I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

It was probably only about ten times back and forth, and as Serabelle pressed hard with both hands again, Mio Tokiwa, who had been motionless from the beginning, suddenly had a slight twitch in the chest, and then she started coughing violently.

Saved!

Kogoro Mori and others showed joy on their faces and were about to step forward to help.

At the same time, Ruyuefengshui, who had been standing silently behind Serabelle, suddenly raised his cane with a ferocious look on his face, howled strangely, and aimed the lower end of the cane at the center of the former's back, ready to poke it down, his movement like the ominous demon in the old man's ring jumping up and attacking the ground.

"Hello……!"

Others also noticed Ruyue Fengshui's actions and wanted to stop him but it was too late.

Seeing the cane stabbing down from behind, Serabelle instinctively raised her hand and grabbed the end of the cane. With a little effort, she easily snatched it away and hit Ruyue Fengshui on the forehead with her backhand, then turned her head coldly.

"Hey, old man, what do you want?"

Chapter 169: Torturing the Old Man

Unfortunately, Ruyue Fengshui can no longer speak.

He was hit directly by Serabelle's backhand cane and lost consciousness on the spot. He rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise with his heel as the center, and then fell face down on the ground with a thud and lay motionless.

The scene fell into dead silence for a while.

"you……"

Kogoro Mori was simply stunned. This series of incidents directly occupied his CPU, and the system was almost on the verge of becoming unresponsive.

He couldn't understand why Tokiwa Mio was hung up and how she was later revived, and then a certain old painter suddenly became ill and inexplicably intended to hurt people.

What's going on?

Serabel was very skilled in the process. He used Ruyue Fengshui's crutch to prop himself up, walked to the old man, leaned over, felt his breath and pulse, and then gave a conclusion.

"It's not a big deal, I just fainted temporarily."

As he said this, he pinched the old man's head with one hand and looked up at Tokiwa Mio who was slowly waking up from Mouri Kogoro's side after regaining consciousness.

"So let's get back to the point. What happened during the time when the lights were turned off just now?"

Tokiwa Mio had just regained consciousness, and her condition was still very bad. After all, she was almost strangled to death by the necklace just now.

"Sorry... I need to think about it..."

She continued to cover her chest and coughed a few times in embarrassment. After she felt she had recovered a little, she spoke haltingly, her voice weak and hoarse.

"Just now in the dark... ahem... first Zekouchi came over and said a few words to me, and then... yes, then my necklace fell off! Ahem!"

As if due to the momentary excitement, Tokiwa Mio started coughing violently again.

But she wasn't done yet.

Barely stopping the cough, Tokiwa Mio swallowed hard to moisten her throat.

"Because the stage was pitch black and I couldn't see anything, I was still hesitating whether to bend down and look for it on the ground. Then Kisaragi-sensei came over and told me it was okay and that he would help me fix it. Then when the painting rose up, I suddenly felt my neck tighten, my feet left the ground, I couldn't breathe, and I couldn't even make a sound... Then I lost consciousness."

"He said he'd fix it for you?"

Serabelle chewed over these words carefully.

"But didn't you say that the stage was pitch black? How did he find your position so accurately?"

"This...may be because of the positioning light under your feet."

Tokiwa Mio cast her eyes toward the floor in the middle of the stage.

In fact, it's not just in the middle of the stage, including the place where Kazama Hidehiko and Kisaragi Minemizu were just now, there is a small light on the ground in front of their toes, a bit like the lights on the ground in public squares at night.

It is very small and the light is not very bright, so it cannot serve the purpose of lighting at all.

But if it is only used for positioning in the dark, it is enough.

Tokiwa Mio added.

"And because I'm wearing a low-cut dress today, it's not very suitable for bending over, so I'll trouble Kisaragi-sensei to help me."

Oh~Is that so?

