Conan: This repairman is not very knowledgeable

"That means someone deceived the landlady. Mr. Maori, you are planning to treat us and ask her to take this bottle of wine, right?"

Takagi quickly figured out what was going on, but he was still quite confused. It was just taking a bottle of wine, what did it have to do with murder?

"The short lady boss had to use the swivel chair in the kitchen to get the bottle of wine."

"If she wanted to keep herself safe, her body would subconsciously grab the cabinet and stick to the wall."

"The murderer chose this exact moment and inserted a knife through the crack in the wall, killing the proprietress."

The criminal method is actually not complicated, but every subtle clue can be easily overlooked.

For example, wine bottles, empty wine glasses, and the gaps that are everywhere in this store.

"You, are you saying that the murderer was standing outside the store and killing people?!" Inspector Megure immediately walked out of the store and looked at the situation outside the kitchen wall.

It turns out that there is a gap between this small shop and the shop next door.

There were boxes of wine bottles and various cardboard boxes piled up, and a trash can was placed there, completely blocking the view. No one really noticed this place just now.

"The width is not a problem." Inspector Megure felt that with his body size, he could pass through by slightly tucking in his stomach, so others could also pass through with knives.

"Wait a minute, when we opened the door, the proprietress was clearly lying on the table. How could she have been stabbed to death by a knife while leaning against the wall?" Shan Qianxun called for a pause, thinking that there was something wrong with the direction of the fall.

If you fall against the wall, the police will be able to find you.

"The problem was with the small swivel chair. After the proprietress was stabbed to death, she fell onto the swivel chair."

"This force caused the swivel chair to spin, and eventually the boss's wife fell on the table," Uncle Maori explained.

There is a certain coincidence in this posture. I guess the prisoner must have been very happy to see this scene through the gap.

"Mr. Maori, the blade can pass through the gap in the wall, but what about the handle?" Takagi raised a new question.

"The handle."

"What if the knife that stabbed the boss lady to death didn't have a handle at all?"

Hearing this, Takagi, who was holding a kitchen knife in his hand, was stunned.

Like the murder weapon, this is also a Japanese kitchen knife with the same branding on the handle.

"oh?!"

Unlike Western knives, there are no screws or anything like that to fix the knife handle. Takagi shook it for a while and pulled the blade directly out of the handle.

"That is to say!" Officer Megure was surprised when he saw that Takagi's experiment was successful.

The handle is pushed on later!
"Yes, the murderer found the victim's body with us, but he rushed into the kitchen as if he was very worried. While shouting and asking questions, he quietly put the knife handle back under the table."

"After doing all this, he helped the boss's wife to lift up her body and showed us the knife on her body."

After the sleeping Kogoro finished speaking, Chihiro Ogi and Susumu Nakamura both looked at Masao Shinohara, as he was the first one to rush into the store.

"Mr. Shinohara, is there anything wrong with my reasoning?" Conan glanced at the curly-haired young man and asked in a deep voice.

"You, are you kidding me? I clearly went to the ATM." Shinohara Masao took out the withdrawal slip again.

"The ATM is not far from this store and you can go around the back and outside the kitchen, so this alibi does not hold true."

Conan spoke up to refute this alibi.

"I remember that you, Shinohara, have always wanted to be a chef, so you must be very familiar with the structure of Japanese kitchen knives." Nakamura Susumu remembered this detail.

People like him who have never been in the kitchen have no idea what the difference is between these kitchen knives.

"Stop talking nonsense, do you have any evidence?" Mr. Shinohara asked loudly.

"You've noticed it yourself, right? The blue handkerchief in your chest pocket seems to be stained with something." Before the sleeping Kogoro finished his words, Shinohara Masao's expression changed drastically. It seemed that there was really something on the handkerchief.

"Excuse me!" Inspector Megure stepped forward and personally took out the items from the other man's chest pocket.

In addition to the withdrawal details that he had carefully read before, there was also a handkerchief.

At first glance, there was some rust on the light blue handkerchief, and there was also a little bloodstain, a very small piece.

"He used this handkerchief to wrap the kitchen knife with the handle removed, stabbed into the kitchen, and killed the boss's wife."

"I think it was too urgent and you needed to hurry back to the store, so you stuffed the handkerchief back into your pocket without even looking at it."

Conan was also unlucky. Lin Feng kept pressing his head, and he ended up noticing the handkerchief dropped by Shinohara Masao and the frightened look in his eyes.

There is blood on it, which is irrefutable evidence.

"Didn't you say that the boss lady was your benefactor?" Shan Qianxun asked puzzledly as she looked at Mr. Shinohara who was kneeling on the ground.

She was deeply impressed by this, as she had previously been warned by Shinohara for speaking ill of the boss's wife.

"benefactor?"

"The reason why that woman was so enthusiastic in introducing me to a job was just to get me to steal things from the market and bring them back to her!"

Shinohara, who was able to tell the truth, thought back to the woman's methods and felt so angry that his teeth were about to break.

It’s all done step by step.

At first, the proprietress only asked him for some leftover and inferior ingredients.

When these worthless things accumulated to a certain amount, she used them as a threat and asked Shinohara to continue stealing high-end goods such as fresh sea urchins or salmon roe.

Whether he quits his job or stops stealing, he will continue to be threatened by the boss's wife.

"You did a great job." Lin Feng patted Shinohara on the shoulder and said.

"???"

Masao Shinohara, who was pounding the ground in anger, raised his head in confusion.

"At least these two people should thank you very much. Maybe there are more names in that notebook." Lin Feng looked at Shan Qianxun and Nakamura Jin and said with a smile.

"..."

Both of them were silent.

Even if you don't say it or show it on your face, you should still be happy in your heart.

After all, the boss lady has no husband or children, so there shouldn't be any messy things happening later.

"However, I must remind you that killing people is much easier than becoming a popular chef."

Lin Feng smiled and said, this is a reminder from a senior foodie.

On the other hand, Takagi had indeed found out a few other names before, but none of them were at the scene. He only showed them to Inspector Megure after hearing what the repairman said.

"No matter what, you shouldn't choose to kill. It won't actually solve your problem." After a moment of silence, Inspector Megure helped Shinohara up and said.

Is everything fine as long as you don’t get caught?
not necessarily.

There are many people who develop psychological problems after killing someone, and their temperament may even change drastically, and they may choose to solve the problem in this way the second time.

Just like what Lin Feng said, fundamentally speaking, he just helped others solve problems. (End of this chapter)