Conan and the others were still looking at the photos at the entrance, and they immediately ran out when they heard the sound outside.

Before Kaedehara could open his mouth to respond, Yuantai, who was running out, shouted, "Who are you?" ”

And despite Yuantai's blunt tone, the visitor still introduced himself very kindly: "I am a teacher at Didan Elementary School... It's Shoko Amamiya's homeroom teacher who lives here, and my name is Fumigo Hirayama..."

This is the person who Kaedehara and the others think are suspected of being members of the organization, but although Ashbara seems to be a little nervous, Kaedehara doesn't feel that she is trembling standing behind her.

"It's a teacher..."

"Huh? There's a bruise next to your right eye! ”

The elementary school students breathed a sigh of relief, and then noticed something unusual on Hirayama-sensei's face.

"I accidentally fell down the stairs this morning..."Mr. Hirayama gently rubbed the corners of his eyes, and then accidentally touched his glasses, "Ahhh

"Your glasses are off!"

"yes, the hinges of these glasses are broken..."

"Would you like to try these glasses?" Kaedehara reached into his pocket and took out Conan's tracking glasses.

"Huh?"

Conan looked at Kaedehara with dead fish eyes, and Mr. Hirayama waved his hand to indicate that he didn't need to, "Thank you, it doesn't matter..."

"And the degree doesn't match, right?" Mitsuhiko said.

"Yes, yes..."

Kaedehara gave an embarrassed look, then deftly avoided Conan's hand trying to retrieve the glasses, and tucked them back into his pocket.

"Who the hell are you?" At the end of the conversation, Mr. Hirayama then asked, "Is it a neighbor's child?" ”

"We are students of Didan Elementary School, Class B of the first grade!" Kaedehara replied. Gray Yuan looked at him in surprise.

"Oh—but what are you doing here?"

"Just like the teacher," Conan continued, "We also came here because we were worried, to find Shoko Amamiya in the fourth grade class A." ”

"Because we knew where the key was, we wanted to know if there was anyone in the house, so I came in without permission..."Mitsuhiko was a little embarrassed, "I'm sorry..."

"But no one!" This is Motota.

"Really? I guess I went to Kyushu..."

"Did Amamiya say she would stay home alone tonight?"

"Yes," Hirayama-sensei said, "However, she said yesterday that she would eat breakfast and dinner at Miike's house next door..."

This was a new clue, and Yuan Tai was the first to rush towards the house next door, and the others followed.

Mrs. Miike, the hostess of the house next door, was at home and was kind enough to answer their questions.

"She said she was coming over tonight..."Mrs. Miike replied to Motota, who had just asked about Shoko Amamiya's whereabouts, "I saw her go to school with her schoolbag on her back this morning..."

"Sure enough, something happened!" The elementary school students looked at each other.

"Did something happen to Shoko?"

"She didn't come to school today, maybe something happened on the way to school..."

"What?!"

"Has the school contacted you?"

"This, this... I went out shopping with my neighbor's wife, and I just came home... And my husband is still at work, there is no one at home, I don't know if someone has called..."

"But it's still not right," Gray Yuan asked, "Shoko's family went to Kyushu today to attend her grandfather's funeral, why is she the only one who stays here and comes to your house for dinner?" ”

"I don't know why, but it seems that Shoko cried and begged her parents to let her stay, saying that she didn't want to go..."

Hearing Shoko Amamiya crying, the elementary school students were even more worried.

"When I saw her this morning," Mrs. Miike continued, she said what she knew, "and she didn't look like she had slept much..."

"Did you quarrel with your parents?"

"Do you think there's anything wrong with her?" Conan asked aloud, "What's different from usual?" ”

"Well," Mrs. Miike recalled, "when I greeted her, she said she was going to the convenience store around the corner..."

Another clue.

Elementary school students think that Shoko Amamiya is most likely running away from home and going to the convenience store to buy food, while Hirayama-sensei doesn't think she is a runaway student.

After that, the young detectives went to the convenience store on the corner together.

