"It's afternoon now, have you received any calls or letters from suspected robbers?"

"No, if that's the case, there will be a little direction."

"Hmm...... Do you think there will be a rival in business competition, or someone will attack the two of them in order to seek revenge? ”

"Guangming and Xiuchen, neither of them served in the group, especially Xiuchen, for some reasons, stayed at home all year round, and had very little time to go out, I think, it should not be ......"

"So, with all due respect, is there a contradiction between the two of them?"

"I've thought about it. The two of them do have some differences over the years and often quarrel, but there should be no principled contradictions, after all, the two of them are good friends who grew up together, and they have a lot of friendship with our family......

In the bedroom, Mori Kogoro and Hattori Heizou surrounded Nagato Michizo's bedside, inquiring and investigating one by one as police detectives, and seeing that no one noticed his movements, Conan secretly beckoned to Karasawa.

The two of them tiptoed out of the bedroom, and as soon as they pushed the door open, they almost bumped into Hattori Heiji, who was almost attached to the door.

“…… It's you. Seeing the person in front of him, Conan breathed a sigh of relief, and then became a little speechless, "Although I did ask you to find a way to call Uncle Maori over, but what is the situation now?" ”

The point of his coming to Nagato's house was to get in touch with Nagato Hidetomi and Nagato Akira, two people suspected of being related to a case twenty years ago, but as soon as he entered the door, he learned that his targets were both missing, and his current mood was very helpless.

The focus of this trip is to solve the puzzles of the past so that there will be no recurrence of situations like Yonehara-sensei.

If he is forced to watch things happen in front of his eyes, nothing can stop him, then what's the point of him here?

"How do I know!" Hattori Heiji, who lowered his voice, also widened his eyes, "The old man of the Nagato family, I want to find an old man who has lost contact, this is not a big commission, I have been looking for my father for a long time to make sense, and I have just been here for a long time......"

Thinking of the emails sent by Tang Ze and Kudo respectively, Hattori adjusted the sweatshirt on his body and made a serious expression: "Could it have something to do with that incident?" ”

"It's hard to say." Conan shook his head, his brow furrowed as well, "There are many possibilities. The news I got was that the person who tried to reveal the truth about the past on the Internet should be Nagato Hidetomi, the son of Nagato Michizo. But judging from the tone of this letter, the other party, Nagato Akira, may not think so. ”

Compared to the cops and detectives who have no clue, Conan, who has this information, has some vague guesses.

In order to cover up the truth of the past, in order to expose the truth of the past, it is possible for people to make many extreme choices - both of which he has encountered in many cases in the past.

And now, one of the two missing people has played the role of the exposer, and the other is the complete opposite, and it is unpredictable what kind of contradiction will arise in between.

"Bright, the contradiction with Hidetomi......" Under the questioning of Maori Kogoro, Nagato Michizo fell on the pillow and sighed regretfully, "Mr. Hattori has seen my son Hidetomi, and you should know that he has a big scar on his face, and it is also because of this wound that he has been suspended from school since high school, and he has been writing and often closed his doors. That's when the problem with the two of them came in. ”

Catching these voices, Hattori Heiji glanced back at the hidden door, and nodded the same: "Because Old Man Nagato suddenly mentioned the inexplicable disappearance of two people, my father brought some police officers to the door to check, and I have already inquired."

"Twenty years ago, a fire broke out at a nearby hotel, and Hidetomi Nagato and Mitsuki Nagato, who were high school students at the time, passed by the fire scene on their way from school. Hidetomi Nagato, despite the other's obstruction, rushed into the flames and rescued a little girl, who was burned on her face and left with a scar, which was basically disfigured by the fire. ”

As he spoke, he solemnly looked at Conan and nodded.

This situation corroborates with Nagato Hideto's message on the website.

"It seems that the fire 20 years ago is inseparable from the two of them." Tang Ze also nodded, and analyzed along this line of thought, "Since I came to Tokyo, I have seen a lot of similar situations. If Nagato Hidetomi's message is true, then this is the contradiction between him and Nagato Akira. Nagato Hideto's message on the Monster Thief Channel is likely to be the last straw that crushes the camel. ”

As he spoke, he raised his chin towards the room and gestured to Hinata Yuki, who was standing in the center of the room with an anxious expression.

Nagato Michizo's explanation just mentioned her.

“…… The child that the dog rescued from the fire is this girl, Hinata Yuki. ”

Hinata Yuki, who came back to his senses, raised his head and met the eyes of the others, and reluctantly smiled: "President, there is no need to mention this matter." The top priority is to find Hidetomi and them. Even if he hadn't been in any danger, he would have disappeared with Minister Light......"

"There is still a need to understand." Hattori Heizou nodded calmly, and his sharp gaze fell in the direction of Hinata Yuki, "Miss Hinata, can you tell us about your specific whereabouts in the past two days?" ”

That's what it means to be suspicious of her.

