Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

This can't go on any longer...

"Detective Maori," Officer Yasuki asked quietly, "did you find anything?"

"Still can't find any useful clues..."

Maori put down the dictionary and turned to the people who were looking at him in confusion.

"Ms. Kawaguchi, did you really think of the sentence you were going to write in the lounge of the samurai residence?"

"Yes, yes." Kawaguchi Mizuki clenched his palms.

"But Conan has been there," Maori's eyes darkened, "You can't see the maple tree from the lounge, can you please explain?"

"Well, maybe I'm somewhere else..."

"which place?"

"Well..."

"You saw it when you were walking from the bamboo forest in Edo Castle to the samurai's house, right?" Maori continued, "If you said you were not the murderer, why did you lie?"

"No, no, I just..."

"Or did you see something? For example, did you see Mr. Yagisawa killing someone..."

"No! I didn't see him kill anyone, I just went there..." Kawaguchi Mizuki's face changed drastically.

"How about going there?" Maori looked directly at Kawaguchi Mizuki, who was keeping his head down and saying nothing. As if he realized that he had let the cat out of the bag, Kawaguchi Mizuki bit his lip and did not respond.

Officer Yasushi frowned and walked over to Kawaguchi Mizuki: "Miss Kawaguchi, if you have anything to say, wait until we get to the police station."

"Water City..."

Everyone in the Lianju Society watched Kawaguchi Mizuki being taken away with complicated expressions.

"How could this be?"

"Detective Mori," Shiina Ryosuke said worriedly, "Is Miss Mizuki really the murderer?"

"It's hard to say for now," Mao Li shook his head, "but if she refuses to explain clearly, the police will have no choice but to make this conclusion... Then you guys finish the sentence contest first, and I'll go take a look."

"Please, Detective Mori, I think Miss Mizuki must have some difficulties." The corners of Shiina Ryosuke's mouth curled up slightly, almost imperceptibly, and quickly turned into sadness.

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"I didn't expect the sentence contest to turn out like this... I think we should just stop here today."

Everyone in the Lianju Society felt heavy-hearted as they watched Mao Li leave with the police.

"fair enough……"

"But I've already thought of the next line!" Conan called everyone to a halt and wrote on the note, "Mine is 'Someone give me some chocolate quickly'..."

"Huh?" Xiaolan's eyebrows twitched, "Conan, this doesn't even look like a connected sentence!"

"No, Ms. Xiaolan," Ando Reiko said in surprise, "Conan associated chocolate with the ant path, right? Although this poem is childish, it is very appropriate."

Conan smiled smugly, turned to Shiina Ryosuke and said, "We're going to taste the flowers next, right? Uncle Shiina, please continue with the 13th sentence."

"what?"

"Hurry up, won't Uncle Shiina answer it?"

"Well... okay," Shiina Ryosuke picked up the note and wrote, "One day, father and daughter can visit Hana no Temple together... how about that?"

"How strange," Conan picked up a written note next to him, "This sentence is the same as what Uncle Maori read to me just now... Look."

"what?!"

Shiina Ryosuke's eyes suddenly shrank and he stared closely at the note in Conan's hand.

"This, this is..."

"Actually, I didn't write this poem myself," Mao Li led the Matsue detectives back to the courtyard, "The person who actually wrote this poem was Mr. Tomonaga, the securities dealer we met in the hall yesterday, but Mr. Ushikawa wrote it down in his own notebook..."

"Detective Mori?!" Shiina Ryosuke turned around and saw Mori and the police, and his expression was slightly shocked, "You are not..."

"We didn't go to the Matsue Police Station. We just had a private chat with Ms. Kawaguchi."

Mao Li made way for the figure of Kawaguchi Mizuki behind him, walked to the main seat and picked up the booklet with the linked sentences recorded.

Shiina Ryosuke's expression changed.

"Mr. Shiina," Conan snorted, "I think you must have thought that Mr. Ushigoro wrote this poem himself, and you don't think he is qualified to recite such beautiful poems. So, after you killed Mr. Ushigoro, you tore this page out of the book..."

"Wait, wait a minute!" Shiina Ryosuke forced a smile, "Mr. Ushio showed me that poem yesterday, and I used it because it suits me perfectly..."

"Is that really the case? Given Ushikawa-san's personality, would he show it to you in advance? I heard that he doesn't treat you very well. Would he casually reveal to you the sentence he was going to use in the sentence contest? Yesterday, he even drove Tomonaga-san away..."

