Chapter 3: An Untimely Halloween

"The following is a hand co-offender, Mizuma Yue, the former Metropolitan Police Department Search Section 1 Forcible Offender 2 Department Chief, the Police Department, on Sunday, December 17, killed three police officers in a row, including Zhu Xing Deng Zhifu, deputy director of the Metropolitan Police Department, and then fled. ”

"There were injuries sustained during the escape, the location of the injuries is unknown, and it is unclear whether the fugitives had a rifle in their hands. ”

"It is emphasized that the offender is extremely capable of fighting and is very dangerous, and if the public finds his whereabouts, he should call the Metropolitan Police Department hotline to provide clues after avoiding himself to ensure his own safety. Remember not to try to engage and conflict. ”

"The bounty will be announced below, and if a citizen sees the person and provides clear location information to the Metropolitan Police Department, a reward of 1 million yen will be provided by the National Police Agency after verification. ”

Drop, Conan pressed the remote control and turned off the TV.

This is Dr. Asasa's house, where Dr. Asasa, Conan, and Ash Hara sit in front of the TV without saying a word.

"Edogawa, do you mean that person was framed by the organization to become like this?" asked Gray Yuan Ai first to break the silence.

Conan nodded.

"Shinichi, you said you met Officer Mizuma before he ran away?" Dr. Asa looked at Conan nervously.

"Yes, he told me that the organization was the one who started it all, but ...... I don't quite understand what he said, 'In his memory, he did everything with his own hands.' Conan thought darkly, for him, every time he identified a prisoner, the prisoner's answer was only 'done' and 'didn't do'.

Dr. Asa also helped Conan think, "Could it be that Officer Mizuma meant that the memories could be fake, and that the organization had tampered with his memories by some means. ”

"Have you ever considered a possibility, maybe you're not facing the real Officer Mizuma?" asked Gray Plains, "Don't forget, long before this, Officer Mizuma had a gradually thicker aura of organization wrapped around him, and until the last time I saw him, he was no different from the people in the organization. ”

Conan's face changed, especially when he thought of the fact that people from the organization had appeared around Mizuma several times, but after thinking about it carefully, he shook his head: "The fact that we are alive alone is enough to know that the organization has not yet known our true identity, and Officer Mizuma obviously knew who I was until the last time we met, so it was impossible." ”

"Doesn't the organization know who we are?" said Gray Plains, lowering his eyes.

"That means ......," Dr. Asasa asked.

Conan nodded: "Officer Mizuma, who has given up tracking down the organization, has finally been retaliated against by the organization." ”

None of the three of them spoke, Shui Jianyue was not a friendly person to them, but everyone was tracking down the people of the organization, and Shui Jianyue's misfortune made them feel sad that the rabbit had died.

"Give up!" Gray Yuan advised, "Give up tracking the organization, and live well as Conan Edogawa before the organization finds you." ”

"Impossible!" Conan flatly refused, "I will definitely turn back into Kudo Shinichi and destroy that evil criminal organization." ”

"Whatever you want, ahem. "Gray Yuan Ai did not argue with Conan, and went back to the room after a light sentence, her cold is not yet well, last time in order to go to the hospital to take over the matter in the department store stall, Gray Yuan Wai has been staying at home for the past few days to 'recuperate'

"The school helped me take a leave of absence. Before returning to the room, Gray Yuan mourned a sentence, after the toilet bombing incident, the Didan Elementary School, which had been suspended for a month to rebuild, finally resumed school.

However, it is clear that Gray Yuan will take a leave of absence on the first day of school resumption.

Conan packed his schoolbag and went to school, where he met the imps of the Junior Detective Corps on the way.

"Conan Conan!" Ayumi shouted from afar, "Did you see the news? Officer Mizuma has become a prisoner!"

"Hmm. Conan nodded, and walked forward with a gloomy face, neither intending to continue the discussion nor greeting everyone.

"Isn't Ashbara-san's cold still healed?" Mitsuhiko asked.

Conan didn't say a word, just nodded slightly. Apparently he wasn't in the mood to talk much right now.

