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His wife died, and now the police suspect him of being the murderer? What a joke!

He was furious and yelled at Officer Megure: "Are you kidding me? The deceased is my soon-to-be-married wife!"

"What's wrong with your wife? Not to mention that they're not married yet, there are many cases where men choose to kill their wives even if they're married." Toru Amuro, who had been standing quietly at the side, slowly stepped forward and spoke calmly, "Maybe you wanted to hide the evidence she left in your hands, so you deliberately reached out and knocked over the glass I was holding, causing your hand to be cut by the glass."

Toru Amuro silently pushed the sunglasses on his nose. The host had pushed him on purpose just now, but he was good at martial arts and did not fall as hard as the host did.

There must be something wrong with the inexplicable hostility of the accompaniment.

Chapter 708 Pretty Boy

"Huh, is that so?" Suddenly, a tall, thin man wearing sunglasses stood up and challenged Amuro Toru, "Don't you want to kill the woman you love before she becomes someone else's wife, Mr. Waiter?"

Amuro Toru was stunned by the sudden accusation, his eyes revealed a little confusion: "Ah?"

Chu Ming was halfway through his drink when he heard this. He nearly choked when he heard this. He used paper to wipe off the drink that sprayed out of his mouth and used it to cover the corners of his mouth that he could not cover.

Beloved woman? Isn't this country what Touko loves?

Oh no, it should be organized now, right?

"Wait, what is going on? Explain clearly what is going on." Inspector Megure looked left and right and found that the topic jumped so suddenly that he was a little confused. His expression was like that of a person who was distracted for a while in math class and found that the class had suddenly changed from a simple 1+1 to how to verify the Riemann hypothesis.

"If you don't want to say it, let me say it for you." When Banba heard this, a trace of pain flashed in his eyes. He clenched his fists and pointed a finger at Amuro Toru, "That guy is the gigolo that Hatsune has been secretly meeting with!!!"

"puff--"

Chu Ming ultimately lost the last sip of his drink and ended up throwing it on the table.

What a pretty boy, what a confusing statement, this must be a mockery of Amuro Toru, right?

"Is this true?" Inspector Megure turned his eyes to Amuro Toru with a hint of gossip in his eyes.

"Of course it's not true." Amuro Toru took off his square-framed glasses, revealing his sharp eyes. "Although I did meet Miss Hatsune in private, it was not the kind of relationship that Mr. Banba said. To be honest, I am actually a private detective hired by Miss Hatsune."

As he spoke, Toru Amuro took out his business card and handed it to Inspector Megure and the escort: "Amuro Detective Agency, case handling, marriage investigation, finding people and things, and other services are welcome to consult."

"Are you the detective hired by Hatsune? How could it be such a coincidence that you happen to be working as a waiter here?" Banba didn't believe Amuro Toru's words at all. He turned to look at Inspector Megure, "Mr. Officer, there must be something wrong with this person. I suggest you investigate thoroughly!"

Conan on the side kept silent, but nodded his head vigorously in his heart, yes, yes, we must investigate thoroughly, there must be something wrong with this so-called detective!!!

"Of course it's not such a coincidence. I came here on purpose." Amuro Toru looked at Banba, "I came here specifically to monitor you."

"Spying on me?" The chaperone was a little stunned.

"Of course, Miss Hatsune hired me to investigate whether you, who are frivolous about relationships, have other girlfriends. However, since Miss Hatsune has unfortunately passed away in the fire in the parking lot, I have no way to prove it. But when I reported my investigation report on Mr. Banba to Miss Hatsune, the gentleman with sunglasses should have heard it." Amuro Toru turned his eyes to the tall and thin man who jumped out at the beginning, "Right, my colleague."

The tall and thin man was suddenly called out, and he didn't react for a moment. Instead, Officer Megure beside him was shocked: "He's a detective too?"

Inspector Megure looked around the crowd and felt that he might have stumbled upon a detective's nest. There were so many talented people at the small wedding scene, and detectives were everywhere.

