Standing on the edge of the cliff where the vehicle exploded after falling, because the explosion just now was so shocking, everyone who had gone back to their rooms to rest was also awakened and ran outside the hotel to the edge of the cliff where thick smoke was rising.
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After hearing Hattori Heiji's explanation, Fujisawa Toshiaki had an expression of disbelief on his face and made a confused sound of surprise.
In response to this, Hattori Heiji, who was putting his hands in his pants pockets and looking at the scene under the cliff, replied affirmatively:
"Yeah. The shop owner dressed as Sherlock Holmes just fell into the sea along with his car in front of my eyes."
"How could this happen? Master, he..."
After hearing the bad news, the waitress Hitomi Iwai couldn't accept it. She was so frightened that she cried. The faces of the others also all looked unhappy. They had no idea that Hiroyuki Kanaya, who had not shown up for a long time, would be here.
Such a time to die in this way——
"Ah...it must be suicide!"
However, at this moment, Kogoro, who came out behind everyone, looked like he had not woken up. He was yawning at what was happening now and said slowly and helplessly:
"I must be reluctant to let you get the first edition of "Sherlock Holmes", so you chose to rush down with that book."
"No, he might have been murdered."
But in response to this, Kento Toba on the side looked a little proud and excited, and refuted Kogoro's remarks.
But his attitude inevitably made other people present feel a little panic——
"I saw him falling, and the speed can be said to be quite slow. As long as you confuse or kill the shop owner in advance, get him into the car, and then change the car's gearbox to D, the car will automatically move forward.
ah."
Completely ignoring the atmosphere at the moment, Kento Toba explained slowly, as if to show off his intelligence, and pointed to the open garage over there:
"The possible location of the murderer's murder is obviously in the garage."
"turn out to be……"
Listening to Toba Kento's explanation, Fujisawa Toshiaki was surprised, but he had to agree and said:
"Then the murderer saw the car crash, pretended to hear the explosion and rushed here..."
"So...you mean, the murderer is among us?"
In response to this, Maria Toda on the side couldn't help but asked in surprise.
Toba Kento proudly pushed up the glasses on his face and said proudly:
"Yes, that should be it. And as far as the current situation is concerned, the suspect..."
"But why did the car speed up on the way?"
However, just when Kento Toba was so proud that he had not finished speaking, Hattori Heiji stepped forward and asked.
When he heard this statement, Toba Kento was stunned and a little at a loss.
"Although it was only for a moment, when we chased it and took a look, the car did accelerate on the way."
Conan also echoed.
"Look, it's suicide!"
After learning that the vehicle had accelerated, Kogoro continued:
"Whether you stun or kill the store manager in advance, it is impossible to speed up the vehicle on the way, so the store manager who was in the car at the time must be alive. After he saw you chasing the car, he chose to get rid of you
You stepped on the accelerator and accelerated out of the cliff. You guys have read too many mystery novels. Real cases don't have so many twists and turns."
"And there's something weird about it."
At this time, Hattori Heiji continued:
"There was a strange sound like wind coming from the car, and it was not the sound of the engine."
"It's not the engine sound? Then it must be the cold sound! It must be that the air conditioner was not turned off when the engine was turned off, but the air conditioner started blowing by itself as soon as the engine was started."
In this regard, Ikuo Kawazu guessed this, and Maria Toda also agreed with this statement and explained:
"Indeed, it's quite hot these days, and when we came here, the air conditioner in the car was always on."
Hearing this, Fujisawa Toshiaki felt helpless. He took out a cigarette and a lighter from his pocket, lit a cigarette, and complained as if he was relieved:
"What are you doing! Suicide disguised as homicide, true love caused a commotion! Even dressed up as Sherlock Holmes..."
"Hey, what a pity..."
In this regard, even Shimizu Nanako, who rarely talks about anything, said helplessly:
"The clothes of Sherlock Holmes, which were so well made... were burned like this..."
"ah?"
Hearing this, several people present were a little frightened by Shimizu Nanako's shocking words.
"Anyway, looking at the current situation, the body cannot be recovered. We'd better call the police quickly, and then go inside and wait for the police to arrive."
Helplessly, Kogoro suggested.
Therefore, everyone who thought this suggestion was reasonable planned to go back to the hotel and call the police.
Xiaolan, who was walking at the end, suddenly noticed that Conan and Hattori Heiji did not return with everyone. Instead, they were squatting on the dirt road, leaning down in front of the ruts left by the vehicles just passing by, and were looking seriously.
What to look for——
"What are you doing, Conan? Why are you looking at tire tracks?"
Feeling strange, Xiaolan came to Conan and asked curiously.
And Conan simply replied, "Well, I'm looking for something." After that, because he was looking for something very seriously, he bumped into Hattori Heiji, who was also looking for traces on the ground with him——
"it hurts!"
"Ah! It hurts!"
The two people's heads just hit each other, and they both covered their heads and shouted.
Seeing this, Xiaolan couldn't help but asked strangely:
"What's wrong Hattori, even you..."
"I don't know! I was just checking to see if the air conditioner was really turned on! Then I bumped into him..."
A little depressed, Hattori Heiji complained, but immediately, Hattori Heiji suddenly realized that something was not right——
"again?"
Thinking with some surprise, Hattori Heiji suddenly recalled the last time——
"Before, during the last incident, this guy also bumped into me who was looking for evidence..."
Thinking of this, Hattori Heiji also remembered what Gao Yuan said to him before coming here——
"If you are lucky, you will definitely meet Kudo here? Speaking of which, in the last incident, when Kudo appeared, this guy disappeared; and after Kudo left, this guy appeared again..."
Thinking this way, Hattori Heiji was suddenly stunned for a moment, and then shook his head vigorously——
"No, what am I thinking about? At this time, we should focus on the case! The hotel owner died like this, and the detective brother seemed to have specifically told me to keep an eye on him before I came here.
The organizer of this event... Damn it! What was the detective guy telling me at the time? Now that I think about it, it seems to be something related to the hotel owner being retaliated against, but I seem to have just interpreted that statement.
I thought it was a joke..."
At this moment, when Hattori Heiji was thinking, because there was not enough light outside to see clearly the specific conditions of the ruts, Conan complained about this, which attracted the attention of Oki Ayako.
I saw Oki Ayako taking out a lighter for the two of them to use for lighting. At the same time, everyone who had returned to the house also received bad news——
Everyone’s mobile phones that were taken away by the hotel owner were all smashed!
Hearing this, Conan and Hattori Heiji, who had already investigated the rut marks, suddenly realized——
Sure enough, this is definitely not a simple suicide!