"Mr. Tsutsumi once said that he came here for inspection three days ago, right?"
Hakuba Tan gave Koshizuki Nanatsuki and also said to everyone present:
"I'm afraid he took advantage of that time to cut a small hole in the glass window of Shijin's room in advance. After killing him tonight, he left through the window, and then used the wire bent at the front to cut through the small hole to bolt the window.
Lock it up—use his natural dexterity..."
Hakuba raised his eyebrows and looked at Hattori Heiji: "At the same time, he calculated correctly that Hattori, who later discovered Tokijin's body from the window, would break the window recklessly and enter to cover up the fact that there was a small hole in the glass window.
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He put his hands in his pockets and ended his reasoning very elegantly: "Then destroying the radio in the storage room was intended to cause us uneasiness so that he could kill another of his targets through mental pressure, right?
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He stared closely at Tsutsuo Hiroshi.
"I don't think so." But at this moment, a child's voice made his momentum stagnant.
"Huh?" He turned back to look at Conan standing behind him.
Conan stood at the door of the restaurant, firmly refuting the unreasonable parts of Bai Ma's reasoning.
"Even if he can guess that Brother Heiji will break the glass window, there is no way to accurately predict which part of the four pieces of glass he will break! Moreover, no matter how impulsive Brother Heiji is, if there is really a small hole in the window, I will
I believe he would have discovered it before breaking the window..."
Heiji frowned and glanced at him, as if saying that the word "impulse" was redundant, but he didn't say anything.
"But it was definitely him who broke the lock of the storage room!" Detective Bai Ma immediately understood the serious logical error in his reasoning.
If a murder is committed, the chance of getting away with it depends entirely on a certain detective who has bad eyesight, is extremely impulsive, and also hopes that he just destroyed the one of the four pieces of glass that was tampered with...
It would be more refreshing to just take a bath, burn incense, pray to gods and worship Buddha.
"Well, it's certain that this uncle's hands and feet are not very clean, but that's all..." Hattori Heiji stood next to Hakuba Tan and refuted, "Or, maybe you have already preset it in your mind.
Isn't it such an established stereotype that 'a thief equals a murderer'?"
As soon as he said this, Baima Tan's expression changed drastically, and a figure wearing a white top hat, suit, cape and monocle appeared in his mind uncontrollably.
The long-term pursuit of Kaito Kidd has made him a little too sensitive to "thieves". If Hattori Heiji hadn't pointed out his problem to the point, he might have regarded Tsutsuo Hiroshi as the murderer, and then from this wrong
The results are used to deduce the process of committing the crime...
"So? What was the trajectory that led to the secret room?" Koshimizu Nanatsuki looked at this little boy who looked to be only seven or eight years old with interest.
Conan began his own reasoning, and of course his tone was still that of a primary school student: "The method is super simple!"
"First use a screwdriver to unscrew all the screws holding the window frame, remove the entire window, and then use wire cutters to cut those screws off."
"Then re-insert the severed screw head into its original position, lock the window, go outside the window, apply carpenter's adhesive on the joint surface of the window frame and stick it on."
"In other words, at first glance, it appears that the window is firmly fixed with screws, but in fact, the screw heads of insufficient length are embedded, and then the entire window frame is stuck in place with adhesive."
He said it very clearly, and Bai Ma Tan couldn't help but nod: "I see..."
Conan continued to want to make a conclusion: "So, someone who can do such a thing..."
At this point, a big hand stopped in front of him. Hattori Heiji rushed to speak: "Yes, you are the only one who went to the room last, Mr. Kotani!"
"Huh?" Conan almost felt numb all over.
At your level, Hattori Heiji, my reasoning is almost throwing the correct answer in your face. Why are you still insisting on your wrong answer?
"You took advantage of Tokatsu, who was busy preparing those tricks for a long time, and beat him to death with a hammer without paying attention!" Hattori Heiji said firmly.
"Hey, hey! What are you talking about? That person..." Conan whispered nervously, trying to stop his friend from making further mistakes.
Detective Baima, who had just figured out the entire case, also spread his hands: "Excuse me, please allow me to interrupt... Those tricks, Mr. Kotani are..."
"I also found the evidence!" Hattori Heiji's next sentence immediately made the two people's expressions change drastically, "It was picked up in Tokijin's room... this screw with the head cut off..."
Hakuba Detective and Conan took a deep breath at the same time. The detective's sense of smell made them immediately realize what Hattori Heiji wanted to do, and they looked in another direction in the restaurant in unison.
Hattori Heiji walked up to Kotani Kenzo: "How is it? This is conclusive evidence! It seems that you failed to recover them all... After all, there is no telling where the screws cut with wire cutters will fly..."
At this moment when the atmosphere in the restaurant solidified, Hattori Heiji suddenly stretched out his hand, like an iron plier, and grabbed the left arm of Koshimizu Nanatsuki on the side.
"As expected, it was you...the killer who killed Shijin!"
Hattori Heiji achieved his goal and stopped pretending. He continued Conan's previous reasoning and said: "Tokijin said he would spend an hour preparing, but he was actually waiting for the adhesive to dry!"
"No matter how quickly the work of twisting out the screws and cutting them off is done, even if it is a quick-drying adhesive, it will take at least thirty minutes to wait for it to completely dry."
Hattori Heiji's voice was very calm: "In other words, Tokijin originally planned to complete the arrangement of the trick in thirty minutes, and then wait somewhere outside the room to wait quietly for the adhesive to dry."
"In other words, the only one who can kill Shijin while he is in the room is you, who left the table and went to the bathroom not long after."
"You probably went to Shijin's room under the guise of going to the bathroom. You lied that you had figured out the trick in the secret room and wanted to compare each other's answers before entering his room and beating Shijin to death with a hammer when he was unprepared.
He will then take over and complete the preparation work he just started, and arrange the secret room..."
"Then he jumped down from the window, then entered the house and came to the restaurant - unfortunately this is just a hypothesis. It is speculated that if it was you, you could do it. There is no evidence..."
Hattori Heiji held the screw head in his hand, and his face showed the joy of succeeding: "That's why I used the screws from the radio fragments picked up in the storage room to perform this play..."