Stay away from Conan

Chapter 357 The truth comes out

"Mr. Mingzhi, what are you talking about!"

After listening to Gao Yuan's words, Takahashi Ryoichi couldn't help but said strangely:

"She is Atsuko! She is the screenwriter of our university's film research club, Amamiya Atsuko! This is absolutely unmistakable!"

"Yes, Mr. Akechi, it's too outrageous for you to ask that!"

Kakutani Hiroki also continued, completely unable to understand why Gao Yuan would ask this.

"Atsuko and we are friends in the same club after all. No matter what we say, we will never admit the wrong person."

Ohta Katsuya couldn't help but say.

"Mr. Mingzhi, what's the meaning behind your question?"

Suzuki Ayako asked.

After hearing what these people said, Gao Yuan looked around at everyone, and then asked:

"I remember what you said - two years ago, when Miss Chikako Ikeda won the Newcomer Award, you were supposed to celebrate, but you didn't have a party to celebrate. Moreover, before this party, you had already had two years of celebration. Never seen it before, right?”

"Yes."

Suzuki Ayako replied, but still looked confused:

"But, what does this have to do with what happened this time?"

In response, Gao Yuan smiled lightly and then said:

"That is to say, after Chikako Ikeda won the award, until this party, you have never met or faced her at all, right?"

"So what!"

Takahashi Ryoichi shouted:

"Even if we haven't seen each other for two years, Atsuko is Atsuko! It's impossible for us to admit our mistake!"

"Is this really the case?"

Gao Yuan looked at the emotional Takahashi Ryoichi and said in a serious tone:

"Do you really think that the Atsuko Amamiya standing in front of you now is the same person as the Atsuko you met in college?"

"I told you everything!"

Takahashi Ryoichi had an emotional attack and said angrily:

"How could we admit the wrong person?"

"Really……"

In response, Gao Yuan sighed, and then said slowly:

"So, Miss Suzuki, I remember you said that the movies you created during college were all simple love stories, right?"

"Well, that's right."

Suzuki Ayako was a little confused and answered in confusion.

"So, in other words, the scripts you wrote during college were all love stories, right?"

Gao Yuan continued.

"kindness."

Nodding, Suzuki Ayako said.

After receiving such an answer, Gao Yuan's tone became a little confused:

"Then, don't you think it's strange? Why did Amamiya Atsuko debut as a novelist two years after graduation, and her work was a suspense mystery novel!"

With that said, Gao Yuan looked around at everyone and continued:

"As a screenwriter of the Film Research Club, most of the scripts you wrote during college were probably written by Atsuko Amemiya, so the scripts she wrote at that time must also be related to love stories. So why did her writing style change two years after graduation? Will there be such a big change?”

"What kind of reason is this!"

Takahashi Ryoichi said angrily:

"Maybe Atsuko just changed her style and wrote about what she is really good at!"

"Really? Then during your college years, did anyone know that Miss Amamiya Atsuko was really good at writing mystery stories?"

In response to this, Gao Yuan couldn't help asking, his eyes swept across everyone again, and seeing that no one responded, it seemed that they were really unclear about this question, so Gao Yuan continued:

"Furthermore, it's not just Miss Amemiya Atsuko, but also Miss Chikako Ikeda who is strange."

After a short pause, Gao Yuan pretended to think and recall, and then said:

"I searched in Miss Chikako Ikeda's room and found the manuscript of her next script, called "The Masked Monster Murder Case" - although it has not been completed, judging from the plot content, there is no doubt that it is a mystery. Class work!”

"so what?"

Hearing this, Ota Sheng's expression changed slightly, and he sighed inexplicably and asked.

"It seems Mr. Ota has probably guessed something, right?"

Seeing Ohta Masaru's reaction, Gao Yuan couldn't help but say, but Ohta Masaru just took out a cigarette, lit it, took a puff, and did not continue, so Gao Yuan continued:

"Don't you think it's a little strange that two people changed their writing styles at the same time?"

As he spoke, Takato looked at the group of people from the University Film Research Club who were present and saw Ohta Masaru smoking silently, Kakutani Hiroki with his head slightly lowered, Takahashi Ryoichi with a horrified look on his face, and Suzuki Ayako with a confused look on his face. After understanding the situation, he began to explain:

"Of course, the following is just my guess, and there is no actual evidence to prove it. If I am wrong... Amamiya Atsuko, please tell the truth - after all, what you are hiding behind is No chance was ruined.”

Hearing this, Amamiya Atsuko's eyes widened. She was still a little persistent, but she collapsed at this moment. She lowered her head, feeling a little overwhelmed——

"I guess that the script Miss Chikako Ikeda is currently writing was not written by herself, but was written by someone else. This ghostwriter should be Miss Amamiya Atsuko in front of me."

Gao Yuan explained:

"And, it's not just that. If my guess is correct, the work that Miss Chikako Ikeda made when she debuted, "The Blue Kingdom", may also be the work of Miss Atsuko Amemiya!"