Mitsuhiko took the photo at the entrance with his mobile phone before, and showed it directly to the convenience store manager, who recognized it at a glance and confirmed to them the news that Shoko Amamiya had indeed been there in the morning.

Conan and the elementary school students continued to ask questions at the cash register, and because they could hear what they were talking about, Kaedehara walked around the store.

Gray Plains mourns with him.

She quietly observed Mr. Hirayama, who was standing at the door of the convenience store and seemed to be sending an email, and whispered, "Hey, that teacher, it's better to pay attention..."

"What's wrong?"

"He looks very kind in front of us, but when we are far away, he stares at us with terrible eyes..."

"It's okay," Kaedehara explained in a low voice, "That's because he has bad eyes, so he squinted at people..."

Squinting eyes are monsters.

"You're saying he's wearing a pair of glasses with the wrong prescription?"

"yes, didn't he say he fell? I probably broke my contact lenses, so I changed to ordinary glasses with the wrong prescription before. He wanted to touch the bruises, but he knocked his glasses crooked, which also means that he doesn't usually wear ordinary glasses..."

"But it's also possible that their accomplices deliberately pretended to be too much of a guard to keep us off guard, right?"

"He's he's done to my... Conan's glasses weren't interested in anything at all," Kaedehara explained, "That's the key to distinguishing me from Conan, and you're wearing the same glasses now, so there's no reason why you're coming for us..."

"Could this be pretended?"

"Then let's talk about the most important reason..."

Kaedehara stopped in the corner where he was selling kitchen supplies and glanced twice at the shelves, "Your sensor radar doesn't respond, does it?" ”

"Huh?"

"I trust your instincts."

“… It's dangerous to trust your instincts too much. ”

Gray Yuan Wai couldn't help but say that she was the one who trusted her instincts the most, and then she changed the subject, "And then?" What are you going to buy? ”

"Paper cups or paper plates."

Gray Yuan glanced at the shelves, and found that the shelves on the labels of these two things were empty, "Did you come to this store on purpose?" ”

"No—"

"Ah, Kaedehara! Gray Plains! So you're here! ”

After the elementary school students finished asking, they also walked over to Kaede Yuan and Gray Yuanai, interrupting their two-person conversation.

"The store manager said that Shoko bought fresh juice, milk, and a knife..."

"And Shoko said that she spent a while in the corner where she sold kitchen supplies," Mitsuhiko said, "Ah, this is it!" ”

Gray Yuan glanced at Kaedehara thoughtfully.

Conan was also a little surprised that Kaedehara had already come here.

This guy is a big step ahead of himself...

Conan thought so, and the elementary school students guessed what Shoko Amamiya wanted to buy here.

At this time, Hirayama-sensei also walked in and asked the store manager for news about Shoko Amamiya, and then another person walked into the store.

This is a beautiful police officer from the traffic section they had met in an incident before. She was also a little surprised to see the familiar group of young detectives.

"Huh? What are you doing here? ”

"Officer Yumi!"

"It's the sister in the patrol police car!"

"It's me!" Officer Yumi responded with a smile, "But, isn't your home far from here?" ”

The elementary school students explained one by one.

"I see," Officer Yumi pondered, "that elementary school student named Shoko Amamiya was the last place he came to before he disappeared at this convenience store..."

"Hmm!"

"But... I wanted to ask as soon as I saw you," Officer Yumi glanced at Kaedehara and then at Conan, "Isn't one of you two wearing glasses?" ”

"Because, because I want to change my style, my glasses are not very high," Conan glanced at Kaedehara with an innocent face depressedly, "By the way, Officer Yumi, did the police receive any reports?" For example, a report of a suspicious person or a traffic accident or something..."

"I didn't receive a single one today, but I received a lot of reports of illegal parking..."

"What is a parking violation?" Ayumi was a little curious.

"It's not good to park your car or motorcycle where it shouldn't be! Now I'm about to deal with a parking violation..."

"Then why did you get into this convenience store?"

