The cat form was inconvenient for carrying things, so Shiraishi did not change back. Instead, he put a hat on his head from the side, letting the brim of the hat block the mask on his face, and walked back to the room where Conan was.
Chicun's family already had a large number of people, but now a bunch of police officers have arrived, making it even more chaotic. There are also some people in suits among this group of people. As long as they are not seen from the front, Shiraishi doesn't look suspicious.
As I walked around the corner, I heard footsteps approaching from the front.
Shiraishi was startled and immediately turned into the bathroom next to him.
Through the crack in the door, he saw Mao Lilan running past in a hurry, probably to pick up the doctor.
After the young martial arts master passed by, Shiraishi was about to continue on his way, but after thinking about it, he turned back and opened the small window above the toilet before going out.
After that, he quickly ran to the target room, locked the door, and saw Conan covered with a quilt, lying half-dead on the bed, breathing like a bellows used by farmers for cooking - the process of fighting against the law of conservation of matter did not seem to be easy.
easy.
Shiraishi originally thought that the person must have fainted, but when he walked to the bed, he discovered that not only did Conan not faint, but he actually recognized him.
The child struggled to turn his head: "The murderer is Ikemura Koe... She gave the needle in front of us... cough cough cough"
"..." Are you high school detectives so dedicated to solving crimes?
Shiraishi squatted beside the bed and took out the needle in the blind spot of Conan's vision.
After all, he had not given his consent, so his actions should be regarded as stealing blood. So before taking action, Shiraishi pulled the pillow cover on one side and covered Conan's face. After watching from a distance, he felt relieved.
Then he pulled out the needle cap, held the hand holding the experimental material, and hesitated for a moment at the cyan blood vessels on his wrist.
So far, all Shiraishi's practice with syringes has been to pull out the needle and use it as a water gun. He has never learned to inject or draw blood.
If you can suck out blood with just a prick, that would be great, but if you accidentally cut an artery or something, or pull out a tube of minced meat, wouldn't it kill someone, and then your credibility points would be deducted...
After thinking for a moment, Shiraishi quickly came up with an idea.
He found a disinfectant wipe, wiped it on Conan's hand several times, and then poked it with a needle. Blood beads slowly came out.
Although there may be impurities, Hongye should be able to handle it...
Shiraishi pressed Conan's hand and drank most of the tube with satisfaction.
When he fastened the needle cap again and hid the small needle back in his pocket, Conan struggled feebly with his other hand and finally grabbed the pillow towel off his face.
Although he didn’t know why the cold was so severe, Conan’s current heart rate and body sensations made him already formulate his last words. He said angrily: “If I die... don’t tell Xiaolan my true identity, she will feel guilty...
…”
"You can't die just yet." Shiraishi interrupted him calmly and silently took out the cod liver oil capsule he just took away.
In Conan's confused and slightly shocked gaze, he sneered in a decent manner: "You should be able to use this medicine."
I heard that people with spiritual support are more likely to get through difficulties. I'm so loyal... Shiraishi gave himself a thumbs up in his heart, and then put the medicine in Conan's hand after he nodded.
As expected of a brave man who had just drank half a glass of wine from a stranger, Conan swallowed the medicine in one gulp without much hesitation.
During this period, he felt that this mysterious medicine looked familiar, and quickly thought of the cod liver oil capsules his mother had bought... However, the capsules all looked similar, so Conan quickly convinced himself and gave up this idea.
He originally thought this was some kind of special first-aid medicine, but after drinking it, his already violent heartbeat intensified again, and his eyes were spinning.
When I woke up again, my body felt a little strange.
Kudou Shinichi sat up, looked down at his suddenly enlarged hand, and felt his sight increased a lot, and was shocked.
He raised his head suddenly and saw the man in black opening the wardrobe with his back to him. He picked out a few items without thinking of himself as an outsider and threw them next to him.
Quite attentive... No, that's not the point!
Kudo Shinichi couldn't care less about clothes now. He blurted out: "Who are you? How can there be an antidote to that poison!?"
I am just an ordinary passerby who owns a piece of cod liver oil...
"This is not an antidote. Your current state can only last for fifteen minutes." Shiraishi made up a time based on his impression.
Then he looked at the bedroom door and changed the subject: "That girl is coming back soon. If you want to greet her just wrapped in quilt, I'll open the door."
As soon as he finished speaking, as if in response to his words, someone clicked the doorknob.
However, because the door was locked from the inside, Mao Lilan could not come in.
Immediately there was a knock on the door, and Mao Lilan was anxious and worried: "Conan, open the door quickly, the doctor is here to treat you, don't be willful!"
Seeing the man in black walking towards the door in a hurry, and remembering what he had just said about opening the door, Kudo Shinichi was so shocked that he almost flew out of his mind. In his eyes, the black cat was not a person who could joke around.
"Wait!" he shouted in a panic. He grabbed his clothes as quickly as he could bring out the afterimage, put them on with a few swipes, and looked so neat that he didn't look like a patient who had just undergone a transformation.
.
…
In the study on the third floor, Hattori Heiji has already started reasoning.
He believed that after killing Isao Ikemura, the murderer put the fishing line with the key through his pants pocket, and then pulled the line through the crack of the door to the outside. After locking the door with the key, he pulled the fishing line
, the key will return to the deceased's pocket.
As for the candidate of the murderer, since Hattori Heiji found a bundle of fishing lines with needles in the trash can in the Japanese room, he believed that the murderer was Ikemura Isao's father who loved fishing and had been staying in the Japanese room just now.
