I'm in Detective Conan, and the system has appointed Batman.

Chapter 123 Killing in order to become Kamen Rider

Just as Inspector Megure had anticipated.

For Chen En and Bai Ma Tan, this case was not actually a difficult one to solve.

While the two were turning back, Inspector Megure had already had the body retrieved.

After identifying the person, he asked the staff member next to him, as was his usual practice, whether there was anyone who had a conflict with the deceased, Yuta Hosono, and who was still in the park.

Then, Inspector Megure received the names of five people at once.

——Akiyoshi Ishishima, Shinpei Okubo, Wataru Otake, Kanako Harukawa, Seizo Fujita.

It's usually a choice of three.

The sudden change to a choice of five options left Inspector Megure feeling somewhat bewildered.

However, when he brought the suspect to the scene for questioning, he felt confident in his abilities.

There is no other reason.

Of the five suspects, only three were on the surface of the park, while the other two were backstage.

The three people on the surface of the amusement park are Akio Ishijima, Shinpei Okubo, and Kanako Harukawa.

Akio Ishijima was a staff member at the bungee jumping platform. He was the one who put the bungee jumping harness on the deceased. Theoretically, it is possible that he tampered with the bungee jumping harness. Moreover, he owed the deceased money and did not pay it back. It is possible that he committed the crime to wipe the debt away after the person died.

Shinpei Okubo and Kanako Harukawa were the suit actors who played the 'Dark Alien' and 'Princess' respectively in the stage play, and they were members of the same theater troupe as the deceased.

Shinpei Okubo had argued with the deceased about the development of the theater troupe, and there is a possibility that he killed the person in a fit of rage.

Kanako Harukawa was suspected of being a victim of a crime of passion because she had been pursued by the deceased.

Just as Inspector Megure was pondering which of the three was more likely to be the murderer...

Hakuba Saguru's voice rang out.

“Inspector, you’ve got the wrong person. None of those three are the murderer.”

"The real suspects should be the latter two, whom you overlooked."

At that moment, Bai Ma Tan and Chen En appeared at the backstage exit.

Beside Chen En were the remaining two of the five criminal suspects.

Those were Ōtake Shō and Fujita Seizo.

The former was also a member of the theater troupe with the deceased, but they did not get along.

Fujita Seizo was the project manager for Nikmei Land. He had a big argument with the deceased because the theater troupe he worked for didn't give him a kickback for performing there.

Both men are suspected of murdering the victim.

However, the real culprit could only be one of them.

Inspector Megure, seeing the two appear, exclaimed with delight,

"Brother Chen En, Detective Bai Ma, who do you think is the murderer?"

Faced with such a problem.

Hakuba Saguru also planned to keep the mystery a secret, as is the fine tradition of detectives.

However, Chen En answered without hesitation, directly stating...
"The real murderer is the man standing next to me, Da Yueshe."

"Besides, there won't be anyone else!"

These words immediately astonished everyone present.

Why did Chen En get such a result just by going backstage once?

The answer is actually very simple.

Chen En found a Kamen Rider costume that was still wet in the backstage dressing room.

The legs of that Kamen Rider costume clearly showed scorch marks caused by a gunpowder explosion.

In other words, the Kamen Rider suit actor who actually fell into the water did not die.

He made it ashore alive, changed out of his protective suit in the locker room, and prepared to go find Fujita Seizo as if nothing had happened.

In this way, the police will be able to rule out his suspicion of murder after investigation.

The body now being pulled from the water is dressed in a Kamen Rider suit.

Actually, the person who fell into the water earlier had placed the boat there beforehand, just waiting for others to come and rescue them.

—The real Kamen Rider is long dead.

From the stage play performance just now to the bungee jumping performance now, it's all a fake performance by a masked superhero.

"And this fake Kamen Rider still has to use all of Kamen Rider's signature moves during his performance to ensure that he doesn't give himself away."

"However, in a stage play where there are no steel cables for Kamen Rider's movements, only stunt performers can complete them."

"It's impossible for someone who hasn't been specifically trained in the Kamen Rider moves to replicate them on stage without being noticed by the other actors," Chen En said in a deep voice, glancing at Da Yue beside him.
"In other words, only a member of the troupe who could remove the Kamen Rider costume backstage and perform the same action stunts as the deceased could have staged this Kamen Rider drowning incident!"

“You are the only one who meets this condition, Da Yue She.”

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This so-called "choose one of five" is simply impossible.

The suspects are either Wataru Taigaku or Akio Ishijima.

Because the small explosives were placed on the bungee jump suit, it was impossible for Akio Ishijima not to have missed them unless he was blind.

Unless the bungee jumper deliberately blocked Ishijima Akio's view.

Shinpei Okubo and Kanako performed on stage the entire time, so it's impossible that they wouldn't even touch the bungee jumping suit.

Fujita Seizo, who was backstage, did not have the skills of a stunt performer.

If he dares to kill someone using this method, there's an 80% chance the number of corpses in the tunnel will increase from one to two.

After discovering the Kamen Rider costume with scorch marks from the explosion backstage.

You don't need to do the multiple-choice questions with two options.

The only real suspect is Taiyue She.

Alternatively, Taige Wataru and Ishijima Akio might be accomplices who jointly planned the case.

— Taiyue She still has the ability to pull Shishi Island Zhaoyi into the water.

However, he clearly lacks the mental fortitude for it.

This is perhaps a fine tradition of the citizens of Beika Town.

They commit crimes with motives that defy morality and methods that defy physical laws, but once their methods are exposed, the vast majority of criminal suspects immediately break down and collapse to the ground crying.

Finally, he revealed his heinous motive for murder.

The same applies to Taiyue She.

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"How did you get backstage so quickly...?"

Taiyue She couldn't hold back any longer.

Under normal circumstances, it takes at least twenty minutes to retrieve a body.

It will take even longer for the police to come and investigate.

By then, Kamen Rider's suit had dried out.

Given the competence of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department officers, they certainly wouldn't suspect anything and would just glance at them and move on.

However, Chen En and Hakuba Saguru acted too quickly.

It's like seeing someone fall into the water and immediately assuming that person is dead, then going backstage specifically to find the murderer.

The dog is on a rampage.

"The person who killed Hosono Yuta... was me."

Taiyue She knelt on the ground and said painfully,

"I also want to be a dazzling hero, and I also want to appear as a Kamen Rider suit actor."

"But that guy said I wasn't qualified to wear the Kamen Rider suit!"

"I absolutely cannot tolerate such an insult!"

"I'm going to kill him, so that I'll be the only one left playing Kamen Rider."

"Then I can put on the Kamen Rider suit and openly become the Kamen Rider loved by children!"

However, Taiyue She only responded with silence.

He looked up at his teammates, hoping that they, as fellow actors in the troupe, could understand.