The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

"Detective, detective..."

Hearing that there were two famous detectives and a policeman in the house, the expressions on the faces of the people in the Torakura family changed slightly.

"Um... the food has gone cold, shall I reheat it?"

Just as everyone was discussing the case, the young maid appeared behind them and asked for instructions.

When the old woman heard it, she raised her eyebrows and angrily said, "What's wrong with you? At this time, you are still asking about such an insignificant matter?"

"Sorry!"

The maid was frightened and bowed her head quickly, and was about to turn around and leave.

"Wait a minute..."

Qin Zhibo stopped the maid at this time and said with a smile, "It's better to heat it up. I haven't had dinner yet."

...

After investigating the scene, Officer Otaki and Maori Kogoro planned to go down the mountain immediately and send the blood on the coffin board to the nearby police station for testing.

This place is in Gunma Prefecture, so of course it has to be sent to the police station in Gunma Prefecture.

After the two of them got down the mountain by car, everyone returned to the restaurant and discussed the inheritance.

"In the end, the eldest brother didn't show up at all?"

"Didn't we agree to explain the distribution of the inheritance after dinner?"

The wife of Torakoji complained, as if she didn't care about the situation of the dead body just found.

After all, she didn't see the body with her own eyes, and she just heard the one-sided words of the two girls.

The old woman took the arm of the pretty boy affectionately and suddenly said, "Should we take a photo first?"

Hattori Heiji, who was following behind, stepped forward and said, "Why take a photo?"

The old woman turned around and explained, "Whenever our family gathers together, everyone will gather together to take pictures..."

As an outsider, the pretty boy also echoed, "It has been a habit since three generations ago..."

Hattori Heiji drooped his eyelids and thought: Wasn't that when the camera began to be used by civilians?

"But isn't the owner of the villa here now? Are you going to take pictures too?" Toyama Kazuha asked with a frown.

Inakura Sannan replied nonchalantly, "Yes, last year when we were halfway through the photo shoot, my elder brother suddenly rushed out of the room and rushed over to take the photo."

As the youngest girl in the Inakura family, the girl with glasses also echoed, "That's right, when all of us are happily noisy, maybe my elder brother will suddenly show up..."

Just like that, several people turned around and walked towards the photo studio.

Hattori Heiji and Conan looked at each other and felt that there was no need to inform Qin Zhibo, who was having dinner in the restaurant.

Just keep an eye on these people to see if they have any unusual behavior, the two high school detectives are enough.

...

In the restaurant, Qin Zhibo sat alone at the dining table, feasting on the food on the table.

Since he had been on the road all the way, he had no chance to stop for dinner, and his stomach was already empty.

When he was almost done eating, Qin Zhibo wiped the corner of his mouth with a napkin and turned to look at the maid serving him.

Qin Zhibo glanced at the maid's name, which was Hibara Xiaoguang, 24 years old.

Hibara... Huibara?

"Maid, how long have you been working in this house?"

The maid was startled, and said softly: "It's been half a year..."

Half a year?

Qin Zhibo thought about it, if he wanted to inquire about the rumors about vampires, it seemed that this maid's qualifications were not enough.

"That means you haven't experienced the death of a maid in this house in the nearby forest half a year ago?"

The maid was stunned again, then her eyes lit up and asked back: "Are you talking about Miss Shimizu's incident?"

"I really haven't experienced it. I came here to be a maid after that incident..."

Qin Zhibo nodded in understanding, and suddenly saw that the maid's maid outfit had a metal frame brooch pinned on the fabric between the two clavicles.

The frame of the brooch was a photo of a woman with a dignified and elegant temperament, and she looked 70% similar to the maid.

"Excuse me, is the woman on your brooch your mother?"

Faced with Qin Zhibo's question, the maid looked down at her brooch and nodded.

"Yes."

"Oh..." Qin Zhibo said casually, "It seems that you love your mother very much."

The maid replied: "Actually, this brooch was given to me by the master, and I was asked to pin it on my clothes at all times."

Qin Zhibo was puzzled, "Master? Mr. Tokura Sako?"

"Yes." The maid nodded, "The master said that as long as he saw this brooch, he would be reminded of my mother..."

