Science: The Little Shota of the Maori Family

Hearing the flattery, Maori Kogoro burst into laughter and assured Samejima Susumu, "Mr. Samejima, don't worry. I will never let anyone with bad intentions steal your gold medal."

"Then I would like to thank Mr. Mori first." Samejima Susumu said gratefully.

……

evening.

Kogoro Mouri brought Ran and Toru Watanabe to Samejima Susumu's residence.

Samejima Jin came to greet them personally and led a few people inside.

On the corridor, a man bowed to Samejima Jin and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

"This is my fitness trainer, Wakasugi-kun," Samejima Susumu introduced to Maori Kogoro. "Since he practiced wrestling as a student, I thought he might be of some use."

"Is that so?" Kogoro Mouri nodded.

Several people walked into an exhibition room and saw the gold medal that Samejima Jin mentioned.

"Is this the gold medal? It looks so impressive, right, Xiao Che?" Xiaolan exclaimed.

Watanabe Toru hummed twice.

Samejima said, "I felt that the smaller room would be safer, so I put the gold medal here."

"Don't worry, I will definitely protect the gold medal and not let anyone take it away." Kogoro Mouri vowed.

"Then I'll leave everything to Mr. Maori."

At this time, a girl with a ponytail and wearing sportswear walked in and said to Samejima, "Mr. Samejima, reporter Kamei from the Imahoku newspaper is here to visit..."

Before she could finish her words, a man in a hat walked in from outside, pushed the girl away, and said, "Oh, I'm so sorry, Mr. Samejima, to bother you when you're so busy."

Samejima Jin didn't really care. He smiled and said, "Isn't this Mr. Kamei? Isn't it a little early for our appointment?"

Kamei Yasushi took off his hat and said, "I just want to interview you as soon as possible. By the way..."

He looked at Maori Kogoro and the others and asked, "Who are these people?"

Samejima Susumu introduced: "This is the famous detective, Mr. Maori Kogoro, and these two are his daughter Xiaolan, and Xiao Toru who lives in his house."

"Oh, you're a famous detective." Kamei Yasushi pulled out a notebook from his pocket and wrote on it: "So you're fully prepared..."

Samejima Shin then said to Maori Kogoro and his group, "Excuse me, Mr. Maori, could you please move somewhere else first? Wakasugi-kun, please take them inside."

"I understand." Kenta Wakasugi nodded and walked out of the exhibition room with Kogoro Mori and others.

Walking down the corridor, Kenta Wakasugi said enthusiastically, "Everyone, it's a rare opportunity to come here. Would you like to try out our latest equipment?"

"Is this... okay?" Kogoro Mouri was a little hesitant. After all, he came here to help prevent the gold medal from being lost, not to visit.

"It's okay." Wakasugi Kenta said with a smile, "I don't think Mr. Samejima would mind either."

"OK then."

Kogoro Mori finally agreed.

It has to be said that as a gold medalist in weightlifting, the equipment in Samejima Jin's gym also amazes everyone.

"You're worthy of being a gold medalist," Maori Kogoro said, touching the various equipment with his hands. "You must exercise a lot every day."

"Mr. Mori, would you like to give it a try?" Kenta Wakasugi said with a smile.

Maori Kogoro quickly waved his hands: "No, no."

"Don't be so polite." Wakasugi Kenta thought Maori Kogoro was being polite, so he pulled him to the back training equipment and said, "Come on, give it a try."

ten minutes later……

Kogoro Mouri lay on the ground, gasping for breath.

0.5 “Hahahahahaha…”

With a hearty laugh, Samejima Susumu walked in from outside and said to Maori Kogoro with a smile: "It seems that Maori-san needs to exercise more."

"Mr. Samejima." Xiaolan approached Samejima and asked, "Mr. Samejima, have you finished your business?"

"Oh, Mr. Kamei's questions were like a string of cannonballs. I just said I wanted to get some drinks and took the opportunity to escape here." Samejima Jin shook his head helplessly.

Xiaolan sighed, "But, is it okay to leave him alone in the room with the gold medal?"

Samejima Jin smiled and said, "I just asked Shijing to go to the corridor to monitor him. I think there shouldn't be any problems. But just in case, Wakasugi-kun, I'll ask you to do this as well."

421. The Gold Medal is Missing

"Okay." Kenta Wakasugi responded and left the gym.

Samejima Susumu sighed softly again. "What a troublesome person! He seemed to have been hoping from the very beginning to write a ridiculous report based on the theft. He really didn't care about anything. He clearly had no idea how I felt when I received that gold medal..."

