Ke Xue: Shinichi and I are childhood friends

Under a maple tree, they found an old man lying on the ground with a dagger stuck in the middle of his chest, leaning against the trunk.

Yuya looked around and found no one else. After telling Miyano Shiho to call the police, he and Conan went forward to check.

Conan touched the old man's neck and whispered, "He's dead, but the body is still warm, which means that the time of death is no more than 30 minutes."

Yuya nodded, "The blood on the book has not dried yet, and the time of death can be shortened to less than 10 minutes."

Conan glanced and found that there was dirt in the gaps between the old man's fingernails. He put on gloves and held the old man's hand to observe it. Under Yuya's influence, Conan also learned to carry gloves and transparent plastic bags with him.

"There is dirt in the gaps between the fingernails, blood on the fingers, and traces of friction." Conan said.

Yuya suddenly tilted his head and narrowed his eyes.

At the same time, Conan also noticed something. He looked around calmly and whispered, "There are other people here."

Yuya lowered his head and continued to observe the body, and said in a very low voice, "Yes, and there is more than one."

Conan has 100% confidence in Yuya's ability. When he heard him say this, his expression suddenly became solemn.

After a while, the police arrived, and the leader was also an acquaintance, the confused policeman Yamamura Cao.

"Let me see, the person who found the body..." Yamamura Cao identified a few people, and suddenly looked at Yuya with shining eyes, "You, aren't you Kamiya-kun?!"

"Huh?" Yuya, who was thinking (recalling) the case, heard someone calling him, looked up, and said with a smile, "Ah, it's Officer Yamamura, long time no see."

Yuya had also come into contact with this policeman when he followed Conan's ass to solve the case before.

As for Yamamura Cao, although his observation and reasoning abilities are poor, he is not very courageous, and his reaction is a bit slow. It can be said that he is not suitable to be a policeman, but he is kind-hearted and easy to communicate with. Yuya's impression of him is not very good but not bad.

After a few visits, the two of them are quite familiar with each other.

"So, you are the ones who found the body?" Yamamura Cao also saw several people clearly at this time, and they were all old acquaintances.

"That's right." Yuya nodded, "The deceased was stabbed in the abdomen, and then in the chest. The fatal wound should be the one in the chest."

Hearing Yuya's words, Yamamura Cao subconsciously looked at the forensic officer who was examining the body. The forensic officer nodded: "Yes, the situation is just as the boy said."

"But the items on the deceased have been taken away, and the identity cannot be confirmed for the time being."

"I roughly know the identity," Yuya said, "This person is the AD of the "Winter Red Leaves" crew, his name is Katakana HOZUMI, and his identity can be confirmed with the production company."

As he said that, Yuya handed over the plastic bag containing the notebook.

"'Red Leaves in Winter', I know that drama." Yamamura So took the book and said excitedly, "To be honest, I also like to watch this drama. It is being replayed on the local TV station in Gunma Prefecture." He took out a small mobile TV and said, "I also brought the mobile TV with me, ready to watch it secretly when I have time..."

"Sorry, Officer Yamamura," Youya coughed lightly, "Should we confirm the identity of the deceased first?"

"I see, you are worthy of being Kamiya-kun!" Yamamura So didn't care about being interrupted, laughed, and then told the police officer on the side to confirm.

Youya covered his forehead. Although Yamamura So was easy to talk to, he would sometimes suddenly lose his mind. It was quite a test of patience to cooperate with him to solve the case.

Seeing Yuya's expression, Yamamura Cao knew he had gone off topic, so he asked, "Do you know the deceased?"

Yuya denied, "Not really, we just happened to meet him when we came here to enjoy the maple leaves today. He asked us to go to the Red Tree Hotel to leave a message for a fan, and when we came back here, we found his body."

"Did you see that fan?" Yamamura Cao asked hurriedly.

Yuya shook his head, "No, we just left a message in the hotel's guestbook, and the message was written by Sonoko, and then we left."

"Yes, yes," Suzuki Sonoko agreed, "The content of the message is 'I have found the tree you are looking for, please come to the rock that appears in the last scene of the play', and he specifically asked that the signature of the message be written in Katakana HOZUMI."

"Katakana?" Yamamura Cao asked puzzledly, "Why use Katakana?"

Suzuki Sonoko said she didn't know, she just did it according to the request of the deceased.

KeNan suddenly said, "Maybe that person is used to writing in katakana, the name on his notebook is also written in katakana." He pointed to the notebook in Yamamura Cao's hand.

Yamamura Cao took a look and it was indeed as Conan said, then took out the notebook and flipped through it.

"It seems that there is nothing special recorded in it... Hmm? There is blood on April 1st?"

Yuya said, "Yes, and judging from the traces of blood, it should be left by the deceased before his death. It may be a death message."

"Death message?!" Yamamura Cao became excited, "Did Kamiya see anything?"

Before Yuya spoke, he analyzed it by himself: "Speaking of April 1st, the first thing that comes to mind is April Fool's Day... Hmm..."

Yamamura Cao frowned, but still couldn't analyze anything.

"Mr. Yamamura," a police officer ran over at this time, "We found an empty tent nearby."

Yamamura pinched his chin and said seriously: "An empty tent? It's very suspicious, keep searching!"

"Yes!"

Yuya's expression moved. If he guessed correctly, that tent should be where Kyogoku Makoto slept, right?

He observed the surroundings calmly, and indeed noticed that someone seemed to be observing this side in the shadows in the distance, but he was not sure whether it was Kyogoku Makoto or someone else.

There were no extra clues at the scene, and everyone took a police car to the Akagi Hotel, intending to look for the fan to see if there were any new clues.

But according to the hotel owner, there were more than 50 people staying here today.

At Yuya's reminder, the uncle said that the fan would check into the hotel in the morning, so it was only necessary to investigate the guests who registered in the morning.

According to the registration records, there were three guests who checked in in the morning.

They were a young man with a fierce face and a very impatient attitude, with a nose ring on his nose, named Okuma Isamu;

An old man with glasses, white hair, and squinting eyes when talking, as if his eyes were closed, named Kazuo Kazuo;

The remaining one was a foreign traveler.

You also raised his eyebrows, and it was the classic three-choice session again.

But he had skipped this process and locked his eyes on one of them.

He had already remembered who the murderer of this case was.