Chapter 78 A fruitful journey

Because a case had occurred, people were coming and going in Room 1003, so the door was left open and a small cabinet was used to block the door. Conan ignored the cordon at the door and broke into the scene.

He did not bother to observe the reactions of the adults at the scene, and asked hurriedly: "Dream of Hope! Is Dream of Hope still there?"

Hearing Conan's question, Suzuki Shiro, who was standing next to the closet, shook his head silently. He picked up a familiar box from the bedside table, and Conan saw that the box that was supposed to contain the dazzling gems was now empty.

The dream of hope was indeed gone.

Captain Mori, who was standing nearby, took off his gloves and asked in confusion, "Who is this young master?"

"Ah, he's my good friend's younger brother, a kid who likes reasoning. Captain Mori, don't worry about him." Suzuki Sonoko, who happened to arrive, explained with a smile, "Mrs. Tsuchiya has woken up. We can go to the medical room to find her and find out what happened."

"I see. Let's go to the medical room together to ask about the situation. By the way, Guanyue, please seal off the room first and don't let anyone in here. Nancun, please deal with the body first." Captain Mori said expressionlessly. He didn't have the slightest awareness that this body was his guest not long ago. He was so cold and indifferent that it was frightening.

"Yes, Captain." Mr. Guanyue also answered seriously, but compared to Captain Mori, his reaction was more rigid and law-abiding, rather than cold and ruthless.

Doctor Nancun even smiled faintly, with a hint of compassion in his eyes: "Okay, Captain, please rest assured."

The two of them stood straight, like two door gods, but this calm attitude, as if nothing had happened, instead brought everyone a strange sense of security.

"Mizuki is the room attendant in charge of rooms 1001 to 1010. She should have been Odagiri. But I heard that she said some rude words to you all when you got on board. As the captain, I feel really sorry." Captain Mori apologized while leading the way forward and bowed slightly.

"No, no, you misunderstood. When the children saw such a beautiful cruise ship, they were so excited that they started running around. Xiaolan couldn't take care of so many children alone, so Miss Odagiri warned them not to go to the bottom of the ship and not to run around. Mr. Kanzuki saw this and thought she had said something bad to the children." Dr. Agasa explained.

"I see. What Odagiri said is true. It's best for guests not to leave the play area. The space under the deck is very dangerous. But it was indeed her fault to say this to the guests. After all, an amusement park employee shouldn't tell guests that if you don't wear a seat belt, you will be thrown out and smashed to pieces, with your brains all over the floor, right?"

Captain Mori said this ghost story expressionlessly, which seemed particularly strange when a guest had already died. Especially since it was only five o'clock in the morning, and although the surroundings were not quiet, they were definitely not lively.

"You're right, but I hope Miss Odagiri has not been punished. After all, she meant well." In this solemn atmosphere, only Morobushi Kagemitsu did not notice anything unusual. He calmly continued Captain Mori's words, and everyone looked at him in astonishment.

It's scary to have just one weirdo, but I didn't expect it to be a pair of weirdos.

Captain Mori pushed open the door of the medical room, turned around and looked at Morobushi Kagemitsu, and answered seriously: "Of course, we never punish employees. If I think someone is unqualified, I will directly dismiss him. And Odagiri is not unqualified yet, she just became a patrol officer."

"I'm really happy to hear this." Zhu Fu Jingguang said lightly, and his expression didn't show that he was happy at all. "Now, let's ask the biggest suspect."

What? Conan suddenly looked up at Morobushi Keimitsu.

Wasn't he the one who provided the alibi for Mrs. Tsuchiya? How did he become the biggest suspect?

"Why? Isn't it often said that the first person to discover something is the most suspicious? And she is the wife of the deceased." Seeing that everyone was suddenly looking at him, Zhu Fujing had a cold face and didn't feel that he had said anything shocking at all.

"Indeed, if a wife is killed, the husband is suspected; if a husband is killed, the wife is suspected... no problem." Shiro Suzuki nodded. Although it was a bit cruel to Mrs. Tsuchiya, she was indeed the biggest suspect at the moment.

