The cross-dressing master in the world of Detective Conan

Kazama Kaoru came up with the escape plan. Others might think Kogoro Mouri is foolish, but he's not that stupid. All signs indicate that he's a wise man who appears foolish. Anyone who thinks he's a fool is truly a fool.

With such awkward acting skills, it's best not to show them off in front of Uncle Mori, who's pretending to be confused.

Unlike Eri Kisaki, this guy really watched Shinichi Kudo grow up, yet he managed to fool this guy with an IQ of 220. Although the reason is unclear, it's definitely not simple.

Some later generations speculated that Conan's foster care at Kogoro Mouri's house was actually the result of discussions between the Kudo couple and the Mouri couple. If this is true, then Uncle Mouri's sacrifice was immense; to withstand the torment of hundreds of tranquilizer darts is truly remarkable.

"Actually, Conan, you know that the key to finding the culprit as quickly as possible is figuring out how to solve the problem of no gunpowder residue after firing a gun; otherwise, it's all just nonsense."

Kazama Kaoru only took half a day off, which is why he ran away halfway through his pretense. Let Conan take the blame for this. Who told him to use an alternate account? He deserved to be taken offline.

Another important reason is that this damned cross-dressing system is determined to stop me from pretending anymore.

Is she afraid that the men's clothing will grow onto her body and she won't be able to tear it off? Kazama Kaoru said that her mischievous cheat code is doomed.

However, before his cheat ability was destroyed, he still had no way to fight back directly, so he could only obediently put on women's clothing like a timid wife.

After all, life is like rape; if you can't resist, you can only enjoy it.

Before long, Conan and Kaoru Kazama arrived at the Beika Sun Plaza Hotel, which was the scene of the crime.

There are no longer police cordons here, but plainclothes police officers can still be seen loitering around the area.

As the saying goes, experience counts, and Chief Odagiri certainly has the skills to turn the overt investigation into covert operations.

Statistics show that 83 percent of perpetrators return to the scene of the crime after committing it.

As for serial killers, they are unlikely to escape unprepared like manslaughter killers. Their psychological resilience is often stronger, which means they are more likely to return to the scene.

"Big sister, have you seen an umbrella lying there?"

Conan, with an adorable face, went to fawn over the receptionist, while Kaoru Kazama, as the commander of this investigation, said that he only needed to stay in the rear.

Regardless of what Conan was thinking, after sacrificing his looks and being teased by the receptionist, Conan finally managed to get the tattered umbrella.

"If I'm not mistaken, this should be the way the killer made it so that no gunpowder residue was left when he fired the gun."

Kazama Kaoru and Conan exchanged a glance, understanding each other's thoughts. However, Conan was puzzled when Kazama Kaoru turned away with a look of disgust.

A million curses ran through my mind: "If you look down on me, then what's the point of even looking at each other? All that excitement I felt just now was wasted!"

Kaoru Kazama didn't mean anything by it; he just felt that the action was a bit too gay and he wasn't used to it. He thought it would be better to let Conan's best friend Hattori do it.

"Do you remember that woman named Tamaki Nino who appeared at the event with Toshiya Odagiri before?"

"You noticed it too, right? That Nino Tamaki seems to be consciously following Odagiri Toshiya. She probably has a lot of clues. But I guess you'll have to take charge in the end. People who are willing to investigate on their own are usually very confident in their intelligence, like you. You two are definitely birds of a feather."

Conan rolled his eyes. He realized that this guy was either insulting him or digging his own grave all day long.

He must have done something bad in his past life, which is why he hasn't met many normal women besides Xiaolan.

Conan was thinking of his middle school music teacher who loved to torture him, Sonoko who enjoyed teasing him after he shrunk, and Ai Haibara, the mad scientist. Add to that Kazama Kaoru, who has been relentlessly trying to trick Conan for a hundred years. It's no wonder he came up with this theory.

Since that Tamaki Nino is following Toshiya Odagiri, there's no need to bother looking for her. Just knowing where Toshiya Odagiri is is enough.

Kaoru Kazama made a direct call to Officer Shiratori, who was monitoring Toshiya Odagiri. He quickly got Odagiri's current address, a place where underground bands often performed. Officer Shiratori had been there quite a few times recently and knew these places very well.

"Get in the car. I already know where Odagiri Toshiya is. He also brought you a little gift."

"Gift?"

Conan got into the car with his skateboard in his arms and took the documents from Kaoru Kazama with a puzzled look.

"These are the details of the case involving Nino Yasushi. I even stole some information from Officer Narasawa's police handbook for you. If this gets discovered, I'll probably be fired. You'd be really heartless if you didn't thank me properly."

"Yes, yes, thank you very much, Officer Kazama."

