Detective Conan: Developing a younger version of Ran Eri, and the stunning Yukiko.

The advantage is mine!

"Okay, Conan, please forgive me this time." Yukiko was overjoyed to receive Conan's forgiveness, after all, family members should live in harmony.

Shiraishi reached out and gently pulled Yukiko into his arms: "Conan, don't worry about leaving Yukiko in my care. I promise I'll take good care of her."

"Hmm... as long as it doesn't go too far..." Conan decided to pretend he didn't see it. After all, now was not the time to fall out with Shiraishihara.

Just then, Yukiko Kudo's phone rang.

"Yuan Jun, let go of me first, I need to take this call."

"Okay."

Yukiko Kudo answered the phone; it was Ai Haibara calling.

"Yukiko-neechan, something terrible has happened! Someone has been murdered in the apartment..."

"How could this happen?" Yukiko Kudo panicked. "Who is the deceased?"

"He was an older man, I didn't know him."

"Are the children alright?"

"fine."

"I understand, we'll be right there."

"it is good."

Yukiko hung up the phone and said to the two people beside her, "Someone has been murdered in the apartment where the children sleep!"

Shiraishihara quickly asked, "Are the children hurt?"

Yukiko responded, "The children are all safe and sound. The deceased was an older man."

Upon hearing this, Conan couldn't wait any longer: "Then let's hurry back."

……

When the three rushed back to the apartment, the police had already arrived at the scene. Sure enough, the officer in charge was Inspector Megure, along with his familiar henchman, Wataru Takagi.

When Inspector Megure saw Shiraishihara appear, a fawning smile instantly appeared on his face, making him look like a fat cat.

"Brother Baishi, what brings you here? Did you know I'm in trouble?"

"Uh...it's just a coincidence." Shiraishi chuckled. "Inspector Megure, what happened?"

Inspector Megure reported the basic information he had gathered about the deceased to Shiraishihara in detail.

"The victim's name is Tokumasa Furumura, 39 years old, who works at the Toto Film Studio across from the apartment... Yes, he was stabbed straight in the heart with a sharp knife. It seems he was attacked through a blanket to prevent blood from splattering on himself... According to the driver's license information on the victim's body, his home should be in Beika-cho..."

"Acupido Town?"

Shiraishi raised an eyebrow. "But this is Toriya Town..."

"Ah, no..."

Standing nervously to the side, Akira Hojima suddenly stammered out a sentence.

Upon hearing this, everyone turned to look at him.

Hojima Akira quickly explained:

"He just happened to come to my room for a nap! Tonight we were planning to play mahjong all night to celebrate after filming the movie... Kamen Rider the Movie II... but the preview screening of this movie was postponed to 11 p.m., so we all slept together here for a while..."

Ai Haibara suddenly said with a serious expression, "But the murderer didn't make a sound at all."

Inspector Megure couldn't help but laugh, looking at the cute little girl in front of him: "Kids... you must have been asleep back then..."

"Do not."

Ai Haibara responded seriously:

“I mean, after Mr. Furumura was assassinated, normally the killer would make some noise when fleeing the room… We only heard Mr. Hojima, who was sleeping on the sofa next to us, ask, ‘What happened?’ There was no other sound at all… right?”

She turned to look at the three people, including Genta, who were coming out of the bedroom...

"Okay!" Ayumi nodded.

“It’s exceptionally quiet…” Genta chimed in.

"I didn't sense anyone else there," Mitsuhiko also said.

"The murderer probably thought you weren't awake yet..." Inspector Megure guessed.

Takagi Wataru, who had been taking notes in his notebook, suddenly spoke up and speculated, "The culprit must have left cautiously and stealthily..."

"What? We were awake at the time!" Ayumi pouted in dissatisfaction.

"If we hear anything, we'll definitely chase after them!" Mitsuhiko said angrily.

Genta crossed his arms and said with a displeased look, "Don't treat us Junior Detectives Club like idiots!"

Conan nodded, agreeing with his friends' assessment:

"In a normal room, it might be possible to slip out quietly, but in such a dark and cluttered room, it is almost impossible to escape without making a sound in a short period of time."

“Yes, that’s right…” Takagi Wataru then realized that the circumstances at the time of the incident were very unusual.

Shiraishi frowned: "If that's the case, the murderer probably didn't escape the room, meaning they were sleeping on the sofa next to the victim..." He looked up at Hojima Akira, "Mr. Hojima, it's you!"

"W-what?!" Hojima Akira exclaimed in astonishment.

Megure looked at him seriously and asked, "Was the door locked when you found the body?"

“It’s locked, it’s locked well…” Hoshima Akira had cold sweat on his forehead.

Wataru Takagi added, "There were no signs of forced entry into the keyhole on the door..."

Megure Juzo stared at Hojima Akira, who was sweating profusely with tension, and shouted, "Then the culprit can only be you!!"

"Wait, wait a minute! Besides me, there are other people who have a spare key to this room!" Akira Hojima hurriedly explained, "My mahjong partners who work at the same photo lab, Mr. Karata and Mr. Negami, also have..."

Not long after, Karata Keisen and Negami Yoshihiko were brought to the crime scene. They were both shocked when they heard the news of Komura Tokumasa's murder!

"What?! The ancient village was murdered?!"

Megure asked in a deep voice, "Then, may I ask you two, why do you possess key 0.1 to this room, and where were you at approximately 10:55 PM, and what were you doing?"

Tang Tianjing was the first to answer: "At that time, the most important part of the color grading had just been completed, so I entrusted the rest of the work to others and then fell asleep in the break room. Because I hadn't slept for two whole days."

Megure nodded and looked at Karata Keizen, asking, "Is there anyone who can prove you were in the lounge at the time?"

