The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan.

Chapter 1148 The Value of a Madman

"It's right below here..."

After spending a few minutes understanding the structure of the block, Conan used the light from the convenience store to draw a simple map on his notebook, looked down at the road below, and touched his chin.

There was a certain distance between Yasaka Minae's beauty salon and the crime scene below, but just as they had deduced at the beginning, the loud noises were most likely made when the victim was thrown down.

Although the victim is still receiving emergency treatment, the injuries on his body have indirectly confirmed this.

In addition to the throat injury, Nagasaku Shiro also had fractures in his legs and shoulders. Fortunately, it was not time to collect the garbage today, and the garbage bags in the garbage dump became excellent buffers, preventing his fractures from being too serious. However, even if he recovers, he will definitely miss his fighting arena in the next few months.

If he was thrown from a close distance, he would definitely not have this kind of fracture caused by impact.

Considering it from this perspective, the alleyway at the back door of the beauty salon is almost directly opposite the location where the victim was found below, and it is also a downhill road.

To use a not-so-appropriate description, if this were Conan facing an emergency, adding a little slope here would make it a perfect skateboard runway, where he could accelerate all the way to the bottom and land headfirst with one jump.

After confirming the terrain, Conan no longer had any doubts and was sure that the criminal was Kaishiro Yesaka.

Considering the interpersonal relationships here, and the geographical advantage that only requires suspicion, there is no one more likely to be a suspect than her.

However, Conan, who took note of this, couldn't help but twitch his mouth twice when he recalled the bloody neck of Nagasaku Shiro that he had touched.

No matter what this method is and how it was achieved, the murderer who was able to come up with it and successfully experiment with it must have had some great perseverance.

"One minute on stage takes ten years of hard work off stage. It's really not easy."

"Hmm?" Conan, who didn't understand this sentence, turned his head and looked at Tang Ze who was slowly following behind him.

"Ah, it means that a short performance on stage requires long-term and hard training." Tang Ze briefly explained the idiom and pointed in the direction Conan was staring. "Without long-term practice, it would not be easy to complete such a precise 'shot'."

"Ha, that's what I mean..." Conan held his forehead, feeling that Tang Ze's metaphor was somewhat appropriate, but also feeling that something was not right.

Thinking about this murderer, I have to admit that he still has a strong lunatic temperament.

If the reason she killed was just because she had an emotional entanglement with her ex-boyfriend, it might sound like an ordinary case of love killing and not worth promoting, but it is not surprising. Who would have thought that Yasaka Kaishiro, who had determined since childhood that her life goal was to follow in her father's footsteps and inherit the barber business left by her father, had a very different obsession from that of ordinary people.

Compared to the embarrassing emotional disputes such as cheating and dumping her, she cared more about Nagasaku Shiro's hair.

Because they had known each other since childhood and grew up together, they made an agreement long ago that she would be Nagasaku Shiro's hairstylist for life. When Nagasaku Shiro bleached and dyed his hair and changed his hairstyle at the suggestion of his current girlfriend, Yasaka Minayo developed an incomparable hatred and murderous intent.

In order to fulfill this murderous intention, she did a lot of rehearsals.

It's not about practicing killing people, but about practicing how to throw people down, as Conan is deducing now.

"This isn't a simple operation." Tang Ze, who had accompanied Conan along the way and found the scratches on the lamppost, crossed his arms and commented, "Even if you know this can achieve your goal, you might not dare to do it without trying."

"That's why the scratches here are so deep." Conan stroked the circle of marks that had left deep impressions on the concrete pillar and shook his head. "It will take at least ten or twenty times of practice to adjust how to throw people accurately."

"If she had this perseverance, she could have spent it on Nagasaku Shilang, and maybe they would have gotten back together." Tang Ze couldn't help but shake his head.

Conan touched the debris on the ground and took a picture of it. He somewhat agreed with what Tang Ze said.

Nagasaku Shiro is not only an adult male, but also a fighter weighing 90 kilograms, and is very strong.

