"If you cover it up a little, it might be a number..."

Ayumi leaned over to Conan and stretched out her hand to point to the photo on Conan's phone, "Look, that's it!" If you cover it, it's the number 1! ”

"Really, really—" Conan felt that made sense.

"But what do you want to cover?"

"Shogi's pawns!" Mitsuhiko noticed a shogi board and a box of chess pieces placed next to it, "If you arrange the shogi pieces on the code paper, you may be able to read the eight-digit number!" ”

Then Yumi Miyamoto and Officer Sato also felt that it made sense, so they tried it as Mitsuhiko said. It's just that after tossing and turning like this for a while, they still can't untie it.

"No matter how you put it, you can't see the numbers..."

"It's so weird, I don't even know which number to start with..."

"Is there a problem with the way it is interpreted?"

Both police officers and schoolchildren became suspicious.

Mr. Yatsuka stood aside and watched coldly.

"Perhaps, this one piece of paper alone will not be able to decipher the code," Conan then pondered, "maybe there is another piece of paper with a code similar to it, and if you overlap the two sheets of paper, you can see eight digits, or show a sentence that can be associated with them..."

"Shall we find another one?" Yumi Miyamoto asked positively.

"Well, probably..."

"Okay!" Yumi Miyamoto looked at the real elementary school students on the side very energetically, "Let's go find another one!" ”

She's imposing.

"Good!" Elementary school students too.

Then, the people in the room split up again and began to look for clues.

Yumi Miyamoto chatted with Officer Sato while looking for it.

"The process of desperately searching for something like this reminds me of an incident from the past..."

"Huh? What? Officer Sato was curious.

"Looking for bamboo shoots."

"Bamboo shoots?"

"Once when I went to Hideyoshi's apartment, he wanted to show me a very important folding fan, but he couldn't find it anywhere, and he was so anxious that I found it..."

"What does that have to do with bamboo shoots?"

"Oops, isn't the folding fan made of bamboo? The folding fan was inserted in the pen holder, but only a little bit could be seen. So I told Hideyoshi that if you were to target the entire folding fan, it would be very difficult to find, but if you wanted to hide part of it, it would be easy to find the rest. It's the same with the bamboo shoots, only a little bit of it is exposed on the ground, and most of the rest is buried in the dirt..."

"Oh..."

This sentence is very similar to the famous words of the peerless shogi master Sakada Miyoshi, and Kaedehara looked at them, and then noticed that Mr. Yatsuka seemed to be slightly distracted when he heard this.

"Actually, when Hideyoshi went to the bathroom, I inserted the folding fan on the table into the pen holder..."

"But isn't the name of the Taiko celebrity called Haneda Hideyoshi? Why do you call him Stinky? Officer Sato then asked.

In private, Yumi Miyamoto often calls Haneda Hideyoshi stinky.

"Because that guy is a picky eater, when he first started dating, he didn't get dirty by holding it directly with his hands, and he knew how to eat cheese all day long..."

"Ah, isn't cheese something rats love to eat?"

"So I couldn't stand it, so I gave him a super delicious cake!" Yumi Miyamoto said while looking for it, "Since then, Hideyoshi has been obsessed..."

"That's right! Chess players often eat sweets in battles, which are said to nourish the brain..."

"By the way, I heard Miike say, you asked her to drive the police car all the way to Yamanashi Prefecture?"

"yes, because Hideyoshi said he had a game that was too late. In retrospect, it must have been a shogi game..."

"Do you know the time and hotel?"

"I don't know. However, although he arrived at the competition venue in time, the photo of me, which Hideyoshi used as a talisman, was missing, and he was very anxious. So I gave him a kiss to give him a strong ride! Exclusive to Stinky Ji! ”

Like them, the real elementary school students were chatting and rummaging around the other side of the room, and Conan seemed quite positive.

Kaedehara retracted his gaze, then looked at Ashbara, who had just come to his side.

"What's wrong?" Kaedehara asked, "Keep looking at me..."

"I'm not looking at you." "It's you, who don't help find things, and don't say anything... Still have a headache? ”

"It's okay, it's just a moment," Kaedehara thought for a moment, "Maybe it's just because I'm going to have a brain..."

