Inspector gure and Heiji said, flustered.
"Jin, the locked room trick Heiji deduced is perfect.
You saw us testing it on my pocket earlier."
"That's right, there's no flaw in my deduction!"
I smiled leisurely and pointed at Inspector gure's pants.
"Hehe~ Check if the key really went in properly."
Heiji flipped Inspector gure's pocket to check the key trick.
Then, although it went into the pocket, it hadn't gone into the coin pocket inside.
"No, this can't be... I definitely passed the fishing line through the coin pocket and pulled it out, so why didn't the key go inside there?"
"That's because Inspector gure was sitting down."
"What?"
"Because you were sitting, the pocket was pressed, so there was less space for it to enter, and the fishing line ca off the tape before the key could enter the coin pocket.
Besides, with a fat diplomat or soone like Inspector gure, it's even worse!"
Heiji said, making excuses.
"But by any chance, even once in ten tries, it could happen by coincidence..."
"It would be the sa no matter how many tis you try.
Think carefully! What shape was the key inside the diplomat's coin pocket?"
Heiji thought for a mont and finally acknowledged my words.
"That's right.
It was definitely folded and inside.
There's no way it could go in like that with a fishing line..."
Heiji still couldn't accept it, so he held up the fishing line with a needle and asked.
"Then what is this? I found a fishing line with a needle in the living room!"
"That's a trap set by the culprit.
To fra the grandfather."
I showed the several fishing lines and needles I had collected while going around various rooms.
"This is what I found while going around several rooms.
Like it's begging to be found.
There were so in every room of this house."
"Wh-What..."
"This was because the culprit didn't know where the grandfather would go, so they hid them in multiple rooms."
Heiji finally realized his deduction was the culprit's trap, and asked , frustrated.
"Then how did the culprit get out of this study? When we ca in, it was a perfect locked room!"
"The culprit didn't get out of the locked room.
They entered with us and committed the murder."
Everyone was surprised at those words.
"That ans the culprit is..."
"That's right.
The culprit is Madam, you!"
"Wh-What..."
"That can't be..."
Kogoro asked .
"Then are you saying the victim was still alive until then?"
"Yes, the madam just made him sleep with dicine or sothing beforehand.
And she pretended to wake the victim and stabbed him with the poisoned needle.
On top of that, to prevent any groans or distorted expressions from being seen when stabbed by the poisoned needle, she even piled books next to him and played music."
At that mont, Heiji said as if denying my deduction.
"But when we entered, the madam didn't look like she was taking anything out.
Give proof that the madam did it!"
"You'll know if you look at the key the madam has.
She uses the sa keychain as the victim."
At those words, Inspector gure took the key out of the madam's bag and checked it.
Then, as I said, it was the sa keychain, and that keychain was also split in half, with a groove dug in between that could fit a poisoned needle.
"No! This groove!?"
"That's right.
She must have put the poisoned needle in that groove.
She crafted the keychain so she could pull it out quickly as soon as she entered the room.
In other words, this grooved keychain is the decisive evidence that the madam is the culprit."
"But why would the madam kill her husband..."
"The answer to that is probably in this photo."
I showed the frad photo of the young diplomat couple in the study and said.
"Look here, doesn't the madam look a lot like soone?"
Inspector gure looked closely at the photo and said in surprise.
"Ah! That's right! She looks exactly like Yukiko-san! How could this be?"
Then the madam finally gave up and started telling the whole story of the case.
"It's natural we look alike.
Yukiko is my daughter."
"What? What did you say!!!???"
"Yukiko is the daughter I had with my ex-husband.
My ex-husband was a diplomat who was frad for corruption 20 years ago and was socially ruined.
He died in prison 15 years ago.
Not knowing that the one who frad him was my current husband, I fell for his sweet words and ended up living with that evil man."
Inspector gure seed to rember that case.
"Ah~ I rember that case.
But whether it was a fra-up, you don't know, right?"
