Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

"These words do look like Aida's handwriting," Uemura Takuma was much calmer than the two female high school students. He frowned and looked at the paper on the table, "but I don't see anything special about the meaning of these words. As for the hanging ornaments, I’m not quite sure what you’re talking about…”

Koshimizu Nanatsuki looked at the two bouquets of flowers on the table again, "It's rare to use orchids to worship the deceased. Isn't this a regular worship bouquet provided by a flower shop?"

"This is what Takuma-senpai ordered," Nakamura Megumi replied. "He said Miyuki's favorite flower is orchids."

Koshimizu Nanatsuki looked at Uemura Takuma and asked, "Did you buy the bouquet in the village?"

"No, I wasn't sure if there would be orchids for sale in the village, so I ordered them in advance at a flower shop near the school and brought them all the way here." Takuma Uemura took out his mobile phone and flipped through the order records inside, " I have a record of online flower ordering from a shop called Takada Gardener..."

While a group of people were sitting in the hotel chatting, a tall man wearing a black top hat and all black clothes walked into the door, turned to look at a group of people sitting in the lounge area, and walked quickly towards the elevator.

Takatori Yannan stood behind the sofa where Chi Feichi was sitting. He noticed the man walking behind him and turned his head to look over. After realizing that the man was wearing sunglasses and couldn't see clearly what he looked like, he twitched his mouth slightly and looked away.

He used to think that he liked wearing sunglasses. Even when he went indoors, he would sometimes wear sunglasses, but there were also times when he didn't wear sunglasses.

After joining the organization, he realized that there were people who were more enthusiastic about wearing sunglasses than him. For example, with vodka, sunglasses were as if they were welded to the face regardless of indoors or outdoors, day or night.

Even he is used to this now, and it seems like it might not just be him and vodka...

Chi Feichi also turned around and took a look after the man entered the door, and quickly looked away. He sat on the sofa and drank tea, watching Koshizu Nanatsuki investigate seriously.

In this hotel, the only people who can get Miyuki Aida's school uniform and do such a thing are the four people from Hoshioka High School.

At present, the most suspected person is Takuma Uemura.

Takuma Uemura is the one who ordered the flowers. He can prepare two more bouquets of flowers in advance and bring them over secretly.

Just now they went to bathe in different bathhouses. Uemura Takuma also had the opportunity to sneak over before the girls and put the frozen flowers and school uniforms on the ground. The temperature outside was very low, so he put the flowers and school uniforms outside for a while in advance. It can make flowers and school uniforms become cold, or just hide them somewhere and take them out for a walk to create a freezing effect.

Uemura Takuma carries his room key with him. It is also very convenient for him to put another bouquet of flowers in his room before the girls make a fuss, and then quickly go to meet them...

But if Takuma Uemura can do it, so can others.

It is not a secret that Takuma Uemura ordered orchids. Megumi Nakamura and Yumi Matsumoto both know that Akira Nishihara did not express his position, but he must have heard about it in advance. In this way, the other three people can also investigate and even directly ask the name of the florist. Go to that flower shop to confirm the style of the bouquet, and order two bouquets of the same flowers from that shop or another flower shop to bring over.

Uemura Takuma would carry his room key with him, but put it in his coat pocket. When he went to take a bath, change clothes or enter the room, he would take off his coat and put it out of sight, not to mention that the four of them might get together on a daily basis. Playing cards, it was easy for the other three to get the keys from Takuma Uemura's coat.

Moreover, the clothes are thick in winter, so even if someone takes something out of Takuma Uemura's pocket, he may not notice it. The person who did this just needs to steal the keys before they go out, and put a bouquet of flowers and a card in Takuma Uemura's pocket. In the horse room, just lock the door and find another opportunity to put the key into Takuma Uemura's coat pocket.

The only flowers that were frozen were the bouquet at the bathroom door, and the bouquet in Takuma Uemura's room didn't feel very cold to the touch.

Also, the way to freeze flowers and school uniforms...

If the person who did this put the flowers and school uniforms somewhere in the hotel to freeze and went out for so long, wouldn't he worry about the flowers and school uniforms being seen by others?

If you are worried, you will inevitably want to avoid it. If you can't avoid it, you will try not to leave it for too long.

When they were delayed by the affairs of the two gangsters and needed to cooperate with the police in taking notes, none of the four people showed any signs of anxiety.

It would be much more convenient if there was something to take the flowers and uniforms outside to freeze.

However, the combined size of flowers and school uniforms is quite large, and it is inconvenient to put them under cold-proof clothing. Flowers will undergo some changes due to temperature, and school uniforms will also be transferred by body temperature and will not be easily frozen, so it is difficult to carry them out in bags. It's a good choice...such as the bags that each of these four people have for holding binoculars.

When Takuma Uemura opened the bag to get the telescope, he was right next to him and helped him get the tripod. There was nothing suspicious in the bag, and it couldn't hold anything suspicious.

In this case, Takuma Uemura's suspicion becomes smaller. The more suspicious thing is Akira Nishihara who has not opened the bag... No, Akira Nishihara has opened the bag, but he has not taken anything out of it. Then the zipper of the bag was zipped up.

