Saturday, July 27th, evening, Benkei Onsen Inn.

In the restroom on the first floor, Mori was putting his head under the faucet and flushing cold water, and Yamazaki and Conan were standing by watching and thinking about what Mori had just said. The meaning of Maori's words just now is that he already knows who the murderer is, but there are still key points that he has not figured out and has not found evidence.

After a few moments, Mori turned off the faucet, wiped his face with his hand, straightened up, looked at Yamazaki in the mirror and asked, "What is your opinion?"

Yamazaki asked, "Uncle, you already have a goal, is it Uncle Nakamichi Kazushi?"

"Yes," Maori asked rhetorically, "you thought of it too, didn't you?" and continued, "Now it seems that Yumi was obviously killed by him, so that such an incident without a single flaw can only be arranged by him, a professional criminal policeman." As he spoke, he slammed his fist against the wall, and then said angrily, "How can there be such a thing as a ghost in this world, that is, at about five o'clock, Yumi is still alive." It wasn't until half past six that he was shot by him by the sound of the fireworks display, and it was arranged as a perfect suicide scene. Then he said angrily, "Damn, I just can't figure out what kind of trap he set to change the time of Yumi's death and create an alibi." ”

"I know a little bit about that. Yamazaki said.

"Huh?" Maori immediately turned around and asked expectantly, "Then tell me, what is it?"

Yamazaki asked rhetorically, "I wonder what my uncle knows about Musashibo Benkei?"

Benkei?Conan thought for a moment, and immediately laughed, I see.

"Musashibo Benkei?" Mori thought for a moment and asked, "What does this have to do with him?"

Yamazaki smiled, "This Benkei hot spring inn has a statue of Musashibo Benkei, and many arrows in his body were killed in battle. ”

Maori asked, "What's wrong with that?"

"Uncle Maori," Conan laughed, "on that Benkei statue, Benkei is standing. The innkeeper said that Benkei was different from the others, and that he ended up standing and dying. ”

"Standing? Ah, yes. "I remember when I was in the police academy......," and laughed, "Very well, let's go and see if there is any good news for Medaiko." With that, he strode away.

"That," Conan whispered to Yamazaki, following Mori, "do you have any proof?"

"Nope. Yamazaki shook his head and said.

Conan said helplessly: "Sure enough." ”

Outside room 201, seeing that Maori and they were coming, Kazushi Nakamichi smiled and said, "Maori and Yamazaki are here, Midaiko, you can talk about it now." It turned out that when Mei Daiko saw that Yamazaki was not there, she refused to tell them where she found the set of Yumi Horikoshi underwear in her hand.

Handing the underwear wrapped in plastic sheeting to Maori, Mei Daiko smiled, "I found this in a dry cleaning machine in the laundry room, and I took the plastic sheeting from the laundry room." ”

Conan walked up to Mori and tried to reach out to the underwear in Mori's hand, but was immediately caught by Lan.

Lan reprimanded, "Conan, this is not something you should touch. Then he took Conan to the side and took control.

Looking at the underwear inside the plastic sheeting, Maori asked, "Midaiko, have you asked the waiter?

"I've already gone to the kitchen and asked all the staff at this hot spring inn," said Midaiko with a smile, "They say that every night at around 6:50 p.m., this hot spring inn sends someone to collect clothes that need to be sent to dry cleaning with a note with their name or room number written on it, and then take it to dry cleaning." But today it's just us, and they've been helping out in the kitchen all the time, so the work hasn't been done yet. ”

Kazushi Nakamichi asked strangely, "Midaiko, did you just say that all the staff in this hot spring inn have gone to the kitchen and have been busy?" and then asked rhetorically, "Aren't we the only ones here today, and the kitchen is so busy?"

"Ha," Yuan Zi couldn't help laughing, "the staff here are busy today, and they should all be busy in the kitchen by now." ”

Yukio Ayagi said, "By the way, I just saw the boss alone in the hall. ”

"yes. Noriko Ayajo asked curiously, "Why is this happening?"

"I placed a big order," Midaiko laughed, "and they're all busy with this." ”

Nakamichi Kazushi asked, "What did you order?"

Mei Daizi smiled: "It's a live chicken." Then he counted his fingers and said, "There are a total of eight staff members in this hotel, go to the back mountain to fight the mountain spring, then precipitate and filter, then boil the water, slaughter it, clean it, and add the washed mushrooms and wild vegetables to the pot and steam." With their number and the number of stoves here," he thought for a moment and smiled, "Well, I think it's about twelve o'clock, and it's just right for supper." ”

Kazushi Nakamichi couldn't help but ask, "How many live chickens did you order?"

