The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

In the corridor at the door, Conan saw Qin Zhibo appearing in the suspect's home, and the shock on his face was not concealed at all.

He calmed down a little, and then quickly looked at the foreign woman standing next to Qin Zhibo.

The woman had a broad frame and a tall figure, and looked stronger than most women.

She had a delicate face but was cold as ice, with short wavy blonde hair and a bunch of spiral curls between her dark green eyes.

This woman is...

Conan frowned slightly, feeling that this woman seemed familiar, as if he had seen her somewhere.

At this moment, the three little ones and Huiyuan Ai, who were not far away, heard the noise and came over.

"Conan, what's wrong?"

Several people came over and followed Conan's line of sight to the room, and immediately cheered up, "It's Uncle Qin!"

Huiyuan Ai's eyes only glanced at Qin Zhibo, and she caught sight of the foreign woman.

This...

Looking at the hairstyle and face that were almost the same as hers, and the same cold temperament as hers, Huiyuan Ai was stunned.

And Akai Mary in the room also saw Huihara Ai standing among the elementary school students, her eyes moved slightly, and her eyebrows dropped.

This glance was as if ten thousand years had passed.

Both of them felt like they were looking in the mirror, and the mirror reflected their childhood and adult selves.

Conan looked at Mary, then at Huihara Ai, and his pupils trembled instantly.

He figured out why he had an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.

Isn't this an enlarged version of Huihara?

Who is this person?

Just as Conan wanted to investigate further, Qin Zhibo had already walked out, and while pushing Haneda Hideyoshi out of the door, he closed the door with his backhand.

…

With Miike Naoko's explanation, Qin Zhibo quickly figured out the situation.

It turned out that at noon today, Miike Naoko and Miyamoto Yumi were patrolling the street as usual, and they ran into the Boy Detective Team who were returning home from school.

The two sides chatted for a few words, and during the process, Miike Naoko received a call from her elementary school classmate, saying that a murder case had occurred at the place where the maids worked.

So, adhering to the principle of speaking out when seeing injustice, the Junior Detective Team took the initiative to come over.

And Miike Naeko and Miyamoto Yumi from the Ministry of Transportation also came over, adhering to the principle of meddling in other people's business.

Both parties investigated the deceased's home and found some suspicious points.

And these suspicious points pointed to Haneda Hideyoshi, who lived next door.

Coincidentally, Haneda Hideyoshi was Miyamoto Yumi's boyfriend...

"No!"

"Just an ex-boyfriend~"

"I've dumped him!"

Faced with the three little ones' random matchmaking, the angry Miyamoto Yumi immediately corrected.

This caused Haneda Hideyoshi's expression to change instantly, and he pouted and rolled his eyes.

Qin Zhibo looked at the anger on Miyamoto Yumi's face, and she emphasized that she dumped Haneda Hideyoshi, and immediately guessed that the real situation should be the opposite.

It should be that Haneda Hideyoshi dumped Miyamoto Yumi, but the latter said so for her own face.

However, Haneda Hideyoshi should not have forgotten Miyamoto Yumi...

At this moment, Qin Zhibo's phone vibrated in his pocket.

Picked up the phone and listened, it turned out to be Akai Mary next door.

"Don't hang up the phone..."

Akai Mary expressed her thoughts in a simple sentence, that is, she also wanted to hear the progress of the case here.

So, Qin Zhibo calmly put the phone into the outer pocket of his shirt.

And this scene was also seen by Conan.

He didn't put the phone back into his trouser pocket, but put it in his shirt pocket...

Why is this?

And why does that foreign woman look very similar to Haibara Ai?

Qin Zhibo said before in London that Haibara Ai's mother is likely to be alive...

Could it be?

At this time, more footsteps came from outside the door.

It was Inspector Megure who arrived with several capable people from the Investigation Division 1.

When Officer Megure saw Qin Zhibo and Conan appear at the scene at the same time, he immediately felt familiar again.

"Brother Qin, you are here too~"

During the time when neither Brother Qin nor Brother Maori was around, Officer Megure felt that his daily work had become difficult.

Without Brother by his side, it was not so easy to solve the case.

Even his wife Xiaolu complained why he suddenly came home so late.

