Conan: This repairman is not very knowledgeable

"I just heard the news that Miss Inoue Hiroko was murdered!" Uncle Maori said standing outside the door.

"Do you know the victim?"

Inspector Megure invited everyone in.

The scene search has been completed and the body has been placed on the bed in the bedroom and covered with a white sheet.

Uncle Maori saw Ms. Hiroko's boyfriend, Mr. Takaoka, kneeling beside the bed and crying, and he also said a few words to comfort her.

"I just thought I could finally make her live a happier life, but I didn't expect this to happen..." Takaoka Akira cried in pain.

"I know exactly how you feel right now."

"Who on earth is so cruel!" Uncle Maori clenched his fists, turned around with a serious expression, and asked Inspector Megure about the details.

There were obvious signs of a fight in the living room.

The curtains were torn, the table was tilted, the chair was upside down, and a rope as thick as a finger was placed around the neck of the human-shaped scene.

"According to the medical examiner's judgment, the time of death was between 11 and 1 this afternoon."

Inspector Megure stood aside and said to Uncle Mori.

"It looks like a home robbery. However, I can understand carrying a knife, but would someone choose to kill someone with a rope?" Amuro felt a little doubtful.

The scene was so chaotic, the person who broke into the house might not be much stronger than this young lady.

"Robbers carrying ropes usually choose to kill people after forcing them to reveal their property information." Lin Feng picked up the photo of a man and a woman on the ground.

The man in the photo is crying in the bedroom, and it seems that the woman covered with the white cloth on the bed is this woman.

"Ms. Azi and I have met this person. She went to see Mr. Maori yesterday afternoon." Toruko said after taking a look at the photo.

"Brother Mori?" Inspector Megure looked at Uncle Mori.

"Ms. Hiroko opened a bar called Sunflower. I visit it every now and then. Yesterday she passed by the office in the afternoon and invited me to have a drink in the evening."

"Ms. Hiroko said that every time she sees sunflowers holding their heads high and facing the sun, she feels courageous and keeps working hard, so she named the bar this way."

Uncle Maori walked over to a painting full of sunflowers hanging in the living room and sighed.

"Uncle, did you go to the Sunflower Bar to drink last night?" Conan asked after looking around the scene.

"Well, last night a group of us heard her say happily that she could finally be happy..." Uncle Maori nodded and said.

"Can you finally be happy?"

"What does this mean?" Inspector Megure asked curiously.

This sounds a bit strange.

"That Mr. Takaoka, he is Ms. Hiroko's boyfriend, and he has been working hard to become a director for many years."

"Until recently, he finally had the opportunity to independently shoot a film that he wrote and directed with the support of a film company."

"I remember that it was a film based on his hometown, the singing sands of the white sand coast of Fukushima Prefecture."

"Yesterday evening, he seemed to have gone to the filming site to investigate."

Uncle Maori paused here.

"Ms. Hiroko has always believed in Mr. Takaoka's talent and has been supporting his life all these years. It is too hard to accept that all the hard work over the years is finally bearing fruit."

Yesterday he was happily announcing the good news to his regular customers, but today, I don’t know who murdered him.

After hearing this story, Lin Feng and Amuro Toru both looked towards the bedroom at the same time. This ending was a bit too...

"She's still pretty." Lin Feng put the photo of the two back on the table.

"Yes." Amuro nodded meaningfully.

"..."

Conan turned his head and glanced at the uncle who was speaking up for the victim.

These two have a lot of tricks up their sleeves, and you accept them as your apprentices...

When the Dog-Headed Detective thought about the fact that Toru Amuro would have to pay Uncle Mori later, the expression on his face became even more speechless.

"Ling ring ring~"

Inspector Megure answered the phone.

The subordinates' visit has produced results.

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There is a shop opposite the main entrance of the apartment building. The owner is in the shop all day long, and she remembers every movement outside the door very clearly.

The police estimated the time of death to be between 11:00 and 1:00 in the afternoon, and no one entered or left the apartment.

If there was anything suspicious, it was that around 4:30 in the afternoon, a clerk from an electronics store carried a large cardboard box into the apartment.

"I understand. Please continue to inquire." Officer Megure hung up the phone.

Half past four?
It doesn't match the time of death, so it can basically be ruled out.

"Officer Takagi, who is the person next to Mr. Takaoka?" Conan also found his apprentice and asked.

"His name is Kizuka Osamu. He and Mr. Takaoka were friends who met at a part-time job. He was the one who discovered the victim and called the police."

Takagi said everything without reservation.

"Wasn't it Mr. Takaoka who first discovered the scene?" Conan was a little surprised. He had thought that it was Mr. Takaoka's friend, but he didn't expect that he had the identity of the first discoverer.

"He has been working hard to become a scriptwriter. It seems that Mr. Takaoka said he wanted to borrow some good ideas for movie plots from him, so we made an appointment to meet here at five o'clock..." Takagi nodded.

When Osamu Kizuka arrived, the door was not locked. He walked in while shouting Miss Hiroko's name and found Miss Hiroko with a rope around her neck in the living room.

After receiving the alarm call, the police arrived here at 5:20.

Mr. Takaoka arrived home shortly before that, around 5:15.

"Officer Takagi, where is Mr. Kizuka's alibi?" Uncle Mori walked closer and asked in a low voice.

"He works as a deliveryman in a large electronics store. He is busy shipping goods in the warehouse from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m." Officer Takagi said after taking a look at the notebook.

"Mr. Takaoka, is there anything valuable missing from your home?" Amuro asked the victim's boyfriend who was lowering his head.

"There's nothing valuable in the house. Hiroko must have left some cash missing." Takaoka Akira shook his head and said.

"She seems to have made an appointment to record a show from 3 to 5 p.m." Lin Feng saw a newspaper from a TV station nearby, flipped it open, took a look and asked.

It is a comedy program. There are many similar programs in newspapers and magazines that are circled in red.

"I didn't even have time to watch the show I wanted to watch..." Takaoka Akira sighed, covering his head.

He looks really sad... (End of this chapter)