Finding the owner of the cat is such a small thing, and the already famous Maori uncle obviously can't afford it, not to mention that horse racing is still being shown on TV now.

However, after Amuro Toru asked for a commission in return for the infield tickets for Yoko Okino's summer concert, Uncle Mori immediately changed his tune.

A moment later.

Uncle Maori sat upright at the table.

Toru Amuro, Ran and the Junior Detective Corps are on the side to listen.

Ayumi is also holding a kitten named Gorou in her arms.

This is the cat raised by Fei Ying, because she is going to Fukuoka on a business trip, so she entrusts Gorou to Xiaolan to take care of it for one night.

The three men who claimed to be the captain's master were questioned individually in turn.

The first was Mrs. Shegawa, about sixty years old, and she was a housewife.

"When did your cat disappear?"

"About two months ago." Mrs. Sagawa replied, "Because our family is going on a trip, we leave it at a friend's house. As a result, one of the cats disappeared without paying attention. This is the picture of the cat's owner, my granddaughter, taken five years ago. ”

As she spoke, she handed a photo to Kogoro Maori.

In the photo, a middle school girl is holding a cat.

"I see. At that time, it was still a kitten, and it was indeed very similar from the distribution of patterns on its body. ”

"yes, Mr. Detective, you think so too, don't you?"

"Then grandma, you also like cats, don't you?" Conan took Gorou from Ayumi's arms and walked over with it in his arms.

"yes, of course." Mrs. Sagawa replied, then noticed Goro, "Oh, come here!" ”

But Gorou ignored her, and jumped straight onto Kogoro's lap and lay down.

"That cat must have been neutered, right?" Amuro asked.

"yes. It was really tiring at that time," Mrs. Shechuan nodded, "although I only stayed in the hospital for one night and came back, I couldn't remove the bandage, so it took more than a week until the stitches were removed." ”

This concludes the questioning of Mrs. Saikawa, and the second person to be questioned is Mr. Mashiko.

"Mr. Mashiko, the president of the IT company, you are the second candidate for the owner of the cat." Uncle Maori asked, "When did the cat get lost?" ”

"It was exactly when I moved four months ago." Mr. Mashiko Sadaji replied, "My wife, who I had spent 30 years with, died, so I wanted to sell my family and move to an apartment. I was supposed to put it in a cage and put it on the moving company's truck, only to get out of the car and find the cage empty. ”

"Oh. Do you have a photo? ”

"I took a picture with my phone," Mr. Mashiko pulled out his phone and showed it to Uncle Maori, "and it's my wife who is with the cat." I took the photo. ”

"It's exactly like Poirot's cat." Uncle Maori held the magazine and compared it.

"Of course. It's the same cat. ”

And then the same process as before.

Observe the reaction between each other and Goro, and then ask Amuro if the cat has been neutered.

Mr. Mashiko seems to have some allergies to cats, and Gorou can't help but sneeze as soon as he gets close to him. However, he clearly remembered that the cat had been neutered, and that the cat was not bandaged, but had something like a satellite dish around its neck.

The same goes for the process for the third person.

Mr. Shogo Yuzawa, a freelancer in his thirties, claimed that his cat was free-range, and that the cat was gone when he returned home one day half a year ago.

Gorou seemed to like him very much, and threw himself into his arms and rubbed his face. He professes to be a likable to critters.

However, he was vague about the fact that the cat had been neutered.

Later, Conan lied to him that the captain was a female cat, and he subconsciously thought that he was mistaken.

……

A moment later.

After being questioned, the three gathered in front of Uncle Maori, and Miss Azusa Enomoto happened to come to the Maori Detective Agency with the captain.

"I've kept you waiting!" Miss Enomoto Azusa pushed the door open.

"Captain!" Ayumi, who was holding Goro, shouted happily.

Then, to their surprise, they saw the captain jump out of Miss Enomoto Azusa's arms as soon as he entered the door.

