Chapter 54: You didn’t expect it! Black Chicken! …
Chapter 54
"What was the relationship between Teacher Judy and the deceased?"
"You mean Mr. Takai?"
Judy Stelling tilted her head and thought for a moment before speaking, "Mr. Gao Jing has a bad temper. The soundproofing here isn't very good, and sometimes you can hear people cursing from next door. You can tell he's very angry."
"But it's normal for them to get so angry. After all, Mr. Kawashita and Mr. Nakamachi were still wearing suits after get off work, which shows that their work schedules are very busy and they don't have the mood to buy casual clothes for everyday wear."
Because you are busy with work, do you wear a suit after get off work?
Kurokawa Kaoru lowered his eyes and let out an ambiguous chuckle.
As Kurokawa Kaoru and Judy Stelling chatted, Hattori Heiji and Edogawa Conan, who were searching for clues next door, noticed them. In reality, they had already roughly guessed the annoying murder method and had originally considered using Judy Stelling as the experimenter. However, upon seeing Kurokawa Kaoru, Hattori Heiji suddenly changed his mind for some reason.
"Kurokawa, can you come and help us?"
"I?"
Hearing Hattori Heiji's voice, Kurokawa Kaoru raised his eyebrows and pointed a finger at himself. Seeing the man nod with a smile, his expression was calm. He took two steps forward and walked in front of the man. "What do you need me to do?"
"Let me think..."
He took out a handkerchief from his pocket and covered Kurokawa Kaoru's eyes with it. When he found that the other party showed no signs of struggle, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"We're going to take you to Teacher Judy's room now. All you need to do is keep your eyes closed the entire time, and then open them when we tell you to. It's such a simple thing, you should be able to do it, right?"
"Teacher Judy's room?"
Kurokawa Kaoru was confused for a moment, and then a flash of understanding came into his mind.
They had previously confirmed that, aside from the placement of some minor furniture, the design of Judy Stelene's room was essentially identical to that of the deceased's. After all, the deceased's room couldn't be destroyed, and to recreate the scene of the deceased's death, Judy Stelene's room was the most suitable.
Thinking of this, Kurokawa Kaoru yawned and said lightly, "If you take me to do something dangerous, I will be angry."
"Haha...it won't be dangerous."
Hattori Heiji chuckled twice, then leaned over to Kurokawa Kaoru's ear and continued in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "It's hard to say, Teacher Judy, but... if you say so, there shouldn't be any danger."
Would his words be safe? Kurokawa Kaoru was silent for a moment, then moved his fingers hidden in his sleeves.
"That's better."
Gong You was held by the shoulders as they walked towards Judy Stelling's room. Following behind the two men, Gong You's face was tense and his breathing became a little rapid. Infected by his emotions, Judy Stelling patted Gong You's shoulder and said in a gentle voice, "Didn't the detective from Osaka say there's no danger? There will be no problem."
Gong You opened his mouth and forced out a stiff smile.
He wasn't actually that worried about Kurokawa Kaoru's strength, but Hattori Heiji's expression gave him a very strange feeling, so much so that Miya You couldn't calm down no matter what he said. Thinking of this, Miya You let out a long sigh and his eyes fell on Hattori Heiji.
Heiji...what do you want to do by choosing Kurokawa as the subject of this experiment?
Completely unaware that their brother was already beginning to doubt them, Hattori Heiji and Edogawa Conan took Judy Stelling to her room and began preparing in earnest. To recreate the scene of death, they even drove everyone except Kurokawa Kaoru back to the deceased's room, leaving Kurokawa alone, quietly in the darkened room.
Worried that speaking out would affect their reasoning, Gong You tensed up and didn't say a word.
After a while, several police officers came over and told Hattori Heiji that the things they asked for were ready. Hearing what they said, Hattori Heiji laughed and began their reasoning.
They all knew that the deceased had drunk a lot of alcohol before falling from a high altitude. In order to let the other party have a good rest, Shimoda locked the door and left the deceased alone in the bedroom. Then he drove the deceased's car to take Kawashita and Nakamachi home respectively.
After doing all this, Shimoda returned to the downstairs of the apartment building. Since it was his first time to the deceased's apartment, he wanted to take pictures as a souvenir, but at this moment, the deceased's mobile phone and the deceased himself fell from a height one after another.
Unlike Nakamachi, who sent a message hoping the deceased would be a little more patient with his subordinates, Kawashita, who was still on the phone with someone just a minute before the deceased's death, is clearly much more suspicious. In fact, he is also the murderer identified by Hattori Heiji and Edogawa Conan.
"During the day, while drinking with Mr. Takai, you excused yourself to use the restroom and set up a trap in Mr. Takai's room. After leaving his house, you made a phone call, which also activated the trap."
Without giving anyone a chance to speak, Hattori Heiji took a deep breath and pressed the call button on his phone. At the same time, Kurokawa Kaoru, who was alone in Judy Stelling's room, also received a call. Looking at the incoming call notification, he raised his eyebrows and pressed the answer button.
"Can you hear me, Hattori?"
"Except for the sound being a little low, everything else can be heard clearly."
"Maybe it's because the floor is too high and it's right in the middle of the floor, so the signal is a bit poor."
She didn't take the handkerchief off her eyes. Facing the darkness for a long time, Kurokawa Kaoru relaxed completely. Her tone of voice gave people a lazy feeling: "Wait a moment, I remember the direction of the balcony is...hiss."
