Next, Mori Kogoro

Chapter 44 [044] Husband and wife agree to cut money

"Sister, let me go with you."

Xia Jiang took the initiative to speak.

Hatakemoto Qiujiang glanced at his sister, hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded: "Okay..."

"I'll go too."

Mariko Hatakemoto said from the side.

"Sister Xiaolan, I want to go to the toilet too, let's go together."

Conan started acting cute.

"Okay, it's safer for everyone to be together."

Xiao Lan stood up and waved her fist: "If there is an enemy, I will let him try my karate."

"Miss, what are you talking about?"

Mariko Hatakemoto looked a little nervous: "You know karate? Are you very good?"

"Oh, just learn it casually, you can only scratch the surface."

Hearing Xiaolan's words, the corners of Conan's mouth couldn't help twitching a few times.

The woman who smashed the telephone pole with one punch and split the desk with one palm can only scratch the surface?

It's a pity that Mariko Hatakemoto and Akie Hatakemoto didn't know all this, so they walked to the bathroom together.

As a result, only Kogoro, Suzuki Butler, and Hatakemoto Ichiro were left in the restaurant.

"What's going on? The real culprit didn't go to the toilet, but the others moved instead."

Kogoro looked at Ichiro Banner from the corner of his eye: "Since just now, his eyes have been dull, his expression has been dull, and he is indifferent to the departure of others. What does he want to do?"

At this moment, with a "snap", the lights in the room were turned off, and the whole ship was plunged into darkness.

"what happened?"

Kogoro's voice sounded in the darkness: "Butler Suzuki, you and Ichiro stay here and don't move around. I'll go to the power distribution room to have a look."

After about ten minutes, the lights came on and the room was bright again.

Butler Suzuki squinted his eyes, tried to adapt to the light and looked around, but was surprised to find that Ichiro Banner, who was sitting next to him, had disappeared.

He was startled, and just about to go out to look for it, suddenly the door of the restaurant was pushed open, and Shoji Hatakemoto staggered in covered in blood.

"Help...help, Suzuki..."

Shoji Banmoto clutched his neck, blood spurting from between his fingers.Before he could finish speaking, a cold light flashed from behind him, and a knife stabbed hard into his back.

Hokuro Hatakemoto, who was also covered in blood, pressed his wife and brother to the ground with a ferocious face, just like butchering a pig, and stabbed him frantically with a knife until Shoji Banmoto stopped moving, and then he slowly stood up .

"Butler Suzuki, where is my son Ichiro?"

Hatakemoto Hoiro's voice was like two saw blades rubbing against each other, harsh and unpleasant, but full of terrifying murderous intent.

The housekeeper Suzuki, who had been completely frightened, was shocked and stammered: "No... I don't know, Master Beilang, before the power outage, Master Ichiro was by my side, but when the call came, he disappeared. "

"Damn it, if something happens to Ichiro, you old bastard will die too."

Hatakemoto Hokuro roared.

"Don't worry, Mr. Beilang, your son is not dead."

Xiao Goro's voice suddenly sounded on the radio in the restaurant: "At most, it's just that I will never be able to draw with a brush again, or cut people with a knife."

"Maori Kogoro!"

Hokuro Hatake looked around, gritted his teeth and said, "Where are you? If you dare to hurt my son, I will never forgive you..."

Before the words were finished, the door of the restaurant was pushed open again. Mariko Hatake put the knife on Xiaolan's neck and pushed her in.Followed by Qimoto Qiujiang, he also held his younger sister with a knife.

But Mariko Hatakemoto's appearance is a bit miserable, half of her face is swollen, and she can't speak with her mouth. It turns out that she is missing several teeth.

"This little rascal has some skills and almost killed me."

Mariko Hatakemoto gritted her teeth: "But it doesn't matter, I'll cut off one of her arms right now."

"You can try, old woman. If you dare to touch a hair of my daughter, I will castrate your son."

Kogoro said coldly.

"Huh? Ichiro?"

It was only then that Mariko Hashimoto came to her senses and yelled at her husband, "Where's our son? You didn't let him stay in the restaurant all the time, so why did he fall into the hands of that detective?"

"Don't get excited, your son is very concerned about progress, and he couldn't bear to let your old couple snatch all his heads, so he was going to give me a knife in the dark just now, but it's a pity that he failed."

Kogoro chuckled.

"Enough, detective, your daughter is also in our hands, let's exchange it."

Hatakemoto Mariko roared.

"Okay, but before exchanging hostages, I want to reason. After all, it is our detective's responsibility to reveal the truth of the case."

Kogoro's tone suddenly became serious: "Actually, from the very beginning, Kitamoto Hokuro and his wife, you two knew that the person who killed Banamoto Gozo was your son Banamoto Ichiro, right?"

Shocked, Xia Jiang and Qiu Jiang looked at Hagimoto Hokuro and his wife in amazement.

"That's right, when Ichiro killed the old man, our husband and wife happened to see him."

Kitaro Banner gritted his teeth and said, "Ichiro was so frightened that he stood motionless at the door. We asked him to go back to his room and change his clothes. Mariko cleaned up the blood that dripped on the carpet at the door. And the flower, I left it there."

"However, I think the scene was very clean and seamless. How did you suspect that the murderer was Ichiro?"

Mariko Hatakemoto asked.

"It's very simple. The bread crumbs your son used for painting fell into the pool of blood next to the corpse."

"Only because of this?"

"This just made me a little suspicious, so in order to collect evidence, I sneaked into Ichiro's room later. After looking at the paintings he drew, I was sure that the person who killed Hatakemoto Kozo was [-]% Ichiro."

Kitamoto Kitaro and his wife fell silent when they heard the words, and Banamoto Qiujiang became puzzled instead: "Why? What did he draw? Could it be that he drew the crime process?"

"It's just painting the motive of the crime."

Kogoro paused for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "In all the paintings drawn by Ichiro Hagimoto, there is only one protagonist, and that is Natsue Hagimoto!"

Apart from Qiben Beilang and his wife, Qiu Jiang, Xia Jiang and Xiao Lan were all stunned: "Is the painting Xia Jiang?"

"That's right, even though it's just a sketch, you can still feel the deeply twisted and deformed love."

Kogoro said full of sarcasm: "As the son of the uncle's family, he fell in love with the daughter of the uncle's family, and even dared to ask his grandfather to marry him. As long as anyone with a normal mind will not hesitate Reject it? But after being rejected, Ichiro Banmoto, like a mad dog, killed his grandfather with one knife."

"To shut up."

Mariko Hatake yelled, "How did you know about this kind of thing? No one was there except Ichiro and the old man."

"Uh... Afterwards, the master told me about this matter, and when you all returned to the room, Mr. Maori asked me about this matter again."

Butler Suzuki said with some embarrassment.

"You bloody old thing, I should have killed you in the first place."

Mariko Hatakemoto gritted her teeth.

"At first, you thought that everything would be fine if you put the blame on Xiaowu. But you didn't expect that Hatamoto Kozo had already prepared a will. In desperation, you two decided to take the risk and prepare to kill everyone who might compete for the inheritance. .”

Kogoro sneered: "It's true, husband and wife work together to cut money!"

(End of this chapter)