Chapter 66
In the end, Gomokawa Kaori couldn't wait for her bottle of lotion, so she died in Furukawa Kumisa's arms.
——Just in case, the bottle of lotion was locked in the safe in the manor together with other suspicious items they found yesterday. The second key and password are both at Furukawa Kumisa's place.
Edogawa Conan hurriedly took the key to unlock the door, but in the end he still couldn't come back before Kaori Gomokawa died.
When he returned to Furukawa Kumisa's room with the transparent box, Gomokawa Kaori had already stopped breathing in Furukawa Kumisa's arms.
Furukawa Kumisa put the gradually cold Gomokawa Kaori back to the ground. She sat down on the ground and sighed with some dejection.
Toru Amuro patted her shoulder, and the silent comfort spread along his generous palm to Furukawa Kumisa's shoulder, making her calm down slightly.
Edogawa Conan was panting violently as he ran, but in the end he was still unable to save anyone. He sat on the ground with his head bowed.
Furukawa Kumisa glanced at him, and the dejected look of the usually energetic young detective was unbearable. She couldn't help but reached out and patted his head.
Edogawa Conan raised his head slightly following the strength of her hand, and his soft hair rubbed against Furukawa Kumisa's palm: "Furukawa..."
"What happened?!"
An anxious voice came from the door of the room, it was Xiaoxun who was still wearing a nightgown.
She hurriedly ran over in slippers, her messy long hair hanging behind her, as if she had just rushed over after hearing their noise.
Furukawa Kumisa looked up at her and said, "Miss Gobaikawa died just now."
Xiaoxun stumbled and took a step back: "How could..."
Amakusa Shoutai, who appeared behind her at some point, helped her and said, "Miss Kaoru, are you okay?"
Furukawa Kumisa's eyes were fixed on Amakusa Shoyasu's body. He was also wearing pajamas at home, and he looked like he had been woken up in the middle of his sleep.
Butler Hiranuma was dressed very neatly, and it seemed like he was called over before he could even sleep. He walked into Furukawa Kumisa's room and said, "Let's send Miss Gomokawa back to her room first."
After saying that, he made a move to pick up the body of Kaori Gomokawa. Furukawa Kumisa reached out to block him, and Toru Amuro stepped forward and picked up the body before him.
"Butler Hiranuma, let me do it."
At such a moment, it would really be inappropriate for any suspect in the manor to have access to the body.
Toru Amuro carried the body of Kaori Gomokawa and walked out of the room. Shoutai Amakusa and Kaoru made way outside the door. Kumisa Furukawa looked at them and suddenly thought of something.
Her eyes sharpened: "Where is Miss Ueda?"
The question was asked by everyone, but her eyes were fixed on Amakusa Shōtai.
Xiaoxun didn't notice her gaze and thought she was asking herself, so she just replied blankly: "I didn't see Miss Ueda... could she not wake up yet?"
Amakusa Shotai met Furukawa Kumisa's gaze calmly, and said thoughtfully: "Miss Ueda is a very wary person. If she can leave the manor tomorrow, she may not leave the room easily now."
His words were reasonable, but Furukawa Kumisa couldn't listen to even a single word.
The ominous premonition in her heart became more and more intense, and she almost didn't bother to explain to them. She put on a coat and rushed straight to the third floor.
Furukawa Kumisa's sudden acceleration caught everyone off guard and they were left behind.
Edogawa Conan reacted instantly and looked back at Butler Hiranuma: "Uncle Hiranuma! Do you have the key to Miss Ueda's room?!"
Housekeeper Hiranuma was stunned for a moment and shook his head: "Since the incident in the manor, Miss Ueda came to ask me for the spare key to her room. Now all the keys that can open her room are in her own hands."
Edogawa Conan and Amuro Toru, who followed them up the stairs, heard "dong dong dong" knocking on the door and Furukawa Kumisa's loud shouting from a distance.
"Miss Ueda? Miss Ueda?! Are you in there?"
Furukawa Kumisa felt that his voice was enough to wake up anyone who woke up, but there was still no movement in Ueda Nobuko's room, so it was not as simple as sleeping to death.
She took a step back, and just as she was about to use brute force to open the door, Toru Amuro ran up behind her and pulled her away.
"You just took off the plaster on your hand, I'll do it."
Toru Amuro used skillful force to pull away Furukawa Kumisa, took two steps back, then suddenly swept his legs sideways and kicked him horizontally, and the door opened in response.
Furukawa Kumisa didn't even need to rush into the room, and immediately saw Nobuko Ueda lying on the ground in the middle of the room.
She fell prone on the ground, her fingers tightly clasping her throat, as if someone had forcibly cut off her breath.
Her eyes were wide-eyed, and the colorless pupils were filled with a look of disbelief, as if she could not believe her own death at the last second before she breathed her last.
She was still wearing a bathrobe, her hair had not yet dried, and a bottle of oral liquid fell next to her curled-up upper body. Furukawa Kumisa picked it up and shook it, but she had already drank it all.