Hinata was stunned for a moment, gritted her teeth with some shame and said, "Your guess is really ...... Ever since the chairman was bedridden recently, I have been going back and forth between Nagato's house and the company, handling affairs for the chairman, conveying ideas, and sifting through important documents before sending them to Nagato's house, during which the company's driver picks me up. And, I, I'm already going to ......"

"Yuki is already planning to marry Inuko." Nagato Michizo took over the conversation and raised his hand to stop Hattori Heizou from asking further questions to Hinata, "I will let her be in charge of these matters, and I also hope that she can adapt to life in the Nagato family as soon as possible, so she has basically lived in the mansion for the past two days." She had no reason and no time to do anything to them. ”

"It's so complete. Kudo, your judgment probably didn't go wrong this time. Hattori Heiji, who had all this in his eyes, thought of the message on the email and touched his chin.

Marrying a childhood savior or something, it sounds like a story that can be told as a beautiful story, but if this savior is actually equated with the enemy who killed his family......

"We're going to hurry up and find the two of them." Conan said in a deep voice, "Where are their rooms?" Do a search and try to find clues first. ”

"I do have an idea." Before the two detectives could start their routine rummaging through the cabinets, Tang Ze interrupted the spell casting.

Although as a skilled RPG player, it is also a habit to do carpet and turn over cabinets when you have nothing to do, but RPG players are rummaging through boxes and cabinets for the sake of Sanguang, not for being a husky.

Thinking that he still had a buff with a half-immortal family history on his body, Tang Ze cleared his throat without any scruples and began his own reasoning (blind fabrication).

"No matter what Nagato Hidetomi thinks, he has been hiding the truth for twenty years, and unless there is any sudden stimulation and change, he shouldn't suddenly think of going to the monster thief CH for help."

"If Nagato Akira is always stubborn, it makes sense to make a request to the unpredictable group of monster thieves. They haven't been active for long, and going back further, Nagato Hidetomi may not have heard of the Monster Thieves. After thinking about it along Tang Ze's train of thought, Conan shook his head in disapproval.

"It's true that the influence of the Monster Thieves is mainly in the Tokyo metropolitan area, and I haven't heard much about it in Kansai." Heiji Hattori also agreed.

Tang Ze shook his head firmly and insisted, "You should read more about the news on the Monster Thief CH. Even if the Monster Thieves were already so active, their method of accomplishing the 'change of mind' was a secret after all, and asking them for help was more akin to a prayer than a request for help to actually get a response - no matter how godly it was, it was an anonymous bulletin board that anyone could enter. ”

Joker himself has a very say in this.

Before Noah arrived, their website had been using keyword crawling to automatically rank and decide the priority of changing their minds.

Adopt a voting system like this.,The highest nominator is preferred.,It's already a bit of a pottery piece banishment method.,Although it's hard to accidentally hurt the existence of a change of mind.,But this is actually a bit contrary to the original intention of setting up the website.。

Tang Ze didn't want to, but he couldn't help it.

They blame the thieves for wanting to use the website as their own order-taking portal, but they can't control the thoughts of netizens.

God knows how much he had a headache every day when he faced messages such as "Let me change my mind, I don't want to study and lose weight" and "I think XXX with too good grades must be a little sick, can you please help him see, so what's the point of working hard" and other messages.

"There's some truth to that." Hattori Heiji thought for a moment and nodded slowly, "Maybe he just regarded the monster thieves as a kind of self-comfort, just find a temple to worship and worship." ”

"That's right, that's what it means, no money anyway, a little bit of trust - a lot of people who use websites think so." Tang Ze nodded with deep feelings, and then threw out his thoughts, "I think that the marriage contract with Hinata Yuki may be a stressor that stimulates Nagato Hidetomi. There is a relationship between him and Hinata Yuki, so when he really wants to get married, such a principled deception as the truth of the fire will bring him great pressure. ”

"So, your opinion is ......" Conan, who felt that what Tang Ze said was not unreasonable, looked over with an inquiring gaze.

"I think it's more likely that the two of them will run out on their own, or one of them will run out with the other." Tang Ze, who was very cautious in his choice of words, said in the opposite direction, "Do you want to consider some places related to it?" For example, the place where the fire broke out twenty years ago. ”

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"What do you mean by that?" Sitting on a chair in the hall, Hinata looked down at the folder in his hand and was silent for a long time, and raised his head in disbelief.

"No offense, but if it is assumed that their disappearance is related to each other's contradictions, then it may be rewarding to go to the starting point of their contradictions." Tang Ze stepped forward and said for the two detectives who were embarrassed about how to explain the off-the-field information sources in their hands, "Even if they are not there, maybe they will return to the vicinity over there because of the quarrel, and then they will be able to find some clues." ”

Hinata Yuki's gaze moved from Hattori Heiji's face to Tang Ze's face, looking at him with a flat and slightly smiling expression, so with a slightly detached and relaxed expression, the tense nerves slowly relaxed a little, and he let go of the hand that was holding the document tightly.

