Kexue Magician

Chapter 14 Demons and Knights

Conan ran around like a headless fly, and finally came in front of the curator Ochiai.

"Grandpa, toilet, where is the toilet?"

Conan kept jumping in place, his rosy face seemed to be really anxious to the extreme.

"Toilet, when you get out of the room, turn right and go straight. After going down the stairs, just turn right again."

Director Ochiai's eyes were still squinted, and he stretched out his right hand to point to the door.

"Ah, this is too complicated, grandpa curator, please help me draw on this, hurry up!" Conan handed the brochure of the art exhibition to curator Ochiai.

Director Ochiai took the manual, reached into the inner pocket of his suit with his right hand and took out a pen, rotated the button cap, and was about to draw a picture.

next moment.

Curator Ochiai's face changed drastically, and his eyes that had been squinting opened suddenly. The right hand holding the pen kept trembling, but he still refused to write.

Seeing this, the people around couldn't help showing puzzled expressions.

"Grandpa, what's wrong with you?"

"Why don't you draw? Don't you know that the pen can't write before you start?"

"But it's so strange, knowing that the ballpoint pen can no longer write, why do you still keep it on your body?"

Conan asked innocently, but he said something that terrified Director Ochiai.

"Can't the ballpoint pen write?"

At this time, Police Officer Megure also discovered that things were not simple.

Mori Kogoro frowned, took the note from Police Officer Megure's hand, looked at it carefully, and then thought about it.

After half a minute.

"I understand!"

"I finally understand!"

"In the video shown on the surveillance, the murderer stopped after beheading Boss Zhenzhong, so that Boss Zhenzhong had time to find the pen and note, and then write the name of the murderer—that is, the person who asked him to come!"

"However, Boss Zhenzhong, who picked up the note, discovered that his name was already written on the note, but that was not the murderer's name!"

"So, the surprised Boss Manaka wanted to use a ballpoint pen to cross out the original text and write the name of the real murderer, but the ballpoint pen couldn't write."

"He still fell into the trap of the murderer, because the murderer wanted the boss to act like he was writing, so that the police watching the surveillance would think that the word 'Kubata' on the note was written by the boss himself!"

"The evidence is this piece of paper in my hand. Apart from the word 'Kubata', there are several curved scratches."

"In addition, the murderer also put the blood-stained armor in Kubota's cabinet in order to frame Kubota."

"Moreover, the murderer specially arranged for Kubota to sort out the documents, so that Kubota would leave everyone's side, so that he could not find witnesses to prove his alibi."

"The only person who can do this is you—Curator Ochiai!"

"The evidence is that the nib of the ballpoint pen that Conan found was put away, but the ballpoint pen you are holding now can't write, because you replaced the two pens after killing Boss Manaka!"

Kogoro Mori suddenly opened his eyes and pointed at Director Ochiai sharply.

Edogawa Conan was stunned. He didn't expect that Uncle Maoli would be so powerful this time, and actually deduce the murderer.

Feng Chu couldn't help but stare - Uncle Mao Li still has two brushes.

"I see!"

Officer Megure suddenly realized, and then stared at Director Ochiai and asked, "Mr. Director, around 04:30 in the afternoon, do you have an alibi?"

Curator Ochiai was silent for a while, then slowly narrowed his eyes, and said, "That's right, I'm the one who killed the boss."

"The motive is that Boss Zhenzhong wants to transform the art gallery into a hotel?" Mori Kogoro asked doubtfully.

"That's right, he is a demon crawling out of hell!"

"The devil actually wants to take the sacred art museum away from me, and Kubota who sells art at will is unforgivable, so I deliberately killed Boss Manaka under the camera, put the blame on Kubota, and let him be punished !"

Librarian Kubota lowered his head in fear.

"Curator, then, the footsteps heard by the security guards in the Hell Pavilion before are..."

Iijima, who has always respected the curator, said sadly.

"That's right, I've been preparing for a long time to successfully get rid of that demon." Curator Ochiai said slowly.

Mori Kogoro and the others were silent.

"As described in "Punishment", although the devil was buried by the knight of justice, the knight will eventually be infected by the blood of the devil. Now I have become a murderer and the incarnation of the devil!"

Curator Ochiai raised his head and sighed.

In the end, he was taken away by police officer Megure and other police officers.

Mist rose in Mao Lilan's eyes: "Why is this happening?"

Mori Kogoro shook his head and sighed: "There are many unsatisfactory things in the world, but no matter what, finding the murderer is what I, a detective, have to do."

"No matter what, you shouldn't take other people's lives at will!" Edogawa Conan said in a deep voice.

Mao Lilan blinked her big eyes, then suddenly laughed and said, "Conan seems like an adult."

"what!!!"

"Hee hee hee hee, I, I'm just imitating my uncle."

Edogawa Conan broke his skills in an instant, waving his little hands and jumping up and down, and said cutely.

Fengchu walked up to the librarian Iijima and asked, "Hello, the replica of the armor was taken away by the police, can you show me the real one?"

Librarian Iijima nodded, and stretched out his hand in the gesture of please follow me.

"OK, thanks."

Feng Chu thanked him, then turned his head and said, "Uncle Mao Li, you go first, I still have something to do."

After finishing speaking, Feng Chu followed librarian Iijima without waiting for Mori Kogoro's reply.

Museum warehouse, precious metal products room.

Under the bright white light, the statue of a knight in silver armor standing quietly in the corner of the room looked a little dazzling.

Feng Chu looked around and couldn't help asking, "Why isn't there a surveillance camera in this room?"

Librarian Iijima shook his head and said:
"Actually, except for the exhibition hall and the four major exhibition halls, there are no surveillance cameras installed in other rooms. This is also to protect the privacy of employees. And the warehouse where the art works are stored is only the insiders of the art museum have the key."

"But I never expected that Kubota, the damn guy, would steal and resell works many times by taking advantage of his position, which led to today's tragedy!"

Speaking of this, the always calm librarian Iijima's face became distorted.

Feng Chu sighed, he didn't know how to comfort this librarian who was about to lose his job and suffered a heavy blow.

After a while.

Librarian Iijima calmed down.

He said apologetically, "Mr. Fengchu, I'm sorry, I lost my composure, take your time, I'll go to work first."

Feng Chu said: "Thanks for your hard work, I just took a look around and left in a while."

The librarian Iijima nodded, and then closed the door.

Feng Chu raised his brows and thought to himself——this is convenient for me to do things.

Then, Feng Chu took out a thin white glove from his pocket and put it on. He concentrated his magic power on his right hand, and began to inspect the silver armor from top to bottom.

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