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I'm afraid Gin must have misunderstood something.
After taking a look at the diplomat lying there, Hayashi Yoshiki quickly realized that Gin was taking credit for Conan's achievements.
He thought about it and decided to explain. Otherwise, people would really imagine that he was so efficient in killing people, and Hayashi Yoshiki would not be able to bear it if Gin assigned him a lot of tasks.
"I didn't do this. It was the diplomat's wife who did it."
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This time Gin didn't reply.
Hayashi Yoshiki put away his phone and turned his attention back to the scene.
In front of the body of diplomat Tsujimura Isao, Hattori Heiji impatiently picked up Conan who was squatting there, and said to Ran Mouri in dissatisfaction: "What's wrong with you? Really, how can you let a child see such a corpse?"
"It doesn't really matter. Conan is quite sensible."
Hayashi Yoshiki walked over with a smile, took Conan from Hattori Heiji and put him back on the ground, "Conan is quite smart, and he may have seen more corpses than I have."
"ha?"
"Because I feel like every time I run into Conan there's always a murder case."
When Hayashi Yoshiki started to help speak, Conan was surprised and touched, but when he heard this, he was so angry that he started coughing.
Ran Mouri laughed awkwardly, and Maori Kogoro pinched his chin and said, "It seems to be true... I always feel that the frequency of murder cases is a bit high recently, and many times they are just ordinary commissions at the beginning."
"Is it that weird?"
Hattori Heiji is a traditional detective who actively pursues cases. He found it a little hard to imagine, but he soon cheered up and said to Hayashi Yoshiki: "It just so happens that we can take this opportunity to see who has better reasoning ability between the two of us!"
Hayashi Yoshiki did not respond directly. He looked at Ran Mouri and said, "Ran Mouri, have you called the police?"
"Yes, I just called."
Ran Mouri nodded immediately.
So before Inspector Megure came over, Hattori Heiji was checking the scene with high spirits, squatting down to look for any possible traces, and unknowingly bumped into Conan who was also very motivated.
Hattori Heiji glanced at him, but didn't take Hayashi Yoshiki's words too seriously.
"The deceased's body is still warm, and his lips have turned purple. He must have been poisoned..."
"Ah, there's a tiny red dot at the root of his hair."
When Hattori Heiji confirmed the cause of Tsujimura Isao's death, Conan followed up and immediately added: "The murder weapon is the poison needle next to it!"
"..."
Because of his calm and cautious tone that didn't sound like a child's, Hattori Heiji looked at him in surprise.
On the other hand, Hayashi Yoshiki, who was eager to have a competition, just came over and took a quick look, then turned around to talk to Maori Kogoro and Ran Mouri.
What are you doing? Are you so careless?
He was dissatisfied.
About twenty minutes later, Megure Juzo arrived with his team.
"There are so many people this time, even Brother Lin is here?"
As soon as he saw Hayashi Yoshiki, Megure Jusan immediately felt safe. He happily walked straight to Hayashi Yoshiki and asked, "How is it, have you found any problems with this case?"
"He was just chatting there and didn't investigate the scene seriously. You might as well ask me, officer." Hattori Heiji walked over.
"Who are you?"
"His name is Hattori Heiji, and he is a Kansai detective who is as famous as Kudo Shinichi."
Hayashi Yoshiki introduced him.
Hattori Heiji, the son of Osaka Metropolitan Superintendent Hattori Heizo, is quite famous in the police system. When Megure Juzo heard about it, he was very surprised and his attitude became much friendlier.
However, Hattori Heiji had nothing to say about this. He was more concerned about the case itself.
"The victim's lips and the front of his hands and feet have turned purple, and there are bleeding spots on his conjunctiva, which are all evidence of death by suffocation. However, there is no sign of strangulation or drowning, so the most likely scenario is that the murderer poisoned the victim to paralyze his nerves, and the poison used was a highly lethal one."
"Also, judging from the fact that the deceased still has body temperature and there is no sign of rigor mortis or post-mortem corpse spots, he must have been killed within thirty minutes before we entered here."
Hattori Heiji summarized this and glanced at Hayashi Yoshiki at the same time, only to find that the other party was just looking at Conan and seemed a little worried.
"Are you okay Conan?"
".....I feel a little dizzy." Conan looked listless.
"Then you should lie down and rest for a while." Hayashi Yoshiki looked at Tsujimura Gongjiang with a smile and asked, "Mrs. Tsujimura, is there a room here where the child can rest for a while?"
"Ah...I'll ask the butler to take him away."
Tsujimura Kimie nodded.
Conan was soon taken to the guest room by the housekeeper to rest, and after Hattori Heiji confirmed the details of the room and realized that this was a closed room murder case, he quickly made his own inference.
Because there were only two keys to the study, one was on Tsujimura Kimie and the other was in the trouser pocket of the deceased Tsujimura Isao.
Because Tsujimura Kimie was in the Mori Detective Agency 30 minutes before Tsujimura Isao fell down, he had an alibi. Hattori Heiji's line of reasoning was that the murderer had somehow put the key into Tsujimura Isao's pocket after killing him.
But Hattori Heiji still hasn't figured out what method was used.
"Mrs. Tsujimura, could you lend me the key you used to open the study?"
At this time, Hayashi Yoshiki walked up to Tsujimura Kimie and said something with a smile that made her face change.
Hattori Heiji looked over and asked: "What do you want to do?"
"Based on the scene, this is indeed a closed-room murder, but it could also be a psychological closed-room murder."
"What did you say?"
"Mystery novels are sometimes a game between the author and the reader. After the author shows the crime scene and related evidence in the story, the game is whether the reader can guess the truth and method of the incident before the ending unfolds."
Hayashi Yoshiki looked at Hattori Heiji and smiled, "But Hattori-kun, do you know that there is a technique in writing called narrative paradox?"
"Narrative subterfuge?" Hattori Heiji was startled. "I know. It refers to the writing style where the author uses the structure of the article or the writing skills to deliberately conceal or mislead certain facts from the readers, and only reveals the truth at the end, right?"
"Yes, in layman's terms, it is an 'unreliable narrator'. After all, the narrator of a story is often the only channel for readers to understand the story. But once the narrator becomes unreliable, the clues and the truth will be shrouded in fog."
When Hayashi Yoshiki said this, he looked at the nervous Tsujimura Kimie again and said with a smile, "If Mrs. Tsujimura's method is written into a story, it is really suitable to be written in a narrative style."
Tsujimura Kimie's method of killing is actually very simple.
--That is, when she went to wake up Tsujimura Isao in front of Hattori Heiji and others, she took the opportunity to kill him with a poison needle.
Her cleverness lies in taking advantage of the subconscious idea of ??Hattori Heiji and others that "no murderer would kill people in front of the detective" to complete the psychological closed room murder. Hattori Heiji and Mori Kogoro would also push their thinking in the wrong direction because of the apparent closed room environment.
Kimie Tsujimura had originally prepared props such as fishing lines in an attempt to further mislead the detectives.
However, all these arrangements were in vain as Hayashi Yoshiki spoke.
When Tsujimura Kimie confessed his guilt, Hattori Heiji suddenly realized something and opened his eyes wide in disbelief:
"... Could it be that you saw through this from the very beginning!?"
"Ah, yes."
"Then why didn't you say anything at first?"
"You look so motivated, so I'm giving you more opportunities to show your abilities." Hayashi Yoshiki said this with a gentle smile on his delicate face. "Besides, how can an adult really compete with a high school student?"