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Chapter 1057: Something's Wrong
Mouri Ran and Harumi Fukatsu played ping pong back and forth for a while. Their minds, which had been stunned just now, finally became active. Seeing that it was already 11:30 PM, Mouri Ran called Harumi Fukatsu and Haibara Ai to take a bath.
Conan followed without hesitation.
"Uh-huh?" Mori Kogoro, who was almost asleep on the Table, looked up in confusion. "Where are you going?"
"Women's Bathroom." Chi Feichi stood up.
"Ah?!" Mori Kogoro suddenly perked up. "Hey, hey, Conan, Fei Chi, you two Kid Stand still for me!"
At the Women's Bath Entrance, the wooden plaque saying 'Private Booking 10:00 to 11:00' was still hanging on the tightly closed wooden door.
Mouri Ran tried opening the Door a bit, but couldn't pull it open. She lowered her head and saw a kimono paper doll on the Ground. She squatted down curiously and picked it up. "Why is it so cold?"
On the head of the kimono paper doll, a small piece of paper was tied. Mouri Ran used her finger to straighten the piece of paper. It was surprisingly a small Hannya Mask, fitting perfectly onto the face of the paper doll.
"Ah!" Mouri Ran was startled, and the paper doll also slipped from her hand and fell to the Ground. "What is this!"
Haibara Ai murmured, "Kimono Sleeve Hannya..."
Conan's face changed. He looked up and shouted to Chi Feichi Aside, "Brother Chi, quickly open the bathroom door!"
Chi Feichi stepped forward, seized the door handle with one hand, seized the door next to it with the other, used force, directly took the door off its hinges, and threw it Aside.
Even if the situation was urgent, Conan, looking at the door thrown Aside, couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly, and only then ran into the Bathroom.
He sometimes suspected that this Guy Chi Feichi really wasn't human.
Arm strength is truly terrifying.
Chi Feichi, Mouri Ran, Mori Kogoro, and Harumi Fukatsu stayed at the Entrance and didn't go in.
Haibara Ai saw Conan stop after running to the edge of the Hot Spring and walked in without hesitation.
Anyway, they were Children...
The surrounding area was misty. In the Hot Spring, long belts of various colors were soaked in the Water, wrapped around the motionless Asuka Shibasaki, spreading out in all directions and floating on the Water Surface, like an enchantingly blooming man-eating flower.
Asuka Shibasaki in the middle, who had lost her life, was the food being swallowed into the mouth of the man-eating flower. Her black long hair also floated in the Water, fanned out.
"Conan, Ai, isn't there anyone inside?" Mouri Ran asked.
"There is, there is," Conan looked at the person in the Water, feeling his throat was a bit dry, "But..."
"Ms. Asuka?!"
Mouri Ran, who was probing, was startled. Harumi Fukatsu even let out a scream.
"Ms. Asuka? Wake up quickly!" Mori Kogoro immediately stepped forward, jumped into the Hot Spring, waded to Asuka Shibasaki's side, noticed something about Asuka Shibasaki's kimono belt on her body, pulled open the wrapped kimono belt and saw a blood hole was oozing outwards strands of red. "This is bad, she was stabbed with a knife in the Chest!"
Conan remembered the legend of 'Kimono Sleeve Hannya'. After a moment of stunned silence, he turned back again and ran Outside.
The others could only follow. Chi Feichi, who hadn't entered the Door, also followed over.
Eri Akachi, Tokyoichi Bando, and Raiko Honda, three people, were playing playing cards in the Social Hall. Hearing that Asuka Shibasaki had died, and also hearing Conan asked about Ema Anzai's location, they quickly said that an hour ago, Ema Anzai had gone out towards the Outside Shrine.
Conan ran over, pulled open the Door leading to the Courtyard, only discovered a row of footprints on the Ground heading towards the Shrine Entrance, opened his watch flashlight, and loudly reminded Mori Kogoro who followed, "Uncle Mori, absolutely don't step on those footprints, walk from other places!"
