Conan: This repairman is not very knowledgeable

Inside the house, the police began questioning the company's general manager, Mr. Masashige Shiina.

According to what the chief designer Mr. Fujinami said just now, he might be the person who admired the deceased president the most among this group of people.

"The president and I are college classmates and have known each other for a long time."

"A few years ago, to commemorate our thirty years of working together, he gave me a bronze fountain pen as a souvenir." Shiina Masashige said truthfully while sitting at the table.

"I remember you just lent your wife a pen?" Takagi asked while taking notes.

"Yes, it's that pen, but the president also seemed to have given bronze watches to other employees." Shiina Masashige nodded.

"Then, is there anyone who admires the president more than you do?" Officer Megure continued to ask.

The basic situation is no different.

"I think it should be the secretary Ms. Satake. She has always been working diligently beside the president, and the previous wife would be jealous of this." Shiina Masashige said after thinking for a while.

"The previous madam would be jealous, but what about the current madam?" Lin Feng had sneaked in at some point and asked while standing beside them.

"I haven't heard of the president and others arguing about this matter." Shiina Masashige shook his head.

"Will they quarrel over money?" Lin Feng continued to ask.

"money?"

"A large part of the company's finances is handled by the vice president..." replied Masashige Shiina.

Judging from the situation, they probably won't argue over money.

"Then what do you think, why did Mr. Ikuro kill the president in Karuizawa last month?" Lin Feng wanted to know what the other party thought.

Guys of this age see things more clearly.

"Brother Lin Feng." Inspector Megure glanced at the mechanic with some dissatisfaction.

How come you guys are even snatching up the job of questioning?

"You, you suddenly ask me such a question."

"In fact, the president really despises his son and is often distressed by the lack of a suitable successor."

Shiina Masaharu was stunned for a moment, then sighed.

The conflict between father and son is not small.

The next person to enter the room was the secretary, Ms. Yoshimi Satake. She was wearing a pair of black-framed glasses and a professional suit, and looked very shrewd and intelligent.

"I think I've seen you before."

Lin Feng also moved a chair and sat next to Inspector Megure. After he saw the other party sit down, he spoke the first line.

"This doesn't seem like a good place to strike up a conversation, right?" Miss Satake put her hands on the table, pushed up her glasses, glanced at the other person and said.

Inspector Megure also had a speechless expression.

This secretary is indeed very beautiful, but at this time...

"I'm not trying to flirt with you, it seems like you've been to my store."

"Polo Coffee Shop." Lin Feng mentioned the name of his own shop and asked the other party if he still remembered it.

"Polo?"

"You mean the one downstairs from the Maori Detective Agency? I passed by there and bought coffee there."

Satake Yoshimi thought about it carefully and realized that he had indeed been there.

The person who received her at that time was a woman, who did not notice the other person.

By the way, there is a very tall and strong foreign man in the kitchen, wearing sunglasses and making curry...

"Thank you for your patronage."

"Next, tell me about your relationship with the deceased president." Lin Feng thanked him and asked.

"relation?"

"I'm President Wakamatsu's secretary, there's no special relationship between us." Satake Yoshimi shook his head.

"I heard that you have been working hard beside the president?" Takagi asked.

Is there some kind of admiration here, as Mr. Shiina said?

“I earn my salary and of course work hard, and I don’t see anything wrong with that.”

Satake Yoshimi's answer also has no loopholes.

There's nothing wrong with working hard.

"Next question."

"Why do you think Mr. Ikuro killed the president in Karuizawa last month?" Inspector Megure finally found an opportunity to ask.

I just asked General Manager Shiina this question.

"Is there any evidence for this?" Satake Yoshimi looked puzzled and asked the fat man opposite him who looked very orange.

As a police officer, you should be more careful when asking questions.

“……”Inspector Megure looked at Lin Feng.

Say it!
"Answer the questions carefully."

"What do you think was Wakamatsu Ikuro's motive for murder?" Lin Feng didn't care about her.

If someone asks for evidence, do you have to give it to him?
Give her a big bi pocket!

After a few seconds of silence, Satake Yoshimi said, "Maybe the president is too strict with him?"

