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Chapter 1065: He's Too Slow
"Eh?" Mouri Ran didn't quite understand Chi Feichei's meaning. "Mr. Hozami?"
Chi Feichei wasn't in a hurry to explain. He looked towards Hattori Heiji and Conan.
He liked figuring things out himself, but he didn't like explaining, lecturing, or reasoning to others. It would take ages, and he'd have to explain ten thousand whys.
So, could these two speed up a bit?
When everyone does the case solving together, they could just coast along, follow up by mentioning two key points, and that would count as a draw.
Anyway, he wasn't going to Takarazuka or Koshien. Offering to help Kazuha Toyama was simply because he wanted to see Hattori Heiji anxious.
As for where they would end up going, he'd let them discuss it themselves.
Kazuha Toyama followed Chi Feichei's line of sight and also saw Hattori Heiji taking Conan to find Inspector Megure. She hesitated a bit. "Um... Brother Chi, could you wait a bit longer?"
Chi Feichei turned his head and looked at Kazuha Toyama.
"I'm sorry," Kazuha Toyama lowered her head and apologized in a low voice. "I hope you can wait for Heiji. He's too slow, and he might be unhappy then. I don't have any other intention. We just need to be slightly faster than them, that's enough... It's just... Hattori is such a proud person, I..."
(╥﹏╥)
Unable to speak.
"I see."
Chi Feichei tore off two pages from his notebook where he had drawn the six-sided block diagram.
"Ah..." Kazuha Toyama and Mouri Ran lightly spoke out.
"The three of us aren't reasoning fanatics, so let's give up," Chi Feichei put the notebook, pen, and those two pages of paper into his pocket, taking out his cigarette case at the same time. He said to Kazuha Toyama with an expressionless face, "If you really want to go see Takarazuka, go cry to Hattori a bit."
Inspector Megure, who heard the sound of tearing paper there, turned his head and quickly reminded him, "Brother Chi, don't smoke at the crime scene!"
"Sorry."
Chi Feichei took the opportunity to slip away and go out for some fresh air.
"Give up..." Kazuha Toyama saw Chi Feichei go out without hesitation and came to her senses. "Ran, could Brother Chi be angry?"
"Shouldn't be," Mouri Ran said uncertainly.
Although she had known him for so long, she still couldn't tell when Chi Feichei was angry and when he wasn't.
"Even you aren't sure?" Kazuha Toyama felt a bit of a headache.
"There's nothing I can do," Mouri Ran said, smiling helplessly. "I've never seen Brother Chi show the attitude of 'being angry'. I feel like he's never angry, but then I think it's impossible for a human not to get angry, so..." "Moreover, he's not the kind of person whose expression shows everything when he's angry."
Kazuha Toyama subconsciously looked at Hattori Heiji. "Heiji is still a bit more worry-free..."
There, Hattori Heiji withdrew his line of sight from outside the door, squatted down in front of Conan, and asked in a low voice, "Hey, what do you think? Do you think Brother Chi made a mistake when he interpreted the dying message, and is in a bad mood, which is why he tore off the paper and went out for a smoke and some air? Or rather..."
"It's also possible that he already knows the truth and finds it meaningless to stay here, which is why he went out to smoke," Conan said with half-moon eyes. "This is not impossible, and he's done this before as well. He sees through the truth but doesn't speak out, going to the side to rest."
Hattori Heiji laughed. "Idiot, it's only been a short while, how is that possible? Even if he solved the dying message, there are so many weird places to figure out."
Conan smiled and nodded. "That's right!"
Silence.
The two of them looked at each other, the smile on their faces gradually turning into a fake smile, unable to speak.
Why does it still feel a bit suspicious?
In their minds, dark clouds gathered, and the Great Demon King was laughing wildly.
Outside the door, Chi Feichei reached the end of the corridor, used his lighter to light those two pages of paper, then used those two pages of paper to light his cigarette, and casually dropped the burning paper at his feet.
When he started to interpret the dying message, he remembered the key to this plot.
He remembered 'the cipher needs to look at the opposite side of the blocks', remembered that the real murderer intentionally placed the person behind the table, remembered that the murderer tore off the wall calendar for June, and was the tallest person...
Previously, the clue had accumulated to a certain extent, making it hard not to remember. It also made him lose a lot of the joy of reasoning. He could even remember the reason for the crime scene: it was because the deceased and Vice President Iwatomi intentionally reduced costs to manufacture children's toys with poor safety, profiting from it. Mr. Hozami couldn't stand their behavior, which is why he killed the President and framed the Vice President. Unfortunately, his height was higher than the others, becoming the key for the famous detective to lock onto the murderer...