"Got it," Mori Kogoro put on waterproof boots, wading deep and shallow stepping on the snow towards the Shrine, "No need for you to remind me, did you forget what I do?"
Conan followed behind, used the watch flashlight to help with lighting, and beside Mori Kogoro's footprint, left behind a string of small footprints.
Mouri Ran noticed that Chi Feichi didn't go over, spoke up and asked, "Brother Hichiji, aren't you going to check?"
"Teacher and Conan going is enough," Chi Feichi, who wasn't interested in this case since he knew the cause and effect, said with indifference, "too many people going instead makes it easy to destroy some traces."
Mouri Ran believed it, anxiously watched Mori Kogoro and Conan, two people, enter the Shrine.
Not long after, Mori Kogoro and Conan returned.
"Call the police, Ran," Mori Kogoro said with a solemn expression, "Ms. Anzai was also murdered. She was lying on a spread out long-sleeved kimono, similarly with one fatal stab to the Chest. A Kimono Sleeve Hannya paper doll was also placed on her body. The Murderer should be the same person as the murder of Ms. Asuka Shibasaki!"
After more than twenty minutes, a local Police Officer surnamed 'Ogura' arrived.
Although Ogura had contacted the Prefectural Police of Yamagata Prefecture, the Prefectural Police said that the snow on the Road Outside was too deep, and could only arrive tomorrow at daybreak. Mori Kogoro also commanded the protection of the Crime Scene and evidence.
"Landlady, could you please bring ten bath towels, okay?"
"Yes."
While waiting for the Landlady to leave to get the bath towels, Mori Kogoro looked towards Mouri Ran again, "Ran, bring your digital camera!"
"Okay!" Mouri Ran immediately nodded, and sighed in her heart.
Next time she shouldn't bring her digital camera. She can't take landscape photos, only take Crime Scene and corpse photos.
"Then, I and Officer Ogura will cover the footprints on the snow. Conan will be responsible for listening to my command and taking scene photos," Mori Kogoro looked towards Chi Feichi, "Fei Chi, you brought gloves and an evidence bag, right? Then help collect the evidence. Pay attention to whether there are special items on the Snowy Field. If there are, also collect them together."
Chi Feichi nodded, and took out disposable gloves in a sealed bag from his Pocket.
"Then, all the others go to the Japanese-Style Living Room to wait," Mori Kogoro said to the others, "It's best not to act alone!"
The others quickly agreed.
While waiting for Mouri Ran to bring the digital camera, it started snowing Outside again.
Conan stepped into the Snowy Field, walked in front, holding the digital camera to take photos of the footprints.
Mori Kogoro and Officer Ogura were behind, using towels to cover the footprints.
Chi Feichi temporarily had nothing to do, so he just followed Aside to observe the footprints, and check if there was anything that needed to be collected into the evidence bag first for preservation.
While taking photos, Conan turned under the Corridor, opened his flashlight to look at the direction of the Back Door, looked and saw that not a single footprint led to the Snowy Field of the Back Door. He again took out the camera, looked through the suspected footprints left behind when Ema Anzai went to the Shrine, vaguely felt something was wrong, but couldn't say why. He ran back to the Edge of the footprints covered by towels, squatted down, and lifted the towel.
"Hey, Conan, why are you lifting the towel?" Mori Kogoro had already covered the footprints up to in front of the Shrine, and turned back and said, "Be careful the footprints don't get covered by snow!"
Conan opened the towel and looked at the footprints Below. Still couldn't find the reason why he felt something was wrong. He frowned, turned around, stepped on the Snowy Field, and followed into the Shrine.
Mori Kogoro started to command Conan to take scene photos, corpse photos, and evidence photos with reference objects. "Okay, Fei Chi, put the evidence in. Don't damage it and also don't erase any traces."
Chi Feichi silently started putting in evidence.
