Chapter 22—The Truth

"A second fall?" Conan listened to Chiba's narration and asked curiously.

"Posture," Qian Yu replied, glancing at the elevator under repair, turning to the stairs. "You remember the posture of the guy who was pushed down just now, right?"

"Pose?" Conan thought for a moment, and immediately understood what Qianyu meant. "You mean..."

"When he fell, his face was up, and his head was southwest. The method of falling, the posture of falling down is nothing more than two kinds, one is to turn the head to the southwest and face up like it fell, and the other is to hook the foot to the top floor guardrail in the process of falling, so there is a longitudinal turn, and the head is lying on the ground to the northeast. ”

"However, this corpse is," Conan nodded, opening the door to the roof. "Head to southwest, face down."

"So it's definitely not a direct fall, it's someone who has changed positions. Considering that the body attracted a large number of witnesses after it fell, it must have been caught in the process and then thrown back down. Qian Yu said, and came to the roof with everyone.

"Not being caught," Conan said, leaning against the railing at the top of the building, looking down. "Come and see."

“?” Chiba also leaned on the railing and looked down. "I see...

Just two floors below, a balcony protrudes. If that person is pushed down, it is likely to fall there.

"Since there is a balcony, can't it be that after being pushed down, one side of the body just happens to hit the balcony, causing the body to rotate horizontally?" Mitsuhiko asked. "In that case, the corpse could indeed be what we saw!"

"Not enough speed," Qian Yu immediately retorted. "The difference in height between here and the balcony is at most 5 meters, and if you want to do it as you say, the victim must be displaced at least horizontally... One meter five to two meters. As we should have just seen, the victim was not the mayor of Prague and the six councillors, he was pushed down, and he certainly couldn't make this kind of speed. ”

"The mayor of Prague and six councillors?" Mitsuhiko was stunned.

"Throw the incident out the window," Yu explained. "In 1415, the execution of the reformer Janhus sparked the great chaos in Prague, which eventually led to the mayor of Prague and six councillors being thrown out of the windows."

"Anyway, go downstairs," Conan said as he walked away from the railing and towards the stairs. "Let's go see the scene below."

"What about the three of them?" When Conan saw that there were only Chiba, Dr. Asasa and Yuu followed, and said speechlessly.

"The devil knows where it went," Chiba shook her head. "But I should have found a clue on my own."

"This should be the room," Chiba said to a room. "Ogata Finance?"

"This is the victim's property, right?" Qian Yu hesitated.

"It should be," Conan tried, and when he found that the door was unlocked, he opened it directly. I saw that there were traces of a fight in the room, and the tables and chairs were overturned and in a mess.

"There's a knife," Chiba walked in, and the first thing he saw was a meat cutting knife on the cabinet next to him. "That's weird."

"Hmm... Conan was also a little confused. "If there's a knife, why push him out the window? It's hard to kill people at this height. ”

"And, since it was the owner who fell, how did the murderer get into this room? The door lock seems to be intact, but it's just not locked. Qianyu looked around. Could it be that the murderer snatched the victim's key? ”

"And, why did the killer drag the victim back into the house?" Conan looked at the neighborhood and pondered.

"The victim was dragged back into the house?" Thousand Feathers was stunned. "Was it the murderer who fell?"

"How is that possible?" Conan was speechless. "I guess for some reason I threw it out again, right?"

"Wait," Qian Yu thought, her expression becoming very exciting. "What if, in fact, Ogata pushed the other party to his balcony?"

"And then the other party resisted and pushed down?" Conan thought, and then looked speechless. "It's really talented to be pushed down by a guy who just fell from a height of five meters...

"Here's this driver's license," Yu said, standing next to the couch that had flipped over. "It doesn't look like the owner's."

"Ryohei Honda," Conan ran there, and sure enough, he saw a driver's license. "It looks like this Ryohei Honda is in conflict with Ogata."

"I'm afraid Ogata wasn't the one who was attacked," Chiba said lightly, kneeling in front of a marble bell that had fallen to the ground. "You come here."

On the edges and corners of the marble bell, there are traces of Yin Yin's blood.

"Ogata," Conan had an epiphany. "He has no wounds on his body!"

"Then it's clear that this Honda is the one who is being attacked."

"You're all coming out for me!" The shouting at the door made everyone look away, and they saw several policemen standing in the doorway, staring at them unkindly. "Who are you?"

"We were the ones who told the fire department that it was an attempted murder and not an accident." Chiba replied. At such a time, we must first clearly tell the police through this statement that we are our own people. Once the police are antagonistic, something is going to happen.

"You guys come out first," the policeman's expression softened slightly, but he still let everyone out first. "You're going to destroy the scene."

"Mr. Officer," Chiba said as he walked out. "I guess Ogata got into a fight here with a guy named Honda."

"Was it that 'Honda' who pushed Masaaki Ogata down?" The officer frowned. "How do you know?"

"Uncle policeman, give you your driver's license!" Conan took Ryohei Honda's driver's license with an unused tissue and handed it to the police.

"There is no blood on Masaki Ogata's body, but there are many blood stains on the edges and corners of the wall clock that fell to the ground in the room, so much so that the wound must not have healed yet." Qian Yu thought quickly as she recounted to the police. "Considering that the first discoverer claimed that no one had come out of the building, Honda was still in the building and had bleeding wounds on his body."

"It's possible that he left through the back door or something, right?" Police questioning.

"No... No way! The voice of the missing Mitsuhiko came from the stairs next to it. I saw Ayumi Mitsuhiko and Motota appearing out of the stairs breathlessly. "We have just checked, and the back door is chained, and it is impossible for anyone to get out; The land next to the safety ladder is all dirt, and if someone walks by, it will leave footprints. So the prisoner must still be in the building! ”

"Boy, based on your inference, can I understand that these two are fighting each other?" The policeman frowned.

"It's not a brawl," Conan took over Chiba's reasoning with a knowing expression. "It was Ogata's unilateral murder of Honda. Sir, please look at this receipt, which I found in the trash. ”

"Huh?" The officer took the ticket. "This is yesterday's receipt, purchased rain boots and shovel?"

"The receipt found here is almost certainly something that Ogata bought, so it's clear that someone is planning to go to the mountains and forests to bury the body after killing people here. Could it be Honda who did this on Ogata's home turf? ”

"Then how did Ogata fall?" The officer frowned.

"I found a pair of glasses on the outer edge of the balcony," Conan pointed to the balcony. "I couldn't take him out, but it was exactly the same as the glasses on Ryohei Honda's driver's license. I think Ogata accidentally lost his center of gravity and fell down when he was trying to get his glasses back and erase the traces of Honda's visit. ”

“。。。” The policeman thought for a moment, then said. "Xintian, you take a few people to sweep the building and see if you can find Honda. Mitsutake, you go to the hospital and see Ogata first. Ask them to check it out when the forensic department comes. As for the few of you ... The police glanced at Chiba and the others. You guys leave first, and we'll leave the rest to the police. ”

"Well, then, we take our leave." Dr. Asa bowed slightly to the police and left with Chiba and the others.