This was obviously a bit perfunctory, but Kaedehara himself wasn't sure why he had such a headache just now, and naturally he didn't know how to explain it.

Speaking of which, he just didn't have any ideas when he thought about that code, but when he heard Gray Yuan Wai mention the dancing villain, he suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

But there's something strange about it.

This part should belong to Kudo Shinichi's memory, and he can still clearly remember almost every word of that Sherlock Holmes story.

Gray Yuan looked at him with a blank eye, pursed his lips slightly, and then turned his head to look around the room.

After such a distraction, Kaedehara also returned his attention to the marriage application to find Haneda's celebrity.

Gray Yuan tightened his clothes and folded his arms in front of his chest.

"Is it cold?" Kaedehara asked.

"yes, I was about to say that."

"Grandpa," Kaedehara turned to look at Mr. Yatsuka, who was standing in the doorway, "can you have a warm breeze for a while?" ”

"I'd love to turn it on too," Mr. Yatsuka looked at the air conditioner hanging in the room, "But the air conditioner broke down yesterday...", and then he looked at Kaedehara again, "I'm sorry, bear with me..."

"Oh..."Kaedehara nodded thoughtfully.

"What's wrong?" Gray Yuan looked at Feng Yuan curiously, and lowered his voice a little, "Looking at your expression just now, you have already discovered something, right?" ”

"I think it's a little weird, because when I first entered this room, it was quite warm, and there should be a warm air..."Kaedehara replied, "You didn't feel cold when you first came in, did you?" ”

"yes. So he deliberately turned off the air conditioner? Gray Yuan looked at the air conditioner carefully, "He probably didn't hide that letter in the air conditioner, right?" ”

"It's a possibility. Probably not, though. With his height, he would have to step on the bed to hide the envelope in the air conditioner, but there was no sign of that, and the air conditioner did not appear to have been opened. And the heater was turned off before we came, and it would be too hasty to clean up all these traces..."

"Why is that?" Gray Yuan said curiously.

"I have individual guesses. Since he had to turn off the heater and pretend that the air conditioner had broken yesterday, there must be some reason why he couldn't turn it on. So if you think about it from another angle, if the air conditioner is always on, what will you do in Ashbara? ”

"I'll feel warm."

"Hey, hey..."

"Just kidding. Hmm..."Gray Yuan thought for a moment, "I will probably take off my coat when I enter a very warm room, right?" ”

"yes, that's it."

Kaedehara said, then took off his coat as if demonstrating his reasoning and draped it over Ashbara's body.

Gray Yuan Ai pulled his coat, subconsciously glanced at the elementary school students, noticed that they were still rummaging for something, and then couldn't help but glance at Feng Yuan.

"I don't want to be caught by someone next..."

"It's okay, things will be settled right away. And it's also a demonstration of reasoning," Kaedehara said, and then looked at Yumi Miyamoto, who was still looking for something, "Because - Officer Miyamoto is the same." ”

"Huh?" Gray Yuan was stunned for a moment, "You don't want to say that the envelope is in her coat, do you?" ”

"It's not impossible. Officer Miyamoto also said that this old man used to be a habitual pickpocket, and it shouldn't be difficult to sneak the envelope into Officer Miyamoto's coat. I thought it was a little strange before, this old man had carefully prepared a code and wanted Officer Miyamoto to solve the mystery, but when she wanted to enter the room, he kept blocking the door, so he bumped into her for a while..."

"You mean, it was back then..."

"yes. Besides, it's okay to give it a try..."

Just to see if there is an envelope in the coat, there is no need to pay any price, the action is very simple, and even if you guess wrong, there is nothing, so Kaedehara walked over directly.

He walked over to Yumi Miyamoto, gently pulled down her dress to get her attention, and then whispered to her.

"Huh, coat?"

Yumi Miyamoto subconsciously glanced at her coat.

And Kaedehara was quietly observing Mr. Yatsuka at this time. After seeing Yumi Miyamoto's attention on his coat, Mr. Yatsuka's face changed significantly, and he looked a little unhappy.

In his sight, Yumi Miyamoto immediately reached out and groped for his coat, "Ah! In the inside pocket of the jacket... There's an envelope! ”

She quickly found the envelope.

"Huh?"

