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"Hmm!"
Hearing Little Fox's words, Mu Tianyuan was startled, then he directly pulled open the door and rushed in. Seeing Mu Tianyuan's action, Inspector Megure, Conan, and the others who were following also immediately ran in. After they entered the room, they saw Mu Tianyuan smilingly examining the "sleeping" older brother. The tree-climbing man nervously lowered his voice and said, "Hey, what are you doing? Don't wake my brother!"
"You really care about your brother, don't you? But don't worry, I won't wake him. You see, your brother is a very deep sleeper. Even if you shout loudly in his ear right now, it won't matter, because dead people don't wake up. If a dead person is awakened, it's a zombie. If I had the ability to bring people back from the dead, I would have already become rich, married a beautiful, rich woman, and reached the pinnacle of life."
Mu Tianyuan said with a smile, looking at the tree-climbing man. Then, under the shocked gazes of Inspector Megure and the others, Mu Tianyuan gestured with his chin towards the "sleeping" older brother and said, "Inspector Megure, the body has been found."
"What!"
Although Inspector Megure and the others had already roughly understood Mu Tianyuan's meaning from his words earlier, they were all shocked when Mu Tianyuan now pointed out that the "sleeping" older brother was the corpse they had searched everywhere for and couldn't find. Then Conan was the first to rush to the chair, reached out, and felt the neck of the deceased brother, saying in shock, "He's really dead!"
"Hmm, the fatal wound is on the right rear side of the skull. The cause of death appears to be blunt force trauma."
Mu Tianyuan stood by and shrugged, answering. Hearing Mu Tianyuan's reply, Conan and Inspector Megure and the others who had rushed over carefully looked at the deceased's head and found clear signs of impact beneath the hair.
Mu Tianyuan looked at the deceased's appearance, then at the pale-faced tree-climbing man, and tutted, "You two are twins, aren't you? You look so much alike. Oh, right, I have a theory. Do you want to hear it?"
Then Mu Tianyuan went to the window, looked outside, then turned to the tree-climbing man and said, "I'm guessing you killed your brother, right? The crime scene should be in the bathroom. After you killed your brother, because of these kids, you couldn't dispose of the body in time. So you used the time before the police arrived to clean the bloodstains off the body and then moved it upstairs. Because you and your brother look very much alike, at most... your brother just had a beard that you didn't.
So even if you put on makeup to impersonate your brother, the police officers who met him for the first time couldn't confirm that the person they saw was your brother himself. Therefore, after cleaning the bathroom, you changed into a bathrobe, put on makeup to look like your brother, and waited for the police officers to arrive.
Then, after dealing with the police for a few words, you went upstairs to this room. While the police officers were searching downstairs, you changed your brother into a clean bathrobe and changed your own clothes. Then you climbed out the window to the tree, climbed over the wall, left home, and finally pretended to have just returned, right?"
Although Mu Tianyuan didn't have Conan's extraordinary deductive abilities, by combining the body he found with Hanako's earlier words, he connected everything. This also explained why the tree-climbing man climbed the tree instead of using the door: because he wanted to create an alibi and facilitate the illusion that his brother was still alive! Then Mu Tianyuan looked at the tree-climbing man and praised,
"I have to say, you're even bolder than me, and your reaction time is certainly quick enough. To actually think of impersonating your brother to make people think he's still alive, and then use that to escape, and you even thought of disguising your brother as sleeping and openly placing him here. Your 'under-the-lamp' trick, though risky, was indeed very effective. After all, who would have thought that someone they had just seen not long ago was actually already dead?"
"Tsk tsk, this person is... what you called 'excellent psychological quality,' right? If we hadn't found the body directly, he probably would have fooled us all."
Little Fox, squatting beside Mu Tianyuan, whispered to him through a private channel, looking at the pale-faced tree-climbing man. This person not only had strong improvisational skills but also solid psychological quality, managing to fool everyone with his superb acting.
"Indeed, this 'under-the-lamp' trick was played beautifully."
Mu Tianyuan agreed. Then Mu Tianyuan looked at the tree-climbing man again and said, "By the way, what if the body wasn't found? Would you have pulled a switcheroo and replaced your brother, or did you plan to pretend your brother was missing after a period of impersonation to completely get rid of his existence?"
"How impressive, you even guessed that! Yes, I indeed planned to live as my brother! Because only I can revive my brother in my heart!"
After speaking, the tree-climbing man suddenly looked at Mu Tianyuan excitedly. Inspector Megure, meanwhile, glared at the tree-climbing man and said, "So you admit to killing your brother?"
"That's right, everything is as he said."
