Now that a dead body had appeared, the killer was bound to show up next.
Besides the owner, Tsuchi Ryo-ji, and Nonomiya Etsuko, there were two other guests staying here: a middle-aged man with bald patches on both sides of his head, the opposite of Professor Agasa, and a spiky-haired discount version of Kamijo.
Their names were Mikami Heihachi and Futagawa Hajime.
They had also come after receiving an invitation from the young man who had already died.
As for their identities, they were staff members at an astronomy magazine.
The man bald on both sides had even discovered an unnamed comet and named it himself.
The classic four-suspect setup.
Fujino knew how to solve this one.
"You found a comet?!"
"And got to name it?!"
"That's amazing! You can actually name a star!"
The kids, who had clearly never seen much of the world, immediately got excited. Ai Haibara explained, "As long as you discover a planet no one has found before, you can name it. Of course, when you discover an asteroid, you need to observe it continuously and determine its orbit before its position can be confirmed. Once its stable orbit is confirmed, you can name it. Naming asteroids is rather complicated; compared to that, naming comets is much easier. As long as you confirm that it's a comet nobody has discovered, you can name it."
"So that's how it works!"
"Then let's call it the Beika Junior Detective League Comet!"
"That's a great name!"
Watching the kids celebrate ahead of time, Conan could not help throwing cold water on them. "Only asteroids can be named whatever you like. Comets can only be named after their discoverers, and only after the first three people to submit applications."
"That's true. There really are cases where comets were discovered