Chapter 44 [Chapter 044] Husband and wife work together to make ends meet

Author: Report Mr. Krabs

Chapter 44 [Chapter 044] Husband and wife work together to make ends meet

"Sister, let me go with you."

Xia Jiang took the initiative to speak.

Hatamoto Akie glanced at his sister, hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded: "Okay..."

"I'll go too."

Mariko Hatamoto said from the side.

"Sister Xiaolan, I also want to go to the bathroom, let's go together."

Conan starts to act cute.

"Okay, it will be safer for everyone together."

Xiaolan stood up and waved her fist: "If there is an enemy, I will let him have a taste of my karate."

"Miss, what did you say?"

Mariko Hatamoto looked a little nervous: "You know karate? Are you very good at it?"

"Oh, I just learned it casually and only scratched the surface."

Listening to Xiaolan's words, the corners of Conan's mouth couldn't help but twitch.

Can a woman who smashes telephone poles with one punch and splits open desks with one palm only know how to scratch the surface?

Unfortunately, Mariko Hatamoto and Akie Hatamoto didn't know all this, so they walked to the bathroom together.

As a result, only Kogoro, Butler Suzuki, and Ichiro Hatamoto were left in the restaurant.

"What's going on? The real culprit didn't go to the toilet, but other people moved instead."

Kogoro looked at Ichiro Hatamoto from the corner of his eye: "Since just now, his eyes have been dull, his expression has been dull, and he has been indifferent to the departure of others. What does he want to do?"

At this moment, there was a "pop" sound, the lights in the room went out, and the entire ship fell into darkness.

"what happened?"

Kogoro's voice sounded in the darkness: "Butler Suzuki, you and Ichiro stay here and don't move around. I'll go to the power distribution room to take a look."

After about ten minutes, the lights came on and the room became bright again.

Butler Suzuki squinted his eyes, tried to adapt to the light, and then looked around, but was surprised to find that Ichiro Hatamoto, who was sitting next to him, was missing.

He was shocked and just about to go out to search when suddenly the door of the restaurant was pushed open and Shoji Hatamoto, covered in blood, staggered in.

"Help...help, Suzuki..."

Shoji Hatamoto covered his neck, blood spurting out from between his fingers. Before he could finish speaking, an icy cold light flashed from behind him, and a knife was stabbed into his back.

Kitaro Hatamoto, who was also covered in blood, pushed his brother-in-law to the ground with a ferocious look on his face, as if he were killing a pig, and stabbed him crazily with a knife until Shoji Hatamoto could no longer move, and then he slowly stood up.

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"Butler Suzuki, where is my son Ichiro?"

Hatamoto Kitaro's voice was like two saw blades rubbing against each other, harsh and unpleasant, but full of terrifying murderous intent.

Butler Suzuki, who was completely frightened, was frightened and stammered in reply: "No... I don't know, Mr. Beilang, Mr. Ichiro was by my side before the power outage, but when the call came, he disappeared.

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"Damn it, if something happens to Ichiro, you old guy will die too."

Hatamoto Kitaro roared.

"Don't worry, Mr. Beilang, your son is not dead."

Kogoro's voice suddenly sounded on the radio in the restaurant: "At most, I will never be able to draw with a pen again, or chop people with a knife."

"Maori Kogoro!"

Kitaro Hatamoto looked around, gritted his teeth and said, "Where are you? If you dare to hurt my son, I will never forgive you..."

Before he finished speaking, the door of the restaurant was pushed open again. Mariko Hatamoto put a knife on Xiaolan's neck and pushed her in. Followed by Hatamoto Akie, who also held her sister hostage with a knife.

However, Mariko Hatamoto looked a bit miserable. Half of her face was swollen, her mouth could not speak, and it turned out that she was missing several teeth.

"This little prodigal is quite capable. He almost beat me to death."

Mariko Hatamoto gritted her teeth: "But it doesn't matter, I will cut off one of her arms now."

"You can try, old woman. If you dare to touch a hair of my daughter, I will castrate your son."

Kogoro said coldly.

"Hmm? Ichiro?"

Only then did Mariko Hatamoto react and yelled at her husband: "Where is our son? If you didn't let him stay in the restaurant all the time, how could he fall into the hands of that detective?"

"Don't be excited. Your son is very committed to progress and can't bear to let you and your wife steal all his heads. So he was planning to stab me in the dark just now, but it's a pity that he failed."

Kogoro chuckled.

"That's enough, detective, your daughter is also in our hands, let's exchange it."

Hatamoto Mariko shouted.

"Okay, but before exchanging hostages, I want to reason. After all, it is our detective's responsibility to reveal the truth of the case."

Kogoro's tone suddenly became serious: "Actually, from the very beginning, Mr. and Mrs. Hatamoto Kitaro, you two knew that the person who killed Hatamoto Gozo was your son Ichiro Hatamoto, right?"

Xia Jiang and Qiu Jiang were startled and looked at Hatamoto Kitaro and his wife in surprise.

"That's right, when Ichiro killed the old man, my husband and I happened to see him."

Kitaro Hatamoto gritted his teeth and said: "At that time, Ichiro was so frightened that he stood motionless at the door. They were the clothes we asked him to go back to his room to change. The blood stains dripping on the carpet at the door were also cleaned by Mariko. And that flower,

I threw it there."

"But I think the scene was very clean and flawless. How did you suspect that the murderer was Ichiro?"

Mariko Hatamoto asked.

"It's very simple. The bread crumbs your son used to draw fell into the pool of blood next to the body."

"That's all?"

"It just made me a little suspicious, so in order to collect evidence, I sneaked into Ichiro's room later. After looking at the paintings he drew, I was sure that the person who killed Hatamoto Gozo was 100% Ichiro."

Hatamoto Hokuro and his wife were silent after hearing this, but Hatamoto Akie became confused: "Why? What exactly did he draw? Did he draw the crime process?"

"It just paints the motive of the crime."

Kogoro paused and said solemnly: "In all the paintings painted by Hatamoto Ichiro, there is only one protagonist, and that is Hatamoto Natsue!"

Except for Hatamoto Hokuro and his wife, Qiu Jiang, Xia Jiang and Xiao Lan were all stunned: "Is that the painting of Xia Jiang?"

"Yes, even though it's just a sketch, you can still feel the deep, twisted and deformed love from it."

Kogoro said with full of sarcasm: "As the son of the uncle's family, he fell in love with the daughter of the uncle's family, and he dared to ask his grandfather to marry him. Anyone with a right mind would not hesitate.

Refuse? But after being rejected, Ichiro Hatamoto acted like a mad dog and killed his grandfather with a knife."

"Shut up."

Mariko Hatamoto roared: "How do you know this kind of thing? Except for Ichiro and the old man, no one else was present at the time."

"Uh... The master told me about it afterwards, and when you all went back to the room, Mr. Mori asked me about it again."

Butler Suzuki said with some embarrassment.

"You damn old thing, I should have killed you from the beginning."

Mariko Hatamoto’s teeth chattered.

"Originally, you thought that by placing the blame on Xiao Wu, everything would be fine. But you didn't expect that Hatamoto Gozo had already prepared a will. In desperation, you two decided to take risks and prepare to kill all those who might compete for the inheritance.

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Kogoro sneered: "It's true that husband and wife work together to make a difference!"
Chapter completed!