Chapter 326: The truth under the mask

　　 January 12, after midnight, Kojima.
　　 In the living room, besides the police, there is a young woman and a middle-aged man.
　　 After hearing what Maori said, the young woman asked, "Who are you and why do you say this?"
　　 "You should be a detective Mr. Kogoro Mori?" the middle-aged man said, "It's great that you can come."
　　 "Do you know me too?" Maori asked.
　　 The middle-aged man smiled and said, "Of course, in Tokyo, who doesn't know you, Mr. Mori."
　　 "Really?" Maori laughed.
　　 After carefully looking at the body, Conan asked in a low voice, "Is there anything wrong with it?"
　　 "Yes," Yamazaki said, "but I haven't figured out what's wrong for the time being."
　　 Conan asked, "What about Mr. Quan?"
　　 "I don't know." Yamazaki said, "It's normal to come to Uncle Maori when this kind of thing happens, whether you come to your uncle for help or come to your uncle to do an alibi for him."
"Ah!" Interrupting Mori, the police department Megome said, "Okay, everyone is here, let's start. This time there are three suspects, all of whom are acquaintances of the president Ikuko Kojima, who runs a home appliance business. First of all, this is Mr. Izumi Takeo, who is in the securities business. The time he came here is 8 o'clock, and the time he left here is 8:40."
　　 "Wait a minute," Maori asked, "Megome Police Department, how do you know the exact time?"
　　 "This is a high-end apartment, equipped with cameras." The Megumi Police Department said, "The time they went in and out here has been completely recorded."
　　 "That's how it is," Maori said.
　　 Yamazaki asked, "Megome Police Department, can you let it go and take a look?"
"Yes." The Megumi Police Department immediately ordered his subordinates to play it, then pointed to the young woman, and looked at the screen and said, "This is the victim's daughter, Miss Chihiro. She came here at 8:50, and then at nine. At the same time, the security of the community came here once. At that time, Ms. Kojima opened the door. You see, she had already put on the mask and was wearing loose clothes at that time."
　　 Maori asked, "Why did the security guard come over?"
　　 Mumu Police Department said: "The security guard said that a cat accidentally touched the alarm device."
　　 "That's how it is," Maori said.
　　 Seeing on the screen that Miss Chihiro pressed the doorbell and then opened the door with the key, Yamazaki asked, "Miss Chihiro, why is this?"
　　 "This," Chihiro-san said, "I suddenly remembered that I was carrying the key."
　　 "Miss Chihiro left at nine ten ten." Meguro Police Department said, "Mr. Yoshioka arrived here at nine ten twenty."
　　 "Wait a minute," Yamazaki asked, pointing to the screen where Mr. Yoshioka opened the door to enter the room, "Mr. Yoshioka, is this door open?"
　　 "Yes." Mr. Yoshioka said, "There is no lock, it can be opened as soon as it is turned."
　　 "Miss Chihiro," Maori asked, "Can you explain it?"
　　 "This," said Miss Chihiro, "maybe my mother might not have heard me close the door in the room."
　　 "The time when Mr. Yoshioka left here was 9:31." The Meguro police department asked, "Huh? Mr. Yoshioka, what did you hold when you went out?"
　　 "This..." Mr. Yoshioka was speechless.
　　 Mori asked, "Did you harm President Kojima for that thing?"
　　 "No, no, it's not." Mr. Yoshioka quickly shook his hand.
　　 "Where's the thing?" Megome police department asked.
　　 "In, in my car." Mr. Yoshioka said.
　　 The police department immediately ordered the department to go down and take it, and then said: "The police received the call at 9:31."
　　 Mori asked, "In that case, Mr. Yoshioka, you called from outside? There seems to be a phone here. If you are not a prisoner, why don't you call the police here?"
　　 "Well, it's always unpleasant to face the remains," Mr. Yoshioka said, "that's why I ran back to my car and made a mobile phone call."
　　 "This is not unreasonable." Maori said.
　　 "From 9:20 to 9:31," Conan said, "Brother Yamazaki, did he stay in there for eleven minutes?"
　　 "Huh?" Megome Police Department asked, "Mr. Yoshioka, can you explain?"
　　 At this time, a police officer came over with a document bag and handed it to the Mumu Police Department.
　　Momemo police department looked at it and said, "That's it, it turns out that you embezzled public funds."
　　 Maori said, "And this is the report made after the company's investigation."
