In this way, the suicide of Hatorodo was resolved, and Kaedehara and the others successfully learned the reason why the name of the song changed from KA to CA, but this reason seems to have nothing to do with the matter of Koji Haneda.

And while their investigation into the Koji Haneda incident has also reached an impasse for the time being, time has not stopped flowing.

On this day, Conan goes out with Uncle Maori to solve a client's commission, while the Young Detectives gather at the doctor's house to play a new game.

"It's going to take a double jump to the board."

Holding the gamepad in his left hand and his chin in his right hand, he yawned a little boredly, "There's a hint written down here, too—jump onto a plane and slide with it..."

"I know." Kaedehara snapped the buttons on the controller to control the game character on the screen, but his game character still slipped off the edge of the board like dozens of times before, then dissipated, and finally resurrected at the beginning, "But this is too difficult..."

The game is a game in which two players each operate a character to pass through various obstacles together, and since Kaedehara has been stuck here, Gray Yuan has to wait.

"I've passed it once...", Ash Yuan Wai cast a disdainful glance at Kaedehara.

"That's it!"

"Kaedehara, your level of playing the game is really poor!"

"It's the same as Conan!"

The elementary school students sitting next to the two also chimed in.

"How is it possible, I'm much stronger than Conan. There must be something wrong with the game settings..."Kaedehara tried to shake the pot, "It could also be that the controller is malfunctioning..."

"Don't lie to yourself." Gray Yuan said, "Anyway, you usually react very quickly, and the school's handicraft class is okay, why does it become like this when it comes to playing games..."

"I don't know, I always feel a little unwanted..."

Kaedehara said, reluctantly trying again, but the game character lost his life again.

"Let me do it!" Yuantai, who was watching, finally couldn't help but speak, "Kaedehara, you've been stuck here for so long!" ”

"Ahh Yuan is too good! Ayumi dissatisfied, "In order, it should be Ayumi's turn..."

They agreed that everyone would play for half an hour, so that they would take turns all the time. And although Kaedehara was the first group, and the game time was not enough for half an hour, the elementary school students had obviously lost patience with him.

So is Kaedehara himself.

So he handed the gamepad directly to Ayumi, and then moved out of the way of the seat in front of the TV. Ayumi happily took the controller and sat down next to Ash Hara to play with her.

Kaedehara stood by and watched.

Ayumi's first attempt also failed. However, before Kaedehara could feel better, her second attempt was successful.

His brows jumped slightly, and Kaede Yuan looked away and went to the refrigerator to get a can of juice for himself, intending to relax.

Then he walked back, leaning back on the couch and watching from afar.

Although I don't understand the play, Kaedehara can still understand it. He could tell that Ayumi and Ashbara were playing well.

However, ten minutes later, because it was Mitsuhiko's turn, Gray Yuan Ai gave up his seat.

She just looked at the side for a moment, then turned around and walked over to Kaedehara, and raised her chin slightly at him, showing a smug expression.

In terms of gameplay, Ten Kudo is no match for her either.

But...

"Ahh That's it! Kaedehara looked at Gray Yuan and said in a low voice, "Let me take a picture of this too, right?" ”

"Huh?" Gray Yuan Wai immediately put away the expression on his face, "Don't take an inch, you have already made two emojis..."

"What's the matter, you like to use it yourself..."

One is an expression picture of Gray Yuanai's disgusted face, and the other is an expression picture of her expressionless applause, although it hasn't been produced for a long time, but only in the dialogue between the two, Gray Yuan Ai has used it many times.

"No, it's not good," Gray Yuan snorted softly, and glanced at Kaedehara, "I just agreed when I was dizzy..."

"But that expression was really cute..."

“……”

……

The next day.

"Huh? Conan, you went to catch Kidd the Monster Thief yesterday!? ”

"Did the Doctor go too?"

"It's too much! You didn't even call us to go with us! ”

"Yesterday there was another client," Conan defended, "and you called to say you were going to the doctor's house to play a game..."

It is also because of this that yesterday Kaedehara and Gray Plains did not follow the doctor who also received the invitation to catch the monster thief Kidd.

"The Doctor is too much..."

"The doctor has been punished," Gray Yuan Ai took his phone and saved the new emoji that Kaedehara had just sent, "I heard that Kidd pretended to be a doctor yesterday..."

"Really, really?"

"Kidd knocked the doctor unconscious with a stun gun, tied him up and locked him in the bathroom," Kaedehara explained, "It looks miserable..."

But schoolchildren clearly have a different view.

"That's great, I want Kidd to pretend for once, too!"

"Ayumi wants to too!"

"I want to too!"

"Haven't you already been pretended to be once..."

