Chapter 1044: The suddenly appearing corpse

Togo Hoshikawa led the way, and the group went upstairs.

"The corridor is a bit narrow. That door on the left is the teacher's room."

The corridor was dimly lit, and only a vase in front of the window at the end could be seen through the faint moonlight.

Kaze Akaso frowned.

This genius magician performed grandly and calmly on stage, but now he seemed like a different person; something must have happened during the time they were preparing dinner.

After all, not everyone is a natural criminal; for ordinary people, crime still carries immense pressure.

Even for famous people, they are not much better than ordinary people when facing an incident.

And preparing dinner only took a little over half an hour.

"Mr. Togo," Kaze Akaso asked again, "Miss Tenko told me about the notebook."

"Notebook?" Togo Hoshikawa swallowed, his handsome face covered in sweat, "You mean the 'Masakage Notebook' of the teacher, right?"

"The Masakage Notebook is..."

"Strange, is the fluorescent light in the corridor broken?"

Togo Hoshikawa pressed the fluorescent light switch several times, but the light in the corridor didn't show any reaction.

Instead, with a sudden 'pop', the whole house lost power, the only light dimmed, and the corridor was completely plunged into darkness.

"Did the power go out?"

"It seems like a circuit breaker tripped."

"Where is the circuit breaker?"

"It seems to be over by the kitchen."

Ran Mouri and Kazuha were both scared and hugged Kaze Akaso's arms, with different sensations on each side.

Unable to see things in the dimness, Kogoro Mouri hurriedly went out along the corridor, turned on a flashlight, and went downstairs to feel his way toward the kitchen.

Vaguely, Kaze Akaso heard a soft door-closing sound.

He looked at Togo Hoshikawa in the darkness ahead.

"Found the circuit breaker!"

Kogoro Mouri's shout came from downstairs.

With a 'pop', the light bulb outside the corridor lit up again.

At the end, like a slide projector, Tenko Himegamiya's figure suddenly appeared under the light.

She lay in front of the cabinet at the end, eyes wide open and head covered in blood.

"Ten... Tenko?" Togo Hoshikawa stepped back, trembling, "What on earth is this..."

"The body is already cold," Conan stepped forward to check, "It looks like... she has been dead for more than half an hour."

Conan's fingers moved away from Tenko Himegamiya's neck.

It was about the time after he and Uncle Mouri had met Tenko Himegamiya.

The fatal wound was on the head.

Conan stood up beside the corpse and looked back at the entire corridor and the door to Master Masakage's room right by the light bulb switch.

From inside the room came the sound of Togo Hoshikawa calling the police and an ambulance.

Walking into the room, it hadn't changed much from when he had come over before, only the window on the side was open, and the curtains were swaying in the wind.

Kogoro Mouri rushed back to the corridor and soon discovered the situation here, "What on earth is going on? There was clearly nothing here before."

"The corpse suddenly appeared after the power came back on." ===== CHAPTER 1046 =====