Chapter Ninety-Three: Octopus

That sounds like a lot of stuff. Takagi, did you find anything about the cell phone call logs? ”

"I screened the four most suspicious people and found that all of them were women. One of them was Mai-sama, and the call time was around 10 o'clock. ”

On the book, the names of the other three are: Komiya Tokiko, Wen Ayano, and Sayuri Purple Field.

Seeing that she was among the suspects, Mai Kirishima looked a little panicked.

She hurriedly waved her hand and explained, "I'm a reporter." It's normal to call Mr. Echimoto and discuss tomorrow's interview, right? And didn't I explain it before? ”

Therefore, she did not have a reason or motive to kill the other party.

"Indeed, Miss Mai's suspicion can be ruled out for the time being."

Twilight Thirteen nodded, pondering the clues she had heard earlier, and noticed something strange.

"However, since the call records are all women, there should be no suspicion of killing Mr. Eshimoto."

"After all, I also learned from the mouth of the waiter that it was a tall man who left at that time."

That being said, there is still a process to follow.

The first is Tokiko Konomiya, a female anchor of Rice Flower TV.

"Miss Tokiko, you had a phone call with Mr. Echimoto last night, right?"

"Yes."

"Then what is the relationship between the two of you?"

"Once lovers."

Komiya Tokiko smiled and continued: "I met a few times during the interview, and he was a very interesting person, so I gradually attracted him. The two have eaten together and traveled together. ”

After finishing speaking, Tokiko Komiya took out her phone from her bag and clicked on a photo in the album.

It is a photo of her with Yasuei Koshimoto, and the background is in Hawaii.

"He changed women like changing clothes, and every time he split his legs, I found out, and then knelt down and begged me to forgive him."

"I thought, this relationship should end at the end of the day. So now, I can't say it's too sad. ”

Although he was smiling, he always felt a little lonely.

After all, it's someone who once loved each other.

Even after a long time, when I hear the news of the other party's misfortune, my heart will still flutter.

"Then may I ask?"

"Alibi?"

After all, the police handle the case like this, and as a female news anchor on a TV station, she naturally understands something.

Konomiya Tokiko smiled: "It's really unfortunate that I was alone at home at the time. ”

The second is Wen Ayano, whose father is the president of Rice Flower Publishing House.

"Excuse me, what is your relationship with Mr. Koshimoto?"

"We're dating on the premise of getting married."

Twilight Thirteen and Takagi looked at each other, could this be the legendary octopus?

After coughing lightly, Twilight Thirteen asked, "Miss Ayano, did you talk to Mr. Echimoto on the phone yesterday?" What did you say during the call, can you let us know? ”

"Because he has been busy preparing and selling a new book recently, he is a little busy, so he doesn't talk much about it. I just told him to take care of himself, and I didn't say much after that. ”

"And last night?"

"My parents were traveling, so I was home alone last night. I didn't expect this to happen."

As he spoke, Wen Yano hurriedly stood up, then turned his back to them and quietly wiped the tears from his face.

"I'm sorry, I'm a little out of shape."

The third is Sayuri Murasada, a college student and the president of the Yasuei Echimoto Fan Support Association.

"Has something been wrong lately?"

Sayuri Zitian pondered for a while and nodded: "If you want to say that, there is indeed one thing." ”

"A few days later, after Mr. Koshimoto held a signing meeting, he invited several of our backbone members of the support club to dinner."

"At that time, I proposed that after dinner, everyone would go bowling together. But unexpectedly, he refused directly. ”

As Twilight Thirteen and Takagi investigate, several of them quietly follow them, acting like stalkers.

"Miss Tokiko's height is around 170, Miss Ayano's height is around 164, and Miss Ashida's height is around 162."

"So, Miss Ayano and Miss Purple Tian are the most suspicious?"

"But if you rule it out, the murderer is that person."

Yuanzi, who was drinking drinks on the side, saw the sneaky appearance of the two of them, and couldn't help but say, "Why are we here to accompany the two of them to mess around?" ”

As he spoke, the garden looked at Xiaolan, "You also spoil that little ghost too much, right?" ”

Xiaolan smiled a little embarrassedly.

"I'm sorry, Garden. I just think that if it's Shinichi, I won't be able to let it go. And for some reason, lately I've always felt like Conan and Shinichi are getting more and more alike. ”

"Is it my delusion?"

Xiaolan whispered, as if she was talking to herself.

"Okay, Xiaolan."

Yuan Zi smiled and comforted: "Your husband must be busy solving some earth-shattering case." When he's done, he'll come back to you. ”

When Xiaolan heard this, two crimson balls suddenly appeared on her face.

"Garden, garden, what are you talking nonsense? Me and Shinichi him, just, just boyfriend and girlfriend in terms of"

The more she talked to the end, Xiaolan's voice became lower and lower.

Sonoko grinned and quipped, "Oh, it's going to be sooner or later anyway, and Maori Lan will change to Kudo Orchid sooner or later." Right, Mrs. Kudo? ”

After the investigation, the group returned to the hotel again.

