Ch4.
Investigations
The lights turned back on and a gasp rose over the large room. The door flung open as 4 guards stepped in and blocked the entrance of the room as chief Megure squeezed through from behind. He ran straight to the body of the man.
"This is the man that died huh. Interesting, there does not seem to be any out side damage." Megure scanned the lifeless corpse.
Actually, there is a small hole on the right side of his neck, slightly behind his ear. I'm guessing is made from a needle judging by the size. His lips are starting to change color. Looks like it was a fast death. Possibly cyanide.
"That voice!" the chief turned around, "Hattori Heiji, what are you doing here!"
"Hello!" a bright and cheerful voice came from the left.
"Conan-kun! you're here too!?"
"We just happen to be here to do some research and this party was here so we decided to take a look." Conan replied with childish innocence.
Chief dropped his brows and spoke in an ever tired face "Sigh, you seem to attract more trouble around you than your uncle Conan-kun"
"Hehehe, You say too much" Conan rubbed the back of his head and uttered.
"That's not suppose to be a good thing," Chief gave a fake laughter, "Anyways what were you saying Hattori-kun?"
A small trail of blood ran down the body's neck from the small hole. He lay still as though he was asleep. The flower on his chest, which everyone received, was now beginning to withdraw.
"Sir, we found what caused the fuse to break. It was a small bomb set with a cell phone." An officer said running in.
Chief Megure looked down pensively and gave a sigh.
Conan crawled over to take a closer look. (This smell…Cyanide. The question now is how did he manage to bring his weapon in here. There is high security at the door with metal detectors and everything, so brining anything that can relate to a weapon is out of the question. But that will mean the weapon already existed inside.)
"Mr. Guard man, can you let me out please? I got to go to the wash room, please?" Conan asked.
"Huh oh sure kid." The guard replied.
"Conan wait up, I'll come with you." Called out Hattori.
"Sorry, I'm afraid I can not let you leave. Even thought you are the great high school detective. I apologize for the inconvenience but those are the orders." The guard stopped him.
Conan walked over and pulled Hattori down. "Don't worry, I'll fill you in if I find anything."
"Fine, I'll ask for all the little details of your little expedition." Hattori stood back up and turned around with unsatisfied written all over his face.
Conan walked out and scanned the vicinity. There were still police all around. The snack shop, the restaurant, he tried to get access to the operation room but was denied. Thinking that nothing more can be learnt from the outside, he walked back to the room. Hattori was waiting for him in agitation and ran straight to him sticking his face right up to the little boy. "Well, what did you find." Hattori asked.
Conan replied, "Nothing. Everything was in order, unless you count the amount of police walking all over the place. The snack shop was still open and so was the restaurant. Thought most of the customers had left. What did you find out?"
"I've managed to minimize the suspects down to 5 individuals." Hattori replied.
"I'm listening" Conan replied.
"Sakamura Aogi, Yamakiku Soshi, Nakamura Kousuke, Kiakugi Kazuko, and finally Amy Anderson."
"Why?"
"When Katsuoka died. He was facing the stage. The wound was found on the right side of his neck. No one at the time could have ran up to him, killed him, and ran back in such a short period of time. Which means an object was projected. That will minimize the suspects to one half of the room. Further more, look at where his wound is."
"I see, because it's behind his ear that will minimize to the right bottom side of the room. But even with that, anyone could have ran there while the lights turned out couldn't they."
"That's what I thought as well. I tried to see where exactly could the projectile have came from. I found out that It was right there" Hattori pointed to a square location behind a curtain sealed off by a red velvet robe about 5 meters away from the body. "That area is off limits to all the individuals that are not part of the origination of the party. Think about it, first of all, if you were going to kill someone would you bother running to that specific location to kill him? Surely someone will notice an odd behavior like that happening. When initially the lights dimmed for about 3 seconds that was a signal for the up coming members that was involved to go behind that curtain, to prepare for their speech or acts, before the lights completely faded and the spot like went on Mr. Katsuoka."
"Interesting. Behind that curtain not many will notice him if he was about to shoot something because its extra dark."
"Because everyone was busy getting ready, it was very possible to steal their eyes and call to initiate the bomb. The 5 individuals I just named was there at the location and was confirmed by number of waitresses and waiters. So, if my deduction is correct, the murder went something like this. First, the murderer went behind the curtain when the lights dimmed. Then he watched as Mr. Katsuoka get to the starting location. The starting location was set so Mr. Katsuoka stops for a short period of time. It was here that the murderer blew up the electricity and killed him from behind those curtains. There's still two mystery that I don't know about."
"What was the weapon and where did he get it from, correct?"
"Yea."
A young voice was heard from within the crowd, "Mommy, I wanna go home. Indiana Jones is on tonight and its my favorite one."
"Indiana Jones?" A lightning flew across Conan and Hattori's head, "That's it. I've found it. The way the murderer killed Mr. Katsuoka and the evidence that will determin that criminal.