After solving the murder of a tram fan, Kaedehara and the others lived a period of unstable life, and cases followed.

But the Grim Reaper also has a time off.

On this day, at the doctor's house, the young detective group gathered to help the doctor find a very important letter.

"Doctor, what does that letter look like?" Conan asked.

"It's in a postcard-sized envelope..."

"What kind of letter is it?"

"A wedding invitation from a doctor's friend's son, and it contains a postcard of receipt of attendance that must be sent today..."

"If it's such an important letter, it should be put away!"

"That's it!"

"Can you please stop blaming the Doctor," Gray Hara yawned, "One of the reasons the letter is missing is that you made a mess of this place by playing games last night..."

"Yes, yes..."

The elementary school students were a little embarrassed, and they worked harder to find the letter, and Gray Yuan couldn't help but yawn again. In the morning, she went with Ayumi to take care of the sick rabbits at school, and when she came back, she went into the basement to work, and now she is a little sleepy.

Kaedehara walked over to the TV.

"Kaedehara," Mitsuhiko shouted, "I've already found it there..."

The TV was stacked with a pile of letters they had already found.

Kaedehara glanced between the TV and the table, then reached out and pulled out a stack of letters, "Look, some of them have fallen underneath." ”

"Really!"

The elementary school students came over to watch, and Kaedehara simply handed over the task of turning over the letter to Conan, who took the letter and looked through it.

"Greeting cards, summer greetings, driver's license renewal notices, everything..."

"Ah, it's all things I haven't been able to find!" The doctor said.

Conan flipped through the letter and passed it to the doctor through Ayumi's hand, and then was slightly stunned.

"What a cute word...", Gray Yuan Ai also glanced at it.

"It's a postcard written by a child." Conan casually said as he passed the postcard back, then flipped through it to find that the next one was the letter they were looking for.

"This is it!" Ayumi took it, glanced at it, and then happily turned her head to hand the letter to the doctor, only to find that the doctor was looking at the letter in a trance.

"It's a postcard written by a kid just now!"

"It can't be a love letter, right?"

"Huh?" The doctor quickly denied, "No, it's a postcard sent to me by a friend from the past... It was forty years ago..."

"Forty years ago?"

"When the doctor was in the sixth grade of elementary school?" Gray Plains did the math.

"yes, it was the first day of school after the summer vacation, and I was almost late, so I took a shortcut," Dr. Asa said slowly, with a nostalgic look, "and then I saw a girl in the lower grades standing there, and her face turned blue with fear... A pair of big dripping eyes under a dark hat, what a cute girl...

She didn't seem to dare to go over because she was afraid of the big dog in front of her because she was afraid of barking... It is the Noi family, which is famous for raising large dogs in the neighborhood...

She ended up hiding behind my back, and I asked her why she was so scared... She said that it was because she was bitten by a dog when she was a child, so she began to be afraid of animals...

Because it would be too pitiful, I took her to my friend Butterfly, who raised hamsters. She was still scared at first, but after a long time, she slowly got used to it... After two months, she began to like animals, and even Noi could walk by with a smile in front of her house..."

"Doctor, you remember it so clearly." Kaedehara said.

"And then? Have the doctors and her been in school together since then? ”

"Ah, that," said the Doctor, "just that fall..."

"Huh?"

"In the cold rain at the end of November... I waited for her at the door of Noi's house as usual, but she didn't come... I wondered if she had a cold and couldn't come to class, so I went to her house after school to see her... As a result, her neighbor told me that the family had moved out in the morning..."

"Has the Doctor been silent?"

"At the very least, we should say goodbye!"

"Ah, no..."

"I must have wanted to say it but couldn't say it," said Gray Hara, "'Goodbye' is a sad word that brings pinprick pain when we part..."

"How-how?"

"But it's too sad to say nothing like this!"

"No, it's not... She sent a postcard of thanks, the one I got in my mailbox that day..."

"However, there are no stamps on this postcard..."

"It must have been dropped directly into the doctor's mailbox before the move..."

Conan said, then read the postcard:

"Thank you very much for these three months, it's great to meet Asasa! Because I hate to say goodbye, so today, ten years later, we'll see you in the old place before sunset...

If you don't see it, it's another ten years... Even if I become an old woman, I'll keep waiting, so if you have time, come and see me once...

To Asa, who likes it very much, Class A of the fourth grade, Kinoshita..."

"The words on the back are blurred and I can't see them," Conan continued.

"And then? Have you met this Kinoshita? Gray Yuan asked.

"No, I can't think of what this old place is..."

"Hey, hey..."

The schoolchildren were speechless and looked at the doctor with disdain, but then they noticed that the postcard was referring to the date of day.

This is the fourth decade.

Thinking that the girl might also be waiting for the doctor in the agreed place today, the young detective group immediately actively discussed.

Kaedehara had actually found out about this postcard a long time ago, but he felt that it only made sense to let the doctor fulfill the contract on this day when the other party made an appointment to meet, so he didn't take out the postcard in advance.