It ran straight for Mr. Yuzawa and leaped into his arms, rubbing his chin as intimately as Gorou before.

Minotaur in person...

Kaedehara thought to herself, looking at Mr. Mashiko with an expression of disbelief.

"Look, it's my cat!" Mr. Yuzawa hugged the captain and said proudly.

"How so?"

"How is this possible?"

"Then I'll take the cat back!"

"Ah, okay." Uncle Maori nodded.

"But I heard on TV that if there were exactly three people in front of them, the cat would pounce on the person in the middle!" Conan said.

"Huh? Is that so? Xiaolan was a little puzzled.

"Well, I've seen that, too." Kaedehara said, "And if you make a judgment based on this, doesn't that mean that Gorou is also this uncle's cat?" ”

"Huh?" Uncle Maori looked at it with some displeasure.

"Just now, Gorou also pounced directly on this uncle like this?"

"That's right!" Elementary school students were stunned.

"Probably just because you're a liking to animals, uncle, right?" Kaedehara looked at Mr. Yuzawa, "You just said that. ”

"Yes, yes..."

"That's right! You can't just make a judgment based on that! Uncle Maori decisively changed his tune.

Next, Conan proposes that there is a very simple way to determine the owner of the captain.

The crowd decided to give it a try.

Miss Enomoto Azusa took the lieutenant outside the office and gave the lieutenant cat food to stay there. The three men then took turns approaching the door of the office and opening it.

The first to try it was Mrs. Sagawa.

The captain heard the commotion and glanced back at her, but did not react otherwise.

"Come here, Wheat! It's me, don't you know? Mrs. Shechuan shouted for a while before giving up, "If it's not my granddaughter, it won't work." ”

"No, it's the same with a granddaughter."

"Grandma, the cat you are looking for is different from this cat, it is a female cat."

Conan and Kaedehara said one by one.

"What?"

"Right? Brother Amuro? Conan looked back at Amuro.

“… Oh, yes. Amuro replied, "Mrs. Shegawa, as you said, your cat was hospitalized for one night because of the sterilization, and then it took a week until the stitches were removed. ”

"yes, yes."

"It's not castration for males, it's sterilization for females, because sterilization for females requires opening the cavity and abdomen, removing ovaries, etc., which is a very complicated operation.

Male castration surgery is a very simple operation that only removes the testicles and removes the sperm nest, and in principle, you can go home on the same day. As Mr. Mashiko said, in order to prevent the cat from licking the wound, it is enough to put a flared hood around the neck. ”

"And grandma, you don't actually have to deal with cats." Kaedehara added, "You've been staring at Gorou before. ”

"What's wrong with this?" Yuan Tai on the side couldn't help but ask.

"Cats don't like to be stared at all the time, even by their owners," Conan explains, "and that's why Gorou went to Uncle Kogoro, who had little interest in him. ”

"Grandma, you don't have a cat, right? Probably because your granddaughter had something to leave and there was no one at home, so she entrusted the cat to you to take care of for a while, and you accidentally let the cat run away, right? ”

Mrs. Shechuan was silent for a while before she began to confess:

“… Yes, my granddaughter was on a school trip, and her parents also took the opportunity to travel overseas, so they asked me to take care of the cat, but the cat was always not close to me, and I didn't pay attention to it and it disappeared.

I was in the middle of my confusion when I saw the cat in the magazine. It's the tricolor cat that looks exactly like my granddaughter's cat. ”

So she planned to replace her granddaughter's one with a captain.

After Conan helped with a few suggestions to find the cat, Mrs. Shekawa left the office.

Next it was Mr. Yusawa's turn.

The schoolboys all thought that the captain would throw himself directly into his arms just like just now, but the captain was equally indifferent.

After Mr. Yuzawa couldn't help but raise his voice, the captain even hid directly behind Miss Enomoto Azusa.

"Don't you know?" Conan said to Mr. Yuzawa.

"Huh?"

