Conan, but the winery

"Karasuma-san, you've really become like Mori-san..."

"Huh?" Wu Wanying was a little confused.

What's going on? Why are you saying this suddenly?

But obviously, Inspector Megure didn't want to answer her questions.

He looked at everyone again and asked, "So, where is Miss Kusano, whose throat was cut by the murderer, now?"

"He has just been sent to the hospital, and Mr. Kanxiong went with him. The situation is not clear yet..." replied Yoko Okino.

"Then I'll look up the hospital's phone number and call to ask."

As Hoshino Terumi spoke, she walked towards the living room, and behind her, Yue Ye Xue followed.

"I'm here too. My dad is also in that hospital for treatment of diabetes. I know their phone number."

"it is good."

Watching the two walk away, Inspector Megure quietly approached Karasuma Ying and asked:

"Sister Karasuma, is the murderer among them?"

Since becoming Kogoro Mori's assistant, Karasuma Ying has also solved many cases that have been difficult for the police.

So after a few interactions, she became familiar with Inspector Megure and the others.

"not sure for now."

Karasuma Ying shook her head slightly, pointing to the bloodstains on the floor that extended from the bathroom to the apartment door, as well as the pile of bloodstained raincoats and gloves she had just found outside the door.

"The murderer could also be someone from outside."

"Outside?"

Karasuma Ying walked to the door of the apartment, squatted down, and picked up the raincoat with her gloved hands.

There were a lot of bloodstains on the raincoat, and inside it were a pair of gloves full of holes, a handkerchief with a faint lipstick mark, and a bottle of used anesthetic.

Based on just these few things, Karasuma Ying roughly reconstructed the scene where Miss Kusano was attacked.

The murderer was wearing a raincoat and gloves. He used a handkerchief soaked in anesthetic to knock Miss Kusano unconscious and then slit her throat.

But... where is the murder weapon?

She couldn't understand why the murderer took away the murder weapon when he had discarded the raincoat and anesthetics.

Also, these bloodstains on the ground...

Wu Wanying turned around and looked at the blood dripping on the floor, frowning slightly.

"These bloodstains are so neat."

"What?" Inspector Megure looked at her in confusion.

"Normally, if the murderer left the apartment wearing this raincoat, there should be some traces of the murderer stepping on the bloodstains on the ground. It is impossible that there are no traces at all."

"What do you mean, Xiaoying?" Yoko Okino seemed to have guessed something and looked at Karasuma Ying in disbelief.

Looking directly into her eyes, Wu Wanying said slowly with an unchanged tone:

"It is preliminarily speculated that the bloodstains on the ground and the raincoat outside the door were deliberately forged by the murderer in order to mislead us and make us think that the murderer was someone outside the apartment.

Therefore, I think there are two possibilities for the murderer. First, the murderer is still hiding somewhere in this apartment. Second,…"

"Second, the murderer is among us, isn't that what you mean, little sister?"

At this moment, Hoshino Terumi, who had finished her phone call, walked over from the living room. She looked at Karasuma Ying and continued what Karasuma Ying had not finished saying.

"Yeah." Wu Wanying nodded.

"Then, then isn't that the murderer..." Yoko Okino raised her hand to cover her mouth. The situation she least wanted to see happened.

"If the murderer is really among us, it can only be one of the four of you, Ms. Yoko, Ms. Takeno, Ms. Hoshino, and Mr. Makuma who is not here now.

Because at that time, except for me and Mr. Kenzaki, the four of you had acted alone."

Karasuma Ying stated this possibility very directly.

"So, the first thing we should do now is to find the missing murder weapon."

Hoshino Terumi spoke again. She looked at Officer Megure and said in her low and cold voice:

"A knife that has seen blood can be detected to contain hemoglobin no matter how clean it is wiped, so the murderer cannot hide.

If it was found indoors or in the bag of one of us, it would mean that the murderer is indeed among us.

But if it is not found, it means that the murderer must be someone outside. After all, I don’t think the murderer would deliberately hide the murder weapon and then escape. "

"Yeah, ah, right... Takagi, do as she says."

Looking at Hoshino Terumi calmly analyzing all this, Officer Megure and Officer Takagi were stunned for a moment, then nodded quickly.

Especially Inspector Megure, the way he looks at Hoshino Terumi is different.

This old sister, could it be that she also...

