Conan, but the winery

[Let’s go to the seminar room again. There must be some clues there.]

Thinking of this, Conan quietly got up, left the lounge, and returned to the seminar room.

At this time in the seminar room, since the police had basically completed the on-site investigation and evidence collection, and Takasugi Yuto's body had been taken away, the police did not continue to block the place, and Conan walked in easily.

"Ugh?"

As soon as he entered the seminar room, Conan found that there was already someone inside.

"Suzumura-sister?"

In the room, Suzumura Rin stood in front of the desk with garbage piled underneath, looking gloomy.

When she heard Conan's voice, she turned around and looked at him with a look of surprise.

"Little brother, why are you here?"

"Ah, Uncle Maori asked me to come over to investigate the scene again and see if there are any clues that have been missed... Sister Suzumura, why are you here too?"

She acted like an elementary school student very skillfully. Conan walked up to her, looked up at her, and asked in a cute tone.

Suzumura Rin, although she is Takasugi Yuto's girlfriend, she herself is a major suspect.

First, she was the first person to discover the scene.

Secondly, according to the oral statements of Meguroto and Kunimatsu Shogo, after they returned to the research room, Suzumura Rin was crying while hugging Takasugi Yuto's body.

If she was the murderer, then she had great conditions to commit the crime and the opportunity to clean up the scene afterwards.

"I... want to come and see Yuto..." Suzumura Rin replied while being stared at by Conan.

"Hey? So this set of desks and chairs belong to Brother Takasugi?" Conan heard this and looked at the desks and chairs piled with garbage in front of him, pretending to be surprised and asked:

"It looks so dirty, with garbage piled everywhere. Doesn't Takasugi-ni-nii clean up the place?"

“I’ve talked to Yuto before. I wanted to help him clean up yesterday, but he stopped me…

She said that she was no longer a child and could clean her own things, but in the end she was too lazy to do anything... Really, she is not a worry at all..."

"Suzumura Rin" said this while showing a complex expression of sadness on her face.

For Rena Mizunashi, this level of performance is easy to achieve.

From yesterday to today, she has been disguised as Suzumura Rin for two days.

After just two days of observation, she vaguely confirmed one thing.

It is very likely that Takasugi Yuto is really hiding something, and it should be in this pile of garbage.

This was not just a random guess by Rena Mizunashi.

When she returned to the seminar room yesterday afternoon to replace Suzumura Rin, she remembered that Takasugi Yuto was rummaging through this pile of garbage, looking flustered.

In the evening, when she offered to help Takasugi Yuto clean up the garbage, he firmly refused on the grounds that he could clean it himself.

If it were someone else, they might not take it to heart and would just complain a few times at most.

But Mizunashi Rena is different. She had been warned by Regel before this operation that Takasugi Yuto might be carrying information about the identity of Yamatoda Mifuyu.

Therefore, after noticing Takasugi Yuto's unusual behavior, she keenly realized that what she was looking for might be hidden in this pile of garbage.

Chapter 136 Someone Wants to Change the Dynasty

"Hey, these garbage bags are so weird."

While Rena Mizunashi was lost in thought, Conan had already walked forward, squatted beside the garbage pile, and reached out to pull out a bunch of plastic bags stacked together.

Compared with other plastic bags filled with garbage around them, this string of plastic bags is relatively much cleaner and there is no trace of garbage inside.

But what was strange was that there were small holes as thick as a little finger poked at the bottom of the plastic bags, which was a bit abnormal.

"Suzumura-san, why do these garbage bags have holes at the bottom?"

Conan held up the string of plastic bags and looked up at Suzumura Rin behind him.

"Ok?"

Mizuno Reina came back to her senses, took a look, and shook her head and replied: "I'm not sure about this either."

These two days, Takasugi Yuto has been eating and sleeping in the seminar room, and she has not found a suitable opportunity to rummage through the garbage.

"That's it..."

Conan didn't care. He silently made note of this and stuffed the plastic bag back.

"what?"

When he stood up, he noticed the receipt that he had just stepped on. After a casual glance at it, his expression suddenly became serious.

"Oh, this receipt looks like it's from Brother Takasugi buying an oxygen cylinder."

He picked up the receipt, deliberately gestured in front of Suzumura Rin, and read out the contents on it.

"Brother Takasugi bought five oxygen cylinders at the sports store the day before yesterday, but there's only one in the room..."