At this point, Samejima Jin saw everyone staring at him in a daze, then finally came to his senses, smiled, and said, "Sorry, I sounded a bit complaining. By the way, do you guys want to try that?"

He pointed to an exercise bike not far away.

"This is the fitness bike I recently bought. You can even race on the screen." Samejima Jin sat on the bike and operated the screen.

"Eh? Looks like it's interesting."

Just when a few people were having a great time, there was suddenly a thud, a sound of something heavy falling, followed by a scream.

Watanabe Toru's heart trembled, and he said, "Sister Xiaolan, did you hear any sound?"

"Is this my room?" Samejima Jin frowned.

A few people realized that something seemed to have happened and hurried out of the gym and ran towards the exhibition room where the gold medals were placed.

"What happened?"

As Samejima Susumu opened his mouth, he froze in place.

The reporter named Kamei Bao was lying on the ground with blood oozing from his head. The glass cover of the display box used to display the gold medal was smashed and the gold medal inside was missing.

"Jin, the gold medal is missing?"

Maori Kogoro completely forgot about his fatigue. He immediately opened the blinds and looked down. Then he retreated helplessly and said through gritted teeth, "Damn it."

Then, he asked Yotsugu Miko and Wakasugi Kenta, who had been in the corridor before the incident, "You two heard the sound of glass breaking in the room and immediately pushed the door open and walked in, right?"

Kenta Wakasugi nodded and said, "Yes, at that time, apart from Mr. Kamei lying on the ground, there was no one else there."

Maori Kogoro sighed helplessly: "In other words, the criminal killed the only witness and stole the gold medal."

He walked towards Samejima and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Samejima, I didn't supervise the gold medal well."

"No, this isn't Mr. Maori's fault." Samejima Jin shook his head and said softly, "Although I'm heartbroken to lose my friend and the gold medal, I'm thankful that all the employees are safe."

Samejima's words made Maori Kogoro feel even worse. He clenched his fists and said, "Mr. Samejima, please rest assured. I will definitely help you catch the murderer and get the gold medal back."

Samejima Shinjo smiled and said, "Then I'll leave it to Mr. Maori."

"Oh right." Maori Kogoro, in a rare moment of thought, asked Yotsuba Miko, "When Ms. Yotsuba was monitoring, she was watching through the window on the door, right?"

"Yes."

"But I just saw that the window on the door was blocked by curtains."

Yoshiko explained: "Yes, the curtain was not drawn at first. I was ordered by my boss to monitor the interior of the room from the corridor. Because the window opening on the door was narrow, I could not see all parts of the room, but I could see Mr. Kamei through the mirror on the wall."

"So, what was the situation inside?"

Yoshiko Yoshii recalled: "Mr. Kamei was sitting on the sofa, taking notes, but after a while, he seemed dissatisfied with me peeping at him from the corridor, so he came over and drew the curtains, and after that, I could no longer see what was going on inside."

Maori Kogoro reconstructed the scene according to what Yotsuko said: "It is indeed a blind spot when looking from here. Only through the mirror can you see the glass and the floor."

"I stayed outside the door after that," Yoshiko continued, "but I didn't hear any fighting. A while later, Wakasugi-kun came over, and then we heard the sound of glass breaking."

Kogoro Mouri nodded. He already knew very well what had happened.

Because a murder had already occurred, the police rushed to the scene. After learning what had happened, Officer Megure immediately ordered his subordinates to investigate suspicious targets nearby.

"Uncle Maori." At this moment, he suddenly remembered something and said to Maori Kogoro, "I remember that reporter Kamei wrote something in his notebook. Should we ask Inspector Megure to get the notebook? Maybe there will be some clues in it."

"It's just a notebook, what clues can it contain?" Kogoro Mouri said casually, but there were no other clues now, so he found Inspector Megure and took the notebook from him.

Maori Kogoro flipped through the pages quickly, muttering, "They're just some interview questions. I was saying, there's no way there could be any clues here."

Watanabe Toru's mouth corners curled up, revealing an expression of "as expected". The murderer was indeed him.

Since that's the case, there's no need to waste any more time. Watanabe Toru controlled Kogoro Mori's mind.

460……

"Eh? Brother Maori, you said you already know who the murderer is?" Hearing that Maori Kogoro already knew the truth of the matter, Inspector Megure was surprised: "But, didn't the murderer escape from here?"

"No, the murderer is still here." Maori Kogoro looked around at the gathered crowd. "This case is disguised as a crime committed by Kaito Kid, but in fact it is a planned attack carried out by another person."

"But the gold medal was indeed stolen," said Kenta Wakasugi.