After several people got out of the car, they found a man in a black suit standing not far away.

He is over 180 tall, with sharp eyes and an imposing appearance.

Seeing this scene, Yuan Zi couldn't help but retreat behind Xiaolan.

"Difficult, can it be said that it is really a professional killer?"

Conan was shocked, according to the previous reasoning, the murderer was among the three people.

But now a man suddenly appeared, and it met the conditions that the waiter had said before.

Could it be that he is the real murderer?

Conan didn't think much about it anymore and protected Ran behind him, ready to press the soccer belt around his waist.

The man walked up to them, his right hand reaching inside his clothes.

Do you want to pull out a gun?

Shinsumi Sera made a gesture of battle.

The other party did not mean to stop, but accelerated his pace.

Just as he was about to take out his things, Shira Zhenchun decisively chose to make a move and decided to strike first.

At the moment when the other party was knocked to the ground, a card fell to the ground.

"Dong Yuansheng, professional bodyguard, bodyguard?"

After seeing the contents of the card, Shira was surprised.

So, the other party did not faint, but struggled to support his body and stood up.

"I'm sorry Mr. Yuansheng, are you okay?"

Xiaolan looked at the other party worriedly, "We just mistakenly thought it was your identity, so we made a move." I'm so sorry I didn't expect that! ”

After finishing speaking, Xiaolan bowed sincerely to express her apology.

"No, it's fine."

Dong Yuansheng's body swayed for a moment before he finally stabilized his figure.

He rubbed the back of his head and introduced himself, "I'm Mr. Echimoto's bodyguard, named Dong Motosheng. ”

If a person splits his leg frequently, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will have murderous intent towards him.

Therefore, the act of Yasuei Koshimoto inviting a bodyguard did not make everyone feel strange.

"That's right. Last night, I saw the man who had entered Mr. Eshimoto's room. ”

"At about 10 o'clock last night, Mr. Koshimoto asked me to go back today. I was about to go back when I received a call from a friend, and I picked up the phone porridge in front of the elevator. ”

Then I saw someone enter Yasuei Echimoto's room.

The other party was a woman wearing a hat, so I couldn't see her face clearly.

The time was 10:30, which happened to be half an hour before the presumed time of death.

"Do you remember what the other party's height is?"

"It should be above 160."

Sonoko nodded, touched his chin and thought for a moment, revealing a confident smile.

"I finally know who the murderer is!"

Conan looked surprised.

The garden "hummed" and then began his own reasoning show.

"First of all, you are over 180 tall, you are in good shape, and the eyewitness testimony of the waiter is consistent. In other words, you deliberately committed perjury in order to confuse our eyes. ”

"So that we can think that the murderer is actually a woman, so as to exclude our own suspicion."

After saying that, Yuan Zi stretched out his index finger and pointed at Dong Yuansheng.

"There is only one truth! The murderer is you."

The crowd was silent for a few seconds.

"But," Sera began to change the subject, "why do you want to tell us this clue now?" ”

"This"

Dong Yuansheng hesitated, "After all, there was a woman who came to Mr. Echimoto's room, and I thought they were just inconvenient for something, so"

At half past ten, a woman over 160 centimeters tall entered the room.

At around 11 o'clock, Yasuei Echimoto was killed.

At 11:30 a.m., a tall man over 180 centimeters tall walked out of the room.

"Since there are two people, there must be complicity, right?" The garden guessed.

Shiliang Zhenchun smiled: "Well, this is actually possible." But I think that the man and the woman are actually the same person. ”

Xiaolan felt a little puzzled, "However, if you are 160 and 180, the height difference is too big." ”

"You can wear high heels!"

Mai Kirishima began to popularize relevant knowledge: "Performance shoes and shoes with a platform in the front can exceed 20 centimeters, as if stepping on stilts." ”

But 20 cm shoes are not something anyone can handle.

This may also explain why the waiter felt that he was walking slowly when he saw the man.

"But if it's high heels, you can see it at a glance, right?"

"You're talking about women's heels. But in the world, there is also a kind of men's height increase shoes, and men's inner height shoes. ”

Mai Kirishima smiled and continued, "The latter looks similar to ordinary shoes. Unless you take your shoes off, you won't notice them easily. ”

Generally speaking, the height increase of height-increasing shoes is about 10 centimeters, which is the most common.

Shoes that are more than 10 cm tall are difficult to buy or need to be customized.

"And Mai's sister also said before that Mr. Eshimoto's height is around 180. But when I went in, I realized that Mr. Eshimoto was not as tall as me. ”

Conan smiled innocently, seemingly unaware of what he was saying.

"Huh?"

Yuanzi looked down at him and said with some dissatisfaction: "Little ghost, how can Mr. Yuemoto not be as tall as you?" ”

What Conan said inadvertently just now made Xiaolan seem to think of something.

I saw her thoughtful, and then looked at him, looking like she wanted to say something.

Now, this is not the time to ask, "Are you the new one?"