"You often get into conflict with her at work." Officer Takagi then said to Higashida, "You still told your friends at the tavern that you wanted to talk about Miss Muranishi before you went back." ”

"Besides, you don't remember what happened after you went back. No matter how you think about it, it can only be that you went to her room after getting drunk, and did the murder without saying a word. ”

"The door was locked to prevent her from escaping," Officer Sato said, following Officer Takagi's words, "and after the murder, you fell asleep drunk in her bed." ”

"But I don't have any impression..."

"That's why you are drunk!"

"I hate her because she always likes to find fault with her work. But I didn't hate her so much that I wanted to kill her! ”

"Then why run away?"

"I have to go somewhere..."

"Where?"

"My daughter who lives in Chicago," Higashida said, looking sincerely, "sent me a wedding card from my ex-wife. For seventeen years I thought she hated me... How could I not go? ”

"Really!" Higashida raised his head, "You guys go to my room, you should find my daughter's letter and the ticket in the envelope!" ”

Hearing this, Officer Sato looked a little silent.

And after Officer Takagi retold the circumstances of the case, he was more convinced that Higashida was the murderer, "Although you say so, we still..."

"Is this uncle on good terms with the deceased?"

"Conan?"

Hearing the voice, Officer Takagi looked back at the child who had made a deep impression on him last time, and found that the child was thinking seriously, not like he had just spoken.

"Huh?" Officer Takagi was a little confused.

"Kaedehara," Mitsuhiko, who had already mastered the skill of judgment, resolved Officer Takagi's doubts, "I just said that they have a bad relationship!" ”

Only then did Officer Takagi realize that it was the kid named Kaedehara he had just spoken.

The voice sounded almost exactly the same as Conan's child's, but there was a slight difference in intonation...

"Really?" Kaedehara showed a confused expression, "But I just said that the murder scene was in the bathroom, and I thought they would have a good relationship." ”

"What's going on?" Motota asked.

Officer Takagi also gave a confused look.

"Because when I opened the door, I saw a person who had a bad relationship and was still drunk standing outside the door," Gray Yuan glanced at Kaedehara thoughtfully, "I wouldn't want him to come in, let alone go to the bathroom at this time." ”

"Well," Officer Takagi said, "it could be that the murderer strangled the deceased to death and then took the body to the bathroom and hid it..."

"Ahh Will you still do such superfluous things? ”

"yes, that's right!"

Although they don't know much about it, the Junior Detective Group still helps, hoping to have the opportunity to participate in it and add a result to the Junior Detective Troupe.

Officer Sato pondered for a moment.

The passage that Higashida said about father and daughter just now reminded her of herself. She lost her father when she was very young. So she didn't want Higashida's daughter to feel lonely in her heart because of the loss of her father like her.

What's more, what the children said is indeed barely suspicious.

"It's a bit strange to say that..."

"yes!" Seeing that the police lady seemed to be moved, Dongtian hurriedly struck while the iron was hot, "I just remember that I went back and slept directly, I never saw Muranishi, let alone killed her!" ”

"When does the plane take off?" Miwako Sato suddenly turned her head and asked Higashida.

Takagi was stunned for a moment.

"Tomorrow at half past twelve!" Mr. Higashida grabbed in front of Officer Takagi and said, "Narita Airport! ”

"Sato, are you going to..."

"Hmm. Before the suspect is brought to the prosecutor's office, the police can release the innocent suspect at their own discretion. Now that you've found something suspicious, let's go back and investigate. ”

……

The case was originally the responsibility of Sato and Takagi, and the suspect's previous escape has not yet had time to be reported.

So after receiving the contact call from the Metropolitan Police Department, Officer Sato only said that there were still some things that needed to be investigated, so he successfully delayed the time and won the opportunity to re-investigate the case.

Naturally, the Junior Detective Corps will follow suit.

The two officers were embarrassed to cross the river and tear down the bridge, but the police car could not sit down, so Officer Sato simply called a taxi for the elementary school students to let them go by themselves, and she and Takagi escorted Higashida back to the scene.

Conan, naturally, snuck into the police car.

Soon, the juvenile detective group, who had bought gloves at a convenience store, met with two policemen and Mr. Higashida downstairs at the scene of the crime.

The case ended sooner than they expected.

Because Higashida reacted as soon as he walked in.

"The furnishings here look like my home!"

He was drunk before, and he was woken up by the police in his sleep in the morning, and he didn't even have time to take a good look.

"Huh?" Sato and Takagi were stunned for a moment.

"But most of the things in my house are gray, and here they are all beige," Higashida looked at as he walked under the custody of Officer Sato, "Ah, the bed and curtains are the same gray as in my house..."

"Strange," Higashida said confusedly, "I remember when I came here before, her house wasn't furnished like this..."

"Really?" Officer Sato asked.

"Really!" Dongtian said, "If you don't believe me, you can go to my house and have a look, it's upstairs!" It's almost exactly like my home! ”

"Oh... So," said Gray Yuan Wai softly to Kaedehara beside him, "The real prisoner deliberately arranged it like this, so that the drunk Mr. Higashida thought that this was his own home, so that he could blame him?" ”

"Well," Kaedehara replied, "I guess so. ”

And that's exactly what happened.

With Higashida himself present, the similarities and differences between the two rooms were quickly pointed out.

After running back and forth a few times and taking a few photos, the two police officers and the Junior Detective Corps soon found more clues.

"The furniture has obviously been moved and changed," Conan said, "and the Ball Soul calendar in the cupboard is the same as the traces left by the sun on the wall..."

"Ah, Muranishi she's a fan of the Soul of the Ball Team," Higashida explained, and as the suspicions grew, Sato and Takagi also relaxed their grip on him, "but I don't like the Soul of the Ball Soul, so I often quarrel with her in a nearby tavern..."

"And," Gray Yuan Ai glanced at the balcony, "doesn't it seem unreasonable to bring a cactus that is not resistant to cold to the balcony in the cold season?" ”

The Junior Detectives pointed out their suspicions one by one as if they were playing a game of finding faults, and Sato and Takagi quickly realized the tricks used by the real criminals.

Kaede found blood stains on the cactus on the balcony, and the prisoner was probably accidentally stabbed while carrying the cactus, which would also be ironclad evidence.

And as for who the prisoner is...

It can only be the person who sent Mr. Higashida into the wrong room in the first place. This Mr. Higashida remembers.

The case was quickly resolved, and Mr. Higashida was able to catch the plane to meet his daughter, and even had enough time to take care of himself.

It's just that...

After his own mixing, I don't know if Takagi and Sato can get together smoothly.

Kaedehara thought to himself.

As things progressed, he gradually reconciled reality with memory. And in this incident, the key part of the relationship between Sato and Takagi was changed by him a long time ago.

The nearby art gallery has long since been demolished and is now the construction site for the hotel. Naturally, Sato will not encounter a life-and-death crisis because he can't get out of the building that is about to be demolished.

Of course, he is wearing the world of Ke Xue, not the world of the fox demon little matchmaker, and he doesn't have to see the two go together smoothly.

What's more, they have more opportunities.

So Kaedehara just thought about it for a while, put this matter behind him, and continued to devote himself to his performance rehearsals.

……

"I fell in love with you from the first time I saw you," the female spy who betrayed the evil organization looked at Kamen Superman, "didn't you notice?" ”

"I've seen it for a long time." Kamen Superman's face does not change color, "It's you, didn't you see it, I already saw it?" ”

"Huh?"

"Good! That's it! Director Mitsuhiko's voice interrupted the conversation between the two, "Gray Yuan, you acted awesomely!" That's it! Next scene! ”

(End of chapter)