Chapter 11 Killing Intent Comes From Swords? Or Humans?
"Don't be so leisurely, you bastard!" Seeing Matsuda's expression, Megu felt like he was despised by him again: "I found any clues and said it quickly."
"Clues?" Matsuda got up and patted the dust on his butt: "There are some clues, but there is no way to connect them. Can I ask them first about the two of them who came here and the proof of the absence in the afternoon?" He said and pointed at Ajitsu and Hatano.
"I borrowed 10 million from Mr. Fu Cilang, and we will discuss this matter together this afternoon." Ajiujin said, lowering his head: "I want to ask him to extend the deadline."
"Where are you from three to five o'clock?" Matsuda stared at Ajitsu, not letting go of any change on his face.
"I, I'm carving alone in the studio." Ajitsu avoided Matsuda's gaze with guilt.
"That means you have no absent proof?" Kogoro rushed out from the side.
"Hey, you are also suspicious, don't affect our work casually." Matsuda reached out and pushed Kogoro away.
"What!?" Kogoro blurted out: "I just accepted the deceased's entrustment to investigate his wife's affair."
"Ah!? Madam has an affair?" The servants at home were shocked.
"You'd better go and cool off for a while." Matsuda waved his hand weakly, then turned to Dr. Hatano: "Where were you at the time of the incident?"
"This..." Hatano hesitated and didn't know what to say.
"Are you spraying women's perfume at that time?" Matsuda curled his lips: "The perfume on your body tastes the same as that on your wife, you should have some common language."
"It's the same." Kogoro leaned over to Hatano and sniffed it carefully: "You actually use women's perfume... No! Could it be that you are the wife's affair, right?"
"I, I..." Hatano didn't know how to explain this matter.
"Yes, things have come to this point and there is no way to hide them." The deceased's wife suddenly said, "I admit that Dr. Hatano is my affair." As she said that, she walked to Hatano and hugged his arm: "But we are innocent. We were all at the Rice Hotel from noon to evening."
"Who knows if you are colluding with each other?" Kogoro looked at the two of them with that strange look.
Did this guy notice such subtle things in such an environment? Conan stared at Matsuda. When was it? When we entered the door? I thought that when he entered the house just now, Matsuda was indeed standing by the door.
"I have already understood the general situation." Matsuda ignored Kogoro's nonsense and said to Meguro: "Police Department, now you can check the answering machine's message."
"Hmph." Memu followed Matsuda's finger and saw the answering machine on the ground: "Why didn't you listen to the contents immediately?"
"We can't leave the murderer the opportunity to perfect the lie." Matsuda immediately smiled when he saw that Memu was angry again.
"I'll let you go this time." Megumi Matsuda's attitude was correct and good. She relieved her anger and walked over and pressed the broadcast button.
"I am Hatano. Is Mr. Fu Jiro not at home? I'm worried. I'll visit you at about five o'clock. At 4:38 o'clock."
"I am Suwa. I originally planned to meet you at 6 o'clock. Now I want to visit you early. The next month's upgrade exam has been arranged. Let's talk about the detailed situation. Four forty-one."
"So that's it. It was Mr. Hatano who had made an appointment at 5 o'clock, and Mr. Suwa, who had agreed to have a appointment at 6 o'clock, would appear at 5 o'clock." After listening to these two recordings, Megu felt that things became clearer.
"If it's a message, I have it too." Ajiujin stood up and said.
"Is it true?" Megu was a little suspicious.
"Of course." Ajiujin was a little excited: "I said that although it would arrive later, I will definitely pay back the money. So if you sell that thing, I will definitely kill you."
"Do you want to kill him?" Megu immediately asked when he heard these sensitive words.
"No, I just scared him. Because he said that if I can't pay back the money, I have to sell the carvings I used to mortgage." Ajiujin's momentum immediately fell.
"What kind of carving is that?" Megu asked again.
"It's that dragon." Ajijin pointed to a dragon-shaped carving on the top of the cabinet, and said as he walked past and looked carefully: "I'm so lucky, without any scars."