"There are nearly a hundred. Mei Daizi smiled, "Twenty for supper should be enough for so many of us to eat." ”

"......" Joyuki couple, Jun Omura and Kazushi Nakamichi were speechless together.

After opening the plastic sheet, Maori, who had been looking at his underwear for a long time and had not found a problem, said, "Okay, Mei Daizi, I'll talk about the supper later." Then he asked, "Do you have any other discoveries?" and handed the plastic sheeting to Noriko Ayaki along with the underwear inside, and motioned for her to take it directly in her hand and help take a look.

"I checked the work records of the laundry room and there was no record of this underwear at all. Mei Daizi said, "In other words, someone else put it in private, and it should be that the staff wanted to wash them together, and this person should be the murderer." ”

"Murderer?" took out her underwear from the plastic sheeting and looked at it carefully, and Noriko Ayashiro asked, "There doesn't seem to be any marks on it, why did the murderer take it to dry cleaning?"

Yukio Ayaki pointed to his underwear and asked, "These underwear seem to be wet, right?"

"Smack!" Noriko Ayajo slapped Yukio's hand away, and said angrily, "This is not what you men should touch." ”

"By the way, this is it," said Maidako, "and they're wet." Then he laughed, "I said I forgot something, it turned out to be this." It's not my fault, it must be because I was interrupted by Uncle Nakamichi just now, so I will forget it. ”

Nakamichi Kazushi twitched the corners of his mouth and said with a dry smile: "That's not mine." ”

"I can see they're wet, too," Mori said angrily, "I guess it's because you took them out before they were washed." ”

"No, Uncle Maori. Mei Daizi said, "In order to earn labor costs, the boss here does not have a staff to start, and the dry cleaning machine cannot be started at all." And when I took it out, the underwear was wet......"

"In this case, when this underwear is put in, it will be wet. Maori said, then looked at Noriko Ayaki and asked, "So, can you help me take a look, is it water or sweat on it?"

"Khan, it's Khan," Midiko said quickly, then explained, "I opened the dry cleaning machine and when I took them out, I smelled sweat. There was only this outfit in there, and it must have been from them. ”

Noriko Ayaki walked to the side, carried everyone on her underwear, sniffed it carefully, and said, "There is indeed a lot of sweat." ”

"Khan?" Maori thought for a moment as he touched his chin and muttered to himself, "I see." ”

"Kogoro, what do you understand?" Jun Omura immediately asked, "Is there a clue to the murderer?"

Maori stared at Nakamichi Kazushi and said, "Yes, and it's not just clues, now I finally understand what the trap set by the murderer is." Then he asked, "Is that so, Kazushi Nakamichi?"

Kazushi Nakamichi said, "Kogoro, I don't quite understand what you're talking about. ”

"You should know better than I do. Maori said, then snapped, "You murderer of Yumi." ”

"What!" exclaimed the Ayashiros, Jun Omura, Ran, and Sonoko in surprise.

"Kogoro, don't be kidding, what are you talking about?, isn't the wine still sober?" Nakamichi Kazushi laughed, "We deduce the time of Yumi's death, and I obviously played with you on the billiard court at that time." ”

"So you have a perfect alibi," Maori said, "but only if Yumi actually dies at three o'clock in the afternoon." ”

"What nonsense are you talking about? Nakamichi and Zhi said angrily, "The identification work after Yumi's death was obviously done by me and the two of you, and Yumi's body at that time did even start to stiffen her toes." ”

That's why I think that Yumi must have been almost seven hours after her death. "But there is one exception, and that is sudden death during intense exercise, in which the protein in the human muscles can easily and quickly coagulate, so the stiffness after death will also be faster than usual, which is the same reason that the hero Musashibo Benkei died standing when he died." And it has been medically proven that it is entirely possible to die while standing. ”

"But the scene of the crime is Yumi's own room," Kazushi Nakamichi asked, "Tell me what kind of movement I can get Yumi to do there?"

"Yumi's underwear is wet with sweat, and there is a place in this inn where Yumi can sweat a lot in her underwear, and that is the billiard court. Maori said, "You don't need Yumi to stand and die, you just need to move Yumi's death time forward a little, even if it is an hour, so as long as you play a game of billiards for ten minutes, you can achieve this goal, and move forward for more than seven hours, it should be that you are playing too intensely, just by chance." ”……