On the degree of adaptation between the police academy team and the guardian egg

Karasuma called the police.

When she came back after making the phone call, she saw Conan Edogawa, Toru Amuro, and Subaru Okiya, who had already started reasoning with each other.

The Twilight Villa is a very old house, which retains many decorations and styles of the last century. It has not been renovated or installed surveillance cameras.

——Mr. Saito's deceased father 20 years ago once fanatically believed that there were treasures treasured by a rich man in the Twilight Annex, so he bought the Twilight Annex with all his wealth.However, several years passed, and he didn't know how many times he turned the Twilight Villa inside and out, but he still couldn't find the so-called treasure.

Mr. Saito's father was disheartened, and gradually realized that the so-called rumors and treasures were all lies. Otherwise, how could the rich man sell the house?

So Mr. Saito's father was going to sell the Twilight Villa. After all, Saito's family was just a scholarly family, not as rich as a businessman, and it was a bit stretched to support such a large villa.

However, he soon discovered that with the rapid development and economic prosperity of Ashiya City, the housing prices in Ashiya City have risen with the tide, and the value of Don't Care at Dusk has almost doubled.Keeping this house, you can wait for it to appreciate in value, and you can also leave a guarantee for future generations, which is much more cost-effective than selling it.

The Saito family has since settled down in the Twilight Annex, not realizing that the brown stains they occasionally see are the blood left by the deceased in the Twilight Annex tragedy 40 years ago.

Since almost all the income of the Saito family was spent on daily expenses and maintenance of the villa, there was no extra money spent on building a surveillance room in the Twilight Annex.

The large house, few people, and no monitoring have greatly facilitated the criminals to commit crimes, and also increased the difficulty for the detectives to solve the case.

However, there are "Sherlock Holmes in the Reiwa Era", the Japanese police, and the FBI. All of them are people with first-class insight and judgment. They quickly deduced the three suspects who might have killed Mr. Saito through clues. .

The first is Mr. Saito Naoichiro, the son of Mr. Saito. He has no alibi, and there is a big conflict between father and son. The source of the conflict is related to Miss Saito who committed suicide in Saito's family.

Although Saito Naoichiro used to be a fool, he was still reasonable, until his sister Miss Saito committed suicide, there was an irreconcilable conflict between him and his father, and he became obsessed with betting on horses all day long to numb himself.

Ms. Saito had a lover who was deeply in love with her before she was alive, but the other person’s family conditions were not good. Miss Saito introduced a young talent.

Caught between her father and her lover, Miss Saito was in extreme pain. She had a tendency to suffer from mild depression and chose to hang herself—this happened a year ago.

Today, it happens to be Miss Saito's death day.

The second suspect is Mrs. Saito. She also has no alibi, and the motive for the crime is the same as that of Saito Naoichiro.

The third suspect is Miss Sengen, the maid of Saito's family. During the presumed time of her death, Mr. Kusakabe, a real estate agent who came out to drink water, happened to see her coming out of her study.

Miss Qianjian said with a panicked expression that she was only going to deliver coffee to Mr. Saito, and Mr. Saito was fine when she left.

Moreover, she has only just joined the job in the past two months, and she has no grievances or enmity with Mr. Saito, and she has no motive for committing the crime at all.

Naoichiro Saito and Mrs. Saito also said that although they did complain to Mr. Saito because of Miss Saito's death, they never thought of killing him.

Kaoru Karasuma saw that Mr. Furutani and the others chose to investigate from the motive of committing the crime and the alibi, so they stopped joining in the fun for the time being.

Her gaze fell to the corpse on the ground.

The murderer's modus operandi was not complicated. He hit the back of Mr. Saito's head several times with the bottom of the desk lamp next to him and killed him.

Kaoru Karasuma shifted his gaze to the scissors and debris next to the corpse, touched his chin thoughtfully, and squatted down to examine it carefully.

There must be some secret hidden in it.

Comparing the traces left on Mr. Saito's palm, it shows that he had held the scissors with great strength before his death, but now the scissors fell to the ground.

Did the murderer deliberately remove it after he found out later?

There is also a piece of debris on the ground.

The coffee cup shattered all over the floor, and the reddish-brown coffee wet a large area of ​​the carpet.

In addition to the coffee mug, there was a cracked photo frame, and the photo was pressed under the photo frame... cropped on the photo?

Karasuma put on white gloves and carefully pulled out the photo.

It is a photo of Saito's family of four.

However, several irregular small triangles were cut out on the four edges of the photo.

The traces of the scissors were not fine, and the lines cut by the scissors were crooked and stained with blood.If she did not guess wrong, there is a high probability that this is the death message left by Mr. Saito before his death.

But what is the meaning of the six small triangles that were cut off?

Kaoru Karasuma tried to find out the triangles that were cut out of the photo and put them back together, but after searching for a long time, she only found five, and there was still one that she hadn't been able to find.

She scratched her face in distress.

Hagiwara Kenji touched his chin, stared at the small gap on the edge of the photo for a while, turned his head and just noticed a circle of English letters on the front edge of the photo frame, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "Xiao Kaoru, if you look at the photo and the frame together , will you find anything?"

