Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

"..."

Maori's eyebrows twitched repeatedly, and he decisively gave the boy a slap.

"Boom!"

"It hurts, uncle!"

"Brother Maori,"

Inspector Megure asked doubtfully, "Even if the murderer didn't commit the crime during the fireworks, we can't say that Mr. Oda Kunitomo is not a suspect, right? After all, they could all be the murderer!"

"Regarding this point... Officer Megure, the murderer must be Miss Sano Izumi."

Maori said with certainty.

"Wait a minute!" Sano Izumi said angrily, "Why do you say I'm the murderer?"

"Ms. Sano," Maori looked directly at Izumi Sano and said in a deep voice, "The reason why there was your gun at the crime scene and the blood letter implicating himself was to mislead us in the investigation. The murderer could not have left his own gun behind, nor could he have left a note at the scene to incriminate himself. This is your anti-psychological trap."

Sano Izumi's face changed slightly: "Indeed, it looks like I might be the murderer, but the other three should be able to do it, right? Also, who are you? The police should be responsible for handling the case, if you keep talking nonsense..."

"My name is Maori Kogoro. I should be a detective of some fame?"

Mauli shrugged.

"Mouri Kogoro... Detective..."

Sano Izumi's face was grim. "Even if you are the famous detective, you can't just say that! Is there any evidence to prove that I killed Chihiro?"

"Of course I have evidence."

"Eh?"

"Didn't I tell you?" Maori chuckled, "I noticed the strange bloodstains in front of the body from the beginning. It was only just now that I realized that they were traces of being stepped on by the tip of a skate. I'm afraid he accidentally stepped on them when he was leaving the blood letter on the wall."

"This, this is..."

Inspector Megure looked at the bloodstains on the ground in surprise: "These bloodstains look like burrs... There are indeed traces of being stepped on, but it is also possible that Miss Itami stepped on them when she fell to the ground, right?"

"That's impossible, Officer Megure," Maori shook his head solemnly, "It's impossible for the victim to leave such a mark."

"Bang!" Sano Izumi took a step back with trembling lips and looked at the glaring bloodstain next to the corpse with horror.

"Yes," Mao Li said calmly, "If we check the skates, we will know everything. The murderer has no chance to change shoes during this period."

Izumi Sano stared at Maori in a daze, and lowered his head without waiting for the police to check.

……

In the parking lot of the amusement park, Maori refused the support of Xiaolan and Sonoko and walked slowly at the end alone.

To say that Izumi Sano is a bad woman is not entirely true - she was originally just an ordinary person, and this incident happened only because she misunderstood that Kunitomo Oda and Chihiro Itami were having an affair.

The cause was the suicide of a member of the target shooting group half a year ago. The reason for his suicide was that he felt that his girlfriend Chihiro Itami had betrayed him by sleeping with Oda Kunitomo. Before his death, he called Izumi Sano, who was dating Oda Kunitomo at the time, and cried to her.

However, in fact, Itami Chihiro just made up an excuse when breaking up, and it had nothing to do with Oda Kunitomo...

Unaware of the situation, Izumi Sano's goal this time was to kill Chihiro Itami and frame Oda Kunitomo for betraying her, but she didn't know that Oda Kunitomo had loved her from the beginning to the end...

very messy.

Mao Li, who has always been outspoken, just feels that he can't understand these people - can't they just say whatever they want to say nicely?

Conan looked at Maori, who was walking at the end, and stopped. After Maori came closer, Conan asked a little embarrassedly: "Uncle, I still don't understand, what exactly is KIX?"

"You kid, you still haven't figured out the code after all this time,"

Maori smiled and rubbed Conan's hair. "The so-called KIX refers to the three English codes of Kansai International Airport. Yes, it is the Kansai International Airport located in Izumisano City, Osaka..."

"That's it, that's it!"

Conan suddenly realized.

……

After the murder case that he encountered by chance at the skating rink ended, Maori took a good rest in the detective agency for another week. When his calf was fully recovered, he immediately set off to Shikoku to handle a commission.

