"What! Are you dating? ”

In the living room, the Doctor looked at Kaedehara and Ashbara in surprise.

Because the brain couldn't process external information for a while, Kaedehara rarely failed to notice that the doctor happened to come to the living room, so the two elementary school students were almost caught for their behavior just now.

But even if it was just almost, the way they looked at each other was still seen by the doctor.

"There's no need for such a big reaction, Doctor..."Kaedehara replied with some embarrassment, and then quietly glanced at Ashbara.

The gray hara's ears and cheeks beside him were slightly red, and when he noticed Kaedehara's gaze, he returned a white eye.

"Why didn't you tell me about such a big thing?" Calming down, the doctor asked.

"Hmm..."Kaede Hara struggled with his words slightly. In fact, it's nothing to let the doctor know, but it feels a little strange to take the initiative to tell the doctor, so the doctor only knows now.

But just as he was hesitating, Kaede Yuan heard the gray plain mourning beside him open his mouth first.

"Because it's so embarrassing to associate with him..."Gray Yuan wailed his arms, "This guy only knows reasoning and football, and the game is also a vegetable and fun-loving, and the singing is very ugly, and the first love is not me, and I have shrunk it, who wants him?" ”

Kaedehara's rare dead fish eye.

"That—" The doctor was stunned for a moment.

"But... This guy confessed to me that day," Gray Yuan glanced at Kaedehara, "I agreed to him on the spur of the moment~"

"Yes..."Kaede Yuan said helplessly, and then lowered his voice and said to Gray Yuan, "But, Gray Yuan, my first love is obviously you..."

Whether it's before or after the crossing.

"Hmph," Gray Yuan tilted his head, "then you have at least been sitting back for many years in the middle of it, and you have liked others but have not been indifferent. ”

"Hey, hey..."Kaede Yuan was a little helpless.

It's unreasonable...

However, many years in between?

"Heck, anyway, it's something to celebrate!" After being surprised, the doctor's eyes were full of relief and excitement, "I'm going to order a cake to celebrate..."

"It's not that exaggerated, Doctor..."

"Doctor, do you want to eat it yourself?" Ash Yuan Ai immediately became vigilant, throwing a warning look at the doctor.

"How, how..."

The doctor rubbed his head with some embarrassment.

He quickly changed his tune and continued to inquire about the details between the two, and Gray Yuan told him to keep it a secret from the elementary school students.

Immediately after, Kaedehara heard his cell phone ringing.

It's a message from Okiya.

Slightly stunned, realizing something, Kaedehara was a little more serious. Click on the message, which says:

"Investigation complete. Waiting for you to come. ”

The investigation into the name Valley-Zero is over.

……

Toru Amuro, formerly known as Zero Valley, is a member of the Japanese public security.

After Okiya confirmed this through his own channels, both Conan and Ash Hara breathed a sigh of relief. But in the days that followed, the situation suddenly changed.

First, Conan stumbled upon Toru Amuro in the hospital investigating the matter of Kusuda Rikumichi, a member of the organization he met when he sent Mizuno back to the organization, and he also heard Amuro admit that his nickname was Zero when he was a child.

Then, Amuro also found out from Judy and Kamal, who were unaware, that Kusuda Rikudo shot himself in the head at that time and committed suicide.

It was as if the secret was about to be revealed.

The next day after that, Kudo was in the house.

"So first of all, the Best Supporting Actor will be announced, and the guest of honor is last year's winner, Mr. Johnny Bipp."

In the living room, Okiya, who was wearing a mask, supported his chin with one hand and watched TV quietly. The Oscars were playing on TV.

But the ceremony had just begun, and the doorbell rang.

He walked over to the door and picked up the phone, "Hey..."

"There's your delivery."

Before he could say anything, the man outside the door immediately made it clear that he had "come". He put down the phone and opened the door.

Standing outside the door was a bronzed-skinned man.

"Good evening! When we first met, I was Toru Amuro. The man greeted, "But... We can't be considered new acquaintances, right? ”

“……”

"I'd like to have a chat with you, can I get in?"

