On the way to the student's house, Kogoro Mouri happily introduced the place to everyone.
"Her name is Tanaka Megumi. Her dad is a great lawyer. He used to invite me to stay for beer after class..."
Conan whispered to Kazuma Kudo, "No wonder this student could be taught for three years straight; Uncle used to love drinking beer."
Just then, a red car sped over. Kudo Kazuma quickly grabbed Conan and dodged to the side of the street, while Mouri Kogoro and Ran also hurriedly took cover.
"Driving so fast in such a narrow residential alley? Is there something wrong with the driver?"
Kudo Kazuma complained while glaring at the driver in the car, a square-faced young man wearing sunglasses.
The young man had clearly heard his complaint and even turned his head to glance at him.
Kogoro Mouri was speechless: "Yeah, how does this guy drive?!"
After complaining about the car, he started introducing the surrounding area to everyone.
After chatting as they walked out of the alley, they saw a woman with long, flowing hair emerge from the alleyway not far away. Kogoro Mouri immediately cheered and raised his hand to greet her.
"Xiaohui!"
The woman, Tanaka Megumi, was slightly taken aback when she saw Kogoro Mouri: "Mori-sensei?"
Kogoro Mouri ran over happily: "You've grown so much, Megumi..."
Tanaka Megumi, however, was a little nervous: "Wait a minute, teacher!"
Seeing Kogoro Mouri's confusion, she quickly explained, "My sister is backing up the car."
After saying that, she took a few steps back and waved into the alley: "Okay, pour it out."
Then they heard a loud "boom" and saw flames shooting into the sky.
Tanaka Megumi froze, staring blankly in the direction of the explosion: "Hanmi..."
Kogoro Mouri, however, thought of the possibility of a secondary explosion in the car's fuel tank and immediately rushed over, tackling Tanaka Megumi, who was still standing there in a daze.
Sure enough, the second explosion was even more serious. If Kogoro Mori hadn't reacted quickly, Megumi Tanaka would probably have been seriously injured.
After struggling free herself from under Kogoro Mouri, Megumi Tanaka said with a sorrowful expression, "Hiromi... my sister Hiromi is still in the car!"
Needless to say, Hiromi was killed instantly in the explosion, while Tanaka Megumi, who was saved by Kogoro Mouri, sustained minor injuries and was taken to Beika Central Hospital.
According to the police investigation, someone had planted explosives and a starting device under the vehicle, which would have triggered an explosion whenever the wheels turned.
After some questioning, they learned that Tanaka Megumi had married her colleague a few years ago and now lived in Nishitama City. She was just visiting her parents today. The car was also hers, and she had asked her younger sister, Hiromi, for help because she wasn't good at reversing. Who knew this would happen?
Originally, Kudo Kazuma only vaguely remembered a case involving an older man's student, but now that Tanaka Megumi mentioned it, he remembered it to some extent.
It seems her husband wanted to kill her and her sister, but she discovered it beforehand. Then she tricked her sister into getting into the car and carried out a counterattack... Well, that doesn't seem right. Killing her husband would be considered a counterattack, but her sister died, so this is a real murder case.
He couldn't help but raise his hand to support his chin, pondering to himself—in this situation, who is the real culprit, Tanaka Megumi's husband or her?
Seeing this, Conan asked incredulously, "You don't know who the murderer is, do you?"
"How is that possible?" He hadn't even fully recalled the plot yet...
Kazuma Kudo glanced at his older brother, then squatted down beside him and whispered, "I just suddenly remembered that when we first saw Ms. Tanaka, Uncle Mori was so happy to go find her, but she told him to wait a moment before going over..."
“I remember she told us to wait a moment before coming over because her sister was backing up, right? Wasn’t it because she wasn’t good at backing up that she sent her sister? This proves that her sister is quite good at backing up.”
"The driver is a good driver, and Ms. Tanaka is watching over us. We're still quite a distance from that alleyway. Is it really necessary for us to be so nervous and tell us not to go any further? Don't you think there's something wrong here?"
Conan also raised his hand to support his chin: "You mean... Ms. Tanaka wouldn't let us pass because she probably knew beforehand that the car would explode?"
Kazuma Kudo shrugged: "These kinds of things, you make bold assumptions and carefully verify them, isn't that what you always do?"
While the two were talking quietly, Tanaka Megumi provided information about a man who had been eyeing her with ill intent in a store in Nishitama City a few days earlier.
After the police drew the sketch, Xiaolan realized that the person was the same person they had met in the alley earlier that day, the one driving the red car.
Based on the time of the incident, this person is very likely the one who planted the bomb in Tanaka Megumi's car.
With the car information provided by Conan, the police immediately dispatched officers to search for the person.
Kogoro Mouri was lamenting outside the hospital room about how tragically Hiromi had died when suddenly a man ran in from outside.
"Megumi! Megumi!" The man cried out, grabbing Inspector Megure's arm with a sorrowful voice, though his face showed little grief. "Officer, my wife Megumi, she...she..."
Inspector Megure patted the man's arm: "You must be Kazuo Sakihara, Megumi Sakihara's husband, right? Don't worry, your wife is fine."
Kazuo Sakihara exclaimed in surprise, "What? Megumi is alright?"
In an instant, everyone's eyes fell on Kazuo Sakihara.
Kazuo Sakihara quickly tried to salvage the situation: "But, but I heard from the police that Megumi is involved in the car bombing case..."
"Yes," Inspector Megure sighed. "Unfortunately, your wife's younger sister, Ms. Hiromi Tanaka, died in the car explosion."
"What?" Kazuo Sakihara's face was filled with grief and disbelief. "How could this be? Hiromi... my sister-in-law, how could she..."
"Because your wife's car was planted with a bomb, and the bomb exploded when Ms. Kuanmei was helping your wife back up the car."
Inspector Megure took out the suspect sketch drawn by the police and said to Kazuo Sakihara, "Mr. Sakihara, I don't know if you remember this person, but he is very likely the one who planted the bomb."
Upon seeing the man's portrait, Kazuo Sakihara's face immediately turned very ugly.
Besides grief, there was also regret and an indescribable complexity...
No, I've never seen him.
As Sakihara Kazuo vehemently denied it, Kudo Kazuma's eyes lit up.
He figured out what was going on and remembered the plot!
This round is less about choosing one of Tanaka Megumi, Sakihara Kazuo, and the driver, and more about choosing three out of three!
Kazuo Sakihara had an affair with his wife's younger sister, so he wanted to kill his wife, take her inheritance and insurance money, and live with his sister-in-law.
Then he and the driver opted for a wife-swapping... well, a wife-swapping murder. The driver killed his wife, Sakihara Megumi (also known as Tanaka Megumi), by planting a bomb in her car.
Unfortunately, Tanaka Megumi discovered this, so she decided to turn the tables and drove back to her parents' house. After a bomb was planted in the car, she had her sister help her back up, successfully turning the tables on her sister.
So here's the question: among Kazuo Sakihara, the driver, and Megumi Tanaka, who is the real murderer of Hiromi Tanaka?
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