The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan.

"Eh? Me, me?"

Ye Saka Kaida pointed at himself, then looked at the confident little boy in front of him, and suddenly felt like he was in a difficult situation.

As long as the investigation continued, her relationship with Nagasaku Shiro would be discovered sooner or later. She had also made sufficient preparations for today's action, but being suspected so quickly was really beyond her expectations.

But even if she didn't want to admit it, her client was here.

"Yes, Miss Hasaka was just helping me with my hair." Kisaki Eri answered for her while tidying up the hair hanging on her shoulders.

"So, the beauty salon Mom made an appointment at today is her shop?" Mao Lilan suddenly realized.

"Yes, it's Miss Yezaka's shop. It's an old shop with a good reputation. She took it over from her father."

Ye Saka Kaiyo smiled awkwardly and nodded in agreement, but in fact his fingers had already begun to nervously grope for the seams on the edge of his clothes, trying hard to control his expression.

No matter how many rehearsals and assumptions she had made, she still couldn't control her nervousness and fear when she was actually being watched by so many police officers and detectives.

Did they see something? Why were they asking me this? What should I do?

Many questions lingered in his mind, making it impossible for Ye Saka Kaiyo to pay attention to the surrounding environment, let alone Tang Ze who was looking at him with a meaningful expression.

Hasaka Kaishiro, that's the name.

The location is easy to tell, it must be her barber shop.

Inherited from her parents, living here, working here, and even killing here, no other place can carry her emotions and desires better than her barber shop.

"Conan-kun, how did you know she was a hairdresser? I probably didn't introduce her to you..." Kisaki Eri bent down and looked at Conan's expression with interest.

"Because of her hands, there are obvious calluses on the second knuckle of the ring finger on her right hand, right?" Conan pointed at the palm of Hazaka Kaishiro's hand. "This must be caused by frequent use of those hairdressing scissors. In addition, her nails are a bit brown, is it because she just dyed the hair of a customer?"

"You know a lot." Kisaki Eri curled her lips, "Ms. Yezaka's cooking skills are quite good."

"So you do own a beauty salon. Do you know of any similar shops nearby?" Megure Jusan looked at Hasaka Kaishiro. "Preferably one with strong staff."

"Well, besides mine, there are three other shops near the highway, but I don't know if they have anyone as strong as me." Faced with the detective's direct questioning, Hasaka Minaiyo could only answer everything. "However, most of the employees in our shop are women, and the few male employees are also very thin young people..."

There wasn't much of a problem with her answer, but Conan still keenly caught the loophole in her words: "Eh? But big sister, why didn't you answer me directly just now? When I asked you, you didn't even mention that your family also runs a beauty salon."

"Um, um..." Ye Saka's expression froze, and he managed a forced smile. "No, it's just that I heard you say that the person who died was Nagasaku Shiro, and I got a little distracted. Sorry."

"Do you know the deceased?" Megure Jusan blinked, quickly remembered the reasoning of "the crime was committed by an acquaintance", and focused his attention.

"Hey, even if I don't tell you, you'll find out if you investigate." Ye Saka Kaidai lowered his head and told the whole story he had prepared. "Nagasaku Shiro and I were high school classmates and even dated for a while back in school."

"So, you two are very close, right?" Megure Jusan narrowed his eyes. "His driver's license shows that his current address is quite far from here. Did he come here to look for you?"

"Maybe." Yezaka Kaiyo did not deny it.

Perhaps because the topic had progressed to the point she had expected, she calmed down a lot and was able to answer questions fluently.

"I'm a barber now. If my old classmates come to me for a haircut, I definitely have no reason to refuse."

"Hmm, so he came to your shop to get a haircut?"

"That should be the case. But this time he didn't make an appointment with me in advance. My time for this period has already been reserved for Lawyer Fei. Even if he found me, I wouldn't be available to receive him."

This is said quite smoothly and sounds logical.

So Megure Jusan's gaze naturally fell on Kisaki Eri.

"What is the current confirmed time of the crime?" Kisaki Eri turned her head and looked at Takagi Wataru who was busy recording.

"It was around 6:30. The police were called at 6:28. Mr. Maori and others were probably driving by and heard the victim being thrown out..."

