Daily Spy Life in the Detective Conan World

Chapter 1009 felt like being right there at the scene of the crime.

Ran, unlike Conan, didn't have such complicated thoughts. She nodded seriously and said, "Ms. Rion was drinking with Dad in the living room when Mr. Joichiro passed by the door and told us he was going to take a bath."

"Oh, is that so?" Xia Chuan asked thoughtfully.

Kogoro Mouri had nothing to say about Natsukawa's performance.

"Hmph, speechless now? My testimony is absolutely correct. The murderer is one of the two employees."

Two employees: "."

“Mr. Mori, you don’t need to help me like this. This Mr. Takahashi is just talking nonsense because he doesn’t know the situation.”

As she spoke, Rion wiped away two more tears.

Wow, this is so green tea.

Natsukawa's hair almost stood on end, but Kogoro Mouri seemed to fall for it.

“Oh dear, Ms. Rion, you don’t need to speak up for this person. The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office staff are always arrogant and do things in a flamboyant manner; they deserve to suffer a bit.”

This was said in front of Kenichi Takahashi.

He did it on purpose!

Since they disrespected the famous detective, they deserved this fate.

“The other two employees don’t have alibis, only Ms. Rion has one, and that’s actually the biggest problem,” Xia Chuan said, his tone uncompromising.

He had long wanted to put Mr. Mori in his place and get him to focus on solving the case properly, and now was the perfect opportunity.

This is what I should do as a friend!

"So, according to you, having an alibi becomes a problem. We should be talking about the law, right, Takahashi?"

Inspector Megure also felt that Kenichi Takahashi's words were a bit too impulsive.

“Think about it. Because it rained yesterday, it was easy to confirm whether anyone left the guesthouse. We can confirm that the murderer is among the two employees and the landlady.”

"Let's think about another question. If you were the murderer, shouldn't you have considered the issue of an alibi before committing the murder?"

Conan quietly interjected, "Maybe it was a spur-of-the-moment decision?"

Although he largely agreed with Kenichi Takahashi's statement, it was reasonable that he didn't have an alibi if it was a spur-of-the-moment decision.

"impossible."

Xia Chuan explicitly denied this reason.

In fact, he had considered it.

However, it is precisely because this reason has been ruled out that we can be certain that it was not a spur-of-the-moment decision.

"Prosecutor Takahashi, how did you determine that he wasn't killed on a whim?" Inspector Megure asked, puzzled.

"Inspector Megure, please take me to see the body."

Upon hearing this, everyone suddenly realized that the prosecutor's body had not yet been seen.

Since no body has been seen, how can you say it couldn't have been a spur-of-the-moment decision?

Out of respect for the district prosecutor, Inspector Megure led Natsukawa through the guesthouse corridor and soon arrived at an area enclosed by bamboo rafts.

Before you even go inside, you can see steam rising into the air, and you can feel the humidity and heat in the air.

Very comfortable feeling.

But if people knew that a corpse had been soaking here last night, probably no one would think that way.

The guesthouses here have separate rooms for men and women, with the men's and women's baths on the left and right respectively. Before entering, you will first go to your respective changing room.

Led by Inspector Megure, we passed through the changing room and arrived at the hot spring bath.

The male bath is smaller than the male bath at the guesthouse where Natsukawa stayed, and it only has two baths.

At that moment, a forensic investigator was collecting hot spring water next to one of the baths. Further nearby, a forensic doctor who had just arrived was conducting a preliminary autopsy on the deceased.

"Memu Police Department."

Upon seeing the heavily pregnant Inspector Megure, the forensic investigators and medical examiners all greeted him.

Everyone holds this record holder for solving the most rapist cases in the world in great respect.

"Ah."

"Prosecutor Takahashi, this is the body. After examination, the cause of death is drowning."

"What was the time of death?" Xia Chuan asked.

"Because the body was soaked in the hot water for too long, it was probably around 11 o'clock."

"Before that, I greeted Kogoro Mouri around 10 o'clock and told him I was going to take a bath, so the timing matches up."

"Ms. Rion and Kogoro Mouri finished drinking around 12:30, so they didn't have time to commit the crime," Inspector Megure explained.

Xia Chuan nodded, acknowledging that the other party indeed did not have time.

But isn't time something you can always squeeze out?

"If I'm not mistaken, Mrs. Rion went to the restroom sometime between 10:00 and 11:30."

Upon hearing this, Conan, Ran, and Kogoro Mouri were all stunned for a moment.

Xiaolan put her finger to her lips, thought for a moment, and then nodded in reply: "Indeed, I remember it was around eleven o'clock at that time, but the landlady only went out for five minutes before coming back."

Kogoro Mori sneered, "Although there was enough time, the splashing water around the bath shows that Mr. Joichiro struggled before he died, and the murderer would inevitably have gotten wet."

“When Ms. Rion came back, not only were her clothes not wet, but she even brought us a pastry. There’s no way we could have done so much in five minutes.”

Conan also fell at this point.

Excluding the possibility of a spur-of-the-moment decision, Rion, who has an alibi, is the most suspicious one.

But this means he has to unravel the mystery of the other person's time.

It's absolutely impossible to do so many things in five minutes.

"Then let's figure out what we can do in five minutes."

Seeing Xia Chuan's smile, the proprietress's heart suddenly stopped beating.

"First of all, before drinking with the Mori family last night, tell Boss Joichiro to bring some sweets to the hot spring and wait for you."

"Then around 11 o'clock, you sneaked into the hot spring and drowned him when he wasn't looking. After all, soaking in a hot spring for too long will reduce a person's physical strength and power. Even if you are a woman, you can easily push him into the water and drown him."

"To avoid getting splashed with water, you prepared a raincoat in advance and put it on. After you're done, you just put it in the entryway. Since it rained last night, no one will think there's a problem with water droplets on the raincoat."

"After you've done all that, go back to the living room and continue drinking with Mr. Mori. Five minutes is enough."

Xia Chuan spoke eloquently, and after he finished, the proprietress's face turned extremely ugly.

This man acted as if he had been at the scene of the crime.

"These are all just your guesses."

The proprietress would never admit it.

Conan listened with great interest. Kenichi Takahashi's explanation made perfect sense, and he remembered that there was indeed a wet raincoat in the entrance hall.

"Although I only stayed in the village for a few days, I still heard about your family."

whats the matter?
Kogoro Mouri raised an eyebrow, sensing that this matter was extremely important.

Do the boss and his wife have a conflict?

Doesn't that mean we even have a motive?
Kogoro Mouri, who had initially sided with the landlady, now hesitated.

(End of this chapter)