"Absolutely." Okiya replied, "But the few you brought with you should wait outside for a while, right?" Although it is rude, it seems that there are not so many teacups to entertain guests at home. ”

There were several figures looming around the corner of the wall next to the gate.

"Please don't mind," Amuro glanced back at the heavily armed men he had brought, "they liked to wait outside. But if you say or do something... If they don't know what, they'll come in and disturb you. ”

Okiya gets out of the way and asks Amuro to come in.

When I came to the living room, the TV was still on, and I simply made a pot of tea and walked back with a tray.

"Do you like reasoning?" Amuro spoke suddenly.

"It's okay." Okiya still squinted.

"Then let's start here! It's just a simple way to swap corpses. ”

"Oh... It's a common part of a mystery story. ”

"There was a man who was shot in the head with a pistol on Laihayama Road and then set on fire along with the car. Later, the fingerprints of the man's right hand were finally collected from the charred corpse, which were consistent with the fingerprints left behind the mobile phone of a boy he had touched before his death, thus proving the man's death. But the strange thing is..."

"What's strange?"

"It's the fingerprints left on that phone. Don't you think it's strange that the man is obviously left-handed, but the fingerprint left on the phone is his right hand? ”

"It's normal, too." Okiya replied, "I don't know if you've ever used your phone to watch the news while eating." ”

"......" Amuro was slightly silent, "yes, but there is another possibility, such as that he has to use his right hand." ”

"Oh... Why? ”

"The phone was also picked up by other men before the man took it, and the man who picked up the phone was right-handed."

"Other men?"

"yes, it looks like three men have touched that phone. So here's the problem," Amuro folded his chin with his hands, "the first person to pick up the phone was a fat man, the second was a thin man with a neck brace around his neck, and the last one was an old man with a pacemaker. Only one of the three left fingerprints... Who do you think it is? ”

"It's the second skinny man, isn't it?"

"Oh? How so? ”

"The first thing that can be ruled out is the third person who has a pacemaker, who should be worried that the pacemaker will be interfered with by the radio waves of the mobile phone and will not pick it up at all. The next is a bit difficult to judge, but since you specifically emphasized that the first person is fat, I think you probably want to imply that his hands are also oily, right? If the phone is stained with greasy fingerprints, the latter two may not be willing to pick it up, so the fingerprints on the fat man when he picked up the phone at the beginning have probably been wiped off. ”

"yes. Brilliant reasoning. ”

"But after that thin man, didn't the man who was killed also take that phone? That man's fingerprints should also be..."

"What if you don't let your fingerprints get on it?" Amuro said, "I'm afraid that man had anticipated these things a long time ago, and he applied a film to his fingertips beforehand!" ”

"Membrane?"

"yes, that's why he can't even hold a canned coffee. In other words, the real deceased is actually the second skinny man. He put the corpse in the car wearing the same clothes as himself, and then pretended to be shot and took the opportunity to drop himself and the corpse! ”

"I see, it's really interesting. But how did the man who pretended to be hit leave the scene after that? ”

"Can you turn off the TV before answering this question? What I'm going to say next is important. ”

"Does it matter?" Okiya looked back at the TV and noticed that there was still some distance from what he wanted to watch before he relaxed, "I'm very concerned about the Oscars. And then what? How is that man—"

"The man and the woman who shot were accomplices! I'm afraid I sneaked into that woman's car and escaped! Evade those who were watching the scene from afar. ”

"Someone else is in charge of monitoring."

"yes, they fooled the person in charge of surveillance perfectly. Anyway, the man also collapsed after spurting blood from his head. ”

"Head spurting blood?"

"This is also an illusion, because the man who was hit was wearing a black knitted hat all the time. Isn't there a doctor around here who can make an invention that even MI6 is ashamed of? If you ask him to help, it should be a trivial matter to make a device that sprays blood-colored paint from the knitted hat with an empty bag bomb. ”

"So the man asked the woman to shoot an empty bullet at his head?"

