Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

At noon, when Conan and Xiaolan were still watching TV and having lunch in the social hall, a police car from the Yamagata Prefectural Police Station drove into Snow Village and finally stopped in front of the Kotoya Hotel.

"Officer," Zhenxian's subordinates hurried into the social hall with a report, "The things are here!"

"Did the autopsy report come out?" Sitting on the sofa and talking to Uncle Mao Li, Zhen raised his head first.

"Well, the murder weapon used to kill the two victims was indeed that magic knife!"

His subordinates reported: "The blood stained on the turban was also confirmed to be left by Anzai Ema himself. In addition, no suspicious items were found from the murder scene, the origami dolls at the kimono shrine shrine, and the note paper Anzai Ema received. Fingerprints or other clues to the murderer..."

Gao Cheng just came back from the courtyard, looked at the worried police officer Zhenxian and Uncle Maoli in the hall, and went to the open-air bath with his hands crossed.

He has almost completed the investigation of the case. Whether it is the murder of Anzai Ema or the mystery of Shibazaki Asuka's murder, he gradually has a clue, but the identity of the suspect is not sure.

The clues he has all point to the romance novelist Akechi Eri. No matter how familiar he is with the Kotoya Hotel or the kimono sleeve god, Akechi Eri, who has been writing here for a long time, meets the conditions, including the time of committing the crime and the alibi.

At least considering Eri Akechi himself, many things can be closed...

"What?" Xiao Ai came to the leisure hall, looked at Gao Cheng who was standing by the escalator and looked at the bottom of the cliff, "Have you found the prisoner?"

"It's almost..."

Gao Cheng glanced over the open-air hot spring below and both sides of the cliff slope.

Because of the occlusion of the line of sight, you can't see the pool, you can only see the entrance of the bathhouse at the end of the escalator.

Although logically Asuka was killed after Anzai Ema, the murder weapon, electric shock baton, and Anzai Ema's turban were indeed found in the bathhouse.

Anzai Ema was killed after 10:30, but no one passed the only entrance to the bathhouse after 10:30, which is the leisure hall...

Gao Cheng looked at the hotel house on the other side of the leisure hall. There are also guest rooms and corridors on the edge of the cliff. From the leisure hall, you can barely see the windows and balconies facing the cliff.

Since there is no way for people to go down, only the belongings are left, and the murder weapon and the headscarf are sent to the bathhouse pool below, so that the whole case can make sense.

Gao Cheng was silent for a while, and looked at the sporadic tourists in the leisure hall. Because of the homicide, many people checked out or stayed in their own rooms, but no matter what, they would inevitably be questioned by the police. Playing is also powerful enough.

"Xiao Ai," Gao Cheng asked suddenly, "what do you think of revenge?"

Xiao Ai raised her head: "Why do you ask this suddenly? Is it because of this case?"

"Although I promised Miss Chunmei to investigate the matter of Suzuka Sakurako yesterday," Gao Cheng said in a deep voice, "but I didn't tell her some things. After all, it happened five years ago, and Suzuka Sakurako still committed suicide. If you know the truth, I'm afraid you won't be able to convict Asuka and Asuka of any crimes. Even if you are convicted, according to their family background, the trouble is not too big... After all, the law is dead.

It is not uncommon for the death penalty to be suspended for a few years in prison..."

"so?"

"So to a certain extent, I can also understand the murderer who committed the crime..."

In Gao Cheng's mind, he recalled a large number of cases he had handled in the past.

Since he came to the world of Conan, in addition to his daily life, he solved cases, solved cases, solved cases one after another, and even got used to touching dead bodies. So many cases really made him a little confused.

"Then what are you going to do?" Xiao Ai looked at Gao Cheng indifferently, "Let the murderer go?"

"I..." Gao Cheng frowned.

It is impossible for him to ignore it, and Conan is also here, even without him, he can still find the truth.

"Crime is crime, no matter what the reason is...the theory of knights and demons...you seem to be talking about these?" Xiao Ai said softly, "Anyway, it is enough to be a good detective, and you Just a normal guy."

Gao Cheng smiled wryly and looked at Xiao Ai who was preaching: "You know so much... Don't worry, I won't think too much, I only focus on the current case. Also, the theory of knights and demons was originally created by the curator of Mihua Art Museum Ochiai. Said."

He can't fully guarantee that he won't cover up criminals in the future. After all, the world itself is very complicated, such as Kaitou Kidd, but Akechi Eri is definitely not one of them.

...

In the open-air hot spring women's hot spring, the police officer Zhenxian led everyone to the side in doubt, together with the confused Uncle Mao Li.

"I said Kido kid, why did you call everyone here all of a sudden?"

"Because the mystery of the two murders has been solved."

After Gao Cheng put down his phone, he faced the crowd, and his eyes swept over Editor Yasuda and his team one by one.

"First of all, there is the mystery of the secret room at the kimono shrine where Ms. Anzai Ema died. Only the boots and shoe prints of Ms. Ema herself are left in the snow..."

"Do you still need to say that?" Uncle Mao Li frowned with a dark face, "It was because the murderer's footprints were not found that it became a secret room murder. We are having a headache and have no time to accompany you..."

