I'm sorry for update late again. I'm so busy with school camps and yesterday I wasn't feeling well and couldn't finish writing it in time...
(This one's also hard to write, the tricks is going to reveal after all..)
Anyway, enjoy! :D
Chapter 8 – To solve the case
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Kaede is looking down at her coffee cup in her hand.
"What's on your mind? Thinking if it has a poison or something?" Ryoji asked, "Nah, I don't think so." and sips his cup.
"Maybe I'm just over thinking…" Kaede smiles to Ryoji and drink hers.
Clank!
The sound of something hitting the floor…
Kaede's eyes widen, both her hands holding her neck. Everyone who is watching gasps almost simultaneously.
"Oh god! What's going on?!" Narumi exclaimed.
"Yamamura, call the ambulance!" Kogoro demanded.
She then falls to the ground, lies still…
"Too late, she's dead." Eri said after she checked the pulse.
"No way…" Ran said, not believing what's in front of her.
Conan walks closer to the body. 'Her lip starts to turn purple…the potassium cyanide? Che, they have one step ahead of us again.'
"Everyone, don't move or do anything and stay still!" Kogoro shouted and also comes to inspect the body. "Geez, old case still not clear and then this, the new one appeared."
"I think, the culprit is definitely one of you." Eri declared, looking at everyone. "Narumi-san, Kaaka-san, Ryoji-san, Takuro-san, Kimie-san and Masao-san, all of you had a chance to put a poison in her cup."
"What is this about?" Narumi demanded.
"I'm a suspect? I didn't even touch her cup!" Masao said, irritating.
"Yeah, you were the one who handed me a cup, weren't you, Kisaki-san?" Kimie asked.
"I was, but in the previous cases you all didn't have an alibi, so I can't cross anyone out." She replied.
"Now, I want everyone to gather at the sofa right there, so we can work with this case." Kogoro requested, pointing to the sofa at the far right of the room, far enough for him and the police to investigate the body.
And all the suspects are called to do the body search, to find the poison which might still be with the culprit, but find nothing…
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"Keibu, the reaction of Potassium cyanide in the coffee cup is positive." The forensic officer informed.
All of a sudden, the light in the room is off, leaves them in the darkness.
"Who turned off the light?!" Kogoro shouted.
*Shatters* *Smash*
The sound of something shatters, turns them into panic and astonish.
"Arghhhhh!" But the sound Ryoji's painful cry surprises them more…
"What's happened?!"
"Someone turns on the light!"
When the room filled with the light once again, what they are seeing turned them from panic and surprise into horror.
Ryoji is smashed with the flower vase which is decorates in the room, and lying on the floor…
"He's still alive! Someone please helps him!" Kimie pleaded.
Two officers help heap him up from the floor, unconscious from the impact he received.
Conan looks at the vase, now in pieces, and notices a towel on the floor not far from the vase much. 'Use a towel to hold the vase to prevent fingerprints?'
"The killer dare to attack us like this?" Kaaka told Narumi, her hand bracing on her chest in somewhat a surprise. He glances at her and that is when he figures something out.
His glasses reflexes in the light like it usually do when he solved mysteries and cases.
'So that's what it was… I figured it all out, the culprit, the murder weapon which silt Reiko-san's throat, why that person did that kind of reaction and the meaning of Tomoko-san's dying message. Then that thing still has to be at somewhere there.' Then he quickly runs to the kitchen.
"Wait! Conan-kun!" Ran said when she sees him suddenly runs out. "Why such hurry…"
'If it as I thought, then it must have that thing' When he reached the kitchen, he opens the cupboards in search for something. 'Here it is!'
"Now this case shall come to the climax." He smirks in triumphant.
Meanwhile, his phone rang and he takes it out from his pocket to see who the caller is.
'Haibara?'
Then he answers the phone.
"What is it, Haibara?"
"Kudo-kun, I just found it, the real cause of that accident 13 years ago."
"Really? What is it then?" Conan asked.
"It—actually it was…" Haibara started.
He listens and then keeps his face down until the end.
'If that's true, then this case would be a very tragic one…' He thought.
"Thanks, Haibara" And he hangs up.
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"Where are you running off again, huh?" Ran asked immediately when Conan comes back.
"I just went to the restroom." He lied. He can't tell her what he is doing anyway.
"Restroom again" Ran said, gives him a pointed look.
"Heh heh" He chuckles while rubbing at the back of his head sheepishly.
"What's about Ryoji-san? How is he?" He changed the subject to brush off her suspicion.
"Ah, he's fine. We already did the first aid and now we let him to rest at his room." She replied.
