As for the results of the follow-up part of the investigation, it is inconvenient for Fengyuan to ask directly, so he does not know about it for the time being.

It doesn't matter, though.

Because Officer Takagi needs to report the progress of the investigation to the Twilight Police Department, which arrived later, it is equivalent to reporting the progress to Kaedehara at that time.

Downstairs in the apartment, the Twilight Police Department was checking for clues near the area where the deceased had fallen, and Officer Takagi greeted him for attention, and then took his police handbook and began to tell the progress of the investigation from the beginning.

The part of Kaedehara in front of him already knew, so he didn't pay attention to listen, but went downstairs and looked directly across the road.

Gray Yuan Ai was leaning against the car door, looking this way with his arms crossed.

After unraveling the trick used by the criminal, Ai and Okiya did not follow up on the investigation, but returned to the car to wait for him.

After a moment of eye contact with Ash Hara, Kaedehara turned around and listened intently to Officer Takagi's story.

Delaying the case will only make her wait longer.

"How about sitting in the car and waiting?" After a short while, Okiya, who had been half-lying on the seat with his eyes closed, looked up at Gray Yuan Wai outside the car, "Will you catch a cold like this?" ”

"It's okay," Gray Yuan Wai shook his head slightly to refuse, "The child is full of vitality and won't catch a cold..."

"Since you can't rest assured, why don't you go over and have a look?"

"I'm not reassured, the case will be solved soon..."

She had just seen Kudo's abrupt expression that had only existed for a moment, so only the part that followed should be the reasoning.

And since what he wants to see has been seen, Gray Yuanwai is less interested in the case than half, and naturally there is no need to keep up.

In fact, she is still a little curious about Okiya's identity.

She knew that Okiya Pleiades was actually Shuichi Akai, but she didn't think that just because the other party was an FBI, Kudo would trust him...

So there must be something else, and it's a reason that Kudo feels he can't tell himself...

"Have we met before?" Gray Yuan asked suddenly.

"Why do you ask?"

"Intuition. Ever seen it? ”

"How long ago do you mean?"

"A year ago, or two years ago." Gray Plains mourned and then tempted.

“… You're just a kid. ”

"yes, I'm just a kid."

Gray Yuan Wai replied casually and stopped talking.

She was still looking across the street at Kaedehara, who was talking to someone on the phone, and then followed the Twilight Police Department and the others back to the apartment building.

Okiya also closed his eyes again and fell into deep thought.

Two years ago...

He left the organization two years ago.

During the undercover period of the organization, he had a "relationship" with Akemi Miyano for a while, so from the beginning he was very sure that Ai Gray Hara was Akemi Miyano's sister, Shiho Miyano.

However, he has never been able to determine the true identities of Kaedehara Sora and Edogawa Conan.

Shiho Miyano's performance was one of his entry points.

Although there are not many opportunities to see her, just like now, she is almost the only one in her eyes. Even though she was very afraid of the cold, but just to be able to see each other clearly, she stayed outside the car all the time...

When they were in the car that night, the two men were still holding hands...

So,Kaedehara Sora must have also become a child from about the same age.,After all, Akemi's sister doesn't look like someone who would be interested in a real child...

The one who helped herself in disguise, the so-called "Sister Yukiko" in Kaedehara's empty mouth, her attitude towards Gray Hara's mourning is also very subtle...

So, Sora Kaedehara is Shinichi Kudo - if it weren't for the existence of Conan Edogawa.

It's really hard to understand...

Okiya sighed slightly.

……

On the other side, a few minutes ago, Kaedehara was listening to Officer Takagi report the progress of the investigation to the Twilight Police Department.

"So you went to the room of the three men."

"Do you see the foam of the beer, the heat from the coffee cups, and the smoke from the cigarettes?" ”

"Yes, if one of those three is the one who pushed President Katsumoto down and blends in with the crowd, you'll have to get here as soon as you push him down. Be seen by others as soon as possible, so that when you are questioned afterwards, you can emphasize that you have heard the commotion and rushed here. ”

"But you're the only one who sees the foam, the heat, and the smoke, right?"

"We've got pictures." Kaedehara interjected.

"Small, small!" The Twilight Police Department subconsciously glanced at Kaedehara's face before reacting.

"It was taken with the camera function of the mobile phone..."

"Wait a minute," the Twilight Police Department looked at Officer Takagi, "did you still take him to the suspect's room?" ”

"Yes, yes... It was Shinichi Kudo who asked him to tell me..."

"Oh... Brother Kudo..."

The Twilight Police Department was no longer entangled, but took Officer Takagi's mobile phone and looked at the photos, "Then when you took the photos, what about the two people left?" ”

"Once the door was opened, I told them to wait at the entrance," Officer Takagi replied, "so they couldn't go back to their room to fake something." ”

"So, President Katsumoto fell from the balcony of his own room on the twenty-sixth floor of this apartment, can you be sure?"

