Chapter 318

"The motive for the crime is hard to say for now. Perhaps after Conan and the others pass the game, we will be able to get the answer.

But as for evidence, we have already found it. Chairman Sindora, the short sword you used to kill Mr. Kashimura should be the short sword on the sculpture at the venue, right?"

"Because a large number of socialites gathered here today, everyone would pass through a metal detector before entering the venue, which ruled out the possibility of the murderer bringing the murder weapon into the venue.

In other words, the murder weapon used by the murderer was in the venue from the beginning... That's right, the murder weapon I mentioned is the short sword on the sculpture."

"But there are so many guests at the venue. If someone takes the short sword, it should be easy to be noticed, right?"

Inspector Megure naturally also discovered the statue Yusaku Kudo mentioned when patrolling the venue before, but as he said, the statue was in a very conspicuous position at the venue. If someone climbed up to take the short sword, it shouldn't have gone unnoticed.

"That's because the murderer was well prepared and pulled it down when the venue lights went out. After all, when the venue lights went out, everyone's attention was basically focused on "Cocoon," the protagonist of the presentation.

And in order not to be discovered, the murderer also specially made a fake short sword out of aluminum foil to replace it, and after committing the crime, he put the original short sword back. As for the aluminum foil short sword, wanting to destroy it is relatively simple.

Of course, the most favorable proof is that I later asked someone to conduct an investigation on the light sensitivity reaction and fingerprints on the short sword on the sculpture.

Found the blood reaction of the same blood type as Kashimura on the short sword, and the fingerprints belonging to Chairman Sindora on the hilt."

Hearing Yusaku Kudo's reasoning, Inspector Megure and Shiratori and the others all turned their heads in surprise to look at Sindora behind them.

However, who knew that facing this situation where the evidence was almost ironclad, Sindora still said calmly: "Just because of this point, you conclude that I am the murderer who killed Kashimura?

Don't forget, that sculpture was originally moved here by my family. Because I like that short sword very much, I often play with it, so it's not strange that my fingerprints are on it, right?"

However, regarding Sindora's set of rhetoric, Yusaku Kudo seemed to have expected it, and took out a videotape from his bosom.

"There are surveillance cameras installed all around this venue, and the videotape in my hand is exactly the footage captured by the surveillance cameras before the case occurred.

The boy Shengzai also approached that statue before the case occurred and took down the short sword on the sculpture to play with, and was ultimately scolded by his sister before putting the short sword back in its place."

And hearing this, Inspector Megure on the side also revealed a look of sudden realization: "So that's it. That is to say, if the short sword on the sculpture now is still the original one, then besides Chairman Sindora's fingerprints, there should also be the fingerprints of the boy Shengzai.

And now, since there are only Chairman Sindora's fingerprints, that explains..."

Inspector Megure hadn't finished his sentence when Sindora stubbornly said: "That's because after the boy Shengzai touched the short sword, I went to touch that short sword again, so his fingerprints were covered by me."

Although everyone present knew that Sindora's explanation was very far-fetched, because of the other party's status and position, if they couldn't produce ironclad evidence, they really couldn't do anything about the other party.

However, not long after Sindora argued, Officer Chiba walked in with an evidence bag excitedly and said: "Inspector Megure, just now Mrs. Suzuki found us and handed over a short sword made of aluminum foil that was half-burned.

According to Mrs. Suzuki, her child Suzuki Shengzai happened to see someone sneakily burning something in the underground garbage dump when he went to the bathroom.

And because he felt that the other party was very suspicious, Shengzai hurriedly extinguished the fire after that person left in a hurry, so this short sword made of aluminum foil was only burned a small part.

And according to the appearance comparison, we found that this aluminum foil short sword is consistent with the short sword on the sculpture at the venue, and there are also the fingerprints of the boy Shengzai and Chairman Sindora on it."

Hearing Officer Chiba's words, Inspector Megure and the others all turned to look at Sindora: "On this fake short sword, besides the boy Shengzai's fingerprints, the other person can only be the murderer.

Regarding this point, do you have anything else to explain, Chairman Sindora?"

Looking at Shengzai touching the short sword in the recording tape on the screen, and then hearing from Officer Chiba that the evidence he didn't completely destroy was also discovered by this brat named Shengzai, Sindora couldn't help but curse inside.

He, Thomas Sindora, actually fell twice on a brat.

If he didn't know it was impossible, Sindora would even suspect whether that brat named Suzuki Shengzai had the ability to predict the future.

Shengzai: (￣￣), yes, you didn't guess wrong. Excluding all possibilities, the last impossible one is the answer.

Actually, Sindora didn't know that Shengzai originally didn't want to show off so much, but there was really no other way.

After he acted cool and blew up Moroboshi Hideki's soccer ball before, he realized afterward that it was important evidence proving Sindora killed Kashimura.

In the original plot, the one who left fingerprints on the sculpture's short sword should have been Moroboshi Hideki, because he kicked the soccer ball at the venue, so he accidentally knocked the short sword down and then picked it up.

But this time, the soccer ball of those rich kids like Moroboshi Hideki was blown up by himself. If they didn't kick down the sculpture's short sword, then how could they leave fingerprints to prove Sindora was the murderer?

So ultimately, forced by helplessness, Shengzai could only replace the other party and became the boy who left fingerprints.

This led to the scene in the videotape where Shengzai reached out to take the short sword because he was interested and was scolded by Sonoko.

As for picking up the aluminum foil short sword that Sindora destroyed evidence of, that was really an accident.

Because the plot changed slightly, Shengzai was also worried that his showing off would lead to a mess, so during the period, he also took advantage of a "bathroom break" to plan to master Sindora's criminal evidence in his hands first.

Who knew that unlike the original plot, Sindora, who originally only threw the aluminum foil short sword into the underground garbage dump, this time actually planned to burn the evidence completely with a fire.

But fortunately, after the other party lit the short sword, in order to avoid leaving the venue for too long and causing suspicion from others, he left in a hurry.

And Shengzai, after the other party left, walked out from the side, extinguished the fire on the short sword, and handed this evidence to Tomoko Suzuki, letting her hand it over to the investigating police at the appropriate time.

(End of chapter)