Detective Conan: I, with my magical powers, am going to destroy the world!

"No, excuse me, I need to go to the restroom first."

As everyone watched Kogoro Mouri awkwardly grin and leave, they couldn't help but burst into laughter, even though they knew it was inappropriate.

However, just as Kogoro was about to make a hasty escape to relieve himself and Inspector Megure and the others were getting anxious, Conan raised his wrist. With a flash of silver light, Detective Mouri froze, and his body became uncontrollable again.

"Why are you here again?"

"What's this?" Inspector Megure stared blankly at Kogoro Mouri, who had collapsed and fallen asleep in front of the stage. Realizing what had happened, he exclaimed in surprise, "Brother Mouri, could it be that you…?"

“That’s right,” Conan said, running under the table next to him and speaking through his voice changer.

"I was just joking, but that's how we found the real culprit. Screenwriter Hiroshige Kusaka, you're the murderer!"

The guests looked at each other in bewilderment, and finally joined Megure and the others in looking at Hiroshige Kusaka, whose expression had changed slightly.

“You’re being ridiculous, Mr. Mori,” Hiroshige Kusaka retorted, his body tensing. “Didn’t you hear what Minamiko said? I was on the phone with her when the incident happened!”

"It was a phone call, someone read a story for twenty minutes. It was probably a pre-recorded audio recording, right? The IC recorder is still in your room. Although the recording should have been deleted, your alibi is now problematic."

Conan continued his deduction: "You played a pre-recorded story to the other party through the receiver. Just in case, you did this several times before, not allowing Ms. Minami to speak in the middle, and then used this time to kill the Yashiro father and daughter."

"Evidence? Where's the evidence?" Hiroshige gritted his teeth. "Putting aside the fact that I didn't record the story, even if I did, what makes you think I committed murder?"

“Of course there is evidence,” Conan said with a smile.

"It's your hair, haven't you noticed yet? There's a clump that's turned black. You probably didn't notice because your hair color is similar to the color of blood, right? But blood turns into clots after a while, and the color changes."

“Inspector Megure,” Conan said, pulling the tablecloth open a crack as he looked at Megure, who was blocking Hironari Kusaka, “while you’re at it, take off the scarf around his neck. If my reasoning is correct, the bruises shouldn’t have disappeared yet. They’re the scratches or finger marks left by Chairman Yashiro when he fought back desperately after being attacked by you.”

"Please wait a moment."

Kusaka chuckled dryly and took a step back, then suddenly pulled out a remote control button: "Because I still have an ace up my sleeve. Don't touch it, or I'll detonate a bomb!"

"If you don't want the ship to sink, then you'd better do as I say!"

As Higashin forced everyone around him to retreat, the guests gasped in surprise, leaving the middle seat empty. Everyone looked in panic at the button Higashin was holding.

Hikaru glared menacingly at Megure and his group of police officers.

Chapter 533 You're really just a tool

"Calm down!" Megure, his brow beaded with sweat, stared at Kusaka's thumb, which seemed poised to press a button at any moment, and swallowed hard. "Kusaka-san, why did you do such a thing?!"

"Of course, it's to avenge my father!"

Hikaru sneered, "The crew member who perished in the shipwreck of the Yatsushiro merchant ship fifteen years ago was my father!"

"But wasn't that an accident?"

“An accident? Hmph, two years ago, I heard many suspicious points about that shipwreck from a colleague who came to pay respects to my father.”

"At the time, the president of Yatsushiro Merchant Ships and the Yatsushiro father and daughter, who served as directors, planned to sink the cargo ship in order to defraud insurance money. In order to get rid of Captain Okita, who always demanded better treatment for the crew, they recruited Kaito, who was then the first mate."

Kusaka kept a distance from the crowd, coldly looking at Captain Kaito, who stood on the stage with a sullen face.

"Yes, Haito agreed to join them, made Captain Okita drink coffee laced with sleeping pills, and then deliberately caused the ship to crash into an iceberg on May 520th, while simultaneously detonating a bomb that had been prepared in sight."

"The location of the bomb should have been based on the instructions of the designer, Hidetoshi Yashiro, right? In the end, everyone was rescued, except for the captain and my father."

"This is the truth!"

"Don't be impulsive, Kusaka," Megure said, trying to calm the somewhat hysterical Kusaka. "What else do you want? You've already killed the Yashiro father and daughter."

"Need I say more?" Kusaka chuckled as he looked at Kaito. "I originally planned to blow up this ship like this guy did, and then kill him in the chaos. But it's too late to say anything now."

"Don't be impulsive, Osamu! Take your finger off the button first."

"Stop talking!"

Hiroshige Kusaka suddenly pressed the remote control button, but nothing happened.

His expression changed immediately, and he quickly pressed the button twice more, but nothing happened.

At that moment, a voice rang out.

"Don't panic, everyone. I've already defused the bomb."

Chi Chufeng said calmly.

"Oh right, I was so nervous just now that I forgot Lord Chichu was here."

"With Lord Chichu here, how could the criminals possibly succeed?"

