"Lady Black Feather is a very kind and cheerful person."

Sitting in the courtyard together, Akai Shuichi held a glass of water in his hand and listened carefully to the chatter of the straw hat old man.

"I remember when she first moved here, it was eight years ago......"

The old man reminisced while watering the flowers with a water pipe.

[Eight years ago......]

Without recalling anything worthy of his attention, Shuichi Akai made a note of this point in time.

"Of course, at the beginning, Lady Black Feather didn't actually have much to do with our neighbors, and she always went alone, I guess ......"

Saying this, the old man leaned into Shuichi Akai's ear and whispered:

"Mrs. Black Feather should have just divorced at that time, and she felt uncomfortable......

"Do you keep calling her Madame because she said she was married?" Shuichi Akai asked.

This kind of family person is much easier to find than those who are alone.

"No, in the years that Lady Black Feather has lived here, she has never mentioned anything about her family to us...... But. ”

After a pause, the old man suddenly smiled, with a not very serious expression on his face.

"Old man, I'm a handful of old men, a woman has never been married, has she never given birth to a child, can't I still see it?"

[Then you're still pretty good. 】

"Lady Black Feather is definitely married, and she must still be a mother."

The old man said with great certainty.

"It's just that we have never seen her husband and children, and she will move here alone, probably because of her husband and children...... Ah, right. ”

The words changed suddenly, and the old man said again: "Although I said that, Mrs. Black Feather has not lived here alone all these years. ”

"What do you mean?"

"I think it was five years ago, right? Yes, even five years ago, there was a young man who also moved into Lady Black Feather's villa, and that young man was the same as Lady Black Feather, he was Asian, and his name was ...... It's called the heart. ”

The old man pronounced the word in a not-so-standard pronunciation.

[It's a palace.] 】

Shuichi Akai made a judgment immediately.

"Is this young man's name called Mamiya Kokoro?"

"The heart of the palace? Not very clear. ”

However, the old man shook his head.

"Lady Black Feather has always called him Xinxin directly, so we called him that together, and I don't know if this is his name or surname, your Asian name is really strange......"

Xiao complained a little, and the old man continued: "Five years ago, this young man suddenly moved into Lady Black Feather's house, and I don't know where she brought it back.

However, this young man's personality is quite good, and he is also very polite, and under his influence, Mrs. Black Feather, who has always been a loner, has gradually become cheerful, and later she often takes the initiative to come to us neighbors for dinner or something......

That being said, the relationship between these two is actually very serious, not the kind of relationship that young people think. ”

As if he knew what Akai Shuichi was thinking at this time, the old man suddenly turned his head to look at him and said quietly.

"Why are you so sure?" Even if he was punctured, he didn't feel embarrassed at all, and Akai Shuichi asked with a smile.

He did suspect the relationship between Mamiya Shin and this Black Feather Thousand Shadows just now.

"Because of the way they get along." The old man explained.

"Living to my age, I have seen a lot of all kinds of lovers, husbands and wives, and I can see at a glance that those two people are definitely not the kind of relationship between men and women, if I have to say it, I feel more like a master and apprentice."

【Master and apprentice......

The old man's judgment was completely in line with the information on that postcard, and it was very likely that this Black Feather Thousand Shadows was the one who taught the Minomiya Heart Transfiguration Technique.

"But two years ago, both of them moved away." The old man sighed suddenly, and his gloomy expression was like the loss of a good friend.

"Do you know why?" Shuichi Akai asked.

Two years ago, it was also the time when Manomiya entered the FBI.

He vaguely felt that there might be some connection between this mysterious black feather thousand shadows and the fact that the palace entered the FBI.

"I don't know, they moved out suddenly, they didn't greet us in advance, and when we woke up early the next morning, they were gone.

After that, neither Lady Black Feather nor the young man ever came back, but Lady Black Feather's villa was still cleaned by some housekeepers on a regular basis, and although I had asked these people as well, they didn't know ...... either."

Speaking of this, the old man's mood seemed to be a little low, he turned off the water pipe in his hand, got up and patted the ash behind him.

"Okay, that's all I know, Lady Black Feather's villa hasn't been inhabited for two years, young man, don't waste time here, go back quickly......"

Saying this, the old man stopped caring about Shuichi Akai and turned around and returned to the room.

[Eight years ago, five years ago, two years ago......]

And Akai Shuichi silently wrote down these points in time when he thought there might be hidden clues.

Of course, he didn't leave directly, but got up and walked to the main entrance of the villa next to Kuroba Chikage again, and took out a master key from his pocket.

Before he came, he had anticipated the possibility of such a situation, so he brought a master key from the headquarters by the way.

With a "click", he opened the locked door and walked inside.

“……”

"Amusement City! Amusement City! Amusement City! ”

In Tokyo, Japan, in the newly built amusement city of the Suzuki family, a certain three small people lined up in front and back, holding an ice cream in their hands, and walked in the crowd with an excited face.

"Really, why did I just come over and take these little kids when I was just discharged from the hospital?"

Behind them, Kogoro Maori put his hands in his trouser pockets, his face full of unhappiness.

"I also want you to relax, uncle......" Walking side by side with Mao Lilan, Suzuki Sonoko said with a smile.

"Cut, being with this group of mischievous little brats can also be called relaxing? It's okay if they don't cause me trouble, but if I didn't have to pay for the entrance fee, I wouldn't have come......"

"Daddy......" Maolilan looked at him helplessly.

"Isn't that right? I really don't understand, are parents so worried that their children are playing outside?

Really, the next time I see them, I must talk to the parents of these three boys, so if you don't care about your children, something will happen sooner or later......"

While a few people were chatting, Conan next to him remained silent, staring closely at the ragdoll bear who was sending balloons in the fountain square ahead.

According to the information he found on the media account of this amusement city this morning, the employee in this ragdoll bear is the same Akemi Miyano.

Speaking of which, whether it's anime or manga, it seems that these three little parents have never been born, right?

(End of chapter)