Conan's first love is a profiler

Chapter 129 What Master Fairy Fox Did

"Forget it, what are you talking about?"

Sakuma Satoshi stood up.

"Talk carefully!"

Hayao Moto stood up angrily: "Otherwise you will suffer retribution!"

"Calm down, the police will be here soon."

Mai Kirishima quickly stepped forward to mediate in order to prevent the conflict from being further intensified.

"The police can't get there for the time being. The rope of the suspension bridge is broken, and the people on the other side can't come over."

After returning, Qinghai Chuantang informed everyone of the result.

Because it was broken on the side of the hot spring, the suspension bridge fell to the other side, and it had to be pulled up to repair it.

But when you think of such a long span, unless you have the ability to fly up to the sky and stand side by side with the sun, it will be difficult to go to the blue sky.

"Is there no other way?"

Sera Masumi looked at Edo Natsuki.

"We can only go to Mount Lux in the north, and it will take a whole day."

"So, are we stuck here?"

Heishi Jiaju looked worried.

After Qinghai Chuantang glanced at them, he walked to the landline.When I was about to pick up the phone to make a call, I found a white note beside it, and suddenly thought of something.

Stretching out his hand to touch the page, there were indeed traces of writing.

He took out a pencil from the pen holder and scribbled on it, and the previous content soon appeared.

"Haneda Airport, 14:30."

Sera Masumi looked at the handwriting on it and was surprised: "Isn't this exactly Mr. Kuriyama's?"

Compared with it, it is true.

After thinking about who the police officer in charge here was, Qinghai Chuantang was silent for a while, and finally asked his friends on the road to check the call records.

And Sera Masumi was on the sidelines, sorting out the known clues, like a well-behaved child who earnestly completed the homework assigned by the teacher.

"If the only exit of the inner room of the museum was locked by the proprietress, it could only be opened from the inside. That is to say, the inner room was in a state of secret room at that time."

Therefore, the suspects were locked on the proprietress who held the key, Kaju Kuroishi, Moto Hayao, Tomo Sakuma, and Mai Kirishima who stayed in the back room.

Each participant entered Master Xianhu's hot spring one by one in order.

The murdered Kuriyama Shoujiang was the last one to go in at midnight.

According to Sera Masumi's judgment, the time of death should be between zero and two o'clock.

Finally, there is the alibi.

From zero o'clock to two o'clock when the incident happened, all the participants got together, with Mai Kirishima as the center, and had a good talk.

In other words, each can prove the other's alibi.

Between 10:[-] and [-]:[-], Tomo Sakuma and Kaju Kuroishi left the table to go to the bathroom.

"That is to say, at this stage, the suspicion of these two people is the biggest."

"It's not good! The big thing is not good!"

Mai Kirishima panicked and ran to the courtyard where the two were.

"what happened?"

"Everyone's wallets have been stolen!"

"Eh?"

Without exception, everyone's wallets disappeared.

After searching to no avail, Qinghai Chuantang finally accepted this fact.

She showed a ferocious expression, as if she wanted to make the thief into claypot rice.

"The police called just now. It seems that it was from 0:13 to 30 yesterday, and there was a call display."

Edo Natsuki found them and told them the news.

"That is to say, he was still alive before 0:30, which can narrow down the scope of the time when the crime occurred."

But if, from 0:0 to 30:[-], it is not within the scope of the incident time, the alibi of Sakuma Tomo and Kuroishi Kaju can be established.

"By the way, that notebook!"

Sera Masumi suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly ran towards Kuriyama Shoue's room.

Seeing the other party's actions, Qinghai Chuantang immediately understood who Shiliang Zhenchun now thought was the murderer.

Everyone was gathered in the back room, waiting for Shiliang Zhenchun to reveal the truth.

"First of all, Mr. Kuriyama, who was beaten but did not resist. It can be seen that Mr. Kuriyama is not surprised that the murderer appeared in the bathhouse."

The murderer said that he dropped something, and then entered the bathhouse.

Kuriyama Shoue was suddenly attacked and killed.

"So the murderer must be of the same sex."

If it is a woman who has just met, entering the bathhouse will definitely feel strange.

"That is to say, the murderer is a man?"

Kuroishi Kaju looked at the men present, only Haao Moto and Sakuma Tomo.

"Mr. Hayao has an alibi from zero to two o'clock when the incident occurred."

"So."

Mai Kirishima looked at Tomo Sakuma, and everyone looked at him too.

"Indeed, between 0:0 and 30:[-], Mr. Saku did not have an alibi. But we already know that Mr. Kuriyama was on the phone during that time."

Therefore, the time when Kuriyama Shoujiang was killed was after 0:30.

Sakuma Satoshi's alibi is also established.

"In that case, wouldn't there be no suspects?"

"What I just said was only the people in the back room. Those outside have no alibi. Inside is a sealed room."

Saying that, Sera Masumi turned around and looked at Edo Natsuki.

