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And Vermouth is not a member of an organization with extraordinary combat power. In this situation, she is unlikely to do something irrational...
Letting Haibara Ai stay here might be a safer option.
Outside the venue, three people walked quickly towards the elevator.
“There are still two tricks we haven’t cracked yet. The first is President Owada who appeared in the observatory when the fireworks first went off.
Second, it’s that very authentic suicide note…”
"The police blockade of the Twin Towers has not yet ended. If our speculation is correct, the things used by the murderer should still be on the 48th floor of the East Tower. I will go find it." Kuroba Kaito said.
"Then I will go and confirm the authenticity of the suicide note. If the information provided by Chris is correct, the password of the laptop in the president's office is probably Chie Shimizu's birthday." Karasuma Ying continued.
"Then I'll go to the 28th floor rooftop that connects the East and West Towers and take a look."
Leaving the elevator, the three of them walked out of the West Tower, and Conan said quickly:
"The balcony of the president's office faces the rooftop on the 28th floor. If the murderer really used the method we speculated, there must be clues left on the rooftop."
"Okay, let's meet in front of the west tower later, and hurry."
The three of them quickly completed the division of labor and went to their respective destinations.
Instead of going to the East Tower, Conan climbed up the stairs to the rooftop connecting the East and West Towers.
Karasuma Ying and Kuroba Kaito took the elevator of the East Tower. Kuroba Kaito went to the observation room on the 48th floor, while Karasuma Ying went to the president's office on the 53rd floor.
"drop."
After opening the door of the president's office with the door card borrowed from Kenta, Karasuma Ying first came to the spare kimono with a dry-cleaning cover on the hanger nearby.
When searching the president's office earlier, Officer Sato noticed that this spare kimono seemed to have been worn by someone.
If their speculation is correct...
Karasuma Ying lifted the outer layer of the kimono and reached out to touch the inside of the kimono. Finally, she felt a greasy and sticky thing on the inside of the sleeve.
【really. 】
Stretching out his hand and looking at the paint on his fingers that had not yet completely dried, Wu Wanying understood.
After taking a picture of the greasy and sticky paint on the inside of the kimono with her mobile phone, Wu Wanying quickly went to the laptop on the table and entered four numbers.
"Ding."
With an electronic sound, the laptop was successfully unlocked and turned on smoothly.
[It's actually Chie Shimizu's birthday? That Chris didn't lie to us...]
Suppressing the confusion in her heart, Wu Wanying quickly flipped through the fax records on the computer.
The records show that at 16:13 this afternoon, there was indeed a fax record on this computer.
However, there is one more detail.
Karasuma Ying put on gloves and tried to type the name "Ichiro Yamatoda" on the computer input method.
As expected, the input method defaults to "一郎" instead of "壹郎".
In other words, although the suicide note was uploaded on this computer, it was not written on this computer.
Wu Wanying also took pictures of the fax records and input method information, turned off the computer, locked the door and left quickly.
Outside the west tower, Conan and Kuroba Kaito were already waiting there.
Seeing her coming, Kuroba Kaito quickly asked, "Xiaoying, how are you doing over there?"
"It's the same as what we speculated before."
Wu Wanying took out her cell phone and showed the two the photos she had taken earlier.
"what about you?"
"the same."
Kuroba Kaito also took out his cell phone and found a photo. He took a photo of a trash can on the 48th floor.
In the photo, inside the trash can, there is a pile of parts of a composite doll sculpture and a wig that is exactly the same as President Yamatoda's hairstyle.
If these parts were put together, plus the unusual spare kimono in the president's office, they would form a human figure that looked like President Yamatoda.
Conan then took out a spider corpse that he had carefully wrapped in a handkerchief.
This spider is larger than the average spider and has very long legs. It is obviously a giant crab spider, and some parts of its body have rotted.
He found it on the rooftop between the two towers.
Looking at these, Wu Wanying frowned slightly and said, "Everything is ready, but there is still one last loophole..."
"Chie Shimizu." Conan continued her words.
According to what Kenta said before, there are only five people who have the door lock and door card of the president's office, including the president himself.
Chie Shimizu is one of them.
Among these five people, there are victims, murderers, and people with alibis.
Only Chie Shimizu has no alibi and has close ties with the Yamato family. She is not an ordinary housekeeper.
