"Indeed, and there weren't any signs of dragging on the floor."
Officer Yokomizo frowned.
He originally thought that the case could have been solved, but what Mr. Maori said made sense. How could the murderer guarantee that Ishikuri Saburo would appear under the bookshelf at the moment the vase fell?
If we let the ice melt on its own and the vase fall freely to the ground, then there is no way to control time at all.
While he was thinking, Suzuki Sonoko's eyes suddenly lit up and she said:
"I know! Isn't there a tennis racket underneath Mr. Ishikuri's body? If we put ice under the rackets, wouldn't we be able to slide them and move the body? The twisted net on the rackets is proof of this trick!"
"But……"
Officer Yokomizo had just thought of this, but...
"If that were the case, there should be water marks on the floor, and there should also be wet marks on the body's pants, but we didn't find any of those marks."
"Could it be something that could melt away and disappear without leaving any evidence?"
Seeing that everyone finally thought of this step by step, Edogawa Conan's eyes lit up, and his tone of voice became much lighter.
"You mean dry ice? So, if Mr. Ishikuri wants to preserve his ice cream cake, there must be dry ice in the cake box."
Seeing that Kogoro Mouri seemed to want to raise some questions, Aoi Hoshino frowned and interrupted him first.
And just after she finished speaking, Amuro Toru continued:
"Then I guess the murderer must have first hit Mr. Ishikuri with the copper vase, then placed dry ice under the racket, and then threaded a thin rope through the frame of Mr. Ishikuri's racket beforehand. Finally, he placed the racket under Mr. Ishikuri's buttocks. After the criminal left, he only had to pull the thin rope to drag Mr. Ishikuri's body to the door."
"And this also explains why Xiaolan felt a cool sensation under her feet. That's because the dry ice was placed next to the door."
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