Uncle Maori still doesn't understand why Heiji Hattori is so sure that this is the death message.

Heiji Hattori explained to him:

"The president's hands are tied behind his back, right? It's impossible to look at the bricks you want... The reason why all six faces are full of fingerprints is because the president judges by groping his fingers for the nicks of the text... Determine which side to get the ink on...

However, if you find these four blocks in a stack of blocks, the other blocks don't have too many fingerprints, that's because these blocks engrave the kana of the same consonant on one piece, and you just need to touch it a little to know if it's right..."

"I see, so only these four pieces are full of fingerprints..."

"That's right. Fingerprints mainly rely on the sweat and oil on the fingers to leave traces, and when a person dies, they will not be secreted again. So even if a dead person is allowed to hold the blocks, only the first one or two can be stained with fingerprints, and it is impossible to get them everywhere like this...

The traces of the rope stained with ink on the floor are also evidence, and I am afraid that the president secretly selected these four blocks from behind, and then put them back into the pile after the selected side was stained with ink...

Because he didn't know when he would be killed, he was so scared that his hands were sweating... In other words, he was in a hurry to leave a message before the prisoner found out, and he might get the capitalization wrong..."

After thinking for a moment, Hattori Heiji continued, "But this is the toy company, does he really want to leave a message about the toy?" ”

"It's amazing..."Xiao Lan showed an expression of admiration, "I just got here now, and I already understand so many things..."

"yes, yes! What the hell is Ping-" He Ye agreed, and then his face changed suddenly, "No, Xiaolan!" You can't be led away by the peace! It's a reasoning contest with a flat time... It's Koshien and Takarazuka that are betting! ”

"Uh..."

Xiaolan reacted at this time.

She glanced at her teammates. His father was still following Hattori Heiji, and he didn't give any useful information, and Xiao Ai followed Xiao Kong, not knowing what he was looking at...

It feels like there's no hope of winning...

"Anyway!" He Ye was indignant, "If you want to solve the incident before Pingji, you must first solve the mystery of this death message [toy]..."

"yes, maybe there's some hint in the toys here..."

"No, nothing suspicious." The Twilight Police Department, who heard their conversation, said.

"Huh?"

"Really?"

"Hmm. We thought that these four blocks might be clues to the death message, so we searched the entire office carefully..."

"Maybe it means something else," Conan said.

"Anything else?"

"Does that mean there are other combinations of these four words?"

He Ye and Xiaolan hurriedly tried to make new permutations and combinations in the notebook, but soon found that they couldn't form other effective information at all.

Hattori Heiji obviously had it in his head, and asked directly at the Twilight Police Department, "Is there really nothing else suspicious?" ”

"Ah, here it is..."

At this time, a police officer happened to come over with two pieces of evidence wrapped in plastic, and the police department showed them to everyone, "The murder weapon used by the prisoner found here, the golf club... There is also this high-end fur coat stained with the president's blood that the prisoner wore when he committed the crime..."

"But," the Dusk Police Department paused, "the golf club and coat belong to the president himself, and he is said to have kept them in the inner room." I can't find any information about the prisoner from these two things...

And what makes people wonder why the prisoner is wearing this coat, and the president's room has not been turned upside down..."

"It must have been when the president was out that the prisoner sneaked in here and saw this high-end coat, and wanted to try to see if it suited him, so he put it on, right?"

"Then the president came back, and the prisoner tied him up, asked for the password to the safe, and killed him." Of course, he couldn't wear it anymore because of the blood stains on his coat, and he took it off and fled..."

"Huh?" Hattori, who took the coat from the Twilight Police Department to inspect it, asked, "The blood stains on this coat are only blurred on the left shoulder... It's like something has been brushed by..."

"It's another mystery," said the Dusk Police Department, "and there's no place anywhere in the office that matches this bloodstain..."

"Maybe my hand touched it when I took off my coat," said Uncle Maori, "Did you find the prisoner's gloves or anything?" ”

The Dusk Police Department shook their heads.

"Speaking of blood," Conan was lying on the ground at this time to check the blood that had long since dried up, "there are strange blood stains here, too!" ”

"Huh?"

"See, this is it," Conan said, pointing to a trail of blood near the side of the table, "and you can't see it unless you look closely." There is a little bit of a cut off... What was once put here? ”

"yes," Heiji Hattori leaned over in agreement, "but what the hell is put in a place like this..."

