Takagi Wataru quickly grabbed Officer Megure, who was so excited by Sano that he almost went berserk: “Calm down, calm down Officer Megure, we are handling a case now!”
“…”
Looking at the small brown ball struggling in Takagi Wataru’s arms, Sano ignored Toyama and Ye’s strange looks on the side and lit a cigarette for himself as if nothing had happened.
It was as if the culprit that caused Officer Megure’s collapse was not Sano at all.
…It wasn’t until a while later that the scene calmed down.
However, because the frustrated Officer Megure ran to the side and squatted down to draw circles, Takagi Wataru could only temporarily take over the commanding duties.
“Well, that…”
After laughing a few times at the relevant personnel at the scene, Takagi Wataru still felt that the cause of death of the deceased should be determined first.
“…It should be potassium cyanate.”
Hattori Heiji, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, saw that the investigation finally started, and he immediately jumped out, chattering a lot of analysis, all of which was saying that the cause of Urata Kohei’s death must be potassium cyanate. Poisoned.
…Speaking of which, among the cases caused by the halo of Conan, the God of Plague, there seem to have been many cases in which people were killed through poisoning.
What kind of poison were used in the previous ones?
…I seem to have forgotten.
Forget it, these are all insignificant things. Anyway, as long as there is a case that can be encountered by him, there will basically be at least a decent detective like Conan beside him. It is enough for someone with tools to handle such trivial matters.
Sano, who was determined not to learn these basic knowledge, stopped thinking and focused on Hattori Heiji, who took off his hat after his identity was questioned.
“…What are you talking about? It’s just that we haven’t seen each other for a while. Have you already forgotten about me?”
Hattori Heiji smiled: “It’s me, Kudo Shinichi.”
“…”
After a brief silence, the scene suddenly erupted into bursts of exclamations.
…This kid is actually planning this?
Sano, who was also surprised, finally understood why Hattori Heiji’s skin became so white. It turned out that he wanted to get Conan out of trouble.
It’s just… with this guy’s black skin, how much putty had to be applied to his face to become so white, wouldn’t it feel uncomfortable?
Are you so willing to suffer for Conan?
For a moment, music seemed to ring in Sano’s ears – if this is not love, then what is…
“…What are you doing, Heiji?”
But when the whole audience was shocked, Toyama Kazuha suddenly inserted himself between Hattori Heiji and Mao Liran, and reached out to wipe off a little foundation on each other’s faces.
“What did you put on your face?”
“He, He Ye!?”
Hattori Heiji never expected that his childhood sweetheart would be here and expose him in one fell swoop. Originally, he wanted to make one last struggle, but unfortunately the matter was completely exposed and everyone else could see that he was not the real one. Kudo Shinichi had no choice but to wipe the putty off his face and laughed loudly saying that he was just joking with everyone.
“But having said that, after this guy turned his face white, he does look quite similar to that guy Shinichi.”
Sano glanced at Suzuki Sonoko, who came to him at some point: “The good-looking ones are always similar, but the ugly ones have their own characteristics.”
Suzuki Sonoko blinked, pointed at herself with a smile and said: “Then I am similar to Xiaolan, senior?”
“There is definitely something about the facial features.”
Sano responded casually, causing Suzuki Sonoko to laugh even more stupidly after being stunned.
However, there is one thing to say. The similarity in body shape and facial features between Hattori Heiji and Kudo Shinichi does seem to be a little too high.
Although he is not as close to Kudo Shinichi’s twin brother as Kuroba Kaito, he looks exactly the same, but at first glance after turning white, it is really easy to confuse this guy with Kudo Shinichi.
That is to say, Toyama Kazuki, Hattori Heiji’s childhood sweetheart, is here. Otherwise, I just saw Mao Lilan’s reaction, and he might be able to be fooled.
…Only if this guy doesn’t speak.
After a small episode, the case is back on track.
The general situation and context gradually emerged.
There were three people in total who came to watch the play with Kohei Urata, namely——
There are two short-haired women, one is named Noda, with brown curly hair and is dressed more delicately, the other is called Mai, this one has black hair and is dressed more simply, and then there is a fat man named Mitani.
These three people and the deceased were all classmates of Didan High School, and all also participated in the drama club.
So it has become a tradition for the four of them to form a team to watch the play every year.
The place that was identified as poisoning was the drink next to the deceased’s body…technically, it was iced coffee.
Therefore, the suspects of poisoning are these three people.
The situation at that time was that four people were sitting in the same row, from outside to inside, Mai, Mitani, Noda, and Kohei Urata.
The drinks for the four of them were bought by Mai Ren. After giving them to Mitani, she went to the bathroom. Mitani then gave the iced coffee to Noda, who then passed it to the deceased.
In addition, Wuyi also mentioned that when she went to buy a drink, the deceased went to her, as if he was worried that she could not get it by herself and wanted to help.
I just don’t know why, but the deceased suddenly walked away with a blue face.
“…and walked away with a blue face. Did he see something?”
Just as Mouri Kogoro asked the question, another voice intervened: “I think he must have seen me.”
Several people followed the sound and saw that it was a girl wearing the uniform of Didan High School.
“Ayako?”
Wu Yi’s surprised voice showed that the other party was not just an ordinary passerby.
…It turns out that Ayako is the daughter of the director of the Miwa General Hospital where they work, and she was the one who was responsible for refilling the drinks for the foursome.
“In other words, the only person who can poison a drink is you, right?”
Mouri Kogoro frowned and began to make his own reasoning, questioning several people who might have poisoned him, but unfortunately they were all beaten back with their own excuses.
So far, a new suspect has been added to the case and it has temporarily reached a deadlock.
It was not until a while later that Takagi Wataru took out the creamer and syrup that had not been torn open from the pocket of the deceased’s body, and the case began to advance slowly again.
“… Mr. Urata usually likes black coffee when he drinks coffee.”
Officer Megure, who was finally revived, asked.
“No, I remember that he usually puts creamer and syrup in his coffee.”
Noda replied.
“This is a little strange…”
Before Officer Megure could think about it, Ayako jumped into the conversation and said, “Well, this may be because he noticed that I replaced his coffee with Coke, so he didn’t put these in.”
“What?”
Under Caizi’s explanation, the context of the case extended further.
In fact, there was an engagement between Caiko and the deceased, but because of her uneasiness, she called the deceased and said she wanted to cancel the engagement.
From then on, every time he went to the hospital, the deceased deliberately avoided Cai Zi.
So Caiko deliberately replaced the deceased’s coffee with Coke, hoping to make the deceased angry and come after him.
Upon hearing this, Wu Yi immediately took out the syrup and creamer from his pocket: “So that’s it. I was wondering why good coffee turned into cola.”
“…In other words, the deceased discovered that the drink in his cup was actually Coke, so he didn’t put the creamer and syrup in it.”
Officer Memu touched his chin and asked Takagi Wataru: “Have the forensic results of those four drinks not come out yet?”
“It should be soon.”
After nodding, Officer Memu said nothing and quietly waited for the next step.
After a while, the forensic results finally came out.
“Nothing was detected in the cups of the four drinks, as well as the creamer and syrup.”
