Chapter 1484: Height difference incident

　　 On the afternoon of Friday, January 28, on the way out of school at Didan High School.
　　 Yamazaki, Meidaizi, Yuanzi, and Ran met Conan, and then ran into Officer Takagi's car, so they stepped forward to watch.
　　 Seeing Officer Takagi getting off the car, Conan immediately ran up, "Officer Takagi, what are you doing here?"
　　 "Oh, there is an incident that requires the assistance of the owner of this western restaurant to investigate."
　　 "Conan." Ran came and caught Conan, "Sorry, Officer Takagi."
　　 Watching Officer Takagi take away a middle-aged man with a cast on his foot, everyone continued to go home. ...
　　 January 29, Saturday, morning, Maori Detective Agency.
　　 Police Officer Takagi came to Maori, "Mr. Maori, can you help me deal with an incident?"
　　 "Of course you can," Mouri said, and then went to ask Lan to call Yamazaki.
　　 "Is that the incident yesterday?" Conan was very excited, and there was another tricky incident.
　　 "Yes." Officer Takagi responded. ...
　　 The day before yesterday, that is, around six o'clock in the evening on Thursday, a small workshop president named Kitamura Katsugoro was killed in his office.

It was already off work at that time, so the body of President Kitamura was found the next day, yesterday morning.
Officer Takagi said,
According to our investigation of the factory employees, President Kitamura stayed in the factory that night with someone called Meet the owner of the western restaurant of Yuichi Nantian."
　　Lan asked, "Is that the western restaurant owner you took away yesterday?"
"Yes." Officer Takagi said, "It has been confirmed from the staff of President Kitamura that the owner of Nantian owes President Kitamura 3 million yen, and President Kitamura wants a piece of land owned by the owner of Nantian, which is in Kitamura. Next to the president’s workshop, so that the president of Kitamura can expand the area of ​​the land, and the light processing industry engaged in by the president’s workshop is basically free of land pollution. At that time, he can find a way to convert the entire land from an industrial land to Commercial land, or mixed land, can turn a workshop into a shopping mall and make a big deal."
　　 "This abacus is really loud," said Maori, "but I lost my life because of this."
　　 "Yes, in this homicide, the suspect is clear, and the suspect's motive for killing the victim is also clear," Officer Takagi smiled bitterly, "but the method of committing the crime is a bit troublesome."
　　 "What kind of technique?" Conan asked.
　　 "Use the height difference." Officer Takagi said, "To be specific, let's go to the scene and talk about it."
　　 "Okay, let's go," Maori said. ...
　　 On the spot, Kitamura Katsugoro's president's office.
　　 The white line representing the remains means that someone is dead here, and a large pool of blood on the chest has turned black, and the smell is still a bit pungent, as if the wronged soul is staying.
　　 "The owner of Nantian Yuichi is a man with a criminal record," Officer Takagi said. "About ten years ago, he was involved in a murder and was regarded as an important suspect until the police caught the murderer."
　　 Maori asked, "What is the connection between that incident and this incident?"
"At that time, the prosecutor had already prosecuted the Nantian store owner, but the defense lawyer produced a piece of evidence. The angle of the wound on the victim proved that the Nantian store owner's figure cannot kill from that angle, and we arrested The murderer finally proved this.
Officer Takagi said,
and this murder also took advantage of the height difference.

　　 "What kind of height difference is that?" Conan asked.
　　 "That's it, Mr. Yamazaki, please do me a favor."
　　 Police officer Takagi brought Yamazaki and moved two dolls from outside. "The two dolls represent the president of Kitamura and the owner of Nantian. The height of the president of Kitamura is 166 cm, and the height of the owner of Nantian is 186 cm."
　　 "The difference is twenty centimeters," Lan said.
　　 "However, President Kitamura's center knife angle is very low," Officer Takagi said. "A person as low as about 110 centimeters can be stabbed from that angle."
　　 "110 cm high?" Lan said suspiciously, "then there are only children."
　　 "It's easy," Maori said, "just a swing of the wrist, not a stab, but an upward stabbing."
"President Kitamura is a frontal knife, and he himself is a master of judo. The shopkeeper Nantian doesn't know much about martial arts, and he injured his foot a week ago. Now he is still in plaster. We have confirmed this." Officer Takagi said. "So the Nantian store owner cannot use it to attack President Kitamura from the front."
　　 "Oh, that's interesting." Maori pondered.
　　 Yamazaki said, "Restore the scene."
　　 "Is it the triangular ladder in the corner?" Conan said, "President Kitamura is standing on it, and Mr. Nantian is sitting on the ground."
　　 "Yes, that's it." Officer Takagi smiled, "Conan, you are really smart."