The maid's answer made Qin Zhibo even more confused.

Realizing that the relationship was a bit complicated, Qin Zhibo continued to ask.

Only then did he know that the mother of this maid named "Hihara Xiaoguang" was once the fiancée of the owner of the western-style house.

Due to the accidental death of Xiaoguang's mother two years ago, Tokura Sako was unable to marry the maid's mother, Yoko.

And Xiaoguang was born to a woman and her ex-husband, and clearly did not have the blood of the Tokura family, so she did not have the right to inherit the estate.

After listening to Xiao Guang's description of this relationship, Qin Zhibo finally understood what the old woman was worried about when she was in the office, that other illegitimate children would appear.

"I'm going to ask you a question that's not very polite. Since you don't have the right to inherit the estate, why are you still here as a maid?"

"Isn't it strange to be ordered around by your former family?"

"Especially those people from the Yincang family, they don't seem to be very friendly to you..."

Qin Zhibo's question made Maid Xiaoguang's eyes sink slightly, and the fingers of her hands were tangled together.

"Actually, the master invited me to come back here as a maid..."

"Have you finished eating? If you have finished, I will start clearing away the dishes."

Seeing that the maid didn't want to continue the topic, Qin Zhibo stopped asking and nodded to indicate that it was okay.

At this moment, screams suddenly came from outside the corridor.

"ah--!"

Qin Zhibo recognized this familiar scream as coming from Mao Lilan, with the screams of Yuan Shan and Ye as the harmony.

He immediately stood up and ran out of the restaurant, running towards the direction where the sound came from.

When I arrived at the photo studio, I found Mao Lilan, Yuan Shan and Ye Zhan standing behind the camera tremblingly, looking shocked.

Hattori Heiji and Conan also stared at a mirror on the photo wall, seemingly trying to find something in it.

"What happened?" Qin Zhibo came over and asked.

Mao Lilan, Yuan Shan and Ye raised their hands tremblingly and pointed to the wall. Mao Lilan explained: "When we were taking a group photo just now, Mr. Tokura suddenly appeared there..."

"Yes! It's like a ghost!"

Where Qin Zhibo looked at the two women's fingers, it was exactly where Hattori Heiji and Conan were observing carefully.

Since the silver mirror was hung on the wall, Conan's dwarf's perspective was relatively biased, so Hattori Heiji held him in his arms.

Qin Zhibo looked at the mirror and saw the investigation point above at a glance.

【Topographic Survey√】

【A magic mirror】

"Can you please stop talking?"

"Anyway, you must have heard the rumors about vampires before, so you followed the detective here to play, right?"

"Please don't treat this place like a haunted house and keep screaming! Okay?"

The repeated startling behavior of Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuye caused the wife of Tokura Ernan to completely explode and yelled at the two women very displeased.

When Mao Lilan, Yuan Shan and Ye heard "vampire", they were suddenly stunned.

Seeing the puzzled looks in their eyes, the old woman and the pretty boy also smiled slightly, "Haha, did you two just come here without knowing anything?"

The two sang together and recounted the death of the maid that happened six months ago.

Mao Lilan, Yuan Shan and Ye felt more and more perceptive the more they heard it, especially when they heard that the maid's neck was left with holes like vampires, they all had goosebumps on their necks.

On the other hand, Tokura Sannan looked firm and said calmly: "Anyway, let's split up and look for where the elder brother is. If this continues, the elder brother might really be treated like a monster..."

As soon as the three men finished speaking, Qin Zhibo, who was standing in front of the mirror, said.

"If you're looking for it, let's start in the room next to this photo studio."

Qin Zhibo pointed his finger on the mirror, and the fingertips directly faced the fingertips in the mirror, with no distance between them.

When Hattori Heiji and Conan saw this scene, their expressions were startled and they understood the meaning.

"This is a two-way mirror, which means that the other side of the mirror can also see this side, just like the mirror in the police interrogation room..."

Everyone came to the room next to the photo studio. It used to be a guest room that no one usually used, but it had been transformed into a personal cloakroom by Tokura Sakimi in the past six months.

Adjacent to the photo wall of the photo studio next door is a huge wardrobe.

