Chapter 45: The Evil Hand

"What the hell!!"

Appearing at the crime scene in a police car at this moment, Senichi felt a group of mud horses galloping past.

I just left the Mouri Detective Agency not long ago, right?

Did you run into a case when I went ahead?

Senichi recognized the identity of the dark-skinned young man speaking with a Kansai accent.

Dark skin and Kansai accent, plus that familiar hat, all of these represent the identity of the other party - Hattori Heiji.

The other party's self-introduction also proved his identity, and after some understanding, Senichi finally understood what happened, and confirmed that this case was the one where the two detectives met.

Almost shortly after he left, Hattori Heiji visited the office, clamoring to find Kudo, and then ran into a client who wanted to investigate the conduct of her son's girlfriend.

And because her husband is a diplomat, in order to disguise it, Hattori Heiji proposed that Mouri Kogoro take them as friends to visit at home. And obtained the consent of the client.

So, together with Conan who was drunk with liquor, everyone came to the client's home, but when they met her husband, they found that he had died in the locked room.

The situation at the time was that the client, Mrs.Tsujimura, took Mouri Kogoro and others to her husband's room, but they kept knocking on the door but no one responded.

After that, Mrs. Tsujimura took the key and opened the room, and found that the other party had fallen asleep listening to the opera in the room. As a result, when Mrs. Tsujimura went to wake him up, he fell to the ground instead of waking up.

When Mouri Kogoro and others came forward, he was already out of breath and died directly.

And after inspection, the room turned out to be a locked room!

After judgment, there was a conspicuous red spot behind the deceased's ear, and a needle suspected of being the murder weapon. It was preliminarily judged that he was killed by poison.

And judging from the body's temperature, body spots, and no stiffness after death, when everyone found the body, the deceased had not been killed for more than 30 minutes!

And there are two keys to the room, one is in the hands of Mrs. Tsujimura, and the other is found in the interlayer pocket of the deceased's trousers!

In other words, this is a perfect locked room murder case! !

However, although Police Officer Megure asked Mouri Kogoro and Senichi to step up their game and press Hattori Heiji, Senichi was completely unmotivated and seemed to be paddling for soy sauce.

After all, this is a duel between the two detectives, East and West. Senichi has no plans to intervene in it. Compared to this, he has important plans.

Afterwards, everything went smoothly. Hattori Heiji confidently investigated Mrs. Tsujimura's father-in-law as the murderer.

Conan, who drank white wine, regained his adult appearance in pain, stood up and pointed out Hattori Heiji's mistakes, and told the world "no one can pretend to be better in front of me"...

Ahem, after some hanging, Kudo Shinichi found out the real culprit—Mrs. Tsujimura.

And the cause of everything was the incident that happened twenty years ago.

Mrs. Tsujimura was not the wife of the deceased, Tsujimura Isao. At that time, she was the wife of another diplomat, Kenji Yamashiro.

However, Tsujimura Isao blamed Yamashiro Kenji for corruption, which put him in prison, and finally died in the fifth year after entering the prison.

Tsujimura Isao did this not only to squeeze out his competitor who was also a diplomat at the time, but also to get her.

Back then, she knew nothing about what happened back then, and was in a slump because her husband was arrested and her daughter Yukiko was taken away by relatives of her husband's family.

Tsujimura Isao said that he divorced his wife because of her, and took advantage of the opportunity to marry her.

It wasn't until Tsujimura Isao and his ex-wife's son Takayoshi came back with a photo of his girlfriend Yukiko that she knew the truth of the matter.

At the beginning, She just thought that Yukiko looked a lot like her, but she didn't expect Tsujimura to try his best to get along with them.

After some questioning, Mrs. Tsujimura found out the truth of the matter. It turned out that Yukiko was really her daughter with Kenji Yamashiro, and Isao Tsujimura told her everything he had done back then.

That's why Tsujimura Isao strongly opposed his son marrying Yamashiro Kenji's daughter.

As for Tsujimura Isao's father, the old man identified as the murderer by Hattori Heiji, the reason why he took the initiative to jump into the trap and admit that he was the murderer was because he also knew about the past.

In order to make up for the mistakes made back then, he planned to suffer on her behalf.

And the reason why she wanted to kill was purely to make her daughter happy, and to avenge her ex-husband along the way.

"It turns out that I was wrong in the direction of my reasoning at the beginning. This time I am convinced that I lost!"

When all the reasoning came to an end, Hattori Heiji looked at Kudo Shinichi and praised, "As expected of Kudo! Your reasoning is really good."

"You are wrong!" Kudo Shinichi leaned against the wall enduring the discomfort all over his body and said, "Reasoning is not divided into winners and losers...not divided into high and low.

Because... There is always only one truth! ! "

"You're right, I just care too much about winning or losing..." Hattori Heiji pressed his hat, "That's why I'm not calm enough."

"Well!!"

The pain in his heart resurfaced again, causing him to cover his heart unconsciously. Ran, who saw him weak, hurried to call the family doctor who lived on the second floor.

His whole body was hot, and the pain that seemed to melt his bones spread all over his body. Realizing that he might turn back into Conan again, Kudo Shinichi knew that he couldn't stay any longer.

He struggled to get out of the room and was about to go downstairs, but he happened to meet Ran who was running over with the doctor.

"Shinichi?" Looking at Shinichi who was dripping with sweat, Ran complained with worry, "You are a patient, how can you move around casually!"

"Ran!"

Kudo Shinichi's eyes began to blur, "Too bad...if I change back to Conan now, my...appearance...will...be seen by Ran..."

The dizziness caused Kudo Shinichi to fall straight down the stairs, and the next moment he seemed to be caught firmly by someone, and then he was picked up and moved quickly.

When Ran came to her senses and rushed to the vicinity of the stairs, Kudo Shinichi was no longer there.

"Shinichi!! Where are you!!" Ran shouted around, looking for him.

But to her disappointment, no matter how hard she searched, she couldn't see his shadow.

On the other hand, Kudo who was in the toilet was flustered by the sudden appearance of a figure helping him, because he knew that he would soon become a child again.

But in the next moment, severe pain flooded his mind, so he could not care to think, he wanted to yell.

But, a sinister black hand directly covered his mouth with the towel, blocking his scream.