Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"I...I'm really sleeping, really!" Machino kept waving his hands. From the corner of his eye, he saw Mouri Kogoro holding his wife's shoulders. He walked forward and bowed: "Mr. Mouri, I know you are from Japan. Master of reasoning, I am willing to pay 1000 million yen to clear my mind."

Thinking that someone like the uncle would definitely agree immediately, Yuji patted his forehead with a plush glove and waited for a long time but did not hear Mouri Kogoro's answer.

"I will not take your money. On the contrary, I will send you to jail."

Unexpectedly, in the astonishment of Matsuda Jinpei and the police, Uncle Mori looked serious and pushed his wife behind him.

"You...what are you talking about? Do you think that even a great detective like you suspects that I killed my wife?" Machino took a few steps back and said, "Let me see, you are really like the rumors outside. In that case, he’s just a guy who doesn’t live up to his name!”

Conan supported his furry brother. He couldn't figure out why the uncle was so sure now, and he quietly watched the confrontation at the door.

"Mr. Mori, I think it is not the right thing to doubt rashly. Or do you have some unique insights?"

Officer Matsuda took a long pen-like object from his subordinate's hand, twirled the end of the pen and stuck it in his chest pocket.

"In that case, let me make a simple deduction." Uncle Maori nodded: "The first thing is time. After Mrs. Machino entered my wife's room, she was still alive until Eri decided to take a shower."

"You mean, something happened to Mrs. Machino when the concubine's lawyer came out to make a call, right?"

Matsuda Jinpei put his hands on his hips and winked: "But the lawyer said just now that when she came out to answer the phone, Mrs. Machino was sleeping soundly and was still snoring."

"Indeed, the person on the bed was snoring at that time, but..."

"But that person may not be Mrs. Machino, right?" The Bellmodes and their son had already understood the whole story of the case. She felt bored. After a simple compliment, she retreated to Xiaolan and continued to secretly tickle the girl from behind. Some small actions.

"It seems that you have figured it out, brother." Yuji put his hand on Conan's head: "But there is one thing I still can't figure out, the blood stains on the carpet and the blood at the end of the sheets."

Mouri Kogoro rubbed his nose and continued: "The man sneaked into the room and killed his wife when Eri entered the bathroom for the first time. He wanted to decorate the room and put the blame on Eri, but he was just about to leave I was startled by the phone on the bedside table and found the woman in the bathroom preparing to come out. I fell on the bed in desperation, covered myself with the quilt and purred."

"What you said is really more exciting than a novel. Even if it is convenient for me to pretend to be a woman because of my thinness, if the lawyer does not go to the bathroom or leave the room after answering the phone, I will not definitely be discovered." Machino sneered disdainfully: "I wouldn't do something like this that depends on luck."

"Really, but you know Aunt Yingli will definitely take a bath again." Yuji yawned: "After all, this is all part of your murder plan."

The boy walked behind Curly Hair and nudged him lightly with his elbow: "Officer Mazda must have discovered something too."

"Indeed, compared to the drink list prepared for the room by the hotel, the refrigerator in the lawyer's room is almost entirely filled with carbonated drinks, and the mineral water and sports drinks that should have been there are gone." Officer Matsuda took something out of his right pocket A piece of paper, turned over and shaken twice.

"What's interesting is that, except for the Coke that was opened, almost all the carbonated drinks in her refrigerator were double their original size."

Looking at the room where the corpse had been taken away, Curly looked at Uncle Maoli again: "I still have doubts. The blood stains on the sheets and the tail clearly indicate that the bed has been moved. But after asking a few subordinates to try it just now, they found that Unless there are two people, it is almost impossible to move such a heavy bed." Even the policeman who usually exercises deliberately cannot move the bed alone without making any loud noises. This person is so thin that he has almost no muscles. How did Machino do it?
"Let me answer this question." Mouri Kogoro clenched his hands into fists: "It's very simple, just add wheels to the four legs of the bed."

"Add wheels, although it is true that rolling will not make any loud noises, but how to fix them?"

If the bed legs are not fixed firmly and fall to the ground, even people with weak ears can hear it.

"Mr. Maori, we brought what you asked us to find." A general police officer wearing white gloves lifted a box and asked others to see the contents inside.

"How many toy cars?" Yuji finally understood Machino's method of moving the bed, looked at several crushed convertible sports cars inside, and instructed Matsuda to take them out.

"So that's how it is. Just clip the bed legs to the driver's seat of the convertible sports car model, so you don't have to worry about fixing it." Officer Matsuda ordered his subordinates to put the handcuffs on Machino.

"Wait, there's still the murder weapon, if you haven't found the murder weapon..."

"I've known the murder weapon for a long time." Curly Mao lit another cigarette for himself and slowly exhaled the smoke. His red bloodshot eyes caught a glimpse of the round ashtray on the coffee table in the room. "

"According to the list, the ashtray in this room should be square, but now it is round." After slowly shaking the ashtray into the ashtray, Officer Matsuda pointed to the square ashtray in the hands of the policeman behind Machino.

"And the ashtray in your room was supposed to be round, but now it has become a square. Mr. Machino, cleaning the ashtray must be very hard."

"Hmph, so what if you find it. I've washed it many times and used disinfectant. Even if you find something on it, it can't be used as evidence of conviction."

"Really, but you may not know that the numbers of drinks placed in the refrigerator in each room are recorded in the hotel's central system. Can you explain how you, who have never entered this room, did it? Where are you who stuffed all the carbonated drinks in your room into Lawyer Concubine’s refrigerator?”

"me…"

Machino was speechless. He knelt on the ground with a plop and looked at the black blood on the carpet in despair: "She clearly cheated on her and still wanted to find a lawyer to divide half of my property. How could I do this..."

"While you were lying on the bed pretending to be asleep." Fei Yingli poked her head out from behind Mouri Kogoro: "Why didn't you do anything?"

"I just feel that the matter between me and her shouldn't involve others." Machino blinked: "I don't regret it, but I gave you a bad memory."

Machino was taken away, and Feiyingli's room was sealed. She had to reluctantly go back to his room with her husband. In order not to act as a light bulb for the couple, Xiaolan pulled her away before her parents agreed. "Machiko" went to her room.

Yuji looked at Miss Chrissy and Xiaolan who walked into the room hand in hand, and shook his head at Conan: "Let's go, I'll teach you how to play cards."

(End of this chapter)