Detectives of Detective World

"How's it going? Did you find anything?"

After seeing Karasawa open his eyes, Mouri Kogoro on the side, although a little unhappy before, was indeed the most active in asking for clues at this moment.

"Well, there are some, but because we still need some evidence for verification, I won't say it for the time being to avoid misleading."

After confirming that Funamoto Tatsuhito was basically the prisoner, Karasawa did not make any announcement, but chose to hide the information he got.

Of course, the reason was not what Karasawa said, but because he was afraid that after everyone learned about his information, they would go directly to Funamoto Tatsuhito and alert him.

After all, no evidence has been found yet. Tang Ze, who has always been a stable character, will naturally not be exposed in a panic after getting some useful information.

His habit is to use some unfounded information as a guide, and then find evidence that can finalize everything.

"Huh? Then what do you do with this pretense!"

Mouri Kogoro was naturally very unhappy when he heard Karasawa's words, but Karasawa just smiled and said nothing and did not answer the other party's words.

Mouri Kogoro snorted in displeasure upon seeing this, and immediately stepped into the room.

"The scene of the crime must be this balcony."

After squeezing away Karasawa who was standing on the balcony in front of the balcony door, Mouri Kogoro opened the balcony door: "Well... did the prisoner use this hook to sneak into the room on the second floor?"

"Ah, yes, the handrail on the balcony wall is a good place for the hook to draw strength."

Officer Megure nodded after hearing what Mouri Kogoro said, and immediately pointed to the bottom of the balcony glass door: "Look below, the prisoner probably broke the glass of the balcony door and opened the latch lock inside the house."

After hearing this, Tang Ze looked down and found glass fragments scattered on the ground.

The glass double door is a rectangle as a whole, and the white wooden frame divides it into square grids. The grid closest to the door, near the latch, has a big hole knocked out at this moment.

"In addition, because the balcony is facing the river embankment, there is no one nearby, so naturally there are no witnesses." Officer Megure walked to the balcony and looked at the empty river embankment and couldn't help but sigh.

"But this seems a little strange?"

Tang Ze raised his head and pointed at the latch above the door: "Look, the glass below near the latch lock is broken, but the lock above is intact.

If you just open the one below, it stands to reason that the door should still be unable to be opened, right? "

"This is something I've never thought of." Officer Memu had the same doubts in his voice when he heard this.

"About this... I think it may be because my wife has always liked watching stars. She comes to the balcony to watch the stars every night. Maybe she forgot to lock the door when she went back to the room."

After hearing what the two said, Shigeno Takami on the side gave a reasonably reasonable reason based on what she knew about Mrs. Kaneyo's habits.

"Well...Mrs. Funamoto was shot dead around nine to ten o'clock the night before yesterday.

That was shortly after returning from a friend's house party, right? "Moori Kogoro looked at Shigeno Takami and confirmed.

"Yes, Mrs. Funamoto said she wanted to rest as soon as she came back, so she went directly back to her room." Shigeno Takami nodded.

"Does that mean the prisoner had already invaded the room before Mrs. Funamoto came back..."

Mouri Kogoro touched his chin and muttered: "When Mrs. Funamoto returned to the room and went to the balcony to watch the stars according to her original habit, she shot the other party from the dead, and then took away the pearl necklace and bracelet... .

This prisoner looks like a habitual criminal..."

"But this prisoner is actually not very skilled."

Takagi on the side heard the words: "Although his plan seems to have been arranged, there is still a sense of panic in the overall action.

Not only was the hook with a rope not retracted, but his pistol with a silencer also fell to the grass below the balcony, and he escaped before he even had time to pick it up. "

"I think this is human nature."

Mouri Kogoro firmly believes that the recent judgment is correct: "After all, it is a murder. After killing someone, you must be very panicked and want to leave the scene of the crime."

"But if that's the case, then he is inevitably a little too scared."

Tangze clicked on the earrings placed in front of the dressing table with a lot of cosmetics next to it: "Look here, you can see that the precious pearl earrings are placed here and have not been taken away."

