The unscrupulous detective in Conan

Chapter 1265 You didn't kill his mother, so why did she die?
Fujino thought for a moment, then asked again:
"Where did the bullet enter the gun?"

"And there are specific angles as well."

Megure Juzo was used to his younger brother's questions. He figured his dear brother could find the culprit by analyzing the angle of the shot, so he said directly, "It entered from the back of the head and then went through the forehead. The angle wasn't big; it went through almost parallel."

Fujino pondered, "So, you've concluded that the murderer must be over 180cm tall?"

“That’s right,” Inspector Megure replied. “After all, no matter how you look at it, only a very tall person can achieve this shooting angle. If someone is at the same height, then to shoot someone in the head, they would have to tilt the muzzle slightly.”

Upon hearing this, Fujino imagined that if the bullet passed through the head parallel to the ground, the trajectory would look like this: ←O←i.

However, if the person is shorter, the bullet's trajectory will become O←i.

Therefore, in terms of judgment, it is not wrong.

At this point, those who frequently work on cases with the Grim Reaper should know what I mean.

At times like these, the Grim Reaper Elementary School Student will start causing trouble!

Fujino glanced silently at a certain elementary school student who was a death god, and then saw the kid suddenly exclaim "Ahhh!" and then pretend to be curious, saying:
"But Inspector Megure, if Mrs. Funamoto had bowed her head back then, she might have left such a mark!"

That's a good question. Don't ask it again next time.

Megure was very unhappy with the way the children treated the police like fools.

But considering the Metropolitan Police Department's track record...

Forget it.

He sighed and explained, "That's impossible. There were no bullets or bullet holes left at the scene."

Therefore, the possibility of shooting from above can be largely ruled out.

"So the forensic experts came to this conclusion, and that's what we thought too."

"That's it..."

Conan nodded and fell into deep thought.

As for Hondo Sakura... cough hum, Hondo Eisuke looked at Conan, a thoughtful look appearing in his eyes.

He wondered, could an ordinary elementary school student have thought of this?
Shouldn't normal elementary school students be wiping their snot and shouting things like "eel rice" or "Kamen Rider"?
Yuantai:?
At that moment, a middle-aged woman dressed in black suddenly came out of the Funamoto family home.

Upon seeing Fujino, she immediately exclaimed:

"Detective Fujino!"

"?"

"Please, Detective Fujino, find the real culprit who murdered the lady!"

As she spoke, the woman secretly glanced at the police officer next to her, looking anxious: "It seems like these police officers alone can't find the real culprit!"

"..." Megure's old face immediately fell, and he thought to himself, "What do you mean I'm unreliable? Be careful, or I'll suspect you're the murderer!"

According to Megure's introduction, this woman is a maid in the Funamoto family named Shigeno Takami, and the only remaining male head of the Funamoto family is named Funamoto Tatsujin. Funamoto Tatsujin is in a wheelchair, supposedly because he fell after stepping on a rock.

It made Fujino dream back to his past life in the first episode of Detective Conan, the old man who got kicked in the back of the head by a globe.

Why wasn't that old man kicked to death back then?

This has always been Fujino's question.

However, after traveling through time, I witnessed the physical constitution of the Mikado people.

He felt that the old man was already being very kind to Shinichi Kudo by not catching the globe with his bare hands.

Besides these two people, the Funamoto family also has a child.

The child's name is Touji Funamoto, and he is the son of the dead woman.

He ran out shouting, "The one who killed Mom was that foreign woman!"

"It's definitely her!"

"A foreign woman whose entire body is black!"

"...?!"

Conan's gaze suddenly sharpened as he thought of the foreign woman, dressed in all black.

She immediately thought of Vermouth!
Moreover, the more he looked at it, the more familiar it seemed.

This brat, isn't he the one who rushed out to retrieve the ball, causing Kiel to fall off the motorcycle and land headfirst on the ground, almost ending up in jail?
Conan glanced directly at Hondo Eisuke beside him, his eyes narrowing slightly.

He felt that the more he looked at the kid, the more sinister he became.

I just came here to do some casual research and ran into someone I knew?

Is there really such a coincidence in this world?