"What! How could it be!"

Hearing what Gao Yuan said, Xiaolan covered her lips with her hands and said with a look of surprise.

"How can this be……"

Suzuki Ayako is also a little unbelievable:

"Is it possible that Mr. Akechi felt that this was the reason why Atsuko killed Chikako..."

"No, if it is just to retaliate against Miss Chikako for plagiarism, it would be too much to cut Miss Chikako into pieces. Obviously the murderer hates Miss Chikako deeply! But if this is the case, after having this first plagiarism experience, There’s no reason why Ms. Atsuko would write for Ms. Chikako again!”

Conan used Sonoko's voice to tell the key.

"That's right."

Gao Yuan closed his eyes slightly and said with some sadness:

"If it's just plagiarism and you want revenge, there are obviously more ways, and it doesn't have to go to the step of murder. Considering the changes in Miss Amamiya Atsuko's writing style after her debut, if my guess is correct - the real Amamiya Atsuko , after Ms. Chikako Ikeda won the Newcomer Award for her work "Blue Kingdom", she committed suicide! The Ms. Atsuko Amamiya standing in front of us now should be just someone who looks very similar to Atsuko Amamiya. , may be a relative of the real Amamiya Atsuko!”

"What!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone present was shocked. Faced with Gao Yuan's speculation, they were a little unable to accept it, and they even didn't believe Gao Yuan's statement at all.

However, for Gao Yuan, this is indeed the most likely scenario based on the existing evidence and the plot of the original work——

"As for whether this speculation is correct or not, we can confirm it after we leave here tomorrow and let the police investigate..."

"Ah--"

Before Takato finished speaking, "Atsuko Amamiya", who had lowered his head and remained silent, sneered——

"What a fantastic reasoning...but you actually guessed it."

"Amamiya Atsuko" looked sad and confirmed the accuracy of Takato's statement:

"The matter has come to this, and I can no longer hide it..."

As he said this, "Amamiya Atsuko" raised his head, looked at the people in front of him and said:

"That's right, I'm not Atsuko's sister. I'm her younger sister, Ryoko!"

"What!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the University Film Research Club couldn't help but be shocked, especially Takahashi Ryoichi, whose expression became horrified——

"No, you lied to me! You are Atsuko..."

"Takahashi...everyone, I'm sorry, I lied to you."

Amamiya Ryoko bowed to everyone and said:

"Sister Atsuko, she committed suicide two years ago."

"suicide!"

When Ohta Sheng heard this, his expression changed a little.

"Ota, do you know something?"

When Kakutani Hiroki saw this, he couldn't help but ask.

In response, Ota Sheng lowered his head, gritted his teeth, and said sadly:

"Actually, when I was in the club, I discovered that Chikako would sometimes take some of the results that everyone had done together as her own achievements to receive the award... So, when I learned that Chikako won the Newcomer Award, I also had this guess. ——Perhaps, her award-winning work is not entirely due to her alone... After all, when she was in the club, Chikako liked to use the talkative Atsuko to help write some things..."

"Why... Atsuko, who is usually so cheerful, would..."

Takahashi Ryoichi took two steps back and said in surprise.

"It's just because she's so cheerful and doesn't complain when being manipulated by Chikako, so I don't care..."

Ota Sheng couldn't help but say.

"If she just helped with the writing and then took all the credit, Ms. Atsuko probably wouldn't have committed suicide..."

Conan guessed in Sonoko's voice.

"That's right."

Amamiya Ryoko nodded:

"At the beginning, we didn't understand why my sister who had just graduated suddenly committed suicide... After all, she was such a cheerful person. She fully hoped to become a novelist in the future and was working hard towards it..."

As she spoke, a tear fell from the corner of Amamiya Ryoko's eyes, and her tone began to turn resentful——

"However, when I was sorting out my sister's belongings, I found the manuscript of a novel she had written before, and I completely understood - the novel she wrote called "The Blue Kingdom" has a plot similar to that of the "Blue Kingdom" that happened to be released. Cyan Kingdom" is exactly the same!"

"Chikako completely plagiarized Atsuko's work..."

Takahashi Ryoichi said in a daze, a little choked with sobs.

"The day my sister committed suicide happened to be the day Chikako won the award!"

Ryoko Amamiya continued.

"How come... we don't even know about such an important thing..."

Tears flowed from the corners of Suzuki Ayako's eyes, and her mood was a little broken. Originally, today was a rare gathering with friends she hadn't seen for two years. As a result, one friend died tragically without telling her. However, she unexpectedly learned that another friend had passed away as early as two years ago. Has passed away.

"Because we were busy graduating and going our separate ways at that time, so no one cared about where we were going..."

Ohta Sheng lowered his head and said with some sadness.

"But if that's the case, why did you attend the party as Atsuko, and why did Chikako pretend to be a 'bandage weirdo' at the party?"

Kakutani Hiroki asked in confusion.