This earring is inlaid with pearls on both sides, and the middle is connected by a punch of diamonds. Above the main body are silver wings, and the feathers above are made of precious emeralds.

Just looking at the number of diamonds and emeralds, you can tell that these earrings are not much cheaper.

Moreover, the placement of this earring is also very obvious. You can basically see it at a glance. There is no reason for the prisoner to let this earring go.

"Hmph, didn't you notice that these earrings are made of pearls? In other words, these are the earrings Mrs. Funamoto wore that day."

Mouri Kogoro said with a more proud expression than Karasawa: "This means that Mrs. Funamoto took it off and put it on the dressing table after entering the room.

Therefore, the prisoner who invaded the room either did not notice it, or was startled by Mrs. Funamoto who suddenly entered the room. In order to ensure that he was not discovered, he attacked first and then ran away! "

"Mrs. Funomoto did wear these earrings the day she went to the party." Shigeno Takami agreed.

"But didn't you notice that there is only one earring?" Tangze nodded and said at the dressing table: "If you take off earrings, you usually take them off as a pair, right?"

"About this, we found another earring on Mrs. Funamoto's right ear." After hearing Karasawa's question, Officer Takagi immediately answered the information he had investigated.

"Before, we thought it was because Mrs. Funamoto was leaning against the wall of the balcony that the earrings were covered, so they were not taken away by the prisoners..."

Officer Mu Mu’s eyes were solemn: “Looking at it now, it seems that’s not the case.”

Two days ago, not long after the incident occurred, the body of band star Rock was found by the river, so the body was only initially brought back to the Metropolitan Police Department, and no on-site investigation was even conducted.

At first, he thought it was just an ordinary robber killing someone, but now, with Karasawa's reminder, Officer Megure discovered that there seemed to be something hidden in it.

"Judging from the situation at the scene, rather than saying it was a robber killing someone, it gave me the feeling that Mrs. Funamoto was originally taking off her earrings, but suddenly she was asked to go to the balcony."

Karasawa's words shocked everyone present. After realizing that this possibility was indeed greater, Mouri Kogoro turned to look at Shigeno Takami:

"Excuse me, where were you between nine and ten o'clock last night?"

"You, are you talking about me?"

Seeing Moori Kogoro's serious inquiry, Shigeno Takami was nervous for a moment, and then said: "I was discussing cooking magazines with my two friends in the living room downstairs."

"Did your two friends see Mrs. Funamoto?"

"I saw that after Mrs. Funamoto came back, she came to the living room to say hello before going up to rest." After hearing what Mouri Kogoro said, Shigeno Takami nodded and explained.

"Then what was Touji doing at that time?" Mouri Kogoro asked next.

"I remember that he must have fallen asleep in the room, because he has been running around and playing happily at home since the evening. After I tidied up all the places that the young master made a mess, I went to bed at about 12 o'clock. ." Shigeno Takamei said.

"Then what did Funamoto-san do between nine and ten o'clock?" Mouri Kogoro continued to ask.

"Sir, like the young master, they always go back to their rooms to rest after dinner before the wife comes back soon."

After hearing what Shigeno Takami said, Mouri Kogoro touched his chin and said in deep thought: "I remember you said that Mr. Funamoto's room is next to his wife's, right?"

"Well... That day, because the young master had been pestering him to play with him since the evening, he said he was a little tired..." Shigeno Takami said.

Mouri Kogoro on the side heard this and turned towards Officer Megure. He covered his mouth with his hand and whispered: "Megure Police Department, I think Funamoto Tatsuhito is probably the murderer of the deceased."

"That's impossible." After hearing what Mouri Kogoro said, Officer Megure shook his head and denied it: "Didn't I say it before?

The bullet penetrated Mrs. Kanese from the back of her head to her forehead. From this angle, the prisoner must be over 180 centimeters tall.

