Conan's other me

Chapter 238 Thank you for the compliment
"Color contact lenses?"

Soon, Officer Takagi came back.

"Yes," Officer Takagi said to President Busch and the other three suspects, "I want to ask you if you have the habit of wearing contact lenses."

"I don't have the habit of wearing contact lenses." Ms. Yuancheng shook her head.

"I do not have either."

"I wouldn't wear something like that."

President Busu and reporter Kajidani also gave negative answers.

"Is that so..."

"What's wrong? I suddenly asked about this."

"Ah, that's it," Officer Takagi replied, "There is a folding stool on the side of the stage. We found a contact lens on the back of the stool, so we came to ask. In addition, we also found Mr. Boto's pocket I found a piece of paper with [Sorry] written on it..."

"sorry?"

"Well. I need to do some note appraisal," Officer Takagi said as he took out his manual and a pen, "So please write this sentence here..."

Because Maplehara and his party also had the opportunity to come into contact with Mr. Hatsu's body before the police arrived, Officer Takagi hoped that they would also leave handwriting like the three suspects.

However, elementary school students like Feng Yuan and Conan were obviously not needed, so Feng Yuan stood aside and continued to read the message just sent by Haibara Ai.

"This should be okay, right?" The message Haihara Ai just sent said, "Transportation knot. I will also send you the link."

There is a large copied paragraph, a few pictures and a link at the back.

"Thank you." Fengyuan typed back, "It's been a big help."

"Don't come here. You must know this kind of thing. I think you just want to be lazy and don't want to think about it."

Fengyuan replied to the message, and then pressed the side button to lock the phone screen.Someone is approaching me.

Immediately afterwards, he heard Xiaolan's voice coming from behind him.

"Xiaokong, what is Miss Azusa's last name?"

"..."

Kaedehara did not reply, but turned back expressionlessly to look at "Enomoto Azusa" who had just asked him.

The smile on Belmore's face froze for a moment, but then she returned to normal, still bending over and looking at Fengyuan, as if what she just said was not hers.

"...Conan is more familiar with Sister Azusa." Fengyuan replied, "But you are so bold. You don't even know your last name, so you pretend to be Miss Azusa..."

"What does it matter? You didn't directly expose me that time at the shrine, right?"

Belmore had to switch back to Azusa Enomoto's voice and whispered, "And if something happens to me here, the organization will definitely notice you. So please, tell me, okay?"

Feng Yuan glanced at Conan from the corner of his eye. He was standing with Xiao Lan.Probably because of this, Belmore came over to lie to him, hoping that he would speak subconsciously.

However, what Belmod just said is right, and even Conan has no intention of exposing Belmod...

"Enomoto." Maplehara replied, "Your name is Enomoto Azusa."

"Thank you!" Belmore put on a bright smile again.

Just then, Officer Takagi came over to her with a notebook and pen, "Miss Azusa, please write it down too!"

"Ok!"

Belmore almost jumped over and ran over.After she successfully signed her name, Toru Amuro couldn't help but come to her side and talk.

Feng Yuan also quietly moved closer to them, but still kept enough distance so that he could hear the conversation clearly without being suspected.

"You really know, Miss Azusa's surname..."

Maplehara could hear Toru Amuro's lowered voice, "If you had said hello to me in advance, I could have provided you with more detailed information. Why did you suddenly follow me here disguised as Miss Azusa? You want to investigate the unpublished lyrics. As for the content, I alone am enough..."

Sure enough, I came here to investigate that song... Maplehara thought to himself.

"I heard that you were coming here with them, so I felt uneasy." Belmore looked at Xiaolan, "I wonder if you can abide by the agreement you made with me..."

"Ah, no matter what the situation is, we can't let those three people be in danger, right?"

"But compared to this," Belmode seemed not to want to continue this topic, but looked at Subaru Okiya again, "Who is that?"

"His name is Okiya Subaru. He is a graduate student at Toto University. He lives next door to the kid you mentioned, Maplehara Sora..."

As Toru Amuro spoke, he also followed Belmode's gaze and looked at Subaru Okiya who was leaving handwriting.The other party is using his left hand.

Speaking of which, the last time I saw Subaru Okiya, he took off his mask with his right hand, but when he put the tea in front of him, he used his left hand...

Now it seems that Subaru Okiya is definitely left-handed.

Toru Amuro couldn't help but think of Shuichi Akai, who was also left-handed.

After Subaru Okiya finished writing, and after waiting for a while, the identification results of the handwriting on the paper came out.

But the result surprised the Megure Police Department.

