Chapter 321 Strange Scene (Ch 321)

“Ring, ring, ring…” The phone of the store manager Goto Midori suddenly rang without any warning. She checked and saw that it was an unfamiliar number. “Hello… What? Megure? What does the police want to talk to me about?”

The children looked at each other, and Conan’s eyes also flashed.

Megure? Could it be Inspector Megure?

“What did you say? He’s dead? Okay… okay, I got it. I’ll be there right away.” The store manager hung up the phone in panic.

Yingzi asked hurriedly: “What’s wrong, manager?”

“I have a friend… well, a frequent customer of our store, Mr. Marudenjiro. He was killed, and I have to go and take a look.” The store manager said, “I’ll leave the store’s affairs to you.”

“Okay.” Yingzi nodded repeatedly.

At this moment, Mochizuki unexpectedly received a call from Kogoro Mori.

“What’s wrong, Mr. Maori?” “Zero Five Three” Mochizuki answered the phone and asked, “Did someone named Marudenjiro get killed?”

“Huh? How did you know?” Kogoro was surprised. I haven’t told you yet!

Sure enough, it was this incident… Mochizuki replied: “I guessed it. I was getting my hair cut in a hair salon, and the manager just happened to receive a call from the police about this incident. Conan is here too.”

“Oh? He’s here too? Well, just come over with him, and I won’t notify him.”

A murder happened, and the little brats who called themselves the Junior Detective Team certainly didn’t want to miss it, so they all went to the crime scene with Mochizuki. Kogoro and Xiaolan arrived later.

“Hey, why are there so many kids?” Kogoro’s eyes widened when he saw the Junior Detective Team behind Mochizuki. He thought: I didn’t notify them, how come they are all here?

Wangyue could only laugh dryly, “They just happened to be getting their hair cut, so they knew…”

I see. Kogoro warned: “Don’t destroy anything at the scene.”

“Hi!” the children answered in unison.

Everyone followed Kogoro into the house where the crime occurred. Mochizuki deliberately lagged behind and came to Xiaolan and asked quietly: “Did your father find out?” This sentence was incoherent, but Xiaolan could understand the meaning.

Xiaolan blushed and replied in shame: “No, I didn’t notice. He didn’t say anything.”

“Oh, it seems that you have recovered well indeed.” Wangyue said with a smile.

Xiaolan patted Wangyue’s shoulder shyly and said, “Don’t talk about this anymore.”

Xiao Ai witnessed the whole process and yawned speechlessly. This is the crime scene. Is it really okay for you to do this?

…

As soon as they arrived at the Japanese-style room where the body was, the children were shocked by what they saw.

“Wow, was this uncle stabbed to death by someone?” Yuan Tai exclaimed.

“I guess the murderer is a kendo master. He nailed the man to the floor with one sword.” Mitsuhiko was also surprised.

When Mochizuki and Conan saw this scene, they felt something was wrong, but they couldn’t tell exactly what was wrong.

“Oh, brother Mori, you’re here at last.” Inspector Megure walked towards him.

Kogoro immediately acted cute, “Brother Megure, as soon as you called me, I rushed over. By the way, Brother Megure, why is the owner of the hair salon here too? Does the police suspect she is the murderer?”

Midori Goto, who arrived with Mochizuki and the others, immediately changed her expression. The police suspect me of being the murderer?

“Ah, no, no.” Megure explained quickly, “For reference, it’s just a reference at the moment. I heard that you accepted the commission from the deceased’s wife and found out that Ms. Goto Midori from the hair salon had an improper relationship with the deceased, right?”

“That’s true.” Kogoro nodded in confirmation.

Goto Midori finally understood why the police had called her to the crime scene. At first she thought it was because Denjiro often came to her place to get his hair cut, but now she knew that it was because the detective had found out that he often came to her place to “get his hair cut”.

“Ms. Goto, is this true?” Megure asked.

The deceased’s wife, Maru Ineko, pointed at her and shouted, “Don’t deny it! Detective Maori took pictures of you entering the hotel!”

“I… I do have a relationship with Denjiro, but, but he took the initiative to find me…” Goto Midori explained. (To read the exciting novels, go to Faloo Novel Network!)

“Bah! You must have seduced my husband, you vixen!” Inako yelled, “Were you scared after Detective Maori found out about your affair, so you just killed my husband?”

“No! I, I didn’t kill anyone! I didn’t kill him!” Goto Midori quickly defended herself.

Megure asked again: “Have you been here today?”

“No, I haven’t been here.”

“So where were you between one and three in the afternoon?”

“I’ve been at the hairdresser’s this afternoon…”

“Is there anyone who can testify for you?”

“Yes, there are two clerks…”

Megure asked Takagi to contact the store clerk to confirm and temporarily ruled out Goto Midori as a suspect.

Ai also felt that she was not the murderer. If she killed people because she had an affair with Marudenjiro, then the target should not be Maru, but Maru’s wife.

…

Kogoro inspected the scene and muttered to himself, “Why do I feel like something is very wrong?”

“Eh? Brother Maori, do you think so too?” Inspector Megure immediately echoed: “To be honest, I felt something was wrong when I first arrived at the scene, but I didn’t know what was wrong for a while.”

At this moment, Mochizuki and Conan said almost at the same time, “It’s blood!” After saying that, they looked at each other in surprise. Conan secretly said that it was not good and hurriedly pretended to be innocent, “It’s blood, right? Brother Mochizuki!”

“Yes, it’s blood.” Mochizuki had no intention of exposing Conan. “From the situation at the scene, the deceased should have been stabbed in the heart, but there was almost no blood at the scene. This is too unreasonable.”

If I’m not mistaken, Kogoro should have known that there was something wrong with the bloodstains a long time ago, but he kept pretending to be stupid.

“I see! No wonder I always felt something was wrong. Why is this happening?” Megure frowned. Although there was blood at the scene, it was very rare. “Isn’t this the first crime scene?”

As far as Xiao Ai knows, if the heart is pierced, blood will definitely spurt everywhere, but here there is only a small pool of blood.

Megure asked the forensic personnel and received a negative answer. This was indeed the first crime scene. The body of the deceased had not been moved, and there were no other injuries except for the stab wound in the heart.

“Inspector, is there anyone suspicious now?” Kogoro asked Megure.

Megure replied, “If you don’t count Ms. Goto, there are still three suspects left. Because there is a camera installed at the entrance of the house that captured the three people who came here at the time of the crime, I guess they will be here soon.”

“Oh? There is a surveillance camera? Then it must have captured the murderer carrying the murder weapon, right?” Kogoro said, “The murder weapon is a samurai sword. It’s so long. It would definitely be conspicuous if carried on the body.”
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