Xiaoxun, who had arrived quickly, stood at the door and said hesitantly: "Miss Ueda..."
Furukawa Kumisa stretched out his hand and closed Ueda Nobuko's wide eyes: "She is dead too."
"……!how come……"
Toru Amuro squatted on the ground and took a rough look at Ueda Nobuko's body.
"The jaw has not started to stiffen yet. It should have been less than an hour after death. The smell of almonds in the mouth...the lethal poison was cyanide."
Edogawa Conan rummaged through the things scattered on the table, "This oral liquid box is the same as the oral liquid bottle that was dropped when Sister Ueda's body turned into a corpse."
He lifted the oral liquid box on the table, and Furukawa Kumisa took it and took a look. The packaging box was opened. There were seven oral liquid bottles in a box, two of them were empty, and there were five bottles left.
One of them is probably the empty bottle that fell next to the corpse.
"This oral liquid seems to be the health supplement that Miss Ueda has been drinking," Xiaoxun said with an "ah" sound.
Furukawa Kumisa turned over the box and read the instruction manual. The instructions were to take one bottle every two days.
She took out the remaining oral liquid in the box and carefully looked at the soft rubber at the seal. With all her eyesight, she finally saw an almost invisible hole on the edge of the rubber.
——This bottle of oral liquid has been tampered with.
She checked the remaining unopened bottles of oral liquid in the same manner and found the same traces in similar places.
Those holes are so small and traceless that if Furukawa Kumisa hadn't observed them first and exhausted his eyesight, there would be almost no flaws.
Not to mention the unintentional Nobuko Ueda - she was confident that she had never let anyone enter her room without permission since arriving at the manor, so naturally she would not have thought that the things in her room had been poisoned.
Her room was supposed to be the safest place.
Furukawa Kumisa stood up and walked straight to Amakusa Shoyasu outside the door.
He still had the worried face he pretended to have, and Furukawa Kumisa was well aware of his indifferent and cold nature beneath this appearance.
He could even remain indifferent to the deaths of his two brothers, let alone Ueda Nobuko, who had only been involved with his brothers.
She walked up to Amakusa Shotai and said bluntly: "Amakusa Shotai, now you are the only living heir to the inheritance."
Amakusa Shoyasu remained indifferent when he heard Furukawa Kumisa calling him by his first and last name.
He acted very energetically, with a hint of confusion and subtle grievance in his furrowed eyebrows: "Officer Furukawa, are you doubting me?"
He sighed: "But if nothing else... Miss Ueda's room has not been let in by anyone since she came to the manor, let alone me who has nothing to do with her."
Xiaoxun also nodded in agreement: "Yes, Officer Furukawa, Master Xiangtai has never been close to Miss Ueda. That night, Miss Ueda asked the housekeeper for a backup key. After that, she kept both room keys by herself.
Keep it safe, Master Xiangtai has no chance to poison Miss Ueda!"
Before Furukawa Kumisa could say anything else, Amuro Toru's voice came from the room: "Furukawa Kumisa, come and see this."
She stopped talking, glanced at Amakusa Shōtai one last time, and walked into the room.
While she was confronting Amakusa Shotai at the door, Amuro Toru and Edogawa Conan had already roughly searched Ueda Nobuko's room.
At this moment, Toru Amuro was holding a small glass bottle found in her box and handed it to Furukawa Kumisa.
Furukawa Kumisa took the bottle and saw that it was an ordinary transparent glass bottle, about the size of a palm.
It probably once contained some kind of transparent liquid, but it has been used, and now only some traces of liquid are left at the bottom of the bottle.
Toru Amuro uncorked the glass bottle, and Furukawa Kumisa went up to smell it. There was not much liquid left in the bottle, but there was still some residual smell.
The smell wasn't pungent, it just had an indescribably strange smell, but it was also very light.
"Conan-kun and I smelled this smell today when we went to check the pesticides in the greenhouse."
The same color, the same smell, everything seems to prove that the glass bottle in Ueda Nobuko's room contains that deadly pesticide.
The last clue of the reasoning puzzle finally surfaced. Furukawa Kumisa held the bottle and turned back, seeing that Amakusa Shoyasu was no longer outside the door.
"Where is Amakusa Shoyasu?"
Xiaoxun stepped forward and handed Furukawa Kumisa two keys.
"Master Xiangtai said that judging from the current situation in the manor, he is indeed the most suspicious, and he does not blame Officer Furukawa for suspecting him.
"He locked himself in the room and asked me to hand over both keys to you. He said that he would not leave the room until the police came tomorrow. He hoped to prove his innocence and prove his innocence.
I hope all the tragedies in the manor can end here and there will be no new victims."
Furukawa Kumisa was silent as he looked at Xiaoxun, who looked completely overwhelmed by Amakusa Shoutai's frank strategy.
Chapter completed!