Chapter XXIII: The Righteous Revenge
"Chikako's necklace? I think about it, although the bandaged man swept in front of the window at that time, the necklace like the collar on Ji Jiazi's neck was very conspicuous, and I remember that this necklace was around her neck! And Kakutani was interviewing Ota in the living room at the time, and his camera was facing the window, so there should be evidence in his camera! ”
"Really? Take a look! If this necklace is really on Jikako's neck, it will be interesting! I remember that when I found the body, I didn't have this necklace around my neck! As the first to return to the villa, I found this necklace at the entrance, so that Zhijiazi or Zhijiazi's head turned around from the villa after she was kidnapped! After confirming with Conan, Yuichi immediately asked Conan to go downstairs and borrow Kadoya's camera.
After a while, the two who stared at the camera screen found the scene that happened in the living room in Kakutani's camera, a mysterious man in a cloak and bandage flashed in front of the window with a frightened face of Chikako, and the necklace was around Chikako's neck.
"It can be determined that the only one who has the time and means to commit the crime is him! The mysterious man who swept past the window wrapped in bandages must have been a prop he had made. As for Zhijiazi! It should have been killed, and the scene of the crime was the woods! In the video, Jikako is in the cloak of the cloaked man except for the head, which means that he just transported Jikako's head back, fixed it on the props, and then kept using the excuse of repairing the roof to dominate the upstairs balcony, and he performed this scene in front of your eyes through the mechanism he designed, proving that the bandage man is not a farce of any of us. Then he ...... the head."
"I know why Xiaolan was attacked!" Listening to Yuichi's analysis, Conan suddenly seemed to think of something, and shouted with excitement on his face.
"Why?"
"For the sake of his way of hiding the head! Brother Youyi, when you first came to the villa to check the surrounding environment, Xiaolan and I advanced to the villa, at that time I was just scared by you for a long time, Xiaolan was a little out of state, after listening to the garden said that our room was on the second floor, she went up in a trance, I don't know which is our room, she opened the door all the way without knocking to the end, and the three men in his room at that time were all looked at by him, although Xiaolan felt bad and immediately closed the door, but I think the murderer must be a thief. Just in case, I started on Sister Xiaolan! ”
"You mean?"
"That's right! He may not be a fat man! ”
"Stained stains! Hiding the head cut off by his own hands in his arms, this Mr. Takahashi is really a ruthless person! Thinking about the fact that he was running after me with a human head hidden in his arms at the time, I was terrified, it was psychopathic to be able to run after me without changing his face like this, right? It's impossible for a normal person to do this! I just don't know what happened between him and Atsuko and Chikako back then, now that the logic has been smoothed out, let's go and end this farce! The cloak and bandage he used to commit the crime should still be stuffed into his stomach, and if I'm not mistaken, there should still be blood stains on it when he killed Jikako. ”
Just when Yuichi and Conan completely solved this perverted murder and corpse mutilation case, suddenly the lights of the entire villa flashed and went completely black.
"Oops! This bastard isn't dead yet! Conan! You go to the power room and look at the fuse box! I'll go downstairs to protect Xiaolan! This is a perverted murderer, don't be stubborn with me! You're just a kid now, and I'm a police officer! Just go! After pulling Conan, who jumped out of bed and was about to run to the living room on the first floor, Yuichi, who had explained a few words, hurriedly ran towards the living room.
"Xiaolan! Be careful! There is danger! Ryoichi Takahashi! You son of a bitch! I already know it's you, if you dare to touch a single hair of Xiaolan! I'll definitely let you know the consequences of killing someone in front of a police officer! Yuichi, who walked to the top of the stairs in the dark, could only stand upstairs and yell at the living room in order not to roll down the stairs in the air, and then try to come down from the stairs step by step.
"Ahh What are you doing? Bastard! ”
"Humph!"
"What? It was Takahashi who killed Jikako? Are you kidding? ”
"Don't come here! Who are you? ”
With Yuichi's shout, Ota's group who were looking for candles downstairs suddenly rioted, and when Yuichi successfully came down the stairs, Conan, who quickly slid down the handrail of the stairs connecting the back door, had already arrived at the power supply room at the back of the villa and closed the safety again by the faint moonlight, and suddenly the light returned to the villa again, but the atmosphere in the living room could no longer return to the previous harmony.
Ran was in front of Sonoko and Ayako, Kadoya was hiding under the dining table next to her, and Takahashi was holding Ota hostage with a sharp knife, leaning against the window, his legs trembling and his face slightly distorted.
"Takahashi? What are you doing? Could it be that Zhijiazi was really killed by you? Why? We are all sworn friends of the Electric Research Society! "Ayako, who saw all this, didn't understand that what Yuichi just said was actually true, and Takahashi was the strange bandage murderer they were still talking about just now.
"Dead friends? Hahaha! Ayako! I know you treat us as friends, but is it the same with everyone else? Maybe Ota and Kakutani have it too! But I'm sure that Jikako's must not have thought of it this way, we are just tools for her fame! If it weren't for her, Atsuko wouldn't have died! ”
"What? Atsuko? Didn't she commit suicide? How can it have anything to do with Chikako? Looking at Takahashi, who was already like a madman, Ayako, who heard his roar, couldn't help but ask again.
"Suicide? That's right! Atsuko, she committed suicide! But she did it out of desperation! Did you know? When I was in school, Atsuko, who was a screenwriter, once came to me privately with a movie script called Azure Kingdom! She asked me some questions about props, and I still remember Atsuko's confident look at that time, she told me that as long as she perfected the script, she would find someone to invest in the shooting, and then she would ask me to do the prop design! We got ahead in the film and television industry together, but not long after that, when Atsuko contacted me again one day, she cried and said that she was desperate for the world and that she would never trust anyone again! Then I hung up the phone, and the next day I heard the news that she had committed suicide in the Electric Research Institute! Look at your expressions, do you all understand? That's right! The book that Tokako became famous for is exactly the same as the script of the Azure Kingdom that Atsuko showed me! ”
"You mean? Jikako plagiarized Atsuko's script? And then submitted it to win an award? ”
"That's right! That's it! When I accidentally saw this movie in the cinema that day, I understood it all! Zhijiazi, this slut, is the murderer of Atsuko, and I want to avenge Atsuko! I happened to receive Ayako's invitation, so I arranged this revenge drama! Don't come, I'm a messenger of justice for Atsuko's revenge! Now that the slut of Zhijiazi has been ambushed, then I can also go to accompany Atsuko! ”
"Enough! That's a nice thing to say, isn't it? Are you still deceiving yourself? What a messenger of justice! What revenge for Atsuko! If you just want to take revenge on Zhijiazi, then what are you doing when you attacked Xiaolan in the woods before, and now you are designing a power outage to attack Xiaolan again, and then hijacking Ota after being counterattacked by Xiaolan? If you want to kill yourself, you will kill yourself! Don't dare, right? Because you're scared, aren't you? From the moment you attacked Xiaolan, you were no longer a messenger of justice, you were just a murderous demon who was afraid that others would find out about your crimes! So please don't disgust us in the name of Atsuko, okay? Just when Takahashi pushed Ota out and aimed the sharp knife at him with a heroic look, Yuichi, who had been watching coldly from the beginning, finally opened his mouth and roared.
"Demons? Oh, yes! I was scared in the end! Atsuko! I'm sorry for you! As Yuichi uncovered the last scar he had carefully disguised, Takahashi, who was originally acting, threw away the sharp knife in his hand and knelt on the spot and cried bitterly. And under his clothes there was indeed a cloak and bandages that he had used to commit crimes.