"Could it be a cartoon song?" Yuan Tai guessed.

"I think it's a bit like Yoko Okino's song."

"It sounds like classical music to me."

"In that case, Kaedehara wouldn't have been able to show a disgusted expression," Conan objected, "It shouldn't be like that." ”

"Yes, yes..."

"I think so too! That's why I'm curious! Mitsuhiko said.

Conan thought for a moment.

After all, it's another self, so it should be quite easy to understand.

And if it's a song that I will dislike, it's not that I can't find it, but that guy from Kaedehara listened to it with Gray Yuan, so there's no reason why he would show a disgusted expression so bluntly...

It can't be sung by Kaedehara, right...

No one should be able to listen to that kind of thing, and even if Gray Plains and Kaede Yuan have a good relationship, there's no reason to show that kind of expression...

Conan, who had sung in public on the plane last time, was somewhat self-aware, so he immediately ruled out the possibility, but then he realized that he had no clue.

Damn, even if it's Sherlock Holmes, it's too difficult to deduce the mind of another self...

No, Holmes simply didn't have another ego.

Thinking like this, Conan chose to give up: "Then again, why don't you just ask me?" ”

"Of course we asked, but Gray Yuan said it was a secret."

"Where's Kaedehara?" Conan then asked, "Did you ask him?" ”

"After Gray Yuan didn't want to say, we didn't ask again..."

"And Kaedehara doesn't listen to it as many times as Gray Plains."

"Then it's good to ask him directly, with Kaedehara's temperament, he will definitely not refuse you..."

"I'm sorry, it's a secret."

Kaedehara's voice came from behind Conan.

"Kaede, Kaedehara!"

"It's just a very ordinary song, and it's for your own good not to tell you, and curiosity is sometimes dangerous." Kaedehara continued, and then handed the bag containing the juice directly to Motota.

"Hey, what do you mean for our good?" Conan was dissatisfied, "By the way, when did you start to like listening to songs?" ”

"Listen to it once in a while..."

"But, Kaedehara, we really want to know!"

"Uh-huh!"

"Just tell us!"

"But—" Kaedehara hesitated slightly, "Ashbara told you it was a secret, right?" ”

"Hey! It's your turn to fly a kite soon! ”

As he spoke, the doctor who had completed the formalities trotted all the way back, and Gray Yuan Wai put his hands in his pockets and followed the doctor slowly.

Kite competitions are obviously more important than listening to songs. The elementary school students hurriedly began to prepare for the competition, and Kaedehara and Conan also began to observe the venue to find a suitable position.

In order to prevent cheating, the organizer will shoot a video, so I don't want to appear in the camera, so I stand aside with the doctor to watch, and Ayumi also accompanies her.

After a while, under the instructions of the staff, the competition of their group began.

Kaedehara and Motota are in charge of holding the kite and retreating, Mitsuhiko behind the two of them helps to indicate the road conditions, and Conan is in charge of releasing the line.

"A little further left! Left, left! Conan said as he laid down the line, "Face the wind head-on and step back a little further." ”

"Conan! Be louder! Yuan Tai shouted.

"I can't hear it at all!" Mitsuhiko echoed.

"It's okay!" Conan temporarily raised his voice, "Kaedehara can hear it." ”

"yes..."Kaede Yuan held the kite a little helplessly, and motioned for Yuanta to retreat with him, "It's really lazy..."

"But we can't hear you!"

"There's no sense of involvement at all!"

Motota and Mitsuhiko still wanted Conan to be louder, but Conan still wanted to be lazy and protect his voice: "No matter how far away I am, you won't be able to hear you even if I am louder!" ”

The other kite flyers nearby were also shouting loudly, and the crowd of onlookers next to them did not mean to remain quiet, and it was indeed difficult to hear as the distance gradually increased.

Kaedehara had no choice but to be a microphone to prompt Motota and Mitsuhiko.

Abominable Conan...

"He's reminding us not to step on the tail of the kite." Kaedehara said to Motota, "Hmm... It's almost the distance. ”

"It's about to fly!" The onlookers shouted.

