Sanjusangendo is the main hall of the Tendai sect in Japan, the main hall of Renkeo-in, and it was also the first stop of yesterday's study trip to Teidan High School.

After lunch, Kaedehara and Gray Yuan came here together. In fact, yesterday Kaedehara visited here with his classmates as Shinichi Kudo, and today-

Gray Yuanai, who had recovered his original appearance, stood outside the hall, looked at the rectangular ancient building in front of him, and turned his head to look at Fengyuan beside him, "Do you like the temple very much?" ”

"Normally, why do you ask?"

"Because you brought me here right away."

"Kyoto's temples are famous, so it's worth visiting. And yesterday, when I went on a school trip, the first stop arranged by the school was here..."

He also promised Gray Yuan to accompany her again yesterday.

"I don't care," Gray Plains had already learned about their itinerary through the detective badge yesterday, "but you've already been here..."

"But you haven't been here yet," Kaedehara replied, "and it didn't feel the same back then as it does now." ”

At that time, he was playing the same Shinichi Kudo that Xiaolan and his classmates were familiar with, and there was no one around him who wanted to travel together, so he didn't actually visit seriously.

Similar conversations had already happened a few times, so Ash Hara immediately understood what Kaedehara meant.

However, she still pretended not to understand, put on a straight face, and seriously stretched out her hand to compare his height in front of Kaedehara, and then showed a sudden look and nodded her head.

"That's right," Gray Yuan's tone was slightly narrow, "You were so tall yesterday, but today you're just a little bit..."

The height is different, and the perspective of the tour is of course different.

"So are you." Kaedehara said with a pout.

"Anyway..."Gray Yuan paused slightly, "taller than you." ”

Girls at this stage have developed faster than boys, and now Gray Plains is also taller than Kaedehara. In fact, even if they change back to the appearance of high school students, they are about the same height.

Therefore, Kaedehara retorted that he could not.

However, as a schoolboy detective with a good brain and good reasoning skills, Kaedehara has other ways.

"That's great." Kaedehara said in a serious tone, "I like tall girls. ”

“……”

Gray Yuan's earlobe was slightly red, and he glanced at Kaede Yuan angrily. Then she noticed that her hand was being held tightly.

The guy pinched it badly.

The two elementary school students held hands and visited the temple like a couple, which was somewhat eye-catching. But this is not the first time, and at this point, it can't be said that Fengyuan, so Gray Yuan has no choice but to admit it.

She squeezed it back hard, and the two of them held hands and visited.

Sanjukendo Hall is famous in Japan for its 1,000 statues of Kannon, and the seated 1,000-armed Kannon is a national treasure.

It is said that every visitor will be able to find a statue of Kannon that resembles their own face, and Kaedehara was able to find it without a hitch, not only a face similar to Kudo Shinichi, but also a face similar to Sora.

But he still felt that every statue here was far from the gray plain mourning. Sure enough, his gray plain is too cute.

Walking out of the hall, there were also many tourists dressed up as a thousand-armed Guanyin and taking pictures, which made Gray Yuan hesitate for a moment.

"It's okay," Kaedehara immediately felt, "they're just filming themselves." And I'm a detective, if someone is filming us, I can detect it..."

"Really?" Gray Yuan expressed doubts, "How did I not know that the detective still has this ability?" ”

"I'm a detective for the new age." Kaedehara took out a hat from his arms, "If you're really worried, just wear this, right?" ”

That's the hat of the BIG Osaka team.

Ash Yuan mourned did not refuse.

She didn't reach for it, but leaned over slightly and leaned her head towards Kaedehara. Kaedehara unfolded her hat and gently put it on the girl's soft hair, then helped her straighten it.

After he helped him straighten his hat, Gray Yuan Ai straightened up again and asked, "Where to go next?" ”

"Next..."

Next up is Rooken Temple.

Again, this was the second leg of yesterday's school trip.

The three-story pavilion building with gold leaf on the inside and outside of Rokuenji Temple is also called Kinkaku, so the temple as a whole is also called Kinkaku-ji Temple.

The Kinkakuji Temple in front of them was actually rebuilt, and it was deliberately set on fire decades ago.

Gray Plains also knows this history.

