Chapter 108 Reasoning
"Chikako is dead, what should we do?"

"Why did this happen..."

"We can't make phone calls, we can't get in touch with the outside world. Will more people be killed next?"

"Who on earth is that bandaged weirdo?"

Ze Yu looked at Takahashi, whose face was filled with fear, and couldn't help but feel disgusted.

This guy is so hypocritical.

Suzuki Ayako looked sad as she looked at the body on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "This is all my fault... If I hadn't held this class reunion, this wouldn't have happened."

"Don't say that, Ayako." Kakutani comforted her, "This is not your fault. That bandage freak is the real culprit."

Conan observed the surrounding environment, his face becoming more and more solemn, and suddenly said: "The murderer is among us."

"Little boy, you are kidding?" Kakutani couldn't help but say, and the others also cast suspicious looks at him.

"Conan!" Xiaolan frowned and shouted, wanting to stop Conan from making trouble.

"Xiaolan, don't be anxious." Ze Yu said, "Let's see what Conan thinks first, and then we can talk about it."

"The reason why I said the murderer is among us is that Sister Ikeda died in her room, and our villa was not invaded last night, and the gate was also normal."

Conan raised his head, his face serious: "So, the murderer is one of us."

"The villa was not invaded?" Ota pointed at the broken windows and asked unhappily: "The windows are all broken, the murderer must have escaped outside!"

"Wrong." Conan said firmly: "If it was an outsider who broke in, and broke the glass from the outside, the glass shards would fall into the room. Look for yourselves, are there any traces of glass shards on the ground?"

Hearing this, everyone looked up in surprise and found that there was nothing on the floor of the room, indeed no broken glass.

Ota was a bit stubborn, feeling that he had been refuted, and asked again: "Maybe the murderer cleaned it up?"

Before Conan could say anything, Ze Yu interrupted and asked, "If you were the murderer, would you clean up the glass shards on the ground after killing someone?"

"Besides, it was night time. Even if the murderer turned on the lights and cleaned the scene after committing the crime, it would be impossible for him to clean up all the glass shards. There must be some traces left, but I didn't see any."

Ota was stunned and speechless.

Ze Yu's smile was gone, and he said calmly, "Think about it for a moment. This is the second floor. Let's not talk about how the murderer climbed up to the second floor from outside. If you just go downstairs and take a look, you will find that there are broken glass on the grass there."

Conan took over Ze Yu's words: "That's right, this window was not broken from the outside, but from the inside to the outside. This is the best evidence."

"I'll go take a look." Kadotani hurried downstairs. After a while, he went up to the second floor and walked in with a somewhat gloomy expression.

"Yes, there are indeed broken glass on the ground."

"That is to say..." Suzuki Ayako covered her mouth with her hands and said in surprise: "The murderer is really among us?" Since the house was not invaded and the windows were broken from the inside out, the murderer must be one of our own.

"Mr. Kadoya just said that this was not Ms. Ayako's fault. I agree with that because from the situation here, we can see that Ms. Ikeda's death was definitely not a momentary impulse of the murderer, but was premeditated."

"Maybe the murderer has been planning to kill Miss Ikeda for a long time," said Sawaha.

"The appearance of the bandaged man is a false identity deliberately created by the real murderer in order to escape suspicion."

"Lan, I, and Miss Ayako were ruled out as suspects last night. This is because Lan and I had just met Miss Ikeda not long ago and there had been no conflict, so there was no motive for murder."

"The murderer can only be one of you three, because you have known each other for a long time, and some conflicts in daily life may also become the motive for murder at this time." Ze Yu looked at Ota and the others, his tone without hesitation.

Conan raised his head and stared blankly at Ze Yu who had attracted everyone's attention.

Why didn't he realize before that Xiaoyu actually had a talent for being a detective?
In Conan's opinion, Ze Yu's current posture really looks like a real detective.

However, he pointed out the fact that the "murderer was hiding among the crowd" before he found any specific clues. This could easily arouse the murderer's vigilance, making it more difficult to solve the case in the end.

A good detective would never make such a mistake.

However, when Conan remembered that Ze Yu had always used "interest" as one of his principles for doing things, he could understand his approach.

“The three of us…” Ota looked at Kadoya and Takahashi standing beside him, and couldn't help but open his mouth.

He could hardly imagine that one of them was the brutal murderer of Chikako.

Takahashi's eyes flickered slightly, and his arms seemed a little stiff, as if he wanted to clench his fists, but finally gave up.

"I can roughly guess the murderer's motive for killing Miss Ikeda." Ze Yu said calmly: "At the party yesterday, Miss Ayako discussed someone, and as a result, all of you changed your expressions, especially Miss Ikeda, her reaction was very intense."

"In this case, there are two possibilities."

"First, Ms. Ikeda had a deep friendship with the deceased two years ago, so she became so emotional when Ms. Ayako mentioned the deceased's name."

"But obviously, this answer is wrong, because Ms. Ikeda's attitude is very bad, and her way of addressing the deceased is very impolite. There shouldn't be a deep friendship between them. Perhaps, they are even hostile to each other?"

"As for the second possibility, it is that the death of the deceased two years ago was related to Miss Ikeda, so she felt guilty and pretended to be angry in order to cover up the topic."

"Yesterday, when Ms. Ikeda was angry, it was obvious that she was angry out of shame, or she was guilty."

"So, what did she do to the deceased named 'Atsuko'? That kind of guilty feeling is not something that should exist between normal friends."

After hearing Ze Yu's words, everyone fell silent.

Conan suddenly said: "Brother Twenty-foot, if I'm not mistaken, Ikeda-sister's guilty conscience and Atsuko-sister's death should be related to the work "Blue Kingdom" that we talked about yesterday, right?"

(End of this chapter)