"When I saw you hiding the words in your sentence saying you were the murderer, I thought that if I left, you might reveal your true identity. It turns out that you really did use that poem. You like poems that describe the relationship between father and daughter, and you happened to come across a sentence that speaks to your heart. It's not surprising to think about it, right, Conan?"

"Hmm!" Conan looked at Shiina Ryosuke who was buried in his head, "Uncle Shiina said that in the hot spring bath yesterday, his daughter was taken away by his wife..."

Shiina Ryosuke tightly grasped his fingers, raised his head and smiled: "This doesn't prove anything, does it? Hiding words in the poem was just a joke...Besides, I have an alibi when Mr. Ushigoro was murdered!"

"Alibi?"

"Yeah, I forgot to mention that around 10 o'clock, I was still in the English Garden of the Garden Art Museum. At that time, I saw a waitress helping a lost child find his mother..."

"What you said can't be used as an alibi at all," Mao Li interrupted, "because all you need to do is place a camera under the bushes in the park in advance. In fact, you didn't even have time to deal with the traces left by the tripod, because at that time a staff member happened to notice you..."

Shiina Ryosuke looked at Mori with trembling eyes, and his fingers began to shake uncontrollably.

"I have already asked Miss Kawaguchi for details," Mao Li turned to Kawaguchi and said, "Miss Kawaguchi, could you please explain it again to everyone?"

"Okay... okay."

Kawaguchi Mizuki lowered his head and walked in front of the crowd.

"In fact, I didn't go to Matsue Castle at first, but went directly to Gekko-ji Temple, because... because I really didn't trust Yagisawa."

"Ah?" Yagisawa Takumi looked at Kawaguchi in a daze, "Ms. Mizushiro..."

"I saw Yagisawa sitting on a bus that was about to leave for Matsue Castle," Kawaguchi Mizushiro glanced at Yagisawa, "so I followed him to Matsue Castle. When I walked to the bamboo forest sidewalk, I found that Mr. Ushigo was already lying there. Moreover, there was a bottle of eye drops left by Yagisawa in front of his index finger. After I took the eye drops, I immediately rushed to the samurai house..."

Ando Reiko was surprised and said: "So Mizuki, you lied to help Yagisawa conceal the truth, but why..."

"Wait a minute," Yagisawa said anxiously, "I did go to Matsue Castle, but I didn't kill anyone. I didn't walk on the sidewalk either. I went to the Inari Shrine in Shiroyama."

"Inari Shrine?"

"Mr. Ushigoro invited me to go. After I arrived at Gekshō-ji Temple, about 30 minutes later, Mr. Ushigoro sent me a text message, asking me to go to the Inari Shrine in Matsue Castle to find him immediately..."

Yagisawa took out his cell phone and handed it to the police.

"I arrived at the shrine at 10:5 and waited for another 15 minutes, but I didn't see Mr. Ushikawa. I called his cell phone but he didn't answer. I had no choice but to go back to Gekshō-ji..."

"In that case," Shiina Ryosuke interrupted, "then how come your eye drops were there? And who knows if what you said is true."

"What Mr. Yagisawa said should be true."

Mao Li helped to speak up, "Although the police did not find any text messages on Mr. Ushikawa's phone, nor his backup phone, and just now they found the murder weapon, a baton, and Mr. Yagisawa's raincoat in the lotus pond of Gekko-ji..."

Maori paused and looked at Shiina Ryosuke who had calmed down. "However, Mr. Shiina, the method you used to frame someone was too deliberate, which made people more suspicious. Generally speaking, few murderers would leave the murder weapon at the place where they appeared after committing a crime, let alone wrap it in their raincoat...

"If it wasn't Mr. Yagisawa's deliberate attempt, then there is only one possibility. Someone called Mr. Yagisawa to Matsue Castle in the name of Mr. Ushigoro, and made him their scapegoat..."

"Detective Mao, Maori," Shiina Ryosuke said with a smile, "From what you said, it seems as if I am that person..."

"If you want evidence, we have it too," Mao Li looked at the detective next to him, "Officer Yasuki."

"Well," the detective took out a pair of hiking boots wrapped in an ID bag, "Mr. Shiina, just now, we found Mr. Ushikawa's fingerprint on the first shoe loop of the hiking boots you were wearing..."

"what?"

"Do you have anything else to say?" Maori looked directly at Shiina Ryosuke and said, "The death message left by Mr. Ushikawa is not complicated. He just wanted to explain that he left fingerprints on his hiking shoes...

