Chapter 756: I want to preserve my innocence

The elevator rose to the top floor and began to descend.

It really did pause on the sixth and second floors respectively.

Sera Masumi looked at Akaso Kaze in surprise again and took a deep breath.

When the elevator door opened, she immediately ran inside.

She looked at Akaso Kaze, who was standing outside with a calm expression, and a feeling that he was unfathomable arose in her heart.

She pressed the button for the top floor.

A few dozen seconds later, Sera Masumi stood on the rooftop platform, her mouth agape in surprise, unable to close it.

On the wall not far away, the coat pressed down by the shoes was fluttering in the wind.

"This is... really just as he said!"

The middle-aged woman was wiping her tears and saying, "It's all my fault. I was the one who kept questioning him, that's why he committed suicide..."

"No, that's not right," Sera Masumi interrupted her from behind. "This is murder, absolutely murder!"

The middle-aged man standing nearby asked, puzzled, "Why isn't it suicide? The shoes are placed here so neatly."

Sera Masumi's eyes were bright. "I've seen several suicide-by-jumping scenes; there's no way they wouldn't be wearing shoes."

"Placing shoes neatly on the roof to make you think of suicide—that kind of thing is a plot made up in movies and TV shows."

Sera Masumi walked to the edge of the rooftop and looked down at the scene of the corpse in the parking lot, continuing:

"That man seemed to have drunk quite a bit of alcohol. Isn't it strange that he would take off his coat, fold it, and then neatly place his shoes in that situation?"

"Most importantly, this is directly above the deceased's body. There's no way he could have jumped without messing things up. It's absolutely impossible."

"So, it's highly likely that the culprit specifically staged the scene to look like a suicide by jumping, right, Conan-kun?"

Sera Masumi put her hands in her pockets and looked back at Conan with a smile.

"Ah, yeah."

Conan nodded blankly.

He didn't know if it was his imagination, but he felt that most of this girl's attention was focused on him.

Could she be a shotacon?

Looking at her like this, it was very possible.

Conan silently buttoned his collar.

The police arrived at the scene very quickly and immediately began their investigation. The team was still led by Inspector Megure.

"The victim is Kamizumi Sadao, the son of the owner of this Haido Hotel. He was the only one staying in the annex."

Downstairs at the hotel, Takagi introduced the victim's situation.

"It seems he was trying to avoid the media because he had been arrested as the mastermind of a bank remittance fraud. He was released due to insufficient evidence, and now the gossip magazines are all circling him."

"He was caught by the media last week, which caused quite a stir. Mr. Sadao lashed out at the media and even used a fire extinguisher to smash the windows in the 6th-floor hallway, and he blocked the elevator camera with paint."

"As a result, fewer and fewer guests were willing to stay in the annex, and the hotel felt they couldn't let him stay like this anymore. It's said they planned to have him move abroad while the annex was being renovated."

"That's right," the middle-aged men and women followed up. "We victims heard this news, which is why we came here to see him."

"Before he fled abroad, we thought he should at least apologize to us or something."

Sera Masumi listened for a while, then saw the electric wheelchair found on the second floor, and she already had a rough conclusion in her heart.

Now the only thing missing was evidence.

However, Akaso Kaze's faint smile from just now kept lingering in her mind, as if everything was under his control.

That kind of powerful aura left a deep impression on her.

The main reason Sera Masumi returned to Japan from London with her mother this time was because of Conan.

They had seen Conan, who looked exactly like Kudo Shinichi when he was a child, on TV, which is why they came back to find the truth.

As for Akaso Kaze, the Onmyoji, she had never heard of him before.

Was there such a capable person in Tokyo?

Conan had also deduced it by now, and he revealed a triumphant smile.

Looking around, there didn't seem to be anyone he could knock out, so it looked like he would have to solve the case in the name of the Onmyoji.

He pretended to be naive and said, "Inspector Megure, I just heard from Brother Akaso that this case is like this..."

"What? The Onmyoji-sama is here? Then what's the point of deducing?"

Hearing Conan's words, Inspector Megure's eyes suddenly lit up. He scanned the area, saw Akaso Kaze inside the hotel, and walked over with large strides.

Only Conan was left looking bewildered.

Conan froze for a moment, then raised his small hand and slapped himself.

I'm an idiot, why did I mention Akaso Kaze?

Now it's done; the fun of solving the case is gone again.

Pfft.

Sera Masumi, who was staring at him from the side, couldn't help but laugh.

Conan hurriedly gave her a wary look and rushed off after Inspector Megure's backside.

Damn it, I have to preserve my innocence.

Sera Masumi didn't understand why, but she also followed toward the hotel lobby. ===== CHAPTER 758 =====