People are in Conan, but Ace Attorney

Chapter 454: Reversal of Mask (26)

"Then there is only one truth! The cyanide was not put in the tea, but in the tea bowl!"

Conan gave the final answer without hesitation, and he spoke calmly to his red bow.

"Only in this way can the tea contain the toxicity of cyanide without a third person in the kitchen."

"As for the evidence that can prove this, it has already appeared in the courtroom."

"Mr. Xiang Yuan, please point out this piece of evidence."

Snap——————

Xiang Yuanguang snapped his fingers lightly, and his hand flipped, pointing at the evidence on the evidence table.

"Watch out! The defense demands to present evidence——[Tea set from the diplomatic embassy]!"

This was an evidence that was brought to the trial court as the murder weapon before the crime occurred, but both the defense and the prosecution tacitly ignored this key piece of evidence during the trial.

Because no matter whether Tsujimura Toshimitsu pleaded guilty or the defense claimed that Tsujimura Kimie committed murder, the key evidence involved were all teapots that matched the tea set, and the method of murder was poisoning with tea.

The psychological implications brought about by this special situation directly caused the defense lawyer and the presiding judge in charge of the trial to fall into a ditch. Only Conan, who had not been involved in the game from the beginning, could see at a glance that something was wrong.

"But, Attorney Xiang Yuan, Detective Maori, I don't understand why this set of tea can prove that your claim is correct? Because the tea set was once filled with tea containing cyanide..."

"So it is normal to detect cyanide in tea sets, right? If you hope to use this to prove that the real murderer poisoned the tea sets instead of the tea, this court cannot accept it."

The golden-haired presiding judge in the main seat shook his head and interrupted Xiang Yuanguang's words directly.

However, at this time, Kogoro Mori spoke again.

"Is that so? I don't think so, because we have already argued about the tea set in the court before, and you, the presiding judge, also mentioned it at that time——————"

"You said that this tea set was placed there the day before as a decoration?"

Hearing this, whether it was Tsujimura Kimie, Tsujimura Toshimitsu, or the presiding judge, they were all shocked.

Yes, if that's the case, there is indeed a possibility that the murderer poisoned the tea set the day before.

But... but...

"But if there is such a murderer, how did he know that the members of the special investigation team would arrive at the diplomatic embassy on that day? And how did he know that they would definitely use that set of tea sets to drink the tea in the diplomatic embassy?"

Dante asked this crucial question on behalf of the presiding judge, and then the corners of his mouth curled up.

"The reason is simple. Someone leaked the information and told the murderer the real time when the special investigation team arrived in Tokyo. In other words, there is a mole in the special investigation team."

When these words were spoken, the whole audience was in an uproar. No one had expected that this murder case in the diplomatic embassy would actually involve a traitor. Generally speaking, isn't the traitor assigned to the special investigation team a spy?
But who would come to the Inquisition to catch spies? Is the Inquisition a place to catch spies?

The presiding judge showed a hint of surprise on his face, and he asked stutteringly.

"Then, what is the true identity of this spy? Who is this spy?" In response to the presiding judge's question, Dante spread his hands and gave a disappointing answer.

"I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be filing a lawsuit here, right?"

"But I guess Virgil and his assistant are on the same page, which is..."

He turned his head to look behind the testimony desk, swallowed his saliva, and looked extremely nervous.

"You are the tool the murderer used to make the special investigation team take poison!"

...Tool? Me, me?
Kimie Tsujimura stepped back subconsciously. She always regarded herself as a superior diplomat.

Now Dante had simply torn off this pathetic identity advantage from her, which immediately changed her mood.

(The heart lock... trembled? Although I know that normal words can also break the heart lock, I didn't expect that other people's words can directly cause damage to the heart lock.)
There was a hint of surprise in Xiang Yuanguang's eyes. After all, no one except him would launch a fierce attack when the witness showed a heart lock. No, this didn't seem to be surprising.

Because the heart lock is ultimately a person's psychological defense mechanism, it is just intuitively materialized by the system for him to see. If it were just a matter of breaking through the heart lock, he seemed to have seen it a long time ago.

For example, Conan used Kogoro Mouri's identity to make inferences, but he only deduced the murderer's method of killing and the tools he used. He even made the murderer kneel down and confess without any specific evidence.

His method of using heart locks and logical chess to forcibly break down the target's psychological defenses, causing the other party to lose control of their emotions or reveal hidden secrets, was exactly the same...

(In other words, Conan just doesn't know that he can use the Heart Lock effect, or his method is not as intuitive and effective as mine, so he thinks my Heart Lock ability is the same as magic?)
The blue hedgehog thought of this and shook his head. From this point of view, which detective in this world does not have some extraordinary and bizarre factors? He can break down other people's psychological defenses with just a few words. If he had not gone to Shikoku...

Perhaps Junya Tokatsu will use the same method to deal with Kana Mizuguchi, the maid classmate of Nanatsuki Koshimizu.

"That's right, just as Mr. Dante said, the real murderer was able to achieve his goal of killing the special operations team members because of Mrs. Tsujimura's existence."

Conan had no idea what Xiang Yuanguang was thinking. He just hid behind the last row of seats and continued to think intently about his red bow.

"If Mrs. Tsujimura and Mr. Tsujimura had not gone to the diplomatic embassy and used the diplomatic embassy's tea sets to serve tea to the members of the special operations team, those people would not have touched the tea sets at all, and there would naturally be no question of poisoning."

"So, the reason why Mrs. Tsujimura appeared at the right time when Mr. Diplomat was talking to the members of the investigation team was actually arranged in advance by the real murderer."

But when it comes to this, a new problem arises——————

Gui Yueying asked with some confusion.

"That is to say, Tsujimura Kimie didn't actually poison the place. The real cyanide poison was applied the night before. But if that's the case, then what about the 350 milligrams of cyanide that Tsujimura Kimie purchased?"

"Did she put the cyanide she bought into the bottle containing nearly ten grams of cyanide? Was that bottle really owned by Tsujimura Kimie? Then..."

"Is it possible that the tea set in the diplomatic embassy was poisoned by Tsujimura Kimie, who is also a diplomat, using cyanide in the bottle the night before, so that there is obviously less cyanide in the bottle?"

If Conan's hypothesis is likely to be true, then Hotaru Onitsuki's reasoning is equally likely to be true.

After all, as a diplomat, Kimie Tsujimura was qualified to enter the diplomatic embassy the day before the incident, which means that it is entirely possible that she poisoned the tea set after the cleaning staff had put it in place and then left... right?

Is that right? Right? Or is it... impossible?
(End of this chapter)