Chapter 385 Tetrodotoxin

Hamano Toshiya's temporary residence is located in a low-cost apartment, but the police have obtained a permit to search the house, so it doesn't matter even if Hamano Toshiya doesn't open the door.

Takagi Wataru, who finally escaped from the evening rush hour traffic and rushed to the Metropolitan Police Department, didn't even have time to drink, and followed Officer Megure and others to Hamano Riya's apartment.

There was still no response to the knock on the door this time. Conan leaned on the door and listened for a long time. Hamano Toshiya's apartment was silent, as if he had already gotten wind of it and escaped.

The dilapidated low-cost apartment did not have monitoring facilities. After questioning, his neighbors had not seen Hamano Riya.

The sky was already a little dark at this time, just like when Kubota Airi had a fight with her husband on the day of the incident.

Originally, the police also made an appointment with Yumi Kubota today, but he did not show up for some unknown reason.

"I got the key." Takagi Wataru came over from the apartment management, holding the key to Hamano Riya's apartment in his hand.

He looked to Officer Megure for advice, and after receiving permission, he inserted the key into the keyhole.

With a click, the door opened.

It was dark inside, but to everyone's surprise, there was a TV set facing the entrance in the living room. The TV was still on and playing the news.

"Could it be that Tori Hamano is also at home?" Mouri Kogoro called suspiciously, "Mr. Hamano? Mr. Hamano, are you at home?!"

No one responded to him.

Nobushige's expression changed slightly. He walked directly into Hamano Toshiya's apartment and turned on the chandelier in the living room.

Conan followed closely: "That's strange. Does Mr. Hamano like to watch TV in silent mode?"

The living room is neat, with no traces of struggle or clutter from a hasty escape. It's as if the owner of the apartment is staying in a certain room in the apartment, quietly waiting for these uninvited guests.

However, Xinfan's expression became more and more serious, his brows furrowed deeply, and the ominous premonition in his heart became stronger and stronger.

This premonition became a fact until Hattori Heiji opened the sliding door of the kitchen——

"That, that's...!!!" Conan's pupils shrank suddenly.

I saw a figure lying on the kitchen floor. He had obviously fallen into a coma, or... died.

Mouri Kogoro shouted: "Go call an ambulance!!!"

"No need." Conan retracted his hand on the side of Hamano Toshiya's neck and said in a low tone, "He has been dead for a long time."

In fact, he could tell the fact that Hamano Toshiya was dead without touching the arteries, because Hamano Toshiya's body had become completely cold, and rigor mortis could be seen through the exposed skin, which can only be achieved more than eight hours after death. status.

In that case, Hamano Toshiya should have been dead as early as this morning when the police first came to look for him at his apartment.

After carefully examining the body, Mouri Kogoro also said: "Megure Police Department, according to my preliminary judgment, Hamano Tori should have died early this morning. The cause of death was..."

"Poisoned." Hattori Heiji received it immediately.

"Is he also poisoned by potassium cyanide?" After Takagi Wataru asked, seeing everyone turning their attention to him, he quickly explained, "Well, I am also guessing. After all, Hamano Toshiya also appeared in the Urata Kohei poisoning case yesterday. .”

"No." Mouri Kogoro explained seriously, "The symptoms of potassium cyanide poisoning are completely different from what Hamano Toshiya is showing now. His appearance is a bit like... puffer fish poisoning."

Officer Megure was surprised: "You mean he ate unhandled puffer fish? Then his death was an accident?"

Nobushige did not agree with Officer Megure's overly optimistic view: "The time of Hamano Riya's death was early this morning. The possibility of eating pufferfish at that time should be very low. What's more, the police only discovered the case of Hamano Riya and Kubota Airi last night. Contact, and a few hours later he was dead. I don't think it was a coincidence."

Hattori Heiji immediately raised a possibility: "Could it be that there is a mastermind behind Kubota Airi's case?"

"Kubota Yumiya and Mitsuha Tadao!!" Conan's eyes widened, "After all, they are the only two who have the motive to commit the crime!"

"boom--"

With a loud noise, Kogoro Mouri punched Conan and gave him an ice cream ball as a friendly gift.

"Children, don't make random guesses." Mouri Kogoro glared at Conan, "I think Hamano Toshiya just committed suicide out of fear of guilt after seeing what happened was exposed."

Conan had become accustomed to his uncle's violence. He silently covered his head and hid behind Nobuhiro.

Hattori Heiji squatted down and looked closely at the corpse.

He soon discovered the clues.

"Borrow a pair of gloves." Hattori Heiji asked Takagi Wataru for a pair of disposable gloves, and then picked up a mineral water bottle from under the table. "The mineral water bottle has no lid, and there are some water stains on the floor. This shows that Hamano Toshiya died before his death." He should be drinking water."

Officer Megure immediately said to the police officer of the forensics department: "Take the mineral water bottle and the liquid on the ground for testing."

The crime scene was very clean, so clean that it didn't look like a crime scene. Nothing was found except mineral water bottles.

Instead, Nobushige found a half-drunk bottle of dry red wine on the glass table on the balcony.

"He is really good at enjoying himself. He drank so much at one time!" Mouri Kogoro complained to others without any self-awareness.

"It doesn't have to be one person." Nobuhiro stopped in front of the wine cabinet, his eyes raised and fell on the cup holder.

"Why do you say that?"

Nobushige pointed to the cup holder and explained: "There are a total of six tulip cups hanging on Hamano Toshiya's cup holder. Four of them are very clean. Only the two outer cups have water stains. This means that there were two people drinking at that time. .”

Officer Megure walked over and asked, "Can you tell when they drank?"

"Okay." Nobuhiro nodded lightly, "I need a glass."

Without the police having to say anything, Hattori Heiji had already walked over with a cup: "I borrowed this from my neighbor, can it be used?"

Nobushige put on his gloves, took the glass, and poured out some of the remaining wine in the bottle.

He first looked at the color of the wine against the white wall, then brought it to his nose and smelled it. Next, Nobushige shook the glass gently to break the surface of the wine and expose it to the air, and then smelled the wine again.

Mouri Kogoro was amazed when he saw it: "I didn't expect Asano that you can actually taste wine!"

"Well, it will come naturally if you drink too much." After all, he is now in a winery, and wine tasting is just a basic skill.

"How's it going?" Officer Megure asked expectantly.

"This bottle of wine comes from the Italian DOCG winery Brunello del Monferrato and is of high quality. Assuming that the storage environment of the wine before opening is not too bad, this bottle of wine should have been opened for nearly 24 hours."

In other words, Hamano Riya drank with another person last night, and he died in the early morning.

This made the police suspicious of last night's guests.