Conan Rick's Investigator

Suppose I infiltrate the Kendo Association, bring Conan with me and often visit the homes of Kendo masters. Maybe I can become a top Kendo master without even swinging a sword.

Of course, this kind of evil idea like a villain is just imagination and it is not easy to put it into practice.

Because in the previous "Ye Sancai Ship Incident", Shimaji Kagawa said that he and Heiji Hattori's father were good friends in kendo, but Conan still failed to defeat him.

There is also Hattori Heiji, who is a kendo player and often hangs out with Conan, but he is not killed.

Eh?

Qin Zhibo suddenly discovered a clever point, that is, Hattori Heiji's surname is exactly the same as Hattori Shizuka.

The Hattori clan is a descendant of the Qin clan, one of the ancient powerful families that spread from China to Japan. In fact, the "Qin" in his name may have some connection with "Hattori", probably the relationship between ancestors and descendants.

Ancient Japanese did not have surnames and strictly followed the "clase and surname system". Even in modern times, not everyone can use this surname, which originated from ancient powerful families.

So who is this Shizuka Hattori?

At this moment, the sound of the door opening at the entrance startled everyone again.

When everyone came out to look, they saw a short-haired woman carrying a golf club bag.

"How did you get into my house?!"

"If you don't get out, I'm going to call the police!"

Seeing a group of strangers screaming in a shrill voice, Qin Zhibo looked at the name above her head, her name was Kyoko Shibata, and immediately understood.

"Actually we..."

After Qin Zhibo's explanation, he finally convinced Shibata Kyoko that they were not bad people, but her husband had been killed by the bad guys.

……

Kyoko Shibata, who had become a widow, knelt beside the corpse and sobbed, Shizuka Hattori looked around with serious eyes, and Takezo Yoshikawa stared at the corpse in a daze.

Conan looked at the three people with different behaviors, and he was sure in his heart that this was a multiple-choice question with three choices.

While Kogoro Mouri was comforting the widow and she stood up and cried, Conan quickly bent down and fixed his eyes on a photo held in the corpse's hand.

whoosh-

In the blink of an eye, a black shadow rushed out, and Conan looked at his palm that had grabbed a ball of air with a dazed expression.

When I looked up again, Qin Zhibo was holding the photo in his hand.

Conan: "..."

This is the bad thing about being Conan. If you can't even get the evidence, how can you solve the case?

In fact, Qin Zhibo took this photo just out of curiosity. He was curious that the corpse was holding such an obvious photo in his hand, but the photo did not show the investigation point.

The photo shows a beautiful girl with a ponytail, holding the winning medal in her hands reluctantly, with crystal tears hanging in the corners of her eyes, looking very adorable.

However, Qin Zhibo's eyes were not completely focused on the center of the photo, but he looked at the background.

The background is a gymnasium with a banner hanging under the railings of the gymnasium: Winner: Michiko Tsubaki; Runner-up: Shizuka Ikenami.

Jinghua...

Qin Zhibo directly held the photo in front of Hattori Jinghua and asked quietly, "The person in the photo should be you, right?"

Hattori Shizuka stared at the photo in a daze for a moment, then spoke and threw out her right hand to grab the photo at the same time.

"Where did you find it?"

Before she finished speaking, Hattori Shizuka's hand was almost about to grab the photo, but Qin Zhibo dodged it with extremely fast reaction and even faster speed.

Hattori Shizuka looked at her hand in disbelief, and also grabbed a ball of transparent air.

Hattori Shizuka: "..."

As a kendo master and a housewife with superb knife skills, she was very confident in her hand speed, but she did not expect that the man in the brown windbreaker in front of her could easily dodge it.

Qin Zhibo pulled the photo back to prevent Hattori Jinghua from snatching it again, and at the same time advised: "I found this photo from the hand of the corpse. It is part of the murder scene."

"I'm sorry, that was my fault..."

