Chapter 78 Progress
After beating Conan, Uncle Maori took the plastic bag from his hand, observed it carefully, and then returned it to Inspector Megure.

Inspector Megure nodded slightly, took the bag, said nothing, and waited quietly for the results of his subordinates' search.

Many police officers searched the entire car, but because they could not find any more evidence, the case was defined as a simple robbery and subsequent related investigations were launched.

Because there was a pink lip print on the hood found in the car, Officer Megure immediately listed "Hirota Masami" who worked in a bank as one of the candidate suspects.

Although it was just a suspicion and he was not very sure, it could be seen from the expression on Officer Megure's face that he probably thought that Hirota Masami and those gangsters were from the same group.

Otherwise, how do you explain the lip prints on the hood?
What's more, when the incident happened, Hirota Masami left the bank, which made her even more suspicious.

Inspector Megure believes that Hirota Masami is an accomplice of the gangster, which makes Conan hesitant to speak.

Conan felt that this incident was very complicated and far from being as simple as it seemed on the surface, but because he did not have enough evidence, no one would believe him even if he told them.

In that case, Conan simply stopped talking.

Even the talkative Conan didn't say anything, and Ze Yu naturally had no interest in speaking. In the following time, he remained silent and just watched quietly.

Because Ze Yu knew that he was still maintaining the appearance of a child and had no say in front of those adults. Even if he spoke, he could not change the outcome of things.

Inspector Megure would only consider what he said unless he appeared as an adult.

But now is not the time for "Twenty Feathers" to appear, so Ze Yu, like Conan, chose to remain silent.

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After a while, after handling the scene, Inspector Megure returned to the Metropolitan Police Department with a group of police officers, and Kogoro Mouri also took Conan home.

Sawaha called the doctor and asked him to pick him up in the evening. Then he took a ride with Kogoro Mori and came to the Mori Detective Agency as a guest.

Conan quietly pulled Ze Yu aside and the two of them started discussing in a low voice.

"Xiao Yu, did you notice? The position of the lip print on the hood is very wrong." Conan said seriously: "If Sister Yamei really wore that hood, according to her face shape, the position of the lip print just corresponds to her chin. This is too outrageous."

"In my opinion, even if Sister Yamei was an accomplice of the criminals, she would not have left such obvious evidence. The criminals must have wanted to push Sister Yamei out to take the blame, so they fabricated this false evidence."

"Well, that's a good analysis." Ze Yu continued, "Conan, you opened the bag before and smelled it. If I'm not mistaken, there shouldn't be any smell of cosmetics in the headgear, right?"

Conan nodded: "Yes, there must be some hidden secrets in this matter that we don't know. I plan to investigate it again tomorrow. Do you want to join us?"

"Let's see how the situation develops." Ze Yu did not agree, nor did he refuse in a hurry, leaving an ambiguous answer.

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Night fell quickly.

In the evening, Sawaha stayed and had dinner at the Maori Detective Agency.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Dr. Agasa drove over in his Beetle to take Ze Yu home.

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the next day.

Not long after Sawawa got up, he learned the latest news from Dr. Agasa. The reason why Dr. Agasa knew this news was that he learned it from Kogoro Mori.

According to the latest news, the two bank robbers were killed last night, and another person was also killed, the man suspected by Conan.

From this we can see that the guy was indeed an accomplice of the two gangsters, which is why he was killed together with the murderer behind the scenes.

However, it was too late to confirm the identity of that guy now. Among the three accomplices who were killed, one of the gangsters was a racing driver with good driving skills. He should be the driver of the car yesterday.

It was precisely because of this that yesterday, while fleeing, they were driving very fast and easily left Conan behind. Even when the car window was suddenly smashed by a flying brick, they were able to react quickly and even continued driving.

In addition, the police found a pink lipstick in the racing driver's home, and confirmed that it was the same lipstick used for the lip prints on the hood.

Moreover, what is very coincidental is that the lipstick was exactly the one that Hirota Masami usually used, and the police also found her fingerprints on the lipstick.

Now, the evidence was conclusive, and Hirota Masami instantly went from being a candidate suspect to a real suspect.

Then, before the police could react, Hirota Masami had already resigned from the bank and slipped away.

This is what happened.

Even Ze Yu knew the news, and Conan was no exception.

Conan, who had just heard the news from Kogoro Mori, started to act without any hesitation.

Conan used the bow-tie voice changer to disguise himself as Kogoro Mouri and obtained the address of Hirota Masami from Inspector Megure. He then quickly got on his skateboard and went to investigate, hoping to find some useful clues.

After arriving at the destination, Conan found the key at the bottom of the potted plant at the door, successfully opened the door, and slipped in.

“Where on earth is…?”

Conan searched in the room for a while and then found his target. It was a socket blocked by a table. Because it was hidden too obviously, he quickly discovered it.

Conan squatted down, pushed the table away, and directly removed the socket.

Sure enough, there were no wires in the socket, only a small hidden space with a key inside. Conan took it out and held it in his hand.

"Key? Could it be the key to the secret place where the 10 billion yen is kept?"

Conan clenched the key tightly, thinking quickly in his mind, and just wanted to stand up, but...

call!
A hand knife came slashing directly against the strong wind, hitting the back of his neck neither lightly nor heavily.

"what!"

Pain came from his neck, Conan widened his eyes in horror, screamed, fell to the ground weakly, closed his eyes, and seemed to have fainted.

Hirota Masami... No, it should be 'Miyano Akemi'.

She slowly stood up from behind Conan, put away her knife, her eyes were complicated and a hint of guilt flashed across them.

"Feel sorry."

Miyano Akemi said this and prepared to leave.

"No, you can't leave here..."

Hearing Conan's voice, Miyano Akemi suddenly stopped.

Conan, who was lying on the ground, opened his eyes reluctantly, sat up, and said weakly: "If you leave... they will kill you."

Hearing this, Miyano Akemi smiled and just shook her head lightly: "I'm sorry, Conan, I have reasons why I have to go."

After saying that, she left directly.

(End of this chapter)