"The effective time of the wood is only five to ten minutes. As long as it fails, you're just a terrible yelling uncle to the cat. The proof is that Gorou, who was sticking to you at the beginning, is now afraid to come near you because of fear. ”

“……”

"If you really are its owner," the Maori uncle sitting at the table decided, "you wouldn't have sprinkled the powder on your body before claiming it." ”

"Ah, no... That, actually..."

"And you're planning to give up just now after Conan said the cat is female, right?" "If you look at the photos in the magazine and believe that it is your own cat, and you come to claim it, you should refute it, or at least confirm it." You know that, right? If the cat is a female cat, it has no value at all. ”

"Value?" Uncle Maori looked at him with some puzzlement, "That's not a purebred cat." ”

"The female cat of the tricolor cat is not. But male cats only appear because of chromosomal abnormalities, and only one in a thousand. Because it is very rare, the beckoning cat will use it as a prototype. ”

Amuro paused, "The cheapest one costs one million yuan, and I heard that there have been cases where it has been sold for 20 million yuan." ”

"Twenty, twenty million?" Uncle Maori couldn't help but stand up.

"Liar..."Xiaolan was also surprised.

"Captain, you're so powerful!" Ayumi looked happily at the captain.

"As precious as a white lion!"

"For example, if you have so much money, how much eel rice can you eat?"

"You who obviously know this value," Amuro gradually approached Mr. Yuzawa, "how can you be free-range in the city?" ”

Mr. Yuzawa fled.

The last one to try was Mr. Mashiko.

The captain on the other side of the door just heard him coming, so he went straight to the door and squatted, tilting his head and waiting for him to open the door.

This is because cats have sensitive ears that can remember the footsteps of their owners. In addition, the captain got into the refrigerated truck of the Courier Service because it was the same truck as the cheetah moving company that Mr. Mashiko chose when he moved.

……

In this way, the tricolor cat captain finally returned to his master. A week after this, the Junior Detectives were invited to Mr. Mashiko's apartment to see the Captain.

And because they didn't have to see Amuro this time, Ash Hara went with him, but when they arrived at the apartment, they found that Mr. Mashiko had been attacked not long ago and was dying.

After solving the case, they learn that Mr. Mashiko's friend had come to him to borrow money because of the poor management of his company, and Mr. Mashiko planned to give Captain Maneko to him because he was allergic to cats.

However, the other party did not know that the captain was a lucky cat, nor did he know its value and significance, so he felt that Mr. Mashiko was humiliating himself, and in a fit of rage, the other party pushed him to the ground and hit his head on the table.

This misunderstanding led to the case.

Fortunately, Mr. Mashiko was eventually rescued and regained consciousness.

After that, the captain also went through many tosses and turns, and finally returned to Poirot's Cafe.

A few days later, the day of the kite contest arrived.

This is the eighth kite contest, which is held by the Kameka City Hall and is held on the Tsutsu River.

The Doctor and the Junior Detectives are also ready to participate in the competition.

On this day, the doctor's house.

"Alright, done!" Motota set up the kite and showed it to everyone.

"That's amazing! It's so beautifully done! ”

"It's a detective badge!"

The shape of the kite is similar to the detective badge of the Junior Detective Corps.

"Huh?" Conan was stunned for a moment, "But if you don't have a tail, you'll spin around, right?" ”

"That's already done with Xiaokong!" The Doctor said, and he and Kaedehara each walked over with a coiled kite tail.

"And the slogan is printed!" The doctor continued.

As he spoke, Kaedehara unfurled the tail of the kite in his hand, with slogans written in large letters.

Gray Yuan Ai stood next to the kite's tail and looked down, and at a glance he knew that it was the doctor's handwriting.

"If you encounter a case, please contact the juvenile detective team of the first grade B class of Didan Elementary School." Gray Yuan mourned, and then looked at Kaedehara.

"Not what I thought." Kaedehara immediately dissociated.

But having said that, Ayumi and the others obviously thought that this slogan was very good, and they all showed happy and expectant expressions.

