Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 3 Kudo Shinichi: Did he discover the truth before me?

Mysterious mythological knowledge?

There is no relevant content in Qin Zhibo's cognition, so he can only turn his attention back to the book in his hand.

But before opening the book with both hands, the relevant information of this book has already appeared in the brain.

[Corpse Canon: Written by François Honor Balfour, Count Derette, a French aristocrat in the 16th century.

The book catalogs the cults that were addicted to head-down techniques, cannibalism, and necrophilia in France at that time, and describes the behavior and teachings of these cults in detail.

This book is an abridged version in French, and the content is normalized]

[Loss of willpower from reading this book 2~8, proficiency in knowledge and skills of mysterious myths + reading loss of willpower × 100]

[Language barrier, unable to read]

Qin Zhibo, who can't speak French, could only put the book back on the shelf, and walked towards the next spot of light that could be investigated in his vision.

On Kudo Shinichi's side, the wise little eyes watched Sowa Tsuntoku in the wheelchair show off his acting skills with great interest.

Among all the cases that Kudo Shinichi has solved, Kudo Shinichi has to admit that the acting skills of Sowa Tuntoku are the most mature.

There are many murderers who not only do not flee the scene after committing crimes, but also boldly stay near the scene, waiting for the police to come and question themselves.

Once the exoneration statements of these murderers are adopted by the police, the expression management on their faces will unconsciously lose control.

Kudo Shinichi used the poor expression management of these murderers as a basis several times, locked the murderer in advance, and then performed retrospective reasoning.

But Sowa Tsuntoku's acting skills just now were quite realistic, and the shocked expression after seeing the corpse even the international big movie star can only bow down.

If he hadn't realized that Sowa Zuntoku had recovered from hiding his leg disease, it would have been really difficult to find this old fox this time.

Kudo Shinichi secretly identified the murderer in his heart, and the next step is to find out the murder method, murder motive and the most important evidence.

The first is the method of killing.

This reception room should be the first scene, and the key to the room is on the body of the deceased Yamazaki Tetsu.

That is to say, the door of the room was locked from the inside by the deceased at that time, and the purpose should be to have a secret meeting with the murderer who invited him so that no one else would see him.

Chamber murder.
It's a bit tricky, but Shinichi has asked the police under Megure to go downstairs to inquire, and I believe the result will be obtained in a while.

The second is the motive for the murder.

One is the president of an investment company affiliated to the Suzuki Foundation, and the other is the general manager of Aling Bank.

From a professional point of view, the two are likely to have some money exchanges, which will lead to disputes.

What Kudo Shinichi just couldn't understand was how much resentment the two had to make Sowa Tuntoku commit the crime of murder and cut off the cheek meat from Yamazaki Tetsu's face.

Finally, there is evidence. There are three pieces of evidence that can be relied upon.

The first one is to ask the attending physician of Sowa Sontoku whether it is good to hide the leg disease for him.

If the attending physician admitted it, then as long as Sowa Zonto's psychological defense was not strong, it was very likely that he would directly reveal his flaws and then plead guilty.

Of course, this evidence is only when Sowa Zonto's psychological defense is not strong.

With this level of evidence, as long as Sowa Zuntoku killed the person who did not kill himself, and hired a shrewd and capable lawyer, he could be exonerated.

And just now Kudo Shinichi has seen Sowa Tuntoku's real acting skills with his own eyes, presumably this old fox's psychological defense will not be too easy to break through.

Therefore, this piece of evidence Kudo Shinichi is not intended to be used as evidence for the final conviction.

The real smoking guns are the other two.

Although the knife used as the murder weapon was left at the scene, in order to prevent the blood from splashing on himself during the murder, Sowa Zuntoku should have a bloody coat that he wore when committing the crime.

In addition, there is also the cheek meat that was cut off from the face of the deceased. Since he was not at the scene, it must have been taken away by Sowa Zuntoku and hidden.

This is also what makes Kudo Shinbai the most puzzling, why does Sowa Zontoku have to cut off the cheek meat of the deceased?

