Conan and Gin are both my brothers, what's wrong with meeting them once?

Chapter 423 The Case of the Twin Brother Killing His Brother

There are differing opinions on why Hitomi Matsuichiro killed Nanri Kaoru.

Kogoro Mouri insists that Kaoru Nanri is lying, and that she definitely knows Matsuichiro Hitomi.

Ran, however, believes that Nanri Kaoru was not lying and that there were other reasons on Hitomi Matsuichiro's side.

Conan was looking through the photos with Kogoro Mouri's camera.

As for Kudo Kazuma...

He was wondering if he could just die along with Takehiko, so he wouldn't have to do it himself.

"Are you there~"

Conan, who was used to playing the role of a child in front of outsiders, spoke quite naturally: "How strange~ Look at this photo."

The three of them went over together.

That's a photo of Matsuichiro Hitomi making a phone call from a public phone booth.

Kazuma Kudo shrugged and didn't say anything.

Kogoro Mouri frowned: "Something's not right..."

Ran also realized what was going on: "I get it! Mr. Hitomi, he has a cell phone, right? Inspector Megure said that the last call he found on his phone was to Mrs. Hitomi Kanako. So why was he using a public phone in a phone booth?"

She thought for a moment longer: "Could it be that the signal is bad?"

“No.” Kogoro Mouri shook his head. “The signal has always been fine. When you called me, did you feel that the signal was bad? What he did is indeed suspicious.”

Kazuma Kudo shrugged: "I think you just don't want to leave a record of your calls."

He recently discovered clues about Kassa because of his phone records.

Just then, Inspector Megure suddenly ran over: "Something's wrong! Quick, look at the TV over there!"

The group looked at the hotel's public television, which was currently broadcasting the news.

"This is the crime scene, a building in Beika. The deceased lived on the third floor of this building. His name was Hitomi Takehiko, and he was 45 years old..."

"Wait a minute!" Kogoro Mouri exclaimed in surprise. "Isn't this Matsuichiro's younger brother?"

Ran couldn't help but glance at Conan and Kazuma Kudo: "They look so alike, they're brothers, and they're both 45 years old, could it be... they're twins?"

At that moment, the television was still broadcasting: "...After investigation, the time of death was confirmed to be around 12:15 PM today..."

Several people were stunned.

Only Kudo Kazuma gasped in shock: "Good heavens, born on the same day, month, and year, and died on the same day, month, and year?"

The time when Hitomi Matsuichiro fell from the building was also around 12:15.

Xiao Lan frowned: "How could it be such a coincidence?"

Conan then turned his attention to Kogoro Mouri, who was clearly deep in thought, seemingly lost in thought.

Under Conan's persistent questioning, Kogoro Mouri explained it to everyone.

It turns out that the person who commissioned him to investigate Hitomi Matsuichiro was his younger brother, Hitomi Takehiko.

In fact, Hitomi Takehiko didn't ask him to investigate anything strange; it was just a normal behavioral investigation.

“Takehiko Hitomi told me that his brother, Matsuichiro, took advantage of the fact that they are twins and look exactly alike to impersonate Takehiko Hitomi multiple times, swindling people under the guise of doing business. He wanted me to help investigate to see if his brother was still doing such things.”

Upon hearing this, Kudo Kazuma's gaze fell upon Conan: "Tsk tsk tsk, taking advantage of being twins who look alike, he impersonates his own younger brother to swindle people outside, tsk tsk tsk tsk..."

Conan's eyes narrowed, and he chuckled softly, lowering his voice to say, "You don't really have the right to say that, do you?"

It's as if he never impersonated him.

And Kidd too!

That guy, Kaito Kuroba, is taking advantage of the fact that he can't show his face right now to openly impersonate him...

That's outrageous! Those two younger brothers deserve to be kicked!

Seeing that Inspector Megure's attention was on Conan and Kazuma Kudo, Kogoro Mouri coughed loudly and said, "I only followed him for a day and didn't find any concrete evidence, but Ichiro Hitomi does have a lot of debts. I even saw him being chased by debt collectors this morning."

Upon hearing this, Conan flipped through the photos taken by Kogoro Mouri again and whispered to Kazuma Kudo, "Look at his expression, he doesn't seem too panicked. And since he dared to invite someone to the Beika Hotel, doesn't that mean he's already thought of a way to pay back the money?"

Kudo Kazuma raised an eyebrow: "It's simple if you want to pay back the money. Just have his brother lend it to you first."

“That’s obviously impossible,” Kogoro Mori explained. “I think the two brothers have a pretty bad relationship, unlike you guys.”

"It seems that because their father designated Hitomi Takehiko as the successor to the company before he died, Hitomi Matsuichiro had a big fight with his younger brother, and then his brother didn't leave him a single penny..."

The two brothers exchanged a glance and began to think simultaneously—what method would Hitomi Matsuichiro use to repay the money?

Just as I was pondering this, I suddenly heard Xiaolan say, "Could it be telepathy?"

The group all looked at her, and she continued, "It's not impossible that these twin brothers died at the same time, but I always feel there are other reasons. Just like Kazuma and... Conan, there are many things that happened between them that resonated with each other."

Upon hearing this, Kazuma Kudo and Conan spoke in unison: "I've never heard of people who are connected by mind having to die together..."

“Exactly,” Kudo Kazuma added, “Besides, we’ve seen a case where a twin brother killed his older brother before, and they didn’t die together.”

As he said this, Conan's eyes suddenly lit up: "Wait! Could this be a case of the twin brother killing the younger brother?"

Kazuma Kudo: "?"

He raised his hand and rubbed his older brother's head hard for a long time before gritting his teeth and saying, "You better explain yourself clearly, how did the twin brother kill the younger brother?"

Conan shrank back and hid in Ran's arms to escape his younger brother's mischievous hands before finally speaking, "Why not?"

"In the case you mentioned last time, I remember it was because the older brother kept pestering the younger brother for money, so the younger brother couldn't take it anymore and killed the older brother, right? So this time, couldn't it be that the older brother wanted to borrow money from the younger brother to pay off his debts, but the younger brother refused to give him a single penny, so the older brother killed him?"

As he spoke, he raised his hand to support his chin: "However... Mr. Hitomi Matsuichiro died almost at the same time as Mr. Hitomi Takehiko, how is that possible?"

Kudo Kazuma smirked: "I've thought of a possibility, one that we've handled before—a murder swap."

In an instant, the eyes of everyone present lit up considerably.

It's definitely possible!