Oritis in the world of Detective Conan

Chapter 290 Scarlet Chapter (Part 2)

Judy nodded. "So she was attacked at school."

Cameron suddenly realized: "So, the criminal wanted us to mistakenly believe that she was attacked on her way home from get off work, so she stuffed a bunch of things from her desk into her bag to disguise it."

Inspector Megure took the examination sheet and analyzed: "Judging from the injury to the victim's skull, she was most likely beaten with a blunt object."

Officer Takagi nodded. "The criminal probably thought that by pushing down this staircase, he could hide the wound from the blow to his head."

At this time, Judy finally remembered what Shibuya Natsuko said on the phone yesterday about meeting with the students' parents. After hearing this, Inspector Megure immediately asked the police officers to investigate the address book and rushed to the first crime scene, which was the school office.

Sure enough, after several forensic police officers investigated the table, they found luminol reaction on it, confirming Conan's statement.

The teachers in the school also gathered in the office. According to the teachers, in addition to Shibuya Natsuko, there was another male teacher named Sugamoto Yoshiharu who said he would send Shibuya Natsuko home last night.

Mr. Sugamoto explained, "I thought it was too dangerous for a girl to walk home alone at night, so I wanted to help. However, yesterday, when I waited for almost an hour, I came to this office to look for her, but she had already left."

"What time was it exactly?" Judy asked.

"After half-past eight, I think."

"So what were you doing before that?"

"I'm in the gym organizing the gym equipment. I'm the gym director after all."

After a while, Officer Takagi called over the two parents from yesterday, Ms. Akira Ueno and Mr. Fumiyuki Kamitate.

Ms. Ueno Akiyo came to complain that Mr. Shibuya's clothes gave her son wild thoughts, while Mr. Kamidate Fumiyuki came to complain that Mr. Shibuya said his daughter got the answer wrong because her handwriting was too sloppy.

One of them arrived at school after eight o'clock, and the other before nine o'clock.

Mr. Kamiya Fumiyuki kept complaining, "My daughter only got 60 points on her test. If you count the questions where she got marked wrong because of her unclear handwriting, she should have gotten 100 points."

"Besides, she actually hired a strange detective. I was planning to rush to her house and curse her out, but I didn't expect to be caught by that detective halfway."

Amuro Toru slowly walked in from the office door: "There's nothing I can do about it. She entrusted me with the task of solving the stalker problem."

Behind him followed the mercenary, who was holding a bunch of meatballs. "The snacks in the convenience store near the school are so delicious."

Amuro Toru was forced to pay: ...

"Brother Naib?" Conan couldn't help but speak directly.

The mercenary glanced at Judy and Cameron and said, "Wow, I think we saw this scene in that cafeteria last time."

Conan watched the mercenary and Amuro Toru act together several times, and his guess about Amuro Toru's identity became more certain.

Toru Amuro is very hostile to Judy and Cameron, and throughout the entire case, he mocks the FBI in every way he says and does, even uttering the famous line, "Get out of my Japan."

As the discussion became more heated, Conan pulled Toru Amuro aside.

"Excuse me, Amuro-sama, you are the enemy, right? To those bad guys."

Amuro Toru was stunned for a moment, then said with a cold face: "It seems that you have some misunderstandings about me."

After returning to the crowd, Amuro Toru whispered to the mercenary, "Did you tell that kid my identity?"

The mercenary shook his head. "No, that young detective relied on his own reasoning to get here step by step. Don't put the blame on me for leaking the information."

Inspector Megure couldn't figure out anything from the test papers, so he turned to Amuro Toru for help: "Brother Amuro, I surrender. I really can't see any clues on these test papers."

The mercenary leaned over and pointed it out: "This big hand-painted red flower representing a perfect score looks different on the two test papers."

Amuro Toru nodded. "That's right. Also, the correct answer on this paper is circled, while the correct answer on the paper below is ticked."

Conan was still wondering why Toru Amuro happened to meet Judy, an FBI agent, so he pulled Judy over and asked, "Teacher Judy, do you remember why you invited Mr. Shibuya to drink with you?"

"Of course she texted me, but when I called her later, she had no recollection of it."

Conan suddenly felt something was wrong. This was most likely a trap set by Toru Amuro.

Amuro Toru continued to explain the anomaly on the test paper: "Yes, in Japan, correct answers are circled and incorrect answers are ticked, but in the United States, correct answers are ticked. Am I right, Agent Judy?"

No matter how upset Judy was, she could only hold it in. "Yes. In other words, the papers with the correct answers ticked below were graded by Xia Zi, who studied in the United States, while the ones above were graded by someone from Japan?"

Amuro then pointed out another suspicious point on the test paper: "The top test paper uses circles to indicate the correct answers, but even so, these circles are drawn too poorly. Some are completely beyond the scope of the answer, as if they are covering up something."

The mercenary said the second half of the sentence: "The red of the red pen covers up the blood stains on the test paper."

Officer Takagi suddenly realized: "That's right! But who is the criminal?"

Amuro Toru smiled and passed the conversation to Conan: "This is actually very simple, right, Conan."

Conan replied nervously, "That's right. Just look at the direction of the swirls in the center of the two big red flowers. The one drawn by Mr. Shibuya is clockwise, and the other one drawn by the criminal is counterclockwise."

"In other words, the culprit is left-handed. That means it couldn't be Mr. Sugamoto, who wiped his sweat with his right hand, or Ms. Ueno, who wiped her tears with the handkerchief with her right hand. It could only be Mr. Kandate, who tried to light the lighter with his left hand."

Mr. Kanritate tried to quibble, but Toru Amuro pointed out the flaw in his words: "You said before that her mind was full of math addition and subtraction, so she misremembered the meeting time. But elementary school teachers occasionally teach other subjects. How did you know she was grading math papers at the time?"

Seeing this, Mr. Shen Li had no choice but to admit his crime. He said that he was so angry that he did such a thing.

However, at this time, a teacher delivered bad news to everyone: "Oh no, I heard that Mr. Shibuya's injury worsened and his life was in danger."

Judy, who was worried about her friend, rushed to the hospital immediately, and Amuro Toru also drove to the hospital.

The mercenary in the car complained, "You really went to great lengths to get some information out of me."

Amuro revealed a sinister expression: "One day, I will make the FBI leave here, of course, including Oletus's people."

The mercenary shrugged nonchalantly: "Perhaps you can succeed."