Detective Conan: The System Takes Me to Zero's World

Mentian Shuliang frowned slightly, a trace of uneasiness flashed in his eyes, and then responded: "Me too, after all, I was the one who untied the knot on the towel blanket that wrapped the body, and my fingerprints might be left on it."

Officer Yokomizo hung up the phone and turned to look at the two men with a serious expression. His brows were twisted into the shape of a "川" character, and he slowly said, "It's okay. The forensic officer said that it was likely the fingerprints and palm prints left when the victim was strangled. They are very clear on one end of the towel blanket."

Every word he uttered was like a heavy hammer, striking hard on everyone's heart, making the air around them seem to freeze.

Officer Yokomizo's eyes slowly passed over Menda Sakuryo and Kayaki Maika and landed in front of Koriyama Takaki. His tone left no room for doubt: "Mr. Koriyama Takaki, these are your fingerprints and palm prints. Then please come back to the police station with us."

When Kayaki Maika and Menda Sakury heard the result, their faces were filled with disbelief. Especially Kayaki Maika, her expression was exaggerated and distorted, and her body took a step back slightly uncontrollably, as if she wanted to escape from this terrible fact.

Everyone's eyes suddenly focused on Kuniyama Takaki.

Koriyama Takaki's face turned pale instantly, beads of sweat rolled down his forehead, and he quickly waved his hands to deny: "Wait a minute, are you mistaken? It wasn't me, I was really wronged!"

Kudo Yuki narrowed her eyes into crescent shapes, and her sharp gaze was fixed on the clothes worn by Kayaki Maika.

She approached Amuro Toru inconspicuously and lowered her voice, her breath almost blowing into Amuro Toru's ear: "Toru, look, the dress that Miss Kayaki Maika is wearing is a towel blanket."

Amuro Toru followed her gaze and his heart suddenly shook, as if he had caught some key clue. He frowned slightly, a trace of vigilance flashed in his eyes, and responded in a low voice: "It is indeed very suspicious, Xiaoxue, do you think she dressed like this on purpose, or is there something else going on?"

Kudo Yuki raised her eyebrows slightly, with a sly look in her eyes: "Toru, do you remember the towel blanket that Genta soiled before? It's the one she's wearing."

Toru Amuro's pupils suddenly shrank, and the image of Yuanta soiling the towel blanket quickly appeared in his mind.

At that time, Ayumi accidentally touched the grilled sausage in Genta's hand, and the oil stain left a conspicuous stain on the towel blanket.

His eyes became more and more profound, and he secretly pondered various possibilities in his heart. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that there was a huge conspiracy behind this matter.

Amuro Toru looked at Kudo Yuki, and the two looked at each other, their eyes seemed to be communicating silently: [The truth is right in front of us, just one step away.]

Conan stood not far away, taking it all in. The corners of his mouth slightly raised, the arc gradually widened, and he looked full of confidence, as if he had seen through everything.

He secretly glanced at Kudo Yuki and Amuro Toru in the crowd, and thought to himself: "My elder sister didn't give me any hints this time. It's obvious that she is secretly testing whether my ability to solve cases has improved. Humph, I will definitely not let her down!"

Koriyama Takaki was still trying to defend himself to Officer Yokomizo at the top of his lungs: "Officer, officer, you really need to investigate this further! I really didn't kill Mr. Usui. I definitely wasn't the one who strangled him to death while he was sleeping in the backyard. Everything I said is true!"

"But on one side of the towel blanket that wrapped the body, there was a trace of Mr. Usui's blood, and the location was exactly the same as the strangulation marks on his neck. And your fingerprints and palm prints were detected on both ends of that side.

In this case, it could only be that you grabbed both ends of the towel blanket and strangled Mr. Usui to death." Officer Yokomizo looked serious, his eyes fixed on Koriyama Takaki.

"That towel blanket was originally laid on the customer seats. My fingerprints might have been left when the blanket was laid out..."

Upon hearing this, Kayaki Maika immediately shrieked in accusation, pointing her finger at Koriyama Takaki, her body trembling slightly with excitement: "You're lying! It's always been Shuoliang and I who have been laying out the towel blankets, and you've never helped once. Don't try to quibble!"