"Have you found it yet?"

The elementary school students also looked back. They were already a little impatient and wanted to give up, but they were both happy and relieved to hear that Yumi Miyamoto had found the envelope.

Conan was a little depressed.

He had just realized that there might not be a second cipher paper, so he refocused on the cipher, but the result was just beginning, and it seemed that it was unnecessary.

"Great!" Yumi Miyamoto happily waved the envelope in her hand at the elementary school students.

"I see," Officer Sato looked at Mr. Yatsuka, who looked unhappy, "When Yumi bumped into you in the hallway, did you stuff the envelope into her pocket in the same way you used to steal?" ”

"Hmph." Mr. Yatsuka didn't want to speak.

Kaedehara could feel that at least half of Mr. Yatsuka's unhappy gaze fell on him.

"Hideyoshi's marriage application ... Hand! Yumi Miyamoto opened the envelope and took out the marriage application inside.

Elementary school students are curious to look at the marriage application, and Gray Yuan is no exception. Conan just glanced at it from a distance and came to Kaedehara's side.

"Really, you guy," Conan couldn't help but say, "you just don't want to decipher the code, do you?" ”

He had just noticed what Kaedehara had said to Yumi Miyamoto in the past, and Yumi Miyamoto then found the envelope.

"You can continue to solve the code later," Kaedehara replied, "For now, let's go to the venue first, right?" ”

"The venue for the battle of the king is supposed to be at the Niya Hotel in Kanagawa Prefecture," Officer Sato said, glancing at his watch, "There is still half an hour before the lunch break, and there is a lot of time to rest—Yumi, you still have plenty of time!" ”

"Yes! Then I'll take a taxi. Yumi Miyamoto said, "Do you want Miwako to go together?" ”

"Okay, I don't want to miss this scene!"

"Let's go too!" The elementary school students demanded.

"No, you can't!" Yumi Miyamoto immediately refused, "Besides, there are so many of you, I can't bring you!" ”

"Huh?"

"It's too much!"

"Really! Sister Yumi, you obviously relied on our junior detective group to find the marriage application..."

"As a result, I didn't recognize anyone just after I found it...", Gray Yuan Wai also echoed.

"Hey," Yumi Miyamoto was a little embarrassed, "even if you say that, then I just need to bring Sora over, right?" He told me..."

"That's even more excessive!"

"Kaedehara is also an important member of the Junior Detective Group! Don't leave him out! ”

"That's it!"

"Hey, you guys, now that we've found the envelope," Mr. Yatsuka interrupted the debate between Yumi Miyamoto and the elementary school students very unhappily, "just get out of my room!" ”

Having said that, he didn't continue to call Cha Cha, and his attitude towards driving people was not very resolute, and it could be seen that he seemed to have a deeper understanding of the relationship between Yumi Miyamoto and Hideyoshi Haneda, and he was a little relieved.

A moment later.

Officer Takagi, who happened to be nearby, drove over, and then watched as the large group of people in front of him squeezed into the car.

"Originally, I was just here to deliver the car," he said depressedly.

"You didn't have a vacation today!" Officer Sato sat in the driver's seat of the police car, "And I can't sit down..."

In the co-pilot next to her, Gray Hara sat up, and then moved to the side of the seat.

Immediately after, Kaedehara also sat on the other side of the co-pilot, and then pulled the seat belt and fastened it in front of Gray Yuan's mourning.

Although there is now a police officer from the Ministry of Transportation in the car, it is not the first time that the junior detective team has sat in a police car together and is overloaded, so it can be regarded as a familiar road.

Yumi Miyamoto sat in the back seat with Ayumi in her arms.

"It's too crowded, Yuantai!" Mitsuhiko couldn't help but complain, "It's all because you eat too much!" ”

"What! I haven't eaten lunch yet! You guys squeeze over there a little more! ”

"Then, it's good to let Sister Yumi hold Yuantai." Kaedehara suggested.

"No way!" Yumi Miyamoto immediately rejected the proposal, "I doubt that I am as heavy as him!" ”

"Alright, alright," Officer Sato said goodbye to Officer Takagi, and then started the car, "We're all already seated..."

The view outside the window began to recede.