"It's a pity," Gray Yuan said with a sad face, "the most beautiful time of Kinkakuji Temple was more than half a century ago..."

In the past, many literary works thought that Kinkakuji Temple in the fire was the most beautiful, and Ai Shibara had a similar idea.

"You don't mean to set it on fire, do you?" Kaedehara quipped in a low voice.

"yes," Gray Yuan said with a serious look on his face, tilting his head back at Kaedehara, "and using a cigarette pipe." ”

"Chimney..."

"Is Mr. Detective going to arrest me?"

"Forget it, I'm sure I'll be an accomplice." Kaedehara replied, "And I've got a lot of pictures of Ms. Erin. ”

Some of them were even made into memes by him.

In the story of the Bohemian scandal, it was Watson who set the fire with a chimney, but the mastermind was Sherlock Holmes, who wanted to steal Irene's photo.

It will take a while to reach dusk, so there is no sunset to help bring out the burning feeling, and such a Kinkakuji is not a good Kinkakuji. Gray Yuan Wai didn't plan to wait here, so the two of them stayed here for a while before heading to the last stop planned for the day.

Kiyomizu-dera Temple.

It is late autumn, and the autumn leaves in Kiyomizu-dera Temple are like fire.

The falling autumn leaves fall to the ground and form a thick carpet. When they arrived, it was also close to dusk, and the fiery afterglow of the sunset sprinkled on the ground, lining the autumn leaves, giving the impression that it was burning.

Like a real elementary school girl of this age, Gray Yuan Ai stepped lightly on the fallen leaves, and then gracefully spun around.

It's been a long time since she's felt the pressure of the organization.

Although she still has a deep fear of the organization, the past few months of getting along have also made her believe that Kudo can do a lot of things.

The same goes for organizational things.

Moreover, she believes that no matter what the outcome is, he will meet the end that belongs to them with her.

Nothing to be afraid of.

So she was relaxed.

She pressed the brim of her hat, then turned to look at Kaedehara, who was looking at her two steps away, and smiled softly at him.

Kaedehara was slightly distracted.

At this moment, he clearly realized that in order to protect such a smile, he must also do a lot of things that he knew should not be done.

The young man's eyes in front of her became extremely familiar and soft, which made Gray Yuanai's cheeks feel a little hot, so the next moment she withdrew the smile she had just shown a little carried away, and turned around and began to look at the red leaves on the tree.

However, it is obviously even more impossible for the autumn leaves here to reflect the face of the person next to him.

So she watched quietly for a moment, then closed her eyes.

As vision actively shuts down, the body's other senses become a little more sensitive. She could hear his even breathing, and she could feel his gaze that was both soft and searing.

Autumn leaves fall.

The wind blows in the distance, making the autumn leaves even more intoxicating. She opened her eyes and subconsciously pressed the hat on her head, but the hat was immediately blown up by the gust of wind.

Gray Yuan tried to reach for the hat, but couldn't.

Turning back in the direction of the wind, Ash Yuan watched as his hat flew past Kaedehara's side.

And Kaedehara didn't move, still looking at her.

"Are you just watching my hat being blown away?"

Kaedehara was silent.

He doesn't look normal,

Gray Plains was a little worried.

She leaned sideways, tilted her head, and stared into his eyes.

There was a look of nostalgia in those eyes.

Gray Yuan Ai was slightly stunned, and shouted softly in a very low voice: "Kudo? ”

"I'm here."

Gray Yuan mourned and relieved.

"I didn't ask you that," Gray Yuan said grievingly, "who were you thinking about?" ”

"I miss you."

"Liar, I'm right in front of you—"

"You were thirteen years ago." Kaedehara said softly.

Another gust of wind struck, but this time it only brought up a flaming red leaf.

The two men looked at each other silently as if they were standing in the middle of a fire.

Gray Yuan looked at Kaedehara's eyes quietly, looking at the reflection of himself in the eyes, and the reflection of Kaedehara in his own eyes...

Then she sank deep in.

I don't know how long it took for her to come back to her senses, and then she pursed her mouth slightly: "You... Remembered? ”

"Yes," Kaedehara replied softly, the girl in front of him and the figure in his memory gradually overlapping, "Just now." ”

……

When a story is about to end, we always remember its beginning.