Affected by Conan's emotions, no one could say anything about a child who originally wanted to discuss it, and walked forward silently like Conan.

It's just that at noon, they got used to the changes in Conan, and talked about the water moon casually.

"If you want me to say that the fierce person deserves it, if you are fierce to children today, you may kill people and set fire tomorrow!" Yuan Tai, who was talking while eating a bento, shouted and invented a 'famous saying', spraying rice grains everywhere.

"Yuantai, you can't talk like that, Officer Mizuma is clearly a good policeman!" Mitsuhiko said rhetorically.

Conan didn't speak to them, and walked out of the classroom after eating the lunch box in two bites.

It wasn't until after school that Conan's depression finally cleared a little, and instead of going back to the office, he went to Dr. Asasa's house again.

When Dr. Asa enters his home, he discovers that the Doctor is not doing strange experiments as expected, but sorting through a large pile of letters.

"That's ......!" Conan remembered, because his father Kudo Yusaku's publicly announced address was his home as Kudo Shinichi, and there were always fan letters and editorial letters and strange people sending blades, and he, as a son, had to sort out these letters by category, and fan letters were prepared to reply according to the draft left by Kudo Yusaku, and the editor's letters were picked out and left for him to deal with, and by the way, the blade rate in different periods was counted.

"It's time to deal with the letter again, but I'm not in the mood to deal with it when I see you, so I'll help you. Dr. Asasa explained.

"Thank you, Doctor, but let me do the same. Conan sat listlessly on the edge of the table and read the letters one by one.

"Mr. Yusaku Kudo, Mr. Yusaku Kudo, Mr. Yusaku Kudo, Mr. Yusaku Kudo...... Ahhhh Just looked at it for a while, Conan said irritably.

"That's no way, right?,Compared to you, who haven't heard from you for more than a year.,Yusaku is a well-known full-time mystery writer.。 Dr. Asa twisted his beard, feeling that Conan's complaint seemed familiar.

"Hey, here's a letter to Shinichi!" Dr. Asa found that he had a letter in his hand written about Shinichi Kudo's own person.

"Huh?" Conan was also startled, and suddenly realized that history is always strikingly similar, as if the events of the appeal had also happened once before the events of Teiji Moriya.

Conan took the letter, cut it open, and found that it was an invitation.

To Shinichi Kudo.

Conan swallowed his saliva and continued to read, noting that there was a separate piece of paper along with the invitation, and Conan chose to open the letter first.

However, at first glance, he almost choked him to death.

Dear Mr. Conan Edogawa,

The night of the full moon is approaching, and you are invited to come and join in for a spooky party, a bloody party on board.

Whether you attend or not, the poor dead lamb will curse its fate, and the sinners will go unpunished.

vermouth

The letter slipped from Conan's fingertips, and Conan didn't bother to pick it up, jumping out of his chair and running up the stairs.

……

After a while, Gray Yuan sat down at the table with a cup of hot water, and Conan next to him had a red palm print on his face, which was said to be the result of his trespassing on the lady's bedroom.

"This looks like an invitation to a party, right?" Dr. Asa reads the letter and the invitation while Conan is away, and if he doesn't talk about it, the invitation says "an inopportune Halloween" party.

All guests are asked to dress up as ghosts to come to the party and decrypt the puzzle.

In this way, the contents of the letter look as if it is provoking some detectives to engage in a mystery contest, if you ignore the words of 'dear Mr. Conan Edogawa'.

"Is Vermouth the code name in the Order?" Conan asked, turning to Ashbara, who had slapped her down the stairs.

"I haven't heard of it, I don't know much about wine. Gray Plains shook his head.

Conan was already looking up the dictionary: "It's a wine native to Italy, and we generally call it...... Belmode. ”

Hearing this name, Gray Yuanai's complexion, which was already not very good because of a cold, became even worse.

"You know you've heard this name by looking at your face, right?" Conan asked without surprise, "You've heard of this name, right?

"Isn't this invitation?" said Dr. Asasa in surprise.

