detective world detective

Chapter 72 Clean soles

"In addition to the master's works on the shelf, there are also our training works, which are not valuable." Arita Yoshihiko heard this and explained.

"But this warehouse is really clean." Officer Memu touched the cabinet and found that there was no trace of dust on his fingers.

"Ah, this is because we just came for cleaning not long ago." Otani Xun said.

"Then, the key issue is still this..." Tang Ze pointed to the slender wound on the calf of the corpse.

Officer Megure nodded, looked at the blood stains on the surrounding debris and said, "And there was a lot of blood spilled nearby. It doesn't look natural no matter how you look at it."

"You are overthinking it. Most probably it was caused by the failure to hang herself for the first time and accidentally falling on the floor. As a result, her foot was cut by the broken pottery fragments on the floor. Then she tried again. "

Mouri Kogoro looked at the mess on the ground and began to reason wrongly, "Don't we often see people who commit suicide because the rope ring they hang themselves from is too big, causing their necks to fall off the rope ring?

The blood in the surrounding incidents was probably caused by the young lady's injured foot being in too much pain when she was hanged. "

"But Dad, we only heard the sound of the pot breaking once, right?" Xiaolan asked suspiciously.

"I guess we were all still asleep when we failed before! After all, we drank a lot yesterday." Mouri Kogoro defended.

Otani Xun: "But why did the young lady commit suicide... There is no reason..."

Seto Ryuichi: "There is no sign at all..."

Hearing the words of the two people, Officer Megu said in surprise: "Nani? Don't you know the reason why the young lady committed suicide?"

"Well, during the banquet yesterday, the young lady looked very happy." Yoshihiko Arita nodded and said, "She also drank a lot of wine."

"I'm afraid it's because of the "Feng Shui Pill"..."

Kikuemon walked over slowly, "Maybe it's because Yoshiko accidentally broke the "Feng Shui Pill" yesterday, so he couldn't think of doing such a stupid thing for a while. It's really stupid..."

""Feng Shui Pill"? "

"It's a new pottery work that my master will publish soon."

Arita Yoshihiko looked at Officer Megure and explained: "Yesterday, the master wanted to ask Mr. Mori to appreciate it, and when he asked the young lady to come to the warehouse to take it out, he accidentally broke it.

If it’s because you can’t think about it…”

"Is it not unexplainable that she would commit suicide?" Officer Memu nodded, and after pondering, he turned to the forensic personnel and said, "Please compare the shapes of the pot fragments and the wound on the deceased's leg to see if they are consistent."

"That's no problem..." the forensic officer nodded, looking embarrassed, "but the fragments of the pottery pot on the ground have been trampled into a mess, so we are not sure whether they can be compared with the wounds."

"Well...if they match, there will be no doubt..."

"It's suicide! It must be suicide, don't think about it!" Kogoro Mouri heard the conversation between Officer Megure and the forensics department staff, and repeatedly said it was suicide and wanted to finalize the case.

"No, it's not suicide." Tang Ze took the initiative to interrupt the conversation between the two and denied it.

"Hey, do you have any evidence for saying it wasn't suicide?" Mouri Kogoro asked with a look of displeasure upon hearing Karasawa's refutation of his argument.

"Maoli-san, it seems like a hangover really affects your brain's thinking. Don't drink so much next time."

Karasawa chuckled lightly, gave Mouri Kogoro a step, pointed to the feet of the corpse and said, "I don't know if you noticed, but this young lady is barefoot."     "Huh?" Mouri Kogoro immediately woke up, He walked around and said, "That's true. I didn't see the young lady's shoes..."

"It's more than that." Tang Ze pointed at the footsteps of the deceased with white gloves. "Look at the steps of the young lady. Although she walked here barefoot, the soles of her feet are very clean without any dust."

"That is to say, you see, I came here with bare feet, but the soles of my feet have become dirty." Conan also helped.

Since knowing Conan's identity, the two have become more and more tacit in their cooperation on the case. When Tang Ze is reasoning openly, Conan will assist secretly to help Tang Ze's reasoning proceed smoothly.

Sometimes, the child's identity is used to make lies, or "innocent backstabbing" is used to make the prisoner difficult to guard against.

In fact, this kind of "innocent backstab" is very lethal, and many words spoken by children are very credible.

Moreover, Conan also has a special skill "Ah Lie~", which uses an innocent tone to give you a chilling feeling.

At this moment, this unique skill appeared.

"Ah, it's weird." Conan pretended to be innocent, "I came over here, but my feet are dirty, so does that mean that my aunt didn't actually come over here?"

"There is a high possibility of being carried over." Tang Ze agreed: "And it's weird to sleep here, right?"

"!?"

The cooperation between the two instantly reversed the direction of the search. Officer Memu touched his chin and said, "Now the suspicion of homicide has become greater."

As he spoke, Officer Megure looked at the four masters and apprentices of Kikuemon and said: "Based on the current situation, you are very suspicious of you who were sleeping in the living room next to the warehouse before the body was discovered."

As he spoke, Officer Memu looked at the four of them and said, "Let me ask again, are everyone really in the living room?"

"That's right!" Arita Yoshihiko nodded: "The only person who left the room was Otani who went to wake up Mrs. Yoshiko."

"Is it possible that you pretended to call the young lady to get up, but actually took the opportunity to hang the young lady to death?" Officer Memu looked at Otani Xun's face with suspicion.

"No, no!!" Otani Xun waved his hands repeatedly: "Although I went to call the young lady, I only left for a moment, because the room where the young lady is located is adjacent to the living room."

"is this real?"

"Yes!" Arita Yoshihiko replied: "It only takes two steps. It probably won't take ten seconds..."

"Hmm...Is that so..." Officer Megure touched his chin and muttered: "If that's the case, there really isn't much that can be done in such a short period of time."

"So is there anyone else leaving?" Tang Ze asked.

"I went out for a while." Seto Takashi raised his hand and said, "But I just made a phone call in the corridor outside the living room. Because I couldn't find the young lady, I thought she had gone out, but no one answered the phone. "

"Will the young lady carry a mobile phone with her at all times?" Officer Memu asked.

"Yes."

Kikuemon nodded and said, "I asked Yoshiko to take it with me. Because we often go to the kiln to focus on firing pottery, we entrusted the external work to Yoshiko."

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PS: Fate's favor is set up to be consumed, in order to reasonably promote development in the book, instead of me reducing the dimension outside to attack IQ, and forcefully changing the character's actions~~ consume some luck, so that "can have, "Is there any" thing to lead to a situation that is beneficial to the protagonist? Rather than writing it directly and forcefully, it should be developed more logically~
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