[Comprehensive] Bamboo horse is a superpower

As expected of Shintaro Midorima, he was the vice-minister of the Teiko Basketball Club during his junior high school days, and his cooperation with Seijuro Akashi went very smoothly.

After the two sides exchanged information, the conclusions reached were basically exactly the same as Akashi Seijuro's own deduction, whether it was the role Midorima "played" at this time or their purpose.

According to Midorima, "Mr. Ogata" is the male owner of this castle, and his identity is a famous painter. His wife died of an accident a month ago, and there is a lovely daughter between them. Her father was more talented and was once hailed as "the most spiritual young painter", but he seemed to have fallen into self-isolation because he saw his mother's death with his own eyes.

Akashi nodded, indicating that he knew, then bent his fingers and tapped lightly on the back of the chair.

"Since Mr. Ogata has invited you, let's not keep Mr. Ogata waiting." In the end, Akashi made the final decision.

Perhaps the thoughts of the painters are not ordinary, and they cannot be understood by normal people.

It's like living in an ancient castle, such as the gloomy layout in this ancient castle.But Akashi, Nana, and Midorima are not people who have seen the world. Even if they are not used to this European style, they did not show any surprise, and went to the hall under the leadership of the maid quite calmly.

Going straight down from the winding and revolving corridor, breaking away from a curtain made of candlelight and shadows, the first floor of the castle hall is rarely filled with bright and majestic colors.

The European-style crystal chandelier hanging from the top reflected the harsh light, which seemed to add a bit of desolation to the already empty hall.

【——Everything is here. 】

Akashi swept across everyone in the hall lightly, no matter the expression on his face or his actions, they were just right, without any inappropriateness.

A female police chief—Kise Ryota behind her seems to be a security guard or something—wears a serious police uniform, her hair is also meticulously arranged, her face is serious, and her face is faintly haggard, so she turned into a police officer. With light makeup on, she is about 1.7 meters tall, and she is wearing a pair of black five-centimeter high-heeled shoes.

On the other side was the beautiful pink-haired singer sitting on the sofa drinking tea, and the black-skinned manager standing behind her looking bored—it was Momoi Itsuki and Aomine Daiki.

There is also Kuroko Tetsuya who is perfectly hidden from everyone because of his own sense of existence, especially among maids and male servants.

A pious Christian priest who stood up straight with a compassionate face.

Finally, there is a middle-aged man standing in the middle of the hall, dressed meticulously, even the collar and sleeves at the wrists are thin and neatly folded, although his face is haggard, it does not hide the elegance and melancholy between his brows, Even though he is not young at this time, he still has an intoxicating atmosphere of an artist.

This is exactly Mr. Ogata as mentioned by the male host here, Midorima Shintaro.

The only person in this castle who has not appeared in front of everyone from the beginning to the end is the daughter of this family——Sayaka Ogata.

Mr. Ogata sighed, it could be seen that he tried his best to hide the tiredness on his face, but it didn't help much, so he could only say dejectedly: "Oh - this is really hard for me to say."

"Mr. Detective, Chief Inspector Fujido, I think you all understand the purpose of my coming here." Mr. Ogata looked at Akashi first, "A few days ago, the maid and the manservant at home died one after another, and the reason was suicide, but ——" He suddenly became agitated, "But there is no sign of this at all! I have never abused them, and the treatment in the castle is not bad, and their families have not suffered any changes. This, this really makes me... …”

The woman known as Sergeant Todo frowned, her face became more serious, but she interrupted the man's words: "Mr. Ogata—I think you need to introduce the people present first."

This remark was obviously a bit impolite, but Mr. Ogata was taken aback for a moment, with blankness, pain and sadness in his eyes, and then he said: "Yes, I lost my temper, please forgive me."

This strange scene made many people in the hall look sideways.

But now is not the time to talk, so no one bothers.

Mr. Ogata took a deep breath, and first introduced Akashi and his group: "This is Chief Detective Akashi who I specially invited to investigate this matter, and the two behind are the assistants of Chief Detective Akashi."

"This gentleman is the priest who has been coming to my house to pray for blessings after the accident happened to my family. He is a devout Christian."

"I don't think I need to introduce this one. Everyone should have seen it on the screen. The famous singer, Miss Momoi Wuyue, and her manager. Miss Momoi is my wife's best friend. After my wife died of illness a month ago, I didn't come back from abroad, but I came back this time to mourn my poor wife, but I just ran into such a dirty thing... Sigh."

