When Inspector Megure arrived at the arcade with the police and heard Ran recount the incident, he was also surprised: "Died during a game?"
Kōyū replied, "Yes, he was alive before that, but he died near the end of the game."
Takagi had already investigated the deceased's identity before he arrived, so he introduced him to Inspector Megure: "The deceased is Mr. Kengo Obō, 21 years old this year. He is currently unemployed. Most people say that he has a bad reputation and is of questionable character. Moreover, his reputation in this arcade is not good either."
Ai looked at Conan, who was deep in thought, and asked, "Kudo, what are your thoughts?"
Conan stroked his chin: "Not yet. The scope is very large. Because of the deceased's identity, they must have made many enemies, so it's not easy to judge."
Suddenly, Judy asked, "Ran, does this officer know Mr. Mori?"
After Ran responded, she noticed Inspector Megure's somewhat puzzled look and quickly introduced, "This is our high school English teacher."
"English teacher?"
Judy nodded: "Yes, my name is Judy Saint Timilion. I hope you will take good care of me, officer."
Inspector Megure paused for a moment, then suddenly his face broke into a wide smile: "My name is Juzou Megure. I'm a Japanese policeman."
Guangyou couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Using plurals is fine."
After hearing this self-introduction in English, Judy shook her finger: "Officer, you can't say 'policemen' at this time, you have to say 'policeman'."
Inspector Megure hesitated for a moment, then read it aloud with a questioning tone after Jodie. But Jodie shook her finger and taught it again in a different tone.
After Inspector Megure finished speaking, he himself was a little confused, his already small eyes squeezing together.
Takagi coughed lightly: "Inspector?"
Seeing Inspector Megure's somewhat embarrassed expression, Kōyū shook his head, thinking that turning a crime scene into an English lesson was alright.
When Takagi told Inspector Megure the results of his investigation, Inspector Megure nodded as if he understood. He turned to Kengo, who was dressed in strange clothes, and asked in confusion, "But why is he dressed like this?"
Izushima, a store clerk, explained: "Because this is a virtual combat game machine, as long as the player participates in the battle, he will feel the same way when the character is attacked, so that the player can feel that he is fighting in real combat."
"Could it be because the sensations are too intense?" This thought immediately popped into Inspector Megure's mind when he heard about the machine's workings.
Upon hearing this, Izushima quickly shook his head, while Takaho, who was dueling with him, said, "Although you will feel attacked, the feeling is not very strong. Even a child can use it easily."
Gao Bao chewed his gum and said nonchalantly, "Besides, even if you could kill someone like that, I would have been the one who got hit the most. I only attacked him two or three times just now."
"Is that so?" Inspector Megure raised an eyebrow and asked Ran, who had been present the whole time.
Ran nodded in agreement: "Yes, in that match, Lucas, the character controlled by Mr. Shimizu, was constantly attacked by Caesar controlled by Mr. Oto, and basically had no ability to fight back."
Looking at Kengo's body and observing the circumstances of his death, Kōyū asked, "Ai, do you have any thoughts?"
After hearing Mitsuyu's words, Ai stepped forward and quickly scanned the deceased's body: "It looks like he died of suffocation."
Conan nodded: "But there are no obvious marks on the neck, so it might be poisoning."
Then Ai looked at Kengo's pupils, then at the inside of his mouth, and finally at his fingertips, and said, "The pupils are asymmetrical, and there are irregular cyanosis on his body. It can be preliminarily determined that he is suffocating due to poisoning."
Inspector Megure turned around and saw a group of children around the deceased. He quickly and sternly shouted at them, "Children, don't get so close."
"Inspector Megure, it seems he died from poisoning." Conan cleverly changed the subject.
Without a second thought, Inspector Megure said, "How could that be, Conan? You have to understand that this uncle died after playing a game, and there are witnesses who said he didn't eat or drink anything beforehand. If there were any problems, they would have been noticed."
Even so, he didn't dare to completely rule out this possibility, so he turned to Takagi and said, "Send Mr. Oto's body to a forensic autopsy first to determine the cause of death."
Jodie raised her eyebrows slightly, glanced at Conan who was talking animatedly with Inspector Megure, and a faint, almost imperceptible smile appeared on her lips.
Inspector Megure frowned as well: "There are too many people at the arcade, it's hard to narrow down the search area."
Conan thought for a moment and said, "I remember there were a few people next to Mr. Oto at the time. One was the older brother from that shop, and then there was Mr. Shimizu Takaho and the six of us."
Judy nodded, then said, "Actually, there's another one, which is the surveillance camera right in front of us."
Seeing that Inspector Megure seemed to have just remembered, Kōyū shrugged. Surveillance cameras were simply not widespread in this era. In his previous life, the police would always send someone to check the nearby surveillance footage first, no matter what. Now, they needed to be reminded.
Inspector Megure immediately said to Izumi, "Your cameras should have recorded the footage, right? Please take us to see it."
After hesitating for a moment, he still walked ahead and led the way. As he walked, a strange noise, like metal knocking or rubbing, rang out in the quiet arcade.
Apart from Kōyū and Ai, everyone else who was present went to the monitoring room to check the surveillance footage. Kōyū sat in a chair, rubbing his chin as he pondered.
Ai was sitting next to her, bored anyway, but after thinking for a long time, she realized that there were no clues to reveal any information about the killer.
At that moment, Guangyou caught a glimpse of a man sitting nearby out of the corner of his eye. He stood up, walked over to the man, and asked, "Uncle, are you the one who repairs these video game machines?"
The man nodded: "Yes, a few machines here broke down today, so I came to fix them. If I can't fix them, they'll have to be sent to the factory for major repairs."
"Then, can the machine check the play history?" A thought flashed through Guangyou's mind. For maintenance and other operations, computers and mobile phones can check the backend to see things like when they were turned on. Since that's the case, Guangyou wondered if these arcade machines could check similar information.
The man nodded: "Sure, but we can only check the coin insertion records."
Guangyou raised an eyebrow, a hint of joy in his eyes: "Just as I expected."
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