Chapter 32: The Duke of Night's Murder 4
"This. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info. Miss Akiko Sayama? How could she collapse in Mr. Ehara's room? ”
Mori Kogoro looked surprised when he saw Miss Sayama on the ground.
"Wake up. Miss Sayama? Miss Sayama! ”
"Huh?"
Akiko Sayama was woken up by Kogoro.
"Miss Sayama. How did you end up in Mr. Ehara's room? ”
There was a hint of panic in Sayama's eyes when she was asked by Kogoro's question, but she quickly calmed down.
"Mr. Ehara told me that he had a clue about the Duke of Night. Let me come over at half past nine in the evening. But when I came, the door was not closed. And there was a man dressed as the Duke of the Night lying on the ground. When I walked up to the man, I fainted without knowing what was going on. ”
Akiko Sayama told the reason for the incident.
"That being said, Miss Sayama, Mr. Ehara is dead, and it should have jumped from the room where he lived. And as the only person in this chamber, you are undoubtedly the one with the greatest suspicion. Therefore, I hope that you will be able to cooperate with the investigation in the next case. ”
Officer Yokozo took out the room card from the pocket of Tokio Ehara's clothes who fell to the ground and said to Akiko Sayama.
"I... I know. ”
When Akiko Sayama heard that she was the biggest suspect, she didn't become very excited, but had a very indifferent expression.
Mori and Officer Yokozo no longer pay attention to Akiko Sayama and go to the balcony to check for clues.
"The floor to ceiling windows of the balcony are open. Then below is the bronze statue of Mr. Ehara falling to the ground. ”
Kogoro Mori stuck his head out of the balcony and looked down.
"Look like this, Mr. Ehara fell from here."
Officer Yokogou speculated.
"I think it might have been a pure accident. His gloves were still clipped to the railing. ”
Mori Kogoro pointed to the white gloves that were still swinging in the wind on the railing.
"I think he might have been trying to dress like this and jump off the balcony to scare the contestants living in the downstairs room. It's just that I drank too much at night, which caused me to accidentally miss later, and finally really fell directly from the balcony to the bronze statue on the ground. Worthy of his own life. ”
Kogoro Maori reasoned about it.
"Is that so? It's the twenty-first floor. Would the average person go from the balcony to the downstairs without a rope? Moreover, why did Miss Sayama pass out on the ground. Is it really caused by external factors, or is she lying? Why did Mr. Ehara go downstairs from the balcony in disguise as the Duke of the Night after calling Miss Sayama over? Miss Sayama said the victim or the suspect? If she were a victim, then this room would be a secret room. Because the room key card for the room was in Mr. Ehara's pocket who fell on the ground. The room was locked from the inside. ”
Conan said as he jotted down his conjectures in a notepad.
"Oops!!"
Kogoro Mori punches Conan in the head. In pain, he threw out the notepad and pen in his hand.
The pen rolled on the ground a few times and fell straight off the balcony.
"Ahh My fountain pen! ”
Conan, who was lying on the edge of the balcony, could only watch his pen fall and could not do anything.
"Let's go downstairs and see the body."
"But even if you look at it, the result should be the same."
Maori left the balcony and walked out the door.
Several people came downstairs to check on the body.
"Alas. It was a terrible death. ”
"I see, Mr. Ehara fell from the 21st floor and inserted it into the bronze statue."
Mori Kogoro lifts the white cloth that covers the corpse. I looked at the bronze statue next to the door of the hotel.
"Miss Xiaolan, have you seen Akiko? I didn't see her when I got back to my room, and I couldn't find her everywhere. ”
Maeda Satoshi hurriedly ran to Xiaolan and asked.
"Ahh Ms. Sayama is now cooperating with the police in some investigations. Mr. Ehara fell from the stairs and fell to his death, and when Officer Yokozo entered Mr. Ehara's room, Ms. Sayama was unconscious on Mr. Ehara's floor. So Miss Sayama, who is a suspect, must be investigated. ”
Xiaolan saw Mr. Maeda, who was very anxious, and patiently explained to him.
"How so!"
Hearing the news, Mr. Yesterday was stunned in surprise.
Then he turned around and ran to the hotel.
Conan was lying on the ground around the bronze statue, looking for something. Suddenly, a pair of snow-white calves appeared in front of him. Then look up. Xiaolan was bent over to look at him.
"What are you doing? Conan! ”
"I can't find the pen that just fell~"
Conan looked innocent.
"It seems that it was an accident. You see the glove on his left hand is missing, it must be the white glove hanging from the railing. ”
When Mori Kogoro saw that the corpse only wore a white glove on his right hand, he felt even more that Tokio Ehara had died accidentally.
"It's weird. This man's tie knot is so weird. ”
Conan ran to the corpse and pulled up the tie on Tokio Ehara's chest.
