Chapter 229: One Kudo, Two Kudo...
"I remember it was roughly in the middle of the play, the climax part," Ran, who hadn't recognized who the Black Knight was, turned her head and asked, "Right, Doctor? I'm not wrong, am I?"
The Black Knight didn't say anything.
"Doctor..." Ran was stunned.
Wataru Takagi stood up, "By the way, this Garden Party is hosted by Ran's High School!"
"Speaking of which, that Fellow is here too?" Inspector Megure looked around.
Mori Kogoro put on his Coat and walked forward, asking puzzledly, "Are you looking for someone? Inspector Megure..."
Inspector Megure was speechless. The Plague God, who had been quiet for a while, reappeared. Should he breathe a sigh of relief, or should he feel speechless? "I'm looking for you!"
"Oh?" Mori Kogoro was puzzled.
"Then..." Inspector Megure continued to turn his head, muttering in a low voice, "Chi Feichei... Kudo Shinichi... Hattori... Oh, that Osaka guy, probably won't see him, then... Chi Feichei... Kudo Shinichi..."
Let him see, which other Plague God has come...
Ran: "..."
Haibara Ai: "..."
Wataru Takagi: "..."
Mori Kogoro: "..."
Hattori Heiji disguised as Kudo Shinichi: "..."
They suspected Inspector Megure was silently complaining about something, but there was no Evidence...
After being Speechless, Haibara Ai also turned her head in confusion and looked around.
Weird, Brother Hassashi was just here, when did he disappear?
Did he discover any Clue and go to investigate?
"Cough," Inspector Megure looked around, and after not seeing anyone else, he withdrew his thoughts, "Then, just now, no one should have touched the Corpse, right?"
"Of course, Inspector Megure," Mori Kogoro said firmly, "Maintaining the integrity of the Scene is Basic Work for Investigation! Before this Coroner touched the Corpse, no one approached the Corpse!"
He was also a Police Officer before, okay?
Wataru Takagi turned his head and asked the Coroner, "Has his Cause of Death been investigated?"
The Coroner nodded, "Yes, I think this is probably..."
"Potassium Cyanide," Hattori Heiji, wearing a Disguise and speaking with an Osaka accent, interrupted the Coroner, "Right?"
"What?" The others looked over in surprise.
Hattori Heiji squatted beside the Corpse, "I think this old fellow probably died of Poisoning from drinking Potassium Cyanide..."
"Hey," Inspector Megure turned his head and roared at Mori Kogoro, "Didn't you just say absolutely no one had approached the Corpse?"
Mori Kogoro sweated, "Yeah, it should be like that, right..."
"Idiot!" Hattori Heiji looked up, his Osaka accent still very obvious, "Even if I don't touch the Corpse, I can roughly tell just by looking at him, because generally dead people don't have much Complexion, but this Boss's Lips and Fingernails not only don't show a Purplish Phenomenon, but also show Pink, which is Evidence of Potassium Cyanide Poisoning."
Inspector Megure and Mori Kogoro looked at each other.
"The Difference between Potassium Cyanide and other Poisons..."
Hattori Heiji continued with an explanation, "If there's still an Almond Scent remaining in his mouth, then it's definitely right!"
"Oh?" Inspector Megure asked the Coroner, "Is that so?"
"Yes," the Coroner said, "There is indeed an Almond Scent in his mouth, just as this Young Man said, it is indeed Potassium Cyanide Poisoning."
Mori Kogoro leaned forward and said suspiciously, "Hey, kid, you're really clear about this Incident, you wouldn't have been sitting next to Mr. Kamata when the Crime Scene happened, would you?"
"Of course not!" Hattori Heiji turned his head to look at the Seat, "My Seat is in the 8th row counting forward from here, and it's separated from Mr. Kamata by the Aisle!"
"Is there anyone who can testify?" Inspector Megure asked.