"I found out when my son brought Yukiko's photo saying he was going to marry her.
At first, I thought, even though she's a stranger, she really looks like when I was young, but my husband saw that photo and opposed it terribly.
So I wondered why and pressed him, and he started confessing about framing my ex-husband.
And that was to get ."
"Then..."
"And that's when I also learned that Father (the grandfather) was involved."
Hearing that, the grandfather couldn't look at the madam and lowered his head and said.
"I'm sorry, child.
I must have lost my mind back then."
Hearing that, Inspector gure seed to understand the whole story of the case and said.
"I see... Feeling guilty about what you did in the past, you knew the trap the madam set but were trying to take the bla and beco the culprit."
The madam looked at the grandfather with cold eyes, still unable to forgive him, and said.
"Regretting it now is useless.
He went to the afterlife with an unjust fra."
With those words, the police took the madam away.
As she was being taken away, the madam told her son to take care of his daughter.
'Then, would the children end up marrying each other?'
And so the case ended, and Ran, Kogoro, and Heiji ca to praise .
"Jin, you were so cool today."
"As expected of my son-in-law."
"There was another one besides Shinichi, next ti I won't lose."
I pointed at Conan, who was being carried by everyone, and said.
"This case was solved by the boy detective Conan.
I just talked.
Right, Conan?"
"Ah~ uh... yeah..."
Conan tried to say sothing but just accepted it.
I decided to give this case to Conan.
Conan was definitely enthusiastic, pointing out evidence and reasoning even while being carried by , so I couldn't ignore that effort.
"What? Really???"
"Yeah, Conan wanted to play detective, so this was possible because he found things here and there."
"Wow~ Conan, that's amazing?"
Ran praised Conan, but I started teasing him again, feeling playful.
"Our child is so smart.
I'm thinking of raising him as a detective."
At those words, Ran also laughed and said.
"Hehe! That's right.
He seems like he'll beco a good detective."
"Ah! Really, are you going to keep doing this? Let's go ho quickly."
And so I took Ran, Kogoro, and Conan ho and was about to go ho when Heiji kept following .
"Aren't you going?"
"Ahahaha... Well, you see, I have nowhere to sleep, so let stay over."
"Good grief, you ca all the way here without booking a place to stay?"
"I ca thinking only about Shinichi..."
I was about to just send him to a nearby motel, but I gave him one of the empty rooms at ho.
Heiji was impressed seeing the size of our house.
"Wow~ You live really well.
It's similar in size to the diplomat's house today."
"Yeah, so of it I got from my parents, and so I earn as an onmyoji."
"Then your parents..."
"Yeah, they both passed away in a plane accident."
"Sorry, I asked sothing unnecessary."
"No, it's fine.
But let's eat first."
Co to think of it, Heiji was the first guest to sleep over at this house.
I made a al for him, and Heiji ate it and was impressed again, saying it was delicious.
The next day, Heiji said he'd repay when I co to Osaka later and left.
He seed like a really good guy.
'Co to think of it, wasn't that guy's father the monster said to surpass Shinichi in deduction?'
In the Conan world, there are three monsters in terms of deduction ability, and one of them is Heiji's father, 'Hattori Heizo'.
'Well, I'll see him later.'
And so I sent Heiji off and went to school, and hearing Ran's story, Conan still hadn't recovered from his cold, so he was absent from school today.
'He struggled so much on my back, as expected... I should give him yuzu tea or sothing, even if it's not baijiu.'
Two weeks had passed since Heiji left.
Nothing special happened this ti, and I just took care of rich people's work and lived.
My school life changed a bit, and now I was super close with Sonoko and Ran, so after school we went shopping together and ate delicious food together.
On top of that, since Ran's house wasn't far from mine, after class I gave her a ride on my bike to the office and went ho.
But sotis when Ran went to the market with , the bike was too weak, so it couldn't handle the increased weight and wouldn't go, so I got mad and decided on a day to modify it.