Grandpa Chicun twirled his gray beard. He was silent for a long time in the face of this identification, and then slowly sighed: "Such a careful plan will be discovered. It seems that I am really old. Yes, kill Axun."
people..."
"It's not you." Someone interrupted him at the door.
The room was already very quiet, but now such a sound suddenly came from the room. Everyone was startled and looked at the door in unison.
I saw Kudo Shinichi, who had not been seen for a long time, leaning on the threshold, his head covered with sweat, and he did not appear very shining.
Kudo Shinichi first pointed out the flaw in Hattori Heiji's reasoning - there was a hidden inner pocket in Isao Ikemura's pants. When the body was found, the key was in the inner pocket, and Isao Ikemura was sitting down when he died. If Hattori Isao is used
With the method Heiji said, the key will get stuck halfway and it will be impossible to fall in.
"The needle hole behind the ear was made by Ms. Kimura Chimura after she came in with you, waiting for an opportunity to prick it.
"As long as she arranges the desk in advance so that the books block part of the visitor's view, she can commit the murder without anyone noticing." Kudo Shinichi said, "As for the fishing line you found -"
He touched his pocket, and with Hattori Heiji's doubtful eyes on life, he took out five or six bundles of identical coils:
"I also found it in other rooms, in every room. This is a prop that someone deliberately left behind to frame others."
Speaking of this, thinking of the words Black Cat left before leaving, Kudo Shinichi glanced at Sachiko Yamashiro who was hiding behind Ikemura's son, his eyes changing.
——At that time, he was putting on his shirt in a panic. When he lowered his head to fasten the buttons, when he raised his head again, the black cat disappeared from the locked room.
Before leaving, he seemed to have said...
The Megure Police Department saw that Tokyo's Kudo Shinichi had overwhelmed the Kansai kid's arrogance as soon as he appeared on the scene. At this moment, he felt refreshed: "In other words, the murderer is Ikemura Kimie?"
"No." Kudo Shinichi came to his senses and shook his head.
He walked towards the desk and looked at the coffee cup that had been ignored by them because they found the poisonous needle with complicated eyes: "She really wanted to kill Ikemura Isao, but before that, Ikemura Isao was already dead, probably
At……"
Kudo Shinichi looked at the paper shredder aside, and there was indeed a lot of debris in it.
With these details as support, he felt more and more that Black Cat was right: "Kill yourself by taking poison."
…
Whether the cause of death was acupuncture or poisoning, it is not difficult to determine after professional examination.
All the conspiracies have been exposed, and it's time for the customary confession.
Ikemura Koe didn't know that his original husband was framed by Ikemura Isao.
At that time, Yamashiro Kenji was arrested and his daughter was taken away by her husband's relatives. Only Ikemura Isao often appeared by her side, greeting her and talking sweetly. Yamashiro Koe, who was at a low point in his life, was quickly captured. After the divorce, he married Ikemura Isao.
Although Isao Ikemura is not her type, life goes by day by day and her life is quite harmonious.
Kimura Ikemura thought it would continue to be like this in the future, until a while ago, Ikemura's son brought home a photo of his girlfriend.
She has not seen her daughter for nearly twenty years, and she only feels that this future daughter-in-law looks very similar to her, and she is very destined.
Ikemura Isao had a huge reaction. He looked at the photo and blurted out that his son was not allowed to associate with "that man's" daughter.
His disobedient reaction and some intuition made Ikemura Koujie feel that something was wrong.
A few days later, Ikemura Koe found an opportunity to get Ikemura Isao drunk, and learned from him what happened twenty years ago, so he decided to avenge his dead husband and his absurd life.
…
After the case was settled, it was time to deal with personal matters that was both painful and joyful.
Facing Hattori Heiji who came over to ask him why he knew so much about the case, and Maori Ran who had long wanted to say a lot to him, Kudo Shinichi looked at the latter with an extremely sweet heart.
Moreover, he looked at his watch and saw that there was still less than half the "fifteen minutes" the black cat said, so there was still plenty of time.
He first explained that the case was entirely up to Conan to report, and then he was about to say a few words to Mao Lilan, but at this moment, his heart beat violently, just like his reaction before he became bigger.
...There are still seven minutes left as promised!?
Kudo Shinichi was wavering between "trusting the black cat" and "trusting his own body senses", and his mind became dizzy again.
The premonition of shrinking was very strong. After a few seconds, Kudo Shinichi decided to believe in himself. He also knew very well that the change must not be seen by others, so he forced himself to leave the study and found a place to hide.
The study door was not far from the stairs. Mao Lilan saw that he was not feeling well and chased him out of the door. However, he happened to see Kudo Shinichi's legs weaken and he rolled down the stairs.
She was startled and hurriedly chased after him, but just when Kudo Shinichi fell to the bottom floor, a small dark gray ball suddenly rolled out of the cracked door next to it and exploded into a cloud of smoke.
Kudo Shinichi choked and coughed. He covered his mouth and nose and felt that his body was really shrinking.
Almost at the same time, someone grabbed his collar and dragged him into the bathroom next to him.
Smoke filtered in through the cracks in the door and quickly filled the small room.
Kudo Shinichi guessed that the person who helped him rescue him was the black cat. He had many questions to ask, but when he heard the noise, Mao Lilan had already run down, and Conan shut his mouth again, not daring to speak out for a while.
In the thick smoke, a black cat squirmed out of the narrow window of the bathroom with a needle filled with blood in its mouth.
After running all the way to the bushes in the courtyard, it finally couldn't help but put down the needle and sneezed a few times.
Afterwards, the black cat scratched the tip of its nose twice happily, shook its head, and started on the road again with the luggage.