A Kimono Sleeve Hannya paper doll, a sheet of paper printed with a message that called Ema Anzai to This Place, the Shrine.
Conan found the photos of the Snowy Field footprints on the digital camera, stepped forward, preparing to let Chi Feichi check, "Brother Chi, the footprints on the Snowy Field seem a bit weird..."
"Where is it weird?" Mori Kogoro bent down to look.
"I just don't know where it is weird..." Conan pretended to be a naive Child, "But I just feel something is a bit wrong!"
Mori Kogoro staring at Conan, really wanted to hit him, "You this Kid..."
Chi Feichi put away the evidence, handed the evidence bag to Officer Ogura, stood up and said, "Those suspected footprints left behind by Ms. Anzai, the depth is about five centimeters. Afterwards, the footprints left behind by Teacher and Conan, are probably about nine centimeters."
Conan lowered his head and looked at the photo on the camera.
Originally, this Guy Chi Feichi also noticed. Looking at it this way, it is indeed the problem of footprint depth...
"What's so weird about that?" Mori Kogoro stroking his chin and said, "Probably the footprints left by Ms. Anzai were covered by a layer of snow. Afterwards, we only then left footprints..."
"But, the three people in the Social Hall said that Ms. Anzai passed through the Social Hall to head towards the Shrine after 10:30 PM, until around 12:00 AM when we headed towards the Shrine and left footprints. During this period, there was no snowfall. Moreover, if because of snowfall covering the footprints, then it will leave a layer of uneven snow in the Footprint Pit, and the footprints also won't be that clear."
"Then that is the upper layer of snow in the Footprint Pit melted a bit." Mori Kogoro said again.
Conan looked up at Mori Kogoro, and again used a child's voice to remind him, "If that's the case, the Snowy Field we stepped on should also melt to a similar extent as the footprint snow pit. The footprints we left behind should also be around five centimeters."
"Uh-huh..." Mori Kogoro stroking his chin in thought, "Well..."
Conan turned his head and looked towards the towels covering the Snowy Field Outside the Shrine Door, and again lowered his head and looked through the footprint photos on the camera.
The Murderer's method of not leaving footprints on the Snowy Field should also be similar.
First, called Ema Anzai to This Place. Then used hard wooden board to cover above the footprints left behind by Ema Anzai. Acting while stepping on the hard wooden board. Only need to use two wooden boards alternately, then can move to the Shrine Entrance without leaving footprints. After murder, return in the same way.
This way, above and around the Snowy Field where Ema Anzai left footprints, the snow was compacted by the wooden board and the weight of a person, only then will it be a few centimeters shallower than the footprints they left behind Afterwards...
"Maybe the snow there is a bit shallower," Mori Kogoro continued speculating, "or perhaps the Road Surface is tilted, then her footprints left behind of course are shallower than the footprints we left behind!"
Conan didn't refute. The former is not reality. The latter is possible, But didn't feel the Road Surface had obvious tilt. The footprint depth should not differ that much...
"Okay, we should go quickly to the Open-air Hot Spring There," Mori Kogoro turned around and walked Outside, "Don't dawdle."
The four people arrived again at the Open-air Hot Spring where Asuka Shibasaki's corpse was placed.
Conan was too short. Taking photos of the footprints on the Snowy Field he could still manage, But wading into the Hot Spring Water to take corpse photos is not very easy.
Mori Kogoro took over the photography work, took corpse photos from various angles, and also waited for Officer Ogura and Chi Feichi to find evidence and take photos of the evidence.
At the bottom of the Hot Spring, there was a knife with a grip that had undergone special manufacture and handling. On the hilt, there were circles of lines. After a rough comparison, it should be the weapon for the murder of Asuka Shibasaki and Ema Anzai.
There was also a stapler sunk in the bottom of the Hot Spring, close to the wound on Asuka Shibasaki's back of the head that received the attack.
Besides this, there was a patterned towel floating in the Water, which still had a blood stain.
