Conan Rick's Investigator

But at this moment, the two reliable brothers were both there, and Inspector Megure, who believed that evil could not prevail over justice, still followed the procedure and asked someone to take Ohba Satoru to check the smoke reaction first.

After Ohba Satoru left, Kudo Shinichi, who was determined to win, took advantage of the opportunity and continued to ask questions to the president's daughter.

As the two of them were talking, perhaps they felt it was not enough, so they demonstrated the same flirting moves they used at that time again.

Kudo Shinichi's social skills (charm) came into play. The president's daughter, lying in Kudo Shinichi's arms, had peach blossoms in her eyes and answered question after question with a blushing face.

After asking the answer he thought of, Kudo Shinichi immediately let go, leaving Takagi, who was stunned beside him, exclaiming that he couldn't learn it.

After doing all this, Kudo Shinichi showed a confident smile on his face.

Haibara Ai, who was standing not far away and watching, saw this familiar smile and knew that Kudo Shinichi had deduced the truth.

However, when I looked at Qin Zhibo again, he didn't seem to have any special reaction.

This made Haibara Ai startled and feel something was wrong.

Is Qin Zhibo going to lose?

……

When Ohba Satoru finished the smoke reaction and eliminated his first stage of suspicion, he came back and was surprised to find that the lights in the corridor in front of the elevator had been turned off.

Kudo Shinichi was standing in front of the elevator and confidently pressed the button next to it.

While waiting for the elevator to come up, Kudo Shinichi began to reason.

"Mr. Ohba, do you remember when you gave Miss Tatsumi the necklace, you said, 'This is the same pink pearl necklace as your pink earrings,' right?"

Ohba Satoru was stunned for a moment, then nodded in acknowledgment.

Kudo Shinichi smiled confidently and continued to ask: "How do you know that those are pink earrings?"

"Of course, by looking..."

Realizing something, Ohba Satoru turned to look at the president's daughter standing beside him. The originally pink earrings emitted a dull black light in the darkness, and his body shook instantly.

At this moment, the elevator dinged and arrived at this floor.

When the elevator door opens, the soft light from inside the elevator room shines in, like a bright lamp illuminating the space.

Standing in the light, Kudo Shinichi explained, "These are the earrings that Ms. Tatsumi bought tonight. You absolutely cannot know the color of the earrings in advance."

"The only possibility is that this beam of light came from the elevator when you were kissing her..."

After finishing his reasoning, Kudo Shinichi thought he had already won the game, so he stood there with his hands in his pockets, waiting for the murderer to confess his crime.

However, Ohba Satoru stood there in a daze for a few seconds, then sneered a few times.

"Hehehe... I thought you were going to say something, but it turns out it's just like this."

"I saw the young lady's earrings through the luminous light on my watch. Is that not allowed?"

"And even if the elevator opened while we were kissing, does that prove I killed the president?"

"What you said can only be inferences and will not be accepted in court."

"Shh! Is there anything else you, the rookie police officer, would like to say?"

Standing in the darkness, Ohba Satoru showed an evil smile that only a villain could have, while Kudo Shinichi, standing in the light, was completely stunned.

He had never expected that the murderer this time would be so eloquent and he didn't fall for it at all.

In the past, murderers would confess immediately after a little psychological stimulation, but this time the murderer was so sure that the court would not accept this level of evidence.

Hey! This is not what we agreed on!

Why don't you play your cards according to the routine?

A cry broke out in Kudo Shinichi's heart, and at the same time, his heart suddenly trembled violently, as if reminding him of something.

It’s time to log off…

Chapter 437: Being clever but being misled by cleverness

Kudo Shinichi endured the severe pain in his heart and wanted to say something, but he was too weak to do so and couldn't think of what to say.

Assuming that there is another world line, Kudo Shinichi would honestly collect evidence.

Although the existing evidence is not enough to directly convict the murderer, it can gradually put pressure on the murderer, create enough pressure on him, and then defeat him in one fell swoop.

But this time, in order to solve the case faster, Kudo Shinichi started reasoning as soon as he found a breakthrough, which is equivalent to rushing to attack the boss in the dungeon game before the defense is broken.