"Or maybe the two of them had another fight and acted impulsively?"

"I'm not a policeman or a detective. How can you ask me about this?"

Takagi looked at Lin Feng and Inspector Megure who were sitting in a row, taking notes honestly.

I mean, how can you ask the suspect about this kind of thing...

“Your watch is quite nice.”

"The general manager said that this is a bronze watch that the president gave to employees." Lin Feng suddenly said, looking at the other person's wrist.

"Yes, everyone has it." Satake Yoshimi nodded.

"If you were to ask who the president admires or loves the most, Ms. Yonehara would undoubtedly be the first."

"I heard that her mother also worked as a housekeeper in the president's house."

"Later, after her single mother died of illness, the president took care of her as his own daughter and hired her as a housekeeper."

Secretary Satake also passed the blame to the next person.

At this moment, Hattori knocked on the door and walked in.

"Inspector Megure, can you please ask everyone to take off their slippers?"

Osaka Black Chicken was holding a plastic bag with his name on it.

It looked like he had collected a few other people's slippers outside the door.

"Why?" Inspector Megure rubbed his temple.

This group of people is really a headache.

It seems that the days when only Brother Maori is around are quite comfortable.

"This way we can know who the criminal is!" Hattori carefully put Miss Satake's slippers into the bag with her name on it, and then smiled confidently.

"Brother Lin Feng, do you know what he means?" Inspector Megure turned around and asked after seeing Hattori leave.

"I don't know, but I know that he will definitely fail." Lin Feng shook his head.

……

outside the house.

Sera, Amuro, Hattori, and Conan got together.

While Inspector Megure was questioning him, the Forensic Department found a powdered poison on the door handle of Ikuro Wakamatsu's room.

In addition, there was also powder scattered on the floor.

Moreover, the powder on the ground seemed to be blocked by something, with a blank area of ​​about ten centimeters in the middle.

"Did you spill the poison on the slippers?" Sera asked with a smile.

"Well, the width is just right." Conan looked down at the same blue slippers.

"I accidentally walked into a bathroom, and I thought the mystery of the death message should be solved."

Amuro touched Conan's dog head and smiled as well.

"Oh?" "Is there a similar bathroom in this villa?" Hattori was stunned. He had never seen the actual scene.

I only heard from He Ye that the bathroom was decorated in a dark top-down and light bottom style, so it was unlikely that the tiles could be moved around.

"That's right, Mrs. Wakamatsu seems to have deliberately concealed this." Amuro nodded.

When everyone first arrived, they asked about the bathroom, but the other party only said that the decoration style in Karuizawa and Osaka was the same and they were going to be demolished. They never mentioned that there was one in their house.

“It’s very suspicious.”

"Let's get the president's wife's slippers first, and then let's take a look at the bathroom together." Hattori could no longer suppress his curiosity.

The other four people had all gotten their slippers, leaving only the president's wife who was still busy in the study.

"Let's go together."

The four of them carried plastic bags and walked towards the study together.

"..."

Uncle Maori looked at the backs of the four people, three adults and one child, and touched his nose.

I don't know what these people are going to do...

"Ma'am, are you still in there?"

Standing at the door of the study, Hattori knocked on the door.

"There seems to be no sound. Has he escaped?" Shira ignored the gazes of the police guarding the corridor and lay on the door to listen to the movements inside.

"crunch~"

Amuro grabbed the door handle and exerted a little force. The door was not locked and he pushed it open directly.

"Madam, you are not hiding in there and laughing again, are you? We are..." Seeing that the two people at the door did not move, Hattori squeezed in and asked.

He was halfway through his words when he saw the situation in the study and his expression changed.

In the study, Ms. Wakamatsu Serika covered her throat, fell to the ground with a painful look on her face, and did not move.

"Something happened, go call Officer Megure and the others over!" Hattori shouted to the police officers in the corridor.

"Is it cyanide?" Amuro checked the condition of the deceased and found that there was no hope of saving him.

"It should be correct." Conan also squatted beside the corpse, put his fingers on his chin, stared at the corpse and nodded.

"..."

Amuro looked at the elementary school student.

It was like teleporting, appearing next to the corpse...

This kid...

