Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

The officer leading the team, Officer Yokomizo, was a responsible and kind man. When he saw Conan moving around next to the statue, he shouted in surprise, "Hey! Little boy..."

"Mr. Officer,"

Conan quickly jumped down from the chair he was standing on to observe the corpse, and waited for the police officers to put the body on the ground. He looked up at the rooms on each floor of the hotel and said, "This should be a murder. Mr. Jiang Yuan was pushed down from one of the upper rooms..."

"what?"

Seeing Conan's serious reasoning, Officer Yokomizo was confused - are kids nowadays so mature? And he wasn't scared at all of such a tragic death? Is he old or...

"Kid, you..."

"I am traveling here with the famous detective Maori Kogoro, Mr. Officer! And the deceased was a member of the same tour group as us!"

"Detective Maori?!"

Conan's introduction obviously shocked Officer Yokomizo, and Ran hurriedly crossed the cordon and started chatting with him: "Officer, I'm Ran Mouri, the daughter of Kogoro Mouri, you..."

Conan, who was temporarily ignored, raised his gaze all the way up to the balcony on the 20th floor.

The structure of the Princess Hotel building is very strange. The structure changes starting from the 20th floor. Looking down, the lower floors are still cross-shaped, but they become regular octagons upwards.

Therefore, there happened to be a right angle concave inwards under the raised balcony on the 20th floor, and Jiang Yuan fell along this right angle wall...

Looking up further, Conan suddenly remembered that Jiang Yuan lived in Room 21 on the 2101st floor.

At this time, Jiang Yuan's body had been laid flat on the ground by the police. In addition to the abnormalities with his tie and belt, one of the white gloves on his hand was missing.

Conan just took a look and did not stay at the scene, but hurried to find Mori - although he could investigate alone without Mori, it was obvious that everything would be much more convenient if he was with the famous detective Mori.

……

Outside 2101, after the police finished investigating the scene, they were brought to the room where Jiang Yuan lived by Xiaolan. Conan informed Maori and rushed over with him. However, even though the police got the key from the hotel, it was locked with an anti-theft lock and could not be opened at all.

"Detective Maori!"

After meeting Mao Li, Officer Yokomizo was quite enthusiastic. "I am Yokomizo, who was recently transferred to the Kanagawa Police Department. I have heard of your name for a long time!"

"Hello."

Mao Li also smiled and stretched out his hand to shake hands with Yokomizo.

At this moment, a police officer rushed over: "Officer Yokomizo, we have found a chainsaw!"

"All right! Saw off the bolt!"

Seeing this, Yokomizo was delighted and quickly asked the police officers to come forward. With a sharp sound of electric saw, the anti-theft chain in the room broke after a while.

The group then entered the room one after another, and found a pile of clothes on the floor at the door, and even the room card was thrown next to it.

"This is what Mr. Jiang Yuan wore today... He even left his room card here..."

Mao Li quickly got into the state of handling the case. After glancing around, he walked to the open balcony.

It was very windy outside, and a white glove was stuck in the middle of the railing, rustling in the wind.

Yokomizo also walked to the balcony and looked down at the open-air restaurant. After discovering that the crime scene was right below him, he exhaled and said, "There's a glove left on the railing. It looks like Mr. Jiang Yuan probably fell from here... Was it a simple accident? I heard from Miss Xiaolan that Mr. Jiang Yuan seemed to be an alcoholic."

"If you don't examine the body, you can make this inference, but,"

Maori looked back at the clothes scattered at the door. "According to the information Conan told me about the corpse, there are many things wrong with the Dark Night Duke's outfit. It is obvious that someone helped him put it on. In other words, someone deliberately dressed Mr. Jiang Yuan like that and pushed him down the stairs, making it look like an accidental death..."

"what?"

……

In the temporary interrogation room, after Ehara Tokio's body was placed in the hotel office on the other side, all members of the "Dark Night Duke Travel Group" including Conan were called over.

Kamijou Hideko's alibi was sufficient, and Officer Yokomizo's Mori, who was with her, was immediately cleared of suspicion and assisted the police in the investigation.

However, what surprised Maori was that Officer Yokomizo seemed to be his loyal fan. Not only did he let him take the lead like a younger brother, he even stood behind him with others.

Fortunately, Mao Li was also an elite detective before, and he is indeed very good at things like interrogation.

"So, Mr. Maeda was chatting with Xiaolan and Conan on the top floor observatory around 10 o'clock, the time of the incident?"

Mao Li looked at Maeda Satoshi and asked.

Maeda Satoshi nodded: "Yes, I checked the time when I separated from them, it was already past 10 o'clock..."

"But you were the one who checked the time at that time, right?"

Officer Yokomizo was dissatisfied with Maeda's vague testimony and shouted out the door, "Okay, next one, Mr. Konno!"

The interrogation gradually progressed to the end, and Conan stood aside and watched.

Shiro Konno said that he had been using the computer in his room, while Akiko Sayama said that she was watching TV in her room, but neither of them could be considered an alibi.

However, the absence of Mr. Jincheng and his servant Lin Jingjiang was very clear, because many people saw them in the open-air restaurant...

After the interrogation, everyone in the tour group was allowed to return to their rooms. Maori did not ask Conan to accompany him in the interrogation room to check the testimony, but asked him to go back with Xiaolan first - special circumstances require special treatment. When he was unable to split himself, he temporarily allowed Conan to accompany his beloved daughter.

……

In the hotel elevator, Akiko Sayama angrily entered the elevator with Xiaolan and Conan and pressed the button for the 19th floor.