Mentian Shuliang also echoed, with a hint of disappointment in his tone: "You have never come to help once, don't try to quibble."

"Ah, that..." Koriyama Takaki was suddenly speechless, his eyes wandering around in panic.

Officer Yokomizo continued to present evidence, "You are also suspected of stealing Sakuran's grandmother's blood pressure medication, crushing it and stuffing it into a grapefruit juice straw, and letting Mr. Usui in the backyard drink it and fall into a coma."

Koriyama Takaki seemed to have grasped the last straw and quickly defended himself: "Didn't I say that I drank the juice too? You can't convict me based on that alone!"

Officer Yokomizo frowned slightly. "You just want us to think so, right? But in fact, you probably threw the juice away. In fact, only Mr. Usui drank the juice, and you did this just to make it easier to strangle him, right?"

Just when the atmosphere was tense, Conan's clear voice rang out like a bell: "I think you are all wrong!"

This sudden voice broke the tense deadlock, and everyone's eyes turned to him.

"Ah?" Officer Yokomizo and Koriyama Takaki exclaimed in unison.

Conan looked up and began to analyze in an orderly manner: "Think about it, if it was difficult to use the powder in the straw to make the uncle pass out before killing him, then after killing him, the uncle was still sleeping in the same room. Isn't this too unreasonable?

How could a murderer be so careless? Moreover, in order to prevent his method from being discovered, the criminal had to break off the straws from all the other grapefruit juice packaging and throw them away after killing the person. "

As soon as he finished speaking, Officer Jiujiu rushed to Officer Yokomizo. There was a trace of fatigue on his face, but excitement in his eyes, as if he had brought some important news.

Officer Yokomizo asked hurriedly: "What's the situation?"

Officer Ninety-Nine answered solemnly, "All the straws on the juice packaging have been removed."

Conan put his hands in his trouser pockets leisurely, with a smile on his face: "Look! Did Mr. Guiqi leave the room after killing the uncle, remove all the straws and then go back to the room? This is obviously unreasonable."

Officer Yokomizo squatted down and looked at Conan, his face full of confusion: "But, Conan, his fingerprints and palm prints were left on the towel blanket that was used as the murder weapon. How do you explain this?"

"Is that really what he left when he strangled the old man? In fact, there are many other possibilities. For example, when he was tying a headscarf, when he was wrapping something, when he was hanging a triangular scarf, or when he was tying the collar at the back, fingerprints could have been left."

At this point, he looked at Kayaki Maika standing next to him, intentionally or unintentionally, and his eyes seemed to say: "You are the key to solving the mystery."

Kayaki Maika was like being struck by an electric current, her whole body trembled violently, and a trace of panic flashed in her eyes. She subconsciously lowered her head, trying to avoid Conan's sight, and her hands unconsciously clenched the corners of her clothes.

Officer Yokomizo was confused by what Conan said. He smiled awkwardly: "What are you talking about? The murder weapon was not clothes, but a large square towel blanket. Did you make a mistake?"

"What if that towel blanket can be turned into a piece of clothing without any cutting, just by tying it in three places? What do you think?"

When Officer Yokomizo and Officer Kyuju heard this, shock and suspicion were written on their faces.

"A towel blanket?"

"It turned into clothes! How is this possible?"

Officer Yokomizo was stunned at first, then burst into laughter: "Oh my, how is this possible! If it was ancient Roman clothing, that would be another matter. Little Conan, have you read too many detective novels? Your imagination is too rich."

Conan ignored his questioning and continued along this line of thought: "Well, can you prepare another towel blanket according to the size I mentioned? I can make one in front of you. It's the kind of clothes that are a little sexy. Then you will know if I am wrong."

Just when everyone was attracted by Conan's words, Amuro Toru accidentally caught a glimpse of Koriyama Takaki with his back to the crowd, one hand covering his cell phone, quietly speaking in a low voice: "Ah, it's me! Let the boss answer the phone."

Toru Amuro calmly signaled to Kudo Yuki with his eyes, and the two of them understood what he meant. They quietly moved closer to the direction of Koriyama Takaki, trying to hear clearly what he was saying.

The two overheard Koriyama Takaki telling the person on the other end of the phone that his gangster boss would be coming here with a bunch of people to mess things up later, and they seemed to be planning a bigger conspiracy.

