My neighbor's name is Conan

Chapter 908 The indignant suspects

Walking into Tsukihara Kaori's room, Aoki Matsu immediately saw the white gift bag placed at the entrance and couldn't help but ask, "Ms. Tsukihara, are you also going to the same funeral as Mr. Ogino?"

"That's right!" Tsukihara Xiang nodded and replied, "The three of us all went to the funeral, although the president himself did not attend."

Glancing at the living room, Qing Musong pressed the coffee on the round table and asked, "Excuse me, is this the coffee you mentioned before?"

"Yes, that was the coffee I made before I left the room." Tsukihara Kaori replied, "I can't start working without a cup of coffee in the morning. By the way, can this be considered as evidence? I think the coffee should still be hot now."

Upon hearing this, Qing Musong reached out and touched the coffee cup. It was indeed still hot, and there was some steam floating on it.

"Just barely!" said Aoki Matsu.

Afterwards, Tsukihara Kaori could not produce any other evidence.

Next up is Sodezaki Kazutomo.

Sodezaki Kazutomo didn't know what he remembered. As he touched the key, he said, "I remembered it, Mr. Detective. Come on, come in and take a look."

Aoki Matsu followed Sodezaki Kazutomo into the house in confusion, and saw Sodezaki Kazutomo running inside in a hurry. He couldn't help but say, "Wait a moment."

"I just saw the steam from the coffee on Miss Tsukihara's table, and it just occurred to me that I have it too!" Sodezaki Kazutomo said excitedly, and then led everyone to the study.

but……

"Ah! No, it's out!" Sodezaki Kazutomo said in great disappointment, "I put the half-smoked cigarette on the ashtray and went out directly. I thought it should still be lit now."

Just as he finished speaking, a puff of smoke stubbornly wafted out of the cigarette in the ashtray.

"Ah!" Sodezaki Kazutomo picked up the cigarette and said happily, "Look, there's still smoke coming out of it! This is the evidence that I was still in the room until just now!"

Maruta Ayumi saw Aoki Matsu looking at the cigarette without saying anything, so he said, "Indeed."

Aoki Matsu looked at the cigarette and thought about it.

Are the foam of beer, the steam from the coffee cup, and the smoke from cigarettes proof of your absence?

But there is actually a lot of room for maneuver.

The foam in beer is carbon dioxide, which can be achieved by using some chemicals.

The heat of coffee works on the same principle, like quicklime.

The same goes for cigarettes. You can keep smoking by placing one cigarette on top of another.

Moreover, just now, Sodezaki Kazutomo blocked Aoki Matsu's view and picked up the cigarette butt himself, which had destroyed the original layout of the ashtray. Who knows whether Sodezaki Kazutomo did it on purpose or it was a coincidence.

From this perspective, the same goes for Keisuke Ogino, who also has the opportunity to play tricks by holding the beer glass behind his back.

Instead, it was Aoki Matsu who discovered Tsukihara Kaori himself. However, when she was questioning them before, she mentioned the coffee, so it is possible that she told them about it on purpose.

In short, the suspicion of the three people has not been cleared.

And... I don't know why, but Aoki Matsu always feels that there is a sense of disharmony among these three people.

He couldn't put it into words, but Aoki Matsu just felt something was wrong, as if there was something wrong.

After thinking about it, Aoki Matsu secretly ordered the detectives of the Forensic Division to test the ingredients in the beer and coffee, and decided to go to the scene where Katsumoto Daisaku fell from the building.

When we walked to Katsumoto's house on the 26th floor, we found that the door to the entrance and the window to the balcony were still open. It seemed that Katsumoto really wanted to fight the murderer, but unfortunately...

"Officer!" At this time, a police officer came over and said, "Officer, the person is here."

"Please let him in." Aoki Matsu ordered.

Aoki Matsu discovered on Katsumoto Daisaku's mobile phone that after sending the message, Katsumoto Daisaku seemed to have contacted someone immediately with his mobile phone.

"Excuse me, what is your name and occupation?" asked Aoki Matsu.

"My name is Yoshihiro Miyake, police officer. I run a decoration store," Yoshihiro Miyake replied.

