"I don't understand what you are talking about, and now is not the time to talk about these things. We have to find a way to escape quickly..."

"Don't you know whether you can escape or not?"

Serabelle interrupted him in a flat tone.

"You misled the police into identifying a person who had been missing for five years as a suspect in the bombing. To be honest, President Achiba, you are really not fit to commit a crime."

"Normally, if a person has been missing for four years, they can be legally considered dead. But Mingqing Luxiong has been missing for five years. No one has seen him during this period, and no credit card spending records can be found. Guess what kind of person can do that?"

"If I had to give an example, it would be living in a shabby rental house, not using any internet or information equipment, doing daily paid cash jobs around where I live, and doing this for five years."

"I think no matter how miserable Nagoro Shikao is, as the former president of the Nagoro Association, he shouldn't have fallen to this point, right?"

"Besides, even if that's true, the first thing a person does after returning from five years of disappearance is to bring a large amount of explosives and threaten to blow up the Nichimai TV station. Does that make sense?"

Serabelle's questioning became more and more pressing, and under one question mark after another, the many logical loopholes in President Achiha's confession to the police gradually emerged and became clearer.

But President Achiba still looked like he knew nothing.

"How would I know this? You should ask Nagoro Shikao himself. He is the suspect. It is possible that the suspect would do anything to achieve his criminal purpose, right?"

"If you think so... then I'll ask another question."

Serabelle shrugged meaninglessly.

"Given the level of security the Kyoto police have put in place around the Satsuki-kai territory today, how do you think Nagoro Shikao could have installed a bomb underneath the Satsuki-do?"

"Of course I sneaked in secretly..."

"That is impossible."

"why?"

President Achiha was stunned by the boy's categorical denial.

However, Serabelle did not explain, but continued.

"Even if we assume that the bomb was planted by Nagoro Shikao who sneaked in, then another question is, what was his purpose?"

"The purpose is of course to take revenge on me!" President Achiha said loudly, "He wants to take revenge on me for the fact that Nagoro-kai was annexed by Gaoyue-kai!"

"Unfortunately, that is also impossible."

Serabelle held up two fingers.

"Let me first explain the previous question about how it is impossible for Nagoro Shikao to sneak into Gaoyue Society's territory and plant a bomb. The information came from Nagoro Shikao's former top disciple, Miss Hongye. That's because Nagoro Shikao, who had not disappeared five years ago, had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and had only a few years left to live. Even if he had lived until now, he would have been lying in bed and unable to move. It was impossible for him to move that much."

"Varied……"

President Achiha opened his mouth wide in shock, and all the words were stuck in his throat.

Serabelle pressed a finger. "Secondly, it is impossible for Nagoro Shikao to retaliate against you for what you said. The information comes from the same source as above. He found your wife to compete with him the day before the duel in order to have a private duel with her true strength, and then lose the official duel the next day, so that the Nagoro Society can be handed over to the Gaoyue Society... If you want to talk about the reason, it is probably because he is a proud middle-aged man who doesn't want to lose face in front of his first love."

"A proud middle-aged man...first love...?"

Chairman Achiba was stunned after hearing this.

Serabelle put down her hand and changed her words to a more vulgar but easier to understand one.

"In a nutshell, he likes your wife."

"..."

Chairman Achiha's lips trembled twice, and suddenly he became angry.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! He clearly wanted to humiliate Gao Yue that day! He..."

The voice stopped abruptly, the air became quiet for a moment, and the boy clapped softly.

"Go on? Why don't you continue? Humiliation, then what?"

"Do not……"

"Ok?"

Serabelle stopped clapping, put her hands together in front of her as if praying, and tilted her head slightly with an expressionless face.

"If I remember correctly, the version you told Hattori and Conan before was that your wife, Ms. Gaoyue, won a great victory in the private duel, which completely humiliated Shikao Nagoro and made him disappear. Why did you change your story now and humiliate him?"

