Oritis in the world of Detective Conan

Chapter 267: Xiao Golang in the Bar (Part 5)

In the bar, Kogoro Mouri wanted to say less to Inspector Megure on the grounds of protecting the client's identity information, but Miss Yuzuki told him directly that she had asked Kogoro Mouri to solve the mystery.

So, Inspector Megure turned his attention to the three suspects.

The three suspects who sat at the same table with the victim were Ms. Mika Kishiura, Mr. Kensaku Hatsumura, and Mr. Monpei Kogure. They had come to the bar to celebrate the birthday of the victim, who was also their boss.

"That is to say, one of these three people held a grudge against his boss and poisoned him to death, right?" Inspector Megure analyzed as he looked at the faces of the three men.

The three of them immediately became nervous.

"Please, wait a moment."

"We're really just here to help the Minister celebrate his birthday."

"We didn't kill the minister."

Maori Kogoro began to play steadily: "Didn't you three kill him together? You were peeking at me as a detective and whispering to each other."

"We were just saying there that you looked a lot like the sleeping Kogoro, that's all."

“I didn’t expect it to be me.”

"Besides, we have no motive to kill the minister."

Conan walked over and said, "But after your minister passed out, didn't you three talk about it together? It was the minister who forced you to buy him an expensive birthday present, and that made you very angry."

"Little brother, did you hear everything?" Miss Mika Kishura leaned over and asked Conan nervously.

"Well, because I have very good hearing. And I also heard that a person that your minister despised very much committed suicide. His name was Ji-san. And that Ji-san and you, onee-san, you two were a couple before."

"Oh, you have really good hearing, little detective." Jack's voice appeared in Conan's ears again.

Conan jumped up like a cat whose tail was stepped on: "Ah, don't keep following me!"

"What's wrong with following you? What can you do to me?" Jack directly ruffled Conan's hair.

"Ahhh!" Conan, who couldn't bear it anymore, pushed Jack's hand away and held his head with both hands to protect his hair.

Jack: Fun.

[Antique Dealer: You can only bully Conan.]

[Jack: I seriously suspect you're all targeting me. First, Miss Evelyn has the same invisibility ability as me, and now Miss Wendy can even use my mist blades directly!]

[Night Watchman: This weather bottle can make wind and rain, but can it also make snow?]

[Meteorologist: Um, I'm not sure about that. I'll try Leo's memory map later.]

Inspector Megure noticed Jack playing with Conan and asked, "Who is this gentleman?"

Maori Kogoro rushed forward to explain: "This is the steward of the Melody family. I met him when I attended the banquet before."

Inspector Megure's eyes flashed with a half-moon light: "With you at the banquet that day, no accidents happened. The Melody family is quite lucky."

Conan’s inner thoughts: In fact, something really happened, but you just don’t know it.

Afterwards, Inspector Megure confirmed the authenticity of what Conan said with the three people.

Kishiura Mika admitted the incident and also revealed the relationship between the other two and Yoshi-san: "Hatsumura is Yoshi-san's senior in college, and Kogure joined the company at the same time as Yoshi-san."

Kogure Monpei hurriedly explained, "We only bought pool cues and darts. No matter what, we wouldn't kill anyone for these things."

"Yes, we just take turns playing games with the captain." Hatsumura Kensaku also explained.

Since Conan went back home several times to explain the situation to Xiaolan, he was not very clear about what happened in the store.

Jack explained the situation at this time: "Indeed, they had been drinking and having fun the whole time. The minister actually tried to shoot a hard dart at a target, which led to an argument with the other guests. In the end, it was those three who stepped in to mediate."

"Then they went to play billiards. The three of them took turns playing. While two of them were playing, the remaining one stayed at his seat with the minister."

Conan looked at Jack with an expression that said, "I can ask someone else, I don't need you to tell me."

Considering that these three people had the opportunity to attack the minister, Inspector Megure searched them.

The first one was Kensaku Hatsumura who brought a billiard cue. Kogoro Mori thought it was entirely possible that he could tie a poison needle to the top of the billiard cue, so that he would have the opportunity to stab the poison needle into the minister's neck.

Jack immediately leaned over to Conan and said, "I think Detective Maori is the real criminal artist. He even came up with such an artistic method of killing. I am ashamed of myself."

Conan's eyes twitched: Uncle, what are you doing, uncle!

Hatsumura Kensaku was completely stunned: "Huh? Are you kidding me? If I make such an obvious move, someone will definitely see it!"

Apparently no one saw him do anything like that, so this method of killing, which Jack considered artistic, was rejected.

Next came Monpei Kogure, who bought some darts. Kogoro Mouri thought that he had coated the tip of the dart with poison and then threw the dart to stab the poison needle into the minister's neck.

Jack shook his head. "It's obvious this gentleman has never played darts before. How can he guarantee a perfect shot with his poor aim?"

Conan thought so too, but he subconsciously moved a few steps in the opposite direction of Jack.

Inspector Megure immediately took the dart to the forensic department to test whether there were any poison residues on it.

Finally, it was Mika Kishura, who brought a signed poster and several rolls of film.

Conan went up to the wet poster and smelled it, smelling the aroma of grapefruit. At the same time, Inspector Megure opened the poster, which surprised Maori Kogoro: "This, this, this is..."

Could it be that his uncle has also discovered this? Conan looked at Maori Kogoro with a surprised expression.

"Isn't this Ms. Yoko's autographed poster? And it features a photo of her in a fantastical bikini!"

Conan showed his half-moon eyes: It turns out that I can’t rely on my uncle at this time.

At the same time, Kogoro Mouri also accused the three people of accidentally getting the poster wet, which simply destroyed the beauty of the entire picture.

The three of them explained somewhat helplessly: "The poster got wet when Kogure opened the champagne."

Inspector Megure noticed the rolls of film beside him: "Come to think of it, you seem to have taken several rolls of photos. Is your captain someone who likes photography very much?"

"Yes, that's the photo the minister wants to put on his blog," explained Mika Kishura.

Hatsumura Kensaku also said: "In fact, the work of selecting photos to upload is also done by us."

Kogure Monpei added, "Because the Minister is a digital idiot..."

"Even though this is the case, they still try to imitate others by starting a blog to pretend to be trendy."

"However, it seems that I don't have to choose photos now, which is a blessing in disguise. However, no one would kill for such a reason."