"Are you hungry?" Motota asked.

"No, I'm here to buy a mask."

"Masks? Do you have a cold? ”

"No, it's just that the next three places I'm going to go are around here, and it's necessary to wear a mask..."

"Will it smell strong?" Mitsuhiko asked.

"There's a place that's yes... Because in the vicinity of the garbage dump, many people, whether it is the day of garbage collection or not, throw organic waste there, and it turns out to be a canteen for crows..."

Officer Yumi then replied, "The smell of that garbage is really unbearable... It seems necessary to ban littering before illegal parking..."

"And what about the next two places?"

"The second place is an old warehouse that is not used now. I don't know if it's because of the dust, but I keep sneezing when I get there... I also went there yesterday, but my snot kept running down, and when I went before, I didn't have any problems..."

"This is it!" Kaedehara's eyes lit up, "Can you take us here to have a look?" ”

"Ahh Yes, yes..."

"Do you already know, Kaedehara?" The elementary school students looked at it expectantly.

"I have some ideas, but I have to go to the pharmacy first..."

In the eyes of some curiosity from everyone, Kaedehara invited Motota to drink a bottle of drink and asked him to finish it on the spot.

This was nothing to Yuantai, so she readily agreed.

When Motota drank all the drinks at once, Kaedehara took the empty drink bottle and borrowed some hot water from the convenience store manager.

Then, they went to a nearby pharmacy, where Kaedehara bought some baby milk powder in the form of a stick, poured the milk powder into a bottle of hot water, and shook it a few times to mix the milk powder well.

"Hey, Kaedehara... What the hell are you going to do? ”

"Do you have a baby to feed?" Gray Plains asked.

"yes..."

"Huh?" The elementary school students were a little surprised.

"He's got a baby to raise, but—"

Looking at Kaedehara's series of operations, Conan had obviously figured it out, but he was only halfway along with it, and the elementary school students interrupted.

"Liar, deceive!"

"But my mother said that children can't give birth to babies..."

Kaedehara had just finished finishing it, and as he walked, he straightened the plastic bottle in his hand again, and then he noticed the shocked and suspicious gazes of Ayumi, Motota, and Mitsuhiko.

Ash Yuan Ai was about to ask Kaedehara what was going on, but he realized that something was wrong.

"Today's children are really precocious."

Officer Yumi, who was leading the way in front, glanced back and couldn't help but sigh.

"Not really!" Kaedehara almost dropped the drink bottle on the ground, "What are you all thinking!" ”

Gray Yuan Ai blushed a little, glared at the innocent Kaedehara, and then looked at the elementary school students, "I was the one who asked this just now, right?" ”

"Yes, yes..."

Kaedehara sighed inwardly and glanced at Conan, who was embarrassed to avoid his gaze, and Kaedehara had to explain himself.

"When I say babies, I mean small animals, they should be kittens..."

"Little, kitten?"

"Hmm. Mitsuhiko," Kaedehara explained as he walked, "You said Shoko has another place where she resembles Ashbara, right?" ”

"yes... But I never remembered..."

"I think it's both of them who like small animals..."

Gray Yuan is not really a elementary school student after all, and if Mitsuhiko can feel that Shoko has something similar to her, it must be the childish side that Gray Yuan shows.

Thinking that Gray Yuan would occasionally get up early and go to school with Ayumi to take care of small animals, and he would sometimes go with him, Kaedehara thought about it at once. After hearing the conversation between the convenience store manager and Conan, this was almost confirmed.

"That's right, this is it! I remember! Mitsuhiko also recalled.

"Oh," Gray Yuan thought for a moment, "so when you went to the convenience store, you went straight to the paper cups and paper plates, and mixed them with hot milk..."

"yes, I think she stumbled upon the kitten... Maybe her family didn't agree, so she went to take care of it secretly..."

"Then she said she had something to ask us for, and that's because of this!"

"She looked at the kitchen supplies area for a while, probably because the paper plates and cups were just sold out," Conan couldn't help but reason, "Then she bought drinks and knives, thinking of cutting off the bottom of the drink bottle to use as a bowl..."

