Stay away from Conan

Staying in the private room next to the private room of Ryuuen and others, Kudo Shinichi and others, although the sound insulation of each private room in the tea house is pretty good, they basically cannot eavesdrop on what is being discussed in the private room next door. They can only vaguely hear it. The people in the next room were still interacting with the geisha, and due to the sliding door of the private room, once someone opened the door to go out, the sound of the door opening would be very prominent.

Therefore, during the period when Sakura Shozo rested until nine o'clock, Kudo Shinichi and others mainly relied on the sound of the private room door opening to observe who had gone out on the way, and then waited until after nine o'clock to see what Sakura Shozo would do. action--

After all, as far as the sound of the door opening is concerned, the sound of the door opening at the entrance of this tea house is also very prominent. Whenever someone comes in from the outside or goes out from the inside, they cannot escape the attention of Kudo Shinichi and the others.

Therefore, as long as Sakura Shozo does not leave the tea house during this period, Kudo Shinichi and others will not take any unnecessary actions and continue to wait.

In this way, they waited until nine o'clock in the evening. As the female shopkeeper of the tea house went out and went to the room where Sakura Masazo rested downstairs to wake Sakura Masazo who was sleeping, Kudo Shinichi and others waited for a while and wanted to take a look. After Sakura Shozo came up, the female shopkeeper screamed. Kudo Shinto immediately realized that something was wrong. He rushed out of the private room and headed downstairs, only to see Sakura who was supposed to be there. The door of the room where Masazo was resting was open, and there was no one inside. The voice of the female shopkeeper came from the room one floor below, which was considered the basement.

From this, Kudo Shinichi hurried down and came to the basement floor, where he saw the female shopkeeper collapsed outside a room, and Sakura Masazo lying in a pool of blood in the room——

I saw Sakura Masazo lying in the room, lying on his back on the floor, with an expression of disbelief on his face, with blood flowing out from his throat.

In addition, Sakura Masazo's wallet was opened and thrown on his body.

Such a scene, even if he didn't check it closely, Kudo Shinichi felt that the other party was no longer alive.

From this, as Ryuuen, Saijo Taiga and others gradually rushed over after hearing the screams, they were all frightened by the scene of Sakura Masazo being killed when they saw the scene here.

Immediately, in the identity of Hattori Heiji, Kudo Shinichi turned his back to everyone in Kansai accent and shouted "No one comes in", and then asked Xiaolan to call the police on duty outside.

Just like that, almost in a moment, Inukai Genichi soon led the police to the teahouse, took over the scene, and asked Ryuuen, Saijo Taiga and the teahouse staff to go to the private room upstairs to wait for questioning. Kudo Shinichi and the others are left here to conduct basic investigation of the scene——

"The scene is the warehouse of this tea house. Judging from how messy it is, it seems that Mr. Sakura Shozo is rummaging for something here..."

Regarding the situation at the scene, Inu Kaiyuanyi basically made this judgment.

"The buttons of the suit jacket were torn off. It should be because the murderer was wearing gloves and could not unbutton them one by one, so he chose such a rough method. The purpose was probably to take out Mr. Sakura Shozo's wallet... But the wallet full of cash does not seem to be missing, and it seems that the murderer did not come here to steal money..."

Kudo Shinichi also roughly looked at the details of Sakura Masazo's body, analyzed it like this, then stood up and thought for a while, and then asked the police officer to check Mr. Sakura Masazo's right shoulder to see if he could find bruises caused by the heavy blow. Scars like blue.

As expected, the situation Kudo Shinichi mentioned was found on Sakura Masazo's right shoulder. From this, regarding the current situation, Kudo Shinichi could not help but analyze:

"It seems that this incident is still closely related to the previous murder of a member of 'Genji Hotaru'..."

Speaking of this, Kudo Shinichi asked the police to search Mr. Sakura Shozo's antique shop as soon as possible. If expected, they would probably find evidence that Sakura Shozo is a member of "Genji Hotaru" in Mr. Sakura Shozo's antique shop. .

"As for the murderer..."

Kudo Shinichi thought back to the people he observed in the private room next door tonight who had gone out in Ryuen's private room before nine o'clock. It seemed that everyone had gone out alone for reasons such as going to the toilet, so——

"Among those people, I'm afraid there are also members of the 'Genji Hotaru'..."

In this way, with Kudo Shinichi's advice, the police quickly launched a comprehensive search and confirmed that Sakura Shozo was indeed "Ise Saburo", one of the three remaining members of "Genji Hotaru", and also In the "Yisukeki" successfully recovered from Sakura Masazo's antique shop, the police found a copy of a strange picture, and this picture was the so-called coded picture that Sannoji received to find the lost Buddha statue.

In this regard, there is such clear evidence that there is a direct relationship between the theft of the Buddhist statues at Sannoji Temple and "Genji Hotaru", which can be said to completely unite the two things -

"Due to the theft of the Buddhist statue, I lost the white hair, and in order to retrieve the white hair, Sakura Shozo cooperated with the murderer to kidnap Kazuha, but now the identity of Sakura Shozo was exposed and he was killed by the murderer..."

Based on the current situation, Kudo Shinichi is absolutely sure that among the people present, there must be another member of "Hotaru Genji". As long as he finds evidence of the other party's murder, it is very logical to find him out.

But unfortunately, the subsequent investigation found nothing. The police searched everyone's bodies and conducted an all-round search of the tea house and its surroundings, but no murder weapon was found.

Thus, the investigation was at an impasse.

In addition, the kidnapped Kazuha and Ai must still be in the hands of the murderer. Kudo Shinichi was afraid that if the police forcefully detained the people at the scene and trapped the murderer here, the murderer's accomplices who were guarding the hostages might take action. So after several considerations, Kudo Shinichi asked the police to release them temporarily to prevent the murderer from using the hostages as bargaining chips and causing the hostages on the other side to encounter unexpected situations.

Therefore, for the current situation, Kudo Shinichi can only hope that the white hair in Hattori Heiji's hand is still in his and the police's control, which will serve as the most critical breakthrough to solve this matter--

After all, the other party kidnapped for this thing, so he will never stop his actions. As long as he has not revealed that he already knows the murderer's target, after all, through Xiaolan, he has already told the murderer that "Hatori Heiji will suspect that he is related to 'Genji Hotaru' because of Ryuen's commissioned investigation", then the murderer will definitely think that Hattori Heiji does not know the real truth and take action.