Conan Rick's Investigator

Following routine procedures, Qin Zhibo first walked to the body and conducted an investigation.

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[Name of the deceased: Daisuke Torakura]

[Time of death: 3 hour ago]

Cause of death: Puncture wound to the chest

[Corpse investigation completed, congratulations on obtaining the Arts and Crafts (Writing) skill]

[Repeated skills are automatically converted to 1000 skill proficiency in Arts and Crafts (Writing)]

This is the third time that Qin Zhibo has acquired writing skills through corpse investigation.

The first time was the writer in the Brothers Case, the second time was the female screenwriter in the Bandaged Man Case, and this time it was the writer in Villa Dessur.

Qin Zhibo summed up his experience and it seems that writers also belong to a high-risk industry?

If this continues, Qin Zhibo feels that within a year he will be able to acquire the writing skills of a great writer by picking up corpses.

Of course, this year should be the year of this world, not the traditional 365-day year.

In front of the corpse, Kogoro Mouri was about to perform the autopsy himself when he suddenly remembered that there were other autopsy experts here who were more professional than himself.

"Doctor Cheng Shi, please come and examine the body."

"Ah? I..."

Although Ma Chengshi, who was standing at the door, was a little reluctant, he still came in and quickly examined the body.

"The deceased's time of death should be between 2 and 4 a.m. today."

With just a few words, Asano immediately left the room.

This caused the contempt of the dwarf Conan standing nearby.

Really, it’s just a corpse. Doctors should have seen a lot of that, right?

Why does it feel like Dr. Chengshi is as timid as Xiaolan?

In fact, Conan didn't know that after experiencing the Tsukikage Island incident, Masami's permanent willpower value became 40, which is exactly the same as Ran Mouri's willpower.

After receiving the autopsy results, Kogoro Mouri checked the doors and windows again and immediately began to reason.

"Yesterday's party in the living room ended around 1 a.m., and afterward everyone went back to their rooms to sleep. Only Mr. Torakura was left alone in the study working."

"And... the study window is locked from the inside."

"In other words, the murderer is most likely someone in the villa."

According to Kogoro Mouri's habit when he was a policeman, the next step was to confirm everyone's alibi.

However, most people went back to their rooms and went to sleep, so of course they had no alibi.

Except for editor Fumio Doi and researcher Shuichi Hamura, who couldn't sleep after returning to their rooms and happened to meet him while taking a walk, they sat in the living room for more than two hours.

Upon hearing this information, Maori Kogoro immediately asked: "Do you remember the time? And did anyone enter the study during that time?"

"It should be between 2 and 4 o'clock. No one should have entered the study during this time, right, Mr. Doi?"

Shuichi Hamura asked Doi Fumio as if seeking his opinion, and Doi Fumio nodded hesitantly.

After listening to the two's confessions, Maori Kogoro held his chin and muttered, "In this case, the murderer is very likely to have entered this study from somewhere other than the door and window..."

At this time, Etsuko Torakura on the side was shocked and thought of some unusual situations.

"correct!"

"I woke up around 2 a.m. to take my medicine, and I thought I saw a blue boat on the lake!"

"Boat?"

A new clue appeared, and Maori Kogoro immediately became alert and asked, "Is there a place to dock the boat nearby?"

On the other side, Tadokoro Shunsuke thought for a moment and replied, "There is indeed a small, long-abandoned pier across the lake. When this place was still a tourist lake, there were many boats docked there, all of them a uniform blue."

"I don't know now..."

After collecting the clues here, Kogoro Mouri put his hands in his pockets, stood in the center of the room and snorted coldly.

"I see. I already know who the murderer is."

"That's the man in the blue boat that Ms. Torakura Etsuko saw!"

Kogoro Mouri walked confidently to the balcony of the octagonal study, looked down at the lake below, and his expression became even more confident.

"As expected..."

"That person took a boat to the lake below this balcony, threw his claw upwards to hook the balcony railing, and then climbed up with the help of a rope, killing Mr. Torakura in the study."

"The evidence is that there's a bump on the balcony railing!"

what! ?

Conan was surprised that Kogoro Mouri was the first to find evidence of the murder scene. He hurried to check and found that as Kogoro Mouri said, there was a place on the side of the railing that was knocked and the paint was peeling off.

Uncle Maori’s reasoning was so smooth today?

And from the current perspective, there seems to be nothing wrong with this reasoning.

At the time of the incident, the main entrance to the study was guarded by Shuichi Hamura and Fumio Doi, making it impossible for anyone to enter.

The windows were usually locked and there were no signs of forced entry.

In this way, the balcony is the only direction from which one can enter the study without being noticed.

It just so happened that Mrs. Torakura saw the boats on the lake and the bumps that Uncle Mori found on the railing.

All the inferences and evidence so far point to the conclusion that the murder was committed by an external murderer.