"What?" He asked in surprise, "The words on that piece of paper are the handwriting of the victim, Botuludo? Is it the victim who wrote "I'm sorry" on the paper and stuffed it into his breast pocket? ?”

"Yes, yes..." Officer Takagi looked at his manual, "According to the forensic personnel, the piece of paper was torn from the notebook used by the victim to write lyrics. The writing on it is the same as the other lyrics in the notebook. The handwriting is also consistent. Although I haven’t had time to compare it with the words written by those people just now, it shouldn’t be wrong.”

"Well, in this case," Police Department Megure looked at everyone, "that is, the victim felt guilty towards someone, which is probably the motive for the murder. Can you think of anything that made him feel guilty?"

The Megure Police Department asked the last question to Ms. Madoka who was closest to him, so Ms. Madoka thought for a moment and replied:

"I'm not sure about my guilt, but when it comes to low self-esteem...Botu often complains that I don't have any affinity, and I have to work harder than other handsome musicians..."

"Oh…"

"I also advised him not to care about this..." President Busch also echoed, "I told him that this inaccessible aura is also one of his charms..."

"So," Sonoko thought of something, "Mr. Hasato's style seems to have changed a bit recently!"

"Well," Xiaolan agreed, "I feel like he is gentler than before."

"Where are the changes you mentioned specifically reflected?"

"Well, that's how it feels..."

"Does it look like that?" Yuanzi was a little unsure.

"Could it be because of wearing contact lenses?" Conan continued, "This can make the eyes look bigger."

"Yes, that's right!" Officer Takagi looked astonished, "In that case, those contact lenses are actually Mr. Hasto's..."

"Mr. Hasato, have you been wearing contact lenses lately?" Police Department Megure looked at Ms. Madoka.The girl from Yuancheng is Mr. Boto's manager and should know about this.

"Well, yes. He has been wearing contact lenses these past few days."

Although Ms. Madoka didn't take the initiative to tell her about the contact lens when she asked about it, she forgot to ask about it at the time, so Officer Takagi hesitated before swallowing the words and changing the sentence.

"In this case, the contact lens fell off when Mr. Hasto was hung up..." Officer Takagi said, "However, the other contact lens has not been found yet..."

"I know where it is." Feng Yuan said. "Um?"

"Really, really?"

Everyone looked at Feng Yuan in surprise.

"Yeah! I just saw it not long ago," Fengyuan said, looking at Ms. Madoka, "It was stuck to the clothes on this aunt's back."

Ms. Madoka was wearing dark clothes with complicated patterns, so the contact lenses stuck on them were not very conspicuous.

But it was obviously different when he went to see it after he had this idea. The Megure Police Department saw the colored contact lens at a glance.

Wearing gloves, he removed the colored contact lenses from Ms. Yuancheng's back and handed them to his subordinates for safekeeping.

"So, you did it..."

Ms. Yuancheng remained silent.

"But, but," President Busch looked at the colored contact lenses in surprise and then at Ms. Madoka, "No matter how you look at it, she can't do this, right?"

"Yes," Officer Takagi came to his senses, "Boto had a guitar on his shoulder and was hung by a rope about three meters away from the stage..."

Moreover, the alibi dates of the three suspects did not overlap, so it was impossible for the two people to join forces.

"You can do it with a transport knot." Conan said.

This was what he thought of himself.

In fact, he originally wanted to wait until he found the evidence and then go back to the scene to demonstrate again, but he didn't expect that Maplehara simply found the evidence and said it directly, so he had to skip the demonstration step.

"Yun, transportation knot?"

Feng Yuan clicked on the picture saved on his mobile phone to show it to Memu Police Department and others, "Knot the rope like this to make a small ring..."

"This small ring will act as a pulley and can pull the rope with twice the traction." Conan continued, "As long as you use the chairs in the auditorium to do this a few times, you can pull the rope with four times or even eight times the force." twice the traction force to pull the rope..."

"Is this okay?" Megure Police Department took Feng Yuan's cell phone and looked at the pictures on it.

"Okay." Subaru Okiya had the same idea. "Although it is not a real pulley. It is affected by the friction of the rope and cannot actually reach such a high multiple. But if you use a rope that is lighter and has less friction, If so, even children will have the opportunity to lift heavy objects.”

"Well, this is the knot used to fix the goods on the car during logistics delivery." Maplehara took back the mobile phone from the Megure Police Department, "This website has such popular science! I checked online how to do it I lifted the heavy object and found this just in time!”

"This, this is it..." Officer Takagi felt a little better, "The Internet is really convenient now..."