"Wait, it's not me. I've been with Mr. Maori. Where's Mr. Maori? Where is Mr. Maori?" Mrs. Tsuchiya, who was half lying on the hospital bed, sat up directly. She tried to get out of bed, but her legs went weak and she fell straight to the ground.

Suzuki Sonoko quickly supported her arms with both hands, helped her back, and comforted her: "Uncle Maori is drunk and is sleeping now. He will prove it for you when he wakes up."

Zhu Fushiki Jingguang first looked at Suzuki Sonoko, and then looked at Mrs. Tsuchiya. He thought for two seconds, stepped forward to comfort her, "Indeed, if you were really with Mr. Maori the whole time, he would naturally prove it for you when he wakes up. Now, please tell me what happened after you left the restaurant."

After hearing that Maori Kogoro was just drunk and would testify for her when he woke up, Mrs. Tsuchiya finally lay back down with peace of mind and said weakly, "Ahui and I left the restaurant at 10:30, and many people saw us. We arrived at the room at 10:35."

"After entering the room, I was about to change my clothes when Ah Hui suddenly told me that he had an appointment later and asked me to go out and play for a while before coming back. I asked him what time he needed me to be, and he told me to go to the Blue Bird Bar and wait for him. He would come to the bar to find me after he finished his business."

Mrs. Tsuchiya lowered her head and thought for a moment. "Then... I went out. Not long after I entered the bar, I saw Mr. Maori come in. I heard him order a lot of beer, and it seemed that he would drink for a long time. I thought it would be a good idea to find a detective to kill time. I can listen to his interesting stories."

"So I invited Mr. Maori to drink with me, and we kept chatting until I almost fell asleep, but Ah Hui still didn't come to see me. I thought maybe he had forgotten about me, so I decided to go back to the room to see what was going on... Mr. Maori also thought it was about time, so he left with me, and then..."

One drop, two drops, water drops fell continuously on the sheets. She wiped the sheets helplessly, as if she didn't understand why water was suddenly dripping.

Suddenly she realized that what were falling were not drops of water, but her tears.

Mrs. Tsuchiya opened her lips slightly, trying to force a smile, but then she covered her face and burst into tears. Her sad cry made anyone who heard it cry.

"My condolences, ma'am." Captain Mori took off his hat and bowed, expressing his sympathy politely: "I'm very sorry that this happened on my ship. I want to confirm something with you. Is the room card always with you?"

But Mrs. Tsuchiya cried so hard that she looked like she was going to faint again, so Suzuki Sonoko had to give her a glass of water to stop her crying.

After taking the water, Mrs. Tsuchiya gradually recovered. Her eyes were very red and her whole body was shaking, but she still tried to answer: "I was in the booth. I... I put my handbag between the sofa and my body, and the room card was in my handbag. I can only guarantee that the handbag was always behind me, but the room card... I... I can't be sure. But when I left, the room card was indeed in my handbag."

Morobushi Kagemitsu didn't think anyone could get the room card from Mrs. Tsuchiya. After all, even Kaito Kid had failed. They all underestimated Mr. Mori's alertness, although this alertness was the alertness of someone approaching Mrs. Tsuchiya. If Kid had prepared one or two women's clothes, he would have been the biggest suspect by now.

However, revealing this information would be equivalent to selling out Kaito Kidd. On the premise that he and Jing Yayoi agreed to let the other party go, Zhu Fushi Jingguang did not really want to kill this big white pigeon.

"But the biggest suspect at the moment is the man who Mrs. Tsuchiya said had an appointment with Mr. Tsuchiya. If it was a stranger, Mr. Tsuchiya would not have resisted. You have to know that although Mr. Tsuchiya has retired for a long time, he is still a coach who is nearly two meters tall, weighs two hundred kilograms, knows karate, and is definitely not a low level."

Zhu Fu Jingguang said lightly.