"Come on, come on!" Ayumi also worked hard to cheer up, and then glanced at the gray hara next to him who was listening to the song and watching the game.

"What's wrong?" Gray Plains takes off the headphones.

"No, nothing..."

"Do you want to hear this song too?"

"Uh-huh!" Ayumi happily replied.

The last time I went to ask with Mitsuhiko and Yuantai, Ashara-san was reluctant to say it, but I didn't expect that now when she was only there, she was willing to tell herself directly...

Graybara-san is so nice!

"Then let's listen together," Gray Yuan took out his phone and pressed it a few times, "Hmm... Well..."

She removed one of the songs from the playlist.

Ayumi was a little curious: "Isn't this the song that Gray Yuan and Kaedehara listened to together?" ”

"Huh? Are you curious about this? ”

"Hmm..."

"That one, it should be the same song..."Gray Yuan mourned for a moment, "but it's better not to listen to it, right?" ”

"Oh..."Ayumi looked a little lost.

This is obviously a little secret between Gray Plains and Maple Plains.

They have such a good relationship...

Gray Yuan hesitated.

Not long after they met, she noticed that Ayumi had a crush on Kaedehara, but it was just a child's emotion, and she didn't take it too seriously.

And as time goes by, Ayumi's mind has obviously faded a lot. But I don't know why, she always feels that Ayumi cares about herself this time...

"There's nothing I can't say, it's okay to tell you," Gray Yuan Ai pressed the phone a few more times, and then handed the other earphone over again, "But... Don't regret it? ”

"Hmm!"

Ayumi put on the headphones in anticipation, and a familiar singing voice came from inside.

She was stunned for a moment, and the next moment her eyes were a little straight.

Gray Yuan couldn't help but chuckle.

"How-how-" After a while, Ayumi who came back to her senses quickly took off her headphones.

"So it's better not to know... Let's listen to this, shall we? It's all the same, this song is..."

"Ahh Wait a minute, I'll write it down..."Ayumi said, reaching into her pocket, "I'm so dizzy now!" My phone is in... Hey? ”

Ayumi quickly rummaged through her pockets again.

"What's wrong?" Gray Plains asked.

"Hands and phones are gone!"

"Could it be that it fell somewhere?"

"Ahh It must be there..."

After being reminded by Gray Hara, Ayumi remembered something and quickly ran to the side, and the Doctor and Gray Hara's Wai also hurriedly followed.

Ayumi stopped in front of a makeshift toilet.

They searched in the toilet and nearby, but couldn't find Ayumi's phone.

"Did you really drop your phone in front of this makeshift toilet?"

"Hmm!" Ayumi looked at the doctor, "I remember that when I came out with a handkerchief after going to the bathroom, something seemed to have fallen out." ”

"Why didn't you pick it up right away?" The doctor asked.

"Because it's our turn to fly a kite!" Ayumi replied, "I heard the radio!" ”

"Do you remember who was around you at that time?" Gray Yuan felt that someone might have picked it up.

"There was a guy behind me who tripped up, but I didn't see his face."

"Maybe the guy thought he dropped his phone when he fell, so he just picked it up."

"Since he stumbled, it means that he is in a hurry, maybe he is in the same group as us to fly kites."

"Then when their game is over, let's call that cell phone again...", the doctor glanced at the field in the distance.

This group of matches started, and he felt that calling them might affect their competitors at this time, which would not be very good.

On the other side, Conan had already hoisted the kite.

"That's amazing!"

"Fly so high!"

Motota and Mitsuhiko said excitedly as they looked at the kite in the air.

"But if you go on like this, you won't even be able to break through to the group stage, right?" Kaedehara looked at Conan, "Okay, huh?" ”

There are not many kites in this group that have been raised now, but there are already two that are taller than theirs.

"It's really long-winded, don't worry..."Conan said as he slowly released the line, "Ah! Oops! ”

The tail of the kite suddenly broke off from the root. Not long after liftoff, the kite fell headlong into the ground.

Motota and Mitsuhiko hurriedly ran over, and Kaedehara and Conan quickly followed after retracting the kite string so as not to get in the way of others.

