Reincarnated into Case Closed!!

The Debut of the Great Detective (Part 5)

"Yamagishi-san, the murderer is you!" Kogoro pointed at the man. 

"!?" Everyone's jaw dropped. 

The old man smirked. "This man hanging around Yoko-san's trail was a nuisance, and on top of that he was her high school boyfriend," he said. "If the media knew, it would be a scandal. When you had the chance, you caught him hiding here, got into a fight...and KILLED HIM!!"

"I, i..." Yamagishi stuttered.

Kogoro crossed his arms. "Am I wrong?"

I was waiting for this moment. Assisting Conan was my number one goal for today, and I'm not letting this chance slip.

I grabbed the cigarette tray next to me and threw it at the detective's head, knocking him out. Since everyone was focused on the babbling man, no one noticed the appalling action, except for the little boy in glasses.

"Did you just––"

"Shush, hurry and use your voice changer!" I push him behind the couch that Kogoro had collapsed on. I plop down beside him.

"Right..." he sat down and started turning the cogs on his bow-tie, testing out his voice.

"H-hey, what's wrong?" Megure asked.

"D-dad...?" Ran made a concerned face.

"Is what I'd like to say..." Conan said in Kogoro's voice. "But that is not the truth."

"...Eh?" Megure said, confused.

Conan continued. "Yamagishi-san, you held a spare key to this room, correct?"

"Y-yes..."

"So of course, you are suspected," Conan said. Man, it was really trippy watching him speak with Kogoro's voice. "If you had killed him, then come to me to have the body 'discovered', you would've had some kind of proof of your innocence or alibi, but you had no such thing. And Okino Yoko-san..."

Yoko straightened up. "Y-yes!!"

"The same thing could be said of you," Conan continued. "Being the owner of this apartment, you're the first one to be suspected."

Inspector Megure blinked twice. "Then the killer is.." he turned to the woman in leopard-print behind him. "Ikezawa Yuuko!?"

Yuuko's eyes widened. "Wait-!!"

"No," Conan cut her off before it could go anymore off-track. "That's not correct either."

"What!?" Megure exclaimed. 

"Yuuko-san, you hid the fact that you'd been here before," Conan shifted his weight to his butt, sitting down comfortably on the ground. "But you told us yourself that you had been attacked by the man who is now dead.

"If you had indeed killed on the spur of the moment, then you wouldn't have said you met him. Even though we had proof you had been here, only you would know that you'd met him."

Inspector Megure's eyes widened. "So what you're saying is...!"

"Yes..." Conan responded. "There is no proof to convict any of these three. However!"

There was a dramatic pause in the air. I wanted to roll my eyes at the theatrics. 

"...There is proof to support my own hypothesis," Conan said. "The hair that you hid, Yamagishi-san!"

"WHAT!?" 

"I saw it ," Conan continued. "You pretended to slip, and you took the hair from the corpse's fingers..."