Hattori Shizuka turned her head away with a slight blush on her cheeks. As the wife of the police chief, she certainly knew that this thing could not be stolen.

It's just that she didn't see the channel to obtain this photo just now, and she was really embarrassed about herself in this photo, and didn't want outsiders to see her tearful appearance.

Looking at the troubled Hattori Shizuka, Qin Zhibo suddenly thought of two ways to ask Hattori Shizuka about her background.

Threat: Madam, if you don't want this photo to be leaked, please confess your relationship with Hattori Heiji.

Dialogue: You don't know how to cook but you can tell the type of fish at a glance. The number of Band-Aids on your hands is too exaggerated. It looks like you are covering up the ring mark of your wedding ring. Please explain your abnormal behavior and explain your relationship with Hattori Heiji.

Between these two methods, Qin Zhibo thought about it for a while and chose the latter.

After all, the former is too Japanese, and his social credit may not be enough to cover up this photo.

When Qin Zhibo said it quietly as he had expected, Hattori Shizuka stood there and thought for a few seconds.

After a few seconds, she raised her arm, leaned close to Qin Zhibo and whispered something.

"Actually, I'm Heiji's biological mother..."

Chapter 445: Failure, Conan!

After a brief thought, Hattori Shizuka decided to tell Qin Zhibo her true identity.

On the one hand, what he wanted to test was the character of Maori Kogoro, which had nothing to do with Qin Zhibo, so it was okay to tell him.

On the other hand, now that his photo is in the deceased's hand for some reason, according to the police's investigation procedures, he will definitely be suspected.

Although he has nothing to fear and the police cannot apply for an arrest warrant from the court based on this photo alone, he has too much unnecessary suspicion and has become a interference option, which is ultimately detrimental to the police's work.

However, Shizuka Hattori didn't want to waste this carefully planned character test, so she could only secretly tell her identity to the unrelated Qin Zhibo, so that he could help her prove her innocence in front of the police.

……

The mother of Osaka Black Chicken...

Qin Zhibo imagined the dark-skinned and energetic young man in his mind, then looked at the noble wife with fair skin and beautiful appearance in front of him, and cast a scrutinizing look at her.

Could it be that this Shizuka Hattori is a stepmother?

After all, the Osaka police chief is a powerful person, and it is reasonable for him to be targeted by bad guys and lose his original wife.

Hattori Shizuka also noticed Qin Zhibo's confusion and quickly came over to explain, "Actually, Heiji's skin color is inherited from his grandfather, but other parts are very similar to me..."

If it's inherited from dad, just say dad, why put the blame on grandpa?

"Oh, I see……"

Qin Zhibo nodded in understanding, remembering the joke he had seen before, where two white people gave birth to a black baby.

"I know about this, so you don't want to reveal your identity yet?"

"Hmm..." Hattori Shizuka nodded, holding her handbag. "I wanted to test Mr. Maori's character and wisdom. If I tell everyone who I am now, all my previous efforts will be in vain..."

Having said that, Qin Zhibo had no choice but to respect the wishes of the married woman. He quietly walked back to the body to solve the case, and casually handed the photo to Conan, who had been staring at it for a long time.

Conan held the handkerchief in both hands, raised his hands to take the photo, and finally saw the photo as he wished.

This, this is not...

Conan, who has a keen eye for people, recognized at a glance that the girl in the photo was the client behind him.

Hattori Shizuka: Suspicion +1

……

Returning to the body, Qin Zhibo examined it again and saw a light in the palm of Shibata Shiro's hand where he had just held the photo.

This is the light belonging to the investigation point.

【Survey√】

[There's a circular blood mark on the palm of the hand, maybe a ring or something?]

The question sentence in the investigation report is actually an affirmative sentence. The bloodstain on Shibata Shiro's palm must have been left by the ring.

This shows that Shibata Shiro was holding the ring in his hand before his death, but for some reason the ring has disappeared and has been replaced with a photo that was not mentioned at the investigation point.

There is also an investigation point on Shibata Shiro's right hand.