As they spoke, the next moment they noticed the TV set on the side.

Heiji Hattori picked up the remote control from the table, turned on the TV, and found that the TV was in an external input state.

"In other words, maybe it's the camera that's put here..."

"Cameras? There's in the president's room," said the Dusk Police Department.

"Then ask the forensic staff to check if there is any blood on the camera, right?"

The Twilight Police Department will arrange this, and Conan is lost in thought. So far, he and Hattori have basically the same thinking, but he always feels that something is not quite right.

For example, why did the prisoner take the camera away after the crime...

And the other self doesn't seem to be interested in death messages at all... This is the key to solving the case...

"That, Conan..."

While thinking about it, he heard Xiaolan's voice, and when he looked up, he saw Xiaolan coming in front of him.

"Conan, please do one thing..."Xiao Lan showed a pleading look.

"Huh?"

"This reasoning competition... Can you let Kazuha win? And Ye She's been looking forward to seeing Takarazuka with us... So, what do you think of that can you tell us? When Dad hears your findings, he may be able to solve the case as usual..."

After a pause, Xiaolan clasped her hands together,

"Please—can't you?"

“……”

"No, yes, ah!"

Just when Conan's heart was already shaken, Hattori Heiji suddenly appeared behind Xiaolan and reached out to take Conan aside, "This little ghost is from my side!" Don't beat his mind! ”

"......" Xiaolan looked at Hattori Heiji angrily.

Heiji Hattori pulled Conan aside and looked at Conan with an unkind face, "Hey, are you going to abandon the friendship between men and go to the side of women, right?" ”

"Friendship? Didn't you talk to yourself and pull me in..."Conan said angrily, "Besides, why don't you take care of Kaedehara..."

"That's right! What about Kudo? ”

Hattori Heiji muttered quietly, then looked around, "Oh... I've been whispering to his new woman since just now..."

"Hey, hey... Don't say such strange things..."

"Forget it! That guy didn't even look at the scene, so there must have been no progress... That's enough for the two of us! Heiji Hattori said, "I'm definitely going to win, and then go to Koshien!" ”

The momentum on his side was like a rainbow, and Xiaolan returned to Kazuye's side with some loss.

Kazuha is still writing and drawing in the notebook, hoping to find out the mystery of the death message, but because she doesn't have any ideas, her attention is not concentrated.

"Xiaolan, are you going to find out the news?"

"Hmm..."Xiaolan was a little embarrassed, "but there is no useful news, and I won't let Conan say it..."

"Hmph, stupid Pingji..."

"Still, it's okay!" Xiao Lan cheered up and looked at Feng Yuan and Gray Yuan Ai on the other side, "Xiao Kong is also very smart, if he finds something, he will definitely tell Xiao Ai..."

"Oh..."That's what he said, but after all, they were just two children, and he didn't have too many expectations, "Then again, the relationship between the two of them is really good..."

"yes, yes, I'll tell you..."

The two suddenly began to gossip inexplicably.

Kaede Hara, who heard them all, couldn't help but glance back at them, but the two quickly reacted and stopped when they were still in the midst of a reasoning duel.

Kaedehara then looked at the wall calendar on the wall.

The picture on the calendar is a swimsuit photo of a beautiful idol.

"Is it pretty?" Gray Plains asked.

“… I'm not looking at her. Didn't you find out? It's not the only room with her picture. ”

Gray Yuan lamented for a moment, "The pen holder on the table seems to have a picture of this person on it..."

"Well, so this person is probably the idol of President Tsujiya who was killed... But it's not the strange thing..."

As he spoke, Kaedehara glanced at the months on the calendar, "Don't you think it's strange?" This is the calendar for July, and the June one has been torn off..."

"It's July," Gray Plains reacted halfway through, "Oh... The incident occurred on June 29..."

"There's almost every day's schedule written on the calendar, and there's no reason to tear off the June calendar two days in advance," Kaedehara said, "Maybe the prisoner tore it off for some reason..."

Kaedehara glanced back at the coat that had been set aside.

At this time, the Twilight Police Department also happened to get the news and confirmed that the camera was indeed stained with the blood of the deceased.

Immediately after, Officer Takagi, who had gone to investigate the alibi of the four people, also rushed back.

(End of chapter)