"Yes, his client should be Mr. Banba, right?" Amuro Toru said with a look of seeing through. "Mr. Banba should have asked him to investigate whether Miss Hatsune had secretly met with someone. However, although this detective found our meeting place, he didn't see my face clearly because I was wearing a hat and a windbreaker. He just heard my voice. So you called me over to order food just now to confirm it, am I right?"

The tall and thin man nodded. "That's true. I was wondering why I got rid of you when I followed you. It turns out you are also a detective."

Maori Kogoro looked at the development of the situation and patted Banba's shoulder: "Then why don't you entrust me to investigate? If it were me, I would be able to see through this kind of frivolous detective at a glance."

Being criticized as frivolous, Toru Amuro widened his eyes, glanced at Maori Kogoro in disbelief, and then looked down at his clothes. How could he be frivolous? Wasn't he dressed quite decently? But thinking that he had accepted Hatsune's commission just to get close to Maori Kogoro, Toru Amuro still endured Maori Kogoro's slander against him.

"You're so famous, others will know at a glance that you're a famous detective, how can they investigate secretly? And I'm planning to introduce you to Hatsune." Banba looked out the window at the car that was burned black by the fire, his eyes empty and painful.

"But if you had entrusted me, perhaps this tragedy would not have happened. The reason why Hatsune committed suicide might have been because this kid exaggerated your performance in the restaurant just now and told her about it, so she acted on impulse..." Kogoro Mouri glanced at Toru Amuro with a meaningful look.

Amuro Toru waved his hands in panic: "Don't talk nonsense, I would never do such a thing! Why would I call Miss Hatsune like this? Besides, we are all adults, it's not a small matter to commit suicide!"

Looking at Toru Amuro who was skillfully acting cute with his big innocent eyes, Chu Ming sneered. He was almost thirty years old and still pretending to be young. How shameless.

Speaking of cell phones, Officer Megure suddenly remembered something. He looked at the host and said, "I heard that you received a call from Miss Hatsune before the car caught fire?"

It's no wonder that Inspector Megure thinks too much. He has handled many cases. Most murderers would use the act of answering the phone to prove their alibi, so it's natural for him to suspect that Ban Chang was also directing and acting in this case, using the phone to clear himself of suspicion.

And there is more than one suspicious point about Banchang. After Hatsune had her manicure done, she sent Banchang a text message to inform him of the time she would be back. Also, dandruff tissue containing Banchang's DNA was detected in the manicure that fell near her car door, so Banchang is now the most suspicious one.

With all the evidence against him, he had no choice but to accept the police's advice and collect DNA for a detailed DNA comparison with the dandruff inside the manicure.

Conan frowned, feeling completely confused by this case. If the murderer was Mr. Banchang, how did he get out and start the fire? The back door was locked, and only the front door was accessible. Although the bathroom window allowed one to go out, there was a huge puddle outside the window. If he walked through there, the cake marks on his shoes would not have remained...

Just as Conan was brainstorming, Xiaolan turned her gaze from Banba who was doing a DNA test to Conan, with a thoughtful look in her eyes, as if she was thinking about something.

Chapter 709 Coming for Him

Conan turned around suddenly and saw Xiaolan staring at him without blinking. He was startled: "Sister Xiaolan, why are you looking at me like that?"

Xiaolan looked at the companion who was collecting oral mucosa samples and said faintly, "This DNA test is really interesting. In the past, testing saliva could only tell a person's blood type, but now it can accurately determine whether it is the person himself."

"Yes, yes..." Conan felt something was wrong, but his thoughts were still on analyzing the case, and he was unable to realize what Xiaolan wanted to express.

"So, if someone really wants to change their appearance to deceive everyone, they will be exposed quickly, right?" Xiaolan hinted at something meaningful.

Conan heard that Xiaolan seemed to be hinting at something and froze in place for a moment, feeling a chill on his back.

Oops, this wave is coming for him.

“Yes, yes, hahaha…”

Hearing Conan's awkward laughter, Xiaolan hesitated a little and raised her hand to touch Conan's head, but Conan, who was so scared that he was sweating, subconsciously dodged and her hand stopped in mid-air.

Conan, who seemed to be confessing something, tensed up, smirked, found an excuse and ran away: "I'll go see if my uncle has found any clues!"

