The famous criminal in the world of Conan

"Um,"

Bai Masong nodded lightly.

"Now that you know, let's look for it. Don't let go of any place."

Bai Masong said this while looking out the window.

He already knew what the so-called alibi was. This case was very simple and could be easily solved with the abilities of Shiratori Jinsaburo and Sato Miwako.

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A moment later

"Baima, I found something strange here,"

Shiratori Renzaburo stood by the balcony window, holding a corner of the curtain in his hand. He turned his head and shouted at Baimasong.

Bai Masong took two steps towards him and came to his side.

"What did you find?"

"Here, take a look at this."

Shiratori Renzaburo loosened his hand that was pinching the corner of the curtain, then put his hand in front of Baimasong and rubbed his two fingers gently.

"This is......"

Bai Masong frowned slightly. There was some powder on Bai Niao Renzabulang's hands. Judging from the smell, the powder was...

“Is this foundation?”

Sato Miwako also came over, sniffed the smell in the air, and said in a daze.

"Um,"

Shiratori Renzaburo nodded and said with a smile,

"Since Officer Sato also said so, it means my judgment is correct."

As he spoke, he immediately became serious and said in a deep voice,

"Officer Hakuba, Officer Sato, these foundations were found on the curtains at the balcony door."

"The curtain was stained with foundation at a very low position. Generally speaking, it is unlikely that these things will stick to it."

He said, pointing to where he found the foundation.

That was at the balcony door, near the curtain of the kitchen on the left. The foundation was located in the lower middle section of the curtain, almost reaching the bottom but still some distance away from the bottom.

In short, it is a position where you can neither reach your head nor touch the bottom.

It can be said that unless Miss Umeda likes to play dog ​​crawling games in her room, it is absolutely impossible for foundation to get on that place.

"Um,"

Bai Masong nodded, agreeing with Shiratori Renzaburo's words.

"The foundation in this place is indeed suspicious."

"so,"

Shiratori Renzaburo took over Bai Basong's words and began to reason on his own.

"There is some foundation on this spot, so can we make two guesses?"

"In other words, either the murderer moved the deceased's body, causing the face of the deceased to rub against that position, leaving the foundation behind."

"Or maybe the murderer was carrying something else that also needed foundation to be dressed up, and when this thing was being carried, he accidentally left foundation on the curtains."

"Which one do you think it is?"

Bai Masong asked calmly.

Shiratori Renzaburo's face straightened and he said,

"It's all possible."

"Aren't you talking nonsense?"

Sato Miwako said unhappily.

If I ask you which one you are, and you answer that both are possible, it would be better not to answer at all.

"No, no, no, that's not what I meant."

Shiratori Renzaburo quickly explained,

"What I mean is that these two possibilities may exist, or there is a high probability that both exist. I just don't know which possibility put the foundation on."

"What does it mean?"

Sato Miwako asked with some confusion,

"What do you mean by both possibilities? You mean that the murderer not only carried the body of the deceased Ms. Umeda, but also carried something... that was covered in makeup?"

"Um,"

Shiratori Renzaburo nodded and smiled confidently.

"These are the things that involve my reasoning."

"I didn't think of the second possibility at first. I subconsciously thought that the murderer might have accidentally stained the curtains with the foundation on Ms. Umeda's face when she was carrying her body."

"From this, I then thought of why the murderer wanted to move Miss Umeda's body?"

"You mean..."

Sato Miwako is not a fool either. She had just made some discoveries, so she guessed something.

Now that Shiratori Renzaburo said this again, she instantly thought of the location of the curtains and what they were investigating at the moment.

"That's right,"

Shiratori Renzaburo smiled and nodded, then pointed to the dark night outside the sliding glass next to the curtain.

"The murderer's purpose was to move Ms. Umeda's body to the balcony."

"And the reason why he did this was probably to fake a time of death!"

Falsifying the time of death.

This is the murderer's purpose, and it is also the fact they currently need to confirm and clarify.

"It's winter now, and the temperature outside today is about three to five degrees,"

Shiratori Renzaburo smiled and said,

"The temperature in our room was very high because we had the heater on, so the forensic doctor determined that since the body of the deceased had not yet shown signs of rigor mortis, it meant that the time of death was no more than an hour."

"Combined with the deceased's email, we can conclude that the time of death was between 5 and 5:30."

"However, if the victim was dragged outside to the balcony by the murderer right after death, the temperature outside would be very low, which would greatly prolong the time it takes for the body to enter rigor mortis, thus causing our forensic doctor to make a wrong judgment."

"Ah."

Hakuba Matsu and Sato Miwako listened to what Shiratori Renzaburo said and nodded repeatedly.

Rigor mortis will be delayed in a cold environment, so as long as the body is placed outside the window, in the cold environment outside, it can naturally be ensured that the body will not show rigor mortis.

Another possibility is...

"Another possibility is what I thought of based on this reasoning,"

Shiratori Renzaburo pinched his chin with his hand and said thoughtfully,

"After I thought of this guess, another question immediately came to my mind."

"How should we recover this body that is left outside?"

"If we retrieve it too early, and the body is already stiff when Kimura and the other two find it, then it will be meaningless; if we retrieve it too late, and the three find the body lying outside, then it will also be meaningless."

"And being able to accurately determine the time of the three people's arrival means that either the murderer is among them, or that person has been watching from upstairs."

"Let's not think about the second guess for now. Assuming the murderer is among the three, then the murderer is likely to have brought the body back after coming here."