　　 Looking at Maori's unkind eyes, Conan smiled dryly: "This is all that Uncle Maori taught well."
　　 Police officer Takagi put the doll representing President Katsugoro Kitamura on the triangular ladder, and let the doll representing the shopkeeper Nanda Yuichi sit on the ground.
　　 put a knife in the hands of the doll representing Yuichi Nantian, representing the murder weapon, an ordinary kitchen knife.
　　 "The situation at that time should be like this." Officer Takagi said.
　　 "Since everything is clear," Maori asked, "what's the problem?"
　　 "That's the evidence, Mr. Mori." Officer Takagi smiled wryly, "This scene is just a guess, and we have no evidence to prove this scene."
　　 Maori asked: "This triangular ladder..."
"This is a substitute. The genuine one is in the Metropolitan Police Department. It was in the corner at the time. There were no blood stains or fingerprints on it. It is not certain that President Kitamura was killed standing on it." Officer Takagi smiled bitterly, "On the murderous knife. There is also no fingerprint of the Nantian shopkeeper, so we can only prove that the shopkeeper Nantian has been here, but there is no way to prove that the shopkeeper Nantian murdered President Kitamura here."
　　 "So that's the case." Maori smiled, "Then take out all the photos of the scene and see what else you find."
Officer Takagi took out a photo of the scene, "President Katsugoro Kitamura wears a pair of glasses on his face. It is a pair of reading glasses. He didn't wear shoes on his feet, so we thought he was climbing on the triangular ladder. Seeing something, I guessed it to restore the scene."
　　 "Then what would he do when standing on a ladder?" Lan looked at the ceiling.
　　 "There are only lights on it, but we did not find fingerprints." Officer Takagi said.
　　 "That means, the murderer wiped it off afterwards," said Maori.
　　 "The murderer should have also stepped on the triangular ladder," Conan said, "so the triangular ladder was also wiped afterwards."
　　 Yamazaki said: "This incident has a coincidence factor."
　　 "What do you say?" Officer Takagi asked.
"I don’t know if it was the luck of Mr. Nantian Yuichi, or the misfortune of Mr. Kitamura Katsugoro. After Mr. Kitamura stood on the triangular ladder and hit the knife, he did not splash a drop of blood on the ladder, nor did a drop of blood fall on the ground. The blood dripped from the place." Yamazaki said, "This led to the lack of an important part of this incident. It was impossible to prove that Mr. Kitamura was attacked on the ladder, and there was no way to prove that Mr. Nantian was sitting on the ground. "
　　 "It seems to be like this," Lan said.
　　 "I mean," Officer Takagi smiled wryly, "That's why I want to ask Mr. Mori for help."
　　 Yamazaki shook his head, and slipped away on the pretext that it was not early to go home for dinner.
　　 The detective's job is to sort out messy clues. It is not a born out of nothing. Now there is nothing in the key evidence. No matter how many clues are found, it is not enough to prove anything. You can only start from the prisoner.
What I’m looking for is a psychologist. If this cannot break through the prisoner’s defenses, then it’s useless. Even if a prosecutor tries to prosecute the prisoner for justice, it’s useless, because any lawyer can use insufficient evidence. The breakthrough made the prosecutor speechless. ...
　　 At noon, Miyamoto's.
　　Mei Daiko’s breakfast and other people’s lunches, Yamazaki talked about the incident between Kitamura Katsugoro and Nanda Yuichi.
　　 "It sounds a bit weird." Mei Daizi laughed.
　　 Miko Miyamoto thought for a while and wanted to ask: "Do you think that if the knife is in the chest, but no blood is spilled, it can cause this result. What is the reason?"
　　 Mei Daizi said, "There is no blood slot on the knife."
Yamazaki said: "The amount of bleeding, the oozing and splashing blood at that moment, happened to be absorbed by the underwear and loose-fitting coat worn by Kitamura Katsugoro. At the same time, Kitamura Katsugoro fell backward, so a drop of blood It didn't drip onto the triangular ladder."
　　 "These are two." Miko Miyamoto said, "There is one more."
　　 Seeing Yamazaki and Mi Daiko didn't think of it for a moment, Miyamoto Ichiro said, "Hands steady."
　　 "By the way, the hand is steady." Mei Daizi said, "This way the knife does not move, and there will be no more bleeding space."
　　 "Remember a porch murder that was published in the newspaper a few days ago?" Miko Miyamoto said, "The blood of the deceased was splashed out, and the prisoner prepared two raincoats for this."
