After Kogoro Mouri finished speaking, he looked in the direction Kikuto Morizono was pointing.

Hattori Heiji had already drawn back the curtains and begun his investigation.

"Hey, don't touch anything here!"

Heiji Hattori ignored Kogoro Mouri and confirmed with Ran Mouri, who was downstairs, that no one had left from the balcony.

They then continued investigating the body and found the key.

"I remember that Uncle Shigematsu was the only one who had all the keys, right?"

"Does this room have a spare key?"

Conan added.

After confirming that the keys to the house were in the possession of Akio Shigematsu, Heiji Hattori said with a grim face, "This is a locked-room murder!"

Yusuke Suzuki, on the other hand, looked directly at Kikuto Morizono.

Ok?

Conan noticed Yusuke Suzuki's gaze.

Why did Yusuke look directly at Kikuto Morizono?

Is it possible...

A bad thought popped into his mind.

Has Yusuke already identified the culprit?

how come!

It's definitely just some suspicion!

"It could also be suicide..."

Morizono Yurie spoke.

"Impossible. If it were suicide, the murder weapon should have been found next to the body."

Kogoro Mouri immediately retorted, "Besides, the deceased was stabbed in the chest."

“Yes,” Hattori Heiji continued, “I don’t know who or what method they used to leave this room with the murder weapon, and without a sound.”

"Let's finish this sooner rather than later," Yusuke Suzuki sighed. Gin had sent another email.

"Kikuto, confess your sins."

Why? !

Everyone looked at Suzuki Yusuke in surprise, and Morizono Kikuto's face turned ashen.

"Hey...you bastard..."

Kikuto Morizono got up and pretended to be angry, trying to push Yusuke Suzuki towards the window.

Yusuke Suzuki easily dodged it with a swift movement.

"Want to tamper with the scene?"

He walked to the window, pointed to a small round hole in the corner of the glass and chuckled, "After you call Mr. Shigematsu into this room and kill him, I'll hide behind the curtain on the left side of the next room."

"You even closed the rainproof window on that side specifically for this reason."

Hattori Heiji immediately went to check and returned with a serious expression, "That's indeed the case."

"By preparing a rope with tape on it and drilling a hole in the glass beforehand, you can lock the French windows on the balcony."

Yusuke Suzuki walked onto the balcony. "There's another reason why I said you were hiding next door. Although there were traces of blood-stained gloves on the locks of the French windows, there weren't any on the balcony."

As the murderer, since he wore gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints, there's no reason why he would take them off on the balcony.

Therefore, the murderer didn't jump from the balcony at all; he must have gone next door.

Kikuto Morizono's hands trembled. "This is just deduction. Where's the...evidence?"

Amidst gasps of alarm, Yusuke Suzuki jumped off the balcony railing, using one hand to brace himself against it.

He looked around, walked to a tree, and kicked the trunk hard.

The tree that was kicked immediately shook violently, and its leaves made a rustling sound.

A cloth bag fell down.

"Kikuto, you should know very well what's inside here."

A while later, Inspector Megure arrived and looked speechlessly at Kogoro Mouri and Heiji Hattori.

"You detectives are always at every crime scene, Mori, are you cursed by a jinx?"

Kogoro Mouri was still trying to explain, but Heiji Hattori and Conan looked at each other with uncomfortable expressions.

"Kudo...this..."

Conan nodded silently.

After demonstrating the technique, Yusuke Suzuki finally managed to escape.

It was almost 1 a.m., but Gin still insisted that he come over.

What on earth happened? Suzuki Yusuke returned to his apartment alone, then went out again to disguise himself.

Chapter 23 codename confirmed: Weique

"Gin, is this how the organization normally operates?"

Yusuke Suzuki was already a little sleepy, but his disguised face was very energetic, which gave him some ideas. He also needed to pay attention to how his disguised face would perform in different scenarios and at different times.

For example, if someone has just done strenuous exercise and everyone else is flushed and sweaty, but he acts like nothing happened, isn't that obviously telling others that he has a problem?

Not to mention he has someone like Conan by his side. Even if Kogoro Mouri is confused, he's not so clueless as to not see such an obvious problem.

And is Kogoro Mouri really that confused?

Not necessarily.

After all, if someone has been pricked with thousands of needles and can't remember anything after solving a case, even the most carefree person would have some doubts, right?

He was so confident that he would take on all sorts of cases. As long as you dared to give him a case, he would take it. He never worried that he would be unable to solve the case and ruin his reputation.

Either he knows that Conan, or Shinichi Kudo, will help him solve the problem, or his own reasoning ability makes him so confident.

There is also an extremely small possibility that he is a complete NT (non-human), but to be honest, Yusuke Suzuki doesn't think this possibility even exists.

Seeing that Suzuki Yusuke suddenly started to drift off after greeting him, Gin stopped talking.

Vodka remained standing obediently to one side, like a statue.

Coming to his senses, Yusuke Suzuki noticed Gin staring at him and chuckled, "Sorry, I was just thinking about something."

"This has happened to you several times already, so it seems I need to lower my opinion of you even further."

Gin tossed away his cigarette butt. "Wait two more hours, and the organization's background check on you will be finished. If there are no problems, that gentleman will contact you personally."

"So why should I wait here?"

"If any problems are found, it will be convenient for me to eliminate you directly."

Gin said indifferently, while lighting up his cigarette.

What can we do? Just wait.

So the three men in black stood in a row against the roadside railing, cigarettes in hand, their eyes darting around.

"I'm hungry."

Yusuke Suzuki spoke first.

"Vodka, go buy three bento boxes."

"yes, Sir."

Vodka must have been starving too, because he stepped on the gas and sped away.

"I don't like bento boxes..."

Honestly, it doesn't taste good unless it's freshly made, and at this time of year, it's questionable whether you can even buy it anymore.

"What? The young master of the conglomerate can't stomach it?"

Gin finally found an opportunity to make a sarcastic remark, but when he turned around, he found that Suzuki Yusuke had already walked to the trunk of his car.

His hand, which had been in the left pocket of his trench coat, suddenly gripped the pistol tightly, his index finger on the trigger.

"Don't be nervous, I just want to get something to eat."

Yusuke Suzuki could perfectly guess what this paranoid guy was thinking right now.

Before long, he brought out a small pot, a bucket of purified water, and a box of ingredients. He had originally planned to make a hot pot at home if he didn't get back until late at night, and then stay up all day to try to maintain his routine.

I never expected to need it so soon.

There were no bowls, no chopsticks.

Let's have skewers then.

"Could you help me get some branches and peel off the bark?"

He himself climbed over the guardrail and went into the mountains to look for stones.

When he returned, Gin was using a dagger to peel bark from a tree.

They built a simple stove, put the pot on it, and lit the firewood they had brought back along the way.

Soon, a pot of authentic skewers was ready, its alluring aroma stimulating his taste buds, even making his stomach rumble.

Gin's stomach was growling too, but he didn't dare to joke around, in case a fight broke out.

Gin dared to let Vodka leave and watch over him alone, which must mean he was confident in his own abilities.

"tasty."

After watching Suzuki Yusuke eat three or four skewers and waiting for about ten minutes, Gin finally took a skewer of beef from the pot and ate it.

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