"In addition to the master's works on the shelves, there are also our practice works, which are not valuable." Yoshihiko Arita explained after hearing this.
"But this warehouse is really clean." Inspector Megure touched the cabinet and found that there was not a trace of dust on his fingers.
"Ah, this is because we just came here to do a big cleaning not long ago." said Fumio Otani.
"Then, the key issue is still this..." Tang Ze pointed to the long and narrow wound on the calf of the corpse.
Inspector Megure nodded, looking at the bloodstains on the surrounding debris and said, "There's also a lot of blood spilled nearby. It doesn't look natural at all."
"You're overthinking it. She probably didn't succeed the first time she tried to hang herself, and she accidentally fell to the floor. The broken pottery fragments she was using as a footrest cut her foot, so she tried again."
Maori Kogoro looked at the mess on the ground and began to make a wrong inference, "Haven't we often seen that people who committed suicide had their necks fall off the rope because the rope ring was too big?
The blood around the incident was probably caused by the pain from the young lady's injured foot when she was hanging herself."
"But Dad, we seemed to have only heard the sound of the pot breaking once?" Xiaolan asked suspiciously.
"I guess we were still asleep after our previous failure! After all, we drank a lot of alcohol yesterday." Kogoro Mouri defended.
Otani Fumio: "But why did the young lady commit suicide... There is no reason..."
Seto Ryuichi: "There's no sign at all..."
Hearing what the two were saying, Inspector Megure asked in surprise, "What? You don't know why the young lady committed suicide?"
"Well, at the banquet yesterday, the young lady seemed very happy." Arita Yoshihiko nodded and said, "She even drank quite a bit of wine."
"Maybe it's because of the Feng Shui Pill..."
Kikuemon slowly walked over. "Perhaps it's because Yoshiko accidentally broke the Fengshui Pill yesterday, so he couldn't think straight and did something stupid like this. How stupid..."
"Feng Shui Pills?"
"It's my master's new pottery work that will be published soon."
Arita Yoshihiko looked at Inspector Megure and explained, "Yesterday, the master wanted to ask Mr. Maori to appreciate it, and when he asked the young lady to come to the warehouse to take it out, she accidentally broke it.
If you’re worried about this matter…”
"It's not inexplicable that she would commit suicide." Inspector Megure nodded. After a moment's hesitation, he turned to the forensic examiner and said, "Please compare the shape of the pottery fragments with the wound on the victim's leg to see if they match."
"That's certainly true..." the forensic examiner nodded, looking troubled. "But the pottery fragments on the ground have been trampled into a mess, so we're not sure if they can be compared to the wounds."
"Well...if they match, then there's no doubt..."
"It's suicide! It must be suicide, no doubt about it!" Kogoro Mouri heard the conversation between Inspector Megure and the forensic personnel, and he kept saying it was suicide and wanted to make a final decision on the case.
"No, it's not suicide." Tang Ze on the side interrupted their conversation and denied it.
"Hey, do you have any evidence to prove that it wasn't suicide?" Kogoro Mouri asked with an unhappy look on his face when he heard Karasawa refute his argument.
"Mauri-san, it seems a hangover really affects your brain's ability to think. Don't drink so much next time."
Tang Ze chuckled, gave Maori Kogoro a way out, and pointed at the feet of the corpse and said, "I don't know if you noticed, but this young lady is barefoot."
"Huh?" Maori Kogoro immediately came to his senses and looked around and said, "Indeed, I didn't see the young lady's shoes..."
"That's not all." Tang Ze pointed at the deceased's footsteps with his white gloves on. "Look at the young lady's footsteps. Although she walked barefoot, her soles were very clean, without a speck of dust."
"That's what I mean. You see, I came here barefoot too, but the soles of my feet are dirty." Conan also echoed.
Since knowing Conan's identity, the two of them have become more and more tacit in their cooperation on the case. When Tang Ze is reasoning openly, Conan will assist in secret to help Tang Ze's reasoning proceed smoothly.
Sometimes they will use the identity of a child to trick the criminal into believing something is wrong, or use the tactic of "backstabbing innocently" to catch the criminal off guard.
In fact, this kind of "innocent backstabbing" is very lethal, and many words spoken by children are very credible.
And Conan has a special skill "Alele~", which uses an innocent tone to make you feel chilled.
And at this moment, this unique skill appeared.
"Ah, that's weird if that's the case." Conan pretended to be innocent, "I did walk here, but my feet are dirty, so does that mean that Auntie didn't actually walk here?"
"It's very likely that someone brought him here." Tang Ze agreed: "And sleeping here is also weird, isn't it?"
"!?"
The two of them cooperated and instantly reversed the direction of the search. Inspector Megure stroked his chin and said, "This makes the suspicion of homicide even stronger."
Inspector Megure said, looking at the four people beside him, Master Kiuemon and his apprentice, "Based on the current situation, you are highly suspicious since you were sleeping in the living room next to the warehouse before the body was discovered."
Inspector Megure looked at the four people and said, "Let me ask again, are you all really in the living room?"
"That's right!" Arita Yoshihiko nodded. "The only one who left the room was Otani, who went to wake up Yoshiko's wife."
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