SailorStar9: With Chapter 180 uploaded, I present Chapter 181 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 181: Taiko Meijin's Shogi Board, Checkmate

In front of the Ramen Ogura store...

"It's been a while, kid, since I last saw you while wearing this face." Akai greeted, after Conan got into his car. "So, do you know where my brother is?"

"He's probably being held in the culprit's home." Conan reasoned. "But apparently, they moved recently. I could only figure out their phone number. They answered Yumi-san's call this morning, so I thought about calling and getting their addresses out of them. But they're on their guard and won't answer their phone. Naturally, I've been calling the Meijin's phone as well, but it's powered off."

"It's possible he expected the culprit to capture him and didn't take a phone containing information about his close friends." Akai reasoned. "Although as his brother, I wish he'd consider how not to get caught."

"Who are you calling?" Conan asked, seeing Akai make a call.

"My brother's other phone." Akai replied. "We use it exclusively for secret conversations. He picked up."

"They're playing blind shogi?" Conan gawked.

"My brother must be up to something." Akai noted.

"He might be using the game record of that blind shogi game to tell us where he's being held." Conan concluded.

"That's not necessary." Akai corrected. "Since I could complete the call, I can use this." he pulled out the GPS tracking app on his phone. "In any case, I'll hurry to this location. Could you listen to my brother's blind shogi match while explaining to me how you identified the culprit?" he requested, driving off.

On the road...

"The suspects are the following three people who said left the victim in the room to go shopping." Conan explained. Hishinuma Kosuke, who went to the coffee shop to pick up coffee for everyone. Katsumata Mina, who bought freshly baked bread at a bakery. And Uryu Shoko who purchases freezing cold ice cream. Even if they wanted to acquire what they purchased beforehand to fabricate an alibi, our hint is the objects on the kitchen counter that caught Haneda Meijin's attention: two ice trays, a mixer and a toaster. One of the three suspects could've used one of those tools to fabricate an alibi. It's the mixer." he revealed. "If you put room temperature water in a mixer and mix it for five minutes, the kinetic energy from the friction generated from the water molecules turns into thermal energy. Its temperature rises three degrees to 42-3 degrees Celsius. If you put instant coffee in the hot water, you can make lukewarm coffee. In other words, the culprit pretended to go shopping and then claimed to have forgotten something and returned to the room. They put water in the mixer, and while it was mixing, they strangled the victim Genda to death with an electrical cord. They placed the shogi board missing two legs they'd hidden in the room next to the body, indicating that Genda is the second victim of the serial murders. They poured the lukewarm water heated using the mixer into cup they previously purchased from the coffee shop and made coffee. They placed the coffees inside a coffee shop bag and descended to the building entrance. Then, they pretended the victim wouldn't let him in after he went to buy coffee; Hishinuma Kosuke must be the culprit. While Genda's death by strangulation was being investigated, Kishimoto's house caught fire. A shogi board with three legs missing was placed next to the body to confuse the order in which the murders took place. He killed Kishimoto before going to the second crime scene, the Beika City apartment where the study sessions were held. After killing him, he left the body in a room with the AC set to 37 degrees. As long as he made sure the house would catch fire automatically after Genda's murder was discovered, a body with relatively high rectal temperature would be discovered in the wreckage of the fire. Naturally, the body was burnt which broadens the estimated time of death, but he could use the number of legs on the shogi board to convince us that it happened after the second murder. The GPS is pointing to that building directly ahead of us." he informed Akai. "The question is which room is the Meijin being held?" he wondered, Akai pulling over to the side.

"He's probably playing blind shogi to tell us that." Akai was used to Shukichi's habits. He then pressed the car horn to tell Shukichi that help had arrived.

"Akai-san." Conan turned to the FBI agent, having figured out where Shukichi was being held after listening in to shogi player's next move.

On the building's roof...

"He's being held in the living room." Conan confirmed Shukichi's position by tying Akai's camera phone to the Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt and hanging said belt over the railing. "How can we rescue him?"

"Kid, you see that clothesline pipe on that apartment's balcony?" Akai suddenly had an idea. "Could you use your ball to change its angle? Follow along with the plan I'm about to describe." he instructed, pulling out his shotgun with a silencer attached.

With everything in place, Akai took aim at the exposed hole of the bent clothesline frame that was kicked in front of Hishinuma's unit and fired his shot. the bullet traveling though the metal piping and flew into the living room.

In Hishinuma's's unit...

Hishinuma was now frightened out of his wits and fled out to the corridor where Conan laid in wait and tranquilized the overweight shogi player.

"Why did the culprit Hishinuma-san stay here instead of immediately running away?" Conan asked Shukichi after Akai freed his younger brother.

"He was waiting for the police to find the written confession." Shukichi replied. "A letter confessing that those four shogi players were cheating: Nishikido Kimiharu, Genda Yasukiyo, Kishimoto Yuhei and Uryu Kinji kept pens equipped with miniature cameras in their pockets. They sent videos of their matches to their accomplices' phones who searched the web for expert moves. They won a bunch of games by casually informing each other about the moves when they passed each other in the bathroom or hallways. Nishikido ranked up without getting caught, but someone from the Shogi League warned Uryu that he was going to the bathroom too many times. When he asked the others what he should do, they apparently answered coldly. They told him to follow the rule of silence and die: if any of them were in danger of being exposed, he'd keep the group's secret and protect the others by killing himself. Because of it, Uryu was forced to commit suicide. He found his suicide suspicious, so he tracked down their cheating and made his first victim Nishikido confess." he turned to the tied up Hishinuma. "In order to avenge his friend, Uryu, he killed the three of them and left shogi boards missing their legs at the crime scenes. Before we began our blind shogi game, he actually told me to sit quietly and listen so he could tell me why he did it. Nishikido, in particular, used their cheating to fix matches. He called them a disgrace to shogi players. The confession was meant to frame Kishimoto who was found dead in the burnt wreckage. It apparently said he killed the other two and himself in order to atone for their cheating."

"Then, why haven't the police found the confession?" Conan was puzzled.

"I got to it before them and took it." Shukichi beamed. "At the time, I knew Hishinuma was responsible for the serial murders. Hishinuma might've burnt down Kishimoto's house, too. If that were the case, I thought he might put a confession in the apartment's mailbox so it would seem Kishimoto came to the apartment to kill Genda before setting fire to his own home and killing himself."

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