Chapter 629

"Don't worry, I will definitely give it my all today to solve this case before he gets here and get revenge for you!"

"And, as long as I defeat that guy, you, being his defeated opponent, will definitely bow and admit defeat to me, right? Hehehe."

Hattori Heiji laughed triumphantly as he spoke. Conan's eyelids twitched violently, and he had a face full of black lines.

Hehe your big head!

I have been bullied quite badly by Akaso Kaze, but haven't you also never won against him?

Also, who told you that I would bow and admit defeat?

Conan glared at Hattori Heiji and then said seriously: "Hey, Hattori, how about we have a competition to see who finds the truth first?"

"Oh? Are you planning to have a contest?"

Hattori Heiji was stunned for a moment, reached out to turn the brim of his hat to the front, and smiled: "Then as you wish!"

He turned to Shimoda Chika and asked: "This lady, I am a high school detective. Can you tell me the specific situation?"

Hearing that they were detectives, Shimoda Chika wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and explained the situation.

Conan, meanwhile, listened while silently examining the corpse.

He put on gloves and checked the call logs and emails of the mobile phone that had fallen first.

Huh, two people had been in contact with the deceased just a minute ago.

Hattori Heiji finished listening to the sequence of events and asked: "Ms. Shimoda, after you drove Kawakami and Nakamachi, who were drinking together, back, why were you standing outside the building taking pictures?"

"That's because I wanted to show off the apartment my boyfriend lives in to my friends."

Shimoda Chika explained with a sob.

"I see," Hattori Heiji said noncommittally.

"Anyway, contact Kawakami and Nakamachi now and have them return here as soon as possible. This is definitely not an ordinary suicide case. Also, you don't mind if we go into Mr. Takai's room to take a look now, do you?"

"O-of course."

Shimoda Chika did not refuse at all.

A dozen minutes later, inside Takai's room.

Conan and Hattori Heiji, wearing white gloves, searched around the room and finally gathered in Takai's bedroom, both pinching their chins to ponder the case.

Conan asked: "Hattori, Takai must have fallen from this room, right?"

"Yeah!" Hattori Heiji nodded. "Besides the balcony next to it, only the window here is open, and the position roughly matches; it should be here..."

Conan nodded, pacing along the wall and looking at the floor.

"We checked carefully when we entered just now; Takai's door was indeed locked from the outside, and there are no signs of the lock being pried open, so we can rule out the possibility of an intruder."

"As for inside the room, we checked one by one; we can be certain that at the time of the incident, there was absolutely no one else in the room besides the deceased."

Conan walked slowly to the window from which Takai fell, looked up, and his expression was grave: "If I hadn't seen the curtains, I would have also concluded that Mr. Takai committed suicide."

"Exactly!" Hattori Heiji stood beside Conan, looking up at the curtains.

"The curtains in this room were clearly pulled hard by someone; even the bearings are deformed. Assuming Mr. Takai really wanted to commit suicide, why would he grab the curtains?"

"And that mark on the window."

Conan pointed to the window. "That should have been hit hard by something, right?"

"Finally, there's the position of the bed."

Hattori Heiji turned his head to look at the bed placed next to the window and reached out to pinch his chin again.

"If you look closely at the floor, you'll find that the position of the bed was clearly moved, and not long ago! My intuition tells me this matter is definitely related to Mr. Takai's death."

"So, Mr. Takai's death is definitely not suicide, but murder!"

Conan and Hattori Heiji reached their conclusion and exchanged glances, but they couldn't feel happy at all.

Honestly, they only deduced that Takai was murdered and not a suicide after examining the scene.

And that guy Akaso Kaze just took a phone call, listened to Jodie-sensei for a few seconds, and directly concluded it was murder.

How on earth did that guy do it?

This is just too un-Conan-science. ===== CHAPTER 631 =====