Senichi coordinated with forensic personnel and criminal investigators to investigate the scene. Taking everyone to the guest house for questioning, he learned the details from Conan and the butler's account.
However, during the subsequent questioning, Senichi received some expected bad news.
Everyone present had alibis.
After learning the details, Senichi naturally had to conduct a detailed investigation of each person's alibi.
But after questioning, he learned that when they received the distress call from Saburo Hanyu, everyone rushed out due to the commotion.
Only Ran and her group, along with Sakurako Hanyu and the butler who was driving, came by car from the Hanyu mansion to the Lavender Villa.
The other people from the Hanyu mansion also ran together, and during the ten-minute journey before Senichi arrived, the four of them were together the whole time.
In other words, from hearing Saburo Hanyu's plea for help at the Lavender Villa to the time of the murder, everyone had alibis.
As for when Saburo Hanyu left the room, questioning Sakurako yielded no results.
According to her, after her being attacked yesterday and the subsequent death of Tomoko Komori, it greatly affected Saburo Hanyu.
Worried about her father, she went to his room to accompany him.
After the two talked for a while, Sakurako, due to the sleeping pills previously administered by Kaito Kid, felt drowsy, and without realizing it, she fell asleep.
When she was awakened by the commotion, she found herself lying in bed. It was estimated that Saburo Hanyu had carried her over.
After that, it was as Conan had explained before.
This is troublesome.
After questioning everyone's alibis, Senichi frowned.
It was impossible for everyone to have alibis; the culprit simply used a trick for their alibi. Cracking this trick would lead to catching the culprit.
But since it was a trick the other party had carefully planned, it wouldn't be easy to crack. Thinking about this, Senichi activated his super sense of smell to see if he could gather any clues.
However, when the scent of lavender filled the air from all directions, Senichi still felt uncomfortable.
Although the garden scenery was nice, in this environment, it posed too much interference for Senichi.
Usually, processing simple information is easy, but because of the strong lavender fragrance, it requires more mental effort to discern.
Senichi closed his eyes, trying to eliminate all the useless information he smelled, but in the end, he gained nothing.
There was no scent of blood or any other useful smells. The overwhelming lavender scent was too disruptive to his sense of smell, adding a considerable burden to his brain, making Senichi feel somewhat tired in an instant.
"Troublesome environment," Senichi frowned as he looked at the vast fields of lavender around him.
After some thought, Senichi took out the "Revitalizing Cigarette" and pulled out a cigarette, placing it in his mouth.
As the saying goes, when in doubt, cheat first. Since he obtained this item, he had been reluctant to use it because it was consumable. However, one could only truly understand its effects by personally experiencing it and knowing when it would be most effective in similar situations.
Now was the perfect time, not only to test the feeling of cheating but also to see how well it worked in relieving brain fatigue.
Crack!
In his past life as a smoker, Senichi, although he had quit now, still retained the skill.
After skillfully inhaling the cigarette and letting the smoke circulate in his lungs, Senichi slowly exhaled.
The scent of the "Revitalizing Cigarette" was completely different from common nicotine cigarettes. It had no irritating feeling but instead had a faint herbal fragrance with a refreshing touch of mint.
As the cool sensation reached his lungs, Senichi felt his brain suddenly become much clearer.
The fatigue caused by processing too much interfering information with super-smell dissipated completely.
At the same time, his brain began to operate at a rapid pace.
Countless pieces of information flashed in his mind.
The topography of Lavender Villa, Conan's testimony, everyone's alibis...
As the brain continued to function, many judgments that required thought were processed in an instant, and Senichi arrived at an ironclad fact.
When Lavender Villa and Hanyu mansion faced each other across the river, even driving one way would take more than five minutes.
Moreover, to pass, one could only cross the river; there was no other road.
After the start of the case, no one had individually disappeared for more than five minutes. Essentially, everyone had been moving in groups.
In other words, after the incident occurred, everyone's alibis were incredibly accurate.
But after reaching this seemingly dead-end conclusion, a hint of a smile appeared on Senichi's lips.
Since the forward path was blocked, it meant that this path was originally the wrong one.
However, it didn't mean that the dead-end had no purpose.
As Sherlock Holmes once said, eliminate all impossibilities, and whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
In the process of decryption, all information serves as prerequisites. Obtaining correct pieces of preliminary information is crucial to lock in the final correct answer.
Since, during the crime, everyone had alibis as a prerequisite, it indicated that everyone present at the Lavender Villa at that time had no possibility of committing the crime.
And the undeniable fact was the death of Saburo Hanyu.
The two facts contradicted each other. A normal person might naturally conclude that the culprit was an outsider, perhaps Kaito Kid who had been sending advance notices.
However, Senichi ruled out this possibility. It was merely a diversionary tactic by the culprit to shift attention.
Based on the above conclusions, the only truth that could be drawn was that Saburo Hanyu did not die at the Lavender Villa.
This factual truth was indeed somewhat unbelievable.
After all, the deceased, in a phone call, personally claimed to be at the Lavender Villa, urgently requesting assistance. Both Conan and the butler heard it.
His body also appeared at the Lavender Villa, an indisputable fact.
However, everyone had alibis at the Lavender Villa, except the deceased.
Yes, the deceased had no alibi.
Saburo Hanyu verbally stated he was at the Lavender Villa, possibly deceived by the culprit's trick, providing incorrect information.
As for the movement of the body, one couldn't solely rely on the presented results and ignore the process.
After all, the dead cannot speak.
From the current situation, the possibility that the culprit moved the body was the highest!
And when a completely new possibility emerged, breaking through the inertia of thinking, a spark suddenly flashed in Senichi's wildly working brain!
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