Chapter 236 Thirty Gachapon

Amuro Toru leaned against the door with a gloomy face, trying to ignore his friend's strange gaze that was lingering on him.

"Amuro-chan, even if I'm a bomb disposal police officer, I can't ignore the 'police' behind me, okay?" Hagiwara Kenji put his hand on his shoulder and blew a breath of air and joked, "Luckily it was me who just came in, otherwise if it was someone else, you wouldn't be able to keep it a secret about your attack on Xiao Nayue."

"Sorry, I don't understand what you are saying." Amuro Toru, who had always been sunny, considerate, and polite, was silent for two seconds, then slowly raised a stiff and gentle smile, but there was a hint of murderous intent in his eyes, "Officer Hagiwara, I really didn't get here much earlier than you, and I just took a look at the injuries on Fūya-kun's body."

Hagiwara Kenji blinked and turned his attention to the detective who was getting dressed behind the curtain. He said with genuine worry in his tone, "Speaking of injuries, are you really okay, detective? Or why don't you rest here for a while?"

The bed curtain was drawn open, and a neatly dressed black-haired young man came out with the bunch of black roses taken from the muzzle of a gun in his arms. He just shook his head at the suggestion: "I'm not injured. Mr. Amuro is only referring to the previous injuries. Don't worry about it."

He also cooperated by using a distant but appropriate title for their apparent relationship.

Hagiwara Kenji's eyes sharpened for a second: "Previous injuries?"

The detective who let the cat out of the bag froze for a second, then shook his head even more firmly: "It has long since healed, leaving only the scar."

Chijiang Nayue changed the topic again and decided to retreat in order to advance.

He took the initiative to put his hands on the buttons of his shirt and quickly unbuttoned two of them. He put on an innocent expression that matched his young face very well, and said as if it was nothing special: "So Hagiwara-kun also wants to be checked? Then I'll take off my clothes now..."

The two tall and strong active police officers at the door panicked for the first time in their lives and rushed over to stop him from unbuttoning his shirt.

"Detective! You can't just take off your clothes!" Hagiwara said in a horrified and weak voice, "Even if they are all boys, you can't do that!!"

As he said this, he buttoned the two buttons carefully, turned to Amuro and gave him an expression that said 'I finally understand you'.

Amuro Toru felt even more exhausted! I never saw Aka being ignorant in this area in the police academy before, so why did he suddenly... Needless to say, it must be the organization's fault! From what I heard about Aka and Vermouth's conversation before, the person who took over Aka in the past few years is probably Rum?

Very well, it was Rum's fault. What did he do to the little bastard to make him develop such bad conditioned reflexes that he even remembers amnesia!

Amuro Toru, who was unaware that his colleague was actually an experimental subject of the organization, successfully took the initiative to put the pot on Rum's face.

Chi Jiang Na Yue, who shocked both of them with just one sentence, pretended that she didn't notice anything, hid her identity and name at the side, and reversed the dump truck to shock them a second time: "Of course I know that I can't take it off casually, but it doesn't matter if I check it..."

"It does matter." Amuro Toru interrupted him, the black energy on his body became even thicker, but even so, he still tried to maintain the arc of his mouth, "Except for regular *emphasized* doctors who really have such requirements, if others ask you to take it off, just punch them, Kou·Tani·kun."

He pronounced the name with murderous intent, and Chijiang Nayue suddenly became quiet, but only for a few seconds.

"…I am twenty years old, not twelve."

The detective pointed out calmly, giving two overprotective friends of the same year a weird look.

Being stared at, Hagiwara pinched his brows in pain: "No, sorry, Detective-chan, it's because I'm twenty years old that I'm even more worried..."

Even at the age of 20, she has been trained to be able to get rid of her clothes whenever she wants - this is the most creative part!

Hagiwara was somewhat glad that he had run over when the others were discussing just now, otherwise if that scene had been seen by others, he would have had to handcuff himself and Kojira together this time.

It’s too cruel!

"Wait a minute, was it Dr. Shinichi who asked you to take it off?" Hagiwara suddenly caught the blind spot. He raised his head solemnly, worried, "Detective, he didn't do anything, did he?"

Amuro Toru and Akae Nazuki both recalled the restrained, trembling embrace, and then the detective shook his head again in a serious tone, "No."

The other two looked even more serious: Why does the detective sound so regretful? What on earth are you expecting?

In order to prevent them from asking more questions, Akae Nazuki calmly changed the subject: "Hagiwara-kun is here to call us over, right? Aren't you leaving now?"

"So just call me by my name." Hagiwara followed Akae's thoughts and did not pursue them. He thought for a while and summarized the most important developments on the other side in a simple and easy-to-understand way, "Tsuji Masazō is dead."

Amuro Toru looked surprised: "We've only been gone for less than half an hour, right?"

"Yes, but the rough estimate of the time of Tsuji Masazo's death is around this morning." Hagiwara said helplessly, "We hadn't even come to Kyoto at that time."

