Conan: Death is Watching Me

Chapter 50 Golden Partner Kindaichi
"let me go!"

The man with tied hair was still fighting with the surrounding police until he saw the corpse and then opened his mouth in horror.

"What's going on? I just came to see Mr. Maru..."

"Are you Akutsu Makoto?" Megure said while checking the notebook.

"Yes, it's like this..." The man with the tied hair grumbled and anxiously explained, "I owe Mr. Wan 900 million. I came here today to ask him for a few days' grace period because I can't get through on the phone..."

"Called? Did you call today?"

"Yeah, I meant to say I'd be here a little later... I called around 3 o'clock, but it went to an answering machine message."

"There was indeed a phone call around 3 o'clock, and it rang for a long time," the man with a mustache nodded, "but this doesn't prove anything."

"Madam, where is the answering machine?" Megure turned to the hostess and asked.

The woman was slow to react. "It's in the private room. I think it's on the table... The phone in the guest room, if it rings a dozen times and no one answers, it switches to the answering machine. My husband works here most of the time..."

The police officer next to him began to look for the answering machine in the private room, while Megure continued to turn to Suwa Yuji, whose expression had just changed.

"Could you please tell me about your respective occupations? Between 3 and 4 o'clock today, Mr. Maru was murdered in this solitary room. The murderer is believed to be a kendo master..."

"Mr. Maru was murdered?" Suwa Yuji narrowed his eyes in surprise, "I do know a little bit about kendo, and I currently run a kendo gym in Beika Town... but I have no reason to kill him at all!"

"Is that right?"

"I also left a message because the original appointment time was 6pm and I wanted to move it up a bit... I even brought all the money with me."

Under the suspicious gazes of everyone, especially the man with the mustache, Suwa Yuji took out several stacks of 10,000 yuan bills from his pocket.

"I ran into Mr. Maori when I went to get money from my friend today..."

"So you know me?" The man with a mustache looked surprised.

Seeing the guy who was so arrogant before lower his attitude, I felt a lot better.

"I've seen him on TV," Suwa Yuji said, still squinting his eyes. "After all, who wouldn't know the famous detective, Maori Kogoro?"

"Ahahaha," the man with the mustache was about to burst out laughing subconsciously, but he quickly regained his seriousness. "Humph, even if you say that, it's useless. It's absolutely true that Mr. Maru was killed by a kendo master. Besides, we met this morning!"

"Hey, hey," the man with the tied hair said hurriedly, "I think you've heard of my name, the sculptor Akutsu Makoto, right? I don't know any kendo skills!"

……

Single room scene.

While listening to the questions outside, Gao Mo sorted out the clues and information, and even asked for paper and pen to write down all the clues.

At this time, everyone's mission information had already appeared in his eyes.

Needless to say, Inspector Megure always seems to be involved in solving cases.

The mustache has changed a bit - [Conquer Japan together with Kido-chan].

other people……

The hostess's task is [keeping the affair from being discovered], a useless task.

Suwa Yuji is the one who takes back the family heirloom sword "Kikuchiyo".

The family heirloom sword "Kikuchiyo"?
Gao Mo followed Suwa Yuji's obscure gaze and looked at the third samurai sword that was sealed as a murder weapon.

It is indeed very different from the two knives in the single room. Even if he does not know how to appreciate it, he can still feel the extraordinaryness of the third knife - it looks like it is worth a lot of money.

"Is this broken sword also a decoration?" The man with the mustache took a look and said in confusion, "Really? Forget about the inside, but what's going on outside? Could it be that the murderer killed Mr. Maru and was spotted by this Hatano and killed someone else as well?"

"how is this possible?"

Megure glanced at the mustache warily.

This guy is very good at diverting other people's thoughts. He did this a few days ago. He made a lot of random analyses, and after entering sleep mode, he suddenly said, "I was just joking."

"If the murderer killed Hatano on his way out, why would he wrap it up and leave it here?"

Megure then continued to question Suwa Yuji: "So where were you between 3pm and 4pm?"

"I went back to the kendo gym." Suwa Yuji looked away from the third sword.

"Can anyone prove it?"

"No, I'm alone."

"Where's Mr. Akutsu?"

“I also carve alone in my studio…”

"Officer Megure, we found the answering machine!"

The police officer in the room shouted to play the answering machine messages, but there was only one message at around 4 pm - Suwa Yuji said he would arrive early.

"How is this possible?" the man with the tied-hair sweatdropped. "I really left a message! It was a little after 3 o'clock!"

