Ke Xue: The thief Cao is actually myself

Chapter 442

"never mind!"

Noticing the surprised looks of the crowd, the wife shouted in despair, "I can't hide it anymore! I admit it."

She stared at Dr. Hatano, who was sweating profusely, and said, "Dr. Hatano, that's the person I'm having an affair with!"

"what!"

"But we are innocent!" The wife suddenly rushed forward, "Because we were in the Rice Flower Restaurant before five o'clock in the afternoon!"

"How do I know that you two are not in collusion?" Kogoro Mouri glanced at the two of them.

"What did you say!" the lady yelled.

"I'm Hatano. Is Mr. Denjiro no longer here? It's a headache. I'll visit you at five o'clock as agreed!" A voice suddenly came from the phone. Everyone turned around and saw that it was Conan who was fiddling with the phone.

"Why are you here again!" yelled Kogoro Mouri.

"Four thirty-eight." A cold female voice came from the phone, and Conan reached out and pressed the next one.

"I'm Suwa. I was originally scheduled to meet you at six o'clock, but now I want to visit you earlier because it's about next month's promotion exam. The work has been arranged, and we can discuss the details when we meet." Suwa's voice came from the phone.

"Four forty-one." Bai Ye said lightly.

"If it's a phone message, I have it too!" Mr. Akutsu shouted.

"Hmm?" Inspector Megure looked at him.

"I said, even though it will be a little late, I will definitely pay you back! If you sell that, I will kill you!"

"What? You want to kill him!" Inspector Megure was shocked when he heard this.

If that's the case, then the man in front of us named Akutsu is a strong suspect in murder.

"No, I was just trying to scare him," Akutsu explained hastily. "He said if I couldn't pay him back, he would sell my collateral."

"Oh? Then what is your collateral?" Inspector Megure asked curiously.

"That's it!" Akutsu pointed to the shelf next to him. "That's the dragon!"

Conan looked at the dragon coiling on the chopped-to-pieces shelf, and something occurred to him, "No!"

"His dragon," Conan muttered.

"It's so lucky, isn't it?" Bai Ye said lightly.

"That's right!" Conan nodded. "The artwork next to it was chopped up, but his sculptures were not damaged at all. Isn't that strange?"

"But this doesn't seem to fundamentally deny or affirm anything." Bai Ye poured a bucket of cold water on him.

"Well," Conan nodded slightly, "But maybe this is a breakthrough. Of course, it's more likely to be a trap."

"It must be you!"

Maori Kogoro said firmly again, "You must have killed Mr. Denjiro! You killed him because he wanted to sell your beloved sculpture! Besides, even if you kill someone, you can't destroy a work that is more precious than your life, right?"

"Besides," Officer Megure also interrupted, "Mr. Akutsu, why did you lie and say that you left a message too?"

"I didn't lie!" Akutsu Makoto said anxiously, "I really did leave a message!"

"If you were the criminal, would you tell a lie that would be exposed immediately?" Conan asked Bai Ye beside him jokingly.

Bai Ye snorted coldly, "If I were the criminal, a crappy detective like you would be played to death by me!"

"." Conan resisted the urge to beat him up, but when he thought about the comparison between his fighting power and Bai Ye's, he couldn't help but sigh in frustration.

"So, is there anything important in this room?" Inspector Megure asked his wife.

"The key to the safe is in this room," said the lady, opening a drawer. "Ah! The key is gone!"

Everyone was slightly startled, "Ah!?"

"Found it, in another drawer." The lady opened another drawer.

"."Everyone looked embarrassed.

"But it's very strange," the wife said strangely, "my husband doesn't usually put it here."

"You really don't have any ideas?" Conan asked Bai Ye with a sigh.

"No." Bai Ye said slowly, "In my opinion, except Uncle Maori, everyone else could be the criminal. I have more than five ways to turn this crime into a perfect crime. The first one is..."

"So?" Conan interrupted Bai Ye.

"So I don't know." Bai Ye shrugged.

