Sunday, August 25th, Suzuki family villa on the outskirts of Rice Flower Town.

After the night attack of the bandage monster, Mei Daiko went to sleep again, and Yamazaki, Ran, Conan, Ayako Suzuki, Sonoko, Hiroki Kakutani, Katsu Ota and Ryoichi Takahashi, eight people gathered in the living room to sit and wait for dawn.

Outside the villa, there was a mixture of wind and rain, lightning and thunder, and before half past one in the morning, Conan was asking Lan what she had found in the morning, when after a thunderclap, the lights in the villa went out, and the whole villa fell into darkness.

"There's a power outage," said the garden. ”

Katsu Ota said, "It must have been the thunder that cut the wires just now. ”

"It's scary. Ryoichi Takahashi said.

Ayako Suzuki said, "I'll go to the utility room and get a candle." ”

Hiroki Kakutani asked, "Is it okay for you to go alone?"

Lan said, "I'll go with you." ”

Conan immediately said, "I'll go too." ”

So, Ran carried Conan on his back and accompanied Ayako Suzuki to the utility room to get candles.

In the dark, Yamazaki changed his seat, reached out and pressed on the shoulder of the person next to him who was about to get up, pressed him back to his seat, and whispered in his ear: "How can you sleep well without air conditioning on this hot day? Now the time is about the same, so I can't play anymore." He patted him on the stomach as he spoke.

A moment later, Ayako Suzuki returned with a candlestick with three candles. She put down the candlestick and went to help everyone make coffee again, while Ran put down Conan and went to help again.

By candlelight, Conan noticed that Yamazaki was no longer around, and he sat down next to Ryoichi Takahashi, who was pale and sweaty, looking frightened.

What's going on, could it be that he just wanted to attack Lan while it was dark, but was stopped by Yamazaki? Could it really be him? Well, if it's him, it just so happens that he's working on movie props, and he can make a bandage weirdo's head out, and it just so happens that he's repairing the roof on top of it, so he can install hanging wires so that he's standing in the room...... Thinking of this, Conan pointed to the window on the west side of the second floor of the living room and asked Lan, who came back with a coffee pot, "Sister Lan, can you take me there for a while?"

Putting down the coffee pot, Lan smiled helplessly: "Really, okay." As he spoke, he picked up Conan on his back and went up.

Conan lay on Lan's back and thought, well, it just so happens that he was the last to jump out of the window and can put the head on the head, and he is the last person to run, and no one has a flashlight at the time, he can throw the head at the scene of his crime while it is dark. And if it were him, then the problem of the glass knife would be easy to explain.

At this time, Ran walked to the window, Conan asked Ran to push the window open, he turned on the flashlight, looked carefully at the railing on the patio outside the window, and soon found a sign of wear and tear due to the tethered rope. So he said, "It's okay, Sister Lan." Then he suddenly found that there seemed to be a bright light flashing in the mountain forest that should have been pitch black, and immediately asked, "Sister Lan, did you see it just now?"

"See what?" Lan asked.

"Bright light," said Conan, "I just saw the mountains light up. ”

"Bright light?" Lan looked at it, and couldn't see anything in the dark mountains, so he smiled, "It could have been lightning just now." Then he asked, "Okay?"

"Alright. Conan said. Then he continued to think, but if it was him, his figure would be wrong, everyone who looked at him knew that he had a big fat belly, he couldn't be neither fat nor thin. Uh, wait a minute, what do you see? Could it be that his big fat belly is fake, he put the black robe and black hat and bandaged head in his clothes, by the way, he was changing clothes in the room at the time, so Lan was chased and killed by him when he saw his body...... Uh, for this reason, with a few blinks of small eyes, Conan was speechless.

At this time, Conan was placed on a chair by Lan. Conan looked at Ryoichi Takahashi carefully, and then thought, no, he was taking a shower with us just now, and he does have a big fat belly, which is no problem. By the way, he can't be a robot cat and stick a big pocket on his belly, right? And this pocket is a high-fidelity human skin pocket, which is like wearing a fake scalp and pretending to be bald when he is a monk.

At this time, Yamazaki sat back next to Conan and whispered in Conan's ear, "You still have five minutes to think." ”

"Already," Conan whispered, "that's the guy." Then he asked, "How about lending me a voice?"