"But weren't the Yatsushiro father and daughter dead?"

"Haven't you heard? The Onmyoji is the nemesis of evil. The Yatsushiro father and daughter deserved what they did."

Captain Haiteng suddenly knelt on the ground and shouted, "Lord Chichu, I am guilty. I surrender and beg you to let the law punish me."

He was terrified, fearing he would suffer the same fate as the Yatsudai father and daughter.

All eyes turned to Chi Chufeng.

Chi Chufeng walked over.

Hiroshige looked at him in a panic and cried out, "What, what are you going to do? I'm not afraid of you!"

Chi Chufeng laughed and said, "Do you want to know the real murderer?"

"The real culprit?" Hiroshige Kusaka was taken aback.

Chi Chufeng pointed to his neck.

"You still have strangulation marks on your neck, and scratches on the back of your commemorative trench coat. You must have been accidentally attacked by the Eighth Chairman and pinned to the ground, right? How could you possibly kill the Eighth Chairman like that?"

"Hmph," Kusaka helped himself up by the stair railing and looked at Akatsuki with apprehension. "The old man did indeed pin me down and choke me, but he was right next to the open gate when I threw him into the sea with an over-the-shoulder throw."

"How interesting. Are you trying to say I'm not the murderer? That Mori detective from earlier..."

Chi Chufeng said, "You are nothing more than the murderer's tool."

"tool?"

"Haven't you realized it yet? From the very beginning, you've just been a criminal pushed into the open. The bloodstains near the gate are from a relatively low place where they dripped onto the ground."

"It happened during your fight with Chairman Yatsushiro that someone stabbed him in the back. The Japan Coast Guard will be able to confirm this very soon. Chairman Yatsushiro had a knife stuck in his back."

"What?" Conan was slightly surprised when he heard what Aka Chufeng said.

He hadn't thought of any of this yet. If the eighth chairman really did have a knife stuck in his back, it meant there was another culprit behind the scenes who helped Hiroshige Kusaka at a crucial moment.

"And then there's President Kijima's side," Akatsuka Kaze continued, "there was someone else who killed President Kijima."

"Nonsense!" Rixia's forehead veins throbbed. "I clearly killed that woman with my own hands before I came down."

"Is it really?"

Chi Chufeng laughed and said, "There is fake blood plasma next to the corpse. Although it looks very similar to real blood, it is not real blood. The blood clots splattered on your hair can be identified with a simple examination."

"H-How is that possible?" Hijikata's eyes widened, and he stood there dumbfounded. "I did kill that woman. She had just finished taking a shower."

"Did you see the face? I found it strange when they found the body; the towel was covering the face, so you probably didn't see it, right?"

Chi Chufeng said, "You know absolutely nothing. You couldn't have committed the crime without someone else's help. You're really just a tool."

Chapter 534 The Desperate Girl in Gothic Attire

"If that's the case, who is the real culprit?" Hikaru looked at Akatsuki with trembling eyes, his eyes bloodshot.

“Of course, it’s the person Detective Mori first pointed out.” Akatsuka Kaze turned to look at Akiyoshi Minamiko.

"What? This, this is impossible!" Conan was stunned.

When facing Akatsuki Kaze, Minako Akiyoshi did not act as she did when facing Kogoro Mouri.

Her face was filled with despair.

Akatsuka Kaze continued, "Akiyoshi Minami also used the twenty minutes that Kusaka acted as an alibi. Living on the 5th floor, she was able to enter room 604 first, knock out President Takae, and then dress up as President Takae being murdered. The fake blood on the floor is proof of that."

"Did I really mistake you for someone else?" Hiroshige asked in disbelief.

"President Takae's exposed hands and legs are very well-maintained, almost like those of Akiyoshi Minamiko. The only thing that might give her away is her face, which she deliberately covered with a towel. Plus, you were very flustered at the time, so you were fooled."

"Why did she do that?" Hiroshige asked.

"Of course I don't trust you. You didn't even notice that the Eighth Chairman was pretending to faint, and you were almost thrown into the sea. Your abilities are really weak."

"I'm resigned to my fate," Minako Akiyoshi said.

"I am the daughter of the captain who was murdered 15 years ago. When he contacted me as a designer, in addition to designing an alibi, he was probably also trying to extract information about the ship."

“I peeked at his computer and learned the truth, and his actions were completely under my control. It’s just a pity that I didn’t expect Lord Chichu to be on this ship. When I saw you, I knew this would happen.”

All the prisoners were taken away by the police, including the captain.

After all, given his past record of blowing up ships, no one dared to let him command navigation.

"Fifteen years ago, the Yatsushiro merchant ship sank. With the recent Aphrodite incident coming to light, Captain Kaito Wataru confessed that he was instructed by the Yatsushiro father and daughter who were killed in the incident."

"The Onmyoji has solved the Aphrodite incident and saved all the passengers on board!"

Looking at the newspaper in front of him, Chi Chufeng's lips curled up slightly.

It is now several days after that incident.