Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 159 Uncle Maori, it's over...

"Mr. Maori, how is your recovery going?"

"Just like that, what do you want?"

"..."

The recorder in Masayo Aida's hand continued to play. Although it was just some meaningless nonsense, it was enough to prove that Kogoro Mori did have a conversation with Katsuri Eto during that period of time.

The crowded ward was silent under the recording. Nurse Huizi looked around uncomfortably and felt that everyone's face looked like they were wearing a cast iron mask, cold and lifeless.

The only one who is somewhat lively is the core character, Kogoro Mori.

Although his face was already extremely pale without a trace of blood, even paler than the white sheets in the morgue illuminated by the light of the freezer, it was still changing.

Moreover, the involuntary trembling of his facial features undoubtedly revealed his identity as a living person. His lips moved.
"Impossible, how could this happen..."

The unbelievable murmur was the only sound in the ward after the recording ended.

Aida Masayo glanced at her former patient and handed the recorder to Megure Jusan. She felt quite regretful. She had earned more money in the past two days than in the past half month, and she didn't know when she would have such a good opportunity again.

"The police can use technical means to verify whether I have committed fraud."

Megure Jusan took it and nodded heavily, feeling quite pessimistic in his heart.

With Ms. Aida's attitude of doing things for money and not bothering with trivial matters, it is impossible for her to frame Brother Mori for no reason.

Alas, I’m afraid Maori’s brain has been damaged by drinking.

But why did the outbreak occur during this period?

Could it be that the contraband in the Ginza incident last week was the straw that broke the camel's back after a decade of accumulation of problems?
"The inner one..."

Nurse Huizi said weakly: "In fact, I also know that Dr. Eto went to Mr. Maori's room. He also told me and Xinzi at the nurses' station that if Dr. Shirai goes there again, we should call him."

Xinzi is also a nurse and was at the scene at the time. She nodded quickly when she heard this.

Kudo Shinichi and Amuro Toru looked at each other and thought to themselves that as expected, Eto Shengli discovered Shirai Mitsuo's conspiracy, but he didn't seem to think of counterattacking, he just wanted to prevent Shirai Mitsuo's plan from being accomplished.

"Ugh……"

Megure Jusan squatted slightly, put his hand on the distraught Maori Kogoro's shoulder, and said in a muffled voice:

"Brother Maori, can you remember anything?"

Kogoro Mori stared at him blankly for a long time, his eyes a little dazed, but he finally shook his head.

Megure Jusan sighed inwardly and stood up to...

"Uncle Maori."

Ok? !

Megure Jusan immediately looked at Kudo Shinichi who had spoken with hope, and heard him ponder and ask:

"You can't remember saying these words at that time. Have you said them at other times?"

Megure Jusan's eyes lit up: "Yes! It's possible that it was a recorded broadcast. Eto Katsuki recorded what Brother Mori said before, and then wrote his own dialogue based on those words, pretending to be talking to you, Ms. Aida..."

Megure Jusan suddenly paused.

He originally wanted to seek verification from Masayo Aida, asking her whether she really saw Kogoro Mori speak instead of just hearing the sound.

But after seeing the slightly frowned brows of Aida Masayo, he could no longer ask any more questions.

Yes. What would the words he just said look like to the outsiders?

Haha, it’s not an exaggeration to say that it’s confusing right and wrong.

Megure immediately turned to look at the two nurses, who had already avoided his sight. He then looked at the doctor who arrived later, but he was a little slower to react, and the flash of disgust in his eyes was still caught by Megure.

"Yes! That must be the case! I say that kind of meaningless nonsense many times a day!"

Kogoro Mouri's mentality was on the verge of collapse, and he yelled as if he had seen a life-saving straw.

After he shouted this, Megure Jusan discovered that even several of his subordinates silently turned their eyes away.

"I'm sorry, I made some unfounded guesses."

Kudo Shinichi also saw this scene, sighed in his heart, and looked at Megure Jusan:
"Everything still depends on evidence."

Megure Jusan nodded solemnly. Seeing that Maori Kogoro wanted to say something else, he patted his shoulder heavily, shook his head slightly at Maori Kogoro's blank gaze, and turned around and said after Maori Kogoro lowered his head dejectedly:

"Ms. Aida, please continue. We are sure that Dr. Eto entered the ward at that time."

Aida Masayo nodded and said, "After Dr. Eto left, I noticed that the alarm was set back to 7 a.m. I started to pay attention to it and checked it every few minutes. But when I found that it didn't change, I stopped paying attention to it.

After eleven o'clock, I began to feel a little sleepy and thought that if the alarm clock still set off at seven o'clock tomorrow morning, I would just go to bed.

When I looked at it, I found that the alarm clock hand pointed to 11:30 again. I was instantly so shocked that all sleepiness disappeared. I sat on the bed with my eyes open waiting for the alarm to ring.

You all know what happened after that.”

After hearing this, Kudo Shinichi was silent for a few breaths: "Ms. Aida, you mean that the alarm at 11:30 was set by Uncle Maori himself?"

"I don't mean anything. I'm just stating the facts," said Aida Masayo calmly. "You have the recorder. You can listen to the noise bit by bit. You may learn much more than a sleepy passerby like me."

"I see. Thank you, Ms. Aida."

Megure Jusan took out his cell phone and contacted Sato Miwako: "Seal the alarm clock in the room as evidence and check for fingerprints later." After the other party answered, he looked at Kudo Shinichi again, "Brother Kudo, do you have any other questions?"

Kudo Shinichi nodded: "Uncle Maori, you said you saw the reflection of someone committing a crime in the window of this building. Which room was it specifically?"

Maori Kogoro thought for a moment and closed his eyes in pain: "It's still that empty warehouse."

He now knew that, except for him, no one who was paying attention there saw the reflection of someone committing a crime. It was indeed his own hallucination.

His spirit...

Maybe there really is a problem.

Upon hearing this, Kudo Shinichi pondered, is there any way to project the image into only one person's eyes?
Uncle Maori may indeed have mental problems, but in reasoning, we must first discard this possibility, otherwise the logic cannot continue.

He was the only one who saw it, not from a specific angle...

Is it residual vision?
Did he see some patterns with hidden patterns before, and then a negative visual afterimage was produced on the glass of that window?

Just like when you stare at something yellow for too long, it will disappear and you will feel something blue there...

"Report to the police chief! The urine test results are out."

The report from the police outside the door interrupted Kudo Shinichi's thoughts, and the next sentence the police said loudly made his scalp numb.

“It’s positive!”

(End of this chapter)