The True Detective's Intuition

Getting something for free and then abandoning it after you've done it is a despicable act.

Fujino may enjoy getting things for free, but he doesn't like being taken advantage of.

It's like how Cao Thief didn't like being given to Cao Thief by Cao Thief; he always felt a bit uncomfortable.

Therefore, Fujino decided that he would retaliate against Osaka Headquarters for this freeloading behavior in the future.

However, before he could get something for free in the future, he decided to go to the crime scene with Goro Otaki.

The crime scene was located in the middle room on the second floor of the restaurant.

The deceased was the same unscrupulous reporter from before, named Ed McKay, an American who now resides in Chicago, USA.

Enter the scene.

The blood spread along the pool of blood to the surrounding area, and the floor around the corpse was also stained bright red, gradually turning dark red over time.

The body lay on a pool of bright red blood, with a bullet hole in its chest.

At this moment, the already cold corpse stared wide-eyed, its right hand seemingly gesturing something on the ground, while its left hand gripped its belt tightly.

It seems as if he died suddenly without saying something before he passed away.

The murder weapon was a Smith & Wesson revolver that was found scattered at the scene.

In a close-range shooting situation, a revolver bullet pierced the opponent's chest and shattered the glass behind him.

Goro Otaki squatted down next to the corpse, examining it closely.

In his view, with Fujino and his younger brother Heiji present, the case was basically solved.

The rest is simply a matter of time.

This is the confidence that comes from having the bureau chief's son as your little brother!

Thinking of this, he decided to ask the advisor's opinion first, and asked Fujino, who was standing next to him, "Advisor, what do you think?"

"Isn't this case quite obvious?"

Fujino squatted down to look and calmly explained, "The deceased was shot through the chest with a revolver. He was shot at close range. However, while in shock, Ke may not have died immediately. He may have tried to make some movements to leave a message of death."

"Forehead..."

Goro Otaki was speechless for a moment.

That's a really concise and efficient perspective.

However, the analysis is indeed correct.

Then, he turned around and asked Hattori Heiji behind him, "Heiji, do you remember when you heard the gunshot?"

"It was around 8:05."

Hattori Heiji and continued, "At the time, Kazuha and I heard gunshots outside, and then the glass shattered. Judging from the condition of the body, the murderer must have fired the shot at that time."

"Outside?"

Goro Otaki frowned. "Is the party over already?"

"Of course not."

Hattori Heiji answered truthfully, "The three owners of this hotel are planning to give everyone a surprise. They want us to go out and give instructions, while they go to the guest rooms on the roof to turn on the lights and arrange them in the shape of a K."

"That means those three people at the top are the only suspects at the scene."

Fujino added, "Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that someone else broke into the guest room floors that were not yet open to the public and committed the crime."

"Brother Fujino is right!"

Mori Kogoro nodded in agreement, saying, "The three of them had some conflicts with that dead reporter, so it wouldn't be surprising if they were the murderers."

"That's probably unlikely, isn't it?"

At this moment, Kazuha suddenly mentioned, "This is the middle room on the second floor of the guest rooms. They had all gone to other rooms at the time."

As she spoke, she turned back to Ran and asked, "Am I right, Ran?"

"Um."

Ran nodded in agreement. "Mr. Mike was in the room upstairs, pulling back the curtains to block out the light."

"Mr. Barrera is in the second room from the left at the top, turning off the wrong light."

After thinking for a moment, Ran continued, "And Mr. Katis turned on the light he had forgotten to turn on in the first room on the right at the bottom."

"Just as the letter K was completed, we heard gunshots, and the windows in this room shattered."

"In that case, those three people should all be in those rooms."

Goro Otaki twitched his chin, then asked Ran, "Did you see any of them at the time?"

"No..."

Ran shook her head slightly and continued, "However, from the time Mr. Mike opened the curtains to the time Mr. Cartes turned on the light, there were only about five seconds in between, and only two seconds between the time they heard the gunshot. Not long after, they peeked out of their respective rooms to ask what had just happened with the gunshot."

"Is it possible that, like what Brother Fujino said, someone else did it?"

Conan stood there pondering, frowning, before suddenly saying, "When I Heiji came over, there were also a lot of reporters. It's possible that the culprit was hiding in a nearby room and then ran away when there were so many people around."

"If that's the case, then everyone who attended the opening ceremony of this party is a suspect."

Goro Otaki crossed his arms and pondered, a bitter look on his face. "Even people outside the hotel could potentially assassinate the victim."

"Yes, that would indeed make identifying the murderer much more difficult."

Hattori Heiji nodded, glanced at Conan, frowned, and muttered to himself, "What's wrong with this kid?"

"He probably wanted to find evidence that the murderer wasn't among the three people."

Fujino, who was standing nearby, walked over with his hands in his pockets and stood to the side, saying in a low voice, "If your idol might have killed someone, most people would definitely not accept it."

Hattori Heiji shivered.

He was startled by Fujino's sudden and silent appearance beside him.

'Why is this guy always so mysterious...'

Hattori Heiji narrowed his eyes slightly and silently made a comment in his mind.

However, after Fujino's reminder, he also realized this point.

But the truth is the truth.

Hattori Heiji sighed, "No matter how much you investigate, it will all be the same."

"But how can you be so sure the murderer is among those three people?"

Fujino suddenly asked curiously, "After all, it's also possible that, just like Conan said, the culprit could be someone else."

"I can't say for sure."

Hattori Heiji, then murmured, "Perhaps it's intuition..."

Fujino: "..."

Why does this sentence sound so familiar?

Good grief, you're trying to pull this trick on me too!

Speechless for a moment, Fujino said irritably, "Hey kid, I've already done this before. Stop playing around and tell me properly, how did you decide that?"

"It really was just a gut feeling."

Hattori Heiji with some helplessness, "I just felt that there was something fishy about the three of them, which is why I suspected that the murderer was one of them."

Is that so?

Fujino thought about it for a moment after hearing this and felt that the Heiji was not fooling him.

This might really be a detective's intuition.

He possesses detective intuition and other detective skills that enhance his reasoning abilities.

Since the system exists, it must also exist in this Conan World.

However, the detective's intuition in this world is "true Detective Intuition," not the Detective Intuition that enhances his reasoning ability.

Otherwise, how come these two guys are always able to accurately pinpoint the suspect and choose one from several?

This case was also solved by intuition, directly presenting a three-way choice.