Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"So what did Ms. Tomoda come into contact with before she died?"

Because Kudo Shinichi and Conan both said that they saw Miss Tomoda lying on the ground after they came back, Inspector Megure looked at Mouri Ran and Sato Miwako.

The policewoman seemed very embarrassed. She explained in a low voice that she had been observing several suspects and guarding against the murder of Mr. Mochizuki who might appear out of nowhere. She did not pay special attention to Miss Tomoda.

"Ms. Tomoda ate the fruit from the fruit plate and drank some water." Mao Lilan recalled carefully and pointed to the table: "She handed the plates and other things to those who needed them."

"Before we left the store, Ms. Tomoda went to mix drinks." Kudo Shinichi pointed to the bartending table not far away: "But there was a long time in between. If the poison was taken at that time, it would be even more difficult to confirm."

In other words, there were too many sources of contact. Inspector Megure turned to the bandages and scarves next to him, focusing on the bandaged man whose alias was "Matsuda".

"What about you guys? Have you found anything?"

Inspector Megure touched his hat. Logically, he could not base his analysis and reasoning mainly on the testimonies of these people, but from what Sato had just told him about the kidnapping case, it was obvious that these people had no connection with the Mochizuki case before, so he could try to use them as a reference.

"We all ate the fruit plate, and even Miss Tomoda brought us our food and drinks, so I think it was only her food that had problems."

After looking at the silent Kudo Shinichi and Conan, the man in the scarf glanced at Kanemoto Mitsuki who was touching things around with his hands wrapped in a handkerchief behind the crowd, and Amuro Toru who was looking at him suspiciously.

"This is not nonsense, otherwise there would be more people lying here. Can you say something useful?" Inspector Megure rolled his eyes.

"No, this gentleman means Miss Tomoda's drink cup and her dish. This is the direction we should track down."

Amuro Toru stood up from behind Jin Yuanguang and said, "It's pointless to check everyone's things. Scarf-kun is saying that the criminal didn't put the poison in things that everyone would touch. The direction is very strong."

"Speaking unilaterally, this person has a grudge against Ms. Tomoda," Kudo Shinichi concluded.

"In the first case, Mr. Mochizuki had an unknown relationship with Ms. Tomoda. Ms. Tomoda threatened Mr. Mochizuki to marry her, but Mr. Mochizuki didn't want to, so he used a method to kill her."

The scarf man was in full swing, with his index finger raised, while Mr. Mochizuki stared at him in panic.

"In the second case, Ms. Murakami was jealous of Ms. Tomoda, who had the best performance at work here and could go to college after making money, unlike herself who was destined to be unable to escape this industry. Jealousy led her to kill her."

Miss Murakami lowered her eyes, feeling that the guests next to her were looking at her in a way that made her particularly scared. She gritted her teeth and muttered, "Stop joking."

"Huh?" Ran Mouri, who was not far from her, heard Miss Murakami's voice, but did not hear clearly what she said. Just as she was about to listen carefully, her eyes flashed and she saw the shadow rushing straight towards the man in the scarf.

"People like you have been talking nonsense all the time. It's really annoying!"

When Miss Murakami saw the scarf man flip his hand, her eyes tightened and she turned to the side and reached out to pull the rolled scarf off Matsuda Jinpei's face.

"That one just now is!"

Mao Lilan covered her mouth and exclaimed, while Kudo Shinichi and Conan also frowned. Miss Murakami's action just now was quite outstanding, not something that an ordinary person could do. At least she has made some achievements in fighting skills, and she is fully qualified to be a teacher in that kind of special children's interest class.

In theory, Officer Megure and other police officers could see this, but their attention was completely captured by the face under the scarf. They were so shocked that they no longer had the energy to pay attention to Murakami. "That's terrible. I told you not to just wear a scarf around your face..." Fujiwara turned his head and immediately met Amuro Toru's dull face: "This is troublesome."

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"How's the identity check going for the people in that store?"

In the Metropolitan Police Department, Takagi Wataru, who was waiting for the autopsy report of Miss Tomoda, saw an ordinary police officer running towards him with a panicked look, and took the personnel list handed to him with some surprise.

Because it was already time to get off work, the police officer who was assigned to return to the Metropolitan Police Department could only go to the on-duty office to print out his identity information. The two of them planned to return to the crime scene together to report later.

"How could this be?"

He looked up in confusion. In this stack of documents, the names of all the people involved in the case were different from what the other party had just said in the store. Miss Murakami was not called Murakami, her real name was Ando Masami, Mr. Mochizuki was not called Mochizuki, his real name was Higashida Yoshio, and there was also a mistake with Butler Shinjo.

"The information shows that they all have a common profession." The police officer flicked the paper in Takagi Shigeru's hand and said, "Actors. But according to the information we found, these three people have been missing for five years."

This kind of thing made Gao Mushi feel creepy. He swallowed and said in a trembling voice: "I didn't see Miss Tomoda..."

"Because this person...cannot be found at all, and is not in our system. Either her mother has never left the house since she became pregnant, or...this person is not a living person."

If Ms. Tomoda had sneaked into Japan, it would be unlikely that Officer Sato would have failed to notice it.

Takagi Wataru's pupils shrank and he turned to look at the closed forensic classroom behind him where a corpse was being examined. Suddenly he felt a pain in his neck, and his vision went black and he fell down.

Looking at Takagi Wataru in front of him, the police officer walked around him and pushed open the door of the forensic classroom. He saw the forensic police officer lying on the ground and fainted in fright, and Tomoda twisting and twitching on the autopsy bed.

“Chuckle… chuckle.”

The voice suddenly stopped, and Tomoda sat up straight, staring at the police officer who came in with his white eyes.

"Chuck...Chuck."

"Have you had enough fun? You still have to go back to the scene."

"Giggle."

"Never stop, right?"

Tomoda raised his hands and the sound of his voice suddenly changed, and the whole floor was filled with the screams of a hen.

"Cluck, cluck, cluck." (End of this chapter)