Chapter 74: The Criminal's Method

"So that's how it is, should I say, worthy of being a potter?"

Putting the crock back to its original place temporarily, Senichi got off the ladder and clapped his hands.

Based on the clues found so far, the criminal has been identified as one of the two.

But who it is, there is no directional clue yet, that is to say, both of them have this possibility.

But the only thing that is certain is that he set up a trick to make look like suicide!

"Well, it seems that we have to find a way to find key to identify the criminal."

While Senichi was thinking, Conan who was beside him hurried over.

Seeing the situation in front of him, Senichi's eyes lit up, and he looked at Conan with a smile.

The two looked at each other in the air, and the expression of gain was beyond words.

"Looks like it's time to ask the amazing Conan-kun."

Senichi winked, and then walked out of the warehouse first, and Conan thought about going to a corner where no one was around.

"Looking at you, have you discovered something?" Senichi said first, "What a coincidence, the trick of the criminal on my side has been solved, and now there are only directional clues left."

"Oh? That's really a coincidence." Conan showed a smile, "I just found a directional clue here!"

"Hey? Then let's start exchanging the clues we found." Senichi smiled, "If our reasoning is correct, then the clues will naturally fit together perfectly."

"It's exactly what I want."

Conan smiled confidently and looked forward to it even more. This kind of contest was exactly what he hoped for!

——In information exchange——

"So that's it. Did you find the lipstick on the cushion in the living room?" Senichi nodded suddenly, "It's really a clue that only you can find with your current identity."

Conan's clue is because when he picked up the marbles yesterday, he was startled by Uncle Maori, causing the marbles to roll to Ran.

And then when he climbed up the table to pick up marbles, he saw Ran's big white legs... Ah bah, he got this clue by seeing the lipstick mark on the back of the cushion chair.

By the way, Ran was wearing a short skirt. When kneeling, the skirt... Ahem, from a gentleman's point of view, do not see evil...

Just after Senichi finished exchanging information with Conan, the few people who were told by Police Officer Megure to stop running around came over in a group.

"That...excuse me, do we have to stay in the lobby all day?" Arita Yoshihiko asked standing at the warehouse door

"I'm sorry, that's right. It may take a little more time here." Megure replied embarrassedly: "I've caused you trouble, please cooperate."

"Then can I have breakfast? I haven't eaten breakfast yet after tossing so early in the morning." Seto Ryuichi asked.

Kaoru Otani: "I also want to change clothes."

"These, I'll ask my subordinates..."

"No need, Officer Megure." Senichi came over and heard the conversation between the two sides, and interrupted the conversation at the right time, "We should solve this case as soon as possible."

"Solved? Wasn't it solved long ago?" Mouri Kogoro said impatiently, "This case is suicide! Could it be that you found any evidence?"

"Uncle, shut up quickly, or you will lose face." Conan shouted madly in his heart with drooping dead fish eyes.

"Well... Detective Mouri, you don't need to act any more. I know you've already found clues."

Senichi patted Mouri Kogoro on the shoulder, with an expression that I understand, "You deliberately advocated suicide in order to make the criminal paralyzed and prevent the criminal from destroying the evidence. Give me time to find clues."

The reason for saying this is naturally to maintain Kogoro Mouri's image as a "famous detective", otherwise how can he be used as a tool for Conan in the future.

"This case is not suicide, but homicide!"

After finding a step for Mouri Kogoro, Senichi didn't care about the other party's confused face, and said directly: "This case is homicide, and I have found evidence that the murderer didn't hide well!!"

"What!!" Officer Megure was startled, "Senichi-kun... Could it be that you... What is the evidence?"

"It's blood, Officer Megure." Senichi pointed to the blood on the floor and said, "You can tell by looking at the blood here."

"This... this is!!?"

Officer Megure looked in the direction Senichi pointed, his pupils immediately contracted, and his face immediately became serious.

Immediately, Megure turned to look at Arita Yoshihiko and Seto Ryuichi and asked, "During the questioning earlier, it was you two who moved the corpse here, right?"

"Well... because the lady might still be alive at that time..." Arita Yoshihiko thought for a while and said, "Ryuichi, it seemed that I moved the upper body and you moved the feet to that corner, right?"

"Then this is very problematic..." Officer Megure looked at the floor and said, "It's really strange enough..."

Arita Yoshihiko asked doubtfully, "What's wrong with this blood?"

"I think drops are normal." Ryuichi Seto explained, "It should be dripping from the corpse when we move it."

"No, there are other drops." Megure stared at the blood on the ground solemnly, "These drops are mixed with other highly dripped blood, just because it is very inconspicuous mixed in. "

"Other heights?"

As soon as this remark came out, The atmosphere instantly became serious.

"When human blood drips to the ground, it forms different shapes depending on the height of the drop. There is a set of scientific standard judgment methods in bloodstain identification."

Senichi looked at the crowd and explained: "Although the precise judgment is difficult to explain in a few words, you only need to know that the diameter of the blood will be longer when it drips from a higher place. And the area is larger, the splash around it will be more irregular."

Senichi pointed to the bloodstain that was bigger than the surrounding area and said, "If you were to lift the hands and feet of the deceased, the distance from the ground to the toes would be about 50 centimeters, and the diameter of the dripping blood would basically remain the same size.

But the diameter of this bloodstain is larger than the surrounding bloodstains, and it is even obvious that it dripped from a height of more than one meter! ! "

Senichi pointed to the bookcase beside him, "In other words, the lady probably hurt her leg when she slipped from the bookshelf, and the blood dripped there!"

"But why is that!?" Arita Yoshihiko turned his head to look at the bookcase in puzzlement and said, "Why did Madam go to that kind of place..."

"Don't you understand yet?"

Senichi pointed to the top of the bookcase, "The criminal transported the lady to the bookshelf in the middle of the night, and let her sleep on this shelf which is only one person wide!

And around her neck was a rope that had already been fixed to the beam on the other side.

In this way, when the young lady gets up and turns over in the morning, she will lose her balance and fall from the top of the bookshelf, turning into a hanged suicide look! ! "