Two days later, on Thursday, in the evening, the Akagui Village Fire Festival in Gunma Prefecture will be held.
This is a local traditional festival. The whole village comes to participate in the sacrifice, revel around the huge torch, sing and dance. However, in the middle of the sacrificial banquet, a burnt corpse fell out of the torch.
The incident quickly hit the news.
When the name of the deceased was read out on the TV news, Mouri Kogoro, who had just finished his tracking work and relaxed to brag with his daughter and accept his daughter's worship, was shocked.
"How is that possible!!" Mouri Kogoro held the TV and carefully looked at the photo of the deceased displayed on the TV screen. He said in disbelief: "Yes...it is indeed this guy..."
Behind him, Mao Lilan asked worriedly: "Dad...what's wrong? Is he someone you know?"
"Not only do we know each other, I have been following him for the past three days..."
"Being followed for three days..." Xiaolan and Conan were shocked, "How is that possible?!"
"Yes... I have been following him until yesterday..." Unbelievable emotions spread in Mouri Kogoro's heart, "This man!"
The next afternoon, Shiraijiu, who went to bed early and got up early and had no idea what happened the night before, followed Conan and Xiaolan in a daze, and then came to the Metropolitan Police Department, saying that he was waiting for Mouri Kogoro to go home with him.
Liquor:? ? ?
what happened? Is Mouri Kogoro guilty of something? He stalked people and was accused?
Baijiu observed Mao Lilan and Kudo Shinichi.
Mao Lilan looked worried, but Kudo Shinichi... was playing football happily and looked very happy.
The puppet master of justice can no longer stand it.
"Hey, Conan... Uncle Maori has entered the situation. Are you so happy?"
Even though Maori has many shortcomings, he still accepted you.
"Eh?" Kudo Shinichi was startled by reality, and then quickly realized that Shirai Jiu was not here last night, so he misunderstood something when he saw this scene today, "No, Uncle Mouri was related to a murder case, so he came to give a confession. .”
"Ah, so." Baijiu began to retrieve his memory, "When did it happen?"
It's strange. She obviously went back to the Mori Detective Agency as soon as school was over these days, and she didn't sneak out or anything. Why did Kogoro Mori encounter a murder case? Didn't she miss a cloud of resentment?
"Just the night before yesterday." Conan arrived, his tone a little excited, "Uncle saw the news and said that the person he had been following the past few days died in Gunma County."
Gunma Prefecture? where? do not know. Not local? It's normal not to be resentful.
kindness? The person I was following locally a few days ago died in another place yesterday?
Shiraiji looked at Conan playing hard with a ball with a big smile on his face, "What are you excited about?"
"Because..." Conan was about to explain to Shiraijiu happily, but saw Shiraijiu looking in another direction. Confused, he followed Shiraijiu's gaze and saw Mao Lilan also looking at him doubtfully. .
Conan's smile suddenly froze on his face.
Oops, he accidentally inflated.
Shiraiji looked sideways at Conan.
Not only did you swell, you swelled into a ball.
After a long time, Mouri Kogoro came out of the building with a look of displeasure, and the four of them left the police station together.
On the way, Mouri Kogoro was still cursing.
"It's so suspicious! It's so suspicious!"
"It must be that man!"
"500000!"
"It's just that you can earn 500,000 by following that man for three days!"
"No matter what, this reward is too outrageous!"
"And that confident, ugly face... I'm getting more and more unhappy!!"
From the rumblings of Mouri Kogoro along the way, Shirai Kuzu and his colleagues learned that when Moori Kogoro was testifying at the police station, he met a man named Abe Yutaka. This man and the deceased were good friends, and they also gave each other The other party has invested 500 million in insurance, and the beneficiaries are each other. And this is the same person who paid a lot of money to entrust Moori Kogoro to track the deceased.
Not only that, this gentleman also wore a smiling and confident face throughout the whole process, which completely angered Kogoro Mouri.
I can tell with just my fingers that there must be something wrong with this person.
"Then why not arrest him?" Mao Lilan asked.
"He has a sufficient alibi..." Mouri Kogoro replied unwillingly, "and the witness of his alibi... is me."
"Huh?"
"The body was discovered on Thursday evening when the Fire Festival was held. And I had been following him before Wednesday night. In other words, the criminal carried out the attack between Wednesday night and Thursday evening."
