I'm in Conan, but I'm in Ace Attorney

Haibara Ai had once entered the office to check the contents of the files, and naturally knew that she had encountered cases where the defendant lied more than once during her defense career as a defense lawyer for Genmi Mitsuko, so her hedgehog friend should have been simply reacting to stress.

As the prosecutor of this case, Conan will not act with the members of the Junior Detective League. In his eyes, there is no room for a detective to intervene in this incident. It only requires mechanical evidence collection by manpower.

Although he felt that Xiang Yuanguang's reasoning ability might not be very reliable, in the atmosphere of the school judges, which was similar to a court of justice, the other party's domain should have expanded and his ability value increased significantly, so there was no need to worry too much.

Conan only needs to wait for the class referee to officially begin, reject the false evidence presented by the Junior Detective Team, and then guide them to deduce the whole situation of the incident.

(But then again, why did Yazaki Yasuji hide some information? It would be a good thing for him to get his living expenses back, right? Doesn't he want his living expenses back?)

The Elementary School Student of Death's gaze fell on Yazaki Yasushi, who was surrounded by the Junior Detective League and questioned about the situation. Based on the current situation, the other party had hidden at least one, two, or even more key pieces of information.

(No, if you take all the information into consideration... then, if you exclude all the impossibilities, the remaining possibilities are true no matter how unbelievable they are. There is only one truth -)

"Yazaki-san, did you go out at noon?" Yoshida Ayumi asked curiously. Faced with this question, Yazaki Yasuji hesitated and stammered.

"Well, I shouldn't have been out, right...?"

...You probably haven't been out?

As the think tank of the Junior Detective Team, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya was a little confused, so he asked directly.

"Yazaki-san, if you haven't been out, then do you eat your lunch in the classroom at noon?"

Faced with the verbal attack, Yazaki Yasuji looked a little flustered. He thought about it and finally decided to say that he did eat a box lunch in the classroom at noon, but he was not sure what the content of the lunch box was.

However, Kojima Genta spoke loudly.

"Mitsuhiko, do you even need to ask? Since he didn't go out, he must be eating his lunchbox in the classroom. I remember many people brought lunchboxes to school! If it were me, I would definitely prepare a full box of eel rice!"

Even another member of the Junior Detective League, Ayumi, nodded.

"Yeah, I saw Huiyuan and Uncle Xiangyuan taking out lunch boxes from their school bags at noon. It's normal for Yazaki to eat lunch too, right?"

The words of the two people disturbed Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya's thoughts. He wanted to say something but couldn't remember it for a while. Just when he was distressed, the defendant Haibara Ai quietly approached and said calmly.

"Book."

"Book?"

The members of the Junior Detective League all made puzzled sounds, and then followed Haibara Ai's gaze to look at Yazaki Yasuji's schoolbag. Yazaki Yasuji subconsciously put his hand on the schoolbag and said in panic.

"Wh, what book? My schoolbag contains a lunch box..."

"No, your backpack contains books, because the specifications of books and lunch boxes are completely different."

Haibara Ai stabbed him again and looked at Yazaki Yasushi with some suspicion.

"Also, if you had eaten lunch in the classroom at noon, you should have been able to smell the aroma of food here, but there's no smell at all here, right?"

As soon as the smell was mentioned, Yuantai immediately became interested and he agreed loudly.

"Yeah, if you open the lunch box, there will definitely be a smell of food, just like the eel rice I usually eat! Yazaki-san, you didn't actually eat in the classroom, right!"

Yazaki Yasushi opened his mouth to speak, but didn't know what to say.

Once the lie is exposed, the loopholes behind it will be exposed.

At this moment, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya had an idea and immediately knew where to go to continue his investigation.

Chapter 500: The Death God Elementary School Student Who Solved the Case First

Yasushi Yazaki said that he did not leave the classroom during lunch break, so we can conclude that Yasushi Yazaki ate his lunch box in the classroom. However, judging from the smell of the food and Haihara Ai's testimony, Yasushi Yazaki's statement can be refuted.

At this moment, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya felt that his reasoning ability had never been so stimulated. He pondered and thought about the meaning behind the falsification of Yazaki Yasushi's statement.