Thirteen years ago.

An uneventful afternoon.

The main character is Shinichi Kudo.

That afternoon, Shinichi Kudo picked up a very hard paper card near the kindergarten.

The cards are neatly printed with a number of cartoon figures drawn from simple lines, an irregular number of villains in a group, and each villain looks like they are dancing.

This is familiar to him, who has watched the Sherlock Holmes series and likes it very much. He immediately thought of a story from the Sherlock Holmes series.

Dancing villain.

It's a code.

Because he had something to do with Sherlock Holmes, he was generally interested in codes, but after calling and talking to Yukiko Kudo, he started today's adventure.

Unlike ordinary kindergarten children, Kudo Shinichi has always been very reassuring. And even though Yukiko Kudo thinks that her son is just pretending to be mature, she has to admit that he is indeed very smart.

So she just casually told Kudo Shinichi to let him go back early, and reluctantly agreed to his late return, and Kudo Shinichi also began to try to unravel the code.

In the story of the original "Dancing Little Man", each dancing little man represents an English letter. Among the English letters, E is the most common letter, so Sherlock Holmes guessed that the villain with the highest frequency represents the letter E.

In addition, the code in the story is a letter, and the letter may mention the name of the recipient, and he uses this as the basis for solving the code.

But...

This is rice flower, and it's Japan.

On the piece of paper that Kudo Shinichi picked up, the text formed by the code is not long, and there is no relevant background to rely on.

He didn't even know if the figurines represented the English alphabet or hiragana, romanization, or something else.

So he didn't have a clue for a while.

Leaning against the wall outside the kindergarten and staring at the card for a while, Kudo Shinichi decided to take the code sheet from the Sherlock Holmes story.

He had a good memory, and he had seen the original illustrations in the story, so he soon matched every dancing figure in the story to a letter, and then he discovered...

It works.

Following the instructions of the code, he came to the edge of a forest near the Didan Elementary School.

As the saying goes, he is just a kindergarten child, so he did not break into the woods directly, but first carefully observed the surroundings at the edge before poking his head into the woods.

Then he saw a girl.

The little girl looked older than herself, but not as big as her peers. She was standing in a clearing in the woods, her back to her, her head tilted as if she were looking for something.

Shinichi Kudo noticed that she was also holding a card in her right hand and guessed that it was the same card in her hand. The little girl in front of me probably followed the code to find here.

She also wears a hat.

And just as he was hesitating to go up and say hello, a gust of wind blew, and the little girl's hat was blown up, and then the soft brown hair fluttered in the wind.

She tried to grab the hat, but failed. Then she looked back.

He saw her face too.

Miraculously lovely.

He was a little stunned, but when the cute little girl saw it, he immediately came to his senses, helped pick up the hat on the side of the road, and returned it.

"Your hat." He said.

He noticed that for a moment the little girl seemed to want to put her hand over her hair to keep him from looking, and then she dropped her hand as if she realized that such a thing could not be done.

She lowered her head and whispered a thank you before taking the hat.

She put her hat back on, carefully adjusted it so that it covered her hair tightly, and then looked at the little boy in front of her.

He seemed to react a little differently from the others, so she couldn't help but ask, "Is it strange?" ”

"What?" Kudo Shinichi was puzzled.

"My hair. Don't you think it's weird? ”

"I don't think so." Kudo Shinichi replied honestly, and then added, "It's beautiful." ”

The little girl ...... didn't seem to believe it.

"It's really pretty."

"A lot of people think I'm an outlier because of this..."

"That's not the case." Kudo Shinichi said in a serious tone, "And my mother's hair color is similar to yours, and it's even slightly curly..."

"Isn't your mother Japanese?"

"She's Japanese. Her hair is natural, but she sometimes dyes it in other colors..."

Chatting about the topic of hair color, the two children who met for the first time got acquainted with each other a little bit. However, it was clear that the topic could not last forever, and soon Kudo Shinichi led the topic back to the code.

"Did you follow the code to find here?"

The emotional line of empty mourning has reached its peak, so it's coming to an end.

(End of chapter)