Xiaolan silently withdrew her hand that was still in the air, lowered her eyes and stared at her fingertips, and did not speak for a long time.

On the other hand, after talking with Toru Amuro and the detective commissioned by the band, the police discovered that Hatsune had been talking to someone other than Toru Amuro.

And Toru Amuro also talked about a lot of information he had investigated.

Banba and Hatsune are both orphans, and they were rescued from a fire in the same hotel. Because they were both babies and their parents died in the fire, they were both sent to the same church to be raised because of their unknown identities...

"Was there any identity verification before he was sent to the church?" Chu Ming, who had been sitting silently nearby, suddenly spoke, shifting everyone's attention.

"Brother Chu Ming is here too. You were hiding behind the crowd and I didn't notice you." Officer Megure looked at Chu Ming, who was huddled at the window at the edge, and stepped forward to pat his shoulder, full of hope. "Why do you ask? Did you find something?"

After all, it was the same at crime scenes before. Chu Ming either didn’t speak, or most of the time he spoke something powerful.

"The manicure fell on the ground, so the remaining dandruff should have been contaminated by rain and dirt, causing the DNA test results to be similar to Mr. Banchang's. But since they are just similar, there may be another possibility - maybe they are close relatives." Chu Ming looked at Banchang and reached out to a guest behind him, "I remember you took a photo of the two newlyweds just now, can you send me a copy of the photo?"

The guest did not refuse. After adding Chu Ming as a friend, he sent the photos to him.

Chu Ming borrowed a computer from a police officer, imported the photos into the computer, and used software to put the photos of the two people together. After removing features such as hairstyle and beard, everyone was surprised to find that the two people did look somewhat similar, except that one had bangs and the other had a beard, so it was not easy to tell the difference.

"They just look alike..." Banchang felt as if the sky was falling and the earth was collapsing. He shook his head vigorously, obviously refusing to believe what was happening.

Conan had completely understood at this point, and he suddenly ran out the door. The forensic police officer had just reported to Officer Megure that only nine pieces of the deceased's nail polish were found, including the one that fell beside the car, which meant that one of them must have fallen in a corner.

As long as that piece of armor is found, everything will be clear.

Seeing Conan running away, Chu Ming did not continue to perform, and left the stage to Conan and Mouri Kogoro. Amuro Toru probably intended to take this opportunity to highlight Mouri Kogoro's wisdom and bravery, and use it as an excuse to get close to Mouri Kogoro.

He can't steal all the limelight. He can't let Toru Amuro come to him to become his disciple, right?

As expected of the protagonist, Conan soon found the key evidence - a blood-stained piece of armor that fell under the wheel and was not contaminated by rain.

After finding the evidence, Conan returned to the restaurant.

At this moment in the restaurant, although Chu Ming had just proposed the theory that the two might be close relatives, it was indeed a bit unbelievable, so the police did not take it seriously.

On the contrary, Amuro Toru is trying his best to put the blame on the supporting actor in order to highlight the wisdom and bravery of Maori Kogoro, indicating that he is the real murderer.

Conan quickly crawled under the table where Kogoro Mouri was sitting, gave him an injection, then interrupted Toru Amuro's speech and explained the truth clearly.

Banba and Hatsune are indeed a pair of fraternal twins. Their parents died unexpectedly in the fire in the hotel, so they were sent to the church. However, there was a lack of sufficient identification methods at that time, so no one knew that the two were twins.

When Hatsune asked Toru Amuro to investigate the incident, she accidentally learned from Toru Amuro that the two of them were rescued from the same fire. She felt something was wrong, and later did a DNA test and finally confirmed that they were siblings.

Knowing this news on the eve of her wedding was enough to make Hatsune feel desperate, so she chose to commit suicide in despair. The method of suicide was the same as when her parents died, with a fire.

Although Kogoro Mouri's inference was similar to Chu Ming's, he had sufficient reasons and evidence. The police found out from the uncontaminated nail piece that the DNA was exactly the same as Banba's except for the gender part. So no matter how unbelievable Banba was, he had to believe this absurd fact.