And according to the police officer who had previously monitored the East Tower elevator, after Ichiro Yamato was murdered, and after Karasuma Ei and Kuroba Kaito returned to the venue, Chie Shimizu seemed to have gone to the president's office alone.
After she left the East Tower, she has not appeared again until now.
Although the three of them have already deduced the identity of the murderer and the methods he used, they still know nothing about this person. If the murderer bites back at that time...
"There's no time left."
Kuroba Kaito glanced at the time on his phone, looking a little anxious.
"If we delay this any longer, the police's final search and evidence collection will be over, and then Ichiro Yamato's death will be ruled as suicide..."
"I understand. At least reveal the murderer first."
Without saying anything else, Karasuma Ying looked at Kuroba Kaito and said:
"Then Officer Sato, I'll leave the reasoning to you this time. Conan and I will assist you."
Mr. Maori is obviously unreliable tonight. Conan is just a child and Karasuma Ying's identity is too insignificant.
Of the three people here now, only Miwako Sato, who is also from the First Investigation Division, has enough status to stand up and lead the reasoning to "overturn the case" for the deceased in front of the police and everyone.
"it is good."
Having anticipated this result, Kuroba Kaito agreed without hesitation.
I never thought that there would be a day when he would act as a "detective" to identify the murderer.
Well, after all, it was a criminal who used his fame as a phantom thief to commit crimes, and he just wanted to catch the murderer himself, so it didn't matter...
[Thank you so much this time, two great detectives. ]
The next few days will be all about the key chapters, so please stop complaining about my slow plot (﹃) I really wrote it bit by bit according to the rhythm of the outline (I want to write a million, all the holes I dug will be filled, all the foreshadowing I buried will be made up, so please stop complaining about me (﹃))
Chapter 77 The murderer is you, the old housekeeper
At the party venue, most of the guests had left with the permission of the police.
The remaining people were either relatives and friends who were close to the Yamatoda family, or people like Mao Li Ran who had relatives involved in the investigation of the case and stayed temporarily.
And now, these people were gathered together by the old butler Shan Qizhe and several police officers.
"Mr. Shanqi, what happened? Why did we gather everyone here?" In the somewhat empty conference hall, Mao Lilan couldn't help but ask.
"Ms. Maori, this is Officer Sato's request."
"Officer Sato?"
"Yes, Officer Sato told me that she has found the murderer of the master..."
"Really?!"
Kenta, who was standing by, became very excited upon hearing this.
"Did Officer Sato really find the murderer?!"
Shan Qizhe looked at him quietly without saying anything.
"But didn't the police say that President Yamatoda committed suicide?" asked Ran Mouri in confusion.
"Dad would never commit suicide!"
"Don't get excited, Master Kenta. We'll know the truth once Officer Sato arrives..."
"Crack!"
While a few people were chatting, the door of the venue was pushed open, and Kuroba Kaito, who was disguised as Sato Miwako, and Inspector Megure walked in together.
"It's really a busy night tonight. Sorry to have kept you waiting for so long."
The loud voice attracted everyone's attention and Kuroba Kaito said loudly:
"After repeated police investigations, we have obtained sufficient evidence to confirm that President Yamato's murder was not suicide, but murder!"
"murder?!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the originally empty conference hall became noisy again, and everyone's faces showed different expressions.
As he said this, Karasuma Ying and Conan moved quietly and stood behind an old butler.
"Officer Sato! Who killed my father?!" Kenta seemed unable to wait even a second and asked quickly.
"The murderer is, of course, President Yamatoda's closest friend..."
Kuroba Kaito's eyes swept through the crowd one by one, and finally locked onto someone.
"Butler Mr. Shan Qizhe!"
"What?" Kenta was stunned when he heard the name. It seemed that his brain was unable to process the information. After several seconds, he turned his head to look at Shan Qizhe beside him in confusion.
"Officer Sato, could you have made a mistake?"
When Kuroba Kaito pointed out that he was the murderer, San Qizhe's expression did not change much except that he was a little surprised at first.
"Before and after the master was murdered, I was always at the West Tower venue. How could I have the opportunity to kill the master?"
"Yes, yes. When Dad got into trouble, Shan Qi was clearly with us the whole time..."