Conan's Exorcist Detective

Chapter 19: First meeting with "Sleeping Kogoro"
Haruhiko Kousaka followed slowly at the end of the crowd and headed to the scene of the incident.

Judging from the level of fear in the scream, the owner of this place, Mr. Marudenjiro, should be dead.

Haruhiko tried to recall his memories of the case.

The owner of this place, Marudenjiro, is a greedy antique collector who lends money to mortgagors and then sells the items pledged here.

In this way, even if the mortgagor pays back the money, he will not be able to get his property back.

Therefore, many people who attached great importance to collateral began to dislike Marudenjiro.

As a result, this tragedy happened.

Haruhiko remembered that the murderer was a kendo coach. The deceased sold his ancestral sword. When he came to pay back the money, Marudenjiro mocked his sword and said it was rubbish.

As a result, the kendo coach was so angry that he killed Marudenjiro.

However, before his death, Shimaru Denjiro carved the murderer's name on the drawer cabinet, so the murderer took advantage of the situation, messed up the order of the drawers, and then deliberately created the scene of a kendo master killing people.

First, he deliberately created suspicion for himself, and then used two tricks to mislead the police's investigation direction and put the blame on others.

I have to say that the kendo coach's sudden inspiration was quite clever.

But unfortunately, he was destined to leave here in handcuffs today.

This house is considered to be one of the larger and more luxurious houses in the area, but it cannot be compared with those aristocratic manors, and the distance between the rooms is not particularly far.

Haruhiko walked through a carefully tended flower garden and arrived at the crime scene.

At the entrance of the room in front of him, two maids were slumped on the small wooden stairs at the door. Seeing their terrified expressions, the scream just now was most likely made by the maids.

Haruhiko walked around the two of them and entered the house.

The room was covered with fine knife marks on the walls, floors, furniture, decorations, and even the ceiling.

There was a strong smell of blood in the air.

Marudenjiro's body was against the innermost wall of the room, his hands hanging down over his abdomen, both tightly clutching a samurai sword.

There was a knife stuck in his chest, which should be the fatal wound.

Judging from the first impression given by the scene, it really looked like Marudenjiro had a desperate fight with the murderer, but was defeated and killed by the other party with one blow.

At this time, Maori Kogoro waved his hand to stop others from entering the scene: "Everyone, don't touch anything at the scene, Xiaolan, call the police!"

Ran Mouri walked out with the phone in her hand, and Suzuki Sonoko held her arm and went out together.

The two passed by Haruhiko.

Haruhiko took a look at the environment and prepared to start making arrangements for the exorcism of the evil spirits, while pretending to investigate for clues.

This is to rationalize the results of his reasoning. If he directly says the murderer's name every time, it will inevitably make people wonder how he did it and cause unnecessary trouble.

Maori Kogoro walked up to him and said: "Please don't touch the things here casually, it may destroy the evidence left by the murderer."

"I'm just taking a look and helping to expel the evil spirits here. I won't touch the evidence at the scene." Haruhiko handed over his business card.

Kogoro took the business card and looked at it: "Kousaka Exorcism Office?"

"Yes."

"Isn't this the office next to my house?" Maori Kogoro was shocked. "So it's still open? I thought it had closed down a long time ago."

Haruhiko felt offended.

Kogoro continued, "Well, don't mess with anything here. Tell me immediately if you see anything strange."

Haruhiko nodded in agreement, then pointed behind Kogoro and said, "Uncle Mori, you'd better take a look at that child." Kogoro Mori turned around and saw Conan touching the corpse.

"Damn it! You kid." Kogoro Mouri walked over angrily and punched Conan, then grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and threw him out of the room.

Haruhiko noticed that Conan was being held in the air and was looking at him with resentment. Haruhiko smiled at him and continued to focus on the matter at hand.
Not long after, sirens were heard outside.

A group of people surrounded a fat police officer in a brown windbreaker and walked into the scene.

"It's Inspector Megure, what a coincidence." Kogoro Mouri took the initiative to step forward and greet him.

"Oh, it's Brother Mori. Why are you here again?" Inspector Megure asked in confusion.

Maori Kogoro blurted out: "It just so happened that I was hired by the deceased to investigate his wife's infidelity."

"What? The madam is having an affair?" the servants around exclaimed.

Haruhiko also turned his head and saw that the gorgeously dressed Mrs. Maru Ineko had turned pale.

Inspector Megure immediately stared at her with sharp eyes: "Madam, where were you when the incident happened?"

Maru Inako said in panic: "I, I was shopping outside at the time, you are not doubting me, are you?"

"We are just doing routine work. Please tell us your itinerary for today in detail. It would be great if there are witnesses." Inspector Megure called a police officer to take a statement from Maru Ineko.

He felt that this lady was quite suspicious.

There are always several cases every year where young wives commit murder in order to inherit property.

But looking at the mess at the scene, it didn't seem like something that lady could have done. Could she have an accomplice?
Officer Megure looked around the room and suddenly saw Haruhiko working busy against the wall: "Brother Kosaka? Why are you here too?"

When his name was called, Haruhiko stopped setting up the barrier, turned around and said, "I came here to look for Ran Mouri, but I happened to come across a murder case."

Inspector Megure rubbed his hands. "I see. I didn't expect that besides Brother Mori, Brother Kosaka would be here too. It seems this case should be solved soon, right?"

Haruhiko smiled sheepishly: "No way, I'm still far behind Detective Mori."

Maori Kogoro looked puzzled: "Aren't you from an exorcism agency? Can you solve cases?"

"I'm also very interested in reasoning," said Haruhiko.

Xiaolan interrupted at this time and said: "Kousaka-kun is very powerful. When I was reasoning last time, I seemed to see the shadow of Shinichi in him."

Maori Kogoro looked at Haruhiko suspiciously, wondering where this guy came from? He said he was Xiaolan's classmate, so why hadn't he seen him before?

Could it be a new boyfriend?
Kudo Shinichi was already annoying enough, and now there's this high school detective named Kosaka. Could he be trying to steal my business? Maori Kogoro's inner alarms instantly went off.

"What? Another high school detective? Can't you change to a different one?" Kogoro Mouri muttered.

"Dad, what are you talking about?" Xiaolan blushed and smiled apologetically at Haruhiko: "My dad is just like that, don't take it to heart."

Kosaka Haruhiko: "It's okay. I've always wanted to see the sleeping Kogoro."

Just then, the sound of quarreling suddenly came from the yard.

Everyone looked in the direction of the quarrel and saw the police officers struggling with the two men. The two men who were being controlled seemed to be uncooperative.

At this time, a police officer walked into the room and came in front of Inspector Megure:

"Officer, we found two suspicious people outside."

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