77 The murderer is you, old butler

In the venue of the party, with the permission of the police, most of the guests have left.

The rest of the people are either close relatives and friends of the Owada family, or those who have relatives like Moriran who are involved in the investigation of the case and are temporarily left behind.

And now, these people were all gathered together by the old housekeeper Shan Qizhe and several police officers.

"Mr. Xiqi, what happened? Why bring everyone here? Inside the somewhat empty venue, Mao Lilan couldn't help but ask.

"Miss Mori, this is Officer Sato's request."

"Officer Sato?"

"Yes, Officer Sato told me that she has found the murderer of the old man......"

"Really?!"

Kenta on the side was very excited when he heard this.

"Officer Sato, did she really find the murderer?!"

He looked at him quietly and did not speak.

"However, didn't the police say that President Owada committed suicide before?" Mao Lilan asked, puzzled.

"Dad, he's never going to kill himself!"

"Don't get excited, Master Kenta, what the truth is, we'll know when Officer Sato comes......"

"Click!"

While a few people were chatting, the door of the venue was pushed open, and Miwako Sato, who was in disguise with Kuroba Kuaito, and Officer Twilight walked in together.

"It's been a busy night tonight, so I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Loudly attracting everyone's attention, Black Feather Kaito said loudly:

"After repeated investigations by the police, we have enough evidence to determine that the murder of President Owada was not a suicide, but a murder!"

"Murder?!"

As soon as these words came out, the originally empty venue became noisy again, and everyone's faces showed different expressions.

It was also as he said these words that Karasuma Ying and Conan both quietly moved their steps and stood behind an old butler.

"Officer Sato! Who the hell killed my father?! Kenta didn't seem to be able to wait for a second, so he hurriedly asked.

"The murderer, naturally, is the closest friend of President Owada......

Kuroba Kaito's gaze swept through the crowd one by one, and finally locked onto someone.

"Mr. Butler Shirt Qizhe!"

"What?" Hearing this name, Kenta was stunned for a moment, his mind didn't seem to be able to turn around, and after staying for a few seconds, he turned his head to look at Se Qizhe beside him suspiciously.

"Officer Sato, are you going to be mistaken?"

Accused of being the murderer by Black Feather Kuaidou, Xie Qizhe did not change much in his expression except for being a little surprised at first.

"Before and after the murder of the master, I have always been here at the West Tower venue, how could I have the opportunity to kill the master?"

"Yes, yes, when Dad had an accident, he was obviously with us all the time......"

"Young Master Kenta, has anyone in this world ever stipulated that if you want to kill someone, you have to be by that person's side to do it?

Ladies and gentlemen, if you think about the body of President Owada that you saw during the second wave of fireworks, don't you think there is a strange place? ”

"Strange?"

"Rope." Karasuma Ying said in time to cooperate with him.

"That's right, it's the rope." Kuroba Kaito continued.

"If President Owada really wanted to commit suicide, he could just jump off the balcony without having to do the superfluous operation of hanging himself from the balcony.

What's more, he still uses a rope that is far longer than the height of the balcony guardrail......"

"Is it because it would be more beneficial to the murderer to do so?" Kenta seemed to be enlightened, and he kept saying in his mouth:

"The reason why we used such a long rope was so that we could find Dad's body in time for the second wave of fireworks, and deepen our impression of the murderer's alibi.

And it's hard to do that if you just let Dad jump off the balcony......"

"That's right!" Kuroba snapped his fingers.

"Young Master Kenta......"

Seki Chul looked at Kenta in surprise, but Kenta didn't respond to his gaze at all.

"Nonsense!"

Turning his head sharply to stare at Black Feather Kuaidou, Xi Qizhe shouted:

"Officer Sato, I think you're reasoning at all! What do you mean I murdered my lord? The old man is clearly committing suicide!

When the first fireworks went off, he was still in the observation deck on the 48th floor......"

"Mr. Shiki, do you really think that the person who appeared in the observation room at that time must be President Owada?"

Kuroba Kaito interrupted him and asked meaningfully.

"What do you mean? At that time, there was only one master in the East Tower! Being asked by Black Feather Kuaidou like this, there seemed to be a trace of panic on Shi Qizhe's face.

"You're not entirely right, the 48th floor of the East Tower at that time was actually, there was no one at all!"

"Officer Sato, what we saw earlier ......"

"It's a dummy, a dummy that looks like President Owada in silhouette."

Kuroba Kaito said, took out his mobile phone, and flipped the photos they had collected and taken in the East Tower to everyone.

The first photo is a composite puppet sculpture hidden in a garbage bin on the 48th floor of the East Tower, and a wig that resembles President Owada's hairstyle.

The second photo shows the spare kimono on the president's room hanger with obvious signs of being worn, and there is a trace of undried paint on the inside of the sleeve of the kimono.

It is worth mentioning that the color of the paint marks on the kimono is exactly the same as the paint color of the composite figure sculpture in the garbage bin.

Even in the photo, there are obvious signs of paint rubbing off somewhere on the puppet's body.

Kenta looked at these two photos, and the whole person was stunned.

"It turns out that this is the kind of dad we saw in the observation room during the first fireworks? Could it be that at that time, Dad was already ......"

"No, President Owada hadn't been killed at that time, and the time when he was really killed was actually the phone call made by Mr. Tsuki-che later."

Glancing at Kenta with some sympathy, Kuroba Kaito took a house book from the table next to him and said slowly:

"President Owada has a weakness, he is afraid of bugs, even to the point of forcibly changing the theme of Ed's design this year from butterflies to hearts.

You say, what would happen to such a person if he woke up and found that he had a big ugly spider on his chest?

What if the place where he woke up happened to be on the balcony, which was less than forty centimeters wide?

Mr. Shan Qi, what do you think will happen to this? ”

As Black Feather Kuaidou's words fell, everyone's eyes fell on Shi Qizhe.

The expression on his face was no longer calm.