Conan's First Love is a Profiler

Chapter 129 What the Immortal Fox Master Did

"Forget it, what are you talking about?"

Sakuma Satoshi stood up.

"Be careful what you say!"

Hayao Kin'o stood up with a roar: "Otherwise you will also suffer retribution!"

"Calm down, the police will be here soon."

Mai Kirishima quickly stepped forward to mediate to prevent the conflict from escalating further.

"The police can't get there for now. The rope of the suspension bridge is broken, and people on the other side can't get over."

After returning, Qinghai Chuantang informed everyone of the result.

Because the break was on the hot springs side, the suspension bridge fell to the other side and had to be pulled up before it could be repaired.

But when you think about such a long span, unless you have the ability to fly up to the sky and stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun, it would be as difficult as climbing to the sky.

"Is there no other way?"

Sera Masumi looked at Edo Natsuki.

“You can only take the northern route to Mount Lux, which will take a whole day.”

"Does that mean we are trapped here?"

Heishi Jiaju looked worried.

Qinghai Chuantang glanced at them and walked to the landline. When he was about to pick up the phone to make a call, he found a white notepad next to him and suddenly thought of something.

I reached out and touched the paper, and indeed there were traces of writing on it.

He took out a pencil from the pen holder and scribbled on it, and soon the previous content appeared.

"Haneda Airport, 14:30."

Masumi Sera looked at the handwriting and was surprised: "Isn't this Mr. Kuriyama's?"

In contrast, it is indeed so.

When Qinghai Chuantang thought about who was the police officer in charge here, he was silent for a moment, and finally asked his friends in the underworld to check the call records.

Masumi Sera was standing aside, organizing the known clues, just like a good child who was completing the homework assigned by his teacher seriously.

"The only exit of the inner room of the Rushi Hotel was locked by the proprietress and could only be opened from the inside. In other words, the inner room was in a closed state at that time."

Therefore, the suspects were locked on the proprietress who held the key, and Kuroishi Kagiku, Hayao Motoo, Sakuma Satoshi, and Kirishima Mai who stayed in the inner room.

Each participant entered the hot spring of Master Fox Fairy one by one in order.

The person who was killed, Hisaie Kuriyama, was the last one to enter at midnight.

According to Masumi Sera's judgment, the time of death should be between midnight and two o'clock.

Finally, there is the alibi.

Between midnight and 2 a.m., the time of the incident, all the participants gathered together, with Mai Kirishima at the center, and had a great conversation.

In other words, each party can prove the other's alibi.

Between midnight and half past midnight, Satoshi Sakuma and Kagiku Kuroishi left their seats and went to the bathroom.

"That is to say, at this stage, these two people are the most suspicious."

"It's bad! Something bad is going to happen!"

Mai Kirishima ran to the courtyard where the two were in a panic.

"what happened?"

“Everyone’s wallets have been stolen!”

"Eh?"

Without exception, everyone's wallet disappeared.

After searching in vain, Qinghai Chuantang finally accepted this fact.

She had a ferocious expression on her face, as if she wanted to cook the thief into a clay pot rice.

"The police just called. It seems to have been between 0:13 and 30 yesterday, according to the call."

Edo Natsuki found them and told them the news.

"That is to say, he was still alive before 0:30, which can narrow down the time range of the crime."

But if 0:0 to 30: is not within the time range of the crime, the alibis of Satoshi Sakuma and Kagiku Kuroishi can be established.

"Oh, that notebook!"

Masumi Sera suddenly remembered something and hurried towards Hisaie Kuriyama's room.

Looking at the other party's actions, Qinghai Chuantang immediately understood who Sera Masumi now thought the murderer was.

Everyone was gathered in the inner room, waiting for Masumi Sera to reveal the truth.

"First, Mr. Kuriyama was beaten but did not resist. It can be seen that Mr. Kuriyama did not find it strange that the murderer appeared in the bathhouse."

The murderer said that he had left something behind and then went into the bathhouse.

Kuriyama Hisaie was suddenly attacked and killed.

"So the murderer must be of the same sex."

If a woman you just met enters a bathhouse, it will definitely feel strange.

"So, the murderer is a man?"

Kuroishi Kagiku looked at the men present, and there were only Hayao Motoo and Sakuma Satoshi.

"Mr. Hayao has an alibi from midnight to two o'clock when the crime occurred."

"So."

Kirishima Mai looked at Sakuma Satoshi, and everyone looked at him.

"It is true that Mr. Saku has no alibi between 0:0 and 30:. But we already know that Mr. Kuriyama was on the phone during that time."

Therefore, the time when Kuriyama Hisaie was killed was after 0:30.

Sakuma Satoshi's alibi is also valid.

"In that case, there is no suspect, right?"

"What I just said were only the people in the inner room. Those outside have no alibis. And inside is a sealed secret room."

Having said that, Sera Masumi turned around and looked at Edo Natsuki.