"Then the person you suspect must have been during that period of time..."
"Impossible. That guy was traveling from Wednesday morning to Friday night... with his company's employees!" Mouri Kogoro became more and more unwilling as he spoke, because he knew that there was something wrong with this man, and what he said was completely He was trying to clear away the damn Yutaka Abe's suspicion, but he couldn't convince himself to lie.
"Then why do you insist it's him?"
After all, according to what Kogoro Mouri said, Yutaka Abe is indeed a person without any suspicion.
This time, even Baijiu couldn't help but be curious about this uncle's opinion.
"That's because..." Mouri Kogoro's expression gradually became proud, "I have a unique sixth sense as a famous detective!"
Mao Lilan: "Ah, that's right..."
Liquor:……
Conan has become accustomed to Mouri Kogoro's disconnection and did not pay attention to this at all. He was just thinking about a series of information given by Moori Kogoro.
Regarding the fact that Abe Yutaka has a problem, he and Mouri Kogoro have the same feeling. However, as a detective, you cannot be fooled by first impressions. You must be absolutely rational and rely on reasoning and evidence to find the murderer.
And liquor…
Well, this is a murder case that not only has no resentment, but also no air of death. Although according to Mori Kogoro, the method of this case is very interesting, Baijiu recently made a new puppet, which means that he has consumed a lot and just wants to go home. Then go to bed early.
This was the first time that he had three puppets, including his own body. If the soul-level liquor before the time-travel was good enough, something happened to him. He was already weak and was forced to time-travel again. The soul energy is quite weak. Although he is in the world of Ke Xue, he has come into contact with less than one case in total for so long. The replenishment of death energy is limited, and Baijiu is still weak.
This was one of the reasons why, as a puppet master, he had difficulty controlling the expressions of his puppets, which led to Shirai Sakeko's facial paralysis. Another reason is that it is too troublesome to control facial nerves, and Shirai Sakeko's character is a lonely, cold and proud woman, so Baijiu is okay but not necessary.
On the way, Baijiu also took stock in his mind and felt that three puppets should be enough for now. After all, he didn't plan to be a big boss behind the scenes. If he wanted to set up an organization by himself to do such and such bad things, it would be useless no matter how many trumpets he opened.
Afterwards, if you collect resentment, use it to upgrade your alt.
After arriving home, Mouri Kogoro poured the contents of the document bag he had been holding onto the table. "Damn it! I must overturn his alibi!"
"What is that?" Mao Lilan changed into home clothes and watched Maori Kogoro busy with Conan.
Although Shirai Jiu who lived in the same room wanted to follow him back to the room, Maori Lan and Conan were watching, and it seemed very cold-blooded to go back to the room directly, so he could only stand aside boredly and watch Maori Kogoro mess around.
"This is that guy's itinerary and commemorative photos of the people in Kyushu!"
"Eh? Doesn't it matter if you get these evidences back?" Xiaolan was surprised.
"I specifically asked the Megure Police Department to lend it to me." Mouri Kogoro replied while looking at the photo. It seems that the Megure Police Department also feels that something is wrong with Yutaka Abe.
Xiaolan was also very interested in this case, and was thinking along the way, "But, dad, as long as he has the intention to kill, it is easy to travel back and forth in a short time if he is in the country."
"That's true," Mouri Kogoro sighed. It would be nice if it were that simple. "But I can't find any doubt in his alibi."
He picked up the photo and showed it to his daughter, "Especially between Wednesday evening and Thursday night when the crime may have been committed, his alibi is even more flawless!"
"I played mahjong all night with my staff on Wednesday night..."
“I took the bus to sightsee in the city again during the day on Thursday…”
“These are all proven by photos!”
"The time he was alone was only the two hours he said he would take a nap on Thursday morning."
"In this short period of time, it is impossible to travel between Gunma and Kyushu where the body was found..."
Conan, who had been looking at the photo, felt a flash of light piercing his head - he discovered something fishy about the photo!
Just when he ran behind Kogoro Mouri and pretended to be innocent, he heard Shiraijiu's cold voice: "But there is a clock in every photo, as if he was deliberately taking photos to prove his alibi. Isn't this very suspicious?" ?”