"Didn't Dr. Asasa say that the current bow tie can perfectly imitate anyone's voice?" Yamazaki chuckled, "just look for the garden, and if she asks, it will be easier for her to fool her." Then he asked, "By the way, how is your woman's tone doing? ”

Conan gave Yamazaki a pair of white eyes, then raised his watch and issued an anesthetic needle to Sonoko, who immediately fell to the table.

Suzuki Ayako and Ran immediately asked, "Sonoko, what's wrong with you?"

In Yamazaki's chuckle, Conan, who reluctantly got under the table, said with a bow tie in a voice-changing voice: "I, I've figured everything out, I know the true face of the killer demon king who killed Chi Kako's sister." Then he felt that the tone was wrong, and said it again.

Suzuki Ayako asked helplessly, "Sonoko, don't talk nonsense, okay?"

Conan said in the voice of the garden: "The killer demon king who first killed Sister Zhijiazi and wanted to attack Lan is in the villa. ”

"What!" Ran and Ayako Suzuki were taken aback.

"Sono," Ota Katsu laughed, "you can play detective games if you want, but think about it, weren't we all in the villa when that bandage freak ran out of the window?

"All he had to do was use a black hat and bandaged dummy head, plus a large black robe that made it impossible to see the inside, and then tie or stick these heads with Chikako's head so that it looks like two people, but it's really just a human head, and then use the prop line to make them pass through the window together," Conan said in the voice of the garden, "and this fake can be made even in the villa." ”

"Human, human head?" Ayako Suzuki was taken aback, and then asked, "Kakutani ......"

Hiroki Kakutani said bitterly: "Chikako, she ......"

Ayako Suzuki exclaimed bitterly, "Chikako!" and covered her mouth and cried as she spoke.

"According to the height from the top of the second-story railing to the ground, the straight-line distance from the railing to the other window, and the distance between the windows, first tie a line of calculated length to the upper end of the railing outside the second-story window and tie the human head. Then straighten the line and put the head on the end of the railing, and use the second line to pull the head to the head of the villa with the line that sticks into the villa to prevent it from falling. When the second line is loosened at the right time, the human head will fall from the upper end of the second layer of railing, and sweep through the first layer of windows, at this time, as long as we follow the line of the human head with our hands, pull it between the windows, and we can recover it smoothly from the invisible place inside. "That is, when we ran out to find the bandaged freak, he was actually on top of our heads. And the only one who can have the time, the ability to arrange this scene, and the one who can successfully recover the head is the one who was standing at the window on the second floor at the time, Ryoichi Takahashi, the prop master of the University Film Club, and that's you. ”

"No kidding, Sonoko," asked Katsu Ota, "what about the evidence? And isn't it arc-shaped like that?"

"As you can recall, Takahashi first said that there was someone outside the window, and then when he opened the window and went out, the bandage weirdo appeared. It was because of the thread that had reached into the villa, which he pressed against the window. Then he was standing on the terrace where we couldn't see it, and he was recovering human heads. Conan said in a garden voice, "If you have any evidence, there should be traces of a tie at the top of the railing." In the arc, it was the last window on the west side of the living room, and by the time the bandage freak skimmed through the window, it was already at the bottom, and we would only think he was running. ”

"How did Takahashi recover the head," asked Hiroki Kakutani, "You know, Chikako's head was found in the woods, and when you checked the doors and windows, you didn't find anything, did you?"

"That bandage monster head should be able to be flushed, when he came up, his stomach was flushed with a bandage monster, and when he asked Sister Zhijiazi outside, after killing her, he let go of the bandage monster head, and brought it back with the head of Zhijiazi's sister, and then the bandage monster head was angry, played the trick just now, and created a perfect alibi, and then put the bandage monster head into the stomach with Zhijiazi's head, ran to the scene with everyone, and then took it out and put it down while it was dark. Conan asked in a garden voice, "At that time, we didn't have flashlights, did we?"

"It's just nonsense," Ota Katsu laughed, "and we were taking a shower together just now." How could it be put in the stomach. ”

"Because Ryoichi Takahashi is like a robot cat, with a bag in his belly, and the material should be a high-fidelity human skin," Conan said in a garden voice, "so if you don't touch it with your hands, you can't see it at all." ”

Hiroki Kakutani asked, "How do you know if you don't have to touch it with your hands?"