This guy, he definitely did it on purpose!!!
Wait, could it be Vermouth in disguise again?!
Fujino, observing Conan's reaction, immediately understood what was going on.

Hmm, it seems Hondo Eisuke is still acting according to his memory...

That brat seems to be one of Vermouth's targets as well?

As for the foreign woman in black, she must be Vermouth.

At this moment, Hondo Eisuke cast a sharp gaze at the unruly child in front of him, then stepped forward and began to question him: "What's the deal with that foreign woman you mentioned?"

"What's weird?"

Without hesitation, the mischievous child replied, "That foreign woman asked me a lot of questions! Did you see the accident? Did you see that person's face? And so on..."

Hondo Eisuke frowned slightly: "So, what was your answer?"

The boy said firmly, "I told my mom about it, and then she just chuckled..."

"So, it must have been that woman who killed my mother!"

Hondou Eisuke narrowed his eyes upon hearing this: "Then, what kind of accident was it?"

"Someone suddenly flew off a motorcycle!"

The kid answered decisively, "That guy's motorcycle helmet flew off, and that face is the one I often see on TV..."

"Is that Kamen Rider?"

Conan then interrupted, "Kamen Rider and the motorcycle were both blasted away!"

"what?"

The kid looked at Conan with an expression that said, "Are you a kid?"

Fujino felt that this matter could not be discussed any further, and immediately asked, "Brother Megure, have you investigated what he said?"

"We've investigated."

Megure crossed his arms helplessly and said, "But we didn't find any clues at the time. There wasn't even an accident scene, and not even a single eyewitness."

Takagi chimed in, "It must be a fantasy that the child had in his dream."

Conan nodded in agreement: "Yeah, yeah! I often dream about being Kamen Rider and getting knocked away!"

"Aren't you right, Haibara?"

"..."

Ai Haibara glanced at Conan with dead fish eyes and thought to herself: It's one thing for you to embarrass yourself by pretending to be young, but don't drag me into it, okay?

Ultimately, she had no choice but to agree with a simple "hmm".

No one paid any attention to the child's fantasies.

Fujino was well aware that this had indeed happened.

However, it can only be said that the FBI has a great influence in Japan.

When dealing with such cases, ordinary police officers are unlikely to find any clues.

But Hondo Eisuke's gaze remained fixed on a certain elementary school student who was destined to die.

Since it involved his sister, he naturally found out that the case did indeed exist.

Clearly, they are now suspecting Conan.

Fujino felt that Hondo Eisuke might be a normal person who hadn't been assimilated by the Beika world.

That's perfectly normal.

Given Conan's performance, the fact that he hasn't been exposed is truly a testament to his natural talent. In the normal world, he'd be caught red-handed.

He would have been forced to expose himself long ago and taken a beating from Xiaolan.

However, upon reflection, he did have some doubts about this part of the story.

So he took out his phone and sent a text message to Aunt Bei:
User A: "Did you go and kill someone's mother?"

User B: "???"

User A: "It's just a kid, from Toriyama Town. Did you kill his mother?"

"..."

Vermouth was caught off guard by these blunt words.

She quickly thought about what she had done recently.

He thought to himself, "I've never killed anyone's mother, have I?"

You can't put all the blame on me.
Am I really that heartless?

Judy, whose father was killed: It's hard to say, really hard to say...

It wasn't until she saw Toriyama Town that she replied speechlessly, "I went to ask about the situation of that family's child back then, okay!"

"Where did I kill his mother?"

Fujino pondered for a moment, then said, "Then why the hell did he die?"

"How would I know why his mother died!"

"Can't you tell his mother not to get so agitated?"

"I said, why is his mother so excited!"

Vermouth felt that something was off about what was being said, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it. She was furious at the thought of it, but she couldn't quite vent her anger.

After a friendly exchange about his mother.

Fujino then asked, "So you really didn't kill his mother?"

"That's not true!"

Vermouth looked resentful, her cheeks twitching: "Why would I go and kill his mother for no reason? I've already killed his mother, why don't I just kill him too?"

"..."

Fujino expressed his doubts.

