Chapter 796 Illusion is another illusion

Chapter 796 Illusion is another illusion

In the study.

Inspector Megure looked at the computer screen in confusion, on which there were one word design after another that read "Wakato no Sake".

But Yuya and the other two did not explain the significance of doing this, and just let Inspector Megure keep looking at the words.

While Inspector Megure was looking at the designs, Yuya asked Shiiaki Masafuki and the others, "Before Mrs. Wakamatsu passed away, she looked at these text designs with you, right?"

Shiiaki Masafuji didn't understand this approach, but he still replied, "That's right."

After a long while, Inspector Megure felt some pain in his eyes. He raised his hand and rubbed his brows. He couldn't help it any longer: "Brother Kamiya, what's the point of you asking me to do this? Didn't you say that you want to solve the method of killing my wife?"

Yuya and Hattori Heiji looked at each other and nodded.

He smiled, took out the white paper and pen he had prepared in advance and said, "It seems that it is almost done. Inspector, please write the words Wakamatsu Serika on the paper now."

Inspector Megure was puzzled, but he still took the pen and started writing on the paper.

However, when he wrote the word "艹", he suddenly froze and couldn't write anything else.

He subconsciously wanted to look up at the screen, but Conan closed the text with a click of the mouse. Conan smiled and said, "Don't peek, because Mrs. Wakamatsu is not used to using this computer system and should not be able to open this document by herself."

Inspector Megure frowned and thought for a long time, but finally gave up and looked up at Takagi Wataru in a daze: "Brother Kamiya, how do you write the word if?"

Takagi Wataru widened his eyes in surprise: "Inspector, you really don't know how to do it? Didn't you see this word a lot just now?"

Yuya smiled slightly: "Yes, there are more than fifty sets of 'Wakato no Sake' just now, which means that the inspector should have seen more than fifty different styles of Wakato."

Hattori Heiji continued: "But it is precisely because I watched too much that I suffered a Gestalt collapse."

"Gestalt collapse phenomenon? What is that?" Inspector Megure and Takagi Wataru looked at Hattori Heiji in confusion.

Hattori Heiji nodded: "Yes, for example, sometimes you see clouds in the sky or stains on the wall as faces or other shapes, right?"

"That's because our visual system tends to group similar elements together to form a holistic perception. However, as people gradually focus their attention on something, they may find that the seemingly solid overall image begins to collapse, and the parts no longer seem to be coordinated, losing their original shape and meaning."

"Because of this, when you look at the same word for a long time, your visual system's ability to sense the word will decline. Even though it is a word you recognize, you will doubt its form and no longer recognize it. This is the so-called Gestalt collapse phenomenon."

"So that's it!" Takagi Shige suddenly realized. Although he had only a vague understanding of the principle of the Gestalt collapse phenomenon, he also understood the murderer's method.

"The murderer showed the words '若人の酒' to the lady over and over again, and after the Gestalt collapse occurred, he asked the lady to sign the document. And the first character of the lady's name is 若... "

And the document that was supposed to be signed had only one word "fuck" written on it, indicating that the lady did suffer from Gestalt collapse.

Inspector Megure also understood: "Then, the Gestalt collapse occurred and the lady who suddenly couldn't write the word 'wa' subconsciously reached for the Chinese dictionary to look it up. As a result, her fingers touched the pages with the 'wa' sound on them, and she swallowed the poison?"

That dictionary did detect a toxic reaction in the wa sound part.

Yuya nodded: "Yes, many people, especially the elderly, have the habit of licking their fingers when turning pages. I asked, and my wife also has this habit."

"Well, let's put it this way," Inspector Megure widened his eyes, "The person who designed this method is..."

Youye nodded: "That's right, the murderer who killed Mr. Ikuro and his wife showed the words to his wife more than fifty times and asked her to sign the document..."

He raised his hand and pointed sideways at someone at the door: "Secretary Satake Yoshimi, the murderer is you!"

Everyone looked at Satake Yoshimi in surprise, even she herself showed a shocked expression.

"Only you can pull this off."

Fujinami Junsei asked Satake Yoshimi in disbelief: "Is it really Miss Satake?"

Shimiaki Masaaki opened his mouth wide: "It's hard, unbelievable..."

Yonehara Sakurako still couldn't believe it. She asked, "Could it be that the evidence is against Ms. Satake? And Mr. Ikuro's hunger is just a coincidence..."

"This is not a coincidence!" Conan suddenly said, "When Mrs. Wakamatsu asked Miss Satake to make black tea, Miss Satake asked if she wanted to use the brand of black tea that Mr. Wakamatsu likes, right?"

"This means that Ms. Satake knows where certain things are placed in the kitchen of this house, right?"

Satake Yoshimi remained silent and did not make any excuses.

Conan continued: "Then, it is possible that the soy sauce was secretly taken away in advance, so that Miss Yonehara had to go out to buy soy sauce, thus delaying the dinner time and causing Mr. Ikuro to be very hungry?"

"So, when was the poison powder on the door handle sprinkled there?" Someone asked again, "Ms. Satake seems to have been with us all along, right?"

Yuuya said casually, "It should have been sprinkled before we arrived, right? When we arrived, Ms. Satake, as the secretary, did not come out with the wife to greet the guests. I guess she was in the room preparing to kill Mr. Ikuro and his wife, right?"

"But, but," Shiiaki Masafuji questioned, "I was the one who suggested that Madam stay in the study to rest, right?"

Yuya smiled faintly: "Even if you weren't there, she would have used other excuses to get the lady to stay. Moreover, when Inspector Megure asked to search the room, she specifically mentioned the search warrant. This is probably to make us discover the trap on the door handle, right?"

"But even if she didn't tell, the police would have discovered it themselves, because we did fall into this trap at one point, thinking that Mr. Yulang had caught the poison on the door handle and poisoned the cake himself and ate it."

"And before that," Hattori Heiji interrupted, "you were the one who called me to my old home in Osaka, got me interested in illusions, and induced me to come to this home, right?"

"The abnormal existence that humans have arbitrarily created is a phantom that you cannot see. This is also referred to as an illusion, right?"