I installed an electric motor, so when running fast it was as fast as a supercar, and I tuned the exterior using ready-made parts.
The bike cost 240,000 yen, but the tuning cost alone was 400,000 yen.
So now it had beco a completely different bike.
'Whew~ Now I feel a bit refreshed.'
When I rode the modified bike to school, Ran saw it and said in surprise.
"Wow~ Is this that bike? It's totally different?"
"I did so tuning.
How is it?"
"The red color is so pretty."
"Right? Now that it's red, wouldn't it be three tis faster?"
"Hehe~ Maybe it is."
Now it didn't lack power even when carrying Ran, and the ride comfort was definitely better.
Seeing Ran like it, I kind of regretted not doing it sooner.
After a long ti, I visited the Mouri Detective Agency, and Kogoro was there with a very happy face.
"Oh~ Son-in-law, you're here?"
"Nice to see you.
But sothing good happened?"
"This ti I got a request to appear as a guest on the TV program 'Let Tell You' on the broadcasting station.
Now it seems the world recognizes this Detective Mouri.
Hahahaha~"
'Ah~ The broadcasting station episode'
"Oh~ That's great.
If you appear on TV, it'll be good publicity and more clients will request you."
"Right? Hahahaha~"
Kogoro is about to die of happiness.
Ran and Conan are looking at such Kogoro with pathetic eyes.
"Brother! The yuzu tea you gave last ti, I drank it well.
Thanks to that tea, my cold got better quickly.
And it was tasty too."
"Really? That's good."
Lately, Conan has changed a bit, and maybe because we solved cases together and I took care of him when he had a cold, the feeling of wariness has sowhat disappeared and he seems to think of as a good-natured rival.
I don't know if that's a good thing.
I decided to give a hint about this case for now.
"Hmm... But it's strange..."
Ran asked at my words.
"Huh? What is?"
"I keep having a bad feeling.
Are you all planning to go together when Detective Mouri goes to the broadcasting station?"
"Well... probably?"
"Really? So that's how it is..."
I sat at the table and pretended to do a reading for a mont.
Then Ran's expression turned bad.
"No way! Is there a murder case happening again this ti?"
"I don't know well about that..."
At my words, Kogoro and Conan also started to focus and listen.
My readings had been so accurate that they couldn't ignore my words anymore.
"This case involves Detective Mouri's fortune for one year."
"What? Is that true?"
Kogoro asked back, surprised at those words.
"Yes, and what I see is a person dropping sothing below a window."
Kogoro seed to want to rember my words firmly, so he closed his eyes and concentrated for a mont and said.
"A person dropping sothing below a window... Got it.
I'll definitely rember."
With this much of a hint, even a 10-year-old could solve it, I thought.
"Conan, want to play Tekken with after a long ti?"
"Sure! I won't lose this ti."
Of course, I completely crushed him this ti too.
A few days later, the program where Detective Mouri was invited as a guest on Nichiuri Broadcasting Station started, and just like the original, the PD murder case happened.
But this ti, maybe because I gave a hint, Kogoro seed to have solved it well without Conan's help.
This case was a cri where a washed-up talent held a grudge against the PD and shot the PD who stuck his head out of a window from below, but people thought he was killed on the sa floor and were confused.
'It's good he solved it well.'
And so, Kogoro appeared on TV solving the case and being interviewed, and the news showed him bragging ridiculously and laughing weirdly.
Seeing Kogoro's pathetic appearance, it felt like the one-year fortune I told him about would fly away.
The next day at school, Ran ca to and told about what happened that day.
"Dad said to say thank you."
"I saw it on the news too.
I'm glad it was solved well."
Ran finished talking about the case, and then, as if it was hard to say sothing, she hesitated for a mont and then made a request to .
"Um... And I decided to et my mom after a long ti, and when I ntioned you, she said she really wants to et you..."
"Really?"
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