Shinichi Kudo Quartet

"Inspector, we found a small amount of what appears to be Potassium Cyanide near Mr. Kamata's car dashboard." Wataru Takagi hurried over to Juzo Megure, holding a transparent evidence bag. "It looks like Mr. Kamata may really have committed suicide."

"Mm. Forensics has confirmed that none of the four cups contained traces of poison." Juzo Megure reached the same conclusion.

Given the current circumstances, the absurd speculation that the victim had committed suicide was, unexpectedly, the most likely answer.

There was no poison in the cup, which essentially ruled out the possibility that someone else had poisoned him. On top of that, multiple witnesses had testified that the victim had voluntarily come into contact with a substance suspected to be poison before getting out of the car.

If the poison had come from the victim himself, it cut off every line of reasoning pointing toward the other suspects.

For instance, perhaps Kohei Urata had not been suicidal. Maybe he had brought poison with him to kill Ayako Ninagawa, who had dumped him, only to forget that he had handled a highly toxic substance earlier while eating...

Bringing a deadly poison to a high school festival made the victim himself seem more suspicious instead.

"Based on these circumstances, there is currently no evidence to support this being a homicide." After some thought, Juzo Megure nodded. "We can tentatively classify this case as..."

"...a relatively straightforward murder case."

A confident, assured voice stopped Juzo Megure from making his preliminary judgment.

Here we go again. Here we go again.

Juzo Megure turned his head and silently watched the person walking over from the stall.

"That makes five Kudo brothers, right?" Having gone through this several times already, Juzo Megure had learned to answer before the Black Knight could remove his helmet.

"There are