Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

In the social hall of the hotel, Yasuda and his party did not go to the Japanese-style living room to wait, but still sat around on the sofa in the lobby, the atmosphere was silent.

When Uncle Mao Li came over, his face was a little tired, and he looked at Gao Cheng who had checked the ancestral hall again and said, "I've already checked, and there are no suspicious marks on the cliff. If someone bypasses the leisure hall to go to the open-air hot spring, it should be obvious. It's right to see...

"In addition, the proprietress also confirmed just now that the murderous knife found in the bathhouse is the divine knife that was originally enshrined in the ancestral hall..."

The uncle said in a deep voice: "In addition to that Miss Ema's bloody scarf in the pool, if it is used to cover the murderous knife, the order of the murder should be Miss Ema first and Miss Asuka."

"But how did the murderer do it?" Harumi Fukatsu grabbed her fingers tightly, "Maybe it's the curse of the kimono sleeve god, only the kimono sleeve god can do this kind of thing..."

"That," Xiaolan hesitated, "During the day, we did see two new dolls used to enshrine kimono sleeve gods in the ancestral hall of the shrine in the village..."

Gao Cheng glanced at Xiaolan.

He has also seen the ancestral hall of the shrine. He said that if he wears a long-sleeved kimono to worship in the middle of the night, he will not be able to avenge himself, and the kimono sleeve god will help avenge him.

Sure enough, it was pretending to be a ghost. The murderer spent so much time and effort just to make people think about the curse of the kimono sleeve god?

In the early morning of the next day, as soon as Tiantian came to the Yamagata County Police, an elderly police officer led a team, and the forensic personnel quickly collected evidence on the spot.

"In other words, Shibasaki Asuka entered the open-air bath at around 10 pm, and Anzai Ema entered the shrine in the courtyard at around 10:30..."

The 59-year-old Zhenxian of the police department supplemented the map of the hotel and concluded: "Both of them died with the same magic knife. Later, this murderous knife was found in an open-air bath, right?"

"Also," Uncle Mori added, "On the outside of the ancestral hall, there are only Miss Ema's shoe prints, and on the other side, you have to go through the leisure hall to get to the open-air bath, but there were always people in the leisure hall at that time..."

"It's terrible," Zhenxian said with a headache from the police department, "Are both cases murders in secret rooms?"

"Officer Zhenxian!" A policeman suddenly ran over from the ancestral hall outside, whispered to Zhenxian for a while, and handed several ID bags to Zhenxian.

Gao Cheng followed suit with a look,

What appears to be a note and an earring pendant.

Without waiting for Gao Cheng to be confused for too long, Zhen first showed the earring pendant to everyone: "This is one earring found on Anzai Ema's body, but the other one is not at the scene..."

"Ah," editor Baotian said in surprise, "these are brand-name earrings! One piece costs at least 200,000 yuan. Speaking of which, Chunmei seems to have this type of necklace pendant..."

Fukatsu Harumi hurriedly explained: "That's right, but because Ema is not happy every time I see it, I put it away..."

"Is that right?"

Really first, the police officer did not continue to ask questions, but talked with his men about the situation at the scene.

"The long-sleeved kimono and obi at the scene were originally stored in the hotel's storage room, but that storage room is usually not locked..."

"Everyone," after talking for a few words, Zhen first calmed down and turned to the crowd, "Now we need to confirm the whereabouts of everyone last night, first of all, Ms. Akechi Eri, let's start with you, you seem to have entered around 9:30 Bathhouse, and then leave around 10 o'clock, Shibasaki Asuka is the bathhouse that entered after you..."

"Yes," Eri Akechi, who was sitting on the sofa, nodded lightly, "After that, I went back to my room, and met Mori-san and the others on the way..."

"Yes, that's true," Uncle Mao Li said in a daze, "We met at around 10 o'clock, and we happened to be going to take a bath..."

"Well, next is Ms. Yasuda Raiko." Police officer Shinaki turned to Editor Yasuda next to Eri Akechi, "You stayed here until 9:30 to organize the interview, right?"

"Yes, I saw Eri at the time, and about 5 minutes later, Ema walked to the back door by herself."

"It was around 10 and a half... Did you see anyone else going through the back door?"

"No, just Ema."

Gao Cheng quietly looked at Editor Yasuda and the others.

The sign for the private room is from 10:00 to 11:00, and the door was locked from the inside at that time, so Xiaolan and Fukatsu Harumi went to the leisure hall to play table tennis. It was also at that time that Conan heard the sound of "cracking" when he was taking a bath next door. There was a crackling sound, the time was probably around 10:50.

