Chapter 685: Instructions from the Murderer
Yuya narrowed his eyes and asked, "What's going on?"
The aunt began to tell the story in a trembling voice.
When she just arrived at Kudo Shinichi's house today, she received a call from a stranger. The other party used a voice changer and the voice was very scary. He said that Kudo Shinichi was locked in the bedroom closet, and if anyone wanted to save him, he should be let out immediately.
When the aunt came to the bedroom, she found that the wardrobe was sealed with tape and a wooden stick was stuck on the handle, so it could not be opened from the inside.
When she opened the closet, she saw Shinichi Kudo who was already dead.
Youya walked to the closet, opened the door and took a look, then touched the door and found that it was sticky. It seemed that what the aunt said was probably true.
Hattori Heiji asked: "Why didn't you call the police when something like this happened? You should know that if the police find out the truth, you will be arrested as an accomplice..."
The aunt cried out in shock: "There is nothing I can do! When I opened the closet, I saw a picture of my son stuck inside!"
The aunt's son was captured by the murderer and used as a threat. In order to prevent her son from getting into an accident, she had no choice but to obey the murderer's orders and disguise the scene to look like a charcoal-burning suicide.
In addition, Youye and the others also learned from her that she would go to the supermarket to buy ingredients for cooking before coming here every day, and this was also confirmed by the supermarket owner.
Moreover, the aunt had no idea that Kudo Shinichi had been murdered before she came, and she spent a lot of time bargaining with the boss.
If the auntie was really the murderer, she would not do something so eye-catching, and it would be easy to discover the fact that there was a conflict in the time she bought the things.
Yuya called the police and called Inspector Megure.
After learning what happened, Inspector Megure heard a shocking thing from Yuya and others.
He stared and asked, "What? The murderer called himself a ghost on the phone?"
"Yes, yes." The auntie looked a little scared, "He hung up the phone after he said that."
Takagi Shigeru frowned and asked, "Mr. Kudo, do you have any grudges with anyone?"
The aunt nodded and was about to say something when Hattori Heiji interrupted, "In fact, the victim is the adopted son of Inubushi Tsunechi, the president of the Inubushi Group who passed away five years ago. He has been very scared recently. It seems that some bad guys have infiltrated the Inubushi family and are using the cursed demon dog to try to make the Inubushi family extinct!"
"Demon, demon dog?" Takagi Wataru was shocked.
Inspector Megure snorted disdainfully: "It does have a bit of the flavor of a suspense novel."
Takagi Wataru suddenly thought of something: "Yeah, there seems to be a similar case in Sherlock Holmes's story."
Inspector Megure was stunned for a moment: "Are you talking about the Inugami family?"
Takagi Shigeru was speechless for a moment.
Conan, the Sherlock Holmes fan, lowered his eyes and sighed helplessly.
Yuya covered his forehead and said speechlessly: "No, Inspector, the Inugami family is a case in another detective novel... Officer Takagi said it was the case of "Buskewell and the Demon Dog" in the Sherlock Holmes collection." (There are many Easter eggs in Conan that pay tribute to the mystery world.)
Takagi Wataru nodded repeatedly, making sounds of approval.
Inspector Megure showed an expression of sudden enlightenment: "I see!"
Yuya and Conan rolled their eyes: You don’t know anything at all?
Takagi Shigeru pretended to cough and changed the subject back to the main topic, asking the aunt: "So, have you heard that the victim had an appointment with anyone?"
The aunt said, "I only heard him say that a young detective from Osaka was coming here..."
Inspector Megure groaned and said, "Since he knows about this, it is very likely that the crime was committed by an acquaintance."
The auntie suddenly remembered something and said quickly, "However, it seems that Mr. Kudo has made an appointment with the murderer to meet..."
Gao Mushi asked hurriedly: "How did you know?"
The aunt said, "Because when I found him in the closet, I saw that he was wearing a suit and a tie, and he looked like he was going out..."
Tie? Suit? Yuya and the other two looked thoughtful.
Hattori Heiji didn't think that Kudo Shinichi would dress so formally to meet him.
Gao Mushi glanced at the ground and saw that the dead man was wearing sportswear instead of a suit, so he asked, "So the murderer asked you to change the dead man into sportswear?"
Otherwise, the aunt would not have said that the deceased might meet the murderer.
The aunt nodded vigorously, and then the murderer instructed her to disguise the scene as a suicide scene.
Takagi Wataru looked around the room and asked, "Did you find anything stolen?"
The aunt shook her head: "I'm afraid only Mr. Kudo knows about this kind of thing..."
Unfortunately, Shinichi Kudo has been killed and there is no way to know his whereabouts.
The aunt suddenly remembered something and said hurriedly, "But the decoration on his tie clip seems to be missing."
"A tie clip? Ornament? Some expensive gem or something?"
The aunt shook her head: "I don't know about that, because I rarely see Mr. Kudo wearing a suit. I just noticed that something was taken off it..."
Everyone was lost in thought. What could have been taken from the tie clip? Was it the murderer?
At this moment, the forensic officers were preparing to take the body away from the scene. However, because Kudo Shinichi was a little fat, it took several people working together to lift the body.
Yuya took a look subconsciously and was suddenly startled - when the body was lifted up, he noticed that something fell out of the dead man's mouth and made a slight sound when it fell to the floor.
"Something fell out of his mouth!" Conan and Hattori Heiji also noticed this, and they hurriedly lay on the ground to search.
Soon, they found a pearl.
Just as Conan was about to pick it up, a white glove picked up the pearl first. He looked up and saw it was Yuya.
Yuya held the pearl and examined it for a while, then said to Inspector Megure, "Inspector, we found this thing in the dead man's mouth. Please take it for an examination. Maybe we can find something."
"If there is the deceased's saliva on it, it means that he put it in his mouth when he was killed. Maybe..."
"It's the death message he left behind!"