Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 6 Everyone thinks he is in control of the overall situation, so take the initiative!

"It's all just too much of a coincidence."

Shinichi Kudo looked towards the homeless area from the accident scene. His vision was generally unobstructed, but due to the obstruction of the woods, there were still many blind spots.

"Mr. Tojo, you are an eyewitness at the scene. Are you 100% sure that the first person to be knocked down by the high voltage electricity was Xuesong Masato?"

The homeless Tojo hesitated for a moment, "I was worried about the leakage of electricity here, so I didn't dare to get close. I didn't see his face clearly, but his clothes were the same as before."

"If someone had deliberately designed this, he would certainly have taken this into consideration."

Kudo Shinichi asked again: "Have you been keeping an eye on the scene to make sure that the person on the ground has not changed?"

"Well... I'm just watching most of the time. If someone jumps in like Banyuan, it's obvious and I should be able to spot it."

"Yeah, Kudo-kun."

Megure Jusan was also puzzled: "This is a high-voltage electrical leakage site, and the range of motion is limited. It is impossible to replace the body with another one."

Kudo Shinichi said in a gloomy tone, "What if I say that the high voltage electricity was disconnected at that time?"

"What?!!!"

"Let me correct what I said before. The first person who was electrocuted probably didn't die... No, he might not have even been electrocuted." Kudo Shinichi murmured.

"As long as no one happens to see the arc when the high-voltage line breaks, the abnormal noise can actually be faked. The person who is prepared below can take the initiative to approach the point where the high-voltage line falls and fall down at the right time. To people far away, he will appear to have been electrocuted accidentally!

This can also explain another problem: how does one determine the timing and location of the high-voltage line break?
It's very simple, just come up with a rough range and wait!"

"This this……"

Megure Juzo was dumbfounded, thinking that his younger brother's imagination was a little too outrageous, but after all, he had experienced many outrageous cases in Beika Town, so he hurriedly asked Tojo if he had seen the arc when the high-voltage line broke.

Tojo pointed to the tall camphor tree next to him and said with some embarrassment: "The tree canopy is blocking my view, so I can't be sure, and I didn't pay attention to this side before the incident."

"That means there is indeed such a possibility."

Megure Jusan's face turned serious. "If there was no leakage of electricity here at the beginning, then it makes sense that someone acted quickly to replace the body."

"It's not a corpse, probably just unconscious."

Kudo Shinichi said: "The autopsy results show that Xuesong Masato did die at noon today. The only suspicious thing is the food left in his stomach, chicken burgers, onion rings, and mashed potatoes, which is most likely the KFC meal from yesterday.

It took a whole day to digest it completely. Perhaps he fell into an abnormal state shortly after that, and his digestive system was suppressed."

This is why he had been asking Xuesong Kiyoko for her alibi since yesterday at noon.

"That is to say..."

Megure Jusan suddenly realized, "The person behind the scenes has been keeping Xue Song Masato in his hands, waiting for the accident to happen, and then using him to take the blame. After he replaced the original disguised person, the high-voltage wire began to leak electricity, killing Xue Song Masato?!"

First someone died, then there was a power leak.

It's a trick of time!

"I think that's about it."

Kudo Shinichi's face was solemn. "However, I am currently only reasoning based on the fact that 'the accident was definitely not an accident'. I have no empirical evidence to support this. I need to ask the police to search hard."

"no problem!"

Megure Jusan's abundant sense of justice made him feel no fatigue at all, and his eyes lit up as he got closer to the truth.

"It's mainly the wires, is there anything else?"

Kudo Shinichi sighed, "It would be best if we could find Mr. Itahara, even if it's just a corpse."

"Why... why is this?"

"The only person who could wait in the woods for the high-voltage wire to collapse without arousing suspicion from others could be a vagrant nearby. And the most suspected person at the moment, Nami Yukino, has an alibi for a certain time."

They were seen by security.

Although there is only one side, if they are really the ones behind the scenes, they should not take the gamble. What if the power line happens to break when they leave?

"I see, the former electrician Mr. Itahara was hired or deceived by them, and was silenced afterwards..."

Megure Jusan's voice became increasingly low, with anger flashing in his eyes. In order to defraud insurance, for 400 million yen, could someone be so despicable and cruel? !

Fortunately.

The police arrived at the scene less than twenty minutes after the incident at noon. The high-voltage wire was very long and heavy, so it can be inferred that the person behind the scenes probably did not have time to deal with everything. They still have a chance!

The police immediately conducted a dragnet search of the park, and Megure Juzo even asked his superiors for a police dog.

"Really."

Hearing the atmosphere in the headphones gradually becoming heated, Yingsheng, who was driving a Yamaha FZR750R on the road, sighed helplessly.

"The police have too much trust in Kudo. There is no evidence at all, just a guess, but they are searching for him in such a big way. Didn't they think that his reasoning was wrong and their efforts were in vain?"

Because Kudo Shinichi has been invincible in the past, his social credibility has skyrocketed.

Hotaru chuckled and said, “I’m so sorry, Kudo.”

Your reasoning is very good and 90% close to the truth, but you still overlooked a detail.

Just take your time looking for that wire. I assure you that you will never find it.

The air gradually became moist, gentle waves hit the pier, and the splattered pure white jade added a hint of the salty smell of the sea to the night breeze.

Hotaru slowly stopped the motorcycle, got off with his helmet on, and all he could see was the endless dark sea. This was the long-abandoned Akagi Pier and Tokyo Bay.

He glanced around.

"Behind the blue container, Mr. Itahara, come out, you are such an amateur."

After a brief silence, a middle-aged man with unshaven beard walked out of the darkness. He was the homeless man Banyuan that the police were searching for!

Yingsheng took out a roll of banknotes from his red and white motorcycle uniform and threw it over. "Mr. Banyuan, don't be so gloomy. You can get 300,000 for just acting in a play. Where else can you find such a good thing?"

Banyuan took the money in a hurry, counted it roughly under the moonlight, let out a long breath, nodded to Yingsheng, turned around and was about to leave.

"I say, aren't you curious about the follow-up at all?" Yingsheng said in a playful tone.

Banyuan paused, "Didn't you say that the man wanted to pretend to be dead to avoid the debt of the Yakuza? Not long after I left there, I did see Ni Canhui rushing over."

"Isn't this suspicious?"

Yingsheng shrugged, "My task for you is to pretend to be electrocuted and notify me immediately. It took me seven minutes to get there. While Mr. Tojo was picking up the money I accidentally dropped, I took the man down from the treetop and replaced him with you.

You leave there immediately, and I will re-enter using your identity, pretending to search for valuables, but actually helping him to pose so that no one will notice his flaws.

So the question is, do you think I am going through so much trouble just to guard against the Nizang Society?"

Banyuan took a step back calmly, "The Nican Society is a very powerful Yakuza, so we do need to be cautious."

Yingsheng smiled.

"You should also know that pretending to be dead to the Yakuza is a stupid idea. Once they pass by, won't they verify it?"

"How would I know what they were thinking?"

"You saw the police."

silence.

“There’s a limit to playing dumb, Mr. Itahara.

You pretended to believe such poor words, you obviously have other intentions. Three hundred thousand is too little, let me think... You saw my student ID card by accident, and you plan to use it to blackmail me later."

When Banyuan, who had always been honest, heard this, a hideous smile suddenly appeared on his face.

"That's right! Teitan High School, Kenta Nakamichi!
"Little ghost, I'll return the words I just said to you. Why don't you just pretend to be stupid? Why do you force me to do this?"

"Ah... indeed."

(End of this chapter)