The Pirated Onmyoji of the Detective World

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Meanwhile, in the main control room.

Putting aside Aragaki Yu and Haibara Ai, who had somehow disappeared into the game, Kudo Yusaku, knowing that Conan and Ran had finally successfully entered the final scene of the game, suppressed his worries and turned his attention back to the real world.

"Alright, now let's find the murderer who killed Kenmura!" Kudo Yusaku looked at Inspector Megure and Kogoro Mouri and the others beside him.

"What? You know who the murderer is?"

Upon hearing Yusaku Kudo's words, Inspector Megure, who had been in the control room wanting to help but unsure of what to do, was both surprised and delighted.

Chairman Sindora, who was already resting on the sofa, had a somewhat gloomy expression on her face, which had been calm at first.

Yusaku Kudo did not directly answer Inspector Megure's question. "The most crucial question now is how the murderer prepared the murder weapon."

During his time out, Kudo Yusaku not only returned to the crime scene but also went to the banquet hall to check on the situation.

"Metal detectors were installed at the intersection of the Mihana Municipal Building, so the only possibility is that the murder weapon was something that was placed in the venue from the beginning."

Inspector Megure and Kogoro Mouri nodded, naturally having no objection to what Yusaku Kudo had said.

Kogoro Mouri has been puzzled by this for a long time and still hasn't figured it out. "But where exactly is that thing?"

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"It's the bronze statue in the party venue, one of which is holding a short sword."

Yusaku Kudo's voice wasn't loud, but everyone in the control room could hear him clearly.

Inspector Megure scratched the back of his head, blinked, and looked somewhat confused.

He naturally remembered the bronze statue in the venue that Yusaku Kudo mentioned, but that was precisely why he was even more puzzled.

"But there are so many guests in the banquet hall. If the murderer really ran in and pulled out the murder weapon in front of so many people, he would definitely be seen."

"Take advantage of the lights going out in the venue and pull it off." Kudo Yusaku naturally already had the answer, so he replied to Inspector Megure without any hesitation, "The culprit had already set the time from the beginning."

Inspector Megure and the others had already learned from the staff that the lights in the venue had been turned off at times.

However, Officer Shiratori raised another point of doubt: "Even if the dagger was taken at that time, it's very likely that someone would discover it when the lights in the venue came back on!"

“He was given a leave of absence to go up. As long as he switched back in time after killing people, he could cover his tracks very well.”

Inspector Megure hurriedly pressed, "So, the short sword on the statue is the murder weapon?"

“That’s right.” Yusaku Kudo nodded. “I’ve already had someone investigate the short sword’s optical sensitivity and fingerprints…”

This time, before Kudo Yusaku could finish speaking, the door to the control room was pushed open from the outside.

The next second, an investigator excitedly ran into the control room and reported to Inspector Megure and Yusaku Kudo: "Inspector Megure, Mr. Kudo, we have conducted a photosensitive reaction and fingerprint investigation on the short sword on the statue."

"There was indeed blood on the dagger, and it was the same blood type as the deceased, Mr. Kenmura. In addition, we also found fingerprints on the hilt of the dagger. After comparison, we found that the fingerprints matched those of Chairman Sindora."

"what!"

Everyone except Yusaku Kudo, who had expected this, looked at Chairwoman Sindora on the sofa in shock.

However, after a brief moment of panic, Chairman Sindora had already regained her composure.

Having seen it all, Chairman Sindora remained remarkably calm. She sneered at Kudo Yusaku, crossed her legs, and said disdainfully, "Of course! Those bronze statues were specially moved from my home for this presentation, so it's perfectly normal to have my fingerprints on them. As for the bloodstains, perhaps some idiot staged that to frame me."

Inspector Megure and the others' expressions darkened upon hearing Chairman Sindora's explanation.

They had already sensed the suspicion towards Chairman Sindora from Yusaku Kudo's tone.

Putting aside the fact that they already firmly believed in Yusaku Kudo's reasoning, they were certain that Chairman Sindora's reaction alone was enough to confirm that he was probably the real culprit.

No matter who you are, you wouldn't react this way when you see evidence pointing to you as a suspect.

Even without fear, tension, or anger.

It's unlikely that a reasonable explanation will be given so quickly.

unless……

The other party was prepared for all of this.

However, Kudo Yusaku was not annoyed by Chairman Sindora's sophistry. Instead, as expected, he took out a videotape from his pocket and said, "This is the video footage we retrieved from the banquet hall. Fortunately, we have surveillance cameras installed around the venue, so the angles I wanted were also recorded."

