*Cough* *cough*
No. 5 was shocked when he saw no. 4 mentioning no. 1 pseudonym.
He almost thought that no. 1 wanted to take advantage of this to help fake the family's death.
But she might have been too late.
Now that no. 1 is one of the suspects, she will have to appear in front of Conan… Well, considering that no. 1 has been undercover for such a long time without anyone finding out, she should be fine.
It was just…
This case has become too easy.
Well, probably only for them because they knew the answer in advance.
Wait…
Can no. 4 act nonchalant in front of Margaret?
…
When the suspects were gathered, they were all stunned to see that all the guests in the second floor today were all women. Moreover, all of them were dining on their own, thus preventing all of them from having alibis.
However, Megumi Aiko was stunned to see Inspector Megure coming so quickly.
"Inspector Megure, you're so fast coming to the scene," Megumi Aiko said in confusion.
"5 minutes before your call, we received a call that there might be a murder here," Inspector Megure replied helplessly.
"Who called?"
"It's Hikari Yuki." Inspector Megure pointed his chin at Hikari Yuki, who came down along with the other two people after being greeted by the police officer.
"Sister Yuki?" Conan was stunned when he saw Hikari Yuki among the suspects.
"Oh, it's Conan and Inspector Megure." Hikari Yuki smiled politely when she saw the two of them.
"Why are you here?"
"I came here to eat, but after reaching the second floor, I smelled the thick scent of blood, so I called Inspector Megure," Hikari Yuki explained.
"When did you arrive?" Conan asked another important question.
"Uhm, around 10 minutes before you? I didn't look at the time when I arrived," Hikari Yuki replied.
She lied.
She actually knew when she arrived and almost nearly bumped onto Margaret who left the room after committing murder. It was also because of this that she directly called Inspector Megure.
Her room was two rooms away from the victims.
'I received the information too late… it's really hard to monitor the people from Rum's side.'
Hikari Yuki sighed in her heart, but she was mostly calm. This was because she knew very well that it was hard for Sake to take over other people's jobs all the time in the organization. Especially because her foundation in Japan was not very strong and there were too many bases that belonged to the organization here.
In various perfectures, Hikari Yuki had to arrange people carefully just to make sure that they would not bump into the eyeliners that belonged to the organization.
It was really difficult.
There were too many people that belonged to the organization in Japan and many of them lived an ordinary life on the surface.
Anyway, Hikari Yuki knew that Sano Marta is Margaret.
She didn't understand why Margaret didn't choose to leave directly after committing a crime. What was so fun for her to stay behind and not leave directly?
Did she want to confront the police officers?
Hikari Yuki looked at Conan in front of her with a helpless expression on her face, not showing any of her extremely rich mental activities to others.
"Oh…" Conan nodded and already eliminated Hikari Yuki from the list of suspects. He had known Hikari Yuki for a long time and even though the other party knew some karate, she didn't look like someone who could kill without batting an eyelid.
Moreover, the scenes of every crime were extremely cruel.
Based on the crime scenes, this was most likely the continuation of that brutal murderer. He remembered that during one of the murder times in Hokkaido that Officer Date told him, it coincided with the time when the restaurant explosion happened and Hikari Yuki was present on the scene.
So it would be impossible for Hikari Yuki to be the murderer.
His brain moved rapidly and he focused on the other two people secretly.
"Do you know her, Inspector Megure?" Megumi Aiko was surprised to see Conan knew Hikari Yuki and when she heard Inspector Megure's words, she realized that this might be one of the side characters that appeared from time to time.
Considering the long episodes of Conan and the fact that there were more new cases in this world, Megumi Aiko couldn't remember everyone whom Conan met.
Her brain hurt just thinking about it.
"Miss Hikari was implicated in the case before," Inspector Megure replied, not giving the full explanation. How could he say that he already knew Hikari Yuki because she was involved in various cases in the past?
And there were also Kudo Shinichi and Mouri Ran at that time.
He strongly suspected that Hikari Yuki was implicated because she knew Kudo Shinichi as he was always involved in various cases.
And the most recent one should be the one in the convenience store? Megumi Aiko seemed to be present on the scene.
"What did you do after arriving on the scene, Miss Hikari?"
"I sat down and waited in my room, not daring to come out. No one came to bother me until she came to say that the police had arrived," Hikari Yuki replied.
"Did you hear the commotion?"
"I did, but I don't want to come out in case I'll bump into the murderer," Hikari Yuki replied helplessly with her hand spread out.
At this moment, she keenly sensed that Sano Marta gave her a covert killing intent, but Hikari Yuki pretended not to notice anything and still looked as relaxed as ever.
She was sure that Sano Marta could guess that she heard the murderer's footsteps.
Because Hikari Yuki did hear it.
Her senses have been trained to the extreme due to her work and she could also distinguish various different footsteps. Even no. 7 was able to do this because it was crucial for them to identify who came and went to make sure their acting would not be wrong.
Tsukasa Rika and Sano Marta's room were on the left and right side of the victim. The two of them were still eating normally when the incident happened and didn't seem to notice the thick smell of blood in the slightest bit.
Well, Hikari Yuki didn't have much expectation for no. 12.
It was obvious that no. 12 was indeed not suitable to become an agent and living as a reporter during this period of time seemed to entertain her greatly too. She was having so much fun and also made a few more titles.
Margaret herself knew that there were corpses not far from her, but she was still very calm and pretended that she didn't see anything.
She truly had a big heart.
But perhaps for most of the people in the organization, killing people had never been something worth making a fuss over.
"Why do you think the murderer is still here?" Inspector Megure asked.
"Uh, because I heard the sound of the door opening and then the sound of the door closing twice afterwards," Hikari Yuki replied.
Twice?
They looked at the two people who were there and fell into silence.