Conan’s Corpse Picker

Thinking of the latest findings, Conan hesitated for a moment and tugged at the corner of Maori Kogoro's clothes.

"What?" Maori Kogoro looked down at the troubled child.

Conan cleared his throat and spoke in a childish voice: "It's so strange, uncle - I just went to explore Mrs. Sakihara's house and found that her garage was also relatively narrow. If she is really not good at reversing, how does she usually drive out?"

"In addition, I went to Mr. Sakihara's study and found some strange sticky marks next to the socket under the desk, as if something was taped on."

Maori Ran was stunned.

Conan saw her expression and was slightly surprised: he didn't expect that Xiaolan was the first to understand his hint.

He nodded heavily at Maori Ran.

Then Maori Ran covered his mouth with her hand.

Conan: “???”

The law-abiding female high school student looked around guiltily, and made sure that passers-by were busy with their own things and no one heard what she just said. She turned around and whispered: "How can you break into someone else's house, and it's such an important place as the study!"

Conan: "......?"

Is this the point? The point should be the strange doubts in this case!

He wanted to re-emphasize his point, but he couldn't move Mao Lilan's little finger with all his strength.

"..."

An elementary school student fell into despair silently.

Fortunately, someone next to him seemed to be perceptive for once and understood what he didn't say.

Maori Kogoro snorted coldly: "What are you implying? Do you think Xiaohui is also related to this bombing and murder case?"

Conan: "Mmmmm!"

Mauri Kogoro punched him on the forehead: "How is it possible? She is a student I once taught. How could I not know her? She is a child who pursues justice and would not do such a thing."

Next to him, Maori Ran finally heard something wrong. She hesitantly let go of his hand: "What are you talking about?"

Conan finally breathed a few breaths of sweet air and successfully finished what he wanted to say just now: "But the uncle knew someone in high school Mrs. Sakihara, now more than ten years have passed, people will change. "

"Nonsense!" Maori Kogoro hit him again, "You are just a seven-year-old kid, and you are still talking about things that happened more than ten years ago. You are just pretending to know."

Having said that, Maori Kogoro suddenly remembered something:

When he was a tutor for Mrs. Sakihara, this student who always followed the rules had also shown some lively thoughts belonging to a girl, showing him off her and her sister's secret base - the so-called small base was her family's warehouse, and there was a small window on the warehouse, through which you could see the situation in the garage.

"..."

A series of clues and guesses were pieced together in his mind, and Maori Kogoro's face gradually changed.

...

The middle-aged detective, who rarely started to use his brain, first went to Inspector Megure to inquire about the detailed records of the two husbands who exchanged wives, and then went to the shopping street for a walk.

After a moment of silence, Maori Kogoro finally set off to Mrs. Sakihara's house.

"Mr. Maori?" Unlike her despairing look not long ago, Mrs. Sakihara's mental state has improved a lot.

She went to the kitchen to pour drinks and brought them to the guests. Noticing that the former tutor was not in a good mood, Mrs. Sakihara asked in confusion: "Just now you said that you had something important to talk to me about?"

Maori Kogoro sighed and said solemnly: "I am here to persuade you to surrender to the police."

Mrs. Sakihara was stunned: "...What?"

Maori Kogoro's face was solemn: "According to the record provided by your husband, when you were young and unmarried, your sister Miss Kanmei had taken your boyfriend away twice. So before you married Mr. Sakihara, you half-jokingly and half-warningly told her that if there was a third time, you would not let her go easily.

"In fact, you have long known about your sister and your husband's underground love affair, and also knew about their plan to kill his wife. So you used the same trick to kill them, and let them both disappear completely from your life. "

Mrs. Sakihara listened to his reasoning and felt dazed.

... The sense of déjà vu of this scene was too strong.

As long as the face of Mr. Maori in front of her was changed, and the current living room background was changed to the hospital tea room, everything seemed to go back in time - what happened a few hours ago was replayed in front of her again, just like the plot was officially staged after the rehearsal.

... But this was neither the backstage of a drama nor the filming site of a TV series... Why would there be such a thing as "rehearsal" in the living reality?

The absurd idea made Mrs. Sakihara sweat unconsciously. She looked at Maori Kogoro's mouth opening and closing, listened to the almost identical reasoning in her ears, and finally couldn't help blurting out: "... Did you discuss it?"

Immersed in the sad atmosphere of "students have become bad", Maori Kogoro was stunned and didn't understand this sentence: "What do you mean? ”

“…”

Mrs. Sakihara got the answer from his reaction.

——He didn’t look like he had discussed it with the man in black. And Mr. Maori wouldn’t joke about murder. It seemed like he got inspiration from somewhere and saw through the case, so he came directly to him.

There are many detectives who can reason, and there may be many detectives who can figure out this case. But every detective has his own unique reasoning habits - but now, the man in black, who was supposed to have nothing to do with the case, used Teacher Maori's tone and said the same words as Teacher Maori before he could. …

Mouri Kogoro on the opposite side continued his reasoning, and Mrs. Sakihara also continued to listen silently.

The further you listen, the more similarities between the words become impossible to ignore. This strange and counterintuitive phenomenon made Mrs. Sakihara's fingertips tremble for a moment.

And the image of the man in black in her mind has also changed from a simple "good Samaritan who helped the daughter of an old friend" to an indescribable shadow.

"The man in black completely anticipated what was going to happen, so he used his unique method to help me do a 'rehearsal' a few hours in advance?"

The thoughts in Mrs. Sakihara's mind were spinning rapidly: "Not only did he reason about this case, but he also completely predicted Teacher Mouri's unique reaction when he reasoned about this case... Is this really something that humans can do? I have occasionally paid attention to detective news over the years, but I have never heard of such a detective in Tokyo... Who is he? "