Hearing Yusaku Kudo's confident words, Inspector Megure immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

As for Chairman Sindora, she was clearly taken aback when she saw Yusaku Kudo take out the surveillance videotape.

He had already investigated and found that the surveillance cameras in the venue did not have night vision capabilities, so it was impossible for them to have captured him switching the short sword on the bronze statue in the dark.

but……

At the same time, Yusaku Kudo handed the videotape to Professor Agasa, who was standing nearby, and gestured for him to play the contents on the computer.

"In the footage captured by the surveillance camera, the soccer ball kicked by the young Hideki Moroboshi hit the bronze statue, which knocked the short sword down. He then picked up the short sword and put it back in the statue's hand."

During Kudo Yusaku's explanation, Chairman Sindora's expression changed instantly upon seeing the surveillance footage as well.

Inspector Megure then gave a look of sudden realization. "I see. If the dagger that was photographed back then was real, then it should have been able to detect this boy's fingerprints. But the dagger only has Chairman Sindora's fingerprints on it!"

However, after going through so many cases, finally, there was one time when the surveillance footage in that case came in handy.

"Hmph." Faced with such accusations, Chairman Sindora still snorted coldly and retorted, "Because after that boy touched that dagger, I also touched it, so I covered up his fingerprints..."

However, at that moment, Inspector Chiba suddenly rushed in with an evidence bag, "Found it! Just as Mr. Kudo said, we found a short sword made of cardboard boxes and aluminum foil in the basement's garbage dump, and it has the fingerprints of Chairman Sindora and young Hideki Moroboshi on it!"

At this, Chairman Sindora's face turned deathly pale.

But Yusaku Kudo mercilessly delivered the final blow, saying, "If other fingerprints are found on the fake dagger with the fingerprints of young Hideki Moroboshi on the handle, I think the only possibility is the murderer's fingerprints."

"Nonsense! I'm going to protest to the Japanese government, and besides, I have no reason to do so!"

Just as Chairman Sindora was making her last-ditch effort.

London in the virtual world.

After discovering that everyone in the carriage had disappeared, Conan and Hideki Moroboshi ran to the engine room of the train, only to be shocked to find that even the train driver had vanished.

"Damn it! We need to stop the train!"

Just as Conan realized that the train was still traveling at high speed, he quickly looked at the control panel in an attempt to stop it.

Luckily, I learned to drive a steam train with my dad in Hawaii.

However, this time...

Conan, pale-faced, discovered that the train's braking system had been sabotaged.

More importantly, the power furnace was stuffed with blazing coal.

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"It's been accelerating all along!"

Conan, noticing the situation with the train, looked rather grim.

At this moment, the train was speeding forward on the tracks like a wild horse.

If this continues, even if the train doesn't derail, they will crash into the terminal station at high speed along with the train in about ten minutes.

After Conan and the half-hearted Noah's Ark tried to open the connection between the train's engine and the carriages without success, Conan finally understood why the game had made all the other passengers disappear from the carriages.

With just the strength of two children, there was no way to separate the engine and the carriage.

Thinking about it this way, perhaps losing track of Aragaki Yu and Haibara Ai was either a deliberate mishap by the game itself or by that guy from Noah's Ark.

That's incredibly insidious!

"..."

Pooh!

It wasn't me, I didn't do it, don't talk nonsense!

Noah's Ark, who could more or less guess what Conan was thinking from his expression, suddenly became strange.

After suppressing his strong urge to explain, Noah's Ark quickly changed the subject, saying, "Hey, if we don't find that older sister soon, things will get really bad!"

"Ok!"

Conan nodded. Just as he was wondering where Jack the Ripper and Ran might have gone, he suddenly noticed the climbing ladder outside the carriage.

Without hesitation, Conan ran over and climbed up the iron ladder to the roof of the train.

Sure enough, Jack the Ripper was standing on the roof of the car, holding a long rope in his hand.

At the other end of the rope lay Xiaolan, bound hand and foot and lying on the ground.

"Sister Xiaolan!"

Conan and Hideki Moroboshi, who was in Noah's Ark's place, rushed to Jack the Ripper.

Jack the Ripper, however, showed them the rope in his hand and said with a smile, "This lady and I are tied together with this rope. If I fall, she will fall with me. Come on, what are you going to do?"

After saying that, Jack the Ripper pulled out a dagger from his waist and brandished it at Conan.

"hateful!"

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