Hattori Heiji turned his head left and right, looking for Chi Feichei's trace through the bangs that blocked his Eyes.
Huh? When he needs to prove it, where did Brother Hassashi run off to?
Haibara Ai wanted to cover her Face, what exactly does this Idiot want to do?
Hattori Heiji caught sight of 'Conan', "Him! It's that Kid wearing Glasses, I was sitting next to the Black Clothes Young Man next to him before, he also saw me."
Black Clothes Young Man?
Inspector Megure sweated, sure enough, there's another one...
Ran lowered her head and asked, "Is that so? Conan?"
Haibara Ai used the Mask Voice Changer to make Conan's Sound, "Um, seemingly so."
"But speaking of which," Mori Kogoro stared at Hattori Heiji, "I always feel like you kid look a bit familiar..."
Inspector Megure with half-moon Eyes, he suspected there were other Plague Gods, "Who exactly are you?"
"What, you guys forgot me so quickly! I only come back once in a while," Hattori Heiji showed a smile at the corner of his mouth, took off his Hat, revealing a Face that looked very much like Kudo Shinichi, but his eyebrows were a bit thicker, a bit out of character, "I am Kudo Shinichi!"
Inspector Megure and Mori Kogoro: "..."
Ran was stunned: "..."
All High School Student: "..."
"This Kid wearing Glasses called me," Hattori Heiji walked forward, reached out and held Ran's arms, and said with a smile, "Asking me to come see the Stage Play performed by his Ran, right, Kid?"
"B-But..." Ran was stunned, is this insulting her Intelligence? The Osaka accent is too obvious, "You wouldn't be..."
"Heiji?" Kazuha Toyama approached between the two, "What are you doing?"
Hattori Heiji was startled and quickly backed away.
Kazuha Toyama took a step forward, reached out and wiped a thick layer of Foundation off Hattori Heiji's Face, and asked in confusion, "You put so much Foundation on your Face, and your Hairstyle has also changed, are you here to perform Kabuki?"
"O-Of course not!" Hattori Heiji quickly argued, "Look carefully, I'm not Hattori Heiji, I'm Kudo Shinichi!"
"You brat, what kind of rotten Joke are you telling!" Mori Kogoro and Inspector Megure roared in unison.
"Ruined, ruined, this doesn't work at all!" Hattori Heiji went crazy, quickly scratched his Hairstyle back to its original shape, and then wiped his Face with a Handkerchief, restoring it to its original Appearance, scratching his Head, and laughing, "That's right, that's right, I was Disguise as Kudo Shinichi, just wanted to give everyone a Surprise! Darn it, you still saw through it..."
Mori Kogoro with half-moon Eyes, "What are you doing..."
Hattori Heiji was helpless, he thought he was clearly disguised very similarly, how could he be seen through so easily...
Inspector Megure with half-moon Eyes complained, "We already have one Idiot, Mori, here..."
Mori Kogoro turned his Head and stared: "..."
Are you even listening to me?
"Before pretending to be someone else, you should first restrain your Osaka accent..."
Beside them, a Young Man, also wearing a Baseball Cap, unable to see his Face clearly, wearing a Denim Jacket, walked forward, turned his Head and looked at the Victim's three Companions, "Excuse me, were the Beverages bought by the deceased Mr. Kamata?"
Ran looked at the Face shape that was very similar to Kudo Shinichi, the black hair under the brim of the Hat, and the fair skin that clearly had no Foundation, stunned.
Others: "..."
Why does this one also look very much like a certain Kudo?
"No, I bought them," Hongi Maiue, one of the deceased's Companions, was also a bit stunned, completely not understanding what they were playing just now, pointed to the Beverage Stall over there, "I went to the Beverage Stall over there, bought Beverages for four people, and then took them to the Place where everyone was sitting to find everyone, after arriving, I handed the four Cups of Beverage to Mr. Yota Mitani, and then went to the Restroom, right?"
