Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 543 Detective's business, no shame

   One of them was Toshiya Tiansuo, a student who went to the storage room to check the closing of the doors and windows after returning from the meal.

   The other is the vampire researcher, Shuichi Hamura, who went to the underground library next to the collection room to check the books, and returned to the hall after a long time.

   Among them, Toshihiko Tiansuo checked the doors and windows, and it only took a few minutes, and it was too late to do anything.

   So rule it out...

   Gun Tian Yumei looked at Hamura Shuuichi: "At present, it seems that only you have time to commit crimes."

Hideyuki Hamura was startled, then pushed on his pince-nez glasses, shook his head and retorted: "There is a hall between the collection room and the study room. I did go to the collection room, but during that time, you were all sitting in the hall, even if I have the opportunity to get the dowels, and it is impossible for me to go to the study and commit murder."

   "There is more than one way to the study, but other paths are not so conventional."

Guntian Yumei stepped upstairs and walked to the window on the second floor: "If an accomplice lowers the rope ladder from the second floor and helps you climb up from the underground library, you will be able to reach the second floor first, and then follow the roof— —”

   As she said, she pushed open the window in the corridor on the second floor, and simultaneously completed the second half of the sentence: "—Go to the study."

   As the windows were opened, in the moonlight, a long roof with a slight **** appeared in front of everyone. One end of it is connected to this side, and the other end is connected to the study of Hucang Daisuke. The bricks and tiles are evenly covered with white snow that has not been stepped on, and there are no footprints on the snow.

   - No one passed by here.

  Gun Tian Yumi: "..."

   She stared out the window for a moment in silence, then raised her hand as if nothing had happened, and closed the window again.

  ...Proposing hypotheses and verifying them one by one is the basic operation of a detective. Of course it's fine if the reasoning is right, but if it's wrong...it's wrong, it's just an assumption, no shame.

  Suzuki Sonoko looked at the corridor, remembered something, and whispered, "The murderer shouldn't have passed through the roof -- when Mr. Hamura went to the library, I stayed in the corridor on the second floor, and no one passed by here."

   Gun Tian Yumei was startled and looked at her suspiciously: "What have you been doing in the corridor on the second floor."

  Suzuki Sonoko blushed: "...Look, look at the scenery! This place is higher than the first floor, and the scenery is better than below."

  "..." That is, another person without an alibi.

   Gunda Yumi began to stare at her suspiciously.

   However, looking at Suzuki Sonoko's thin arms and thin legs, she always felt that it was difficult for her to carry an adult man like Daisuke Torakura, let alone tie him to a cross.

So a few seconds later, Guntian Yumei hesitated to look away from Suzuki Sonoko, and looked at Jiang Xia again—I heard from a colleague that this high school detective solved the case as fast as reading a script. Why didn’t he see anything today? action?

   Is this case particularly difficult? Or, is there some crucial clue that they have yet to discover?

  ...then she guessed wrong just now, it's actually normal. Gun Tian Yumei pinned the slightly curly hair behind her ears, nodded secretly in her heart, and felt a lot more comfortable.

   At the same time, he decided to put his mind down and continue reasoning--bold assumptions and careful verification, so that in an impossible crime, a path to the truth can be found.

   She looked at the window slowly, pushed it open again, and observed the eaves outside.

  ——Not only on the roof of this section of the corridor, but further away, there are no footprints even on the top of the study.

   In other words, the prisoner should have never been on the roof. In addition, the door of the study was locked, and the only key was on Daisuke Hucang; the location of the floor-to-ceiling windows was close to the cliff. When she was in the study just now, she checked it carefully—the cliff was not only bottomless, but also snowflakes fell on the protruding parts, and there were no signs of being climbed.

   All roads are impossible... The murderer can't fly like a vampire, right?

The    reasoning was briefly in a quandary.

   Gun Tian Yumei had to change her mind-starting with motivation.

   She still felt that, in terms of time, only Hamamura Shuuichi might have committed the murder: "Speaking of which..." She suddenly looked at Hamura Shuuichi, "You and Mrs. Hucura are a couple, right?"

  “?!”

  Torakura Etsuko's heart skipped a beat, and she nervously grabbed Shuichi Hamura's arm.

   Just now, she heard Jiang Xia's boss talk about a lot of knowledge that sounded very useful. I just tried to digest a part of it, and felt that her concealment ability had improved. Who would have guessed that she would be exposed before long... Huokura Etsuko glanced at Amuro Toru subconsciously.

   Amuro Toru looked to the other side, ignoring her.

... He remembered that when he entered Daisuke Torakura's study just now and saw the terrifying corpse, Etsuko Torokura instinctively ran to Shuichi Hamura and grabbed his arm, instead of asking for help from Toshiya Tiansuo who was nearby. ...Normal people can see that something is wrong, let alone a detective like Gunda Yumei who is not confused, the blame will never fall on him anyway...

Beside   , Torokura Etsuko panicked for a while, then calmed down slowly: By the way, Torokura Daisuke is dead. It doesn't seem to matter that I've been derailed now... Wait, speaking of this, who is the murderer? Shouldn't it really be Shuichi...

  Hamura Shuichi is still refuting:

   "No matter what relationship I have with Etsuko, I am not the murderer who killed Daisuke Torakura. If you are looking for a motive, you should actually look at other people - such as editor-in-chief Doi."

   said, he looked at the editor who was sweating on the forehead next to him:

"I heard a rumor in college that the content of a novel submitted to Terror Times Weekly would be stolen by Daisuke Torokura. It's just that the theft is clever, and their manuscripts haven't been published yet, and no one can prove Tiger Cang Daisuke is wrong..."

  As Hamura Shuichi's gaze fell on Editor-in-Chief Doi's luggage, Doi sweated even more.

  ——At this time, editor-in-chief Doi contained the original manuscripts. It was Daisuke Hucang who plagiarized, and he was going to take it back

   Although Daisuke Torakura has not published vampire novels in recent years, he is still writing in private. Therefore, now, the computer of Huokura Daisuke is probably the fresh and warm evidence of plagiarism.

   Editor-in-chief Doi always felt that if he refused to admit it at this time, he would hide the news. The crime of murder might fall on him...

  ...have to find someone more suspicious!

   Thinking of this, the editor-in-chief Doi also decisively pulled people into the water:

"To be honest, Hucang Daisuke actually ran out a long time ago. Seven years ago, I failed to invest in stocks and owed a large amount of debt. Hucang paid it off for me, but he asked me to hand over the manuscripts I received to him first. Take a look..."

   Speaking of this, Doi editor-in-chief felt that the eyes of everyone were getting more and more wrong, and he realized that his motive for murder seemed to be sufficient.

So I quickly introduced the main topic: "This is not the point! The point is that five years ago, I felt that it was not the way to let him copy like this, so I recommended him a ghostwriter - Tiansuo! The novels published by Daisuke Torakura in recent years, In fact, it’s all Tian Suo’s work, and he’s better than me when it comes to motivation!”

   (end of this chapter)