After becoming invincible, start having fun in the world

Chapter 355 The Second Death

Meanwhile, the four people who returned to the recreation room couldn't forget what they had just witnessed.

Intuition told Kogoro Mouri that if he searched for the body of the young man in the painting who looked exactly like Chu Ke, he would definitely find the secret about Chu Ke's mysterious disappearance.

His detective instincts told him that he had to uncover the truth, or at least seek justice for Chu Ke's death.

But the current environment is truly unsettling; the missing murderer may very well be roaming the manor.

With Kidd's whereabouts also unknown, the manor is now shrouded in mystery.

Although Kogoro Mouri was quite confident in his physical abilities, he couldn't disregard the safety of Ran and the others.

This made him somewhat anxious.

Just as Kogoro Mouri was hesitating about whether to lead everyone to search for the body, the door to the recreation room suddenly opened.

The painter, Takahashi Mubai, pushed open the door and entered, shaking the water off his hands. When he saw Mori and the others, his eyes lit up: "You guys came back so quickly? I was going to chase after you, but I got lost and ended up in the restroom on the other side of the first floor. This manor is really huge."

"Hey, did you go to the restroom too? We should have waited for you." Xiaolan was a little embarrassed: "It's too dangerous to walk alone."

"It's alright, it's alright, at least you're back safe and sound, right?" Takahashi Mubai seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, stretched, and walked to his chair by the window, where he sat down gently.

The blizzard outside showed no signs of stopping, and the howling wind rattled against the glass.

Takahashi Mubai frowned and got up to draw the curtains.

But the moment he touched the curtains, a figure crashed into the window.

"Boom!"

The violent impact made the window glass rattle, but fortunately, the glass was of good quality and did not shatter.

But that's not the key point—

Takahashi Mubai was startled by the sudden commotion, and when he looked up, his eyes met those of a figure outside the window.

Those were eyes with dilated pupils, filled with a deathly aura.

Its bluish-purple face resembled a strangely colored balloon, held up by a hemp rope. Its well-dressed body had become the balloon's tassel ornaments, crashing against the glass with each gust of wind, making a clattering sound.

This is... Sato Seizawa's corpse!

Takahashi Mubai's legs went weak, and he stumbled back several steps, collapsing onto the carpet with a pale face.

"elder brother!!!"

Sato Seiyu's face drained of all color. He sprang up from the sofa and rushed to the window. Finding no window, he turned and ran to the adjacent terrace, trying to pull the corpse that was constantly floating in the air.

Mori and the others also changed their expressions drastically and hurriedly stepped forward to check.

But the next moment, the thick rope suddenly snapped, and Sato Chengze's body fell like a rag bag, landing in the snow.

Looking at the familiar corpse below, Sato Seiyu gritted his teeth, turned to look at the girl who was huddled up in fear on the sofa next to him, and said, "Nian, don't run around, wait for me here."

After saying that, he rushed out of the entertainment room without looking back and ran out of the manor.

Kogoro Mouri and Ran exchanged a glance.

Ran noticed the hesitation in Mori's eyes and nodded with a smile: "Go ahead, Dad, I'm a karate expert!"

Kogoro Mouri opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything. He nodded and ran out after him.

A moment later, everyone saw two figures appear downstairs. By this time, the snow had already reached above Mori's thighs, making walking on the snow extremely difficult, not to mention the snowflakes mixed with the fierce wind, which were like knives.

Fortunately, perhaps due to the strong winds, Sato Chengze's body did not fall vertically, but rather landed face down on the snow in a figure-nine shape.

The force was distributed across the surface, preventing it from being swallowed up by the snow.

Kogoro Mouri stopped Sato Seiyu, who wanted to go forward to check, and took out new gloves to put on, then began to search the corpse.

A moment later, he shook his head at Sato Seiyu.

Not long after, the two returned to the recreation room.

Mori shook off the snowflakes, exhaled a breath of cold air, and led the dejected Sato Seiyu back to sit on the sofa.

Because the French windows had just been opened, the cold air had dissipated the warmth in the room, and even the fireplace had been blown out by the strong wind. Fortunately, there was still a lot of firewood, and everyone used the residual heat to rekindle the fire, which brought back some warmth.

“He was strangled to death.” Kogoro Mouri shook his head.

"Although it looks like a suicide by hanging, the ligature marks on the victim's neck are clearly signs of homicide. If I'm not mistaken, the murderer first suffocated Mr. Sato with a rope and then faked it as a hanging."

“From the perspective of the force exerted, the murderer’s height should be similar to that of the victim. As for the gender…” Mori hesitated for a moment: “Although it is unlikely to be a woman, because the victim showed very little signs of struggle and was probably in a one-sided state at the time of the incident, given that the victim’s physical condition was probably low due to long hours of office work and lack of exercise, we cannot ignore the possibility that the murderer is a woman.”

Sato Seiyu rested his face on his knees, obscuring his facial expression.

After listening to Kogoro Mouri's analysis, he finally spoke after a long pause: "Call your sister-in-law and the others down..."

Although the Matsushima sisters left with Sato Seizawa, they were probably not in the same room, otherwise they wouldn't have remained indifferent after such a big incident.

Mori nodded: "I'll go get some people. You guys wait here and be careful."

Sato Seiyu looked up, his expression somewhat forced: "Let's go together, it'll be safer."

“Okay.” Mori agreed to the suggestion and they left the recreation room together.

The occurrence of yet another murder has plunged the atmosphere, which had just begun to recover, back into a deep freeze.

At this moment, Xiaolan and Yuanzi lost their interest in chatting and went to the girl brought by Sato Chengyu, gently comforting her.

Jiang Chuan Yingxue also stopped smoking and sat down by the fireplace.

Only Conan was still wandering around.

He looked in the direction Sato Seiyu had left, sensing that something was amiss.

"Isn't he a little...too calm?"

Although Sato Chengyu appeared terrified and panicked when he first discovered Sato Chengze's body, he seemed to calm down and become less agitated after returning from downstairs.

Although the other person kept supporting their face with their palm, their expression was not visible.

But Conan always felt that Sato Seiyu didn't seem to want to appear so sad; on the contrary, he seemed secretly pleased.

Conan suddenly paused.

He recalled the conversation he had overheard in the corridor, and his lips twitched.

"No way?"

(End of this chapter)