The tree-climbing man looked at Mu Tianyuan, who was standing by the window, and answered. Then the tree-climbing man spilled the beans about his motive for killing, which was simply that his novelist brother, whom he once looked up to, had fallen into depravity. Eventually, he discovered the tree-climbing man's illegal activities and threatened to make him support him for the rest of his life. The tree-climbing man, unable to accept his once proud brother becoming like this, killed him. The tree-climbing man even wanted to replace his brother in his heart.
After listening to the tree-climbing man's tale of love and hate with his brother, Little Fox wagged its tail and sighed, "To sum it up... it's a brother complex fueled by resentment. Tsk tsk, brother complex is terrifying. Who would have thought that a brother complex could eventually become a motive for murder?"
"It is quite terrifying. Fortunately, I'm an only child and don't have any younger siblings, otherwise, if I ever did something that disappointed my proud younger siblings, they might find a way to kill me. What would I do?"
Mu Tianyuan also sighed. Hearing Mu Tianyuan's words, Little Fox immediately looked at Mu Tianyuan and consoled him, "Even if you had younger siblings, it wouldn't matter, because you don't have any virtues or achievements to make them proud."
Mu Tianyuan: "..."
Damn it, this consolation really stung! But for a moment, Mu Tianyuan couldn't find a reason to refute, which made it even more painful! Just then, Little Fox suddenly shook its head again and said, "Hmm, no, that's not right. At the very least, your shameless demeanor is very impressive. If that's something they could be proud of."
"...Thank you for your encouragement. I'll continue to work hard."
Hearing Little Fox's reply, Mu Tianyuan's lips twitched twice as he said politely, "Damn it, you might as well not have said anything!" After chatting with Little Fox for a bit, Mu Tianyuan saw that everything was settled. He then dragged his suitcase out, saying to Inspector Megure, "Inspector Megure, it's getting late. I need to go home for dinner, so I'll leave the rest to you."
Then Mu Tianyuan looked at Conan and the other kids and said, "Alright, little ones, the case is solved. You should go home quickly, or your parents might beat you."
After the brother-complexed tree-climbing man, who had confessed and pleaded guilty, was put into the car, Inspector Megure held Mu Tianyuan's hand and smiled like a blooming old chrysanthemum, saying to Mu Tianyuan, "My dear friend Mu, you are truly amazing. You are simply... a detective no less capable than Kudo!"
Inspector Megure most respected capable people. As long as someone was capable, Inspector Megure would not hesitate to call them "my dear friend." For example, Conan's father, or Uncle Mouri, and even in moments of excitement, he would call Conan's real identity, Shinichi Kudo, "my dear friend." It's just unclear how Shinichi Kudo's generation would be reckoned with his father's according to Inspector Megure's way of addressing people... And now, Inspector Megure was conquered by Mu Tianyuan's deduction.
Coupled with the previous Moonlight Island incident, Inspector Megure had started calling Mu Tianyuan "my dear friend" back then. Conan, standing by, silently rolled his dead fish eyes. But even though Conan expressed his displeasure, the facts were right in front of him! He had been running around for ages and found nothing, even almost being accused of lying by Inspector Megure in the end.
But what about Mu Tianyuan? He arrived not long ago and not only found the body that they had searched every nook and cranny for, even the trash can, but he also deduced the entire case, even analyzing the culprit's route with perfect accuracy, almost as if he had witnessed it himself, making even the culprit express amazement! What did this guy even do? Nothing more than... wandering around the bathroom for a bit, and then directly rushing to the upstairs room!
One could say he was so decisive that he didn't even fully examine the crime scene! If the culprit hadn't confessed, one could even argue that this guy set up a scheme to frame someone! Damn it, why had he never noticed this guy's strong deductive ability before?! It seems he'll have to take this guy seriously from now on, otherwise, won't all the glory go to him?! And Mu Tianyuan, upon hearing Inspector Megure's praise, only shook his head modestly and said, "Inspector Megure, you're too kind. I was just lucky."
Conan: "..."
Hypocrisy! Do you see this? This is hypocrisy! What luck! When have we ever heard of a case being solved purely by luck? Still luck, you're fooling ghosts! You're lucky, you can deduce so accurately. Wait... Don't say there's no such thing as solving cases by luck. This guy seems to have done exactly that! Didn't he solve Curator Ochiai's case with just a pee break?! By the way, why have I never encountered such good luck?! Every time I solve a case, I have to run around searching for clues like a grandson, exhausting countless brain cells just to reconstruct the crime. I really want to encounter a case that can be solved with just a pee break!
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