Detective Conan: The Superpowered Beings of the Detective Conan World

Now that you mention it, I think I guessed it too.

Hoshino Hikaru mentally simulated the scene, recalling the kayak he had seen in the storage room, and came up with an idea.

"Conan, Hoshino, we found this in the open space behind the waterfall."

Just as Hoshino Hikaru was thinking, Ran and Ai, wearing disposable gloves, were holding a piece of the wall and some tape wrapped around it.

"These are fragments of the wall and duct tape?"

Hoshino Hikaru squinted at the fragments.

"That's right, this special tape is waterproof. The killer used it to seal the room, and there must be the real killer's fingerprints on it."

Conan nodded, took the fragment, and put it in a sealed bag.

"I see, I understand now. Let's go to the window upstairs and solve the case."

Hikaru Hoshino nodded, picked up Conan, and walked together toward the window next to the waterfall.

"Inspector, we've almost finished collecting evidence at the scene. What's next?"

An officer from the Forensic Science Division approached Inspector Megure and questioned him.

"this……"

Inspector Megure hesitated. If he followed the same approach as two years ago, the case would most likely remain unsolved.

"Brother Hoshino, what ideas do you have... Brother Hoshino?"

Inspector Megure turned around, just about to ask Hoshino Hikaru for a question, when he suddenly realized that the person was gone.

"I'm up here, Inspector Megure. I've cracked the scheme in this room and caught the Tengu in his true form."

Hoshino Hikaru's voice came from the window next to the roof, instantly attracting the attention of everyone below.

"Hoshino-kun, are you saying you've solved the case's method?"

Inspector Megure looked up instantly, his tone revealing a hint of surprise.

"That's right, the murderer used water to get the body onto the roof beam. Last night, the entire room was flooded!"

Hikaru Hoshino poked his head out and pointed at the entire dark room.

"What? You mean water? How is that possible? How long would it take to fill this whole room with water! Besides, the waterfall is quite a distance from the window, how could the water get in?"

Upon hearing this, Inspector Megure immediately voiced his doubts.

"The total volume of the room is 2.7 * 2.7 * 10 = 72.9 cubic meters. The water filling time is about seven hours. As for how to fill the room, wooden boards will suffice."

As Hoshino Hikaru spoke, he placed the wooden plank between the window and the waterfall.

"Hiss~~"

In an instant, a stream of clear water, carrying cherry blossom petals, cascaded down from the ten-meter-high window, the flow appearing quite turbulent.

"As long as you seal the doors and windows with special tape, you can fill the entire room with water using wooden boards. Naturally, it will be as if you are flying into the sky. You can hang the body on the roof beam. If you test it, you should be able to detect traces of water on the walls."

Hoshino Hikaru put away the wooden plank used for draining water and continued to explain.

"But, Hoshino-kun, in that case, there should be a lot of water stains on the corpse, but I didn't find any water stains on it."

Inspector Megure was already half convinced of Hoshino Hikaru's methods, but he still continued to point out flaws, hoping that Hoshino Hikaru could refine the entire method.

"The kayak in the storeroom will suffice. As long as the murderer places the body on the kayak beforehand and carefully covers it, it's easy to prevent the body from getting wet."

As Hoshino Hikaru spoke, he narrowed his eyes as he looked at the bespectacled, trembling monk, Shunen.

Under the influence of the "Eye of Light," even from a distance of more than ten meters, Hoshino Hikaru noticed the keratinized skin on the monk Shunen's legs, which had been soaked in water for seven hours.

"But how will all this water be drained in the end?"

Inspector Megure looked at the large hole that appeared to have been torn open by the Tengu not far away, and a certain possibility seemed to come to mind.

"Of course, it's using water pressure. The water in the whole room has a pressure of 9.8 x 10 Pascals. Just use an axe to make a crack in the window, and all the water will drain out in just ten seconds. The force is comparable to a truck rushing out, right, Master Xiu Nian!"

As Hoshino Hikaru finished filling in the last gaps in the technique, he asked the monk Shunen.

"Xiu Nian, what's wrong? Could it be...?"

Kuan Nian, the senior brother who was closest to Xiu Nian, was the first to notice Xiu Nian's trembling and questioned her in disbelief.

Inspector Megure immediately gave a look, and in an instant, two or three officers quietly surrounded Hideaki, ready to fight at any moment.

"No, what you're saying is just your speculation, you..."

Xiu Nian broke out in a cold sweat, but she still forced herself to speak.

"Inspector, this is what I found on the grass outside. There are fragments of broken wall and some tape on it, which should be able to detect fingerprints."

Ran handed the evidence, sealed in a bag, to Inspector Megure, then looked at Monk Shunen with a complicated expression.

"thump!"

The monk Xiu Nian finally lost all his strength, knelt down on the ground, raised his head and looked at the ceiling, lost in thought.

"Wait a minute, Xiu Nian, he only arrived a year ago. He couldn't possibly have committed a crime from two years ago..."

Suddenly remembering something, the eldest brother, Kuan Nian, quickly spoke up.

"That's enough, Senior Brother. The case from two years ago was committed by the abbot. He's the one who killed my brother!"

A sinister red glint flashed in Xiu Nian's eyes, revealing her intense hatred for the abbot.

"What did you say? Zhongnian, is he your brother?"

Kuan Nian asked in disbelief.

"That's right, Zhongnian, who was killed by the abbot two years ago, was my brother!"

Xiu Nian took a deep breath and spoke with a touch of nostalgia:

"My brother fell in love with Miss Kikuno, the abbot's granddaughter, but the abbot wanted to marry Miss Kikuno off to the heir of the great temple. Because of this, my brother and Miss Kikuno decided to elope, but he died the day before they were supposed to!"

"I will always remember my brother calling me happily, saying that he was going to fight for love. Those were his heartfelt words. To investigate this, I came to the temple under a different surname."

"Last night, I took advantage of the abbot being drunk to ask him about this matter. He didn't know that Zhongnian was my brother, and he admitted it without the slightest remorse. He even said that a person like my brother should have died long ago. In a fit of anger, when I came to my senses, I found that the abbot was already dead."

"Detective Hoshino, if there had been a detective like you back when my brother was alive, perhaps none of this would have happened."

Xiu Nian sighed with tears in her eyes, a sigh that contained so much emotion.