Tang Tianjingshan said helplessly, "There were two or three people in the lounge at the time, but everyone was asleep..."

Then, Inspector Megure looked at Yoshihiko Negami, "And what about you?"

Yoshihiko Negami said somewhat nervously, "I... I was in the darkroom checking the film for damage... Unfortunately, I was alone at the time, so I don't have an alibi..."

Inspector Megure pondered for a moment and said, "Oh, so neither of you has an alibi?"

"Yes, yes..." Both Tang Tianjing and Negami Yoshihiko looked helpless.

Inspector Megure looked worried: "So it seems all three of them are suspects?"

He looked at Shiraishi Hara, habitually seeking his opinion: "Brother Shiraishi, what do you think?"

Shiraishihara pondered for a moment, then pointed at Negami Yoshihiko and said, "The murderer is you—Negami Yoshihiko!"

No. .

152 Declaring sovereignty, decisively taking down Eri Kisaki.

Chapter 152

"What!" Everyone was shocked, including Conan. It was unbelievable that Shiraishihara had found the culprit so quickly.

Yoshihiko Negami shuddered violently, large beads of sweat slowly rolling down his forehead: "I'm not the murderer, I'm innocent!"

Shiraishi said, "The murderer was confident that he could enter and leave this room silently in the dark... Only you, the filmmaker, could do that, and given that you have no alibi, who else could the murderer be but you!"

Yoshihiko Negami stubbornly replied, "I will not admit it without evidence."

Shiraishi said:

"As a developer, checking film needs to be done in a darkroom, relying entirely on the feel of your fingers. Even if you are very familiar with the darkroom environment, it is not very practical to operate in a completely dark room. Once you make a mistake, it will cause great losses. So there should be markings in the darkroom to indicate the location of items... Sure enough, as soon as I entered this room, I found these black tapes stuck to the corners of the cluttered items."

This is probably just a layer of black tape stuck on top of the fluorescent tape..."

Upon hearing this, Takagi Wataru looked down in surprise at the corner of the messy items beside him and immediately saw the black tape that Shiraishihara had mentioned, as well as the fluorescent tape that was slightly visible underneath.

"Look, you can see some fluorescent tape under that black tape! This is probably to control the light and prevent the film in the darkroom from being damaged by light..."

As he spoke, Shiraishi walked to the light switch and turned it off with a "snap."

"So after the lights are turned off, ordinary people can't see it immediately. Once their eyes adjust, they can gradually see it by focusing on the location of the tape. Then, relying on the memory of the object's location, they can carefully walk past it..."

With a "snap," the light came on again.

"That way you can get through without bumping into anything... When Conan turned off the lights, you immediately turned them back on, right? Before everyone gets used to the darkness and notices the faint light... I'm afraid Mr. Negami's darkroom also has these kinds of tapes stuck on the corners of tables and pillars to prevent bumping into things in the dark..."

Inspector Megure asked in confusion:

“But, Brother Shiraishi, without knowing the location of the heart of the person sleeping in the dark, it’s impossible to kill them accurately. If the angle is even slightly off, they won’t be able to be killed…”

"It's a button..."

Shiraishi glanced at the somewhat dazed Inspector Megure and explained, "He probably applied a small amount of fluorescent paint to the third button of Mr. Komura's shirt so that the location of the heart could be determined in the dark. In other words, as long as one can enter this room with the spare key, one can accurately stab the heart even in the dark."

"Ha ha……"

Yoshihiko Negami suddenly chuckled, glanced at the black tape on the corner of the table, and slowly said, "How could you possibly see through it? This fluorescent tape was put on by Komura himself."

"Huh?" Everyone was astonished.

Negami Yoshihiko snorted coldly and said:

"The tape on the camera was so that it could be quickly accessed even in the dark, and the tape in the room was for convenience when going to the toilet at night. He mischievously didn't tell Suijima this."

Although I knew he was this kind of irresponsible person, that's the one thing I can't forgive him for..."

At this point, his expression turned somewhat ferocious.

"He's the only one who ruined the final film reel of 'Diary of Filial Piety to Parents'!"

"Ah, is it because Mr. Furumura neglected his work after playing mahjong all night?"

Shiraishi asked.

"Yes……"

Yoshihiko Negami gave a bitter smile. "That's why I killed him... to frame Hojima, who invited him to play mahjong all night..."

Shiraishi said helplessly, "Even if you cherish a movie, it doesn't justify killing someone..."

Inspector Megure interjected, "Besides, wasn't the movie completed after reshoots?"

"That's no longer perfect..."

As Yoshihiko Negami spoke, tears welled up in his eyes.

"That scene was originally supposed to include the protagonist's younger brother, but just before the reshoot, the actor suddenly passed away in an accident... There was no way around it, so that scene had to be filmed without him... Therefore, that film could never be perfectly presented again, and could never truly be finished... It's all that... that guy's fault..."

"Waaah..." He couldn't help but burst into tears at the end.

Yoshihiko Negami looked grief-stricken, but everyone else felt as if they had been struck by lightning. To kill someone for such a reason was truly baffling.

Due to the sudden murder, the Kamen Rider movie I was supposed to watch was naturally canceled.

Yukiko drove the children home one by one, and by the time she got back to her own home, it was already past midnight.

Yukiko parked the car, and the three people inside got out one by one.

Ai Haibara couldn't help but yawn, looking extremely sleepy.

Yukiko, however, remained energetic and reached out to stop Shiraishihara, who was about to leave.

"Yuan-kun, why don't you stay at my place tonight..."

Now that Conan has tacitly accepted her relationship with Shiraishihara, she can no longer suppress her inner impulse and wants to enjoy their time together without any scruples.

"Hmm? But I'm so sleepy right now..."

"Stay here, I'll give you a big surprise tonight."

"All right……"