"Kurokawa?"
Having anticipated this reaction from Kurokawa Kaoru, Hattori Heiji laughed and took the opportunity to ask the question he most wanted to know the answer to: "At that time, were you trying to get close to Kudo by deliberately shouting those two words to get him to notice you?"
“…”
Through the phone, Hattori Heiji heard the whistling wind and the faint sound of breathing.
Is the signal in this apartment really that bad? Hattori Heiji wondered.
According to his and Edogawa Conan's reasoning, the criminal took advantage of the time to go to the bathroom to adjust the deceased's room. Logically, the deceased's room was the same as Judy Stelling's room, with the balcony to the right of the bed. However, because he had drunk a lot of alcohol during the day and it was dark at the time, the deceased went to the balcony to look for a signal and did not notice that the bed in the bedroom had been moved.
In other words, the balcony that was originally on the right appeared on the left, and the ventilation window without any protection came to the right.
Out of habit, the deceased did not think too much and pushed open the window as if he was climbing over it. It was at this time that the deceased finally discovered the problem.
Phone calls are always uncertain. Kawashita, who chose to call the deceased before his death to ensure he died within his sight, was the one who orchestrated the murder.
He chose Kurokawa Kaoru because of his identity. Compared with Judy Stelling, it was obviously safer to have Kurokawa Kaoru as the experimenter. However, three minutes had passed and he still hadn't heard the other party's voice.
Nothing happened, did it? Hattori Heiji's eyes widened, he lowered his head and exchanged glances with Edogawa Conan, then suddenly ran towards the next door.
In order to facilitate the police's entry and exit, Judy Stelling's door was not locked. He pushed the door open and ran towards the bedroom. However, he did not expect that the moment he pushed the door, the light above his head suddenly lit up, and the person he was worried about was sitting by the window with a smile on his face, with the sky behind him without any protection.
"you……"
Hattori Heiji breathed a sigh of relief: "So you're okay."
"Didn't you ask the police downstairs to take protective measures down there?"
Looking at the inflatable mattress downstairs with a smile, Kurokawa Kaoru chuckled and his eyes fell on Hattori Heiji: "This makes us even. After all, you didn't tell me that you would do such a dangerous thing."
This guy is really...
After confirming that Kurokawa Kaoru was alright, Hattori Heiji breathed a sigh of relief. Only then did he realize that a cold sweat had broken out on his forehead. "Don't you know that scaring someone can kill them?"
"As for the answer to your question just now, I can't tell you for now."
Not surprisingly, seeing the complex expression on Hattori Heiji's face, Kurokawa Kaoru chuckled softly and waved at Gong You, who had just appeared a few seconds behind him. "Because even I haven't figured out why I did that."
At this point, the police had already guessed the criminal's method of killing. Looking at Kawashita, who was pale but had already begun to explain his motive for murder, Officer Megure sighed and raised his hand to let Officer Takagi take Kawashita to the police station.
Everything seemed so natural. The criminal who killed Takai was found. Although it was a bit sad, the matter came to an end.
Judy Stelling and Kurokawa Kaoru only needed to cooperate with the police to make a simple statement and then they would be allowed to leave. As for the other two suspects who had been cleared of suspicion, they were comforting each other at this time. It was obvious that what had just happened was too much for them.
"I still feel a little sorry. After all, this happened the first time Miss Shimoda came to Mr. Takai's apartment. She must be the saddest person now."
Hearing Judy Stelling's voice, Kurokawa Kaoru's expression changed slightly, and he looked up at her: "Teacher Judy, do you feel pity for Miss Shimoda?"
"After all, my boyfriend is dead."
"Normally, shouldn't Mr. Kawaseki be the one feeling sorry for something like this? Mr. Takai certainly deserves death, but Mr. Kawaseki, who did this, can only spend the rest of his life in prison."
"Especially when he doesn't know... there's another person who also wants to kill Mr. Takai. He clearly sees through his intentions, but still pretends to be ignorant and helps him with everything."
Kurokawa Kaoru's words left Judy Stelling stunned. They were the first two to finish their statements; the other three were still in another room. Glancing at Judy Stelling with a half-smile, Kurokawa Kaoru's lips curled upwards as he spoke calmly, "Among all the people present, Miss Shimoda was the only one who hadn't drunk. She was the one who took Mr. Takai to the bedroom. Under normal circumstances, do you think she wouldn't have noticed the changes in the bedroom?"
Ms. Shimoda?
Judy Stelling was stunned for a moment, her breathing quickened a little: "You mean..."
"Even though they were clearly a couple, Ms. Shimoda's phone screensaver wasn't a picture of them together, but a picture of her and another woman. If I remember correctly, that woman was the motive that led Mr. Kawashita to want to kill Mr. Takai. Hiraya Junyo was also Ms. Shimoda's best friend."
Whether it's Kawashita, Shimoda, or even Nakamachi, who acted like a good guy from beginning to end, everyone harbors resentment towards the deceased. Kawashita was arrested simply because he was the most obvious target, but without Shimoda's tacit consent and Nakamachi's suggestion to drink at Takai's apartment, who can guarantee that this would not have happened?
Thinking of this, Kurokawa Kaoru laughed and his eyes fell on Judy Stelling.
"What about you, Miss Judy?"
"Besides being an English teacher at Teitan High School, what are your other identities?"
TBC.
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