"When I noticed that there was nothing on the rut marks that I was looking for, the murderer's modus operandi was already clear. However, at that point it is possible to think of checking the rut prints...... This coincides with his own thoughts, this little ghost ......"

Frowning tightly, Hattori Heiji looked at Conan's eyes when he stared at Ayako Oki at this time, and couldn't help but feel a certain familiar feeling from it-

"I'll give you ten minutes to think about the incident......"

At this moment, with a slightly meaningful expression, Oki Ayako smiled mysteriously, grabbed the cigarette with her fingers, moved the cigarette to the front and flicked the cigarette ash, and slowly spit out a puff of cigarette, and said as if threatening:

"If you don't want me to say your name, you'd better confess your sin yourself!"

As she spoke, Ayako Oki turned around and walked out of the room without looking back—

"Wait! Ayako! Where are you going? ”

At this time, seeing that Ayako Oki left alone after making the statement just now, Kento Toba on the side immediately looked nervous and stepped forward to ask.

And Ayako Oki just replied lightly, "Toilet!" After that, he continued to walk outside the house.

"Mess around!"

In this regard, it seems that Toba Yanren, who can't be relieved, directly followed anxiously, and said in a worried tone:

"If you act alone, the murderer will ......"

"Oh? Aren't you going to protect me? ”

However, before Kento Toba finished speaking, Ayako Oki interrupted the other party's words and replied in a calm tone.

"That's what I said......

And so, the two of them walked out of the room together.

Seeing this, after watching the two disappear at the door of the room, Toshiaki Fujisawa, who was present, glanced at Kogoro behind him with disdain, and said unceremoniously:

"Haha, the detective is useless, and the layman girl solved the case first......"

"Humph! She's just playing tricks. ”

Impatient, Kogoro retorted, not believing that Ayako Oki would know who the murderer was.

But in this regard, Conan on the side did not agree with this statement, looking at the direction in which Ayako Oki left, Conan said with a serious expression:

"No, she must have found some clue we don't know!"

"Well, probably ......"

With a little deep meaning, Hattori Heiji looked down at Conan, who said this, and responded-

"Huh?"

Sensing the gaze of Hattori Heiji next to him, Conan was stunned for a moment, and then felt that it seemed that he was acting too obviously.

However, before Conan could react to this, Xiaolan on the side seemed to remember something, and suddenly said to everyone:

"It occurred to me that Miss Ayako was a little strange during the day."

"Huh?"

Due to Xiaolan's interjection, Conan immediately turned to asking, showing a childlike smile, and drew the attention of the people present to what Xiaolan said:

"Sister Xiaolan, what's so strange?"

So, under the eyes of everyone, Xiaolan explained:

"I saw her when I was going back to my room after lunch today. And she panicked when she saw me, and hid something like paper behind her, which I thought was the Sherlock Holmes test that was handed out to everyone last night. ”

"Questions?"

Puzzled, Conan and Hattori Heiji couldn't help but be surprised.

At the same time, as soon as Xiaolan's words came out, the rest of the people present also began to recall some details of what happened yesterday-

"By the way, she didn't seem to have come for lunch."

Astrologer Maria Toda was the first to think of this, and Toshiaki Fujisawa was surprised by this, and began to guess:

"Could it be that you sneak into our room while we're eating......

"Cheating?"

Hearing this, Ikuo Kawazu, who was very shocked, couldn't help but start to say angrily.

"Really, how can there be such a woman!"

In this regard, Kogoro also began to disdain.

But as soon as these words came out, outside the door of the room, Kento Toba, who had just gone out with Ayako Oki, happened to come back.

At this moment, seeing Kento Toba who came back like this, several other guests present who participated in this tour group activity immediately rushed up impatiently and asked him:

"Who! Who the hell is the murderer! ”

"Did you secretly ask her?"

"Tell me!"

Toshiaki Fujisawa, Maria Toda and Ikuo Kawazu, you say a word to me, and the successive inquiries surprised Toba Kento, who had just returned.

For this reason, Toba Kenren could only be a little helpless and replied:

"Ah...... This...... I asked, but she said she couldn't even tell me, and she hid in the bathroom. ”

"Damn! When is it, it will really whet people's appetite! ”

Hearing this, Toshiaki Fujisawa couldn't help but say a little angrily.

And Kogoro continued to maintain his opinion-

"So, they all said she was bluffing!"

In this regard, listening to Kogoro's statement, Hattori Heiji could only look helpless-

Sure enough, this is a foolish uncle......

"Na! Sister Renmei! ”

And at this time, after listening to the conversation of everyone just now, Conan, who began to think for a moment, suddenly asked the waitress Iwai Hitomi:

"Who else didn't have lunch yesterday except for Sister Ayako?"

"Oh, there's two more ...... that"

Iwai Hitomi thought about it for a while, and immediately gave the answer-

"Mr. Kento Toba, and Miss Nanako Shimizu."

Looking at the two people on the side, Iwai Hitomi explained.

"Mr. Toba and Sister Ayako seem to have a good relationship, what is their relationship?"

Conan continued.

"They seem to be a couple, but they don't sleep in the same room. Because he was afraid that they would discuss the content of the test questions, the master deliberately arranged them farther away. ”

Hitomi Iwai explained.

And in this regard, after listening to this, Conan already had some thoughts about this incident in his mind, and then Conan walked up to Kento Toba and asked him to confirm:

"Did Sister Ayako come to your room at noon?"

"No, I spend the day in my room writing exams, and no one comes."

Kento Toba replied very blandly.

Hearing this, after having the information at present, Conan's eyes focused sharply to the side, those who had not stayed in the restaurant with himself and others before the crime, Fujisawa Toshiaki, Kawazu Ikuo, Toda Maria and Shimizu Nanako-

"So, Miss Ayako must have seen a major clue related to the murder in someone's room, so she said that just now. And those who are suspicious are only those four candidates who do not have an alibi...... Therefore, the murderer must be one of them! ”

Analyzing it like this, Conan kept thinking about various possibilities in his mind, trying to find a breakthrough in it.

However, since just now, he has been paying attention to Conan's behavior of asking questions one after another, and at this moment, when Conan focused his attention on the four Fujisawa Toshiaki, Hattori Heiji, who was silently watching this scene, looked a little serious-

"That's right. From the beginning of the crime, what this kid did was a very professional investigation, and every time he cut into the point, it coincided with his own thinking, which is no coincidence! It's just that at the moment, it seems that you haven't solved the murderer's means to create an alibi......

"Well, since I'll figure out that the killer's modus operandi was prompted by an incident that the detective told me beforehand, what would you do if you knew how you would react to this story!

"Just let me wait and see!"

Silently, Heiji Hattori thought......

(End of chapter)