Conan: The Self-cultivation of Fake Wine

He had to go home early. His family would definitely not believe that he caught it himself.

That's why I came here to kill time.

This reason was reasonable, and Lu Ren had basically ruled out this person's suspicion before. Seeing that no blood reaction was found in the room, he didn't think any further.

But now that we can't find the murder weapon, we have to go back and study it again.

If the fisherman is the murderer, and no blood reaction is found in the room.

Then he didn't have blood on his hands when he killed, so he didn't need to clean them up.

What about the murder weapon?

Could it be hidden in the belly of the fish?

Takagi immediately put on his gloves and began to verify Lu Ren's guess.

He touched every fish and found no hard objects hidden in their bellies.

fish belly - belly

Mumu thought of a possibility, "Could it be that the murderer ate the murder weapon?"

"..."

Although Mumu's speculation is a bit sensational, it is not completely impossible.

But if he really wants to do this, the price the murderer has to pay is a bit high.

And if you really want to prove it, it's not easy to prove.

You can't just drag these people to the hospital for gastric lavage based on a guess without any basis, right?

Lu Ren himself is engaged in the journalism industry, and he knows very well that Mumu is really going to do this.

It's better to find it, but if you can't find it...

The news media will definitely have a collective climax and will not stop until they are stripped of their skin.

The risk is simply too high.

It's just that you can't say this directly in front of so many people. It would be bad if they learn from it.

Lu Ren whispered to Mu Mu for a while, and the latter's face turned very ugly as expected, and he kept silent about the matter.

Excluding box number one, box number two is next.

Among Kyouta Honma's personal belongings, there are no items that can be called blunt weapons.

The only thing that stood out was that there was a whole carton of opened cigarettes on the box table.

Generally speaking, normal people will not carry a cigarette with them.

Kyota Honma’s explanation for this is that he is a heavy smoker.

That makes sense.

And cigarettes are not considered blunt weapons.

It can only be said that this person is indeed different from ordinary people.

The bag contained a large amount of paper and a whole carton of cigarettes.

Lu Ren has also smoked this cigarette, and bought a pack for 300 yen.

The pack of cigarettes Kyota Honma placed on the table had just been opened, and there were ten packs of cigarettes in it.

One pack is 300, or 10 packs is 3,000. It should be cheaper to just buy a whole piece.

But it's said to be ten packs, but strictly speaking it's only nine and a half packs.

While staying in the box, Honma had already smoked half a pack of cigarettes, and the ashtray was full of cigarette butts.

There are twenty cigarettes in a pack and ten cigarettes in a half pack.

Excluding the time he went to the toilet, Kyouta Honma stayed in the box for almost half an hour.

It takes half an hour and half a pack of cigarettes, and the average time it takes to finish a cigarette is less than three minutes. And you have to smoke one and then light another, and smoke continuously.

He is indeed very addicted to smoking.

Wait, that's not right...

Lu Ren opened the small notebook, which recorded Kyouta Honma's previous testimony.

He came to sing alone because his company was going to hold a singing competition soon. He was afraid that everyone would laugh at him if he didn't sing well, so he wanted to practice by himself first. And in order to prevent him from running into familiar people, he also deliberately chose this KTV that was very far away from the company.

This reason doesn't seem wrong at first glance.

But when combined with the half pack of cigarettes he smoked, it became very problematic.

A person who came all the way to practice singing ended up booking a private room and did nothing but smoke half a pack of cigarettes in the private room?

You can't just sing with a cigarette in your mouth, just take a puff and sing a line.

This abnormal situation can be explained by a sudden addiction to cigarettes.

Or - he smoked heavily in a short period of time to relieve his nervousness.

As for why I'm nervous, the reasons are obvious.

This person is probably the murderer.

First, the time he has at his disposal to commit crimes is already the longest.

Secondly, there are many things about him that are different from ordinary people.

Each of his reasons makes sense when taken individually, but when taken together, something seems wrong.

He said he came here to practice singing, but he stayed in the box and kept smoking.

Moreover, the nicotine in tobacco has an irritating effect on the gastric mucosa, which will damage the gastric mucosa and cause ischemia and hypoxia of the gastric mucosa, followed by abdominal pain, acid reflux, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms.

This man smoked half a pack of cigarettes in a short period of time, which can be said to be extremely stomach-breaking.

But he also said that he had bad gastrointestinal problems recently, and it took a long time to go to the toilet, and he also needed to use a lot of paper.

what is this?

Knowing that you are not in good health, you still keep trying to die?

Even if he is willing to torment himself like this, why does he only do it in the box?

There is no prohibition on smoking in the toilet of this KTV.

