Conan's Almighty Extraction

"The delay ignition device is this telephone fax machine. Before we left, the prisoner re-lit the candles on the cake and placed it under the telephone fax machine. Then he sent a fax at around [-]:[-], and the fax machine printed The paper that comes out will be ignited by the candle on the chair, which will start a fire."

Shiraiwa Maha looked at the thoughtful Conan beside him, and ordered: "The prisoner probably took the opportunity of leaving the box and went to a store near the karaoke to use the fax service. I will go there now and ask. Leave it to you to keep an eye on."

"Well, leave it to me here." Conan nodded solemnly, and then ran to Sawai Gaku and the others, trying to find clues about the prisoner from their conversations.

Shiraiwa Maha drove back to the commercial street and found that there were very few shops open at night. Except for the karaoke shop where he sang before, only one 24-hour convenience store was still open.

Bai Yanzhenyu walked into the convenience store, bought a few bottles of drinks, took the opportunity to check out, and asked the owner: "Boss, did any customers come to your place to buy things around three o'clock?"

"It's three o'clock." The boss handed the change to Shiraiwa Maha, and recalled: "It seems that only a few college students who sang in the store next door came, and what they bought seemed to be cigarettes and tomato juice."

Bai Yanzhenyu's eyes lit up, and he couldn't wait to ask: "Then do you still remember what they looked like?"

"I remember a guy with brown hair and glasses, a beautiful girl in a black dress, and a guy with dark skin and an athlete's haircut."

After the boss told the appearance and characteristics of the three of them, he complained dissatisfiedly: "By the way, that dark-skinned boy still vomited at my door for a long time, and it took me a long time to clean it up."

After listening to the boss's description, Shiraiwa Maha immediately understood that he was talking about Sakai Gaku, Hayasaka Tomoko and Noguchi Shibahisa.

There was a smile on the corner of Bai Yanzhenyu's mouth, and he continued to ask: "Boss, did someone among them use your fax machine?"

"Hey, how do you know?"

The boss looked at Bai Yanzhenyu in surprise, and replied: "The guy with glasses used my fax machine. At that time, I specially reminded him to put the paper backwards, but he didn't even listen to it, and messed it up on the paper." Some cream, what a troublesome fellow."

"Boss, thank you."

After getting the answer he wanted, Shiraiwa Maha immediately drove back to the villa, only to find that the firefighters believed it was an accident, and Sawai Gaku and others were also preparing to leave the scene together.

"Wait, this is not an accident, but a fire deliberately created by someone!"

Shirai Yan Maha called to everyone who was about to leave, pointed at Sawai Gaku, and shouted sharply: "The prisoner is you, Sawai Gaku!"

"How is this possible?"

Miyazaki Chika obviously didn't believe that the Sawai Institute was the arsonist, and asked instead: "When the fire broke out, didn't Sawai-senpai sing with us? And it's so far away from the villa, there is no time to commit crimes."

"Yes, at that time, how could Sawai come back to light the fire? It would be more reliable to say that a delay ignition device is installed here, but in that case, it is impossible to hide it from the firefighters."

Morimoto Kigi didn't quite believe it either, but he came to a relatively correct conclusion based on the reasoning knowledge he had learned in the club.

Facing everyone's doubts, Baiyan Maha smiled lightly and explained: "Yes, there is indeed a delayed ignition device here. The reason why the firefighters did not suspect it is because it is something that already existed in the house. Contain it from far away to light the fire."

Tomoko Hayasaka was a little impatient, and urged, "Then tell me what's going on."

"Sawai Gaku, if I'm not mistaken, the reason Mami-san fell asleep before blowing out the candles is because you put sleeping pills in her drink, right?"

Bai Yanzhenyu broke out another shocking news, and without waiting for everyone to ask, he continued: "Afterwards, before we left to sing, you secretly moved the chair under the telephone and fax machine in the living room, and put the candles on the cake back into place. Ignite, use the fax machine in the convenience store to send a fax to the villa, and the paper printed by the fax machine will be ignited by the candle, causing a fire.”

"Clap clap clap."

After hearing Shiraiwa Maha's reasoning, Sawai Gaku applauded, and asked without changing his face: "As expected of a great writer who can write so many novels, his imagination is richer than ours, but if I commit the crime, how can I Is it possible to use such a simple method? Taking a step back, even if I used such a method, what is the evidence? It can't just be your speculation, right?"

"The simpler the method, the fewer flaws. From this point of view, it is indeed in line with your status as the president of the reasoning society."

Bai Yanzhenyu didn't panic at all, and said calmly: "As for the evidence, I asked the convenience store owner before. You were the only person who used fax at that time. Of course, you can also say that you sent fax to others."

Sawai Gaku didn't expect that Shiraiwa Maha just went to the convenience store to inquire about the news, with some sweat on his forehead, he explained: "Yes, I did send a fax at that time, but it was sent to a friend of mine, he Please give me a nice title for one of his latest novels."

"Hehe, who is the fax sent to? Then take out the receipt that the boss gave you. It has the time and the recipient's fax number on it, which is enough to prove that you are the prisoner who made the fire. As for the receipt, I guess You are worried that someone will pick it up if you throw it away, so it should still be on your body at this time."

Shiraiwa Maha naturally thought that Sawai Academy would not admit it, and immediately threw out decisive evidence that could prove his prisoner.

"Then, can we search you, please?" The firefighters felt that Shiraiwa Maha's reasoning made sense, and planned to temporarily act as a police officer and search Sawai Gaku.

"Do not touch me!"

Sawai stopped the actions of the firefighters, slowly took out the crumpled receipt from his pocket, and laughed at himself: "I'm so stupid, if I knew this, I shouldn't have worried that my little tricks would be caught by you." I found out that it would be good to just throw this kind of thing into the fire.”

"President!"

Seeing Sawai Gaku admit his crime, everyone looked at him with complicated expressions, unable to believe that he would do such a thing.

Tomoko Hayasaka looked at Sawai Gaku angrily, and asked puzzledly, "Sawai, why did you do this? Don't you like Mami?"

"That's why I hope she can notice me."

Sawai Gaku sighed and explained: "Last month I wanted to date her, but she rejected it. I have never encountered such a thing in the past. Of course I will not be reconciled. I thought it would only cause an incident. A small fire, here is a scene where a hero saves the beauty, I didn't expect the fire to burn too fast..."

"Idiot! What do you think? The fire is also something you can control?"

Bai Yanzhenyu sneered, and interrupted: "Can you use your brain, in case the car blows out on the road, landslides cause road blockages and other accidents, our return is not so smooth, and Miss Mami may die Already! This kind of selfish practice of disregarding other people’s lives also wants others to change their minds?”

Afterwards, things were the same as before. This incident ended with Sawai Gaku being taken to the police station by firefighters. After Shiraiwa Maha and others went to the hospital to visit Uchida Asami, they returned to the Mori Office with Ran and Conan.