117 The truth is revealed
"Mr. Wise, what are you talking about?"
After listening to Takato's words, Ryoichi Takahashi couldn't help but say weirdly:
"She's Atsuko! It's the screenwriter of our university film research club, Atsuko Amamiya! You can't go wrong with that! ”
"Yes, Mr. Wise, it's outrageous for you to ask!"
Hiroki Kakutani also replied, completely unable to understand why Takato asked this.
"We are friends in the same club as Atsuko, and we will never recognize the wrong person no matter how we say it."
Ota Katsu couldn't help but say.
"What does it mean when you ask, Mr. Wise?"
Ayako Suzuki asked.
Hearing the words of these people, Gao Yuan looked around at everyone, and then asked:
"I remember what you said – two years ago, when Tomoko Ikeda won the Newcomer Award, you were supposed to celebrate, but you didn't have a party to celebrate, and you hadn't seen each other for two years before this party, right?"
"Yes."
Ayako Suzuki replied, but still with a puzzled look:
"But what does this have to do with this incident?"
In this regard, Gao Yuan laughed lightly, and then said:
"In other words, after Chikako Ikeda won the award, until this party, you haven't actually met face to face at all!"
"Yes and what!"
Ryoichi Takahashi yelled:
"Even if I haven't seen him for two years, Atsuko is Atsuko! There is no way we can be mistaken! ”
"Is that really the case?"
Gao Yuan looked at Ryoichi Takahashi, who was emotional, and said in a serious tone:
"Do you really think that Atsuko Amamiya who is standing in front of you now is really the same person as Atsuko you met in college!"
"It's all said!"
Ryoichi Takahashi had an emotional attack and said angrily:
"How could we have mistaken Atsuko!"
"yes......"
In this regard, Gao Yuan sighed, and then said slowly:
"So, Miss Suzuki, I remember you saying that the movies you created during your college years were simple love stories, right?"
"Yes, that's right."
Ayako Suzuki was a little dazed and replied puzzled.
"So, in other words, the scripts you wrote during college are all love stories, right?"
Gao Yuan continued.
"Yes."
Nodding, Ayako Suzuki said.
And after getting such an answer, Gao Yuan's tone became a little puzzled:
"So, don't you think it's strange? Why is it that two years after graduation, when Atsuko Amamiya debuted at home, her work would be a suspenseful reasoning! ”
As he spoke, Gao Yuan looked around at everyone and continued:
"As a screenwriter of the Film Research Society, I guess the scripts you wrote during your college years were basically written by Atsuko Amamiya, so the scripts she wrote at that time must also be related to love stories. So why did her writing style change so much two years after graduating? ”
"What kind of reason is that!"
Ryoichi Takahashi said angrily:
"Maybe it's just Atsuko who has changed her style and gone to write what she's really good at!"
"Really? When you were in college, did anyone know that Atsuko Amamiya was really good at writing mystery stories? ”
In this regard, Gao Yuan couldn't help but ask, his eyes swept over everyone again, and seeing that everyone did not respond, it seemed that he was really unclear about this question, so Gao Yuan continued:
"Moreover, it is strange not only that Atsuko Amamiya, but also that of Tomoko Ikeda."
After a slight pause, Gao Yuan pretended to think about it and recalled, and then said:
"I searched Miss Chikako Ikeda's room and found a manuscript for her next play, called 'The Murder of the Mask Monster' - although it was not finished, but looking at the plot content, there is no doubt that it is a work of reasoning!"
"So what?"
Hearing this, Ota Katsu's expression changed slightly, and he asked with an inexplicable sigh.
"Looks like Mr. Ota probably guessed something, right?"
Seeing Ota Katsu's reaction, Gao Yuan couldn't help but say, but Ota Katsu just took out a cigarette, lit it, took a puff, and didn't continue to speak, so Takato continued:
"Don't you think it's strange that two people change their writing styles at the same time?"
As he spoke, Takato looked at the group of people from the University Film Research Club at the scene, and saw Ota Katsu smoking silently, Hiroki Kakutani bowing his head slightly, Ryoichi Takahashi looked horrified, and Ayako Suzuki looked dazed, and began to explain:
"Of course, the following is just my speculation, and there is no actual evidence to prove it, if I am wrong...... Atsuko Amamiya, please tell the truth - after all, the matter has come to this, and what you are hiding behind you has no chance of destroying it. ”
Hearing this, Atsuko Amamiya's eyes widened, and the emotions that were originally a little insistent collapsed at this moment, and she lowered her head, a little overwhelmed-
"I suspect that the script that Ms. Ikeda is writing is not written by herself, but by someone else. The person who wrote this ghostwriter should be the Atsuko Amamiya in front of her. ”
Gao Yuan explained:
"And, not only that. If my guess is correct, the work of Miss Chikako Ikeda when she debuted, "The Blue Kingdom", may also be the work of Miss Atsuko Amamiya! ”
"What! How could it be! ”
Hearing what Gao Yuan said, Xiaolan covered her lips with her hands and said with a look of surprise.
