300. Oxidation
"Don't you really don't know? I just read that word so many times."
Takagi Shiro looked at the detective with awkward expression in a speechless manner. It was hard to believe that the other party could not even write the word "Ruo".
Kogoro Mouri's face was thrusting, and he couldn't help but feel ashamed.
Hattori Heiji laughed and said, "It was because I watched it too many times that my image collapsed."
"The phenomenon of image collapse?" is another new term, and it is a new knowledge point for Kogoro Mouri, Shigeru Takagi and others.
"Yes, I think you should have regarded the shape of clouds or stains on the wall as human faces, right?" Hattori Heiji said: "That's the facial neurons in the brain that react, unconsciously treating those looks as human faces.
In fact, human brains also have Chinese character neurons similar to facial neurons. If you keep looking at the same Chinese character for a long time, Chinese character neurons will become fatigued and will cause a decrease in sensory function for that character.
In other words, it is clearly a familiar word, but it will doubt its form and become disagreeable. This is the so-called 'image collapse'."
"So that's it." After listening to popular science, Takagi Shuo said: "The murderer showed the words 'Ru Ren' to his wife again and again. After the image collapsed, he asked the wife to sign the contract."
Officer Meguru speculated: "Then suddenly I couldn't remember how the word "Ruo" was written, and Mrs. Ruomoto subconsciously took the Mandarin dictionary on the bookshelf. As a result, I encountered the line of wa that was stained with poison powder, and ate the poison into my mouth, right?"
Hattori Heiji nodded and said, "Yes, the Chinese character 'Wao' is one of the very easy to confuse. In addition, I remember that when my wife turned the page, she seemed to have the habit of licking her thumb."
Kogoro Mouri said, "In other words, the person who designed the crime method this time is..."
"It's the secretary who showed the word "Ruo" several times and asked her to sign the contract, Miss Satake!" Hattori Heiji looked at everyone and said with great certainty: "You are the only one who can implement such a criminal method."
"What?!"
"Is it really Miss Satake?"
Everyone's reactions were different. The female butler, Mihara Saki, hurriedly said, "Is it just a coincidence? These are all evidences that are unfavorable to Miss Satake. The reason why Mr. Yuro is hungry is because the soy sauce suddenly disappears."
"I don't think this is a coincidence." Conan looked at Satake's quiet and said, "Just when Mrs. Wakamatsu asked Miss Satake to make black tea, you asked the lady what brand of black tea you want, right?
This shows that Miss Satake knows what's in the kitchen of this room, so it's possible to secretly take away the soy sauce."
Hattori Heiji took over the conversation, "Yes, if it's a secretary, while Mr. Yuro feels hungry, he can probably grasp the time we and the general manager come to visit, and the annual ring cake that the general manager brings every time when he comes to visit. If you know in advance how many people there are, it's easy to cut into equal parts."
"Although nine equal portions are not that easy to cut," Conan said. "She pretended to help, put the cut annual ring cake on the plate and sprinkled poison powder on one of the two pieces."
Takagi Suki wondered: "So, when did she spread poison powder on the door handle and slippers?"
Hattori Heiji said indifferently: "It was before we arrived here. When we arrived, Miss Satake should be in this room and was ready to commit the crime. She should be killing her wife in the study."
Shiina Masahisa couldn't help but say, "But, seeing the vice president seemed very tired, I suggested to the police that I would be the one who asked her to stay in the study."
"If you didn't say anything at that time, I think Miss Satake should have made the same suggestion."
Hattori Heiji said: "And after that, we also discovered the trap of poisoning the door handle of Mr. Yuro's room through her 'reminder' or misleading.
Also, the person who called me to the president’s hometown in Osaka before, made me interested in illusions and induced me to come to this family is also you?
‘The abnormal existence created by humans without authorization is an illusion that you cannot truly see.’ It also refers to an illusion.
This method of crime must be misleading everyone, so you use your illusion to kill the two people who also use typos and try to hide the truth, right?"
After hearing what he said, Satake, who had been lowering his head, suddenly smiled, "This is indeed a criminal method that makes people want to write a mystery novel, but there is no evidence for all this. Isn't it? It can confirm the physical evidence of this reasoning."
Before she finished speaking, her body stiffened because at some point a little head had already walked to her and grabbed her wrist without authorization.
The little palm actually has great power.
"Oh, there are several places in Miss Satake's watch flashing, why?" Conan said in a naive voice.
"This, that's..." Satake Yoshio quickly broke free, obviously in a panic to explain.
"That is an unshakable physical evidence." Hattori Heiji said: "It should be that when he was sprinkling poison powder on the Mandarin dictionary, his left hand holding the dictionary was also sprinkled on his wrist.
At that time, the cyanide poison that fell into the thin cracks of the bronze watch was accidentally touched by water when you were washing your hands in the bathroom or elsewhere, and an oxidation reaction occurred, which removed all the rust on the watch.”
Hattori Heiji smiled faintly, "And what makes you notice is when you say 'last train time', when you keep looking at your watch."
"So after that, you took the drink bottle in a very strange way, right?" Conan said with a smile: "Mr. Fujiha who waited until he wanted to look at the watch and changed the drink bottle to his other hand was reasonable, but no one would hold both the bottle cap and the bottle in one hand, right?"
Satake Yoshino heard this and lowered his head and smiled, "So that's it, so you noticed me, I've been deliberately using my right hand, right? If you use your left hand, the cuffs will be rolled up and the watch will be exposed."
She rolled up her cuffs and looked at the bronze watch on her wrist, "It's really ironic. The watch my father gave me turned out to be a weakness."
"You mean father?" Juno Fujihara said in surprise: "Can you say you are the president's daughter?"
"Yes, I am the daughter my father gave birth to when he first got married. I originally planned to destroy the company of this man who abandoned his mother. But after learning that he was just a poor person who was too passionate about work and was not good at expressing emotions, I began to sympathize with him instead."
Satake smiled, "And he knew from the beginning that I was his daughter. In fact, at Karuizawa Villa, my father planned to announce to everyone that I was his biological daughter."
Mihara Saki hesitated: "I seem to have heard from the master talk about this."
Satake Yoshio said: "But before that, my father was killed by the hateful Yuro, and the evidence was hidden by the vice president. Although I don't know why my father was killed by Yuro, even before I understood my father, I hated this person very much."
Officer Meguchi asked, "So, you should have read the content of that letter too?"
"Yes, but after that, the vice president said nothing." Satake Yoshio said: "I think maybe it was because I wanted me to kill Yuro, so I deliberately sent it to me.
However, it was really a mistake to call Hattori here. I was obviously planning to mislead all of you, but I didn’t expect you to be more skilled."
"No, it should be said that it was you." She leaned over slightly and smiled at Conan.
Conan returned with a polite smile and thought to himself that it was not just them who solved the case tonight.
When taken away by the police, Satake Yoshinomi bowed his head and laughed at himself, "It's so appropriate to use this method of crime that I used to commit the crime with an illusion, and used intelligence to mistake me for being mistaken for cleverness."
Chapter completed!