Tuesday, September 10.

In the afternoon, after school, Conan got rid of the three detectives and hurried back to the Maori detective agency. Yesterday he waited until he fell asleep, and in the morning he heard Lan say that Maori came back at almost three o'clock.

Mori wasn't in the office, and they hadn't finished school yet, so Conan thought about the news in the morning newspaper about the charred body found in Chihuo Village, Gunma Prefecture.

Soon after, Mori returned with two document bags, the one he saw had the name of the studio printed on it.

Mori sat on the sofa with his back to the door, put one file bag next to him, turned the other upside down, and dropped a large handful of photos on the coffee table, and Maori looked at them one by one.

found that it was not Masaki Negishi, who was following Maori that day, Conan, who was lying on the back of the sofa, said: "Uncle Maori, who is this person, is he a suspect?"

"This guy's name is Yutaka Abe. Mori casually told Yutaka Abe about it.

500 million yen? Then the biggest suspect is him. Conan asked, "Did Mr. Negishi drive there, or did this Mr. Abe send him there?"

"Now the police are investigating the toll booths along the road, but they have not been completed because the staff were not all there that night, and the investigation near Mr. Abe's house is now working during the daytime, and it has not been completed. "The Twilight Police Department told me that after Officer Shiratori took Mr. Abe home, he looked at his house under the pretext of going to the bathroom, but found nothing conspicuously abnormal, and the Saturday morning newspaper was taken home. ”

Seeing that almost every photo has a clock in the background, Conan asked, "It's really strange, why does this Mr. Abe take pictures with the clock every time?"

"It's to prove that he doesn't have time to commit crimes, because it's easy to travel back and forth within the country," Maori said, "and he's like that during the day, if you look at the time, the maximum interval is only 40 minutes, and at night he lives with the staff, saying it's to mingle with the staff." ”

Yamazaki came in and smiled, "A room on the floor must be interesting." At the same time, Lan also came in and smiled, "I'm back." ”

"Yamazaki, you're here. Maori turned his head and said to himself, "Yay, who was I talking to?" and then looked at Conan and asked, "Is that you?"

"Hey, hey. Conan laughed dryly, leaned on the back of the sofa, and tried to reach out to pick up the file bag on the sofa and asked, "Uncle Maori, what are the photos in this bag?"

Looking at Maori who raised his fist, Conan couldn't laugh.

"Smack!" Mori planted a mushroom on Conan's head, then picked him up and threw him into Ran's arms, "Take care of this little ghost." ”

Seeing Conan covering his head, Lan asked, "Does it hurt?" said Conan and blew on his head, waved his hand again and laughed, "The pain flew away." ”

Conan was speechless, please, even by appearance, I'm seven years old, right, to a three-year-old...... Then he saw that Yamazaki was laughing at him, and his face blushed.

Yamazaki, who had picked up the photos, smiled at Conan, then sorted out the photos and put them on the coffee table, and asked, "Uncle, these are the photos you took when you followed Mr. Negishi for three days?"

"Yes," Maori said, "I didn't expect this to be his last photo." ”

Yamazaki asked again, "What about these pictures of Mr. Abe......

"I asked the Dusk Police Department to lend it to me," Mori said, "By the way, the police found out from the employees of Mr. Abe's company that Mr. Abe suddenly transferred the company's money to his own account more than three months ago, and borrowed a large amount of money in the name of the company, and finally made the otherwise good company incur a debt of more than 300 million yen." ”

Lan asked, "Why is that?

"I don't know why, but it's not wrong that he's short of money. "So he had a motive." ”

Yamazaki said, "So, it was planned to have Mr. Negishi and him set up that bet. At the same time, he thought to himself, and then he learned from the newspaper that Dr. Hako Sawaki had escaped from Uncle Maori, and he couldn't wait to carry out this event, which might have been planned a long time ago.

"Not only that, but according to common sense, the murderer will hide the truth as much as possible, but Mr. Negishi was placed on a high platform used for fire sacrifices, and deliberately left clues next to him that could confirm his identity, as if others did not know, these behaviors are too abnormal. "On the other hand, Yutaka Abe took his employees on a trip to Kyushu and had a perfect alibi." Then he slapped the coffee table and inadvertently scattered the already stacked photos of Mr. Negishi, and said angrily, "Damn, this alibi was made for him by using the dead Mr. Negishi." ”

Looking at the few photos scattered on the coffee table, Conan was stunned for a moment, stepped forward and picked up two and looked at them carefully. In this photo, the golf club is swinging with the right hand, and in this photo, the noodle is eaten with the left hand. Conan said in surprise in his heart, this is a stand-in.