"Yeah." The chubby Man next to him, Yota Mitani, nodded.
However, Yota Mitani said that he only took the Oolong Tea he wanted to drink, and the rest was distributed by another Companion, Yumemi Noda.
The four people are Graduates of Teitan High School, and also Members of the drama Club, this time they made an appointment to come and see the Performance together.
The reason why they let Hongi Maiue go to buy Beverages alone was because the others wanted to reserve Seats.
Originally, the deceased Kohei Kamata would also have gone to get Beverages, but because he saw his Fiancee Ayako Ninagawa, who had proposed to break off their Engagement with him, and who was also the Director's Daughter of the Hospital, was also selling Beverages there, Kohei Kamata's Face instantly turned ugly, and he didn't go over.
Four people involved, three Classmate and Colleague, one Fiancee who broke off Engagement with the deceased.
"In other words..." Hattori Heiji looked at the four people.
That mysterious Man in the Baseball Cap also looked over, and said firmly, "The only people who could have put Potassium Cyanide into Mr. Kamata's Beverage Cup... are the four of you!"
"W-Wait a minute!" Hongi Maiue said busily, "Mr. Kamata and I both drink Iced Coffee, if I put Poison in the Beverage, I should personally hand him the Beverage Cup, to avoid mistakenly taking the poisonous Beverage myself."
"You could also Poison both Cups, and not drink your own Cup," Inspector Megure said.
Hongi Maiue picked up her Cup, "But, my Beverage is also all drunk!"
Hongi Maiue went to the Restroom after handing the Beverages to others, and afterwards, she didn't leave her Seat, and didn't have time to pour out the Beverage, she really drank it.
And Yumemi Noda, who distributed the Beverages, also said that she hadn't opened the lid, because the Beverage name was printed on the lid, and Iced Coffee also had small boxes of Creamer and Honey attached, so she could know without opening it to look.
"Inspector Megure," Wataru Takagi, who was Inspection the Corpse, said, "The deceased's Pocket also contains unopened Creamer and Honey!"
"Because what's in the Cup isn't Iced Coffee, but Cola..." Ayako Ninagawa lowered her Eyes and said, "Because I thought that way he would come to me to exchange... and by the way ask me why I wanted to cancel the Engagement, originally we agreed that we would get Marriage after I Graduate High School, but later I felt very uneasy, so I called and rejected him... Afterwards, I went to the Hospital to find him, but he kept avoiding me..."
"In that case, my Beverage is also Cola?" Hongi Maiue held her Creamer and Honey, "I almost added the Creamer and Honey!"
"I'm really sorry..." Ayako Ninagawa apologized.
Hattori Heiji looked up, looking over seriously.
Inspector Megure immediately ordered people to identify whether there was Toxin in the Creamer and Honey of the four people.
Hattori Heiji turned his Head, suddenly discovering that the mysterious Man next to him was also looking at Ayako Ninagawa and Hongi Maiue, his Eyes were blocked by bangs and couldn't be seen clearly, but the corner of his mouth was raised in a Confidence smile of seeing through the Truth, he was stunned, "Hey, I say, you Fellow wouldn't be..."
"Um," Ran walked to the side, "Who exactly are you..."
"Like the Black Knight, wearing Armor that covers the Appearance..." the mysterious Man slowly said, taking off the Hat on his Head, revealing Kudo Shinichi's Hairstyle and a very similar Face, his firm Gaze and the Confidence smile at the corner of his mouth were also no different from Kudo Shinichi, he turned his Head to look at Ran, his Gaze carrying a layer of smile, "Can't you determine the Answer?"
Hattori Heiji immediately turned his Head to look at Conan disguised by Haibara Ai, at a loss.
This one is Kudo, this one is also Kudo...
Ran was absent-minded, "Shinichi..."
Inspector Megure and Mori Kogoro were stunned.
This is... the real deal came out?
(End of Chapter)