Chapter 97

What? It's the same drug!

Could it be that this poisoning case is really related to that case?

Or more likely, the real culprit behind the scenes is the same person!

Everyone present who knew the whole story of the poisoning in the tower apartment became extremely serious. Hagiwara Kenji even asked the unstable vice president to be taken care of by a female teacher, and immediately came to the side of Hoshikawa Kazuaki, pretending to protect him.

Xingchuan and Ming couldn't laugh or cry:

"Don't be so nervous, Brother Yan. The drug used in the poisoning is just the same. It doesn't mean that it was done by one person. Besides, there are so many people here. Can the other party attack me in public? And even if he wants to attack, he may not be able to beat me."

Hagiwara Kenji also joked with him in a light-hearted tone, but his vigilant look remained unchanged.

When Ida Ko received the report from the police officer, his serious face became even more serious than before. The police officer was so frightened that he thought he was too slow and made his leader angry.

At this moment, a few confused hums of "Ah, Ah" suddenly came from the direction of Mouri Kogoro, causing everyone who were already nervous to turn their heads and look in the direction of Mouri Kogoro.

Kogoro Mori, who had been very energetic originally, now looked dazed and dull. He suddenly began to sway left and right, dancing and seemed to be unsteady and about to fall, but he always managed to miraculously regain his balance just before the fall.

Then, under everyone's astonished gazes, he finally staggered to the outer wall of Bei Dao's dormitory, tilted his feet, slid down with his back against the wall, and then maintained a painful sitting posture with his head lowered, and finally became motionless.

Hoshikawa Kazuaki felt that when Mouri Kogoro just started to "dance", Hagiwara Kenji beside him suddenly jumped up and was ready to go. His eyes were fixed in the direction of Mouri Kogoro, and when he saw that the other party lowered his head and stopped moving, he immediately rushed up to check the situation.

Xingchuan Heming quickly grabbed him and explained quickly:

"Don't be impulsive, Kenji-nii. Detective Maori is fine. This is just a special dance that he always performs before entering the reasoning state."

Hoshikawa and Ming explained dryly, trying to make it look like they really believed what they said.

Hagiwara Kenji stopped his move to rush forward, looked suspiciously at Hoshikawa Kazuaki who looked embarrassed, then looked at Maori Kogoro who was sitting motionless in the corner, and asked in confusion:

"Is he really okay? But judging from his body reaction when he just slid down, he is clearly in a state that only a person who has lost consciousness would experience."

"Ah, that, yes, that was a deliberate move made by Detective Maori. As you know, he is a famous detective, so it is inevitable that he has some special habits. For example, he has to pretend to be 'sleeping' when reasoning, and there is also that weird dance move just now. Otherwise, how could the strange reputation of 'the sleeping famous detective' spread?"

Xingchuan and Ming forced an explanation with a cold sweat on their faces.

However, I don’t know if this “special fetish” statement is really that effective, but Hagiwara Kenji actually believed it. Not only did he believe it, he even looked at Date Kou with a sympathetic look, and then said with great emotion:

"No wonder Captain Date wasn't worried about Mori-senpai just now. You also looked like you were used to it. It turns out that you already know this much about Mori-senpai's special hobby."

At this moment, Xingchuan Heming really wanted to say, who wants to understand the special hobby of that sloppy uncle!

The sacrifice he made today to cover for Conan Edogawa was really too great!

At this moment, Maori Kogoro's voice also sounded at the right time:

"Everyone, I now know who the murderer is who used poison to kill Sakai and then used language misleading to remove himself as a suspect."

"Ah! You know who the murderer is so quickly?"

"As expected, you are the famous sleeping detective Maori Kogoro. Tell us who the murderer is."

The crowd of onlookers suddenly became alert. The deceased Bei Dao was not only an acquaintance of theirs, but also a criminal who had been embezzling donations from the welfare home. They had complicated feelings, but they also wanted to end it all as soon as possible.

Date Kou looked at Maori Kogoro with a serious expression and said in a deep voice:

"Then please, Mr. Maori, please help us understand who the murderer is."

Kogoro Mouri sat on the ground without moving, but the sound of talking came from him.

Xingchuan and Ming observed carefully this time. Without paying attention in advance, they could not find where the voice transmitter on his body was placed, nor could they find where Conan was hiding.

I only heard Maori Kogoro's calm analysis:

"Before I reveal the identity of the murderer, please listen to me sort out the timeline. Yesterday afternoon, a grateful Kyoichiro knocked on the door of Mr. Kitajima's dormitory and gave Kitajima a gift that he earned from working part-time.

However, this gift has a serious side effect, which is that it will spray tiny sequins, and once they stick, it is very difficult to clean. And it is precisely the existence of these sequins that allowed us to successfully lock up the three suspects.