"That's right, the trap of the organization. Conan nodded: "It's finally my turn after Officer Mizuma, let me do the tricks......"

"No!" Gray Yuan cried out, "You can't go, don't go, it's a trap!

"I know it's a trap. Conan nodded: "But we've been exposed anyway." After they know that I am Shinichi Kudo, it is not difficult to guess that you are Shirley, even if they hide this time, they can come directly to the door, so this time it is a trap and an opportunity to take the initiative to fight. ”

"I still don't understand, why didn't they just come and kill us all?" Dr. Asa asked.

"Well...... Actually, I don't understand either, but I don't understand anything......" Conan said inexplicably, and without giving the two of them a chance to ask, he returned to the office with his schoolbag on his back, leaving Dr. Asasa in a daze and Ashbara with a panicked and stunned face on his face.

……

"Who is that Belmode? Do you know anything about him?" asked Dr. Asa after a long time. Compared to Conan, who was chattering with gods, he thought it would be better to understand the enemy first.

Gray Hara picked up the dictionary that Conan had looked through before, found the entry about Belmode, and read it.

"Vermouth, flavored wine, first originated in Germany, in order to adapt to the taste of Germans who love to drink bitter beer, the Germans used absinthe leaves to soak wine, and later developed to use wine to soak various fruits, spices, herbs and plants, and developed a new variety of wine. ”

"In other words, the wine with different aromas obtained by soaking different spices is vermouth? Closing the dictionary, Gray Yuan sighed.

"The Witch with a Thousand Faces?" Dr. Asa asked, confused, this is supposed to describe the Belmode in the Order, right?

"That's right, this is the nickname given to her by the people in the organization, she is proficient in cross-dressing, I don't know what her true face is, but since the nickname is this, it should be a woman. Gray Yuan nodded: "I have felt her breath, and it is stronger and suffocating than the last officer Mizuma I saw, and it is completely different from the smell of gin. ”

"Her status in the organization is no less than Gin's, so you can know what a terrifying opponent she is, so no matter what dangerous plans Edogawa is making, it is better for the doctor to persuade her in the end. ”

"Uh-huh...... Oh. Dr. Asa hesitated, then agreed.

……

"Hey, what is this? After Xiaolan came back from school, she checked the newspaper box in the house and there was no letter of entrustment, and she really saw a beautifully framed envelope.

"An untimely Halloween invitation?" Xiaolan frowned, sounding as if she had something to do with the scary Demons and Monsters.

Xiaolan has recently vaguely felt this strange fog around her, Conan, who is sneaky and goes out early and returns late, suddenly becomes a suspect Officer Mizuma, the old father who has relapsed and started to drink again, and the thing I saw last time at Teacher Judy's house......

……

Judy St. Timilion, a foreign English teacher at Didan High School, put down a report in her hand and took off her somewhat old glasses.

"Is it finally about to show the horse's feet? rotten apples. ”

Judy slowly stood up, and when she noticed that the room was a little dark, she walked to the window and pulled back the thick curtains.

The crimson sunset came in and hit a wall, and if anyone saw it, they would see that it was mostly a picture of a boy.

Shinichi Kudo, a detective who was once famous a year ago for high school students.

There is also a photo of a seven or eight-year-old boy who is very smart at first glance, and has a marker pen written on it in English coolkid.

Edogawa Conan.

Judy then found another document in the drawer.

"That arrogant police officer has fallen to this level, who did it? Is that the person?"

……

"What should I do! What should I do now!Mr. Oto!" Miae Miyazono remembered turning around on the ground, and she couldn't wait to come forward and shake the neck of Oto Prefecture.

"Don't worry, don't worry, I'm trying to contact him, and he's not dead or in prison, so I won't let you not see your sister. Oto Prefecture Lake crackled on the computer and comforted.

Mie Miyazono was even more anxious: "Now is the most dangerous situation! Maybe his change will be done by the organization, if he has fallen into the hands of the organization now, maybe his sister will be found together." ”

"Eh, calm down...... Hey, hey, hey, let go of my neck, I didn't kill your sister!"