SailorStar9: With Chapter 70 uploaded, this is Chapter 71 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 do not own Sailor Moon or Detective Conan, I only own this plotline and the pairing.

Pairing: Established!Furuya Rei/Mizuno Ami

Chapter 71: The Actress Blogger's Locked Room Case, Part Two


"I'm hungry again." Genta muttered, his stomach growling.

"Didn't you just say you were full?" Mitsuhiko moaned.

"Professor, can't you make anything?" Genta whined.

"Shouldn't you go home and eat a proper dinner?" Professor Agasa asked.

"But my parents are at a meeting for the shopping center." Genta complained. "They're coming home late tonight. My mom gets mad when I eat too much, so let's get some kind of snack."

"Would you like some cheesecake, then?" Haibara inquired. "I bought the ingredients, so I could try making it tomorrow."

"Won't it take time to finish?" Genta wondered.

"Apparently, it takes only thirty to forty minutes in a rice cooker." Haibara replied. "Cooking rice isn't the only thing a rice cooker can do. It can even bake delicious cakes."


Later that evening...

"This case is certainly full of mysteries." Takagi noted. "The victim said she won't open the door for anyone but her assistant, Sakurako-san, but the culprit entered the room and murdered the victim. Despite the doors of this hotel not automatically locking, the key card was in the bedroom, which was far from the door. We have no idea how the culprit escaped after committing the murder. On top of that, we still haven't found the rod-like weapon used the kill the victim."

"All we know that the victim is actress Shono Kyona-san and that there will be a great commotion about this later" Megure added.

"Takagi, couldn't the culprit have taken the murder weapon with him?" Ami posted a possibility.

"That does make sense." Takagi agreed. "Should we ask the commissioner for instructions?"

"Who is it?" Megure asked, hearing the doorbell. "Agasa-san?" he saw Professor Agasa through the peephole. "What do you want?" he opened the door. "Conan-kun?" he gawked, seeing Conan at the door. "Where's Agasa-san?"

"Professor Agasa is waiting for you in Room 504." Conan replied. "Directly under this one in the murderer's room."

"That's actress Kitami Saya-san's room." Megure gasped. "Listen, Conan-kun. I'm sure it's difficult for you to understand, but the room is locked and..."

"Inspector." Takagi just got off the phone. "The commissioner just called to say to do as Conan-kun says."


Afterwards in Kitami's room...

"I demand an explanation." Kitami snapped. "Why am I being suspected of killing Kyona-san? The key card was in the middle of her room, so it's a locked room murder case. On top of that, Kyona-san said she'd only open the door for Sakurako-san. Shouldn't she be your prime suspect?"

Just then, the doorbell rang.

"You'll see how she entered the room if you look through the peephole." Professor Agasa related.

"Who is it this time?" Megure looked through the peephole. "Agasa-san? That's impossible. What on earth is going on?" he opened the door, only to be greeted by the Detective Boys.

"We recorded a video of the professor on the phone and played it back in front of the peephole." Haibara explained.

"I had Conan-kun do the same." taking on Professor Agasa's voice, Conan began. "Just like Saya-san did when she entered Kyona-san's room."

"Saya-san recorded a video of Sakurako-san with her phone and used it to enter Kyona-san's room." Megure realized where this was going.

"But I just met Sakurako-san today." Kitami reminded. "I didn't have time to record a video like that."

"Sakurako-san, when Saya-san asked you to come to her room, wasn't something stuck to her door?" Conan inquired.

"An envelope..." Yonehara responded. "There was an envelope with a large black heart drawn on it stuck to Saya-san's door just below the peephole."

"There was a phone inside the envelope." Conan revealed. "Bu opening a heart-shaped hole in the case, lining up the phone's camera with the hole and setting it to record, she was able to take a video of Sakurako-san ringing the doorbell. Both Kyona-san and Saya-san's rooms are at the end of the hallway. The background in the video would look just like her hallway."

"What about the key card?" Kitami pressed. "It was next to the body in the bedroom. This hotel's rooms don't automatically lock, so how did the culprit lock the door after leaving?"

"By using this toy helicopter you were flying at the cake buffet." Conan cut in. "Could I borrow this room's key card? First, you tape a long string to the rotor shaft of the propeller and the end of the helicopter." he demonstrated. "After wrapping the tape around the end of the string attached to the rotor shaft, stick the tape to the key card. Once you gently tape the helicopter to the bedroom floor, all preparations are done. All you have to do is pass the two strings under the door, slide the key card into the slot of the locked door, and turn on the helicopter. The rest is up to you guys." he handed the Petite Falcon to Ayumi.

