Chapter 12 Chapter 12

Kudo Shinichi took a deep breath.

Calm down.

He couldn't let this person lead him astray.

He was still needed here.

[Someone should question him right away.]

Don't bother with him.

Kudo Shinichi tried his best to block out the voice in his head.

[Officer, you have to ask for evidence when you do things. What evidence do you have?]

"Officer, you have to ask for evidence when you do things. What evidence do you have?" The victim was sent to the hospital. One of the other five people who were with the victim at the scene questioned, "What evidence do you have to prove that this was a murder, not an accident."

[What evidence do you have to prove that this was a murder, not an accident.]

Kudo Shinichi's veins popped up on his hands. He really couldn't stand it!

This person.

It's really annoying!

How long will it take for the parrot to imitate!

Can he take a break?

But the next moment, Kudo Shinichi no longer had the energy to focus on the sound that kept ringing.

The police officer began to explain for the person who had just raised the question.

Sanxia listened and nodded.

[Wow.]

[So that's how it is.]

[Sure enough, this is a murder.]

[As expected of Kudo Shinichi, he is really amazing.]

During this period, Kudo Shinichi was able to completely block out external interference, and he was observing everyone's reactions.

There were two people who were not right.

The one with pink hair over there, and the one with blue hair.

These two people were very wrong.

Others were still surprised, but those two people had no expression at all, as if they had known about this for a long time.

Saiki Kusuo listened to Kudo Shinichi's inner voice in silence.

The fire finally burned them.

But it was too early.

They are not the murderer in this case.

You are wrong, Kudo Shinichi.

Saiki Kusuo silently used telepathy, and he silently transmitted a thought to Kudo Shinichi's mind.

Kudo Shinichi shifted his attention away from the two of them, and looked at the five people opposite again.

As for the private conversation just now, these two people just came here to watch a movie and did not know the victim.

They may just be slow to react or dull. They

don't look like the murderer.

Kudo Shinichi observed the micro-expressions and micro-movements of the five people opposite him imperceptibly.

And Sanichi, who had been focusing most of his attention on Kudo Shinichi, naturally noticed Kudo Shinichi's actions, and his thoughts became active as Kudo Shinichi's eyes fell on the person.

[Is this person? ]

[Who is he? 】

Mikazuchi looked at Saiki K.

Saiki K. whispered, "The victim's girlfriend."

His voice only appeared in Mikazuchi's mind.

【As expected of Saiki, he told him the answer before he even said it. 】

【The girlfriend of the deceased. 】

【She has some characteristics of the murderer. 】

【But Kudo Shinichi looked away, so it shouldn't be her. 】

【Is this person? 】

Mikazuchi didn't know who he was.

Because the questions just now were all individual questions, he didn't know the specific relationship between the people present and the victim.

But fortunately, he was still at the scene!

Mikazuchi looked at Saiki K. again.

Saiki K. avoided Mikazuchi's gaze.

But Mikazuchi still has a way, and now is the time to use this method.

【Saiki Saiki Saiki Saiki Saiki. 】

【The best Saiki in the world, and my best friend, please tell me. 】

Saiki K. felt nauseous, he couldn't stand it anymore.

You win, Sanxia.

He told Sanxia the background of that person again: "From the same club."

In order to prevent Sanxia from harassing him again and again, Saiki K. told Sanxia the background of everyone directly: "These people are all from the suspense mystery club, and they gathered together because of the same hobby."

"They are here today for this movie, but not just for this movie."

Sanxia asked directly in his heart.

【What are they doing here? 】

"To commemorate." Saiki K. silently uttered four words.

【Commemorate! 】

【Are they here to commemorate? To commemorate whom? ... Could it be one of them? Is there more than six people in their club? 】

Kudo Shinichi paused.

Memorial service?

But no one mentioned this in the previous questioning...

Those five people are hiding something.

Kudo Shinichi held his breath and listened patiently to the voice in his head.

But the voice did not appear again.

This feeling of being neither up nor down.

A bit disgusting...

Saiki Kusuo glanced at Kudo Shinichi, and he silently withdrew his gaze.

As a detective, he can solve the case by himself.

He looked at Sanichi and continued to answer Sanichi's questions.

He was really afraid of Sanichi's nagging.

He said, "This movie is the only one with such a low attendance rate in this theater. Don't you think it's strange?"

