Conan's self-cultivation of fake wine

Chapter 506 Another reason
  Lu Ren temporarily stopped Brother Flounder, now Suspect No. 1, from continuing to ask questions.

Since he confidently stated that he did not have any poison in his body.

Either that or he designed a special crime method and was sure that the police would not be able to detect it. Furthermore, he is indeed innocent.

"The deceased had a dispute with Mr. Aizono Osamu, and what happened after that?"

"The store manager walked up to the deceased and persuaded him to keep quiet and not to affect the normal dining of other customers."

Haihara Ai pointed to where the store manager was at that time, which was directly behind my wife’s photo. “The deceased first sat down and taunted the store manager. Then he turned around, stood up from his chair, and talked to the store manager. Start threatening him face to face."

"Threat? What exactly did you say?"

"When I was sitting down, I said, 'You are willing to be a small store manager here, so what qualifications do you have to criticize me?'. After I stood up, I said, 'I am a food writer. As long as I write an article, your store will not produce one. It's going to go out of business within a week.'"

As Haiyuan spoke, he also imitated the tone and expression of the deceased.

But how can I put it, these rude and arrogant words coming out of her mouth will not offend people at all, but will make people think that this child is too cute.

At least that's what Lu Ren thinks.

But if these words were spoken from the mouth of the person lying dead on the ground, the photo of my wife who looked unworthy of the audience, Lu Ren would feel his fists getting hard just thinking about it.

If he eats conveyor belt sushi here with Haibara and the others at noon today, he will definitely let my wife take a photo to know what it feels like to kick an iron plate.

You like to bully others, right?

It's a coincidence that someone like him, Lu, also likes him.

Starting today, if the industry had not eliminated this so-called food writer, there would still be a place for him.

The words "God's Pen" are written directly upside down.

But it's too late to say that now.

After all, the man who kept my wife’s photo has been removed from this world.

"After threatening the store manager, the deceased looked at the pink-clad Obasan sitting near the door and said that he had previously written articles to close Obasan's sushi restaurant."

Oh?
  Did the lady in pink also have a relationship with the deceased?

Bringing other people's restaurants to bankruptcy is a much more powerful motive than Flounder Brother.

As for whether it is yes or no, I will go over and ask her in detail later.

Now we must first find out the relationship between the store manager and the deceased.

"I would rather be a small store manager here." Lu Ren repeated what Huiyuan said before, "Have you known my wife before?"

"Yes. Then I was working as a chef in another restaurant. He also had a dispute with a customer. The quarrel was quite intense and it escalated into a physical conflict. I ran forward to break up the fight just like today."

"Is it just that?" Lu Ren asked further, "Why didn't you continue working in that store? Was it because he wrote bad manuscripts that led to the closure of that store?"

"No, no, that store is still running well. The reason why I don't continue working there is because of my own problems."

The store manager touched his wrist, his face a bit bitter and lonely, "When I stepped forward to break up the fight, my wife pushed me. I lost my balance and fell onto the glass cabinet. The broken glass cut off my arm. Tetsuji.”

"Since then, I can no longer make sushi like before. But I still can't forget the taste of sushi, so I opened my own conveyor belt sushi restaurant."

"..."

His hand tendons were severed and he was forced to leave the job he loved.

Why is this plot so familiar...

Isn't this the life experience of Doctor Futo who shot Miwako Sato and indirectly caused Mao Lilan to lose her memory?
  His wrists were cut by his colleagues and he could no longer pick up a scalpel, so he was forced to change from a surgeon to a psychiatrist. Because of this, he held a grudge and looked for opportunities to kill the colleague who ruined his career.

The experience of this Namiki store manager is exactly the same as that of Dr. Fuudo.

From the perspective of the motive for the murder, he is currently the most suspected of committing the crime.

Lu Ren collected his thoughts and motioned to Huiyuan to continue telling what happened before.

"After the deceased laughed at the pink-clad Obasan, the store manager chose to calm down the matter and said that his meal today was free and asked the deceased to leave his sushi restaurant. As soon as the deceased heard this, he sat back on the chair again and said 'Since it's free, you must eat more.'"

"We had almost eaten at that time, and what the deceased did was really off-putting. After discussing it, we decided to settle the bill and leave. It took about three minutes to settle the bill. When we were about to leave, we heard The deceased yelled and then fell to the ground."

Lu Ren concluded: "So you don't know what happened in the three minutes between when you checked out and left until the deceased died of poisoning."

