"John, I remember when I was in elementary school, Shinichi used to bring bread and stuff like that to feed it."

Hearing their words, Kogoro also looked at the door number of this house. "Itaguchi is righteous, it's very familiar!"

Seeing Kogoro touch the back of his head suspiciously, Conan reminded him. "He's a lawyer."

"Lawyer, by the way, I remember that he was a lawyer who specialized in juvenile issues, and he was quite famous!"

"By the way, Dad, I remember when I was in the third grade of elementary school, a boy in their family committed suicide."

Just after Xiaolan finished speaking, the three of them first heard a few dog barks, followed by a man's panicked and painful shouts.

The three of them were stunned for a moment, and then immediately ran towards the house, hearing a woman's frightened screams on the way.

At the door, a young woman ran out in a panic, and immediately collapsed to the ground when she saw the three of them.

"What's wrong!?" "Xiao Gang, Xiao Gang him!" Seeing that she was still in a state of panic, I am afraid that it will be difficult to answer for a while.

"Xiaolan, you stay and take care of her, let's go take a look first." As he spoke, he caught up with Conan, who had already left.

Running into the house, Kogoro saw at a glance the corner of the stairs, where a young man was lying at this time.

He was covered in blood, especially in his chest and in the back of his head, which hit the wall directly.

His eyes were full of horror, and he didn't expect such a thing to happen all of a sudden.

Conan looked at the fierce-looking John and shouted at him in disbelief, and then it scurried down the stairs.

Seeing John rushing towards Conan, Kogoro's heart couldn't help but tighten, but compared to John, he couldn't catch up anyway.

But in the end, what he feared didn't happen, and John began to lick Conan's face passionately after knocking him down.

Perhaps startled by the movement here, a man asked loudly on the phone next to the young man's body.

When Conan heard this, he pushed John, who was making out with him, away and ran to the phone. "Hey, is it Uncle Itaguchi? I'm Conan! ”

After hearing his words, the man was visibly stunned. "It's Conan! I'm away on a business trip right now, is anything going on at home? ”

"I think, uncle, you should come back now! John, it's in trouble! Conan said to him solemnly.

Soon the police arrived, and the leader of the team was naturally an old acquaintance, Officer Mudu. "The victim's name is Tsuyoshi Maehara, and he is 20 years old this year."

"It's a college student who lives next door, and Mr. Itaguchi asked him to help take care of John because he was going on a business trip, which we learned from the owner of the house here."

"Could you please tell us about the situation?" Officer Twilight shifted his gaze to the young woman.

Her name is Sanae Sugita, and she was invited by Tsuyoshi Maehara to play here.

"We were playing music in the living room, but an hour after I arrived, Mr. Itaguchi's phone called."

So Xiao Gang stopped the music and went to answer the phone. Mr. Itaguchi said that he was going to let John go, and he talked to him about something. ”

"At that moment, the dog suddenly pounced on Xiao Gang, and Xiao Gang fell on the wall around the corner because he was on the stairs."

After hearing her general description, Kogoro immediately put the suspicion on Itaguchi Masayoshi.

Especially later, I learned from Officer Twilight that Xiao Gang was the one who bullied Mr. Itaguchi's son back then, and it can also be said that he was the one who indirectly caused his death.

There is no evidence for such an obvious motive. The possibility that Itaguchi was ordered by telephone to order John was also denied.

If he could not find evidence that he had trained John to commit murder, then the only way to blame him for the crime would be to execute him.

Faced with such a situation, Kogoro couldn't help but recall all the things that happened at that time and sort out one detail after another.

'What did the telephone, the nine o'clock bell, and Mr. Itaguchi's words miss!?' Kogoro's mind kept flowing.

At this moment, the phone of the office suddenly rang with a ringtone. "Ringtones!? That's right, it's the ringing of the phone! ”

Kogoro suddenly stood up excitedly, hurriedly picked up the phone, and after a few perfunctory words with the man, he contacted Officer Twilight.

In the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Kogoro, Conan, and Xiaolan are all there. Also present were Masayoshi Itaguchi and John in a cage.

"Is there anything you want me to do? Officer Twilight! He said impatiently. We wanted to do an experiment. ”

With that, he asked the officers who were waiting to the side to carry out the previous arrangement, first one of them picked up the phone and walked to John's side, and then Officer Twilight dialed the number.

The ringtone is the same ringtone as the phone at Masayoshi Itaguchi's house. Then another police officer pulled out a tape recorder.

At the signal of Officer Twilight, he played the recording of the Itaguchi's clock, and as the arrangement progressed, John also stood up nervously, looking very fierce.

"Mr. Itaguchi, please repeat what you said to John on the phone that day!" With that, Officer Twilight handed him the phone.

"I, I confess!" Facing the gazes of everyone looking at him in unison, he hesitated for a moment and then gave up in despair.

"Then you just admit it, did you kill Mr. Tsuyoshi Maehara?" "Yes, because he completely forgot!"

"Forgot?" "Yes, when he moved next door to my house some time ago, he was still bullying other young people, and he had long forgotten about the things of righteous people."

"Because of this, you trained John to kill him!?" "I'm a lawyer who specializes in juvenile issues, and he has this kind of problem all the time."

"So eight years ago, when I saw him crying so sadly in front of the grave of the righteous man, and he had the intention of repenting, I decided not to pursue him anymore."

"But eight years have passed, but he still hasn't changed, and he has forgotten the things of the righteous person, I really can't bear it."

Speaking of this, he looked very excited, and the sadness in his eyes could not be suppressed. "I think John is also very happy to be able to help Masato take revenge!"

"Not really! John: It's also sad about what happened to Masato's brother, so he stays upstairs every day, doesn't he? ”

"But uncle, have you ever thought about it!?" Facing Conan's immature but strong questioning, Itaguchi Masayoshi suddenly cried and knelt down.

"John!" He hugged John, who had just been released, the sad and crying man, the whimpering dog, everything seemed so sad.