Jiang Xia looked at the highly cooperative officer, admired the large stockpile of aloe-flavored Killing Intent allocated in his Mark Space, then straightened up from the chair back and said with satisfaction, "Kumada Tatsuya's death was indeed no simple suicide. He and Lawyer Tachibana were killed by the same person."
"That clever and brave culprit... is among us right now."
The police officers were startled. "Who?!"
Curacao: "..." Shouldn't you be questioning that Detective's wording? He actually described the criminal as clever and brave. What kind of proper Detective would say that?
Conan had caught those two words as well, but he merely sighed, feeling much the same.
Jiang Xia continued, "The same type of Sleeping Pills was found in Lawyer Tachibana and Kumada Tatsuya's bodies. The murderer first drugged Lawyer Tachibana, put him in the water, and drowned him. Then they mixed the same Sleeping Pills into Bourbon Whisky, used it to knock Kumada Tatsuya unconscious, and staged the second victim's death as a hanging suicide."
As he spoke, he looked at the two officers. "Have you determined exactly what Lawyer Tachibana's Sleeping Pills were mixed into?"
Officer Inoki suddenly felt as though his superior were checking his homework. He hurriedly replied, "When we first recovered the body, all the small items he had on him had been washed away, so we could only infer things from his stomach contents. But during the recent recovery efforts, we successfully retrieved the thermos containing coffee. The Sleeping Pills he took had been mixed into the coffee."
Jiang Xia nodded. "Lawyer Tachibana cared greatly about quality of life and normally drank only freshly ground coffee. Aside from him, the rest of us also drank coffee that morning, but none of us consumed any Sleeping Pills."
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