"Brother Chi..."
Kazuha Toyama and Mouri Ran went out, walking towards the end of the corridor. They saw the paper on the ground, mostly burned and still burning, and hesitated to speak.
At this time, the sky had already completely darkened, and that little flame looked particularly conspicuous.
"Are you two also out for some air?" Chi Feichei asked.
Mouri Ran and Kazuha Toyama exchanged a glance. See? Even following him out to check, they couldn't tell if Brother Chi was angry.
Kazuha Toyama felt helpless in her heart. She stopped when she got close. "I wanted to ask if you were angry? You put in so much effort to help me, but I retreated first myself."
Chi Feichei said directly, "No."
"Th-That's good..." Kazuha Toyama was silent for a bit, feeling like she had nothing to say. Moreover, the awkward silence was quite embarrassing. She turned around and went inside. "Then I'll go supervise Heiji and the others with the case solving!"
"Me too." Mouri Ran quickly followed.
Chi Feichei watched them go inside, looking at the corridor. In his mind, he was reviewing the overall environment of the crime scene, searching for any place he might have overlooked initially.
After knowing the outcome, it's easy to find the details one overlooked during observation and then summarize the pattern.
For example, where one is prone to overlooking traces, and how to correct it next time. Where the murderer left traces that one didn't notice, and where to inspect that area carefully next time. If one were the perpetrator, how to avoid leaving too much trace, or how to remedy it after leaving traces...
Just like inspecting for eavesdropping devices or transmitters after entering the house. People without experience will feel like they don't know where to begin when they enter the house, but people like them, who have installed, dismantled, considered, and summarized experience, can quickly and skillfully enter the search mode.
Additionally, he also needed to analyze the personality of the President of this company along with the four employees based on the crime scene situation, and reconstruct what each person touched last, the order in which they left on the day of the holiday...
There are so many traces left at this crime scene, it would be a waste not to use it to gain experience.
Inside the room, Inspector Megure saw Hattori Heiji and Conan whispering together at the same time. Chi Feichei, Mouri Ran, and Kazuha Toyama, the three of them, were also the same, acting mysteriously.
Kazuha Toyama had also asked him some weird questions, but she didn't tell Hattori Heiji. Instead, she went to Chi Feichei and muttered.
He pondered a bit, still didn't understand, and decided to directly ask Mori Kogoro.
"Brother Mouri, what exactly is going on with you today?"
"Well..." Mori Kogoro scratched his head and laughed. "Nothing! Hahaha..."
"Oh?" Inspector Megure leaned closer, staring at Mori Kogoro, and asked in a deep voice, "Is that so?"
Mori Kogoro broke out in a sweat and froze.
"Inspector Megure?" Kazuha Toyama entered the door, looked doubtfully at Inspector Megure and Mori Kogoro huddled together, and handed the photo in her hand back to Inspector Megure. "By the way, here's this photo back..."
Conan stood aside on tiptoe to look. "Is this a group photo of the President and the other four employees?"
"Yes." Kazuha Toyama saw that Conan wanted to look, so she squatted down and let Conan look first.
Hattori Heiji walked behind Kazuha Toyama, bent down to look at the photo, and asked thoughtfully, "What did Brother Chi ask you to get the photo for?"
"Don't know," Kazuha Toyama subconsciously replied. "He also asked me to ask Inspector Megure for the names, height, and if there was anything strange about the legs and feet of those four employees..."
Mouri Ran kept signaling Kazuha Toyama from the aside.
Stop, stop. If you say these things at this time, Hattori will definitely know their progress, and will also know that Brother Chi already solved it.
Then, what meaning is there in them specially discussing with Chi Feichei to let this plan continue?
Kazuha Toyama didn't receive Mouri Ran's frantic hint. She was a bit absent-minded, using her finger to point at her chin. "Also, whether the President had the habit of tearing off the wall calendar in advance. In short, they were very weird questions..."
Hattori Heiji and Conan's faces changed. They exchanged a glance and ran towards the table.
"Eh?" Inspector Megure looked over doubtfully.
Conan ran to the television. Hattori Heiji ran to the place with the human-shaped outline and directly lay down.
"How is it?" Conan asked.
Hattori Heiji looked under the table and could only see Conan's trouser leg and shoe. He laughed. "Indeed, it's like this! Then..."
With that, Hattori Heiji got up again, looked at the wall calendar on the wall, and ran towards the nearby storage room with Conan.