Kaedehara looked out the window, and then at Ashbara, who was sitting next to him. Although it's not the first time to sit in a police car and overload, it's not the first time to sit together in the co-pilot, but it's not the first time that they've been so close before...

It's good to confess...

"Pervert." Gray Plains said in a low voice.

"Huh?"

"Anyway, are you still thinking about that code?"

"yes, there's nothing else going on right now." Kaedehara whispered back, "How do you know?" ”

"Intuition." Gray Yuan raised his chin slightly.

"Hey, hey..."

"Conan, are you still thinking about that code?" As they spoke, Kaedehara and Ashbara heard Mitsuhiko's voice.

However, sitting like this, Kaedehara didn't have a way to look back, and he couldn't see Conan from the angle of the rearview mirror, but Gray Yuan noticed that Conan was still holding the code paper.

"yes," replied Conan.

"But maybe it's not a code at all! That old man might have just tricked us into a pretense..."

"It must be a code!" Conan argued, "It's a bit unreasonable to expect others to find faith like Kaedehara did..."

"And when he saw us skip the code and find the envelope, his face was ugly..."Kaede Hara also helped explain.

"Oh..."

"You guys really like solving puzzles!" Officer Sato chatted while driving.

"yes, I don't want to solve the code that the old man came up with." Yumi Miyamoto looked at the code paper in Conan's hand beside her, revealing a disgusted face.

Obviously you were the most active before...

Conan complained in his heart.

Speaking of which, it seems that this code is a photocopy. There is no photocopier in the room, so if you want to make a photocopy, you have to walk about 10 minutes to the convenience store. Moreover, the paper used in the photocopiers is rectangular, and it takes a process to cut it into a square like this code..."

"So copying is definitely not a whim," Kaedehara took Conan's words, "but why it has to be copied..."

"yes, that's what I thought, too." Conan replied, and then he had a flash of inspiration, as if he had thought of something again, "Ah, I see! It's to hide the creases! If you make a copy, the crease will disappear, so he must make a photocopy! ”

"I see," Kaedehara suddenly realized, "The original code paper is actually folded..."

"And what are you going to fold it into?" Ayumi asked.

"Yuantai, the code is in the trash, right?"

"yes."

"It's also a hint to put this code paper in the trash."

"Do you want to throw it away?"

"No, because as the saying goes..."

"Stand out from the crowd." Kaedehara said.

"That is to say," said Ashbara in the aftermath of Kaedehara's words, "there are also excellent or beautiful things that stand out from the ordinary..."

"That's right, the chickens here refer to the garbage in the trash can, and putting the code paper in the trash can means using this paper to origami cranes," Conan said, folding it, "and then leaving the side with the code written on it outside, if it's folded... It's like this..."

Conan showed the folded side to the crowd.

"Root number 5. That's what comes up, right? ”

"What does root number 5 mean?" Ayumi was puzzled.

"The number that multiplies by two and the resulting is 5 is called the square root of 5, or the root number 5 for short. If you go to junior high school or high school, you will be asked to be in the eighth place of this number..."

"Do you want to be in the eighth place?"

"How can I remember this!"

"It's okay, just use homophony to memorize. Root number 5 is the parrot under Mt. Fuji..."Conan looked at Yumi Miyamoto beside him, "Sister Yumi, you remember that too, right?" ”

"yes, well, it seems to be 2.2360679..."Yumi Miyamoto nodded, "Oops, it turns out to be this, that annoying old man is really!" I've got my hands on it, though, haha! ”

Yumi Miyamoto still held Ayumi in her arms, reached out and took out the marriage application, crossed Ayumi's shoulder, and looked at it with a smug and happy face.

Ayumi also stared intently.

"......" Conan, who had just become excited, was a little more depressed.

Although the code was solved by himself, he was one step ahead of the other self, but now this code was not needed, which made him feel a little busy in vain.

"Don't laugh, Yumi," Officer Sato interrupted Miyamoto's incessant laughter, "Anyway, there's still plenty of time, but do you want to make a phone call first?" ”

"It's okay, just give Stinkyoshi an exclusive kiss like last time—huh? Phone? ”

As Miyamoto was talking, she heard her phone ring. Ayumi happily helped her with the marriage application, and she reached out and took out her phone to take a look.

