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In addition, everyone wiped their own tableware before the meal.
As a renowned food detective, Da Shang shouldn't have made such a mistake, right?
Chapter 312 Granny Chiyo
"If you wanted to get your thumb stuck with potassium cyanide, this teacup would be the most likely place to do it,"
Matsuda took out a handkerchief and picked up the teacup.
"Can you get tested now?"
"Without even basic testing reagents, how could I possibly test for a dangerous substance like potassium cyanide? I can't exactly lick it myself to see what happens, can I?"
Gunda gave Matsuda a disapproving look, then picked up his teacup and said with some emotion,
"Da Shang was a famous detective after all, but I never expected that he would die because of such a small teacup and his little habit."
But something still doesn't seem right...
Matsuda, however, felt there was something wrong the more he thought about it. Even if Ooue was used to biting his nails, he would at most put the tip of his thumb in his mouth.
Generally speaking, when people drink water from a teacup, they hook their index finger and the fingers below them onto the handle, while their thumb rests on the handle for balance and stability.
The part that makes full contact with the handle should be the pad of the thumb, and the fingertip should barely touch it.
Furthermore, although only 5 grams of potassium cyanide are needed to kill a person,
However, to ensure that the thumb is fully contaminated with potassium cyanide, much more than 5 grams would be needed.
If too much is applied to the teacup, it will definitely leave marks.
Ooshita is a famous detective, surely he wouldn't miss it?
Filled with doubt, Matsuda pulled Ai along and walked out of the restaurant.
In the corridor, Miss Gunda frowned and pondered for a moment, then suddenly said,
"No, Da Shang shouldn't have died so easily."
"That's not necessarily true. Maybe he just overlooked it," Matsuda said casually.
"How could we possibly be careless?" Ai rolled her eyes at Matsuda. "The atmosphere in the restaurant was so strange before, everyone was changing seats and wiping the tableware, how could we possibly let our guard down?"
"The little sister is right,"
Miss Gunda patted Ai's head approvingly.
"I have a guess. Actually, Da Shang wasn't negligent; he just didn't expect—to be precise, he didn't expect the murderer to target him!"
"You mean, Da Shang should know the murderer?"
Matsuda recalled his earlier doubts.
"Or perhaps, he was actually an accomplice of the murderer?"
“That’s right, this whole thing is a bit strange,”
Ms. Gunda nodded affirmatively.
"The murderer asked us to solve the mystery of the villa, but how can he guarantee that the solver will tell him the answer? After all, although we are temporarily trapped here, there are ways to leave."
"In addition, the previous recordings also mentioned that we should fight each other in the villa for the hidden treasure."
"It might be possible for an ordinary person, but for a detective, keeping a clear head is a required course. How could they easily lose their temper and act recklessly?"
"So I think the murderer must be hiding among us!"
"And Da Shang must have contacted her, so that they could sow discord among us and also observe whether someone has solved the mystery."
"Clap clap clap!"
Matsuda and Ai clapped at the same time.
"Now I should be of some use, right, Detective?"
Miss Gunda gave Matsuda a coquettish glare, clearly still harboring resentment towards him for mocking her earlier as useless.
"And what about you, Officer Matsuda? You're not really just going to be a bystander without doing anything, are you? That would be a huge loss for me!"
"Hey, haven't I made you feel safe?"
Matsuda asked in confusion,
"In such a dangerous villa, being in the same group as me is incredibly lucky; no one else is as fortunate as you, former coroner!"
Miss Gunda stared blankly at Matsuda, then covered her face speechlessly, lowered her head, and asked Ai,
"Has this guy always been this shameless?"
Ai didn't say anything, she just nodded silently.
“Well, it seems I have no choice but to rely on myself,” Ms. Gunda sighed. “Fortunately, I had discovered something beforehand.”
"What? You actually have some useful clues?" Matsuda asked in surprise.
"Yes, I found a message earlier, in the piano room of the villa,"
Ms. Gunda spoke slowly in a low voice.
"The message roughly means that he will be killed by Karasuma, but he has already obtained the final trump card to decipher the code."
