With the staggering figure of Maori Kogoro sitting on the bench brought by Karasawa, after many days, the sleeping Kogoro finally appeared again~
"Mr. Maori?" Ikenami Shizuka noticed Maori Kogoro's strange movements and asked worriedly, "Are you okay?"
"Thank you for your kindness, I'm fine." Conan replied with a voice changer in hand: "Ms. Ikenami, under the current circumstances, I think it would be more appropriate for you to go with Officer Yokomizo..."
"I knew you would decide this way, Maori-san!"
Seeing his idol support him, Yokomizo Sango's expression brightened. But before he could make any move, Maori Kogoro changed the subject and said, "However, I'm not here as a suspect. I'm only providing assistance as a witness."
"What?" Yokogouchanwu was stunned when he heard that, then looked at Ikeba Jinghua and said in disbelief.
"That's right, Ms. Ikenami is definitely not the murderer."
Maori Kogoro explained: "If Ms. Ikenami was the criminal, then when she killed Mr. Shibata and escaped, she must have known that the door was not locked.
If the purpose was to retrieve the photos, then when I rang the doorbell and no one answered, Ms. Ikenami should have pretended to open the door and come in instead of preparing to return with us.
"In other words, Detective Yokomizo, your previous deduction that Ms. Ikenami's motive for murder was to retrieve the photo was wrong from the beginning." Tang Ze said from the side.
"Wrong?" Henggou Chanwu looked at Tang Ze with some dissatisfaction and asked, "Why are you so sure?"
Before the truth of the case comes to light, any possibility could be the truth. Why can Tang Ze so confidently rule out his reasoning?
"It's simple. Ms. Ikenami's actions after entering the room are completely inconsistent with your assumptions."
Tang Ze smiled and explained, "Think about it, if the goal is to retrieve the photos, Ms. Ikenami only has a short period of time to get the photos after entering the house.
You even have to be the first to discover it. After all, with Detective Maori and I here, if you're not the first to discover it, you probably won't have the chance to touch the body."
But Ms. Ikenami did not do any of these. Instead, she and Xiaolan focused on the cold food on the table. Even after I found the body, she had no intention of touching it.
In other words, Ms. Ikenami's motives in Yokomizo Sango's previous reasoning were untenable.
After hearing Tang Ze's words, Yokogamizo Chango clearly understood why his reasoning was untenable, but he didn't dwell on it too much. He turned to look at the bald middle-aged man and asked, "Could it be that you are the murderer? I remember you opened the door at that time!"
"Huh?" The bald uncle was a little confused.
"By the way, if Detective Tang Ze hadn't been the first to discover the body after smelling the blood, normally you would have been the one to discover it."
Yokoguro Sango said with a ferocious expression, "Did you accidentally drop some clues when you committed the crime? You're afraid we police will find them, so you returned to the scene to retrieve them?"
Apparently, Yoshikawa Takezo was stunned by this blame before he could even react.
Faced with the scrutinizing look of Yokomizo Sango, even though he was innocent, Yoshikawa Takezo, a short and fat middle-aged man with severe hair loss, still felt tremendous pressure under the gaze of the tall and strong Yokomizo Sango.
"How could I kill him!" Faced with the ferocious-looking Henggou Chanwu who doubted him, he was so anxious that he couldn't help but sweat.
"No, Mr. Yoshikawa is not the criminal either."
At this moment, Maori Kogoro's voice rang out in Yoshikawa Takezo's ears like the sound of nature, "Mr. Yoshikawa's house is just up and down the stairs from here. We can find out that no one is in the house by just making a phone call. It would be very easy to return to the scene to retrieve any evidence left behind after committing the crime.
If he only realized he had left something behind when we arrived, he shouldn't have called us. He could have waited until we left before entering the house, and we had already confirmed that no one was in the house.
"So... then... could the culprit be..."
"That's right, it's Mrs. Shibata who apparently has an alibi!" Tang Ze looked at Shibata Kyoko's drastically changed expression and said in a deep voice: "The criminal is you!"
In the face of Tang Ze's accusation, Shibata Kyoko did not refute fiercely, but stood there in a cold sweat and remained silent.
"But this is impossible..." Yokomizo Sango said in disbelief, "Mrs. Shibata prepared breakfast and left home at five o'clock. She didn't come home until seven in the evening.
If that is the case, how do we explain the morning newspaper left on the dining table after six o'clock?
By the time Mrs. Shibata returns, Detective Karasawa and the others will already be inside, right? The morning paper will already be on the dining table, right?
After raising numerous questions and impossible loopholes in one breath, Yokogouchanwu waited for the answer with some anticipation.
As expected, "Mouri Kogoro" did not disappoint him. In response to his many questions, he opened his mouth and said, "Although Mrs. Shibata's alibi seems flawless at first glance, it is actually full of loopholes.
In her friend's testimony, "after seven o'clock" is a very vague statement.
After all, 7:05 and 7:10 are both within the range of "after 7 o'clock!"
"That means Mrs. Shibata might have already returned home before we arrived."
Tang Ze's words startled Yokogome Sanwu, "If you say so...that breakfast..."
"Yes, maybe she prepared a midnight snack for Mr. Shibata. After all, he played mahjong until after three in the morning."
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