If Saiki K. hadn't pointed it out directly, Sanichi would not have thought of this at all. And for Kamisama, isn't it normal to find a theater with a very low attendance rate?

Yes, it is a very normal thing.

But Kamisama was standing next to him. Sanichi

nodded affirmatively.

But now that Kamisama took the initiative to bring it up, it must be something unusual.

And it was brought up at this time.

[The low attendance rate of this theater must be related to this case! ]

Kudo Shinichi frowned slightly when he heard the words in his mind.

Memorial service?

Attendance rate?

Is there a connection between the two?

He didn't intend to miss this bit of information, even though it might be useless, but he planned to check it out.

So he looked at the police officer beside him.

At the same time, Saiki Kusuo also directly told Sanichi the answer: "You are right, there is indeed a connection."

[Wow!]

"Someone died in this cinema not long ago."

[So this is revenge!]

"Yes."

[The victim killed someone here!]

Saiki Kusuo nodded.

Kudo Shinichi was stunned. Is this another case?

"Kudo-kun." The police officer was a little surprised to see Kudo Shinichi suddenly stop talking, and asked him out loud.

Kudo Shinichi came back to his senses, he suppressed his surprise, and said to the police calmly: "Please check why the attendance rate of this cinema is so low? Has anything happened recently?"

"If it has happened, find out whether the person involved has any relationship with the group of people in front of you."

The police nodded and silently went to find someone to investigate the matter.

This was noticed by Saiki Kusuo.

It seemed that it was almost over.

They could still go back earlier.

However, he did not hear Sanichi's inner voice for a long time, and Saiki Kusuo felt a little strange. He turned his head to look at Sanichi.

Where was Sanichi...

Sanichi, who was originally beside him, disappeared.

Now he was the only one left here.

Saiki Kusuo blinked.

Where did he go?

He silently sensed Sanichi's inner voice.

No.

It seemed that he was out of range.

But where did he go?

Saiki Kusuo looked around, but he still did not see Sanichi.

[So who among the five of them is the murderer? ]

[They are all the murderer. ]

Sanichi's inner voice appeared again.

Saiki Kusuo turned around and saw Sanichi walking towards him from the entrance of the theater.

Miyano also noticed Saiki K.'s gaze and took two steps at a time, but he still thought it was too slow, so he started jogging directly in the direction of Saiki K.

He stopped in front of Saiki K.: "I'm back."

Saiki K.: "Where have you been?" Miyano

was puzzled: "You don't know?"

Now it was Saiki K. who was puzzled, should he know?

Miyano: "Can't you read my thoughts?"

If you can read my thoughts, you must know where he went.

He has revealed his thoughts before.

Saiki K. was silent.

No, he didn't read it just now.

Maybe it was because he just paid attention to Kudo Shinichi, and at this time, Miyano had already run out of his hearing range, which caused him to completely lose his voice.

He now has no idea where Miyano went just now.

Should he tell him directly?

He looked at Sanxia.

"Saiki." Sanxia didn't understand.

Such a simple question, why didn't you answer it for so long?

Saiki K. didn't let him wait this time, he answered directly: "I can't hear your voice."

Sanxia's doubts deepened.

He must have heard it wrong.

What do you mean by can't hear?

Can't you hear it?

"Beyond a certain range, I can't hear it." Saiki K. added silently: "Beyond 10 meters, I can't hear it."

But Sanxia was puzzled again, he asked doubtfully: "But I didn't exceed 200 meters just now."

Saiki K. understood.

He didn't hear the last sentence he added.

Then let's stop this discussion.

Saiki K. changed the topic directly: "There seems to be progress on Kudo Shinichi's side." Sanxia

's attention was indeed attracted there, and he looked in the direction of Kudo Shinichi.

It's just that the sound over there was a little small, and he couldn't hear it.

He looked at Saiki K.: "They found out what happened in this cinema before."

Mitsuichi said: "Very fast."

"The murderer?"

Saiki K.: "Also fast."

Mitsuichi praised: "As expected of Kudo Shinichi, this is fast."

He couldn't wait to see him identify the murderer.

Kudo Shinichi: ...

Not that fast yet.

He has only received information about the incident that happened in this cinema before.

Someone did die in this cinema some time ago.

