Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 1342 The Mystery of the Suicide Note
In the corridor at the entrance, Conan saw Qin Zhibo appearing in the home of the suspect in the case, and the shock on his face was not concealed at all.

He calmed himself down a little, then quickly looked at the foreign woman standing next to Qin Zhibo.

The woman had a broad frame and an upright figure, and looked stronger than most women.

She has a delicate face but is cold as ice, with short wavy blonde hair and a tuft of spiral curls between her dark green eyes.

This woman is...

Conan frowned slightly, feeling that this woman seemed familiar, as if he had seen her somewhere.

At this moment, the three little ones and Huibara Ai who were not far away heard the noise and came over.

"Conan, what's wrong?"

Several people came over and followed Conan's line of sight to the room, and immediately shouted excitedly, "It's Uncle Qin!"

And Haibara Ai just glanced at Qin Zhibo and her eyes fell on the foreign woman.

This……

Looking at the hairstyle and face that were almost the same as hers, and the same cold temperament as hers, Haibara Ai was stunned.

Mary Akai in the room also noticed Haibara Ai standing among the elementary school students. Her eyes moved slightly and her eyebrows lowered.

This glance seemed to last for ten thousand years.

Both of them felt like they were looking in a mirror, and what was reflected in the mirror was themselves as children and as adults.

Conan looked at Mary, then at Haibara Ai, and his pupils suddenly fluttered.

He figured out why he had an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.

Isn’t this just an enlarged version of Huiyuan?
Who is this guy?
Just when Conan wanted to investigate further, Qin Zhibo had already walked out, pushed Haneda Hideyoshi out of the door, and closed the door behind him.

……

With the explanation of Miike Miaozi, Qin Zhibo quickly figured out the situation.

It turned out that at noon today, Miike Naeko and Miyamoto Yumi were patrolling the street as usual and met the Boy Detective Team who were returning home from school.

The two sides chatted for a while, during which time, Miike Naeko received a call from an elementary school classmate, who told her that a murder had occurred at the place where she worked as a maid.

So, adhering to the principle of speaking out when seeing injustice, the Young Detective Team took the initiative to come over.

And Miike Naeko and Miyamoto Yumi from the Ministry of Transportation also came over, adhering to the principle of meddling in other people's business.

Both parties investigated the deceased's home and found some suspicious points.

These doubts pointed to Hideyoshi Haneda, who lived next door.

What a coincidence, Haneda Hideyoshi is Miyamoto Yumi's boyfriend...

"No!"

"It's just my ex-boyfriend~"

"I've already dumped him!"

Faced with the three little ones' random matchmaking, the angry Yumi Miyamoto immediately corrected them.

This caused Haneda Hideyoshi's expression to change instantly. He pouted his lips and rolled his eyes.

Qin Zhibo looked at the anger on Yumi Miyamoto's face, and saw that she was the one who dumped Hideyoshi Haneda. He immediately guessed that the real situation was probably the opposite.

It should be that Hideyoshi Haneda dumped Yumi Miyamoto, but the latter said this for the sake of her own face.

But Haneda Hideyoshi probably hasn't forgotten Miyamoto Yumi...

Just then, Qin Zhibo's phone vibrated in his pocket.

I picked up the phone and it turned out to be Mary Akai from next door.

"Don't hang up the phone..."

Mary Akai expressed her thoughts in a simple sentence, that is, she also wanted to hear about the progress of the case here.

So Qin Zhibo calmly put the phone into the outer pocket of his shirt.

Conan also saw this scene.

Instead of putting the phone back in his trouser pocket, he put it in his jacket pocket...

Why is that?
And that foreign woman, why does she look so similar to Haibara Ai?

Qin Zhibo said before in London that Huiyuan Ai's mother is likely still alive...

Could it be?
At this time, more footsteps were heard outside the door.

It was Inspector Megure who arrived with several capable men from the First Investigation Division.

When Inspector Megure just walked into the crime scene and saw Qin Zhibo and Conan appear at the scene at the same time, that familiar feeling suddenly came back to him.

"Brother Qin, you are here too~"

During this period when neither Brother Qin nor Brother Maori was around, Inspector Megure felt that his daily work had become difficult.

Without my brothers around, solving cases is not as easy.