"Yes, uncle, you are indeed lucky." Conan said in his tender voice: "The whole room has been destroyed, only this carving has no scars."
"I understand, Mr. Ajitsu, the murderer is you." Kogoro said seriously: "You killed Mr. Fu Jiro and then wanted to blame Mr. Suwa. But you made two mistakes. The first is that you asked the victim to hold the knife in the opposite direction. The second is that your important carvings have no scars. Even if you kill someone, the important carvings cannot be harmed, right?"
"What are you talking nonsense?" Ajiujin retorted with no confidence.
"Then why did you say you had a lie about leaving a message on the answering machine?" Megu also approached Ajitsu.
"I didn't lie." Ajiujin struggled.
"Haha, it's really interesting." Matsuda, who was leaning against the wall to watch the show, smiled with interest: "All the spearheads are pointed at one person, but there is no decisive evidence."
When Conan heard Matsuda's words, he immediately began to recall the situation at that time. No, the phone rang three times after Fu Jiro left, so why did he have only two messages?
"Uncle, is there anything strange when you call?" Conan asked Ajitsu in panic: "It seems that it is not easy to connect."
"So that." | Ajiujin began to recall the situation at that time: "The ringtone rang for a long time, and when it finally opened, I heard the sound of the answering machine."
"Our phone is set to ringtone and it will automatically switch to a telephone answering machine after more than ten rings." The deceased's wife explained.
"Look, I didn't lie." Hearing his wife's words, Ajitsu said to Memu.
"Then do you remember when the call came?" Megu also felt that there was something wrong with it.
"Before four o'clock, because I had agreed to come this afternoon at 4 o'clock, I postponed it if I had some inconveniences." Ajiujin said.
Kogoro still doubted Ajitsu, and the two started arguing. However, Conan was thinking about the suspicion. When he thought of something, he looked up and saw Matsuda frowning in front of the cabinet, thinking about some difficult problems. Did he find something?
"Madam, are there any valuables at home?" Megu decided to think from a different perspective.
"The key to the vault should be in this room." The wife walked to the cabinet, opened a drawer, and then said in surprise: "The key is gone."
"What!?" The people in the room were also surprised.
"Madam, let's see if it's put in another drawer." Matsuda was the first to return to normal.
The lady looked through a few drawers and said, "I found it, so I don't have it in the drawer. It's really strange. My husband usually puts it here. And how do you know that you are in other drawers?"
"The reason." Matsuda first glanced at the suspect in the room, then pointed to his head: "Maybe it's intuition."
No, this is definitely not intuition. Conan stared at the sword marks on the surface of the cabinet carefully. He must have discovered the secret here long ago.
"Hey, kid, this is not the place for you to play games." Matsuda squatted behind Conan, reached out and pressed his head and shook it a few times: "Please help me do something."
"Is there any camera here to take a photo?" Conan ran to the door and asked the maid: "It was the police officer who wanted to use it." After saying that, he pointed at Matsuda, and then sneered in his heart. Humph, saying that it was not a place for children to stay, but letting them do such things.
Conan got the camera, took a photo of the cabinet, and then used a knife to divide it into small pieces according to the drawer to start the puzzle.
When the result he wanted came out, Conan found Matsuda hiding at the door and smoking: "Here, this is what you want."
Matsuda first pinched off the cigarette in his hand, then took it and looked at it, smiled, patted Conan on the head: "It's very good, it's very fast. I'll buy you candy next time."
"When did you find out?" Conan pushed away Matsuda's hand and asked directly.
"Don't your brain shrink if you think about these things all day long?" Matsuda looked Conan up and down: "Be careful not to grow tall in your life."
"You have to care." Conan didn't know how to ask the answer, and it was easy to get into trouble when he couldn't find the answer.
"Police Department, the murderer has been found." Matsuda said coolly leaning against the door.
"Really? Brother Matsuda." Megu asked in surprise.
"It's Ajitsu." Kogoro was not willing to be outdone and said it first.
"No, the murderer is Yuji Suwa." Matsuda gave an answer that no one could have imagined.