Mr. Funamoto's height is about 160 centimeters, and since the other party has a broken leg and is sitting in a wheelchair, his height is only about 120 centimeters at most.

How could such a person create such an injury trajectory? "

"Is it possible that Funamoto Tatsuhito's fracture had already healed, and then he stood in a wheelchair and shot the murderer." Mouri Kogoro speculated.

"I have thought about this too." Megure shook his head and said: "But Funamoto Tatsuhito went to the hospital for a re-examination and X-ray just the day before the incident happened.

The doctor determined that his bones were not connected yet, which meant that it was impossible for him to stand up alone, let alone stand on a wheelchair with an unstable pulley underneath. "

"Then there is another possibility."

Mouri Kogoro immediately proposed another method of committing the crime, "He could induce Mrs. Kansai to lie down on the ground to pick something up, and shoot her from top to bottom..."

"It's impossible about that, too."

Tangze walked over from the side: "I just looked at the balcony and didn't find any bullet marks. If it's what you said, Detective Mori, there should be bullet marks on the ground."

"That's right, not to mention the balcony, there's not even a trace of it in this room."

Officer Megure said solemnly: "Even though we have expanded the scope, we have not found any traces of bullet marks or bullets so far.

And the pearl bracelet and pearl necklace, we searched many places but couldn't find them.

If he were not a robber, it would be difficult for Tatsuhito Funamoto to combine these two things. After all, his legs and feet are very inconvenient. "

"Hmm..." Mouri Kogoro sighed depressingly when he heard that his speculation was denied by various clues, "This button is really confusing..."

Although Mouri Kogoro finally guessed the prisoner correctly once, he could not break through the trick set by the prisoner because he was guessing without any evidence.

Tang Ze expressed deep sympathy for this. So many cases were finally correct once, but were regarded as false.

Maybe the word "reasoning" between Mouri Kogoro and "reasoning" are not compatible. Either all the guesses are wrong or the correct answers are regarded as wrong answers...

"Do you think it was thrown away as garbage?" At this moment, Hondo Yingyu, who heard the discussion of several people, speculated.

"Are you saying that the other party disposed of the pearl jewelry as rubbish and used it to disguise himself as a robber and kill people?"

Officer Memu shook his head and said: "Unfortunately, that's not the case. We checked every bag of garbage and found nothing."

"That's right..." Mouri Kogoro nodded, looked at Shigeno Takami and said, "How much is that pearl necklace worth?"

"I heard that the two items add up to about one million." Shigeno Takami looked a little depressed: "That was a gift given to my wife by my husband on her birthday."

"If that's the case, then such jewelry should have a special mark, right?"

Tang Ze heard this and asked: "For example, Mrs. Kanesa's name is engraved somewhere. After all, it is precious jewelry, and it is also a birthday gift."

"Yes, Mrs. Kanase's name is engraved on the buckle." Shigeno Takami nodded.

"Hey! Hyomi, can you come over and help me raise the temperature of the air conditioner?"

Just after Shigeno Takami answered the question, Funamoto Tatsuhito’s shout suddenly came from downstairs.

"Okay!" Shigeno Takami heard the shouts from downstairs, walked quickly to the door and shouted: "Come over right away!"

"The air conditioner doesn't have a remote control?" Xiaolan asked a little strangely after hearing the conversation between the two.

"Sir, I'm not very good at mechanical things." Shigeno Takami explained after hearing this, and then apologized to everyone and hurried downstairs.

"Let's go down too. There are no more clues for the time being." Tang Ze suggested: "I want to check the situation on the first floor."

Of course, I said this mainly to find out the information about Funamoto Tatsuhito.

After all, he was now basically sure that the other party was the prisoner, and he also wanted to see if he could get any clues about the other party.

"Well, let's go down and take a look." Officer Memu nodded and took the lead to go out and walk downstairs.

Several people went downstairs one by one, and then returned to the living room on the first floor.

There, Shigeno Takami had just finished adjusting the temperature of the air conditioner, and Funamoto and his son were beside her, and the two were talking about something.