Stay away from Conan.

Chapter 1631 Reversal of Thinking

According to the testimony of "Kudo Shinichi", Asakawa Tomouri seemed to be confessing to her "predecessor", so the three suspects selected were exactly the people who met the category of "predecessors" of Asakawa Tomouri who were initially identified -

A male third-year student at Teitan High School, or a male senior who has graduated from Teitan High School and attended the same school as Asakawa Tomori, and preferably someone who knows Asakawa Tomori.

In this way, the police found three people who met the requirements based on these conditions.

Among them, two are third-year students at Teitan High School and belong to the same club as Asakawa Tomori. The other one graduated from Teitan High School last year and has entered university. He was also a member of that club. When Asakawa Tomori joined the club in his first year of high school, this senior was in his third year, so there was some overlap.

Apart from these, there were no other qualified people backstage. After all, there were no senior high school classes holding a performance at the gymnasium today, so there were not many senior high school students backstage. As a result, in the end, there were only three people who met the suspect's characteristics.

Just like that, facing the three suspects, Inspector Megure naturally started questioning them. He asked them why the three of them appeared backstage, their alibis at the time of the incident, and whether they had seen Asakawa Tomori.

The result was that the three had seen Asakawa Tomori before the incident, but at the time of the incident, the three had their own things to do. They all said that they only heard about Asakawa Tomori falling from the platform above the gymnasium after the incident happened.

Among them, the boy who has already graduated explained why he appeared backstage that he took the opportunity of the school festival to come back to see his juniors from his original club. After all, their club also has students like Asakawa Tomori who is a sophomore in high school and is preparing to perform in the gymnasium, so he came backstage for this reason.

As for the other two senior high school students, they were students at the beverage stand here and just now they came to deliver drinks to the backstage.

Regarding this point, Gao Yuan found Ayako Ninagawa at the beverage stand and got a positive answer.

In this way, the three of them gave reasonable explanations for coming to the backstage, but regarding their alibis at the time of the incident, the three of them were unable to explain the situation clearly because they did not know the time when Asakawa Tomori fell from the building, and none of them paid attention to the time backstage at the time, so it was difficult to clarify their testimonies for the time being.

In this case, Inspector Megure was helpless in the face of such a situation and could only keep them for the time being and let the police officers verify the situation as much as possible.

However, Gao Yuan, who was standing beside them, asked them a question that Inspector Megure did not mention:

"Since you are all Asakawa's current or former clubmates, do you know who Asakawa likes?"

Although Gao Yuan was skeptical about the testimony of the fake "Kudo Shinichi", he felt that the so-called suspects found through this testimony were most likely not the criminals. But it just so happened that since they all belonged to the same club as Asakawa Tomori, perhaps they knew something about Asakawa Tomori.

So, Gao Yuan asked this question:

Perhaps, the answer to this question can be used to analyze the authenticity of the testimony given by the fake "Kudo Shinichi"!

So, when the three boys heard this question, their expressions were the same, and they all looked towards the corner, in the direction of "Kudo Shinichi"——

"This... I don't know if it counts..."

"But we did hear about her when she first joined the club in her freshman year..."

"The person she likes..."

In this way, as the three of them talked one after another, their eyes finally turned to the same person. Even though the three of them had not yet given a clear answer, everyone present had already understood -

"That's Kudo Shinichi!"

At this point, the clear answer made all those who had only guessed look at "Kudo Shinichi" in the corner - of course, Conan himself hesitated for a moment, feeling a little surprised, but then he looked at the impostor.

After all, he is now "Kudo Shinichi", and when the incident happened he said that he heard what Asakawa Tomori said.

Combined with the current situation, no matter how you think about it, there are problems -

"Hey, Xiaolan, do you know about this?"

Because it involves Kudo Shinichi, Sonoko couldn't help but ask Xiaolan in a low voice, because a classmate of hers also likes Kudo Shinichi, and Sonoko had never paid attention to this matter.

In this regard, Xiaolan glanced at "Kudo Shinichi" who was being stared at by everyone at the moment. Seeing that he looked confused, Xiaolan seemed to have some guesses, but said uncertainly:

"This... I don't know either..."

  Regarding this, Ai, who was standing beside Conan, said to Conan directly with an indifferent expression:

"Is that right?"

"This... I don't know either. I did receive a lot of love letters, but there were also many that were unsigned. I didn't have the time to take care of all that..."

Hearing that Ai seemed to be teasing him, Conan responded helplessly.

"Ah, are you trying to show that you're popular?"

In response to this, Xiao Ai rolled her eyes at him and said:

"But ignoring other people's feelings for you like this can cause problems!"

Conan was unable to refute for a moment.

——"So, Kudo-san, what's your answer?"

However, at this moment, although most people were looking at Kudo Shinichi, only Gao Yuan took the lead in asking questions to "Kudo Shinichi". Most of them, like Inspector Megure, did not know that this Kudo Shinichi was an impostor, and for a moment they didn't know what to say. It was Gao Yuan's direct behavior that broke the atmosphere.

As a result, those who didn't know the truth seemed to be waiting for Kudo Shinichi's answer with some trepidation, while those who knew the truth were in a mood to watch the show, wanting to see what explanation this "Kudo Shinichi" could give.

"W-what..."

  At this point, facing so many pairs of eyes looking at him, "Kudo Shinichi" seemed a little overwhelmed. Finally, he covered his head and said in pain:

"This... I really don't know. I was feeling really bad. I can't remember the situation clearly... But, I really didn't lie. As for Asakawa..."

"I want to ask, are you sure that what you heard was said by Asakawa-san?"

However, Gao Yuan didn't want to waste time with this fake fool. At this moment, he actually had some guesses -

"Are you sure that the person who said 'I like seniors very much' was Asakawa? Or are you just unable to tell whose voice is whose?"