Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"Is there a power outage?"

Yuuji looked at the candles that were now very conspicuous because the lights were turned off. Although there was the blind date atmosphere as an excuse, he still subconsciously thought about the case and the murder method.

"I guess the hotel did it on purpose, but is there really anyone who would be tempted in this situation? The man who designed this scene must be a man."

The traffic police lady complained a little and was echoed by Yuji on the opposite side.

"That's right, and the shyness when someone accidentally drinks from the other person's teacup in those TV dramas, girls wouldn't do that, okay!"

The two girls at home always drank the water from his cup openly. Sometimes, even Mingzi would do the same because they were too lazy to get more water.

"Yeah, that's right."

Hagiwara Chisuku picked up the wine glass in front of him and took a sip, then suddenly realized that it was not his glass. His face stiffened and he shook his head, thinking about how to put the glass back before the other party noticed.

"By the way, even though there are only candles now, I still think you look familiar. Where have I seen you before?"

"Yeah, that's it..."

"what!!!"

Just as Yuji was about to confess, a familiar scream came from outside. The boy only heard Yokomizo asking the hotel manager to turn on the lights, and then the whole hotel returned to the human world. At the same time, Hagiwara Chisu finally remembered where he had seen him.

"You're the guy who caused trouble at my brother's tombstone last time!"

As expected, he ate the chestnuts and covered his head that was hit twice. The boy still paid the price for his last escape. After leaving the room with Chitose Hagiwara, Yuuji saw a group of people gathered at the door next door and knew that the worst had happened. "Sure enough, another murder case?"

In order to prevent everyone from disrupting the scene, Shigeo Yokomizo directly arranged the guests in the hall, and invited Yuji and Hagiwara to go to the room together.

"Wow, that's really miserable."

The layout of the room was almost exactly the same as the one where Chisu Hagiwara had just sat, but it was symmetrical on both sides. Ms. 24 was slumped in the chair, but her head was tilted back. Just below the back wall in a straight line, the bloodstains from the explosion were extremely eye-catching on the white wall.

"It looked like she was beaten to death by someone. There were slight burn marks around the bullet hole on her forehead. Apart from that, there were no other injuries, so the woman did not resist."

Yuji pinched his chin and observed the body of No. 24 from both sides: "Officer Yokomizo, who was the first person to discover it?"

"It was the waitress of the hotel. After my previous three blind dates walked into the room, Miss No. 24 didn't call anyone for a long time, so the waitress went to check."

"That was the scream just now."

Hagiwara Chisu's eyes fell on the table and noticed that the form prepared by the hotel to record the man's characteristics had been completely filled out, so he said with certainty: "If nothing unexpected happens, the murderer is among the first three people."

"No, the exit of the room can actually be entered in the opposite direction. It is also possible that the criminal sneaked in and killed the victim after the three people left." Yokomizo shook his head and noticed that Kudo Yuji also agreed with his point of view: "What do you think?"

"Well, whether it was one of the three who knew or someone else who killed No. 24, it must have happened after the third person came out and before Officer Yokomizo came in, so we have to sort out the order of the three people first."

(End of this chapter)