By the time they arrived at Motota and Mitsuhiko, Motota and Mitsuhiko had already picked up the kite with a look of loss.

"No, the bamboo that tied the skeleton is broken." Kaedehara checked the kite.

"In that case, even if you tie your tail back up, you still won't be able to fly." Mitsuhiko looked regretful.

"Damn!" Yuan Tai hammered down to the ground.

"It's all your fault, the technique of making a kite tail is not good." Conan whispered to Kaedehara.

"yes, I can't fly a kite either."

Conan couldn't help but roll his eyes. Kaedehara's words were obviously talking about Kaedehara himself on the surface, but he heard something else, "Hey, hey..."

"Hey, what are you doing!?" Suddenly there was a loud shouting from the side.

"Huh?" They turned their heads to look over.

There were a lot of people shouting like this on the field, so Kaedehara didn't care about what the people next to him were talking about before. However, the voice was a little abrupt just now, so it attracted their attention.

It was a chubby man in his thirties.

"If you go any further," the man shouted to his companion as he flew the kite string.

Then he suddenly lowered his voice.

But Kaedehara still heard it.

"Go to hell," the man whispered.

Kaedehara immediately looked to the other side, and the man was in a group of men wearing knitted hats, who were on the bank of the embankment, and fell into the river with one step in the air.

"Ahhh Help, help..."

"Hey, that uncle..."

"I fell into the Tsutsu River!" Yuan Tai shouted.

Conan glanced back and noticed that Kaedehara had taken out his phone to call an ambulance, so he ran straight over there.

When he ran to the embankment, another tall man was already looking at the man who had fallen into the water, "Oops! That guy can't swim! ”

The man who fell into the water struggled desperately in the water, and soon the whole person sank into the water. At this time, two men who knew how to water ran over and jumped into the water to save people.

And by the guardrail post where the rope was broken, there was still the mobile phone that the man who had just fallen into the water, and the woman's loud shout came from inside:

"Husband? What's wrong with you? Husband? ”

……

After a while.

"I choked on a lot of water, so I'm still unconscious." The Twilight Police Department, who rushed to the scene, said.

"yes."

"Who was the man who fell into the river?"

"It's the manager of a nearby café, Ryota Lianno." Officer Takagi held his pamphlet, "According to the people around him, Mr. Renno kept moving backwards with a kite..."

He then dragged the Twilight Police Department towards the drop point, "Unfortunately, I slipped into the river right in the middle of a stake with a broken rope." ”

"Well, the break in the rope is quite old." The Twilight Police Department checked the rope on the stake, "I think it broke a long time ago, but no one has been paying attention to it." It doesn't look like a criminal case, so leave it to the local police. ”

"yes."

"I don't think it's an accident." Conan said.

"Conan! Sora! The two looked back in surprise.

"You pick up where the rope broke and see."

Officer Takagi didn't hesitate to give it a try.

"Look, it's out of reach, is it?"

"Ah, yes."

"But if the wind and rain keep blowing, there will be some loss..."

"But this rope underneath has grown a cut." Kaedehara connected the ropes underneath, "Even if it is connected, it will hang down, and it will not play a protective role." ”

"And this rope has sun-soaked marks on one side, but not on the other." Conan added.

"Why is that?" Officer Takagi wondered.

"I must have used a rope that was originally tied to the stake at the very edge!"

"The rope on the stake on the edge is often exposed to the sun and rain, and it can easily become worn. Untying the rope and measuring the length and re-tying it here can create the illusion that the rope has been broken a long time ago. And because the part of the rope that was originally tied to the pillar was used, there were no traces of sun exposure on the inside. ”

"I am, so it is..."

Motota and Mitsuhiko, who had helped to check the ropes on the other pillars, soon ran back as well and confirmed this to them.

"What is the purpose of this?" The Twilight Police Department was puzzled.

"Did you do it to make that uncle fall into the river?" Kaedehara replied.

"How is this possible?"

"That guy didn't just slip on his foot..."

"That's how the uncle retreated with a kite, right?" Conan mimicked his pose, "In that case, you shouldn't be able to pay much attention to what's behind you, right?" ”

"We still need Mitsuhiko's help to look behind us."

