Chapter 17: The True Meaning of Heavenly Punishment
Deceased: Boss Manaka, Cause of Death: Blood loss, Location: Hell Exhibition Hall.
Random clues are drawn...... Random clues have been drawn, the murderer's occupation: art museum staff, residual signs: text, information source: video, suspect physique: thin
After watching the surveillance video again, Yuichi, who still couldn't grasp anything, turned on the detective system, but this time the clues brought to him by the system were obviously not as important as the previous ones, and after looking at the four clues one by one, there was still no evidence that could directly point to the murderer in this bizarre murder case.
"Am I in a hurry? After all, the detective system is just an auxiliary system, and the previous few times I relied on it to solve cases easily, there is obviously some imbalance in my mentality and I rely on him too much! I must calm down and never lose my sense of normalcy. Yuichi, who sensed that something was wrong with his state, took a deep breath and began to analyze the images in the surveillance video.
The murderer disguised himself as a knight and met with the boss of the real middle in the hell exhibition hall.,And then simulated the method of the painting of the heavenly punishment to torture the real boss.,From this point of view,The murderer must be a person who has a conflict with the real boss and is familiar with this exhibition hall.,This is consistent with the murderer's profession provided by the system.,So from the clues collected today,,Wata, who has a conflict with the real boss, is the most suspicious.。 Then there was the director of Iijima and Ochiai, who were dissatisfied with his conversion of the museum into a hotel.
Judging from the time of the death of the deceased reported by the forensic department, it was around half past four in the afternoon, which was when we found that the entrance passage was blocked and the sign prohibiting entry was put in, which means that the sign was placed by the murderer.
Yuichi, whose eyes lit up after analyzing this, hurriedly summoned a police officer and asked him to inform the comrades in the forensic department to find the sign and look at the fingerprints on it.
After giving this order, Yuichi continued to reason according to the clues he had, the suspect was thin and weak, and it seemed that Iijima could be ruled out. The remaining signs are words.,It seems to be the nameplate that the Twilight Police Department found that the real boss wrote before he died.,Will the clue be on it? After reviewing the footage again, Yuichi turned and left the guardhouse, ready to go to the scene again. Especially the nameplate left by the boss of Manaka.
Just as Yuichi opened the door to the guardhouse, a little imp who was about to push the door in couldn't help but flash and staggered in. After looking up and seeing that it was Yuichi, he nodded and climbed to the monitor he had just seen and rewind to re-observe the scene where Boss Manaka was killed.
"Conan! Did you find anything on the spot? You don't look like a schoolboy right now! Yuichi, who saw Conan's return, was not in a hurry to go to the scene, and after looking at Conan who was staring at the monitor with a thoughtful face, he touched his head and reminded him kindly.
"Aha! Brother Youyi! I was sent by Uncle Maori, and they found the nameplate from Boss Manaka at the scene, although Boss Manaka didn't know why he suddenly took the nameplate before he died, but now there is a person's name on the nameplate! This made his murderous suspicion suddenly bigger. ”
"Who?"
"Kuwata!"
"What about their surmised motives?"
"Iijima reported that Kuwata had recently stolen art from the art museum, and was discovered by the boss of Manaka! Ask him for a large amount of damages! ”
"It looks like he has a motive for committing the crime! Anything else to discover? ”
"Not yet, so I'm just coming back to watch the footage, hoping to find something more."
"Really? Then you can take a good look! After getting a new clue from Conan, Yuichi, who thought that he should still go to the scene to reconnoitre, touched Conan's head and turned to leave the guardhouse.
In the video, the name left on the nameplate by the boss of Manaka is actually Kuwata, if this is the case, the behavior of the boss is a little strange, he was seriously injured by the knight, he found out the identity of the knight, he took advantage of the knight's inattention to secretly tore off the nameplate on the wall to introduce the famous painting, he picked up the ballpoint pen on the table next to him and wanted to leave something on the back of the nameplate, he suddenly became excited, threw away the ballpoint pen and crumpled the nameplate into a ball. Wait, he was so excited that he had drawn something on the nameplate before throwing the ballpoint pen, and that kind of look and action didn't look like writing, but like scribbling! Yes, this is it! Scribble! Yuichi, who felt that he might have grasped some clue, felt a burst of excitement in his heart and hurriedly ran towards the Hell Exhibition Hall.
"Is this the nameplate left by Boss Manaka? There's what I'm looking for! After taking the physical evidence nameplate from the hands of his colleagues in the forensic department, Yuichi squinted at the light while standing in the aisle outside. Looking at the messy smeared marks on the scribbled depression, the corners of Yuichi's mouth couldn't help but hook up a smile.