In order to complete this difficult operation, Ye Saka Kaidai had to find a lot of heavy objects of equal weight, test them over and over again, and avoid neighbors so that others would not discover his experiment in order to achieve his goal.

With this kind of perseverance, why can't you use it to succeed in anything? Why do you have to use it to cover up crimes?

"This guy, I feel like the Phantom Thieves of Hearts will like him." After walking around and finding the seat used as a catapult, Conan couldn't help but sigh.

He not only talked about it, but also was honest in his actions. He took out his cell phone and started sending messages rapidly.

"Why do you say that?" The Phantom Thief of Hearts raised his eyebrows.

This is indeed a good target. Considering her slightly crazy mental state, when she finds out that the victim is not dead, the scale of the hall may still have room for growth. However, Tang Ze is very curious about how Conan learned this standard.

"They do handle all kinds of cases, from minor verbal disputes to major serial murders, but it feels like they prefer those with unconventional minds." Conan, like the enthusiastic netizen who provided clues on Phantom Thief CH, provided Yasaka Minashiro's name, occupation, and case details, then put away his phone and walked back. "For example, the case of Teiji Moriya, and the case of Mr. Kyosuke Haga."

Although ordinary people cannot see many of these people's work, let alone know the difficulty of it, Conan can still figure out something about their tendencies.

It is obvious that the energy required to deal with the prisoner's psychological condition from a distance is incomparable to the energy required to send members to have close contact with the prisoner and people related to the case.

"Because these examples are more special?" Tang Ze raised the corner of his mouth and asked.

"It's probably like, qualified doctors prefer difficult and complicated diseases that are not listed in textbooks." Conan made an analogy, "Patients with illnesses serious enough to make their attending physicians publish papers are much rarer than doctors themselves."

You know what, you really are good at grasping the key points.

"In that case, I think you can also provide Nagasaku Shilang's name. I mean, if he was rescued and didn't die."

"Huh? Why?" Conan frowned strangely.

"He's been broken up with her for so long, and the breakup wasn't very pleasant, but he still dares to ask his ex-girlfriend to do his hair. He's really brave," Tang Ze commented.

Conan pursed his lips in an indescribable manner, feeling that his logic was somewhat correct, but also somewhat wrong.

"Normally, if there's no violent conflict, you wouldn't think your ex-girlfriend is going to kill you..." Conan said uncertainly, "Maybe it's just that Hasaka Minashiro's hairstyling skills are very good. Even if it's your ex-girlfriend, you wouldn't want someone else to do your hair for you, right?"

Tang Ze shook his index finger: "You are still too young. You have to know that barbers in the past were part-time surgeons, like in the Middle Ages. They cut hair at work and saw legs after get off work. It will cause trouble if you underestimate barbers."

Conan was choked: "..."

"Besides, is it okay if I don't chop off your head? He's a public figure after all. Is it honorable for his ex-girlfriend to shave his head bald as revenge?"

Conan really couldn't refute it: "..."

Tang Ze and Conan joked with each other as they walked back to the equally busy beauty salon.

While the two of them were away, the police and Kogoro Mouri had already collected evidence along the route of tonight's actions provided by Kaisaka Hazaka.

The main thing was to go to the convenience store where she said she bought something and check the time she went shopping.

"That means she can't be the murderer, right?" Kisaki Eri crossed her arms and argued. "She said she was going out to buy something at 6:20, and she came back 10 minutes later, at 6:30, to help me with the hair dye. Now the surveillance and receipts prove that she entered the convenience store at 24:00 and left after paying at 28:00. So she only had the time to commit the crime in those 3-4 minutes of going there and back... How could she have cut someone's neck, carried the body, and returned in such a short time?"

"It's hard to say," Mouri Kogoro said coldly, "Didn't the shop owner say she was holding several garbage bags? Maybe she was just trying to cover up the fact that she was dragging someone with her..."

"The owner also said that her motorcycle has had problems recently and might stall." Kisaki Eri glared at Maori Kogoro, feeling that he wasn't trying to solve the case at all, but was deliberately making up stories to refute her. "Hey, hey, if you don't provide sufficient evidence, it's very rude to continue to suspect Miss Hasaka!"

