Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

After Mori Kogoro finished taking the photos, Chi Feichi put the things into an evidence bag and handed them to the Xiaocang police.

When the four of them returned to the hotel, it was already past three o'clock in the morning. They saw the proprietress who had been staying in the Japanese-style living room in the store. They didn't see anyone else, so they asked the proprietress first, and then asked the hotel host some questions.

The proprietress recognized the knife as the murder weapon and pointed out that it was the "magic knife" placed in the hotel's ancestral hall.

The hotel staff also more or less saw the activities of Akechi Eri and others, and said that Mori Ran and others did not come to the Japanese-style living room, but in the living room.

"So you are here..."

Mori Kogoro arrived at the lounge, glanced around to confirm the number of people.

My daughter is here, Kid Haihara is here, Raiko Honda is here, Eri Akechi is here, Tokyo Ichi is here, Harumi Fukatsu is here...well, all of them.

Honda Laiko turned around and explained, "Mr. Eri said that sitting here is more comfortable."

Mao Lilan turned to look at the people who came in and confirmed the number of people.

Her father is here, Brother Feichi is here, Police Officer Xiaocang is here... Well, where is Conan?

"Father, where's Conan?"

"Huh?" Mori Kogoro turned around and looked around, "Didn't that kid Conan follow?"

"He's going to the courtyard on the way." Chi Feichi walked to the bench by the window and sat down, and took out a notepad and a gel pen, "Probably went to the bathroom, let's make sure now." Everyone's activities from ten o'clock to twelve o'clock in the evening."

Conan should be checking the thickness of the snow.

Such a little guy, who ran out of the corridor suddenly and quietly, was not easy to attract attention. If he hadn't been paying attention to Conan's troublemaker, he probably didn't know when Conan fell behind.

The others turned to look at Kogoro Mori.

In matters such as interrogation after the crime, a detective has more say.

"Cough..." Mori Kogoro didn't have time to worry about where Conan went, so he straightened his expression and said seriously, "Please cooperate! First of all, Teacher Eri, when we met you, you just came from the open-air hot spring. Come back from the bath, right? So what time did you go to the open-air hot spring?"

"Yes," Eri Akechi nodded, "I went to the open-air hot spring around nine thirty and left around ten o'clock."

"Then have you met Ms. Shibasaki Asuka?"

"When I came back from the open-air hot spring, she happened to be in the open-air hot spring..."

Hui Yuanai got up and sat down next to Chi Feichi, watching Chi Feichi write down the time of everyone's activities in the notebook, and found that Feichi poked out a small head on the collar of the bathrobe to read the notebook, and resisted pulling Feichi out. The impulse to open.

No, wait until Feichi sheds his skin before trading...

Mao Lilan thought about where Conan had gone, and wanted to go out to find it but had to stay and wait for the answer to the question. She sat on pins and needles until she saw Conan coming, and she was relieved.

Conan lowered his head in thought, walked to Chi Feichi's side, and looked at the information Chi Feichi recorded in his notebook.

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9:30 Hantoichi is in his room. Eri Akechi arrives at the open-air hot spring to take a bath. Honda Laizi went to the living room to sort out the interview content and stayed in the living room all the time.

9:45 Honda Riko sees Shibasaki Asuka passing by the living room and heading for the open-air hot spring.

10:00 Eri Akechi left the open-air hot spring and saw Asuka Shibazaki arriving.

10:20 Reiko Honda saw Eri Akechi come back in the lounge.

10:25 Honda Laiko saw Anzai Ema going to the back door in the social hall. Meanwhile, we met Eri Akechi in the hallway while we were taking a bath.

10:30 The time that Anzai Ema received at the ancestral hall was written on the note.

10:40 We arrived at the open-air hot spring, and the women's bath put up a sign for private use, and Xiaolan, Xiaoai, and Fukatsu Harumi went to the entertainment center to play table tennis.

10:45 Fukatsu Harumi left the entertainment center and went back to take off the contact lenses she was wearing.

10:50 There was a strange noise from Nutang.

10:55 Shenjin Chunmei returns to the entertainment center.

11:00 We finished taking a bath in Nantang, and went to the entertainment center to find Xiaolan, Xiaoai, and Fukatsu Harumi who hadn't started taking a bath yet. During this period, Xiaolan did not see other people passing by the entertainment center to go to the open-air hot spring. Meanwhile, Eri Akechi arrives at the hotel lounge to discuss things with Riko Honda.

11:15 Hantoichi arrives at the social room and joins a meeting between Raiko Honda and Eri Akechi.

11:30 We left the entertainment center and went to the open-air hot spring.

Around 11:40 Shibazaki Asuka's body was found.

11:55 I went to the hotel to look for Ema Anzai, and saw Raiko Honda, Eri Akechi, and Tokyo Kazu Hanaka who were having a meeting in the lounge.

12:05 Go to the ancestral hall at the back door and find footprints in the snow.

12:10 The body of Anzai Ema was found in the ancestral hall.

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Conan couldn't help paying attention to the words on the notebook.

Chi Feichi's handwriting is still so beautiful, horizontal and vertical but not rigid, and each stroke has an indescribable charm. It is simply enjoyable to read such a large article... Cough, solve the case, solve the case is important!

