Conan: I'm Really Not Tokyo Ghost Story

Sano pretended to roll up his sleeves and glanced at a watch that didn't exist.

"Besides, I'm in a hurry, I only have ten minutes, so let's not waste any more time."

"...You need to solve this case within ten minutes?"

Hattori Heiji said with some surprise, "How much do you know about this case, yet you're so confident? Aren't you afraid of making a mess of things and being embarrassed?"

Sano did not respond, but looked at Inspector Megure.

After a few seconds of stunned silence, Inspector Megure finally reacted: "Then let's go in and take a look."

After opening the door and entering the house, Inspector Megure's first words were...

"When you came in earlier, did you make sure the door was locked?"

"Ah."

"Then it's very likely suicide, right?"

"No, we think it's highly likely to be murder."

At this point, Hattori Heiji glanced at Sano... The background of today's case is simple in some ways, but quite complex in others.

We need to start with the reason why Hattori Heiji came to Tokyo.

...That seems a bit too deep.

Anyway, Conan needed help, so Professor Agasa took it upon himself to call Heiji Hattori over. After some discussion, Conan revealed that the actress Chris Vineyard, who was at the Beika Hotel back then, was very likely Pisco's teammate, that is, a member of that organization.

Unfortunately, Chris Vineyard disappeared after that.

This led Heiji Hattori to suggest the existence of a suspicious foreign woman around Conan.

After visiting the Sano family, the duo then went to the Jodie family to test them.

Unfortunately, before the test could yield any results, the dead appeared first.

Just as the three of them went downstairs to have dinner, an uncle fell from the 20th floor and was smashed to pieces.

After conducting a preliminary investigation, Conan and his two companions went to the deceased's home to investigate.

It can be basically confirmed that the deceased did not commit suicide.

However, this conclusion was reached after two rounds of investigation on our side.

This Kurosawa is a newcomer, so why did he blurt out a "case" just now?

Heiji Hattori remembered Conan mentioning the bus hostage incident.

In that case, Kurosawa seemed to demonstrate exceptional observational skills.

Perhaps it could also be called reasoning ability.

And this guy seems to have claimed to be a private investigator, right?

"Mr. Kurosawa, what do you think?"

Hattori Heiji threw the topic to Sano, since he had already said it.

Shouldn't we show it off?

"Or would you like to hear our summary of the clues first?"

Sano glanced at Hattori Heiji and roughly understood what the other was thinking.

Unfortunately, Sano does not possess the observational skills to see through the scene at a glance.

They also lack the reasoning ability to deduce the murderer based on just a few words.

But Sano has a cheat code.

After the appearance of the plague duo, Sano knew that there would be bloodshed in Tokyo today, which also represented the possibility of a mission. In addition, Dahei had recently "evolved" rapidly and was now able to summon people to Japan.

Chapter 400, Page 399: Kurosawa's Cat

Sano then casually arranged for his little pet to accompany the duo to check on the situation.

Who knew that I would witness the entire process of the case?

Therefore, the path to victory in this game was presented to Sano from the very beginning.

"Dudu-"

Just as Sano was about to speak, his phone suddenly vibrated in his pocket.

I took it out and glanced at it; it was Gin's phone call.

Sano pressed the hang-up button, intending to deal with the immediate matter first.

But before he could even close the phone, Gin called again.

Is something urgent?

Sano frowned, knowing that if he didn't answer, Gin would probably keep calling.

...I still vividly remember the missed calls from 99jia last time.

"Excuse me, this is a customer's call. Please wait a moment."

Sano turned around and went into a room. Conan wanted to sneak over and eavesdrop, but under Inspector Megure's watchful eye, he could only choose to wait quietly.

A few minutes later.

Sano came out of the room, put his phone back in his pocket, walked to the center of the room, and attracted everyone's attention: "Okay, it was a small problem, but it's been resolved now. We can move on to the rest."

Ok?

Conan turned around abruptly, looked at the door that was slightly ajar, and squinted.

Was the door left open when you came in?

Before Conan could think about it further, Sano's voice drew his attention back.

"Let me ask first, are these three the suspects?"

Sano turned his gaze to the two men and one woman present, apart from the police officers and Conan and his friends.

This startled Inspector Megure and the three suspects.

...It's the same old story: in this situation, it's okay to talk about suspects privately, but it's a bit inappropriate to bring them up in public.

Before the three suspects could even refute his statement, Sano asked another question.

"One of the three should have spoken to the deceased on the phone, right?"

After another moment of surprise, a middle-aged man with a slightly flushed face, who had probably drunk quite a bit, immediately became the focus of everyone's attention.

"I……"

Sano didn't give the man a chance to speak, and continued scrolling through the progress bar on his own.

"Very good, then let's begin the explanation of the murder method."

Method of murder?

You can tell already?

After Sano took out his phone and made a series of quick calls, Hattori Heiji's phone started ringing.

Hattori Heiji paused for a moment, then took out his phone and glanced at it.

It was an unfamiliar number.

Judging from the current situation, the person calling is probably not a stranger.

After hesitating for a few seconds and glancing up at Sano, Hattori Heiji pressed the answer button: "Hello?"

"Can you hear me? I mean, the sound on the phone."

Sano said this, and Hattori Heiji immediately frowned: "I can hear it, but it's a bit hard to hear. The cell phone signal here doesn't seem to be very good."

"That's normal, because the floors here are very tall, generally..."

Judy, who lived next door, explained the reason.

Sano picked up the conversation, saying, "People usually answer the phone on the balcony, right?"

"...Yes, that's right."

Sano turned around and led the way into a room.

"The deceased must have fallen out of this room. The layout makes it clear: there are two windows, one leading to a balcony and the other to an empty space. If his bed was usually placed next to the window near the balcony, and he was someone who didn't want to bother with the phone, then if he received a call with a bad signal, he would have habitually climbed out the window to the balcony to answer it."

Having heard this, the overall picture is already very clear.

Everyone present unconsciously widened their eyes, including Conan and Heiji Hattori, all looking at the suspect who had spoken to the deceased on the phone.

The man's expression quickly turned panicked.

"What a joke! Although I did call him and told him to die, the portable bed was just something he asked me to do to rearrange the room. There was no motive for murder, was there?!"

Under the sudden and intense stimulation, the man seemed to have entered a state of "what's the use" and was resorting to a shameless tactic.

However, what Sano didn't quite understand was...

Since we're already prepared to relentlessly pursue this, shouldn't we focus on the key points?

What was the motive for the murder?

The key thing is the evidence!

What Sano found even more incomprehensible was that Conan and Heiji Hattori then presented their motive for the murder.

With Sano's "reasoning," the two of them quickly sorted out their thoughts.

The two realized that the marks left on the window where the deceased fell, resembling those from a cell phone, were a signal left by the deceased.

The deceased pressed the record button for the call before falling from the building.

This leads to the "murderer" uttering a vicious curse before his death, which is the motive for the murder.

It was presented.

Sano listened to the story briefly; basically, the deceased had killed someone.

The murderer came for revenge.