"Dusk Police! I have made some new discoveries! After going through the reasoning in his heart again, although he felt a little regretful, Yuichi, who had always adhered to the tenet of Shijun and the creed of loyalty to the king, would not choose to hide anything for the murderer because of a moment of sympathy, and after observing the scene again and asking Iijima, who was standing aside, a few questions, Yuichi quietly stood beside the Twilight Police Department and reported.
"Huh? What's new? Isn't it this depression? ”
"Although this Kuwatian is not a good person, he did not commit the murder this time, he is just a substitute for the murderer."
"I see? Then you can tell us what you think! ”
"Yes! Twilight Police Department! After getting authorization from the Twilight Police Department, he smiled apologetically at Mori Kogoro, who was reasoning on the sidelines, and began his reasoning.
"The murderer of the real boss is not Kuwata, but someone else! Wata is just a substitute for the death ghost pushed out by the murderer! Although it seems that Wata, who was caught by the boss of Manaka, is the most suspicious of killing Boss Manaka, but this does not rule out some suspects with ulterior motives, do you say that it is the director of the Ochiai curator? ”
"What? Director Ochiai? Brother Youyi! What do you mean? As Yuichi said the name of the murderer he had identified, everyone who was still at the scene screamed in amazement.
"That's right! The murderer is Director Ochiai! You can look at the wall where the boss was nailed, and then look at the other walls, do you find any strange places? That's right! That is, all the famous paintings on the wall where the boss died, were all taken away, and only some nameplates introducing these paintings were pasted on the wall. I just asked Iijima, and he said that before the incident, Director Ochiai had instructed him to remove a few less important paintings from the shelves in advance under the pretext that the tourists had almost left the museum, leaving only a few classic paintings for people to see, and the unimportant paintings that were taken down were coincidentally on this wall. I wonder if Director Ochiai can explain it to us, but at least I don't think Kuwata, who can steal and sell famous paintings, would have done this before committing the crime. And then there's the video I just saw in the guardhouse, in which the boss of Manaka tears off the nameplate and looks at the trajectory of his arm, it doesn't look like he's writing at all, but he's desperately scribbling! So when the name Wakuta was written on this nameplate is a question mark. Maybe the ballpoint pen that the boss picked up was just a ballpoint pen that couldn't be written, and when he saw the name Wata, which had been left on it, and understood that this name and the murderer were not the same person at all, he would desperately smear it, and even throw away the ballpoint pen in anger. If I'm not mistaken, the ballpoint pen that has the fingerprints of the boss and can't write is on the Ochiai curator, right? Can you cooperate with us? ”
"Bang bang! No need, very wonderful reasoning! Officer Kudo, you're really as powerful as the famous high school detective who was famous some time ago, should you say that you deserve the surname Kudo? You're right, I killed the real boss! That ballpoint pen is on me too! I plead guilty! ”
When Yuichi set his eyes on Director Ochiai with confidence on his face, Director Ochiai, who had been standing in place and had been silent, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, clapped his hands and applauded his reasoning, and then took out a ballpoint pen from his suit, and after the identification of the forensic staff, this ballpoint pen is indeed unable to write, and there are still fingerprints of the boss of Manaka on it.
"Curator!" Seeing Director Ochiai's confession like this, Iijima and the others glanced at Yuichi on the side in disbelief and couldn't help but shout.
"Hahaha! I don't regret being able to kill this demon who has defiled the sacred art gallery that I regard as my own! And Kuwata! If you dare to sell your art treasures without permission, this pain is my punishment for you! It's just a pity, I'm afraid I won't be able to see the Rice Flower Art Museum that I've struggled for all my life in the future, right? Looking at Iijima and the others with a look of regret, Director Ochiai smiled indifferently and took the initiative to put his hand into the handcuffs handed to him by Yuichi.
"Director Ochiai! You imitated the scene in the painting of Heavenly Punishment and killed Manaka, and blamed Kuwata to say that you are the knight who represents justice and judged the two demons with your own sword? It's a pity that you are wrong, even if you kill both of them, you are not a righteous knight, and you will be punished by the law in the same way! Just when the Twilight Police Department waved his hand and was about to let people take Director Ochiai, Conan, who found that he was already a step late after figuring out the situation, didn't want to just hit the soy sauce like this, and couldn't help but open his mouth to explain his opinion.
"Knights of justice? Hahaha! Children! You still don't really understand this painting! What this painting really depicts is that the righteous knight used his last strength to crucify the demon, but he was also corrupted by the demon with the blood of the demon, and when he personally killed the demon, he himself became a new demon! And the end of the demon will only be destroyed by heaven's punishment, understand? There is no justice in this painting, some are just pathetic! Hahaha! ”
With the sad laughter of the director of Ochiai, the murder case that happened at the museum finally came to an end, and after the case was reported that there was no investor in the Rice Flower Art Museum, enthusiastic citizens petitioned the city government to buy the museum at the expense of the government, and the new director was Iijima, who was still grieving.