"How is this possible......"
Ayako Suzuki is also a little incredulous:
"Could it be that Mr. Wise thinks that the reason why Atsuko killed Chikako is this ......"
"No, if it's just because you want to take revenge on Miss Chikako's plagiarism, it's too much to divide Miss Chikako's body. Obviously, the murderer hated Miss Chikako to the core! But if that's the case, with the first plagiarism experience, there's no reason why Miss Atsuko will help Miss Chikako write it again! ”
Conan spoke through the voice of the garden, and said the key to this.
"That's right."
Gao Yuan closed his eyes slightly, and said with some amazement:
"If it's just plagiarism and you want to retaliate, there are obviously more means, and you don't have to go to the step of killing. Linked to the change in the style of Miss Atsuko Amamiya after her debut, if I guessed correctly - the real Atsuko Amamiya has committed suicide after Miss Chikako Ikeda won the Newcomer Award for her work "Blue Kingdom"! The Miss Atsuko Amamiya standing in front of us now should just be a person who looks very similar to Atsuko Amamiya, and it may be a relative of the real Atsuko Amamiya! ”
"What!"
As soon as this remark came out, everyone present was shocked, and in the face of Gao Yuan's speculation, they were a little unacceptable for a while, and they didn't even believe Gao Yuan's statement at all.
However, for Gao Yuan, this is indeed based on the available evidence, and after associating with the plot of the original work, one of the most likely scenarios is drawn -
"As for whether this guess is correct or not, we can confirm it when we leave here tomorrow and let the police investigate......"
"Huh-"
Before Gao Yuan finished speaking, "Atsuko Amamiya", who had lowered his head and was silent, made a sneering voice-
"What a fantastical reasoning...... However, you really guessed it. ”
"Atsuko Amamiya" looked stunned and confirmed the correctness of Takato's statement:
"It's come to this, and I can't hide it anymore......"
As he spoke, "Atsuko Amamiya" raised his head and looked at the crowd in front of him:
"That's right, I'm not Sister Atsuko. I'm her sister, Ryoko! ”
"What!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the University Film Research Club couldn't help but be shocked, especially Ryoichi Takahashi, whose expression became frightened-
"No, you lied to me! You're Atsuko......"
"Takahashi...... Everyone, I'm sorry I lied to you. ”
Ryoko Amamiya bowed to everyone and said:
"Sister Atsuko, two years ago, she committed suicide."
"Suicide!"
When Ota Katsu heard this, his expression changed slightly.
"Ota, do you know anything?"
Seeing this, Hiroki Kakutani couldn't help asking.
In this regard, Ota Katsu lowered his head, gritted his teeth, and said with some sadness:
"Actually, when I was in the club, I found that Zhijiazi sometimes took some of the achievements made by everyone together as her own merits to receive awards...... So, when I learned that Chikako won the Newcomer Award, I also had this speculation - perhaps, her award-winning works are not all her own credit...... After all, when she was in the club, Chikako liked to summon the talkative Atsuko and ask her to help write something......"
"Why...... Atsuko, who is usually so cheerful, will ......"
Ryoichi Takahashi took two steps back and said in surprise.
"It's because she's so cheerful, and she doesn't complain when she is called by Zhijiazi so much, so I don't care......"
Ota Katsu couldn't help but say.
"If I just helped with the writing and took the credit, Atsuko-sama wouldn't have committed suicide......
Conan guessed in a garden voice.
"That's right."
Ryoko Amamiya nodded:
"At first, we didn't understand why my sister, who had just graduated, would suddenly commit suicide...... After all, she is such a cheerful person, full of hope that the future will be a family, and she is working hard to ......"
As she spoke, a trace of tears flowed from the corner of Ryoko Amamiya's eyes, and her tone began to become resentful-
"However, when I sorted out my sister's relics and found the manuscript she had written before, I completely understood that the book she wrote called "Azure Kingdom" had exactly the same plot as the "Blue Kingdom" that happened to be released!"
"Chikako, completely plagiarized Atsuko's work......"
Somewhat choked, Takahashi Ryoichi said in a trance.
"The day my sister committed suicide happened to be the day when Chikako won the award!"
Ryoko Amamiya continued.
"How could it be...... We didn't even know about such an important thing......"
Ayako Suzuki had tears streaming from the corners of her eyes, and her emotions were a little broken - it was a rare party today with a friend she hadn't seen for two years, but one friend died tragically without saying anything, but she unexpectedly learned that another friend had passed away two years ago.
"We were busy graduating at the time, so we didn't care where we went......
Ota Katsu lowered his head and said with some amazement.
"But if that's the case, why did you go to the party as Atsuko, and why did Chikako pretend to be a 'bandage weirdo' at the party?"
