Shiraishi originally thought that even if you don't use a computer, you must at least use a microscope to compare fingerprints.

However, he never expected that the police officer of the forensic department actually took out a magnifying glass from the toolbox, and then took out a roll of duct tape.

……

Conan was still waiting to hear the name at this time, but who knew that the Twilight Police Department, which had always been obedient to the detective's words, looked preoccupied this time.

Hearing the question of "Maori Kogoro", he only replied with "no surname Sanada", and returned the certificate.

Conan could only watch the dumb man put away his papers, and regretted it very much - he shouldn't have stayed up, if he had gone downstairs in advance just now, maybe he could have snatched it up and took a look under the guise of a bear child.

……

There were not too many suspects, and the officers of the forensic department quickly collected their fingerprints and compared them carefully.

However, after comparing them all, I still didn't find the owner of the fingerprint on the small window tape.

This result not only shocked the officers, but even Conan fell into deep doubts.

He used to think that the murderer, if not mute, must be the dangerous woman or a certain monk.

For last night, when he heard the abbot's voice, the dumb man was still standing outside the door—if it wasn't for the abbot talking to himself, it meant that there was still someone in the room at that time.

But now, the fingerprints don't match anyone...... How is this possible?!

Unless an outsider breaks into the temple in the middle of the night, kills someone, and then drives away in the early hours of the morning. This situation is extremely rare for Conan to encounter, and if this is the case, this criminal is too cunning......

was thinking about how to remedy it, but Conan suddenly saw the mute below raise his hand and gesture a few times at the bewildered Twilight Police Department.

After reading what he was saying, Conan was stunned.

Momiji's translation soon followed, and she looked at the Twilight Police Department, "He said, you're missing one person—" She raised her hand and pointed out the door, "the deceased." ”

“…… Do you want to say he committed suicide? The Twilight Police Department shook their heads repeatedly, "Such a complicated method is simply not something that one person can do. ”

"It's complicated, but it's not completely impossible to do." Momiji carefully reads Shiraishi's hand:

"The difficulty of suicide is nothing more than how to knock on the small window below, how to ensure that the body is dry after floating on the water, and what to do with the 'raft' that the Maori detective mentioned."

"Let's start by tapping on the small window, in fact, the abbot can use anything to make a timer device.

"For example, you can install a pulley above a small window, with a sharp and hard object attached to one end and a ...... Leashed with a dog? ”

Momiji silently raised his eyes and looked at Shiraishi, always feeling that the more he pulled, the more outrageous he became.

But the boss didn't change his face and drew out, so she had to be cheeky and say:

"Before letting a well-trained dog squat next to him and start committing suicide, Abbot Tianyong first threw bait or something to the side through the small window above to attract it to chase it, so that sharp and heavy objects could break through the small window and achieve the effect of opening the floodgates."

"As for what to do with the raft and how to make sure the body is dry, it can actually be combined into one problem.

"In the whole case, there may not be any process of 'floating on the water' at all, and the deceased only entered the confinement chamber through the window above when the water level was close to the top beam, and committed suicide by hanging the beam, so that the non-existent 'raft' was naturally no longer needed."

The science technology of this world, after all, is quite special, this string sounds very reasonable at first glance, but after thinking about it carefully, it is completely nonsense explanation, and it really has some credibility.

But one thing is wrong.

The Twilight Police Department questioned, "If it's really like what you say, the abbot will definitely get wet, but when we found him, he was dry. ”

Momiji looked at Shiraishi's hand, Mu Ran's translation:

"He can find a huge plastic bag and cover himself from the bottom up. As the water level falls, the surface tension causes the plastic bag to be swept away by the water underneath.

"The water rushes out of the breach, sweeping away plastic bags, fragments of small windows, timers underneath, and so on, and into the river, thus destroying the evidence.

"It's just that the abbot didn't expect that the piece of wood with fingerprints was stuck in the bush and failed to enter the river smoothly."

“……”

The room was silent, and although they felt that there were slots everywhere, they didn't know how to refute it for a while.

In the end, Kuan Nian came back to his senses first, and he pointed out one point: "We have never had a dog in the temple. ”

"Wang!! Barking! ”

As soon as Kuan Nian's words fell, a dog barking came down the corridor.

The voice was subtle and milky, but it sounded like a dog barking.

Kuan Nian froze in the background of the barking dog...... In order to commit suicide, the master actually carried them behind his back and secretly hid a well-trained dog!?

“…… But why did he expend so much effort to commit suicide? ”

It's not just forgiveness, it's a question in everyone's heart.

"How can there be so many whys, people's thoughts are inherently difficult to guess."

Momiji gave up thinking and acted as a translator with an indifferent expression: "Maybe he just wants to die as a martyr and fulfill the legend of the Misty Tengu - just like two years ago, he killed Master Tadanen by similar means." ”

“……”

The Twilight Police Department was confused by Shiraishi's crooked reasoning, and he stayed for a while before he remembered to command his subordinates: "You go and compare the fingerprints of the deceased." You guys, go catch that dog! Maybe there's some evidence on it, too! ”

Only then did a group of people come back to their senses from the "reasoning" and ran out with a bang.

At this time, Conan above was also in the shock of shattering his worldview...... Could it be that the deceased really committed suicide?

To verify this conclusion, the fingerprints of dogs and corpses will be very crucial clues.

The fingerprints were checked by a police officer, and Conan turned his attention to the dog. He left Mori Kogoro, who was still asleep, and ran towards the place where the dog barked from.

……

After tossing for nearly half an hour, the fingerprints on the tape were found out, and it was really the deceased.

The dog was not caught, and several police officers only saw a white tail around the corner, which must have been a large white dog based on the ratio of the general dog's tail to its size.

In short, all this evidence suggests that things are the same as the young man had speculated - that Abbot Tennaga died in a bells and whistles suicide.

After the twilight police department followed his subordinates, he wiped his sweat and returned to the living room, wanting to tell the "martyr's family" the news. However, after searching for a long time, he found that the person had already slipped away.

……

Although two witnesses ran away, but now, this case has been recognized as a suicide, and the absence of them is not a big problem, plus a little bit of the same thing, the Twilight Police Department did not let people look for it.

Conan looked at the much empty living room, and regretted that he was too impulsive just now to keep an eye on people.

But it's okay - there is also a pile of fingerprint samples of witnesses in the police officer of the forensic department next to it.