Coroner Ke Xue

Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan did not know that the intimate behavior of their two "ladies" had aroused the concern of their best friend Miss Sonoko.

They are still busy investigating the case.

The focus of the investigation is the number one suspect in this case, the man who helped the deceased buy back the poisoned coke, Hongshang Wuyi.

"Miss Hongshang."

Kudo Shinichi asked straight to the point:

"I want you to answer truthfully:"

"After you get the drink from Ayako Ninagawa, but before you hand the drink to Mr. Kamata."

"Did you always have the drink in your hand during this process?"

Hongshang Wuyi did not answer directly.

She just looked at the few police officers accompanying the investigation and asked helplessly:

"Is this a formal interrogation?"

"Forget it." Kudo Shinichi nodded frankly.

When the police are present during the investigation, there are procedural guarantees.

Again.

"You have the right to remain silent, but anything you say in front of the police could be used against you in court."

"I see."

Hongshang Wuyi still did not answer the question directly:

"You suspect that I am the murderer, right?"

Seeing the suspect's "anti-customer" reaction, Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan both frowned slightly:

Too calm.

Would ordinary people be so calm knowing that they were suspected by the police?

This only makes her more suspicious.

But Hongshang Wuyi didn’t care:

“You’ll know after just a little thought.”

"The drinks were sold by Ayako Ninagawa and I bought them."

"Then, if Mr. Kamata died of homicide and poisoning, besides Miss Ayako, the number one suspect can only be me."

"So, I'm mentally prepared."

Hongshang Wuyi sighed calmly, as if he really had a clear conscience.

The two colleagues standing aside, Ms. Noda and Mr. Mitani, also opened their mouths in surprise:

"What? Do you suspect Miss Hongshang is the murderer?"

"How can this be?"

"Miss Kogami and Mr. Kamata have always had a good relationship, but we have never heard of any grudge between them."

"She has no grievances, why would she kill someone?"

"Thank you for your trust."

Hongshang Mai nodded gratefully to the two colleagues who spoke for her.

Then, she turned back to Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan and said:

"Two ladies. You heard it too."

"Mr. Kamata and I are friends, and I have no motive to kill him at all."

"Regarding this, you can send someone to investigate and see if Mr. Kamata and I have any enmity."

Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan were speechless for a moment.

They know that the situation is now more passive.

Hongshang Wuyi dares to say this, that is, she is confident:

He was confident that he had no motive for killing Mr. Kamata, and even if he did, others would not be able to find out.

And motivation is important.

They had previously ruled out the suspicion of Ninagawa Ayako for the time being because they judged that she had no motive for killing Mr. Kamata.

Now, no motive for the murder can be found from Hongshang Wuyi.

Then in terms of priority of suspicion, she cannot be ranked ahead of Ninagawa Ayako.

After all, Ninagawa Ayako and Kogami Mai both had the same conditions for committing crimes, and both had the opportunity to add poisonous ice cubes to their drinks.

"You should still be doubting Miss Caiko."

Hongshang Mai seems to be able to read minds.

Before the "female Holmes" and the female Watson in front of her could speak, she rushed to say:

"But I think the murderer is unlikely to be Miss Caiko."

"First, Miss Ayako is the daughter of the director of our hospital. With her status, there is no need to kill Kamata."

"Second, I bought the drinks and Miss Caiko sold them."

"I stood right next to her while she was making the drinks."

"There were a lot of people buying drinks at that time, and Ms. Caiko was making more than a dozen drinks at the same time."

"I saw that she was making drinks so fast that she didn't even have time to use my eyes to see which drinks I ordered."

"If she was the murderer, if she was making drinks at such a speed, it would be easy to add poison to the wrong cup, right? What's more, she would poison and commit a crime in front of so many customers?"

Hongshang Wuyi explained.

She actually came forward to testify and cleared most of Ninagawa Ayako's suspicions.

"This" Mao Lilan and Kudo Shinichi are a little confused:

Kogami Mai is actually speaking for Ninagawa Ayako?

The number one suspect helped clear the number two suspect. Doesn't that force the police to only suspect her?

"I'm not afraid of doubt."

"Because I'm not a murderer, I didn't kill Kamata at all."

Hongshang Wuyi said confidently.

In order to characterize the case as a homicide and allow those involved to cooperate with the investigation, after the police learned the truth about "delayed poisoning" and detected toxins in Hongshang Wuyi's cup, they used this matter as proof that this case was a "delayed poisoning". "Homicide" and the basis for continued investigation were directly announced.

So Hongshang Wuyi knew what happened to her: "Didn't the police gentlemen tell me? There is potassium cyanide in my cup as well."

"I almost died too!"

She showed no fear in the face of the investigation.

In comparison, it seems that Mao Lilan and Kudo Shinichi had preconceived suspicions about the wrong person.

