After a brief greeting to the crowd, Officer Takagi stood aside with his pamphlet and began to explain what he had investigated.

"All four are designers. The manager of the company, Ai Jia, went out fishing alone at around 5 p.m. on the 29th.

Hasami Jun, who is in charge of sales, watches the video at his home.

The man in charge of the planning is at the racecourse.

Then the vice president, Iwatomi, said that he went to watch the last round of the golf knockout tournament..."

The Twilight Police Department thought for a moment, "The alibi of the four people is very vague..."

"yes, now Chiba is still asking about the situation behind the scenes..."

Officer Takagi replied, and then felt his clothes being gently pulled.

He habitually looked down and found that it was a familiar child, only this time it was not Conan, but Kaedehara.

Glancing at Heiji Hattori and Conan, who seemed to have understood something, Kaedehara asked Officer Takagi, "Uncle Takagi, does the president like to collect idols' merchandise?" ”

"Ah, that's right." Officer Takagi flipped through his pamphlet, "I don't think it has anything to do with this case, so I haven't had time to say yet... How do you know, Sora? ”

Officer Takagi crouches down to talk to Kaedehara, who notices that his pamphlet also has the collecting fetish of the other four people written on it.

"Because a lot of things in this room have pictures of the same idol pasted on them."

"Oh... Not only that," Officer Takagi said, "and there's more... President Tsujiko is indeed a crazy idol lover, and has collected a lot of idol merchandise..."

"Does it also include idol calendars?" Gray Plains asked.

"Hmm." Officer Takagi glanced at the wall calendar hanging high on the wall, "This idol calendar is the president's favorite, and I didn't even want to throw it away in the past months, so I kept it..."

"Uncle Takagi," Kaedehara said, "Since the president likes this calendar so much, he must have torn it off and kept it himself, right?" ”

"I guess so," Officer Takagi was a little confused, "what's going on?" ”

“… The one that hangs now is from July. ”

"Of course, it's July."

“……”

"Isn't it?" Officer Takagi looked even more confused, vaguely aware of something, and a little embarrassed, "It's July, I should tear off the June one and keep it..."

"After his death?"

"Huh?" Officer Takagi was stunned for a moment, then finally understood, and his face changed slightly.

The deceased died on June 29, and the four men reported the case on the 30th the next day, after which the scene was taken over by the police.

And the colleagues in the forensic department obviously can't do such a thing as tearing up the calendar for the deceased...

"I remember that the wall calendar was in the president's room," Officer Takagi thought for a moment and stood up, "I think I've seen June..."

He had an impression when he searched before, so he rushed directly to the president's room, and Kaedehara followed.

Gray Yuan Wai hesitated.

With her understanding of Kaedehara, after finding the wall calendar, Kaedehara will definitely have to reason directly with Officer Takagi. And while he didn't seem to care about the reasoning duel, and didn't care at all about her listening, the others clearly cared about the outcome of the showdown...

After thinking about it for a while, although he really wanted to see the way Kaedehara reasoned, Gray Hara's mourning remained in the living room.

And because of the clear goal, Officer Takagi and Kaedehara quickly found the June wall calendar. In the upper right corner of the calendar, there is a small stain of blood that has been carefully wiped.

The other side.

A few minutes ago.

Just after hearing Officer Takagi mention the word "behind the scenes", Heiji Hattori and Conan had already thought of the meaning of the death message left by the deceased.

Heiji Hattori was very happy to be able to win the reasoning duel and go to see the Koshien decisive battle he wanted to see.

However, before he could express his reasoning, he first observed the situation of others.

Judging from the expression of the Kudo next to him, he should have unlocked the death message like himself, and the other Kudo was whispering to the police officer named Takagi...

However, he took a detour and missed an important death message, and now he is about to lose to himself...

Oh no, he's in the same league as himself now...

And a few steps away, the guy and Xiao Lan were still holding the small notebook and arranging and combining, trying to unlock the death message. But at a glance, it is clear that they don't know the essentials at all.

And that guy is even wiping away tears...

As for watching Takarazuka performances so much...

Hattori Heiji was slightly stunned for a moment, a little distressed. Or let her win? No, no, it's a reasoning showdown...

After hesitating, Heiji Hattori, who was closer, overheard the conversation between the two.

