Chapter 782: It's time to choose 3 from 1 again
Hattori Heiji added: "By the way, the word 'eat' in 'give little Abe poison' sounds closer to 'apply' (the two words are pronounced very similarly)."
Kamal hesitated, nodded and said, "Yes," he quickly explained, "I felt that applying poison to people sounded a little wrong, so I thought I didn't hear clearly, and he might have said eat."
Hattori Heiji put his hands in his pockets and said very confidently: "In this case, the little Abe here should not refer to a certain person, but a small candy, that is, a candy ball."
"Candy balls?!" Kamal exclaimed in surprise.
Inspector Megure pondered and said, "I see. From a foreigner's perspective, it is indeed possible that the similar-sounding "little candy" might be heard as "little Abe."
Kamal was very confused and shocked: "Why add a small word to the candy ball and call it little candy?" Are people in Kansai so cute when speaking?
Hattori Heiji smiled and said, "This is why Japanese language is sometimes confusing!"
Conan closed his eyes and muttered quietly: "Is this a term exclusive to your Kansai region?"
He was used to living in Tokyo and didn't think about the accent problem at all, which caused him to lag behind two people in reasoning.
But how did Youya know this? When did he become so familiar with the Kansai dialect, or did he deduce it from some other angle?
"So," Sera Masumi suddenly popped up, "the murderer who poisoned the candy should have been in the bathroom at the time, right?"
"That's right," Youya nodded, "The victim and the murderer agreed to meet at a restaurant but did not sit at the same table. The murderer called the victim to the bathroom over the phone and then poisoned him."
"Investigator Kamel didn't hear the murderer's voice because the murderer only needed to trick the person into the bathroom and stuff the candy into the person's mouth. He didn't need to talk at all. He also threw the phone into the toilet and the call records disappeared."
"Unfortunately, he didn't expect that there was someone else in the bathroom, and that person was an FBI investigator who was very familiar with the crime scene. He immediately thought of sealing off the restaurant and not letting the guests leave."
"So, the murderer should still be among the guests at this time, maybe even pretending to be leisurely eating?"
After hearing this, Inspector Megure immediately ordered: "Since they are childhood friends of the victim, then we should focus on the males between the ages of 30 and 40 and interrogate them one by one!"
"Understood!" Takagi Wataru responded and ran to investigate.
All that’s left now is for the police to identify qualified individuals.
Hattori Heiji patted Conan's head proudly and said to Sera Masumi, "So, I should be one step ahead of this guy at the moment, right?"
Sera Masumi said with a bit of confusion: "What's this kid? Aren't you fighting against Kudo and Kamiya?"
Yuya and Conan were shocked and glared at Hattori Heiji. This guy still spoke without thinking as usual.
Hattori Heiji also realized that he had spoken out of turn, but he was experienced and immediately found an excuse: "Hahaha, of course I'm talking about Kudo who backed this kid's reasoning!
It's this guy who always takes the reasoning he heard from Kudo and pretends it's his own, which makes me sometimes mistake him for Kudo."
Sera Masumi exclaimed: "Is that so~" but I don't know whether she believed it or not.
But based on Hattori Heiji's past experience, he should believe it, right?
Hattori Heiji laughed triumphantly: "It looks like this duel will end with my victory."
"Is that so?" Sera Masumi stroked his chin. "I think Kamiya-san's reasoning progress is about the same as yours. Are you sure you can beat him?"
Hattori Heiji bared his teeth and said proudly: "Since the murderer is the childhood friend of the victim, he must be from Kansai. Kudo and Kamiya, who were born and raised in Tokyo, don't understand some of the local customs, but as a Kansai person, I can understand them immediately!"
Yuya & Conan: Very angry but unable to refute.
They can understand some of the accents, but when it comes to the unique behavioral habits of the local people in Kansai, they really don't know as much as Hattori Heiji.
Are we going to lose this time?
Conan narrowed his eyes and looked at Hattori Heiji with a defiant look.
Youye also frowned slightly. It's not like he hasn't handled cases outside of town before. Even if he has some disadvantages in intelligence, it can't be an excuse for him to fall behind.
This is related to his reputation of having a 100% crime-solving rate!
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Soon, the restaurant staff completed the investigation.
There are a total of 7 people who meet the age requirements, and only 3 of them do not have alibis.
After hearing this, Youya felt relieved. According to the rules of solving cases in the scientific world, the murderer was undoubtedly among these three people.
Hattori Heiji volunteered: "Can I conduct the interrogation of these three people?"
Inspector Megure was dissatisfied: "What are you talking about? This is our job as a police officer!"
Hattori Heiji said with a smile: "Because the murderer may be from the Kansai region, so let me, a Kansai person, investigate, maybe I can detect the clues in the words!"
Inspector Megure thought it made sense. Besides, Hattori Heiji was also a detective, so there should be no problem in interrogating him. Therefore, he agreed to his request.
All three of them looked sweaty and suspicious.
The first person to be interrogated was a square-faced man wearing glasses named Suberori. He currently lives in an apartment in Yūka-cho and said he was a native Tokyoite.
The reason he was sweating was because he ate a plate of very spicy curry.
The second man, named Gan Boheng, was still smoking when he was questioned.
He is also from Tokyo, and the reason he was sweating was because the ramen he ate was very spicy. Hattori Heiji thought his accent was very strange, but he was ridiculed by the other party.
The third person is called Tojo Sanpei. Three generations of his family are from Tokyo. The reason he sweats is that he has a physique that sweats easily.
Because a case happened in the restaurant, we didn’t eat the Mapo Tofu set meal we ordered, and even the fruit after the meal was cancelled.
After asking the question, Inspector Megure asked anxiously, "Are there any Kansai people among those three people just now?"
Hattori Heiji pinched his chin: "I don't know."
Inspector Megure was speechless
Hattori Heiji pinched his chin and said seriously, "But I do know one thing, that is, these three people all ordered very spicy dishes."
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The people present blinked their eyes speechlessly at this remark and looked at Hattori Heiji helplessly.
So all the questions I just asked were in vain?