Chapter 68
Furukawa Kumisa was reluctantly dragged to the door of Amakusa Shotai's room. She didn't want to go, but after seeing Edogawa Conan making a fuss about going by herself, she had to follow him.
After all, no matter how powerful a young detective Edogawa Conan is at heart, he is still just an elementary school student trapped in a seven-year-old skin.
She couldn't let him face someone who even she found troublesome alone.
They stood at the door of Amakusa Shoyasu's room. Furukawa Kumisa warned him again and again: "Listen, I am the only one going in. You stay at the door obediently and don't run around and don't barge in casually. Do you hear me?"
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Edogawa Conan nodded obediently, then took off the anesthesia watch from his wrist: "Sister Furukawa, put this on."
He showed her how to use the anesthesia watch.
Furukawa Kumisa, who carries all kinds of props, does not lack this watch, but the feeling of holding a key prop in the world of science in his hands is very exciting.
——This is the legendary anesthesia watch!!
Furukawa Kumisa took the watch in his hand and played with it twice, then put it back on Edogawa Conan's hand: "You should keep this thing for self-defense. I know it well, don't worry."
With that said, regardless of Edogawa Conan's obstruction, he took out the key, unlocked Amakusa Shotai's door, and walked into the room.
She had already noticed when she was outside the room that there was a slight light coming from the crack in the door. Amakusa Shoutai had not yet fallen asleep.
When she opened the door and walked in, Amakusa Shoyasu was sitting on the small sofa by the window. There was a night light on the small table next to him, illuminating the book he was reading in his hand.
He didn't seem surprised at all by Furukawa Kumisa's arrival, and he seemed to have been waiting for her for a long time.
Amakusa Shotai watched Furukawa Kumisa walk into the room, and simply raised his head, looking away from his book, and smiled at her.
"Good evening, Officer Furukawa."
He raised the book in his hand and said, ""The Name of the Rose", a very good mystery book, is Officer Furukawa interested?"
Furukawa Kumisa raised his eyebrows: "Compared to this modified name, I prefer the original title of this book - "Murder in the Abbey"."
She had more important things on her mind, so she didn't want to go around the bush with him and went straight to the point: "No matter what high-sounding name it is given, the essence of murder is murder after all.
"Just like everything you did in this manor, Amakusa Shoutai."
Amakusa Shoyasu closed the book in his hand, his already handsome features were even more stunning under the lamplight. His eyes moved and fixed on Furukawa Kumisa's face, as deep as water.
"Officer Furukawa is accusing me of four serial murders in the manor?"
Furukawa Kumisa looked at him for a few seconds, then looked away, "No, you are not the one who directly attacked."
He sat behind the scenes in this farce, detaching himself from the stage and completely removing himself.
"Where to start? These four murders are not "serial" cases, but four independent murders.
"You have already personally experienced the cause of death of the first deceased, Amakusa Yuyasu - he was poisoned by poison dropped on the piano keys. The murderer was his eldest brother, Amakusa Shuntai."
Shoutai Amakusa rubbed his fingers twice on the cover of "The Name of the Rose": "But Brother Juntai was the victim in the second case."
"Yes, the day after he poisoned Amakusa Yuyasu, he died from someone else's poison. The murderer took special pesticide from the greenhouse as poison and poisoned Amakusa Yuyasu's food.
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Amakusa Shotai spoke slowly: "But for the meal that morning, everyone ate the same thing. Brother Shuntai didn't touch any food after the meal. How did the murderer put the poison on his hands?
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Furukawa Kumisa shook his head: "The point is not 'what he ate', but 'what he didn't eat'.
"The pesticides and poisons in the greenhouse have matching antidotes, and if the pesticides and antidotes are taken together within a short period of time, the body will not have any reaction - this is the key to this murder.
"Shuntai Amakusa doesn't eat peanuts, but the antidote happened to be in peanut butter.
"The rice porridge was laced with pesticides, and the peanut butter was mixed with an antidote, so everyone who ate the peanut butter had no reaction. Only Amakusa Shuntai, who did not eat peanut butter, died alone."
Shoutai Amakusa's face remained expressionless, "Then, Officer Furukawa, who is the murderer who killed my eldest brother?"
Furukawa Kumisa answered without hesitation: "It was his secretary, Kaori Gomokawa—the person he trusted the most, the person who prepared breakfast that day, and the person who personally handed him the poisoned porridge."
The bottle of suspicious lotion they found in Gobaikawa Kaori's house contained the antidote to the pesticide.
Amakusa Shōtai smiled: "But this Miss Gobaikawa also died of poisoning two hours ago."
Furukawa Kumisa sighed: "Yes, she probably didn't expect that she would die from the same poison."
So at the last moment when the poison struck, Gomokawa Kaori didn't go to anyone else, but went straight to Furukawa Kumisa's room - she knew that she had searched for the bottle of antidote, and she thought the antidote was still with her.
But unfortunately, they had locked everything in the safe during the day, and when Conan Edogawa hurriedly brought the antidote, he still couldn't catch her poisonous hair.
Gomokawa Kaori searched all the antidotes in the manor into her room, leaving no room for herself.
Amakusa Shoyasu's tone remained unchanged, he seemed to be just an ordinary researcher who was curious about the methods of these mysterious cases.
"But from that night on, all our food is our own responsibility. Even the meals for dinner are all of the same type. How did Miss Gobaikawa get poisoned, and by whose hands did she die?"
Furukawa Kumisa said with certainty: "It's Ueda Nobuko."