"Hatsune! Hatsune Miku!!" Banchang knelt on the ground with his face covered. Tears rolled down through his fingers. His sobbing sounded like a wail, which made people feel very sad.

On the eve of his wedding, he not only lost his girlfriend, but also the only relative in the world...

Conan put away the voice changer, sat on the ground in a depressed mood, looked at his companion kneeling on the ground through the gap in the hanging tablecloth, and sighed softly.

After watching the guests leave, Chu Ming sat in his seat with Conan and Xiaolan, waiting for Mouri Kogoro to wake up from anesthesia.

There's no way. He got here by hitchhiking. Since Maoli is unconscious, no one can go back.

Thinking of this, Chu Ming couldn't help but secretly glared at Conan: "Why do you want the effect of this anesthetic needle to be so strong..."

Conan smiled awkwardly and said nothing. He had no other choice. His uncle's drug resistance had become stronger. Last time, the drug was not effective enough and he almost woke up in the middle of solving the case. If he hadn't spoken faster, he would have fallen on the spot...

Chapter 710 May Day Surprise, Chapter 2 Drops~

"Dad is such an annoying guy. He was fine when we were reasoning just now, but now he's asleep again. It's like this every time. Is solving a case really so tiring?" Xiaolan's eyes were still a little red. She had just recovered from the tragedy. At this moment, she was holding a glass of juice, looking at the sleeping Mouri Kogoro with some confusion.

Amuro Toru, who had not left yet, also came forward at this time, with obvious doubt in his eyes: "Is Detective Mori asleep?"

Conan saw Amuro coming through, and fearing that he would see through the clues, he quickly said: "Yes, uncle, solving the case took a lot of brainpower, it was very tiring."

Amuro Toru nodded: "Do you need me to take you back? To be honest, I was just shocked by Mr. Maori's reasoning show. I admire him very much. Please give me this opportunity!"

Xiaolan was stunned. Maori Kogoro had many admirers, and this had happened before, so she didn't intend to refuse. She was just a little embarrassed: "Isn't that too much trouble?"

"How could that be? I also want to go back to Tokyo, and I can take this opportunity to take your car so I don't have to take a taxi. And I also want to thank you for giving me the opportunity to send Detective Mori home!" When Toru Amuro saw that Xiaolan did not refuse, his eyes lit up, and he immediately stepped forward to help Kogoro Mori get into the car.

Conan was pulling Chu Ming's sleeve anxiously, wanting to stop him but was afraid of exposing something, and didn't know what to do.

"Why are you in such a hurry? Since he wants to get close to the uncle, there will be next time even if you stop him this time. You can't always follow the uncle, so you might as well wait and see what he wants to do." Chu Ming whispered to comfort Conan, signaling him not to be anxious, then stepped forward to help Toru Amuro and helped Kogoro Mouri into the car.

When the car was halfway there, Kogoro Mouri woke up slowly. While driving, Toru Amuro took every opportunity to flatter him, praising him to the point of almost flying to the sky.

Toru Amuro also took the opportunity to reveal that he had successfully joined the Poirot Cafe downstairs from the Mouri Detective Agency, and said that he was really lucky to be so close to Detective Mouri, and that he would definitely be able to learn a lot of detective knowledge from him in the future.

Kogoro Mori accepted the compliments without hesitation and taught Toru Amuro in the tone of a senior how to be a good detective.

Watching Toru Amuro's explosive acting skills, Chu Ming quietly rolled his eyes in the passenger seat.

After the car stopped, Toru Amuro looked at Kogoro Maori, and seemed to have mustered up the courage to step forward and say, "Detective Maori, can I become your disciple?"

"Ah?" Maori Kogoro was stunned for a moment, then raised his chin, "Do you want me, the famous Japanese detective Maori Kogoro, to accept you as my apprentice?"

"It's like this, Detective Mori, your famous reasoning just now was so great that it made me realize that I still have a lot of immaturity, so I want to start learning again from scratch. So I want to learn from you, Detective Mori, and I hope you can take me with you when you solve the case so that I can learn well!" Toru Amuro's eyes were shining, and he seemed to admire Kogoro Mori very much.