Karasuma Kaoru's eyes lit up, and he reassembled the photo with six small triangles removed from the edge into the frame.

The six vacancies corresponded to the six letters on the edge of the photo frame!

They are K, R, A, U, A, S respectively.

"Sakura!" Karasuma almost blurted out.

These six letters can just form Sakura, and the katakana corresponding to the Roman sound is "サクラ", which means cherry blossom.

If she remembers correctly, when Miss Qianjian introduced her name before, she said that her full name is "Sakura Sengen", which just corresponds to Sakura!

On the other hand, the reasoning show of the detectives is coming to an end.

"The real murderer who killed Mr. Saito is you, Ms. Sakurako Sengen!"

There were "Sherlock Holmes in the Reiwa Era", the Japanese police, and the FBI at the scene, and any complicated and difficult cases would have nothing to hide before their eyes.

Not to mention that this case was not carefully planned by Qianjian Yingzi, but an impulsive murder case, which left many loopholes.

Sengen Sakurako is just an ordinary person, when Toru Amuro and the others seized the loophole to question her, she immediately showed her flaws, and could no longer justify herself, she knelt down on the ground with a pale face.

It turned out that Chiken Sakurako's grandfather, a well-known archaeologist, was invited by Karasuma Renye 40 years ago to search for treasures in the Twilight Annex, and then he never returned. He only sent home a letter written in blood. secret letter.

The secret letter described Karasuma Renye's cruel behavior-whether the treasure was found or not, the other party had no intention of letting them out alive.

Senjian Sakurako's grandfather was keenly aware of this, so even though he had discovered the treasure in the Twilight Annex at that time, he did not tell Karasuma Renya, but condensed it into a few lines of codes and sent them home.

Qianjian Yingzi, who was eager to try the treasure in the Twilight Annex, met Ogami Zhushan who was also eyeing the treasure in the Twilight Annex, and the two hit it off.

Senjian Sakurako applied for a maid in the Twilight Annex, and she often guided Saito Naoichiro to gamble.Naoichiro Saito's psychology was inherently unstable, coupled with Senjian Sakurako's inducement, he became even more depraved. Mr. Saito stopped his card, and he went to borrow usury to gamble on horses. He would lose every bet. With interest and interest, he owed a huge debt in less than two months, and Mr. Saito had no choice but to sell the Twilight Annex to pay off the debt.

And because Mr. Saito is in a hurry to ask for money, it is more convenient to lower the price.

Osami Zhushan originally planned well, but Kaoru Karasuma suddenly appeared and cut him off.

Osami Zhushan and Qianjian Yingzi had no choice but to activate Plan B, planning to first hand over the code left by Qianjian Yingzi's grandfather to Karasuma, and let Karasuma, the guy with the same surname Karasuma, decipher the code first. Pick peaches again by surprise.

Unexpectedly, when Sakurako Qianjian installed a bug in the study as planned, Mr. Saito happened to bump into her.

Faced with Mr. Saito's questioning, Senjian Yingzi panicked, and subconsciously picked up the desk lamp at hand and threw it at it.

When Qianjian Yingzi came back to her senses, Mr. Saito was already in a pool of blood. She was terrified and ran away in a hurry.

After listening to Sengen Sakurako's narration, Karasuma frowned: "Miss Sengen, have you ever returned to the scene of the crime after you killed Mr. Saito?"

"No." Qianjian Yingzi shook her head with a pale face.

Hearing this, Karasuma frowned even tighter.

Not right.

The crime method described by Qianjian Yingzi does not match the scene of the crime scene.

Since Mr. Saito had time to leave a death message accusing the murderer, it meant that he did not die immediately.

But Qianjian Yingzi said that she never went back to the scene of the crime—so who took the scissors that Mr. Saito was holding firmly in his hand and threw them on the ground?

Qianjian Yingzi even admitted that she had killed someone, so there was no need to lie about this kind of thing.

Several detectives were also aware of this problem, and they showed contemplative expressions at the same time.

The case appears to have reached an impasse again.

Edogawa Conan began to inquire about the scene of Sengen Sakurako when she left the former study, trying to replay the first scene.

Kaoru Karasuma remembered the small triangle that disappeared.

——Six small triangles were obviously cut out in the photo, but only five were found at the scene.

Could it be that after Qianjian Yingzi, before the body was found, someone came here again, and accidentally took Little Triangle away?

Kaoru Karasuma once again set his sights on Mr. Saito's body.

The back of his head showed marks of being hit by heavy objects many times. Is it possible that after Qianjian Yingzi, someone else came to make up the knife?

At this moment, Zhu Fu Jingguang flew up from Mr. Saito's body: "Xiao Xun, I just carefully identified the wound on the back of Mr. Saito's head. Only the last blow was fatal."

Kenji Hagiwara also found out: "The intermediary gentleman sitting in the corner is a little bit wrong." Kenji Hagiwara has always had a strong ability to perceive other people's emotions.