Amakusa Shōtai curled his lips slightly but did not speak, letting her continue.
"Nobuko Ueda entered the kitchen before Kaori Gomokawa, and then tampered with the oven - yes, the poison was not directly put on the food, but was poisoned by Nobuko Ueda with lard or other solidified fats.
The wrap is smeared on the upper wall of the oven.
"As the oven was turned on and heated up, the lard melted, and the poison naturally fell on Kaori Gomokawa's food."
Therefore, at dinner that day, Ueda Nobuko took the opportunity to go back to the kitchen and deliberately got into a dispute with Five Hundred Rivers Kaori, forcing Five Hundred Rivers Kaori to destroy the oven.
In fact, even if Kaori Gomokawa didn't take action, she still had enough excuses to involve the oven in the "dispute" between the two, thus destroying the oven and preventing the poison from affecting Furukawa Kumisa and others who would use the kitchen later.
The smile on Amakusa Shoyasu's face deepened, "But the last 'murderer', Miss Ueda, also died not long ago - so Officer Furukawa is now suspecting that I, the only remaining suspect, is responsible for the murder."
Miss Ueda?"
Furukawa Kumisa looked at him steadily for a while and shook his head: "No, you are not the murderer."
This is Amakusa Shoyasu, he will never do anything by himself, let alone let himself get the slightest suspicion.
"This is perhaps the most unexpected truth in this case. Who would have thought that the person who killed the last 'murderer' Noriko Ueda was actually the first person to be killed in this case, Yuyasu Amakusa.
"We once found a syringe in Amakusa Yuyasu's room, and there was a tiny pinhole in the sealing rubber of all Ueda Nobuko's oral liquids.
"Nobuko Ueda is extremely wary. After entering the manor, no one can enter or leave her room without her knowledge - except for her unguarded lover, Amakusa Yuyasu."
Furukawa Kumisa sighed: "This is your brilliance, Amakusa Shoyasu. You never do it yourself, you just rely on your mouth to control the four puppet-like people like marionettes.
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The silent room burst into applause, "Officer Furukawa's reasoning is indeed wonderful, but in Officer Furukawa's story, the four dead men killed each other, connected head to tail, and the plot was clever, and it seemed that no one else was involved.
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Amakusa Shotai looked at Furukawa Kumisa with calm and calm eyes, and he knew for sure that she couldn't do anything to him.
——Because she has no evidence.
Furukawa Kumisa lowered his eyes: "Indeed, I have no evidence to prove that you cleverly instructed these four people, made suggestions for them, and provided them with murderous plans."
Amakusa Shotai chuckled and seemed about to say something, but was suddenly interrupted by Furukawa Kumisa.
"——That's how it should be."
"……What?"
Furukawa Kumisa looked at Amakusa Shotai and repeated: "This is how it should be, Amakusa Shotai, but it's a pity that you did unnecessary things."
The smile on Amakusa Shōtai's lips gradually faded.
"You are a very perceptive person, and you are also a person who likes to do things perfectly.
"So after you noticed my suspicions on the first night, in order to dispel my suspicions and create a more perfect "irrelevant" persona for yourself, during the next day you went to the concert hall to play the piano and let yourself
My fingers were contaminated with poison, and then at the critical moment, I discovered the truth and stopped me."
Saying this, there was a slightly different sigh in Furukawa Kumisa's smile: "In fact, there is no need for me to stop it? Although cyanide|chemicals are dangerous, as long as the amount is controlled to a very small amount, you will not get contaminated.
It's an instant death - even if I hadn't stopped you, it's unknown whether you would have allowed yourself to actually take that poison."
But because of this incident, she exposed her identity in front of Kudo Shinichi.
Just because of the person in front of her, she had lost seventy points of her favor in vain.
It would be fine if it was really because he was trying to save people, but it just happened that the person in front of him was just directing and acting to get out of the way.
Furukawa Kumisa sighed softly: "It's really... taken advantage of."
Amakusa Shotai had a puzzled look in his eyes, as if he didn't understand why she suddenly expressed such emotion.
But this did not disrupt his rhythm. He pointed out: "I did not put the poison on the keys. I even almost died because of the poison. Officer Furukawa, why do you think this was a 'mistake'?"
Furukawa Kumisa asked directly: "Didn't you inject the poison?"
Amakusa Shoutai paused slightly.
Furukawa Kumisa took out the towel she had been holding in the bag for a long time and threw it on the table: "This is the towel found in your eldest brother Amakusa Shuntai's room. It is full of bleach."
Amakusa Shoutai's eyes flashed slightly.
"It seems that you have already thought of it."
Furukawa Kumisa took back the towel: "The sodium sulfite in the bleach can neutralize cyanide compounds - your eldest brother is also a cautious person. He sneaked into the piano room quietly the night after Amakusa Yuyasu died, Used bleach to wipe the poison off the keys.
"If this towel is taken for testing by the police, traces of neutralization of bleach and cyanide can be found on it."
Her eyes were pin-piercing on Amakusa Shotai's face: "Then, who applied the 'poison' in your concert hall during the next day?"
Furukawa Kumisa is convinced of Amakusa Shōyasu's character, and with his meticulous way of doing things, even though he is not sure whether Amakusa Shōyasu has dealt with the poison on the keys, for the sake of the verisimilitude of his acting, he will definitely put himself on the piano keys. Add an extra layer of poison to ensure that you play this drama to the perfect ending.
Chapter completed!