Conan, but the winery

Chapter 180 That Document (Additional Update 810)

"Oh! Xiaoying, have you found the murderer?!"

Behind the artificial cliff, all the people who had been questioned by the police were gathered together. Maori Kogoro looked at Karasuma Ying and said with emotion and pride:

"You're worthy of being the assistant of the famous detective Maori Kogoro! You've really learned some of my skills! Hahaha!"

"Hahaha……"

Conan standing by also let out a meaningless laugh.

[Uncle, you are really rude...]

"Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Maori. This is also thanks to the help of everyone here."

After replying with a smile, Karasuma Ying glanced at everyone and said:

"Everyone, the investigation of this case has been completed. Let me first explain the result. Mr. Katsuragi was murdered, and the murderer is among us.

Because the murderer's method of committing crimes is indeed sophisticated, before I point out the murderer, I need to answer some doubts in this case for you.

The first is the true identity of Onimare, the man who jumped off the artificial cliff that everyone had seen before."

"Isn't he Katsuragi himself?" Shibata Daisuke asked as a matter of course.

"No, if the person above was really Mr. Katsuragi himself, then apart from the possibility of suicide, the person who murdered Mr. Katsuragi could only be Ms. Hui... Ms. Hoshino."

"I see. So the murderer is Hoshino? Was she the one who pushed Katsuragi down?" Shibata Daisuke immediately identified the murderer for Karasuma Ying.

When Hoshino Terumi heard this, she just glanced at him and didn't even answer.

"It can't be Miss Hoshino." Conan said, "Because Miss Hoshino put on special makeup on her hands for today's photo shoot.

However, because the foundation used by the staff is very cheap and of poor quality, it can be easily rubbed off.

So if it was Ms. Hoshino who pushed Onimaru down, some of the foundation on her hands would have gotten onto her costume."

As soon as Conan finished speaking, Hoshino Terumi cooperated by raising her hand, allowing everyone to see the makeup on her hand that looked like marks from strangulation.

"The Forensic Department did not find any residue of the same substance on that costume." Sato Miwako also spoke up.

"So, the man wearing the Onimaru suit was not pushed down by Miss Hoshino, but jumped down by himself, and he was the murderer of Mr. Katsuragi. As for the real Mr. Katsuragi..."

After a pause, Wu Wanying continued: "He was dead long before the filming began."

"Then where exactly was his body hidden?" Maori Kogoro asked, "Xiaoying, we got here very quickly, so the murderer couldn't have had time to drag the body here from somewhere else, right?"

"That's true. The murderer himself knew this, so he was very smart and hid the body in the air cushion."

"What?!" Shibata Daisuke was shocked and said quickly, "Hidden in the air cushion? This, this shouldn't be possible, right?"

"No, that's it." Looking at him, Karasuma Ying said, "The murderer murdered Mr. Katsuragi in advance, stuffed his body into an air cushion, and finally sewed it up with tape to camouflage it.

After the performance began, the murderer dressed in another Onimare costume and disguised as Mr. Katsuragi jumped down from the cliff as planned, tore off the tape to expose Mr. Katsuragi's body in the air cushion, and quickly left the studio through the back door..."

"Well, how did the murderer jump down from a ten-meter-high cliff and do all this quickly and then escape?" Komiya Katsu couldn't help but ask. As a stuntman, he knew very well how dangerous this was.

"It's very simple, because the murderer set up a small mechanism." Conan suddenly took out a bundle of ropes from behind him and replied loudly.

This bundle of ropes was exactly the same one he and Karasuma Ying found in the warehouse before.

“Before the filming began, one end of the rope had already been tied by the murderer to a steel frame on the upper back side of the cliff.

The murderer then walked up the cliff, and when the director shouted "start", he immediately grabbed the other end of the rope, tied it around his waist, and jumped down.

This bundle of ropes is extremely tough and can absorb shock very well. As long as the length of the ropes is adjusted properly, it can indeed replace the role of the air cushion to a large extent, allowing the murderer to fall to the ground smoothly.

The evidence is that the steel frame above and the inside of the ropes all have scratches from high-speed friction. If the police do a little testing, they will find that the scratches on the steel frame contain the same substance as the ropes. "

"Interesting. Take this bundle of rope down for inspection, as well as the scratches on the steel frame above. Extract the residue inside and inspect them together." Sato Miwako said to the forensic police officer behind her.

"Yes."

"I see..." Hoshino Terumi nodded slightly after hearing this, then suddenly looked at Shibata Daisuke beside her and said:

"I was still wondering what Onimaru was doing there all that time. Was he setting up a trap for me to escape?"

By this point, she already knew who the murderer was.

"Yes, yes, I never thought that the murderer would be so... cunning." Feeling uncomfortable all over when being looked at by Terumi Hoshino, Daisuke Shibata subconsciously raised his hand to push his glasses and replied stutteringly.

"really."

After looking at him deeply, Hoshino Terumi turned to look at Karasuma Ying and said, "Xiaoying, the murderer's method should have a flaw, right? How did he ensure that other crew members would not discover his arrangements in advance?"

"Is such that."

Karasuma Ying nodded, and also looked at Shibata Daisuke who was already a little flustered, and said: "This is indeed something that is likely to happen.

So the murderer wanted to make sure that this would not happen, and also to make sure that no one would see him escape.

Long before today's filming, the murderer used his power to issue a special order to arrange all the crew members in front of the artificial cliff. As for the back of the cliff, no one was left.

Am I right, Mr. Daisuke Shibata, the producer?"

As Karasuma Ying finished speaking, everyone around him looked at Shibata Daisuke.

"Are you kidding me?" Looking rather flustered, Daisuke Shibata pushed up his glasses and forced a smile.