"But as the proprietress of the hot spring, she has the key, so she can easily enter."

"Is that right, lady boss?"

Edo Natsuki sneered: "Why should I do this?"

"For Master Xianhu."

Kuriyama Shoue is an avid hot spring lover.

From the aspects of spring quality, PH value, smell and even taste, the hot spring of Mr. Xianhu was investigated in detail.

"So during the ceremony, Mr. Kuriyama, who drank the water from Mr. Fairy Fox's spring, should have realized that it was actually a fake, right?"

And the scene that Shiliang Zhenchun saw was that Kuriyama Shoue was planning to blackmail the proprietress with this at that time.

Kuriyama Shoue's life is threatened.

In order to escape, some savings are needed.Maybe he thought, a little bit from the proprietress is a little bit.

After listening, Edo Natsuki shook his head.

"Master Xianhu's hot spring has not dried up."

"For you, this should be intolerable?"

Sera Masumi looked at her: "As the guardian of Lord Fairy Fox for eight consecutive generations, we must never let the world know that the hot spring has been exhausted."

Therefore, the suspension bridge was immediately blocked to prevent news from leaking out.

Then put Kuriyama Shoujiang.
"It is absolutely impossible for me to do that kind of thing in the holy bath."

"Indeed. It is impossible for women to enter the bathroom without suspicion."

Qinghai Chuantang suddenly spoke for the proprietress.

In fact, women have absolutely no problem entering men's bathrooms if they want to be unsuspecting.

Just ask Conan for his invisibility.

"Yes."

Shiliang Zhenchun smiled: "So I can only think so. The scene of the crime is not in the bathroom."

She made a wild guess.

After 0:30 last night, Kuriyama Shoue, who finished the phone call, went outside and called out that the proprietress planned to blackmail her.

But the proprietress made up her mind to kill him cruelly.

After everyone was asleep, the proprietress moved Kuriyama Shoue back to the inner room, pretending that he was killed in the bath.

"But at this moment, something unexpected happened."

Due to postmortem rigidity, the corpse is erect.

The unnatural posture makes it easy for people to see that it is not a bath.

So he had no choice but to pull the body out of the bath and drag it to the dressing room.

"In this way, it can be said that it was Master Xianhu's curse that dragged the corpse out of the sacred place."

So, here's the answer to the mystery of the dead body being dragged out of the bathroom.

"To a certain extent, this may really be the curse of Master Xianhu. You were also bound by Master Xianhu for a lifetime to do this kind of thing."

After hearing this, Edo Natsuki let out a weird laugh.

"What else do you say?"

She stopped laughing, "Master Xianhu really exists, guarding us in this room."

Edo Natsuki seemed to be insane, and bowed to the enshrined fairy fox statue.

He kept chanting "Master Fairy Fox" in his mouth.

"Boss lady. Next, are you recruiting?" Shiliang Zhenchun walked to her side.

Edo Natsuki turned to look at her, and said blankly, "I didn't do it."

After she finished speaking, she turned and looked at Qinghai Chuantang.

Smiling: "Really, Miss Tang?"

Seeing this, Mai Kirishima couldn't help holding his forehead, and whispered: "It's over, the old problem has happened again."

Everyone's eyes were also focused on Qinghai Chuantang, waiting for her answer.

"Yes. The proprietress had a drink with me in the front hall between midnight and two o'clock last night."

"what?"

Sera's face was incredulous.

So is this the reason why you refused to share a room with two people at that time, and insisted on a single room with a firm attitude?

Qinghai Chuantang smiled and said, "She has a perfect alibi."

"Mr. Kuriyama asked me about the ingredients of the hot spring."

Therefore, there was no extortion as Seliang Masumi imagined.

"In that case, isn't there not a single suspect?"

"Yes, I have."

Qinghai Chuantang said with a smile: "Actually, to put it simply, it is Xin Chuan Tianzi's fans who targeted Kuriyama Shoujiang for revenge."

Sera Masumi blinked her eyes and was stunned for a moment.

"So, I was thinking too much? But why dragged the corpse to the locker room?"

"Indeed, this is the biggest mystery in this case. But if you think of it as a murder by a man who fell in love, it's not incomprehensible."

The murderer's crime plan should be very meticulous, so there is no camouflage, and the pure purpose is to kill the old enemy Kuriyama Shoujiang.

After the murder, the murderer found his rival's mobile phone in the locker room.

Maybe there is a private photo of the goddess in the phone that has not been posted on the Internet.

As a crazy fan of Shinkawa Takko, the murderer couldn't restrain his anxiety and turned on his phone.

However, the phone is locked.

"So, the murderer quickly returned to the bath where the body was, in order to unlock it through fingerprint authentication, but something went wrong."

"why?"

Mai Kirishima raised her hand and asked.

"Because the finger bubble is swollen."

No matter what, the murderer wanted to see the goddess' private photos, so he dragged the body to the dressing room.

