"Huh? So these days, Gray Yuan-san, has been hanging out with the big sister he knows for a few days, right? ”

In Didan Elementary School, as the school bell rang, when most of the students were sorting out their schoolbags in the classroom and were about to go home, in the classroom of Class B of the year, listening to Xiao Ai explain the reason why he didn't come to class these days, Mitsuhiko couldn't help but say-

"That's great! ...... be able to take time off work and travel for so many days."

In this regard, Ayumi on the side said with envy, and then looked at the empty seat next to Xiao Ai, as if he was a little relieved:

"I thought you were hanging out with Conan!"

"yes."

At this time, Mitsuhiko heard Ayumi say this, and couldn't help but echo:

"Conan also sometimes doesn't come to school and goes all over the country to play."

"Yes."

In this regard, Xiao Ai looked at the attitude of the two people around her, and couldn't help but say in her heart-

Because, he's going to follow that Mr. Detective to solve the case......

So, because Conan didn't come to school today, he thought that after school, this group of children should have no other plans, at most where to play games, so Xiao Wai thought, I should go back to take care of my sister early today, so I didn't continue to say more, and sorted out my schoolbag-

"Everyone! Come on! ”

However, at this moment, Yuan Tai, who was sitting in the front row and was also sorting out her schoolbag, suddenly shouted loudly to Xiao Ai and the others in the back.

Immediately, Mitsuhiko and Ayumi walked up with some curiosity and asked about what happened to Yuantai-

"I was just packing my bag and getting ready to go home when I found ...... in a drawer"

Seeing Mitsuhiko and Ayumi coming to their tables, Motota pointed to the things on his desk and explained:

"There's a strange letter with a box."

I saw that on Yuan Tai's desk, there was an A4 piece of paper with words written on it, and a small box-

"'To the Junior Detectives, get ready for 1...... 1.3 million ...... 500 yen'? ”

Surprised, looking at the words on the A4 paper, Ayumi trembled, and counted the numbers on it in surprise.

"There are also ...... 'grandsons and older brothers come to pray to the heavens for the introduction of gods'......"

Continued, Mitsuhiko read out the rest of the paper, and then said with a very flustered expression:

"What is this?"

"It's just a prank."

In this regard, Xiao Ai, who had sorted out his schoolbag, listened to the content of the conversation between the few young detectives in the front row at this time, and couldn't help but look at them helplessly, and sighed flatly.

"Yes, if I could prepare 1.3 million yen, I would have eaten eel rice every day, or wrapped a snack for the whole supermarket!"

Hearing Xiao Ai's words, Yuan Tai began to imagine this, and then, suddenly remembered that there was still that box, and couldn't help but say:

"By the way, let's see what's in the box......"

As he spoke, Yuan Tai picked up the box and opened it, only to see that it was also a piece of paper inside—

"THERE WAS A CARD THAT SAID 'SHII I DO U' ...... It seems to be some kind of code. ”

I don't understand, Yuan Tai said.

"Do you want us to go to the sink or something? But what is this note-like note for? ”

In this regard, after seeing that it was a code, Ayumi couldn't help but feel a headache, and then took out the detective badge, and wanted to try to call Conan and said:

"Shall we call Conan and ask him?"

"No!"

Seeing this, Mitsuhiko directly denied:

"There's no need to go to Conan, it's a simple code!"

Looking very confident, Mitsuhiko said, and then pulled the note out of the box, pointed to the words on it, and explained:

"You see, it says, 'Even if you rack your brains, you can only remove two dots,' which means that you have to remove the two dots on the voiced marks written on the paper. So, the answer is 'kettle'! ”

Speaking of this, Mitsuhiko gestured to everyone with scissor hands, looking very proud-

"Mitsuhiko, it's amazing!"

In this regard, Ayumi couldn't help but smile and applaud.

"Well, where is the kettle?"

Hearing this, Yuan Tai began to look around, and then he saw that there was indeed a kettle near the podium, so he stepped forward and took it.

At the same time, seeing that everyone in the Young Detective Group was so busy racking their brains for these two pieces of paper, Xiao Ai, who was already about to leave with his schoolbag on his back, couldn't help but put down his schoolbag and stepped forward to see what was going on-

Then, Xiao Wai saw that there were actually a lot of blanks on the A4 paper with words like "1.3 million" and "grandson and brother".

For example, the so-called "1.3 million" is actually the number "1", "300", "500", and "円", with some obviously large spaces in the middle, as if a few words have been deleted, and the same is true between "grandson" and "brother", separating obvious spaces.

In this regard, Xiao Ai understood-

The content of this piece of paper is obviously missing, and in order to thoroughly understand the content of this paper, you must fill in the blank parts......

So come to ......

In this way, looking at the way everyone in the Junior Detective Group followed the prompts and began to look for clues, Xiao Wai probably understood that this should be the code left by whom-

But who will it be?

Thinking so, Xiao Ai watched the group of children find the seven pieces of paper with kana from the kettle, and then began to rack their brains to combine these seven kana......

Eventually, through the combined words, the detective group members spelled out the word "backpack" and found a backpack in the classroom.

And in this backpack, as Xiao Wai thought, the second A4 paper appeared-

"Man kills...... Pray to the heavens for the introduction of the gods. ”

In this regard, seeing the words on the paper, the faces of the detective group were a little ugly, especially when they saw the word "kill".

But at this moment, with the words "pray to the heavens and introduce the gods" that also exist on the two pieces of paper, Xiao Ai's heart already knows the whole picture of the answer-

As long as the two pieces of paper are folded and the same part of "praying to the heavens and introducing the gods" is overlapped, the missing part of the two sheets of paper can be filled.

And the full text content is actually -

"To the Junior Detective Corps, prepare 300 to 500 yen for 1 person, and come to Shinshin Supermarket (MA GO (grandson) KO RO SU (kill) TO A NI (and brother) KO I (come))."

Thinking of this, the corners of Xiao Ai's mouth smiled faintly, and he couldn't help but remember, during today's class, Mr. Kobayashi mentioned that he was going to go out on an outing in a few days, so he probably guessed that this may be a few days ago, Edogawa Conan prepared a few days ago, and left a secret word for everyone in the Young Detective Group, the purpose is to ask everyone to go together to buy snacks for the future outing.

As for "praying to the heavens and introducing the gods", it probably means that I hope that the day of the outing will be a good day......

"Oh, that's childish......"

With a faint smile, Xiao Ai silently looked at the few people in front of him who had not yet solved the codes, and wondered how long the detective who left these codes would have to wait at the supermarket......

……

"Hunt ......"

continued, looking at the content of the web page displayed in front of the computer, nested in the room of the high-rise apartment, the look of the castle mound jade, gradually became a little dignified-

"The target is suspected to be in the suburbs......"

(End of chapter)