Serabelle stroked her chin and thought for a while. "When we saw you being hung up, there was a piano wire connecting the necklace and the painting behind you... Oh, not only at that time, but in fact, the piano wire is still connected now. If you don't believe it, you can see it for yourself. Just according to this logic, in that dark environment at that time, the only one who could have the opportunity to do such a thing was..."

He paused deliberately, released his grip on the philtrum, and lowered his head to look down at a gloomy old man who had slowly woken up.

"Hey old man, what do you want to say in your defense?"

Kisaragi Minemizu naturally had nothing to say. At the moment, Tokiwa Mio was not dead, and he had taken the initiative to attack Serabelle before. Among the people on the stage, he was the most suspicious.

However, he was old and shrewd after all. The slight concussion caused by the crutch just now made him unable to stand up normally. He could only sit cross-legged on the ground, humming.

"... Humph, I have nothing to say. Call the police. Everything will be clear once the police arrive."

Ok?

Surprised that this old man could still act like a bachelor at this point, Serabelle simply turned to Kogoro Mori who was standing beside him.

"Uncle Maori, please help call the police."

"Oh, okay..."

Kogoro Mouri subconsciously reached for his cell phone.

But he found nothing.

That’s right, he handed his phone to the waiter when he was participating in the 30-second guessing activity just now, and he hasn’t had time to get it back yet.

Seeing this, Hidehiko Kazama reacted quickly, took out his cell phone, said "I'll do it", turned around habitually, dialed the number and walked in the direction where there was no one.

But before he took two steps, he kicked something inexplicably, which made him stop subconsciously. He moved his phone away and looked at the floor.

It was a small wine glass that rolled due to an external force, exactly the same as the one found at the scene of the death of Councillor Oki and Hara Yoshiaki.

Only this one is intact.

"This is……"

Hidehiko Kazama was slightly stunned and subconsciously bent down to pick it up.

Serabelle and Maori Kogoro were also attracted by the movement over there, and they both cast inquiring glances at him.

At the same time, Ruyue Fengshui, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground and covering his head and noticed the same scene, suddenly widened his eyes.

At this moment he suddenly showed agility that was not supposed to belong to an old man of his age. Like a last burst of energy, he quickly pulled out a bottle of something like oral liquid from his arms when no one noticed, unscrewed the lid and was about to drink it.

At the critical moment, a crutch stabbed horizontally and accurately hit Ruyue Fengshui's wrist. The force was so great that it penetrated the skin and flesh and made the tendons numb.

"Ugh!"

The old man cried out in pain instinctively, his five fingers loosened as his wrist trembled, and the small bottle in his hand fell under the dual force of inertia and gravity, hitting the floor with a bang, and the medicine inside spilled all over the floor.

Serabelle slowly retracted her cane, beautifully twisted it into a flower pattern like the clockwork man's, and gently tapped it twice on the ground.

"Speaking of which, when I first swung it, I felt like something was not right with the feel, but now I am sure..."

Confirmed? Confirmed of what?

Kogoro Mori was still confused.

Then he saw Serabelle pick up the cane and loosen the handle and the stick underneath as easily as unscrewing a bottle cap, revealing the hollow structure inside, and then turned the opening of the stick downwards.

Haloxylon ammodendron——

That is the sound of the ball rolling and rubbing along the hard plastic tube wall.

The next second, another pearl necklace was poured out.

That was the pearl necklace that was supposed to be worn around Tokiwa Mio's neck, but now appeared in Kisaragimine's water cane for some reason.

Serabelle picked up the necklace and waved it in front of the water of the Moon Peak.

"I have to admit that your method is quite clever. You originally prepared a pearl necklace of the same style with a piano string attached to it. When the lights were turned off, you took the pearl off Ms. Tokiwa's neck and pretended to help her put it on. In fact, you put on the pearl that was connected to the piano string... Am I right?"

Without waiting for the latter's reply, he put the necklace back into his cane.

"Okay, it looks like we have a lot to talk about next."