Inspector Megure: "?"
"Indeed, like what? Can you say it clearly?"
Soon, Hattori Heiji came out holding a torn-off wall calendar page. He walked next to Inspector Megure and asked the questions that Chi Feichei had previously asked Kazuha Toyama to ask. After hearing what Inspector Megure said, his eyes lit up, and his face carried a confident smile. "Inspector Megure, could I request you to have those four employees come over for a bit? I already know who the murderer is!"
"Already know the murderer?" Inspector Megure's eyes also brightened. He said seriously, "That's no problem. Before you came, I already sent someone to invite those four gentlemen to come over. Calculating the time, they should be arriving soon."
Conan followed behind Hattori Heiji, reached out and pulled Hattori Heiji's hem, reminding him, "Dying message..."
Hattori Heiji was stunned, clenched his fist and put it in front of his mouth, and coughed dryly. "That didn't point out the real murderer. I already have a lead. I can solve it during the time I'm waiting for them to come over. Moreover, I think it's obvious, that message should be..."
"I see," Kazuha Toyama said thoughtfully. "The dying message is 'Iwatomi', but the true culprit is Mr. Hozami. That's why Brother Chi wrote it first..."
Mouri Ran covered her face. Why did they waste so much effort discussing with Brother Chi previously...
Kazuha Toyama also sensed that something was wrong and stopped. She looked up at Hattori Heiji.
Hattori Heiji was still holding that page of the wall calendar in his hand. He and Conan, the tall one and the short one, stood at the storage room entrance, expressionless.
Hehe, there indeed, it's already solved...
The dying message, the true culprit, the method used by the true culprit, the weird suspicious points in this room...
Perhaps they even know how to find the evidence?
"What did he write first? Kazuha," Inspector Megure pressed. "Also, the dying message is 'Iwatomi', and the true culprit is Mr. Hozami. What does this mean? Isn't the dying message left by the deceased?"
"Ah..." Kazuha Toyama was unable to speak, and said to Inspector Megure with an innocent face, "I don't know."
She didn't even have time to listen to Brother Chi's reasoning, so she indeed didn't know what was going on.
Hattori Heiji: "..."
Damn it! I feel like I'm being mocked.
Conan: "..."
They already know everything, yet they intentionally pretend not to know. That's too much.
End of Chapter
"Eh?" Mouri Ran didn't quite understand Chi Feichei's meaning. "Mr. Hozami?"
Chi Feichei wasn't in a hurry to explain. He looked towards Hattori Heiji and Conan.
He liked figuring things out himself, but he didn't like explaining, lecturing, or reasoning to others. It would take ages, and he'd have to explain ten thousand whys.
So, could these two speed up a bit?
When everyone does the case solving together, they could just coast along, follow up by mentioning two key points, and that would count as a draw.
Anyway, he wasn't going to Takarazuka or Koshien. Offering to help Kazuha Toyama was simply because he wanted to see Hattori Heiji anxious.
As for where they would end up going, he'd let them discuss it themselves.
Kazuha Toyama followed Chi Feichei's line of sight and also saw Hattori Heiji taking Conan to find Inspector Megure. She hesitated a bit. "Um... Brother Chi, could you wait a bit longer?"
Chi Feichei turned his head and looked at Kazuha Toyama.
"I'm sorry," Kazuha Toyama lowered her head and apologized in a low voice. "I hope you can wait for Heiji. He's too slow, and he might be unhappy then. I don't have any other intention. We just need to be slightly faster than them, that's enough... It's just... Hattori is such a proud person, I..."
(╥﹏╥)
Unable to speak.
"I see."
Chi Feichei tore off two pages from his notebook where he had drawn the six-sided block diagram.
"Ah..." Kazuha Toyama and Mouri Ran lightly spoke out.
"The three of us aren't reasoning fanatics, so let's give up," Chi Feichei put the notebook, pen, and those two pages of paper into his pocket, taking out his cigarette case at the same time. He said to Kazuha Toyama with an expressionless face, "If you really want to go see Takarazuka, go cry to Hattori a bit."
Inspector Megure, who heard the sound of tearing paper there, turned his head and quickly reminded him, "Brother Chi, don't smoke at the crime scene!"
"Sorry."
Chi Feichei took the opportunity to slip away and go out for some fresh air.
"Give up..." Kazuha Toyama saw Chi Feichei go out without hesitation and came to her senses. "Ran, could Brother Chi be angry?"
"Shouldn't be," Mouri Ran said uncertainly.
Although she had known him for so long, she still couldn't tell when Chi Feichei was angry and when he wasn't.