It was a simple investigation into a cheating wife, and there was actually no need for a famous detective like him who was far away in Tokyo. However, the client, Ishikawa, was a wealthy man who had no shortage of money. In order to really get to the bottom of the situation, he spent 10 million to hire Mori.

Mori soon made it clear to the tycoon that he was cuckolded. After the commission was completed, in order to thank Mori and to ease his own mood, the tycoon Ishikawa drove Mori to tour Shikoku.

Shikoku, located in the south of Japan, includes the four prefectures of Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime, and Kochi, and is a tourist destination in itself. Mori, who rarely comes here, originally planned to take this opportunity to visit here, so he gladly accepted Ishikawa's invitation.

The luxury car driven by Ishikawa himself passed by a villa, and a sea of ​​lavender came into view, which surprised Maori again and again.

The villa is surrounded by a sea of ​​flowers, just like being in a painting...

"Is this the rumored lavender villa?"

"That's right," Ishikawa explained, "but it has been idle since a murder occurred half a year ago, and no one has taken it over until now."

"Homicide?"

Mao Li raised his eyebrows, but before he could ask any questions, a figure he had seen in the newspaper walked by on the other side of the road.

A hint of doubt flashed across Maori's face.

The person who just left the villa seemed to be the high school detective Junya Tokatsu whom he had seen in the newspaper recently. What was this high school detective who often spoke nonsense in the newspapers doing in Shikoku?

Is it for this Lavender Villa case? But it’s been half a year…

For some reason, although Maori had never dealt with this young man, he felt inexplicably worried when he saw him - just from the newspaper that said it was "an undeleted interview with the high school detective Tokitsu Junya himself", Maori roughly judged that this was a young man who had good reasoning ability, but was far more self-righteous and arrogant than Conan and Hattori, and even compared to the two of them, he did not have much sense of responsibility.

"Can you tell me about a murder case from half a year ago, Mr. Ishikawa?"

Maori asked as he looked at Lavender Villa.

"It was the eldest daughter here who hanged herself in Lost," Ishikawa said, "but today's news said that a high school detective found new clues, which seemed to prove that it was murder."

"is it?"

After passing through the lavender courtyard, Maori took a closer look and saw that the villa was a bit old. He walked around it and the door of the villa opened. A square-faced old man wearing glasses appeared in front of them.

"You are?"

The old man squinted his eyes and looked at the two of them strangely.

"Hello, can you give us a tour of the villa?"

Maori asked tentatively.

The old man hesitated for a while, but did not refuse: "I just came back to take a look... Are you the police or..."

"I'm a private detective, but I often help the police solve some cases," Mao Li looked around, "Has a young man been here before?"

"Ah."

"Detective Maori," Ishikawa followed Maori, "Do you think there's something wrong with that high school student?"

"It's not clear yet..."

Mao Li walked to the room where the murder occurred, checked the door lock, and looked around, but found no clues. Combined with the case details released by the police, it seemed that the window had been tampered with.

Maori ran his fingers across the window frame, rubbing the white adhesive powder, his brows slightly furrowed.

I went back outside and spent a long time finding half a screw in the grass.

If all the screws were cut short in advance and the window frames were simply glued together for easy disassembly, a secret room could indeed be created, but can this alone be considered homicide?

It may not be the truth...

……

At the police station, after registering his information, Maori found the two middle-aged detectives in charge of the lavender villa case.

The police originally did not want to meet, but agreed after knowing that the person was the famous Tokyo detective Mouri Kogoro.

Talking about this case, the two detectives were also very annoyed. Not only did the suicide turn into a murder, but the only suspect, the maid who was in the villa at the time, refused to confess.

"That's it."

In the reception room, the detective placed all the cut screws in front of Mao Li. "These evidences were collected by a high school detective. We also went to the scene to verify. The window frame was indeed tampered with..."

Maori looked at the "evidence", which was the same as the screws he found, and was believed to be the cut part.