　　 "If this matter is known to the authorities, then my life will be over." Mr. Yoshioka said, "That's why I came here to beg her."
　　 Maori said, "But because you didn't talk about it pleasantly, you strangled her to death."
"No, when I came here, the president was already dead." Mr. Yoshioka said, "I am afraid that if this document is discovered, I will be the first to be suspected, so it took a while. After finding this document, I went out to call the police."
　　 Maori smiled and said, "Who would believe you."
　　Megome Police Department said, "Mr. Yoshioka, what else do you want to say..."
　　 "Wait a minute, Megome Police Department." Yamazaki asked, "Mr. Yoshioka, do you have an appointment with Ms. Kojima?"
　　 "This is not an appointment, but the president should know that I will come to her." Mr. Yoshioka said.
　　 "That's the case." Yamazaki said, "Uncle, since Ms. Kojima has an appointment with a subordinate, then..."
　　 "Then I won't wear this kind of home furnishings and put on the mask." Mori said, and then asked, "Sir, when is Ms. Kojima's death?"
　　Momemo Police Department said: "For the time being, I think it is between 9:10 and 9:20."
　　 "Ah, I see," Maori smiled. "The prisoner is you—Miss Chihiro."
"What nonsense are you talking about? How could I harm my mother?" Miss Chihiro pointed to Mr. Izumi and said, "Then this person is also suspected. He can completely enter the room from other places after going out. And I know him. There is also motivation. He made a mistake in investing in stocks, causing my mother to lose nearly 300 million yen. My mother is looking for him to settle accounts." Then he pointed to Mr. Yoshioka and said, "He can also come early and use the camera to come. Make an alibi."
"We have checked. Except for the main entrance, all the doors and windows are locked from the inside," the police department said, "In other words, unless you are accomplices and locked the doors and windows for the prisoner, otherwise. There is only one way for prisoners to enter and exit this room, and they will definitely appear in the camera."
"It takes at least an hour and a half to get to my office here. If Mr. Quan leaves for the office after 9:20, then it is impossible to wait there before I return to the office because I am about I returned to the office at 10:40." Mouri said, "So, Miss Chihiro, you are the prisoner. After you assaulted Ms. Kojima, the alarm outside suddenly went off, and the community security Come knock on the door, in order to deal with the security, you put on your mother's clothes, put on a mask, pretended to be your mother, Ms. Kojima, and sent the security guard, and then came back to change the clothes and mask for the mother who was assaulted by you, and then I hurried out, so the door was not locked, because there was no way to unlock it."
　　 It turned out that the mask was wrong, Yamazaki and Conan glanced at each other and laughed together.
　　 "That's right, Maori." The Megumi police department smiled, and then said to Miss Chihiro, "If you still have a motive..."
　　 "She has." Mr. Yoshioka said, "The president has cut off relations with her a long time because of her marriage partner, and her husband is still in prison."
　　 "You don't need to talk too much," Miss Chihiro said, "Even if I am at odds with mom, there is no need to kill her."
　　 Mr. Yoshioka replied, "I heard that the last time you borrowed money from the president, she was severely rejected by her. Didn't your mother and daughter have a big fight over this?"
　　 "If this is the case," the Meguro Police Department said, "Miss Chihiro..."
"No, my mother was already like this when I came," said Ms. Chihiro, "I quarrel with my mother every time we meet. Everyone knows this. Based on this, you might think that I harmed my mother. , So... believe it, it wasn't me."
　　 "Megome Police Department," Yamazaki asked, "Since the victim has been put on makeup, can you take a look?"
　　 "Yes," the Meguro police department said, and then ordered his hands to go down and uncover Ms. Kojima's mask. Underneath was a very distorted remains.
　　 Looking at the scar under the mask, extending to the base of the ear, Yamazaki asked, "Megome Police Department, can you ask, what is the murder weapon?"
　　 Mumu Police Department said: "The mark is relatively wide, and it is preliminary judged to be a wide rope like a small scarf."
　　 "Uncle Maori, what do you think?" Yamazaki said, holding Conan in front of him with his arm, and said to him, "Don't run around."
　　 "It's an arm." Mouri said, "Megome Police Department, the prisoner strangled Ms. Kojima with his arm. There must be physical contact between them."
　　Momemo Police Department asked, "Miss Chihiro, where is Ms. Kojima's original clothes?"