The two witnessed a heated conflict as soon as they arrived at the location. Odagiri Toshiya's skills were still unknown, but he certainly had a temper. He was probably fed up with Jinno Tamaki's stalking and a verbal argument broke out on the spot, but Jinno Tamaki silenced him with her retort.

This made Kazama Kaoru, who was just about to watch the show, curl his lip, realizing that it was all show and no substance.

"You must be Ms. Tamaki Nino. My surname is Kazama, and I am a detective with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. I've come to ask you some questions."

Although they were determined to make Conan the main force, they still needed to make things clear, since people's descriptions were often subjective, which could seriously interfere with the investigators' judgment of the case.

After a friendly chat with Ms. Jinno Tamaki, Conan and Kazama Kaoru officially split up. Conan followed Ms. Jinno Tamaki to the enemy's headquarters—the home of Chief Odagiri Toshiya.

Kaoru Kazama went to Yasushi Nino's house to see if he could find any more clues.

He was somewhat dismissive of Conan's reasoning. Could he really tell who the culprit was just by looking at whether someone was left-handed or right-handed? They'd already found three or four left-handed people in the last few days.

Kaoru Kazama, who always thought the world was dominated by right-handed people, has now discovered that there are so many left-handed people around him.

Due to the structure of the human body, the left brain controls the right hand, and the right brain controls the left hand. People who are good at using their left hand have a higher level of development of their right brain than normal people. This also helps to reduce the burden on the left brain and mobilize the two brains to think together.

To put it simply, it's like adding an extra processor.

Thinking about it this way, it's not surprising that so many high-IQ crimes occur in the Conan world.

Having exhausted all their mental abilities, how could they not do something mentally taxing to justify all the hard work they put into practicing left-handed swordsmanship back then? Not everyone has a bird to entrust their emotions to, so all sorts of bizarre murder methods and locked-room murder techniques were born.

Chapter 196 That Straight Line of Blood

After dropping Conan off in Tamaki Nino's car, Kaoru Kazama turned around and headed to Tamaki Nino's house.

Fortunately, it wasn't far from here; it was less than a ten-minute drive before Kazama Kaoru arrived at Ninoho's residence.

It was a studio apartment building. Although a murder had occurred there, it didn't look very dilapidated. Because of Jinno Tamaki's suspicions about his brother's death, he hadn't stopped paying rent. Therefore, no one else had moved into the studio apartment building since Jinno Yasushi's murder.

According to Tamaki Nino herself, she had come here a few times, but since she didn't see anything unusual, and she also learned from her brother's diary that he had been blackmailed by Toshiya Odagiri, she focused her attention on him and didn't continue to investigate the scene.

Thinking about it, while Toshiya Odagiri may have brought this upon himself to some extent, Tamaki Nino's constant surveillance and tracking over the past three months has indeed caused him a lot of trouble.

Putting everything else aside, the fact that after a great performance, many female fans would come to ask for autographs and contact information has always been this guy's favorite part.

However, ever since he was stalked by Tamaki Nino, this part has become his nightmare.

A woman with a cold expression stood next to him with her arms crossed, glaring at anyone who came near; that was enough to make him immune to the opposite sex.

Especially seeing the other members of the group doing so well, while he had no girls around him except for this woman who was single-mindedly monitoring him, he was extremely depressed.

"Click"

Kaoru Kazama easily opened the door with the key given to her by Tamaki Nino; otherwise, it might have taken a bit more effort.

At first glance, it was a very ordinary studio apartment.

The decor is quite innovative; there's a bar counter in the living room, which suggests the apartment's owner is probably an alcoholic.

The traces at the scene were almost gone, after all, a whole year had passed, and even the bloodstains had disappeared.

However, Kazama Kaoru did not appear flustered at all, and calmly retrieved the equipment he needed from the system's space.

A dark purple blazer-style school uniform, with a white shirt underneath, a pair of pure black gloves, a black skirt and over-the-knee stockings, and oh right, the symbol of Japanese high school girls—round-toed leather shoes.

This outfit is the attire of Kyoko Kirigiri, the female protagonist of the anime Danganronpa.

Kaoru Kazama put on all the equipment one by one. With so many women's clothes, male dignity was no longer so important. Even the action of putting on stockings was so skillful.

Finally, I put on those round-toed leather shoes, and they were quite comfortable. It's said that these are system-issued equipment that have a speed boost, but how much of a boost you get depends on luck.

Kyoko Kirigiri comes from a family of detectives with the ancestral motto of "complete the detective work first, then send your family off on their final journey." She possesses superb intelligence and keen observation skills. Her father and grandfather were both famous detectives, and she was deeply influenced by them. She has an extraordinary obsession with the truth and has always earnestly implemented her grandfather's teaching that "you must risk your life when identifying the murderer." She is a mysterious and taciturn girl.

