Ke Xue: I picked up a bottle of sherry at the beginning.

After a sharp sound of metal friction, the anti-theft lock was cut open.

Continuing to walk inside, Bai Quanyi saw the room key and the messy clothes that Jiang Yuan Shinan had taken off casually on the ground.

However, there is no investigation point for this pile of things.

However, Kogoro Mouri lived up to everyone's expectations. He looked at the pile of clothes and room keys on the ground and forced himself to summarize the "investigation instructions".

"These clothes were worn by Mr. Jiang Yuan today."

"The room key was also left here. It seems Mr. Jiang Yuan must have been very drunk at the time."

Then, Kogoro Mouri walked leisurely to the balcony, leaned his back against the railing, and found a white glove stuck under the railing.

Based on this, Kogoro Mori made some "very clever" level of reasoning.

"It's obvious that Mr. Jiang Yuan is the organizer of this tour group, the Dark Night Baron."

"I think he dressed like this so he could jump off the balcony and scare the contestants living downstairs."

"I didn't expect the fake play to become real. I accidentally lost my grip on the railing and fell down."

"Look, the glove stuck on the railing is evidence that he once struggled by grabbing the railing."

"So this was just an accident."

Kogoro Mouri was talking nonsense seriously, but before the annoying kid who usually stayed in his house could refute his reasoning, Officer Yokomizo refuted it with a righteous look on his face.

"Actually, Mr. Qin's reasoning is exactly the opposite of yours, Mr. Maori..."

"Mr. Qin believes that Jiang Yuan Shinan's tie and belt are worn backwards. This suggests that he was knocked unconscious, forced to wear the Duke of Darkness's clothes, and then thrown from the building."

"Is that so? Mr. Qin?"

As he spoke, Officer Yokomizo turned his head to look at Shiraizumi Yi behind him, only to find that Shiraizumi Yi was actually standing outside the balcony, looking as if he didn't want to get close to the balcony.

"Mr. Qin..." Officer Yokomizo frowned and guessed, "Are you afraid of heights?"

Fear of heights...fire...

When the keyword "acrophobia" appeared in Kogoro Mouri's mind, his perspective shifted to the downstairs floor, overlooking the miniature bird's-eye view of the open-air restaurant downstairs and the "little ants" crawling on it.

This is... the 21st floor...

"Mom!"

“Why is it so high?”

Kogoro Mouri's subconscious fear of heights was triggered by Officer Yokomizo's unconscious reminder, and his legs immediately collapsed to the floor of the balcony. He was finally pulled back from the balcony with the help of Officer Yokomizo.

When Officer Yokomizo and the two famous detectives Qin Mao and their team arrived at the temporary interrogation room set up by the police in a hotel room, almost all members of the Izu Detective Team were present.

Kogoro Mouri looked around but didn't see Conan.

"Where's the kid? Can't find him in the hotel building?"

In response to Maori Kogoro's question, a young police officer stepped forward and replied, "It seems that the kid wearing glasses ran to the murder scene at the open-air restaurant."

Gin and Vodka Duo

Open-air restaurant, next to the knight statue.

A small blue creature was turning over and over a corpse that was not suitable for children on the ground, while the police officers on guard behind it turned a blind eye to it.

Or maybe this short creature was so short that it made it difficult for these police officers of normal height to see clearly.

Time goes back ten minutes to the top floor lounge of the hotel.

Conan suddenly received a summons from the police, saying that Ehara Tokio was dead.

So Conan didn't say a word, and with his persistence in the case, his super agility and the advantage of his short stature, he went behind the cordon to perform an autopsy.

At this moment, relying on his brain that is smarter than ordinary people, Conan has analyzed several suspicious points from Ehara Tokio's body.

The first suspicious point is that there was only one white glove on Jiang Yuan Shinan's body.

The second suspicious point is that Jiang Yuanshinan's belt and tie were tied backwards.

Judging from these two suspicious points, Jiang Yuan Shinan must have been dressed in this clothes and then pushed down from a tall building.

But who pushed it down?

Conan pointed at the corpse on the ground and said, "How strange! It seems that this uncle's tie and belt are tied backwards..."

In order to make these passersby policemen who may not be as smart as Uncle Maori understand completely, Conan was about to continue to prompt "Maybe someone helped him put it on", but the passersby policemen looked a little disdainful.

"Little brother, what you said has already been said by a criminal police officer named Qin."

"Ah?"

Just like that, the dumbfounded Conan grinned and moved into the hotel along with the corpse on the ground.

——At the same time, two black figures standing outside the police cordon were silently observing everything happening inside the cordon.

Vodka's eyebrows wrinkled slightly under his sunglasses, and he felt that he looked familiar.

"Brother, that little boy is so weird."

"I'm not interested in little boys."

Then, Gin's chilling gaze was directed at the body of Jiang Yuan Shi'nan who was being slowly carried away by the police, and a wicked and arrogant smile appeared at the corner of his mouth with a cigarette in his mouth.

No matter what, we must get the Night Baron today!

……

In the temporary interrogation room, Officer Yokomizo was asking everyone for proof of alibi, while Kogoro Mori and Masushi Shiraizumi were listening.

The second art gallery director and the fat maid stayed in the room all the time. They were in a master-servant relationship, and their mutual confirmation was not valid.

The bank man was also alone in the room fiddling with his laptop, and no one could testify.

Although the karate man Maeda Satoshi was with Mouri Ran and Conan when the police found them, the three of them actually met by chance after the crime occurred.

