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Chapter 644 The simultaneous deaths of twin brothers
  The case was somewhat puzzling from the beginning.

Not only did he attack a strange woman, but he was so scared that he kept begging for mercy when Kogoro Moori offered him a helping hand.

In the end, he even risked his life to escape and fell to his death from a tall building. All this is not very common sense.

"Is this Miss Nan Lixun?"

After a brief period of doubt, Megu looked at the aggressive Nan Lixun opposite and said, "Please forgive me for being rude. Although you registered this name, your real name should be Kanako, right?"

"Ah?" Nan Lixun looked at Mu Mu with a puzzled look on his face when he heard this, not knowing what the other party was talking about.

"Officer Megure, she is not Kanako." Mouri Kogoro waved his hand and explained: "I have seen a photo of Mrs. Kanako, it's not her."

"Oh, does that person see Kanako as the wife of the deceased?" Officer Megure asked after hearing this.

"He is the younger brother of Hitomi Matsuichiro and the wife of Hitomi Takehiko." After explaining, Mouri Kogoro looked at Officer Megure in puzzlement: "By the way, police department, why do you have such an idea?"

"We checked Hitomi Shoichiro's phone number before. The last phone call he made before his death was to Hitomi Kanako's wife." Megure explained.

"Talking on the phone." Mouri Kogoro asked thoughtfully: "Police Department, I wonder when the phone call was made?"

"Twenty past eleven." Mumu said after looking at the information in the notebook.

"At this time, I should have a clue," Mouri Kogoro said, taking out his camera and taking out two photos for everyone to check.

In the photo, Matsuichiro was seen entering the bathroom at eleven-ten and walked out of the bathroom with a solemn expression at eleven-thirty.

Combined with this phone call, the other party took the opportunity to make the call while going to the bathroom.

"Um, I don't know if you have finished asking." Nan Lixun looked at the landline phone beside him and then looked at the crowd and said, "I'm really sorry, I want to be alone for a while."

"Sister Nanli, did you mention Mr. Anxi just now?"

Just then Conan smiled and asked: "Sister Xiaolan and I met you at the counter and asked anxiously if there was a Mr. Anxi who was storing things here."

"I do know Mr. Anxi." Nan Lixun said calmly: "But does this matter have anything to do with the case?"

"Ah, I don't know." Conan was stunned by the question and could only scratch his head in embarrassment.

The conversation ended here. Nan Lixun got up and saw off the guests this time. Without any evidence, the group really couldn't do anything to the other party, so they had to leave the other party's room first and let him calm down.

"Really, he actually said that he didn't know Matsuichirou, he was just lying." Mouri Kogoro muttered while sitting on the sofa in the hall.

"It's also possible that she really doesn't know him." Karasawa replied casually while looking at the photos that Mouri Kogoro had secretly taken of Hitomi Matsuichiro.

When he observed Nan Lixun's reaction before, he felt that the other person's reaction when he mentioned this person was very real, with no sign of cover-up or disguise at all.

On the contrary, when Conan mentioned Mr. Anxi, she looked unnatural for a moment, and she avoided talking about Conan's questions and answered Conan's questions with questions.

Taking advantage of this time, Tangze also briefly browsed the photos.

Photos can be roughly divided into three aspects.

One is a photo of Hitomi Shoichiro kneeling down by the swimming pool to beg for mercy from a man lying on a beach chair.

The other is a photo of the other person sitting alone in the hall after bidding farewell to the man.

The photo of the other party going to the bathroom to secretly make a phone call was right after that. Except for a handsome young man in a blue shirt who seemed to also go to the bathroom and break into the room, there was nothing too strange about it.

At most, it seemed that something bad had happened when he walked out, and his face was a little ugly.

"Huh? This photo is a bit strange." Tang Ze suddenly turned to one and said a little strangely.

"Huh? What's weird?" Mouri Kogoro heard this and quickly came over, and found that he secretly took a photo of Hitomi Matsuichiro making a phone call at a public telephone booth.

"I remember I remember that Hitomi Shoichiro should have a mobile phone with him." Karasawa explained: "But you see that he is now using a public phone to make calls to people."

