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"Hey! Shinichi! Are you feeling really unwell?" Yuu asked, worried.
Conan, lying on the bed, waved his hand, "It's fine, I'm much better now. I need to hurry and find out who the culprit is, I..." "Ah..." Conan suddenly let out a painful groan, and then, right in front of Yuu, Conan's body continuously grew larger. Yuu immediately took off Conan's clothes to prevent him from suffocating.
Shinichi Kudo looked at himself in disbelief, "Yuu... I... I actually transformed back! That's great!!" Yuu rummaged through some clothes and threw them over. "You put on some clothes first! I don't want to see a man's naked body!!" The excited Shinichi, after quickly putting on clothes, wanted to run out, but Yuu instantly tackled him to the ground.
"What are you doing, Yuu!" Shinichi rubbed his head, which had hit the ground, and looked at Yuu with dissatisfaction. "I know you've always wanted Ran to know you're alright, so I won't stop you today. But you have to remember, you've transformed back now for some unknown reason. It definitely has a time limit. When you feel yourself shrinking, immediately hide. I'll cover for you with Ran."
Hearing this, Shinichi instantly broke out in a cold sweat: "That's right! It's not that easy to transform back! Thank you, Yuu! If you hadn't reminded me, I don't know what the consequences would have been." Yuu smiled, "We're best friends, aren't we?" Shinichi nodded, "Then I'll trouble you, Yuu!" With that, Shinichi left the room to look for evidence.
"Grandpa Ikemura, am I right? You're the culprit, aren't you!" Heiji Hattori pointed at Toshimitsu Ikemura. Due to guilt over events from many years ago, Toshimitsu Ikemura confessed he was the murderer. "Hmph, I won, Shinichi Kudo!" Seeing Toshimitsu Ikemura confess, Heiji Hattori thought to himself.
Just then, Shinichi appeared, "No... that guy made a mistake!" Everyone present was stunned. They hadn't expected to see Shinichi Kudo here, especially Ran; she was almost in tears. "Hey, silly girl, it's not good to cry until your eyes are swollen! We'll talk about it later," Shinichi said to Ran. "Okay!" Ran agreed, wiping her tears.
"You brat, what's with you suddenly blurting out 'you're wrong'? Are you saying my deduction is flawed?" Heiji Hattori said to Shinichi, clearly displeased. "That's right, your deduction is a 100% impossible crime method!" Shinichi continued to strike Heiji Hattori.
"You... what did you say!" Heiji Hattori said, looking incredulous. Shinichi went to pull Inspector Megure's pocket, and the key clinked out.
"How could this be?" Heiji Hattori looked at the key that had fallen from his pants, disbelievingly saying, "How could the key not have gone into the double pocket?" "What the... it didn't go into the double pocket... I clearly saw that guy's key in the double pocket just now." Kogoro interjected mockingly. "That's right," Inspector Megure also said with a sudden realization, "That's right, I took out the key at the time, and the key was indeed in the double pocket."
"But..." Heiji Hattori said to Shinichi, "This might be a coincidence? Maybe that one time was just a coincidence." "But that key was placed in the pocket in a V-shape," Shinichi said. "V-shape?" Suddenly, Heiji Hattori's pupils constricted, "That's right, no matter how it might have ended up in the double pocket by chance, only the oval key ring should have been there, not the entire key in a V-shape!" "So, the culprit must have put the key into the victim's double pocket from the start," Shinichi continued to explain.
"But how do you explain those thin threads?" Heiji Hattori asked again. "Those were meant by the culprit to frame this old man. I found five or six sets of similar thin threads in this house," Shinichi said, taking out the thin threads to show Heiji Hattori. "This old man confessed for some unknown reason, but he's not the culprit."
"But the body only died thirty minutes ago. How did the killer do it?" Heiji Hattori was still unwilling to accept it. "First, the killer drugged the victim to make him fall asleep in this room, then placed the key in the double pocket, and finally put the thin threads into the old man's room.
This way, even if someone thought of how the key was placed, it could create a false impression and frame the old man. Then, at the moment of waking him up, they used a poisoned needle from the keychain to kill the victim and then disposed of the poisoned needle... As for the music and book, they were probably to cover up the crime?" Saying this, Shinichi pointed to Kimie Ikemura, "Right, madam!"
Finally, under Shinichi's deduction, Kimie Ikemura confessed, revealing that the diplomat had framed her husband years ago. "I'm thoroughly convinced by this loss! As expected of Shinichi Kudo! Your deduction truly is superior," Heiji Hattori said to Shinichi.
"Deduction is not about winning or losing, or being superior or inferior. Because... there is always only one truth!" After saying this cool remark, Shinichi suddenly coughed violently.
"Hey, Kudo!"
"Shinichi!" Ran and Heiji both started to worry about Shinichi's health.
"Sorry, I have an important case to handle, I'm leaving first!" Saying that, Shinichi ran out of the room. Ran quickly chased after him, but was stopped at the door by Yuu, "Sister Ran, Conan's gone!" "Conan?" Ran paused, and Shinichi ran to the bathroom, where Yuu had prepared clothes for him. Ran chased him to the main door and saw Conan there, only to hear Conan say, "Brother Shinichi said he left first and told me to apologize to Sister Ran." "Goodness!" Ran was a bit angry.
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Due to Conan's severe cold and the strain of transforming, his body was extremely weak. He quickly fell unconscious for three days. Heiji Hattori also returned to Osaka. Thanks to Yuu and Inspector Megure saying that Shinichi didn't want others to know he had appeared, Shinichi Kudo's name did not appear in the newspapers.
Yuu, eating snacks voraciously, looked at Conan lying on the bed: "Good news and bad news. Which do you want to hear first?" Conan said, looking speechless, "Of course, the good news." Yuu, with an "I knew it" expression, said, "The good news is that you may have inadvertently found a way to grow bigger: that sake. You now have hope of transforming back." "I knew it! I definitely can transform back. I can finally say goodbye to this child's body. So, what's the bad news?" Conan asked curiously.
Yuu looked at Conan and said, "Do you know about antibodies and antigens?" Conan rolled his eyes at Yuu, "Nonsense!" "According to my deduction, drinking sake directly should only work the first time. After that, your body should produce antibodies, making it ineffective unless we figure out what special ingredient is working," Yuu explained.
"How do you know?" Conan asked.
"Because I tried it! Are you satisfied?!" Yuu shouted loudly. Seeing Yuu flare up, Conan quickly nodded, "Mm-hmm." "Sigh..." Conan looked at the snowflakes falling outside the window. "I wonder when I'll be able to transform back to normal size again!" Yuu's lips curved slightly. "That day will come. It might be when we encounter someone like us. Maybe we'll encounter them very soon!"