He smoked half a pack of cigarettes in the box in half an hour, but didn't smoke a single cigarette in the toilet for fifteen minutes.

He still ran to the toilet with such a big bag, so he couldn't say that there was only paper in the bag and no cigarettes, right?

Ok?

Wait, no smoke?

Lu Ren suddenly remembered what the fisherman had complained about before.

[I originally wanted to buy a pack of cigarettes from the vending machine, but I didn’t expect that the brand I usually smoked was sold out. 】

Could it be that……

Lu Ren walked to the vending machine and found that only one brand of cigarettes was out of stock.

It's exactly the brand Kyouta Honma smokes!

Could it be a simple coincidence?

This is where Kyota Honma bought her cigarettes.

Not to mention coincidence.

If he really bought the cigarettes here, he obviously bought them in separate packs at retail.

There was no way the vending machine would give him a whole carton of cigarettes.

So the outer packaging box of the whole carton of cigarettes was just a cover-up he had prepared in advance.

It is easy to mislead the police and make them think that they bought a whole carton of cigarettes at a convenience store outside.

As for why we do this...

Lu Ren looked at the two completely different coin slots on the vending machine, one for banknotes and the other for coins.

Could it be that the missing murder weapon was a bundle of coins?

After Kyouta Honma killed the deceased, he put the coins used in the crime into the vending machine.

But is this possible?

This vending machine supports the insertion of ten yuan, fifty yuan, and one hundred yuan coins.

Assume that Kyouta Honma bought all ten packs of cigarettes here.

That's three thousand yen.

Converted into coins, that's thirty hundred-yuan coins, sixty fifty-yuan coins, and three hundred ten-yuan coins.

The main material of Japanese yen coins is copper, and the weight of a single coin is about 4.5g, which is slightly heavier than the domestic -cent coin.

The weight is not heavy on the hand.

The weights of these thirty, sixty and three hundred coins are respectively: 135g, 270g and 1350g.

If Kyouta Honma was really the one killed with a bunch of coins.

Then only a 1350g ten-yuan coin can be used as a murder weapon. 270g seems a bit light, let alone 135g.

But this means that after killing the person, Kyouta Homma stuffed three hundred ten-yuan coins into the vending machine within ten minutes...

Is this possible?

Lu Ren, who had some doubts about this, decided to start with other aspects first.

Lu Ren walked back to Megure and lowered his voice: "Re-inspect boxes one to four, focusing on box two. See if we can find Kyouta Honma on the microphone and karaoke machine in box two. fingerprints."

"And..." Lu Ren took out the business card that Kyouta Honma had handed over before and handed it to Megure, "Check the company he works for and ask them if they have held any singing competitions recently."

Mu Mu directly gave the order and asked his police officers to take action. Then he lowered his voice in a tactful manner, "Do you doubt Kyouta Honma?"

"Yeah. There are too many cigarette butts in his ashtray. He clearly said he was here to practice singing, but why has he been smoking since he came here? I doubt he even touched the microphone."

"If fingerprints really can't be found, then he must be lying! But where is the murder weapon? He only brought a pile of paper and an opened cigarette. We have also searched in other places."

"Let's check it first." Lu Ren did not rush to express his inference, "Maybe I guessed wrong."

"Ah."

After a while, the police's previous investigations all came to fruition.

The first is the company where Kyouta Honma works. Not to mention the recent past, they have never held any singing competition.

The second is fingerprints. The fingerprints collected on the microphone and karaoke machine do not match Kyouta Honma.

This man did lie. With so many doubts added together, the murderer probably didn't run away.

It's just that the murder weapon was a bit outrageous.

and many more……

He seemed to be stuck in a blind spot.

There is absolutely no need for Kyouta Honma to go to the extreme and have to get sixty fifty-yuan coins or three hundred ten-yuan coins.

He can definitely come here as long as the total value is 3,000 yen.

For example, thirty fifty-yuan coins, one hundred and fifty ten-yuan coins.

This makes one hundred and eighty coins, with a total weight of about 810g.

Compared with stuffing 300 coins in ten minutes, it is obviously easier and more reasonable to stuff 180 coins into the vending machine in ten minutes.

This made sense, and Lu Ren's mood suddenly became much brighter.

He first exposed the lie that Kyouta Honma came to practice singing, and then began to tell Kyouta Honma's murderous methods.

"You should have bundled fifty-yuan coins and ten-yuan coins and killed Mao Tatsumi. Then you used these coins to buy ten packs of cigarettes from the vending machine. Those coins had your fingerprints on them, and even part of the coins. It should still be stained with the blood of the deceased."

"That's right. I killed the person."

Seeing that the matter had come to this, Kyouta Honma did not resist anymore and chose to plead guilty.