After Kazama Kaoru stood up wearing round-toed leather shoes, a halo enveloped him from head to toe, like an X-ray scan. During this process, his hair turned into long, light purple hair, and his eyes became the same purple pupils as Sato's.

This was his first time doing a full cosplay. Unlike his previous borrowing of power, this time he also absorbed some of Kirigiri Kyoko's memories, including her confusion about her origins. This resonated deeply with Kazama Kaoru, who had lived two lives but remained alone.

After the memory transfer was completed, Kaoru Kazama's aura changed drastically.

Kazama Kaoru used to give people a lazy feeling. The title of Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's number one lazy bum was not for nothing. In Sato's words, Kazama Kaoru looked like he had his spine broken and nailed to his desk.

Now, Kazama Kaoru has a detached look in her eyes, and her character has changed from a dreamless slacker to a cool goddess. Paired with a suit jacket and over-the-knee stockings, it's safe to say that if she dares to go to work at the Metropolitan Police Department, she'll attract lolicon to turn herself in in no time.

"This feeling seems a little different."

Kaoru Kazama murmured. He had not fully absorbed Kyoko Kirigiri's memories. If there was any change, it was only in appearance. In his heart, he was still that lazy bum.

Now it's time to get down to business. Kazama Kaoru's purpose in coming here isn't just to test the new character's abilities, but more importantly, to find evidence that Jinno Yasushi was murdered.

The greatest benefit of Kyoko Kirigiri Mode is that it places him in a state of extreme rationality, as if nothing can affect him, and he possesses an extraordinary sixth sense, described in the original work as: "A special sixth sense that allows him to even hear the footsteps of death under special circumstances."

First, near the bar, after spraying luminol, no bloodstains were found on the bar. However, about ten centimeters away from the bar bench, a trail of bloodstains appeared that gradually became smaller and even showed some deformation.

The size of bloodstains is usually determined by the height from which they fall, and they appear as splatters.

When at rest, the shape of a blood droplet is fixed. The fact that it shifts to one side indicates that the body is in motion when the blood is falling.

Because the place had been vacant for a long time, a lot of dust had accumulated, which caused some trouble for Kaoru Kazama's bloodstain analysis.

However, it also brought benefits. The stool placed on the right side of the bar was shifted about five or six centimeters to the right, and the color of the dust on the floor was noticeably different from that next to it.

The trail of blood indicates that the deceased was getting increasingly close to the ground during the process of dying.

This is easy to understand. It's simply a matter of cutting your own neck, then slowly losing consciousness and falling down. Only then will the bloodstains gradually shrink and change shape.

Kazama Kaoru stood where the trail of blood had been, and in a state of absolute calm, his mind began to simulate the entire process of the deceased falling to his death.

The deceased slashed his own carotid artery, causing blood to spurt out. He gradually lost consciousness, collapsing onto a bar stool and leaving a straight trail of blood on the floor.

Conan's guess is that if the culprit is left-handed, he would have gone behind the victim to avoid getting blood on his body and used his left hand to make a cut from top to bottom towards the carotid artery.

However, modern law emphasizes evidence. In a world where left-handed people are prevalent, one cannot judge someone as a criminal simply because they are left-handed.

After simulating the scene, Kaoru Kazama discovered a suspicious point.

Ignoring the interference of surrounding spurting blood, observe only the straight trail of moving blood.

If someone commits suicide, especially by severing an artery, then without a doubt, the amount of bleeding will be enormous, as can be seen from the spurting blood around the victim.

However, normal people can feel pain. Even if someone is determined to commit suicide, they still cannot stop the nerves from transmitting pain. Moreover, this method of suicide by cutting open an artery will inevitably bring both psychological and physiological fear when blood is gushing out.

When in pain, people will unconsciously press on the wound to relieve the pain, and the muscles will also contract.

Based on the above reasoning, if the deceased committed suicide, it would be impossible for only this one trail of moving blood to be produced, let alone for it to be so straight.

Unless he felt no pain and calmly lay down slowly while bleeding profusely, he would not have left bloodstains of this shape.

It is clear that someone cut his carotid artery from behind and slowly laid him down after he lost consciousness, which is why this happened.

Chapter 197 The Detective's Aesthetic View

Upon discovery, it must be reported immediately. Currently, the determination of Nino Yasushi's death is still that it was a suicide. The police officer has some speculation, but without evidence, it is just speculation.

Kazama Kaoru's discovery triggered a series of reactions. If Nino Yasushi's death was a murder, then there would be one more suspect in the shooting of the detective: the murderer who killed Nino Yasushi.