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"Do you have any evidence?"

Looking at Senichi's calm face that was without any ripples, Tomoyuki Kuriki frowned and his tone become somewhat stern, "Stop kidding, I haven't done anything, where would the evidence come from..."

"Conan-kun." Senichi called out, and Conan, who was acting as the toolman, hurriedly ran over with the camera.

After receiving the camera, Senichi played the video and quickly forward it to the part where Tomoyuki Kuriki was applauding for the performance.

Right here, Senichi paused the video, freezing Tomoyuki Kuriki's leaning body on the screen.

"Haha... Stop kidding!" Tomoyuki Kuriki sneered, "What kind of evidence is this?"

"Really?" Senichi walked up behind Tomoyuki Kuriki and directly pulled down the towel around his neck.

"What are you doing!" Faced with the sudden "attack", Tomoyuki Kuriki seemed startled and reacted with some intense resistance.

But even though he was a stunt artist with a strong physique, he was no match for the cunning Senichi. His hands were instantly restrained and raised.

"Conan."

Senichi called Conan again, and then Conan, who was already prepared on the side, slowly extended his sinful little hand under the desperate struggles and despairing eyes of the "innocent man"...

"Szz... Szz..."

Ignoring Tomoyuki Kuriki's shouts of "don't" and other words of refusal, the zipper at the collar was slowly pulled down under Conan's sinful little hand, revealing the clothing inside.

"Tomoyuki... you..."

Seeing the clothing under Tomoyuki's coat, even Yasuhiro Miyauchi, who had the closest relationship with him, looked shocked and felt that Tomoyuki was so unfamiliar for the first time.

And on the side, Kinoshita Osamu's expression was incredibly complex, his eyes were showing not only joy of escaping suspicion and shock at the culprit, but also despair.

After all, if the culprit was Tomoyuki Kuriki, what difference would it make if Senichi solved the case before the second performance?

The role of the Kamen Yaiba, with one actor dead and one captured, there was simply no way to resolve it...

"Mr. Kuriki, do you have anything else to say at this point?"

Senichi looked at the silent Tomoyuki Kuriki and said, "I asked Auntie, who is in charge of managing costumes and props. She said that if you don't need to go on stage regularly, you wouldn't wear this outfit.

Among the three of you, you wore this outfit the least number of times. Why did you happen to wear it today, the day Mr. Kujo was murdered?

Before the performance, you wore the Kamen Yaiba costume and went to Mr. Kujo's dressing room. After killing Mr. Kujo, you pretended to be him and walked to a corridor where actors were waiting to participate in the usual ceremony.

Knowing Mr. Kujo's habits, you ostensibly return to his dressing room, but in fact, you quickly put on the jacket that was already prepared."

Senichi looked at the somewhat uneasy Tomoyuki Kuriki and said, "You should know, your biggest flaw lies in this outfit.

But you had no choice, you didn't have time to change out of this outfit because you had to immediately rush to the audience area and have the cameraman testify for you.

After that, you just needed to greet the cameraman as usual, watch the entire performance, and your perfect alibi would be established."

"Wait a minute!"

Tomoyuki Kuriki stood up, pointing at the costume inside and retorted, "I just put on this outfit after learning that Mr. Kujo was murdered because the performance was about to start...

It was a rare chance to perform, and I didn't want to disappoint the children, so I temporarily put it on..."

"I've been waiting for this." Senichi showed no sign of anger, instead, he smiled at Conan and said, "Did you record it all?"

"Of course." Conan nodded with a smile, as if Tomoyuki Kuriki's previous reaction was completely expected.

The calm demeanor of the two couldn't help but made Tomoyuki Kuriki feel a sense of unease, as if he were being scrutinized thoroughly.

"Then let's put an end to it."

Senichi picked up the camera and once again displayed the paused footage in front of everyone. "This is the video of Mr. Kuriki watching the performance earlier. Take a close look and see if you notice anything different?"

Upon hearing this, everyone gathered around to examine it closely. Although at first, they didn't notice anything different, Haibara quickly found something unusual. "There's a golden horizontal line on the neck..."

"Ah, it's true!!" Ayumi exclaimed. "There really is a horizontal line!"

"I remember the back of Kamen Yaiba is golden..." Mitsuhiko, who was the most talented among the children in reasoning, suddenly realized the truth.

"It's because of the forward tilt of the body that costume underneath was exposed!!" Prompted by Shinichi's reminder, Genta also understood the answer with excitement in his tone.

"Mr. Kuriki, you said you changed into this outfit after Mr. Kujo was murdered. So why did you change into it before knowing he was dead and unable to perform?"

Facing Senichi's question, Tomoyuki Kuriki remained silent, without any rebuttal. In the face of ironclad evidence, any rebuttal would be feeble and futile.

Seeing this situation, Kinoshita on the side exploded and shouted at Kuriki, "Kuriki!! You bastard!! Do you know what you've done? I've suffered such a huge loss, how are you going to compensate me?!"

"Heh... What do you know?" Tomoyuki Kuriki looked at Kinoshita with a cold sneer. "Kujo, that guy, although he taught me the 'Spinning Shuriken,' he treated me like a fool.

At first, I was indeed very grateful for his careful guidance, and even moved by him secretly letting me replace him on stage after I mastered the technique.

One day while I was eating nearby, I happened to run into him having dinner with his friends. When his friend asked about his work, that guy actually said he had a fool like me working for him for free...

It was only then that I realized his intentions!!"

Tomoyuki Kuriki's expression turned fierce. "Sure enough, in the afternoon, I received his 'charitable' phone call, asking me to perform on his behalf without showing my face.

Although later I found the opportunity to confront him about this and openly refused to be used by him..."

At this point, Tomoyuki Kuriki's face was like that of a demon. "But I didn't expect that bastard would use such a vicious method!!"