Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

"Really,"

Tomofumi Tanaka suddenly looked at his brother in front of the TV helplessly, "You didn't even turn off the TV when you were going to sleep..."

"Crack!"

As he spoke, the TV was turned off.

Everyone was shocked when they saw this and hurriedly left the room: "Oh no! I think we woke him up!"

"what?"

Before Mao Li had time to think about it, he was dragged out of the room along with others by the panicked Tanaka Tomofumi.

(Hey, what's going on? Is there any need to be so panicked?)

Chapter 26: The Old Father Defeats the Golf Club

It was already ten o'clock in the evening. The police, who had been working in vain since the afternoon, complained and left, unwilling to believe the testimony of Conan and others.

But there was nothing they could do about it. After all, they had searched the entire house, but didn't find any trace of a body. Outside the wall behind the house was a very high river bank. Although a person could climb up the wall by leaning against a tree, it was absolutely impossible to deal with the body.

After Maori handed "Chiru Chiru" to the client who came after receiving his call, he returned to the scene and looked at the second floor thoughtfully.

When he entered the brother's room, he felt something was wrong, but he couldn't put it into words...

"Uncle Maori, are you still here?"

Yuantai and his companions saw Mao Li sneaking into the yard quietly, and happily approached him and asked, "Do you know where the criminal hid the body?"

Maori came back to his senses and found that Conan was not with the children. He couldn't help but frowned: "It's just some thoughts... By the way, where is Conan? Isn't he with you?"

"Conan just went into the house alone."

Yuanta replied.

"He's already in?"

Maori's expression tensed. Without asking the children any more questions, he climbed up the big tree behind the yard.

Seeing this scene, Yuan Tai hurriedly exclaimed in a low voice: "Hey! That strange uncle is still in there..."

Before he could finish his words, Maori had already jumped into the second-floor window that had been opened earlier with great agility.

"Okay, so awesome!"

The children stared at Maori as he quietly and quietly entered the second floor, but they didn't notice his trembling calves at all - although it was only the height of the second floor, it was still a big challenge for Maori who was afraid of heights.

But since the children are here, Maori has to try to act as relaxed and at ease as possible.

And the effect...

"As expected of you as the advisor to our Junior Detective Team!"

"Famous detectives are amazing!"

"So cool!"

——Obviously it is quite significant.

……

On the second floor of the house, the man in the bathrobe was still sleeping in that strange position.

After Mao Li steadied himself, he looked at the man first, and his brows furrowed even more tightly in the moonlight.

In this quiet environment, the man's abnormality became more obvious...

——That’s right, there is no breathing sound!

Maori suddenly realized that the man gave him a completely different feeling from a living person. This feeling was either that of a professional who had received professional training and was able to fake his death, or he was a dead person!

Mao Li, who had already made a judgment in his mind, walked gently to the man, stretched out two fingers and placed them on the left side of his neck, carefully feeling the condition of the carotid artery while also feeling the changes in the muscles.

There was no pulsation in the carotid artery, and the muscles were obviously stiff and temperatureless - this man had long become a corpse!

So that's why we couldn't find the body...

at this time--

"Uncle Maori?"

Conan sneaked into the room, but found Maori already inside. He was shocked, "Why are you..."

"Shh!"

Maori, who noticed the noise outside, became nervous and quickly made a gesture to keep quiet. At the same time, he pulled Conan, who had not yet reacted, to the corner of the room.

"Those damned little devils, haven't they given up yet?"

As footsteps were heard coming up the stairs, Tomofumi Tanaka entered his brother's room holding a golf club, cursing.

Conan broke out in a cold sweat as he watched Tomofumi Tanaka, with a gloomy face, leaning his head out of the window. He then nervously followed Mori towards the door.

"who?"

Tanaka was very nervous at the moment, so he noticed the movement very keenly and turned around in shock. "Y-It's you?"

