Under everyone's bated gaze, the screen began playing tonight's surveillance footage.
"Why does it only cover this tiny area by the entrance?" Inspector Megure was initially disappointed, but quickly accepted it. "Forget it, this is better than nothing... Wait, pause it there!"
The officer operating the footage immediately hit pause, freezing the recording at 7:04 that evening.
—Seven p.m. was exactly closing time at Fuyuki Financial Agency.
In the footage, three employees left together. After seeing them off, Fuyuki locked the Detective Agency's front door from the inside and entered his office.
The image was empty, and the young officer fast-forwarded the footage.
Yet no one appeared on the surveillance recording for some time... until the mahjong enthusiasts filed in alongside the employee who had returned for his phone.
"How could this be?!" Mouri Kogoro had stared until his eyes hurt, yet he had not seen a single suspicious person enter through the front door. He voiced Conan's thoughts: "No one went in or out through the entrance, the locked windows haven't been tampered with, and the victim consumed a fast-acting poison... Does this really make it a locked-room Murder Case?!"
Conan could not help glancing at Fuyuki Ryusaburo's body on the floor. If the victim had been a member of the Black Organization, then given The Organization's harsh standards, it was not impossible that Fuyuki Ryusaburo had locked the doors and windows before killing himself out of fear of punishment. But...
I can't jump to conclusions. And judging from Fuyuki Ryusaburo's condition, he definitely wasn't the type to kill himself so easily.
Conan took a deep breath, trying to steady himself. Even if this death really is connected to The Organization, at its core, it's still only a Murder Case—and that's exactly my field.
*In any case, as long