"Even you aren't sure?" Kazuha Toyama felt a bit of a headache.
"There's nothing I can do," Mouri Ran said, smiling helplessly. "I've never seen Brother Chi show the attitude of 'being angry'. I feel like he's never angry, but then I think it's impossible for a human not to get angry, so..." "Moreover, he's not the kind of person whose expression shows everything when he's angry."
Kazuha Toyama subconsciously looked at Hattori Heiji. "Heiji is still a bit more worry-free..."
There, Hattori Heiji withdrew his line of sight from outside the door, squatted down in front of Conan, and asked in a low voice, "Hey, what do you think? Do you think Brother Chi made a mistake when he interpreted the dying message, and is in a bad mood, which is why he tore off the paper and went out for a smoke and some air? Or rather..."
"It's also possible that he already knows the truth and finds it meaningless to stay here, which is why he went out to smoke," Conan said with half-moon eyes. "This is not impossible, and he's done this before as well. He sees through the truth but doesn't speak out, going to the side to rest."
Hattori Heiji laughed. "Idiot, it's only been a short while, how is that possible? Even if he solved the dying message, there are so many weird places to figure out."
Conan smiled and nodded. "That's right!"
Silence.
The two of them looked at each other, the smile on their faces gradually turning into a fake smile, unable to speak.
Why does it still feel a bit suspicious?
In their minds, dark clouds gathered, and the Great Demon King was laughing wildly.
Outside the door, Chi Feichei reached the end of the corridor, used his lighter to light those two pages of paper, then used those two pages of paper to light his cigarette, and casually dropped the burning paper at his feet.
When he started to interpret the dying message, he remembered the key to this plot.
He remembered 'the cipher needs to look at the opposite side of the blocks', remembered that the real murderer intentionally placed the person behind the table, remembered that the murderer tore off the wall calendar for June, and was the tallest person...
Previously, the clue had accumulated to a certain extent, making it hard not to remember. It also made him lose a lot of the joy of reasoning. He could even remember the reason for the crime scene: it was because the deceased and Vice President Iwatomi intentionally reduced costs to manufacture children's toys with poor safety, profiting from it. Mr. Hozami couldn't stand their behavior, which is why he killed the President and framed the Vice President. Unfortunately, his height was higher than the others, becoming the key for the famous detective to lock onto the murderer...
"Brother Chi..."
Kazuha Toyama and Mouri Ran went out, walking towards the end of the corridor. They saw the paper on the ground, mostly burned and still burning, and hesitated to speak.
At this time, the sky had already completely darkened, and that little flame looked particularly conspicuous.
"Are you two also out for some air?" Chi Feichei asked.
Mouri Ran and Kazuha Toyama exchanged a glance. See? Even following him out to check, they couldn't tell if Brother Chi was angry.
Kazuha Toyama felt helpless in her heart. She stopped when she got close. "I wanted to ask if you were angry? You put in so much effort to help me, but I retreated first myself."
Chi Feichei said directly, "No."
"Th-That's good..." Kazuha Toyama was silent for a bit, feeling like she had nothing to say. Moreover, the awkward silence was quite embarrassing. She turned around and went inside. "Then I'll go supervise Heiji and the others with the case solving!"
"Me too." Mouri Ran quickly followed.
Chi Feichei watched them go inside, looking at the corridor. In his mind, he was reviewing the overall environment of the crime scene, searching for any place he might have overlooked initially.
After knowing the outcome, it's easy to find the details one overlooked during observation and then summarize the pattern.
For example, where one is prone to overlooking traces, and how to correct it next time. Where the murderer left traces that one didn't notice, and where to inspect that area carefully next time. If one were the perpetrator, how to avoid leaving too much trace, or how to remedy it after leaving traces...
Just like inspecting for eavesdropping devices or transmitters after entering the house. People without experience will feel like they don't know where to begin when they enter the house, but people like them, who have installed, dismantled, considered, and summarized experience, can quickly and skillfully enter the search mode.
Additionally, he also needed to analyze the personality of the President of this company along with the four employees based on the crime scene situation, and reconstruct what each person touched last, the order in which they left on the day of the holiday...
There are so many traces left at this crime scene, it would be a waste not to use it to gain experience.
Inside the room, Inspector Megure saw Hattori Heiji and Conan whispering together at the same time. Chi Feichei, Mouri Ran, and Kazuha Toyama, the three of them, were also the same, acting mysteriously.
Kazuha Toyama had also asked him some weird questions, but she didn't tell Hattori Heiji. Instead, she went to Chi Feichei and muttered.