On the other hand, the elementary school students tried to ask for Kinoshita's name and address from the school administrator, but were denied by Ashbara.

"Even if you contact her, it will only hurt her, will it?" "That way, she knew that the Doctor had never been able to remember what she thought was memorable, and she had waited for forty years in vain... Still, if she's still there. ”

"Then we still have to find a way to find that old place and let the Doctor go and meet her!"

"But it's been forty years..."

"Still, there are clues..."Conan picked up the envelope and showed it to everyone, "Aren't there a lot of numbers under the doctor's name?" Isn't this a code for an address? ”

There are four separate numbers on the envelope: "4163 33 6 0".

"Really... But what does this mean? ”

"There's also a hint underneath that it's an animal..."

"Hey, Doctor! What does this mean? Ayumi asked curiously.

"Ahh This..."

"If I knew, I'd already seen it," Gray Hara glanced at the doctor angrily.

"But if it's Conan and Kaedewara..."Ayumi looked at Conan and Kaedehara expectantly.

"No, not at all."

Conan immediately vetoed it.

It's just that although Ayumi asked about the two of them, there was no other response in the air, but there was silence.

Everyone's eyes fell on Kaedehara.

……

The answer to the puzzle is "under the ginkgo tree in elementary school".

Just ten years ago, Xiaolan got lost in the woods, and when Kudo Shinichi went to look for her, he met the man waiting for a doctor here.

Of course, he didn't say it that directly.

Soon, Dr. Asa drove with the Junior Detective Team to the woods of the Didan Elementary School and began to search.

"Hey, Kaedehara, there's no one..."

"Look for it again."

"It's right not to be," said Conan, "but it was agreed forty years ago..."

"Huh? It's still parked there..."As she spoke, Ayumi saw a white car, "That white car..."

"Oh... We stopped there this morning when we came to visit the bunny..."

"Definitely in the car from the morning to now!"

"yes, I'll take a look!" As he spoke, Motota ran straight over, and Dr. Asa hesitated, but followed with the children.

But there was no one in the car.

"Didn't you go to dinner..."

"No," said Conan, "the coffee cup of the fast food is still steaming... I guess I just finished eating... And it's a lot, it's for three people? ”

"Well, don't worry too much about her even if she's fat and round..."

Gray Plains sighed, relieved Doctor.

As she spoke, she looked at the Doctor's expression, and then noticed that both the Doctor and Kaedehara were looking towards a ginkgo tree not far away.

The others followed their gaze as well.

It was a beautiful woman with beautiful long blond hair and a bowler hat. But judging from the details, she is still a little older.

"Super Beauty..."

Conan blushed a little, as did Motota and Mitsuhiko.

"Is she..."

"It's a shame..."

"Hey! Doctor, what a daze! Ayumi said.

"You've been keeping her waiting for forty years, haven't you?" Ash Hara also urges Dr. Asasa to go.

"Ahh That, it doesn't have to be her..."

"Hurry up!" Yuan Tai pushed the doctor behind his back.

The doctor walked over hesitantly, and the beautiful woman under the tree heard the movement, looked back, and then showed a look of surprise and surprise.

By her size and nose, she recognized at a glance that this was the person she had been waiting for forty years.

"Hmm..."

Dr. Asa hesitated, then stopped.

A foreign man in sunglasses stepped out of the trunk of a tree that had just blocked their view.

The two whispered in a foreign language, and the man in sunglasses waved his hand to the beautiful woman and returned to the car. Dr. Asasa, who was already a little hesitant, immediately thought that the foreign man she had just received was her husband.

The woman also noticed the children who were sneaking and eavesdropping not far away, and immediately thought that they were Dr. Asasa's grandchildren.

"What lovely grandchildren..."

The woman smiled softly and said to the doctor.

"Ahh I'm sorry..."

"I happened to pass by here this morning and was attracted by this piece of ginkgo... It's a vivid color... So here it is now... Do you hate ginkgo? ”

"Ah, no..."

"So, take your leave..."

"Uh-huh..."

"My husband seems to be in a hurry..."

The beautiful woman lowered her eyelids slightly, glanced at Dr. Asa with some reluctance, and then said goodbye.

The reunion spanning forty years seems to be about to be cut off by a wonderful misunderstanding.

Then, in her sight, a small child who had been eavesdropping over there walked over.

"But shouldn't you still be single?"

"Huh?"

"You're Ms. Fumosha Campbell Kinoshita, the founder and designer of the Fujosha brand, right?" Kaedehara continued, he wanted to see if the doctor could figure it out on his own, but in the end he had to do it himself, "I've seen your interview on TV..."

"Fuesha... It's really you..."

"I'm still recognized, I'm so embarrassed, Asa..." Although the lie just now was exposed, Fueisha still smiled softly, "I made the reunion after forty years look like this..."

"And," Kaedehara continued, and everyone from the Junior Detectives Corps followed, "although—"

"—Although we all think of the doctor as a grandfather, he's still single!"

"That's right!"

"And I've been single for more than 50 years..."

(End of chapter)