Chapter 92

Although the three people's claims of working overtime were very crazy, the fact that they worked overtime together seemed to give them a perfect alibi. However, Date Kou directly refuted:

"This alibi is incomplete. According to the results of the forensic examination, the deceased should have died between 8 and 10 o'clock last night. But you were together at 9 o'clock.

If one of them had sneaked into the deceased's room before nine o'clock and poisoned him, and then returned to Bei Dao's room for a party, then it is entirely possible in terms of time."

"But there is no reason for us to do such a thing. And if you insist on holding us accountable just because our alibi is not sufficient, that's too much. After all, all the alibis of the faculty and staff are incomplete. In comparison, ours should be more complete, right?"

Ms. Arimori's emotions became obviously more excited, and she had unconsciously added a lot of unnecessary movements while speaking.

Conan's eyes fell on her, and as her arms moved, he suddenly discovered that there were some shiny things stuck on her body.

Is that... sequins?

This time, Conan really felt his eyes light up, and he hurried to Ms. Arimori to observe carefully.

Ms. Arimori's fashion style is very trendy, with many decorative folds between the fabrics. The sequins that caught Conan's attention were hidden in these folds.

However, this kind of sequins are not the plastic sheets used to decorate clothes. Instead, they are more like the tiny fragments of small fireworks used to decorate the atmosphere at birthday parties.

Therefore, it is very easy to stick to clothes and not easy to fall off, but it will fall everywhere accidentally. It is the same type as the sequins found at the crime scene.

He quickly pointed to the location of the sequins and shouted in a childish voice:

"Wow! What a beautiful big sister! There are stars shining on her body!"

Kenji Hagiwara, who was still analyzing the suspect's expression, was stunned when he heard this, and then he immediately thought of something, so he asked a female police officer from the Identification Division to go forward and check.

The policewoman quickly gave the answer: the sequins found in the folds of Ms. Arimori's clothes were exactly the same as the sequins retrieved from the crime scene.

Ms. Arimori finally panicked at this time.

"No, it wasn't me. I really didn't go to Sakai's place last night!"

"Then how do you explain why your clothes are stained with the same sequins as those at the crime scene?"

"How...how would I know this?"

At this time, Maori Kogoro suddenly jumped out and said to everyone with a proud look on his face:

"Everyone, I already know who the murderer is!"

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. He knew it so quickly? He is truly the famous detective Maori Kogoro!

Date Kou and Hagiwara Kenji looked at each other and saw the same doubt in each other's eyes.

We clearly have key evidence that has not been made public. How did Mr. Maori find the murderer in the absence of such evidence?

Maori Kogoro raised his hand proudly, pointed in the direction of Ms. Arimori, and said confidently:

"The murderer is you, Ms. Arimori!"

"There is no other lady as beautiful as you in the entire orphanage. The deceased must have wanted to pursue you, but you were annoyed by him, so you poisoned him to death. The evidence is that you accidentally dropped the sequins on your body at the scene while you were poisoning him.

And you accepted Bei Dao's outrageous invitation to a party to fake an alibi in order to get away with the crime after committing the murder. After all, who would agree to attend a party with friends who were all working overtime if they didn't have a special purpose?"

As soon as Kogoro Mouri finished his reasoning, there was a burst of exclamations from the crowd.

"So this is the truth? You are indeed a famous detective. You just found the suspect, but you solved the case so quickly!"

"So Sakai was pursuing Arimori? How come I haven't heard of such a big thing?"

Ms. Arimori's eyes turned red, and she shouted out of control as if she was going crazy:

"What nonsense are you talking about! If Sakai really wanted to pursue me, how could I not agree? And before I received Kitajima's call, I didn't even know that he would invite me to do a fake account with them last night, right? How could he come up with a way to kill someone and then get away with it?"

However, when she stopped, she saw Kitajima and Inoue looking at her with shock and anger, as if they wanted to chew her to pieces.

The teachers and students of the welfare home all fell silent at the same time, and everyone's eyes were focused on her.

Ms. Arimori was a little frightened by the stares from everyone, and could not help but take a step back, muttering:

"What, what's wrong? Why are you all looking at me like that?"

The one who reacted the most was Vice Principal Ishikawa. Her eyes widened abnormally on her normally serious face, and her skin even began to twitch violently.

She looked at Ms. Arimori in shock, then turned to look at Inoue and Kitajima standing beside her. Her lips trembled for a long time before she uttered a strange, hoarse, sharp sound:

"You two actually...actually colluded with each other and secretly made false accounts?"

It was only then that Ms. Arimori realized what she had said in her excitement. Her face turned pale, a paleness that even the makeup on her face could not cover up.

She let out a loud sob from her throat and immediately turned to look at Kitajima Shinichi, her eyes full of pleading and tears instantly wet her eyes.

However, Kitajima Shinichi did not look at her again. Instead, he glanced at Inoue, and then, as if he had made some struggle, he turned to the vice president and said:

"Teacher Ishikawa, I'm really sorry. We had some problems with the welfare home's accounts before, so we wanted to take advantage of the weekend to sort it out. But yesterday afternoon, we learned that there would be guests coming over the weekend, so I asked them to work overtime overnight. As for the fake account issue that Arimori mentioned, I'm really sorry for betraying your trust."

As he spoke, he and Inoue bowed to the vice president. But the vice president seemed to have aged ten years in an instant, his eyes were dull and his whole body became hunched.

The vice president was so shocked that he didn't have the energy to ask them to stand up. The two of them had to stand up on their own awkwardly.

At this moment, Hagiwara Kenji suddenly patted Inoue's shoulder and asked out of the blue:

"Is it really just a matter of the orphanage's accounting problems?"

Inoue was startled.

"What? Oh, of course, that's it."

As he said this, his face instantly lost all color and a thin layer of sweat broke out on the tip of his nose.

Hagiwara Kenji took out the brand new account books that the Identification Division officers had found in Kitajima's room, weighed them in his hand, and said with a smile:

"It's really hard for the three of you to come up with such a huge amount of false accounts in just one night. I don't know about your other abilities, but at least you are quite good at accounting. It seems like you do this kind of thing a lot in your daily life, right?"