"At that time, I went to find Chikako because she plagiarized her sister's work. As a result, Chikako mistakenly identified me as her sister, who looked exactly like her. She also thought that she had already made her debut in the industry and had accumulated a lot of contacts. She came to threaten me and said that if I want to successfully debut as a novelist, it is best to cooperate with her, so that we can win-win. "

Amamiya Ryoko wiped her tears and said angrily:

"I originally wanted to tell the truth and question her. However, when I think about my sister's death, no one can prove the plot of that work or who wrote it first. Even if I tell the truth, it will most likely not affect Chikako. , so I agreed to her conditions and debuted under my sister’s pen name, Tokugawa Atsuko, and slowly began to look for opportunities to completely take revenge on Chikako!”

After a pause, Amamiya Ryoko's tone was a little sad:

"My sister and I have the same ambitions, but our areas of expertise are different. She likes beautiful love stories, while my hobby is rigorous mystery stories. Perhaps because of this, my sister and I are good at academics. It’s also different, so I didn’t go to the same school as my sister in college, but went to a public university far away in Antsuki. Therefore, you don’t know that my sister exists..."

"Indeed, Atsuko seems to have never mentioned her family to us..."

Kakutani Hiroki said in a trance.

Speaking of this, Amamiya Ryoko couldn't help but look at Gao Yuan——

"Mr. Mingzhi, since you have guessed to this point, you obviously already know the full story of this incident! Then it is up to you to explain - having all the doubtful points solved by the detective is the prisoner's final hope. Fate…”

In response, Gao Yuan nodded:

"The script you gave to Miss Chikako Ikeda, although the plot of the case is very exciting, the behavior and language of the characters are very inconsistent - I think you should have written it like this on purpose.

"Miss Chikako Ikeda made her debut by plagiarizing, and this script is a genre she is not good at. Perhaps because the plot is really exciting, she is reluctant to give up the script, so in order to write a better script, you asked She made a suggestion - use this gathering to create the same situation as in the script!

"You just need to convince her to play a scary weirdo like in the script to scare us at the party. Then you can record our true reactions through observation and write it into the script - after all, Compared with creation without any reason, adapting it based on real content is more convincing!

"However, Miss Chikako Ikeda never thought that this was a script you wrote specifically to kill her!"

Gao Yuan said this, his expression couldn't help but feel a little sad:

"But even you didn't expect that among the people attending the party, there was me as a detective. Several times you tried to scare everyone with the 'Bandage Man', trying to make everyone panic, and even cut the phone cord. To completely cut us off from the outside world - that was your plan.

"But due to my obstruction, not only did everyone move together in an orderly manner, but the phone lines were also repaired. This made Chikako Ikeda's plan to see our reaction when we panic completely unable to progress. Moreover, this also made it impossible for you to find us at all. When the opportunity comes, he kills Chikako Ikeda.

"So, in order to eliminate my interference, you put sleeping pills in Xiao Ai's food, and asked Chikako Ikeda to take Xiao Ai away, leaving me to mess around looking for Xiao Ai, thus creating an opportunity for you to kill Chikako Ikeda! "

As he spoke, Gao Yuan paused and gave the decisive evidence:

"After you killed Chikako Ikeda, you dressed up as a 'bandage weirdo' and appeared in front of me, performing a scene where the 'bandage weirdo' fell off a cliff - I think you should have been here a long time ago and understood this place. terrain, so this kind of plan can be made.

"However, the cloak and other props that fell off the cliff are likely to be found by the police sooner or later. Therefore, the cloak that fell off should not be the one you were wearing at the time. Otherwise, once the police find the cloak under the cliff, the cloak under the cliff will be found from above. Finding traces of your passage is decisive evidence.

"So, the cloak you were wearing at that time should have been hidden somewhere by you. In order to find out who the murderer was, and also to let the murderer lead us to find the evidence, that's why I disappeared and acted as the 'bandage weirdo' 'This drama reappears——

"After all, as the real murderer, he must know that the 'bandage weirdo' who appears again can only be played by the missing me, and the murderer must also know my purpose, so in order to prevent me from finding evidence, he made sure that I was killed by Xiaolan and the others. After the chase, the murderer will quickly find an opportunity to dispose of the evidence..."

"yes."

Amamiya Ryoko said sadly, "I thought that after killing Chikako, I didn't have much time to deal with the evidence. I could only hide it in a place and wait until night to find a way to deal with it. But I didn't expect that you would be one step ahead. I knew what you were going to do after leaving the villa, so I had no choice but to take risks, but I didn't expect..."

Saying that, Amamiya Ryoko looked at Sonoko who was still sleeping against the tree——

"I didn't expect you, Sonoko, to have such good reasoning skills."

After saying that, he continued to look at Gao Yuan:

"By the way, what's wrong with your eyes?"

In response, Gao Yuan felt helpless and touched the swelling of his left eye, while Xiaolan on the side immediately lowered his head in embarrassment...