"Could it be that the real situation is that he beat your wife to a pulp, and then in order to avoid losing the official duel tomorrow and causing Gaoyue to be annexed, you two simply killed him together?"

"no!"

Chairman Achiba clenched his fists and roared loudly.

His arms trembled slightly as he lowered his head and gritted his teeth.

"Gatsuki didn't participate in the murder. I was the one who killed her! I admit that I lost, but in exchange, can you please not hand over this karuta card to the police as evidence? After all, it belongs to the Gaoyue Society..."

"No, it must be handed over to the police!"

At this moment, accompanied by the sound of slight deformation of the wooden structure underfoot, heavy rain suddenly poured down on the semi-open corridor outside the Gaoyue Hall behind him, and spread in quickly like a long river flowing back.

A small figure, all soaked, jumped in from the roof, grabbed the eaves, took off his glasses that were covered with water droplets on his face and said.

"Because the murderer was not President Achiha at all. It should have been Ms. Gaoyue who killed people that day!"

Chapter 586: Still want to self-destruct?

"what?"

Seeing Conan suddenly appear, Serabell couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

However, what surprised him was not the fact that Conan came here, but the rushing water that washed over his body and the floor of the corridor outside behind him.

This water level can obviously only be caused by a torrential rain, but the weather has been very good all day today, and it doesn't look like there will be a storm outside.

Could it be...

Out of curiosity, Serabel came to the door of Gaoyue Hall, leaned on the door frame to take a look outside, and suddenly a huge drop of cold sweat fell from the back of his head.

As mentioned before, Gaoyuetang is located on the edge of a cliff, almost tightly fitting the waterfall hanging above the cliff, yet no water flows in.

However, even so, when the water level increases before heavy rain, a little waterfall water will still rush into the corridor, so it needs to be cleaned frequently.

But today is a nice sunny day, which shouldn't be like this.

So when Serabelle looked out, she saw a football that had expanded to the size of a hot air balloon and was stuck between the cliff wall near the waterfall and the wooden building of Gaoyuetang. It used its expanded volume to force its way into the waterfall and divert part of the waterfall water to the side of Gaoyuetang.

This is why the water backflowed in.

The diverted waterfall water rushed down in huge quantities and has now successfully extinguished the burning flames caused by the explosion below.

The result is pretty good, but the way it was implemented is a bit... forget it.

Again.

Agasa Heavy Industries, shocking.

Serabelle had long since stopped bothering herself with Dr. Agasa's attainments in physics.

"Conan?!"

On the other side, when Conan suddenly broke in, Kazuha, who was already shocked by this series of events, became even more shocked.

"Sister Kazuha, don't worry. Brother Heiji and the others are already up there trying to find a way to save us."

Conan only had time to finish this sentence before turning back to President Achiba, who was gritting his teeth as if he had been hit in the vitals.

"President Achiba, I think what I said is correct. The evidence is the irregular black stains on the side of the Satsuki-kai's treasured karuta cards that are being used in the finals!"

"..."

President Achiha's brief silence gave Ooka Momiji the opportunity to interrupt.

She leaned over and picked up a karuta card used for the finals from the ground, turned it vertically 90 degrees and looked at the side of the card. The black stain that was particularly eye-catching against the emerald green background was in question.

"So what is this?"

"It's the blood that splashed when Mr. Nagoro was killed, and also... the bloody fingerprints left by the murderer when he grasped the karuta with his hand stained with Mr. Nagoro's blood!"

"Eh!?"

Ooka Momiji's hand trembled slightly, and the karuta in her hand fell to the ground with a snap.

Conan continued: "Including the death of Yajima Shunya, it was because he discovered the secret of the stains on the karuta, so President Achiha decided to kill him, right?"

"Yajima Shunya? Who is that?"

Realizing that she was missing some information, Serabelle asked curiously.