　　 Chihiro-san said, "It's in the cupboard." She took out a set of clothes on the hanger from the cupboard.
　　 The police department immediately called for forensics to come and check.
　　 Yamazaki asked, "Miss Chihiro, when you opened the door, was the door really locked?"
　　 Chihiro-san said, "If you say that, when I opened the door, the door didn't seem to be locked."
　　 "The door is unlocked?" Maori asked, "Mr. Quan, did you do this thing?"
　　 Izumi Takeo asked, "How is this possible?"
　　 "It's a confession now that you surrendered." Yamazaki smiled, "If you find the fibers in Ms. Kojima's clothes in a while..."
　　 Izumi Takeo Qiang smiled and said, "How is this possible?"
　　 Conan said, "Hey, what's the inside of Ms. Kojima's nails..."
　　 "It's impossible," Izumi Takeo's face changed drastically, "I obviously..."
　　 "Oh, Mingming!" asked the Megome police department, "Mr. Izumi Takeo, what did you obviously do?"
　　 "Obviously I cleaned the contents of the nails." Maori asked with a smile, "Is that right?"
　　 "Let's talk about it." Megome police department shouted.
　　 "I always invested according to the president's words, but I did not expect that when the investment made a mistake, she pushed all the responsibility on me." Mr. Quan said.
　　 Mori asked, "So you were afraid of the defendant, so you removed Ms. Kojima first?"
　　 "The real reason is that she actually did it on purpose." Mr. Quan said.
　　 "Intentionally?" Megome Police Department asked.
　　 "She took a fancy to my parents' land, and she used this to force my parents to let them use the land to compensate." Mr. Quan said angrily, "I really can't forgive her for implicating my parents in."
　　 "What about now?" Yamazaki said, "The land is lost, and the people are gone."
　　 "I, I don't want it either." Mr. Quan cried out, "She forced me."
　　 "If you have anything, let's talk about it at the police station," the police department Megome said. ...
　　 In front of the Kojima house.
　　 Waiting for the police department to lead away, Maori smiled and said, "Good job, to reward you, I will ask you to eat."
　　 "Really?" Conan asked.
　　 "Uncle Maori, have you charged the commission?" Yamazaki asked with a smile.
　　 "Ah!" Maori shouted, "I forgot."
　　 "I see we go home." Yamazaki said, "Ran should still be waiting for you."
　　 Maori said: "You are right, it is too late."...
　　 At about two o'clock in the morning, at the door of Mei Dai Restaurant.
　　 Yamazaki said: "You go back first, I'll call Lan down." Then he went upstairs, then opened the unlocked door and returned home.
　　 In the living room, Miyamoto Ichiro was watching TV news with Miko Miyamoto, watching Yamazaki come in, Miko Miyamoto said: "Let’s go to rest, let Midako go to sleep." After speaking, he got up and turned off the TV.
　　 "I see." Yamazaki smiled, "Good night dad~EbookFREE.me~good night mom." Then he walked to the door of the entertainment room and knocked.
　　 After a while, the door opened. It was Lan.
　　 Lan's face is a bit bad, "Yamazaki, my father and Conan are back."
　　 Yamazaki said, "Yes."
　　, who was playing the game, Mei Daizi turned her head and said, "You are back, brother."
　　 "Mei Daizi, turn off the phone and go to bed." Yamazaki said.
　　Mei Daizi said without looking back, "Go to the archive now."
　　 Lan said, "Mei Daizi, then I'm leaving."
　　Mei Daizi said, "I'll play again next time."
　　Looking at Lang paused, Yamazaki smiled and said, "I will send you off."
　　 "Thank you," Lan said.
　　 Sending Lan to the entrance of the Maori's corridor, Yamazaki smiled and said, "If you can't sleep, Conan can be used as a doll."
　　 Lan smiled and said, "Thank you."
　　 Yamazaki returned home, Mei Daizi had cleaned up, and after saying good night to each other, they went back to their respective rooms.
After Lan came home to wash, she lay on the bed thinking of the scary zombies in the game and couldn't sleep. Thinking of Yamazaki, she got off the bed and came to Maori's room with the blanket, watching Maori and Conan whirring. He fell asleep, put the bedding next to Conan's bed, and then said to Conan who was awakened by her: "Good night, Conan." He closed his eyes.
　　 "Huh?" Conan, who couldn't figure out his head for a while, fell asleep in his wild thoughts. ...