Genta shut the door and Ayumi locked the door with the card key.

"It's in." Haibara informed, putting the card key near the door slot.

"Start it up." Conan shouted.

"Ignition on." Mitsuhiko was given the remote control.

"When you turn on the helicopter, the string is wound around the motor shaft and the key card slides under the door." Conan explained, the rotor shaft winding up the thread and dragging the key card across the floor. "Once all the string has been wound up, the force detaches the key card from the string and falls to the floor." the key card hopped over the helicopter and landed behind it.

"So, instead of flying the helicopter, she used it to wind up the string." Takagi blinked.

"To finish the trick, you just pull the string attached to the back from outside the room." Conan continued. "Pull, guys." he shouted. "The helicopter would be pulled off the floor and towards the entrance." he added, Genta tugging at the string. "If you pull really hard once it reaches the door... you can now retrieve the string." he stated, Genta giving the string a harsh tug to disengage it. "As proof, remember the white cream on the floor next to the key card? That's because there was cream on the skids on the bottom of the helicopter. Saya-san's helicopter crashed into the cake Genta was about to eat."

"But, the helicopter is still inside the room." Takagi pointed out.

"That's why Saya-san dropped her hat the moment she entered Kyona-san's room." Conan nodded. "She pretended to miss the hat rack. And if she stuck double-sided tape on the inside, it should stay even if she put it on the rack. So, it's probably still there. Inside her hat is the Petite Falcon she used to commit her crime."

"There's even string wrapped around it." Takagi confirmed.

"You're wrong." Kitami protested. "It wasn't me. I stuck the double-sided tape on there so my hat wouldn't slip. It must've gotten stuck there by coincidence when I dropped it."

"Then, why did you stand on the table?" Conan fired off a question. "When my Petite Falcon got caught in the AC vent, you stood on the table to get it for me. There were cups on the table, so normally, a person wouldn't stand on it. Not to mention, right in front of us, there was a selfie stick It also doubles as a weapon." he took on Professor Agasa's voice again, Takagi having extended the selfie stick on the counter to reveal bloodied steel rod. "Most of the pictures on Kyona-san's blog are selfies, but Saya-san's had none at all. So that's most likely Kyona-san's selfie stick. Tell us, Kitami Saya-san, what is Kyona-san's selfie stick doing in your room, covered in blood?"

'Isn't it obvious?" Kitami snorted. "She discovered my secret, so I used that stick to make sure she'd never opened her mouth again. She uploaded my secret on her blog, while pretending to introduce her favorite manga. It's right next to her face: 'The Hit and Run of Love'. In Japanese, 'Hit and Run' is a baseball term, but aboard..."

"It means to hit someone with your car." Conan declared.

"Two years ago, I ran over some drunk man with my car." Kitami confessed. "I'd been hiding it, but when I forced myself into her room, she told me..." she related how Shono had wanted her to admit defeat or she would expose her secret.

"Saya-san, I'm not sure if Kyona-san knew about the hit-and-run." Conan related. "But the code wasn't 'The Hit and Run Love', rather it was the series next to it called 'Looking to You'. She's usually precise, but that series alone was organized out of order and there are two copies of Volume 11. If you match the Volumes to the 50 characters of the Japanese alphabet, read Volume 29 as it is, and read it from the left, it forms a sentence, 'Saya is 29 years old'. That's the only code she created; that you'd taken five years off your age. Blinded by bias, all you could see were the words 'hit and run'."


With the case wrapped up...

"Agasa-san, that was another impressive display of detective work." Megure beamed.

"By the way, Conan-kun." Takagi spoke up. "I was surprised to learn you know the commissioner."

"But isn't the commissioner of Section One Matsumoto?" Conan blinked.

"Actually..." Takagi started.

"I knew you'd help solve the case, 'The Sleeping Kogoro's bag of wisdom'." Kuroda stepped in. "I'm Kuroda Hyoue. I've taken over as commissioner of Section One of the MPD."


Later that night...

"By the way, Chief Kuroda was recently transferred over from Nagano's Section One to take over Superintendent Matsumoto." Ami waited for Amuro to take a sip of his sencha before dropping the bombshell.

That certain piece of news caused the normally unflappable man to spew out his tea. "You did that on purpose." the blue-eyed male leveled a baleful glare at the highly-amused woman.

"Maybe." Ami giggled. "I'd think your former boss might want you to drop in to say hi."

"I will, one of these days." Amuro promised.


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