Kudo Yuki frowned slightly, thinking to herself: "Someone is planning to use some rogue tactics."

She looked at Toru Amuro, their eyes met, and they both understood each other's unspoken thoughts.

She looked at Amuro Toru, their eyes met, and they both understood each other's unspoken thoughts: "First stabilize the situation, don't alert the enemy, and after the truth of the case is revealed, catch these criminals in one fell swoop."

Amuro Toru nodded slightly, signaling Kudo Yuki to hold back for now. He turned his gaze to Conan, who was still discussing the issue of turning towel blankets into clothes with Officer Yokomizo and the others, and had not noticed anything unusual here.

Officer Yokomizo stood up and sent someone to bring a towel blanket, then handed it to Conan with a hint of curiosity and expectation on his face: "Okay, little Conan, let's see what skills you have to turn a towel blanket into clothes."

The two little guys, Yuantai and Mitsuhiko, volunteered to hold the corners of the towel blanket, one on the left and one on the right. Huihara Ai helped to demonstrate how to tie the knot and put it on.

Conan urged, "Then let's begin!"

Ayumi stood in front of the towel blanket and spread her arms out to shoulder level as Conan requested.

Conan began to explain in detail: "First, prepare a square blanket that is about the same width as your hands, and then fold it in half like this. Then tie a knot at both ends, so that two loops are formed. Put these two loops on your legs, and then carefully pull the knotted part to the base of your thighs.

Then, pull the triangular part in front of the body and gently pull it to the neck. Tie a knot behind the neck, and finally tie a knot in front of the body with the extra towel at the waist, and twist it tighter at the navel. Look, it is a halter-style jumpsuit. "

With the help of her friends, Ayumi quickly put on her clothes. She turned to face everyone, her small body wrapped in a "one-piece suit" made of a slightly large towel blanket, which looked a little funny, but full of childishness.

Conan put his hands in his pockets, but his eyes fell on Kayaki Maika who was standing beside him: "Ayumi is still a child wearing nothing. If she were a mature woman, it should be tighter? Miss Kayaki Maika, what do you think?"

Menda Sakura and Koriyama Takaki heard Conan's words and subconsciously looked at Kayaki Maika. She clenched her right hand into a fist and her face was slightly pale.

Koriyama Takaki seemed to suddenly realize something, and whispered to Kayaki Maika: "Did you ask me to help you tie the knot at the back of your neck, actually to leave my fingerprints?"

Conan said calmly, "Yes, that's what Miss Maika did. She left Mr. Kiki's fingerprints on the towel blanket she was wearing and took Mr. Usui's favorite pineapple juice out of the refrigerator so that he could get the drugged grapefruit juice in the straw.

Mr. Guiqi likes to drink grapefruit juice, so he naturally went to get it.

Then, she went into the backyard when she thought both Mr. Usui and Mr. Takaki had fainted, took off the towel blanket that had Mr. Takaki's fingerprints on it, put it around Mr. Usui's neck and strangled him to death.

Of course, all of this was done while wearing gloves, in order to leave no trace of oneself. Afterwards, the towel blanket was used to wrap Mr. Usui's body.

After changing into the towel blanket he had brought for guests, he removed all the straws from the grapefruit juice boxes in the freezer and found a place to dispose of them.

Then, just bring back the pineapple juice you bought somewhere and pretend you bought it from a vending machine far away."

Officer Yokomizo nodded repeatedly: "I see."

Officer Ninety-Nine frowned slightly, with a sleepy look in his eyes: "Little brother, are you really an elementary school student?"

Officer Yokomizo also agreed, "That's right, and Mr. Maori is not here."

"Those were my thoughts just now." Subaru Okiya walked to Conan's side slowly, stretched out his hand and rubbed Conan's head, with a gentle smile on his face: "I told this kid about my reasoning, and he said he wanted to tell you himself... It seems that he has been obsessed with detective TV series recently, and he has learned it very well."

Officer Ninety-Nine then showed a look of sudden enlightenment and nodded in understanding.

Officer Yokomizo was still a little confused: "But if Mr. Usui didn't drink the grapefruit juice, or if he didn't pass out even if he drank it, then wouldn't the plan fail?"

To be continued...