【Survey√】

[The palm is covered in blood, but the Band-Aid is remarkably clean]

This investigation point also shows that the Band-Aid was applied by someone else after the murder occurred.

Rings, Band-Aids...

Qin Zhibo thought about it and found that these two clues pointed directly to Shibata Shiro's wife, Shibata Kyoko.

The ring was a wedding ring, and the deceased was holding the ring before his death, but now it has been replaced by an unrelated photo, and the finger that originally wore the ring is covered with a Band-Aid.

Since she had time to do these things, it meant that she was the first person to return to the room.

In addition, there is a terrain investigation point on the door handle that was easily opened before, which means that the unlocked room itself is a trap.

In other words, Kyoko Shibata deliberately left the door unlocked in order to allow others to discover the body and arouse more suspicion.

Even if this case is like the previous "TV Location Crew Murder Case", where Kyoko Shibata was the first person to discover the body, and then found clues on the body pointing directly to herself, and did these things to avoid suspicion, this is completely impossible.

Because the investigation point is not shown on the photo of Shizuka Hattori, it means that the investigation point will not be shown on false evidence that can confuse the truth of the case.

Such a simple case...

After figuring out this logic, Qin Zhibo began to walk around the room to see if there was a ring hidden nearby that could serve as evidence.

……

After figuring out the person in the photo, Conan stuffed the photo back into Shibata Shiro's hands without leaving a trace, and began to think with his chin held high.

There was no doubt that the person in the photo was the fair-skinned and beautiful client in front of him, but the persuasiveness of the photo in his hand was still a little low.

After the setback in the Beika Central Building last time, Conan has become cautious and will no longer take the risk of using untenable reasoning.

I still need to come up with solid evidence.

At this moment, Conan saw several Band-Aids on Shibata Shiro's right hand.

This scene seems familiar, because at this moment, the client, Shizuka Ikeba, has many Band-Aids on her left hand.

Is it a coincidence that both of them were wearing Band-Aids?

This is no coincidence!

Conan suddenly had an idea and remembered the hypocritical personality that Shizuka Ikenami built with lies.

Could it be that Ikenami Shizuka is actually Shibata Shiro's mistress?

As Kogoro Mori said, it is impossible for such a beautiful lady like Shizuka Ikenami to not have a man around her, unless there is something wrong with her sexual orientation.

The two have been classmates for many years, so it is not impossible that their personal relationship gradually evolved into a love affair. They even customized an engagement ring privately.

In terms of time, Ikenami Shizuka was completely available because she arrived at the Mori Detective Agency in the afternoon, and judging from the degree of rigor mortis, Shibata Shiro died at least in the morning.

In this way, the motive for the murder is also solved.

It must be that Shibata Shiro was reluctant to divorce his current wife, so Ikenami Shizuka went to his house to force him. After receiving a negative answer, she was furious and beat to death the man who was jumping back and forth between his current wife and his mistress.

Although Shibata Shiro is a kendo master himself, Ikenami Shizuka was able to win the kendo competition when she was in junior high school, so her strength is not bad either, not to mention that she attacked from behind.

In other words, now all we need is evidence...

Conan looked around, his eyes fell on the phone on the desk, and another light bulb went off in his head.

Got it!

With his short and sturdy figure, Conan quickly rushed to the desk and found the Shibata family's phone book in the first drawer.

His eyes quickly scanned the phone book, and when the name "Ikenami Shizuka" was reflected on the lenses of his glasses, the corners of Conan's mouth rose slightly.

Next, Conan ran out of the room with a little excitement, hid in the escape stairs, took out the pocket earring phone, and dialed Dr. Agasa's number.

"Doctor? You can..."

"It's Huibara, can I ask Dr. Agasa to answer the phone?"

Hearing Conan's disappointed tone when he found out it was him who answered the phone, Haibara Ai on the other end of the phone was about to have a small outburst, but hearing Conan's tone of some anxiety, she gave up.