"By holding onto Mr. Hoshikawa and Sonoko's arms." Only as Mouri Ran answered did Conan realize he had accidentally blurted out what he was thinking.
Then he saw Mouri Ran walk toward Hoshikawa Togo and Suzuki Sonoko to demonstrate. "Like this..."
"I get it!" Conan cut in before her, grabbing Hoshikawa Togo's leg and separating the two. "Like this, right?"
Mouri Ran paused, then smiled. "More or less."
"He's holding on so tightly." Inspector Megure looked at Conan's little hands gripping with all their strength. "Then the killer definitely wasn't the person who went upstairs."
With that in mind, he turned to the others. "What were all of you doing during the blackout?"
--Though they couldn't rule out an outsider breaking in to commit the crime, in his experience, it was actually more likely to have been an inside job. In other words, everyone here was a suspect... except Brother Jiang Xia.
Hearing Inspector Megure's question, Iida Tsutomu guessed what the officer was thinking and pushed up his sunglasses. "This has nothing to do with me. During the blackout, I was resting in the room directly beneath the Library."
Mrs. Masakage nodded. "I was on my way to the lounge to wake him for dinner. The power went out just as I opened the room door, but I still saw Iida inside."
"I see." Inspector Megure stroked his chin, then realized something was wrong. "So neither of you had the chance to move the body. You shouldn't be the killer, which means the only one left is..."
He turned to look at Hashimoto Maya.
Conan had not expected Inspector Megure to be so on the ball, and he smiled to himself.
"..." Hashimoto Maya was immediately bathed in the police officers' stares--he knew that look all too well. The painful