As for Nakamura Megumi and Matsumoto Yuka, the two female high school students basically stayed with Koshizu after returning to the hotel. They probably had no time or opportunity to take the frozen school uniforms and flowers to the corridor and lay them out.

Koshimizu Nanatsuki also silently analyzed the suspicions of Uemura Takuma and Nishihara Akira, and suddenly noticed that Uemura Takuma's mobile phone charm was a special small stone, "The charm...Takuma-san, your mobile phone charm is very special." ah."

"This is made of meteorite..." Uemura Takuma looked at his own pendant, was stunned for a moment, and thought back, "Speaking of pendants, I remember Aida also has a meteorite pendant. I heard her say that it was hers. My brother gave it to her..."

"Her brother?" Nakamura Megumi was a little surprised.

Matsumoto Yuka obviously didn't know about this either, so she quickly asked, "Isn't she living with her mother? How can she have a brother?"

"She told me before that after her parents divorced, she had an older brother who lived with her father," Uemura Takuma explained. "Because my parents were also divorced, I often talked about these things with her."

Matsumoto Yuka approached Uemura Takuma, with a hint of anxiety in her expression, "In other words, her mobile phone pendant was not given by you, senior..."

"Shh!" Uemura Takuma quickly stopped Matsumoto Yuka from continuing and clarified helplessly, "Don't say such things, we are just chatting, although many people think we are dating..."

Koshimi Nanatsuki looked at the stunned expressions of Nakamura Megumi and Matsumoto Yuka, thought for a moment, and then asked, "Nishihara-sensei, don't you know Miss Miyuki?"

Akira Nishihara didn't expect Nanatsuki Koshimizu to suddenly ask him. He was stunned for a moment before nodding and said, "Yes, when I became a teacher at Hoshioka High School, she had already passed away."

"Are you sure?" Nanatsuki Koshizui looked at Akira Nishihara and said slowly, "If even important relatives pretend not to know her, she might be very sad."

Akira Nishihara's face changed drastically. He looked at Nanatsuki Koshimizu in shock. He opened his mouth and could no longer say with certainty, "I don't know her."

"Relatives..." Uemura Takuma looked at Nishihara Akira in disbelief, as if he had just met him, "Nishihara-sensei is actually...is Aida's relative?"

"Yes, he should be Miss Miyuki's brother. He probably felt that there was something fishy about his sister's death. In order to investigate the truth about his sister's death, he went to Hoshioka High School to teach and became the consultant of the astronomy club," Nanatsuki Koshizu looked at Looking at Akira Nishihara, he reasoned seriously, "Mr. Nishihara, you should have done what happened tonight, right? As long as you find out in advance the flower shop where Takuma ordered flowers and confirm the style of the bouquets, you can prepare two bouquets in advance. A bouquet of the same style. As Miss Miyuki's brother, of course you can also get Miss Miyuki's school uniform and the card with Miss Miyuki's handwriting on it. You sneak the things here and put the school uniform and the bouquet into the binoculars tonight. If you put the bag in your bag, just take the bag and walk around outside, you can freeze the school uniforms and flowers. After you come back, you can take out the school uniforms and flowers in advance and take a bath on the way to the room to put the telescope. Put the bouquets, school uniforms and cards at the door of the indoor bathing place..."

Uemura Takuma looked at the silent Nishihara Akira with a somewhat complicated look, "Then the bouquets and paper jams in my room..."

"It's very possible that before you guys went out, he secretly found an opportunity to take the key you put in your pocket, opened the room and put it in," Koshimizu Nanatsuki analyzed. "After that, just lock the door of the room and follow everyone out. , just find an opportunity to put the key in your coat pocket on the way. Winter clothes are very thick, so even if someone quietly reaches into your pocket and takes something, the person involved may not notice it. "

Megumi Nakamura and Yuka Matsumoto also had complicated expressions as they recalled each other.

"When we arrived at the gate in the evening, Teacher Nishihara did say that he had forgotten something and went back to the hotel alone..."

"That's when he probably put the bouquet and cardboard into Takuma-senpai's room..."

"But why did Mr. Nishihara do this?" Uemura Takuma frowned and looked at the silent Nishihara Akira. He couldn't understand Nishihara Akira's behavior. "Why do you do this kind of prank to everyone? You are Miyuki's brother, why do you use When something like this comes..."

"Because Miyuki's mobile phone charm is missing," Akira Nishihara's voice was a little hoarse as he looked at the meteorite charm on Takuma Uemura's phone, "She liked the mobile phone charm I gave her very much and promised that I would always hang it on my phone. , but when I was packing up her belongings, I found that her mobile phone charm was missing. The police officer who was responsible for investigating her fall from the cliff told me that she accidentally fell when she suddenly left the group alone while going stargazing with her club classmates. Ya, and was not discovered in time..."

"So you are thinking that when Miss Miyuki suddenly left the team, she suddenly discovered that her mobile phone charm was missing and rushed back to the hotel to look for it, right?" Koshimizu Nanatsuki asked, "That's why you left it on the card Words like 'Look for pendants'."