Gao Mo had never used an old gadget like an answering machine, but two calls did come in while he was waiting in the backyard. It was unclear whether there were any messages. "Mr. Akutsu," Gao Mo asked, "There's a dragon-shaped sculpture in the room. I wonder if it has anything to do with you..."

"That is my master's masterpiece, which I have pawned with Mr. Maru."

The man with the tied-up hair said this as he rushed past the police officer into the solitary room and picked up the intact dragon sculpture in surprise.

"Great! The carving is fine!"

This Akutsu Makoto's mission is to [The case has nothing to do with me] and [Eliminate the 900 million yen debt]...

Gao Mo withdrew his gaze from the man with tied hair.

Determine task extraction.

The next moment, glowing words floated, and only Megure's task remained - [Solve the case on the spot].

The requirements are much more difficult than before.

Solving a crime on the spot is not just about providing a few clues, but also about finding key evidence or getting the criminal to confess voluntarily.

Gao Mo observed Suwa Yuji out of the corner of his eye.

Given the choice between the two, neither contestant seems like the type to confess voluntarily.

But solving the case doesn't seem that difficult, so there's no need to re-draw the mission...

After sorting out the clues just now, the bearded head of the family should have been killed by Suwa Yuji.

As Kudo Yusaku said, some criminals will deliberately design some false clues that seem logical to hide the real clues of the crime.

At this time, the situation in the single room was divided into several layers——

On the surface, it was a duel between kendo masters, but it contained many common sense errors. Anyone with a little discerning eye would have discovered that it was a fake scene and thus overturned the judgment that the murderer was a kendo master.

Perhaps he learned from Marudenjiro that there was a detective in the backyard.

It’s a pity that the detective this guy met was a mustache man.

The man with a mustache is just the kind of detective who has no eyesight and doesn't like to use his brain.

"Inspector Megure," Kogoro Maori's voice was heard at the scene, confirming his judgment. "Nothing else matters. The one who killed Mr. Maru was a kendo master, this Suwa Yuji. The only question now is whether he killed Hatano..."

"Isn't there a saying that the murderer will return to the scene to investigate after committing a crime? I think the visitor who came at 3 o'clock must be Mr. Suwa Yuji..."

Suwa Yuji's cheeks twitched, and his narrowed eyes rarely opened a crack.

It seems as if he is questioning whether the man with the mustache is a famous detective.

"Wait a minute, Mr. Maori!"

Seeing that Megure was about to be persuaded by the mustache man, Suwa Yuji finally couldn't help but stepped forward to defend himself.

"Even if I'm a master of kendo, I wouldn't fight like this with Mr. Maru, right? My strength hasn't degenerated to this extent, and would anyone chop down the ceiling as well?"

"It's really strange."

Megure finally managed to get rid of the interference from the mustache.

He checked the photo of Marudenjiro on the table against the evidence photos.

"Mr. Maru's knife-holding posture is unexpectedly different from the photo..."

"You're holding it the wrong way," Suwa Yuji continued with narrowed eyes. "Mr. Maru often comes to my kendo gym. Generally speaking, unless you're left-handed, you hold the sword with your right hand in front and your left hand behind... That way it's easier to use your right hand to chop."

"So," Megure stroked his chin, "someone deliberately created the illusion of a fight, hoping to frame you, and because you don't know the way of the sword, you ended up making a huge mistake?"

The man with a mustache was quite embarrassed to be ignored. He wanted to refute but found that he could not find any flaws.

It seems just as Inspector Megure analyzed, the knife marks all over the room were not from a real fight, but were deliberately faked by someone who didn't know kendo.

The person most suspected became the sculptor Akutsu.

but……

"Why do I feel like this guy is the murderer?" The man with a small mustache stared at Suwa Yuji's back angrily.

He didn't know why, but he just had this intuition.

"He is indeed the murderer," Gao Mo put his hand on Xiao Hu's shoulder, "The seemingly perfect chain of clues may not be the truth."

He has completely sorted out all the clues.

Although the reasoning level is only lv1, this case seems to be a spur-of-the-moment decision and is not very complicated.

Eagle Vision makes it easy to pick out key information.

As for the death of Dr. Hatano, he already had some guesses.

"No matter what happened at the scene, it doesn't change the fact that Marudenjiro was a 3rd degree kendo master. Judging from the state of the corpse, is it possible for that Akutsu to have done the same?"

(End of this chapter)