Gray nodded.

"I stood behind my wife during those three or four minutes." The store manager then began to explain the reason for doing so. "I was worried that he would continue to disturb other customers while they were eating, and I made up my mind to wait until he was full. Before leaving, I kept standing behind him and staring at him, but I didn’t expect that something like this would happen.”

"Ah."

Lu Ren then went to ask the aunt in pink.

This person's name was Takemura Sakiko. Faced with Lu Ren's inquiry, she readily confirmed the deceased's statement that her store was indeed closed down by my wife's photo.

This eliminates the need to dig deeper to see if there is any hidden secret. The shop was closed down, which was sufficient motive for the murder.

At present, based on the available evidence -

Brother Flounder is the most convenient for poisoning, but his motive for killing is the weakest among the three.

The strongest motive for the murder was the store manager whose hand tendon was cut.

The aunt in pink came third.

The fourth one is the four chefs staying in the kitchen. Their suspicions at this point had been greatly diminished.

Conan was present and all three knew the deceased and had old grudges.

No matter how you look at it, this looks like another classic case of choosing one of three.

Even if these off-field factors are not taken into account, the suspicion of the four of them is not high.

The reason was the same as the two male clerks sitting opposite the deceased. If one of them wants to poison and commit a crime, he must hide it from the attention of the other three.

This difficulty is indeed a bit high.

So let’s start with these three people who had a grudge against the deceased.

Suppose Brother Flounder is the poisoner.

Then the time when he committed the crime was the time when the deceased turned his head or even turned around to confront other people.

This can also explain why the deceased was poisoned and died at that time. Because it was at that moment that the murderer found the opportunity to poison him.

And he is confident now because he hid the poison in a place where no one else can find it. Or even if the police can later find the poison, they cannot prove that there is a direct connection between the poison and him.

Let’s wait until the police search is complete before doing more research.

Then there is the store manager who has the best motive for murder. Assuming that he is the murderer, how should he poison him.

As Xiao Ai said, facing the deceased's ridicule and threats, the store manager immediately chose to settle the matter, hoping to send away the "big Buddha" by waiving the order.

But the latter chose to stay in the store and eat sushi.

Wait, is this using reverse thinking?

The store manager knew that the deceased had such a greedy character, so he deliberately offered the bait of "free order".

The latter took the bait as expected.

If so, given my wife's greedy nature, he will definitely eat more expensive sushi in the future.

So the store manager specially prepared a few plates of relatively expensive sushi and poisoned them?

But according to his own statement and the testimony of others, the period from when he stood up to stop the dispute until the time when the deceased was lying on the body was still there. He did not come into contact with the deceased and did not return to the kitchen.

How did these poisoned sushi get to the deceased?

And the store manager himself said that he is no longer able to make sushi himself due to a hand injury.

And how to seize this opportunity?

Could it be that as soon as he saw the deceased arguing with people outside, he quickly put the poisoned sushi on the conveyor belt and then stood up to stop the dispute?

If you do this, it is theoretically possible.

The conveyor belt in this store rotates clockwise from right to left. The deceased and Brother Flounder were actually sitting at the end of the conveyor belt, and all the prepared sushi had to go around in front of him.

It takes five minutes for the conveyor belt to rotate once. If the time is controlled well, it is theoretically possible to poison and kill people.

And when the argument broke out, most of the customers stopped eating and focused on my wife's photo. This also reduces the possibility of other customers accidentally eating poisonous sushi.

But the risk is still too high. One mistake could kill someone else.

Could it be that the deceased ordered a special sushi through the electronic screen after sitting down again?
  But three minutes can't be turned around, and such an obvious move...

Lu Ren looked at Brother Flounder, "After the deceased and the store manager ended their dispute and sat back down, did they use the electronic screen to order special sushi?"

"It seems not." Brother Flounder nodded hesitantly, "I'm not sure."

"My wife didn't order any other sushi." The store manager, who had been standing behind my wife's photo, said firmly, "If he really ordered it, it would be recorded on the ordering machine in the store."

Then the store manager took Lu Ren over and showed him how to operate the machine in person.

The electronic screen clearly showed that between 12:40 and 12:45, there were no customers in the store making special sushi at this time, let alone my wife’s photo.

Four chefs in the kitchen also said they had not received orders for the special sushi.

Is it possible that it is just a matter of luck? This is a bit too random.

Not to mention the poisoning techniques of the pink-clad aunt Takemura Sakiko.

