Conan: Another Famous Detective

"I am Officer Megure from the Metropolitan Police Department. Who is it... eh? Brother Hanomiya? Mengyu, Xiaolan... even Conan is there?" Officer Megure stared at Hanomiya Akira and the others.

Yu Gongming also smiled helplessly: "We came here because of a commission, but when we got there, the person we were looking for had passed away. I was also a little distressed!"

Officer Memu's mouth twitched slightly, then he coughed lightly and turned to the topic: "Um, okay, then please tell me what happened."

After a while...

"That's right. Then regarding this case, Brother Hanomiya, how do you judge it?" Officer Megure asked.

"This is a case of murder disguised as suicide." Akira Hanomiya replied:

"Because you see, although the deceased suffered from a heart disease and there were overturned medicine bottles on the table, he was lying on the table before. If he died naturally, there should be some body fluids such as saliva remaining on the table. But the clean table is a little weird."

"This means that after Mr. Itakura's death, someone wiped the traces on the table, indicating that there was probably a second person at the scene before and after his death."

"And..." Akira Hanomiya came to the chair where Itakura was before and squatted down, pointed at the supporting leg and said: "Look, are there any traces of tape sticking here?"

Officer Megure tilted his head slightly, and his deputy, Officer Takagi, immediately came to the kicking area to check: "Yes, even though it has been wiped, you can still see traces of the tape."

"So, this chair may have been fixed with tape?" Officer Megure immediately made a guess.

"Yes, these two points are enough to rule out the possibility of suicide, but further inferences still depend on the specific circumstances of the autopsy." Yu Gongming replied.

"How's it going?" Officer Memu looked at the forensic doctor doing the autopsy.

"The cause of death has been found out!" Forensic Medicine Report:

"The deceased died roughly two nights ago. The cause of death was a heart attack. However, there was congestion under the skin of the deceased. It seemed that he had been subjected to large-scale oppression by something before he was alive..."

"It should be that thing, right?" Conan came to the bedside at some point, pointing to a blanket on the bed and said: "Look, there are some strange marks on it!"

Officer Memu ran over to take a look, and immediately turned back and shouted: "Forensic personnel, check the marks on the blanket immediately!"

"Understood!" Several forensic personnel immediately came over and picked up the blanket to prepare for trace inspection.

"So, the matter should be very clear." Yu Gongming said calmly:

"Mr. Itakura was fixed to a chair with a blanket and tape by someone, so he could not get emergency medicine quickly when he suffered a heart attack, so he died."

"Okay! The next step is to investigate, Chiba!" Officer Megure looked at the other deputy: "Go and ask the hotel staff to see if anyone has come to see Mr. Itakura in the past few days!"

Officer Chiba agreed and then quickly left the room.

"We can't be idle here. How about we take a look at Mr. Itakura's diary?" Akira Hanomiya pointed to a travel bag in the corner of the room.

The travel bag has been opened, and you can see several magnetic disks inside, one of which has a sticker with [Diary] written on it.

"Oh? You actually have a diary?" Officer Memu's eyes lit up.

"You can check it with the laptop on the table." Officer Takagi said.

On the table is the laptop Itakura carries with him.

After a while of operation, Officer Takagi immediately said with surprise: "He seems to have had the habit of keeping a diary since five years ago! I looked for it...and I found it! The most recent diary entry was three days ago!"

Officer Takagi opened the diary.

[The hotel staff said a lot of incomprehensible things to me today. Could it be that those three people already know that I live here? Forget it, it’s okay if I find out. At worst, I’ll just find another hotel]

"He stopped writing the diary after that," Officer Takagi added.

Officer Memu immediately glanced sharply at the three clients who had been standing silently aside: "The three people he mentioned are you, right?"

"Ah, this... shouldn't be possible, right?" Subeklu was obviously lacking in confidence.

"No, the possibility is quite high." Yu Gongming said solemnly:

"Officer, you should remember that we found Mr. Itakura through the chess pieces in the room and calling the hotel's phone number."

"Yes." Officer Megure nodded.

"If the murderer also used the same method as us, would the description in this diary match up?" Hanemiya asked with a smile.

"Huh? That's right!" Officer Megure slapped his right palm hard on his left palm: "If you follow Hanomiya brother's method, then the so-called inexplicable words of the hotel staff will be explained."

He looked at Subekuru and the other three people again, his expression becoming more serious: "In other words, you who saw that email are the major suspects in the murder of Mr. Itakura!"

The expressions of the three of them changed at the same time, and they subconsciously began to stay away from the other two.

Officer Memu slowly walked towards a few people and said in a deep voice, "Have you really never been here before today?"

"No!" Subeklu shook his head

"How is that possible!" Naito Dingping also denied.

"If we could find him, we wouldn't go to Detective Hanomiya!" Ryusuke Souma said.

"Officer, please come over and take a look!" the forensic doctor suddenly shouted.

"What's wrong?" Officer Megure and Akira Hanomiya came to the forensic doctor together.

Yu Gongming also turned to look at Meng Yu and winked at her.

Meng Yu's eyes flashed slightly, and then she came to Officer Takagi and said with a smile: "Officer Takagi, let me check this magnetic disk again. Maybe there are some hidden files or something like that?"

"Oh, okay!" Officer Takagi immediately stepped aside when he saw this. He also knew that Mengyu's computer technology was quite powerful.

Officer Memu turned his head and glanced, but didn't say anything.

The medical examiner is describing his findings in an orderly manner.

The forensic doctor found that the deceased's left foot had strangulation marks left by socks, but his right foot did not. There were traces of being scratched by something on the right ankle.

"Huh? What can this trace mean?" Officer Megure was confused.

"I think the deceased used his left foot to take off the socks on his right foot," the medical examiner explained.

"Huh? Why did he take off his socks? Did he feel itchy on his feet at that time?" Officer Megure asked doubtfully.

"If you feel your feet are itchy, you shouldn't take off your socks specifically, right? It would be faster to just scratch them through the socks, wouldn't it?" Hanemiya Akira shook his head slightly:

"I think the deceased must have wanted to send some message through this behavior."

"Oh? Brother Hanomiya, do you know what the message is?" Officer Megure asked.

Yu Gongming nodded slightly: "There are indeed some clues."