"The criminal is you, Mr. Tanaka,"

Seeing that the other party had discovered him, Mao Li simply stood where he was and reasoned calmly, "In order to deceive the police and us, you first disguised yourself as your brother who looks very similar to you and contacted us; then you went back upstairs and positioned your brother's body to make it look like he was sleeping while watching TV; then you restored your original appearance, came outside through the second-floor window and the tree in the courtyard, pretending to have just returned from outside; finally..."

"Finally, we used a trick known to children, such as an answering machine, to create the sound of your brother yelling, giving us the illusion that he was still alive."

Conan took over Maori's words with confidence and took out the mobile phone of Tanaka Tomofumi that he had just touched when he sneaked in. "Uncle, you must have recorded the audio in advance before the police came. In the middle of the search, you only need to press the speed dial button... That's it!"

"It's so noisy! Can't you guys be a little quieter?!"

As Conan moved, the angry cursing voice from before was heard again in the house.

Seeing that Tomofumi Tanaka's face had turned very ugly, Maori continued along with Conan's words: "You muted the phone ring in the house in advance, and pressed the speed dial button on the mobile phone while we were not paying attention. At this time, the answering machine automatically sounded, and it sounded like your brother was cursing on the second floor."

"As for the fact that your brother turned off the TV when we were all on the second floor, I think it's probably because you set the timer of the VCR to turn off in advance, and then acted out your acting skills. It's also because of this that you were worried that we would find out that your brother was dead, so you were in a hurry to get us out of that room..."

Seeing that Maori and Conan easily exposed his method of hiding the body, Tanaka Tomofumi's expression changed from ugly to desperate madness:

“Are you two father and son? That’s right, there’s no discrepancy at all… What a pity, the incompetent police are destined not to hear your reasoning! Go to hell!!”

Tanaka Tomofumi swung his golf club and attacked the two men fiercely. At this point, he chose to kill them to silence them!

Conan hurriedly squatted down to adjust the knob of the electromagnetic shoes, while Maori stood there without any panic.

(…Now!)

Maori caught the momentary gap caused by Tomofumi Tanaka's excessive movement, and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes. He took action boldly and accurately caught the opponent's club that was swung in the air.

"what?!"

Tomofumi Tanaka's twisted smile froze on his face and his eyes widened in disbelief.

"boom!"

Mori's subsequent straight punch hit Tanaka Tomofumi hard on the bridge of his nose, breaking his nose and knocking him unconscious.

"Even though I have a daughter and I'm also an old father, there's no way golf clubs will have any effect on me, asshole!"

Chapter 27: The Dark Night Duke Everyone Wants

How does that saying go? The power of example is infinite. The example of Maori leading the children to find a cat and encountering a case inspired the "three musketeers" of the Junior Detective Team. They realized that they could not only wait for others to commission them, but also take the initiative to find cases.

As a result, Edogawa Conan, a fake elementary school student who didn't have as much energy as a real elementary school student, suffered - in just one week, he accompanied three children to help his classmates find cats, dogs and foxes in school, and the rewards he received were all things like "Kamen Rider Gold Cards" and "Godzilla Badges" that made him completely lose interest. After a week, he looked like a waste, and even without trying, he could easily reveal his signature dead fish eyes with extremely high protein content.

“…That’s how it is.”

In Dr. Agasa's house, Conan drank juice with lifeless eyes while curled up on the sofa and complained to Dr. Agasa about his miserable experiences this week, "And Uncle Mori is really something, he already knows that I'm the high school detective Kudo Shinichi, but can't he let me do something more interesting? He has to make me go to school every day and play house with a group of children..."

"Well, Mori, this is just following your parents' wishes and protecting you well. After all, no matter what, those people in the Black Organization would never expect that high school detective Kudo Shinichi would help his classmates find pets with a few elementary school students..."

Dr. Agasa said this without even looking up as he hammered away on the workbench.

"That's true... slurp~ but..."

"correct!"

Dr. Agasa suddenly seemed to remember something, put down what he was holding, slapped his thigh, then turned around and looked at Conan, and said excitedly, "Shinichi! I have something interesting for you to investigate!"

"Ok?"

……

Two days later, at the Izu Princess Hotel private beach.

Maori was lying comfortably on a beach chair in shorts, his eyes moving freely under his sunglasses.