"Then let's assume for now that Kaito Kid successfully stole the gold medal and escaped through the window," Maori Kogoro said slowly. "This area is very busy. If there was any sound of breaking glass, it would definitely be heard outside. That way, the murderer couldn't have escaped. In other words, this incident was an inside job from the beginning."

"Why, how could this happen..."

Jiaodao Jin and his companions were stunned. They never expected that the murderer would be among them.

Maori Kogoro continued, "The thing that took Mr. Kamei's life was undoubtedly the dumbbell next to him, but you see, the blood is on the inside of the dumbbell plate..."

422. Deceptive Mirror Image

"What does this mean?" Shijing Xiaomei asked curiously.

Maori Kogoro explained: "This means that the murderer used this as a murder weapon and then added a dumbbell piece to it."

"But brother Mori, why would the murderer go to such lengths to do such a thing?" This time it was Inspector Megure who asked the question.

"Of course, it's to cover up the truth. The murderer's goal from the beginning wasn't the gold medal, but to kill Mr. Kamei." Under everyone's shocked gaze, Maori Kogoro pointed to the display case where the gold medal was kept. "So, to make it look like the medal was stolen, they deliberately broke the glass of the display case. I think the medal must have been hidden somewhere. Also, there's a vent directly above the display case. The other end of the vent should be the equipment room, right?"

"The display case was destroyed when Mr. Samejima and I were riding exercise bikes in the equipment room. Am I right, Mr. Samejima?"

Although it has not been clearly pointed out, it is not difficult to hear from Kogoro Mori's tone that he has already suspected that Samejima Susumu is the murderer.

However, before Samejima could say anything, Wakasugi Kenta spoke first, "You don't suspect the boss is the murderer, do you?"

Maori Kogoro remained noncommittal and continued, "The general structure is like this. First, place a fishing line on the drive unit of the exercise bike, extending it through the vents into this room. Tie the other end of the fishing line to a dumbbell and place it above the display case. Then, by pedaling the exercise bike, the fishing line will reel in, pulling up the dumbbell, and then it will drop from the top onto the empty display case."

"Putting aside the current whereabouts of the gold medal, Mr. Samejima, there should still be some reeled-in fishing line on the hub of that exercise bike you were riding. You really hid it somewhere quite secretive..."

Samejima was silent for a moment, but his tone didn't show any panic or anxiety. "I did ride the exercise bike, but I didn't know about the mechanism you mentioned. Assuming I'm the murderer, then tell me when I killed Mr. Kamei."

"That's right." Yotsuya Miko also spoke up for her boss: "After the boss left the room, I saw with my own eyes that Mr. Kamei was still alive and well."

"That's because you were used by Mr. Samejima, Miss Shioi." Maori Kogoro sighed softly, "I guess Mr. Kamei was killed shortly after we left the room, and what you saw, Miss Shioi, was actually Mr. Samejima pretending to be Mr. Kamei."

"This, how is this possible..."

Yoshiko Yoshii looked at Samejima Susumu beside her with an expression of disbelief.

"This is the evidence." Maori Kogoro opened reporter Kamei's notebook, and the last words recorded were the famous detective Maori Kogoro.

"These notes should have been taken by Mr. Kamei immediately after he came here and saw us. But when you were monitoring Mr. Kamei, Miss Shijing, you saw that he was taking notes the whole time, right?"

"That's right." Yomiuri Miko nodded.

"If that's the case, then there's nothing written on the back of this page. Don't you think that's a bit strange?"

"That's true." Inspector Megure pinched his chubby double chin. "So where did he write to?"

Maori Kogoro said seriously: "The only thing is that the Mr. Samejima that Ms. Shii saw was not seriously taking notes, because..."

"Wait a moment."

Kenta Wakasugi suddenly interrupted Kogoro Maori and said, "Mr. Maori, have you forgotten a very important point? If Mr. Kamei had been killed at that time, then the mirror should have reflected the body, right?"

"That's right." Yotsugu Miko agreed, "You can even see the floor clearly in that mirror."

"You're right." Maori Kogoro nodded slightly, "But the prerequisite is that there must be a mirror there."

"Wha, what do you mean?"

Kogoro Mouri's words stunned the two of them instantly.

Kogoro Mouri walked to the mirror and pushed it hard. To everyone's astonishment, the mirror was pushed open, and inside was a space that was arranged exactly the same as the room they were in.

"The gold medal, it's the gold medal, the gold medal is there."

Inspector Megure walked to the opposite space, saw the gold medal on the display case, and turned back to look at Maori Kogoro: "Brother Maori, what is going on?"