Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"Unfortunately, there is a long corridor after coming out of room 24, which is not suitable for hiding people." Sato Miwako led a group of policemen to knock on the wall repeatedly. Hearing that the sound was solid, she shook her head at Kudo Yuji.

"That said, the technique is still done in the room."

Following the corridor back to the room, the young man looked at the small conversation room, moved slowly along the wall, and carefully observed the situation in the room.

"This room is the same. In fact, from the outside, it looks like four isolated walls." Yuji turned his head and stared at the hotel manager: "So has the suspect stayed in this hotel recently?"

The hotel manager had been following him. He was no fool as he could manage a hotel. He knew exactly who the suspect was, so he shook his head hastily: "Our hotel has regulations. In principle, we cannot disclose guests' check-in information at will."

Thinking that he didn't want to cooperate, the policemen stared at him until he was panicked. The manager quickly changed his words and said, "Of course, as a hotel praised by many social heroes, we have an obligation to cooperate with the police investigation."

"That's right. In this situation, no one is in the mood to play word games here."

Yuji waved his hand to urge the hotel manager to hurry up, and smiled when he was the only one left in the room.

"I have already guessed what method this guy used."

"Yeah, I thought of that, but this guy is really an idiot." Hagiwara Chisawa seemed very unhappy. He found that Yokomizo Shigego was looking at him stupidly, so he covered his face and sighed.

"No, no, no, if you think about it this way, we have been looking for clues for so long, aren't we worse than idiots?"

"What are you... talking about? What is his method?"

Miwako Sato blinked and watched Kudo Yuuji walk up to Chiba and reach into the pocket on his stomach, then take out a pair of gloves and put them on.

"Don't you always wear gloves yourself..." The fat boy Chiba stretched out his hand but failed to stop him. He just muttered a few words and found that Kudo Yuji put the gloves in front of his nose and sniffed them in confusion, revealing a mischievous smile.

"Hey, this!" Officer Chiba seemed to be hesitant to speak, and finally turned around helplessly and pretended not to see it.

"Okay, actually the criminal's method, no, this can't be called a method."

Yuji walked to the table, lifted the tablecloth, pointed at the empty space below and said, "The criminal was able to kill the victim last because he had been hiding under the table. He chose to kill the victim between the third and fourth victims so that Officer Yokomizo would subconsciously believe that the writer killed the twenty-fourth victim."

"That's all?" Sato Miwako opened her mouth wide: "But the space is too small. If the man accidentally stretches his legs, he will kick the murderer directly. Wouldn't that expose him?"

"If he was just hiding under the table, it would be possible, but the murderer only needed to move forward a little bit."

Yuji shook his finger. "Both the otaku and the writer used the words "rect" and "reserved" to describe No. 24's sitting posture. The otaku also said that he clinked glasses with the woman in order to sit down, and she even lowered her posture."

"This is because the murderer's head was resting on the victim's legs at the time." Hagiwara Chisawa took over Yuji's words and was about to demonstrate it, but suddenly realized that this posture was not good, so he pointed at Yokomizo Shigeo and asked him to sit on the chair.

"That's it? Yeah."

Sitting firmly in his chair, Yokomizo saw Yuuji and Chisawa Hagiwara pushing Officer Chiba to get under the table.

"Officer Takagi is not here, so I'll leave it to you this time, Officer Chiba. After the case is over, we will give you the opportunity to have a couple's candlelight dinner at the hotel."

Yuji saw Officer Chiba agree under the gaze of Sato Miwako, and after he got in, he couldn't wait to sit on the chair originally prepared for male guests, then poked his toes forward and heard Chiba hum.

"No, no, Officer Chiba, please move a little further." "Oh." Chiba crawled forward two steps under the tablecloth, stopped and asked, "Is this okay?"

Another kick in the butt, the boy outside urged him on, "In front, in front."

But Officer Chiba's hands were already on Shigeo Yokomizo's feet. His current posture was very strange, sitting like a duck like a woman, but because of his fat body, he couldn't sit down at all, so he had to bend over and try to lower his head to avoid lifting up the table.

"Officer Chiba, didn't Officer Hagiwara just say that the suspect was lying on the victim's lap? Please imitate this posture."

"what?!"

Everyone saw the table top bounce up, and the loud and crisp sound was probably caused by someone's head hitting the table.

"No…No, I."

"Hey, but Officer Hagiwara and Officer Sato are both girls in the room right now. You don't want them to do the simulation with Officer Yokomizo, do you?"

Yuji's hand rested on his chin, and although his face had a calm expression, the words that came out of his mouth were full of emotion.

"You don't want me to do this, ah, Officer Chiba, I didn't expect you to be so into this. It seems I have to ask Officer Yumi to help her lovely junior choose a boyfriend."

"I'll do it!"

Chiba placed his hands on Shigeo Yokomizo's knees, took a deep breath, and slowly leaned his head toward the tablecloth. Of course, his body, which was kneeling on the ground, also moved forward a lot.

Noticing that Sato Miwako, who was standing next to Yokomizo Shigego, nodded at him, the boy swept his feet back and forth under the tablecloth, only slightly kicking Officer Chiba when he collapsed.

"Well, because it was Officer Chiba, if it was Toru Furuya, and Miss No. 24 wasn't as big as Officer Yokomizo, he should have been able to lie down further forward."

Yuji pulled his hand under the table, brought Officer Chiba out, and patted his shoulder with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work, Officer Chiba. You are definitely the main contributor to solving this case."

"I don't want this kind of first credit." Chiba turned his head and asked in confusion: "Why doesn't Officer Yokomizo mind at all?"

He just put his head on the other person's thigh. Wouldn't two men feel disgusted?
"Why do you mind? It's all for the sake of solving the case. I can totally understand." Yokomizo Shigego glanced at Chiba and said, "I've seen so many cases. Is there anything more unacceptable than the corpse of the victim?"

"Look, this is the awareness of the police chief. Officer Chiba, you must learn from it." When Yuji saw the candlelight dinner ticket handed over by Hagiwara Chisuku, he reached out and took it and put it into Officer Chiba's pocket.

"Of course, there must be rewards."

"Okay, I've asked the police outside to do a fingerprint test on the stockings on No. 24's legs. Someone will also come to check the floor of the room later."

Miwako Sato frowned: "But why did he kill No. 24? What was his motive?"

"I'm afraid we'll have to wait for news from the hospital."

(End of this chapter)