Then, in the afternoon, the welfare home announced something to everyone. That is, Hoshikawa Kazuaki, who had left the welfare home for three years, would come back here with his friends for a visit early the next morning.

In fact, Xingchuan and Ming's return was already agreed with the old director three days ago. However, because the director, like many people in the welfare home, is my fan, she wanted to give everyone a surprise today.

That's why they didn't suddenly announce until yesterday afternoon that Xingchuan and Ming were coming back, and they made an appointment with me in advance to keep my identity secret until the welcome party at noon when they introduced me to everyone.

However, the news that Xingchuan was coming back immediately frightened the group that had been embezzling donations for four years. Because they knew, at least some of them knew very well, that all the donations they had been secretly intercepting came from Xingchuan and Ming, a young manga artist.

Once Xingchuan and Ming return to the orphanage and find that the orphanage has not received any donations and that their reputation has even been maliciously slandered by corrupt officials, they will definitely ask for an audit. At that time, their evil deeds will inevitably be exposed.

So after the news was announced, they immediately started to think of a solution. The deceased Sakai's solution was very simple, he wanted to run away with the money. So he immediately bought a ticket to Osaka the next day at the ticket office at the foot of the mountain, and began to pack his luggage in the room.

However, his attempt to escape was discovered by the murderer, who viewed Sakai's behavior as tantamount to betrayal.

The murderer knew that the donor was coming back, but he didn't know that there would be police and detectives among them, so he had no scruples and thought of killing the betrayer and putting all the blame on him.

So the murderer prepared poison in advance, and after dark, he came to the dormitory of the deceased Sakai. After successfully poisoning Sakai, he left a forged suicide note to pin all the charges of corruption on the deceased, and arranged the dormitory as a secret room, creating the illusion that the deceased had committed suicide.

However, the murderer left crucial evidence at the crime scene without realizing it."

Date Hang immediately asked:

"Are those glitters stuck to the door lock?"

Kogoro Mori's voice remained steady.

"Yes, those sequins. The door lock of the deceased's room is an old-fashioned bolt lock, which seems to be locked only from the inside, but in fact, as long as a thin wire is tied to the bolt in advance, and then the thin wire is pulled after the door is closed, the door can be locked from the outside, creating a closed room effect.

During this process, the murderer repeatedly touched the door lock when tying the wire, so he accidentally left the sequins that were previously stuck to his clothes on the door lock.

After leaving, the murderer immediately found two other members of the corruption team and falsified the accounts overnight in an attempt to prove that Sakai had embezzled all the donations.

Date Kou immediately turned his gaze towards Kitajima Shinichi, looking at his anxious and frightened face, and said slowly:

"So that's it. It turns out that Kitajima was the murderer who poisoned Sakai. After all, the murderer left those sequins at the scene when he set up the secret room. But the other two suspects didn't have sequins on their bodies before they came to Kitajima's dormitory at 8:30.

After 8:30, the three of them stayed together until dawn. Therefore, the murderer could only be Shinichi Kitajima, who was sprayed with sequins by the prank toy from the beginning. "

Kitajima Shinichi looked anxious, and immediately retorted with a pale face:

"No! That's not the case. Those sequins aren't just in my room. I did receive a prank toy as a gift after I came back from lunch yesterday. But besides me, Kyoichiro was also sprayed with them..."

Before Kitajima Shinichi finished speaking, the vice-president, who had been silent, immediately shouted angrily:

"You shameless worm, after doing that, you actually want to put the blame on Kyoichiro? He is just a child! How dare you... How dare you do this?"

The vice president was so angry that she was shaking violently, and every word she spoke seemed to be bitten out from between her teeth. She stared at Kitajima with her red and swollen eyes, and her ferocious expression made Kitajima shudder.

Kitajima Shinichi was so frightened that he paused and immediately changed his words:

"Kyoichiro even helped to throw the toy debris into the public trash can at the welfare home. Yes, he helped to throw away the trash, so it is very likely that the sequins got stuck to other people from the trash can.

Sakai's guy usually loves to take advantage of others. Maybe he had offended someone before and was just being sought for revenge. And that person happened to have thrown away garbage yesterday afternoon, so the sequins got stuck on his body and were left at the crime scene."

The more he continued to talk along this line of thought, the more confident Kitajima Shinichi became, and in the end he insisted that this was the truth. Then he glared at Maori Kogoro who had wronged him and insisted that he apologize to him.

Everyone looked at Kitajima in shock. It was hard to imagine that there was such a shameless person. In order to exonerate himself, he even pushed the suspicion onto a child. After being stopped, he immediately pushed the suspicion onto the person who threw the garbage, and finally even made trouble for the detective.

This Beidao Shinichi looked gentle and polite, but he turned out to be a scoundrel? Did he really have no sense of shame at all?