"Why don't we go check her house? Isn't her studio and residence right next door?"

"I refuse! The Constitution states that everyone has the right to refuse the invasion, search, and seizure of their homes, papers, and belongings! Without a formal search warrant, you have no right to search someone else's home!"

"Why are you refusing? We're not investigating your house! She's riding a motorcycle to such a nearby convenience store. That's really suspicious, okay?"

"Didn't she explain that she needed to buy rice, which was heavy? Do you really doubt her, or are you just pestering me because I was the one testifying against her?"

"What do you mean by nagging...?!"

"What a commotion." Megure Jusan stood at the back door of the store, holding up his hat, and said helplessly to Mao Lilan, "Your parents bumped into each other at work before, and it's like this. So many years have passed, and it's still like this. Why don't you go and try to stop them?"

As a lawyer, Hibiki Eri needs to read the case files, check the evidence, and participate in certain investigative processes in order to defend herself.

When Kogoro Mouri was still a detective, the two of them occasionally had intersections at work, and such disputes would often break out.

I really don't know whether to say their relationship is bad because they always quarrel, or that their relationship is very good. Their child is already 17 or 18 years old, but they are still the same as when they were young...

"No need to persuade them, aren't they doing fine?" Mao Lilan smiled and watched the two of them bickering without any hurry. "They're just having a quarrel."

Kogoro Mouri will appear here and accidentally come across the murder and corpse disposal scene just to pick up Eri Kisaki.

Hibiki Eri appeared here to serve as the suspect's alibi because she wanted to tidy up her image for the party in the evening.

The reason both of them got involved in this case was because of each other, and they knew it very well, but they were just being stubborn and refused to soften or express this actively. They wanted to hear the other party bring it up.

As the topic was led further and further, it sounded more and more sarcastic. Once the anger rose, they began to think that arguing was not important and that the important thing was not to lose the argument, so naturally the arguments became louder and louder.

"You should try to persuade them. If that doesn't work, wait until you have a solution to the case before they continue arguing." Megure Jusan curled his lips.

You two have some free time, but we haven't finished get off work yet...

"Anyway, we must search and obtain both an arrest warrant and a search warrant." Kisaki Eri said firmly, legs spread wide, her high heels digging into the ground like nails. "However, given the current situation, it's impossible for her to have committed the crime. Wouldn't it be difficult to obtain a search warrant?"

"So as long as you can prove that she has the possibility of committing the crime, you can apply for it, right?"

"Hmm?" Hearing the voice, Hibiki Eri turned her head and looked towards the door. "Tang Ze, why are you joining this guy in all this fun..."

"No, no, Uncle Maori has actually found a reasonable explanation. He asked Conan and me to help him set up the testing area." Tang Ze lied calmly, "Now we need the police to cooperate. Officer Megure, can you please ask the officers on the scene to clear the garbage dump? Let's verify Uncle Maori's reasoning."

As he spoke, Karasawa blinked rapidly at Kogoro Mouri.

At this point when his relationship with Kisaki Eri is in urgent need of a breakthrough, it would certainly be much better to let him take the stage and act cool rather than playing the role of the sleeping Mouri Kogoro.

As for the reason, Tang Ze was too lazy to think about it.

Taking advantage of his identity as a juvenile offender, Karasawa has expressed many times that he does not want to appear in the media and does not want to be publicly thanked by the police. As long as it is assumed that the reasoning was done by him, Kogoro Mouri will understand that he does not want to stand out and just wants to use the other party's name.

Sure enough, Kogoro Mouri frowned, but when he saw Karasawa winking and a look of help written all over his face, he pursed his lips and did not expose his lie.

"Don't you want to prove it? Come on, let's see if our idea is right. I'm not targeting you, this guy..."

Kogoro Mouri raised his hand and pointed at Kaishiro Hasaka, who had been standing behind Eri Kisaki with an uneasy look on her face.

"... is really using you. Stop hiding behind others, Miss Suspect."