"That's good!"

"I'm sure I'll get a lot of commissions!"

"That's a good idea, isn't it?" The Doctor smirked.

"What about the other tail?" Conan then asked.

"The Doctor didn't even want me to see it just now..."Kaedehara also looked at the Doctor, a little curious.

Although he helped make the kite tail, the slogan was written by the doctor, who was still mysterious and didn't want him to know what was written on it.

However, the doctor, who is now being targeted by the junior detective group, is a little hesitant: "Well, let's wait until we get to the scene before opening it." ”

As he spoke, he slipped his hand, and the tail of the kite he was holding fell off, "Ahhh

The kite's tail was spread out on the ground, revealing a handwritten slogan.

Ai continued to read, "If you need a convenient invention, please contact Dr. Asasa at 22 Banji, 2-chome, Yone-cho. ”

Then she couldn't help but glance at the doctor with half-moon eyes.

"You even have the URL of the homepage printed on the back?" Conan couldn't help but complain.

"What's there to hide from this, Doctor," Kaedehara said, "and we won't mind. ”

"Yes! The Doctor also helped make a kite! ”

"Ahem," the doctor touched his head a little embarrassedly, then glanced at the time, "Oops, it's time to go!" ”

They had been delayed for a while, and then hurried out.

After a moment of haste, sitting in the doctor's car, they continued with the topic they had just talked about.

"But is it really okay?" Mitsuhiko asked, "The tail of the kite will swing with the wind, so won't the slogan that was so hard to write be difficult to read?" ”

"All you have to do is win a prize in a kite competition." Kaedehara replied.

"Won!?" The real elementary school students were a little surprised.

"As long as we can win the prize for the highest flying kite or the most unique design, our kite can be hung in front of the city hall for a month." Conan helped explain.

"In this way, the slogan will also be displayed for a month, and it will have a good publicity effect." Kaedehara finishes the road.

"Oh..."

"That's amazing! Come on, Ashbara! Ayumi looked at Ai Shibara, who was sitting next to her, and noticed that she didn't seem to be listening to the topic just now, but was listening to the song with a happy face.

Gray Plains was still humming something very softly.

Sensing Ayumi's gaze and realizing that Ayumi seemed to be talking to herself just now, Gray Yuan quickly took off her headphones and asked Ayumi:

"Ah, I'm sorry! What did you say? ”

"I—I said I want to do it." Ayumi replied.

"Huh?"

"I'm talking about kite competitions." Kaedehara helped explain. He also wore a pair of headphones in his ear, apparently the same pair as the one in Gray Plains' ears.

However, because his hearing is better and he doesn't listen very attentively, he doesn't miss the conversations of the elementary school students and can participate in them.

Then the elementary school students discussed the competition again, and Kaede took off the headphones directly.

"Gray Plains," Kaede Yuan whispered to Gray Plains, "can't you change the song?" ”

"No, you can't."

"You've looped so many times..."

Gray Yuan snorted lightly, but he was not dissatisfied, and even a little proud, "If you don't want to hear it, give me back the headphones, right?" ”

Kaedehara handed the headphones back without hesitation.

Soon, the Tsutsumi River arrived.

It was crowded with people who came to participate in the kite competition.

Because Motota felt a little thirsty, Kaedehara and Gray Yuan went to deal with the competition with the doctor, and went to buy a few bottles of water by the way.

The schoolchildren who stayed in the crowd and waited chatted.

"Huh? The song that Ashbara is listening to? Conan looked at Ayumi.

"Well, she often hums along with a happy expression."

"And Kaedehara often listens to it together." Mitsuhiko said.

"They have such a good relationship, it's normal to listen together..."

"However, Kaedehara often shows a very disgusted expression when he listens..."Ayumi said.

"Huh?"

"Why? Obviously listening to the same song, Gray Yuan looked happy, but Kaedehara looked disgusted, "Mitsuhiko couldn't suppress his curiosity, "I really want to know!" ”

(End of chapter)