I didn't speak, just listened silently to his analysis.

"I thought about it for a long time, and finally cautiously thought that the murderer must be making an alibi, because in every closed room homicide, the most important thing is an alibi, and this one is not unexpected, we have not found any traces of the murderer's alibi before, so I boldly guess that the broken hole on the glass window is."

"And how did the murderer make an alibi?" I asked.

"I didn't think at the time, I only thought about these clues halfway and then broke them, which means that there must be something key that we missed, I have already had this premonition, these clues are like broken puzzles, just the key puzzle pieces we can get the truth."

"Then I searched around the house, and soon I found something interesting, like this one." Kudo picked up the toy pistol on the ground, and my eyes widened, it was Shota's toy.

"But this toy doesn't seem to say anything, so I just put it down, and I continued to look for it, and I searched for a long time, and soon I suddenly stopped, because I suddenly noticed something on the carpet, and this is it." He pointed to the charred socket on the carpet.

"This is one of the physical evidence we found at the scene, in addition to the general jack like the table lamp, there is also a special diamond-shaped jack on it, and this must be prepared for a specific thing, which is also something that every household will have in the winter now, but we did not find it at the scene, so this must be the one that we missed, and it is very deadly to the murderer."

"Electric heater." Kudo watched as I uttered the familiar name word by word, and my body shook, as if a mushroom cloud had exploded in my mind.

"When I saw this, the fog in my heart dissipated in an instant, and the broken clues were all linked together as if they were energized." Kudo stopped, "Actually, the truth is so simple, the way the murderer entered and exited the scene was actually known for a long time, but we all ignored it, because the murderer is you, Kawaki congratulated." ”

Kudo turned around and looked at me and the pitch-black muzzle of the gun in my hand.

He looked at me, there was not the slightest fear on his face, he just smiled and continued to open his mouth, "When you know this answer, other questions will soon be solved, this matter has to start from a very early love, once upon a time there was a man with dwarfism, he may have suffered all the ridicule in his life, otherwise he would not have worked so hard, crazy work, and finally became a successful businessman, and he must have come to Osaka by chance, and met Ms. Suzuki by chance, he fell in love at first sight, Of course, Ms. Suzuki doesn't like him, otherwise this is a relationship, not love, Ms. Suzuki happened to run away from home and just entered the city, so the man called Honda funded her study, Ms. Suzuki was very grateful to him, but from the quick marriage after she graduated, I guess she must be afraid of being threatened by Honda with marriage, but because of the quick flash marriage, she saw the wrong person, and after the divorce of Ito, who was moody and alcoholic, Ms. Suzuki and her son, Shota, orphan and widow, should have lived a very stressful life, but they actually bought a high-end apartment here and were able to send money home every month, which means that they must have received Honda's support again, and this time Honda lived with them. ”

"Because Honda has missed it once, he doesn't want to miss it a second time, he uses material things to meet Ms. Suzuki, successfully lives with Ms. Suzuki, and sells the family property to live with his beloved wholeheartedly, from the utensils and slippers at home, we can see that children's items are far more than adults, and the reason why he has not been found is because he has been hiding under Ms. Suzuki's skirt when he travels, and this must be requested by Ms. Suzuki, Because her feelings for Honda are only disgusted except for a little gratitude, she is afraid that Honda will be discovered by others and become the topic of conversation after dinner, so she does not allow Honda to be exposed to the world, and even does not take a car, and has to open a private room alone for dinner. ”

"My colleague Nishizawa has shown her love many times, a handsome person like Nishizawa and the ambiguous relationship between them, she must want to accept it, but Nishizawa is not so rich, otherwise why would she choose Ito before, and she still has the burden of Honda by her side and has not thrown off, but she doesn't want to lose Honda's money, so she has been very distressed, confided in her good friend and wants to cut off the past, and told Nishizawa a week before the crime, she finally made up her mind, she said that she would be with me when she cut off the past, We always thought that it was Ito, but Ito's matter had been resolved by calling the police a month ago, so she must be talking about someone else, Honda. ”

"On the night of the incident, Honda hid in Ms. Suzuki's skirt as usual, but when you took the elevator, you happened to meet a total of eleven passengers, including you, plus the Honda in the skirt, causing the elevator to be overloaded, and because there was a person hidden in the skirt, Ms. Suzuki walked very slowly, I have always wondered why you ignored, in fact, you did not ignore at all, you have already found out and in the shortest time came to the conclusion that there is someone under Ms. Suzuki's skirt, you guess she must have been hijacked, So when the power went out, you entered Ms. Suzuki's house under the pretext of concern, and at that time Ms. Suzuki had already killed Honda as planned, so you heard a noise, and Honda was strangled to death by Ms. Suzuki with both hands. ”

My eyes twitched slightly when I heard this.

Kudo continued. "You talked to Ms. Suzuki in the living room for a while, as you said, and then you approached Shota's room under the pretext of going to the bathroom, because you believed that someone must be hiding in it and holding Shota hostage, but there was only a sleeping Shota lying on the bed, and no one else, so you turned around and went into another room, a room that was perfect for hiding, a storage room."

He said coldly, and my eyes moved again.

"You searched carefully, but suddenly found the figure hiding behind the curtain with a gun aimed at you, you immediately detained the M3913Ls 9mm pistol that you had been holding, this is a very small caliber gun, only to find that the person who was shot was Zhengtai."

Kudo's voice was like a myriad of sharp blades, and my heart seemed to stop beating at this moment, and my brain was dizzy and I couldn't breathe.

