Ke Xue: Shinichi and I are childhood friends

Yuya was immersed in his fantasy, and the sudden scream frightened him and made him shiver violently.

What made Yuya more concerned was that this scream seemed to be a little different from usual. It sounded like... very suppressed, as if someone covered his mouth and muffled it.

Oh no, could something have happened to that rich businessman?

There was no time to think about it. Yuya jumped onto the shore and rushed out, not even caring about the bath towel falling off.

"Ah!" Miyano Shiho looked over subconsciously, and her face flushed immediately-she saw something dirty!

However... Miyano Shiho's eyes were a little erratic, and she followed Yuya's back uncontrollably.

That... was it what she usually touched in the quilt at night?

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Yuya grabbed a bathrobe and put it on, and quickly returned to the villa.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw other people running up the stairs to the second floor, and hurriedly followed them.

Following the crowd to a door, Yuya squinted his eyes. That was Kentaro Nishikawa's room!

Amuro Toru was standing at the front of the crowd, and next to him stood the panicked Misa Nishikawa, the wife of his eldest son.

Yuya glanced at Misa Nishikawa and walked forward: "Mr. Amuro, what happened? I seemed to hear a scream?"

Amuro Toru's face was solemn: "I was just discussing tomorrow's affairs with the housekeeper, and suddenly heard a scream from upstairs. When I rushed over, I saw..."

Turning his head to look at the panicked Misa Nishikawa, he continued: "I saw her standing at the door holding the door handle."

Yuya squinted his eyes: "What's going on inside?"

Amuro Toru shook his head: "The door is locked, and there is no response when I knocked on the door."

Yuya sighed in his heart. He had solved so many cases that he didn't need to see this situation to know that Kentaro Nishikawa inside was probably dead.

"Knock the door open." Yuya said.

Just as the butler was about to say something, Yuya and Amuro Toru quickly broke the door open.

The two rushed in and saw Nishikawa Kentaro lying motionless on the ground in the middle of the room, with a large patch of blood spreading around his head.

Yuya stepped forward to check and said in a deep voice: "He's dead, call the police."

The body was not stiff and still warm, and the time of death was no more than 10 minutes. He should have been killed when the screams started.

The butler hurriedly said: "I'll call the police!" and ran out.

Yuya took a deep breath, stood up and observed the room.

"Dad!" Nishikawa Taro and Jiro cried loudly and rushed up to pounce on their father.

Toru Amuro hurriedly stopped them: "Don't go over there!"

The two glared at Toru Amuro: "What do you mean, that's our father!"

Before Toru Amuro could answer, Yuya said coldly: "You will only destroy the scene if you come here, all of you leave!"

Everyone wanted to refute something, but seeing Yuya's serious look, plus his identity as a famous detective, they had to shut up, leave the room obediently and stand at the door to look around.

Just looking at their appearance, they didn't look anxious and sad at all.

Yuya took out gloves and shoe covers and put them on, and handed another set to Toru Amuro.

Toru Amuro was stunned. Carrying gloves and shoe covers with him? Yuya is worthy of being a famous detective, ready to deal with cases at any time!

But... where did he get it from? Toru Amuro was confused for a moment.

Of course, Yuya didn't know what Toru Amuro was thinking. If he knew, he didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

Because they had to protect the scene before the police came, the two just checked it briefly and didn't touch anything casually.

While the two were checking the room, Miyano Shiho also came over dressed. She looked at the scene in the room without saying anything, but just stood at the door and watched Youya walking around quietly.

After a while, Youya and Amuro Toru stood at the door and exchanged their findings.

"The person was killed by slashing his throat." Amuro Toru said first.

Youya nodded and added: "The door was locked, no other exits were found, and the only window that could be opened was very small and could not accommodate people passing through."

Youya spread out his palm, which contained an old copper key: "I found the key, it was next to the deceased, and from the distance, there was no way to throw it in through the window or door."

Amuro Toru's face changed slightly. The door was locked, and the key was in the room?

"Murder in a closed room?"

Youya nodded slightly. From the preliminary investigation, it was indeed a murder in a closed room.

Amuro Toru frowned, looked at the messy room, and said, "The room is so messy, it looks like there has been a very fierce fight."

"I don't think so." Yuya shook his head to express denial, and Amuro Toru looked at Yuya in confusion..

Yuya pointed at the body on the ground and said, "Have you forgotten that Mr. Nishikawa's health is very poor. He even has difficulty standing up. Killing him doesn't take much effort. I'm afraid women and children can do it. How could there be such a fierce fight?"

Amuro Toru thought about it and understood: "You mean, the murderer deliberately made the scene like this? Is he trying to cover up something?"

"Maybe." Yuya didn't comment. In addition to covering up something, it is also possible that the room was made like this for the purpose of setting up a mechanism.

Since it is a secret room, there must be a mechanism to lock the door and send the key, or a mechanism to kill people at a fixed time - he is more inclined to the former. After all, the mechanism to send the key into the door is easier to set up than the mechanism to kill people, and it is less likely to leave traces.

"Hey, you said so much, is it not possible that it was suicide?" The second son, Jiro Nishikawa, suddenly asked.

Yuya and Amuro Toru looked at him at the same time: "Why do you think so?"

Alexander was stared at by the two men, and Nishikawa Jiro swallowed his saliva and said: "Didn't you say that the door was locked, the key was in the room, and there was no other exit, which means that no one could get out from inside? Isn't this suicide?"

Yuya shook his head, holding the copper key and looking at the housekeeper who came back after calling the police: "Mr. Housekeeper, this should be the key to open this door, right?"

The housekeeper walked up and carefully identified it, nodded and said: "Yes, it is indeed the key to open this door, and there are only two such keys, one in the master and one in me."

He took out another key from his pocket, which was exactly the same as the one in Yuya's hand.

"Is the housekeeper the murderer?" Nishikawa Taro immediately suspected.

Amuro Toru explained: "The housekeeper was with me when the crime happened, and he didn't have time to commit the crime."

"Tsk." Nishikawa Taro sighed, turned his face away and stopped talking.

Yuya said, "There are new scratches on the key. I suspect that the murderer used some mechanism to send the key into the room."

Yuya squinted his eyes and scanned the reactions of the crowd. Nishikawa Kentaro's two sons and daughter-in-law did not look sad at all. Only granddaughter Nishikawa Mari had tears in her eyes.

Given the performance of this family, Yuya was a little doubtful whether she was really sad about the death of her grandfather.

They seemed to be completely unconcerned about the murder of Nishikawa Kentaro.