If there is some way of poisoning the other two that Lu Ren is not aware of yet.

Takemura Sakiko, who was six seats away from the deceased and had never had close contact with the deceased, had no choice but to pass through the conveyor belt if she wanted to poison her.

The method was the poisoning method of the store manager as previously speculated.

After waiving the order, he took advantage of the deceased's greedy nature and put poison in the sushi he was most likely to get.

But she also faces a problem, the randomness is too high. What if the poisoned sushi is taken away by someone else?

And there are too many prerequisites for this crime.

First, the deceased had to argue with someone, and then the store manager had to step forward and waive the order.

If this was premeditated murder, how long would she have to wait for such an opportunity?

You can't hide poison on your body all the time and follow the dead, right?

If you look at it this way, the person most likely to commit the crime is still Brother Flounder.

Because he can actively create a poisoning environment that is beneficial to himself.

It was an accident that Yuanta touched the plate.

If there is no such thing, Brother Flounder can also take the initiative to create conflicts on his own.

For example, the deceased had taunted him about halibut before. All he had to do was take another plate of seabass or halibut in front of the deceased, and the conflict would continue to break out, attracting the store manager.

While the deceased was arguing with the store manager, he could find an opportunity to poison him.

As for the store manager, he would have to think more carefully and wait for the opportunity for a deceased person to conflict with other customers.

However, this store was his home turf, and the deceased's character was quite disgusting. The chances of waiting for a poison are quite high.

Auntie in pink is more difficult.

Or maybe this was an indiscriminate poisoning case, and the murderer targeted not the deceased, but the store manager.

Lu Ren knew very well that without Conan's intervention, there was a high probability that the police alone would not be able to solve this case, at least not in a short period of time.

If the case cannot be solved and the real murderer cannot be found, then the news media will definitely place the responsibility on this store.

Lu Ren himself is in this business and knows this very well.

The deceased died of food poisoning or something. If you just write a few sentences, this store will definitely not survive.

Wait……

If you want to put it this way, the store manager is the least likely to commit the crime.

Because this was his own shop, even if he hated the deceased no matter how much he hated him, he would never poison the deceased in his own shop.

Whether the police can solve this case or not, the outcome waiting for him will not change.

The murderer is found, he is imprisoned, and the sushi restaurant closes down.

If the murderer can't be found, it will still end up closing down. With such a "bad record", it would be difficult for him to continue working in the catering industry.

Now that the employment situation is so grim, he has no source of income, so he might as well be arrested and imprisoned, at least he will still be in charge of food.

The price is too high.

If he really wanted to kill someone, he could just imitate the Hammerhead Man and give bricks to the dead who were walking at night under the cover of darkness.

Nothing would be better than poisoning and killing people in your own hotel.

Excluding the store manager, there are still two suspects left.

Brother Flounder, let’s not talk about it. If Sakiko Takemura, the aunt in pink, is targeting this store, she chooses to poison and kill people indiscriminately.

Then the previous inference will be overturned and restarted.

She was not waiting for the deceased to have a conflict with others.

What she was actually waiting for was for Conan and the other kids to finish their sushi and leave!
  As soon as the group left, she immediately chose to poison the sushi.

Anyone wins.

Of course, the premise of this theory is that Takemura Sakiko and the store manager did have a feud.

Lu Ren whispered to the store manager: "Do you know the woman in pink clothes? If so, do you have any issues with her?"

"You think about it, I'm helping you now. Someone died in your store. If the real murderer is not found, there are so many customers in the store, even if I don't intervene, it will be difficult for your store to continue. Keep doing it.”

"I do know her, and there are indeed some during the holidays." The store manager hesitated for a while, but was finally persuaded by Lu Ren, "Didn't her sushi restaurant close down? The reason was because of an article written by my wife. "

"But that's actually only part of the reason. The real reason is that the old chef who used to make sushi in her shop retired. The taste is much worse than before."

"The wording of my wife's article was very harsh, but he did not spread rumors. The taste of the sushi in that restaurant just deteriorated. And all this could have been avoided."

"Why? Does it have anything to do with you?"

"Yes. The old master of that shop was my master, and I inherited all his skills. Before he retired, he invited me to support the store. I agreed at the time, but in the end I broke the appointment for some reason."

The store manager smiled bitterly and said, "I didn't mean not to go, it's just that I couldn't do it anymore. Not long after I agreed to the job, my hand tendon was cut."

(End of this chapter)