Under the cloudless sky, a sea breeze occasionally blew up, bringing a hot wave. It was a bit hot, but just the right amount of heat. Because of this heat, the young ladies on the beach put aside their shyness and reserve, put on bold bikinis, and laughed and talked to their heart's content.

Maori's eyes quietly followed a high-ponytailed girl passing by, and then fell on her swimsuit-clad girl companions who were playing freely in the sea. In the splashing water, their full breasts stretched their swimsuits tight, and their young skin was so white that it seemed to reflect the light...

There is a saying in China, which is across the sea from Japan, that "food and sex are human nature". Mao Li, who considers himself a "human being" and a "pioneer in fighting gambling and drugs", agrees with this saying...

Of course, such true-natured children should not be exposed to them too early, as they cannot be controlled. Therefore, regardless of Xiaolan's opposition and Conan's resentment, Maori forcefully threw the fake elementary school student into the children's area, separating her from her daughter in a swimsuit.

I look at other beautiful women in swimsuits, that's fine! But you look at my daughter in a swimsuit, that's not fine!

……

After enjoying a comfortable half-day sunbath, Maori and the other two came to the hotel lobby, registered at the front desk, and waited for the rest of the tour group.

According to Dr. Agasa, online chatting has become popular among scholars, and it was in the online discussion group that the "Izu Travel Group" was established. The three Maori people used the participation quota of Dr. Agasa and his friends. The organizer of the event had paid half of the expenses in advance, and the remaining half was borne by the participants themselves.

However, as long as someone can find the organizer hidden among the participants, the remaining expenses of this person will be made up by the organizer. In addition, the "winner" who finds the organizer can also get a special computer program "Dark Night Duke" recorded on a disk, which is said to be worth a lot of money.

Professor Agasa had already given Maori the list of all the people participating in the event and their room numbers in advance. Each person received a copy of this, which was considered the most basic hint and information.

After looking around, Maori found that there were a total of 6 groups of 10 people, including the three of them, ranging from programmers to bank clerks, to software company presidents, investors, and math teachers... In short, there were people from all walks of life, and it seemed that their purpose was to get that special computer program, not just to get a free trip.

Just as Maori was thinking about the trip, a man wearing gold-rimmed glasses walked over with a computer in his arms. Half of his thin face was covered by bangs, and he looked a little gloomy.

"Are you the Duke of Darkness?"

The man suddenly asked.

"Ok?"

Mao Li turned his head subconsciously, and his eyes quickly scanned the stopwatch program on the man's computer. "Are you also a member of the tour group?"

"0.4 seconds, to be exact, 0.38 seconds..."

The man looked at Maori in surprise, but then he smiled and saved the data, "What an amazing reaction! You have the shortest reaction time among us. People's reactions to sudden questions are often the most real. It seems that you are most likely to be the Duke of Darkness."

"You're really proactive. Are we going to start guessing the identity now?"

Mauli shrugged.

"Well, after all, I really want a free trip," the man smiled and introduced himself, "I'm Shiro Konno from Room 2002, a bank clerk..."

"Humph!"

A man with long hair hanging down in the hall was holding a can of beer and said drunkenly, "You ask everyone this question. Aren't you annoying? Do you really think you can find the Duke of Dark Night this way? I think you are the Duke of Dark Night!"

"Mr. Jiang Yuan from Room 2101, a computer programmer,"

Konno Shiro glanced at the man with long hair behind him, "It seemed that it took you 2.86 seconds to answer my question, but you are not without suspicion..."

"Determine the identity through unexpected tests? It's a good idea indeed. After all, people will reveal things subconsciously..."

An old man who looked quite old took over Kaneno Shiro's words, and beside him was a fat woman who looked like a servant.

"Mr. Genichirō Kaneshiro from Room 2001, an investor in a computer company,"

Konno Shiro glanced at the old man and quickly typed information on the computer, "It took you 6.38 seconds to answer my question..."

"After all, I am old, and my eyesight is not very good."

The old man named Genichirō Kaneshiro smiled, looking harmless.

"makes sense,"