Now, Brother is finally back!

...

At the request of Officer Megure, the people in the house gave a detailed account of the case.

The case took place in the Itami family in Room 1800, which is next door to Haneda Hideyoshi.

This morning, Itami Naginobu, the male owner of the Itami family, had a big fight with his wife Itami Chiyoko.

After the fight, in order to calm his wife, Itami Naginobu and the maid Yonehara Sakurako who came to help went to the supermarket outside to buy ingredients for dinner.

About an hour later, when the two returned home, and another half an hour later, they found that Chiyoko had hanged herself in the bedroom.

"Excuse me, what was the reason for your quarrel...?"

Takagi asked Itami Naginobu while taking notes in a small notebook.

Itami Naginobu wore dark glasses and drooped his eyelids and answered: "It was stocks..."

"It's because my wife has been addicted to stock trading recently. I just reminded her a little bit and she went crazy."

"She likes to throw things around when she's crazy. She hit my left eye with something."

As he spoke, Itami Naganobu raised his finger and pointed at the red and swollen spot above his left eyelid.

And, he continued.

"But I think her son, who is about to graduate from college, has not found a job yet, which has made her very stressed. This should be one of the reasons why she committed suicide..."

Qin Zhibo looked at Itami Naganobu, who calmly stated the reasons for his wife's suicide, and the expression on his face fell into deep thought.

First of all, he did not believe that he committed suicide.

After all, where Conan appears, if you want to meet someone who sincerely commits suicide, the probability is comparable to winning the lottery.

And judging from several details at the scene, it also proves that suicide is not established.

"wrong."

Qin Zhibo, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke.

Everyone turned their attention to him, and he himself was already standing next to the body hanging under the chandelier.

"Brother Qin, what's wrong with you?" Officer Mumu asked doubtfully.

Qin Zhibo looked at Chiyoko's body and "touched" the body in front of everyone.

【Corpse Investigation√】

[Name of deceased: Chiyoko Itami]

[Time of death: more than 1 hour]

[Cause of death: suffocation caused by external force on the neck]

[Corpse investigation completed, character skill acquired: Throwing]

[Throwing: Throwing refers to your ability to hit the target by throwing objects. Improving this skill will allow you to have higher throwing accuracy and be able to complete more complex throwing actions]

【Grade 1】

[Proficiency: 100/500]

【Everything can be invested! 】

The moment he saw the new skill, Qin Zhibo was stunned.

Good guy!

Unexpectedly, the deceased who was addicted to stock trading did not drop any skills related to stock trading, but throwing...

It seems like she doesn't just throw things around when she gets angry...

Qin Zhibo quickly adjusted his expression and continued: "Everyone, please look at the position of the deceased. If you look at the fallen chair over there, you will know that the deceased did not commit suicide."

Under Qin Zhibo's instructions, everyone took a look at the two.

Conan's eyes changed and he immediately understood what Qin Zhibo meant.

Although I also saw that the deceased did not commit suicide, I really did not expect this.

Policeman Mumu looked back and forth several times, but still didn't understand what Qin Zhibo meant.

"Brother Qin, I can see that the chair was used by the deceased to rest his feet..."

"But how can we tell from this that the deceased did not commit suicide?"

At this time, Takagi had an idea and guessed: "Is it because the height of this chair cannot reach the feet of the deceased?"

The height of the stepping objects cannot reach the height of the deceased's feet. This is a classic way to rule out suicide.

But Qin Zhibo shook his head slightly.

"No, the height is enough, and there is even some excess."

"The key issue is where the chair falls."

"If it was a real suicide, there is absolutely no way that this chair, which was used as a stepping stone, would have fallen here."

After Qin Zhibo's reminder, people in the room gradually realized.

Although the height of the chair's legs was reasonable, the position where it fell was 1.5 meters diagonally in front of the deceased.

Generally, a person who hangs himself only needs to kick down the object on which his feet are resting, and will not kick the object that far.

The deceased's left arm was injured and is still in a plaster. His body cannot easily exert force, let alone make such large-scale movements.

"You must have noticed it..."

"The chair that was used as a stepping stone was kicked too far, which is not normal."

