“What the hell!!”
At this moment, a police car appeared at the crime scene, and Tang Ze felt like a group of alpaca were running wildly through his heart.
It hasn't been long since I left the Maori Detective Agency, right?
Did you encounter a case as soon as I left?
When Tang Ze saw the dark-skinned young man speaking with a Kansai accent, he recognized his identity.
The dark skin, the Kansai accent, and the familiar hat all indicate his identity - Hattori Heiji.
The other party's self-introduction also proved his identity. After some understanding, Tang Ze finally understood what happened and confirmed that this case was the case in which the two great detectives from the East and the West met.
Almost shortly after he left, Hattori Heiji visited the office, asking for Kudo, and then met the client who wanted to investigate the character of her son's girlfriend.
Because the other party's husband (Note 1) is a diplomat, in order to serve as a disguise, Hattori Heiji suggested that Maori Kogoro bring them to visit his home as friends, and the client agreed.
So, together with Conan who was forced to drink white wine, everyone came to the client's home, but when they met the client's wife, they found that the client was dead in the secret room.
The situation at that time was that the client, Mrs. Ikemura, took Kogoro Mori and others to her husband's room, but they kept knocking on the door but no one responded.
Afterwards, Mrs. Ikemura took the key and opened the room, and found that the other person had fallen asleep in the room while listening to opera. When Mrs. Ikemura went to wake him up, he did not wake up but fell directly to the ground.
When Kogoro Mori and others approached, the other party had stopped breathing and had died instantly.
After inspection, the room turned out to be a secret room!
After identification, it was found that there was a conspicuous red dot behind the ear of the deceased, and a needle suspected to be the murder weapon fell next to the deceased. The preliminary judgment was that he was poisoned.
Judging from the residual warmth of the corpse, the presence of livor mortis, and the lack of rigor mortis, it was less than thirty minutes before the victim was killed when the body was discovered!
There were two keys to the room, one was in Mrs. Ikemura's hands, and the other was found in the interlayer pocket of the deceased's trousers!
In other words, this is a perfect locked-room murder case!!
However, although Inspector Megure asked Kogoro Mori and Karasawa to work harder and defeat Heiji Futuro, Karasawa had no motivation at all and seemed to be just doing nothing.
After all, this is a duel between two detectives from the East and the West. Tang Ze has no intention of interfering. Compared to this, he has more important plans.
Everything went smoothly after that. After some investigation, Hattori Heiji confidently identified Mrs. Ikemura's father-in-law as the murderer.
Afterwards, Conan, who had drunk white wine, regained his adult appearance in the midst of pain, stood up and pointed out Hattori Heiji's mistakes, telling the world "No one can act cool in front of me"...
Ahem, after a beating, Kudo Shinichi found out the real culprit - Mrs. Ikemura.
And it all started with an incident that happened twenty years ago.
Mrs. Ikemura was not actually the wife of the deceased, Ikemura Isao. At that time, she was the wife of another diplomat, Yamashiro Kenji.
However, Ikemura Isao framed Yamashiro Kenji for corruption, which led to his imprisonment. He eventually died in prison in the fifth year after entering prison.
Ikemura Isao did this not only to exclude his rival who was also a diplomat at the time, but also to get her.
At that time, she knew nothing about what happened. She fell into a low mood because her husband was arrested and her daughter Sachiko was taken away by her husband's relatives.
Ikemura Xun said that he divorced his wife for her and took advantage of the opportunity to marry her.
It wasn't until Ikemura Isao and his ex-wife's son Guishan brought back a photo of his girlfriend Sachiko that she learned the truth.
At the beginning, she just thought that Sachiko looked a lot like her, but she didn't expect Ikemura to try so hard to get them together.
After some questioning, Mrs. Ikemura learned the truth. It turned out that Sachiko was really her and Yamashiro Kenji's daughter, and Ikemura Isao told her everything he had done that year.
That's why Ikemura Isao strongly opposed his son's marriage to Yamashiro Kenji's daughter.
The reason why Ikemura Isao's father, the old man who was identified as the murderer by Hattori Heiji, jumped into the trap and admitted that he was the murderer was because he also knew what happened in the past.
In order to make up for the mistake he made back then, he decided to take the blame for her.
The reason why she wanted to kill was to make her daughter happy and to avenge her ex-husband.
"It turns out my reasoning was wrong from the beginning. This time I admit defeat with conviction!"
When all the reasoning was over, Hattori Heiji looked at Kudo Shinichi and praised him: "As expected of you, Kudo! Your reasoning is really amazing."
"You're wrong!" Enduring the discomfort all over his body, Kudo Shinichi leaned against the wall and said, "Reasoning doesn't distinguish between winning and losing... It doesn't distinguish between high and low.
Because...there is only one truth! ! "
"You're right, I just care too much about winning or losing..." Hattori Heiji pressed his hat, "That's why I'm not calm enough."
“Ugh!!”
The heartache resurfaced, causing him to cover his heart unconsciously. Xiaolan, who saw his weakness, had already hurriedly called the family doctor who lived on the second floor.
His whole body was hot and he felt as if his bones were melting. Realizing that he might turn back into Conan, Kudo Shinichi knew that he could not stay any longer.
He struggled to walk out of the room and prepare to go downstairs, but happened to meet Xiaolan who was running over with the doctor.
"Shinichi?" Looking at the sweaty Shinichi, Xiaolan complained with concern: "You are a patient, how can you move around so casually!"
"Xiaolan!"
Kudo Shinichi's eyes began to blur, "Oh no... If I turn back into Conan now, my... appearance... will be seen... by Xiaolan..."
The dizziness caused Kudo Shinichi to fall straight down the stairs, but the next moment he seemed to be caught steadily by someone, then picked up and moved quickly.
By the time Xiaolan reacted and rushed to the stairs, Kudo Shinichi was no longer there.
"Shinichi!! Where are you!!" Xiaolan shouted everywhere, looking for him.
But to her disappointment, no matter how hard she looked, she couldn't find any trace of him.
On the other side, Kudo in the bathroom was panicked by the figure who suddenly appeared to help him, because he knew that he was about to become a child again.
But the next moment, severe pain filled his mind, making it impossible for him to think, and he was about to scream out loud.
But the next moment, a sinful black hand directly covered his mouth with a towel, blocking his screaming mouth.
Note 1: "Wa Zi" means husband.
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