doesn't exist!'
The addressee was still shrouded in a degree of incomprehension because of Mireille's statements. Only this childlike voice loosened him up a little.
"Uh, yes, the murder, yes. Thanks, Conan." He took out his notebook. Someone just brought him a pad of data, too.
"As expected, it is a murder with potassium cyanide.", He began to explain the results of the investigation, actually to Chiba, but of necessity also to explain to the others.
"Traces were found in his mouth, mainly on his teeth.Likewise on his right thumb and forefinger, on the toothpick he used, on the handle of his coffee cup and, in the case of residues, in the coffee. Wait a minute, Chiba, clarify this with the investigation team again! What do they mean by residue? "
"Well, that he already had the potassium cyanide in his mouth."
Everyone stared at the little boy.
"How before?"
"Uh, I just mean, if there was only residue in the coffee, then that was probably not where the potassium cyanide came from. I heard on TV that you need a minimum dose of every poison in order to kill a person with it. And besides, the dose of potassium cyanide can be determined by the amount of hydrogen cyanide formed in the stomach. If there was not enough cyanide in the coffee, it was probably only from the sip the victim took before. But maybe I'm just crazy what together. "
"No, Conan. You are right! Commissioner, if you poured potassium cyanide into coffee, it would spread. Although statistical fluctuations could reduce the concentration in the remaining coffee, this is only conceivable to a certain extent.""And if it had been a capsule, no residue should have been found.
If Mr. Higunara had already had potassium cyanide in his mouth, some of it would have mixed with the coffee and flowed back into the cup in a low concentration.
Bravo, Chiba! "
Conan: "But, Commissioner, I thought potassium cyanide works as soon as you swallow it. How could it be in his mouth then without him swallowing it?"
"Uh yes that ... doesn't work, right?"
"Maybe he had taken a potassium cyanide tablet or something and swallowed it with the coffee."
"Are you trying to say that he committed suicide using potassium cyanide in front of his employees? How do you explain the marks on the toothpick?"
Conan: "What do the employees say, did he take a pill?"
Megure flipped through the papers.
"So, clockwise, next to Mr. Higunara, Mr. Shinoka, Mr. Matai, the secretary of the meetings, Mr. Hakuto, the vice director who sat across from the victim, Mr. Sinjo, the company's accountant, and Mr. Nimita.Everyone agreed that Mr. Higunara had goose liver for the main course, then, as usual, apparently gave a short speech about the success of the company and then took the coffee, the first sip of which he dropped the cup and collapsed. "
"That means he hadn't taken a pill?"
"No, at least nobody saw one."
He sank into thought for a moment until his cell phone got him back. As he moved away a little, Sonoko noticed a smile at Mireille.
"What is it?"
"Do you remember what I called Conan earlier?"
"The little Prince?"
"Exactly. I just had to think about it again. It was a peculiarity of the little prince that he asked many, often very interesting questions, but never answered any of them himself. If you wanted to find out anything about him, you had to read between the lines.
Take the point with the coffee. He said he got it from TV but didn't say exactly where.
So it could just as easily be a lie, unverifiable.Only the fact that he found out about it from somewhere is there, and that he has memorized it. That probably means that he is interested in it, in whatever context. "
For a short moment Sonoko looked at her startled and had to shake his head violently to get clear again.
"No no no!"
"You, Sonoko? Who is he? Who is this Conan?"
"The boy lives with Ran and her father. As far as I know, his parents are traveling abroad somewhere and he has been living with the Moris for a while now.
Un enfant sans parents (a child without parents, in French it rhymes), so to speak. ", she wanted to round off ironically, but earned a rather desperate look.
"For that matter, I have to speak to you afterwards, okay? When this is over."

After recognizing the number of Professor Agasa's house connection, he took the cell phone to his ear.
"Yes, what is it?"
"Kudo, would you please explain to your neighbor that I don't like to play message messenger for both of you?""Nice to hear you too, Haibara! What does the professor want?"
"What do you think? Your shoes are ready. You should pick them up."
"Oh great. And again with ... S-mode?"
"You'd better not bring him up on this subject. I guess he'll send you an invoice for the components anyway. You've finally made him your personal Q, my dear James. And if 007 breaks Q's inventions, he gets." not a second time. "
"Thanks for the clarification, Moneypenny."
"You're confusing something, definitely.
Tell me where are you But not in the detective agency. There are too many voices to be heard. "
"No, Jodie invited Ran, Sonoko and me to dinner in a French posh restaurant in the Haido Tower, for which she had won vouchers. Unfortunately, there was a murder here, which is why we are stuck here with her and this new teacher for a while . "
"New teacher?"
"Jodie mentioned that the evening after the Tropical Land visit, a new French trainee is now working at Ran's school.Mireille bouquet. "
Ai's breath caught briefly. Conan could hear the louder he got on the phone, even when she tried to suppress him. It took a while for a hesitant answer to come.
"Did Jodie invite this woman too?"
"No, that was more of a coincidence. You and your friend probably come here more often."
She thought her heart would skip for a moment.
'Two! Anything but that. You're welcome!'
"Ai? Is something?"
"No, ... already ... all right. Good luck with the case, Sherlock. See you later, take care."
She hung up and did not respond to the calls from the other person on the other end of the line.

"And, Ai.
Is he coming today or tomorrow? "
"He's coming later."
She went towards her room.
"I'll pick him up, Professor.
Meanwhile, could you do me a favor? "

'What shoud that? Simply hang up. That doesn't suit her at all.
Whatever, I have to focus on the case.
Much more interesting than how the potassium cyanide got into his mouth is how it got his fingers.Because from them it came first on the toothpick, causing the widening and then on the handle of the cup. As far as I think everything is clear.
He had finished eating. There were still no traces, then he gave his speech, no before he probably used the toothpick, but what else happened in between. There was no more cyanide on the cutlery, the dishes or anywhere else.
He must have touched something, but five people around the table wouldn't have missed that! And the perpetrator could have transported the potassium cyanide badly through the air.
He looked at the table and the tooth hedgehog on it.
"Sorry, Mr. Policeman. How did you know so exactly which toothpick belonged to the victim?"
"Ah, you again, kid. Well, because it was the top one in the middle. His staff have confirmed that he has reserved the one in the middle."
One of these employees was added.
Mr. Matai: "Yes, that was one of his strange habits.He always took exactly the one from the middle, no one else was allowed to have it. Not even Hakuto. "
'What a big puke! There are even exactly six toothpicks in a row, as if made for it. But...'
"Do you say and the speech was one of his rituals?"
"Oh yes, my little one. That's why he was always here so that he could celebrate 'his' achievements properly. No member of the board was allowed to escape that.
And for someone like me, who keeps things in mind longer because of taking notes at board meetings, that's even more annoying! "
"And did any of you have any such trouble?"
"Thank God not my boy. We were, at least on these evenings, probably more normal."
'I see, that's how it was. Actually simple. But seen that way, anyone could be the culprit. Even if I voiced my suspicions, the evidence would probably be unm ... Except ... '
He ran to one of the medics.
"Excuse me, can I ask you something?""What?"
He leaned down to Conan, who whispered in his ear:
"Tell me, did you happen to find potassium cyanide ..."
"Uh, yes, but only very small quantities. Besides, we were expecting them there."
'That's it. The detail that the perpetrator ignored.
There is always only one truth and I find it.
The perpetrator is ... '