"The man was already dead. He had wounds on his arm and back, and the fatal injury was to his back."
Xu Yue crouched down to examine Toshiro Fujiike's condition, then spoke calmly.
His words made everyone's expressions change, especially Kento Toba, whose face turned deathly pale with disbelief.
"What happened with that power outage just now?"
Xu Yue turned to Hitomi Iwai, who had gone to make coffee earlier.
"The breaker tripped. I found the switch and turned it back on, but it tripped again when I plugged in the coffee maker."
"Then someone must have tampered with the coffee maker."
Xu Yue nodded upon hearing that. Even without seeing the scene, he immediately reached a conclusion.
Given his consistently accurate track record, no one doubted him. Only Heiji Hattori hurried into the kitchen to verify it. When he returned, he looked at Xu Yue gravely and nodded.
What kind of reaction speed was that? Could he really solve a case just by listening to someone's explanation? That was a little too outrageous.
But then Kogoro Mouri jumped out again to make his presence known.
"That's right! Someone tampered with the coffee maker, causing the blackout. Then they attacked Toshiro Fujiike in the darkness, killed him, and escaped through the window. That proves the culprit was actually someone from outside."
"No, the culprit is someone inside the house."
The moment Kogoro Mouri finished asserting himself, Heiji Hattori ruthlessly shot him down.
"Didn't you notice something strange about the placement of the chair? There are glass fragments stuck to it. It was obviously used by the culprit to break the window. But if the culprit couldn't even be sure whether they could escape, why put the chair back in its original position? Because things were too urgent for them to