"So basically around 6:30?"

"Maybe a little earlier, maybe 6:20."

After getting the exact time from the police, Kisaki Eri nodded and replied directly, "Then Miss Hasaka can't be the criminal. My appointment was for 6 o'clock, and she helped me cut, dye, style, and maintain my hair until 7 o'clock."

"Is there no time to leave in between?" Megure Jusan confirmed as usual.

"While waiting for the hair dye to soak in, Ms. Hasaka seemed to have gone out to buy something, but it took no more than ten minutes." Kisaki Eri pointed to the building at the top. "Her beauty salon is up there."

This section of road makes three bends along the slope. Looking up from below, the sparsely lit houses and buildings on the top of the mountain are about dozens of meters away.

At this distance, if the victim was attacked before Kisaki Eri arrived, she would not have been able to survive and be rescued by Tang Ze.

"At this distance, to complete the murder and body disposal within 10 minutes is a bit too much for Miss Hasaka." Kisaki Eri spread her hands. "I know she sounds like she does have a motive and connections, but if the timing issue isn't resolved, she can't be a suspect."

If we talk about the difference between lawyers and detectives, as they are both based on reasoning logic, it is probably that lawyers care more about evidence than detectives.

The biggest contradiction now lies with the witness Kisaki Eri herself. If she cannot be convinced, no matter how suspicious Yezaka Minai is, she will not support the police in treating her as a suspect. She may even use her professional convenience to file a complaint with the prosecutor.

The corners of Hasaka Kaishiro's mouth quickly curled up.

This is why she chose the day that Kisaki Eri had an appointment with to call Nagasaku Shiro to take action.

This queen of law, who hates evil, has a fiery temper. When she is the criminal's alibi, she will not give in easily even if there are loopholes in her reasoning and logic.

Although attracting a famous detective was an unexpected situation, Hasaka Minashiro's goal was still achieved.

Yezaka Kaiyo, feeling much better, took the initiative to express his gratitude to Kisaki Eri, then said with a feigned frankness, "I understand the police's concerns. You can go directly to my store to check. Although we don't have surveillance cameras, other businesses along the way may have them."

This is the most important part of her entire plan, which is tricky calculation and planning.

As long as her methods are not cracked, all the evidence will only point to her side. Even if the police find some problems and file a lawsuit against her, with Eri Kisaki around, she is not afraid of being convicted.

To retreat in order to advance is also a kind of dark wisdom.

Seeing that she was so proactive, the police naturally would not refuse. Soon, Mouri Kogoro's car carried his people and Kisaki Eri, and Megure Juzo took Takagi Wataru into the police car, and the group drove towards the shop on the mountain.

It was almost past the usual dinner time, and even in Tokyo, a city that never sleeps, this remote corner had fallen asleep with the night.

On the street, apart from the houses, the only place with lights on was the Yezaka family's beauty salon.

"Officers, you see, due to the terrain, cars can't drive fast here. Even if you drive there and back, it takes several minutes to get here." Hasaka Kaidai took the lead, pushing open the glass door of the shop and explaining, "There's not much traffic here at all. If I drove out, people around here would definitely notice."

"Well, I didn't notice any other vehicles around at that time..." Kogoro Mouri continued, looking around the beauty salon.

The space is not very large, but is filled with the scent of shampoo with a hint of heat. Fifty or sixty standard barbershop chairs are lined up in the room, with brightly lit mirrors in front. Although the decoration is not trendy, it has a simple beauty due to sufficient lighting.

Now only the chair in the middle was pulled back a little, and some tools were placed on the table in front. It was obviously the place where Kisaki Eri had sat before.

"This is it. I arrived around 6 o'clock sharp. I washed my hair for about 10 minutes, then dyed it for 20 minutes. Then I washed it again for about 10 minutes, and then permed it... All in all, it took more than an hour."

"You remember it so clearly?" Takagi Shigeru, who picked up the pen to write, paused with his fingertips in surprise.

We have to remember so many details in our daily lives. Is this how lawyers work?

"Because the process has always been like this." Kisaki Eri glanced back, "And I have an appointment later today, so I have been checking my watch..."

