He's in Detective Conan, and he's the mastermind behind everything.

In Beika Central Park, Shinichi Kudo stood in the center of the accident scene, constantly scanning his surroundings. At his feet were the marks of the corpse circled in white chalk.

"Inspector Megure, do you also think it was just an accident?" he asked.

Megure scratched his head. "I'm willing to trust your intuition, Kudo, but didn't you check everything? Even the break in the high-voltage power line was due to metal fatigue, not human damage."

“Mr. Itahara used to be an electrician, so he might have a way to forge it.”

"But...it's electrified."

Shinichi Kudo looked at the policewoman standing to the side and asked, "Officer Sato, have you found anything?"

Sato Miwako shook her head. "You asked me to ask the nearby residents if the lights had been flickering abnormally these past two days. I visited several houses, but I didn't find anything."

"Is this so..."

Shinichi Kudo frowned and explained to the bewildered Juzo Megure, "I suspect that Mr. Itahara illegally connected the wires, then cut off the power supply to the original wires, and then artificially created metal fatigue. But he probably did this in the early morning, and I can't find any evidence."

"This……"

Megure Juzo was a little confused. Was his younger brother overthinking things?

"Brother Kudo, even if this method works, we can't be sure when the wire will break or where it will land after it breaks."

If Itagaki had possessed this skill when he was an electrician, he wouldn't have ended up as a homeless person.

Shinichi Kudo nodded. "Indeed, even if he found a reason to lure Masato Yukimatsu here, he couldn't have timed it well. It just seems like a simple coincidence."

Inspector Megure let out a long breath, "So..."

Can we close the case now?

"so!"

Shinichi Kudo interrupted, his tone certain, "My deduction is that the first person to die from electrocution was definitely not Masato Yukimatsu!"

"Nani?!!!"

Chapter 6 Everyone thinks they have the whole situation under control, and their initiative is off the charts!

"It's all too coincidental."

Looking from the accident site towards the homeless community, Shinichi Kudo's view was generally unobstructed, but there were still several blind spots due to the obstruction of the trees.

"Mr. Tojo, you are an eyewitness at the scene. Can you be 100% certain that the person who was first knocked down by the high voltage was Masato Yukimatsu?"

Homeless man Tojo hesitated for a moment, "I was worried about an electrical leak here, so I didn't dare to get close. I didn't see his face clearly, but his clothes and the back of his clothes were the same."

“If it was designed intentionally, he would of course have taken that into account.”

Shinichi Kudo then asked, "Did you keep an eye on the scene to make sure the people on the ground didn't change?"

"Well... I mostly keep an eye on things. If someone jumps in like Itagaki, then it's obvious, and I should be able to spot it."

"Yes, Brother Kudo."

Megure also asked in confusion, "This is a high-voltage power leak site. Movement is restricted. It's impossible to switch the body here."

Shinichi Kudo asked in a low voice, "What if I told you that the high-voltage power was off back then?"

"What?!!!"

“Let me correct what I said earlier. The first person who was electrocuted probably didn’t die… no, he might not have even been electrocuted,” Shinichi Kudo said thoughtfully.

"As long as no one happens to see the electric arc when the high-voltage line breaks, the abnormal sound can actually be faked. Then, the person who is prepared below will deliberately approach the point where the high-voltage line falls and fall at the right time. To people at a distance, it will look like an accidental electrocution!"

This also explains another question: how does one determine the timing and location of a high-voltage line breakage?

It's very simple. Just get a general range and wait!

"This this……"

Megure Juzo was dumbfounded, feeling that his younger brother's imagination was running wild. However, having experienced many outrageous cases in Beika Town, he hurriedly asked Tojo if he had seen the electric arc when the high-voltage line broke.

Tojo pointed to the tall camphor tree beside him, somewhat embarrassed: "With the canopy blocking the view, I can't be sure, and I didn't notice this side before the incident."

"That means such a possibility does exist."

Megure's expression turned serious. "If there wasn't an electrical leak here to begin with, then it makes sense that someone acted quickly to switch the bodies."

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

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

It took him a whole day to fully digest it, and he may have fallen into an abnormal state shortly afterward, with his digestive system suppressed.

His questioning of Kiyoko Yukimatsu's alibi began yesterday at noon, and that's why.

"That is to say..."

Megure suddenly realized, "The person behind this has been keeping Yukimatsu Masato under their control all along. After the accident happened, they used him as a scapegoat. Only after he replaced the person who was originally in disguise did the high-voltage line start leaking electricity, killing Yukimatsu Masato?!"

People died first, then there was an electrical leak.

It's a time trick!

"I think that's about it."