"and"

Hongshang Wuyi then said a key message:

"The most important thing is that the drink was not always in my hand before I took it back to my seat and delivered it to Mr. Kamata."

"After I bought the drink, I suddenly felt unwell."

"So I didn't go back to my seat directly, but temporarily put the dinner plate with four drinks on it on the window sill over there."

"And the drinks were left unattended during the time I was in the bathroom."

"Perhaps the murderer took advantage of that moment and secretly added potassium cyanide to Kamata's and mine's drinks, right?"

"That's not right." Kudo Shinichi immediately objected:

"At that time, Ms. Noda and Mr. Mitani were sitting on the seats with the deceased Mr. Kamata, waiting for you to come back with drinks."

"The two of them had no chance to leave their seats, go to the window sill and put poison in the drinks."

"And if it wasn't the two of them who did it, there would be someone else responsible."

"Then the murderer was not with you. How could he know that Mr. Kamata ordered iced coffee, so he only poisoned the drink packaged in 'Iced Coffee'?"

"This." Before Mai Hongshang could answer, her colleague, Mr. Mitani, answered hesitantly:

"Perhaps you overheard our conversation by accident when you were following us?"

"After all, it was time to buy a drink."

"A few of us loudly announced the names of the drinks we wanted to buy. It was normal for others to hear us."

“And the venue was packed and there were people everywhere around us.”

"It's possible that if there's some acquaintance sneaking in, we didn't pay attention."

Hearing this, Kudo Shinichi's expression became increasingly helpless:

It's possible, it's "possible" again.

There may be an unidentified murderer.

It's possible that the real culprit was following Kamata and the others and heard about the types of drinks they wanted to buy.

Then he probably took advantage of Koshang Mai's hurry to go to the toilet and put the drink on the window sill, and took the opportunity to throw the poisonous ice cube in.

These are all possible and difficult to prove.

Especially that window sill.

Kudo Shinichi and Maori Lan both looked in the direction of the window sill:

The window was opened on the wall in the corner of the venue. There were no seats arranged next to it, so naturally there would be no audience.

Although there were many people in the venue at that time, I'm afraid there weren't many people who would have been staring boredly at the window sill in the corner of the venue.

In other words, it is basically impossible for them to find witnesses to prove the hypothesis proposed by Mai Hongshang.

But at the same time, they couldn't disprove this assumption.

"perhaps."

Kudo Shinichi's eyes quietly became sharp:

"Ms. Hongshang, this is why you didn't send the drinks back to your seats, but put them on the window sill."

"The trick of hiding potassium cyanide in ice cubes is obviously specially designed for Mr. Kamata who has a habit of eating ice cubes."

"And Miss Hongshang, let's assume you are the murderer."

"I can imagine that your original purpose was to disguise Mr. Kamata's death as a suicide."

"But later, it may be that you temporarily discovered a loophole that the plan cannot handle traces, or it may be for other reasons:"

"You changed your plans."

He invisibly released the confident momentum of the famous detective, and meticulously restored Hongshang Wuyi's psychology at that time:

"That's why you put the drinks on that window sill, deliberately creating a time gap where the drinks were left unattended."

"In this way, you can create a murderer out of thin air that may or may not exist."

"As long as the police cannot prove that this murderer does not exist, your suspicion will remain a suspicion!"

Kudo Shinichi stared at the suspect in front of him intently, his aura becoming more and more fierce.

But this punch hit the air completely.

Hongshang Wuyi was not at all intimidated by this "bad cop" traditional mind-attacking technique.

She just shook her head helplessly:

"Excellent analysis, Miss Chrissy."

"Instead of returning the drink to a seat that was not far away, I placed the drink on the unattended window sill."

"This does look suspicious, and I can understand being suspected."

"But... I was really just in a hurry to go to the toilet. I didn't think much about it, so I just put it on the window sill."

"Who knew that someone would actually poison someone at a time like this?"

Kogami Mai's explanation left both Mao Lilan and Kudo Shinichi speechless.

I have to say that doing this is much better than playing a murderous trick.

The murderous plot looks very fancy, but it can only deceive the mascots of the original Metropolitan Police Department.

Once a smart person sees through that this is not a suicide, the potassium cyanide in her body that cannot be processed will leave evidence that can serve as irrefutable evidence.

Now, the potassium cyanide remains in the cup.

Who can prove that she was the one who injected the potassium cyanide?

This is the type of murderer that great detectives have the most trouble with nowadays.

The previous murderers racked their brains to devise murderous plots, thinking of how to use "blind eyes" to exclude themselves from suspicion of committing the crime and prevent the police from noticing them.

And now.

"If you want to doubt it, feel free to doubt it!"

"I knew my behavior was suspicious, but it was what it was and there was nothing I could do about it."

Hongshang Wuyi's face was full of grievance and helplessness:

"However, mere suspicion cannot convict me."

"If you want to say I am the murderer, please provide evidence."