The two people who had been staying here received the information they had missed from Hagiwara.

Before the three of them rushed to the cabin, Conan and Hattori had almost finished collecting evidence. The former even used his identity as a child to extract a lot of information from the eldest lady. The most important thing was what the other party had blurted out before... There was no corpse in the coffin ten years ago.

But the eldest lady's lips were pale and she looked about to fall - she suddenly discovered that the body of her mother who died ten years ago was actually in the body of the statue she often visited. This was completely understandable to others, so Conan and Hattori tacitly decided to let the eldest lady rest for a while.

When Hagiwara and his team arrived, the two detectives, one big and one small, took advantage of the children's absence and revealed the cruel truth of ten years ago: Yuri Tsuji's mother did not commit suicide as the police and most people believed, but was murdered by Masazao Tsuji!

It didn't take much effort to come to this conclusion, because when the lady "committed suicide", there were only three of them in the manor, and there was not even a servant.

Moreover, anyone who saw the skeleton could have concluded that the lady was murdered. Although Masao Tsuji was the first person to have the most contact with the corpse, the case was ultimately ruled to be suicide.

The most likely possibility is that Tsuji Shozo bribed all the people involved in the matter by some unknown means, pushing for the case to be settled in a hurry and to clear himself of suspicion.

After being almost certain that Masazo Tsuji was the murderer, the group rushed to the main house to reunite with the children, hoping to find the owner of the manor who should be sleeping in the bedroom at this time.

The children who arrived earlier were incoherent and could not explain their purpose clearly and completely, so the housekeeper was a little confused. He only knew that they seemed to want to find Tsuji Masazō. It was not until the adults came and carefully explained that something unexpected had happened that the housekeeper took them to the outside of Tsuji Masazō's bedroom.

However, no matter how the butler knocked on the door, no one inside responded.

What happened after the door was opened was completely unexpected - Shozo Tsuji actually hanged himself in his room.

"But I checked with Xiao Zhenping before I came here, and it wasn't suicide." Hagiwara gestured, and the three of them were now walking towards the bedroom where the others were gathered. "There were no scratches on the ears, and the strangulation marks were clearly backwards instead of upwards."

If the person was hanged, the marks on the neck would basically be slanted upwards, while if the person was strangled, the marks would mostly be horizontal. After all, the points of force used in the two cases are completely different.

"If the time of death was in the morning, I remember the housekeeper said that before we came, there were only him, the chef, and the young lady here." Amuro Toru analyzed seriously, "So the murderer is probably among the three of them."

The eldest daughter should have been the least suspicious, because as a woman she does not have the natural strength to strangle a fat man like Masazō Tsuji easily. However, considering that as a swimmer, her upper body strength can support her to do this, so her suspicion is not reduced at all.

"It's the butler."

The detective, who had been silent along the way and was absent-mindedly looking at the bouquet of flowers in his hand, suddenly spoke when they arrived outside the victim's bedroom.

His voice almost overlapped with the childish voice faintly coming from the door, because at this time the reasoning in the bedroom had also come to an end. Edogawa Conan, who had found the answer without much effort, was pointing at the old man who seemed to be smiling all the time, and said loudly: "The murderer is you!"

This case was really simple, because the murderer did not try to hide his suspicion at all. He looked like he was deliberately waiting for one of the detectives present to point out his identity as the murderer. He did not even bother to clean the blood stains on his clothes, allowing Conan to see splashes of blood on the inside of the hem of his clothes.

The young detective guessed that it was most likely an accidental injury when Tsuji Masazo was strangled, or it might be Tsuji Masazo's blood.

This was only the most superficial evidence he had found.

Conan previously discovered that the butler had collected a photo, and the woman in the photo... rather than looking like the eldest daughter, it was more like the previous plaster statue. It was estimated that the person in the photo was the eldest daughter's deceased mother.

It was this photo that allowed Conan to find the murderer's motive and completely confirm the murderer's identity.

Just as Conan deduced, after he pointed out that the butler was the murderer, the first person to speak was not the butler himself, but the dazed young lady beside him. She stepped forward, stretched out her hand in front of the butler, and said timidly: "Little brother Conan, please don't joke at this time, okay?"

The butler sighed under everyone's gaze. He gently pushed away the young lady's arm, squatted down to look Conan in the eye, and asked, "Well, can you let me hear your reasoning?"

Hattori Heiji noticed with his sharp eyes that the young lady's hands were clenched into fists.

"First of all..." Conan's voice was very calm, and no one saw the complexity in his eyes, "Butler, you are actually Sister Tsuji's grandfather, right?"

"...What?!" Most people in the room exclaimed in surprise.

Including the eldest lady herself, she looked at the housekeeper in disbelief.

The housekeeper laughed and readily admitted the matter: "Yes, after all, Nana - Miss Lily's mother is my only daughter."