"Because, it is not Zhengtai who is lying on the bed, but the body of the dead Honda, and the only way for Ms. Suzuki to hide the body in such a short period of time is this, disguise the body of Honda as a sleeping Zhengtai, and let Zhengta stay in the storage room to play, and what he is holding in his hand is this toy gun." Kudo picked up the toy gun that had been placed on the ground, and it was still as glaring in the darkness as it was then.

"A resident said that he heard a sound similar to an ashtray falling around 7 or 8 o'clock, we thought it was the same sound you heard when you knocked on the door, but you heard a heavy thumping sound, and according to what you said, the sound was not very loud, and you still heard it when you approached the door, which means that the resident did not hear the sound at that time, and there is no ashtray in the house, so could it be that the resident misheard? No, the inhabitant heard it right, because what the inhabitant heard was the sound of your M3913Ls 9mm pistol firing it, the smallest of calibers of the pistol, small and crisp. ”

"You found out that you killed Zhengtai, with your IQ, you quickly came to the conclusion that you are irretrievable, save everything, so you decisively smashed Ms. Suzuki unconscious, put her on the carpet, and then the most important link also came, the reason why you chose to burn, the biggest purpose is to cover up the most deadly traces, bullet holes, the unrecognizable charred corpse on the ground is not actually Zhengtai, but the dwarfism patient Honda, for which you erase all the fingerprints at the scene, It's not that we police thought before that I accidentally left fingerprints, but in order not to let the police notice the signs of the three people living here, and the thing you lit the fire was not a lighter, but an electric heater, you poured oil on the carpet and then wrapped the electric heater tightly, and when the call came at nine o'clock, the electric heater wrapped in the carpet successfully lit the living room. ”

"The most special and unbelievable sound of glass breaking in that case and the shattering of this floor-to-ceiling window, I just noticed that there are a lot of glass shards on the ground, but if you stand in the living room and smash the window with a blunt object, most of the glass shards must have fallen out of the window, so I realized that someone must have been standing on her balcony after the call and smashing Ms. Suzuki's floor-to-ceiling window from the outside with a rope tied to a blunt object, creating the illusion that the murderer was still in the house at the time."

My eyes were cold, and I remembered the scene of that night in my mind, and after the call came at nine o'clock, I got up and walked to the back room, tied the stone bricks used to hold the flowers in the house with a rope, and smashed the floor-to-ceiling windows of Chiyoko's house next door.

"The reason why the electric heater was not found at the scene is because at the first time of the incident, the electric heater was thrown directly from the broken hole in the floor-to-ceiling window to the extended public balcony below, and a lot of flowers were planted on it, so there would be no sound, and then when no one was paying attention, just go to the balcony to dispose of the electric heater, and the only person who can do this is you, the first person to rush into the scene, Kawaki congratulated." He called out my name again, but it was so heavy and hard.

"But where is Shota's body?" I spoke calmly, the gun still pointed at his brow.

"Zhengtai's body must have been hidden in the house at that time, but our investigators searched the whole house and didn't find it, I thought about it, only by hiding in that place can you have absolute certainty and confidence that no one will be discovered, and that place is this." Kudo looked down at the round soft stool behind me, and my apparent calm could no longer hide the great shock inside, and I exhaled heavily, even the last shred of defense was shattered.

"I just asked Watanabe, and you were always sitting on this round bench during the search, so this is the best place to hide the body." Kudo opens the roof of the round stool, revealing a bloodstained interior.

"Then you dispose of the corpse, congratulations, this is the whole process of your crime." Kudo raised his eyes and looked me straight into the eye with an indescribable emotion in his eyes.

Then he suddenly laughed, laughed happily, laughed so happily and crazy, "Haha, it turns out that the fierce enemy hiding in the dark is you, the murderer I have seen very much and wants to catch Bo is actually you, yes, I should have thought that the peerless genius who can cause such a big obstacle to the police can only be you, no wonder you have always behaved so mediocre, in fact, you have never changed, you are still the same Kawaki." ”

He laughed for a long time, laughing very heartily, and then Kudo regained his composure, he looked at me with a solemn gaze, and closed his eyes, "I didn't expect that a few years ago you solved the rampant sleepwalking murder case, and the incomparably simple truth was only discovered by you, and now the same simple truth has been uncovered by me, and the murderer is you, this is all fate, God does not allow two geniuses to exist, the combination of the two swords will eventually lead to the demise of one of the swords, shoot, congratulations, I can have such a happy battle with you in the end." I have no regrets. ”

But I didn't answer, and after a long time, Kudo seemed to realize something, and opened his eyes suddenly, and he stared at me with wide eyes and madness, but it was too late, and I aimed at my head and pulled the trigger.

Kudo, this gamble, I lost, and I also paid with my life as you made the bet, just like the shocking duel between Kojiro Sasaki and Miyamoto Musashi hundreds of years ago, he lost and also fell in front of Miyamoto Musashi.

"Congratulations! Congratulations! Congratulations! "Kudo's hoarse voice echoed in my ears from time to time before the last bit of consciousness dissipated, and it was a bit noisy, I thought to myself.

(This story does drag on for a long time.,So I decided to end it quickly.,I'm going to do an internship tomorrow.,I'll write a new story after a while.,This story has always had an obvious flaw.,That is, the genius-like existence of Kawaki has been useless since the beginning of the case.,Even Nakamura and Watanabe have their own surprising performance and analysis.,But Kawaki is "I" didn't do anything at all.,There's no performance beyond ordinary people for the case.,And when Kudo came., Kawaki will be very uneasy, because he is the murderer hiding behind the scenes)