People are in Conan, but Ace Attorney

Chapter 938 The Reversal of the Silk Thread (2)

As the judge lowered the gavel, the previously noisy audience gradually quieted down.

However, with Xiang Yuanguang's hearing, he could still hear that there were quite a few listeners in the audience behind him discussing things, but they were speaking in hushed tones, making it difficult for anyone to hear them clearly.

"Oh...that's strange."

Conan's voice came through the earphones.

He did not participate in the investigation of this case, and his knowledge of the case was limited to the fact that he knew that Guiyue Ying was in charge and that Yuan Guang had helped at the scene.

He wasn't particularly interested in cases that were simple and straightforward, cases that could be solved at a glance.

However, the details of the case that Guiyue Ying mentioned now actually piqued his interest a little—in this case, the perpetrator became the victim, and the victim became the perpetrator.

How exactly did the identities of the two parties switch back and forth?

The Grim Reaper Elementary School student gently stroked his chin with his fingers.

Sitting next to him, Ai Haibara was also deep in thought. However, before she could say anything, he had already gotten the answer and quickly voiced it.

"Did you direct and act in this yourself?"

—That's right, it was indeed self-directed and self-acted.

Having investigated the scene and learned about the harassment of Kanami Saki by unknown individuals, Hikaru Minamoto reached the same conclusion, and now, hearing Conan say it, he felt even more certain of it.

However, a sense of doubt also arose in his heart.

Conan's reasoning ability is indeed top-notch among high school detectives, but even the best can't deduce important information just by listening to the general details of a case.

Even an armchair detective couldn't do it that fast.

How exactly did Conan arrive at this conclusion, and how did he manage to do it?

Ai Haibara, sitting next to Conan, was equally puzzled, but she didn't ask.

This made Conan, who had been keeping everyone in suspense and waiting for the others to ask, twitch at the corner of his mouth. Finally, he said with a hint of helplessness,

“I can’t be so sure if it were someone else.”

"But if it's [Kana Misaki], after hearing Ms. Kizuki's description of the case, I can say with certainty that the harassment Kanami Saki suffered was entirely a well-orchestrated show by Kanami Saki herself."

"Because Kanazon asked Uncle Mori to investigate the harasser at the banquet."

"In order to convince Uncle Mori that Kanami Saki was indeed being harassed by unknown people, she also gave him those photos and other things to gain his trust."

"Uncle Mori went to the banquet alone by car, so he definitely can't bring these things with him."

Death God Elementary School student said, "It's only natural."
"So, I had just sobered up and was just killing time, so I took a look at those photos. I found them very strange. Many of the photos were taken from angles that were impossible to avoid being noticed."

"In my opinion, the possibility that Kanami Saki could have missed the harasser in her line of sight dozens of times in a row is almost zero. Therefore, this can only be the result of Kanami Saki staging the whole thing herself!"

Are those photos of the so-called harassers?
A divine light flashed in Xiang Yuanguang's eyes.

He had also seen those harassing photos, but unlike Conan, he didn't see such important information. However, he had a vague feeling that something was off about the content of those photos.

It was as if he had overlooked something. Now, he finally remembered what he had overlooked.

"...The person who killed the deceased Jellal Tenma was not Mr. Kana Yoshizaki, but Mrs. Kana Misaki, because Mr. Kana Yoshizaki did not have the opportunity to commit the crime, and there were no fingerprints left on the sword..."

Guiyue Ying continued to recount the details of the murder she had deduced inside the piano room.

Xiang Yuanguang, however, had already pulled out two sealed documents from the tall stack of materials.

He quickly opened the envelope and took out the photos inside.

—The two documents inside contained harassing photos of Kanami Saki taken by the alleged attacker, and a forensic officer's note detailing the exact time the photos were sent.

The other is a photo taken by forensic officers at the crime scene after the scene was cordoned off.

Most of the photos here revolve around the piano room, but what Hikaru wants to see now is not the piano room, but the photos of Kanami Saki's bedroom.

He searched for a while before finally finding the crucial photo he was looking for.

Those were photos of the scene that the forensic officers showed them when he and Onizuki Hotaru entered Kanami Saki's bedroom and noticed the unusual number of statues.

Immediately after the incident, Inspector Megure instinctively sensed something was wrong, but couldn't find anything amiss, so he had a forensic officer take a picture of the statue.

Now it's finally coming in handy.

"really."

When the photos of Kanami Saki's bedroom taken by forensic officers are placed side by side with those taken by the harasser, the differences immediately become apparent.

That's the statue's base.

In the photos taken by the harasser, three busts were neatly arranged on a pedestal in Kanami Saki's bedroom.

However, in the photos taken by the forensic officers at the scene, one of the three busts was missing. Coincidentally, Xiang Yuanguang was the only one who could recognize the missing bust at a glance.

"A bust of Beethoven, the composer?"

In Xiang Yuanguang's mind, the image of Gerald Pegasus flashed by.

If you were to place it in a dimly lit environment and only catch a fleeting glimpse, the head of Gerard Pegasus would bear a striking resemblance to the head of Beethoven's bust.

It seems that Kanami Saki's self-directed and self-acted bedroom drama will soon be over.

"...Is it enough to conclude that the murderer is Lady Kanami Saki just because of this?"

Having listened to all of Onizuki Hotaru's account, Usui Ritsuko said coldly,

"Prosecutor Ghost Moon, what evidence do you have to prove that the person who created the piano room trap was my client, Mrs. Kanami Saki? If it's just about creating a trap, then everyone else is a suspect, isn't they?"

"It's even possible that the person who actually set the trap was still inside the villa at the time."

"To conclude that the murderer is Kanami Saki, the defendant in this case, simply because they found out how the murderer killed Geralt Tenma is a bit far-fetched!"

These words immediately sparked another round of discussion within the courtroom.

(End of this chapter)