Conan's Unscientific Detective

The group had just stopped the car when they ran into Cheng Yuan and his partner who were coming back from fishing.

"Detective Fujino, you guys are back too."

Cheng Yuan got out of the car, carrying a fish incubator on his back, and said, "We caught a lot of fish today, so we will definitely have enough fish for barbecue tonight!"

"Then you really have a great harvest today..." Fujino smiled awkwardly.

Forget grilled fish. I guess I won’t even be able to pass the barbecue test later.

Several people pushed the door open and entered the hotel. As soon as they entered the hotel, Cheng Yuan asked the busy Shimokasa sisters: "By the way, has Chizuru come downstairs?"

The Shimokasa sisters shook their heads in unison, looking a little silly: "We were busy with hotel matters the whole day and didn't see Ms. Chizuru come downstairs."

"He's really going too far. He doesn't even want to eat."

Cheng Yuan complained a few words and then planned to go upstairs to call for help.

"I'll go upstairs and wash my face, too."

Fujino looked back at Shiromoto, found an excuse and went upstairs together.

"Chizuru, Chizuru!"

Shiromoto came to Bizen Chizuru's door, knocked on it and called out twice, but he got angry after hearing no response. So he shouted, "Okay, you should be calm now. Why don't you even say a word back?"

"What's wrong?"

Fujino 'happened' to pass by, glanced at Shiromoto and asked in confusion.

"Strange, I don't know what's going on, why doesn't Chizuru open the door when I call her."

Cheng Yuan frowned and murmured, "Could something have happened to her..."

"Indeed, even if you are angry, you shouldn't refuse to open the door no matter how much you knock..."

Fujino glanced at Shiromoto with a strange expression.

This Cheng Yuan's behavior is... a bit abnormal.

Does this mean that you suspect someone is in trouble?

But since he already knew that the person was dead, he planned to speed up the process of discovering the body.

So he suggested: "Do you need my help to break the door?"

After thinking for a moment, Cheng Yuan nodded: "Then I'll trouble you, Detective Fujino."

"Move aside..."

Fujino took a deep breath, looked at the wooden door in front of him, and then kicked it.

"boom!"

With a muffled sound, the door was kicked open by Fujino.

Fujino walked slowly into the room and saw a figure wearing a red jacket and a pink skirt in the dim room, with her feet hanging in the air on the fan on the roof.

Obviously, it is Bizen Chizuru.

"Twenty past seven."

Fujino took out his cell phone and took a look at it, then took out his cell phone and called the police.

"Chi...Chizuru!"

Shiromoto Hidehiko was obviously frightened and took two steps back with a look of horror on his face.

After calling the police, Fujino turned around and looked at Shiromoto: "Mr. Shiromoto, I'm afraid Miss Chizuru is dead. This is the crime scene now. If possible, please go out and wait. I have something I want to investigate."

Cheng Yuan nodded woodenly and left the room.

Fujino took out his gloves, put on shoe covers, turned on his eagle eyes, and looked around the room.

This time, Hawkeye gave the clues of the safety padlock of the door that he had kicked open, and the light spot in the triangular part of the skirt of Bizen Chizuru...

Fujino ignored the strange little light for the time being. After thinking for a while, he walked to the buckle of the safety lock, picked it up and looked at it.

The golden iron safety padlock was supposed to be installed next to the door frame, but he kicked it and it has now fallen to the floor of the room.

There are some minor scratches on the edge of the door lock.

Fujino turned his head and glanced at the door frame.

Likewise, on the door frame, there are some scratches.

"If that's the case, the murderer should have opened the door and used a screwdriver to re-lock the safety lock to create a secret room..."

Fujino stood up after thinking about it and walked to the body of Bizen Chizuru.

He raised his head and took a look.

The older female star who was alive and had a bad temper yesterday no longer has any temper.

With his eyes closed, his face looked peaceful.

"It actually looks pretty good if you don't put on a sour face."

Fujino murmured, "If that's the case, then she should have been killed while she was unconscious..."

After all, if someone was strangled to death while conscious, there would usually be Yoshikawa lines on the neck, and it would be unlikely that the death would be so peaceful.

He reached out and touched the corpse's pale arm.

It's already dead...

Judging from the time of his death, it was about the same time as when he triggered the detective mission.

At that time, only Shiromoto came back, so from this point of view, Shiromoto should be the murderer.

But...

Fujino narrowed his eyes and looked at the light spot marked by Hawkeye.

The light spot marked a spot of white powder on the skirt.

Fujino reached out his hand, took a little, and rubbed it a little. It felt a bit like cosmetics.

He wasn't like Conan, an idiot, who dared to go over and smell it...

