Chapter 766: The Magical Use of Paint Buckets

Chapter 766: The Magical Use of Paint Buckets

At this time, Hirukawa Riko mocked, "It is indeed a very interesting magic mechanism, but it is a pity that it is just imagination after all. You have seen the result. I am so disappointed in your police's ability to handle cases. You actually took the fantasy of young people as reality."

The expression on his face was full of sarcasm, and even a hint of complacency.

Inspector Megure's face suddenly turned ugly. He looked at Sera Masumi with dissatisfaction, thinking that he had trusted the detective too much and allowed a young man he didn't know to do whatever he wanted.

He turned his gaze to Youya, and thought his brother was more reliable, so he asked with a little expectation: "Brother Kamiya, what do you think?"

Yuya smiled and said, "Of course I stood and watched."

Inspector Megure blinked his eyes and asked tentatively: "Brother Kamiya, what do you mean..."

Yuya stepped forward and said, "Sera-san's reasoning is fine except for the way he pushed the victim down the stairs at the end."

"Isn't it the right way to push someone down the stairs?" Sera Masumi's face looked a little surprised. She secretly glanced at Conan and found that the latter was tilting his head back, looking as if he was listening attentively.

Inspector Megure asked quickly: "Didn't the murderer use a wheelchair to push the victim away?"

"The tool used is of course a wheelchair, but..." Yuya paused and pointed to the wheelchair that was still on the Japanese wall. Seeing this, Takagi Shigeru quickly turned off the power.

"You can see that this is not a way to push the victim down."

Everyone nodded. Everyone had seen the results of the experiment just now.

Hirukawa Riko sneered, "Then tell me, I, no, how did the murderer push the person down?"

Yuya looked at her, his lips curled up slightly: "Paint pouring."

Hirukawa Riko's face changed slightly, revealing a surprised expression: "What paint?"

Yuya pointed at the two paint cans scattered on the ground and said slowly: "The murderer used these two paint cans to push the person down."

Inspector Megure quickly asked: "How did you fill it with paint?"

Youye pointed at the bottom of the window and said, "Look here, there's a large area of ​​sprayed paint."

Everyone looked over there and saw a large patch of paint with two horizontal marks on it.

There was a visibly change in Hirukawa Riko's expression, and she looked a little flustered, but everyone else was looking at the paint and didn't notice.

"Officer Takagi," Yuya said, "please follow the marks above and place the two paint buckets sideways to see if they match up."

"I understand!" Takagi Wataru responded, with the awareness of being a tool, and went to move the paint bucket happily.

Inspector Megure: "..." Do you have any sense of being my subordinate? Forget it, as long as I can solve the case, that's enough.

Soon, Takagi Shigeru shouted in surprise: "Inspector, the marks on the paint bucket and the wall match perfectly!"

"Really?" Inspector Megure hurried over and took a look and found that it was indeed the case.

He turned to look at Yuya, "What's next, Kamiya brother?"

Yuya said, "Next, as an alternative fixation, please ask Inspector Megure and Officer Takagi to gently step on the paint bucket with their feet, and then move the wheelchair back to the elevator door."

Inspector Megure and Takagi Wataru did as they were told. The former turned back and said, "It's fixed. As for the wheelchair..."

"Let me do it." Sera Masumi volunteered and pulled the wheelchair back to the elevator door.

"Next, turn on the power of the wheelchair."

Masumi Sera pressed the power switch and the wheelchair began to move towards the window.

Yuya also spoke up at the same time: "I won't repeat the previous part. After the wheelchair carrying the victim came out of the elevator, it moved towards the window. When the tripod of the wheelchair hit the paint bucket fixed to the corner of the wall..."

As Yuya spoke, the wheelchair bumped into the paint bucket.

Amid the shocked gazes and exclamations of the crowd, the tripod of the wheelchair slid under the paint bucket, causing the wheelchair to tilt forward. Then, the puppet on the wheelchair was thrown out of the window because of this posture.

"This, what is this?!" Inspector Megure widened his eyes. The puppet was actually pushed down by someone?

Inspector Megure carefully stuck his head out and looked down, and saw that the doll had indeed fallen where the corpse was, but a police officer had already set up a life-saving net there.

Yuya continued, "After Ms. Hirukawa downstairs confirmed that the victim had fallen to his death, she pretended to see a suspicious figure on the roof and made an excuse to go to the roof, so that the elevator stopped on the sixth floor could return to the first floor."

After hearing this, Inspector Megure immediately asked Chiba Kazunobu to call the elevator to the first floor through the intercom.

The elevator began to descend, and the fishing line quickly became taut. The wheelchair was pulled and turned its head sharply, knocking the two paint cans away, and the two paint cans rolled to other places.

The wheelchair was moving towards the elevator door, but was blocked by the door and could not move forward, so it could only keep hitting the door.

Yuya said, "The wheelchair was pulled, first knocking the paint bucket that was fixed there away, and then it kept hitting the elevator door like this."

"Then, the fishing line was pulled, and because 30 centimeters were cut off, it was too long to reach the first floor from the sixth floor, and eventually the rubber band fixed in the elevator would be torn off."

"That way, we didn't see anything when we entered the elevator."

The elevator went down to the first floor, and Chiba Kazunobu soon sent a report that no fishing line or rubber band was found in the elevator.

Yuya continued to reason: "Next, we just need to wait until we get to the rooftop by elevator and make up a random excuse to get out of the elevator. Ah, if I remember correctly, Ms. Hirukawa said that she was afraid so she didn't dare to get out of the elevator, right?"

Hirukawa Riko said nothing, just looked at Yuya coldly.

The experienced Inspector Megure understood a little bit after seeing this and asked, "Then what?"

"Then, just press the buttons for the sixth and second floors before leaving the elevator while we can't see you."

Chiba and Shin took the elevator to the roof and pressed the buttons for the sixth and second floors.

The elevator first arrived at the sixth floor. After the door opened, the wheelchair automatically walked into the elevator under the gaze of people inside and outside the elevator.

After a while, the elevator stopped on the second floor, and soon Chiba Kazunobu's voice rang out on the intercom: "Inspector Megure, the wheelchair is indeed parked where I found it, and the situation is almost exactly the same as it was then!"

The corridor on the sixth floor suddenly fell silent.

Masumi Sera looked at Yuya with admiration, and was suddenly stunned - what was going on, why did he have an expectant expression on his face?

Inspector Megure struggled internally for a while, and finally said, "Brother Kamiya, your reasoning has now been proven to be feasible, and it matches the traces at the scene. So what about the evidence? Is there any evidence that can prove that it was done by Ms. Hirukawa?"

"Of course," Yuya raised his lips slightly, "If I wasn't absolutely sure, I wouldn't be standing here."

Inspector Megure, Takagi Wataru, and Conan: "..."

Sure enough, it comes again, but this question has to be asked again. After all, evidence is a very, very important part in solving a case!