There are two possibilities to refute Yazaki Yasuji's statement. One is that Yazaki Yasuji left the classroom and went to other places to eat his lunch box, so no smell was left. The other is that Yazaki Yasuji did not bring a lunch box and went to the cafeteria to eat.

So the best way to verify these two possibilities is to see if the contents of Yazaki Yasushi's schoolbag are actually the lunch box as he claimed, or the book that Haibara Ai pointed out...

However, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya felt a little distressed when he saw Yazaki Yasushi, who had no intention of showing his schoolbag to the public. Since Yazaki Yasushi didn't want to show it to him, there was no way to be sure whether there were books or lunch boxes inside.

"Ah, so that means Yazaki-san didn't actually eat the lunchbox? Then, then Yazaki-san should have gone to the cafeteria for lunch..."

Ayumi said in confusion, which immediately made Genta nod his head.

"Yeah, yeah, it feels terrible to be hungry, so Yazaki-san must have gone to the cafeteria to eat at noon!"

Hearing this, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya fell silent. He felt that his reasoning in his mind seemed to be meaningless, because the other members of the Junior Detective League did not realize that this conclusion could extend to two possibilities.

Because he would be hungry if he didn't eat lunch, Yazaki Yashiji would definitely go to eat lunch → Yazaki Yashiji didn't eat the boxed lunch → Yazaki Yashiji must have gone to the cafeteria to eat.

This is the thought process of Ayumi and Genta, and this thought process is actually the correct answer to this problem. Mitsuhiko thinks too much, which is useless in the current situation.

The reason is simple. If it is a real trial, then of course all possibilities need to be verified. Even if the plaintiff refuses to produce evidence, the presiding judge has the right to ask the plaintiff to show the situation of the evidence to everyone.

Among the class judges, if a student is unwilling to show his or her personal belongings, neither the homeroom teacher as the presiding judge nor the Junior Detective Team as the lawyers can force other students to show their personal belongings.

Therefore, Mitsuhiko actually had no way to verify hypothesis one, but in Xiang Yuanguang's eyes, since the other party chose to conceal the evidence to prevent the lawyer from verifying a certain possibility, then that possibility was likely to be true in the reasoning.

The members of the Junior Detective Team left the classroom excitedly and planned to go to the cafeteria to further verify the information. Before leaving, Genta did not forget to invite Haibara Ai to join the Junior Detective Team—the reason was that he thought Haibara Ai's reasoning ability was very strong.

However, Haibara Ai refused without hesitation. Not to mention that she was still among the class judges, it would be outrageous if the defendant, the lawyer, and the prosecutor were all members of the Junior Detective League. Even without the class judges...

She was also reluctant to participate in such self-entertainment activities for elementary school students unless she also found it interesting.

"Uncle Maori, aren't you going to follow? Now is the time for you, the great detective, to show off your skills!"

Xiang Yuanguang watched the Junior Detective League go away and patted Uncle Maori on the shoulder. There was no other reason. Uncle Maori's staying here would affect the communication between Conan and Yazaki Yasuji. The atmosphere would be better without him here.

"Is that so?"

Kogoro Mouri's eyes widened. He didn't quite understand Xiang Yuanguang's line of thought, but he touched his chin and quickly came to a conclusion - if he thought about it carefully, it seemed to be true.

After all, the Junior Detective Team is just a group of elementary school students. When they need to conduct further investigation in the cafeteria, can the parents of the Junior Detective Team do this? Those parents are not professionals and cannot do it. He, the great detective, has to do it!

So, Uncle Maori followed him out in a hurry, vowing to expand his reputation from detectives to elementary school students to show that he deserved the title of Tokyo's greatest detective.

Then, after the Junior Detectives and Maori Kogoro left, Xiang Yuanguang looked around the classroom, then walked to the podium and invited Kobayashi Sumiko. "Teacher Kobayashi, let's go out and talk. I have something else that I need to know more about."

Teacher Kobayashi was a little surprised to see Xiang Yuanguang inviting her, but since the other party said so, he probably did have something to say, so she nodded and followed Xiang Yuanguang out of the classroom.