"However," Toru Amuro said, "Because the rope is brand new, the knot will leave marks, so we have to use the utility knife in the tool box to cut the remaining rope, then tie it into a bundle, and The toolbox is placed together on the side of the stage. Right, Miss Madoka?"

"...Yes," Miss Yuancheng was silent for a moment before replying, "I used to do transportation work when I was working, and I learned there..."

"B-but, why did you want to kill Botu?" President Busch was puzzled, "Why did you want to kill the person you have supported for 17 years?"

But Ms. Madoka didn't seem to want to answer the question.

"No matter how much you ask this question, you will never be able to get the answer." Toru Amuro said, "Because she..." He paused, "Didn't kill him."

"what!?"

"Didn't the police officer say that the contact lens was found on the back of the folding chair next to the stage? In other words, the chair fell at the feet of Mr. Botu who was hoisted up."

"But if he killed him," Subaru Okiya added, "this folding chair is useless..."

"Yes, and there is a baseball tied with a kite string. The other end of the kite string is tied to a rope. Throw the baseball over the iron rod on the ceiling, let the kite string pass through, and then pull the kite string. Pass the rope through the iron rod.

It's a bit rude, but at that height, I don't think Madoka-san has the arm strength to throw a baseball over the iron pole.However, it would be a different matter if it was Mr. Hasato, a pitcher for the high school baseball team.And the note in Mr. Botu's breast pocket that says "I'm sorry", you should have understood it, right? "

Toru Amuro said and looked at the Megure Police Department.

"Can it be said that he is himself..."

"That's right. He hanged himself." Toru Amuro continued to reason, "and the agent who found the scene hung him to a higher place and disguised it as a murder case. Although I don't understand why she did this, it should be You want to make the scene impossible to commit a crime and prevent anyone from being held responsible, right?”

"..." Ms. Yuancheng remained silent.

"Why did you hide his suicide?" Reporter Kajiya couldn't help but ask, "Did something really happen 17 years ago?"

"Is it possible that he is still worried about the incident before..."

"That thing?" Megure Police Department asked President Busi.

"Actually, she had a child from Botu 17 years ago."

"Mr. Busch!?" Ms. Yuancheng finally stopped being silent.

But President Busch continued.

"Botu, who had just debuted, locked himself in the recording studio day and night to compose music for the sake of his soon-to-be-born child. He simply didn't care about his life. When she came to persuade him not to do this, she collapsed at the door of the recording studio with her stomach Her child was also aborted. She asked me not to tell Bo Tu about this while she was lying on the hospital bed."

"I see," Subaru Okiya suddenly realized, "The song I composed for the child who was about to be born at that time was probably ASACA. That's why I never wrote any lyrics and kept it for 17 years..."

"..."

"After he found out about this," Okiya Subaru continued to reason, "he wanted to fill in the lyrics for the child who died before he was born and publish it as a new song. However, he couldn't write it, so he had to commit suicide."

"But why does it have to be disguised as homicide?"

"If someone knew that he committed suicide, they would definitely investigate the reason, wouldn't they?" Ms. Madoka's eyes were filled with tears. "If his family knew that he committed suicide for the sake of his ex-girlfriend's child, I would feel very sorry. .”

The case is over.

Although Mr. Hatsu committed suicide, Ms. Madoka disrupted the investigation of the case, so Officer Takagi escorted her away.

"What crime will that agent be sentenced to?" Yuanzi asked.

"Well, it should be the crime of destroying corpses?" The Memu Police Department is not sure, "But it will be suspended if appropriate..."

"But, we still don't know the result." Belmode said, "Why does ASACA use CA?"

"Ah, I heard Bozu say that," President Busch explained, "He heard that she was pregnant in a coffee shop after an all-nighter, so if it's a girl, she'll be called Asaka. If you name her by letters, If so, take the CA of coffee (CAFE) and call it ASACA."

"But, as his close friend who talks about everything," Toru Amuro looked at President Busch, "you forced a break-up and caused him to retire. Perhaps you knew that someone in his backing band was arrested for drugs, right?"

"This, this..."

"Hey, that's true..." Belmore praised, "The information is so fast!"

"There is already a quick report online!"

"However, the key clues were not found by you..."

"yes…"

Amuro glanced at Fengyuan without revealing any trace. The child seemed to be still typing with his head down, "I didn't really know the meaning of your sentence until today... You are so perceptive..."

"Thank you for the compliment."

Looking at the "expressionless applause" expression sent by Haihara Ai after learning that the case had been solved, Maplehara typed back.

(End of this chapter)