"But as the owner of the hot spring, I have the key, so I got in easily."

"Right, Madam Boss?"

Edo Natsuki sneered: "Why would I do this?"

"For Master Xianhu."

Hisaie Kuriyama is an avid hot spring lover.

A detailed investigation was conducted on the hot spring of the Fox-sama in terms of spring quality, pH value, smell and even taste.

"So when the ceremony was held, Mr. Kuriyama drank the spring water from the Fox-sama, he should have realized that it was actually fake, right?"

What Masumi Sera saw was what Kuriyama Hisae was doing at the time, preparing to blackmail the proprietress.

Hisaie Kuriyama's life was threatened.

In order to escape, he needed some savings. Perhaps he thought that taking a little from the boss lady would be a good idea.

After hearing this, Edo Natsuki shook her head.

"Master Xianhu's hot spring has not dried up."

"This should be intolerable for you, right?"

Sera Masumi looked at her and said, "As the guardian of the Fox-sama for eight consecutive generations, I must not let the world know that the hot spring has dried up."

Therefore, the suspension bridge was immediately blocked to prevent the news from leaking out.

Then put Kuriyama Jue.
"There is no way I would do something like that in a sacred bath."

"Indeed. It is impossible for a woman to enter a bathroom without arousing suspicion."

Qinghai Chuantang suddenly spoke up for the proprietress.

In fact, it is perfectly fine for women to enter the men's bathroom without raising suspicion.

Just ask Conan for advice on his invisibility technique.

"Yes."

Sera Masumi smiled and said, "So that's the only way to think about it. The crime scene was not in the bathroom."

She made a bold guess.

After 0:30 last night, after finishing her phone call, Kuriyama Tosae walked outside and called out the proprietress with the intention of blackmailing her.

But the proprietress was determined to kill him cruelly.

After everyone fell asleep, the landlady moved Kuriyama Hisaie back to the inner room and disguised it as if he was murdered in the bathhouse.

"But then, something unexpected happened."

The body is upright due to rigor mortis.

The unnatural posture made it easy to tell that it was not a bath.

So there was no choice but to pull the body out of the bath and drag it to the locker room.

"In this way, we can say that it was the curse of the Immortal Fox that dragged the body out of the sacred place."

So, that's the answer to the mystery of the body being dragged out of the bathroom.

"To some extent, this may really be the curse of the Immortal Fox. You have been bound by the Immortal Fox for your entire life, which is why you did such a thing."

After hearing this, Edo Natsuki let out a strange laugh.

"What else do you want to say?"

She stopped laughing, "Master Fairy Fox really exists and is protecting us in this room."

Edo Natsuki seemed to be crazy and bowed to the statue of the fox fairy.

He kept muttering "Lord Fairy Fox" in his mouth.

"Boss lady. Now, are you going to confess everything?" Masumi Sera walked to her side.

Edo Natsuki turned her head to look at her and said expressionlessly: "It wasn't me."

After she finished speaking, she turned and looked at Qinghai Chuantang.

Smiling, he said, "Right, Miss Tang?"

Seeing this, Mai Kirishima couldn't help but hold her forehead and whispered, "It's over, the old problem has come back again."

Everyone's eyes were focused on Qinghai Chuantang, waiting for her answer.

"Yes. The landlady and I drank in the front room between midnight and two last night."

"what?"

Sera Masumi looked incredulous.

So is this the reason why you refused to share a room with someone else and insisted on a single room?

Qinghai Chuantang smiled and said, "She has a perfect alibi."

"Mr. Kuriyama asked me about the ingredients of the hot spring."

Therefore, there was no extortion as Masumi Sera had imagined.

"In that case, there is no suspect at all, right?"

"Yes, I have."

Qing Hai Chuan Tang smiled and said, "In fact, to put it simply, it was a fan of Shinkawa Tadako who targeted Kuriyama Shoujiang for revenge."

Sera Masumi blinked and was stunned for a moment.

"So, I'm overthinking it? But why drag the body to the locker room?"

"Indeed, this is the biggest mystery of this case. But if we imagine that this was a man obsessed with love who committed the crime, it is not difficult to understand."

The murderer's crime plan was probably not very detailed, so he did not use any disguise and had only one purpose, which was to kill his old enemy, Hisaie Kuriyama.

After the murder, the murderer found his rival's cell phone in the locker room.

Maybe there are private photos of the goddess stored in the phone that have not been posted online.

The murderer, a crazy fan of Shinkawa Tadako, couldn't suppress his anxiety and turned on his mobile phone.

However, the phone was locked.

"So, the murderer quickly returned to the bath where the body was and tried to unlock it through fingerprint authentication, but something went wrong."

"why?"

Kirishima Mai raised her hand and asked a question.

"Because my fingers are swollen."

The murderer wanted to see the goddess' private photos no matter what, so he dragged the body to the dressing room.

Then, use a hair dryer to dry your swollen fingers.