"Maybe it's because of the poor signal." Mouri Kogoro once again said his usual useless reasoning.

But looking at the woman who was talking on the phone around him, his remarks seemed to have no credible basis.

"Is there someone he's contacting that he can't contact using his mobile phone?" Ayako asked uncertainly.

"It is possible." Tangze nodded, and he and Conan were leaning more towards this possibility.

However, before the group could continue to discuss this issue, Officer Memu hurried over.

"Oops!" Officer Memu said in a panic as soon as he ran over: "Hey, watch the TV over there."

After hearing this, several people couldn't help but cast their eyes on the public TV in the hall. At this moment, a brown high-rise apartment was displayed on the TV screen, and the host's narration came from the side.

"This is an apartment building in Cupido-cho, and it is also the scene of this murder. The male deceased lived on the second floor of this apartment."

But watching the pictures of the deceased popping up on the TV, the group no longer paid much attention to the news.

Because except for the different hairstyle, the person in the photo looks exactly the same as Hitomi Matsuichiro!
  This news was really shocking. They never expected that just after Hitomi Matsuichiro died, they received the news that his younger brother Takehiko had also died.

At this time, Mouri Kogoro also revealed a piece of news, that is, his client is Hitomi Takehiko!

Mouri Kogoro had not disclosed the client's information before because as a detective he had to keep his employer's information confidential, but now that the client had been killed, there was no need to keep it secret anymore.

"Brother Mouri, I wonder what Takehiko asked you to investigate?" Officer Megure looked at Kogoro Mouri on the sofa and asked.

At this moment, the group of people had moved to the hotel's reception room. After all, the previous public place was not suitable for discussing the case.

"It's a behavioral investigation."

Mouri Kogoro said with a serious look: "Mr. Takehiko told me that his brother Matsuichiro took advantage of the fact that they are twins with the same appearance to pretend to be his identity and cheat outside, and do business with many people."

"That's what happened." Mumu nodded and said, "Is there any concrete evidence?"

"I haven't found anything yet, but according to my investigations in the past few days, Hitomi Shoichiro does owe a lot of money outside."

Mouri Kogoro said: "Karasawa Criminal should have seen on the camera that the man in the swimming pool was urging him to pay back the money."

"It must be this one." Hearing this, Tang Ze looked for the picture in the camera and showed it to everyone. In the photo, a man wearing a green Hawaiian shirt is holding a wine glass with an arrogant expression, while Hitomi Shoichiro is kneeling next to him with a begging expression on his face.

"Then seeing that Matsuichiro is coming to the Rice Flower Hotel today, is there a way to repay the money?" Tangze guessed.

"In this regard, we have sent people to investigate." Officer Memu said: "With the photos, we can find the other party soon."

"It's just that what worries me now is that the two brothers died at the same time." Tang Ze touched his chin and said, "I feel like there is something hidden behind this."

"There must be a spiritual connection!" Xiaolan on the side suddenly said after hearing this.

"Hey, what are you talking about all of a sudden?" Mouri Kogoro looked at his daughter speechlessly and said, "We are discussing a case, don't talk about those silly things."

"But how do you explain that two brothers died at the same time."

Xiaolan said with a serious face: "Although it can be said to be a pure coincidence, I always feel that things are not that simple. Maybe fate is playing tricks on the two brothers."

"The souls are connected." Tang Ze smiled and said, "It is a theory proposed by the psychologist Jung, but it is just a theory that has not been clearly confirmed."

"But some things are really difficult to explain." Xiao Lan smiled and gave an example: "Look, the two of us, Tang Ze Criminal, and dad, didn't we meet at the same time in this hotel?"

‘No, no, we are just gathered together because of our “death constitution”’

Tang Ze complained in his heart that although he felt that Conan must be blamed for the murder, the fact that he was able to participate in this case by such a coincidence may also have something to do with his talent for cheating.

At this point, Tangze has accepted his fate. Isn't it just a "death constitution"? If you have it, you have it. From some aspects, this may be a good thing.
  At least with the rewards, some difficult cases will no longer become unresolved or handled accidentally.