"Mr. Miyake, what did President Katsumoto say to you when he called you before?" asked Aoki Matsu.

Yoshihiro Miyake replied, "This is what happened. President Katsumoto bought a carpet from us before, and I replaced it for him yesterday. Unexpectedly, President Katsumoto called me just now and said that the carpet I replaced for him seemed to be different from the one he bought before, and he wanted me to compensate him.

He also said that he was using a ruler to measure the actual length of the carpet wool. When he was halfway through his conversation, the doorbell in his room suddenly rang. President Katsumoto said on the phone that he would call back later and then hung up.

Maruta Ayumi thought for a moment and said, "Well, that means President Katsumoto stayed in his room before he fell, and the person who came to visit him at that time should be the criminal. This assumption should be correct. The three of them all live on the third floor. If they want to go to the president's room on the 26th floor, it will take about 7 minutes to go back and forth."

Aihara Yoji was a little surprised when he heard this and asked, "Climb the stairs? Isn't it the elevator?"

Maruta Ayumi explained: "Because there is a surveillance camera installed in the elevator, I asked someone to go to the management office to check the video after I took the elevator upstairs.

President Katsumoto fell at about 7: in the morning. The camera did not capture the images of the three people. If one of the three people was the suspect, it means that the criminal should have used the stairs without cameras. "

"So that's how it is. The criminal pressed the doorbell of the president's room, was brought into the room, immediately attacked the president, and then left the room and ran back to the first floor. If any of these three people was the criminal, the criminal's room would be empty for more than 10 minutes." Aihara Yoji said with sudden realization.

Maruta Ayumi nodded with a teachable expression, "Yes. If it lasts for more than 10 minutes, all the bubbles, heat, and smoke will disappear."

But I still can’t find out who among these three people is the murderer!

After thinking for a while, Aoki Matsu looked at the three people and asked, "Why did President Katsumoto send that kind of message to you?"

Ogino Keisuke was a little angry when he heard this: "Because of the lawsuit!"

Tsukihara Kaori also said in a bad tone: "Because originally the three of us were planning to sue the president together."

Sodezaki Kazutomo followed up with indignation, “It was originally scheduled for the beginning of next month.”

Qing Musong was a little surprised. "You mean accuse?"

Hearing this, Ogino Keisuke looked at them and asked, "You should know that last week a well-known actress committed suicide by jumping off a building in order to prove her innocence."

"I know about this incident." Aihara Yoji said, "I remember that the reason she committed suicide was because of the paparazzi's photo of her kissing her dangerous lover."

Ogino Keisuke said expressionlessly, "I was the one who took that photo."

Sodezaki Kazutomo followed up by saying, “I was the one who wrote that article.”

Tsukihara Kaori continued, "Then I will be the one responsible for editing the article and publishing it in the weekly magazine."

Maruta Ayumi was a little confused when he heard this: "It turned out to be you?"

Ogino Keisuke closed his eyes and said sadly: "That's right, because both the photos and the articles are fabricated!"

"what!"

Everyone present was shocked at the same time.

Ogino Keisuke continued: "That photo was actually taken before the two of them were about to hug. They were not about to kiss at all."

Sodezaki Kazutomo said: "The experiences of the man in the article and the photo are all fabricated. The man is actually a stuntman, and the injuries on his face were caused during the filming that day."

Aihara Yoji was a little surprised when he heard this and said, "But, I remember that she and the young congressman were already engaged, right? Even if they just hugged each other, it doesn't necessarily mean that everything was fabricated..."

Tsukihara Kaori looked at everyone and said, "Let me tell you, that man is actually her half-brother. She just told her brother that she was going to get married, and then the two of them hugged each other."

"Eh!" Aihara Yoji was shocked. "If that's the case, why?!"

Upon hearing this, Tsukihara Kaori said angrily, "Before the report was published, everyone knew the truth and decided to discard the article. I didn't expect the president to rewrite it and publish it in the magazine with the title "Famous actress plays dangerous games with fire late at night before getting married"!"

Ogino Keisuke said with a flattering look, "Then the magazine was released the day before her wedding press conference with her fiancé, the congressman, and the issue was a best-seller."