Even my wife Xiaolu complained about why I suddenly came home so late.

Now that’s good, my brother is finally back!
……

At the request of Inspector Megure, several people in the room gave a detailed account of the case again.

The case occurred in Room 1800 of the Itami family, next door to Hideyoshi Haneda.

This morning, Itami Naganobu, the male head of the Itami family, had a big fight with his wife Itami Chiyoko.

After the quarrel, in order to calm his wife down, Itami Naganobu went to the supermarket outside with the maid Sakurako Yonehara who came to help to buy ingredients for dinner.

About an hour later, when the two returned home, half an hour later they found that Chiyoko had hanged herself in her bedroom.

"May I ask what the reason for your quarrel is...?"

Takagi asked Itami Naganobu while taking notes in a small notebook.

Itami Naginobu, wearing dark glasses and with drooping eyelids, answered: "It's stocks..."

"It's because my wife has been addicted to stock trading recently. I just reminded her a little bit and she went crazy."

"When she gets mad, she likes to throw things around. My left eye was injured by her hitting me with something."

As he spoke, Itami Naginobu raised his finger and pointed to the red and swollen area above his left eyelid.

And yet, he continued.

"But I think her son, who was about to graduate from college, still hadn't found a job, which put her under a lot of pressure. This should be one of the reasons why she committed suicide..."

Qin Zhibo looked at Itami Naginami, who calmly stated the reason for his wife's suicide, and his expression was deep in thought.

First of all, he didn't believe it was suicide.

After all, where Conan appears, the probability of meeting someone who truly wants to commit suicide is as high as winning the lottery.

Moreover, several details at the scene also prove that suicide was not the case.

"wrong."

Qin Zhibo, who had remained silent all this time, suddenly spoke at this time.

Everyone turned their eyes to him, and he himself was already standing next to the body hanging under the chandelier.

"Brother Qin, what are you saying is wrong?" Inspector Megure asked in confusion.

Qin Zhibo looked at Chiyoko's body and "touched" it in front of everyone.

【Corpse Investigation√】

[Name of deceased: Chiyoko Itami]

[Death time: more than 1 hour]

[Cause of death: Suffocation due to external force on the neck] [Corpse investigation completed, character skill obtained: Throwing]

[Throwing: Throwing refers to your ability to hit the target with thrown objects. Improving this skill will give you higher throwing accuracy and allow you to perform more complex throwing movements.]

【Level: 1】

[Proficiency: 100/500]

【Everything can be invested! 】

The moment Qin Zhibo saw the new skill, he was stunned.

Good guy!
Unexpectedly, the deceased who was addicted to stock trading did not drop any skills related to stock trading, but throwing...

It seems that when she gets angry, she is not one to throw things around…

Qin Zhibo quickly adjusted his expression and continued, "Everyone, please look at the position of the deceased, and then look at the fallen chair over there, and you will know that the deceased did not commit suicide."

Under Qin Zhibo's instructions, everyone took a look at the two.

Conan's eyes changed and he immediately understood what Qin Zhibo meant.

Although I could see that the deceased did not commit suicide, I did not expect this.

Police Megure read it over and over again, but still didn't understand what Qin Zhibo meant.

"Brother Qin, I can see that the chair was used by the deceased to stand on..."

"But how can we tell from this that the deceased did not commit suicide?"

Gao Mu suddenly had an idea and guessed, "Could it be that the height of this chair cannot reach the feet of the deceased?"

The height of the stepping stone does not reach the height of the deceased's feet, which is a classic method of eliminating suicide.

But Qin Zhibo shook his head slightly.

"No, the height is enough, and there is even some extra space."

"The key issue is where the chair fell."

"If it was a true suicide, there is absolutely no way this chair, which was used as a stepping stone, would have fallen here."

With Qin Zhibo's reminder, the people in the room gradually realized it.

Although the height of the chair's legs was reasonable, the position where it fell was 1.5 meters diagonally in front of the deceased.

Normally, a person who wants to hang himself would just need to kick the thing down and would not kick it that far.

The deceased had an injured left arm, which was still in a cast, so it was difficult for him to exert force, let alone perform such large-scale movements.

"I'm sure you've all figured it out..."

"The chair, which was used as a stepping stone, was kicked too far, which is not reasonable."