Hiroki Kakutani asked puzzled.
"At that time, I went to find Zhijiazi because she plagiarized her sister's work, but Zhijiazi mistook me, who looked exactly like my sister, for my sister, and threatened me with the fact that she had already debuted in the industry and had accumulated a lot of contacts, saying that if I wanted to make a smooth debut as a family, it would be best to cooperate with her, so that everyone can also win together."
Ryoko Amamiya wiped her tears and said in a resentful tone:
"I wanted to tell the truth and question her. However, when I thought that my sister had passed away, no one could prove who wrote the plot of that work first, even if the facts were told, there was a high probability that it wouldn't affect Zhijiazi anything, so I agreed to her conditions, and debuted under my sister's pen name, Atsuko Tokumoto, and began to slowly look for opportunities to take revenge on Zhijiazi completely! ”
After a pause, Ryoko Amamiya's tone was a little stunned:
"My sister and I have the same ambitions, but we are different in our fields, she likes beautiful love stories, while I like rigorous mystery stories. Maybe that's why my sister and I are not good at academics, so I didn't go to the same school as my sister in college, but went to a public university far away in Azuki, so you don't know that my sister exists......"
"It's true that Atsuko never seemed to have mentioned her family to us......"
Hiroki Kakutani said in a trance.
Speaking of this, Ryoko Amamiya couldn't help but look at Takato-
"Mr. Wise, since you have already guessed this point, then you obviously already know the whole picture of this incident! Then it's up to you to explain - being solved by the detective is the final fate of the prisoner......"
In this regard, Gao Yuan nodded:
"The script you handed in to Miss Chikako Ikeda, although the plot of the case is very exciting, but the behavior and language of the characters have a great sense of disobedience - I think you must have written it on purpose.
"Miss Chikako Ikeda made her debut on plagiarism, and this script is a type she is not good at. Maybe it's because the plot is really exciting, and she is reluctant to give up the script, so in order to write the script better, you made a suggestion to her - use this party to create the same scene as in the script!
"You just have to convince her to play a scary weirdo like in the script to scare us into the party, and you can record our real reactions through observation and write it into the script – after all, it's more convincing to adapt from real content than to create it for no reason!
"However, Miss Chikako Ikeda never thought that this was a script you wrote specifically to kill her!"
Gao Yuan said so, his expression couldn't help but be a little stunned:
"But even you didn't expect me to be a detective among the people attending the party. A few times you've tried to scare people with 'bandage freaks', you've tried to mess with everyone, and you've cut the phone lines to make us lose contact with the outside world altogether - that's what you planned.
"But because of my obstruction, not only did we get everyone to move together in an orderly manner, but I also repaired the telephone lines, which made Ikeda's plan to see how we reacted in a panic completely impossible to move forward. And it doesn't give you a chance to kill Chikako Ikeda.
"So, in order to eliminate my interference, you put sleeping pills in Xiao Ai's food, and asked Ikeda Chikako to take Xiao Ai away, so that I messed up my own position in order to find Xiao Ai, thus creating an opportunity for you to kill Ikeda Chikako!"
As he spoke, Gao Yuan paused and said the decisive evidence:
"After killing Chikako Ikeda, you appeared in front of me in the guise of a 'bandage freak' and performed a scene of a 'bandage freak' falling off a cliff – I think you'd have been here a long time ago and knew the terrain to make this plan.
"However, the cloak and other props that fell off the cliff may be found by the police sooner or later, so the cloak that fell down should not be the one you were wearing at the time, otherwise once the police find the cloak under the cliff, it will be decisive evidence to find the traces you have worn from above.
"So, the cloak you were wearing at the time should have been hidden somewhere by you. In order to find out who the murderer is, and at the same time to let the murderer take us to find the evidence, so there is the scene where I disappeared and played the role of 'bandage weirdo' and reappeared-
"After all, as the real murderer, I must know that the 'bandage monster' that appears again can only be played by the missing me, and the murderer must also know my purpose, so in order not to be found by me, after making sure that I was chased by Xiaolan and them, the murderer will definitely quickly find an opportunity to dispose of the evidence......"
"yes."
Ryoko Amamiya said abruptly, "I thought, after killing Chikako, I don't have much time to deal with the evidence, so I can only hide in one place first and wait for the evening to find a way to come out and dispose of it." But I didn't expect you to leave the villa one step earlier, and I knew what you were going to do. So I had no choice but to take a risk, but I didn't expect ......"
As she spoke, Ryoko Amamiya looked at the garden that was still sleeping against the tree-
"I didn't expect you to have such good reasoning skills."
After speaking, continue to look at Gao Yuan:
"By the way, what's wrong with your eyes?"
In this regard, Gao Yuan touched the swelling of his left eye a little helplessly, and Xiaolan on the side immediately lowered her head a little embarrassed......