"Alright, students!" As he was talking, Mr. Kobayashi pushed open the door of the classroom and walked in, "Please return to your seat..."

The classroom fell silent.

As Mr. Kobayashi walked to the podium as he spoke, Kaedehara noticed that there was a middle-aged woman wearing glasses standing at the door of the classroom, and the person had her hands clasped tightly in front of her, giving people the feeling that she was nervous.

Looks like a new teacher again...

"I'm going to introduce you to a new teacher today," Mr. Kobayashi introduced to the elementary school students, "and she's the one who started being your deputy homeroom teacher today... Wakasa-sensei! ”

Mr. Wakasa walked into the classroom this time and came to the podium.

"Uh-huh... My name is Rumi Wakasasa! A full ten years older than Mr. Kobayashi! Please, please take care of it! ”

After introducing herself, she bowed deeply to the elementary school students, but she failed to grasp the distance, and her head suddenly slammed on the podium.

She couldn't help but let out a cry of pain. The elementary school students below were stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

The classroom was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

Maybe it's because the Junior Detectives are one of the few students who don't laugh, but during the lunch break, when Kaedehara and the others get together for lunch, Wakasa-sensei comes to them for help.

She came and asked where the lime was.

"Lime?"

"What are you going to do with it?" Elementary school students are a little curious.

"Isn't it time to play dodgeball on the playground during the fifth period of physical education?" Wakasa replied, "That's why I wanted to take advantage of my lunch break to draw the line." But there isn't much lime left in the line-drawing car, and there's no spare lime in the warehouse..."

"Then you can go to the old warehouse and have a look!" Conan said, "Maybe there's still some lime there!" ”

"Oh," Motota was also a little impressed, "is that the dilapidated warehouse that seems to be infested with ghosts?" ”

"Yes," Mitsuhiko added, "it is said that there were teachers who were imprisoned there and starved to death..."

"Hey, you two..."Kaede Yuan was a little helpless. Mr. Wakasa, who was already a little hesitant, looked even more hesitant.

"Teacher, don't you know where the old warehouse is?" Gray Yuan swallowed the food in his mouth and turned his head to look at Wakasa Rumi.

"Know... It's to know..."

"Does the teacher want us to come with you?"

"Huh?" Conan was surprised, "You can't be scared, right?" ”

"Hmm... yes..."

Wakasa-sensei was embarrassed to admit it.

Their lunch was almost finished, and after a while, after cleaning up, they accompanied Wakasa to the old warehouse.

"I'm sorry, everyone..."Walking to the vicinity of the warehouse, Wakasa-sensei said, "It's lunch break, and I want you to come with me..."

"It's alright," Kaedehara replied, "We used to hang out after lunch..."

However, this is the first time that the Junior Detectives have come here.

"It's really broken here..."

"There is no chain on the door..."

"There was no lock here ten years ago..."

"How do you know?" Ayumi looked at Conan curiously.

"Ah, well, it seems that Sister Xiaolan once mentioned..."

"This place should have been demolished and rebuilt a long time ago, right?" Gray Yuan looked at the dilapidated warehouse in front of him.

"Mr. Headmaster is in..."

"Ahem." Kaedehara coughed twice, interrupting Conan's words.

"What's wrong with Mr. Headmaster?" Mitsuhiko asked.

"Ahh

"Kaedehara, do you have a cold?" Ayumi worried.

"No, it's just that my throat is suddenly a little itchy..."

"It looks like there's a lot of dust here..."

"Anyway! Let's go find the lime first! ”

Conan hurriedly brought the topic back, and Kaede reached out and pulled open the door to the warehouse. The inside of the warehouse was pitch black. Next to the door was the button for the light, but after a few attempts, Ash found that the bulb was broken.

Fortunately, they all carried watch-type flashlights, and the schoolchildren quickly lit up the warehouse with their own devices.

"Oh, everyone carries such a handy thing!" Wakasa-sensei said.

"This is what the Doctor did for us..."

"There's also a detective badge that can be used as a walkie-talkie!"

"Oh... What a great doctor! ”

The warehouse was not very large, and they immediately found the lime, but they couldn't find it. Ayumi found a tattered class schedule, and what made them feel a little strange was that there were many empty spaces on the class schedule.

Conan quickly noticed that the rust peeling marks on the iron door on the floor leading to the basement were still fresh.

It seems that someone has recently opened...

"Hey, Kaedehara," Conan called Kaedehara, "come over and help open this." ”

“… It's good to drive it yourself. ”

"This looks like a lot of weight."

Kaedehara's strength is greater than his own, and Conan doesn't want to sell this strength himself. Kaedehara reluctantly walked to the side, also observed, and then lifted the door from the side, showing a very difficult appearance by the way.

