The Man with No Secrets

"I didn't lie, and I didn't remember it wrong. That's exactly what happened!" the little boy insisted.

"Could you take us to the room where you saw it happen?" Heiji suggested.

The boy's mother nodded. "Of course. Please follow me."

The boy's mother led everyone to the room where he had been watching television and witnessed the scene.

Inspector Yumichika pulled back the curtains and found that the window faced the room in the neighboring Moroboshi residence where the fire had started—

After pondering for a moment, Inspector Yumichika said, "If I'm not mistaken, the horse's shadow must have appeared before seven-thirty. The shadows cast by the flames would have flickered on the window and shaken violently, so it would have been hard to tell whether it was really a horse."

"That's not true at all!" the little boy declared righteously. "I was watching baseball with the lights off until the clock on the TV reached the time before Masked Swordsman started. Then it suddenly got really bright outside, and the horse's shadow appeared too. That was when the Masked Swordsman theme song started. I couldn't have gotten it wrong!"

Heiji crouched down. "Didn't you say you'd been watching TV with the lights off the whole time? If the lights were off, wouldn't it have been hard to see the clock?"

The boy shook his head. "No, because it suddenly got really bright outside. And the horse's shadow was very clear. It wasn't shaking at all."

His words made Heiji and Conan freeze at the same time. They exchanged a glance, seemingly having realized something, then hurried back to the room where the crime had occurred.

The narcissist, Gen, and Inspector Yumichika followed close behind and found the two crouching on the floor, searching for something.

"Hey, what are you