"." Conan couldn't help but feel a surge of dark emotions in his heart, making him want to pull out the knife stuck in the corpse's chest and stab the calm black-haired boy in front of him to death.

"I'm not good at solving puzzles," Bai Ye spread his hands, "You know me."

Conan sighed slightly.

It seems that this time, he, a high school detective, has to take action himself!

"Auntie~" a soft and sticky voice said in a long voice.

The maid looked at the child in front of her with surprise. He had black hair that fell to his ears, wore a pair of glasses, had sparkling eyes, and had a delicate face that made people want to pinch it.

——So cute!!!
"Excuse me, Auntie~~Is there a camera here that can take instant photos?~" Conan suppressed his nausea and continued to speak in a soft and tender voice.

"We seem to have one here!" The maid's eyes seemed to turn into hearts.

Conan continued to act cute and said to the maid: "The policeman over there asked to borrow it for a while!"

"Okay, okay!" The maid ran over and came back soon.

Conan took the camera, took out a knife while taking pictures, and started playing the jigsaw puzzle game.

"It's just as I expected." Conan looked at the cabinet that was completely put together and smiled proudly. "I'll leave it to you."

Bai Ye silently walked behind Mouri Kogoro and waved his left palm. Mouri Kogoro fell down without a word, and with a "bang", he hit the wall heavily.

Conan broke out in a cold sweat on his back. He mourned for his uncle in his heart for a second and quickly crawled under the table.

"Cough cough."

[System prompt] Your friend "Sleeping Maori Kogoro" is now online!
These words suddenly popped up strangely in Bai Ye’s mind.

To be honest, it was the first time he saw Conan impersonating Kogoro to solve a case. Previously, the two of them solved the cases on their own, so he found it very fresh the first time he saw it.

"The stealth skill is really at the maximum level!" Bai Ye murmured.

"." Maori Kogoro's voice suddenly paused, not knowing whether it was because of Bai Ye's words that he was embarrassed. "Brother Maori, are you saying that you already know who the murderer is?" Inspector Megure looked at Maori Kogoro who was sitting on the ground in surprise.

"Of course!" Conan's voice was full of majesty, "I already understand everything, the murderer is——"

"Mr. Suwa!"

Bai Ye almost laughed out loud when he saw this, because from his angle, he could clearly see the difficult and conflicted expression on Conan's face as he hid under the table and struggled to lift Kogoro's arm and point at Suwa.

"This is all a brilliant scam, we were all fooled by him!"

"He left the knife marks on purpose and held the knife backwards. Everything was done for his own escape plan! It seems like someone wants to frame Mr. Suwa."

At this moment, Kogoro's body suddenly lost balance and fell to one side. Conan hurriedly tried to straighten his body, which made him grimaced, which made Bai Ye laugh again.

"I tapped into the answering machine and deliberately left out the dragon, hoping to pin the blame on Mr. Akutsu. Then I reversed the tape and erased his message with my own recording!"

"But this kind of thing could also have been done by Dr. Hatano!" Mr. Suwa argued.

"You made a fatal mistake!" Maori Kogoro's voice rose, "Your message has already exposed it!"

"You came to visit earlier even though you knew the master was not at home. This shows that you knew the master was dead!"

"Besides, there is the best evidence."

"What!" Mr. Suwa's originally calm face suddenly turned pale.

"If you restore the drawer to its original state," Conan imitated Maori Kogoro's voice, "Hey, that brat! Bring me the photo!"

After taking a deep look at Conan who was bullying others, Bai Ye's eyes flashed with danger, "Very good, you'd better never come out! Stay under the table forever!"

"Knife scar." Everyone was stunned.

“It turned out to be”

"Suwa!"

"That's why the key to the safe is no longer in its original place. After discovering Denjiro's last suicide note, Suwa changed the locker. Because the knife marks on the locker alone were too conspicuous, he carved knife marks all over the house. But."

"It was still discovered." Suwa said lightly.

"Why did you want to kill him?" asked Officer Megure.

"For my ancestral sword." Suwa said with his head lowered.
"Is it that piece of scrap copper and iron?" Bai Ye snorted.