"Mr. Nantian Yuichi is the owner of a western restaurant, so naturally he will be able to take a knife. In addition, he is determined, so he is merciless, and there is no hesitation," Yamazaki imagined, "Mr. Kitamura Katsugoro climbed the triangular ladder. At that time, Mr. Nanda Yuichi sitting on the ground suddenly got into trouble and stabbed him in the chest of Mr. Kitamura Katsugoro above. The bleeding of this knife was sucked away by Kitamura Katsugoro's clothes. At the same time, Mr. Kitamura Katsugoro fell down. Not a drop of blood dripped."
　　 "Wait," Mei Daizi swallowed the food in her mouth, "If the prisoner prepared two raincoats for the previous incident, what did the prisoner prepare for this incident? As long as you find this, you should be able to solve the case."
　　 "This idea is good." Miko Miko said with a smile, "But, in this incident, except for the murderous knife, everything else has clever points."
　　 "Why?" Mei Daizi said, "It should be the prisoner who made tampering with the lamp, and the victim would climb the ladder."
　　 "If the light is not on, do you have to fix it?" Miko Miyamoto smiled, "I remember that the chandelier in your bedroom is broken, and it is often only a few days later that I call for someone to fix it."
　　 "That's different." Mei Daizi said, "I have a lamp and a wall lamp."
　　 "I think the same." Miko Miyamoto said, "Unlike the incident published in the newspaper, in this incident, only the time for the crime is scheduled."
　　 "Indeed, everything is under calculation for the people who came to answer the door," Yamazaki said, "and there are many accidents and coincidences in this incident."
　　 "I don't understand." Mei Daizi said.
　　 Miko Miyamoto asked, "Do you know why the prisoner set the time for the crime after get off work?"
　　 "What about this?" Mei Daizi thought while biting her chopsticks, "Because at that time it was only him and the victim, because there would be no one else after get off work."
　　 "Very good." Miko Miyamoto asked, "What then?"
　　 Mei Daizi thought for a while, "I don't understand."
　　 "Then he has plenty of time to deal with the aftermath." Yamazaki said.
　　 "Yes, he is alone." Mei Daizi said.
"So, unlike the murder at the door, Mr. Yuichi Nantian doesn't need to prepare anything at all. Just take the determination, the knife, and the brain. No matter what the situation is after killing Kitamura Katsugoro, he has one. "Go to the aftermath at night," Yamazaki said, "The only thing you need to pay attention to is that if Mr. Kitamura Katsugoro can't be killed with a single shot, Mr. Nantian Yuichi will be in trouble, because he is already injured, so this cut, Mr. Nantian Yuichi I must have expected it many times, from various angles."
　　 "Well, it is true." Mei Daizi said, and then asked, "Wait, did his leg injury mean it?"
　　 "This should not be, it should be just a coincidence." Yamazaki said, "Although having an injury can relax one's vigilance, having an injury can also affect actions."
　　 "There are so many coincidences," Mei Daizi said.
　　 "It's a curse if we lose our horses," Miko Miyamoto said.
"The first coincidence of this incident is time." Yamazaki said ~EbookFREE.me~ If the hands and feet on the lamp were made by Mr. Yuichi Nantian, then it must be the only one Mr. Yuichi Nantian was in the office. In other words, when Mr. Nantian Yuichi went to meet with Mr. Kitamura Katsugoro, Mr. Kitamura asked Mr. Nantian Yuichi to wait for him in the office, and he was..."
　　 "Check his workshop," Mei Daizi smiled, "It's like our restaurant is closing."
"Mr. Nantian Yuichi happened to have experienced a homicide related to the height difference. He, who was killed on the spot, must have a deep memory of that incident and will never forget it." Yamazaki said, "So when he was alone in the office, he had an idea. Tricks on the lamps to try to create a favorable situation."
　　 "Understood, and by coincidence, the victim really went to repair the lamp," Mei Daizi said, "Oh, maybe he inspired it."
"Then Yuichi Nanda killed Kitamura Katsugoro with a single blow. By coincidence, there was no blood dripping out, which saved a lot of things." Yamazaki said, "And because of this, there is no sufficient evidence for the whole incident. "
　　 "Yeah, I understand now." Mei Daizi said. ...
　　 At night, Meidai Restaurant.
　　Moori came over for a drink and brought new news about the incident by the way. The staff of Kitamura Katsugoro said that he has a strong hands-on ability. If the lamp breaks, he usually repairs it himself.
　　 Therefore, Yuichi Nantian must have broken the light fixture, inducing Kitamura Katsugoro to climb up the triangular ladder, and then gave him a knife.
　　 Yamazaki is speechless. The important thing is not to prove whether Kitamura Katsugoro climbed up the triangular ladder to repair the lamps, but the important thing is to prove whether Kitamura Katsugoro was assassinated on the triangular ladder.
　　 As long as there is no blood on the triangular ladder, it cannot be assumed that Kitamura Katsugoro was assassinated on the triangular ladder. ...