Face-to-face proof questions like this are often a psychological game between the detective and the murderer, competing to see who has stronger psychological endurance.

Kudo Shinichi was obviously acting too hastily.

Inspector Megure standing by also felt that Kudo Shinichi was not in a good condition. He had not yet solved the problem of why the smoke reaction could not be detected, but he wanted to convict the murderer without sufficient evidence.

Relying on his intuition accumulated over decades, Inspector Megure also felt that the Ohba Satoru in front of him should be the murderer. However, he is a policeman and must abide by procedural justice. He can only comfort his brother Kudo whom he has not seen for a long time.

"Brother Kudo, you don't seem to be in a good condition today. Go down and rest for a while..."

Kudo Shinichi stubbornly leaned against the wall, cold sweat on his forehead, but he still stared at Ohba Satoru.

Ooba Satoru looked at Kudo Shinichi's miserable appearance and taunted him, "Your health doesn't look very good, does it mean you have no more roles to play?"

Ohba Satoru's darkened face made everyone present feel a little scary. Even the president's daughter, who had always stood on his side, vaguely felt that something was wrong. The man in front of her didn't seem as gentle as he usually appeared.

But unfortunately, no one present could provide reliable evidence to convict him, so they could only allow him to provoke them.

"Don't worry, if you have a hundred stupid questions like this, I'm confident I can give you a hundred answers."

"Hehehe..."

Just when Ohba Satoru was looking down on the crowd like the final boss, the lights in the corridor in front of the elevator suddenly lit up, illuminating the originally dim environment.

Everyone felt a little dazzling at first, and when they came to their senses, a huge doll costume appeared in front of them.

"This, this is..." Officer Megure asked in confusion.

Qin Zhibo stepped out from behind, patted the doll's head, and said seriously, "What is this? Mr. Ohba should know best, right?"

Ohba Satoru snorted dismissively, "This is just the company's mascot costume. What's the problem?"

Qin Zhibo opened the right eye of the doll costume with his white-gloved hand, took out a bag, and continued, "You should be familiar with the things in here, right?"

When everyone looked closely, they saw a plastic bag with a few rubber bands and a glove inside.

When Kudo Shinichi saw this thing, who was holding onto the wall, suddenly had an idea and remembered the reason why Ohba Satoru made it impossible to detect the gunpowder reaction on his body.

"I understand. Before committing the crime, you put on a glove on your right hand, put the plastic bag over it, and tied the bag tightly with a rubber band. This way, you wouldn't have any reaction to the gun smoke."

"Plus, the lighting here was as dim as it was just now, so Miss Tatsumi wouldn't have seen what you had in your hand."

"Now, if we take that thing to a lab, we'll immediately know that your fingerprints are definitely on it."

Kudo Shinichi forced himself to smile.

But just when Kudo Shinichi thought that the case could finally be concluded, Ohba Satoru laughed evilly again.

"Huh...you said there were my fingerprints on the plastic bag? Of course!"

"Because I did touch that plastic bag!"

"And it's not just me, there are also my men helping me carry the doll costumes, and even Mr. Qin!"

"What!" Kudo Shinichi almost gritted his teeth to make these two sounds.

Inspector Megure was also surprised and asked what was going on.

Ohba Satoru explained leisurely, "Actually, when I had my men move the doll, I asked them to check the doll's costume. They found that one of the eyes couldn't be closed, and that's when they found the plastic bag inside."

"But I thought it was an important part of the costume, so I put it back. After all, the president had always worn the costume before, and I didn't know what the inside of the costume was..."

"Not only are my fingerprints and those of my men on it, but Mr. Qin also touched it at the time."

Ohba Satoru looked around at everyone with arrogance on his face.

Originally, Ohba Satoru was a little worried about the sudden joining of the famous detective, fearing that the plan of killing people and destroying their hearts that he had prepared for several years would be disrupted by this person who was invited by his enemy on a whim.

His complete plan was to suggest to the president in advance that he pretend to leave for something this year, and then suddenly return to the cocktail party wearing a doll costume to give everyone a surprise.