Does this behavior have any special meaning?
Just as Kudo Shinichi was thinking secretly, Qin Zhibo passed by Kudo Shinichi.

This made Kudo Shinichi, who was in a state of contemplation, raise his head, and looked in the direction Qin Zhibo was about to go.

What is this man doing on the balcony?
Kudo Shinichi turned his head to look in the direction Qin Zhibo came from, remembering that he had caught a glimpse of Qin Zhibo standing in front of the bookshelf with a book in his hand just now.

Did he discover something?

Driven by curiosity, Kudo Shinichi walked to the bookshelf where Qin Zhibo was standing just now, and scanned the books on the bookshelf.

On the bookshelf, a slightly protruding book attracted Kudo Shinichi's attention.

Kudo Shinichi stretched out his hand and pulled out the book. It was covered with a dark red cover, and it was written in French in bronzing fonts.

"Cultes Des Goules"

Cultes Paganism?

Des some.
Goules What does this mean?
Although Shinto Kudo has some understanding of all international common languages, and English has reached the level of fluent communication with international friends, but French is so-so and can only understand some basic vocabulary.

So, Kudo Shinichi opened the book and read the first few paragraphs.

It seems to be a book about the history of France in the 16th century?
This Sowa Zontoku's taste is really unique
But this book should have nothing to do with the case, and that person probably picked it up out of curiosity about the title and took a look.

With that in mind, Kudo Shinichi put the book back on the shelf.

On Qin Zhibo's side, he followed the spot of light in his vision to the balcony.

There are three light spots that can be seen on the balcony, but these three light spots are not all on the balcony, but start from the balcony, along the edge of the protruding eaves, and extend towards the cabin on the side of the reception room .

Qin Zhibo started his investigation from the balcony where he was.

【Investigation√】

[There are stains on the balcony fence, someone has stepped on it recently, and there are traces of fixed ropes]

The location of the spot of light is on the railing of the balcony leaning towards the next hut. Qin Zhibo took a closer look, and there was indeed an inconspicuous gray stain and long strips of friction marks on it.

The second point of light is located on the edge of the eaves protruding from the window of the next-door cabin.

It was very difficult to jump directly from the balcony. Qin Zhibo had to run out of the room to investigate the other two light spots in the next room.

And when Qin Zhibo ran out of the room, he passed by Kudo Shinichi again.

At this time, Kudo Shinichi had just received the news from the police and was rethinking the method.

Although this case seems to be a murder in a secret room at first glance, when he first entered the scene, Kudo Shinichi carefully studied the door lock and found that the door lock of this room can be locked from the outside as long as there is a key.

In other words, as long as Sowa Sontoku has the room key, he can come and go freely in the room.

After killing the person, the door was locked directly, and there were many guests as a cover. The police would not suspect that a person in a wheelchair was the murderer anyway.

So Kudo Shinichi just sent a policeman down to ask about the room key.

But the answer he got made Kudo Shinichi a little regretful.

There are indeed two keys to this room, but both keys are kept by the butler.

Except for the key to the master bedroom of the mansion, which is kept by Mrs. Sowa, other rooms that are not frequently used are usually locked, and the key is kept by the housekeeper Ryohei Matsumoto himself.

Before the incident, the housekeeper said that Yamazaki Tetsu had asked himself the key to this reception room on the grounds that he was a little drunk and wanted to find a quiet place to take a break.

Half an hour later, the butler handed over another spare key to the maid to clean the room.

The maid who went to clean the room opened the door and found Yamazaki Tetsu's body.

During the whole process, Sowa Zuntoku had no chance of touching any of the two keys.

So if Sowa Zuntoku stole a key, or used other modus operandi.

At this moment, Kudo Shinichi happened to see Qin Zhibo coming out of the balcony, and hurried out of the room, as if there was something urgent.

That kind of look doesn't seem to be the kind of urgency that people have three urgencies.
Did he discover the truth before me?

　Ask for collections, ask for tickets!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)