But for some reason, when Conan saw Uncle Maori easily find out the truth, he felt something was wrong.

If we follow the route speculated by Uncle Maori and use the flying claw to invade the balcony of the study from the lake, such skills must be achieved by a professional killer who has received special training.

But if he was a professional killer, he would definitely investigate the situation in Villa Deshula during the day, and he would also know that there were a lot of people in the villa today, so it was not suitable to take action.

But the murderer still chose to do it tonight.

This doesn't seem to be in line with the code of conduct of a professional killer.

And why did the murderer choose to pierce Daisuke Torakura and kill him by tying him to a cross like executing a vampire?

Can't we just kill him directly?

Hmm... there's something indescribably strange about this case.

Conan, who wanted to get some inspiration in other directions, looked back habitually, but found that the uncle who was more reliable than Uncle Maori was no longer in the study.

Chapter 170: So many "Little Blacks"...

Without wasting time listening carefully to Kogoro Mouri's reasoning, Qin Zhibo went directly to other places in the villa to search for investigation points.

Just now in the octagonal study, Qin Zhibo did not find any investigation points.

Including balcony.

Soon, Qin Zhibo got his first harvest in the collection room.

In the display cabinet of the collection room, a wooden hammer emitted the light of an investigation point in Qin Zhibo's sight.

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[There is a trace of blood on the mallet, which does not appear to be paint]

Qin Zhibo put on the magic extractor and used it as a glove to take the hammer out of the display cabinet.

Upon closer inspection, one of the hammers was indeed stained with a barely noticeable trace of blood.

Judging from the design of this wooden hammer, it seems to be a match for the wooden stake that pierced Daisuke Torakura's chest.

And that wooden stake happened to be a collection in this collection room.

Since the investigation points were given to this hammer, it means that this thing should also be one of the murder weapons.

But why did the murderer leave the wooden stake in the study and return the gavel to its original place?

Next, Qin Zhibo searched room by room and easily found the second investigation point in Etsuko Torakura's room.

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[A dirty spot, as if someone had walked on it]

The survey point is located in the window frame on the south side of Etsuko Torakura's room. When the window is opened, it is the roof of the corridor connecting the living room and the study.

In this way, Qin Zhibo finally figured out how the murderer got to the study.

It turned out that the murderer took advantage of the special structure of this villa, just like the previous Suyu House case, and reached the balcony of the room from other routes.

And in this case, Etsuko Torakura becomes a major suspect.

After all, this route must pass through Etsuko Torakura's room, and Etsuko Torakura stayed in her room most of the time after dinner yesterday, and even more so after midnight.

However, for a woman like Etsuko Torakura, it seemed difficult for her to sneak onto the balcony through this route.

Because after crossing the roof of the corridor in front of the study, you still need to go around the spire-shaped dome of the octagonal study and then jump onto the balcony.

Unless Etsuko Torakura has been secretly exercising and has muscles packed under her clothes, this set of movements would be difficult to perform with a normal woman's physical strength.

Does Torakura Etsuko have help?

……

With this guess, Qin Zhibo continued to explore each room. While studying the room where Shuichi Hamura was staying, Qin Zhibo discovered a new investigation point.

It was an amulet tied to the strap of Shuichi Hamura's backpack.

Inside was a photo of a female college student.

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[There is a photo inside the amulet. Does the person in the photo look familiar?]

It really seems familiar...

The woman in the photo is Etsuko Torakura!

At this time, Qin Zhibo remembered that when Maori Kogoro first came, Tanado Toshiya took Maori Kogoro to the study to meet with Torakura Daisuke.

What a writer talks about with a detective is probably a commission.

As for the type of commission, we can actually guess it from the fact that Daisuke Torakura married a beautiful 50-year-old wife at the age of 30.

I must feel like I have a green head...

In this case, is it possible that Shuichi Hamura is Etsuko Torakura's lover?

……

In the last room, the room of Toshiya Tadokoro, a student of Daisuke Torakura, Qin Zhibo found a new investigation point.

This survey point is placed on Toshiya Tadokoro's bedside table and is a photo frame.

Inside the photo frame is a photo of Toshiya Tadokoro and a girl who looks about the same age as Ran Mouri.

Under the cherry tree, the girl smiles like a flower.

Another photo...

In the previous case, Qin Zhibo discovered the real culprit based on the discovery of photo-based investigation points.

But this time, the photos were found in both of their rooms at the same time.

Is it...

……

Qin Zhibo, who had almost finished searching outside, returned to the study and saw Maori Kogoro still reasoning.

Seeing Qin Zhibo coming back, Maori Kogoro raised his voice a little as if to show off.

"Now we can almost confirm that the murderer broke in from outside. Next, we just need to have the police investigate at that abandoned dock..."

As he said this, Kogoro Mouri supported his hands on two stacked file bags on the desk, trying to strike a handsome pose.