Chapter 416

"Here is the information you want."

As a former BOSS-class illegal superior AI who almost destroyed all of humanity because of a certain order, she can come and go freely in the electronic sea woven by the network as if it were her own home - provided there is a network - as long as the network exists and what she is looking for is on the network, no one can stop her.

"Help me get through to Velvet." While the others were lost in thought because of the changes in the expressions of the four suspects, Lansemello asked BB, "If he's asleep, just wake him up - there are almost no clues now, and if we rely on guesswork, we can find countless motives, countless murderers, and countless ways of committing crimes..."

"——At least* In the absence of objective evidence, let's start with the subjective motives of the crime."

"By the way, before we go back, I want to ask you a few questions." After Ayanokouji Fumimaro finished questioning the suspects, Hattori Heiji returned the phone to Ayanokouji Fumimaro and looked at the four suspects, "Do you have no other contact with each other except this club? Is the relationship between you and the member who committed suicide three years ago the same?"

"The only relationship between them and the deceased is that of a fan club." Ayanokouji Fumimaro held his notebook and glanced at Hattori Heiji. "Does the suicide of a fan club member three years ago have anything to do with this case?"

"Not sure yet." Hattori Heiji slowly straightened his hat and shook his head at Ayanokouji Fumimaro, "But judging from certain features of the case itself... there is a connection. Just like the clothes worn by the deceased this time, and the two wounds left on the deceased by the murderer."

"The time of suicide has been determined." Ms. Okita put her phone in her pocket and continued what Hattori Heiji said, "It was July 19th three years ago - the dawn of the day when the captain of the Shinsengumi First Team passed away in history. The club's announcement was released that afternoon, and the related news was published in the newspaper on the 20th."

"...I often wonder if there is no control over dangerous goods in this world." Holmes slowly exhaled a puff of gray smoke and met Sherlock's eyes as he bit his cigarette. "Why are all the poisons in the cases cyanide?"

"How should I know?" Sherlock shrugged speechlessly and looked at William who was leaning against the wall holding an unlit cigarette. "But the drug used in this suicide case is also cyanide. To be honest, if you want to commit suicide, there should be many other ways to use it. Even if you take poison, there are more common poisons that can be used..."

"Although there is no direct evidence to support your reasoning, there is indeed a connection between the two cases." William lit the cigarette with magic and glanced at the two people. "What happened three years ago was not suicide. The young man was undoubtedly brutally killed by others."

"…There are no clues that can clearly identify the murderer, and there is nothing suspicious about these four suspects. We can only let them go for now." After the four suspects left the Senbon Torii one after another, Ayanokouji Fumimaro frowned slightly as he looked at the young people gathered together, "So, apart from that date, what else makes you think that the suicide three years ago is related to this case?"

"How about we go back to the hotel to talk?" Okita-kun suggested to everyone, "The body was found in the hotel. If we want to confirm the scene later, it will be more convenient for us to stay in the hotel. Besides, at this point, we should think about lunch. We can also buy some food on the way back."

When Kyoto returned to the hotel, the other people in Chaldea, with the help of BB, had already completed the basic deduction of the motive of the crime.

"We can wait and see what Holmes and the others come up with." El-Melloi II, who was woken up in the early morning in England, pushed his black-framed glasses and smelled the refreshing cigar tiredly. "This is my reasoning about the murderer's motive for the case three years ago-"

"After all, the emotional fluctuations of those people are not false." Lansemello pressed his forehead, and the fairy eyes temporarily replaced the clairvoyance and surfaced to the surface, and then quickly sank again. "If there were other motives that drove them to kill that person, they would not feel sad about it - they would only be afraid that someone would discover their evil deeds."

"This is William James Moriarty."

BB connected a new communication line.

The blond gentleman smiled and raised his finger to the people on the other end of the line. He said lightly, "Detectives will not speak until they have enough evidence and clues to support their reasoning, but I, the Lord of Crime, don't need to worry about that. El-Melloi II's speculation about the motive of the crime is basically correct."

"Even if there may be a slight deviation from reality, it will not affect the final result."

After returning to the hotel in Kyoto, we first went to the meeting room temporarily requisitioned by the police to learn about the progress of the on-site investigation by other police officers.

"The autopsy report on the body is out." Ms. Okita blinked in surprise. "I thought the police were only so efficient in places like Beika-cho where murders happen so frequently."

