Ke Xue: The thief Cao is actually myself

Chapter 392 He has always been very good at faking the imperial edict! (Please give me a monthly ticket!)
It's strange, Mr. Kubota, you should know that there is a security camera in this room.

So, the question is, why did he choose to commit the crime in this room?
Conan took in Inspector Megure's expression and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Moreover, he was wearing heavy armor and hiding his true identity to kill people!
Although it is true that armor can hide one's true identity, it is not only heavy, but also affects one's vision and movement.

If you are not careful, it is easy to let the person you want to kill escape.

Instead of killing people while wearing armor, why not just choose a room without security cameras? Wouldn't that be more convenient, simpler, and less likely for people to run away?
It couldn't be that Mr. Kubota wore that armor just to imitate the painting called "Heavenly Punishment" to kill people, right?

Thinking back to the man named Kubota's previous attitude, Conan shook his head slightly.

No, that person doesn't seem to care about art.

If he really cared about the artworks, he would not be so clumsy when collecting them, nor would he take out his anger on the artworks around him when he was upset, and he would not make a fortune by stealing and selling artworks in the art gallery.

Is it really possible for such a person to come up with such an elaborate and artistic murder plan?

Conan expressed his doubts about this.

But, if the murderer wasn't Kubota, then who could it be?

Iijima? Or Director Ochiai? Or maybe they guessed wrongly, and the murderer in this murder case was not actually an insider, or maybe the murderer was once an insider of this museum, but is no longer in the museum.

Thinking of this, Conan turned his gaze to the monitoring room nearby.

Perhaps he may need to watch the video tape again to find what he wants.

……

In the monitoring room.

"That's awesome!"

Watching the video, the armor that was supposed to be a dead object suddenly jumped up. At the moment of taking off, the long sword in the right hand was raised above the head, and he slashed the back of the boss Zhenzhong who was facing away from him with a fierce slash, knocking him to the ground.

In an instant, blood spurted, dyeing the sword, armor, walls, and the ground bright red.

After that, the armor rushed forward a few steps due to inertia, passed the boss Manaka, and faced the camera lens.

Boss Manaka couldn't help but scream out loud because he was suffering from great pain.

This scene, which was like a movie with bloody and violent aesthetics, made the two police officers who were watching the video in the monitoring room tremble in their hearts.

Although there is no sound in the surveillance footage, just from the hideous and distorted expression of Boss Manaka, one can feel how much pain he is in!
"It's just a bloody and violent movie!"

It was really hard for them to imagine what kind of hatred there was between the murderer and the victim that would lead him to kill the victim in such a cruel way.

Just as they were concentrating on watching the contents of the videotape, suddenly, a little boy wearing a blue suit, white shirt, gray shorts and a red bow tie, with bangs in the front and two protrusions on the back of his hair, pushed the door open and interrupted their thoughts.

It turns out to be a high school detective who has shrunk.

"Oh, uncles..."

Seeing Conan coming in uninvited, the two male police officers looked at each other. One of the police officers with a thinner face stood up and said seriously, "Hey, kid, you can't come here casually, get out!"

Seeing this, Conan was not panicked at all. Instead, he directly brought out the name of Inspector Megure, "Uncle, it was Inspector Megure who asked me to come here and asked you to go over and help."

Did Inspector Megure ask him to come here to call for help?

Of course not!

All this was just a means for him to transfer the two male police officers out of the monitoring room so that he could check the video tapes more easily.

As for these two male police officers, what if they go out and see Inspector Megure, and then find out that nothing happened and come to settle the score with him?
Let’s not talk about the fact that these two people were slacking off in the monitoring room. They definitely wouldn’t dare let Inspector Megure know about this. So, at worst, he could just say that he accidentally heard it wrong.

It's not right for two grown men to argue with a little kid like him!

Hearing this, the round-faced police officer laughed dryly, "Did you get caught because you were too engrossed in watching the video?"

It’s over. He was caught slacking off by his boss. Is his career going to end today?

The thin-faced police officer couldn't help but sweat on his forehead, "Stop talking nonsense and get going!"

Regardless of whether Inspector Megure really has something to ask them or he discovered that they were slacking off, it would be better to go quickly. Otherwise, it would be bad if Inspector Megure himself came!
Looking at the two male police officers leaving, and then looking at the closed door, Conan unceremoniously took over the seats previously occupied by the two men, and then operated the surveillance equipment in front of him.

"It starts here."

After adjusting the videotape to the moment when Boss Manaka discovered the note on the table, Conan began to observe the surveillance carefully.

"Wait, what's with that expression?"

In the paused video, Boss Manaka's expression after seeing the note was full of shock.

"Why was he so shocked when he saw the note?"

Why was he so surprised when he saw the note?

Logically speaking, shouldn't it be a surprise?

"Why do you throw away the pen after you finish writing?"

Questions popped up in Conan's mind one after another, making him quite distressed. "Damn it, if there was a sound, maybe we could know who the criminal is."

At this moment, as if he had thought of some important clue, Conan's pupils shrank suddenly, "Wait a minute, the tip of the ballpoint pen I found just now is retracted inside!"

But since the ballpoint pen in the video can be used by Boss Manaka, it means that the tip of his pen is exposed.

However, when he found the other person, he retracted the pen tip.

"it's wired!"

It can't be that Boss Manaka deliberately retracted the tip of the ballpoint pen after using it!
"How can a person who is about to be killed have the mood to turn the tip of a ballpoint pen inward?"

"It's unreasonable to take it back so deliberately!"