"It's so infuriating. What are that detective and your father doing? They must think I'm the murderer! Obviously, everyone else is suspicious except me!"

"My father wouldn't be like that."

Xiaolan was a little embarrassed, but she quickly changed the subject and asked, "Miss Sayama, didn't a waiter come when you were in the room?"

"If there is, I just said it!"

Sayama Akiko crossed her arms in annoyance. "But come to think of it, I did call the hotel front desk..."

"Did you call the hotel front desk?"

Conan immediately asked, "What time is it?"

"It's probably around 10 o'clock. I'll ask them to call me and wake me up tomorrow morning..."

As Akiko Sayama was speaking, the elevator door on the 19th floor opened with a "ding!" sound. A bloodstained smiling face slowly appeared, and Akiko Sayama was stunned for a moment, her face instantly turning pale.

"How, how could..."

The atmosphere in the narrow elevator suddenly froze. Several people looked in horror at the strange man who seemed to be resurrected from the dead. The two cold gazes in the blood-stained strange mask made people feel frightened.

"Duke of the Dark Night?!"

Chapter 31 Xiaolan: Even if it's the Duke of Darkness, I'll fight you.

Facing this resurrected weirdo, Xiaolan gritted her teeth and did not retreat. She bravely took the initiative to block him with her fists: "All of you step back!"

Maybe demons and ghosts would scare her, but as long as they were living people...

Looking at the other party's terrifying smiling face mask, Xiaolan concentrated all her attention, and shouted loudly, raising her leg and kicking fiercely:

"Drink——!"

The strange man said nothing, but leaned back like a ghost, easily dodging Xiaolan's whirlwind-like kick in the face, and then avoided a frontal kick in Xiaolan's incredulous gaze.

"what?"

Xiaolan was stunned for a moment, but soon gritted her teeth, stepped forward and kicked with all her strength again.

"Drink it!"

"call!"

Amid the fierce gust of wind, the Duke of Dark Night slightly turned sideways, gently pushed away Xiaolan's kick with one hand, and turned and ran away while Xiaolan was stunned.

Although she had defeated a powerful enemy, Xiaolan stopped and steadied herself with a look of shock, staring blankly at the opponent's back.

"How, how is it possible..."

"Xiaolan!"

Conan chased out of the elevator and anxiously shouted to the dazed Xiaolan, "What are you doing? He ran away!"

Because he was in a hurry, Conan blurted out "Xiaolan" instead of "Sister Xiaolan" as he usually disguised himself. But it doesn't matter, so Xiaolan didn't have the extra energy to care about it at this time.

Her eyes trembled and her heart was in a mess.

"that person……"

The "Dark Night Duke" completely saw through her attack, and the only person in the tour group who had such skills, or to exaggerate, the only person in the building who had such skills, was her idol, the national karate champion Maeda Satoshi...

She couldn't accept this kind of thing. The person she knew and the idol she admired could actually be the murderer...

……

"What? You said the Duke of Darkness appeared again?!"

In the interrogation room, Maori looked at Conan and the other two who were reporting to him in shock.

"Yes!"

Conan described, "When we took the elevator back to the 19th floor, the moment the door opened..."

"Xiaolan,"

After listening to Conan's description, Maori frowned and looked at Xiaolan, "Didn't you beat that man?"

"I'm sorry, Dad. I was so scared..."

Xiaolan was cautious not to express her guess, but as her father and a detective, Maori saw that she looked so worried and knew what she was thinking.

"Detective Yokomizo!"

Several police officers entered the interrogation room at this time. "Misawa fainted in the body placement room. It looks like someone knocked him unconscious!"

"what?"

Yokomizo asked in surprise, "Where is the body?"

"The body is fine, but the Duke of Darkness's clothes are suddenly missing!"

"If it's the Duke of Darkness's clothes,"

Conan said in a daze, "Now it's over at the toilet on the second floor."

Maori looked at Conan in surprise: "How did you know?"

"I just went to the bathroom..."

Conan said a little embarrassedly.

Although he usually sneaked away to investigate cases under the pretext of going to the restroom, Conan really went to the restroom this time and saw the Duke of Darkness's clothes.

"..."

Mao Li twitched his eyes speechlessly, then glanced at the unconscious police officer who was carried in, turned to Yokomizo and said, "Officer Yokomizo, I roughly know who stole the clothes. Can we investigate again?"

"it is good!"

Without any hesitation, Yokomizo ordered his men, "Notify all suspects to gather in the interrogation room!"

"Yes!"

"dad……"

Xiaolan looked at Maori hesitantly, wanting to ask something but not knowing how to start.

After a while, the tour group members gathered in the interrogation room again.

"Really? Everyone is staying in their rooms... No witnesses?"

Yokomizo had a headache and said, "That is to say, when Xiaolan and the other three were attacked just now, none of the others had an alibi..."

"Wait! Mr. Policeman, didn't you tell us to stay in the room? We were just following orders..."

"Yes, yes!" everyone shouted.

Maori carefully observed the people who returned to the interrogation room, his eyes focused on Maeda Satoshi in the crowd and swept back and forth several times. As he expected, the other party was obviously avoiding his gaze.

(Maeda Satoshi is the national karate champion. If the Dark Night Duke just now was him, it would make sense...but his performance...)

"How about this,"

Mao Li did not directly make any guesses or inferences, but said to Officer Yokomizo and Maeda Satoshi, "I think we should check everyone's room first... Mr. Maeda, is it okay to start with your room?"