In memory.

Seven years ago.

At the edge of a public toilet outside a baseball field, the water pipe at the sink is disconnected from the middle, and tap water is constantly gushing out.

The young Kudo Shinichi stood on tiptoe and leaned over, his hands tightly clutching the broken water pipe, trying to plug it, but it was obviously to no avail.

He's been here for a long time.

A few steps behind him, Xiaolan stood motionless watching the scene, tears welling up in the corners of her eyes.

"It's all Shinichi's fault, kicking the ball where it shouldn't be."

"Don't cry, Ran," Kudo Shinichi struggled to raise his feet a little higher, "it's okay." ”

Although he said that, he actually didn't have any tools around him, and he couldn't spare his hands, so he didn't know how to plug the broken water pipe.

And as soon as his words fell, the water spurting out of the water pipe suddenly became larger, and the tap water that had changed direction because it was blocked by his hand splashed him in an instant.

"Ahh Damn it! Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but mutter.

Xiaolan behind her cried even louder.

"Hey, little ghost!"

An unfamiliar voice came from behind him, and Kudo Shin suddenly looked back consciously, and it was a man in his early twenties, wearing a police academy uniform.

The man shouted and squatted down, gently touching Xiaolan's head, "Don't make your own girl cry!" ”

"Huh?"

Shinichi Kudo was slightly upset.

Before he could defend himself, he saw the man in baseball gloves walking towards him, and the other party took out a baseball pinched in the glove and stuck it in the broken water pipe.

Coincidentally, the break was just blocked by a baseball, and the jet of water was cut off at once.

"Stopped!" Kudo Shin looked happy and turned to look at the man, who winked at him with his right eye.

"Hagi!"

At this time, three more men came from behind, about the same age as this man.

They all wore the same uniforms and baseball gloves on their hands, apparently playing baseball together.

The man at the front asked, "What are you doing?" ”

"Xiao Jinping!" Helping to block the water, the man named Hagi turned around and said hello, "Phone!" Call the water company! ”

"Ah, why?"

"Of course it's this!"

Hagi casually replied, stepping aside to reveal the water pipe he had just blocked, and nodded at it.

The man who was called Jinhei immediately understood.

Immediately afterward, another bronze-skinned man in the same uniform ran over from a distance to meet them.

"Zero! You're too slow! ”

……

"I didn't look at him head-on, and I only caught a glimpse, but I remember it very clearly..."

At the doctor's house, the elementary school students had already returned to their respective homes, and Kaedehara sat on the sofa and explained to Gray Hara, who was sitting next to him, and Conan, who was sitting opposite.

"It doesn't matter if it's skin color, voice, or facial features," Kaedehara continued, "that's Toru Amuro." ”

"I heard you say that," Conan pressed his forehead and tried to recall, "it seems like there was such a thing..."

"That's why you think he's from the Japanese police?" Gray Plains asked.

"That's right." Kaedehara nodded slightly, "He's probably an undercover agent sent into the organization by the Japanese police, I think that's why your radar didn't react to him...

As for Belmode... She said she wouldn't do anything to you again. Judging by the fact that your radar is also unresponsive, I think she must have kept this promise, at least for the time being..."

Kaedehara paused, "That's why I said it wasn't your radar problem, don't worry." ”

Gray Yuan snorted softly and skimmed his head, secretly relieved.

"But... I don't remember him much," Conan struggled to recall again, then gave up, "The focus was on the man named Hagi... And then what, is there anything else? ”

"Zero." "They called him Zero. ”

He hadn't mentioned this in the previous story.

"Zero..."Both Gray Plains and Conan were stunned.

"Is it a nickname?"

"Zero is a designation given to an organization that shouldn't have existed," Conan said, "and is a colloquial term for the NSA police that exists to maintain security and order in Japan." ”

"Japanese Public Security..."

"This should be his real name," Kaedehara said, "and didn't I say that?" Don't you remember the name of one of the people who shouted Hagi? Draw..."

"Matsuda Jinpei?" Gray Plains replied.

"Ah, Matsuda Jinpei!" Conan also reacted, "It's the one who gave up defusing the bomb in order to find the address of the next bomb when he defused the bomb on the Ferris wheel a few years ago..."

The former police officer of the first search section who was finally killed by the bombing, Matsuda Jinpei.