At least you're doing something good! !

The triggering of the murder had nothing to do with me Karasawa, it was all the fault of Conan, the "god of death"! !

As for the coincidence that Xiaolan said, there is no such thing. After all, this is a case triggered by Conan.

The death of Hitomi Matsuichiro was witnessed by Mouri Kogoro. Although it was definitely an accident, there was probably a hidden secret behind it.

There is also Nan Lixun who was attacked. Why this stranger got involved in the case cannot be just bad luck.

Coupled with the death of Renmi Takehiko, there must be a connection behind these three cases, but there are currently too few clues and no connection has been found.

It is impossible to change things just by thinking about it. After learning the information about Takehiko's client from Kogoro Mori, Karasawa and his party headed towards the scene of the crime.

When Karasawa and his party arrived at the apartment where the crime occurred, the criminal at the scene had already inspected the crime scene and was currently reporting the investigated information to them.

The deceased saw Takehiko dead at the entrance where he had just entered. The door was locked, and after inspection, no signs of picking the lock were found.

Tangze also looked at the keyhole and found that the keyhole was in the shape of a five-pointed star, which was a more difficult type of security.

The interior was in a mess, and the windows were smashed from the outside. It looked like a thief had invaded from the outside.

Judging from the situation at the scene, it seems that the thief smashed the window and stole things while no one was at home. At this time, Hitomi Takehiko happened to go home. The thief, who was afraid of being discovered, directly attacked and killed Hitomi Takehiko at the entrance.

It looked like a complete accident, nothing suspicious at all.

However, Tangze had already concluded that it must be related to the case. Seeing that there were no clues yet, he didn't worry, but patiently carried out the investigation bit by bit.

At this moment, he and Officer Megure were questioning the first discoverer of the case, the wife of the deceased, Kanako Hitomi.

"Mrs. Kanako, you said that when you came home from outside at two o'clock in the afternoon, you opened the door and found that your husband had been murdered, so you immediately called the police, right?" Officer Megure confirmed.

"That's right." Mrs. Kanako nodded with a low expression.

"Then where did you go before this?" Officer Megure continued to ask.

"Went to Miwa Town."

Everyone was shocked when they heard Renmi Kanako's words, and when they saw the surprised reaction of the group, Renmi Kanako looked at everyone with some confusion and said: "Um, do you have any questions?"

"Is this some kind of spiritual communication?" Mouri Kogoro murmured to himself as he touched his chin.

"That's right, we were at the Rice Blossom Hotel in Rice Flower Town before, and Mr. Hitomi Shoichiro fell to his death at the Rice Flower Hotel."

The bad news that Karasawa said instantly made people see that Kanako's face instantly turned pale.

"How could this happen? Is this true?" Kanako asked in disbelief as she covered her mouth.

"Indeed."

Officer Megure looked at Hitomi Kanako and asked: "Mrs. Kanako, is your main purpose of going to Mika Town to meet Hitomi Matsuichiro?
  We have checked the call records on his mobile phone before, and it shows that he has called you. "

"That's it"

Hearing Officer Megure's words, Hitomi Kanako nodded and acknowledged this.

"I wonder if you can tell us why he came to you?" Tang Ze asked.

"It's like this. Brother Shoichiro has always wanted to reconcile with my husband, so he hopes that I can be a middleman to help."

After Kanako finished speaking, he began to explain the ins and outs of this.

It turns out that the two brothers had been working in their father's company, so naturally they would have a dispute over who would succeed the president.

Later, their father passed away, and Kanako's husband Takehiko became the president, which naturally aroused dissatisfaction with his brother Matsuichiro. The two had a dispute and her husband fired Matsuichiro.

After that, Matsuichiro also opened a club, but it quickly closed down and he himself was in debt.

And just a few days ago, I saw Matsuichiro coming to his home and begging his brother to lend him money and pay him back, but Takehiko ruthlessly refused.

In order for the two brothers to reconcile, she secretly found each other, and left him her phone number during a subsequent meeting, and also gave him the keys to her home.

And today's call is also about this matter.

(End of this chapter)