworld", the author is Niina Kaori... This name sounds familiar."
Yuya smiled and said, "She is the original author of the detective writing series, the daughter of Niina Rentaro, and has now taken over from her father to continue writing the writing series. I have read several of her published mystery novels, and I feel that her writing talent is even better than her father's."
Conan nodded in agreement. Of course he had read the new book, and it was indeed as Yuya said, Shinna Kaori's writing style was much better than her father's.
Wait, Conan suddenly remembered something. If he remembered correctly, Shinname Kaori seemed to have approached Yuya several times to ask him for some knowledge about reasoning.
Although there is definitely nothing going on between the two of them, isn't it easy for girls to overthink things? Even Frankenstein should be no exception, right? Conan smiled evilly, maybe he could use this to threaten Yuya.
Youya had no idea that his childhood friend, who was treating him like a brother just an hour ago, was now secretly plotting against him.
He pinched his chin and said, "Come to think of it, there seems to be a new book coming out soon..."
Maori Kogoro also remembered and showed a nostalgic expression: "It turned out to be the daughter of Mr. Niname! I remember she was a super beautiful girl..."
Mao Lilan glanced at her father with disdain and said, "You only know about beauties."
Seeing that the topic was going off track, Inspector Megure pretended to cough and whispered, "Brother Kamiya, should we continue discussing the case?"
Yuya came back to his senses and realized that he seemed to have been absent-minded. He coughed awkwardly and pointed at the blood on the cover and said, "This book fell below Mr. Ou Ping. The blood on it has not completely dried. I remember there was blood at the corner of his mouth. It should be the death message he deliberately left behind."
Inspector Megure looked at the cover. The "Yoquan" in the title was covered with blood. At the same time, above the author's name, there were drops of blood forming two slightly curved horizontal lines, a bit similar to the "ko" in hiragana.
Inspector Megure was a little confused: "Yanquan? Ko? What does that mean?"
Youye shook his head: "I don't know yet. If you rotate the angle of the book, the two horizontal lines will become other words. It's still a bit difficult to solve it without any hints."
"But one thing is certain: this death message must be related to Mr. Ou Ping himself or the things around him."
Inspector Megure frowned slightly and said in a deep voice: "If this is really a death message, then Mr. Okudaira should have been killed by someone in this house."
Inspector Megure glanced at everyone in the room and said, "Then let's ask where everyone in the family was and what they were doing in the period before the incident."
Yuya was the first to speak: "We have been together since we entered the house. We had no time to commit the crime, and no motive to commit the crime."
The others nodded in agreement.
Inspector Megure nodded. He knew that the murderer could not be these old acquaintances.
Then he looked at Mrs. Auping.
The sadness on Mrs. Okuda's face had not completely faded. She choked up and said, "I understand. I took Mr. Maori and the others to the living room, and then... oh, I was going to check on the swimming pool, but it was raining at the time, so I asked Kikuyo, who had just returned from shopping, to take them there, and I went to the kitchen to make coffee for Mr. Maori."
Inspector Megure nodded slightly, then looked at Kikuyo: "Where did you go to buy things?"
Kikuyo still had that stinky expression on her face, and said without panic, "The master asked me to make coffee for him, but he ran out of creamer, so I went to a nearby convenience store to buy some. Oh, and I have the receipt for the purchase here."
Kikuyo fumbled in her left pocket for a while and took out a receipt and showed it to Inspector Megure.
Inspector Megure checked carefully and nodded: "Indeed, the time is fine. Then, when you brought the coffee to the master, what was his condition?"