Fang Zheng sat silently in his chair, watching "Sleeping Kogoro" deduce the case over there without saying a word.
Just as he had expected, after getting the hint from Fang Zheng, Conan had found the murderer and cracked his method in almost no time at all.
The coroner said that judging by the time of death, it should have been around one in the afternoon. At that time, only Kogoro Mouri, the Kashiimo Sisters, and Mr. Shiromoto, who had returned to rest, were at the inn. Yet the murderer was not among them. On the contrary, the real culprit was Manager Aris Mori, who had gone to the plateau with Fang Zheng and the others!
His method was quite unusual as well. In fact, Manager Aris Mori had not killed Chizuru Bizenn immediately. Under the pretense of checking the doors and windows, he went to Chizuru Bizenn's room after Fang Zheng's group had left, knocked her unconscious, and secretly carried her onto the bus he drove.
Then, not until noon did he claim he was going to prepare lunch boxes and return to the bus alone. There, he strangled Chizuru Bizenn and made it look like suicide—well, he really had handed Chizuru Bizenn a boxed lunch.
When they returned to the inn that afternoon, he claimed that his engine had broken down and told the others to go on ahead. Then he quickly took out the glider he had prepared in advance from the bus. That was right: during their introductions, Manager Aris Mori had mentioned that both he and Shinobu Shimon enjoyed gliding. Carrying Chizuru Bizenn's body on his back, he took off from the plateau and flew all the way back to the inn.
He then carried Chizuru Bizenn's body through the balcony into her room, arranged the