In this way, the murderer finally succeeded in unlocking it.

Behind every stupid murder, there is always a stupid truth.

"Wait! If the murderer was a fan of Shinkawa Tadako, why didn't he just take the phone away?"

Masumi Sera raised his own questions.

"indeed."

Qinghai Chuantang nodded with great satisfaction and said, "So there is not a single photo of Miss Xinchuan in that phone."

However, Mai Kirishima just said "eh".

"Why? Weren't they lovers?"

"I think everyone here has a deep misunderstanding. Everyone thinks that it was Mr. Kuriyama who was killed, but in fact, it was Kuroishi Kagiku who was killed."

Everyone's attention suddenly shifted to "Heishi Jiaju" who was present.

She couldn't help but lower her head.

Kuriyama Hisaie and Kuroishi Kagiku exchanged their names.

In other words, the "Kuroishi Kagiku" sitting here at this moment should actually be "Kuriyama Shoujiang".

The trigger for the incident was the suicide of Shinkawa Tadako.

Perhaps, seeing the fans burning with the fire of revenge made him feel scared, so Kuriyama Hisaie decided to ask for help from the fox master.

However, revealing his name was dangerous, so he came up with a plan.

She asked for help from a male friend named Kuroishi Jiaju, whose name sounded like a female name.

But everyone mistakenly thought that the lover was a man, and when they saw the man who called himself Kuriyama Hisaie, they thought it was him.

And the murderer also had such a misunderstanding and eventually killed him.

"If all of the above is just my personal imagination, then there is a good explanation for the theft of my wallet."

This morning, upon learning that her stand-in had been killed, the real Kuriyama Hisaie was terrified.

Moreover, the road is disconnected and they are living under the same roof with the murderer.

If your real name is revealed, you may be killed.

Feeling threatened, Hisaie Kuriyama stole everyone's wallet in order to hide her real name.

The purpose is not money, but anything inside that can prove identity.

"Is that so, Miss Kuriyama?"

Everyone looked at her.

"Kuroishi already likes hot springs. After listening to my troubles, he accepted my request with a smile."

So, the two of them each wrote their names on name tags and exchanged titles.

But she didn't expect that something like this would happen.

"Due to the swap, the time of the crime should have changed."

Sera Masumi stroked his chin and thought, "In other words, the only two people who could have killed someone are Miss Kuriyama and Mr. Saku."

There is no need for Kuriyama Shoujiang to kill his own double, so.
"The murderer is Mr. Saku!"

Sakuma Tomo clutched his clothes, or more like clutched something.

He stood up and seemed to take something out of his trouser pocket.

"It was you who killed Tian Zi!"

He opened his folding knife and stabbed Kuriyama Hisaie.

She was unable to react at all and closed her eyes instinctively. Then Sera Masumi appeared in front of her and subdued her in an instant.

Sakuma Satoshi fell to the ground and fainted.

A pendant was revealed, with a photo of Shinkawa Tadako on it.

"Hey, are you okay?" Sera Masumi looked at the person behind him.

Kuriyama Hisaie lowered his head and his voice was filled with tears.

"It's not that I hate her. We just had a small argument and said something like break up in anger. I never thought that Tianzi would actually commit suicide."

His words were full of self-blame and guilt.

"The deceased Miss Shinkawa really loved you, right?"

Kuriyama Shoujiang raised his head and looked at her: "Are you mocking me? Just because we are women!"

Obviously, Sera Masumi's androgynous dress caused the other party to misunderstand her gender.

And this is not the first time.

"But she is also a woman, though she can only be considered a girl now."

Qing Hai Chuantang looked at her and said seriously, "Who can laugh at the feelings of others in love? The murderer's claws have not touched you. Miss Xinchuan must feel relieved from the bottom of her heart now."

Kuriyama Hisaie could no longer suppress her emotions at the moment and squatted on the ground crying.

In the end, the suspension bridge was never repaired, but a helicopter was contacted from somewhere.

"But who broke the suspension bridge in the end?"

Sera Masumi looked at her, as if wanting an answer.

Just like at the end of a case, the murderer must always be pointed out.

"Perhaps, the Immortal Fox-sama blocked the suspension bridge in order to prevent the murderer from escaping."

Qinghai Chuantang smiled softly and said, "If you think this way, isn't it better?"

Not everything requires a truth and an answer.

Sometimes, not knowing is the greatest "truth".

"Come to think of it," Sera Masumi's expression became very serious: "Who are you exactly? I always feel like you're a confusing puzzle."

I have to say that the metaphor chosen by the other party is very appropriate.

She smiled and stretched out her hand towards Sera Masumi's face, which made the other person stunned for a moment.

"Until you find the truth, keep searching. Until you find the truth you believe in."

The helicopter was getting closer and closer, and the strong wind blurred her remaining words.

"Until you find the truth, keep searching."

These are the words that the other party said that Sera Masumi remembered.

(End of this chapter)