Kogoro Mouri was stunned for a moment, but soon realized what Kisaki Eri meant. His stern face relaxed a lot and he turned his head away to cover up.

Just like Maori Kogoro had come to pick her up over an hour early, Kisaki Eri, who was sitting in the beauty salon, had also long since turned her attention to the dinner party later. Even though she knew how long this routine would take, she couldn't help but keep checking the time...

"...And then what? When did you go out, and why?" Sensing a subtle atmosphere, Megure Jusan asked emotionlessly with a gloomy face.

These policemen have no dinner at this time and are working overtime here. It is true that they are hungry, but that is no reason to feed people dog food.

"It's probably after it's been dyed and it's waiting for the baking process." Kisaki Eri recalled, "around 6:20."

"So, it's not like we don't have enough time," Maori Kogoro said, pondering the route. "We're driving so slowly because we're unfamiliar with the roads here. Someone familiar with the terrain should be able to reach the location where we found the victim in just over two minutes."

"Such extreme circumstances aren't usually considered in criminal investigations, right?" Kisaki Eri glanced at him and said bluntly, "If that's the case, there are too many people here who can take action."

"No, Detective Maori, I can't drive and I don't have a license." Hasaka Kaishiro smiled, "I just went to the convenience store and threw out some trash. Of course, not the garbage dump downstairs, but the one next to the convenience store, which is too far away. Do you want to go to the convenience store to check? I went to buy some rice."

Her attitude has always been very frank, and she seems to believe that she is upright and not afraid of police inspection at all.

However, her frankness made Conan frown.

Strictly speaking, based solely on the following conditions, namely, "the murderer is a beautician", "the victim was having his hair cut at the time", and "Hasaka Minayo has been cutting hair for Nagasaku Shiro for a long time", Hasaka Minayo would be listed as a major suspect by the police, and at the very least, he would be taken to the police station for questioning.

The only reason why she could be so leisurely now was that, coincidentally, Kisaki Eri had made an appointment for a hairstyling service for her dinner with Kogoro Mouri in the evening.

Eri Kisaki's testimony has largely cleared her of suspicion, but Minae Hasaka seemed unsatisfied and went shopping at a convenience store around the time of the incident.

The biggest difference between buying things at a convenience store and simply going out to do something is that the purchase and payment records can be checked by the cash register system, and the anti-theft cameras in the store will also leave very accurate images.

The timeline evidence is so seamless, so perfect that it seems to have been done on purpose.

After thinking it over in his mind for a while, Conan decided not to continue listening to the argument between Hasaka Kaishiro and the policemen. He tiptoed out of the beauty salon and checked the surrounding streets and terrain.

He was 80% certain that Hasaka Minashiro was the murderer. Even if he searched the entire neighborhood, he might not be able to find another person who had such a deep connection with the victim.

The other party is so confident now because Hibiki Eri supports her, will testify for her, and even argue for her.

This matter is by no means a matter of conflict of interest, but when Hibiki gets angry, she might even defend Yezaka Kaidai.

If it weren't for her stubborn temper, she and Maori Kogoro wouldn't have dragged their relationship problems on until Maori Ran was in high school, unable to resolve them.

Why not change your thinking and find a way to prove its feasibility first, and then convince Hibiki Eri to give it a try...

Tang Ze watched Conan leave quietly, pulled Mao Lilan's sleeve, pointed in the direction of the back door, and signaled that he would follow Conan to see

Ran Mouri glanced at Conan's heels as he disappeared at the door, then looked at the suspicion surrounding Minashiro Hasaka, and her parents who were vaguely hostile, and shook her head helplessly as if she was used to it.

"He's at it again... It's so dark, and there are no streetlights here, so I should be careful not to bump into anything. Don't worry, I'm here with my parents, so there won't be any quarrels."

Although, the current atmosphere is not pleasant.

However, she felt that the problem between them was not a big deal, and she was used to it.

They haven't had a fight for such a long time, so if they suddenly have a dispute and yell at each other, maybe they will both be more adaptable.

What did Tang Ze say then? Only when all conflicts erupt can we find a solution.

Mao Lilan thought optimistically.