Chapter 294 Magic, leading to the cheers of reversal

Chapter 294 Magic, leading to the cheers of reversal (21)

Kazuzo Sanada was silent for a moment, his eyes wandering inside the courtroom.

Whether it is the young prosecutor Onitsuki Hotaru, the black magician Mukaiguchi Mitsugu, or the people in the gallery.

Everyone seems to be convinced that he is the second Kaito Kidd who appeared in this case.

(Sure enough... Kaito Kid himself is a big trouble. I should have known not to play Kaito Kid.)
(Anyway, I’m not the second Kaito Kid as they say.)
(So ​​no matter what, I won’t be found out.)
The White Magician pushes his white magic hat down slightly.

"Of course, Your Honor, may I begin my testimony now?"

"For me, time is precious, and there is nothing wrong in ending this case early."

The presiding judge was somewhat surprised to hear the calm and composed words of Sanada Kazuzo.

Generally speaking, in Xiang Yuanguang's courtroom, the testimony stand was usually prepared in a way that would make people's defenses break out.

There is also a rumor that once you stand on the witness stand, the evil hedgehog-head will accuse you of being the murderer.

I didn't expect that this white magician from the Miracle Magic Group, Kazuzo Sanada...

How could he remain so calm and composed when there was a possibility of being accused of being the murderer?
For some reason, the presiding judge was in awe and nodded.

Then he lowered the gavel and spoke seriously.

"Since Mr. Sanada has said so, the court will naturally agree to Mr. Sanada testifying now."

"Now, please ask Mr. Sanada to testify about the blank time between leaving the lobby of Queen Cesarabile and reappearing."

[~Blank time between leaving the lobby of Queen Serissabeth and reappearing~]

[Testimony begins]

"Since we boarded the ship and separated to prepare for the magic show, I haven't seen my teacher and junior sister since then."

"I thought it was strange at the time, but I thought they were just preparing for a magic trick in a secret room."

"Until I appeared as Kaito Kidd and sent out the pigeon as a signal, they still hadn't appeared."

"I guess something happened to the teacher and junior sister, and they might be absent from this performance."

"But when someone outside said they saw Kaito Kidd, the teacher and his junior sister didn't show up yet."

"I knew something was probably wrong, so I left the hall to look for the teacher and the junior sister."

"After I searched all the possible hiding places on the cruise ship, I heard gunshots."

"I immediately rushed in the direction of the gunshots and saw the teacher's body."

“This is my experience in action during this so-called blank period.”

[End of testimony]

The presiding judge nodded and left the hall to look for the missing teacher and junior sister because he was worried about them.

This was a good enough reason to leave the lobby, and the content of the free time...

Just search in the easy-to-hide places throughout the cruise ship, right?
It doesn't sound like there's anything wrong with it.

"Mr. Sanada, you said you searched the cruise ship for easy hiding places..."

"Have you ever noticed Miss Koshimizu Nanatsuki?"

At this moment, Gui Yueying at the prosecutor's seat suddenly spoke.

Speaking of this, Kazuzo Sanada was obviously a little confused.

"Of course not. Didn't Miss Yueshui always follow Mr. Xiangyuan?"

"Why did I notice Miss Koshimizu while searching?"

That means... you haven't looked at the rear of the cabin?
If you want to find someone, the first step should be to go to the back of the cruise ship deck where not many people go, right?

The young prosecutor's mind was turning.

The hedgehog-headed magician started asking questions without any hesitation.

"Well, I will exercise my right to question you as a lawyer, Mr. Sanada, and I will question you."

"In the seventh sentence of your testimony, you said that you searched the cruise ship in places where it was easy to hide."

"But you didn't see Nanatsuki Koshimizu hidden in the valuables box at the back of the cruise ship."

"Excuse me, where are you searching?"

Xiang Yuanguang took a sip of coffee.

This is obvious. If you want to go to the second floor of the cruise ship, you will inevitably have to go to the staircase at the back of the cruise ship. As long as you go to the staircase, you will most likely notice a strange-shaped box of valuables that is obviously hidden.

What's more, Conan was still verifying his guess next to the box one minute before the blank time.

The next minute shows Inspector Nakamori rescuing people at the box.

In other words, Kazuzo Sanada had never been to the back or second floor of the cruise ship.

As for the top floor? That was even more impossible, because Xiang Yuanguang had climbed directly to the top floor stairs.

The area in front of the cruise ship also does not meet the definition of an "easy hiding place" as mentioned by Kazuzo Sanada.

Since the first floor, second floor and top floor of the cruise ship do not fit the concept of Sanada Kazuzo looking for a place.

So, where else can Kazuzo Sanada search on the cruise ship?
The hedgehog-headed magician showed a confident smile and looked very confident while holding a cup of coffee.

He even took one more sip of coffee, but at the moment he drank the coffee.

Then I heard some strange words from Sanada Kazuzo.

"Of course we should search the basement level of the cruise ship. Isn't that a natural hiding place?"

There is a basement floor on the cruise ship???
Out of surprise, Xiang Yuanguang choked on the coffee he drank and started coughing continuously.

His face was full of confusion and disbelief.

"You mean the negative first floor? What is that place?"

Too little, or too little experience, this is what happens when poor kids are unfamiliar with cruise ships.

The Shinigami elementary school student sitting in the audience shook his head secretly.

Of course, there is a negative floor on a cruise ship, which is below the deck and above the horizontal plane.

Some cruise ships are used for employees to rest, while others are used to store cargo or sundries.

Therefore, it was not wrong for Kazuzo Sanada to say that the basement level of a cruise ship is an easy place to hide during work.

However, when Conan was checking the surveillance footage, he noticed that the surveillance camera at the entrance to the basement level of the cruise ship was intact.

There is no footage of Kazuzo Sanada entering the basement floor to conduct investigation.

Therefore, what Sanada Kazuzo said was a lie.

White magician Kazuzo Sanada was a little surprised.

As one of the magicians invited to the Queen Serissabeth, how could he not know this?

Weren't those surveillance cameras installed by the members of the Suzuki Group under the personal command of Genmitsu Xiang?
What he didn't know was that in theory, all of them were installed personally or directed by Xiang Yuanguang himself.

But in fact, Suzuki Tomoko also installed surveillance cameras in places that Xiang Yuanguang did not mention.

This included the surveillance camera at the entrance to the basement floor that Kazuzo Sanada didn't know about.

Because the Suzuki Group has always been wealthy and has no shortage of money.

The main feature is saturation monitoring!

"Xiang Yuan, his testimony is in [decisive] contradiction with one of your pieces of evidence."

"…I'm not talking about your lawyer's medal. I'm talking about the surveillance records."

Nanatsuki Koshimizu, who works as a lawyer's assistant and part-time as a magic assistant, said helplessly.

(Surveillance records? Didn’t Conan say that the only problem with that thing was the timing?)
(The murderer might be inside the lobby——————Hmm? The surveillance records seem to show some camera positions that I don’t even know about. Is the staircase inside… the entrance to the basement?)

Xiang Yuanguang put down the coffee cup and gently touched his forehead with his fingers.

If this is the case, then it can indeed expose Kazuzo Sanada's lies.

But now that he noticed the surveillance records again, he realized that there were problems with them.

Some of the surveillance cameras are black, indicating that they are blocked.

Some surveillance cameras also cut out footage of critical moments.

If the murderer had access to the surveillance camera in the monitoring room, there would be no need to cover the surveillance camera...

Is there any special situation among these that he and Conan have not deduced?

 Yesterday's fifth update

  
 
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