However, before he could secure the door to the other side, he noticed Conan's face froze next to him.

The faces of the other people who came to see it also showed some horror on their faces.

Kaedehara tilted his head to look inside, and then saw a skeleton in the basement, with a strap on the skeleton's right hand.

……

"This white bone died about ten years ago..."Officer Shiratori arrived at the scene this time, "I didn't find anything that could prove my identity, but I guess it was a thief or something..."

Mr. Kobayashi is the childhood plum of Officer Shiratori, and the two are also dating. It was also because of this that Officer Shiratori volunteered to go out of the police instead of the Twilight Police Department.

"There's a big crack in the back of the skull," he continued, as two officers next to him were carrying away the body on a stretcher, "and there was a big bag of lime on it, and the cause of death was probably that he stepped on the empty stairs when he tried to steal it... After falling, the back of his head hit the box under the stairs, resulting in death..."

"Why did you come to steal lime," Kaedehara complained, "That's not worth much..."

"That's how it looks from the scene." Officer Shiratori pretended not to hear Kaedehara's words and made up his mind, "Anyway, it seems that this is very unlikely to be a criminal case. Although we are very sorry for the deceased, we have no choice but to close the case like this..."

Officer Shiratori had been looking at Mr. Kobayashi a few steps away.

Mr. Kobayashi also replied: "Okay, okay, thank you for your hard work..."

"What? It's not a homicide, is it? Yuan Tai was a little disappointed.

"Hey, hey! Motota! ”

"But—" another old voice came from beside them, "it's been ten years since the police have been here..."

"School, Principal!"

"Did anything happen ten years ago?"

"Four robbers broke into the house of a capitalist who lived in the neighborhood and killed the owner of the house... They fled with their family's gold nuggets worth 200 million yen..."The principal explained, "Late at night on the same day, several suspicious figures were seen entering the campus of Teidan Elementary School... Then the police came to investigate..."

"Oh..."

"Was the robber caught then?" Conan wondered.

"I don't know, I haven't heard of this... But people who do bad things are always punished... Either hiding somewhere in fear, or already lying dead in the streets..."

The headmaster spoke, and walked away with his hands behind his back. Kaede Hara saw him out of here, then turned his head to look at the old warehouse.

"What's wrong?" "Is there something wrong?" ”

"The principal's words reminded me of what happened ten years ago..." Kaedehara explained in a low voice, "That day, Xiaolan found that there was a ribbon with Chinese written on the door here, which was similar to the one on the corpse's hand...

But just as I was about to take off the strap and study it, a man in a hat suddenly appeared and stopped me... He told me not to touch that strap because there are terrible monsters sealed in the warehouse, and this strap is used to seal it..."

"Ah, that means the man was actually killed by a monster in the warehouse?"

"Hey, hey..."

"Just kidding." Gray Yuan said that she was a little unhappy when she heard Kudo talk about his previous experience with Xiaolan, "So, do you think he is the skeleton?" ”

"Quite possibly. The skeleton was almost ten years old, and it still had the strap in its hand. If he stopped me at that time, it was because he didn't want anyone to enter this warehouse... So maybe he's hiding something here or looking for something... As a result, I fell to my death here due to an accident..."

As they spoke, Conan on the other side prepared to leave.

"Alright, let's go back then." Conan had just taken a picture of the tape, and wanted to hurry back to the classroom to unravel the suspicious cipher text on the tape, "There's nothing going on here..."

"Oh..."

"Huh?" Kaedehara turned to look at Wakasa-sensei, "Teacher, don't you still need lime?" ”

"Yes, yes... But..."Mr. Wakasa hesitated.

"Hey," said Motota, "you're not talking about the bag of lime that the skeleton is carrying, are you?" ”

"But that one was also taken away by the police..."

"yes..."

"Not that," Kaedehara explained, "I saw a couple of line-drawing cars in the basement, and maybe there was lime in them." Anyway, Officer Shiratori thinks it's an accident, so it's okay if we go back and look for it, right? ”

Officer Shiratori and the other police officers had already left, and he had taken Kobayashi-sensei to talk to her, so only Wakasa-sensei and the Junior Detectives were left.

There was no lockdown at the scene, so they were able to go back.

In fact, Kaedehara just wanted to see if there was anything suspicious in the basement, and they hadn't looked closely at it before.

And because they had come for the limes, the elementary school students returned to the basement together, despite some fear.

Re-opening the iron door of the basement, Kaedehara took the lead and walked straight towards the line drawing cars. It's likely that there's lime in there, but if not, it's a good place to hide things.

He came to the line-drawing car, opened the lid, and was stunned.

It was full of cash.

(End of chapter)