"Is it really okay for you, a Beika-machi native, to say that murders happen frequently in Beika-machi?" Hattori Heiji complained.

"The Kyoto Prefectural Police have always been very efficient." Ayanokouji Fumimaro glanced at the minors who had found almost nothing all morning, and began to confirm the autopsy report, while continuing the topic they left off at the Senbon Torii. "So, what did you find that made you think that the suicide that happened in Tokyo three years ago was related to the murder that happened this morning?"

"Sakura asked me to check the changes in the video data they released." Sitting with Ms. Okita, Toyama Kazuha frowned as she checked the mobile phone memo she wrote. "Although it's impossible to find evidence because three years have passed and the case was determined to be suicide... But after seeing the changes in the video data I sorted out, Sakura seemed to have discovered some important clues."

"Video data?" Hattori Heiji moved closer to look at Toyama Kazuha's phone. After seeing the numbers on the memo, he crossed his arms and raised his eyebrows.

"Three years have passed. Even if there were any clues that were ignored by the police at that time, they are estimated to have disappeared." Ms. Okita spread her hands helplessly and made a statement to everyone present. "So, what I am going to say next is pure speculation and cannot be used to support the reasoning of today's case. But as long as we solve this case, we will know whether these speculations are nonsense or real past events."

"Hattori-kun should have contacted the famous detective in Kanto, Kudo Shinichi, and we also contacted a detective we know, the H&M Office in Beikacho." Okita-kun cleared his throat and looked at the message he had just received on his phone. "Mr. Sherlock is on his way to Kyoto. He gave a guess about the motive of the crime based on the videos released by the fan club channel."

"That's right. They didn't even speculate on the possible means of committing the crime, nor did they speculate on the identity of the murderer. They only gave a guess about the motive of the crime." Ms. Okita followed the instructions conveyed by BB in text and threw the matter of guessing the motive of the crime on Sherlock's head. "Mr. Sherlock said that the motive of the murderer three years ago was an overly enthusiastic admiration."

"What do you mean?" Ayanokouji Fumimaro turned his eyes away from the autopsy report and looked at the minors who had thrown their lunch aside. He kindly reminded them, "If you don't eat the food you bought, it will get cold."

"The captain of the Shinsengumi 1st Division, Okita Soji, died of illness at the age of 26 on May 30th, the first year of the Meiji era, which is July 19th, 1868." Tokito Muichiro leaned back in his chair and reported the death record of the genius swordsman who died young with Okita Soji. "The place of death was Edo, which is now Tokyo."

"It was mentioned in their video trailer that three years ago, they had originally planned to film 'The Death of Okita Souji.'" Toyama Kazuha switched from the memo to the video website interface, "but because of the suicide incident, they not only canceled the filming plan for that year, but also directly abandoned the plan."

"The suicide occurred in Tokyo three years ago. The victim, Kento Sakai, turned 26 years old. Although that's true, the exact time of death may vary, so it's possible that the victim died on the last day of his 25th year." Okita put his phone in his pocket and took out his lunch from the thermos bag. "After all, the police were notified on the morning of the 19th."

"Plus, the members of the club would joke to Kento Sakai, 'You're just like the real Okita Souji'..." Okita Souji untied his chopsticks and prepared to finish his lunch. "It's not surprising to guess this motive. After all, when I first started using the five-stage thrust, I was also chased and scolded by extreme fans of the Shinsengumi."

"Ah... they said the five-stage thrust was heretical and that the three-stage thrust was the true essence of this style, right?" Hattori Heiji, who was also practicing kendo, had heard a little about the trouble that Okita Souji had encountered. "But why was it this motive? If we only look at the video data, it's possible that others were jealous of him and wanted to kill him, right?"

"Lian, didn't you notice the expressions of the four suspects when we mentioned the suicide case three years ago?" Ms. Okita helped Okita-kun take out lunch for the others, and poutingly reminded Hattori Heiji, "The four of them were all sad about Kento Sakai's death. Although it can also be explained that the suicide case had nothing to do with them, if that were the case, today's case would not have such an obvious element linked to this fan club."

"It's possible that there won't even be any deaths at all."

On the other side, on the high-speed Shinkansen.

"So, Mr. Sherlock." Edogawa Conan looked at Sherlock sitting opposite him speechlessly, "Is this the reason why you took Mr. John and left Mr. Holmes and Mr. Watson behind, went to Uncle Mori, picked me up and headed straight to Kyoto?"