SailorStar9: With Chapter 5 uploaded, this is Chapter 6 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?
Disclaimers: I own absolutely nothing, except this plot and potential pairing.
Pending pairing: Furuya Rei/Mizuno Ami
Chapter 6: Detectives' Nocturne: Deduction
In Kashitsuka's apartment...
"Damn." Mouri cursed. "The PC is locked."
"You can't unlock it unless you know the password, right?" Ran asked.
"Why'd they have to do something so annoying?" Mouri complained. "Then let's try playing with the name 'Kashitsuka Kei'."
"How you do two usually come up with passwords?" Amuro piped in.
"I use my birth date." Ran replied.
"I'd use 5563 since it can be read as 'Ko-go-ro-san'." Mouri added.
"That's not what I mean." Amuro corrected. "What if it's a really long password that you can't memorize?"
"I'd write it in my mobile phone memo book." Ran recalled.
"I'd write it on a paper and hide it somewhere where nobody can see it." Mouri remarked, moving a hand under the table and located the slip of paper taped underneath it. "I found it." he pulled the paper from its hiding spot. "I got the password."
In Urakawa's car...
"Why?" Kashitsuka hissed, receiving a 'Not responding' message. "Why can't I reach any of those three?"
"Do you want me to find her for you?" Conan stated. "I mean the woman you're looking for, onee-san." he clarified.
"Why are you awake, boy?" Kashitsuka was shocked.
"If you're talking about the juice drugged with sleeping pills that you bought for me, I didn't drink it." Conan explained. "I spilled half of it under the seat since I didn't hear the bottle pop when I opened it. That's because you opened it before and put something inside it, right? Anyway, if you want to find that person, then let's go meet them. The three people you called just now are probably registered in an online address book, so we can find out where they live. You want to kill that woman, right, Urakawa Serina?"
"How do you know my name?" Urakawa gaped in surprise.
"The scratched-up mobile phone that you're holding right now told me everything." Conan answered. "Though it wouldn't have gotten scratched if you hadn't treated it more carelessly than usual and put it in the same pocket as something rough. In the pockets of the coat you covered me with back there, there was nothing but that phone, your wallet, and a sleeping pill case. Your wallet and the case didn't have any scratches on them, which means that the mobile phone actually belonged to the guy who died in the toilet and you switched it with the mobile phone you brought, right? That guy had a lot of change in his pockets, and although the lighter and wallet in the same pocket were covered in scratches, there weren't any on the mobile phone. There was a stun gun in there as well, but it didn't have scratches on it, so you must've brought that too, right?"
"Don't be silly." Urakawa stammered. "Didn't you see it, too? I was tied down with duct tape. There's no way I could've switch mobile phones with a guy who threatening me with a gun."
"Tying yourself up with duct tape is easy." Conan declared. "After you pull the tape out, you hang the main part of the duct tape on the toilet's doorknob by the hole in the middle. Since the tape is stretched out, you can tie yourself up by turning around and around. The duct tape is wound around your elbows and above, so you can use both hands. After cutting the tape, you can remove the duct tape from the doorknob. With your mouth, you should be able to tie up your wrists with duct tape, too."
"Then are you saying that I'm the one who shot that guy?" Urakawa inquired.
"The light's green." Conan reminded.
"It might be too hard for you to understand, but on the arms and sleeves of a person who fires a gun..." Urakawa started, driving on.
"Gunshot residue." Conan cut her off. "When you fire a gun, lead, tin, antimony, barium, zinc nitrate, and the like scatter and get on the body and clothes of the person who fired the gun. You probably made the guy you knocked out with a stun gun hold a gun and then made him sit on the toilet seat, right? You made him hold the gun's muzzle in his mouth. Then, with the untied bootlaces still connected to the boots, you passed the laces through the gun's trigger from the outside of his hands, took them out under the toilet seat, and dropped them. To make sure the gunshot residue didn't get on you, you covered your head with a towel. You damped the end of another towel and spread it beneath the gun's grip, to make sure it didn't slip. Then with the laces you dropped from under the toilet seat, covered by the towel, you were all set. To finish it off, just after sending an email to Kogoro-ojii-san as if trying to say 'Don't come in the toilet.', you pulled the lace while holding onto the boots with your knees in order to fire the gun. The guy was thrown back to the wall by he impact, and just by pulling the lace and removing the towels before we came in after hearing the gunshot, it looked like the guy that brought you into the toilet had been cornered and committed suicide with a gun. As evidence, you couldn't answer right away when Amuro-san asked you how your brother died, right? That was because your right eardrum hurt, and you couldn't hear well when someone talked to you on that side. When you fired the gun, though you could guard your left ear by sticking it firmly against the guy's knee, you couldn't cover your right ear. In other words, the Kashitsuka Kei that came to ask Kogoro-ojii-san to investigate a coin locker key as actually that guy and it was you who drove Kogoro-ojii-san away from the Detective Agency with an email before he came, and then met him at the Agency posing as someone who worked there. Actually, you were only planning to take him somewhere else and interrogate him, but he started doubting that you actually worked there, so you had no choice but to knock him out with a stun gun. But carrying him somewhere else was out of the question for you. You could've snatched his mobile phone right there and killed him with the gun, but if someone nearby were to hear the gunshot and come running to the scene, you'd have nowhere to go. That's why you dragged him to the toilet and played out the trick I just explained, right? That way, you could get let off by the police and you might be able to find the person you're looking for with the mobile phone you snatched from that guy."
"Just who are you, boy?" Urakawa demanded.
"Edogawa Conan, detective." Conan announced coolly. "Look ahead, onee-san, the light is red."
