Oritis in the world of Detective Conan

Chapter 181 Conan in the Secret Room (Part 3)

After a while, Xiaolan came out with a bowl of Chinese cold noodles and looked for Conan: "Conan, where have you been?"

"If you're looking for that little brat, he said he was going to Mr. Ishiguri's room, so the two of them went to the second floor together because the air conditioner in this room seemed to be a bit broken." Sonoko said from the side.

The two people went upstairs and knocked on the door, but there was no response. Thinking that Conan was asleep, Xiaolan left with peace of mind after feeling the cool air coming from the gap in the door.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Ishiguri still hadn't come out of the room, which made everyone in the living room a little worried. At this time, they heard the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground from upstairs.

Conan was awakened by the sound and got up from the bed. He suddenly felt that the room was extremely hot. Then he saw the body of Mr. Ishikuri blocking the door.

Outside the door, everyone had gathered there. Miss Meidao found that the door was locked and asked Miss Taoyuan if she had a spare key. Miss Taoyuan said that the spare key to Mr. Ishiguri's room was missing since yesterday.

Mr. Takanashi suggested, "There's no other way. Although it's a bit dangerous, it seems we can only go to Ishikuri's room from the second-floor balcony to see what's going on."

However, both women expressed some fear, so Amuro Toru stepped forward and said, "In that case, let me open the lock directly. I'm actually very good at this kind of thing."

After some operations, Toru Amuro successfully pried open the lock.

[Acrobat: It seems like many people in the manor have the ability to pick locks.]

[Philanthropist: Picking a lock is a piece of cake, even our lawyers can do it.]

[Lawyer: I only pried open the secret door in the manor. I didn't pry open the cipher machine and steal its parts like you did.]

[Magician: These days, I can't leave the house without learning some skills.]

[Reporter: I'm still curious, how many locks are still unlocked in the manor?]

[Crazy Eyes: If you encounter a room you can't get into, just come to me and Bane. Don't just think about picking the lock all day long. I'll have to spend time repairing it.]

[Prisoner: But sometimes you don't seem too willing to deal with us, old man. We have no choice but to do it ourselves.]

[Mechanic: I broke the lock last time and fixed it, so it's nothing serious.]

[Crazy Eyes: You inventors are the manor's automatic troublemakers!]

[Madam Red: Honestly, the infrastructure in the manor really needs a renovation. That chandelier fell last time and almost hit someone.]

[Acrobat: Um, sorry, I think I broke the chandelier.]

[Crying Clown: The last time Mike turned into a noisy persona, he was doing a trapeze indoors and ended up hanging himself from a chandelier.]

[Explorer: Naib and I saw it when we were out having dinner. The upper body was hanging from the chandelier, and the lower body was standing on the dining table. The spring in the middle was stretched so long that I didn't know what to say.]

[Mercenary: In the end, Norton turned into Fool's Gold and knocked him down with a pickaxe, and then the chandelier started to shake.]

[Dancer: So it was you who caused the chandelier to fall and overturn the dining table last time?]

[Batter: Luckily, the guys preparing at the table that day reacted quickly and didn't get hit.]

[Toy Merchant: But the situation was indeed very scary.]

[Novelist: Frederick dodged the falling chandelier, but he couldn't avoid the bowl of cream of mushroom soup.]

[Composer: Didn’t you also crawl out from behind the stool with spaghetti all over your head? How dare you laugh at me?]

[Madam Red: That's why I stopped it. This kind of thing happened, it's really...]

[Crazy Eyes: ...Looks like I'll have to do a comprehensive inspection of the manor's equipment in a few days.]

When Toru Amuro opened the door, it was blocked by something and could only be opened a crack.

Conan, looking anxious, was in the crack of the door: "Don't open it! Because the body of Mr. Ishiguri is blocking the door."

"what?"

Even though it was very hot in the room, Conan still broke out in a cold sweat: How could it be another murder case in a locked room?

After everyone called the police, Officer Yokomizo rushed to the scene. He thought it was just an accident, but Conan thought it was not that simple. It was definitely a murder, and the murderer was one of the other three.

In order to prevent Officer Yokomizo from not believing it, Conan immediately brought out Maori Kogoro as a cover: "I think if it were Uncle Kogoro, he would definitely feel the same way."

Officer Yokomizo, who is Kogoro Mori's biggest fan, immediately became happy: "So Mr. Mori is here after all?"

Officer Yokomizo then asked Conan why he was in the room, and Conan replied that he was hit by a tennis racket in the morning.

Officer Yokomizo noticed that the air conditioning in the room was turned off and there was a melted ice cream cake on the table.

In the living room, after listening to Inspector Yokomizo's explanation, Maori Kogoro still felt that this case was just an ordinary accident: "Normally speaking, how could a criminal who is so intelligent as to build a locked room use such a technique that would be immediately exposed when committing a crime?"

"I think the criminal probably made two miscalculations when he committed the crime," Amuro Toru said. "The first miscalculation was probably that he didn't expect Conan to be in the room."

"The second surprise was that Mr. Amuro couldn't have pried open the locked door," the acrobat added, tossing a tennis ball. "If it weren't for those two surprises, everyone would have had to go from the balcony to check inside the room."

Amuro Toru glanced at the acrobat and nodded. "That's right. Because of these two accidents, Mr. Ishikuri's body was discovered early. As a result, Conan, who was in the room, discovered that the blood had already dried up. This means that the murderer's plan to fake the time of death by using temperature has failed."

"You've done a great job, Conan." Toru Amuro bent down and approached Conan and said.

Conan could only smile awkwardly. After knowing that Amuro Toru was Bourbon, he became wary of Amuro Toru.

Officer Yokomizo, standing by, was a little unhappy and whispered to Maori Kogoro, "By the way, who is he anyway?"

"He's my number one disciple, detective."

"What? The number one disciple?" Officer Yokomizo was shocked.

"Yes, because he was deeply moved by my reasoning."

The unyielding Officer Yokomizo said he felt he was Kogoro Mori's number one disciple.

The acrobat on the side couldn't help laughing when he saw this scene, and accidentally dropped the tennis ball in his hand to the ground.

Toru Amuro picked up the falling tennis ball in time, but he felt that the feel of this red "tennis ball" seemed different from other tennis balls, and there was a smell of gunpowder.

The acrobat quickly took his incendiary bomb back from Amuro Toru's hand: "Thank you, Mr. Amuro, for helping me get the ball back."

Amuro Toru frowned, but he didn't pay much attention to it and simply replied, "You're welcome."

Afterwards, several people continued to investigate the case.