The Junior Detective Corps had met the culprit of this case before, and then learned the name from Officer Shiratori.

"I looked into it, got his photo, and determined that Matsuda Jinpei was the person I met seven years ago."

"How did I not know this?" Gray Plains Mourning Fox wondered.

"I wasn't idle to do anything while you were busy developing the antidote, but most of them were asked by Mr. Pleiades to investigate..."

"Oh..."

"Also, Hagi should refer to Kenji Hagiwara, he and Matsuda Jinpei are classmates in the same phase of the police academy, and these can be found on the surface..."Kaedehara continued, "It is worth mentioning that Officer Date Air, who has the same pronunciation as Officer Takagi's name, is also their classmate of the same time..."

Date was the same police officer who died in a car accident a year ago, and Officer Takagi was kidnapped some time ago because his name was pronounced the same.

"Zero," Conan said.

"There is no record." Kaedehara replied, "However, no record is the biggest record, which means that he was hidden by the Japanese government because of a certain mission..."

"For example, going undercover in the organization..."

"That's right."

"I mean, you shouldn't be thinking of directly contacting that person named Amuro, right?" Gray Yuan wailed his arms, "Even if he is really an undercover agent sent to the organization by the Japanese police as you speculate, it doesn't mean that he stands with us..."

She paused slightly, "Maybe you even betrayed the organization during the undercover period, maybe..."

"I won't go directly to him, so Mr. Pleiades and I are still secretly investigating him..."

"However, if you only have the name Zero..."

"Valley-dropping zero." Kaedehara said.

"Huh?"

Kaedehara goes on to explain:

"I remember that there were five of them at the time, and I wasn't sure the name of the rest of them at first, but the investigation found that like Matsuda Jinpei and Date Air, Kenji Hagiwara also died.

Thinking that they might go to pay respects to their former friends, I went to their cemetery and asked the cemetery administrators. ”

"And then?" Conan praised at the right time.

The first to die was Kenji Hagiwara, who died just seven years ago when he was blown up by a prisoner while dealing with an explosion in the Asai villa area near Yoshioka 3-chome. The old man who was in charge of the cemetery was very impressed by the people who went to worship, because at first there were four people who went to worship, but then there were fewer and fewer people..."

Until finally becoming a person.

"His surname is Zhugu, and the other surname is Zhufu."

"Zhufu..."Conan was stunned again.

"It's easy to think of Officer Mofushi," Kaedehara continued, "and his younger brother Mofushi Keimitsu... Like Valley Zero, it's also a hidden file..."

In this way, the identities of the five people Kudo Shinichi met seven years ago were all revealed.

"Really," Conan thought for a moment, and couldn't help but complain, "It's good to remember clearly..."

Kaedehara blinked innocently.

"But a certain Mr. Detective would have known about this a long time ago," Gray Plains glanced at Kaedehara, "but he didn't tell us until now..."

"That's because the investigation hasn't been completed yet," Kaedehara quickly explained, "Mr. Pleiades has some ideas, and he's still investigating these two names, and I was thinking of telling you when I figure it out..."

"Hmph." Gray Yuan raised his chin slightly, indicating that he was not happy.

"It turned out that I happened to meet them to talk to Teacher Judy..."

"It's still making me scared these days," Conan didn't hesitate to stand on the same side as Gray Plains, "really..."

"It's better for you to hide yourself." Facing Conan, Kaede replied without changing his face.

……

Although it is not 100% certain that Amuro is the person who is the person of the Japanese public security before the results of the investigation by Shuichi Akai are the people of the Japanese public security, judging from the existing clues, this possibility is still quite large.

Therefore, both Gray Plains and Conan are relieved a lot for the time being.

A few days later, in the afternoon, the Young Detectives gathered at the doctor's house.

The doctor is ready to show them his new invention.

Because he was still busy debugging, Kaedehara and Conan took advantage of this time to watch the news on TV.

Just now, Jiroyoshi Suzuki, the uncle of the garden and the consultant of the Suzuki Foundation, won the newly discovered famous painting of Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers, at a world-renowned auction in New York, USA, for a high price of 300 million US dollars.

On the TV screen, two hosts, a man and a woman, introduced the basic situation to the audience in the form of dialogue.

"Why didn't this work appear to the world until recently?" The hostess asked knowingly.

