At 9:20 in the morning, a deafening roar came from the cabin.
"Why didn't you tell me such an important thing earlier?!"
Ishimoto Kyokichi was so angry that he asked Conan in a harsh voice:
"What else do you know? Tell me now!"
Conan lowered his head, not getting angry at all despite being scolded, he just felt a little aggrieved.
He heard a quarrel at 1:30 a.m., and Naoki Kiyoshi died between 3 and 4 a.m. Are these two events related?
Which scenic spot hotel doesn’t have couples staying there?
"The couple walked quickly and did not stay in the corridor for long..."
Conan explained all the information he knew:
"I heard the quarrel and rushed forward to check. I only saw a white figure flashing around the corner. I couldn't see clearly whether he was tall, short, fat or thin..."
"A white silhouette?"
Sakaki Makoto keenly grasped the key point:
"So you didn't see what the other person was wearing?"
"Yeah, but one of them must be wearing a hotel bathrobe!"
Conan said firmly:
"I can't be wrong!"
"Then do you know where they went?"
"Where they turned, there was a corridor and a staircase. The staircase led to the second floor and the corridor led to the bathroom. When I chased them, I wasn't sure which direction they went."
In the early hours of the morning, Conan had no idea that a murder had occurred in the bathroom. Everyone was on guard against the thief who might act again. Would he leave his post because of a quarreling couple?
The answer is obvious.
At that time, Conan thought that even if the couple were thieves, they would have to pass through the area monitored by Makoto Sakaki or Miss Miyano to get to the third floor, and he was the only one guarding the courtyard, so for safety reasons...
He didn't go too far.
"I see!"
Ishimoto Kyokichi believed it and said:
"One of the couple is Takenaka Momoe!"
"She found out that her husband had come to Hakone to bathe in the hot springs with another woman behind her back. She went to catch the adulterer and had a fierce argument. In the end, she blocked the mistress in the bathroom. When she refused to give in, her husband attacked her from behind and strangled her to death in the hot spring pool!"
“........”
“........”
This imagination, which had nothing to do with reality, completely conquered Sakaki Makoto.
Not to mention how much information is contained in just a few sentences, just from the perspective of Kyokichi Ishimoto's thinking...
It is not something that ordinary people can imagine. Compared with Kogoro Mori, it is even worse.
His words shocked everyone, and everyone was amazed. They gave thumbs up and praised Ishimoto Kyokichi's talent for reasoning, while letting him go back happily with his irrelevant conclusions to arrange personnel and look for the "husband" and the "mistress".
"The world is finally clean..."
Seeing Ishimoto Kyokichi walk aside and call his subordinates to command them, Sakaki Makoto sighed:
"Tell me, how many unjust, false and wrongly convicted cases are there in Japan?"
Everyone was silent and speechless.
"Never mind. It's better than being shot in the back 13 times and the result was determined to be suicide."
Sakaki Makoto said calmly:
"Comparing people will make you die, comparing goods will make you throw them away. The world is so big, there will always be people at the bottom. At least they are willing to go through the motions!"
"There must be a third person hiding in the hotel."
After being silent for a long time, Mizuno Reina suddenly spoke:
"Could he be the man in the white bathrobe that Conan saw?"
"Naoki Seiichi was also wearing a white bathrobe, and his body was lying inside the hotel."
Clearing his throat, Sakaki took out his cigarette case, took out the last cigarette, lit it, and took a sip:
"The figure Conan saw might be him."
"Naoki Seiichi?"
Mizuno Reina was slightly startled, remembering the dagger stuck in Naoki Seiichi's back:
"You mean, someone took advantage of the quarrel between Naoki Seiichi and Takenaka Momoe and attacked and killed them?"
"But they were arguing, so why did they go to the bathroom?"
"Because the bathroom is in the corner of the dormitory building."
In the rising smoke, Sakaki Makoto said slowly:
"The Yumoto Onsen Hotel where we stayed has four buildings. The guest rooms we stayed in were in Building A, and next door was Building B, the restaurant. At 1 a.m., the last two staff members passed by the courtyard after taking a shower. They were going back to the dormitory, which means that Building C is directly opposite Building A. So the direction of the bathroom is Building D, which is under renovation and no one will be there late at night."
"What better place in a hotel to commit a crime than the bathroom?"
Hearing this, Conan and the others were shocked!
The criminal planned to kill Takenaka Momoe from the very beginning!
The bathroom was the murder scene chosen by the criminal, so...
That's why Takenaka Momoe was led into the bathroom by the other party without her knowledge.
Could it be...
Did Takenaka Momoe die at the hands of Naoki Seiichi?
"No, no!"
Conan shouted, breathing a little faster:
"After committing the crime, how did the criminal transport the body out of the hotel?"
"There is only one main entrance to the hotel, and the back door is in the restaurant. If the prisoners want to go from the bathroom to the main entrance or restaurant, they have to pass through the corridor I am guarding..."
The sound is getting smaller and smaller.
At the end of his speech, Conan covered his head, squatted down, and curled up into a ball. His head was buzzing and his blood pressure soared.
He knew how the prisoner had left.
A little before 2 a.m., he went to the toilet because he had to pee urgently and was away for 3 minutes!
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