"It's my family's ancestral sword - Kikuchiyo!" Suwa growled, "I came to redeem my sword, but that bastard said..."

"It's that broken sword. I've already sold it." Marudenjiro said with a smile, "It won't sell for much! That little money is the interest on the loan. Thank you for paying me back!"

"So, I killed him!" Suwa Yuji's expression suddenly became ferocious, "Just like this!" He suddenly picked up the sword on the wall and slashed at Kogoro!

"!!" Conan was shocked. He hadn't reacted to such a situation at all. Before he could even rush out, the knife had already reached Kogoro's head!

Suddenly, the sword stopped moving, and the blade stopped above Kogoro's head. Suwa put down the sword dejectedly, "You don't care about my blade at all, you are worthy of being Maori Kogoro!"

"My biggest mistake was not accounting for you, Detective Maori Kogoro!"

Behind him, Conan's clothes were soaked with sweat.
……

It was raining heavily, and Ayumi was walking home with the things she bought from the supermarket. A man in a raincoat ran towards her, and Ayumi looked back curiously, but she accidentally saw a ball of fire in the window of the old house next to her.

The next day, Class B, Grade 1, Teitan Elementary School.

Ayumi: "Conan, Conan, do you want to go with us?"

Conan tilted his head: "Where are you going?"

After exchanging a glance with Genta and the others, Ayumi said softly, "Go destroy the monster!"

Conan was slightly stunned: "Monster? What monster?"

What's going on? Did he hear it wrong?

Monster? Where do monsters come from in this world?

Genta came over and said, "Forget it, Ayumi. Even if you ask Conan, he won't be able to help."

Ayumi: "But if it's just Genta and I..."

Listening to the conversation between the few people, Conan couldn't help but ask curiously: "Where is the monster you are talking about?"

Ayumi: "It's the old house on 4th chome."

Conan blinked: "4th chome?"

"Is it the house where the owner of that house was said to have been killed by someone five years ago?"

Ayumi: "That's right. It is said that since his wife and son moved out, the house has been occupied by evil spirits. You can always hear horrible sighing sounds in the middle of the night. A dog that accidentally ran in would be found the next day with only a pile of bones. And, I also saw it last night. There was... a ghost in the window of that house!" After saying that, Ayumi screamed, scaring Conan a lot.

Noticing the expression on his face, Ayumi came closer and asked, "How's it going? Are you starting to get scared?"

"Haha, that's true, I was just scared by you." Of course, Conan didn't say this to his face.

Mitsuhiko: "That kind of thing is a lie. In this scientific age, so-called monsters or ghosts only appear on TV or in comics."

Hearing this, Yuan Tai came over angrily, hammered Mitsuhiko's desk and yelled: "What do you mean by that? Are you saying that Ayumi is lying?"

Without waiting for Mitsuhiko to refute, Genta said on his own initiative, "Okay, in that case you have to come along too, to prove the fact that there are no monsters in the world. If you don't come, kid..."

Although Yuan Tai didn't say anything, his intention was obvious. In this way, several people were half-forced to catch monsters.

In the afternoon, several people came to the front of the house and gathered. Several crows were flying around, and the atmosphere was very weird.

"Everyone, take out what you brought. This is the metal bat I use to kill monsters."

"I prepared some snacks for when you're hungry."

"I have flashlights for everyone, and a compass so they don't get lost."

Looking at her friends' preparations, Ayumi nodded in satisfaction, then turned her gaze to a certain shrunken high school detective, "Conan, what did you bring?"

Conan laughed dryly, "I...I'm not prepared."

He doesn't believe in monsters, so how could he prepare anything related to that?

In fact, if he hadn't been forced by Yuantai and others, he wouldn't have wanted to make such a trip.

After glaring at Conan unhappily, Mitsuhiko tried to open the door, but found that it couldn't be opened at all.

Yuan Tai came over and said, "Don't worry, I discovered a secret entrance when I came here to scout a while ago."

(End of this chapter)