And the deceased was indeed related to those people and was considered a member of their gang.

But the police's case report said that his death was an accident, not murder.

Kudo Shinichi flipped through the case report in his hand.

Sanichi was a little bored, and he began to yawn, "Not done yet?"

Saiki K: "It will take a while."

So Sanichi was quiet for a while.

"Saiki."

Saiki K: "Only three minutes have passed."

Sanichi: "So slow."

Saiki K: "It took three minutes to finish flipping through the case report, which is fast."

"But I can't wait any longer." Sanichi changed the subject: "Do you know how I feel now?"

Without waiting for Saiki K to answer, Sanichi continued to talk to himself.

"Like an ant on a hot pot."

"I'm literally counting seconds like years. In my mind, 180 years have passed. It's been 180 years, why hasn't he pointed out the murderer yet?"

"It's so slow!"

"It's been more than 24 minutes from the beginning to now!"

Saiki K. couldn't help but complain: "You're watching an anime, where a case is solved in 24 minutes."

"24 minutes is my trust in him!"

"And in my mind, he won't need 24 minutes, only about 15 minutes!"

"15 minutes is his real strength!"

"You really are." Saiki K. complained helplessly.

This time is really exaggerated.

If it weren't for him and Mishima's reminder, Kudo Shinichi's progress would be before this.

Another 15 minutes to solve the case.

Mishima's 15 minutes in a dream.

"Who is the murderer?" Mishima said suddenly.

Saiki K: "You're not waiting for him?" Sanxia said

: "I don't want to wait."

"I want to know the murderer right now, otherwise it will be so uncomfortable to be stuck here. It's the same feeling as when you are playing a crappy game and are about to complete it, but you get stuck."

Saiki K was silent.

And he really wanted to complain in his heart, but what Sanxia said was the truth.

He did play a crappy game.

He would get stuck.

But if you put yourself in his shoes, it would be really uncomfortable.

So... tell him?

He really couldn't refuse this reason.

If you say the name directly, he might not know it, or just say the position directly.

Saiki K took a look at the five people standing over there, and then said to Sanxia: "The murderer is the one standing on the far left now."

Sanxia looked over.

[Kudo Shinichi! ]

"It's not him." Saiki K was speechless: "It's the one in front of him."

[Wow! Then he stood in front of him, and he was sure that he was the murderer. 】

Kudo Shinichi paused for a moment while asking: "Can you tell me about your relationship with the victim?"

Is this the murderer?

He looked at the person in front of him, and while listening to the other party's answer, he unconsciously recalled the behavior of the person in front of him in his mind.

Some overlooked points were also clearly engraved in his mind.

He understood!

So that's how it is! [Note 1] So

, the murderer is you! [Note 2]

There is no mistake.

Kudo Shinichi looked at the person in front of him, he coughed lightly: "Everyone, I have found the murderer."

Hearing this, Sanichi looked at Kudo Shinichi excitedly.

[Wow, it's about to begin! ]

Kudo Shinichi told his reasoning.

"The murderer is you!"

[The murderer is you! ]

[It's out! 】

Kudo Shinichi paused, but he quickly picked up and continued to explain his reasoning.

The case ended successfully.

Everyone can leave.

Kudo Shinichi and Mouri Ran planned to go home. The two walked on the way home in silence.

Mouri Ran spoke to break the silence: "Shinichi."

Kudo Shinichi looked at Mouri Ran: "What's wrong?"

"The case is obviously solved, but you don't seem very happy." Mouri Ran: "This is not the usual Shinichi."

Kudo Shinichi: "I didn't solve the case this time, it was someone else."

He grabbed a handful of his hair and said irritably: "I was led by the nose."

He must find that person!

Miyazato, who had already returned to Zuosifu Town, sneezed, "Saiki, it's a bit cold."

Saiki K: "Don't think I can use my super powers to make a fire."

Miyazato: "Saiki, Saiki, the best Saiki in the world, my best friend."

Saiki K: "This trick doesn't work." Miyazato

: "But it's really cold, I really need you, Saiki."

Saiki K: "You can't abuse super powers."

Miyazato: "But you usually use your super powers to buy things."

Saiki K: "That's to exercise control."

Miyazato: "You're lying, it's obviously for convenience."

On the dark road, only the sound of two people going back and forth could be heard.