(End of Chapter)
Mouri Ran and Harumi Fukatsu played ping pong back and forth for a while. Their minds, which had been stunned just now, finally became active. Seeing that it was already 11:30 PM, Mouri Ran called Harumi Fukatsu and Haibara Ai to take a bath.
Conan followed without hesitation.
"Uh-huh?" Mori Kogoro, who was almost asleep on the Table, looked up in confusion. "Where are you going?"
"Women's Bathroom." Chi Feichi stood up.
"Ah?!" Mori Kogoro suddenly perked up. "Hey, hey, Conan, Fei Chi, you two Kid Stand still for me!"
At the Women's Bath Entrance, the wooden plaque saying 'Private Booking 10:00 to 11:00' was still hanging on the tightly closed wooden door.
Mouri Ran tried opening the Door a bit, but couldn't pull it open. She lowered her head and saw a kimono paper doll on the Ground. She squatted down curiously and picked it up. "Why is it so cold?"
On the head of the kimono paper doll, a small piece of paper was tied. Mouri Ran used her finger to straighten the piece of paper. It was surprisingly a small Hannya Mask, fitting perfectly onto the face of the paper doll.
"Ah!" Mouri Ran was startled, and the paper doll also slipped from her hand and fell to the Ground. "What is this!"
Haibara Ai murmured, "Kimono Sleeve Hannya..."
Conan's face changed. He looked up and shouted to Chi Feichi Aside, "Brother Chi, quickly open the bathroom door!"
Chi Feichi stepped forward, seized the door handle with one hand, seized the door next to it with the other, used force, directly took the door off its hinges, and threw it Aside.
Even if the situation was urgent, Conan, looking at the door thrown Aside, couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly, and only then ran into the Bathroom.
He sometimes suspected that this Guy Chi Feichi really wasn't human.
Arm strength is truly terrifying.
Chi Feichi, Mouri Ran, Mori Kogoro, and Harumi Fukatsu stayed at the Entrance and didn't go in.
Haibara Ai saw Conan stop after running to the edge of the Hot Spring and walked in without hesitation.
Anyway, they were Children...
The surrounding area was misty. In the Hot Spring, long belts of various colors were soaked in the Water, wrapped around the motionless Asuka Shibasaki, spreading out in all directions and floating on the Water Surface, like an enchantingly blooming man-eating flower.
Asuka Shibasaki in the middle, who had lost her life, was the food being swallowed into the mouth of the man-eating flower. Her black long hair also floated in the Water, fanned out.
"Conan, Ai, isn't there anyone inside?" Mouri Ran asked.
"There is, there is," Conan looked at the person in the Water, feeling his throat was a bit dry, "But..."
"Ms. Asuka?!"
Mouri Ran, who was probing, was startled. Harumi Fukatsu even let out a scream.
"Ms. Asuka? Wake up quickly!" Mori Kogoro immediately stepped forward, jumped into the Hot Spring, waded to Asuka Shibasaki's side, noticed something about Asuka Shibasaki's kimono belt on her body, pulled open the wrapped kimono belt and saw a blood hole was oozing outwards strands of red. "This is bad, she was stabbed with a knife in the Chest!"
Conan remembered the legend of 'Kimono Sleeve Hannya'. After a moment of stunned silence, he turned back again and ran Outside.
The others could only follow. Chi Feichi, who hadn't entered the Door, also followed over.
Eri Akachi, Tokyoichi Bando, and Raiko Honda, three people, were playing playing cards in the Social Hall. Hearing that Asuka Shibasaki had died, and also hearing Conan asked about Ema Anzai's location, they quickly said that an hour ago, Ema Anzai had gone out towards the Outside Shrine.
Conan ran over, pulled open the Door leading to the Courtyard, only discovered a row of footprints on the Ground heading towards the Shrine Entrance, opened his watch flashlight, and loudly reminded Mori Kogoro who followed, "Uncle Mori, absolutely don't step on those footprints, walk from other places!"