Suddenly, there were only three students left in the first-year Class B classroom: Haibara Ai, Conan and Yazaki Yasuji. In this situation, Conan finally had the opportunity to ask Yazaki Yasuji what he really wanted to do.

"Yazaki-san, you actually checked the envelope containing the living expenses several times, right?"

The Shinigami schoolboy pushed up his glasses.

"Before the living allowance was lost, there were at least three times. The first time was when you got the envelope at home, the second time was when you bought food in the cafeteria and paid the living allowance, and the third time was when you checked the amount of the living allowance after coming to the classroom for a while."

"The third time you came to the classroom, you must have checked the envelope after a while. Otherwise, you would not have suspected that Huibara Ai had stolen the living expenses in the envelope and would not have come forward to prove Huibara Ai's innocence at the first time."

"Moreover, after you came to the classroom, you most likely put the envelope somewhere, perhaps in a drawer or in your schoolbag, and then left the classroom for a short time. Before and after you left the classroom, Huihara Ai came to the classroom."

"But I don't think you would check the contents of the envelope for the third time. Although Huihara Ai acts lonely, she doesn't look like she's short of money. You should also think that she is unlikely to steal your living expenses..."

"However, you left the classroom, and when you came back, you saw the sudden appearance of Haibara Ai, and suspected that your living expenses were less, and checked the amount of living expenses in the envelope, which means that you already suspected that the amount of living expenses was wrong."

"The source of this suspicion should be something that happened between the second time you checked the amount of living expenses in the envelope and the third time you checked the amount in the envelope——"

Yazaki Seiji was a little nervous as he listened to Conan's reasoning.

"————I guess that when you were returning to the classroom after lunch, something unexpected happened that might have caused the loss of your living expenses, which planted the seeds of doubt in your mind."

"Yazaki-san, can you tell me what happened when you were on your way back to the classroom after lunch?"

Conan pushed his glasses again and ended his reasoning. Although the last sentence was a question, it carried a certain decisive meaning. Although he did not see the specific situation, he could be sure that the facts were just as he speculated.

Hearing this, Yazaki Seiji was silent for a while. He looked up at Conan and asked with surprise.

"H-How do you know? It's like you saw it with your own eyes... Who are you?"

"Edogawa Conan, just a detective."

Conan said confidently.

Chapter 501 Investigation Completed

The members of the Junior Detective League are unaware that the big boss in their team has easily solved the whole case and is currently heading to the cafeteria under the leadership of Kogoro Mouri.

The parents of the members of the Junior Detective League did not follow. They were very confident in Kogoro Mouri, just like they were as confident in Genmi Mitsuki - one was a famous lawyer, and the other was a famous detective.

The famous lawyer has just demonstrated his professional level, so the ability of the famous detective Mouri Kogoro, who was once as famous as the famous lawyer on a TV program, will not be much worse!

"...Ah? You have no impression? Really?"

Standing near the food purchasing window of the cafeteria, Kogoro Mori looked embarrassed.

Damn it, he just wanted to show off his extraordinary strength as the famous detective, the Sleeping Kogoro, but the clues were cut off just as he arrived at the cafeteria. If this goes on, won’t his reputation as Kogoro Mori among elementary school students be completely ruined?

Uncle Maori scratched his hair irritably and looked a little distressed, but when his eyes fell on the faces of the expectant members of the Junior Detective League next to him... he became even more distressed.

Sometimes things are just like this. It doesn't matter if you are anxious. It's just like a math problem. No matter how anxious you are or how hard you push, you still can't do it. The same goes for reasoning.

Kogoro Mouri only hated himself for not being sleepy until now, which made his reasoning ability seem a little stretched in this situation. Otherwise, if he transformed into a sleeping Kogoro, he would definitely solve the case in minutes!

"Uncle Maori, I remember that Yazaki's parents didn't seem to come to the parents' meeting!"

Yoshida Ayumi said with some distress.

"Otherwise, we can just ask Yazaki's parents..."