"Then you knew my name from the cash card in my wallet?" Urakawa noted, pulling on the brakes.
"I didn't know it was your card yet." Conan corrected. "But when I checked the internet, I learnt a lot. To make us think the mobile phone you snatched from the guy was your own, you transferred a single photo to use it as a wallpaper and the guy in the photo was a bank employee called Shouno Kenya who was recently shot to death by a bank robber. You're probably looking around for the three robbers now. The short guy who was hidden under the bed in the bedroom in Kashitsuka-san's flat and who you had no choice but to lead us to, was on of the bank robbers. The second one was the athletic guy called Kashitsuka Kei, who died at the Detective Agency. And then, with the phone-book of the mobile phone you snatched from him, it looks like you were trying to find the third slender guy, but the names of the three people you repeatedly called were all those of women. The fact that you knew there was a woman among the robbers means that you were at the robbery scene. You probably figured it out by seeing their body types or gestures from close by, but the fact that there was a woman amongst the robbers hadn't been announced to the media yet. Since you were at the scene, you should also have noticed, that the words Kenya said when he approached the robber, 'OK, please stop.' was actually 'Oi, Kei, please stop.' Kenya noticed that Kashitsuka Kei, a friend, was one of the robbers and was silenced when he tried to stop him. When I checked the mobile phone, Kenya's home phone number was on it, so those two must have been friends. It looks like Kenya as a teller at the bank, so I was thinking that when he was drunk, he leaked information to Kei that on that day, and at that time, 200 million yen would be brought in, and that was used in the bank robbery plan. And so, I called Kenya's house and asked. 'Is Kenya's girlfriend still there by any chance?' And then Kenya's family told me that Urakawa Serina didn't come to the funeral last night."
"Wait a second." Urakawa gaped. "How come you're saying I'm his girlfriend? Didn't I say I was his younger sister?"
"Since you're at the robbery scene, you're most likely also a bank employee." Conan reasoned. To prevent corruption, relatives can't be assigned to the same bank branch. That's how I knew: that you're Kenya's girlfriend, Urakawa Serina, who's trying to get revenge in the three robbers."
In Kashitsuka's apartment...
"Isn't this the plotter for that bank robbery?" Mouri exclaimed.
"They had the nerve to include a photo of the three of them gathered together and holding guns." Amuro noted.
"Isn't the guy in the middle the one who committed suicide at the Detective Agency?" Ran noticed the photo Mouri just pulled out.
"The guy on the far right is the guy who was in the suitcase." Mouri added.
"Then the lady on the far left must be the other robber." Amuro concluded.
"Looks that that woman's contacted them." Ran noticed.
"With an email blatantly titled 'Is the gun ready?'." Mouri snorted. "An email from the woman saying she's moving."
"It has an address." Ran gaped.
"Let's go and see." Amuro suggested.
In Urakawa's car...
"I figured it out right away that this Urakawa Serina was a bank employee after checking your wallet." Conan admitted. "Since whenever a bank employee get transferred to another branch, a new account is created for them with no transfer fee at the branch they are transferring to. The next part is just supposition, but first, relying on 'Kei', the name that Kenya muttered, you found the address of Kei, a friend of Kenya's, in his address book, and went over to his house, right? Saying that you came to pick up something Kenya had forgotten, or something like that. But Kashitsuka Kei was not there, and you were greeted by a short man who had been living with him. Unfortunately for him, you found his gun, and thinking that you found out he was a bank robber, he came at you to silence you, but you ended up beating him to death instead. You were thinking of waiting there for Kashitsuka Kei's return, but you saw the preparations for a party had been laid out in the living room. You feared that his many friends would be coming, so you decided to hide the man's body in a suitcase and place a wiretap in it. You figured that way, the body would eventually be discovered by the stench, and you'd call the other partner out. The reason you didn't go to Kenya's funeral was because you were listening in on Kashitsuka Kei via the wiretap the whole time, right? Probably from inside your car, parked in a nearby parking lot. But even after the party was over, he didn't notice the body. He suspected the short guy became frightened and ran away, so he called his other partner and proposed to her that they should take the rest of the money and skip town. But even though they had the key to the locker that held the money, they didn't know what locker the key was for. Since nobody knew the location besides the short guy. So then, Kashitsuka Kei decided to have the great detective Mouri Kogoro find the location of the locker. Of course, keeping the contents of the locker a secret. Overhearing the exchange between the partners on the phone through the wiretap, you panicked. If Mouri Kogoro discovered that he was a bank robber and he was arrested, you'd lose your chance at revenge. That's why you ambushed Kashitsuka Kei at the Detective Agency and tried to get information about the other partner from him."
"That's right." Urakawa sighed. "I thought that I'd find who that guy was talking to thanks to this phone's call history, but he was careful and erased it all."
"In that case, you have no choice but to go see these three women that you called." Conan noted. "Let's start with the closest one to us, Toyokita Rinko's flat."
In the elevator in Kashitsuka's flat...
"Maybe the woman who took Conan away is heading for that lady in order to avenge Shouno." Amuro surmised.
In Amuro's car...
"I got an email from Conan." Ran gaped. "'I'm alright, so don't worry.' he says."
"It looks like he went on his own accord." Amuro noted. "The curiosity of a child entails the inquiring spirit of a detective and being mutually understood." he spotted Sera's motorbike following them from his side-view mirror.
After meeting up with the three female suspects...
"So, how about it?" Urakawa asked, Conan had deposited the bag of rubbish on Furuya Sakae's behalf. "Did you figure out who the robber is?"
"Of course. "Conan replied. "But I can't tell you, onee-san. I can't let someone die; I mean you, Urakawa."
SailorStar9: Any OOC-ness is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Read and review.