Conan: The Master Behind the Scenes

The storm that had lasted all night was still blowing.

By the time Shiraishi Takeshi, Miyano Akemi and Ai arrived at the scene, the second victim's body had already become ice-cold.

"Crunch"……"Crunch"……""Creaky"

The thin steel wire creaked in the wind. Miko was wearing pajamas, her body hanging naturally, her face pale, her eyes wide open, hanging on a cherry tree outside her room window.

With the wind and rain, her body was swaying slowly.

"What is going on? Nanase Miyuki was terrified and started crying.

"I remember, this is your second-year classmate Meiko from the drama troupe, right?" Shiraishi Wu frowned and asked.

"Yes, yes!" Nanase Miyuki nodded in horror.

"……Why? Last night, when we parted, she said with a strange look on her face: Zhihui's murder was done by someone pretending to be the ghost of Tsukishima Fuyuko."Miyano Akemi was puzzled.

"But, why did she commit suicide?……"Kamishi Shuichiro is incoherent

"What nonsense are you talking about!!"

Kaneda Daisuke shouted loudly in dissatisfaction:"It's so high up, there's not even anything to stand on, could Tongsheng hang herself?! She must have been killed, definitely the weirdo who disappeared on the island!"

"Was she hanged on this tree by force?" Murayama Kenichi said with a horrified look on his face.

"Moreover, this murder case is far from as simple as you think!"

After carefully observing the scene, Bai Shiwu spoke up.

"Mr. Shiraishi! ?"

"You, what do you mean?"

"Not that simple?"

Everyone was puzzled.

Bai Shiwu frowned and said in a low and hoarse voice:"This is a closed room murder case!"

"Secret, murder in a secret room! ?"

"How, how could this be?"

"Why do you say it was a murder in a secret room? Tongsheng was murdered outside, how can it be considered a secret room?"Xian Daofeng was full of doubts.

"Indeed, Tongsheng Meizi was strangled to death by the murderer. If we assume that she was caught in the room by the murderer and forcibly taken out and hanged, then where did the murderer enter her room and where did he take her out of the room?"Bai Shiwu's eyes flashed with an inexplicable brilliance.

"Of course he went in and out through the window!!"

Kurosawa Kazuma said loudly:"It can be seen clearly from here that the door of Dosumeko's room is locked from the inside, and there is a security chain hung from the inside!"

"It was you, Mr. Shiraishi, who reminded me last night that the doors were all locked and no one could possibly enter the room! The only entrance and exit was the window. By the way, the window of the deceased's room was open. She must have forgotten to close it.……"

"You can look at the ground in front of the dead man's window yourself!" Bai Shiwu said calmly.

"This is……"

"There are footprints on the ground! ?"

"That's right! Whether you enter the room from the window or walk to the tree where Tong Sheng Meizi was hanged, you must pass through this muddy land.——"

Bai Shiwu pointed at the footprints on the ground with a serious face and said,"There is only one row of footprints on the ground! As you can see, there is only one row of footprints derived from the window. And, who do you think these footprints belong to?"

"Who, whose……？"

"Mr. Shiraishi, you, what do you mean?"

"Of course it's the murderer's! If there's only one set of footprints……"

"Yes, that's right! Although we don't know how the murderer got into Miko's room, the murderer carried Miko's body out of the window, passed through the muddy ground, and then arrived at the tree.……"Daisuke Kaneda speculated

"Oh? Is that really the case?"

Bai Shiwu laughed playfully, holding an umbrella, slowly walked under the tree, put on gloves, and picked up a lady's leather shoe.

"This is the shoe the deceased wore!"

Bai Shiwu carefully took the shoe and compared it with the footprints left on the ground, and said decisively:"The size and shape of the shoe just match the footprints! And the mud left on her shoes, which means that this row of unique footprints was left by Miko herself!"

"How, how could it be……"Nanase Miyuki's face was full of horror

"Same, same footprints! ?"Kamiishi Hideichiro trembled and began to

"Then, doesn't that mean that Tongsheng walked to the tree on her own initiative and was hanged on the tree?"Murayama Kenichi's face was full of gloom.

Everyone suddenly fell silent.

He lowered his head with a gloomy face.

The wind continued to howl, and the heavy rain poured down.

"Wait!"

Bai Shiwu's eyes flashed, and he looked deeply at the row of footprints on the ground, and then looked thoughtfully at Tongsheng Meiko who was hanged on the tree, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.

"Hmm? That's not……"

Shiraishi Takeshi accidentally caught a glimpse of Saotome Ryoko, who was standing alone behind a book, timid and frightened.

Although Saotome Ryoko had a bad temper, she was still a good prey, and a very easy prey, because a high school girl like her who longed for the stage and fame could not resist temptation.

At this moment.

Saotome Ryoko's eyes widened, her teeth clenched, and she tightly grasped the umbrella. A few drops of cold sweat were slowly falling on her pretty face.

"It seems that this matter is definitely related to her!" Bai Shiwu laughed playfully.

A moment later, in the living room of the villa

"No, it's bad!!"Kamiishi Hideichiro and Kaneda Daisuke suddenly ran over in panic.

"Shenshi? Jintian? What happened to you? What happened?" Nanase Miyuki asked nervously.

"I, our stage, and props, all, all are broken!" Kamishi Hideichiro said in panic.

"What, what!"

Everyone rushed to the theater and saw that the whole theater was in a mess.

"Gone! The Phantom's mask and costume are all gone!" Murayama Kenichi exclaimed tremblingly.

"What did you say! Phantom!?"Xian Daofeng shouted in panic.

""The Masked Phantom - the plot is exactly the same!"

Nanase Miyuki seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly she started talking to herself with a pale face:"Orie who died under the stage lights, Miko who was hanged, these two murders, and the disappearance of the mask!"

"Miyuki, you, you……"

"You mean to say……"

"No, no, no way!"

Everyone's face turned extremely ugly.

At this time, Nanase Miyuki was stunned and said the next sentence to herself:"Everything that happened is exactly the same as the Phantom of the Opera we rehearsed!"

(First update!)