"Ah, the other four bottles, I remember Yuto should have put them in the drawer..."

Suzumura Rin said this and opened the drawer of the table.

"Ugh?"

This opening made Conan stunned for a moment.

There were not four but five oxygen cylinders in the drawer.

【Five bottles?】

Conan looked at the five brand new, unopened oxygen cylinders in the drawer, and a look of confusion immediately appeared on his face.

There are five bottles in the drawer and one on the coffee table, one more than the number on the receipt. Is it leftovers from before? Or...

With doubts in his heart, Conan turned around and ran to the coffee table and picked up the oxygen cylinder with the nozzle. Rena Mizunashi just watched him quietly and did not stop him.

After all, letting the detective find the murderer is part of the plan.

"wrong."

After a careful observation, Conan noticed the abnormality of this oxygen cylinder. He took another oxygen cylinder from the drawer and compared them. He immediately said:

"The label on this oxygen cylinder was manually affixed!"

Unlike the oxygen cylinder in the drawer, the label on the oxygen cylinder on the coffee table is skewed to a certain extent, which is obviously a trace left by artificial pasting. This oxygen cylinder is likely to be counterfeit.

And that person is most likely the murderer of Takasugi Yuto!

But how could one use such an ordinary bottle to cause Takasugi Yuto to suffocate to death so peacefully?

What exactly happened in the seminar room at that time?

"Hey, Suzumura-nee, did you really not see any suspicious people when you returned to the seminar room?"

Conan looked at Suzumura Rin again.

【Want to find me as a breakthrough point? 】

Thinking of this, Mizunashi Reina looked at him with a thoughtful expression, and then said:

"Suspicious person? Um... does Himuro-san count?"

Well, she has been running around for Regler these days, and today should be the last mission.

I'll deal with the people who need to be dealt with later, and recycle the information that needs to be recycled. The sooner it's over, the sooner I can relax.

"Mr. Himuro?"

Himuro Takashi was the cleaner who rushed over first after Suzumura Rin discovered that Takasugi Yuto had been murdered and who immediately called the police.

Strictly speaking, he was the second person to discover the scene, but after the police arrived, he seemed to have gone to the school office again because of a labor contract issue. Therefore, he was not present when Kogoro Mori questioned Suzumura Rin and the other two.

"Well, there has been a lot of dust accumulated in the air conditioner in the corridor recently, and I can hear some buzzing noises in it these past two days.

Mr. Himuro was supposed to clean it up during lunch break today, but when I passed by there just now, I noticed that the air conditioner was still making that buzzing sound, and the dust inside didn’t seem to have decreased at all…”

"But Mr. Himuro's job during lunch break today should be to clean it up, right?"

"Yeah, so I think Mr. Himuro should be the murderer of Yuuto!"

Mizuno Reina's tone suddenly changed, and she said in a very vicious and resentful tone:

“He was the first one to come here after I found out that Yuto was murdered, which means he must have been in this teaching building at that time.

He had been here the whole time, but he hadn't done anything! He must have sneaked into the seminar room during this time and killed Yuto who was taking a lunch break!

It must be him! I will tell this to the police right now and have them arrest him!"

Seeing Suzumura Rin's sudden change of mood, Conan, who was a little frightened, subconsciously took two steps back and hurriedly advised:

"Well, Sister Suzumura, don't get excited. These are just your guesses. We don't have any evidence yet, and the police won't believe it.

And if it was Mr. Himuro, how could he know when Sister Suzumura would come back, and sneak out and pretend nothing happened..."

"Surely he can!"

Suzumura Rin looked at Conan and said seriously, "Before I went back to the seminar room, I sent a text message to Yuto to tell him that I had brought his lunch back.

He must have seen the text message I sent to Youdou, so he knew I was coming back in advance!"

【What? ! 】

Now it was Conan's turn to be shocked. Did Suzumura Rin send a text message to Takasugi Yuto's mobile phone before returning to the seminar room?

A possibility suddenly occurred to his mind, and he immediately turned around and ran out of the seminar room and ran towards the lounge.

"Boom!"

"Wow!"

However, just as he ran out of the door, he bumped into someone in the corridor.

"Are you OK?"

"No, it's okay..."

Covering his head, Conan looked up.

The person he bumped into was a young man who looked very dull and a little gloomy.