Chapter 31: A Letter of Entrustment from Hell

"Alas! Really, everyone is on vacation right now, but it's just me, the hapless Kogoro, going to that hellish deserted island. If it weren't for this inexplicable letter sent last week...... "Looking at the letter in his hand that made him have to work on holidays, after taking a melancholy puff of cigarettes, Maori Kogoro lay on the bow of the boat and felt sorry for himself.

"That's it! Father! I remember the day before yesterday when I received a phone call from Mr. Keiji Aso, saying that the reconnaissance fee of 500,000 yuan had been remitted to your account, you invited all of us to have a good meal that night! ”

"yes, that day! Once again, we have the misfortune to provoke this plague god, and why does this bastard come with us every time we go on a trip? Sister Xiaolan and Uncle are really, they are not at all defensive against this hypocritical demon, and warmly invite him to come and have fun! We've got a mission this time! Bring this drag oil bottle in case ......"

"Huh? Conan's Little Brother...... What are you muttering? Brother, I've heard it all! It's really a Maori uncle's house! Dare to say that I am a drag oil bottle, you never said this about me when you were a child! Besides, did I go with you last time you went to Saitama Prefecture for the next festival of the world? Would you like to travel with you? Do you know that even after resting, you still have to face the pain of murder? If I hadn't been interested in this Moon Shadow Island, would you think I'd be here with you? Little brother Conan! Just as Conan listened to Xiaolan's lesson to Maori Kogoro and couldn't help muttering alone, a terrifying shadow hung over his back, and then the familiar head touching began to be ruthless and presumptuous on his head.

"Brother Yuichi! Hehehe! I'm kidding! Don't take it seriously! You let go! You let me go! You let me go, bastard! I'm all soft, and you're still bullying me! Yuichi Kudo is too much! ”

"Huh? Little brother Conan, do you have an opinion? ”

Looking at the palm of the smiling tiger on the other side, which was still rubbing, in line with the principle that a hero does not suffer the loss in front of him, Conan, who had just given a look of you to try Lao Tzu's expression again, smiled and immediately changed it to a lewd expression begging you to move me again. Yuichi, who was disgusted by him, retracted his hand in disgust, leaned against the railing of the passenger ship, blew the sea breeze, lit a cigarette, and his expression gradually became serious.

"Shinichi! What do you think of this strange letter? ”

After sneaking a glance at the Maori father and daughter not far away, he found that they didn't pay attention to Conan, who was here, quietly breathed a sigh of relief before complaining in a dissatisfied tone, "Yuichi! You're paying attention! What if Xiaolan knows my true identity? ”

"I'm hehe, you're looking at it! You also know that your identity can't be known to Xiaolan for the time being, so what does it mean that you have been showing off your IQ much higher than that of a first-grade child in front of him? Is Xiaolan really a fool? You're the main character, you can't play like that! You haven't learned the lesson from the last mysterious toy mailing incident? I'm telling you, if you continue to play like this, you'll be caught by Xiaolan sooner or later! When the time comes, I'll see how you explain it! Shinichi, no matter how good this girl is to you, when they know that you are playing with their feelings, they will not hesitate to slap you twice! Xiaolan's two slaps, hum! Maybe I'll be the only heir to our Kudo family in the future! ”

"I don't have ......"

"That's it! Don't talk about that! Let's talk about the letter! What do you think! Interrupting Conan's anxious self-defense with a wave of his hand, Yuichi, who was too lazy to care about his messy feelings, continued to focus on the letter he was interested in.

"The letter? What is there to look into? When I arrived at Moonshadow Island, wouldn't it be clear that Mr. Keiji Aso would reveal all the truth? Conan, who felt that Yuichi didn't want to discuss his relationship with Xiaolan, kicked the railing in front of him a little unhappily, and asked listlessly.

"Don't you think it's strange? The fact that the letter was not handwritten, but was spliced from various newspapers, shows that the sender did not want me to know any of his news, including his handwriting! However, he put Aso's name at the end of the letter, and you said that the person named Keiji Aso the day before yesterday actually called you, and he didn't meet Uncle Maori, nor did he talk about specific things, so with this letter, the shadow will begin to disappear on Moonshadow Island on the next full moon night, please investigate! This kind of letter, which is not explicitly commissioned, gave Uncle Maori 500,000 in reconnaissance fees! In any case, there is a strange feeling in this incident, and I think this trip to Moon Shadow Island may be another tragedy, but I don't know who the protagonist of this drama is? ”

Looking at Yuichi with a metaphysician's expression, Conan sighed helplessly and then opened his mouth or gave up his plan to persuade Yuichi, is this considered an occupational disease? No matter what abnormal things happen, I subconsciously feel that there will be a murder. How can there be so many murders in this world? Forget it, when I got to Moonshadow Island, I saw the client Keiichi Aso and understood, maybe the other party just had other unspeakable secrets. Conan, who had no sense of death at all, shook his head and stopped saying anything to Yuichi, who wanted to come to this island with a vague memory, and silently looked at the sea in front of him.

"What do you say? Don't have this person? Dude, are you mistaken? Do you look closely? You see, he did send me this letter from here! I'm not lying! Please, can you be careful? Mori Kogoro, who was standing in front of the service desk of the Tsukikage Island Village Office, waved the strange letter in his hand, and he couldn't help but roar when he was already in a bad mood.

"Sir! Can you please be calm? I really checked them one by one, and there really is no name of this person in the roster of residents on the island, and I was transferred to this island only last month, and I don't know most of the residents on this island, so why don't I go and ask you? ”

"Any questions?" Just as the receptionist was explaining something to Mori Kogoro with an apologetic face, a middle-aged man who looked like a butler came over and asked suspiciously, after pushing the frame on the bridge of his nose.

"Nothing was a problem! This gentleman said that an islander named Keiji Aso wrote a letter to ask him to come here, but I can't find this person named Keiji Aso! So ......"

"Wait, what did you call the client?" The man with glasses, who heard the clerk's explanation, suddenly became short of breath and asked in disbelief.

"Keiji Aso? What's wrong? ”

"Hemp...... Keiji Aso? No way? Because he died more than ten years ago! How is it possible to write a power of attorney letter? Hearing the clerk's name repeated, the man with glasses suddenly panicked and roared out of a bit of a gaffe.

"What? He's dead? Looking at the islanders sitting around him glance at him strangely, he immediately lowered his head and chattered, and the somewhat unbelievable Maori Kogoro and Conan couldn't help but roar.