After Mr. Ogata finished his introduction, he kept silent. The police chief Todo glanced at him and took out his ID photo from his pocket: "I am the police chief in charge of this case, Miko Fujido." Kise Ryota, who was wearing this police uniform, said, "This is my bodyguard and assistant, Kise Ryota."

The stage has already been set up, and all the puppets are in place.

This indicates that the show is about to begin.

In this play, it is not yet known who is the performer, who is in the play, and who is the spectator.

It could be seen that Mr. Ogata was a little anxious, he said directly: "The situation in the castle is really making me sleepless, if you don't mind, can you follow me to see the dead maid and male servant right now? "

No one objected.

In fact, in this castle, the only ones who seem to have nothing to do with this incident are Mrs. Ogata’s close friend Momoi Mayzuki and Mr. Priest, but it’s just like what Mr. Ogata said, “It’s hard to sleep and eat”, so Few people can sit still under such circumstances.

Mr. Ogata first took them to a utility room, which had already been cordoned off, and there were no other traces except for the black and red blood stains left on the ground.

"This is the servant who died in the utility room. He has always been responsible for counting the sundries and cleaning the utility room every day. We didn't find out that he was missing until the next day. We didn't find him until we opened the utility room... ...!" Mr. Ogata barely calmed down from his excitement, he closed his eyes, "The cause of his death was a dagger pierced directly into his heart."

Akashi and the others observed this "storage room" calmly. It was a very ordinary storage room. There was an open skylight directly above the door. It was about one meter long and half a meter high. But it was tightly sealed, and the rest of the sundries were neatly arranged, and there was no place to hide anything else.

After looking around, Akashi first asked: "Mr. Ogata, can this skylight be opened from the outside?"

Mr. Ogata was taken aback for a moment, then slowly shook his head: "No, it can only be opened from the inside."

After receiving Akashi's eye signal on the other side, Midorima Shintaro pushed his glasses and asked seriously: "How is the sound insulation effect of this utility room?"

Mr. Ogata was taken aback for another moment, and said with some hesitation: "This... I haven't tried this, but the sound insulation effect of this old castle is good."

The implication is that the sound insulation of the utility room should be good, which means that the deceased may have called for help, but was not heard by outsiders, and died of bleeding too much, which is to provide for the homicide. There was evidence that it might work, but it wasn't enough.

Then Mr. Ogata led the crowd towards the back garden of the castle. In front of him was a maid with a lamp and a familiar low-presence manservant. He introduced in a low voice as he walked: "The maid is in the back garden. ...the man who threw himself into the well died in the middle of the night, so no one knew about it at the time, and he was found dead the next day, and the matter was handled by Sergeant Fujido at the time."

Chief Fujido also nodded: "Yes, the inspection found that the maid showed no signs of struggling, and no one heard a cry for help during the night."

"Well?" Nana blinked, looking naive and curious, "The castle is so big, why do we need a well? Isn't it troublesome to dig well water every day?"

It may be that looking at Nana's age, he thought of his daughter, and when thinking of his daughter, he was worried about her state at this time. Mr. Ogata looked at Nana with a soft and sad expression: "It's my wife... ...She is a lady from a noble family, she has high requirements for water quality, and she prefers sweet well water, so I asked someone to dig a well in the back garden."

"Mr. Ogata and his wife have a very good relationship." Kise Ryota, who was following Chief Inspector Todo, said suddenly, and then Inspector Todo gave him a stern look over his head. He scratched his head, smiled flatteringly, and then fell silent .

It's just that Mr. Ogata didn't seem to mind that someone brought up his sad things. Although his face was a little worried, he still cooperated and said: "Yes, my wife and I have known each other for more than [-] years. Yes, Sayaka was born ten years after marriage, oh, Sayaka is my poor daughter, but now she..."

It seemed that Mr. Ogata was about to cover his face and cry, but at this moment, people who were not completely far away from the castle heard a shrill scream from inside the castle.

Mr. Ogata's original expression immediately changed: "Sayaka?! Has something happened to Sayaka?"

He left everyone behind, even forgetting that he said he would take them to see the well where the maid died. He completely broke away from the image of an elegant painter who was barely able to hold on before, and became a father who was worried about his children.

Sergeant Fujido looked around and said in a deep voice, "We're going too." Then he followed with strides.

The remaining group of people were basically on their side, and Akashi didn't say anything, but just glanced at them. With years of tacit understanding, the others also understood what he meant and followed closely.

At this time, no one except Akashi noticed that Nana was no longer there.