"I'm the producer of Onimare. How can I murder the male lead of my crew? How is this possible..."

"Whether you are a murderer or not has nothing to do with the relationship between you and Mr. Katsuragi."

"ridiculous!"

As if to dispel the panic and fear in his heart, Shibata Daisuke suddenly shouted: "You said I am the murderer?! According to you, the murderer carried out this series of actions while wearing that leather suit, right?!

Little girl, you probably don't know how difficult it is to move when wearing that leather suit! How can I, a civilian who can only write, have the physical strength to finish what you said? According to what you said, shouldn't it be more likely that Xiao Gong is the murderer? ! "

"what?!"

Komiya Sheng on the side was confused. Why was it suddenly linked to him?

"Komiya is a professional stuntman. I've heard of him before! He was the one who tampered with Katsuragi's suit! Doesn't he fit your reasoning better?!"

Facing Shibata Daisuke's hysteria, Karasuma Ying just looked at him quietly, then sighed softly and said:

"It can't be Mr. Komiya, because Mr. Katsuragi's two Onimare costumes are too big for Mr. Komiya to wear."

"W-what do you mean?"

"Onimaru's leather costumes are tailor-made to the actors' bodies, and there is a big difference in height between Mr. Komiya and Mr. Katsuragi.

Mr. Katsuragi's costume did not match Mr. Komiya's in terms of height and width. Even if he managed to put it on, Mr. Komiya's height would not allow him to see outside at all. Not to mention performing those movements, he would even have trouble walking.

Therefore, he could not possibly be the person who was pretending to be Onyemare at that time.”

"Haha, yeah..." Upon hearing this, Komiya Sheng raised his hand and touched his head, smiling awkwardly.

Although Wu Wanying was clearing his suspicion, he didn't know why he always felt uncomfortable and cold in his heart...

"Come to think of it, Producer, you and Katsuragi are very similar in height and physique, so you should be able to wear that suit easily, right?"

Next to Daisuke Shibata, Hoshino Terumi lit a cigarette for herself and said quietly.

"What did you say?!" Shibata Daisuke turned his head and glared at her, and asked fiercely: "Hoshino, are you doubting me?!"

"I just think Xiaoying's reasoning is very reasonable." Hoshino Terumi glanced at him.

"As for the time when you murdered Mr. Katsuragi, Mr. Shibata, it should have been this morning."

Karasuma Ying interrupted the quarrel between the two and continued:

"According to the security room's records, you and Mr. Katsuragi were the first and second people to come to the studio today, and you both came very early. Miss Hoshino, who came after you, arrived half an hour later.

That is to say, before Miss Hoshino, you and Mr. Katsuragi were alone for at least half an hour.

If my reasoning is correct, Mr. Shibata, you asked Mr. Katsuragi to come to the studio early on the pretext of discussing the script, and then tricked him into wearing the costume and coming to the artificial cliff. When he was not prepared, you pushed him off the cliff and completed the murder of Mr. Katsuragi.

This can be confirmed once the more detailed autopsy report from the forensic department comes out and the exact time of Mr. Katsuragi's death is determined."

"Nonsense!"

Shibata Daisuke loudly retorted, "I did come early today, but what makes you say that I murdered Katsuragi?! I was clearly sleeping in the lounge the whole time! I only came to the studio for the first time today after Katsuragi was murdered and I heard the call from the staff!"

"Really……"

Karasuma Ying looked at him and asked, "In that case, I have a question for Mr. Shibata. If Mr. Shibata really came to the studio for the first time today, why were you so sure that we were the friends invited by Mr. Katsuragi?"

"Uh……"

"You didn't have any doubts or any intention to ask questions, and you just found us in the crowd as usual.

Mr. Shibata, you told us before that Mr. Katsuragi is a very willful person and he never informs you in advance about things like inviting guests.

So, that should have been the first time that Mr. Shibata saw us. Why did you know so clearly that we were invited by Mr. Katsuragi?

Is it because you had actually seen us before? For example... that photo?"

Karasuma Ying suddenly took out the photo of Maori and Onimare that was taken by Kawada Yumi before the shooting.

"Uh, this, that..." Looking at the photo, Daisuke Shibata suddenly felt deflated and stammered.

"Mr. Shibata, it seems that you don't come to the filming site very often. I heard from the crew that Mr. Katsuragi never actively invites people to take pictures after putting on the Onemare suit.

If you look closely, Onimare's signature move in this photo is indeed not standard. It doesn't look like it was done by someone like Mr. Katsuragi who can repeat this move dozens of times every day..."

“Hehe, hahahaha…”

Without waiting for Karasuma Ying to continue, Shibata Daisuke suddenly smiled. He raised his hand and pushed his glasses, with a gloomy look on his face.

"I never thought that I would be discovered in the end... Yes, I was the one who killed Katsuragi."

"How could that be? Producer, you..." Komiya Sheng looked at him in disbelief, "Aren't you two good friends?"

"Because of Onimare."

After the confession, Shibata Daisuke seemed to calm down a lot. He said calmly: "He has been threatening me about the Onimaru matter, so I killed him, that's it."

"What do you mean?" Hoshino Terumi also looked at him curiously.

"That was before the filming of Onimare began. At that time, neither he nor I were famous. One time, he went to Europe to shoot an exterior scene and happened to see a picture album in a local antique shop. It was based on this picture album that he eventually created the original script of 'Artificial Man Onimare'..."

"So he was the one who wrote the original script for Onimare?!" Kogoro Mouri was shocked when he heard this.

Without answering him, Shibata Daisuke continued calmly: "Afterwards, he came to me with the original plan, hoping that I could help him attract investment from Onimare, and his only condition was that he play the leading role in Onimare.