In this case, we cannot rule out the suspicion that he went to the top floor lounge immediately after committing the crime to create an alibi.

Finally, there was the karate man’s fiancée, Akiko Sayama, who had been staying in her room watching a movie and had no alibi.

"By the way, I can tell you about the content of the movie I watched."

"It's about a bomb planted in a skyscraper, and then..."

Before Akiko Sayama could finish her words, Officer Yokomizo decisively waved her hand to stop her from revealing the spoilers.

"No, no, this kind of explanation can't be used as an alibi."

As a result, almost all members of the Izu Detective Team had no alibis and needed to be further investigated.

The first room to be searched was the one where Akiko Sayama was the last person to be interrogated.

The hotel's underground warehouse.

In the dimly lit corridor, a policeman with a passerby-like face was sitting on a chair with a melancholy look on his face.

"Why am I so unlucky that I have to watch this kind of thing alone..."

As he spoke, the passerby policeman looked at the body of Jiang Yuan Shinan covered with a white cloth on the ground.

Next to the corpse, the entire set of Dark Night Baron's cosplay costumes were neatly stacked on the ground, as if they were waiting for customers to pick them up in the dry cleaning room.

"I really hope the interrogation will end quickly so someone can come and take over my shift soon!"

Boom, boom, boom——

Just as he finished praying in his heart that someone would come to replace him soon, there was a knock on the door behind him, which made the passerby policeman stand up from his chair happily and turn around to open the door.

Click, whoosh——

The warehouse door opened, but there was no one at the door.

"what?"

The passerby policeman turned his head to the side, and a swift shadow suddenly came from the darkness.

"what!"

In just a moment, the policeman who was passing by was knocked unconscious to the ground before he could see what was happening.

Under the limited lighting conditions, it was Maeda Satoshi who quickened his pace and rushed into the warehouse that had been temporarily converted into a morgue.

With a quick glance, Maeda Satoshi saw the Dark Night Duke cosplay costumes stacked on the ground.

Combined with the wig he just found in his fiancée's suitcase, it was just enough for him to do a complete version of the Duke of Darkness cosplay.

In order to get rid of his fiancée's suspicion, Maeda Satoshi had no choice but to resort to this desperate measure.

Next, as long as she pretends to be the Duke of Darkness and appears in front of the police and her fiancée, the police will not suspect her no matter how suspicious they are.

Maeda Satoshi mustered up the courage to love, picked up the cosplay costume, and just as he was about to put it on, he suddenly felt a chilling murderous aura behind him.

The sense of danger developed from years of karate practice made Maeda Satoshi subconsciously roll forward.

However, it was too late. A pitch-black iron rod was swung down from a height and hit Maeda Satoshi's back of the head mercilessly.

"Bam—"

In this way, the karate master who once dominated the martial arts world was knocked to the ground by a sudden blow, proving that no matter how high your kung fu skills are, you are still afraid of a sudden blow.

However, from another perspective, it is definitely not something that an ordinary person can do to sneak attack a karate master like Maeda Satoshi from behind.

To achieve such a high level of proficiency, one must have successfully attacked a famous detective with a club.

Gin walked up to the unconscious Maeda Satoshi, picked up the Dark Night Duke cosplay costume from Maeda Satoshi's hand and started searching.

After confirming that the cosplay costume and other evidence did not contain what he wanted, Gin picked up the walkie-talkie and said coldly: "I don't have it here."

"Understood, big brother."

Vodka's voice came from the other end of the intercom.

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Those who had finished the interrogation took the elevator to the 19th floor and nothing happened along the way.

In front of room 1901, Akiko Sayama knocked on the door to no avail and had to take out the key and open the door herself.

"A Cong?"

"A Cong?"

"Strange……"

No one responded to Akiko Sayama's call, which gave Officer Yokomizo a headache.

"Really? Didn't I tell everyone who's finished interrogating to stay in their rooms and wait for orders? Why did Mr. Maeda leave without permission?"

Maori Kogoro next to him suddenly had an idea and said, "Could it be that Maeda Satoshi is the murderer?"

"He's taking this time to deal with other evidence!"

As soon as Kogoro finished speaking, a female voice gave him a fright.

"impossible!"

Akiko Sayama resolutely defended her future husband, while Masushi Shiraizumi had already entered the room and started searching.

However, in the simple room layout, from the toilet to the bedroom, Bai Quanyi did not see any particularly eye-catching investigation point light.

Could it be that the murderer is not the young couple living in this room?

Adhering to the principle of confirming one side thoroughly, Shiraizumi Masu went directly to Sayama Akiko and asked, "If it's convenient, could you open the suitcase and handbag and take a look?"

Bai Quanyi's rhetoric was demonstrated once again. In front of the police, it was naturally impossible for anyone to answer that it was inconvenient to display their luggage.

"OK……"

Akiko Sayama first opened Maeda Satoshi's suitcase. All she saw inside were men's clothes and toiletries, nothing unusual.

But when her hand touched the zipper of her suitcase, Akiko Sayama's hand suddenly stopped.

Oops!

The wig he used to pretend to be the Duke of Darkness is still in the suitcase!

At this moment, Akiko Sayama, who had lowered her head, opened her eyes wide and cold sweat kept coming out on her forehead.

Originally, in order to carry out his murder plan, he brought a complete set of Dark Duke cosplay costume, including a wig.

But when it was actually implemented, it was discovered that Jiang Yuan Shinan's hairstyle was exactly the same as the Dark Duke. If he was pretending to be the Dark Duke himself, there was no need to wear a wig.