"I see!"

"Then why here?" Officer Yumi asked, and as he spoke, they had already arrived outside the warehouse they had mentioned. When she mentioned this before, this kid named Kaedehara Sora or Conan immediately said that it was here.

However, as soon as she finished asking, she sneezed several times in succession.

"Because of Officer Yumi, you're probably allergic."

"Huh?"

"You said you didn't sneeze when you came here before, right? But then I kept sneezing, I think it was because somebody put these babies here..."

Kaedehara said, glancing to the side, hesitated and walked into the warehouse, came to a cardboard box, and opened the lid.

What caught their eye was two black and white kittens.

"Wow! It's a kitten—"

"It's so cute!"

"So, am I allergic to cats?" Officer Yumi asked.

"Well, it should be."

Kaedehara casually responded, handing the bottle of hot milk in his hand directly to Ashbara, then turned around and walked towards the outside of the warehouse.

Gray Yuan gently pinched the kitten's fleshy little paws, took the drink bottle, and looked back at Kaede Yuan who was walking out.

Conan went out after Kaedehara, and the elementary school students were attracted by the kitten, completely unaware of it.

It seems that there is something else...

But the milk was handed over to him...

After thinking for a while, Gray Yuan Ai reached out and took out the plastic bowl made by Xiangzi in the box and poured out the milk inside.

"Ah, Gray Plains..."

"If you let them drink milk directly, it's easy to eat bad stomachs," Gray Yuan Ai replaced with warm milk, "so use hot water close to human body temperature, dilute it twice as much, and then give it to them..."

As he spoke, the kitten drank.

Shoko Amamiya didn't know this, and didn't understand why the kittens didn't drink the milk she provided, so they didn't want to leave, and they didn't even sleep well last night.

"But what about Shoko?" Mitsuhiko asked.

Gray Yuan got up and walked outside, and the others realized that Kaedehara and Conan had gone out, so they followed suit.

Kaedehara and Conan were checking on the situation.

There was a fragment of a headlight on the side of a nearby power pole, which I am afraid fell when it hit this pole, and the fracture surface of the fragment was still very new, so the accident occurred not long after.

There was also a trail of blood on the ground. Blood trails stretched from the telephone pole to the front of the warehouse, and there were also visible brake marks nearby.

The elementary school students who heard the news turned pale.

"Could it be that Shoko she... Hit by a car? Mitsuhiko worried.

"Don't worry," Kaedehara reassured.

"Huh?"

"Hmm... It's a bit strange to say that, but the blood on the ground is back and forth, and I think it's the driver's blood... And since he can turn back, he shouldn't be in a big deal with himself..."

"And as for where she is..."

Conan picked up the conversation and glanced around the corner with Kaedehara. The new doctor's clinic is right there.

The group rushed over.

Outside the clinic, a van was parked on the side, and the headlights could be seen shattered. Shoko Amamiya is here.

From the new doctors, they learned that the injured person was indeed the driver of the car.

Shoko Amamiya just thought that she had been hit, lost consciousness, and was carried here by the driver. And since she didn't get a good night's rest last night, she has slept now.

When Hirayama-sensei learned that she was fine, he even cried excitedly, which not only reaped Motota's contempt, but also further dispelled the suspicions of Kaedehara, Conan, and Ashbara.

Conan finally put back his glasses.

Gray Yuanai, who had already taken off his glasses, stood aside and quietly looked at the new doctor, "Was she dressed like this during that time?" ”

She was obviously referring to Belmore.

"Well, it's exactly the same... But don't worry, he's really a new doctor, not that guy pretending..."

"Ahh Induction radar? ”

Although he didn't like the name, Kaede Yuan insisted on calling it that way, and Gray Yuan had no choice but to admit it.

"No, but..."

Kaedehara paused for a moment and said solemnly, "I have another radar." A radar that senses whether your radar is responding or not. ”

(End of chapter)