While the president was pretending to take the elevator downstairs and then took the elevator back upstairs, he shot and killed the president while he was passionately kissing the president's daughter.

With plastic bags and gloves, a dim environment, a silencer, and hands covering the president's daughter's ears, it can be guaranteed that even if someone is killed in front of her, the president's daughter will not notice.

After killing the person, he used a pearl necklace as a gift to lure the president's daughter into the bathroom to put on the necklace in front of the mirror. He took the opportunity to throw the pistol into the garbage pipe.

Afterwards, he went to a private room to change into a doll costume and prepare to go on stage. He pretended to have accidentally discovered a plastic bag inside the doll costume and left his and his subordinates' fingerprints on it.

The reason why the plastic bag, gloves and pistol were not thrown away together was mainly to make the police think that the murderer came in from outside the hotel and left wearing gloves.

After all, if the gloves and the pistol appeared together, the police might think that the murderer was someone in the hotel and threw away the gloves because he had to stay in the hotel.

Leaving fingerprints of himself and his men behind was to prevent the police from actually finding what was hidden in the doll costume.

It can be said that Ohba Satoru has put a lot of effort into today's plan and has thought of all possible situations, which is why he is so confident.

While moving the doll clothes into the private room, Ohba Satoru suddenly came up with a more perfect plan.

After killing someone, the only time to leave his and his men's fingerprints on the plastic bag is when he puts on his doll costume and prepares to go on stage.

In terms of time management, he had to spend at least 2 to 3 minutes accompanying the president's daughter to change into a pearl necklace, and then return to the private room to let his subordinates help him change into a doll costume.

If any employee accidentally pressed the elevator button during this period and discovered the body in advance, there would be no reason for me to wear a doll costume and leave my fingerprints on the plastic bag.

By then, this fatal evidence will rot in your hands and you will be unable to deal with it.

So when moving the doll costumes, Ohba Satoru had an idea and improved the plan.

That is to leave fingerprints on the plastic bag in advance under the pretext of checking the doll's clothes.

Not only his own fingerprints, but also the fingerprints of his subordinates and famous detectives were all there. As a famous detective, the police would never be able to suspect him.

But at this moment, Qin Zhibo's words made Ohba Satoru's heart sink into an icy cave.

"Actually, I have a little quirk. I have to wipe everything I touch clean..."

"Of course, this includes the plastic bag you handed me and the gloves inside."

Chapter 438 Conan is back online

When he heard what Qin Zhibo said, Ohba Satoru, who was very arrogant a second ago, was stunned and his body froze in place as if petrified.

Qin Zhibo slowly approached Ohba Satoru and continued speaking.

"If there's gun smoke and there's only one person's fingerprint, I think there's every reason to believe that's the fingerprint that the murderer left."

"What do you think, Mr. Ohba?"

Under Qin Zhibo's gaze, Ohba Satoru's lips trembled slightly, and a variety of expressions such as struggle, anger, humiliation, and disbelief were mixed on his face.

No matter how hard he tried, he could not imagine that Qin Zhibo would actually clean off the fingerprints on the plastic bag after touching it.

What a bad habit!

Am I going to be the murderer or are you going to be the murderer?

Kudo Shinichi, who was standing against the wall, became a complete spectator, because even he could not imagine that Qin Zhibo had the habit of cleaning up the things he touched.

When Kudo Shinichi had previously interacted with Qin Zhibo as Conan, he never remembered Qin Zhibo doing anything similar.

Is he bluffing too?

Kudo Shinichi seemed to understand something, and Ooba Satoru regained his composure after a brief tremor.

"Are you bluffing? Like that rookie officer?"

"Since you claim you've wiped the fingerprints off it, go ahead and get it tested."

"Hmph, I'd like to see..."

Before Ohba Satoru could finish his words, the rice identification officer suddenly came over with another plastic bag.

"Report, the test results are in. It's indeed only Mr. Ohba's fingerprints, and there's also gun smoke reaction."

After hearing this, a big question mark popped up in everyone's head.

"Brother Qin, isn't that evidence in your hand?"