Qin Zhibo stood at the door of the closet, holding the door handle of the closet with both hands, and took a deep breath.

When he reached out to open the bookcase and pushed aside the clothes hanging inside, he found a handle on the wall inside.

Pulling open the wooden boards connected by the handles, an oval mirror was revealed.

On the opposite side of the mirror is the situation in the photo studio next door. You can see Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuye still standing next to the camera, looking around nervously.

Qin Zhibo searched the inside of the closet again and came out only after confirming that no one was hiding inside.

"It seems we are a step late..."

Qin Zhibo said lightly.

Hattori Heiji and Conan looked slightly shocked, looking at the mirror in the closet in disbelief.

They were not surprised by this whimsical and scary method.

But when we were taking pictures just now, it was clear that all the people of the Tokura family were gathered together.

And after Mao Lilan, Toyama Kazuye saw Tokura Sakuya's head appearing in the mirror, no one left the room until Qin Zhibo came over.

In other words, if someone from the Tokura family in the photo room had set up this trick during this period, it would have been impossible to clear away the evidence in the closet.

Judging from the situation in the closet, in order to achieve the effect that Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuha just saw, they must at least cut off Tokura Sakiya's head and hang it on the closet.

But now, this head has disappeared...

There are three possibilities.

First, the real murderer was a servant in the bungalow, not a member of the Tokura family.

The second is that a servant in the bungalow is an accomplice, but the real culprit is still someone in the photo studio.

Third, Tokura Sakuya is still alive...

Generally speaking, a good mystery story should assume that the murderer is a person, rather than having someone with almost no presence as the murderer's accomplice.

Others in the villa felt there was no need to kill Tokura Sakuya.

Then it might be...

The look in Hattori Heiji and Conan's eyes changed, and they immediately ran back to the photo studio next door.

Seeing Hattori Heiji coming back, Toyama Kazuha, who was arranged to stay in the "haunted" room, was relieved as if she had been pardoned.

However, Hattori Heiji came up and grabbed Toyama Kazuha's shoulders, and asked loudly: "Kazuha! Did you really see clearly that the body in the coffin was Torakura Sakuya?"

"Ah?"

Toyama Kazuha hadn't reacted yet, and Conan, who was lower, followed up with questions.

"Sister Xiaolan, when you found the body, did you find anything else special?"

"This..."

Mouri Ran narrowed her eyes slightly, recalling the picture she didn't want to recall in her mind.

Suddenly, Mouri Ran's eyes changed slightly.

"...If there is anything special, it is that the blood I saw on the collar of the clothes at that time seemed to be a little pink, which is different from the normal blood color..."

"Eh?" Toyama Kazuha turned her head in confusion, "Is that so?"

Mouri Ran nodded slightly, "I remember it seems to be like this..."

Compared to Toyama Kazuha, Mao Li Ran must have seen blood more times and has more experience.

Hearing the important clues raised by Mao Li Ran, Conan and Hattori Heiji's eyes suddenly changed, from shock to calmness.

Depending on the time of exposure to the air, human blood will gradually change from bright red to black.

This process does not include pink.

Pink blood is most likely caused by anemia, and cancer is likely to cause anemia.

Mao Li Ran's discovery just shows that the blood should be Torakura Sakuya himself.

This shows that Torakura Sakuya himself is most likely dead...

But if he is dead, the situation in the closet just now should be that someone used his head to create that weird mirror phantom.

Because it is too cumbersome to carry the entire body, and the target is too large to be moved.

And the people in the photo studio don't have the conditions to recover the head...

Then the person can only be a servant of the Torakura family, other than these people.

But why do they do this?

Hattori Heiji and Conan both held their chins, thinking about the further possibilities of the case.

And Qin Zhibo stood at the door and also heard the latest discovery of Mao Lilan after her recollection.

Pink blood...

It sounds reasonable for a cancer patient.

But if we consider that Torakura Sakoya may be a real vampire, if the description in literary works is correct, vampires should have a physique that is immune to all diseases.

Qin Zhibo was thinking, and his eyes unconsciously glanced at the photo wall.

Suddenly, a photo hanging on the wall attracted his attention.