"The culprit is you, Mr. Kento Toba!"
Using Heiji Hattori's voice and a strong Kansai accent, Conan directly identified the culprit.
Then, before Xu Yue could make a move, Kogoro Mouri did the job for him and viciously punched Heiji Hattori in the head. Xu Yue's eyelid twitched at the sight. He really couldn't tell whether this was Kogoro Mouri's temper or the space's self-correction at work.
"Idiot! Kento Toba has a perfect alibi! When Mr. Hiroyuki Kanaya died, he'd been with us for the previous several hours, hadn't he?!"
Although the alibis for the second and third crimes had both been dismantled, the people who had seen the car emerge at the first crime scene still had perfect alibis.
After Ayako Ohki's death, Kento Toba was the only member besides the Mouri criminal group and Heiji Hattori who possessed that perfect alibi.
"At the time, we only proved that he was beside us when the car came out. That doesn't prove he had no time to kill, because there is a way to create this alibi perfectly."
Although Conan was worried that Heiji Hattori might wake up from the blow, he continued speaking steadily.
"It involves using the time frame of rigor mortis after death. Usually, from thirty minutes to twelve hours after death, a corpse gradually stiffens. This state can last up to forty hours, after which the body gradually softens again due to decay and decomposition. All he had to do was use a heavy object to press the victim's foot onto the brake after death, then put the car in D. Once the body stiffened, he could remove the weight. When the corpse softened again, the car would start moving on its own..."
After hearing Heiji Hattori's words, Kogoro Mouri froze for a moment before beginning