Ayumi's words were like a white needle piercing through Kogoro Mori's brain. Suddenly, a clear light flashed in Uncle Mori's eyes. He understood. He knew how to find Yazaki Yasuji's trace in the cafeteria.

The time for parent-teacher meetings is different for classes of different grades. Today, only the first-grade students are attending the meeting, and parents will attend the meetings for most students.

"Yes, you are absolutely right! That kid's parents did not attend the parents' meeting, which means that he came to the cafeteria window to buy lunch alone! The other students were accompanied by their fathers or mothers to buy lunch!"

"In other words, we only need to go to each window and ask if there are any students who come to buy lunch alone, and then ask for the specific situation, and we will know whether Yazaki Yasuji has bought lunch in the cafeteria!"

Kogoro Mouri clapped his hands and immediately came up with the answer. Without thinking too much, he immediately called the members of the Junior Detective League and ran to find the staff of the Teitan Elementary School cafeteria to inquire about relevant matters.

Hard work pays off. The cafeteria staff really had an impression of Yazaki Yasushi who came to the cafeteria alone to eat. He thought about it, and then carefully told Maori Kogoro what he knew——————

"That child came to the cafeteria to eat alone. He looked very pitiful. When he bought his lunch, he took out a 1,000 yen bill from his envelope to pay for it. I saw there were about ten bills in the envelope."

"Anyway, I reminded him not to carry so much yen around when he went to school in Beika Town. He nodded shyly, and I gave him 700 yen in change. He put it in the pocket of his school uniform and ate his meal on the side."

"After the child finished his meal and returned the plate, he left the cafeteria. I didn't see him again... You guys came here with so many people to ask about him. Could it be that something happened to the child?"

Hearing this, Maori Kogoro scratched the back of his head, laughed dryly twice, and then said, "No, no, it's just that a thousand yen bill is missing from his envelope, so we went to the places he went to look for it and see if it fell somewhere."

The staff member thought about it, finally opened the drawer, rummaged through it, then took out a thousand yen bill and handed it to Kogoro Mouri, and said seriously.

"This is the 1,000 yen bill that the child used to buy lunch. It looks very new and I remember it very clearly. If you really can't find it, give this bill to the child."

"It's only a thousand yen anyway, and I happened to have some change with me, so I can just make up for it."

Maori Kogoro's expression suddenly became serious. How could this be allowed? Although he didn't have much money with him, he couldn't let kind people spend money in such a situation. Therefore, it would be better for him to pay for it himself.

Uncle Maori took out his wallet, pulled out a 1,000 yen bill from it and handed it to the staff member. He then took away Yazaki Yasuji's brand new 1,000 yen bill and accepted it as evidence of the class referee.

However, Uncle Maori looked at the 1,000 yen he got back and felt that something was not right. He seemed to have overlooked something that was particularly important to this emergency, but he couldn't remember it for a while...

"Uncle Maori! We found new information!"

At this moment, the members of the Young Detective Team ran over shouting and screaming. Kogoro Mouri came to his senses, put the brand new 1,000 yen in his pocket, and decided not to think about what he couldn't remember. Everything would work out when the time comes.

However, before the members of the Junior Detective League could speak, Maori Kogoro's cell phone rang. He took out his cell phone and saw that it was a text message from Kobayashi Sumiko. The content on it was only one -

[The investigation phase has concluded. Mr. Maori, please return to the classroom to begin the class refereeing.]

"…What? At this time?"

Uncle Maori muttered as he showed the information on the phone to the other members of the Junior Detective Team. The kids immediately lost the excitement they had during the investigation, and they were no longer in the mood to talk about what they had just discovered.

As they walked towards the classroom together, they also saw students and parents who had returned from outside the school. Those students seemed to have gained something special, and one could see the proud expressions on their faces.

Xiang Yuanguang, who was standing on the rooftop, also put down his phone. He yawned, then put his hands in the pockets of his blue coat and walked downstairs.

The investigation phase is over. Let's see what new things the Junior Detective Team and Uncle Mouri can come up with.

This time, the school refereeing should be over very quickly.

Chapter 502: Class Referee Begins

—————June 7, 1:30 p.m.——————