"Ah... that was a case that Hattori and I investigated the night the TV station building exploded."

Conan sneered.

"You went on a date with Miss Ooka that afternoon, right? When we were leaving after dinner, we saw that you hadn't come back yet, so we went straight over there."

"Oh."

Serabelle stopped talking.

That's right. He was very busy that day. In the morning, the TV channel was on fire. In the afternoon, he wandered around Kyoto with Ooka Momiji. In the evening, he and Xiaolan had sex vigorously in the hotel. They didn't rest until two or three in the morning. He had no time to care about the case at all.

"Heh, heh heh..."

At this time, the silent President Achiha's shoulders shook twice, and two mournful laughs came out from his face, which was blurred by the shadow cast by his lowered head.

"What a bunch of great little detectives. I give up."

Oh? Does this mean you're going to reveal the truth?

As soon as he finished speaking, President Achiha raised his head again, and tears welled up in the corners of his eyes, which were slightly wrinkled by time.

"I was not at home that night five years ago because I had something to do. When I got home and saw Nagoro Shikao lying in a pool of blood mixed with radio parts in the room and Satsuki, who was panting and looking pale, beside him, I understood everything..."

"That was a private competition between them. There was no third party present, so there was no one specifically responsible for shuffling the cards and reading the words. They used one of the competition tapes that I was responsible for keeping at the time."

"Although these are recordings used exclusively for the competition, since the tapes are kept at my house, Gao Yue would also use them to practice. Even if she didn't memorize them completely, she would have a basic impression of the order of the words and sentences. Gao Yue had an overwhelming advantage in that competition."

"But Nagoro Shikao's strength is beyond our imagination. Even with such a huge disadvantage, he still easily defeated Gao Yue. It is conceivable that with such a huge gap in strength, he will definitely lose tomorrow's official match."

"I can't even imagine how scared Gao Yue was at the time. She couldn't bear the huge psychological pressure and eventually embarked on the road of crime."

"After that, I hid Nagoro Shikao's body in Gaoyue Hall. I had planned to use this Gaoyue Cup to destroy Gaoyue Hall and this ode card together. In this way, Gaoyue would also be able to..."

After saying this, President Achiha raised his head as if praying, but he took out a remote control with a red button from his kimono and muttered softly.

"I think you can understand how I feel. I'm really sorry."

!!!

"stop……!"

The moment he saw the remote control, Conan felt his blood run cold.

He thought that the explosion that caused the fire below was the last, but looking at President Achiha's expression, it was clear that there were more bombs!

But at this distance, it's too late to stop it...

"That's a good point, but I refuse."

The young man's understated voice sounded, and as he spoke, his fingertips wearing black tactical gloves slightly raised.

Under the light, a silver thread suddenly appeared in the air, like a fleeting illusion.

The next second, as everyone stared in astonishment, a very thin line of blood slowly appeared at the base of the five fingers of President Achiha's right hand, which was holding the bomb remote control.

Serabelle moved her fingertips again, and the same blood line appeared like a mirror image at the base of the five fingers of her left hand.

In the blink of an eye, blood splattered in the air like reeds, and ten fingers were broken and scattered on the ground, along with the bomb remote control.

"I can't understand it, so don't tell me this, tell the police instead."

Chapter 587 Ooka Hongye: He is my man, how can it be the same?

Now that the fire has been put out, the situation is no longer so tense.

After a while, the Kyoto police, who were called up by Hattori Heiji at the foot of the mountain in time, also arrived. They set up a ladder from the top of the cliff and rescued all five people who were trapped in Gaoyue Hall due to the failure of the elevator in the fire.

Among them, President Achiha had all ten fingers cut off, so in the end he was carried up by Hattori Heiji.

The perspective changed, and in just over ten minutes, a simple camp on the cliff was almost formed.

A high-power outdoor power supply is equipped with three movable lighting lamps, which illuminate the area within a radius of ten meters.

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