"Are you sure this was done by the maid in the villa?"

Mao Li looked at the detective with an inquiring look.

He had almost understood everything because new clues emerged. The only maid in the villa was considered the murderer because she had been alone with the eldest daughter before the incident.

"This..." The detective uncle looked dissatisfied, "Who else could it be except that maid? And that high school student detective also suspected it was her?"

"The high school detective you're talking about is Junya Tokitsu, right?"

Maori was disappointed with the police here - in Tokyo, the police led by Inspector Megure, although their ability to handle cases was not particularly strong, at least they would not close the cases in a hasty manner.

"Do you know?"

The detective looked surprised.

"I only know him a little bit... This young man likes to show off his abilities, and always comes to conclusions very quickly, as if solving a case is a running competition. I don't know why his name was not published in the newspaper. I guess he himself is not sure, right?"

Mao Li handed the half of the screw he had picked up to the detective uncle: "The facts are very clear. The murder happened half a year ago. If the window frame was really tampered with half a year ago, these screws that fell on the grass would not be like this. This level of rust would probably not be more than a month old. Why do you think it is related to the murder?"

"This..." The two detective uncles looked gloomy and speechless.

"Can Tokatsu Junya meet me?" Maori asked seriously, "I heard that you are very strict with that maid..."

"Officer Sugita!" A police officer suddenly rushed into the reception room and said anxiously, "Something happened!"

"What's the matter?" the detective uncle asked in surprise.

"Anyway, let's go to the coast and check! It looks like the suspect committed suicide by jumping into the sea!"

"what?!"

Maori stood up quickly, looked at the detective uncle who ran out with a changed face, and without thinking too much, he put away the screws and hurriedly followed behind him.

Although I don't know the specific situation or whether it is related to the Lavender Villa incident, just looking at the reactions of several detectives, I feel that it is a serious matter.

At a beach that had been blocked by the police, Mao Li followed several criminal police officers and hurried into the scene. He saw a corpse covering the shore washed by waves at a glance.

The detective uncle named Sugita had a frown on his face, which made Maori's heart tighten.

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"Mr. Officer, could it be that..."

"Before you came to the police station, we had just questioned her, but we didn't get any results, so we let her go."

The detective uncle smoked a cigarette and said, "Then someone called the police and said they saw her jumping into the sea from a nearby cliff... I never thought she would actually commit suicide."

Maori silently lifted the shroud, and saw a petite girl in maid clothes lying among the rubble, with her eyes quietly closed. She looked weak and frightened, as if she was still alive. However, the cold body soaked by the sea water had indeed lost its temperature.

"asshole……"

……

"Detective Maori Kogoro?"

Ten minutes later, Tokatsu Junya entered the scene with a look of surprise, and said to Maori: "When Officer Sugita said that a detective was looking for me, I was wondering who it was. I didn't expect it to be the famous Kogoro Akechi from the Heisei era..."

"The screws are rusty to the wrong degree. You should have noticed that, right?"

Mao Li ignored Tokatsu Junya's flattery and stood up with a serious face, looking back at this guy - he had long hair parted in the middle, droopy eyes, and a rather annoying smile.

"Why not tell the police? If the police knew, she might not have to die..."

"Well,"

Tokatsu Junya wiped his nose helplessly, looked at the body on the shore and said, "It is true that I was a little careless, but this can't be blamed on me, right? Even if the screws are rusty to the wrong degree, she is very suspicious, and if she didn't kill anyone, why would she commit suicide out of fear of crime?"

"Besides, she was just a maid. If she committed suicide, she committed suicide. I'm a high school detective. Even if I have some minor problems with my reasoning, it's no big deal..."

Looking at Tokizu Junya who was talking nonsense, Mori said nothing and left with a sullen face. But when he passed by Tokizu Junya, he gave him an elbow with his backhand - Tokizu Junya was caught off guard and was stunned. He lay on the ground, holding his stomach and wailing, looking at Mori in disbelief.

“Ah! You?!”

"Sorry, my arm doesn't work."