"Ms. Hoshino, you know a lot about this..." Thinking of this, Inspector Megure couldn't help but say.

"It's just that I was influenced by someone when I was a child, so I have some interest in criminal investigation..."

Hoshino Terumi lit a cigarette for herself, her tone ambiguous.

"Okay, officer, you should have brought the policewoman here too, right? Start the body search with me."

Let us welcome the appearance of Inspector Megure, the user of the "Brother Fruit"

Group number, welcome everyone to come and chat~

By the way, there should be a setting in the background to automatically put the group number in the author's words at the end of each chapter, right?

Although I have never found it, I typed the little sentence in the group number by myself every time...

Chapter 42 Solving the case at the speed of light

"Really? There was no murder weapon found in the entire room..."

In the living room, Inspector Megure looked worried as he listened to Inspector Takagi's report.

"Yes." Takagi nodded and said, "We have searched everywhere, both indoors and in the drainpipes, but we can't find it."

"What about those stars? And on other people? Have you checked them all? Is there nothing on them?" Inspector Megure asked unwillingly.

"Yes, including Ms. Takeno's fake nails, Ms. Hoshino's earrings, and Mr. Kenzaki's necklace. We checked them all, and there was no blood reaction at all."

"What about the agent who followed Miss Kusano to the hospital? Did he find anything?"

"No, it wasn't. According to the police officers there, they even checked Mr. Xiong's glasses, but there was no blood reaction either..."

"Is that so..." Officer Megure nodded, stroking his chin and said, "If that's the case, the murder weapon must have been taken away by the murderer. It seems that the murderer is most likely someone outside the apartment..."

【wrong. 】

On the side, Karasuma Ying listened to the conversation between Megure and Takagi with her eyes lowered.

It would be fine if the murderer knew that Miss Kusano was going to take a bath, but from the very beginning, Miss Kusano's decision to take a bath was a temporary decision made after an argument with Mr. Mama Kuma.

In other words, if the murderer was really someone outside the apartment, then before the murderer sneaked into the apartment to commit the crime, he actually had no idea whether he would have the opportunity to find Miss Kusano alone and kill her.

This is foolhardy and far-fetched.

She still tends to believe that the murderer is someone in the apartment.

But why can’t we find the murder weapon?

"But, Officer Megure..."

At this moment, Takagi Shigeru suddenly continued, "Although we didn't find the murder weapon, we found a doll with a bug in the room of the victim, Miss Kusano, and there were also some signs of rummaging in the cabinet of her dressing table."

"A bug?"

Inspector Megure nodded when he heard this, he felt that he had grasped the truth.

"In this way, even if the murderer is outside the apartment, he will know that Miss Kusano went to take a bath, and he will have the opportunity to commit the crime..."

On the other side, after hearing what Takagi Wataru said, Karasuma Ying came to Kusano Kaoru's room.

She walked straight to the dressing table and opened the cabinets one by one to look through them.

The interiors of the cabinets above were all very tidy, except for the cabinet containing pens and scissors, which showed obvious signs of having been turned over.

And in the cabinet in the lower left corner, Karasuma Ying also found a special photo.

The reason why it is special is that it is a photo of two people.

Not Kaoru Kusano and Osamu Kenzaki.

But it was Kaoru Kusano and Atsushi Makuma.

[Is that so…]

After taking a look at the photo, Karasuma Ying silently put it back where it belonged.

"Little sister, are you looking for clues?"

Just then, Hoshino Terumi walked in, holding in her hand the cardboard filled with everyone's blessings.

"Yes, Ms. Hoshino." replied Karasuma Ying.

"So, who do you think the murderer is?" Putting the cardboard on the dressing table, Hoshino Terumi looked at her and asked.

"I think the murderer is indeed..."

There was a pause in his speech, and Wu Wanying subconsciously looked at the cardboard. When he saw a certain place on it, he was stunned.

"I see……"

"what?"

"I know who the murderer is, and I also know what weapon she used..."

All the fragmented things in his mind became connected at this moment. Wu Wanying picked up the cardboard and pressed a place with his index finger.

Hoshino Terumi looked over and saw that the place where Karasuma Ying's finger was pressed was exactly the lip print that Yue Ye Xue had left on the cardboard before.

However, what is strange is that in the very center of this lip print, corresponding to the middle of the person's lower lip, there is an abnormally dark red area, which is out of tune with the color of the lipstick around it.