Conan: The Heart Thief

Nachi Shingo loudly retorted, then took a breath and said, "I made an appointment with Anxi to meet here around 10:30, but I didn't expect that when I got here, he had been killed. I wanted to leave directly, but I didn't expect to see the word "handsome guy" written in blood on the ground, I..."

Before Nachi Shingo finished speaking, Maori Kogoro interrupted and said, "Wasn't it three words 'stone lion'? How did it become two words 'handsome guy'?"

"Because he changed it!"

Conan stood beside the three characters of the stone lion, and under the bright light, he pointed at the three characters on the ground and said, "Do you see the strokes? The characters here are not written together. I think they were added later."

Megure Jusan walked over to take a look and said in surprise, "It really is! If you remove the unconnected strokes, it will be the word handsome."

"That's right!"

Nachi Shingo said with an unpleasant expression: "When I saw these two words, I knew someone was trying to frame me, so I quickly stepped forward and added a few strokes. I was about to leave, but unexpectedly I ran into Lin Xiao. I turned around and ran, but unexpectedly I was caught by Lin Xiao."

"is it?"

Maori Kogoro looked at Nachi Shingo and said doubtfully, "It's possible that you added those two words on purpose to clear yourself of suspicion."

"Um……"

Megure Jusan thought for a moment and said to the forensic personnel who were conducting the test: "Are there any fingerprints found on the dagger?"

The forensic officer shook his head and said, "No, but there are traces of being wiped on it."

Nachi Shingo quickly explained: "It wasn't me, I didn't touch the dagger at all!"

"Officer Megure, I think this vest is a little suspicious."

Conan pointed at the vest on the ground and said to Inspector Megure: "There is no blood on this vest, which means that the deceased Anzai fell to the ground before he was killed. But why did Anzai take off his vest?"

Megure Jusan nodded and said, "This is indeed a suspicious point. And there are no fingerprints on the dagger. If Mr. Nachi really killed the person, since he had time to wipe the fingerprints, it would be safer to just take the dagger away."

"In that case, it is very likely that someone wants to frame Mr. Nachi?"

Maori Kogoro reasoned seriously, then looked at the crew and said, "I remember that Ms. Mamegaki Taeko and Mr. Shimazaki Yuji left the hotel for a while. I wonder what they did when they left?"

"I went out to buy cigarettes."

Shimazaki Yuji said this and took a few steps forward.

Mamegaki Taeko said, "I went home to get something, and my home is at this shrine, so I did go back to the shrine."

Megure Jusan asked Shimazaki Yuji: "Mr. Shimazaki, do you remember what time it was when you went out?"

"Nine forty-five!"

Conan at the side responded: "I happened to check the time, so I knew it was 9:45."

At this time, Xiaolan said: "Ms. Taeko can't be the murderer."

"Xiaolan, do you know something?"

Upon hearing this, Kogoro Maori couldn't help but look at his daughter.

Yoko Okino, who was standing next to Ran Mao Li, said: "Because when we went out, we saw Miss Taeko and Mr. Anzai passing each other, so Miss Taeko can't be the murderer."

After hearing this, Megure Jusan couldn't help but ask again: "Xiaolan, you didn't see it wrong, did you?"

Mao Lilan nodded and explained: "We did see Miss Taeko and Mr. Anzai passing by each other, and Lin Xiao was there too."

"Really? Brother Lin?"

Lin Xiao nodded: "Yes, I did see it at that time."

"If that's the case, then Miss Taeko really can't be the murderer!"

Megure Jusan nodded, then looked at Shimazaki Yuji and said, "Mr. Shimazaki, can you tell me when you went back?"

Shimazaki Yuji thought back and said, "I remember it was around 10:15."

"Officer, we found this thing in the victim's room."

A police officer ran up and handed me, Officer Megure, some photos while speaking.

Megure Juzo nodded, took the photo and looked at it, then looked at Nachi Shingo and said, "This is Mr. Nachi and a woman walking out of the hotel."

Maori Kogoro, who was standing behind Megure Juzo, saw the photo and said in surprise: "Ah? This woman, this is the actress Akiyama Midori!"

After hearing this, Yonehara Sakurako, who was standing aside, said, "But, she's already married!"

"Mr. Nachi, this is the evidence you want to talk about. I think you should explain why the deceased would have such a thing?"

Maori Kogoro sneered and asked: "Did he threaten you with this, and then you killed him?"

After hearing what Maori Kogoro said, Maori Ran couldn't help but say: "In the evening, Conan and I saw Mr. Anzai threatening Mr. Nachi."

Maori Kogoro heard this and said, "In that case, Mr. Nachi, you are the murderer?"

"I told you I'm not the murderer!"

Nachi Shingo said hurriedly: "Anxi did ask me to meet him here, but when I came, he had been killed. You have to believe me!"

Okino Yoko couldn't help but ask Lin Xiao beside her softly: "Lin Xiao, is the murderer really Mr. Nachi?"

"He's not the murderer!"

"why?"

"Because, after the case happened, the first thing we can do is to eliminate the murderer identified by Detective Maori."

"Huh? Is that so?"

Miss Yoko blinked her eyes, not quite understanding what Lin Xiao said.