Then she was stunned for a moment.

"Huh? It was Stinky Yoshi. ”

Everyone else remained quiet.

Yumi Miyamoto answered the phone.

"Hey, Hideyoshi! What's wrong? Yumi Miyamoto still wanted to surprise Hideyoshi Haneda, so she decided not to say on the phone, "Your morning game has just ended..."

"To be precise, the battle is over."

Hideyoshi Haneda's voice was a little low, and Yumi Miyamoto immediately realized that something was wrong.

"Hideyoshi?"

"So please throw away that envelope from last time, it doesn't make any sense anymore..."

"Hey, what's the end of the battle? Isn't there still time in the afternoon..."

"Yes, but the winner was decided just now..."

"But, but, Hideyoshi..."

"Carry on the original intention," replied Hideyoshi Haneda on the other side of the phone, "This is the motto of my brother-in-law and my most respected Koji Haneda." ”

"Koji Haneda?" Yumi Miyamoto was stunned for a moment.

Hearing this name repeated by Yumi Miyamoto, Gray Hara Ai was also slightly stunned and looked back.

Kaede could only turn his head to look at Ash Yuan's mourning.

"I'm sorry, Yumi," Hideyoshi Haneda continued, "once a man decides, things don't change..."

Yumi Miyamoto was silent for a moment.

Although I couldn't hear Hideyoshi Haneda on the other side of the phone, something seemed to be wrong, and even Motota and the others remained silent.

"Ah, that's it..."After a while, Yumi Miyamoto clipped the phone to her ear, then reached out and took out the envelope, and directly tore the envelope off.

She tore it again and again, and even the sound of the envelope could be heard on the other side of the phone.

"Huh!?" Everyone in the car was a little surprised.

Officer Sato, who was driving the car, couldn't help but glance at Yumi Miyamoto from the rearview mirror.

"You guy, I don't know what you've put in the envelope," Miyamoto said, "but if there's anything you want to say to me, just tell me!" Next time, you'll collect all seven or eight or something... When I took over the world, at that time, I was embarrassed to listen to what you had to say. ”

“……”

"So until then, don't lose to anyone! You stinky rat! ”

"Yes, yes!"

"Humph!" Yumi Miyamoto snorted and hung up the phone directly.

"Yumi, so handsome!" Officer Sato exclaimed.

"Really?"

"Shall we go to the arena then?"

"Of course I'm going! It's all here! Oops, Stinky Yoshi must be pitiful now, and needs Yumi-sama's kiss to comfort her! ”

The interior of the car is filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

"But," Kaede Yuan couldn't help but remind, "Wang Jiang only fights once a year, right?" ”

"Huh?"

"yes," Officer Sato said with a smile, "so if Yumi wants to accept a marriage proposal from a Taiko celebrity, it will be a year at the earliest..."

"What! I thought it was once a month! ”

Yumi Miyamoto looked annoyed.

"And although Taiko celebrities are now six-time champions, if they lose any more titles like today, they will have to start from scratch... Yumi, I don't know if your wedding will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey? ”

"Really, no matter what! I called him and asked him to stamp the marriage application right now! ”

"Ah, aren't you torn?" Officer Sato was stunned for a moment.

"All I tore was an envelope! The marriage application is still in Ayumi's hand! Right, Ayumi? ”

"Hmm!" Ayumi, who was holding the marriage application tightly, nodded.

"Don't! You've just managed to be a handsome! ”

"If you like it, you can get married right away!"

Elementary school students also joined the battlefield, and the car immediately became noisy. Kaedehara listened for a while and then looked at Ashbara, noticing that she seemed to have something on her mind from the beginning.

"Ashbaranda?"

"Kudo..."

Not only did she call out to Kudo, but her voice was so low that only she could hear it, which meant that what Gray Hara was going to say next was very important, and Kaedehara became serious, "What's wrong?" ”

"You know what? Koji Haneda? ”

"Yes. The genius chess player who was once closest to winning the seven-time championship traveled to the United States to participate in the chess tournament he was interested in, but was involved in an incident and died. ”

"I've seen that name." Gray Yuan's voice was lowered, "It's in the list of people who take APTX4869, two lines below your name..."

(End of chapter)