"No, the shot in the head was ordered by the man in charge of surveillance. He had expected that the man in charge of surveillance would do so when he killed someone with a gun. ”

That's how Cohen got shot in the head.

"That man is really powerful, it's like the hero of a spy war!"

"But it was someone else who had made the plan, and the evidence was that the man muttered — unexpectedly, this is the end of it — before he was hit."

"I didn't expect it to end here... It feels like you're just lamenting that you're unlucky, right? ”

"yes, of course you think that. But if this sentence is complete, the meaning will be completely different - I didn't expect it to be what he expected so far! That's right, this sentence is actually praising the teenager who made this plan! ”

- Oh? Is it just that?

Amuro said as the words Belmore had said suddenly popped into his mind, causing him to be slightly stunned.

"I see, it's funny." Okiya exclaimed.

"Then it's easy," Amuro said, "just look for the suspicious person who suddenly appeared next to the pair of teenagers after the incident on Hayama Road." ”

"The boys?" Okiya was slightly stunned, "Why did you suddenly change your words?" I can't say that..."

"yes, and then I found it. I don't know exactly what the relationship between the boy and the owner of this room, Yusaku Monodo, is with you. But one thing is for sure, it's because of them that you live here. ”

Amuro took out his phone and placed it on the table.

"I'm waiting for news! Now my men are following your companions, intending to capture them. I think even you, when it comes to the life and death of your companions, you should be telling the truth! But if you can, I'd like you to take off your mask before I get the message, Mr. Okiya. No, FBI investigators... Shuichi Akai! ”

Okiya is as good as a stream.

He took off his mask and put it aside, then coughed slightly, "I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm just worried about infecting you when I wear a mask..."

"I'm not talking about this mask! I mean to let you take off your disguise..."Amuro became a little angry, "Shuichi Akai! ”

"Camouflage? I still don't know what you're talking about..."

Okiya said as he turned his head to look at the TV, and his attention seemed to be on it all the time.

The presenter's voice was heard on the TV:

"Next up for the Best Screenplay Award! The winner of this award is Mr. Yusaku Kudo, a best-selling author who participated in the writing of a movie script for the first time and is known to everyone for the "Night Baron" series! The title of the work is "The Scarlet Investigator"! ”

The camera gives Yusaku Kudo a close-up, and it is Yukiko Kudo sitting next to him.

Yusaku Kudo nodded slightly, then got up.

Yukiko Kudo waved excitedly at the camera.

In front of the TV, Okiya put his right hand on the back of the sofa and watched quietly, as if the series of conversations just now had not happened.

"What, do you care?" Amuro asked.

"yes," Okiya replied, "After all, the owner of the house that agreed to let me live here has helped me a lot..."

"At this time, you're still in the mood to watch this..."

"By the way, that man named Shuichi Akai," Okiya coughed again, "Is it similar to me?" Looks, voices, and the like. ”

"Humph! Looks can be disguised, and voices can be used with voice changers! ”

"Voice changer?"

"Today, I walked around the neighborhood a few times during the day to investigate a little bit about the invention of Dr. Asasa who lives next door, and there are any things in the invention that have been well reviewed but suddenly stopped being released. The answer is a collar-type voice changer! As long as you tie it around your neck, you can use the vibration of your throat to change your voice freely, and it is very useful to deal with harassing phone calls or something..."

Amuro stood up and walked over to Okiya, "That's right, it's just the size to hide, you turtleneck-"

"—under the collar!"

He ripped off Okiya's collar and was stunned for a moment. Because there is nothing under the collar.

"Your phone is ringing." Okiya reminded.

Just now, Toru Amuro's cell phone rang on the table.

"Ahh Hmm..."

Amuro picked up his phone a little embarrassed and connected the phone, "What's wrong?" Why is it so slow? Yes? Aka, Akai? ”

His tone sounded very surprised, and he subconsciously answered the phone while walking in the living room.

"What? Akai shot!? And then what? What about tracking? Amuro shouted into the phone.

"The front tire was shot and crashed," the reply was also loud, and Okiya Tsuneia, who was sitting on the side, could hear it, "The cars behind also hit one after another, and they couldn't continue to move." ”

Okiya listened to the voices on both sides at the same time, frowning slightly.

