Chapter 370 – Ben Shang and the Tree, Irish

Footsteps rang out from the darkness.

"How did you know I was here?" A middle-aged man carrying a satchel on his left shoulder slowly walked out of the darkness. "Little one, have we met before?"

"I don't know you," Conan sneered and spread his hands. "But that doesn't stop me from knowing the truth of all this."

"Oh?" Motogami and the tree frowned.

"Maybe your goal does include getting those seven people dead, but I have no doubt about one thing," Conan said coldly. "That's Mr. Mizutani, too—one of the important goals you want to get rid of—or even the only important goal yours, isn't it?"

"......" Kazuki Ben glanced at the elevator behind him (this plot of the original book should take place at the big observation deck, so there will be two floors.) But after thinking about it, Kosuke Mizutani definitely wanted to be closer to the sky, so the special observatory was the place he should go. ), and then looked back at Conan. "Well, of course I hate Kosuke Mizutani, after all, it was the guy from Mizutani who took Nanako to Kyoto at the time, and if something happened, he wasn't held accountable first, did he go to the design office of the hotel for not designing two elevators?"

"But you don't even have the courage to take responsibility, and you even used this way to make Kosuke Mizutani die on his own initiative." Conan snorted coldly. "If you commit all these crimes yourself, and then confess it, I will sigh at most, and then watch you receive a fair trial. But like this, use intrigue and vicious means to trick a person into taking the blame for you, and then let him kill himself? This kind of behavior of daring to do things and not daring to do it, wantonly demagoguing others, and disregarding the lives of others can only show that you are a devil who commits dirty crimes under the pretext of seemingly righteousness! ”

"Interesting," Motogami and Aki smiled as they watched the clown perform. "Let me listen carefully, what do you want to say? Or, what do you think I've done? I'd like to hear how many correct conclusions you've come to – don't talk to me about the Maori detective, if that's really the Maori detective's reasoning, how could he not come here himself, but leave you alone as a child to face my dangerous character? I don't know where you got the courage to come here and face me, but since you have come up with the ridiculous statement that I am a criminal, I wonder how you came up with such a comical logic. ”

"Your words and actions like that suddenly gave me confidence," Conan had recovered from Kosuke Mizutani's death, regaining complete calm and composure. "If you're really not weak-minded, I'm afraid you won't be able to ask such a question?"

"I just want to see what ivory you can spit out of your outspoken little one," Motogami shook his head and said lightly. "If it's convenient, I can even help you change the logic to let you know how ridiculous your so-called reasoning really is."

"First of all, the seven deceased all came to lay flowers for Miss Nanako at Miss Nanako's funeral or first anniversary, am I right?" After Conan said this, he saw what he wanted to see - Motogami Kazuki's face changed suddenly. "On the first anniversary of the death of the people, it was Shindo, Ryuzaki Nu and Okakura Masaaki who came to deliver the flowers, and the other four people who sent bouquets for the funeral, right?"

"How do you know?" Motogami and Aki apparently didn't expect Conan to know about it.

"It's not important," Conan said with a foolish look. "If it's just the conscience of someone in the elevator, then it's nothing more than three situations - come alone, bring in friends, or try to find everyone and let everyone come together."

But what if seven people came in two groups, as it is now? If you come in two batches because two people have an impromptu idea and then contact someone you know, what are the chances that you can contact all seven people? Considering that these people live in different parts of the world, and especially since some of them are unlikely to have intersections with other victims because of their positions, the probability of such a coincidence is pitifully small, so we can infer the most likely scenario——"

"The seven of them probably didn't make an appointment in advance, but all came on their own initiative. The problem then is, if it was out of guilt, it's hard for me to imagine that all seven of them had such excellent moral standards - otherwise Shuhei Jinno wouldn't have pulled Nanako off the elevator, and the others wouldn't have stood by - the only explanation is that they didn't come to deliver the flowers out of guilt. ”

"Rather, it is out of gratitude for Miss Nanako's noble qualities, and I express my high respect for her taking the initiative to give up the elevator and giving up her right to live."

"......" Ben and the tree were silent.

"Do you have anything else to say?" After seeing Motojo Kazuki's expression, Conan had already confirmed that his inference was correct. "So, Mr. Benjo, please teach me anything, is there anything wrong with my reasoning?"

"I have to admit that you're smart." Putting his hand in his satchel, he said coldly. "But I'm sorry, I have some good things here, and although they can't destroy thoughts, they can make them disappear."

After saying that, a shotgun with a cut of the barrel was suddenly taken out of his satchel by Ben Kazuki.

“!!!” Conan was horrified and hurriedly tried to dodge. But at this moment, an unexpected situation arises.

With a burst of sparks and a loud bang, the remaining barrel of the shotgun in Motojo and Shu's hand suddenly bent as if it had encountered a huge force.

Before Benjo and Tree and Conan could react, a second spark reappeared with another loud bang - along with Honjo and Tree's wails.

It was as if something had hollowed out the chest of the book and the tree, leaving only a hollow running through the front and back.

“!?” Conan had realized what was happening and quickly looked in the direction where the voice came from.

At the end of Conan's line of sight, Irish, who was showing his true face instead of Matsumoto's long skin, slowly walked out from behind the counter of the coffee shop with a desert eagle in his hand.

"Well, that's just the two of us left alive." Irish glanced at Benjo and the tree, which had fallen to the ground, lifeless, and then looked back at Conan. "I must admit that for me, you are a windfall."

"......," Conan said lightly after thinking for a moment. If I'm not mistaken, since you will appear here at this time, and you will also give Ben Kazuki a shot, your Excellency should be a member of the organization, right? Your purpose is presumably for the amulet bag on the body of a deceased man named Masaaki Okakura? ”

"Oh!" Irish looked at Conan with a slight surprise. "You're as good a mind as the rumors say—"

"Former high school detective, Shinichi Kudo......" Irish said, looking at Conan. Perhaps, I should call you former Kudo Shinichi? ”