"Because it is rumored that the painting has already been burned in the flames of World War II."

"Burned? Is this painting a fake? ”

"No, it's just that there's always been a legend like that. Please look here," the host said, holding out a newspaper and showing it to the audience in front of the screen, "This is last year's newspaper, and the report said that it was found in Jarre, France, that it may be an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh." ”

"The painting was found in the attic of the roof of an old house, and it was a topic of conversation at the time."

"Yes, that painting is the second sunflower this time..."

Conan watched the news for a while and noticed that Kaedehara next to him walked away towards the house, but he didn't pay attention to it, but continued to read.

"But it's also possible that it's a fake, right?" The voice of the hostess came over the TV.

"Yes, the experts couldn't be more cautious about this, and they have already carried out detailed appraisals before the auction is to be held. It turned out that the canvas used for this painting was the same as Van Gogh's other works in Yare..."

Then it should be genuine...

"Conan, it's time to start!" Ayumi's voice came.

"Oh!"

"Come on, come on!"

"What did you do this time?" Motota, Mitsuhiko, and Ayumi looked excitedly at the rice cooker-like thing in front of the doctor.

Gray Yuan Ai stood behind the three of them, also admiring the doctor's new invention with some curiosity.

"This can't be a robot, right?"

"Hurry up, Doctor!"

The elementary school students couldn't wait to urge, and the doctor glanced to the side, "I'm waiting for the most important thing to come... Ah, here it is..."

Ash Yuan also turned his head to look, and noticed that Kaede Yuan came over with a watermelon that looked almost half his size.

And although Kaede Force has no problem at all in terms of strength, it is obviously a bit troublesome to hold such a big watermelon in terms of body size, and almost all of his head is blocked behind.

"Wow!"

"That's great!"

The elementary school students' eyes lit up, and Gray Yuan couldn't help but chuckle.

"Really, I'm here to help..."

"Ah, I can't hold such a big watermelon..."

The Doctor hurried up to help pick it up.

Gray Yuan clapped his hands, "Kaedehara is really powerful. ”

"Yes! That's amazing! ”

"Such a big watermelon can be moved..."

"It should be heavier than Yuantai..."

"That's not it, this is already the biggest one," Kaedehara said, standing beside Gray Yuan.

The doctor placed the watermelon in the rice cooker-like prop and pressed a few buttons on the side.

"Just press the button..."

"Will it turn into eel rice?"

"No, no matter how magical it is, it's impossible, right?" Mitsuhiko argued.

"It's better than eel rice." Kaedehara said.

"Something better than eel rice," Motota said with a more expectant expression, "Will it be a bigger eel rice?" ”

"Hey, can't you think of something else?"

Elementary school students frolicked and guessed what would come out in the end, and Conan glanced back at the news from time to time, a little absent-minded. Kaede Yuan and Gray Plains took in the expressions of the elementary school students.

"You're really holding a grudge..."Thinking of Gray Yuan's performance just now, Kaede Yuan whispered to her.

"Hmph, it's not because some big pervert secretly kissed me in the morning..."

Obviously, you came up like you did at the shrine, but I just didn't miss the opportunity again...

Kaedehara thought to himself, very wisely choosing not to say this, and then noticed that Ashbara was turning his head to look at him.

"What will be the result?" Gray Plains was a little curious.

"It's going to be fine soon...", but Kaedehara didn't want to spoil it.

Throwing a threatening look at Kaedehara, and seeing that it was useless, Gray Hara snorted softly, turned his head and looked at the slightly trembling instrument.

After a few moments, the machine stopped shaking.

"Ah, it's out!" Ayumi said in surprise.

The sides of the machine opened, and the watermelon was pushed out.

"Strange," the elementary school student was stunned for a moment, "but the watermelon is still a watermelon." ”

"What, I failed again."

"Hmph," the doctor smirked, "the excitement is just about to begin." ”

As soon as the words fell, the watermelon suddenly cracked from the top.

In the shocked eyes of the elementary school students, the watermelon peels off little by little from the edges, revealing a masked superhuman model made of watermelon.

"Oh!"

"That's amazing!"

"It's Kamen Blade!"

"How did this come about?"

"What is the doctor doing, if you want to do something, you can do something useful."

The whispering complaint at the end was obviously from Conan, but even though his voice was so small that only he could hear it, Kaedehara heard it.