Shinichi Kudo's expression was grave. "However, I am currently only reasoning based on the premise that 'the accident was not an accident,' without any empirical evidence. I still need to ask the police to search diligently."

"no problem!"

Megure's boundless sense of justice made him feel no fatigue, and his eyes shone even brighter as he drew closer to the truth.

"It's mainly electrical wires, right? Anything else?"

Shinichi Kudo sighed softly, "It would be best to find Mr. Itahara, even if it's just his corpse."

"Why...why is this happening?"

"To wait in the woods for the high-voltage power line to collapse without arousing suspicion, the only suspects would be homeless people from the neighborhood. And the prime suspect, Yukimatsu Nami, has an alibi for a specific point in time."

They were seen by security guards.

Although it was only one side of the story, if they were really the people behind it, they probably wouldn't have taken the gamble. What if the power line just happened to snap when they left?

Wouldn't that mean all our efforts would be in vain?

"I see. Mr. Itagaki, the former electrician, was either hired or deceived by them, and then silenced..."

Megure's voice grew increasingly low, his eyes flashing with rage. Could someone really be so despicable and ruthless as to commit insurance fraud and gain 400 million yen?!

Fortunately.

Police arrived at the scene less than 20 minutes after the incident. The high-voltage power line was very long and heavy, suggesting that the perpetrators likely did not have time to deal with everything properly, and they still had a chance!

Police immediately conducted a thorough search of the park, and Megure even requested police dogs from his superiors.

"Really."

Hearing the atmosphere in his headphones gradually becoming more and more heated, Ying Sheng, who was speeding along the highway on his Yamaha FZR750R, sighed helplessly.

"The police have way too much trust in Kudo. Without a single piece of evidence, just pure speculation, they've launched such a large-scale search. Didn't they even consider that his reasoning might be wrong, and that they'd all been working for nothing?"

Since Shinichi Kudo was invincible in the past, his social credibility was off the charts.

Hotaru chuckled softly, "I'm very sorry, Kudo."

Your reasoning is quite good, almost 90% accurate, but you still overlooked one detail.

Just keep looking for that wire; I assure you, you definitely won't find it.

The air gradually became humid, and the gentle waves lapped against the pier, splashing pure white fragments that added a touch of the sea's saltiness to the night breeze.

Hotaru slowly stopped his motorcycle, put on his helmet, and got off. As far as the eye could see was the vast, dark sea. This was the long-abandoned Akagi Wharf, Tokyo Bay.

He glanced around.

"Mr. Itahara, come out from behind the blue container. You're too unprofessional."

After a brief silence, a middle-aged man with a stubble beard emerged from the darkness—it was Itagaki, the homeless man the police were desperately searching for!

Ying Sheng took out a roll of banknotes from his red and white motorcycle suit and threw it far away. "Mr. Itahara, don't look so gloomy. You can get 300,000 yen for just acting in a play. Where else can you find such a good deal?"

Itagara hurriedly took the money, roughly counted it under the moonlight, let out a long sigh, nodded to Hotaru, and turned to leave.

"I mean, aren't you even a little bit curious about what will happen next?" Ying Sheng asked playfully.

Itagara paused slightly. "Didn't you say that person wanted to fake his death to avoid yakuza debts? I did see Muddy Society rushing over there not long after I left?"

"Isn't that suspicious?"

Hotaru shrugged. "My task for you is to pretend to be electrocuted and immediately notify me. I arrived in seven minutes, and while Mr. Tojo was picking up the money I accidentally dropped, I took the person down from the treetop and switched him with you."

You leave immediately, and I will use your identity to re-enter, pretending to search for valuables, but actually helping him get into position so that no one can see through my deception.

So here's the question: do you think I'm going through all this trouble really to guard against a mudslide?

Itagara took a step back without making a sound. "Muddy is a very powerful yakuza group. We do need to be careful."

Ying Sheng smiled.

"You should know this too, right? Playing dead to the Yakuza is an incredibly stupid idea. Once they get there, won't they verify it?"

"How would I know what they're thinking?"

"You saw the police, didn't you?"

silence.

"There's a limit to pretending to be stupid, Mr. Itahara."

You actually believed that clumsy talk? You clearly have ulterior motives. Three hundred thousand is too little, let me think… You saw my student ID by chance and are planning to blackmail me later, aren't you?”

Upon hearing this, the usually honest and unassuming Itahara suddenly broke into a sinister grin.

"That's right! Teitan High School, Kenta Nakamichi!"

"Hey kid, I'm returning that line to you. Why didn't you just pretend to be clueless? Why are you forcing me?"

"Sigh...that's true."

Chapter 7 Tokyo Bay, the Organization Attacks!