After all, he is a star. If he takes drugs, he will be doomed. Once he gets addicted to this stuff, he will be stuck with it for the rest of his life.

However, with his keen sense of smell, he could still smell something from a distance.

It smells bad...

…………

An hour later, accompanied by bursts of sirens, the Nagano Prefecture police arrived at the scene.

"I'm Nagano Prefecture Detective, Mito Koichi."

A handsome detective in a gray suit inspected the scene, and then went out and asked Fujino with a somewhat unfriendly look, "From what I just heard, you were the first person to discover the body and enter the crime scene, right?"

"Yes, I was the one who called the police."

Fujino nodded and took out his work ID from his pocket. "I'm Fujino, a consultant at the Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Division. Mr. Shiromoto was afraid that something might happen to her, so I broke the door with his consent."

"Advisor Fujino..."

Mito Koichi took a look at Fujino and his expression eased a lot: "I've heard of you, but I didn't expect you to come to Nagano Prefecture. Are you here for tourism?"

"Yes."

Fujino nodded and said, "A friend gave me a voucher for this hotel, and I planned to come here to travel during the long vacation, but I didn't expect to encounter this."

“That’s really bad.”

Mito Koichi nodded heavily, empathizing with the pain of having to work overtime late at night during the holidays.

Turning his head, he asked a plump criminal policeman wearing a dark blue suit behind him, "How is the on-site investigation going?"

"The deceased is the popular actress Chizuru Bizen, 30 years old this year. She came to the hotel this time for a trip with her husband..."

The detective held a notebook and reported the situation at the scene: "The time of death of the deceased was probably between 1 and 2 in the afternoon. The room was a bit stuffy, so there was some error. The cause of death was compression of the neck."

"From the situation at the scene, it seems likely that Miss Bizen committed suicide."

Mito Koichi looked back at the room, raised his head to look at the white silk hanging on the roof fan, and then his gaze fixed on Chizuru Bizen who had been put on the bed and was lying quietly.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 379 You are indeed my little brother! [Two chapters with 2k extra chapters]

Turning back, he asked Fujino again, "When you came, the door should have been locked, and the safety padlock on the door was also locked, right?"

Fujino: "..."

That's right...

But why does this sentence always feel a little familiar?

Another suicide, huh?!

So you all are here to slack off!

Fujino was silent for a moment and pinched his brows.

Actually, it is true when you think about it.

In this case, the easiest outcome is to simply close the case as suicide.

Continuing the investigation would not only be a thankless task, but it might also lead to some kind of public condemnation...

This is what the saying goes.

But he had a mission to accomplish, and he couldn't let this case turn into a suicide.

He sighed, then said in a deep voice: "I don't think it was suicide."

"Ugh?"

Mito Koichi was surprised and asked, "What do you mean by that..."

"I think this is a closed room murder case."

Fujino looked back at the padlock and said, "Both the padlock and the door frame have traces of being hit by hard objects. I think this may have been left when the murderer was creating the secret room. He was unable to see the screws clearly when he used a screwdriver to turn the safety lock through the crack in the door."

"Indeed it is……"

Mito Koichi came forward to take a look, then pursed his chin and said, "If that's the case, then this method can indeed create a secret room."

Fujino: "..."

You just discovered...

Brother, did you take a good look at the crime scene?

Fujino complained silently in his heart.

He turned around and looked at the small coffee table underneath the place where Bizen Chizuru had just hanged herself.

The people in the Forensic Department believed that Chizuru Mito climbed up from here and hanged herself.

But since it can be confirmed that this was murder, then this table...

Thinking of this, Fujino asked the forensic police officer in blue work clothes, "Officer, are there any fingerprints of Ms. Chizuru's toes on this coffee table?"

"Advisor Fujino."

The policeman stood up and thought for a moment: "We didn't find the deceased's toe fingerprints on this coffee table. Maybe the victim committed suicide by stepping on his slippers?"

"But Ms. Chizuru wasn't wearing slippers."

Fujino was speechless for a moment, then looked at Bizen Chizuru who was standing beside him: "I noticed that she was always barefoot since we entered the crime scene."

"There are marks on the door lock, and there are no toe prints on it. If that's the case, then Ms. Chizuru didn't commit suicide at all, but was murdered!"

Mito Koichi looked a little excited, but he was not worried about not catching the murderer.

In the police circle, Megure's gang, who get to meet their detective buddies every day, are extremely envied.

After all, solving a murder case is considered an achievement. If a case like this where a popular star was murdered is solved, even if you cannot be promoted, you will still get some bonus at the end of the year.

After a moment of seriousness, he turned to Fujino with some relief, and couldn't help but blurt out the classic title: "As expected of you, little brother Fujino, you can even notice such details!"

Fujino: "..."