"You already know..."
"Prisoner..."
"Who is it?"
Hearing Tang Ze's words, everyone present turned their heads to look at Tang Ze as if they were under a puppet spell.
"Detective Karasawa, you said you already know who the criminal is?" Maori Kogoro said in disbelief: "You said the evidence is conclusive, then where is the evidence..."
"It's right here." Tang Ze pointed to the Go board with black and white pieces beside him and said, "Before he died, Mr. Itakura left us his final message through these Go pieces."
As Tang Ze spoke, everyone's eyes fell on the Go board.
"This is Braille, or what we call Braille," Tang Ze explained. "And if we only look at the black flags on the chessboard, we can understand the message Mr. Itakura left for us."
Tang Ze once got the skill of Braille, although it was only for one year, but he had no problem recognizing these simple words.
As Tang Ze spoke word by word, everyone looked at Soma Ryusuke beside them with horror.
Because the combination of the Braille characters that Karasawa had just read out read, "The murderer is Soma, and the evidence is his watch."
"I remember you said that Mr. Itakura is very picky about watches, and he always takes the guests' watches to admire them every time he visits."
Tang Ze looked at Soma Ryusuke, who was sweating profusely, and said, "If that's the case, then Mr. Soma, the watch you bought just five days ago shouldn't have the fingerprints of Mr. Itakura, who disappeared a week ago."
In other words, as long as Karasawa takes Soma Ryusuke's newly bought watch back, if Itakura's fingerprints are detected on it, then this will be irrefutable evidence.
This is also the reason why Tang Ze drove fast to get to the hotel before everyone else, and deliberately showed off his watch in the elevator.
This was to get Ryusuke Soma to reveal the crucial information, "his watch was newly bought five days ago," when they were riding in the elevator together.
Because he had the original plot as a reference, Tang Ze knew that he only needed to show his watch to attract the attention of the three people and let them talk about the topic of "watches", so he took the initiative to trigger this "plot".
It can be said that this case was too easy to solve since Tang Ze knew the plot and had solid evidence.
As for Ryusuke Soma's motive for killing Taku Itakura, it is a somewhat sad topic.
To sum up, the dreams of Ryusuke Soma and Taku Itakura when they were young were betrayed by each other.
Twenty years ago, Itakura Taku was just an unknown game engineer and a small employee in a game company.
At that time, they were partners in a shogi club and often chatted over a drink after playing shogi.
During their casual chat, they also said that if they became famous in the future, they would work together to design a shogi software that could defeat even celebrities.
But three days ago, when Kogoro Mori found Taku Itakura using the same method he used today, the other party told him to "wait a moment".
At this moment, Soma Ryusuke felt that his long-cherished wish of the past twenty years was a joke.
Over the past twenty years, he has searched through countless records of chess matches between famous chess players for this dream, but he kept making excuses, saying that he would wait until the time was right.
He invested so much energy and effort into this celebrity-level shogi program, and even borrowed money from everywhere to invest so much money in Itakura Taku, but all he got was a perfunctory response like "wait a moment".
Afterwards, his dream was shattered and he was in a state of panic. I told him that I was going out to buy some red wine to cheer him up, and then I went out to buy some red wine and came back.
Also bought were sleeping pills.
"Perhaps twenty years is too long for both him and me." Soma Ryusuke laughed at himself. "After separation, people's hearts and dreams will change with the passage of time."
In response, Tang Ze could only pat the other person on the shoulder and sigh helplessly.
Tang Ze expressed sympathy for his situation, but his mistake was that he should not have chosen such an extreme way to solve the problem.
After that, the hotel fell into an unspeakable silence.
During this time, Conan and Tang Ze exchanged glances calmly.
Looking at the other person's relaxed expression, I knew that he must have finished copying the contents of the disk.
The waiting time did not take too long. Soon, Inspector Megure came to the hotel with Takagi and Chiba with serious faces.
"What's the situation at the scene?"
Megure walked in and saw Maori Kogoro and immediately asked, "Briefly summarize the whole story!"
Following Kogoro Mori's brief explanation, Megure and the other two suddenly became confused.
What's going on?
The case... has been solved?
Looking at the prisoner next to him who had already accepted his fate, Megure was a little confused.
But think about it, Karasawa and Maori Kogoro are present.
Oh, that's alright...
So after saying hello, Megure directed Takagi and Chiba to collect some evidence. After the forensic personnel took photos of the scene, they took the criminal Soma Ryusuke away.
After everyone walked out of the hotel together, they discovered that white snowflakes had been floating in the night sky at some point.
Standing at the gate, Megure suddenly said to Xiaolan: "Kogoro and I still have something to discuss. Let me call a taxi for you two."
"No need." Xiaolan took Conan's hand and said with a smile: "If you walk, you will be home in about 30 minutes."
"Then I'll take you there." Tang Ze saw Xiaolan wanted to refuse, so he waved his hand and said with a smile: "You're welcome. It's so cold, it's better to go home early, and I'm not taking a long detour."
"Well... okay." Xiaolan hesitated and nodded, "Thank you for your help, Detective Tang Ze."
"The parking lot is full. I'm parking at the nearby mall." Tang Ze said as he walked to the side first. "Let's go over there."
But looking at Tang Ze's back, Xiaolan did not take a step to catch up. Instead, she looked at the snowflakes falling from the sky and said sadly: "Conan-kun, do you think... people will change?"
"kindness?"
"After we break up, we must maintain our feelings for each other..." Ran's eyes reddened as if she could empathize with Soma. "It's really hard to just wait like this..."
"Don't worry, Shinichi-nii will definitely be the image that Ran-nii has in mind!"
Conan forced himself to smile brightly, but when he saw the tears welling up in his eyes, he couldn't help but lower his voice and said unsurely, "So you don't have to worry at all..."
At this moment, Conan felt powerless and filled with endless bitterness.
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