"yes, and he knows there's a rope behind him!"

"In other words, as long as you can lead him between these two stakes without a rope, won't you let him fall into the water?"

"Yes, that's true..."

The suspects were apparently the chubby man who was flying the kite with the drowning man, and the very large man who had spoken to him before falling into the river.

In addition, the drowning man had been talking to his wife on the phone until he fell. Although Kaedehara felt that normal people would not listen directly to the instructions given on the phone, considering that the other party might have heard something from the phone, the Twilight Police Department still asked Officer Takagi to bring Mrs. Lianno over.

……

A moment later.

The Twilight Police Department and Officer Takagi questioned the trio.

Kaedehara, Conan, and others listened on the sidelines. Kaedehara noticed that the Doctor, Gray Hara, and Ayumi were watching from the crowd, but they clearly didn't mean to lean over.

"Huh? I induced Lian Ye to go to the place where the rope was broken and let him fall into the water? "The fat uncle who flies a kite with Mr. Lianno is named Ken Hachikoshi, "What a joke!" I was shouting danger to stop him! ”

He looked at Kaedehara and the others, "Little brother, have you seen it too?" ”

"yes." Yuan Tai replied, "That uncle shouted before the drowning uncle fell!" ”

"And he looks worried." Mitsuhiko agreed.

"But I don't know if Mr. Renye heard it, and the people around him are also commanding their companions loudly."

"And the two of them are still far away." Kaedehara said.

"Is that so?" The Twilight Police Department asked.

"yes, but I think he should be able to hear a little. And then I myself retreated at the same time, so I was further away. ”

"But even if you can't hear the voice, you can use body language to induce Mr. Lianye." Officer Takagi asked.

"I didn't do anything like that!" Mr. Yakoshi pointed to the tent of the organizer next to him, "If you don't believe me, you can go and see the video taken by the organizer to prevent foul play!" ”

"But why are you so far away?"

"We looked at the other kites and it seemed that the wind was stronger above, so we wanted to get a little more distance and let the kite fly higher in one go! Each team has a limited amount of time, so it's important to get it right the first time. ”

"By the way, what is your relationship with Mr. Renye?"

"I'm a clerk at the café that Lian Ye runs. We just want to win today with a kite with the café's logo on it. If we win the prize, the kite will be displayed in front of the city hall, which is a very good publicity for us, and it will be very face-saving for us to participate in the town's chamber of commerce. ”

"I see." The Twilight Police Department nodded.

The next person to be questioned was the tall man, his name was Yutoshi Kakura.

"Yes, I had a few words with Renno," Mr. Kakura replied, "just before he fell into the river." ”

"What did you say?"

"That guy had a wife and hooked up with my sister, and she almost killed herself, so I told him to come with me after the competition. He must have suffered retribution before he fell into the river. ”

"So you have a motive for letting Mr. Lianno fall overboard?"

"If you're motivated, Mr. Yatsukoshi has that too. He's been fond of my sister since high school. When I told him about my sister and the guy, he was furious too. And that guy's wife has full motivation. ”

"Is it true that Mr. Renno has been talking to his wife on the phone?"

"It seems like yes. If you say that I seduce him, won't his wife on the other end of the phone hear it too? And that guy flies kites about the same level as me, so he doesn't need to listen to his competitors. ”

"But you saw it when Mr. Lianye fell into the river, right? Didn't you think about stopping him? Conan asked.

"I was so far away from him when he fell into the water, and I thought he was going to the river to throw out the garbage."

"Throwing out the trash?"

"He's been holding an empty drink bottle under his armpit."

Next was Mr. Lianno's wife, and after casually asking about the content of the call, the Twilight Police Department came to the side to check the video taken by the organizer earlier.

"Hmm," the Twilight Police Department looked at the screen, "As Mr. Yatsukoshi said, he really didn't make any big moves. ”

"yes, it's just a drink."

Mr. Yatsukoshi's voice was heard in the video: "Hey, hey! What are you doing? If you go any further—"

"Go to hell." Kaedehara intimately picked up the next sentence.

(End of chapter)