The attempt was to find possible connections between the characters left by the deceased in ink on the Japanese syllabary (hiragana and katakana) and thus deduce the identity of the real murderer.
Seeing Kazuha Toyama like this, Ran Mouri couldn't help but feel a little impatient.
While Hattori Heiji was looking at the calendar in the room and seemed to be deep in thought, she quietly approached Conan, put her hands together, and said apologetically.
"Conan, I'm a little sorry, but Kazuha really wants to see the Takarazuka performance."
"Could you please help us understand what these death messages mean?"
...Isn't cheating a bit wrong?
Conan hesitated for a moment.
However, upon seeing Ran Mouri's gaze, he hesitated repeatedly before finally deciding to slightly violate his principles as a detective. After all, the person who made the bet with Ran Mouri and the others this time was not him, but Heiji Hattori.
It's not like he's losing face.
However, just as Conan was about to explain his discovery to Ran Mouri...
Heiji Hattori suddenly appeared, grabbing Conan by the back of his collar and lifting him up.
"No, no, this brat is on our side."
"Sister Lan, using your beauty to seduce that brat is too cunning, isn't it?"
He spoke with some dissatisfaction in his Osaka accent.
These words immediately made everyone feel Hattori Heiji's straight-man mentality of eliminating all possibilities of failure in order to win, which made Mouri Ran sigh.
There's no way to find out the truth from Conan, with Heiji Hattori blocking the way.
She had originally wanted to try and see if Mr. Chen En would help.
However, Mr. Chen En didn't seem to have said a word since entering the room; he was just drinking coffee. I don't know why he's been drinking his coffee for so long, sip after sip, and he still hasn't finished it.
Heiji Hattori led Conan to the other side and began to observe the unusual situation on the table.
Left with no other choice, Ran Mouri returned to Kazuha Toyama's side and stayed with her to think about the problem.
Only Sonoko Suzuki, one of the contestants, stroked her chin, still looking like she didn't understand, completely bewildered. Then she couldn't help but ask Chen En, who was holding a coffee next to her, in a low voice.
"Arn, do you know how to solve this case?"
Hearing this, Chen En glanced at Hattori Heiji and Conan, who seemed to still be looking at the table setting, before whispering in Suzuki Sonoko's ear.
"One of the suspects who came in was lying."
Sonoko Suzuki: !
How did you figure that out?
Sonoko Suzuki had no doubt that Chen En had given her false information, or that Chen En had misjudged her.
After all, this is the real-world Batman.
Whether it's her reasoning ability or her fighting skills, she's at the pinnacle among detectives. She certainly wouldn't be mistaken about something so small, and Ahn has never lied to her.
Therefore, Sonoko Suzuki couldn't wait and asked in a low voice.
"What do you mean by that? Arn, how did you figure that out?"
"I heard that Batman seems to have mastered very advanced psychological skills and can do things like mind reading."
"Did you just use mind reading to read their micro-expressions?"
What are you thinking about?
Just now, only Iwatoshi was speaking.
Chen En twitched the corner of his mouth and said softly.
"It's a very simple thing, but no one else has noticed it."
"I don't know if you've noticed the calendar on the wall. It shows July, but Inspector Megure said the deceased died in June."
He was somewhat curious as to why the calendar's time moved in the normal direction.
However, he wasn't dwelling on anything at this point. After all, he, as a transmigrator, didn't need to understand scientific worldviews so thoroughly; as long as he could solve the case, that was enough.
However, Sonoko Suzuki hadn't quite grasped what was going on at this point.
She blinked, then asked curiously.
"Th-what happened?"
"Since it's July now, isn't it normal that the calendar above has been changed to July as well?"
As soon as she said that, Sonoko Suzuki finally realized that something was wrong.
Wait a minute, why is the calendar showing July?
Normally, it's possible for someone to change their June calendar to a July calendar over time, but the problem is that this is absolutely impossible.
Putting aside what others have said, only the deceased would turn the pages of the calendar, and no one else was allowed to touch it.
The time of the deceased's death alone is highly suspicious.
The deceased died suddenly in June, so logically, when the police arrived at the crime scene, nothing at the scene should have been changed again.
The calendar should remain unchanged from June.
The fact that the calendar changed from June to July suggests that one of the four people who entered the crime scene earlier deliberately flipped through the calendar, or even tore off a page.
