Numayama Banzo was like a mad lion at this moment. He looked at Tangze with red eyes and roared. His violent aura made people afraid to approach him.
But Tang Ze, who was at the center of this violent momentum, remained calm and unperturbed.
"Don't you know the answer best?"
Tang Ze said as he walked to his dining table and chair, bent down and placed a rusty iron box with fresh dirt on the surface on the table.
"You..." After seeing this iron box, Numayama Banzo's previous furious words stopped abruptly, as if a pair of invisible hands had instantly strangled his neck.
At this moment, Tang Ze also saw the reactions of the other three people: Nohira Bosuke's confusion, Araiwa's remembrance and guilt, and the undisguised shock and anger in Tokubi Rokuro's eyes.
"This is what's under our Chen Yan's tombstone." Huang Yan looked at the iron box in Tang Ze's hand and couldn't help but look at Tang Ze in surprise and asked: "Why is it in your hands?"
"Because during the day I discovered that someone had recently dug up the soil around the bottom of the tombstone."
Karasawa explained, "In order to prevent the other party from doing anything bad, we dug up the grave with Mr. Numayama's tacit consent and conducted an inspection."
"What!?" Huang Yan was startled when he heard that. He immediately looked at Tang Ze and asked, "Is there anything going on under the tomb?"
Obviously, everyone's first reaction to the grave being dug up was the same. They were afraid that the unknown person had done something under the grave and desecrated the dead.
"No, there's only one shoe inside." Tang Ze shook his head and said, "One of the reasons I brought this box here was to ask you if there's anything missing."
"No." Huang Yan heaved a sigh of relief after hearing that, then shook his head and said, "There's only one shoe."
"Really? Another problem arises."
Tang Ze nodded and said, "Why would someone dig up the grave and restore it without taking anything away?
At first, I didn’t know why, but when I saw these shoes, I suddenly realized something.”
At this point, Tang Ze looked at Numayama Banzo who was silent beside him and said, "At the same time, I also know why the 'Kappa' who sent me the letter said that he had been wrongly accused of murder for eleven years.
Obviously, he thought that it was not himself who killed Chen Yan, but someone else.
And the other party believes that the person who killed Tatsuhiko is you, Mr. Banzo!"
As Tang Ze finished speaking, everyone present was shocked, and they looked at Numayama Banzo in surprise and suspicion, their eyes full of scrutiny.
"What nonsense!!" Numayama Banzo was furious when he heard what Karasawa said: "How could I possibly kill my own son!!"
"I told you, it was the 'Lili Sanke' who sent me the letter who thought so."
Tang Ze put on white gloves and picked up the pair of shoes in the box. "No wonder they thought so. In fact, when I saw the shoes in the box, I felt the same way for a moment."
"Is there anything special about this shoe?" Xiaolan looked at the shoes in Tang Ze's hand and asked doubtfully: "No matter how you look at it, it looks like just an ordinary pair of shoes, right?"
"Look at the inside of the shoe. Isn't it green?" Tang Ze showed the inside of the shoe to everyone.
"Huh? This isn't moldy!?" Maori Kogoro came over to examine the shoes carefully and suddenly exclaimed, "This is paint!"
"pigment!?"
When Nanatsuki Koshimizu and Conan heard this, the doubts in their hearts disappeared in an instant, but the next moment their faces became ugly at the same time, and they looked at Numayama Banzo with even more cold and sharp eyes.
"Green paint."
Tang Ze looked around at everyone and said, "Isn't it easy to make people think of Kappa?
Or, in other words, a child who paints his body green and pretends to be a kappa."
"Could it be that the Kappa that even alarmed the TV station back then was actually that child in disguise?!" Nodaira Bosuke recalled the rumors and a look of disbelief crossed his face. "How is that possible?"
"How is it impossible?"
Nanatsuki Koshimizu asked in return, "Don't forget, you once said that someone had seen a kappa with their own eyes, but how could such an illusory thing exist?
But if it was Tatsuhiko pretending to be a kappa by the river, then there would be a reasonable explanation for being witnessed.
Another piece of evidence is that after Chen Yan passed away, no one saw a kappa anymore, and the place gradually became deserted, with no one pursuing creatures like "kappa" anymore.
"So the possibility of Numayama Tatsuhiko pretending to be a kappa is very high."
Tang Ze said, "If he hadn't been spotted pretending to be a kappa, this place probably wouldn't have been this popular more than ten years ago."
"But why would Tatsuhiko-kun pretend to be a kappa?" Xiaolan asked with a puzzled look on her face. "What good would it do him?"
"That's the problem, and that's why that 'Tari Sanka' believes that Mr. Banzo killed his son."
Tang Ze pointed to his feet and said, "Don't forget, this is a hotel.
Besides the TV station earning revenue from the popularity of disguising as a monster like "Kappa", the biggest beneficiaries are the nearby hotels.
After all, once this news comes out, people from all directions will come to hunt for Kappa, and they naturally need a place to rest and eat.
As this hotel is the closest to the origin of Kappa, I'm sure it's doing pretty good business every day."
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