Chapter 1206 1214 [The Joy of Acting]

“This has nothing to do with the cartoon.”

Conan interrupted, "Actually, I saw Miss Ichikawa poisoning someone in the luggage storage room. But when I was about to tell others, someone used a handkerchief soaked in anesthetic to knock me out from behind - so there must be another person who knows about this murder. The case may not be over yet."

Dr. Utsumi breathed a sigh of relief when he heard these words:

It seems that I was overthinking it. The matter has nothing to do with me, and I don’t know which guy is making such a fuss.

In this case, there is no need to rush to kill Jiang Xia and the child.

…

The police were skeptical after hearing Conan's words.

He looked back at the items that everyone had displayed: "But we just checked, there is nothing here like the 'handkerchief soaked with anesthetic' you mentioned, nor any similar drugs..."

Just then, several police officers carried out Kotaro Ichikawa's body.

The moment the stretcher left the ground, as the corpse's posture changed slightly, a key slipped out of his pocket and fell to the ground with a clang.

Jiang Xia looked down and looked at the housekeeper: "Whose key is this?"

"This style..." The butler took a closer look and looked puzzled, "It should be the key to the basement. But, but the master never goes to the basement. He thinks it's too cold there. Whenever he needs something, he always asks us to get it... Why would he carry the key there with him?"

Conan hesitated and said, "I was just locked in the basement..."

Could it be that the person who made him faint was actually Kotaro Ichikawa himself?

Why did this man drink the wine even though he knew it was poisonous? He didn't look like he wanted to commit suicide. Could it be that he was obsessed with being a riddle teller, so...

…

Conan instinctively felt that something was wrong, and looked around carefully, trying to find the problem and solve the mystery.

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from the side.

"I seem to know why Mr. Ichikawa always doesn't let me into the house." Jiang Xia looked at the wall on the side, his eyes fixed on a portrait.

It was a large portrait of Ichikawa Kotaro himself, inlaid on a wall made of interlaced wooden ridges. The man in the picture had a dignified face and a terrifying look in his eyes, which made one's heart shiver at a glance.

"Right eye." Jiang Xia pointed at the eye of the portrait. "There is a mini camera hidden behind his right eye."

"Camera?" The police officer's eyes lit up, and then he was a little bit unbelievable - there was actually a surveillance camera at the crime scene, which was really rare... No, don't be too happy too soon. What if it's a bad one?

After discovering something was wrong, those hidden mechanisms were no longer so hidden in the eyes of everyone.

The group of people soon discovered that there were wires hidden on the picture frame, which went up from the mini surveillance camera to the room upstairs.

The police, detectives and onlookers immediately ran upstairs again.

Doctor Utsumi looked at this scene with a worried look on his face:

The contents of the surveillance video were what he was going to use to catch the real murderer. If the police and detectives found out about this, he would lose a useful tool in the future... Tsk, a nosy detective.

…

Unfortunately, the murderous intent in Dr. Utsumi's heart could not prevent what was going to happen next.

It even gave some detectives a little more motivation.

When we got upstairs, we saw a TV set. It was in standby mode and looked like it had been adjusted and could be played at any time.

The police quickly set up a video camera and pointed it at the screen, ready to record any evidence that might appear.

The technician tried adjusting the play button.

Soon, the scene that just happened in the reception room was repeated.

Referring to the various clues collected before, the playback progress was adjusted to after Ichikawa Kazue poured red wine for his father.

…

Kotaro Ichikawa took the wine handed to him by his daughter, and a hint of pride as if "everything is under control" flashed across his eyes.

He pretended to taste the wine but did not drink it right away. Instead, he found a topic to talk to his daughters, pacing in the hall as they chatted.

When he walked to the closet, Ichikawa Kotaro secretly poured the wine into the flowerpot while no one was paying attention to him. Then he raised his head and "drank" a few sips from the empty wine glass.

Then he covered his chest with his hands and fell to the ground with a look of pain on his face.

A group of people ran over in panic, and some people screamed.

What happens after that is known to everyone.

——The detective and the doctor ran over, tried to give first aid, but the first aid failed, and they called the police in tears.

…

"Hurry, go check the flowerpot that the wine was poured into!" the police officer shouted hurriedly.

Then he touched the back of his head, a little confused: "Since he didn't drink, why did Mr. Ichikawa suddenly get sick? Could it be that he found out that his daughter poisoned him and was mad to death?"

Next to him, Jiang Xia seemed to be watching the surveillance video carefully.

He looked at the screen and said suddenly, "After Mr. Ichikawa fell to the ground, Dr. Okano rushed to give him first aid and gave him a shot of 'cardiac tonic'."

The police officer from Mie County was stunned, but quickly understood what Jiang Xia was saying.

He called out to his subordinates again: "Go check the ingredients in that 'cardiac shot'!"

"Oh, no need."

Dr. Okano stared at himself on the monitor with a dark face.

If he continued to argue, it would only make him look cowardly, so he simply preserved his last bit of dignity and said, "I killed him, but I don't regret killing him!"

The police officer liked this kind of straightforward criminal the most, so he immediately struck while the iron was hot and motioned for him to elaborate:

"What exactly is going on?"

Doctor Okano looked in the direction where the body was carried away and sneered sarcastically:

"Some time ago, Ichikawa Kotaro suddenly had an idea and said he wanted to test his two daughters. He planned to pretend that he had a 'sudden heart attack' to see what attitudes and reactions his daughters would have.

“Inviting a famous detective to stand guard at the banquet hall is also to make the two young ladies tense outside so that they can relax their guard when they return to the reception room and reveal the true scene.

"In practice, it was probably because he discovered that Miss Yizhong had poisoned the wine, so he temporarily changed 'heart attack' to 'poisoning death', and there was no subsequent change."

Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Li Ran were silent for a moment after hearing this.

They had not expected that things would turn out like this: "..." Why play such an unlucky and dangerous role? Would this bring Mr. Ichikawa extra happiness?

The police officer understood: "So you plan to take advantage of the situation and inject poison to kill Mr. Ichikawa while he is giving him first aid, and then put the blame on Ichikawa Kazushige?"

"That's right." A trace of resentment flashed in Dr. Okano's eyes. "Ichikawa, this bastard who only cares about money, deserves to die!"

(End of this chapter)