"Hmm!"

Snapping his eyes open, Conan sat up from the bed.

The pale room, the smell of disinfectant water, the hospital gown on his body, he was ...... In the hospital?

Sitting on the hospital bed in a daze, Conan fell into an unconscious confusion.

Odd? What is he doing? Why is he in the hospital?

Subconsciously raised his hand and touched the back of his head, which was still a little painful, and Conan struggled to recall his memories before he fell unconscious.

He remembered that he seemed to have gone to a party with Xiaolan and them...... Is it Eddard's party?

And then he solved another murder there, and he remembered that he seemed to have met Belmode, the second Miyano Shiho, oh yes, and that pretending Kidd......

Kyd?

That's right! Kyd!

The memories of the fragments were connected at this moment, and Conan finally remembered what had happened before he fell unconscious.

At that time, under the East Tower of the Ed Twin Towers, he found a strange person, and after following this mysterious person to the president's office on the fifty-third floor, he was carelessly knocked out by this person's sneak attack from behind!

Then, when that man wanted to kill him, it seemed that Kidd saved him......

Wait a minute......

Conan held his aching head, his face full of pain and tried to recall the scene.

He remembered that he seemed to have seen something before he was knocked unconscious...... What is it?

Hell, I can't remember, my head hurts so much all of a sudden......

"Click."

The door of the ward was suddenly opened, and as soon as Karasuma Ying entered, she saw Conan holding her head on the bed with a painful face.

"Conan? Are you awake? ”

"Xiao Ying...... Sister? Conan was taken aback and was relieved to find out that it was Karasuma Ying.

"What's wrong? Is your head still hurting? Do you want me to call the nurse for you? Pouring him a glass of warm water from the thermos, Karasuma asked with concern.

"Thank you."

Taking the cup, Conan shook his head vigorously, trying to shake off the pain swirling in his mind.

"No, I don't feel like I'm in ...... body"

"Okay, I'll go for a check-up later, and if there's really nothing wrong, I'll go through the discharge procedures today."

"Hmm...... By the way, what about Sister Xiaolan? ”

"Today's class is normal, I have asked for leave, Xiaolan is still at school, and Mr. Maori is in the office."

With that, Karasuma Ying sat down on the chair next to the hospital bed, opened the notebook she had placed on the table earlier, and her face gradually became solemn.

In this notebook, the names Ichiro Owada, Tetsu Seaki, Takamiko Arai, and Kawai Toko are written in large letters.

Same murders, same murders, but different from the ones she'd dealt with before.

The two recent cases obviously happened at different times and places, but they made her feel a kind of connection.

The most important of these two cases are the murderers of these two cases, Seki Tetsu and Kawai Tsuko, according to the descriptions of these two people after their arrest, there seems to be a mysterious person behind their murders.

Karasuma Ying was keenly aware that there might be a big secret behind this.

It's just that she can't figure out what kind of secret it will be to connect these two deceased people whose identities and statuses are completely mismatched?

Yamada Ichiro, she didn't know.

And Arai Kimiko, in the follow-up investigation by the police, found that this person was engaged in "illegal lending" in private, and the scale was not small, and her soothsayer colleague Ms. Edano was also one of them.

But other than that, there are no other problems with her, and there is no intersection between her and Owada Ichiro.

As for the two daughters who were once regarded as cash cows by her, the police have also determined them in the follow-up investigation.

Kawai is indeed Tamiko Arai's biological daughter, and her description of her mother after her arrest is basically true.

It is true that Takamiko Arai abandoned her young daughter who was still in the countryside a long time ago and came to live alone in the big city.

And the youngest daughter, Noriko Kawai, is indeed as Kawai said, and died in an accident twelve years ago.

The eldest daughter had no savings, and the younger daughter died early.

By any measure, the sisters do not meet the criteria of Kimiko Arai's "cash cow".

So for what reason did she see her daughter as a cash cow?

Could it be that the Mr. Narosawa she commissioned the investigation was wrong?

No, that shouldn't be possible......

Karasuma Ying shook her head, and Conan next to her looked at her curiously.

There must be some secret hidden in Arai Kimiko, and this secret is the most important factor that led to her final killing.

"Kawai Tsukako ......"

Conan leaned over curiously, looking at the name that Karasuma Ying had written in his notebook, something suddenly flashed through his mind.

"Strange, Kawai Shape, Kawai ...... Like, Kawai? ”

He raised his hand again to cover his head, his face full of pain.

"What's wrong? Conan? Does your head still hurt? Karasuma Ying put down her notebook and quickly got up.

"Kawai Tsuko? No, I think it was...... Noriko! Right! Noriko Kawai! ”

Raising his head suddenly, Conan shouted loudly.

He finally remembered the document he had seen before he was knocked unconscious by the mysterious man!

"I remember! The document I saw in the president's office at the time was a person's file! The owner of the file is called Noriko Kawai! ”

“…… What? Hearing what he said, Karasuma Ying couldn't understand for a moment.

Noriko Kawai, the file of a female high school student who has long since died, actually appeared in the president's office of the president of Ed Corporation?

Conan clutched his head, his mind quickly recalling what he had seen at a glance.

"Noriko Kawai, seventeen years old, a high school student, came from a poor family, and died in an accident twelve years ago......

I remember, I remember that on that document, it seemed that there was a picture of Mrs. Sandong. ”

"Mrs. Sandong?"

On Noriko Kawai's file, there is a photo of Owada Mitsuyu?

In an instant, Karasuma Ying suddenly connected this series of things together, in a very unbelievable way.

[Just kidding......]

Thinking of the possibility that even she felt ridiculous, Karasuma Ying's face was solemn, she quickly took out her mobile phone and immediately dialed Miwako Sato.

"What's wrong? Xiao Ying? Did you encounter another case? After the phone was connected, Miwako Sato teased her with a smile.

Her voice was a little noisy, and it sounded like it was in the police department.

"Officer Sato, I'd like to ask you to do me a favor." Karasuma said seriously.

"You say, what's the hurry?" Listening to her serious tone, Miwako Sato also put away her smile.

"Can you arrange for me to meet with the prisoner from yesterday's divination hall, Kawai Tsuko?"

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(End of chapter)