"Oh? Tie knot? It's reversed! ”
Officer Henggou looked at the tie knot carefully, and suddenly said in surprise.
"Maybe it's his own habit."
Maori said disapprehantly.
"But I have a tie of his. This was given to me by a waiter here tonight. She said Mr. Ehara had forgotten to take it. ”
Conan took a yellow tie from his pocket and handed it to Officer Yokozo.
"That's right. This person's tie is knotted in the same way as ordinary people. ”
Officer Yokogou turned out to be sure after looking at the tie.
"You see, his belt is tied in the opposite way."
Conan pointed to Tokio's belt in Ehara again.
"It's really unconscionable. Mr. Maori. ”
"That's right. I see. He didn't put on this dress himself, but someone put it on for him, so Mr. Ehara was pushed down from the room on the twenty-first floor by the real Duke of Night onto the bronze statue. ”
Kogoro Maori suddenly discovered the key point of the whole case.
"That means the real murderers are still in the members of our tour group. And the most suspicious is undoubtedly Miss Sayama who passed out in Mr. Ehara's room! ”
"In that case, we have to ask all the members of the tour group where they were at 10 p.m. at the time of the crime."
Mori Kogoro stood up and said with an imposing voice.
"A few of you immediately go and borrow a room from the hotel for police interrogation, and get all the members of the detective tour party in a hurry."
Officer Yokogou ordered the officers next to him.
"Yes!"
"And what about the corpses and clothes?"
A police officer asked Officer Henggou.
"Hmm. Well, this one. Before we finish our interrogation, let's put them in the hotel office. ”
"Yes!"
In the hotel's temporary interrogation room.
"I see, then you were with Xiaolan at ten o'clock and they enjoyed the sea view from the observation room on the top of the building."
Mori asked Satoshi Maeda in front of him.
"yes, it was just past ten o'clock when I parted with the two of them."
Satoshi Maeda replied with some nervousness.
"What he said was true. Father. ”
Xiaolan was also on the side to testify for Satoshi Maeda.
"Then Mr. Maeda, you must have been the one who was looking at the watch at the time, right?"
"Hmm."
"Good. I see, please call the next person in. ”
Officer Henggou wrote this down on a notepad.
"My alibi is perfect, isn't it, because I was in the bar with him all the time it happened. Isn't it, Great Detective. ”
Hideko Kamijo leaned against Mori Kogoro and rubbed her chest against her arm in the Mori hut.
"Aha~~ That's right, that's right."
Mori Kogoro was completely irrational by Hideko Uejo's actions.
"But uncle, didn't you get drunk at last?"
Conan duly dismantled Mori Kogoro's stage on the side.
"Alright, next!"
Officer Yokozo sends Hideko Kamijo away and takes another person with him.
"I happened to be in the open-air restaurant where Mr. Ehara was pushed down, right, Shizue."
Kenichiro Kaneshiro replied tremblingly as he sat on the sofa.
"Yes, sir."
"Can anyone prove that?"
Maori then asked. Because this testimony is useless without other witnesses.
"There was a commotion and I didn't know who would remember me."
Kaneshiro said helplessly.
"Alright, the next one, please come in."
"I was in my room from nine forty-five to over ten o'clock. Use e-mail to read those e-mails sent to me. I think you'll find out if you look into the hotel's records. ”
Shiro Konno didn't leave his laptop while he was interrogating.
"But you don't have anyone to talk to all this time, right?"
Officer Henggou asked.
"Of course I had a conversation. It's just with the computer. Hehe~~"
Shiro Konno smiled very strangely.
"Alright, next."
"Miss Akiko Sayama, why did you go to Tokio Ehara's room? Why did you pass out there? ”
"As I said before, it was Tokio Ehara who invited me to go. He says he has clues about the Duke of Night. So I went. When I arrived at Tokio's room in Gangwon, the door was open. I knocked on the door, and no one answered. ”
"But I didn't see Tokio Ehara when I entered, but saw a man dressed as the Duke of the Night fall to the ground. I walked over out of curiosity. As soon as I walked up to the Duke of Night, I fainted. When I woke up, I saw you, Mr. Maori. ”
Akiko Sayama explained with a very innocent expression.
"So, did you lock the door from the inside?"
Mori Kogoro asked.
"When I went in, I just closed the door casually, and I didn't lock the door from the inside."
Akiko Sayama thought for a moment and replied.
"So you haven't heard anything since you passed out?"
Officer Yokogou asked.
"Yes. I didn't feel anything from the time I passed out until I was woken up by Mr. Maori. ”
Akiko Sayama still tells this testimony.
Conan stood aside and bowed his head and pondered: Did Miss Sayama lie or not? If she hadn't lied, then how did the real murderer leave Mr. Ehara's room!