Conan checked the time on his watch, and realizing something was wrong, he looked at the words written in blood again, and his eyes widened.

I didn't expect the murderer would be that person!

"Okay, Mr. Nachi, just come back with us!" Megure Jusan interrupted Nachi Shingo's sophistry and asked his men to go over and handcuff him.

Seeing that he couldn't stop Mumu Jusan from taking Nachi Shingo away, Conan, who was full of justice, had no choice but to bite the bullet. He said to Maori Kogoro, "Uncle Maori, listen to me. The murderer is not Nachi Shingo. If he was the murderer, judging by the degree of blood sprayed at the scene, his clothes would definitely be stained with blood. Look at his clothes now, there is no blood on them at all, so the murderer is not him."

Kogoro Mouri raised his eyebrows and punched Conan hard again. Now Conan has a big bump on his head.

"You little brat, it's not your turn to interrupt. But what you said does make sense..."

Then, Kogoro Mori stopped Jusan Memuku from taking Shingo Nachi away.

"Wait, Officer Mu, there is something fishy about the case."

"What are you talking about? Brother Maori, if the murderer is not Nachi Shingo, then who is it?"

"I need to think about it."

Conan, who was standing by, kept saying, "Yes, yes, because the murder happened before ten o'clock, and Mr. Nachi had an alibi for that time."

"Hey, Conan, please stop making trouble, okay?"

Ran Mao Li picked up Conan and wanted to take him away.

Conan waved his hands and feet in mid-air and said, "Sister Xiaolan, please put me down and let me finish what I want to say."

Not only that, Conan also asked Lin Xiao for help: "Brother Lin Xiao, please..."

Lin Xiao sighed softly, and had to say to Mao Lilan: "Xiao Lan, let Conan finish what he is saying."

"Okay." Lin Xiao spoke, and Mao Li Ran ignored Conan.

Conan said to Mu Mu Thirteen: "Officer Mu Mu, please look at the victim's watch!"

"A watch?"

Megure Jusan ran to the dead body in confusion and squatted down.

"The watch is clearly covered in blood, but why is there no blood stain on the watch?"

Megure Jusan took a closer look and said in surprise: "It is indeed!"

"That is, after the victim was killed, someone took his watch from the victim. The person wanted to postpone the time of the murder, so he took the watch back to the hotel and deliberately set the alarm on the watch to ring in the victim's hotel. However, on the way back to the hotel, he found blood on the watch, so he wiped the blood off."

After hearing the reasoning, Yoko Okino couldn't help but say: "So, what we saw at the hotel was..."

Conan continued to reason, "That's right, it wasn't Mr. Anzai. The person who set the alarm in Mr. Anzai's room put on the hat and vest in the room, dressed up as Mr. Anzai, and left the hotel. The person who left the hotel hurried back to the shrine, took the watch back to the dead man, and left the hat and vest next to him. Then, in order to put the blame on Mr. Nachi, he wrote the word handsome!"

Megure Jusan was still a little puzzled: "If they want to put the blame on Nachi, why not just write down Nachi? Wouldn't the murderer have to give false testimony?"

"Because he couldn't do that anymore! The deceased had already written the words there, and he had no choice but to add a few strokes. Just like Mr. Nachi, he added a few more strokes to the handsome guy and turned it into a stone lion."

"How many additions were made? Conan, tell me, who was the original owner?"

"Magumi Taeko! That's right, the murderer is none other than you, Miss Magumi Taeko."

"Impossible, how could the murderer be Taeko!"

Douyuan Taeko's grandfather was very excited and his face was full of disbelief.

"It's me! I killed Anxi!"

Shimazaki Yuji suddenly said loudly: "I was the one who disguised myself as Anzai, and I was also the one who killed Anzai. There was no Taeko's name written on the ground."

Conan continued to reason: "Mr. Shimazaki, it is indeed you who disguised yourself as Anzai, but you are not the criminal. There are bloodstains all around the deceased, right? That is to say, the murderer should also be covered in bloodstains, but there is not a drop of blood on your clothes. The only person who had time to change into bloody clothes and wash off the bloodstains on her body is Miss Taeko."

"No, I really was the one who killed him!"

Shimazaki Yuji retorted loudly.

"Yuji, stop talking."

Douyuan Taeko, who had been silent the whole time, walked up to Shimazaki Yuji, shook her head and said, "Stop talking! Mr. Mori is right, I was indeed the one who killed Anzai!"

"No way?"

"Why is it Miss Taeko?"

Yoko Okino and Ran Maoli exclaimed in disbelief and looked at Taeko Mamegaki in surprise.

Megure Jusan walked up to Mamegaki Taeko and said, "Ms. Taeko, you didn't know that Mr. Shimazaki would disguise himself as Mr. Anzai, didn't you?"

"Yes!"

Douyuan Taeko nodded and said, "So when I saw Anxi in front of the hotel, I was really shocked and felt a strange feeling."

Mao Lilan said in disbelief: "But, Miss Taeko, what is this for?"

"I think Miss Taeko was also threatened by Anzai."

Conan reasoned.

"You guessed right. Anxi and I agreed to give him the money here around 9:30 tonight. But I went there with a knife and threatened Anxi. I told him not to appear in front of me again. But that guy suddenly pounced on me, and the dagger..."