He pondered a bit, still didn't understand, and decided to directly ask Mori Kogoro.
"Brother Mouri, what exactly is going on with you today?"
"Well..." Mori Kogoro scratched his head and laughed. "Nothing! Hahaha..."
"Oh?" Inspector Megure leaned closer, staring at Mori Kogoro, and asked in a deep voice, "Is that so?"
Mori Kogoro broke out in a sweat and froze.
"Inspector Megure?" Kazuha Toyama entered the door, looked doubtfully at Inspector Megure and Mori Kogoro huddled together, and handed the photo in her hand back to Inspector Megure. "By the way, here's this photo back..."
Conan stood aside on tiptoe to look. "Is this a group photo of the President and the other four employees?"
"Yes." Kazuha Toyama saw that Conan wanted to look, so she squatted down and let Conan look first.
Hattori Heiji walked behind Kazuha Toyama, bent down to look at the photo, and asked thoughtfully, "What did Brother Chi ask you to get the photo for?"
"Don't know," Kazuha Toyama subconsciously replied. "He also asked me to ask Inspector Megure for the names, height, and if there was anything strange about the legs and feet of those four employees..."
Mouri Ran kept signaling Kazuha Toyama from the aside.
Stop, stop. If you say these things at this time, Hattori will definitely know their progress, and will also know that Brother Chi already solved it.
Then, what meaning is there in them specially discussing with Chi Feichei to let this plan continue?
Kazuha Toyama didn't receive Mouri Ran's frantic hint. She was a bit absent-minded, using her finger to point at her chin. "Also, whether the President had the habit of tearing off the wall calendar in advance. In short, they were very weird questions..."
Hattori Heiji and Conan's faces changed. They exchanged a glance and ran towards the table.
"Eh?" Inspector Megure looked over doubtfully.
Conan ran to the television. Hattori Heiji ran to the place with the human-shaped outline and directly lay down.
"How is it?" Conan asked.
Hattori Heiji looked under the table and could only see Conan's trouser leg and shoe. He laughed. "Indeed, it's like this! Then..."
With that, Hattori Heiji got up again, looked at the wall calendar on the wall, and ran towards the nearby storage room with Conan.
Inspector Megure: "?"
"Indeed, like what? Can you say it clearly?"
Soon, Hattori Heiji came out holding a torn-off wall calendar page. He walked next to Inspector Megure and asked the questions that Chi Feichei had previously asked Kazuha Toyama to ask. After hearing what Inspector Megure said, his eyes lit up, and his face carried a confident smile. "Inspector Megure, could I request you to have those four employees come over for a bit? I already know who the murderer is!"
"Already know the murderer?" Inspector Megure's eyes also brightened. He said seriously, "That's no problem. Before you came, I already sent someone to invite those four gentlemen to come over. Calculating the time, they should be arriving soon."
Conan followed behind Hattori Heiji, reached out and pulled Hattori Heiji's hem, reminding him, "Dying message..."
Hattori Heiji was stunned, clenched his fist and put it in front of his mouth, and coughed dryly. "That didn't point out the real murderer. I already have a lead. I can solve it during the time I'm waiting for them to come over. Moreover, I think it's obvious, that message should be..."
"I see," Kazuha Toyama said thoughtfully. "The dying message is 'Iwatomi', but the true culprit is Mr. Hozami. That's why Brother Chi wrote it first..."
Mouri Ran covered her face. Why did they waste so much effort discussing with Brother Chi previously...
Kazuha Toyama also sensed that something was wrong and stopped. She looked up at Hattori Heiji.
Hattori Heiji was still holding that page of the wall calendar in his hand. He and Conan, the tall one and the short one, stood at the storage room entrance, expressionless.
Hehe, there indeed, it's already solved...
The dying message, the true culprit, the method used by the true culprit, the weird suspicious points in this room...
Perhaps they even know how to find the evidence?
"What did he write first? Kazuha," Inspector Megure pressed. "Also, the dying message is 'Iwatomi', and the true culprit is Mr. Hozami. What does this mean? Isn't the dying message left by the deceased?"
"Ah..." Kazuha Toyama was unable to speak, and said to Inspector Megure with an innocent face, "I don't know."
She didn't even have time to listen to Brother Chi's reasoning, so she indeed didn't know what was going on.
Hattori Heiji: "..."
Damn it! I feel like I'm being mocked.
Conan: "..."
They already know everything, yet they intentionally pretend not to know. That's too much.
End of Chapter
