Conan: The Heart Thief

Maori Kogoro took the business card and asked, "Oh, Ms. Tsujimura, then, what do you want to entrust me with?"

"To be exact, my husband and I need your help to investigate someone. Oh, by the way, my husband is a diplomat." Tsujimura Kimie looked a little impatient. He took out a stack of information from the black bag he carried with him and handed it to Mouri Kogoro.

"Okay." Maori Kogoro took the information and looked it over. "So, you want me to investigate the character of your son's girlfriend?"

"Yes, these are her photos and resume." Kimie Tsujimura nodded.

The woman in the photo is a young and beautiful woman with short curly dark brown hair and a beautiful smile.

"Ms. Katsuragi Sachiko, 24 years old this year, graduated with first place in both Mitsuha Junior High School and Mitsuha Senior High School. She is currently studying at Toudou Medical University, and is determined to become a female doctor who saves lives." Maori Kogoro put down the information after reading this, and was very confused. "From the information, this girl is a person with both good character and good academic performance. What are you dissatisfied with her?"

"No." Tsujimura Kimie lowered his eyelids slightly, "It's just..."

Tsujimura Kimie looked hesitant, not knowing how to explain.

At this time, Hattori Heiji interrupted in a smart way: "The woman in the photo must be too perfect, so she is not pleasing to the eye. Humans are suspicious and jealous animals. It is not surprising that a mother is jealous of her son's girlfriend. Am I right? Ms. Tsujimura?"

After hearing these words, Tsujimura Kimie's face immediately turned cold and he looked quite dissatisfied.

"Detective Maori, who is this guy?"

"Ah, this..." Maori Kogoro looked embarrassed, "He is my daughter's friend."

Tsujimura Kimie didn't say anything else. He stood up impatiently and said, "In short, you can discuss the details with my husband after you get to my house."

Maori Kogoro was surprised and asked, "Excuse me, am I going to come over now? In that case, why don't you two come together?"

Facing Maori Kogoro's words, Tsujimura Kimie's face became even more impatient: "My husband is a diplomat. If people knew that he went to a place like this..."

"There will be a scandal," Hattori Heiji continued to make his own decision, "Then please let us go with you."

Tsujimura Kimie asked, “Why?”

"If so many of us go there together, others will just think we are relatives or friends visiting, not detectives!" said Hattori Heiji.

Kogoro Mori, who was about to get angry, thought it made sense after hearing this and suppressed his anger.

"Okay, let's do this, let them come together." Tsujimura Kimie put on his sunglasses again and instructed Maori Kogoro.

"Yes, Mrs. Tsujimura."

As a result...the group followed Kogoro Mori.

On the way, Ran Maoli was always worried about Conan's condition.

"Conan, why did you have to come with me when you're like this? At a time like this, you should stay at home and rest."

"I'm fine, I'm fine!" Conan said dizzily.

Chapter 22 Tokyo Rent Collector

Tsujimura Residence.

"Madam, you're back!" The butler Fumio Koike, wearing a black suit and a black bow tie, came to greet them.

"Where is the master?" asked Kimie Tsujimura.

Koike Fumio replied: "I think the master should be in the study." Then, Koike Fumio set his sights on the guests, "These guests are..."

Tsujimura Kimie said in a cold tone: "Don't ask too many questions."

"Yes, ma'am." Koike Fumio shut up tactfully.

Just then, a gentle and clear girl's voice sounded.

"Mom, I'm sorry to bother you."

Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw the girl they had just seen in the photo appear in front of them.

She wore a dark blue headband on her dark brown hair and a very elegant light purple jacket, with a dazzling smile on her delicate little face.

"Ah, it's in the photo..."

Before Kogoro Mori could finish the second half of the sentence, Hattori Heiji covered his mouth with his hand.

Tsujimura Kimie said to the girl with an unhappy look on his face: "Why are you here?"

"I asked her to come," a handsome young man walked out from behind the girl named Sachiko Katsuragi and put his arm around her shoulder in a friendly manner. "Although Daddy didn't want to see Sachiko, I forced him to agree to meet her."

The young man who spoke was the son of a diplomat, Takayoshi Tsujimura.

At this time, Katsuragi Sachiko turned her attention to the guests and asked politely, "Excuse me, are these guests my mother's friends?"

Tsujimura Kimie's expression immediately fell: "It has nothing to do with you."

"Eh?" Katsuragi Sachiko was startled by Tsujimura Kimie's harsh words.

"Also, I don't think you have the status to call me mom directly now." Tsujimura Kimie's eyes were extremely unfriendly.

"Yes, I'm sorry." Katsuragi Sachiko looked sad and lowered her head, not daring to say anything else.

"Everyone, please follow me." Without paying any more attention to his son and his girlfriend, Kimie Tsujimura led the guests upstairs.

Everyone came to the study on the second floor, and the sound of melodious music came.

Boom boom boom!

Tsujimura Kimie knocked gently on the door and called out, "Honey, Mr. Maori is here. Honey?"

She called several times, but no one opened the door. "Strange, isn't he inside?" she muttered, took out the key from her bag, and opened the door. She found that her husband was clearly in the study, but he didn't say a word.

