Conan: Another Famous Detective

Ryuubi Ayaka's whole body was trembling, and her face was full of fear.

"Don't be like this! Ayaka might just be frightened!" Tatsuo Kage quickly spoke to defend his wife.

"Isn't it right? Her performance was not just as simple as being frightened. Especially after hearing what Conan just said, she obviously felt guilty."

"Ayaka! Have you ever made Lord Shingen unhappy before?" Representative Ryuubio Mori looked at his daughter-in-law with a somewhat stern expression.

"I...I..." Tatsuo Ayaka faltered, looking like he was hesitating to speak.

"Hmph! The door suddenly closed just now. It's obvious that Lord Shingen doesn't want you to leave. If you have something to hide, it's better to tell him. If you make Lord Shingen angry again..." Ryuubi Moriyo said coldly.

"Sister! You'd better tell me what you have to say!" Conan said in his innocent voice: "If you don't tell me, maybe it will be like those words, and there will be a third blood stain!"

Conan's words finally caused Tatsuo Ayaka's psychological defense to collapse completely: "I said it! I said it all!"

"Ayaka?" Ryūbi Kage looked at his wife in disbelief.

Ryuubi Ayaka seemed to have completely lost her strength, and her focus was entirely on Ryuubi Kage.

She took two deep breaths and said, "Actually, this matter is also related to you, A Jing."

"Me?" Long Wei Jing pointed at himself in confusion.

"Yes." Tatsuo Ayaka nodded: "Six years ago, you and Kai-senpai competed to be the next Yabusuri horse shooter. Until the last target, both of you hit the mark."

"So, everyone decided to continue the competition tomorrow."

"Yes, and the next day, Kai-senpai disappeared." Ryūbi Kage showed a look of memory.

Tatsuo Ayaka took a deep look at Tatsuo Kei: "Actually, in order for you to win that day, we planned to use fireworks to scare Mr. Kai's horse and injure him when he was practicing. This way, you would have a better chance of winning. It will increase greatly.”

"How... how can you do such a thing?" Long Wei Jing said in shock.

"You just said [you], does that mean you are not the only one?" Hattori Heiji reached another point.

Tatsuo Ayaka nodded: "In addition to me, there are also Yoshiro, Shigeji, and Koji of the Torada family. The four of us came up with this plan together."

"I just didn't expect that Mr. Kai's horse was too frightened. Even with Mr. Kai's skills, he couldn't control it. When we saw the horse running wildly, we were frightened and immediately chased after it."

"Then...then I saw Mr. Kai all the way back down the cliff..."

"It was all us...we were the ones who killed Mr. Kai!"

Anger gradually rose on Long Wei Jing's face: "You guys have gone too far! The selection of Yabusame archers is a very honorable and sacred matter. How can you get it by this method?"

"If I get the Yabusame Archer because of this method, then I would rather not take this honor!"

"Furthermore, I heard that Mr. Kai actually starved to death. If you had gone down at that time, maybe Mr. Kai would have had a chance to survive."

Tatsuo Ayaka lowered her head in shame: "We were all so scared at the time that no one dared to go down. When we were looking for someone later, we reached the bottom of the cliff immediately, but we didn't find Mr. Kai for a while."

"We were even more scared, so we never dared to go back there again. After thinking about it, it turned out that it was covered by fallen leaves... If we had looked carefully at that time, maybe..."

Snapped!

Tatsuo Kei directly slapped Tatsuo Ayaka: "This is for Mr. Kai! Mr. Kai is my most respected teacher! And he is so kind, how can you bear to do such a thing!?"

Tatsuo Ayaka covered her face and was not angry. She just said with tears in her eyes: "I know, I know we did make a mistake. We have been arguing about whether to call the police..."

"Later, because we were afraid of being caught, everyone kept the matter secret for the time being. I actually thought it would be good to keep this matter a secret forever, and everyone would be in peace."

"But, in this case, I'm afraid Mr. Kai will not rest in peace, right?" Hattori Heiji said solemnly.

"So, Mr. Koji and Mr. Yoshiro often gather together for secret talks recently, and they even meet to see Officer Yamato. Are they just trying to tell what happened back then?"

"If this is the case, then the person who killed them might be among them?" Mouri Kogoro guessed; "Because he was afraid that the matter would be exposed, he killed them."

He looked at Tatsuo Ayaka: "The murderer couldn't be you, right?"

"No! It's not me!" Tatsuo Ayaka quickly denied.

"If it were Miss Ayaka, she wouldn't have told us this just now. Moreover, what happened back then may not be as simple as imagined." Conan said.

"Yes." Akira Hanamiya agreed: "There is a doubtful point in Mrs. Ayaka's narrative just now."

"If I remember correctly, after Mr. Kai disappeared, the whole village started searching for him the next day, right?"

"Yes, everyone was desperately looking for Mr. Kai at that time." Ryūweijing nodded.

"Then Miss Ayaka, did you guys rush to the cliff on the same day?" Yu Gongming asked again.

"Yes, we arrived at the bottom of the cliff together while everyone was searching separately." Tatsuo Ayaka said.

"That's strange." Akira Hanomiya's expression darkened: "How could Mr. Kai and a horse be covered with so many fallen leaves in one day at most?"

"Even if it is the leaf-falling season at that time, according to the normal frequency of leaf-falling of plants, it shouldn't be something you can't detect, right?"

"Yes, even if there were fallen leaves there, but Mr. Jia Fei fell from such a height, those fallen leaves should have been smashed open."

"So, maybe there were other people at the scene besides you at that time." Conan said calmly: "That person took advantage of you to leave and came to the bottom of the cliff and found Mr. Kai who fell to the ground and was unconscious."

"But he did not choose to rescue him. Instead, he covered Mr. Kai and the horse with fallen leaves."

"But why did that person do this?" Mouri Kogoro asked doubtfully.

Akira Hanomiya said calmly: "I don't know, but there is no doubt that that person did not just want Mr. Kai to be hurt like Mrs. Ayaka and others. She had murderous intentions towards Mr. Kai from the beginning!"

"That is to say...the two recent murder cases may not have been committed by one of Miss Reika and the others." Hattori Heiji said thoughtfully:

"Perhaps, what Miss Ayaka said is not the whole truth."