"We found a suspected murder weapon and a blood-stained bath towel in the open-air hot spring," Mori Kogoro said to the others after asking, "According to the proprietress, the knife was placed in the shrine of the hotel before. The magic sword and the bath towel belonged to Anzai Ema. Although it is not sure whether the blood on the bath towel belongs to Miss Anzai Ema, the murder weapon should be the same. After 1:30, I went to the warehouse and killed Ms. Anzai Ema, and put the kimono sleeve Hannya paper figurine. After that, I went to the open-air hot spring with a knife and towel. At the same time, the murderer also brought a stapler and stunned her with the stapler After taking a bath, Ms. Shibasaki Asuka killed her with a knife, and finally, the murderer abandoned the knife, stapler, and towel in the open-air hot spring, put down the kimono sleeve Hannya paper figurine at the entrance of the female bath, and left there."

Conan looked at Chi Feichi's timetable with his head, thinking.

From this point of view, Tokyo Ichi Han didn’t have an alibi before 11:15 p.m., so he had enough time to commit the crime, and the signature on the note about Anzai Ema going to the warehouse was Tokyo Ichi Han.

Eri Akechi can go from the corridor to the ancestral hall to kill Anzai Ema after meeting them, and then if he wants to go to the open-air hot spring to kill Shibazaki Asuka, he has to pass by the social hall and the entertainment center where Ran is, and use the wooden planks alternately from the courtyard. You can avoid passing the living room and leaving footprints on the snow, but if you want to reach the open-air hot spring on the cliff, you have to pass through the entertainment center, and you can't climb over the snow-covered mountain, and Xiaolan didn't see Akechi Eri pass by. Furthermore, if they heard the strange voice of the female soup next door at 10:50 was the time when Asuka Shibasaki was killed, then Eri Akechi would not be able to kill within 10 minutes and rush back to the lounge to meet Raiko Honda.

Harumi Fukatsu stayed with them all the time after 9:00, and only left the entertainment center from 10:45 to 10:55, and went back to the room alone to take off the contact lenses. This time can make strange noises or kill Shibazaki Asuka, for example, first hide the framed glasses somewhere, go out and change them and then kill people, pretending to go back to the room to change glasses, but Harumi Fukatsu did not have the time to kill Anzai Ema, let alone kill Anzai Ema with the murder weapon Take it to the open-air hot spring and kill Shibasaki Asuka.

Honda Laizi has been staying in the living room since 9:30. Although there is enough time to commit crimes during the time when he does not meet other people and is alone, if someone passes by the living room during the period and finds that Honda Laizi is not there, Honda Laizi's lies will be exposed, and Honda Laizi can't be sure whether other people will go to the living room when she leaves to commit the crime, so the possibility of Honda Laizi committing the crime is not high.

From the current point of view, Tokyo Ichi Han is the most suspected, but this time the murderer can think of a way to leave no footprints on the snow, he thinks it will not be that simple.

And his discovery also points to the fact that the murderer should be Eri Akechi...

"However, Xiao Ai and I have been staying in the entertainment center since 10:40. If anyone wants to go to the outdoor hot spring, we can definitely see it, but we haven't seen any suspicious people passing by the entertainment center," Mao Lilan said. looked at Hui Yuanai who was sitting with Chi Feichi, "Right? Xiao Ai."

Hui Yuanai nodded, "It's not just people, I haven't even seen ghosts."

Mao Lilan: "..."

At this time, the mention of ghosts or ghosts made her a little scared.

If ghosts kill people, then...

"That's right," Mori Kogoro rubbed his chin, "It's also strange that there are no footprints of the murderer on the snow except for the footprints left by Ms. Anzai Ema when she went to the warehouse..."

"Will it be the curse of the kimono sleeve god?" Harumi Fukatsu asked nervously.

"No, no way..." Mao Lilan shrank back on the back of the sofa, always feeling insecure without a living pillow in her arms.

No……

In his heart, Conan denied the possibility of 'kimono sleeve god cursed to kill', leaned close to Chi Feichi's ear, and whispered, "Brother Chi, I just walked around the eaves in the outside yard, from the back door to Teacher Huili In the snow in front of the window, the footprints left were only five centimeters deep at most, while the footprints left in other places were more than ten centimeters. After we went to the ancestral hall to collect evidence, it snowed again, and another layer was accumulated on the places that were not covered by towels Snow, it is normal to leave footprints of more than ten centimeters, so..."

Hui Yuanai listened to the side, and took the words in a soft voice, "Ms. Eri may be the murderer. After she met us in the corridor, she turned out of her window in order to avoid being seen by Miss Honda who was staying in the living room. Go out, use a method that will not leave footprints, go to the ancestral hall, kill Miss Anxi, and then return to the room in that way, so there are footprints on the snow that are not in the right depth and lead to the window of her room, but after that, she again How did you kill Ms. Shibazaki? She didn’t have enough time to commit the crime, and Sister Xiaolan and I really didn’t see any suspicious figures passing by outside the entertainment center.”

"That's right," Conan frowned and thought, "The way to leave no footprints should be to cover the snow with a plank to move, but when the crime was committed..."

He couldn't figure it out.

"Anyway, it's already past four o'clock in the morning. In another hour, the police from Yamagata Prefecture should be able to arrive here. Everyone, please stay here for the time being," Mori Kogoro ordered, looking at Sitting on the bench, and The two children gathered together to whisper to Chi Feichi, and greeted him, "Feichi, I'm going to smoke outside, do you want to go get some air together?"

"good."

Chi Feichi chose to abandon Conan of the crime detection team, closed the notepad, and followed Mori Kogoro to the corridor outside.

Conan raised his eyes to see Hui Yuanai following, thought for a while, and followed silently.