"Well, I haven't seen my teacher for a long time either. The HTD is stored by the teacher in the cabinet and he only made around 200 or so for testing. After the test failed, there should be 100 left in the cabinet," Kano Senja explained calmly and then pointed to the side. "But only the Teacher's fingerprint can open that cabinet. No one else could."
"Is there a possibility that someone might have copied his fingerprint to open the cabinet?" Inspector Megure asked.
Conan looked at the cabinet carefully.
"It shouldn't be… that laboratory can only be entered by mine or Hano's pass and we always carry our pass with us. Aside from that, Teacher hadn't been with us for a long time. It can't be that someone has been taking Teacher's medicine without us knowing, right?" Kano Senja laughed at that speculation.
Both he and Yuga Hano often stayed in the laboratory. This place was open 24 hours a day, so the two of them basically divided their work into 12 hours each.
"Just check the time span. Night time is mine and daytime is Yuga Hano's turn," Kano Senja explained.
Megumi Aiko nodded when she listened and recorded it faithfully.
Inspector Megure frowned and felt that something isn't right. "Check the unexplained death case in the past half a year. There might be something we missed."
"Yes!"
As for the cabinet… they could only leave it be but a police officer was placed here to guard it. They couldn't let the remaining medicine enter the market.
Aside from that, they also contacted someone to forcefully open the safe.
They had to figure out how many medicines had been lost in the past half a year. There were records of the medicine's making and use, so they just had to count the remaining stocks after it was opened.
While they were waiting, Conan was also staring at the two disciples.
He was still suspicious of them.
Since the laboratory was basically occupied by either one of them every single day, it meant that the person who did it had to be either one of them. But which one of them… Conan hadn't had the clue yet.
Damn it!
And it seemed that this sale of medicine was the private work of these disciples.
But if they used this case to trace back to the Black Organization…
He couldn't wait for that to happen.
Their best method was to trace back the landlady's movement. She has a total of 4 pills in her hand and they didn't even know why she had so much.
Thanks to that, they have enough to analyze the components.
So far, they have broken down one of them while the other two were contaminated by some unknown liquid, so only 1 pill remained.
They needed to do targeted testing if they wanted to break down the pill.
"Damn, this is difficult. She met with many people." Miwako was helping Megumi Aiko to look through the surveillance cameras and the two of them were forced to work overtime. At this time, Megumi Aiko looked like she was about to die, though.
"Aiko, come on…"
"Ugh…" Megumi Aiko looked like she was about to die after working overtime. Conan was already sent back to sleep first because they couldn't possibly let a child watch the surveillance camera with them all night long.
And this was already morning.
Megumi Aiko took a few naps in between because she was simply too tired.
"These are the surveillance cameras from two days ago," Miwako said while yawning. They traced the landlady movements backwards starting from one day ago, two days ago, and so on. Even though they have fast forwarded the video, they still found that she met with many people.
They had to pause and check each of them one by one to confirm their identity, which made their work progress so slow.
Most of them were her tenants, though, and so far, there were no suspicious people.
Or rather… They had checked one by one and there was no one whom they were suspicious of. The interaction seemed normal and no one gave the pills to the landlady.
Perhaps it was done outside the surveillance camera's range?
If that was the case then the case will be closed down.
Megumi Aiko could imagine how devastated Conan would be. The clue was placed right in front of him, but they couldn't get the answer.
It was lunch time when Megumi Aiko finally saw a familiar face.
'That's the scarred man from that night.'
The man met with the landlady and the two of them walked towards the area without surveillance cameras. There didn't seem to be anything suspicious, but Megumi Aiko was determined to find something, so she stared at the screen hard.
In this way, when Kami Shita paid a visit, she saw Megumi Aiko staring hard at the screen. "Pfft, do you want to kill the screen, Aiko?"
"Shita." Megumi Aiko looked at the other party helplessly and then showed the video to the other party. "I'm trying to figure out why the two of them have to walk to the areas without surveillance cameras and suddenly turn around. Don't you think it's suspicious?"
Kami Shita looked at Megumi Aiko who had black circles under her eyes and patted the other party's shoulder. "You have worked hard, Senior Aiko."
Megumi Aiko: "..."
Megumi Aiko sighed and paused the video while Kami Shita shrugged and simply took onigiri to eat not far from the other party. She naturally knew that Megumi Aiko was trying to make them suspect the real culprit but knowing the answer yet having to act as if she knew nothing was really difficult.
She silently opened a private chat with Megumi Aiko.
[Kami Shita [6]: Are you sure that you have acting at full level?
Megumi Aiko [4]: … I have! Damn it, why are you all suspecting me so much? I used up all the skill points to fill up the necessary skills related to solving cases, martial arts, and acting! I even think that I really need more skill points.
Kami Shita [6]: Then don't be so stiff and just act natural. You think he's suspicious and you just need to ask Miwako to get his information and check like the previous other people whom you have checked.]
Megumi Aiko nodded and saw Sato Miwako returned with a pack of food from the canteen. "This is yours. Eat something so that you won't faint."
"Thank you, Senior Miwako! You're the best!" Megumi Aiko happily took the food and then pointed at the screen. "Can I trouble you to look at this man's information?"
"Sure." Sato Miwako nodded at Kami Shita and then started working.
On the other hand, Kami Shita stretched her body and picked a random chair to sit down and leaned against Megumi Aiko. The other party looked at Kami Shita helplessly, but she didn't seem to care and continued to lean down while Megumi Aiko continued to eat.
Miwako herself had already retrieved the information and spread it on the table so that Megumi Aiko could see it together.
"His name is Kinoshita Kobashi, he's unemployed and seems to be a freelancer who works on the street with no fixed job. His appearance is a bit scary, so it might contribute to the fact that he had no job. Hmm, the money source is not traceable, so his job might require him to pay in cash." Sato Miwako continued to read the information.
Megumi Aiko looked serious, but her eyes were drifting once again.
[Kami Shita [6]: We're about to investigate Kinoshita Kobashi. He's the trading partner that no. 10 picked. No. 1, are you ready?
ICPO Undercover Agent in Winery[1]: Ah, got it. Open your live broadcast and I'll help you identify no. 10.
Member of the Organization [10]: Tsk, isn't it better for me to show her directly how I look like?
ICPO Undercover Agent in Winery[1]: No, her acting would be too obvious at that time. Neither no. 6 or no. 4 are good at acting.
Kami Shita [6]: As much as I don't want to admit it, but no. 1 is right. If I know what you look like, I'll subconsciously look for you. It's better to use no. 1. At least, Vermouth's disguise seems to be of no use to her!
Member of the Organization [10]: I don't understand how you manage to find a fake person. When I saw her changing my face, I couldn't differentiate it with the real person.
ICPO Undercover Agent in Winery[1]: If you're being tested by Vermouth so much by disguising as your target that you supposedly have killed several times, you'll be able to quickly recognize her disguise because you have seen too much.
Member of the Organization [10]: … Sorry.]