Chapter 854 The Truth of the Bloody Word

Mao Lilan made some noises for a long time but couldn't say anything.

"Hurry up and tell me, tell me you like him!" Suzuki Sonoko shouted in a low voice from the side.

Mao Lilan's face became redder and redder. She didn't know how things turned out like this. She held the phone tightly and opened her mouth but no sound came out.

Seeing that Mao Lilan didn't speak, Conan became even more confused: "What's going on?"

"that is···"

"I like it, I like it, I like it, I like it XN" Suzuki Sonoko kept encouraging.

Yuya also showed an expectant expression.

Mao Lilan took a deep breath and said slowly: "si···si···si···"

"Si?" A question mark popped up above Conan's head. Xiaolan and the others were at home now. Si, could it be Mr. Subaru, no, teacher? ? (The first pronunciation of Subaru is also si)

What happened to him?

"si...si...Subaru he!" Ran Mouri suddenly shouted.

"Huh?" Everyone present blinked their eyes.

Yuya's head tilted, and this time it really hit the table. He quickly covered his chin and let out a painful hiss.

Okiya Subaru showed a rare confused expression and couldn't help pointing at himself - me?

Conan on the other side was not surprised at all. He thought to himself that it was Mr. Subaru and asked, "What happened to Mr. Subaru?"

"No, nothing!" Mao Lilan said in a panic, "I just want to tell you that Mr. Subaru seems to be quite used to living in your house."

Conan was a little confused and thought it was some big deal, so he replied in a daze: "Is that so? That's good."

Okiya Subaru:?

Suzuki Sonoko: ? ?

Yuya:? ? ?

Sera Masumi:! ~

"Anyway, that's it! I'm hanging up first!" Mao Lilan hung up the phone in a hurry.

"Xiaolan, what are you doing!" Suzuki Sonoko shook Mao Lilan's shoulders in frustration, "Why don't you say anything!"

Mao Lilan's face turned red. How could she start the conversation when there were so many people here!

"This, this is not important!" She closed her eyes and shouted, "Shouldn't we investigate the case first?"

"But..." Sera Masumi said tentatively, "You hung up the phone. I wanted to ask about the Kudo case..."

Mao Lilan was stunned, blinking her eyes in confusion: "Okay, it seems so? What should I do? How about I call again?"

"Forget it." Suzuki Sonoko waved her hand in disappointment, "There are two high school detectives here. They can solve the case even without Shinichi."

Ran Mao Li dropped her shoulders, she felt like she had messed up.

Yuu, who was standing beside him, couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Several people looked over immediately.

Yuya quickly stopped laughing, pretended to cough, and said seriously: "Okay, let's go to the crime scene first. I've only heard you say it, but I haven't actually seen it yet."

"That's true," Sera Masumi nodded, "Then let's go over there quickly."

Yuya looked at Okiya Subaru, "Would you like to come with us, Subaru-sensei?"

Okiya Subaru shook his head: "I won't go."

So, under the leadership of Masumi Sera, several people returned to the crime scene.

Yuya looked around and saw that since it was classified as a theft case, there were no police guarding the scene.

Then, he pretended to observe the bloody words on the ground, touched his chin and said, "Indeed, this word is exactly the same as the word death ten years ago."

"Right, that's why I think this case is a homicide!" Sera Masumi said dissatisfiedly, "But the police actually classified it as a theft case..."

"There are bloody words next to the body, and from the angle it's clear that they weren't written by the deceased himself."

"Is that so?" Youye smiled faintly. He took out his wallet from his pocket and placed a few coins according to their sizes on the blank space where the blood words were written.

"Look, don't they match perfectly?"

Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko widened their eyes in surprise: "Really, why is this?"

Sera Masumi was stunned, frowned and looked thoughtful, but soon he suddenly realized something.

Yuya said calmly, "Because this was not written by a person, but the deceased suddenly fell ill and collapsed, the change in his hand fell to the ground, and the blood he vomited just happened to flow over to form this picture."

Suzuki Sonoko asked, "How do you explain that narrow gap in the middle? The blood can't avoid that position by itself, right?"

Before Yuya could answer, Sera Masumi spoke first, "No, I think the cigarette must have fallen there? Isn't that cigarette covered in blood?"

"Also, there was blood on the edge of the wallet that contained the change. I think it must have fallen vertically to the ground..."

She used her palm as a wallet and held it upright in mid-air above the word "death", forming exactly the horizontal line above the word. In this way, with the combination of the coin and the cigarette, the final word "death" was formed.

"After the uncle died, someone happened to pass by here and stole the money on the ground."

Suzuki Sonoko still had some doubts: "Is it possible that the person who stole the money killed the uncle?"

Sera Masumi shook his head: "I don't think so, because if the blood hadn't dried, there wouldn't be such obvious words left behind."

Mao Lilan suddenly realized: "No wonder Inspector Megure classified the case as a theft case, that's why!"

Sera Masumi said with some admiration: "But it's amazing that you thought of this, Kamiya-san."

Youya smiled and said, "Actually, I only discovered this when I saw a photo from ten years ago."

Mao Lilan was a little puzzled: "But the photo from ten years ago only had flowers for offerings, and no coins or cigarettes were seen? Could it be stolen? But I don't remember Shinichi saying that the director's wallet was stolen?"

Sera Masumi denied it, "No, there was something like a coin in that case. No, to be precise, it was six coins, the same six coins you need to cross the Styx."

"Styx, the River Styx?" Suzuki Sonoko's expression was a little stiff.

Mao Lilan laughed dryly: "You don't want to say that it was that child who put it there? How is that possible? He was only five years old at that time!"

Shira Masamune smiled faintly: "After a person dies and enters hell, they need to cross the Styx River. If a person's ghost touches the river water, they will never be reincarnated, so they need to hire a ferry to cross the river. The ferry fee is six coins."

"But that child is from the temple, right? It's not surprising that he knows such customs, right?"

"I think the boy knew this, and only offered six coins to the director after he found out he had passed away. He was afraid someone would take the money, so he covered it with flowers."

Suzuki Sonoko raised another question: "But even if he is a child from the temple, it is impossible for him to carry six coins with him, right?"

Masumi Sera: "If you don't have it, you can use something similar instead. He happens to have it with him."

Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko carefully recalled the photo of the child and shouted, "It's that box of candy!"