"Got it," Mori Kogoro put on waterproof boots, wading deep and shallow stepping on the snow towards the Shrine, "No need for you to remind me, did you forget what I do?"
Conan followed behind, used the watch flashlight to help with lighting, and beside Mori Kogoro's footprint, left behind a string of small footprints.
Mouri Ran noticed that Chi Feichi didn't go over, spoke up and asked, "Brother Hichiji, aren't you going to check?"
"Teacher and Conan going is enough," Chi Feichi, who wasn't interested in this case since he knew the cause and effect, said with indifference, "too many people going instead makes it easy to destroy some traces."
Mouri Ran believed it, anxiously watched Mori Kogoro and Conan, two people, enter the Shrine.
Not long after, Mori Kogoro and Conan returned.
"Call the police, Ran," Mori Kogoro said with a solemn expression, "Ms. Anzai was also murdered. She was lying on a spread out long-sleeved kimono, similarly with one fatal stab to the Chest. A Kimono Sleeve Hannya paper doll was also placed on her body. The Murderer should be the same person as the murder of Ms. Asuka Shibasaki!"
After more than twenty minutes, a local Police Officer surnamed 'Ogura' arrived.
Although Ogura had contacted the Prefectural Police of Yamagata Prefecture, the Prefectural Police said that the snow on the Road Outside was too deep, and could only arrive tomorrow at daybreak. Mori Kogoro also commanded the protection of the Crime Scene and evidence.
"Landlady, could you please bring ten bath towels, okay?"
"Yes."
While waiting for the Landlady to leave to get the bath towels, Mori Kogoro looked towards Mouri Ran again, "Ran, bring your digital camera!"
"Okay!" Mouri Ran immediately nodded, and sighed in her heart.
Next time she shouldn't bring her digital camera. She can't take landscape photos, only take Crime Scene and corpse photos.
"Then, I and Officer Ogura will cover the footprints on the snow. Conan will be responsible for listening to my command and taking scene photos," Mori Kogoro looked towards Chi Feichi, "Fei Chi, you brought gloves and an evidence bag, right? Then help collect the evidence. Pay attention to whether there are special items on the Snowy Field. If there are, also collect them together."
Chi Feichi nodded, and took out disposable gloves in a sealed bag from his Pocket.
"Then, all the others go to the Japanese-Style Living Room to wait," Mori Kogoro said to the others, "It's best not to act alone!"
The others quickly agreed.
While waiting for Mouri Ran to bring the digital camera, it started snowing Outside again.
Conan stepped into the Snowy Field, walked in front, holding the digital camera to take photos of the footprints.
Mori Kogoro and Officer Ogura were behind, using towels to cover the footprints.
Chi Feichi temporarily had nothing to do, so he just followed Aside to observe the footprints, and check if there was anything that needed to be collected into the evidence bag first for preservation.
While taking photos, Conan turned under the Corridor, opened his flashlight to look at the direction of the Back Door, looked and saw that not a single footprint led to the Snowy Field of the Back Door. He again took out the camera, looked through the suspected footprints left behind when Ema Anzai went to the Shrine, vaguely felt something was wrong, but couldn't say why. He ran back to the Edge of the footprints covered by towels, squatted down, and lifted the towel.
"Hey, Conan, why are you lifting the towel?" Mori Kogoro had already covered the footprints up to in front of the Shrine, and turned back and said, "Be careful the footprints don't get covered by snow!"
Conan opened the towel and looked at the footprints Below. Still couldn't find the reason why he felt something was wrong. He frowned, turned around, stepped on the Snowy Field, and followed into the Shrine.
Mori Kogoro started to command Conan to take scene photos, corpse photos, and evidence photos with reference objects. "Okay, Fei Chi, put the evidence in. Don't damage it and also don't erase any traces."
Chi Feichi silently started putting in evidence.
