Chapter 509 An unexpected encounter during lunch break

From the moment Kogoro Mouri took out the brand new 1,000 yen bill from his wallet, Conan knew who the "real murderer" of this case was - although he didn't know what was going on, the money was indeed in Uncle Mouri's hands.

The other party claimed that he got the brand new 1,000 yen note from the cafeteria staff, but the brand new 1,000 yen note in his hand did not have any smell of food at all!

In addition, Conan had communicated with Yasuji Yazaki in advance and understood the situation he had encountered. After confirming that the banknote belonged to Yasuji Yazaki, he could directly identify Kogoro Mori as the culprit.

The Death Elementary School Student pushed up his glasses and said without hesitation.

"It seems that the banknote that Yazaki lost is in Uncle Maori's wallet. Then, if it's not surprising, Uncle Maori is the real culprit of this incident!"

Kogoro Mori's face suddenly turned dark. If Conan wasn't standing quite far away, he really wanted to go over and give Conan a Maori Divine Fist on the head to let this kid know his strength.

However, he himself was indeed puzzled, because he had only seen Yazaki Yasushi after lunch break, and before that he had no influence on this kid. How come this kid's money was in his wallet?
Kogoro Mouri touched his chin, and his detective's amazing wisdom instantly came into play, and he immediately spoke loudly.

"Is it possible that the tenth bill in Yazaki Yasuji's envelope had already fallen out before he went to the cafeteria, so when he paid, he used what he thought was the tenth bill, but was actually the ninth bill!"

"Doesn't that make sense? Since Yazaki Yasuji used the top note in the envelope to pay, and mistakenly thought it was the tenth note when it was actually the ninth, I will get the ninth note from the kitchen staff!"

Uncle Maori became more and more confident as he spoke, his eyebrows dancing.

"So, in fact, the banknote that Yazaki Yasuji lost was actually lost on the way from the classroom to the cafeteria. It may still be on the road, or it may have been picked up by someone. It is not in my wallet!"

"Conan kid, didn't you say before that Yazaki Yasuji wouldn't normally move with an envelope? But if he wants to go to the cafeteria to order food, he naturally has to bring his own envelope, so it's reasonable for him to drop a bill on the way!"

Although it sounds like heresy, if Kogoro Mori insists on explaining the numbered nine banknote in his hand in this way, it actually makes sense. Therefore, further explanation is needed to prove the situation of the banknote in his hand.

Conan didn't intend to explain further. He felt that under the current circumstances, the Junior Detective Team could already bring this class trial to a perfect conclusion, and there was no need for him to say anything more.

On the one hand, he was very confident in the strength of the Boy Detective Team he was with day and night, and on the other hand, he felt that if he continued to add fuel to the fire here, he would most likely be hit by the Maori God Fist after the class refereeing was over.

Although it was too much for Uncle Mori to use the Mori God Fist on him, Conan thought that the number of times Uncle Mori used the Mori God Fist on him might not be as many as the number of times he used the anesthetic needle on Uncle Mori, so he felt relieved.

This is probably karma, the cycle of reincarnation. He can feel at ease using the anesthetic needle on Uncle Maori next time.

"That's strange, Uncle Maori, why do you smell like vegetables but not on this bill?"

Yuantai sniffed, and as a foodie, he discovered a blind spot.

The Junior Detective Team went to the cafeteria to investigate with Uncle Mori, so most of the information that Uncle Mori knew was also known by the Junior Detective Team. Therefore, Genta wondered why the banknotes given by Uncle Mori had no fragrance.

Because the staff in the cafeteria, especially the staff at the window, were responsible for serving meals and dishes to the students, so they would have a certain smell of dishes on them, and he remembered that smell very clearly.

But the banknotes given by Uncle Maori did not have the aroma of food, which was very strange. He clearly said before that he got Yasushi Yazaki's banknotes from the staff at the window?

"The smell of food? What smell of food?" Kogoro Mouri was stunned, and Ayumi and Mitsuhiko, whose sense of smell was not as sensitive as Genta's, also looked confused.

"It's the smell of food from the cafeteria window. Just like Uncle Maori, we also talked to the uncle at the cafeteria window and he also had a faint smell of food on him."

Yuantai touched the back of his head a little embarrassedly. In fact, he felt a little hungry again and was looking forward to the eel rice that his father had agreed with him.

However, this reminded Mitsuhiko of something, and he spoke loudly.

"Uncle Maori, do you remember when we received a text message from Teacher Xiaolin at the entrance of the cafeteria? We had something we wanted to ask you at that time, but we didn't have time to ask you at that time. Now I want to ask you!"

"Uh, now? Sure, go ahead and ask."

Although Uncle Maori was a little confused, since Mitsuhiko said so, he didn't intend to refuse.

"Uncle Maori, the cleaning lady in the cafeteria told me that she remembered that during the lunch break, a student bumped into a middle-aged man in a blue suit, and something fell to the ground..."

Before Mitsuhiko finished his words, Maori Kogoro remembered this incident. He touched the back of his head, nodded with a wry smile, and was about to ask what happened, but then he suddenly froze.

"Ah, no way, was that kid I bumped into you?"

Uncle Maori looked at Yazaki Yasuji who was sitting in the plaintiff's seat next to him in surprise, and Yazaki Yasuji also looked up at Uncle Maori. After looking at each other for a while, the two of them completely connected each other's faces with the appearance in their memories.

Because at that time, Kogoro Mouri was very hungry and walked straight towards the cafeteria. Then Yazaki Yasuji suddenly rushed out from the cafeteria door, and the two of them bumped into each other. Kogoro Mouri's wallet was knocked out and the money fell all over the floor.

He originally planned to call Yazaki Yasuji to ask what was going on, but Yazaki Yasuji ran away without even looking back, leaving him bend down to pick up the money without knowing why, and then went straight to have lunch.

It is precisely for this reason that although Kogoro Mori and Seiji Yazaki had theoretically met during lunch break, neither of them had a deep impression of each other, and even for a while they did not connect the remaining impressions in their memories with the real person.

"But what does this mean?"

Kogoro Mori touched his chin, feeling a little puzzled.

"Are you trying to say that I wasn't paying attention when I was picking up the money, and I picked up the 1,000 yen that Yazaki Seiji dropped and put it in my wallet as my own money? But that's impossible!"

"I got this brand new 1,000 yen bill in my wallet from the staff at the cafeteria window. I didn't pick it up from the ground at that time. No matter how you look at it, there's still a bill missing!"

At this time, Xiang Yuanguang sighed, estimated the time, and felt that it was almost time to end it.

Then, he snapped his fingers, ready to use wind magic to show Uncle Maori his great memory recovery technique.

(End of this chapter)

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