On the other side, Inspector Megure, who was questioning Miss Yonehara, also received the letter.

Another person died...

……

In the study room.

Inspector Megure looked at the president's wife who fell next to the bookshelf and asked about the cause of death.

"It should be the same as Mr. Ikuro." Amuro said.

All are almond flavored.

"By the way, isn't this a suicide?" asked the designer Mr. Jun'o Fujinami who was standing outside the door.

"When we left the room, the vice president was fine. I think the officer saw it too."

"Besides, there are police officers guarding outside the door."

These people of ours simply don't have the conditions to kill anyone, right?
"Although you haven't been close to this room since then, these things on the table were left by you, right?"

Sera stood beside the table and asked, looking at the things on the table.

The fountain pen was left by the general manager Mr. Shiina, the document to be signed was brought out by the secretary Ms. Satake, and the eye drops to relieve fatigue were given by the designer Mr. Fujinami.

In the end, I drank half of the black tea, which was brewed by the housekeeper, Miss Yonehara.

"And this Chinese dictionary and the box that contains it are also very suspicious." Hattori said while squatting next to the bookshelf.

On the ground, there is an open dictionary and a dictionary box.

"Are you looking for some difficult Chinese characters or words?" Uncle Maori looked puzzled.

"The vice president once passed the first-level Chinese character test, and his level is very high."

"In addition, if you want to suspect us, please take a look at the letter the vice president left for me first." Secretary Ms. Satake said that she had evidence to submit.

"letter?"

Everyone was confused.

"Yes, it was a letter that the vice president gave me in advance. She told me to remember to hand this letter over to the police if anything happened to her."

Satake Yoshimi brought Inspector Megure and the others to the room where the safe was placed and took out the letter from it.

"This, is this a confession?!" Inspector Megure looked at the contents with shock on his face.

In the villa in Karuizawa a month ago.

When she heard that the president had been assassinated, she hurried to the bathroom.

In fact, she saw her son hiding at the bathroom door, holding a knife and covered in blood.

But she chose to send Miss Yonehara away and protect her son.

The reason for protecting the other party was that his son had already realized that she was the one who embezzled public funds, and he absolutely could not let her tell anyone.

Wakamatsu Serika made her son, who was covered in blood, lie on the president and cry in order to cover up the bloodstains.

As for the missing pre-death message...

"The shadow diamond illusion, commonly known as crazy diamond." Amuro described what he found in the bathroom.

The top and bottom angles of each rhombus are approximately between 30 and 40 degrees.

When this pattern is applied to tiles using the fading technique, the human eye perceives the difference in light and dark between the borders of adjacent diamonds as focal points.

Due to visual focus, the brain mistakenly believes that the colors of the upper and lower diamonds have changed, even though the actual colors are the same. This is called an optical illusion.

“That’s too careless!”

"The police officer in charge of this case!" Hattori was really a little angry.

By replacing the tiles in this way, the message before death can be hidden? !

Gradient tiles?

Gradient ghost!
"Just get used to it." Lin Feng patted Hei Ji's shoulder.

If you meet a mountain village police officer, you will be so angry that you will die.

"..."

"Takagi, ask someone to re-investigate the bathroom of the Karuizawa villa immediately!" said Officer Megure.

"Yes!"

Gao Mu immediately went out to make a phone call.

"In other words, the president's wife left this letter because she was afraid that her son would harm her and the truth would be buried?" Uncle Maori asked, stroking his chin.

"It seems so."

"Are you the only one who knows about this letter as the secretary?" Inspector Megure nodded and turned to ask Miss Satake.

"That should be the case. However, since the vice president opens the safe every night to check the status of the letter, someone might become suspicious."

Satake Yoshimi looked at the other people involved and said.

"I did run into Madam rummaging through the safe once when I was cleaning the room, and I was even scolded by her at the time." The housekeeper, Miss Yonehara, nodded in admission.

However, the room where the safe is stored is used for company meetings and other people may know about it.

Officer Takagi ran back and brought back a message.

"Inspector, we found a toxic reaction in the president's wife's slippers!"

Hear this message.

Uncle Maori's eyes lit up.

The truth is within reach! (End of this chapter)