Matsuda Jinhei narrowed his eyes: "I also think this guy is a bit suspicious. He said that he happened to see Qianjian Yingzi coming out of the study, and pushed Qianjian Yingzi to the center of our field of vision. But according to Qianjian Yingzi's temperament, when she thought she killed someone and ran out of the study, she should be very flustered, wouldn't he be surprised, and then go to the study to find out?"

Matsuda Jinpei and the other three flew to Kusakabe's side, relying on others not being able to see them, and searched for him inside and out.

"Ha! I found it!" Matsuda Jinhei pulled Kusakabe's rolled up trouser legs, and almost buried his whole head in it, "The corner of the missing photo!"

Hearing that Hagiwara Kenji and Zhu Fujingguang also flew over.

The three little ones pulled Mr. Kusakabe's trouser legs together, raised their buttocks and buried their heads in it to take a closer look.

Kaoru Karasuma: "...Pfft!"

Almost laughed at such a serious occasion.

"Officer Karasuma?" Toru Amuro noticed her strange expression and cast a questioning look at her.

"I suddenly had an idea." Kaoru Karasuma withdrew the expression on his face, and said seriously, "Maybe Sakura didn't kill Mr. Saito. Sakurako thought she killed Mr. Saito by mistake." After leaving in a hurry, Mr. Saito regained a little consciousness. He thought he was going to die soon, so he reached out and swept the things off the desk, and then firmly grasped the scissors, leaving a code that could identify the murderer."

"At this moment, the door of the study was opened again. A black shadow approached Mr. Saito slowly, picked up the blood-stained desk lamp, and dealt a fatal blow to Mr. Saito. Mr. Saito fell to the ground, The scissors in his hand also fell out of his hand, and the indentation that has not yet disappeared is permanently left on the gradually stiffening corpse."

"Due to the problem of sight, the real murderer didn't notice Mr. Saito's action of leaving the death message, so he left the scene without anyone noticing. Because of this, the murderer ignored it, and a small thing happened to fall on him body, and was taken away by him."

Kaoru Karasuma circled around everyone, and finally stopped beside Kusakabe, looking down at his trousers: "Mr. Kusakabe, please explain why there is Saito in the trousers you rolled up A corner of the photo that Mister cut out to identify Sakurako Senken?"

Kusakabe: "!"

Kusakabe suddenly lowered his head and opened his trousers, a small triangle cut out from the photo fell to the ground.

There is no way to refute it under the eyes of all, and the ironclad evidence is overwhelming.

Kusakabe's expression was blank for a few seconds, and then suddenly became ferocious, and he took out a pocket knife and stabbed in Kaoru Karasuma's direction.

Kaoru Karasuma: "..."

I was quite speechless.

Who do you want to threaten with this small knife that is not as long as her finger?

Kaoru Karasuma grabbed his wrist expressionlessly and fell over his shoulder.

"Boom!"

A loud bang.

Kusakabe was crushed hard on the ground, and the whole person was thrown into a daze, and the knife in his hand was also kicked flying by Amuro Toru who rushed up at the first time.

Kaoru Karasuma looked condescendingly at Kusakabe who was lying on the ground, crossed his arms around his chest, and his expression was quite indescribable: "Didn't you hear that I was called Police Officer Karasuma? At least others know that persimmons should be picked softly. Take a knife at me, a policeman."

She looks like a human being, but I didn't expect him to be so unintelligent.

Kusakabe realized that his IQ was being despised, and finally regained the hatred he had before being thrown into a daze: "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been exposed at all!!"

Amuro took a step forward, showing a "nuclear" smile: "Even if Officer Karasuma is not here, I will bring you to justice."

Conan Edogawa was not to be outdone: "Although Police Officer Karasuma discovered the evidence earlier than me, even without Officer Karasuma, your crime would not have escaped my eyes!"

Okiya Subaru pushed his glasses: "Your technique is really not clever. It's only a matter of time before you find out that you are the real criminal."

Several members of the Detective Boys: "That's right! Our Boy Detectives won't wrong any good guy, and we won't let any bad guy go wrong! If you did something bad, just wait obediently and wait for us to catch you!"

Kusakabe: "..."

Kusakabe, who was under siege, couldn't help but gradually began to doubt himself.

Could it be that his IQ... is really not as good as that of elementary school students?

Wakasa stayed standing in the corner, under the cold incandescent lamp, her right lens of the glasses reflected the dazzling white light.

Kaoru Karasuma said that it was reflected in the eyes by the other party's glasses.

But it reminded her.

Kaoru Karasuma took out his mobile phone and revisited the Haneda Koji case.

A pair of scissors and a broken makeup mirror were left at the scene.

There is the MASCARA brand logo in the upper right corner of the makeup mirror. Karasuma searched and found that the original text on this style of makeup mirror is "PUTONMASCARA".

The four letters "P, T, O, N" on the vanity mirror were broken off, leaving only the letters "UMASCARA".

What can these letters spell?

Karasuma rubbed his chin, brainstorming.

UMASCARA...ASACA...

Um?and many more!

CARASUMA? !

Karasuma? !

The Roman sound of Karasuma is carasuma!

Karasuma was stunned.