In the party venue, with the permission of the police, most of the guests had left.
The remaining people are either close relatives and friends of the Owada family, or they are temporarily left behind by relatives like Mao Lilan who are involved in the investigation of the case.
Now, these people were gathered together by the old housekeeper Shan Qizhe and several police officers.
"Mr. Shanqi, what happened? Why do you have to gather everyone here?" Mao Lilan couldn't help but ask in the somewhat empty venue.
"Ms. Mori, this is Officer Sato's request."
"Officer Sato?"
"Yes, Officer Sato told me that she has found the murderer of the master..."
"Really?!"
Kenta on the side looked very excited when he heard this.
"Officer Sato, has she really found the murderer?!"
Shan Qizhe looked at him quietly without speaking.
"But didn't the police say that President Owada committed suicide?" Mao Lilan asked in confusion.
"Dad, he will never commit suicide!"
"Don't be excited, Master Kenta. We will know the truth after Officer Sato arrives..."
"Click!"
While a few people were chatting, the door to the venue was pushed open, and Miwako Sato, who was disguised as Kaito Kuroba, and Officer Megure walked in together.
"It's been a really busy night tonight. I've kept you all waiting for a long time."
The loud voice attracted everyone's attention, and Kuroba Kaito said loudly:
"After repeated investigations by the police, we have obtained enough evidence to confirm that the murder of President Owada was not a suicide, but a murder!"
"murder?!"
As soon as these words came out, the originally empty venue became noisy again, with different expressions on everyone's faces.
As he said these words, Karasuma Ying and Conan both moved quietly and stood behind a certain old housekeeper.
"Officer Sato! Who killed my father?!" Kenta seemed to be unable to wait any longer and asked quickly.
"The murderer is naturally President Owada's closest friend during his lifetime..."
Kuroba Kaito's eyes swept through the crowd one by one, and finally locked on someone.
"Butler Mr. Shan Qizhe!"
"What?" Kenta was stunned for a moment when he heard the name. His mind seemed to be unable to turn around. After staying there for several seconds, he turned to look at Shan Qizhe next to him in confusion.
"Officer Sato, are you making a mistake?"
Being accused by Kuroba Kaito as the murderer, Shang Qizhe's expression didn't change much except for being a little surprised at first.
"Before and after the master was killed, I was always at the West Tower venue. How could I have the opportunity to kill the master?"
"Yes, yes, when something happened to dad, Shan Qi was always with us..."
"Master Kenta, who in this world has stipulated that if you want to kill someone, you have to be next to that person to do it?
Everyone, think carefully about the body of President Owada that you saw during the second wave of fireworks. Don’t you think there is something strange about it? "
"strangeness?"
"Rope." Karasuma Ying cooperated with him and said in time.
"Yes, it's the rope." Kuroba Kaito continued.
"If President Owada really wanted to commit suicide, he could have just jumped off the balcony, without having to go through the unnecessary act of hanging himself outside the balcony.
What's more, he used a rope that was far longer than the height of the balcony guardrail..."
"Is it because doing this will be more beneficial to the murderer?" Kenta seemed to have an idea and kept saying:
“The reason why such a long rope is used is so that we can discover Dad’s body in time during the second wave of fireworks and deepen our impression of the murderer’s alibi.
And if you just ask your father to jump off the balcony, it will be difficult to do this..."
"That's right!" Kuroba Kaito snapped his fingers.
"Master Kenta..."
Shan Qizhe looked at Kenta unexpectedly, but Kenta didn't respond to his gaze at all.
"What nonsense!"
Turning his head suddenly to glare at Kuroba Kaito, Shan Qizhe shouted sharply:
"Officer Sato, I think you are just reasoning nonsense! What do you mean I murdered the master? The master obviously committed suicide!
When the first fireworks went up, the master was still in the observation room on the 48th floor..."
"Mr. Sugiki, do you really think that the person who appeared in the observation room at that time must be President Owada?"
Kuroba Kaito interrupted him and asked meaningfully.
"What do you mean? The master was the only one in the East Tower at that time!" When Kuroba Kaito asked this question, there seemed to be a trace of panic on Shan Qizhe's face.
"What you said is not entirely correct. There was actually no one on the 48th floor of the East Tower at that time!"
"Officer Sato, what we saw before..."
"It's a dummy, a dummy that looks very similar to President Owada in outline."
Kuroba Kaito said, taking out his mobile phone and showing the photos they had collected and taken in the East Tower to everyone.
The first photo shows a composite doll sculpture and a wig that resembles the hair style of President Owada that was hidden in the trash can on the 48th floor of the East Tower before it could be disposed of.
The second photo is of the spare kimono on the hanger in the president's room that has obvious signs of being worn. There is also a trace of wet paint on the inside of the sleeve of this kimono.
It is worth mentioning that the color of the paint marks on the kimono is exactly the same as the color of the paint on the composite doll sculpture in the trash can.
Even in the photo, there are obvious traces of paint being rubbed off somewhere on the figure.
Kenta looked at these two photos, his whole body blank.
"So, during the first fireworks display, was this the father we saw in the observation room? Could it be that at that time, father had already..."
"No, President Owada had not been killed at that time. The time when he was actually killed was actually the phone call that Mr. Sugizote made later."
Glancing at Kenta with some sympathy, Kuroba Kaito took a booklet from the table nearby and said slowly:
"President Owada has a weakness. He is afraid of bugs, so much so that he forcibly changed the design theme of Ed Company from butterfly to heart shape this year.
You think, what will happen if such a person wakes up and finds a big ugly spider on his chest?
What if the place where he woke up happened to be on the balcony's guardrail, which was less than 40 centimeters wide?
Mr. Shanqi, what do you think will happen? "
As Kuroba Kaito finished speaking, everyone's eyes fell on Shan Qizhe.
The expression on his face was no longer calm.