"Sure. The doors to the entrance and balcony were open, and just after the email was sent, the president made a phone call to the people at the renovation company. ”

"Renovation company?"

The new carpet in the president's room last night didn't look like it looked like when he ordered it, and he complained on the phone while measuring the actual length of the pile on the carpet.

Just as I was making the call, the doorbell rang in the room, and the president said a word and hung up the phone. So President Katsumoto was in his room until he fell from the building, and the one who came to visit him must be a prisoner. ”

A new carpet...

What a coincidence...

Kaedehara pondered for a moment, and then heard the Twilight Police Department then ask Officer Takagi, "How long does it take to get from their room to the president's room?" ”

"All three of them live on the third floor, and it takes about seven minutes to get to the president's room on the 26th floor. I've tried running the stairs myself, and I should be right! ”

"Stairs? Don't take the elevator? ”

"There was a surveillance camera in the elevator, and I went to the management room to watch the video, and I didn't photograph the three people around 7:30 a.m. when President Katsumoto fell from the building. So if the prisoner was among them, he would have walked up the stairs without cameras. ”

"I see, go to the president's room and ring the doorbell first, push the president down after entering the room, and then leave the room, and then count the time you entered the room of the three people after the incident, if there are prisoners among the three people, then the room will be empty for at least ten minutes."

"Yes, if that's the case, the foam, the heat, and the smoke will all be gone."

"But why would the president send you such an email?" The Twilight Police Department asked the three men on the side.

"Because of the lawsuit!"

"All three of us are going to sue President Katsumoto!"

"Just early next month!"

Mr. Ogino and the others replied one by one.

"Sue?"

"You've heard of it, right? The case of a popular actress who committed suicide by jumping off a building last week. ”

"yes," Officer Takagi nodded, "The reason she committed suicide was because the kissing scene with her dangerous lover was secretly filmed, right?" ”

"I took that picture," Mr. Ogino said.

"I wrote the report..."

"Then I put it together and published it in Weekly Great, and it turned out to be like that..."

"Became like that?"

"Yes, the photos and reports are fabricated! The photo was an image of the two before they embraced, not a kiss. ”

"As for the man in the photo is a member of a violent gang, it is even more nonsense, he is a stuntman and was injured while filming the movie that day."

"But isn't that actress already engaged to a young parliamentarian? Even if it's a hug, it's too much..."

"No, it's not! The man was actually the half-brother of the female star, because she told him that he was going to get married, so he hugged his sister to celebrate! ”

"What!? Why the hell is that!? ”

"The truth we knew before printing, this report was originally going to be deleted, but President Katsumoto published this report on his own initiative and rewrote the content, and also gave a headline like 'Popular Female Stars Playing with Fire Late at Night Before Marriage'!"

"The launch date of the magazine was just the day before the press conference where the female celebrity and the lawmaker announced their marriage contract, so the magazine sold very well," Mr. Ogino took over Miss Tsukihara's words, "Her brother was also attacked by fanatical fans, and he was seriously injured and is still lying unconscious in the hospital." ”

Of course, the marriage was over, and she chose to commit suicide in frustration.

"But if you tell the truth right away, won't you know it's all nonsense?" Officer Takagi asked.

"How do you say it! Her brother is the illegitimate son of her father and lover! ”

"I think this is expected, and the president will be relieved to publish this untrustworthy report."

"And he signed our names to that report without permission, which we cannot forgive! So last night the three of us sent an email to that man! ”

"Say we have evidence that you fabricated that report, and you should die!"

"We're going to sue you for a loss!"

"I see," the Twilight Police Department said suddenly, "the president saw your email in the morning and replied to it. ”

……

Ski slopes.

Conan was about to call to inquire about the situation on Kaedehara's side when he felt his phone ring.

It was the email, but before he could read it, he heard his phone ring again.

This time it's a phone.

Kaedehara called.

"Hey, I say, when will you and Gray Plains arrive?" Conan said straight into the phone, "We're already starting to slide..."

"Come on, we'll go over when the case is solved..."

"Case, case?" Conan was stunned for a moment, "Where are you?" ”

“… You don't think you're here anymore, do you? But sorry, the case has been solved. ”

"......" is hateful.

"I just sent you an email, please send me the contents of the email again in the name of Shinichi Kudo... I'm trying to convince Officer Takagi... Anyway, that's it, thanks. ”

"Hey, hey!" Conan, who was curious about the case, hurriedly shouted a few words into the phone, but found that the phone had hung up, "Really..."

Although a little depressed, Conan quickly took out another phone and started typing.

Soon, Kaedehara on the other side received an email from Kudo Shinichi, he glanced at it twice and stepped forward, pulled Officer Takagi's clothes, showed him the email, and forwarded it.

"We're going to investigate anyway," Kaedehara then looked back at the Twilight Police Department, "Why don't we do an experiment?" ”

The "alibi" of the three people was easy to reproduce in an experimental way, and the Twilight Police Department felt that it made sense, so the group went to the third floor again, preparing to reproduce it in the same place.

