Chapter 4 - Allow me to tell you

"Police?" Seeing Conan running into the phone booth next to him, Qian Yu was surprised, and then looked at the window again. "What the hell is this...

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"You said you found a body?" Officer Twilight stepped out of the police car and looked at the three children with a suspicious expression.

"Really!" *3

"You can't be wrong, Officer Twilight." A voice came from above the phone booth.

"Ke, Conan?" Twilight was surprised to see Conan. "Why are you here?"

"No one came out of this house just now," Conan said confidently. "That is, the body is still in this room."

"Hey, we're cops, open the door!" Twilight tells the police officers to break through at the door, then rings the doorbell herself.

"What kind of person is it!" A rather rude voice appeared in front of everyone earlier than the middle-aged uncle who opened the door.

"I'm Officer Twilight, and it's like this, these kids claim to have found a body in your bathroom."

"We saw it with our own eyes!"

"A man doesn't move!"

"Just pour it on the bath!"

"My wrist is soaked in water, and it's constantly oozing blood!"

Motota, Ayumi and Mitsuhiko chimed in.

"How is this possible!" The middle-aged uncle looked disdainful. "I've been using the bathroom all the time!"

"Detective Corps, please come here." Qianyu's voice came from behind everyone, and I saw that Qianyu didn't know when he had retreated a few meters behind everyone, his face was solemn, and he was stroking a put away umbrella with both hands.

"Qianyu-san, what's wrong?" The members of the detective group came to Chiba's side, and Ayumi asked.

"Officer Twilight, back off!" Qian Yu suddenly shouted. "He's the murderer!"

"What?" Shocked when he heard this, Officer Twilight immediately drew his gun and aimed it at the ground, while another policeman did the same. (In '94, Japan's rules on police shootings were so strict that they were almost pathological.) )

"Hey, hey!" The middle-aged uncle was shocked and immediately raised his hands above his head. "What's the kidding you, little one? Mr. Policeman, you must not take their word for it! ”

"I see it." Qian Yu looked into the eyes of the middle-aged uncle. "Just when the others saw the corpse and ran out in a hurry."

"I saw his face poking out of the bathroom!" (The angle of the anime shows that if Chiba is standing in the right position, you can see the part of the murderer's face leaning out of the window)

"What!" The middle-aged uncle was shocked. "This, this can't be!"

"Do you have anything else to explain?" Twilight said coldly.

"No... Little friend," the middle-aged uncle shouted as if he remembered something. "Do you see a face without a beard?"

"Uhhh Qian Yu blinked and replied. "I don't think so..."

"That's my brother! I was knocked unconscious from behind after I got out of the shower, and when I woke up, he was gone. The middle-aged uncle was like grasping a life-saving straw, desperately explaining.

"Your brother?" Twilight put down her gun and said suspiciously.

"Yes, please come in." The middle-aged uncle completely lost his previous domineering, and respectfully invited everyone into the house. As soon as I entered the door, a group photo attracted everyone's attention. In the photo, a middle-aged uncle and a man who is almost identical except for his beard and eyebrows are standing and smiling.

"Twin brothers... Qianyu pondered.

"You just said that your brother did it?" Twilight asked, looking at the picture.

"I guess so... The middle-aged uncle nodded. "He's got out of the house."

"No one came out just now, and I've been watching." Conan vetoed.

"There's a tree behind our house," the middle-aged uncle pointed to a nearby door. "My nephew used to walk through the door and into the back yard when he was a guest, and he could climb up from the tree there, and then he could climb over the wall, and on the other side of the wall was a passage by the embankment, where one could walk, and he knew the way."

"What?" When Twilight heard this, she hurried to the room, and sure enough, she saw that the window was wide open, and a very strong branch of a large tree in the courtyard happened to be on the wall, and anyone could get out of it.

"Cut!" Conan said fiercely. "There's still a place to get out... Will he be able to escape with the corpse, though? ”

"Theoretically, it's possible, if you do it right, you can even drag the corpse up and jump down with you after you climb the tree and come to the wall."

"It seems that this should be the case. Oh yes, what's your brother's name? Twilight asked.

"Tomosa Tanaka." The middle-aged uncle hurriedly replied.

"Wanted Tomoshi Tanaka immediately!" Twilight immediately ordered his subordinates.

"So, I'm going to go to bed first? Suddenly I felt so sleepy. The middle-aged uncle yawned. I sleep in the TV room upstairs, and if you're going to search my house just in case, just don't disturb me. ”

"Ahh No, we just need to identify the scene of the murder, and then we will leave immediately, and when we go back, we will issue a wanted notice for Tomoshi Tanaka. Officer Twilight waved his hand. Go back, little ones, and leave the rest to our police. ”

"Cut," the middle-aged uncle hadn't even gone upstairs when he heard the sound of Twilight opening the bathroom door, and the sound of complaints. "Has the scene been cleaned up?"

A minute later, the unsuccessful police officers left the mansion with a reluctant group of four detectives.

"Whew-" The middle-aged uncle smiled. "It's dangerous...

Fortunately, he was ready to disguise himself as his brother before, so he was lucky to pass the test. But he was really reckless, he actually poked his head out of the bathroom openly, and was seen by that little ghost. However, his own arguments are only expedient, and the body must be disposed of as soon as possible, such as sinking into the embankment behind the courtyard, or directly using vinegar, strong acids and alkalis. Then you can directly dump your old identity, and then directly incarnate as your brother, but whether your original identity may implicate yourself is still up for debate...

Now, though, it's time to celebrate.

"I'll inherit your career, both in writing and in life. I will no longer be a parasite like you, who only knows how to live in my brother's house, eat my brother's food, and drink my brother, but will be a generation of literary giants! What do you think," the middle-aged uncle came to the second floor and pushed open the door of the TV room, where the corpse in the bathroom that the detectives had seen before was lying in an armchair in a bathrobe. "Brother?"

The extremely proud middle-aged uncle, Tomoshi Tanaka, couldn't help but say this question.

Then, he heard the answer.

"Yes, that's right." A mocking voice came from the corpse.