Chapter Twenty-Three: Maori Loses the Chain Again
"Really, Mr. Maori, you must at least listen to Xiaolan's words before leaving......"
Next to a certain milk tea stall in the Todo Aquarium, Karasuma Ying, who arrived with great difficulty on an electric car, looked helplessly at Maori Kogoro, who seemed to have lost his soul.
"Woo, my beautiful client......" Mori Kogoro lay weakly on the roadside table, like a salted fish that has lost his dreams.
"They all said that the young lady was not a client...... Give, mineral water, Xiaolan said that you can't drink. β
Karasuma Ying sat down across from Mori Kogoro and drank the milk tea in her hand while looking curiously at Officer Sato and Officer Takagi, who were talking on the phone not far away.
She knew these two police officers, and she often saw them when she was helping the police with Mr. Maori some time ago, and they were police officers who belonged to the Metropolitan Police Department's Search Division.
But why are they here? Could it be that Conan also informed them to come?
Chewing a milk tea pearl in her mouth, Karasuma Ying frowned slightly.
She remembered that the search lesson was mainly responsible for serious cases such as murder, arson, and robbery, right? Why do they even have to take care of women with amnesia?
"Uh......h Xiaoying, can you buy me a bottle of beer? This water tastes bad in my mouth......"
The beautiful client was gone, and the grief-stricken Maori Kogoro looked up and poured a sip of mineral water, feeling even more sad.
"It's impossible, Mr. Maori." Karasuma Ying smiled and refused.
If she buys beer for Maori Kogoro now, she will definitely be blamed by Xiaolan when she returns.
"It's obviously my assistant......," Kogoro Mori said weakly.
Karasuma Ying looked at him helplessly, suddenly remembered something, and after hesitating again and again, she tentatively said:
"Mr. Maori, that is...... Miss Chrissy yesterday, is there something she would like to entrust to you? β
"Oh! Miss Chrissy! β
As soon as he heard the name Chrissy, Maori Kogoro suddenly came back to life, straightened his waist instantly, and said excitedly:
"Haha! It's not a complicated thing, but it's important to Miss Chrissy! β
Waving his hand to let Karasuma Ying come over, Maori Kogoro lowered his voice and whispered:
"Miss Chrissy suspects that her boyfriend is cheating, so she wants to entrust me, a detective, to help her investigate quietly......"
"Boyfriend?!"
Hearing this, the expression on Karasuma's face almost didn't stop.
"Miss Gram and Chriss...... Turns out there is still a boyfriend? β
Reluctantly, Karasuma kept the smile on her face.
"Surprised, right? That's what I thought when I heard it yesterday. β
Not at all surprised by Karasuma Ying's reaction, Mori Kogoro held his chin with one hand and looked up at the sky.
"But ah, Miss Chrissy is also a woman in her twenties, and it's normal to have a boyfriend.
I just don't know which stinky boy who is not satisfied, who has obviously captured Miss Chrissy's heart, and dares to cheat?! β
"Don't, don't excite Mr. Maori, isn't it all undecided?"
Looking at Maori Kogoro, who was gritting his teeth, Karasuma Ying hurriedly persuaded.
"No, Xiaoying, you don't understand."
Maori Kogoro looked at her and said in a tone of vicissitudes peculiar to adults:
"Things like this, if they all develop to the point of finding detectives, then most of them will already be true......"
So, Mr. Maori, why do you know so well?
"W-That's it...... Mr. Maori, did Miss Chrissy leave you any contact information? β
Her heart beat faster, and Karasuma finally asked the question she really wanted to ask.
"Oh, the contact information, I remember...... Alas? Alas?! β
As if he hadn't finally realized it until this moment, Mori Kogoro held his head in his hands and his expression was pained.
"How did I forget about this yesterday?! How can it be repaired! I don't have any contact information, so how am I going to contact Miss Chrissy then?! β
"That, Mr. Maori, ...... quietly."
Although disappointed in her heart, Karasuma Ying still resisted the strange eyes of the people around her, and helplessly comforted the salted fish Kogoro, who had lost his dream again.
"Conan, come and help, Mr. Maori...... Alas? Conan? β
I wanted to call Conan to help, but Karasuma Ying turned around and found that Conan, who was just chatting with the children on the side of the road, was gone.
"Strange, when did that kid leave?"
ββ¦β¦β
"Teacher Judy, didn't you ask for leave to return to the United States some time ago? Coming back so soon? β
Temporarily parked in a car on the side of the road, Conan closed the door and looked at Judy Stelin, the F.B.I. search officer, in the driver's seat, with some surprise.
"Little detective, don't go too far into women's secrets."
Judy winked at Conan in the back seat, then took out a few photos and handed them to Conan.
"Look, do you know anyone in the photo?"
Conan took the photo and looked at it, then shook his head and said, "I don't know, what's wrong with these people?" β
"They were all spies from various countries, but in the time period between last night and this morning, they were all dead."
"Dead?!"
A flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, thinking of Judy's coming to him, Conan seemed to realize something, and hurriedly spoke:
"Do you mean ......?"
"That's right, the only thing they have in common is that they're both lurking in that mysterious organization." Judy voiced Conan's guess.
"So it's been silenced......
"In the early hours of this morning, I received a report from Shuichi that members of that mysterious organization had infiltrated the Japanese National Police Agency last night to steal the undercover lists of various countries......"
"Judy-sensei, you called me out because I had contact with that person who seems to be a member of the organization, right?"
Conan immediately understood the reason why Judy called him out - the mysterious amnesiac white-haired woman in the Eastern Capital Aquarium.
"That's right." Judy nodded.
"Sure enough, but the woman has now lost her memory, and even the smartphone she has that can be used to store information has been destroyed......"
"Smartphone?!"
Judy heard this, and looked back at Conan in the back seat, her right shoulder also squeezed against the seat because of this movement.
"Hiss......"
Her face turned pale in an instant, and Judy turned back to her body, subconsciously raising her hand and pressing her right shoulder.
Seeing this, Conan frowned slightly.
"Judy-sensei, your shoulders ......"
"Don't worry about the little injury you suffered before."
"Hmm...... By the way, I've asked Dr. Asa to help fix the data in that smartphone, and I think it won't be long before there will be news from the doctor. β
"Okay, you'll have to tell me as soon as the time comes."
As she said this, Judy's hands gripped the steering wheel tightly, and the expression on her face was a little hideous.
[Regel, you're in Tokyo, right?] γ
"What about that, Mr. Judy, Mr. James, and Mr. Carmel?" Conan asked suddenly.
James and Carmel, who are also FBI investigators, plus Judy and Shuichi Akai, are part of a single action group.
On weekdays, except for Shuichi Akai, the other three often act together, and it is rare for them to act alone.
And today in the car, Conan only saw Judy alone.
"I came early, and they won't be there until the afternoon."
After briefly answering Conan's doubts, Judy calmed down and unlocked the door of the car.
"Okay, little detective, you go back first, if the data on that phone can be repaired, you must tell me as soon as possible."
"yes, okay."
Nodding, Conan got out of the car and left.
It wasn't until she watched him walk away that Judy started the car and slowly left.
"Buzz!"
At this time, Judy's mobile phone in the passenger seat rang, and it should be a call from someone.
She glanced down at a person's name on the screen.
γHeart of the Palaceγ