"Perhaps he pointed in the direction of the Garden Art Museum at the beginning, which led to your misunderstanding. So you moved his finger away after noticing it, leaving behind the eyedrops bottle that was originally used to frame him."

Mao Li paused, then turned to the silent Shiina Ryosuke and continued, "There is one more thing, which is your self-directed and self-acted performance at dinner yesterday..."

"Directed and acted by myself?" Xiaolan was puzzled.

"It was just a lottery," Maori nodded slightly, "Mr. Shiina used the hat to do a little trick when drawing lots to assign locations. He let Mr. Ushikawa draw first, and then used age as an excuse to draw second, arranging himself to the Garden Art Museum, which was the farthest away... At the time, I thought you were just playing magic, but I didn't expect it was to create an alibi for murder..."

Officer Yasuki handcuffed the silent Shiina Ryosuke and said, "Come with us to the police station, Mr. Shiina."

Shiina Ryosuke stood up silently, and when he passed by Maori, he suddenly stopped and looked at the blue sky as if he had let go. "To be honest, I don't regret it at all, Mr. Maori. The beef destroyed my family. If it happened again, I would make the same choice..."

……

Osaka Nichimi TV new office building, 6th floor lobby banquet hall.

"Dear guests, to commemorate the completion of our new office building for Nichiren Television, the film "Godzilla vs. Ultraman" has been officially launched. Thank you very much for attending today's film launch conference. Next up will be Ultraman's performance and the debut of the new monster..."

"I see."

Xiao Ai looked at the host speaking on the stage with drooped eyelids.

"That's why you were invited as a guest, uncle..."

"That's about it," Maori said with a twitch in his eyes, "but why are they here too?"

The big screen on the podium of the conference hall was playing content from "Godzilla" and "Ultraman" alternately, and Ayumi and a few other children in the front were shouting excitedly.

At the table at the side, Dr. Agasa was enjoying the free red wine while stuffing food into his mouth.

On the other side, there is Kazuha who took a photo with Xiaolan and the Godzilla doll, and Kurotan-face who stood with Conan...

"He Ye, so you like monsters." Xiaolan looked unnatural.

The reason she came was because Maori and Ai were here. She didn't expect that Kazuha was actually a complete tokusatsu fan, just like a child.

"I like Godzilla very much," Kazuha seemed to have become a different person, with a rosy face and stars in his eyes. "I went to the cinema with Heiji when I was a child. I was so excited at that time..."

"This, this is it."

"That's the thing," Hattori said awkwardly, "I thought I knew Kazuha very well... Speaking of it... Conan, you're not a tokusatsu fan, right?"

"Not really."

Conan nodded.

It’s true that he liked watching Godzilla when he was a kid, but now…

"Where's that fat police officer from the Metropolitan Police Department?" Hattori asked curiously, "He seems to be a tokusatsu fan. Isn't he here today?"

"You mean Officer Chiba? He happens to be on duty today."

Maori explained.

"Excuse me, Detective Maori," a staff member found Maori and handed him a business card, saying, "My name is Kosugi, and I'm a subordinate of Producer Yonekura..."

"Hello."

Mao Li took the business card in confusion.

Yuya Kosugi, producer of Nichimera TV's film department...

Because he has cooperated a lot with Nichimi TV, he has heard of the name of the Yonekura team. The "producer Yonekura" mentioned by the other party is Isao Yonekura, who has the title of gold medal producer and is also the chief producer of the movie "Godzilla vs. Kamen Ultraman".

"Regarding tomorrow's shooting, I hope you can take care of it."

"No problem." Maori nodded.

"Filming?" Hattori asked in surprise, "What filming? Uncle, are you going to be a consultant again?"

"No, there will be a group play of passers-by fleeing in Osaka Castle Park tomorrow, and we all have to perform..."

"We? You mean I should go too?"

Sweat was pouring down Hattori's face. No one had told him that he would be acting in this movie. If the guys in school saw him, he didn't know what they would say.

"Is there any problem?" Maori asked curiously, "I remember you played Okita Souji in the Taiga drama before. Shouldn't it be okay?"

"Of course," Hattori said confidently, "But there will be so many people there that they may not be able to take pictures of us."

"Don't worry, I'll talk to the director and ask him to give you more close-ups."

"..."

"The performance will probably last for a while, I'm going to the bathroom." Maori waved his hand, turned and walked out of the venue.

In the corridor outside the venue, Koto Yonekura stared at the screen of his mobile phone with a grim expression.

"That Onda guy..."