The famous criminal in the world of Conan

Chapter 246 Preconceived?

"Cough cough!"

Bai Masong coughed twice, as if to remind Conan.

You just escaped from danger, are you getting carried away so quickly?

When Conan heard the cough, he immediately suppressed his excited expression caused by his addiction to reasoning.

At this time, Shancuncao, who was always out of tune, suddenly pointed to a note on the table.

"Hey, it looks like a page of the sticky note here has been torn off."

Everyone looked over in the direction of the voice.

"really,"

Kisaragi said,

"Was it the murderer or Usui Ritsuko who tore off this page?"

Bai Masong looked around and soon saw something similar in the trash can.

"It should be the paper ball in the trash can."

Bai Ma Song said.

As he spoke, he picked up a crumpled paper ball from the trash can.

Kisaki Eri also came over and wanted to see what was on the paper ball.

Bai Ma Song opened it,

It only says "Hayashi 2"

"This is......"

Hibiki Eri looked at the paper ball, thoughtfully.

"Lin...2?"

Xiaolan saw that Hibiki Eri seemed to know something, so she asked quickly,

"Mom, what does this piece of paper say?"

"The notes on this piece of paper are from Usui Ritsuko,"

Kisaragi explained,

"I think the 'ハヤシ' here should refer to Lin, or Lawyer Lin."

"Do you remember that sewage lawsuit they mentioned earlier?"

"The sewage treatment case was originally entrusted to me and Attorney Shiozawa, but Attorney Shiozawa and I had no interest in it, so it was handed over to Attorney Mikasa and Ritsuko Usui."

"Who knew that due to the mistake made by lawyer Mikasa, we lost the first trial."

"During the second trial, in order to ensure her chances of winning, Usui Ritsuko came to me and asked me to recommend someone to replace Attorney Mikasa."

“After that, I thought of Lawyer Lin.”

"but......"

"But what?"

Shancuncao, who seemed to be enjoying the story, asked hurriedly.

"But,"

Kisaragi continued,

"I don't think I've told her yet about recommending Lawyer Lin."

"Besides, I don't think I told Lawyer Lin that we would stay in this hotel..."

"He said he learned it from Mr. Shiozawa."

At this time, a tall hotel waiter walked in and said.

"Ok?"

Kisaki Eri was a little surprised and turned her head.

"sorry for disturbance."

The waiter scratched his head and said.

"Actually, I was the one who transferred Lawyer Lin's call to this room today..."

"Hey, how can you just come in here casually?!"

Shancuncao said with dissatisfaction.

"Sorry, I just remembered something that was a little strange."

The waiter said in a deep voice,

"That's why I wanted to come and tell the policeman."

"strange things?"

Shancuncao was a little stunned.

"Tell me something."

The highest commander here, Bai Masong, said to the waiter.

"Ah, okay."

The waiter began his story.

"That's right. Mr. Lin called me twice tonight."

"The first time, I helped him contact Ms. Usui Ritsuko."

"The second time there was no response, so I came over and rang the doorbell myself, but still no response."

"So I will go and tell Mr. Lin that Ms. Usui Ritsuko must have fallen asleep."

"But Mr. Lin said that Ms. Usui Ritsuko was probably taking a shower so she didn't hear it, so he asked me to come over and ring the doorbell again."

"So I did."

"But this time it's very strange, I saw a Do Not Disturb sign on the door, and there was a note on the sign!"

"Note?"

Shancuncao listened very carefully and even took out the police manual to start taking notes.

Hearing this, he couldn't help but ask questions.

"Oh, yes, it says, I'm sorry, please tell him I'll pay."

"Have you told him?"

Bai Masong suddenly asked.

Shancuncao also came over,

"Did you tell him?"

"Oh, of course."

The waiter nodded.

"But Mr. Lin said at the time that he just wanted to discuss with Ms. Usui Ritsuko to change the appointment from 2pm tomorrow to 4pm."

"Eh? That's weird!"

Yamamura Cao asked in confusion.

Kisaragi also frowned.

"This is how the same thing?"

"The piece of paper on the trash can clearly says that she and Mr. Lin have an appointment to meet at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon."

"yes,"

Sato Miwako was also very puzzled.

"But the note on the door said something completely unrelated about paying back the money."

"Could it be that there is a financial transaction between Lawyer Lin and Ms. Usui Ritsuko?"

"This, this shouldn't be possible,"

After hearing this, Hibiki Eri said hesitantly,

"Lawyer Lin and Ms. Usui Ritsuko had no interactions before this case. Or to be more precise, they didn't even know each other. How could there be a money transaction?"

"Then, is it possible that this thing was done by the murderer?"

Conan couldn't help but say again.

Fortunately, they were so absorbed in solving the case that they had no time to care about Conan.

"But,"

Kisaragi still didn't understand.

"If the murderer did it, why would he do it?"

Yeah, why would he do that?

Conan was also puzzled.

At this time, Bai Masong's cold voice sounded,

“It’s a preconceived notion.”

huh?

Everyone looked towards the white pine tree.

At this time, Bai Masong was looking down at the hotel menu on the table.

Conan listened to Bai Masong's words and connected them with what he was doing, and he suddenly understood.

However, others didn’t quite understand.

"What do you mean?"

It seems that Yamamura Sou is from the same school as Inspector Megure, and his spirit of asking questions when he doesn't understand something is worthy of praise.

"Lawyer Hime knows that Usui Ritsuko wrote that it was Lawyer Lin, and there are two other things about the date."

"But if it's the murderer, he may not know."

At this point, Bai Masong picked up the menu on the table.

"Tell me, if he saw this menu and that word, what would he think of?"

Menu...Hayashi...

This, can’t it?

Everyone connected the two words, and in an instant, one word appeared in their minds.

Diced beef rice bowl!

The Japanese abbreviation for beef rice bowl is ハヤシ!

The reason why Kisaki Eri had a preconceived notion was because ハヤシ and 林 are homophones, both pronounced as はやし (hayashi)

In other words, Usui Ritsuko originally intended to write "Hayashi", but for the sake of abbreviation, she wrote "Hayashi".

However, the menu on her desktop was open.

When the murderer saw it, he naturally associated it with beef cubes rice.

In addition, there was another person named Kogoro Mouri in the room, so he understood the "2" as two servings of beef rice bowls!