Chapter 1020

"Actually, I should have thought of it when I met Mr. Hiroto during the day."

Akaso Kaze looked at Akashi Hiroto, who was sitting upright, "Mr. Hiroto, you didn't go to the tennis court entirely because you missed your late wife, but because you planned to invite people to your home as guests from the very beginning, right?"

"I wanted to invite students..."

"To be precise, it was to invite someone to help you create an alibi."

Akaso Kaze affirmed: "The student you were supposed to find wasn't at the tennis court because of the rain, so you wanted to find me. After being rejected by me, you unexpectedly waited for Conan to fall into the water. The evidence is the extra-large portion of curry rice. There are only two people in the house, how could you prepare enough rice for seven or eight people in advance?"

"I usually make a larger portion of curry," Akashi Hiroto smiled with a stiff expression.

"Because I often treat students I'm close with to meals, it's just that today, unfortunately, it rained and no one came to the tennis court."

"Is that so?" Akaso Kaze stared at Akashi Hiroto and said, "I just happen to want to ask you, you said Mr. Ganfu saw a dentist a few days ago, right?"

"Yes, that's right."

"You can't eat irritating food after pulling a tooth. As a former athletic health coach, how could you prepare spicy curry for your father???"

"That's true, but I didn't know my dad had pulled a tooth,"

Akashi Hiroto sweated and said, "And spicy curry was requested by my dad himself. Are you suspecting that I killed my dad? How could I..."

"The police just found a tooth in that leftover curry."

Akaso Kaze continued to stare directly at Akashi Hiroto, "And we also checked Mr. Ganfu's mouth. If it had been pulled a few days ago, the wound at the root of the tooth would have shrunk to a certain extent, and the blood at the wound should have coagulated as well."

"But the actual situation is not like that. Even the teeth next to it are loose and uneven. In other words, Mr. Ganfu's tooth fell out after eating the curry. To be precise, he used all his strength to bite the rope, which eventually caused the tooth to fall out."

"Rope?" Yamamura Misao was stunned.

"That's right, Mr. Ganfu was actually hanging from the crossbeam by biting the rope with his mouth. It wasn't until he ran out of strength and couldn't bite the rope anymore that he was officially strangled and hanged, and the tooth fell out into the curry at that time."

Akaso Kaze nodded and said, "What Ran heard wasn't his crying, but his cry for help, but because he was biting the rope, he couldn't call out."

Ran's face turned slightly pale: "How could this happen?"

"But," Yamamura took out his notebook and said, "there are no rope marks left in Mr. Ganfu's mouth!"

"That's because of the handkerchief. The murderer wrapped the rope with a handkerchief before letting Mr. Ganfu bite it."

"Hmph," Uncle Mouri's eyebrows bunched together, "In that case, why didn't he use both hands to grab the rope and free his mouth to call for help? And when Ran went the second time, the light was turned off. No one had been to the bedroom during that time."

"Don't Mr. Ganfu's wrists have fine binding marks? If those aren't rubber bands, but the light pull cord?"

Akaso Kaze walked to the chandelier in the living room.

"Use the chandelier pull cord to tie Mr. Ganfu's wrists, tie a slipknot, and then connect this pull cord to the chandelier in the second-floor bedroom. In this way, when Mr. Ganfu runs out of strength and his body falls, the pull cord will turn off the chandelier at the same time, and the slipknot will also be pulled open."

"?? If you want evidence, I have it," Akaso Kaze held up the "Introduction to Fishing" in his hand.

"I've already looked at it. The knots on the light pull cords in almost every room in this house are fishing knots. Mr. Hiroto's wife must have bought this book to learn this knotting method, because using ordinary methods to tie the pull cords makes them easy to fall off."

"However, the knot in one bedroom is not a fishing knot, but a simple overhand knot. Yes, that's Mr. Ganfu's bedroom where the light cord is a section shorter."

Akaso Kaze looked at the silent Akashi Hiroto: "I'm afraid it's because you couldn't untie the fishing knot, so you cut it with scissors. After all, if you didn't cut it, you couldn't use it to tie Mr. Ganfu's hands. As for tying it back at the end with an overhand knot, it's because the person who tied it didn't know how to tie a fishing knot, right?"

Uncle Mouri's body stiffened, his eyes widened as he stared tightly at the silent Akashi Hiroto: "Is that really the case, Mr. Hiroto? That's why you asked Ran to collect the cutlery and specifically told her to come back if the light was on?!"

Akaso Kaze placed the "Introduction to Fishing" in front of Akashi Hiroto: "If we hadn't happened to come by, what were you planning to do?"