Conan's corpse picker

Chapter 543 Detective's business, don't be ashamed
One of them was Toshiya Tasho, a student who went to the storage room to check the doors and windows were closed after returning from delivering the meals.

The other is Shuichi Hamura, a vampire researcher who went to the underground library next to the collection room to check the classics, and returned to the hall after a long time.

Among them, Toshihiko Tasho checked the doors and windows, and it took only a few minutes to do anything.

So rule it out...

Guntian Yumi looked at Hamura Shuichi: "At present, it seems that only you have time to commit crimes."

Hamura Hideichi was startled, then pushed his pince-nez, shook his head and retorted: "There is a hall between the collection room and the study room, I did go to the collection room, but during that time, you were all sitting in the hall, even if I have a chance to get the wooden nail, and it is impossible to go to the study to commit murder."

"There is more than one way to the study, but other paths are less conventional."

Guntian Yumi stepped up the stairs and walked to the window on the second floor: "If an accomplice lowers the rope ladder from the second floor and helps you climb up from the underground library, you can go to the second floor first, and then follow the roof— —”

As she spoke, she pushed open the window in the corridor on the second floor, and simultaneously completed the second half of the sentence: "—Go to the study."

As the windows were opened, under the moonlight, the long roof with a slight slope appeared in front of everyone.One end of it is connected to this side, and the other end is connected to Torakura Daisuke's study room. The bricks and tiles are evenly covered with pure white snow that has not been stepped on, and there are no footprints on the snow.

——No one passed by here.

Gundam Ikumi: "..."

She stared out the window in silence for a moment, then raised her hand as if nothing had happened, and closed the window again.

…It is the basic operation of a detective to put forward hypotheses and verify them one by one.Of course it's good if the reasoning is right, but if it's wrong...it's wrong if it's wrong, it's just a hypothesis, there's no shame in it.

Suzuki Sonoko looked at the corridor, remembered something, and whispered, "The murderer probably didn't pass through the roof——When Mr. Hamura went to the library, I stayed in the corridor on the second floor, and no one passed by here."

Guntian Yumei was startled, and looked at her suspiciously: "What have you been doing in the corridor on the second floor?"

Suzuki Sonoko blushed: "...Look, look at the scenery! This place is higher than the first floor, and the scenery is better than the one below."

"..." In other words, another person without an alibi.

Gunida Ikumi started to stare at her suspiciously.

However, looking at Suzuki Sonoko's slender arms and legs, I always feel that it is difficult for her to carry a grown man like Daisuke Torakura, let alone tie him to a cross.

So a few seconds later, Guntian Ikumi hesitated to look away from Suzuki Sonoko, and looked at Jiang Xia again—I heard from colleagues that this high school student detective solved the case as fast as reading a script. action?

Is this case particularly difficult?Or, is there some indispensable key clue they haven't found yet?
... Then she guessed wrong just now, which is really normal.Guntian Yumi pinned her slightly curly hair behind her ears, and nodded secretly inwardly, feeling a lot more relieved.

At the same time, he decided to rest his mind and continue reasoning—to make bold assumptions and carefully verify, so that he could walk a path to the truth in an impossible crime.

She looked at the window slowly, then pushed it open again, observing the eaves outside.

——Not only on the roof of this section of the corridor, but further away, even the top of the study room, no footprints can be seen.

In other words, the prisoner should never have been on the roof.In addition, the door of the study room was locked, and the only key was on Daisuke Torakura; the location of the floor-to-ceiling windows was close to the cliff.When she was in the study just now, she checked carefully—not only was the cliff bottomless, but the protruding parts were also covered with snowflakes, and there were no signs of being climbed.

All roads are dead... The murderer can't possibly fly over like a vampire.

The reasoning was momentarily stuck.

Guntian Ikumi had no choice but to change her mind—start with motivation.

She still felt that, judging from the timing, only Shuichi Hamura could commit the crime: "Speaking of..." She suddenly looked at Shuichi Hamura, "You and Mrs. Hukura are a couple, right?"

"?!"

Etsuko Torakura's heart missed a beat, and she nervously grabbed Hamura Shuuichi's arm.

Just now, she heard Jiang Xia's boss talk about a lot of knowledge that sounded very useful.Just tried to digest a part of it, and felt that her concealment ability had improved, but it didn't take long before she was exposed... Etsuko Torakura subconsciously glanced at Toru Amuro.

Toru Amuro looked to the other side, ignoring her.

... He remembered that when he entered Daisuke Torakura's study just now and saw the terrible corpse, Etsuko Torakura instinctively ran to Shuichi Hamura and grabbed his arm instead of asking for help from Toshiya Tanasho who was close by. ...Normal people can see that something is wrong, not to mention a detective like Guntian Ikumi who is not confused, the blame will never fall on him anyway...

Next to him, Etsuko Torakura panicked for a while, then slowly calmed down: By the way, Daisuke Torakura is dead.It doesn't seem to matter to be guessed cheating now... Wait, speaking of this, who is the murderer?Could it really be Xiuyi...

Hamura Shuichi is still retorting:

"No matter what relationship I have with Etsuko, I am not the murderer who killed Daisuke Torakura. If you are looking for a motive, then you should actually look at someone else—such as Editor-in-Chief Doi."

As he spoke, he looked at the editor next to him who was sweating on his forehead:
"I heard a rumor in college that the content of the novels submitted to the "Horror Times Weekly" will be embezzled by Daisuke Torakura. It's just that those embezzlements are quite clever, and their manuscripts have not yet been published. Cang Daisuke made a mistake..."

As Hamura Shuichi's eyes fell on Doi's editor-in-chief's luggage, Doi began to sweat even more.

——At this time, what Doi’s editor-in-chief packed was indeed those original manuscripts.It was Daisuke Hukura who plagiarized it, and he was going to take it back

Although Daisuke Torakura has not published vampire novels in recent years, he is still writing them in private.So right now, Daisuke Hukura's computer is probably storing fresh evidence of plagiarism.

Editor-in-chief Doi always felt that if he refused to admit it at this time, he would hide the news.The crime of murder might fall on him...

... must find someone more suspicious!

Thinking of this, editor-in-chief Doi also decisively pulled people into the water:
"To tell you the truth, Daisuke Hucang actually ran out of money a long time ago. Seven years ago, I failed to invest in stocks and owed a large amount of debt. Hu Cang paid it off for me, but he asked me to hand over the manuscript I received to him first. Looking past..."

Speaking of this, editor-in-chief Doi felt that everyone was looking at him more and more wrongly, and realized that his motive for killing seemed to be sufficient.

So I quickly introduced the main topic: "This is not the point! The point is that five years ago, I thought it was not an option to let him copy it like this, so I recommended him a ghostwriter——Tasuo! The novels published by Daisuke Torakura in recent years, In fact, they are all Tian Suo's works, and he has more motives than me!"

(End of this chapter)