"And where's oji-san?"
"There, with Megure-keibu over there." She points to where Kogoro is standing with Megure. "Don't disturb him, okay?"
"Haiiii" He drawled back.
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"Hey hey, you say there's something strange you want me to see?" Kogoro asked Conan when they reached Chief Hirata's room.
"This way, this way" Conan said, beckons him to a chair which is prepared at the front of the bed.
"Geez, where it—" There was a sound and he feels something pricks in the back of his neck, "Here it come againnn" before he staggers and slumps on the chair, into the 'sleeping Kogoro' pose.
He takes the phone from Kogoro's pocket, with voice changer bow in another hand; he dials and orders to another end. "Eri, gather everyone to Hirata-san's room for me, I think I now know who the culprit is."
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"Conan-kun?" Ran comes to find Conan at the restroom, but apparently, he isn't there. "Eh? But he said he's going to use the toilet…" She pondered with folded arms.
She didn't notice someone had snuck up behind her.
She tries to call for help and struggles when that person uses a chloroformed handkerchief to cover her nose and mouth.
To no avail, her eyes slowly close and she drifts into consciousness…
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"Is it true? You know who the culprit? Yamamura-keibu asked when he and others arrived to Hirata's room.
"I've called everyone here, so…" Eri began. "Meitantei-san, will you tell us who committed these murders which are occurring at this mansion?" She said with crossing arms and glances back to give a pointed look to all the suspects behind her.
Conan who is behind the chair speaks in Kogoro's voice through the voice changer. "All right, I will start one by one. Let's start from the case of Hirata-san's sealed room, which is where we are now."
"Please wait a moment; I'm going to go get a video camera in the car!" Yamamura said and runs out with haste.
"How could the culprit created a sealed room, despite the only key for this room was under the book?" Takuro asked.
"It's very simple; you only need two things to make it. Oi Conan!"
"This!" Conan appears from behind Kogoro and holds something up for everyone to see.
"TV antenna?" Kimie asked, dumbfounded.
"And this!" He lifts a cooler box which has ices inside for them to see.
"Ice? How so?" Eri asked, confused how these two things could make a sealed room.
"I'm back!" Yamamura returned, still panting, and starts recording with a video camera in his hand.
"After the culprit murdered Hirata-san, they stacked around 4 to 5 ice cubes on the floor and away from the door 3 meters" He said and does the demonstration.
"Then they placed the book on the ice…" and do as he said. "Said book will be up from the floor around 10 cm."
"After that, the culprit locked the door and put the key on the floor, then used an already stretched TV antenna to push the key under the book."
"But that antenna wasn't long enough to reach that far!" Narumi pointed out.
"What if there were 2 of it?" Conan said, connects two antennas together and pushes the key under the book.
"When the ice melts, the sealed room was completed." Kogoro(actually Conan) takes over.
Eri who is still inside the room, unlocks the door and opens it. "If that was true, then wouldn't the book still wet? When we found it, there's no any trace of water being there and the book didn't wet either."
"The culprit used the ice that, when melted, there would be no water left. Yes, the dry ice." He replied. "I found this cooler box contains with dry ices in the kitchen, evident that the culprit had used it."
"This method everyone could perform it." Kaaka also pointed out.
"Yes." Kogoro answered short.
"Them what method they used to make Kaede-san drank a cup of coffee with poison? Eri asked.
"It was easier than we thought, there's no any trick at all in that case."
"What do you mean, Mouri-san?" Takuro spoke out his confusion.
"Mean that the culprit has only wanted someone—or rather, anyone to drink it."
"Wait, you mean that I could've drank it too?" Masao commented.
"I was so lucky that I didn't drink it then…" Ryoji said from behind them, suddenly appears.
"Ah, are you alright, Ryoji-san?" Eri asked.
"Just a small wound and I also want to know who hit me too." He said.
"The culprit had set the timer to make a blackout at that time, to kill Ryoji-san," Kogoro continued. "But they didn't exert enough to get him killed."
"Heh, now I really much want to see who the killer is." Ryoji said, looking at everyone in the room.
"Tomoko-san told us already, in her dying message"
"She only wrote 'q', wasn't she?" Yamamura who has keeps quiet until now said.
"That's right, the English alphabet 'q' which homonym with the word 'Kill', do you think so?"
"It's still doesn't tell us who is the culprit, isn't it?" Eri said.
"It was in her message clearly, with her crimson red blood…" He began.
"That's right! The blood indicated only to one person, and that is…."
"You…."
Guess who's the culprit?
I don't know when I can update again, but I will try to finish it in a week...(annoying school camps...)