"His technique is indeed very clever, with the help of this technique, when the bandage monster holds the head of Zhijiazi's sister, he is in the villa, all this will make us think that the bandage monster did it, but this originally planned murder plan has been changed because of the small accident caused by Lan. When Lan first arrived here, because he accidentally broke into the room, he happened to see his real size, and Lan at that time may not have taken it to heart at all, but if she remembered it, his plan that he had designed with great difficulty was about to become a bunch of bubbles, so he attacked Lan for the first time in the woods, in order to kill people. However, he failed. After this commotion, Sister Chikako, who he had planned to kill, suggested that everyone go down the mountain tomorrow, so he cut off the telephone line in a hurry, let the drawbridge fall, and with the help of wind and rain, this locked us all up in this villa, and then he found an opportunity to invite Sister Chikako into the woods and kill her. Conan asked in a garden voice, "I think the way he asked Sister Chikako to go out was the letter that was stuffed behind the door of her room for fear of being discovered, right?

Ayako Suzuki, who had already stopped her tears, lost her voice and asked, "Atsuko?"

Looking at Ryoichi Takahashi, who had been silent, Katsu Ota couldn't help but ask, "Hey, Takahashi, you speak, why don't you speak?"

Hiroki Kakutani said: "Yes, Atsuko has been gone for almost two years, and she committed suicide to avenge her? ”

"This motive is not ridiculous at all," Ryoichi Takahashi exclaimed as he stood up, "not at all!"

Ota Katsu stood up and asked in surprise, "Takahashi, you and Atsuko, you wouldn't be dating at that time, would you?"

Ayako Suzuki stood up and asked, "Are you really dating?"

"Yes. And all of this today is also done for Atsuko. Ryoichi Takahashi said, "Back then, she secretly showed me the story she wrote, saying that she wanted to become a novelist in the future, and her eyes were still shining, I didn't expect her to suddenly hang herself, but now I understand, the real reason is completely understood when I watch the cyan kingdom that is now released." ”

"The cyan kingdom?" asked Ayako Suzuki in surprise, "Do you know that Kako ......?"

"That's right, Zhijiazi's debut novel, the story content of the cyan kingdom, is exactly the same as what Atsuko showed me back then, the country of sky color. Ryoichi Takahashi said angrily, "Chikako used that work to win the Newcomer Script Award and become today's famous playwright." ”

Katsu Ota asked, "But how do you know that Atsuko committed suicide for this?"

Ryoichi Takahashi shouted angrily, "The day Chikako won the award

That is, the day before Atsuko committed suicide, Atsuko called me to tell me everything, and she told me that she could no longer trust anyone. Tears flowed from her eyes, and she added, "Actually, what I wrote in my letter was that if she didn't want the matter to be exposed, she would go to the woods." And when I got her there, I cut off her head. Who told that hateful woman to trample on Atsuko's ideals like that?" After saying that, he pulled his clothes, and then touched his chest and abdomen, and tore off a layer of skin. A black package fell to the ground, and the head of the bandaged freak in a black hat rolled out, and this package was a black robe, and Takahashi Ryoichi had an extra dagger in his hand.

Hiroki Kakutani immediately said, "Don't, Takahashi!"

"Don't come here. Takahashi raised his sword and forced away Hiroki Kakutani, Katsu Ota, Ran, and Ayako Suzuki, and continued, "It's all over, and I'm going to accompany Atsuko too." As he spoke, he turned the knife upside down, pointed it to his throat, and said, "I have decided to live with Atsuko in another world as a righteous messenger who killed the enemy." ”

"Don't be stinky," cried Conan in the voice of the garden, "if you really want to die." Just die, bastard!"

Ayako Suzuki shouted, "Sonoko!"

"Maybe like you said, you're doing all this for Atsuko," Conan asked in a garden voice, "but then you attacked Ran twice in a row, and when Ran went to get the candle, you still wanted to take advantage of the darkness and attack her a third time, is this also for Atsuko?" In fact, it is because you are afraid, afraid that you who have become a sinner will be punished as you deserve to attack Lan, in fact, you are not a messenger of justice at all, you are just an ugly murderer. ”

Ryoichi Takahashi froze, only to feel so weak that he couldn't even hold the dagger, allowing it to fall to the ground. ……