Sodezaki Kazutomo lowered his head and said with some guilt: "As a result, her brother was plotted against by her fanatical fans. He is now seriously injured and unconscious and is still in the hospital."

Tsukihara Kaori: "Of course, their engagement fell through, and the actress, in despair, chose to commit suicide in order to prove her innocence."

This... is such a sad story.

Sad as it was, Aihara Yoji asked in confusion: "But if she told the truth at the time, everyone would know it was fabricated."

Ogino Keisuke said angrily: "How could she say that! Because that brother is the illegitimate child of her father's affair with someone else!"

Although there are many cases of extramarital affairs between Japanese couples, they must never be made public.

Tsukihara Kaori nodded and said, "It was because he discovered this weakness that the president published that fabricated article."

Sodezaki Kazutomo then said angrily, "But! Publishing the article in the magazine under our names without our permission is unforgivable! That's why we sent a message to the president the night before and wrote our three names in the letter!"

Yue Yuanxiang also said angrily: "We told him that we have the evidence that he fabricated the article, so he better wake up!"

Ogino Keisuke also said indignantly: "We plan to keep appealing until we completely defeat him!"

The three of them spoke one after another, and they were extremely indignant.

Qing Musong nodded and said, "I see. The president saw the message you sent early in the morning, so he replied to you."

After a pause, he suddenly thought of something.

Qing Musong looked at the three people and asked, "So, is it possible that the funeral gift bag is placed in the rooms of the three of you..."

Ogino Keisuke nodded and said, "That's right."

Tsukihara Kaori also said, "It was the gift we received before leaving the funeral of that actress."

Sodezaki Kazutomo lowered his head and said guiltily, "However, the three of us concealed our identities and could only attend the funeral as people related to her agency."

Upon hearing this, Aihara Yoji whispered in Aoki Matsu's ear: "If that article is the motive, then shouldn't the family of the actress who committed suicide also be on the list of suspects?"

Maruta Ayumi disagreed, "But the murder happened after that message was sent. It's hard to exclude these three people as suspects."

But it’s impossible to tell who the murderer is!

And all three of them had motives to kill.

Qing Musong thought for a moment and said, "Then let's do an experiment first."

"Experiment?" Maruta Ayumi and Aihara Yoji were stunned.

"Yes!" Aoki Song nodded. "Let's do an experiment with foam, heat and smoke."

Real knowledge from practice!

There is no way to find out by guessing alone.

After testing, it was found that the heat of the coffee disappears in about eight minutes.

Aoki Matsu looked at Tsukihara Kaori and asked, "So, Ms. Tsukihara, when you heard the commotion and walked out of the room, did you notice anything concerning? Did you see any strange people? Or hear any strange noises?"

"Well!" Tsukihara Kaori thought for a moment and replied, "Because the people upstairs seemed to be planning to use the elevator to go downstairs, I couldn't wait for the elevator, so I had to walk up the stairs to the first floor by myself. I didn't meet any strange people."

"What about the sound part?" asked Aoki Matsu.

"Let me think about it." Tsukihara Kaori thought hard for a while and then said, "When I was about to leave the room, I heard the sound of the alarm clock in Mr. Ogino's room next door."

Ogino Keisuke immediately said, "You mean the alarm clock? I put it near my pillow at the head of my bed. When I don't need to rush to work, I usually get up around 7:30. But I woke up in the middle of the night yesterday to watch a foreign football match."

Hearing this, Aoki Matsu looked at Maruta Ayumi and asked, "How is the foam test of the beer going?"

"Inspector, no matter how many times you test it, it's the same. The bubbles will all disappear in about six minutes," Maruta Ayumi replied.

Aoki Matsu was neither surprised nor disappointed when he heard this, because normal beer would definitely disappear in a few minutes, but who knew what was added to Ogino Keisuke's previous glass of beer!

The same goes for coffee.

Before the inspection report from the forensic department came out, Aoki Matsu was skeptical about this.

"Mr. Ogino, did you see or hear any sound when you left the room?" Aoki Matsu looked at Ogino Keisuke and asked.

Ogino Keisuke replied, "Come to think of it, when I was walking down the stairs, I heard the sound of Sodezaki walking downstairs."