"By the way, Uncle Mori, when I picked up these pictures just now, I noticed a problem," said Yamazaki, "and that is Mr. Negishi's taste." As he spoke, he found four photos and said, "This one is in a golf shop, this one is in a pub, this one is in a park, and this one is a café." By the way, there's also this one," Yamazaki took a photo from Conan, who had seen the photo, "Is this eating a roadside stall, or eating while walking." ”

"There's a problem with that," says Maori, "and let me think about it, he was at the office on Thursday and went straight home in the evening, he went to the company on Friday morning, he went to the golf shop in the afternoon, he bought a few clubs, he went to a tavern and he went home in the evening, and I saw him in a nearby park on Saturday morning, and he was shaking all day, eating lunch at a café, eating a bowl of noodles on the side of the road in the evening, and then going home." ”

Looking at the photo on Friday, he used his right hand to swing golf clubs, sign bills, and hold wine glasses, while in the photo on Saturday, he used his left hand to drink coffee and eat noodles, and Yamazaki smiled, "I thought Mr. Negishi could use both his left and right hands." Then he asked, "If you only use one side of the day, Uncle Maori, have you ever thought of being a stand-in?"

"Sure enough, it's only one side a day," Mori laughed, "It's good, I've finally found a flaw." ”

"Also, Uncle Mori," Yamazaki laughed, "I must have bought golf clubs for golf, and this is mostly booked with a friend, and if Mr. Negishi doesn't go, his friend will call him." ”

Maori said, "You're right, I'm going to the Metropolitan Police Department." Then he put the photos away and left with two bags of them.

"Ah, it's not early," Lan said, looking at the bell, "I'm going to cook." ”

When Lan left, Conan asked, "Did you say you could find this person?"

"It's about time, and it's a question of whether he can testify to him. "Also, I don't think he's going to stay in the country and wait for the police to investigate." ”

"Yes, there is no evidence to confirm that this incident is related to him, and if he wants to leave, the police will not be able to keep him. Conan said, "But he hasn't taken the insurance money yet, and there should still be time." ”

Looking at the clock, Yamazaki smiled and said, "It's past five o'clock, you keep an eye here, I'm going home for dinner, something calls me." ”……

Mei Dai Restaurant.

At about six o'clock in the evening, Maori appeared with a very bad face and asked for a dozen beers.

After serving the beer, Yamazaki asked, "What's wrong, uncle?"

After opening a can of beer, Mori said, "That guy Yutaka Abe actually took the insurance money, and he's going to fly to the United States tonight." As he spoke, he threw his head back and poured it down.

Yamazaki was taken aback, and Yamazaki asked, "He has now received the insurance money, has it been confirmed that the deceased is Mr. Negishi Masaki?"

"The Twilight Police Department says that Mr. Negishi's medical records won't be available until tomorrow morning," Mori said, "but it's almost certain now, after all, if he's alive, he should see the news." ”

"Don't the police have any evidence to keep Mr. Abe?" Yamazaki asked again, "Haven't there been any progress in those things?"

"People near Abe's house said that they were sleeping at home in the early hours of the morning, and they didn't see Abe going in and out, only people saw that Abe went out in the morning, and according to the time, he went to the airport. "Also, according to the telephone recordings at Mr. Negishi's home, the golf ball has been confirmed by the police, and a group of stranger's fingerprints have been found at Mr. Negishi's house, and it is now certain that someone has entered Mr. Negishi's home." ”

"Just someone?" asked Conan.

"There's no way to know for sure when it happened, or if the man was dressed up as Mr. Negishi. "The police are doing their best to find the man, but Abe is leaving now, and based on the current evidence, the police have no way to keep him." ”

"And when is Mr. Abe leaving?" asked Conan.

"At ten o'clock tonight, it was a business visit, which was arranged five days ago, that is, on Friday. "Damn it, he had planned it early on and wanted to run abroad before the police could react." ”

Damn, it looks like we can only gamble. Conan turned to Miko Miyamoto behind the counter and said, "Aunt Miko, I suddenly remembered that Dr. Asa had something to do with me, and I want to ask for leave." Without waiting for Miko Miyamoto's consent, she ran to the dressing room.

"Mom?" asked Yamazaki.

"Let him go, and see what he can come up with, to get the evidence. Miyako Miyamoto smiled, "You can just look at it." ”

"See? Yamazaki laughed.

Conan runs to Dr. Asasa's house, borrows a voice changer, and calls Mori in the voice of the Twilight Police Department, saying that Mr. Abe's alibi has been cracked, and asks Mori to rush to the airport to testify for the police. Then he calls the Twilight Police Department in Maori's voice, saying that he has cracked Yutaka Abe's alibi and asks the Twilight Police Department to rush to the airport to arrest someone. Then ask Dr. Asa to take him to the airport. ……