"Have Miss Xiaolan and Miss Chunmei stayed in the leisure center all the time?" Officer Zhenxian continued to ask.

"No," Harumi Fukatsu shook her head, "Because I forgot to change out my contact lenses, I went back to the room once and stayed there for about 10 minutes..."

"Then Mr. Mori left the bathroom at 11 o'clock." The police officer stroked his chin and pondered. "At this time, Ms. Laiko and Ms. Eri are having a meeting here. Where is Mr. Bando?"

Hantoichi explained: "I came here to discuss things around 11:15, and then Mr. Mori came here to explain that Hika was killed in the bathhouse..."

"In this way, the time will be connected," Zhenxian nodded slightly, "Miss Xiaolan, you didn't see that kimono-sleeved Hannya doll at first, but you only found out when you went to the bathhouse for the second time?"

"Yeah!" Xiaolan affirmed, "At that time, the kimono sleeve Hannya doll was still cold, as if it had just been taken out of the snow!"

"But having said that," Gao Cheng asked, "Why did Miss Ema go to a place like the ancestral hall alone?"

Zhen smiled first, and took out the ID bag: "We found this in Miss Ema's pocket, 'Miss Ema, I have a little secret to tell you, at 10:30 tonight, I was in the ancestral hall in the yard. Waiting for you, Bando on'..."

"Nonsense!" Han Tokyo's face changed drastically, "How could I write such a letter?!"

"But the actual situation is that you don't seem to have an alibi before 11:15..."

"This... I have no motive to kill Asuka and Ema-san at all!"

"That's right," Zhen nodded first and turned to Fukatsu Harumi, "If you think about motives, the only one who has a motive to kill is Miss Harumi, because you have always hated them and thought they killed your senior sister, plus There was no alibi for the 10 minutes you returned to your room..."

"W-how could it be?" Harumi Fukatsu reacted fiercely, "I'm not the murderer! I didn't kill them two!"

After the cross-examination, editors Bao Tian went back to his room one after another, and Gao Cheng also planned to investigate the scene again.

"Miss Harumi," Gao Cheng looked at Fukatsu Harumi who looked worried and absent-minded, "You seem to care about that Suzuka-senpai."

"Well," Harumi Fukatsu came back to her senses, "Both my parents died when I was a child, and my uncle and aunt raised me. Yingzi's parents also died in an accident when she was a child, so they always took special care of me..."

"So that's how it is."

Gao Cheng and Fukatsu Harumi separated and went to the ancestral hall to investigate again.

To be honest, he doesn't like women like Fukatsu Harumi very much. She looks weak and wants others to help, which is just another form of self-centeredness.

Girls like Xiaolan, Yuanzi, and Heye are much better.

but……

In this case, he almost already had some speculations in his mind, including the murderer who killed Asuka and Ema.

Using the unique hotel environment to design two seemingly perfect secret room murders, a lot of information was exposed.

Using the legend of the kimono sleeve god, using the hotel environment...all fully illustrate one point, if you don't stay in the hotel for a long time, if you don't know enough about the place, you can't design such a sophisticated crime.

The storage room for long-sleeved kimonos is not locked, but not everyone knows what is in it.

And the seemingly unsolvable killing sequence.

Due to environmental reasons, it is impossible to judge the death sequence of Asuka and Ema, and all the clues indicate that Ema was killed first...

Sherlock Holmes said that when all impossibilities are eliminated, whatever is left, no matter how incredible, is the truth, but what if this remaining incredible truth is also one of the excluded impossibilities?

The method of elimination cannot solve all the problems, but the possibility of the mystery can still be found through deduction of clues.

Starting from the purpose of the criminal's method and thinking in reverse, he has seen this investigation method in many mystery novels and world-famous reasoning cases, and he has solved many cases in the past with this method.

Back to the origin.

There are two problems now. The first is the footprints in the courtyard, and the second is that no one has been to the women's pool in the open-air bathhouse after 10:30, which is the presumed time of the crime. The murderer could not have appeared at the murder scene under normal circumstances.

In addition, the key to the problem is the order in which Asuka and Ema were killed. Logically, Asuka in the bathhouse should have been killed before 10:30, that is, before Anzai Ema, but the murder weapon that killed Anzai Ema was also Anzai. Ema's headscarf appeared in the bathhouse.

Solve the problem of footprints first.

Gao Cheng followed Anxi Ema's footprints in the yard back to the back door of the hall, and turned his gaze to both sides.