Chapter 132 Osaka is a good place, but it doesn't have Jiangxia
The study door was locked.
Ikemura Gongjiang took out the key and opened the door with a click. At the same time, she lowered her eyes and took out the poison needle she had hidden in advance from the key ring.
…
Ikemura Xun's study is elegantly decorated, with bookshelves on both sides filled with precious books and exquisite ornaments.
"Husband? Don't sleep anymore, we have a guest." Ikemura Gongjiang looked at the man who was sleeping soundly on the desk and walked over.
The others were admiring the ornaments in the study, and the dark-skinned boy from Osaka was talking to Jiang Xia, as if he was concentrating on finding out something. No one paid attention to the desk.
“……”A godsend opportunity.
…
A few seconds later.
Ikemura Isao was pushed by Ikemura Koie who "wanted to wake him up", and he leaned to the side lifelessly and fell to the ground with a thud.
The detectives were startled. Before they could see the situation clearly, they heard Ikemura Gongjiang crying:
"Husband! Husband! What's wrong with you?! Wake up!"
…
Then there was the usual screaming, the suspects gathered around, and the police were called...
While waiting for the police to arrive, Jiang Xia walked around the room looking for clues.
Hattori Heiji never expected to encounter a murder case.
After a start, he immediately got into the state.
But this time, he was a lot busier than usual - not only did he have to collect clues, but he also had to keep an eye on what was going on in Jiang Xia.
…
As a result, when he was distracted like this and was checking a thin needle on the ground, Hattori Heiji bumped his head against someone.
He stood up, holding his forehead in pain, and found that it was Conan who bumped into him - the kid was also looking at the needle on the ground.
Hattori Heiji was stunned and wanted to keep the child away from the corpse.
But before he opened his mouth, he suddenly noticed that Conan had something covering his ears.
“…”
Hattori Heiji asked in confusion, "Why are you wearing earmuffs?" After saying that, he remembered that Conan couldn't hear, so he reached over and wanted to take off the earmuffs and asked again.
But Conan saw his action, covered his ears with his hands and ran away. Finally, he gave him a complicated look of sympathy.
Hattori Heiji was puzzled.
It seems that not only detectives in Tokyo, but even children have strange ways of thinking - if you are afraid of corpses, shouldn't you cover your eyes first? What's the point of covering your ears?
…
It didn't take long for Hattori Heiji to know the answer.
——After questioning the suspect, the police conducted a brief investigation of the scene.
Hattori Heiji was thinking about the cause of the secret room. At this time, he saw Jiang Xia walked up to Inspector Megure and whispered in a voice that was not concealed at all: "The murderer should be Mrs. Ikemura."
Inspector Megure and a group of police officers looked shocked.
Hattori Heiji was also surprised, but he found that the reason for his surprise was different from that of others.
What he was thinking was, "How could the murderer be Mrs. Ikemura who didn't have time to commit the crime?"
Others were shocked that "Mrs. Ikemura actually wanted to kill her husband."
Ikemura Gongjiang's face changed.
Jiang Xia glanced at the shikigami on her lap and started fast forwarding: "Death cases that occur in a closed room are generally considered sudden deaths or suicides. This is one of the reasons why murderers like to disguise the scene as a closed room, but today's case is very strange -
"Mr. Ikemura was stabbed to death with a poison needle in the 'secret room'. At first glance, it looked like suicide, but the place where he was stabbed was behind his right ear. When we came in, he was holding his chin with his right hand. Rather than pretending to be a suicide, this is more like a deliberate attempt to make us think that this suicide was faked, and then start to trace in other directions, focusing more attention on the secret room.
"In this way, Mrs. Ikemura, who was with us before the incident, was ruled out as a suspect due to the time of death. Combine this with other abnormalities in the room - such as the pile of books on the table that looked a bit strange, the music that was played at a high volume, and the sliding keychain that was slightly offset from when the door was opened by Mrs. Ikemura...
"She could have taken out the poison needle hidden in the keychain when she entered the room, and then secretly used the poison needle to kill Mr. Ikemura who was sleeping while we were distracted by other scenes in the study."
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Inspector Megure came back to his senses, looked at Mrs. Ikemura's clenched hands, and called out to his subordinates, "Go check the keychain."
Hattori Heiji approached the police officer in disbelief, and saw that after the key chain slid open, a groove was revealed on the inside, the shape and size of which was just enough to fit a needle.
"..." Although it has not been tested whether it is poisonous, judging from the change in Mrs. Ikemura's expression, Jiang Xia is right.
Beside him, Conan sighed softly and took off his earmuffs.
Although he successfully blocked out Jiang Xia's voice, his observation ability hurt him - as soon as Jiang Xia mentioned the real murderer, everyone in the room looked at Ikemura Kimie, and Conan subconsciously took in this unusual movement, and then...
And then nothing happened.
After seeing the answer to the mystery and combining it with the time of Ikemura Isao's death, Conan instantly understood what was going on with this murder.
…It’s the same whether I bought the earmuffs or not. But I can’t cover my eyes with them in the future.
Thinking of this, Conan became haggard.
However, he glanced at Hattori Heiji who was still in shock, and his mood subtly improved a little - see, it's not just him, the other detectives also reacted the same way when facing Jiang Xia. This shows that he is not weak, but Jiang Xia is so strong that he seems to be cheating.
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In today's case, Hattori Heiji devoted some of his attention to observing Jiang Xia throughout the whole process.
Therefore he was sure that Jiang Xia had not contacted anyone and was just looking around the scene.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, long before the police arrived, when Jiang Xia saw the needle hole on the neck of the deceased, he had been looking at Mrs. Chicun from time to time...
Hattori Heiji fell into deep thought.
Now it seems that the reports about Jiang Xia in the newspapers not only did not exaggerate the facts, but instead weakened Jiang Xia's abilities.
The statement "Jiang Xia named the murderer as soon as he finished looking at the evidence compiled by the police" is totally inappropriate - Jiang Xia had clearly solved the case before the police arrived, and he probably looked at the evidence just to confirm it.
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After watching Jiang Xia's case-solving process on the spot, Hattori Heiji completely dispelled his doubts.
This kind of genius who can immediately tell the truth after just one look at the scene actually exists...
Hattori Heiji: “…” Wait, come to think of it, could Kudo’s sudden disappearance be related to this?
...Indeed, put yourself in their shoes and imagine if every time you go to a crime scene and try to collect evidence, someone next to you suddenly reveals the murderer + the crime process + all the evidence. It's okay once, but if it happens every time...
Although I don't want to admit it, to be honest, he would run away too if he were in my place.
This is no longer a matter of "deciding the winner". This one-sided situation not only makes it impossible to experience the fun of competition, but also makes it impossible to solve the puzzle. It is a complete blow and interference to one's self-awareness.
Hattori Heiji suddenly felt fortunate that he was from Osaka. He was hundreds of kilometers away from Jiangxia and they would never meet.
(End of this chapter)
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