"Also, if this chair had been kicked over by the deceased, the angle at which it fell would have been at least a little irregular..."

"The backrest of this chair is completely parallel to the wall, but there is a diagonal line between the chair and the deceased. Unless the deceased is Conan, ordinary people will never be able to create such a tricky angle."

Qin Zhibo explained to everyone, and also cue Conan's tricky skills.

This made Conan shake his half-moon eyes.

Just reason as you reason, @What am I doing?

Mu Mu listened to Qin Zhibo's explanation. Although he felt a little feverish, he still roughly understood it.

"So that means this case was not a suicide, but a homicide?"

"Um."

Qin Zhibo nodded and continued: "And the murderer should be someone close to the deceased."

The moment his eyes rested on Itami Naganobu, the latter's eyes subconsciously dodge.

This made Qin Zhibo once again confirm that this time it should be a proof question.

"Brother Qin, you said the murderer was someone close to you. What's going on?" Officer Mu Mu asked again.

Qin Zhibo came to the dressing table, took the notebook placed on it, and compared it with the suicide note at the foot of the corpse.

The suicide note was written on a page torn from a notebook.

The general meaning of the above content is "I regret causing my husband to be injured", "I am worried about my son's exam", "An unfilial daughter must take the first step" and so on.

But when Qin Zhibo took out the notebook for comparison, the marks on the edge of the suicide note did not correspond to the marks on the remaining paper in the notebook.

"Everyone, please take a look."

"The paper in this suicide note was not torn from this notebook at all."

"If the murderer forged the suicide note on the spot, or it was written by the deceased himself, then the traces on it should be matching."

"But now there is no match, which means that the murderer prepared this suicide note in advance, and then tore a certain page of the notebook into something like this..."

"As for why he prepared the suicide note in advance, it should be that the murderer had already guessed that the police might conduct handwriting identification on the suicide note."

Mu Mu's eyes widened, "Brother Qin, are you saying that this suicide note was forged by the murderer in advance?"

"No." Qin Zhibo shook his head, "This suicide note should indeed be written by the deceased himself."

"Why?"

"Because if the murderer forged the suicide note in advance, then the edges of the suicide note would not be torn out neatly."

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the room suddenly realized.

Especially Conan, his pupils lit up as if he was enlightened.

yes!

Why didn't I think of this?

Conan had previously determined that the deceased did not commit suicide based on the fact that the edge of the suicide note did not match the edge of the notebook.

But he only reasoned to this extent.

However, Qin Zhibo was able to dig deeper on this basis and deduce that this suicide note was prepared by the murderer in advance and written by the deceased himself.

Since the paper of the suicide note had been identified, the murderer could not repair the flaws at the edges, so he could only deliberately tear out similar marks on the notebook.

In this way, the murderer can only be someone close to the deceased, otherwise it would be impossible to obtain this suicide note.

"In other words, the murderer first obtained the suicide note from the deceased in some way, and then killed the deceased."

Qin Zhibo picked up the suicide note at the feet of the deceased and continued to analyze: "Judging from the notes on this suicide note, the handwriting is not neat and crooked. It looks like it was written in a very emotional state or in an emergency..."

"But it was clearly an emergency, but the deceased wrote his full name 'Chiyoko Itami'."

"But the other messages in the trash can only contain the words 'Chiyoko'..."

"The only situation I can imagine is that the deceased was in some kind of crisis situation, so critical that he had to leave his last words in advance."

"The purpose of writing down the last name and first name is to make it easier for others to identify who wrote the last words when they find this last note."

"Combining these two points, the deceased may have been almost killed in a plane or ship accident, but was lucky to survive in the end..."

As soon as Qin Zhibo finished speaking, the helper Yonehara Sakurako suddenly thought of something.

"I remember Madam once said that she is a lucky person blessed by God..."

Upon hearing this, Officer Megure turned to look at Itami Naganobu and asked, "What's going on?"

"Well... I do this too..."

Itami Naganobu frowned and hesitated to speak.

But Qin Zhibo smiled slightly and went straight to the general.

"Since Mr. Itami can't remember it, that's okay."

"I think as long as we investigate the travel records of the deceased and combine it with the dangerous incidents of airplanes or ships in recent years, we should be able to find something."