Officer Megure looked at Saginuma Noboru and said sternly: "Anyway! You are the most suspicious person here! After arriving at the destination, we will carefully search your luggage and body!"
Saginuma was sweating profusely and argued: "Please! Didn't I tell you before? I was sleeping in my seat the whole time!"
"Then how do you explain that the flight attendant saw the victim in the back seat and you were not in the seat at the time?" Officer Megure pointed at flight attendant B.
"She must be mistaken!"
During the fierce argument, Kudo Shinichi spoke.
He glanced around, and finally looked at Officer Megure, and said: "There is no need to worry about whether Saginuma is lying. Because he did not kill the person."
"Ah?" Officer Memu opened his mouth wide.
"He was just...used by the real criminal."
"As the key to this deception." Kudo Shinichi raised his lips with a confident smile.
He said eloquently: "Everyone must be surprised that there are contradictions in the testimonies of several suspects."
"The main reason for this contradiction is that Mr. Uzawa and Flight Attendant B both saw Miss Amano asking for help from Flight Attendant A and wanted Flight Attendant A to help get airsickness medicine and boiled water."
"According to the testimony of Mr. Uzawa and Flight Attendant B, at that time, the victim was still sitting next to Ms. Amano. But Mr. Saginuma behind the victim had disappeared."
"But Mr. Saginuma insisted that he had been sleeping in his seat."
"While flight attendant A was taking medicine, Ms. Tachikawa woke up and changed seats with Ms. Amano. At this time, Mr. Saginuma was fast asleep in his seat, and the victim, Mr. Ohtaka, disappeared."
"But according to stewardess A, it only took more than a minute before and after she went to get the medicine."
"In this little more than a minute, Saginuma returned to his position and slept soundly, but the victim, who was sleeping soundly, was nowhere to be found."
"Don't you think it's strange?"
The irritable Tsuneo Uzawa immediately said: "Then they must have lied!"
"Obviously you and the flight attendant got it wrong!" Saginuma didn't give in.
Kudo Shinichi walked between the two and stopped their argument: "But what if what you said is true?"
"Huh?" everyone asked in unison.
Kudo Shinichi slowly turned his attention to the person who seemed to be the least suspicious: "Miss Amano, if they didn't lie, then who was the 'victim' who was sleeping beside you at that time?"
Everyone was stunned and subconsciously followed the boy's gaze. Amano Tsuimi, who had never had a sense of existence, suddenly became the center of everyone's attention.
After Kudo Shinichi asked, he quickly gave an answer: "If my inference is correct, it should be Mr. Saginuma, right?"
"What?"
"ah?"
Everyone exclaimed in surprise.
Kudo Shinichi looked at Amano Tsumi, who looked a little gloomy, and continued: "If when you asked the flight attendant to get medicine, there was Mr. Saginuma who put on a woolen hat and eye mask next to you, then everything would make sense.
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"Since it's dark in the cabin and you can't see clearly, when the stewardess goes to get the medicine, you can remove your disguise from Mr. Saginuma, return to your seat, and deliberately make a loud noise to wake up Ms. Tachikawa and ask her to confirm this."
By then, the victim next to you was no longer in his seat."
"In this way, with the flight attendant and Miss Tachikawa testifying for you at the same time, you can clear yourself of the suspicion."
"Because your victim went to the restroom and never left his seat - from someone else's perspective."
"Hey! Wait!" Tachikawa Chizuru heard that the young man in front of her was pointing the finger at her friend. She raised her eyebrows and stood in front of Amano, "But when I went to the bathroom later, Otaka was still alive! He was still alive.
There’s a knock on the door!”
"Then why doesn't he respond to you directly?" Kudo Shinichi asked.
"That's because Mr. Eagle was already dead at that time, and someone else responded to you!"
It was like thunder exploding, and several people present changed their colors in shock.
He looked at the foreigner who had been silent and seemed unable to understand Japanese: "Mr. Edward, were you the person in the bathroom at that time?"
Several more exclamations were heard.
"There were blood stains on the wall of the bathroom, but there was no blood on the back of the victim who was leaning against the wall, indicating that the victim leaned against the blood after the blood had solidified."
"In other words, someone moved the body later."
"In addition, the victim's left trouser pocket was soaked. Considering that there was no smell of perfume on Mr. Edward's wrist, it seems that after you put your hand into the corpse's trouser pocket, you found that the smell of cologne remained on it that could directly point to you, so you wiped it off specifically.
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"You were looking for the roll of film in his pocket!"
Seeing everyone staring at him, Edward shrugged helplessly and actually spoke in Japanese: "That's right, I was originally entrusted by Mr. Congressman to complete a deal with that person before he arrived in the United States.
Download the roll of film he has."
"In the middle of the night, I heard Ms. Tachikawa say that he had gone to the bathroom. I thought it was a good opportunity, so I went to look for him in the bathroom."
"But when I knocked on the door, there was no response at all in the bathroom, so I opened the door and went in."
Edward recalled the scene he saw: "As a result, he was dead, sitting on the toilet, bent over."
"Although I felt bad about it, I still started looking for the negatives."
"But I couldn't find the roll of film no matter what, and I was very panicked... Just then Miss Tachikawa came and knocked on the door."
After explaining all this, everyone no longer had the intention to condemn Edward's behavior, but all turned their attention to Amano Tsumi.
This means that the deceased died before flight attendant A gave Amano Tsumi the medicine. There was only one person who had been to the restroom during this time and had the ability to use tricks to confuse the public.
"But, where is the murder weapon? There is nothing in Tsumi's luggage or body that is shaped like an ice pick that can kill people!" Seeing that the current situation was quite unfavorable to their friend Amano, Saginuma and Tachikawa tried to defend her.
Kudo Shinichi raised a smile at the corner of his mouth: "Miss Amano is just using something unique to women that can pass the metal detector without being suspected..."
"How can there be such a thing?" Saginuma felt that the young man in front of him was talking nonsense.
"It's unique to women...could it be..." Tachikawa Chizuru seemed to have realized something and turned to look at Amano.
Kudo Shinichi looked at Amano Tsumi and revealed the opponent's last trump card in committing the crime: "Yes, Miss Amano, it's the steel ring inside your bra!"
"If you sharpen one end of the curved steel ring, stab it into the back of your head, and press it down with your whole body's weight, you can reach the cervical spinal cord!"
"The evidence is that there is a strange scratch mark on the victim's neck near the shoulder, which is caused by the unsharpened end of the steel ring!"