"So, while I'm running around in a blizzard, solving murders, and even worrying about gunmen, you're getting together and having fun eating chocolate?"

Sitting on the couch at Dr. Asasa's house, Conan was a little depressed.

Early this morning, he and Xiaolan rushed back from the resort villa.

And because there was a snowstorm over there, there was no signal on his mobile phone, so he lost contact with Kaedehara after exchanging a few messages yesterday, and he didn't know what happened after Ash Hara Ai and Ayumi disappeared. So when he came back, he came to the doctor's house to have a look.

"To be exact, it wasn't like getting together to eat chocolate, we didn't eat it on the spot," Kaedehara denied, "we just went out for dinner together." ”

"Hehe... Besides, I'm hungry..."

As he spoke, Conan picked up the chocolate beside him.

It was the righteous chocolate that Gray Hara asked Kaedehara to pass to him, and the one that Ayumi gave him was of course going to be delivered by himself.

Conan opened the package and glanced at it, and he knew it was his own appearance just by the huge glasses on it, "The one over there isn't much better... Xiaolan, they have to go over there..."

"And then?"

"What, then?"

"Lan's chocolate."

"Oh... I haven't figured it out yet," Conan said, biting off his head with a bite of chocolate, "and when she got back, she went out with the garden again, and I didn't go with me..."

"Let's call her in the evening...", chewing chocolate in his mouth, Conan muttered, "That's all there is to it..."

Conan came over apparently with something else, and he swallowed the chocolate into his stomach in a few bites, and then got down to business.

"The man in the black knitted hat..."

"Shuichi Akai."

"Ran seems to have seen him somewhere," Conan said, "but I don't know where she met... So I'm going to ask if you remember..."

"Ten years ago?"

After talking to Gray Yuan last time, he and Conan also mentioned it, but Conan obviously didn't need this answer.

"What else? I don't even remember something so long, but you can remember... Xiaolan must have seen him after that. ”

“… You might as well ask her directly. ”

"I've tried asking," Conan shook his head, his expression serious, "but she's just a little impressed... Also, lately, I always feel like someone is watching near the detective agency. ”

"Kaedehara, the daily routine is coming to an end."

……

Whether the daily routine is coming to an end, Kaedehara doesn't know, but anyway, within two days, Conan came to the doctor's house again to discuss the organization with him.

This time, Dr. Asa was there.

Ash Yuan was still busy working in the basement.

"What! The Metropolitan Police Department's records of cases previously searched by Maori detectives are all missing? Dr. Asasa looked at Conan with a surprised expression, "Is that really what Officer Takagi said?" ”

Yesterday, Conan met Judy-sensei with Ran and Sonoko, and then ran into a murder together, and in the process of solving the case, Officer Takagi quietly told him the news.

"Doctor, you have to be able to hear it outside." Kaedehara persuaded.

"Oh," Dr. Asasa lowered his voice slightly, "Could it be that the one who stole those investigation records was..."

Conan nodded, "Well, maybe it's a good thing those guys did." If they had heard that I was still alive after the drug, and found Kogoro Mori's reasoning suspicious, it would be easy to imagine why they did it...

Those accomplices of the men in black should easily come to mind... Shinichi Kudo may be behind his back to catch a knife for Kogoro Maori... My disappearance and the appearance of the sleeping Kogoro were almost at the same time, so it's no wonder that it's suspicious..."

"Hey..."

"However, this is just a rumor, so there's nothing to worry about! Because no one saw Shinichi Kudo with their own eyes... And they must not have imagined that after taking the medicine, not only did my body shrink, but I also became two people..."

Conan said, glancing at Kaedehara, who was sitting on the couch listening intently to him, "So, even if they notice that I'm looking around the scene of the crime every time, I think they'll think I'm just a kid smarter than my age...

Besides, we can't be sure if the investigation records were stolen by their gang...

What is certain at the moment is that someone is really secretly investigating the matter of the uncle... Oddly enough, though... The guys who stole the investigation records were later sent back to the Metropolitan Police Department intact..."

"It's... Could it be that it was sent back because it had already been investigated and had no use value? Dr. Asasa asked.

"If that's the case, then it's worth throwing it away," said Conan, "why go out of your way to send those investigation records back in their entirety and arouse suspicion and make people wary?" ”

"Indeed..."

"It's probably a signal from the other side that they want to tell us that they know everything we do... Or..."

"A trap that wants to lure someone out." Kaedehara took over the conversation.

"I discussed it with Ashbara," Kaedehara continued, glancing at the staircase coming up from the basement, "There were three suspicious people on the bus at the time, the new doctor, Judy-sensei, and Shuichi Akai.

Later when we met James, Shuichi Akai passed by us, and Gray Hara felt that the bus made her ... It's not Shuichi Akai who has an obvious reaction from the radar..."

"So it's between that new doctor and Teacher Judy?" Dr. Asa said.

"You can't just rule out Shuichi Akai, after all, it doesn't have to be the same person," Conan said, "However, Gray Yuan has never seen those two alone... Actually, let her meet and maybe be able to determine the people of the organization..."

"But that's too risky."

"That's right." Conan said, "There's another thing..."

"The last time I was at the Cupto Hotel, Kaedehara reminded me that there were still accomplices of the organization at the scene, and we deliberately left the seven people with purple handkerchiefs, but we didn't find anything...

But after that, in addition to Pisko, the other six prisoners were Minoru Nanjo, Yasuo Miju, Yoshiharu Taruta, Naoya Marumi, Naomi Maikura, and Chris Wynyard...

All six of them are celebrities who regularly show their faces in the media... Only one person announced his retirement after that incident... Disappeared since..."

"So, that person is..."

"Chrissy Wynyard." Kaedehara said.

"That famous second-generation actress?" Dr. Asa was taken aback.

"Well, the only daughter of the famous actress Sharon Wynyard." "I saw Sharon for the last time in New York two years ago, and she passed away a year ago..."

"Isn't this coming out! I remember the new doctor, he was a man..."

"If only it were that simple," Conan's face was a little ugly, "if she's really their accomplice... There is no doubt that she must be a rather difficult opponent..."

"Difficult?"

"Two years ago, Sharon showed off her camouflage skills in front of us, she was dressed as a middle-aged male police officer that no one would recognize," Kaedehara explained to the doctor, "and Chrissy was first exposed at her mother's funeral..."

"So... We suspect they're the same person. ”

There was the faint sound of footsteps on the other side of the stairs.

Gray Yuan Wai apparently didn't listen anymore and went back to the basement.

(End of chapter)