"Mr. Suwa, who knows Japanese Kendo, shouldn't get the wrong direction of holding the knife, right?" Meguri said suspiciously: "Do you really understand?"
"Of course, what if it's not wrong?" Matsuda explained: "Sharpening the opposite direction is the purpose of the murderer, so what?"
"What's wrong? Why do you need this..." Kogoro was about to retort, and paused again: "Did he do it on purpose to eliminate his suspicion?"
"Yes." Matsuda stretched out three fingers: "Among them the three of them, Mr. Suwa was the first to be suspected and the first to be eliminated. After that, all the clues pointed to Mr. Ajitsu, which was a problem in itself. A murderer who wanted to frame others actually left so many clues to himself."
"Maybe he didn't have this experience and killed someone again, and made a mistake in panic." Kogoro thought for a while, looking for the flaws in Matsuda's reasoning.
"If he did it in a hurry, why didn't he leave any direct evidence? After the murderer killed someone..." Matsuda paused: "I calmly wiped out all the traces of his visit. His psychological endurance is higher than that of ordinary people."
"Is it because I practice kendo?" Suwa sneered: "Mr. Police officer, do you want to say that every person who practices kendo will kill people? And I have never met this gentleman once, how can I blame him?"
"It's the answering machine." Matsuda said: "If Mr. Ajitsu did not lie, then he valued his carvings and threatened Mr. Fu Jiro to know and eliminated. This person is of course you, the murderer."
"If you say this, Doctor Hatano can do it." Suwa immediately became troubled by the flood.
"No, it won't be his." Matsuda pointed to the ceiling: "It's hard for people without a certain foundation to leave such deep sword marks on the ceiling. And aren't you already showing your feet in the answering machine?"
"What!?" Suwa's face changed.
"Isn't it strange that I heard the sound of the answering machine and knew that the owner was not at home, but I still had to visit him in advance? And you have never confirmed that the owner had come back before coming here." Matsuda said: "Is it because you know that Mr. Fu Jiro will always wait for your visit again in this reception room?"
"Hahaha." Suwa laughed a few times: "Because I know that Mr. Fu Jiro will be examined by a doctor at home at around five o'clock every week, so I think he will definitely be at home, so I didn't confirm it again. Is this going to be your suspicion?"
"Suspicion?" Matsuda shook his head: "As a law enforcement officer, I represent the law, and of course I have to be responsible for my words and deeds. Without conclusive evidence, I would not casually say who was the murderer."
"What? Have you found the evidence? Where?" Megu said hurriedly.
"The evidence is buried in this complicated sword mark." Matsuda said confidently: "Conan, take out the evidence."
"Okay." Conan stood in front of the cabinet, stepped on a small stool and smiled sweetly, then turned around. Damn, damn guy!
Although I kept drawing circles in my heart to curse Matsuda, Conan was not slow in his hands and changed the positions of several drawers.
When Conan stopped, the two words "Suwa" engraved on the cabinet were revealed.
"As long as you pass by, you will leave traces." Matsuda said: "Even if you use this room full of sword marks to disguise you, you will not be able to escape."
"But didn't he come to pay back the money? Why did he kill someone?" Megu still couldn't accept the result.
"It's a knife." Suwa said in a low voice.
"Knife? Is the knife held by the victim?" Megu asked strangely.
"How could it be that kind of scattered copper and iron?" Suwa said slightly mockingly: "It was the famous kami Chiyo that we, Suwa and from generation to generation. As collateral for the loan, the man took it before the deadline arrived..."
"I was so angry that I killed him." Suwa's eyes burst out with his eyes: "It's like this." He quickly snatched the knife from the policeman's hand and headed straight for Matsuda.
When Suwa drew his sword and chopped it down, Matsuda also came up. He was wrong and grabbed Suwa's wrist with his right hand. Then he tripped his feet, leaned his body, and blinked his eyes and put down Suwa, pressing him under him. His right hand was pressing Suwa's hand tightly on the ground, making him unable to move.
"You give up the so-called famous sword first, then be prepared to be abandoned by it, and don't take the anger on others. I will not lose to a guy like you who cannot face your heart, absolutely!"
Chapter completed!