"Oh! That's how it is!!"
After listening to Senichi's explanation, Police Officer Megure looked excited, "So, you know who the criminal is, Senichi-kun?"
"Wait!"
Before Senichi could speak, Tomomi suddenly spoke up, "But that bucket of paint happened to be there, and the murderer just knocked it over by accident, right?
The criminal didn't know what color of paint to put on, so how could he get footprints in advance? Don't you think so, Adachi? "
"En." The burly man with a rosy nose with Matsui on his side nodded and said, "I put that there shortly before the crime happened."
Hearing the testimony that completely contradicted the reasoning, his eyes became more and more confused.
"Senichi-kun, your words are illogical!"
Officer Megure looked at Senichi with a confused face, "According to what Tomomi-san and Adachi-san said, your reasoning doesn't make sense at all."
After all, if the paint was placed there by accident, then Senichi's reasoning would be completely denied from this point of view.
"Officer Megure, there is actually another possibility!"
At this moment, Conan stood up while smiling and gave a backstab, "If everything Tomomi-san and Adachi-san said is a lie, then everything Senichi said is true!"
"Lies?" Police Officer Megure looked down at Conan after hearing the words and asked with a puzzled expression, "For what?"
"Of course it's to protect the criminal."
Senichi looked directly at the two of them, and they couldn't help lowering their heads for a moment of guilt, "Although you are an impatient art director, we can also see your professional dedication."
"Ah, that's right!"
Conan seemed to have just thought of something, and continued to backstab with an innocent expression: "When we went to visit before, Genta and the others were scolded when they just tried to touch the building in the set, uncle is very serious about his work!"
Regarding Conan's "smiling backstab", Senichi silently praised and asked: "It's hard to imagine that such a dedicated person would forget the paint there before the official shooting, right?
There is only one possibility that can be thought of, and that is, that the criminal brought paint himself to make it easier to make footprints after the murder. "
"Ah!!" Megure pointed at Tomomi and the two in disbelief and said, "Then...! They know who the criminal is?!"
"That should be the case!" Senichi nodded and said, "But Adachi-san probably just echoed Tomomi-san's words, and she is the only one who knows the identity of the criminal.
Maybe it was when she bumped into the murderer in the aisle, she saw the murderer's figure from the unclosed zipper opening on the back of the leather case!
Afterwards, I told her that the other party had killed someone. She came to the studio and saw everything, understood what happened, and lied for some reason.
Am I right? Tomomi-san? "
But what followed was a wordless silence. Although her expression had already explained everything, she still stubbornly refused to speak out, as if she was protecting something.
"Then Senichi-kun, who is the criminal?"
"At the time of the incident, basically everyone was watching the original Godzilla tape in the screening room with Dr. Agasa, so the suspects were Director Mikami, Matsui-san, Tomomi-san, and Adachi-san who were not in the screening room. "
Senichi looked at the four people with the alibi and began to exclude them one by one, "Adachi-san only left for four or five minutes, and there is not enough time to commit the crime, so he is excluded.
And Tomomi-san, who followed us to see the criminal, doesn't have avatar skills, so she is naturally excluded.
The only ones left are Director Mikami and Matsui-san. "
"Hey! Matsui's leg was injured, and Mikami is my good friend!" Dr. Agasa said anxiously, "They can't be the murderers!"
Although Dr. Agasa seemed to be asking Senichi, but his eyes were actually looking at Conan, hoping that he could correct this officer's reasoning.
But to Dr. Agasa's disappointment, Conan did not point out the wrong reasoning, but instead made a "shh" gesture to tell him not to speak.
Faced with this situation, Agasa's expression froze, and the raging momentum stopped abruptly, and the atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.
"Because of this, the identity of the criminal is very unexpected!"
Senichi smiled slightly, and looked at one of the four people standing together: "That person is the one who took Conan and the others to visit the studio, and was stabbed in the leg by the criminal before the crime happened—Matsui-san!!"
On the side, Adachi, who was supporting Matsui, retorted angrily when he heard the words: "Stop kidding!! Even if Matsui played Godzilla for ten years, with his thigh injured like this, how can he still wear the Godzilla holster? And escape!!"
"That's right. Didn't Tomomi also say that she saw the murderer running fast, but he didn't look very coordinated. It couldn't be Matsui who had been wearing a Godzilla leather case for more than ten years."
Director Mikami also said, and turned to look at Tomomi after speaking, "Right, Tomomi."
But what makes him feel uneasy is that she did not match his words, but remained silent without words.
"Indeed, with a leg injured like this, there is no way to kill or escape." Senichi nodded in agreement with this point of view, but then changed his voice: "But the prerequisite is that the injury existed before the crime happened. ."
"Could it be..." Officer Megure's pupils shrank, "You mean... this injury..."
"Yes! It's exactly what you think, officer Megure." Senichi looked at Matsui and sighed: "The wound on his leg, I am afraid after setting fire to the Godzilla holster and throwing it away, he went back to the warehouse to get it by himself. It was stabbed with another knife prepared in advance.
This is a bitter trick to avoid subsequent investigations. At the same time, it can prove his innocence and constitute his alibi. "
"But Senichi-kun, you also saw that he was injured before the incident happened!" Police Officer Megure said, "I remember Senichi-kun, you have a very sensitive nose, if it was fake blood at that time, wouldn't you be able to distinguish it. "
"Although my nose is very sensitive, the fake blood here is also very realistic."
Senichi said helplessly: "I guess it's probably duck blood, chicken blood or something like that. I'm not a vampire. Just from the sense of smell, I can't tell if it's human blood."
It can be seen that Matsui really put his heart into committing the crime. Although there are many fake blood styles, some of which can be eaten are edible props mixed with honey and various pigments, but in order not to be suspected, the other party used animal blood.
And after that, as long as he stabbed himself in the thigh, his serious injury would probably dispel most people's doubts.
It doesn't matter even if someone investigates the blood, as long as the animal blood is wiped off, and then mixed with the blood that flows out on the ground, even if it is checked, they may not be able to find anything.