"Why don't I go and ask Xiao Kong and Xiao Ai?" Xiaolan hesitated, "They're talking to Officer Takagi, maybe they found something..."

"No need, Xiaolan," Kazuha wiped away her tears again, "I'm going to win that big fool on my own, and then we'll go to see Takarazuka together..."

"Huh?" Hattori's face darkened.

"Hey, Hattori..."Conan, who was in his hands in his pockets, whispered to Hattori Heiji, "You know the real meaning of this death message... Then hurry up and tell the police..."

"yes, I already know," Heiji Hattori said, "Then end this showdown—"

"Wait a minute!"

"Huh?" Hattori Heiji was stunned for a moment, and looked at Conan with an unkind face, "Changed so quickly?" ”

Conan didn't reply, but watched Kaedehara follow Officer Takagi out and fell into deep thought.

Since that guy Kaedehara went to find Officer Takagi, he must have found something, and asked Officer Takagi to investigate...

Speaking of which, I felt a sense of disobedience in the room before, and my and Hattori's attention was always on the death message, and I didn't have time to verify it yet...

"Hello?" Hattori Heiji shouted again.

"Hattori, do you find anything weird?"

“… It's a little," Hattori Heiji was stunned for a moment, "but the true meaning of the death message, we must be not mistaken, right?" ”

"Huh?"

Hattori Heiji forgot to lower his voice when he said this, so everyone on the field looked at him.

"Ping, Pingji, you already know?" He Ye's face was pale, and he was unwilling.

"Brother Hattori, you know?" At the same time, the Twilight Police Department looked excited.

"Yes, yes..."Hattori Heiji, who faintly felt that something was wrong, replied stiffly.

He glanced at Conan, who was still beside him just now, with the same confident face, and found that this kid didn't know when he had slipped next to Xiaolan, and was putting aside the cute...

Damn Kudo... It's so unjustifiable...

"Speak up, Brother Hattori!"

"Ahem," the arrow had to be sent, and Hattori Heiji didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the death message, so he said, "Instead of the code that implies some information, these four ink-stained blocks directly point out... Belch... The man. ”

"The man? You mean prisoners, right? ”

"Directly...?"

"Police, do any of the four look like toys?" Uncle Maori asked at the Twilight Police Department.

"Huh?"

"It's the name." Heiji Hattori continued, "Officer Takagi's 'behind the scenes' reminded me that the deceased probably didn't want us to see the ink-stained side of the block, he just put the block on the ink..."

"Also, that is..."

"That's right, the reverse of those four words with ink is the real message."

"I see!" The Twilight Police Department suddenly realized and took out the photos again, "Well, but you can't see the reverse side of these photos at all... Takagi! Tell the forensic staff to bring the blocks—"

The Twilight Police Department was stunned for a moment, "-Hey, where's Takagi?" ”

"Just went out," Xiaolan said.

And he went out with Kudo.

It's over, there must be something I haven't noticed... It's all to blame on this Kudo here, so I accidentally said it...

Hattori Heiji thought to himself, but the reasoning was already halfway through, so it was not good to break it like this, "There's no need to go and get the blocks, the police department." The lettering on these blocks is regular.

By unfolding these six-sided blocks and arranging them in the direction of the kana, you can write all the sides of the blocks in order.

It is easy to conclude that the back of the ink is i, the back of the mo is mi, the back of the chi is to, and the back of ya is wa..."

Hattori paused for a moment and let everyone think for themselves.

"That is, i mi wa to or i wa to mi..."

"Iwatomi!?"

"I wa to mi" refers to Iwafu, and the vice president happens to be surnamed Iwafu, and the Twilight Police Department and Uncle Maori suddenly realized.

The reasoning duel seemed to have come to an end, and Xiaolan and Kazuye's mood was a little lost.

But I'm also happy to be able to see the way Heiji reasons... And Ye thought to himself, but he didn't know why, but he always felt that Heiji was not as confident as before...

"Thank you so much! Brother Hattori! The Twilight Police Department expressed gratitude, "Go and bring Iwatomi over for interrogation, Takagi... uh..."

"The police department?"

Officer Takagi replied.

He happened to be walking back this way at this moment, holding the wall calendar that had been packed in a transparent bag, and Kaedehara followed him.

(End of chapter)