"Honey, aren't you in the study? Why didn't you answer the door? Really, the stereo was on and he fell asleep like this." Seeing that her husband had fallen asleep with his eyes closed, she couldn't help but walk over and try to wake him up.

The others standing at the door were also full of questions. How could this diplomat sleep with the music so loud?

What's even more bizarre is that even when Kimie Tsujimura approached and called her husband, she was unable to wake him up.

Hattori Heiji noticed something was wrong, and came to the side in a few quick steps. He put his hand on the nose of diplomat Tsujimura Isao and said in a deep voice: "He is dead."

"what!"

After Maori Kogoro learned about the situation, he immediately stepped forward to confirm the death of the diplomat.

Conan was looking for clues nearby, trying to find any traces from the crime scene.

Lin Xiao gently placed his hand on the frightened Xiaolan's shoulder: "Call the police, Xiaolan!"

"Yes." Xiaolan immediately took out her cell phone and called the police.

……

After some time, the police arrived.

It’s still Inspector Megure, who works diligently all year round.

Inspector Megure was holding a small notebook with a serious look on his face.

"The deceased is Tsujimura Dodo, 54 years old, a diplomat..."

As he spoke, Inspector Megure turned and looked at Kogoro Mouri.

"Brother Maori, what do you think?"

"Ah this..."

Maori Kogoro's mind was empty, and he couldn't even tell whether the deceased was killed, committed suicide, or died accidentally. Fortunately, the man behind him, Conan, saved him.

"Look carefully, that corpse!" Conan pointed at the red dot at the base of the corpse's ear, "This must be..."

"Poisoned." Hattori Heiji responded in a deep voice.

"The diplomat was poisoned. The evidence is that in addition to a small red dot on the edge of his hair, there was also a needle next to his body that looked like the murder weapon. Although this uncle was holding his cheek with his hand when he died, I think he was probably stabbed to death with a poison needle and then deliberately put himself in this position."

"Ah? Really?" Kogoro Mouri was completely confused.

"Of course it's true, Detective Maori, you don't know anything." Hattori Heiji looked disdainful, not understanding how someone like Maori Kogoro could be a famous detective. "Considering that the body was still warm and there was no rigor mortis or livor mortis, the time of death should be within 30 minutes of the time the deceased was found dead."

Inspector Megure looked at Hattori Heiji who was talking in confusion: "Who are you?"

"I'm Hattori Heiji, a high school detective from Kansai."

"Hattori Heiji?" Officer Megure muttered, and then suddenly realized, "Oh, it's you! The son of Hattori Heizo, the chief of the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters."

"The Chief of Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters?" Kogoro Mori was stunned. He had seen the Chief of Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters on TV, but he really couldn't imagine that the son of the Chief of Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters would be so dark. Did he marry an African woman?

"A-choo!" Suddenly, Conan sneezed violently.

"Conan, are you okay?" Ran Mouri asked with concern.

"I'm fine! Sister Xiaolan," Conan quickly wiped the sweat from his forehead. He felt his body becoming more and more uncomfortable. He felt dizzy and had no strength in his body!

Officer Megure stroked his chin and said, "So, all the windows in the study are locked from the inside. It is impossible to get out of the room. This door is the only entrance and exit. Those of you who hold the key to this room are definitely not immune."

Then, Inspector Megure turned to Tsujimura Kimie and asked, "Madam, there should be several keys to this study, right?"

“No, there isn’t one,” Tsujimura Kimie shook his head, “There are only two keys to the study.”

"Only two?" Officer Megure was stunned.

"Yes," Tsujimura Kimie reached out and took out a key with a key ring from the bag he was carrying. "One is the one in my hand, and the other is with my husband."

"On your husband?" Officer Megure said in astonishment.

"Well," said Tsujimura Kimie, "my husband usually puts it in his trouser pocket."

"Is that so? Then I'll go check it out."

Inspector Megure turned around and walked to Mr. Tsujimura's body. He knelt on one knee beside the body and reached into the body's trouser pocket. After a brief groping, an oval object popped out and fell to the ground with a "click".

It was exactly the same key as the one in Tsujimura Kimie's hand!

"How...how is this possible?" Inspector Megure cried out in shock.

"What's wrong?" Kogoro Mouri didn't understand.

Lin Xiao glanced at Maori Kogoro. He could have just been a Tokyo rent collector, but he chose to be a detective. It was really heartbreaking...

"The key is on the diplomat, which means this is a closed-room murder case." Lin Xiao explained to Kogoro Mouri.

"A closed room murder case! So that's what it is." Maori Kogoro suddenly realized. "A closed room murder case, only I, Maori Kogoro, can solve it." Maori Kogoro was full of confidence, and no one knew where his confidence came from.

Although Conan was very interested in the locked room murder case, his expression became more and more embarrassed, and he even had tinnitus.

"Well, I'm so sad. I'd better solve this case as soon as possible. Going back to sleep is the best idea!"

Next, at the suggestion of Hattori Heiji, Inspector Megure has begun to inquire about everyone's alibis.