Only in this way will the calendar change from June to July!
Sonoko Suzuki's heart skipped a beat.
It seems the real culprit is indeed among the suspects.
However, the fact that no one else reported it suggests that either they didn't notice this detail, or they were accomplices. In either case, relying solely on the calendar is unlikely to secure the outcome.
It seems we need more clues.
Just as Suzuki Sonoko was preparing to continue fleecing Chen En next to her.
Faint sobs came from behind me.
At that moment, Sonoko Suzuki and En Chen turned to look at Kazuha Toyama and Ran Mouri, who were facing away from them and seemingly writing something in front of the bookshelf. The crying sound was coming from Kazuha Toyama.
The little girl seemed to have burst into tears because she had absolutely no clue what to do.
Chen En and Suzuki Sonoko were silent for a moment before speaking in unison.
"...You really cried?"
They exchanged another glance.
How about we help Toyama and Hajime win a game?
Chapter 1092 I tested it, and I've been enlightened!
Hattori Heiji, who was originally planning to deliver a crushing blow to his childhood friend, also noticed the situation on Toyama Kazuha's side. His gaze, which had been fixed on the pen holder on the table, shifted to that side.
Held up by him, Conan, who now had a full view of the desk, instinctively nudged Hattori Heiji with his elbow.
His perspective was still a bit too low, and he wanted Hattori Heiji to raise it a bit more. However, when he noticed that Hattori Heiji didn't react at all, he subconsciously looked up and followed Hattori Heiji's gaze towards Toyama Kazuha and Mouri Ran.
Conan: ?
Wow, this scene seems a little too explosive.
However, I'm sure the famous Kansai detective, who claims to have a detective's soul and says that girls would only slow down his deductions, will remain unmoved. Let's take another look at the situation on the table...
However, at that moment, Hattori Heiji suddenly spoke loudly.
"Hey Conan, don't you think this pen holder on the desk looks a bit strange?"
He seemed to be saying this intentionally to others.
"The pen holder and ink bottle are very close together, and quite far from the original location of the building blocks. Normally, if it was really because the two people were fighting that the building blocks were accidentally swept away and the ink bottle was knocked over."
"Then how could a pen holder, something that would tip over with the slightest force from another direction, remain intact in its original position?"
Upon hearing this, Conan realized Hattori Heiji's choice.
It seems like this guy's detective spirit temporarily left his body for a moment. He was just telling him not to help Ran Mouri and the others, but now he's giving out the answers himself, isn't he?
Conan paused for a moment before continuing.
"Yes, isn't that a bit too strange? It's almost as if someone deliberately knocked these things over to the ground, in order to leave a message of death for the deceased."
"But isn't this idea a bit too strange?"
Their words prompted others to think.
Kogoro Mouri stroked his chin, also finding the situation strange.
However, before he could speak, Chen En stretched out his free hand, which was not holding the coffee cup, and gently pointed with his finger at the photo on the table and the diagram drawn by the man in the paper, and said.
"Sometimes, it's necessary to reverse your thinking appropriately."
"The answer is in the riddle itself from the beginning. Don't think about why the murderer would deliberately leave a message of death for the victim. Instead, think about whether the murderer could not achieve his goal without leaving a message of death for the victim."
"Don't think about why the toy cubes with ink stains left by the deceased seem unrelated. Instead, think about why the deceased felt that doing so would deceive the murderer and reveal the murderer's true identity."
Compared to Conan's reminder, Heiji Kimono's advice was more effective.
Chen En's words were even clearer; just by listening, one could tell that he had seen through the entire key to the case, otherwise he wouldn't have given such a directional reverse reasoning method.
Kazuha Toyama, who had just been scribbling in his notebook, finally realized what was happening.
She quickly wiped away her tears with her sleeve. Following the physical reversal of the characters 【お、も、ち、や】 in the death information given by the deceased, the opposite characters that appeared were 【い、わ、と、み】.
If it were someone from out of town, they would definitely say that my test is full of pseudonyms, who can understand it?
However, it is much easier for locals, since as long as it is not entirely in katakana, kana is actually easier for them to understand.
"I understand, thank you for reminding me, Mr. Chen En!"
Kazuha Toyama said earnestly.
"Indeed, we need to reverse our thinking to find the real answer, because looking at the ink marks on the front is useless. We have to turn the building block upside down and look at the back."
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