A Kimono Sleeve Hannya paper doll, a sheet of paper printed with a message that called Ema Anzai to This Place, the Shrine.
Conan found the photos of the Snowy Field footprints on the digital camera, stepped forward, preparing to let Chi Feichi check, "Brother Chi, the footprints on the Snowy Field seem a bit weird..."
"Where is it weird?" Mori Kogoro bent down to look.
"I just don't know where it is weird..." Conan pretended to be a naive Child, "But I just feel something is a bit wrong!"
Mori Kogoro staring at Conan, really wanted to hit him, "You this Kid..."
Chi Feichi put away the evidence, handed the evidence bag to Officer Ogura, stood up and said, "Those suspected footprints left behind by Ms. Anzai, the depth is about five centimeters. Afterwards, the footprints left behind by Teacher and Conan, are probably about nine centimeters."
Conan lowered his head and looked at the photo on the camera.
Originally, this Guy Chi Feichi also noticed. Looking at it this way, it is indeed the problem of footprint depth...
"What's so weird about that?" Mori Kogoro stroking his chin and said, "Probably the footprints left by Ms. Anzai were covered by a layer of snow. Afterwards, we only then left footprints..."
"But, the three people in the Social Hall said that Ms. Anzai passed through the Social Hall to head towards the Shrine after 10:30 PM, until around 12:00 AM when we headed towards the Shrine and left footprints. During this period, there was no snowfall. Moreover, if because of snowfall covering the footprints, then it will leave a layer of uneven snow in the Footprint Pit, and the footprints also won't be that clear."
"Then that is the upper layer of snow in the Footprint Pit melted a bit." Mori Kogoro said again.
Conan looked up at Mori Kogoro, and again used a child's voice to remind him, "If that's the case, the Snowy Field we stepped on should also melt to a similar extent as the footprint snow pit. The footprints we left behind should also be around five centimeters."
"Uh-huh..." Mori Kogoro stroking his chin in thought, "Well..."
Conan turned his head and looked towards the towels covering the Snowy Field Outside the Shrine Door, and again lowered his head and looked through the footprint photos on the camera.
The Murderer's method of not leaving footprints on the Snowy Field should also be similar.
First, called Ema Anzai to This Place. Then used hard wooden board to cover above the footprints left behind by Ema Anzai. Acting while stepping on the hard wooden board. Only need to use two wooden boards alternately, then can move to the Shrine Entrance without leaving footprints. After murder, return in the same way.
This way, above and around the Snowy Field where Ema Anzai left footprints, the snow was compacted by the wooden board and the weight of a person, only then will it be a few centimeters shallower than the footprints they left behind Afterwards...
"Maybe the snow there is a bit shallower," Mori Kogoro continued speculating, "or perhaps the Road Surface is tilted, then her footprints left behind of course are shallower than the footprints we left behind!"
Conan didn't refute. The former is not reality. The latter is possible, But didn't feel the Road Surface had obvious tilt. The footprint depth should not differ that much...
"Okay, we should go quickly to the Open-air Hot Spring There," Mori Kogoro turned around and walked Outside, "Don't dawdle."
The four people arrived again at the Open-air Hot Spring where Asuka Shibasaki's corpse was placed.
Conan was too short. Taking photos of the footprints on the Snowy Field he could still manage, But wading into the Hot Spring Water to take corpse photos is not very easy.
Mori Kogoro took over the photography work, took corpse photos from various angles, and also waited for Officer Ogura and Chi Feichi to find evidence and take photos of the evidence.
At the bottom of the Hot Spring, there was a knife with a grip that had undergone special manufacture and handling. On the hilt, there were circles of lines. After a rough comparison, it should be the weapon for the murder of Asuka Shibasaki and Ema Anzai.
There was also a stapler sunk in the bottom of the Hot Spring, close to the wound on Asuka Shibasaki's back of the head that received the attack.
Besides this, there was a patterned towel floating in the Water, which still had a blood stain.
(End of Chapter)
