Is Inspector Megure getting smarter?

"If the sound of the vase breaking, the footsteps of someone unknown, and the sound of the door closing were all pre-recorded."

Juzo Megure reasoned, "Then you have a good chance of killing Ms. Tsukino while you're making sandwiches and then playing the recorded audio."

As he spoke, he walked up to Masuda and said in a deep voice, "Conan said that she had the TV volume turned up very high when she was watching TV. If the sound of the crime was canceled out by the TV volume, then it is not surprising that the people in the living room could not hear the sound of the vase breaking."

He paused, then turned to look at Fujino behind him and asked, "Am I right, Fujino- kun?"

Fujino felt that Juzo Megure's reasoning was quite reasonable, which surprised him somewhat.

Has Megure gotten smarter?

Thinking of this, Fuji glanced at Megure, whose face was full of longing for recognition.

Um, it shouldn't be...

Most likely, it's a matter of practice makes perfect?

After all, having witnessed so many murder cases, one should have learned something from them. If one can't learn anything, then one is truly useless.

Fujino pondered for a moment before speaking, "If this method is used, Mr. Masada does indeed have the potential to commit murder..."

"Is that right?"

A confident smile spread across Megure's Juzo Megure he turned to Masuda and said seriously, "Mr. Masuda, would you please come back with us for questioning?"

"But..."

Hōda Hideno Juzo Megure's gaze, his temples breaking out in a cold sweat, seemingly due to extreme tension.

"That's what they say, but Masada didn't have the time to commit the crime."

Fujino interrupted their conversation, "Although I wasn't with Mr. Masada at the time, he followed Conan after Conan Tsukino a sandwich to Ms. Tsukishiro."

Then he looked at Conan and asked, "By the way, was Ms. Tsukino already dead back then?"

"No."

Conan shook his head and recalled, "Ayumi and I took sandwiches and black tea to Tsukino that she was still alive. After that, the three of us came out of the screening room, found the watch in the bathroom, and then we heard the sound of the vase breaking. Mr. Masuda was with us at that time."

"In other words, if Ms. Tsukino were still alive at that time."

Upon hearing this, Fujino twitched his chin and said, "If that's the case, then this method simply cannot achieve it."

"And I heard those words very clearly too."

Ooka Momiji, who was standing nearby, nodded and recalled, "That voice was very clear and crisp, it didn't seem like it was recorded."

"Um... is that so?"

Juzo Megure was a little embarrassed.

Why does Fujino- kun cut to the chase and undermine his own point?

But then he thought about it again and couldn't bring himself to feel resentful.

After all, it was I who interrupted my younger brother and then made the deduction...

If we're talking about who's in an awkward position, it seems like my brother is in a more embarrassing situation.

"Momiji, can you tell which sounds aren't recorded?"

Fujino was quite interested in what Ooka Momiji had said and couldn't help but ask a question.

"I can tell the difference..."

Upon hearing this, Ooka Momiji asked curiously, "How will this help you solve the case?"

"It did help to some extent."

"The first sound was very clear, and I heard it very clearly."

After trying to recall, she touched her chin with her index finger and said strangely, "But the footsteps and the sound of the door closing, I always felt something was off, like it was a bit stuffy."

Feeling bored?

"That's right, it might be because of the door behind it, but the vase's sound was clearly crisp..."

"Well done, Momiji!"

Fujino nodded slightly, pondering to himself.

He still trusted Momiji's hearing quite a bit, although he didn't know why the media players in the scientific world were so advanced that they couldn't distinguish between real and fake.

However, if the broken sound is real, and the subsequent sound is muffled, then it's possible that the subsequent sound was recorded and played back.

In this light, Megure's reasoning was half correct...

Thinking of this, Fujino glanced back at Hōda Hideno, a thoughtful look flashing in his eyes. "The key is that this guy has an alibi..."

Fujino felt that there was a high probability that Masada had committed the murder.

From the Junior Detective League receiving the commission to finding the watch, the victim's death, and Conan and Ayumi creating an alibi, everything unfolded exactly as planned.

Everything has a cause and an effect. From the perspective of cause and effect and advantages and disadvantages, Hōda Hideno occupied the vast majority of the causes and obtained the vast majority of the beneficial effects.

Even if we take a step back and look at it from another angle, everything is too coincidental and very illogical.

For example, would you ask your child to deliver food to a creditor you resent?

This is completely contrary to both emotion and reason.

"Inspector Megure!"

At this moment, Chiba rushed into the room. "The statements of the residents in the apartment have been completed. Most of the people in this apartment have borrowed money from the victims, and if the loan term is delayed even slightly, the victims will use a tough attitude to coerce the other party, and even take the other party's valuables for themselves."

"Moreover, the residents here seem to know that the victim came to Mr. Masuda's house today. According to them, this victim often comes to Mr. Masuda's house to borrow the viewing room and turns the volume up very high."

"Hmm... if that's the case, the possibility of an external perpetrator is also quite high."

Juzo Megure pondered for a moment, then said, "Alright, you guys go and investigate those who borrowed money from the victims immediately, especially those who borrowed the most!"

"Yes!"

Chiba and the others went out to run errands again, while Takagi approached Masada and asked, "Excuse me, when you went to the Fujino Detective Agency, did you see any suspicious people?"

"A suspicious person?"

After thinking for a moment, Masuda replied, "No, not at all."

"Is that so... Thank you for your reply."

Takagi thanked him and then made some notes in his police handbook.

"Hey, Officer Takagi."

Conan noticed Takagi's unusual behavior and couldn't help but lean over and ask, "What were you asking about just now?"

"Well..."

Takagi glanced back at Megure and Fujino, squatted down and said, "Actually, not long ago, the case records of Advisor Fujino and Detective Mouri suddenly disappeared. However, a while ago, those files suddenly returned to their original place, so we suspect that someone is secretly investigating the two of them."

"What?!"

Conan was taken aback by this question, a bad feeling creeping into his heart. He continued to ask, "When were those files lost?"

"Let me think..."

Takagi thought for a moment, "It was probably the day the bus was hijacked."

"What...?!"

Conan's mind suddenly went blank, as if struck by lightning, and he was dumbfounded—he was so frightened that he turned into Tom the cat.

As Great Detective, he often thinks about things more deeply.

Someone is investigating Fujino and Mori, so what is their purpose?

It's obvious, it's myself!