Chapter 40: Learn to Deduce on Your Own
Everyone else turned their heads to look at Mitsuhiko.
"Um..." Mitsuhiko hesitated for a moment, but still truthfully said, "When I went to the Washroom, I saw that older sister crying at the entrance of the Women's Restroom! It was not long before the Black Shadow appeared!"
Inspector Megure's expression immediately became serious, and he looked at Yuri Yuriko, "What's going on? I remember you said that after buying the Bento and before the audience caused a commotion, you hadn't left the Room Outside Projection Room, right?"
Yuri Yuriko hurriedly explained, "My Contact Lenses suddenly slipped, so I took advantage of the time while boiling Water to go to the Washroom to put them back on. Because it was less than a minute, I thought there was no need to mention it specifically..."
"Did you notice this at the time?" Inspector Megure asked Furuhashi Minoru again.
"No, I was in the Projection Room the whole time," Furuhashi Minoru said. "But you don't need to doubt it at all, because when the Black Shadow appeared, she was indeed with me, that's right."
"Then let's go to the Projection Room and take a look!" Conan suggested.
"Mm." Inspector Megure nodded, leading a group of people to the Projection Room.
Conan followed along, pondered for a while, and couldn't help but reach out and pull on Chi Feichi's sleeve, asking in a low voice, "How many suspicious points have you found?"
Chi Feichi calmly replied, "As a precocious child, you should learn to do your own Reasoning."
Conan choked. Normal people wouldn't let a child solve a Murder Case on their own, right? "I'm saying... do you have some misunderstanding about children?"
"No," Chi Feichi lowered his eyes to look at Conan, "Just not very interested in this Case."
Conan met those slightly lowered, indifferent purple Eyes, and suddenly remembered Harita Seiji's reaction earlier. Okay, suddenly being stared at by these Eyes, he felt a chill down his back, not to mention Chi Feichi's strangely calm voice at the time, saying something like 'Do you want your tongue or not?' "You're not not wanting to deal with this Case because of Mr. Zhang Tian's words earlier, are you?"
"A little bit," Chi Feichi admitted, "But there are other Reasons."
No Bounty, and not in a hurry to go Home, eat Rice, or sleep, how could he have motivation?
"What other Reason?" Conan asked curiously, pressing for an answer.
"Lazy." Chi Feichi followed the main group into the Projection Room.
Conan: "..."
What the hell, lazy!
...
A group of people looked around the Projection Room.
Conan went out in thought and walked towards the Washroom, finding that Chi Feichi had also followed. "Do you also want to go to the Women's Restroom to take a look?"
Chi Feichi glanced at Conan, "You'll get arrested by the Police."
Conan pondered what he had just said, and it did sound a bit off. He quickly explained, "I wanted to go to the Women's Restroom to see if there were any discoveries. Miss Yuri came to the Washroom before, didn't she?"
"I know, but going to the Women's Restroom, you'll be fine, but I might get arrested," Chi Feichi said, turning into the Men's Restroom, "I'm just here to use the toilet."
Okay...
Conan realized for the first time that being a child wasn't without its advantages, at least running into the Women's Restroom wouldn't be considered harassment.
But, this guy really intends to ignore this Case...
Just because of laziness? Or is he petty and holding a grudge?
From Chi Feichi's expressionless face, and even his Eyes with no emotional fluctuations, he couldn't judge Chi Feichi's thoughts...
No, now he should still think about the Case in front of him first.
In the Women's Restroom, Haibara Ai came out of a stall, quietly watching Conan enter, close the door, and then walk straight in with a thoughtful expression. After watching for a while, she leisurely reminded, "Are you trying to test the feeling of hitting a wall, Detective?"
Conan snapped back to his senses, stopped, looked at the wall close at hand, sweatdropped, and turned to walk towards the Mirror at the Entrance. "I just can't quite understand why Miss Yuri would specifically come to the Washroom to change Contact Lenses?"
Haibara Ai followed, sat on the edge of the sink, and turned on the Water Tap to wash her hands. "Wouldn't it be better for you to discuss these things with Chi Feichi?"
"But he seems to completely not want to deal with this Case..." Conan supported himself on the edge of the sink with both hands and looked at the Mirror. If he doesn't want to talk, then so be it, he can solve this Case himself!
"Does he have any Clue?" Haibara Ai asked.
"Who knows, you can't tell anything from his reaction," Conan said, looking at the Mirror. "Before, you said that when you first met him, there were Psychology Books at his Home. I suspect he read them to counter his Doctor, but it's completely unnecessary. Just looking at his expressionless face is enough to make it difficult to guess his thoughts."
Expressionless...
Haibara Ai suddenly remembered that night when they first met, Chi Feichi smiled once. His Eyes looked very good when he smiled, but it seemed she hadn't seen Chi Feichi smile since then.
After looking at the Mirror, Conan noticed Haibara Ai was distracted and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing," Haibara Ai turned off the Water Tap and looked at the Mirror. "Just thinking, you seem quite used to it. Every morning, as soon as I see myself in the Mirror, I get chills. I'll ask the person in the Mirror, who exactly are you..."
"Children shouldn't think too much."
The Washroom door was pushed open, and Chi Feichi stood at the Washroom Entrance, not entering.
Conan quickly recalled whether they had said anything that shouldn't be heard by others. Fortunately, although Haibara's words were a bit strange, she didn't say anything about shrinking or the like.