"Karasuma? Could it be Karasuma Renya?" Matsuda exclaimed in surprise. "Back then, he wasn't dead yet?"
"Not only did Karasuma survive, but the person who left the message also left their name,"
Miss Gunda looked at Matsuda meaningfully.
"Kyosuke Senma!"
“Senma Kyosuke? Senma…is this person related to Senma Kazuyo?” Matsuda pondered. “Given her age, it is indeed possible that she is related to what happened forty years ago.”
"So, will you arrest her, Officer Matsuda?"
After Miss Gunda finished speaking with a smile, she waited for Matsuda to make his own decision.
"What? Have you lost your mind being a detective?" Matsuda said irritably. "Without sufficient evidence, how can I arrest someone based on what you've said? Police officers aren't detectives who can determine whether someone has committed a crime just by talking."
This rebuttal immediately made Miss Gunda grit her teeth in anger.
Just as she was about to say something more, Mogi suddenly walked out from the other end of the corridor, and then said to Matsuda and the other two with a smug look on his face,
“I was just about to come find you. I already know the answer to the riddle,” Mogi invited. “Please return to the restaurant, where I will reveal all the answers.”
"Heh, I happen to have an answer too," Ms. Gunda sneered defiantly. "Let's see who's right?"
Matsuda didn't have the competitive spirit of these detectives. As long as he could catch the murderer, that was enough for him as a policeman.
......
In the villa's dining room, everyone gathered again.
Mogi began his reasoning in front of everyone.
Just as Ms. Gunda had predicted, he also believed that Ooue was related to the murderer, which was why the murderer used this to his advantage and kill him.
At the same time, Koshimizu from their group also mentioned the name Senma Kyosuke.
"Grandma Senma, can you tell us the whole truth now?"
Yue Shui asked,
Why did you try to kill Mr. Da Shang?
"Why......"
Chima Kazuyo sighed with a bitter smile, and her expression clearly indicated that she had admitted her crime.
Conan glanced at Senma Furuyo with surprise. He, Ran, Mouri, and Senma were in one group.
Under the old woman's deliberate guidance, they did not notice the room with a thousand messages.
"Actually, Senma Kyosuke is my father..."
Chima Kazuyo began to tell the story from more than forty years ago.
“My father was an archaeologist. Forty years ago, he was invited to this Twilight Mansion!”
Chapter 313 As a police officer, it's reasonable for me to bring these things, right?
"It is said that when Karasuma Renya was over a hundred years old, he hoped to see the treasure left to him by his mother before he died."
"Then my father left and never returned, and I never heard from him again."
“I searched through my father’s letters and learned the whole story from them. But by then, Karasuma Renya was already dead, the Karasuma family had fallen from power, and even this villa had been sold to someone else.”
"As for my father, he has been out of contact for so long, so he must have already passed away."
"This matter is now over for me, and I didn't want to get involved in it anymore."
"But two years ago, when I was reminiscing about my father's past, I accidentally revealed this secret, which was overheard by Da Shang."
"He was immediately blinded by the treasure of the Karasuma family, and spent all his savings and even incurred a lot of debt before buying this villa and starting to search for the hidden treasure inside."
Two years have passed, and Da Shang's treasure hunt has yielded no results. Out of desperation, he suddenly had an idea: since he can't find it by himself, why not find some smart people to solve the problem together?
"Perhaps the tragedy of that night inspired the Great King. In order to prevent one of you from solving the puzzle and taking away the treasure, the Great King plans to hide among you, stir up conflicts among you, make you suspect each other and kill each other, so as to ensure the final ownership of the treasure."
"He even found someone with the same habits as him to create chaos for you by killing her."
Same habit... Could it be biting your nails?
So, it was that maid?
Everyone's eyes immediately turned to the villa's maid.
Under the pressure of everyone's gaze, the maid subconsciously raised her hand and bit her thumb.
But then she remembered that Da Shang had died because of this habit, and hurriedly lowered her hand again in a panic.
"That guy is a real bastard,"
Matsuda looked at the maid, who looked terrified.
"If it were me, I would simply demolish the entire villa. If there was any treasure, I would find it immediately. I would never think of killing someone for that."