Conan looked at Zhu Fu Jingguang strangely. Did Oda Hiroshi talk so much before? If Oda Hiroshi had not volunteered, Conan would have felt guilty for forcing a socially anxious person to come out.

Noticing Conan's inquiring gaze, Zhu Fu Jingguang added: "It's such a simple thing, I didn't expect you guys didn't see it."

...So, have we made you so stupid that you've become talkative?

In order to avoid being scolded again, Conan took over the reasoning: "What time does room service usually start? Room 1003 is very clean, as if it had just been prepared." But who in their right mind would clean their room at 11 o'clock at night?

"It depends on the guest's request. Generally speaking, once the guest has left, the room attendant in charge will go to clean the room. During the banquet, I saw Mr. Tsuchiya arrive at the restaurant at 7:24. If he came out of the room, then the cleaning time should be around this time."

Captain Mori thought for a moment and said, "You can ask Guanyue about the exact time later. However, this is a cruise ship after all...so we don't have any surveillance cameras. You can use his words as a reference."

But that's not necessarily true, right?

Captain Mori was truly ruthless and selfless. He betrayed his subordinates before they even suspected the staff. Moreover, he could be so accurate as to 7:24. Would he have written down the entry and exit times of every guest at the banquet in a notebook?

"Then did Aunt Tsuchiya and Uncle Tsuchiya tell you about the appointment after they returned to their room?" Conan asked sweetly.

"Yes, we were chatting and said we would have a drink together later. But when I was about to go to the closet to get some clothes, Ah Hui suddenly told me that he forgot about his appointment and asked me to go to the bar to wait for him. Moreover, he did not let me change clothes, saying that the other party would be here soon and it was urgent."

Conan's eyes lit up, and he propped himself up on the bed, swinging his feet: "Did he see anything? A note? A note? A code?"

Suzuki Sonoko asked in confusion: "Why do you say that?"

"If he was a guest he met at the banquet, Uncle Tsuchiya would have told Aunt Tsuchiya right away. Aren't they always together? Uncle Tsuchiya just chatted with the first mate for a while, and then went to find Uncle Suzuki."

Mrs. Tsuchiya suddenly realized, "I see. If it was a guest at the banquet, Hui would have told me at the time, and would not have walked into the room before letting me leave. So, kid, do you suspect that someone left a secret code for Hui? But if this is really the case..."

Seeing that Mrs. Tsuchiya's tone was getting lower and lower, Zhu Fu Jingguang took over: "It proves that the person who invited Mr. Tsuchiya was a staff member. Otherwise, if the cards of the Tsuchiya couple were with them, how could they open the door and enter the code?"

Conan retorted: "No, there is another possibility. Aunt Tsuchiya, when you left the room, was the room card you used yours or Uncle Tsuchiya's?"

"It's mine. Ah Hui finds it troublesome to carry things, so he usually uses my room card when he goes out. However, he also keeps his room card in his pocket."

Conan nodded, "If he gave his room card to someone else, you wouldn't be able to detect anything unusual, right?"

Mrs. Tsuchiya thought about it and agreed with this statement: "Indeed, I didn't notice whether he brought the room card."

Conan smiled slightly and pushed his glasses with his hand. "In this case, it is also feasible for Uncle Tsuchiya to give his room card to someone else. Suppose, at the banquet, Uncle Tsuchiya gave his room card to someone, and after this person entered the room, before he had time to leave, you went back. In order to prevent you from discovering the connection between them, this person hid in the closet, and Uncle Tsuchiya stopped you from opening the closet."

What!

Mrs. Tsuchiya shuddered at her own imagination. "You, you mean, the murderer was hiding in the closet at the time?"

"No, this person is not necessarily the murderer. However, if Uncle Tsuchiya has a meeting that must be conducted without Auntie... then it proves that there is something wrong with this meeting, isn't it? If we can find this person, many things may be solved."

Conan paused, "Auntie Tsuchiya, can you come back to the room with us? Maybe you can find something different from when you left the room."

Mrs. Tsuchiya turned pale, but she stammered, "Okay, okay, I'll try my best."