It's just that he seemed to have said a little bit of bad things about Chi Feichi... cough, the truth shouldn't count as bad things, right?
Haibara Ai also went through the words just now in her mind, and was glad that she hadn't said that Chi Feichi was so stingy that he wouldn't even smile more. At least she didn't have to be as guilty as Conan, and calmly asked, "Do you all like to come to the Women's Restroom to take a look?"
"I came out of the Washroom and heard you say that looking in the Mirror makes you shudder, so I couldn't help but come over to take a look. I don't feel a shudder, but seeing myself in the Mirror feels very strange," Chi Feichi turned his head to look at the Mirror. If anything, he should be the most unaccustomed one. Sometimes when he wakes up early and sees his face in the Mirror, his brain freezes for a moment before realizing it's himself. "So I choose not to look in the Mirror."
Haibara Ai originally saw the seriousness in Chi Feichi's Eyes and was a little worried that Chi Feichi felt strange about looking in the Mirror because of Dissociative Identity Disorder, but this last turn of events was really... speechless...
"Don't stare at the Mirror for no reason. Anyone would feel strange if they looked for too long," Chi Feichi continued calmly. "If you keep looking, I think I can recommend my Attending Physician to you."
Haibara Ai: "..."
Was she blind to think that Chi Feichi was warm?
Conan endured his laughter with great effort, "Cough, let's go back first."
"Mirrors can sometimes be used to deceive people." Chi Feichi recalled this Plot point. It seemed that Haibara Ai would give Conan inspiration, but it seemed to have been ruined by him, so he helped to make up for it.
Conan was stunned, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind... Mirror? Deceptive?
Chi Feichi saw the look of the Detective and knew that there was no need to remind him anymore, and turned to leave.
Soon, Conan also followed out, quickening his pace to catch up with Chi Feichi, "You already knew the Method used by the culprit to commit the crime?"
Haibara Ai followed closely, looking at Chi Feichi with some curiosity.
"Many Magic Tricks use mirrors. I'm a Magic Enthusiast." Chi Feichi found a Reason for himself.
Meaning to say this isn't worth making a fuss about?
Conan glanced at Chi Feichi, suppressed the complex emotions in his heart, and pondered seriously, "Then... only that person can use that Method! You're not exposing him because you don't have Evidence?"
Chi Feichi: "..."
He really doesn't want to deal with this Case...
However, he really couldn't remember what the Evidence for this Case was, and he hadn't planned to think about it from the beginning, or even thought about whether he could figure it out.
Conan pondered, and when he walked outside the Projection Room, the corners of his mouth suddenly turned up, "I know where the Evidence is!"
Chi Feichi lowered his head and saw the reflection of Conan's Glasses that violated the principles of optics. "Then I'll leave it to you to solve."
Conan immediately wilted. He couldn't possibly say that this was Reasoning done by him, a child, right?
"Cough, I'm just a child, it's better if I tell you the Evidence and you do the Reasoning..."
"Too troublesome." Chi Feichi refused.
Conan really couldn't understand this way of thinking. Reasoning and revealing the Truth in front of other people, what a pleasant thing it is, and someone actually finds it troublesome?
But ironically, this kind of person has very strong Reasoning Ability, it's outrageous.
"Then let the Junior Detective League be responsible for the Reasoning!"
Conan decided to pull in the Junior Detective League, performing with a group of children to hide himself a bit.
Plus, with Chi Feichi on the side, others would probably also think that this was actually Chi Feichi's Reasoning, and he just asked these children for help.
"Whatever." Chi Feichi had no Opinion.
Finding the culprit is like doing a problem, or rather a multiple-choice question where you only need one answer. As long as you know how to do it, turn your Mind a bit, and the answer will come out.
And Reasoning is to explain this problem in detail to others, including: why choose this answer, what are the problem-solving steps, why solve it this way, where is the focus of this step, why is this answer correct...
He really couldn't understand why Detectives are so tireless in this. Occasionally once or twice, or explaining it once after a while, that's fine, but Conan explains it almost every day, so much, doesn't he feel tired?
In the Projection Hall, Conan found Genta, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko, and gathered together to whisper.
Haibara Ai watched from the side with her arms crossed. The other three children nodded heavily from time to time, and then looked at Chi Feichi together, their eyes full of respect and expectation, as if saying 'We're ready, let's start quickly'.
Chi Feichi was stunned, understood, and guessed that Conan had pushed the achievement of 'discovering the Truth' onto him. He found Inspector Megure, who was bending over to look at the deceased's seat when he was alive, "Inspector Megure, I already know who the culprit is."
"Culprit?" Inspector Megure looked up in surprise. "So, this incident is indeed not Suicide?!"
Chi Feichi nodded, turned his head to look at the group of people waiting aside, "The culprit is Mr. Furuhashi. As for the Method and Judgment basis... let the Junior Detective League explain."
"That's right, please leave it to us!" Mitsuhiko said seriously.
Inspector Megure looked at the eager Junior Detective League over there, with black lines all over his head, "Okay, okay..."
Compared to drawing a manual for the Police to restore the Method themselves, this time at least there is a group of explainers, which is already very good. What else can he ask for?
[Bamboo Rat] (Note: Our Bamboo Rat is farmed, not Wild Animal. The virus thing is about Wild Animal. (I'm not panicking, really not panicking, just heard that censorship is sometimes very strict, a little scared...))
[Note]
[Note]
(End of Chapter)