Just as Conan felt that he had grasped some clues and could draw a conclusion if he continued, Kudo Shinichi and Fujiwara Chika approached carrying a laptop.
"Grandfather, I found the murderer."
The moment Fujiwara Chika said that, everyone was confused. There was no evidence here yet, only deductions and various assumptions, yet she claimed to have found the murderer.
Conan was also somewhat confused. How was that possible? He had not even reached a conclusion yet, so how could she have found the murderer?
"Chika, what exactly is going on?"
"Grandfather, look. This is everything we tracked: what the person ate after entering the banquet, who they touched, and every movement they made. We discovered that someone secretly added something into the glass of wine she drank."
At that moment, someone felt that something was wrong. After all, the surveillance clearly showed someone putting something inside. That person's face immediately turned pale. They had hidden among the crowd, thinking they were perfectly concealed in a blind spot, but unexpectedly they were still discovered. What the hell was going on?
"As far as I remember, this person seems to be from the Toyama family."
"Strange. Why would they poison someone from the Kujou family?"
Someone raised a question, and the others immediately began discussing it.
"That's right, aren't those two families partners? They actually turned against each other."
"And right here too? Could this be an attempt to frame the Fujiwara family?"
Everyone was discussing it at that moment.
After listening, Shiro understood what was hidden behind it. This "borrow a knife to kill" tactic had been carried out quite skillfully.
At that moment, the person instinctively tried to escape, because until then they had been hiding among the crowd. However, Conan had already locked his gaze onto that person and shouted:
"Don't let him escape!"
At that moment, the police officers who had been trying to secretly approach and arrest the person felt helpless. With that shout, they had not even gotten close enough to grab the suspect before he was alerted.
That shout instantly turned the person into a frightened bird, and they immediately started running away. Although it seemed useless, it was instinct. In their hand was a knife used for cutting food, and they rushed toward Shiro's side. After all, Shiro was surrounded by a group of young girls, so the obvious plan was to take hostages.
Shiro was somewhat speechless as he watched the person rushing toward him. What kind of melodramatic plot was this? Damn this kind of bullshit, and now they were trying to grab someone from his side? Did they think the people around him were soft clay they could mold?
Ran saw the person rushing toward Shiro with a knife in hand and wanted to help, but she was standing too far away, and people were blocking her path, so she could not arrive in time. She could only shout:
"Shiro, watch out!"
And that voice was full of urgency and unease, giving the impression that she cared about him very much.
However, in the very next moment, just as the person was about to reach him, Shiro quickly stepped forward and firmly grabbed them. He caught the knife as it came down, and then with a loud cracking sound, the person's wrist shattered. After that, he pulled the person toward himself and slammed his knee into their chest, while the sound of ribs breaking clearly echoed through the room. The person instinctively tried to spit out blood, but at the moment they did so, Shiro turned them toward the guests, so the blood sprayed in that direction and did not splash anyone on his side.
After the person spat out blood, Shiro let them go, and they immediately looked as though they were dying, lying on the floor while blood continued to flow from their mouth and their whole body twitched half-dead.
That entire process happened in one brief moment.
After regaining their senses, the police officers immediately ran over, then crouched down to check the person's condition and discovered there was no danger to their life, aside from completely shattered bones.
The doctor also came to examine them. When the examination results came out, everyone was very surprised.
"Incredible. This person only has shattered bones, but none of the internal organs are damaged. Literally only the bones were broken. They need to be set and operated on, or they will have to recover for some time, but the pain will be very severe."
After the doctor finished speaking, he looked at Shiro with curious eyes.
"Sir, how did you manage to do that? Normally, an attack like this would definitely cause the bones to pierce the internal organs or other places."
Shiro merely shrugged.
"Just a few little tricks."
However, at that moment Conan deliberately spoke in an innocent tone.
"Big brother, wasn't your hand a little too heavy? After all, someone could have died, and that person was already coughing up blood."
The moment the child's voice sounded out, everyone looked at him, while simultaneously becoming speechless. What was he trying to do? He dared question this person? Whose child was this?
Ran and Sonoko immediately felt uneasy. Sonoko thought: "Why is this unlucky brat provoking this guy?"
And Ran also felt restless. "What is Shinichi doing?"
Shiro heard that and looked at the person with a smile. For some reason, it felt somewhat frightening to look at that smile.
"I was merely acting in self-defense. After all, the person had a knife in their hand. And as for you, the police had already been about to secretly approach and arrest the person."
"But you shouted and warned them. I somewhat suspect that you're cooperating with the other side or something similar."
Shiro showed that he also knew how to talk and was not tongue-tied.
At that moment, the police officer in charge of the arrest also nodded and spoke.
"Indeed, just a few more seconds and we would have been close enough to attempt to directly arrest the person."
"That child's shout immediately warned them."
Kudo Shinichi had not been paying much attention at the time and did not realize that was the case, but just as he wanted to say something, Suzuki Sonoko directly hit him.
"Shut up, brat!"
"Um, sorry, Shiro. This child is still young and doesn't know any better. He's just talking nonsense. He probably wasn't paying attention earlier, so that's why it turned out like this."
Suzuki Sonoko stepped forward to explain at that moment.
However, Shiro was not paying attention to her words at that moment, but merely looked at Kaguya Shinomiya, giving her a signal to deal with those matters and not cause problems here. Kaguya Shinomiya received Shiro's look and could only go take care of it.
Shiro watched as the other side led the police away, and the other people were also sensible enough not to disturb them. After all, everyone knew Shiro's identity, and the identities of the people around him were not simple either, so it was better not to disturb them.
The other members of the Fujiwara family sensibly led the police away. The police inspector in charge of the case was not a fool since he had already reached that position. He understood that this was a matter for major players, not for small policemen like them. In any case, the murderer had been caught and there was evidence, so the other side could not deny it. It was better to withdraw quickly.
Shiro saw that the people had been led away and only a few remained, so he looked at Suzuki Sonoko. He spoke with an indifferent expression.
"It's nothing, just an arrogant useless idiot. I don't care, as long as he doesn't provoke me, everything is fine."
Shiro looked at Ran with a smile and spoke:
"Ran, you came here to have fun without telling me? And you even dared bring this walking catastrophe with you when going out?"
The moment Shiro said that, Suzuki Sonoko was stunned. "Wait, you two know each other? When did my best friend meet such a dangerous guy?"
Then, after thinking for a long time, she remembered that the other side's behavior earlier had been somewhat strange, and that scream earlier had also been very strange. This clearly meant that when someone knows another person and cares deeply about them, and sees them in danger, they will scream exactly like that. No way? So they had known each other the whole time?
Suzuki Sonoko felt that as the other side's best friend, she could not believe she knew nothing about this. Had she missed something?
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