“!?!”
When Inspector Megure pushed open the bathroom door, what they saw was a perfectly normal bathroom.
You can see some water marks on the bathroom floor, and several basins are piled on the ground. Everything seems normal.
As for the corpse that Conan and others mentioned, there was no trace of it at all. The bathtub was clean and there was not even a trace of blood.
“Gone…”
"The body disappeared!?"
"How could this happen? This is impossible!!"
Seeing this scene, Conan's expression changed drastically and he looked incredulous.
As a mentally mature adult who has seen the corpse with his own eyes, he is sure that he has definitely seen the corpse before, and Yuantai and others who also saw the corpse can also provide evidence.
But at this moment, there was no corpse in the bathroom, and it was so clean that there was not even a trace of blood.
On the contrary, the bathroom was filled with the smell of shampoo and shower gel, which echoed what the room owner had said before.
"See, I told you, there's no corpse!"
A middle-aged man in a bathrobe walked over, looked down at the four little ghosts in front of him, and said with a look of surprise: "If this is a prank, you guys are going too far!"
"We wouldn't play a prank on something like this!" Conan retorted, "There was indeed a man covered in blood lying in the bathroom before!"
"Hmph! Maybe it was you, uncle, who hid the body!!" Yuantai pointed at the middle-aged man and shouted.
"Yes, that's it!!" Ayumi looked at Inspector Megure and agreed, "He must have noticed us, and then hid the body while we were away from the house!"
"From the time we received the report to the time we got here, it took about fifteen minutes."
Tang Ze looked at the illusory mechanical watch on his wrist and said, "This period of time is already more than enough, enough to clean up the crime scene!"
"ha?"
The middle-aged man looked furious when he heard this and turned to walk to the second floor. "Since you are so suspicious, then I will let you search as much as you want. I am going back to the second floor to sleep!"
"Is it okay? Are you just going to let us search casually?" Inspector Megure said embarrassedly.
"If you don't do anything wrong, you don't have to worry about ghosts knocking on your door. There's nothing shameful in my room. And if you want to ask anything, just ask my brother. He'll be back soon anyway!"
The middle-aged man in a bathrobe snorted disdainfully, looked at everyone and said sarcastically: "Besides, I don't even bother to pay attention to stupid policemen like you who are stupid enough to take a little kid's prank seriously!!"
"Hahaha!!!"
With a disgusting laugh, the middle-aged man walked up to the second floor.
"Search thoroughly!!! The body is definitely still in the house!!"
As if irritated by the other party, Inspector Megure said fiercely: "You must find this body for me!!"
Just as the police were conducting a large-scale search, the younger brother that the middle-aged man had mentioned came back.
The other person looks like a twin of his brother, but they dress completely differently. He has no beard, while his brother has a thick beard and wears glasses.
Similarly, the two seem to have completely different personalities. The younger brother looks much more normal and not as irritable at all.
"Um...excuse me..." the man looked at Inspector Megure and asked, "Excuse me, what is going on here?"
"Oh, sorry, these kids said a body was found in the house..." At this point, Inspector Megure looked at Conan strangely, "Huh? Why are you the only one left, Conan? Where are the other three kids?"
"I was just here..." Conan also looked confused.
"He seemed to be saying that he was going over there to look for clues just now." Tang Ze pointed to the storage room next to him.
"Hey hey...no way..." Conan heard what the guy lying there said and ran over in a hurry.
When Conan ran to the utility room, he found Mitsuhiko sitting on the table reading a book, while Fumi was playing with a little rabbit toy.
Seeing Conan running over in a panic, Ayumi greeted him happily.
"Why did you guys make such a mess in the room?" Inspector Megure followed and asked anxiously when he saw the scene.
After all, it's someone else's home, so even if it's a search, it would be a bit excessive.
Tang Ze looked around the room and found that there were a lot of miscellaneous items and toys in the room. It looked like a storage room.
"We are helping to find clues." Mitsuhiko looked innocent.
"After all, we are the excellent Junior Detective Team!!" As they said this, the two took out the detective badges given to them by Conan and showed them to the two adults, Tang Ze.
"I think so, Genta!" It seemed that because Genta did not participate in the badge display, Ayumi turned her head to look at Genta who was standing on a chair nearby.
But the sudden question made Yuantai stunned. As the most naughty kid among all the kids, Yuantai was the most reckless one. Because of this interruption, the vase he wanted to pick up slipped and fell to the ground.
“Snap!!”
The vase was broken into pieces. Yuan Tai looked at the vase on the ground and knew that he had gotten into trouble. He looked uneasy and said, "Oh no..."
"It's okay...it's not something very valuable..."
The middle-aged man on the side comforted him kindly. His personality seemed completely different from that of the grumpy old man. Even though Yuantai, the naughty kid, broke his own vase, he was not too angry.
"It's so noisy, can you guys just be quiet!!!"
At this moment, the brother's angry roar came from upstairs, startling everyone downstairs.
"Is my brother on the second floor?" the middle-aged man asked, raising his head.
"Well, he just said he was going upstairs to sleep, but he seemed very angry..." Inspector Megure nodded and then asked, "Um... May I ask what kind of business your brother is in?"
"Ah, he's a freelance writer. You know, this line of work requires a relatively quiet environment...so his temper is a bit bad..." the younger brother said embarrassedly.
As he spoke, he handed his business card to Inspector Megure and the other man. Karasawa took the business card and took a look at it. The man's name was Tomofumi Tanaka, and he worked at a securities company.
While the top scholar was talking, the search had unknowingly come to an end, with only the other party's brother's room left.
"If my brother doesn't mind, then I have no problem..." Tomofumi Tanaka led everyone to the other's brother's room.
"elder brother?"
Tomofumi Tanaka knocked on the door but no one answered, so he opened the door and asked, "Can I come in?"
The TV in the room was playing the professional baseball season finals, and a man in a bathrobe was resting his face on the recliner in front of the TV with his right hand, as if he had fallen asleep.
Tanaka Tomofumi walked over and took a quick look, then whispered, "It's okay, come in, my brother seems to be asleep."
Inspector Megure and Karasawa entered the room, but it was obviously empty. There were not even many items placed there, let alone corpses.
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