"As long as there is a car that can move, chase me quickly! If he is allowed to escape this time, he doesn't know where he will hide! ”

"I'm sorry," Okiya interrupted, "can you be a little quieter?" Now the owner of this house is receiving a very important award, and he is about to give an acceptance speech. ”

Amuro was slightly stunned.

He waited a little longer, until something strange came from the other side of the phone, and then spoke again.

"Hey! How's it going? Hurry up and answer me! ”

"It's been a long time...", but this time it wasn't his men who replied, but his familiar voice, "Bourbon, no, it's supposed to be Amuro Toru now, right?" ”

Shuichi Akai...

Amuro's eyes condensed slightly.

"As compensation for me crashing your hand out of the car, I'll give you a small gift." Shuichi Akai said, "It's the pistol that Kusuda Ludo used to commit suicide." If you look into how to get started, you might find something. This is Japan, so it's easier for you to investigate this kind of thing than the FBI, right? ”

"You guy," Amuro was a little surprised, "have you already seen through my true identity?" ”

"I've been suspicious of you since I was in the organization, but you've been exposed very thoroughly, and you've dropped to zero..."

"Tsk."

"I'm afraid your plan is to capture me and hand them over to those guys, so that you can make a big contribution to the center of the organization. That's all I have to say, I hope you don't just focus on the present and mistake what you should hunt... And I don't want to be your enemy! ”

"And," Akai continued, after a pause, "I'm still very sorry about him..."

Amuro fell silent.

After a few moments, he told his men to retreat, and then hung up. He turned his head to see that Okiya was still watching the TV show.

"I'm sorry, I think I made a mistake," Amuro said, "I'll go back first." ”

"Okay."

"Can I ask you a question before I go back?" Pulling open the door to the living room, Amuro turned around and asked, "Why did you let someone as suspicious as me into the house?" Ordinary people won't let them in, right? ”

"I've heard the kid next door talk about you," Okiya replied, "I've heard you say it yourself, you used to work a lot of odd jobs, so I wondered if you were going to work part-time as a courier..."

"That's right..."

"And judging by the look on your face at the time, I thought you just wanted to talk."

"Hah... Is that so? ”

It was he who made a mistake, so Amuro smiled embarrassedly and left.

Okiya stood in front of the door for a few moments, until the movement outside the door also disappeared, and then took a small device to detect the bugging device and walked around the place where Amuro passed by.

Then he sat back on the couch and continued to watch the ceremony.

Yusaku Kudo is conducting an interview.

"So, do you have any plans for Mr. Kudo's next move?"

"Yes." Yusaku Kudo nodded, "But I can't tell you much right now, I can only say that the protagonists are twins." ”

"Twins?"

"yes, a series of stories about a pair of twin detectives..."

Yusaku Kudo said, blinking at the camera.

This action obviously made many women of all ages excited, but the "Okiya Pleiades" in front of the TV faintly felt that it was for themselves...

"Hey, Kaedehara," Conan walked down the stairs, "and you don't say a word when they're all gone, you're here watching TV alone..."

"You can hear it all from the detective badge." Kaedehara pressed it lightly on his lips and turned off the miniature voice changer hidden under the disguise, "And it's the Oscars..."

"Cut... Mom and Dad, it's not normal for them to win awards..."

"But not so often. If you miss it, you will have to watch the recording. Really, I chose to come today..."

"Because he can't wait... But..."

Conan couldn't help but look at Kaedehara's current appearance again, and returned to avoid the safety room, so Kaedehara hadn't taken off his disguise yet, "Gray Hara is really powerful, this is her first time cross-dressing, right?" ”

Although there are drag props left by Yukiko Kudo as a reference, after all, they are used on different people's faces, so this is still the first time that Gray Yuan Ai has applied the cross-dressing technique he has learned.

"Well, she's very talented at that." Kaede Yuan was slightly proud, as if he was praising himself, "I can't see the difference at all..."

(End of chapter)