"Pay attention to the armor protection on the hands, do you know when this backward behavior of providing basic defense through armor and relying mainly on the inner chain mail for protection? In 1360, hourglass-shaped plate gloves were already in vogue. (e.g., the tomb statue of Edward the Black Prince after his death in 1376)," Kudo continued. In the era when Milanese plate armor was all the rage, plate armor gloves protected almost the entire hand with plate armor, and it was impossible to use such a fragile protective gear to give the other party the opportunity to destroy their most vulnerable hands, and only a botched modern manufacturer could make such a mistake that could not pass the actual combat test. ”

"I have carefully looked at all the armor in the exhibition hall and warehouse, and almost all of the armor has quite strong characteristics and typical characteristics of the times, and each one is a [typical armor] that can be used to popularize science for beginners. Why did the murderer just choose this weird piece of armor from dozens of armors? Of course, because that person knew what was special about this armor. ”

"And here, in charge of armor procurement, the one who knows the most about this is the director of Ochiai himself, who told me personally that he is in charge of all procurement, and that there is no one in the staff who can inherit his mantle in this regard. If I didn't doubt him, it would have become a strange thing. ”

(Interested readers can look back at the previous series of reactions of Yusaku Kudo after seeing the painting sent by Chiba, who was already highly suspicious of Director Ochiai at that time.) If it weren't for the trickery of Officer Shiratori and Neviah's oil painting, he would have been able to lock down the killer at that point. ）

"But even though the armor may not be that heavy, how did he manage to lift the corpse and stick the sword in?" Qian Yu frowned. "This action requires lifting the corpse with one hand and then inserting it with a sword, and it is difficult for an old man to be strong - "

"Plug in?" Chiha's words seemed to remind Conan. "Wait a minute, how did he nail the corpse to the wall with a sword?"

"yes?" Only then did Qian Yu react. He ...... How did he do it? ”

"That sword is a lever that sticks into a crack in the wall that is already there as a fulcrum, you know what I mean?" Yusaku Kudo said this, leading the two into the darkness.

"Smack!" With the sound of a flashlight lit up, the character of [Hell の Room] appeared in front of him.

"I've just had the police scrutinize it, and the crack in the wall where the sword was inserted has been there for a long time," Yusaku Kudo seemed to be familiar with the layout, and hit the bright center of the flashlight directly at the crack - it was a longitudinal mark six or seven centimeters wide, which was obviously not constituted by a sword piercing the wall.

"Director Ochiai only needs to first pierce the sword through the victim's head from the bottom up, and then insert the end of the sword into the crack in the wall, which creates a lever - because the body is closer to the crack in the wall that acts as a fulcrum than the curator's hand, this is a labor-saving lever that can be lifted up by the ochiai curator with both hands. There is a deep notch in the wall that goes downward, which can have the effect of a scabbard. Once the blade of the sword is lifted to a certain height by pulling the corpse, the curator can hold the blade in place by pushing the tip of the sword into the notch, which can be used by even an old man to lift an entire adult male corpse into place. Based on the results of our simulations, this lever can pull up the male corpse with about a quarter of the force if it is done properly, and this data is considered to be completely achievable when combined with the data from last year's physical examination by Director Ochiai. In fact, he admits to doing it this way. ”

"And what do you explain that Miss Neviah's painting, did he use hypnosis or something to convince Neviah that she painted the painting herself?" Conan remembered the misleading impression he had been made by the previous painting and asked.

"Almost, but there's an additional illness at the haunt." Yusaku Kudo shook his head. "Based on our review of her psychotherapy records, we found that she had a subtle color agnosia, in which she would recognize some colors as others, and even two highly similar colors could be identified as two very different colors. And what Director Ochiai did...... It's as simple as drawing a picture and mixing a variety of colors that are highly similar but nuanced, making it look like Neviah's own previous paintings. (This is also the reason why Neviah's painting is a bit strange in color, because Director Ochiai has Neviah's color vision disorder chart in his hand, and he knows that this is the only way to make this painting fool Neviah's brain.)

"What about the motive for the killing?" Chiha's question was about the identity of the victim.

"Director Ochiai is an old believer who has believed in Christianity for more than 70 years, and the victim is a young man, and he is a very ...... Deviant," Kudo sighed as he said this. "The fund that opened this art museum and this psychiatric hospital was going to sell the museum because business was sluggish, and then the highest bidder was this Kuo Shao - of course, he made a high bid for no reason, because when he came to this Christian art museum to talk about the acquisition, he brought people with him that kind of ...... It smells of Satan, evil gods, and the like. According to the curator's own description, the young man himself wore a demon mask, horns on his head, and his clothes were painted with the worship of evil gods, and his men were wearing all kinds of abusive words against Christianity. ”

"Obviously, the other party is planning to use money to humiliate their faith, and then the new head of the fund has no obsession with Christianity, so the small report typed by Director Ochiai is of no avail. About a week ago, the negotiations were completed and the contract was signed, so the director came to Ochiai, who had quarreled with him many times before, and talked in front of him about how to put things in the museum that were almost blasphemous to Christian believers, so the curator ...... As for the rumors that the museum is haunted, it actually seems to be the noise of that Kuo Shao himself wantonly fiddling with those armor artworks in the museum at night. ”

"Uh......" Chiba and Conan glanced at each other with rather speechless expressions, and when they looked back at Yusaku Kudo, they noticed that he had a similar wry smile on his face.

How else can you evaluate this kind of thing?

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The next chapter begins, and you will enter the [Gregory Illusion] chapter