Chapter 170 Happy Fueling

Japan is a capitalist society, so the government has always attached great importance to major taxpayers such as local groups and chaebols.

Especially since they received a call for help from the Tokiwa Group. The original plan for the 40-minute drive from Tokyo ended up taking only half an hour under the leadership of Inspector Megure.

Since there were both witnesses and physical evidence, and even the method of committing the crime was clearly deduced by Serabelle, there was naturally nothing much to say about the process, so they could just take him away and be done with it.

Of course, all of this took place behind the stage. Even Inspector Megure and others took the freight elevator behind the stage when they went upstairs. In addition, the curtain on the stage was drawn the entire time, so most of the guests at the banquet knew nothing about it.

Behind the stage, after confirming that his accompanying police officers had recorded all the testimonies and evidence, Inspector Megure turned to Mine Misui Kisaragi, who seemed to have lost all his energy.

"In that case, Mr. Kisaragi, you admit to the murder of Oki Iwamatsu, Hara Yoshiaki, and the attempted murder of Tokiwa Mio, correct?"

"Do not……"

Ruyue Fengshui suddenly raised his head, and an inexplicable light flashed in his gloomy, drooping triangular eyes.

"You are mistaken about one thing. I was not the one who killed Yuan Jiaming."

……What?

Kogoro Mori and others were also stunned by his sudden negative answer.

To be honest, we have all the evidence now, not to mention that there were wine glasses present in all three cases. This is clearly a series of murders. How can you say that one of the murders was not committed by you?

Kisaragi Fengshui then explained: "Although I did put the small wine glass in his house, he was already dead when I went there, and I didn't see the murderer..."

"Asshole! You still want to deny it now?!"

Inspector Megure can tolerate it, but Kogoro Mouri can't.

To him, the old man in front of him was not only a criminal who committed murder, but also an enemy who intended to kill his schoolmate. As a result, he was still bargaining and trying to shirk responsibility by saying which one he killed and which one he didn't.

Old Bi Zaizhi gave you face, right?

In a rage, Kogoro Mori rushed forward, grabbed the clothes on Kisaragi Minemizu's chest and lifted him up from the ground.

But the next second, Serabelle's voice came from the side.

"No, to be honest, I think this is possible, because there was no blood on the broken pieces of the wine glass that the police found in Yuan Jiaming's home, right?"

The last "right" was asked to Inspector Megure.

After hearing this, Inspector Megure recalled it carefully and then gave a positive answer.

"Well, that's true, but how did you know, Sera?"

As far as he could remember, Serabelle should not have been at the crime scene.

Serabelle shrugged, "Conan told me."

He put the blame on a certain bespectacled reaper elementary school student without any psychological pressure, since he was not there anyway... Oh, he was there for a while before, but was discovered by Kogoro Mouri and thrown out, with a stern warning not to come in.

"From a common sense point of view, it is unlikely that the murderer would stay at the crime scene for a long time after committing the crime until the blood dried, especially in a place like home where other family members may come back at any time."

"Secondly, if I remember correctly, Conan told me that Yuan Jiaming was shot through the heart and died, and everything in the computer was deleted."

Serabelle paused here and glanced sideways at a gloomy old man.

"And the most important point is, can you use the programmer's computer properly?"

“…I can testify to this.”

Tokiwa Mio stood up and said.

Although she was almost killed by Ruyue Fengshui not long ago, she stood up and took the initiative to testify for him this time.

"Teacher Ruyue's cell phone is still a keypad phone. If it was a former Garmin computer, he would not be able to use it at all, let alone clear the hard drive."

"..."

Hearing his former apprentice's defense of himself, Ruyue Fengshui's eyes flickered slightly, but he didn't say much.

Kogoro Mori thought about it and felt that there was some truth in it, so he loosened his hand that was grabbing his collar and snorted coldly.

"Since you didn't kill the person, why did you leave a small wine glass at the scene?"