"This can be useful," Kaedehara glanced at Conan, "There are already quite a few companies that have placed orders with the doctor." ”

"Huh? Is this kind of thing? ”

"What a faux pas!" The doctor dissatisfied, "This is the most proud work I've been doing these days!" ”

"Ha, haha..."

Whether or not they can make money is another matter, real elementary school students are already excitedly holding a Kamen Superman model made of watermelons and scurrying around in the living room excitedly.

Kaedehara and Ashbara watched Ayumi and the others frolic for a while, and then came to the TV to continue watching the news with Conan.

It seems that the news has just aired a press conference at the auction in New York, USA.

"Next, let's ask Mr. Jiroyoshi Suzuki, who successfully won the sunflower mark, to say a few words for all of us."

Jiroji Suzuki nodded slightly at the host, and then looked at the reporters in front of him.

"First of all, I am deeply honored to be able to successfully bid for the highest amount of money in the history of painting as planned."

"Huh? Did you plan to win the bid for $300 million? ”

"That's right, it's all about holding an exhibition of sunflowers in Japan."

"Art exhibition?"

"We, the Suzuki Foundation," Sonoko said, "are planning to collect all the paintings scattered around the world and framed by sunflowers in vases." We would like to announce that we will be holding a sunflower exhibition that envisions Japan at our own Recrok Museum of Art! ”

"Miss Suzuki, you said that the collection is complete, but how many paintings are there in total?"

"Do you mean that this time the sunflowers are also part of the plan?"

The reporters asked questions one after another.

"Yes," replied Sonoko, "all in order to announce the exhibition today. The paintings we are going to collect include the sunflowers that won this bid, a total of seven. ”

"Seven of them?"

"No matter how powerful the Japanese consortium is, it won't be able to do it, right?"

"Don't worry," said Jiroyoshi Suzuki, "this plan has been pushed forward for a long time." ”

"For a long time, our foundation has been expressing its determination to museums and individuals around the world who hold sunflower paintings that we want to exhibit all sunflower paintings at the same time, and we have obtained their consent in advance to lend the paintings to us for exhibition if we successfully auction the sunflowers at auction!"

"What's more!" Jiroyoshi Suzuki picked up behind the garden and said, "I've got seven experts in place to make sure it's safe, transported, or secured!" ”

"Seven experts?" The host couldn't help but speak.

"Huh. They are the best Seven Samurai I have recruited for today! ”

With a wave of his hand, five people walked up to the stage, standing side by side with a man who had been standing next to the garden.

Jiroyoshi Suzuki then introduced.

From the left, the first is Natsumi Miyadai, who is in charge of the history and appraisal of the painting.

The second is Mr. Koji Higashi, who specializes in painting and is responsible for restoration, preservation, and management.

The third is Ms. Keiko Anderson, who is the curator.

The fourth is Mr. Taizo Ishirai, who is in charge of directing the transportation and transportation of paintings.

The fifth is Ms. Kumiko Kishi, who is in charge of directing the layout of the Sunflower Exhibition venue.

The sixth was the head of Vigilante, Officer Charlie of New York City.

"There are only six of them," Kaedehara said, looking at Conan to his left, "Isn't it you?" ”

"Huh?" Conan was stunned for a moment.

"Doesn't he think a lot of about you?"

Gray Plains also chimed in: "Kid Buster..."

In the previous gem shows held by Suzuki Jiroyoshi, Conan had made a lot of limelight in the showdown with Kidd.

And because Kidd agreed with Kudo Yukiko to teach Gray Hara to disguise and give notes, Kaedehara couldn't copy him directly, so he mainly watched Conan's performance.

After all, Conan alone was enough to keep the gem. Although that's also because Kidd didn't really want to steal the gem.

"Hey, that guy Kidd is only interested in gems," Conan said angrily, "He's not interested in painting, and besides, that guy obviously doesn't want to meet you..."

As he spoke, it was revealed on the TV that the last samurai who had not yet arrived was actually Uncle Maori.

This made Conan can't help but roll his eyes.

However, he was not in the mood to complain about it, because the next moment, just as Jiroyoshi Suzuki was laughing at something happy, a card flew through the crowd to the stage and was firmly planted on the floor of the stage.

Yuanzi blushed and covered her mouth, "This—Could this be..."

"Kidka!"

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