Vermouth, that old lady, is the type who cuts the weeds but doesn't eradicate them completely.

When they went to kill Judy's father, they didn't kill all of them; Judy let them go.

To be honest, if it were Fujino, he would have wiped out Judy as well, and also taken care of all the pet dogs and earthworms in the house.

Of course, that was when he was an older woman.

Fujino couldn't help but sigh, thinking to himself: It's just that being a good person is hard. You can't eliminate the root of the problem, and you still end up with a gun pointed at you.

However, it's unlikely that Vermouth was the one who killed him.

If Vermouth were to kill someone, even though the child might forget to finish the job, she would still likely kill the entire family.

Then the killing of this brat's mother must have been an accident.

So what does this story tell us?

A naughty child can kill their mother!

"Brother Fujino, how about we go take a look at the crime scene?"

"it is good."

Megure took the initiative to invite him; he was already used to it.

Right now, all he wants is to solve the case as soon as possible, and then deal with other cases on the other side.

The Metropolitan Police Department is severely understaffed again...

He could only bring Takagi with him.

It's tough. Without my high school detective brother's help, I probably won't even be able to meet my targets!
Sometimes, Megure is quite speechless.

The cases here are either too difficult or too abstract, so abstract that you can't even guess what the motive is!
How can you arrest someone if there's no motive?

Answer me! Look in my eyes!

Are we supposed to just randomly pick one from a list of options?

If the rules don't allow me to guess, how am I supposed to guess?
…………

The maid led everyone to the lady's room.

Megure explained, "The incident occurred on this balcony. The hook was still hanging on the balcony. The glass on the balcony door lock side was broken. The embankment is right outside the window. No one witnessed what happened at the time."

"Huh? That's weird!"

"Why is it only broken at the bottom and not at the top?"

Inspector Megure was utterly speechless at Conan's words. "Of course it's because the locks on top are too high; Mrs. Funamoto can't reach them!"

"Is that right?"

The maid beside her chimed in, "Madam likes to look at the stars. Perhaps after she finished looking at them, she found it too troublesome to lock them up, so she forgot to turn them off."

Inspector Megure asked, "Ms. Shigeno, could you elaborate on what happened the night before the body was discovered?"

"After attending the party, my wife came back and said she was tired and wanted to go to her room to rest."

After listening to the explanation, Inspector Megure said, "We now believe that the culprit sneaked into the room to commit theft, and then suddenly encountered Mrs. Funamoto who had returned. With nowhere to escape, he hid and then took advantage of Mrs. Funamoto looking at the stars to pull out a gun and kill her, and then stole her personal belongings."

"Judging from the ballistic performance, that's the case, and the firing distance also matches the size of the room."

Takagi added, "But strangely enough, the earrings she was wearing were not lost. One was still on her ear, and the other was placed on the dressing table."

"That's it..."

Conan pondered for a moment after hearing this, "If that's the case, then the lady must have been very flustered at the time, right?"

As he spoke, he put his hands in his pockets and smirked slightly: "After all, if she wasn't in a huge hurry, why would she run to the rooftop after taking off her earrings?"

"??!!"

Suddenly, it was as if everyone present had been struck by lightning.

Fujino didn't explode, because he had anticipated this.

The murderer must be the guy in the wheelchair.

Actually, it's quite simple when you think about it.

In terms of ballistics, this parallel situation does not necessarily mean that the person who is looking down or shooting is taller.

Anyone who frequently kills with a gun should know that the bullet's path through the head, if the caliber is large, will be parallel.

This recommendation is commonly used in ballistic verification.

However, this suggestion also has loopholes that can be exploited.

For example, you could strangle someone, restrict their head, find an angle, and then fire at a distance.

Then, the ballistic verification would become completely invalid.

Your height will also not be detected.

Of course, this method is quite abstract and difficult to implement in practice. It requires two people to work together to do it easily.

Here, we take into account that this lady, like District Chief Sun, loves to look at the stars.

If someone shorter than her shoots when she looks up.

The bullet trajectory would then be parallel, creating the illusion that the shooter was taller than the victim.

It's like this: ○¤，◎←○←.

(End of this chapter)