Then, dry the swollen fingers with a hair dryer.

In this way, the murderer finally successfully unlocked.

Behind a stupid murder, there is always a stupid truth.

"Wait! If the murderer is a fan of Shinkawa Takko, why didn't he just take the phone away?"

Sera Masumi asked her own question.

"indeed."

Qinghai Chuantang nodded with great satisfaction and said, "So there isn't a single photo of Miss Xinchuan in that phone."

Mai Kirishima let out an "ah".

"Why? Were they not lovers?"

"I think everyone here has a deep misunderstanding. Everyone thinks that Mr. Kuriyama was killed, but in fact, it was Kaju Kuroishi."

Everyone's eyes suddenly shifted to "Heishi Jiaju" who was present.

She couldn't help lowering her head.

Kuriyama Shoue and Kuroishi Kaju exchanged names.

In other words, the "Heishi Jiaju" sitting here at this time should actually be "Kuriyama Shoujiang".

The trigger of the incident was Shinkawa Takko's suicide.

Perhaps, it was the fear of watching the fans who ignited the flames of revenge.So Lishan Shoujiang planned to ask Master Xianhu for help.

However, it is dangerous to reveal the name, so he made a plan.

Among her male friends, she asked Kuroishi Kaju, who had a female name.

But everyone mistakenly thinks that the lover is a man. When they see a man who claims to be Kuriyama Shoue, they think it is him.

And the murderer also had such a misunderstanding, and finally killed him.

"If you say that all of the above is just my personal imagination. But if you think about it this way, there is a good explanation for the wallet being stolen."

This morning, knowing that his double had been killed, the real Kuriyama Shoue was terrified.

And the road is broken, and the murderer is under the same roof.

If his real name is revealed, he may be killed.

Feeling the crisis, Toshie Kuriyama stole everyone's wallets in order to hide his real name.

The purpose is not money, but anything in it that can prove identity.

"Is that so, Miss Kuriyama?"

Everyone looked at her.

"Heishi always liked hot springs. After listening to my troubles, he accepted my request with a smile."

So, the two wrote their own names on the name tags and exchanged names.

It's just that she didn't expect such a thing to happen.

"Because of the swap, the timing of the crime should have changed."

Sera Masumi stroked his chin and thought, "In other words, only Ms. Kuriyama and Mr. Saku can kill people."

There is no need for Kuriyama Shoue to kill his double, so...
"The murderer is Mr. Saku!"

Sakuma Tomo grasped his clothes tightly, more like clenched something.

He stood up and seemed to take something out of his trouser pocket.

"It was you who killed Tian Zi!"

He opened the jackknife and stabbed Kuriyama Shoue.

She couldn't react at all, and when she closed her eyes instinctively, Sera Masumi appeared in front of her, subduing her in an instant.

Sakuma Tomo fell to the ground and passed out.

A pendant was exposed, with a photo of Shinkawa Takko on it.

"Hey, are you okay?" Shiliang Zhenchun looked at the person behind him.

Kuriyama Shoue lowered his head, his voice was crying.

"It's not that I hate her anymore. It's just that we had a little quarrel and said something angry about breaking up. I never thought that Tian Zi would commit suicide."

In the words, full of self-blame and guilt.

"Miss Xinchuan, who passed away, really loved you."

Kuriyama Shoujiang raised his head and looked at her: "Are you mocking me? Just because we are women!"

Apparently, Sera's pure and neutral dress made the other party misunderstand her gender.

And this is not the first time.

"But she is also a woman, but she can only be regarded as a girl now."

Qinghai Chuantang looked at her, and said seriously: "Who can laugh at other people's lover's mood? The murderer's claws have not touched you. Now Miss Xinchuan must feel at ease from the bottom of her heart."

Kuriyama Shoujiang could no longer restrain his emotions at the moment, squatting on the ground and crying bitterly.

In the end, the suspension bridge was still not repaired, but a helicopter was contacted from nowhere.

"But who broke the drawbridge in the end?"

Sera Masumi looked at her, as if he wanted to ask for an answer.

Just like at the end of the case, the murderer must always be pointed out.

"Probably, Master Xianhu blocked the suspension bridge in order to prevent the murderer from escaping."

Qinghai Chuantang laughed softly: "If you think about it this way, wouldn't it be fine?"

Not everything needs a truth and an answer.

Sometimes, not knowing is the greatest "truth".

"Speaking of which," Shiliang Zhenchun's expression became very serious: "Who are you? It always feels like a messy puzzle."

I have to say that the metaphor chosen by the other party is very appropriate.

She smiled, and stretched out her hand to Shiliang's innocent face, making him slightly stunned.

"Until you find the truth, keep searching. Until you find the truth you think."

The helicopter got closer and closer, and the strong wind blurred the words behind her.

"Just keep looking until you find the truth."

This is what Shiliang Zhenchun remembered, what the other party said.

(End of this chapter)