Chapter 625: Not as Good as His Little Ai

Chapter 625: Not as Good as His Little Ai

I learned the details of the case from Inspector Otaki.

The murderer was someone who was familiar with today's competition, because the knife used to kill the victim was one of the two real knives that the referee would use to demonstrate knife-drawing in the afternoon final. People who were not familiar with it would not know it at all.

There are currently four suspects.

They were four university classmates of the deceased Tsuchimi Atsushi, the tall Hakamada Masamichi, the big-nosed Mentani Mineo, the fat Doguchi Noriyuki, and the gloomy-looking Otegawa Shun.

The four people and the deceased were members of the Kendo Club of Shinnai University. They were the first to discover the deceased's body in the warehouse of the second building. However, after they called the police, the deceased's body ran away to the locker room next to the swimming pool.

After hearing the entire case, Kogoro Mori, as always, prioritized eliminating a wrong answer.

"He was the first person to find Tarumi Atsushi's body in the warehouse and the last person to leave. He is the most likely person to have moved the body here. In other words..."

Maori Kogoro looked at the four college classmates of the deceased in front of him, clapped his hands fiercely, and pointed at the fat man with glasses standing in the middle, "The murderer is you, Doguchi Noriyuki!"

"No, it's not me! It's really not me!"

Doguchi Noriyuki looked flustered, with beads of sweat on his forehead, and he quickly waved his hands to deny it.

However, Kogoro Mori became more certain of his reasoning.

He walked up to Doguchi Noriyuki in a threatening manner and asked, "Then explain to me, you just went to the venue next to the Second Hall to call someone, why did it take you more than ten minutes? That much time should be enough for you to do a lot of things!"

"But why did I want to kill Tsuri? What was the reason? What was the motive?"

"Reason? Motive? Uh..."

Kogoro Mouri was speechless for a moment. He really didn't know this. A hint of embarrassment flashed across his face, and his eyes began to become uncertain.

After such a messy reasoning, the other students who discovered the deceased at that time also became a little impatient.

Kotegawa Jun snorted coldly and said sarcastically, "Famous Detective, is that all you can say? It's really disappointing that you want to convict someone based on this ridiculous inference."

Mentani Fengnan also echoed: "That's right, I think you are just guessing, it's better to wait for the police to investigate thoroughly."

Several people were about to leave the scene while arguing.

Without evidence, Inspector Otaki couldn't stop it.

Hanyu Kusunoki, who was watching the show from the side, suddenly asked, "Officer Otaki, can I go to the warehouse to take a look?"

Officer Otaki immediately agreed: "Of course."

"Excuse me."

Hanyu Kusunoki nodded to him, and when she and Xiaolan passed by the four college students, she paused and said, "Officer Otaki, please ask them to come over as well."

"What are you talking about? Why should we go with you?"

"Who is this guy?"

"You said you would let us go, and we'll go! Who do you think you are?"

Of course the four of them disagreed to go together.

But with Hanyu Kusunoki's words, Inspector Otaki didn't care whether they agreed or not. He waved his hand, and several policemen walked in and stood behind the four people.

"Please, everyone! If you don't want to be charged with obstructing official business."

Inspector Otaki said seriously.

"..."

The four of them fell silent and looked at each other.

It turns out that the identity of a police officer is still very useful.

The four college students who had just been clamoring to leave immediately followed the police to the warehouse of the Second Museum when they heard that they were going to be prosecuted. Their faces were full of reluctance, but they were helpless.

Seeing this scene, Hattori Heiji and Conan, who were looking for clues, looked at each other and followed decisively, intending to see what Hanyu Kusunoki was up to.

A young girl not far away also noticed the situation here.

"That's... Heiji?"

There was a hint of surprise in the girl's voice.

"Yes, ma'am."

"Interesting, it looks like some kind of case has happened. Iori, let's go take a look."

"Miss, the murderer has not been found yet, and there may be danger."

"Haha, don't worry, I'm here with Heiji, he will protect me..."

……

Second Hall Warehouse.

This is where students usually store their equipment. The environment is dim, without even a light. It is only supported by the faint light coming in from the corridor, making it look eerie and scary.

“It’s really dark.”

Hanyu Kusunoki pushed the door open and walked in. His eyes lingered on the box in front of him. There was a pool of blood there, which was where the deceased was first found.

"Nan, do you know who the murderer is?"

Xiaolan asked curiously.

Ikebo Jinghua didn't care much about who the murderer was. What she cared more about at the moment was not to affect her apprentice's competition later.

She checked the time and whispered, "Xiao Nan, we need to hurry up, the game is about to start."

"OK! It'll be done soon."

Hanyu Kusunoki gave them an OK gesture.

He didn't want to get involved in this case at first, as solving the case was the job of those detectives. But Kogoro Mouri just gave him a look that asked for help. After all, he was Xiaolan's father and his own cheap father-in-law, so he might as well solve it.

After looking around the warehouse, Hanyu Kusunoki walked towards the box in the middle.

Coming to the box, he squatted down and looked at the pool of blood.

The blood had dried and turned dark red, with some splatter marks on the edges.

"This is not blood." Xiao Ai walked over, glanced at the bloodstain, dipped a little with her finger, put it to the tip of her nose and sniffed it gently, "This is a red pigment..."

She noticed something was wrong as soon as she entered the warehouse.

As the first place where the body was found, there was no smell of blood at all. This is absolutely impossible.

"Xiao Ai is truly the smartest person in our family!"

Hanyu Nan praised Xiao Ai and turned to look at the four college students who had followed. "When you four found the body, didn't you notice anything unusual?"

The four of them looked at each other. Xiao Techuanjun frowned and said impatiently: "We were all scared by the corpse at that time. Who would pay attention to those things!"

"That makes sense." Hanyu Kusunoki nodded in agreement.

It's quite outrageous. With so many people coming and going, no one noticed that there was no smell of blood in the room.

There are so many detective police officers, but none of them are as good as his little Ai.

He glanced at Hattori Heiji and Conan who rushed in to check after hearing that the bloodstains were paint, "I say, Hattori-san, as a famous detective, you wouldn't have missed something so important, right?"

Hattori Heiji:"……"

He really didn't notice.

At that time, I was so busy going to the locker room to see the corpse that I didn't notice that there was no smell of blood in the warehouse.

But now that I know, everything makes sense.

Hattori Heiji and Conan's eyes lit up. Based on the clues found before, they had roughly guessed who the murderer was. Now they only lacked the key evidence.

This time they won!

Before the two good friends could continue to get excited, Hanyu Kusunoki's unhurried voice sounded again, "The murderer must be you, Otegawa Shun."

!!!

Hearing this, everyone was stunned.

Kotegawa Jun's face suddenly changed, but he quickly pretended to be calm and sneered, "Don't talk nonsense. You want to frame me with this fake bloodstain? What evidence do you have?"