Of course, it is also possible that it was automatically retracted when it was thrown out and fell to the ground.

But that was an ordinary ballpoint pen. The one he saw now had a rotating pen barrel and no cap button.

In other words, not only do you need to turn the pen by hand to expose the nib when using it, but you also need to turn the pen by hand to retract the nib when not in use!

Well, the problem is coming.

Why, it is clear that Boss Manaka threw the ballpoint pen away after using it and did not retract the pen tip, but the ballpoint pen he picked up at the crime scene had the tip of the pen retracted?
All of this is so wrong.

unless……

Thinking of this, Conan's eyes flickered slightly, and then he ran towards the crime scene.

He decided to go to the crime scene, check it again, and then verify his guess...

……

"Then I'll leave this to you!"

Officer Megure handed the note found from Boss Manaka's hand to the staff of the Forensic Department nearby, with an extremely serious and earnest expression.

"Yes!"

Holding the note handed over by Inspector Megure, the forensic staff was just about to put it away when suddenly, a small hand reached out from the side and snatched the note from his hand.

Seeing this scene, the forensic officer immediately flew into a rage, "Little devil..."

But before he could deal with Conan, the naughty kid, the other party ran aside and started checking the note in his hand.

Conan took in all the normal and abnormal scratches on the note, and his eyes lit up. "There are marks on the paper..."

Moreover, it is an abnormal mark.

It looks like a blank mark drawn by a pen that can't write!
Thinking back to his previous discovery, Conan's eyes became brighter and brighter, "Sure enough, it's right!"

He had felt it was a little strange before.

Why did Boss Manaka throw away the ballpoint pen after writing? Logically, the tip of the pen should have been exposed, but the tip of the ballpoint pen he found at the crime scene was retracted.

It now appears that the ballpoint pen used by Boss Manaka and the one he found at the crime scene are not the same one at all.

Moreover, if he did not expect it, the ballpoint pen was replaced by the murderer himself!

"Very good, I have seen through this trap!"

Just when Conan was full of confidence and felt that he had seen through the truth of this murder case and was ready to show his skills, he found that he was flying into the air for some unknown reason.

It turned out that it was Maori Kogoro who grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and lifted him up, "Hey, what on earth are you doing?"

Damn it, some brat messed with the videotape without permission.

Considering that the other party's rewind provided him and the police with clues and ideas, he was reluctant to deal with him.

But now, the other party even dared to snatch the evidence in front of them.

It's so arrogant!
No, he had to teach the other party a lesson no matter what he said today, otherwise who knows what arrogant and excessive things the other party might do in the future.

Thinking of this, Kogoro Mori waved his fist and wanted to smash it on the head of some naughty kid.

"Officer...found it!"

Just as a "human tragedy" was about to unfold, two male policemen appeared, carrying a heavy object wrapped in a bag, and saved a shrunken high school detective.

"I found the armor in Mr. Kubota's cabinet!"

Inspector Megure was overjoyed, "Did you find it?"

That’s great! The armor that the murderer was wearing when Boss Manaka was murdered has now been found!
Coupled with the note with the name on it that he had found from Boss Manaka earlier, he wanted to see how the murderer could continue to argue!

Kubota, who was standing by, heard what the forensic officer said. Looking at the bloodstained armor, he couldn't help but shudder. A look of horror also emerged on his face. "This! How is this possible? I don't know anything about this!"

Why did this happen! He didn't remember having such a thing in his room!

Damn it, who is framing him?

——He admitted that in order to steal and sell the artworks in the art gallery, he had secretly taken a lot of things and hid them in his room, but the armor was definitely not among them.

After all, armor is heavy and there are not many people who like to collect it, so it is not easy to find sellers.

At the very least, it is not as easy to sell as other works of art.

In addition, not only does it take up space, but it is also large in size, so if you are not careful, it can easily be discovered by others.

There's nothing wrong with his brain, why would he go out of his way to steal something like this!

But now the police found armor in his room!

There is no doubt that someone is framing him!
And, if he guessed correctly, that person should be the real murderer in this homicide case!
Inspector Megure didn't believe his explanation, because he had already determined that Kubota was the murderer of Manaka's boss: "Now there are two pieces of irrefutable evidence, this blood-stained armor and the note left by the victim before he died. Do you still want to quibble?"

The evidence is irrefutable, but this guy still refuses to admit his crime. He is really stubborn!

It’s a pity that no matter how hard you try, you can’t cover up the fact that the other party has killed someone!

However, I never expected that Kubota, who looked cowardly, incompetent and despicable on the surface, would actually be the armored man in the video who killed people in extremely cruel ways!
Sure enough, people cannot be judged by their appearance, and sea water cannot be measured!

Listening to the conversation between the two, Conan's eyes flickered slightly.

No, that was not a note left before death. It was a trap set by the criminal to frame Mr. Kubota!
Moreover, if he guessed correctly, that set of armor was placed in his room by the other party in order to frame Mr. Kubota, in order to completely confirm his identity as a "murderer" and make it impossible for him to turn over a new leaf!
On the other side, seeing that the case had made new progress, Maori Kogoro was too busy to teach a certain little brat a lesson. He just left Conan, who had a complicated expression and was not sure what he was thinking, and walked to the bloodstained armor and looked at it. "What a terrible bloodstain. However, it's a pity that such a good work of art has become waste!"

It goes without saying that the armor collected by the Medieval Art Museum is all antique-level treasures.

As a result, such a priceless treasure has now become like this!
This damn guy Kubota is really wasting resources!

(End of this chapter)