"And you can't just sit here just because the police and detectives have taken over the case...... That way, you'll be in a worse mood too. Sensing Hinata's emotional changes, Tang Ze reacted quickly, "You also really want to go out and find them, right?" It's also a little safer to have us with you. ”

Hinata Yuki's straightened back and relaxed a little when he said it, and finally stopped hesitating: "Well, then I'll take you over." It's not that far from here, but I still don't think there's much hope. ”

"Why do you say that?" Seeing that Hinata Yuki finally withdrew from the state of the fire victim, he wiped a handful of sweat from Hattori Heiji, who had exploded with a word, and secretly gave Tang Ze a thumbs up.

No wonder Kudo likes to drag Tang Ze to investigate together...... With such a skilled and emotionally intelligent friend, how much trouble can be saved!

Being able to withdraw attention from complicated social interactions and interpersonal relationships, and devote himself wholeheartedly to the investigation of the case, this is really the most ideal working state for a detective, and from this point of view, Tang Ze can be said to be an excellent candidate for a detective's assistant.

Heiji Hattori, who had heard the phrase "Karasawa = Watson" from Conan's complaints, nodded secretly.

"You'll know when you get there." Handing the document in his hand to the other staff of the Nagato family on the other side, Hinata Yuki stood up and straightened his suit as he said, "If they run there, it will be very conspicuous." ”

Twenty minutes later, they understood what Hinata meant.

"Artificial lake......" The corners of his mouth twitched, Conan looked at the sparkling lake in front of him, and couldn't help but ask, "Is it ...... to say this?"

Before Conan said what under-beating lines such as "destroying the evidence of the crime" and "buying the crime scene to cover up the crime", Tang Ze dialed him behind Hattori Heiji with his toes, and took a step forward: "Was the fire back then very large?" It's close to the business district, and if it weren't for the huge impact, I don't think anyone would give up its commercial value. ”

Although it can bring another kind of income after being built into a landscape, the input-output ratio of building a scenic spot out of thin air in such a high-value area is too amazing.

"You're right. Twenty years ago, there was a high density of shops and houses, and there were many wooden Japanese houses throughout the block. I was not the only one who lost my loved ones in this disaster. Hinata Yuki's eyes dimmed and he looked at the microwave lake like a mirror, "That's why I feel that I am very lucky to meet Hidetomi." ”

"What is the scale of the casualties?" Didn't follow her words down lyrically, Hattori Heiji asked.

"There were about 50 people who died, and the houses were constructed in such a way that they involved inns, including some tourists whose identities have not yet been identified...... If you want to talk about the number of people injured by the fire, the number of patients with minor injuries and serious injuries may reach more than 200. Hinata's gaze became more and more sad, "Hidetomi can also be counted among the injured." ”

"I see." Conan nodded.

In the event of such a major disaster, the commercial attributes of the neighborhood will inevitably be greatly reduced, so it is also a way to deal with the transformation into an artificial lake as a kind of remembrance built on the site.

Just like this lake, which covers a large area, they can see several bouquets of flowers just as far as their eyes can see, and 20 years can only make a child like Hinata grow up, which is obviously not enough to heal everyone's pain.

"There are a lot of flowers for memorial services, as well as offerings." Hattori Heiji also saw those things, and his eyes turned slightly, and he looked at Tang Ze for a moment.

Quickly realizing what he meant, Tang Ze walked closer to Hinata Yuki, and said loudly: "If Mr. Nagato Hidetomi appeared around here, it would indeed be more conspicuous, I remember that they introduced that his face has been wrapped in a bandage that covers his face, right?" ”

"Yes, Xiuchen has always refused to accept medical aesthetic plastic surgery, and the scar on his face is very eye-catching......"

"Well, let's walk around this side and ask the people in the neighborhood and the patrol officer in charge of security. At the moment, no one has figured out what they are doing, so maybe ......"

With some feasible reassuring words, Tang Ze used his height slightly higher than Hinata to cover the two immoral detectives behind him who had begun to turn over the letters on the white chrysanthemums behind him, and covered for them.

Hey, it's not easy to compliment the detective or two detectives.

What about Xingchuan, why hasn't it been in place yet, save it, save it, brother-

Perhaps they heard the cry in Tang Ze's heart, and after they walked around the shore of the lake for a quarter and stepped on about a few hundred meters, the familiar voice finally sounded.

"Eh, Akira, how did you ......? Oh, it's you. ”

As Conan hurriedly stuffed a postcard with a message back into the bouquet, a shadow fell on him.

Conan, who was also not unfamiliar with this voice, shrank his shoulders, quickly patted the pollen on his hands, and stood up straight.

Sure enough, Akechi Goro's handsome face looked down at him quietly.

I don't know if it's because of the backlight, his face is shrouded in shadows, and although there is a hint of a smile, there is a lingering sense of shadow.

If Hoshikawa Hui could hear his evaluation, he would answer him with a fairy smile, which was a dead and overtime grievance.

"See you again, this, 'Shinichi Kudo of the West', and, Conan-kun." Looking at this root figure who caused him to rush to work overtime, the knife hidden in Hoshikawa Hui's smile was really very evil, "What, are you going to steal business with me, two?" ”

(End of chapter)