Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 158 Megure Jusan: Brother Mori has a split personality

"Well... I accidentally killed someone. Can you help me get a certificate of mental illness?" The cute little girl's voice continued.

"........."

Aida Masayo remained silent, glanced at the police and detectives in front of him whose eyes suddenly became fierce, and said calmly:

"I can drive. What's your address?"

"Eh? Really?"

The little girl's voice was quite surprised: "Thank you, doctor. I'm at the Mihua Central Hospital now."

"!!!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Could there be another case happening here? !
Aida Masayo continued to ask: "Excuse me, where exactly is it? How can I find you?"

"Hehe, my name is Maori Kogoro, and I'm right in front of you."

"!!!!!!"

The playful laughter echoed in the room, turning into thunder that enveloped everyone.

Bang!

Maori Kogoro didn't even have the crutches to use. He fell off the chair and yelled at Aida Masayo's phone:
"Who are you?! What did you do?!"

The only answer he got was a busy tone.

Maori Kogoro pounded the floor angrily, his face flushed red. Xiaolan quickly leaned over to help her father who had fallen to the ground.
"hiss--!!!"

There was a sharp pain in the broken leg, and Kogoro Mori took a breath of cold air belatedly after realizing it.

Seeing this, nurse Huizi immediately ran out to call the doctor, and after she left, there was silence in the room.

Deathly silence.

Aida Masayo raised his phone: "Do you need me to call you back?"

Megure Juzo nodded and called back, but as everyone expected, the phone was turned off.

"Now it is confirmed that someone is framing me!" Kogoro Mouri said loudly.

This discovery made him quite excited, but he waited for a long time and received no response.

Confused, he raised his head and looked around. Everyone he saw avoided his sight, and the glimpse he caught in other people's eyes was mostly dark and mixed with suspicion.

Maori Kogoro was not stupid after all. He immediately realized the situation and started to panic:
"Hey, hey, you guys don't think I directed and acted in this drama myself, right? How could that be possible?!"

"I'm sorry, Uncle Maori."

Kudo Shinichi said in a complicated tone: "I am willing to believe you, but if that call came from the person who framed you, what was her purpose? To help you get rid of the crime?"

He framed someone before and now helps him escape punishment. Is this logical?
"You may or may not, Kudo family!"

Maori Kogoro said anxiously, "When someone tricked me into entering the gambling game to help harm Xue Song Nami, didn't you say that this was a loophole deliberately left by the person behind the scenes? If he wanted, he could actually put a blame on me that I couldn't get rid of.

This time it might be the same, he framed me, and then he took the initiative to expose the doubts in order to prevent me from going to jail.”

Kudo Shinichi actually thought of this instantly, but if there really is such a person, what is his purpose?

No, now is not the time to think about that.

Kudo Shinichi shook his head, his eyes gradually became firm, and looked at Maori Kogoro:

"Uncle Maori, even if we have to assume this possibility, we should at least rule you out as a suspect first. Start from the beginning and tell us what you experienced after leaving the ward. Tell us everything you saw and heard."

"well."

Maori Kogoro nodded quickly. A doctor, led by nurse Keiko, walked in and wanted to check his leg injury, but he waved his hand to stop them. He went over everything that had happened in his mind and organized his words:

"I was woken up by the alarm clock in my sleep, and saw the reflection of someone committing a crime in the window of the building opposite, and then..."

"Wait." Kudo Shinichi didn't want to hear a story, but to analyze it. He interrupted as soon as he found something he was concerned about:

"Who set the alarm for half past eleven?"

"Seems to be……"

Maori Kogoro recalled: "It should be Doctor Shirai who adjusted it. He came to the ward at 9:30 to bring me medicine and stayed in front of the alarm clock for a while."

"After he left, did you determine the position of the alarm clock hands?" Kudo Shinichi continued to ask.

"This does not."

"And what about Ms. Aida?"

Kudo Shinichi turned his head and looked at Aida Masayo, who had always had a calm expression. It was great to have such a mentally stable bystander who could replace Mr. Mori.

Aida Masayo nodded: "I'm sure it was Doctor Shirai who set the alarm. I've been paying close attention to that."

This step was still within the scope of the original reasoning. Kudo Shinichi thanked him and was about to ask the next question, but just as he was about to turn around, he heard Aida Masayo continue:

"But after Dr. Shirai adjusted the alarm clock, Dr. Eto came over not long after and set the alarm clock back to seven in the morning."

"What?!!!"

Everyone's faces suddenly changed when they heard this. Kudo Shinichi also frowned and asked, "But the alarm did ring at 11:30. What happened?"

Masayo Aida looked calm as he turned to Kogoro Maori: "Mr. Maori, I need to confirm first. You should also remember that Dr. Eto came here, right?"

Maori Kogoro looked a little confused: "Why do you say that? I fell asleep soon after taking the medicine sent by Doctor Shirai. I don't know if Doctor Eto came."

"You fell asleep?"

Aida Masayo's usually calm brows finally wrinkled slightly: "But didn't you talk to him at that time?"

"!!!!!!"

Maori Kogoro almost jumped up again regardless of his broken leg, and said hurriedly with red ears under everyone's suspicious gaze:
"How could this be possible! I definitely didn't talk to him!"

After hearing this, everyone turned to look at Aida Masayo. Aida Masayo stared at Maori Kogoro for a while:

"Are you sure?"

"Absolutely not!"

Kogoro Mori said with certainty.

Hearing his words, Aida Masayo's slightly frowned brows suddenly relaxed completely: "I see, it sounds like I'm framing someone." She looked around, "Where's Dr. Eto? Can we ask him to come out and testify?"

"Feel sorry."

Amuro Toru, who had been standing aside in silence, said, "It seems that I killed him by mistake, so I can't testify for you."

Aida Masayo's eyes flickered slightly, and she looked around at the people who were looking at her:

"So, what I said and what Mr. Maori said are just one-sided and cannot be trusted?"

Megure Jusan quickly said, "No one doubts you, Ms. Aida. Brother Mori..." He sighed and pointed to his head, "Maybe there is something wrong with him. Please just tell me what you know."

Xiaolan also nodded: "Ms. Aida, I believe you."

"Thank you."

Aida Masayo smiled slightly and took out a black recorder from his pocket: "It doesn't matter if you don't believe me, just believe it."

Thank you very much Mr. Shuiyue for your reminder, otherwise it would be troublesome.

The others' eyes lit up when they saw this:
"Play it now!"

(End of this chapter)