"Also, if the deceased had kicked the chair over, the angle at which it fell would at least be somewhat irregular..."

"The backrest of this chair is completely parallel to the wall, and there is a diagonal line between the chair and the deceased. Unless the deceased is Conan, ordinary people would never be able to kick at such a tricky angle."

Qin Zhibo explained to everyone and also mentioned Conan's tricky ball skills.

This made Conan throw away a half-moon eye.

You can just make inferences, why are you @ing me?
Megure listened to Qin Zhibo's explanation. Although he was a little confused, he roughly understood it.

"So this means that this case was not suicide, but murder?"

"Ah."

Qin Zhibo nodded and continued, "And the murderer should be someone close to the deceased."

The moment his gaze rested on Itami Naganobu, the latter's eyes subconsciously dodged.

This made Qin Zhibo confirm once again that this should be a proof question.

"Brother Qin, you said the murderer was someone close to you. What's going on?" Inspector Megure asked again.

Qin Zhibo went to the dressing table, took the notebook on it, and compared it with the suicide note at the feet of the corpse.

The suicide note was written on a page torn from a notebook.

The general meaning of the above content is something like "I regret causing my husband to be injured", "I am worried about my son's exam", "The unfilial daughter has to go first" and so on.

But when Qin Zhibo took out the notebook for comparison, the marks on the edge of the suicide note did not match the marks on the remaining paper in the notebook.

"Everyone, please take a look."

"The paper of this suicide note was not torn from this notebook at all."

"If the murderer forged this suicide note at the scene, or if it was written by the deceased himself, then the traces on it should be able to match."

"But now they don't match, which means the murderer prepared this suicide note in advance and then tore a page of the notebook into this shape at the scene..."

"As for why the suicide note was prepared in advance, it should be that the murderer had already guessed that the police might conduct a handwriting identification on the suicide note."

Megure's eyes widened. "Brother Qin, are you saying that this suicide note was forged in advance by the murderer?"

"No." Qin Zhibo shook his head, "This suicide note should have been written by the deceased himself."

"Why?"

"Because if the murderer had forged the suicide note in advance, the edges of the note wouldn't be torn so unevenly."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the room suddenly understood.

Conan, in particular, his pupils lit up as if he had suddenly been enlightened.

Yup!

Why didn’t I think of this?

Conan had previously determined that the deceased did not commit suicide based on the fact that the edge of the suicide note did not match the edge of the notebook.

But that was the extent of his reasoning.

However, Qin Zhibo was able to dig deeper on this basis and deduced that this suicide note was prepared in advance by the murderer and written by the deceased himself.

Since the paper of the suicide note was already fixed, the murderer was unable to repair the flaws at the edge and could only deliberately tear similar marks on the notebook.

In this case, the murderer can only be someone close to the deceased, otherwise it would be impossible for him to get this suicide note.

"That is to say, the murderer first obtained the suicide note from the deceased in some way, and then killed the deceased."

Qin Zhibo picked up the suicide note at the feet of the deceased and continued to analyze: "From the notes on this suicide note, the handwriting is not neat and crooked. It looks like it was written in an extremely excited or emergency situation..."

"But even though it was an emergency, the deceased wrote down her full name, 'Chiyoko Itami.'"

"And the other messages in the trash can only have the three words 'Chiyoko' written on them..."

"The only possible scenario I can imagine is that the deceased was in some kind of crisis, so critical that he had to leave a will in advance."

"Writing down the first and last name is to make it easier for others to identify who wrote this will when they find it."

"Combining these two points, it is possible that the deceased was almost killed in an airplane or ship accident, but was lucky enough to survive in the end..."

As soon as Qin Zhibo finished speaking, the maid Yonehara Sakurako suddenly thought of something.

"I remember the lady once said that she was a lucky person blessed by God..."

Upon hearing this, Officer Megure turned to Itami Naginobu and asked, "What's going on?"

"Well... I also..."

Itami Naginobu frowned and stammered, unable to speak.

But Qin Zhibo smiled slightly and directly ordered him to be a general.

"Since Mr. Itami can't remember, it doesn't matter."

"I think if we investigate the deceased's travel records and combine them with the dangerous incidents involving airplanes or ships that have occurred in recent years, we should be able to find something."