The first thing to come was Mr. Ogino's room.

Mr. Ogino helped provide beer, Officer Takagi poured a few beers and put them on the table, and the Twilight Police Department kept time with his own watch, while Mr. Sleevezaki and Ms. Tsukihara watched.

"Hmm..."After a while, the Twilight Police Department looked at the beers on the table, "It's almost all gone in about six minutes..."

"Shall you wait another minute?" "When we came in, it was almost seven minutes later! ”

"Hey, the bubble won't reappear..."

"yes... But the email said that a miracle would happen..."

"Mail?" The Twilight Police Department looked at Officer Takagi suspiciously.

"Ah, that's the email Kudo just sent me." Officer Takagi whispered to the Twilight Police Department that the email also said that he wanted them to keep it a secret.

"I don't know whose subordinate you are..."The Twilight Police Department glanced at Officer Takagi unhappily, "Forget it, it's only a minute anyway..."

"Yes, yes... Ah, by the way," Officer Takagi looked at Mr. Ogino, "By the way, did you see or hear anything when you left the room?" ”

"I was going downstairs when I heard the sound of Sleevesaki below me. The guy kept the keychain on his waist and jingled when he ran. ”

"I do have the key on my waist..."Mr. Sleevezaki lifted his coat and showed off the keychain around his waist.

"Well... Alright, it's almost time, let's go next- huh? The Twilight Police Department said, turning his head to look at the beer on the table, and noticed that there was a lot of foam in one of the beers, "What's going on?" ”

The others also showed surprised expressions, only Mr. Ogino's face was a little ugly. He had been staring at the beer, so he noticed what had just happened.

"It's salt," Kaedehara shook the small salt shaker in his hand, "I sprinkled some salt I found from the kitchen." ”

"Does a little salt in a beer make it frothy?"

Officer Takagi glanced at the email on his phone, "Yes, as long as it's granules that can sink into beer, sugar, sand, whatever." The main reason is that when these things sink, they bring in a lot of air, which emits carbon dioxide and forms foam. ”

"I am, so it is..."

"This method is also often used when taking advertising photos of beer. Because if there is a lot of foam, it looks more delicious. ”

"As a photographer, you should know how to do this, right?" The Twilight Police Department looked at Mr. Ogino.

"But... I didn't have any salt back then..."

"Big brother, didn't you take it out when you entered the room? You're deliberately blocking the front, but just look at the other bags, right? It was a return gift to attend the funeral... Salt used to ward off evil spirits. ”

"I see, you used that salt!" The police department suddenly realized.

"yes, it should be."

Officer Takagi chimed in, then looked at the email on his phone and read it:

"While you're cleaning up the contents of the bag that you've kicked over, you sneak out the salt to ward off evil spirits and put it in your pocket, and then you break the bag and spill the salt into it before we look at the beer glass.

And so we saw a glass of frothy beer! But I think that's what you thought of on a whim, even if you throw away the bag of the salt to ward off evil spirits, there are still salt grains left in the pockets of your clothes...

In addition, there will be some physical conflict when you want to push someone off the balcony, and considering that you need to leave the president's room as soon as possible, just carefully check the carpet that the president just changed yesterday, and you should be able to find traces of hair and other traces left when you went to the president's room between last night and this morning. ”

Mr. Ogino quickly chose to confess.

The evidence that Mr. Ogino kept and was intended to be used against the president was stolen by Mr. Ogino's assistant and given to the president. In anger, he pushed the president down.

And so the case ended.

Because they didn't delay much, and the doctor had just started skiing, Kaedehara and the others drove to the ski resort to meet the doctor and spent a relaxing day.

In the next few days, Didan Primary School returned to its usual normal, and there were no classes for several days in a row. On this day, the Doctor decides to take the Junior Detective Group on a long-awaited camp.

On the way, in the car of the Scarab.

"I almost forgot, your one."

Kaedehara took out a well-made ring from his pocket and handed it to Conan, who was sitting on his left.

"Huh?" Conan was stunned for a moment, then took the ring and glanced at the words engraved on it, "A pass for the mysterious train?" ”

"It's the ticket for the Suzuki express train we're going to ride next week, and the doctor just received it in the morning!" Mitsuhiko said.

"I said that as long as I showed this ring to the commander, I could get on the car with a tick!" Ayumi also had an expectant expression on her face.

"It's said that the train is still a steam train, it's like the Orient Express," Gray Yuan looked out the window with his chin propped up, "I hope it doesn't happen like Christie's inside." ”

She was obviously referring to the story in Agatha Christie's book Murder on the Orient Express.

"It's hard to say if there will be a murder," Kaedehara glanced at Conan, "but I'm sure something will happen." ”

"Hey, you're not trying to say I'm a broom star, are you?" Conan replied angrily, "It was you who met the case last time..."

Really, the Twilight Police Department thinks I'm a broom star now...

It's just that the detective and the case are attracted to each other...

"Ahh

Conan couldn't help but sneeze.

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