"Listen to me first, uncle," Gao Cheng interrupted, "Actually, you have already discovered that the footprints of Ms. Ema are a bit strange, and they should be pressed by something..."

"Hey, you don't mean to say that someone stepped on those footprints to go to the ancestral hall?"

"Of course not. In that case, the normal traces can only be maintained unless the foot shapes are exactly the same. However, it is fine to change the method, just like uncles, you use towels to cover the footprints. What if the murderer used a large wooden board?"

Gao Cheng looked at Uncle Mao Li and said: "If the murderer used two boards and switched boards to move on the footprints left by Miss Ema, he could keep the footprints as complete as possible. It will also become shallower, although it snowed several times yesterday, but after careful investigation, we can still find traces of being overwhelmed..."

"But," Sakatoichi asked, "how did the murderer get to the back door? Only Ema went there yesterday."

"There is no need to go through the hall at all, just use the same way to detour," Gao Cheng continued, "According to my investigation, if you step on the snow on the left side of the back door, the footprints will be shallower than those on the right. Being crushed by wooden boards, only in this way can we not be found and leave no footprints..."

"The murderer..."

"Yes, the murderer came out directly from the guest room, and walked along the eaves to the back door with wooden boards, so that the traces would not be too obvious. Even if someone walked there, it would be difficult to think of the murderer's method."

Kocheng's gaze fell on Eri Akechi in the middle of the crowd.

"Mr. Eri, the traces of the snow have stretched all the way to the front of your room!"

"Miss Hui, Huili?" Uncle Mao Li stared wide-eyed.

"Ms. Eri returned to her room after leaving the open-air bath yesterday, and then used the method I said to go to the ancestral hall to kill her, and she asked Miss Ema to go there in the name of Bando..."

"It does make sense," Akechieri said calmly, "but what about Asuka? How do you explain her death? I haven't been to the bathhouse since I got back to my room..."

"Yeah, no one has passed after 10:30!"

"There is no need to go to the bathhouse, because Asuka Shibasaki was killed before, and the murderer just sent the murder weapon into the bathhouse by some means after killing Anzai Ema..."

"What about the origami doll?" Uncle Maori said in a deep voice, "That doll in the kimono Sode Hannaya appeared in front of the bathhouse after 10:30, and was also sent there by the murderer? What kind of tricks are you talking about? It's impossible." It can be done..."

"The paper doll was there from the beginning. To be precise, it should be hung from the ceiling at the entrance of the bathhouse. It only needs a small piece of dry ice. The evidence is that the paper doll was still cold when it was discovered. As for the method of delivering the murder weapon... ..."

Gao Cheng raised his head and looked over the cliff.

"Just demonstrate it."

The open-air bath is surrounded by changing rooms and wooden walls, and there are snow slopes on it. There is a snow path connecting the hotel rooms and the women's bath in the middle. For those who are familiar with skiing, it is easy to slide down from it. , without even deliberately controlling the direction.

But if you are not very familiar with this place, it is difficult to notice such a special place. The whole criminal plan is definitely not planned in a day or two, and it must have been tested and drilled beforehand.

"I see!" On the balcony above the cliff, police officer Ogura from the Xuecun Police Station prepared two wooden boards, on which props such as simulated murder weapons, electric shock batons, and Anzai Ema headscarves were fixed with snow.

After receiving Gao Cheng's order, police officer Ogura immediately pushed down the wooden boards, allowing the two boards to slide along the snowy path all the way across the roof of the bathhouse, and finally fell into the women's hot spring.

As the snowballs melted, several props remained at the bottom of the pool like murder weapons, and the towels floated to the surface of the water along with the boards.

"This is the technique used by Mr. Huili yesterday. The time should be around 10:50, which is when the uncle and Conan heard the sound of the female soup pond," Gao Cheng explained. It was replaced with a kimono belt frozen into this shape, so I left the long-sleeved kimono and other belts as a cover at the scene..."

"This kind of analysis does make sense," Akechi Eri changed his face, and quickly calmed down, "But why do you think I did it? What about the evidence? Is it because the snow in front of my room was crushed?"

"Miss Ema's earring pendant with one ear disappeared from the scene," Gao Cheng said self-consciously, "When the uncle asked you to wait in the Japanese-style living room, but you suggested to go to the Friendship Hall, I'm afraid it's because you need to wait in the Japanese-style living room. Taking off your shoes, and the soles of your feet are still bleeding from being stabbed... That's right, when you killed Anzai Ema, you accidentally stepped on the earring that she dropped..."

Akechi Eri's gaze shrank abruptly.

She never expected that someone could see clearly the tricks she had spent a long time planning. They were obviously just some small details, but here they brought out the whole truth of the incident, hanging over her head like a sharp sword.

"You, what evidence do you have that I was stabbed by an earring?" Akechi Eri's voice trembled.

"I didn't look for evidence, it's already the work of the police," Gao Cheng crossed his hands and Xiao Ai walked out of the bathhouse, and finally looked at Akechi Eri and said, "Just now, Tokyo has found information and committed suicide 5 years ago Suzuka Sakurako’s original name was Ming Yingko, and she had an older sister before she was adopted by the Suzuka family, your surname is not Zhizhi but Ming, this is your motive for killing, right?”