At night, under the street lights, two people, one large and one small, stared at each other face to face.
Although Kuroki Jin looked at his sunny smile, his heart was already beating non-stop, and it was jumping up and down erratically.
Kuroki Jin suddenly remembered the first time he stabbed a knife into the heart of the person who wanted to kill him in the middle of the night. At that time, he stared blankly at the blood on his hand and sat on the ground with the same mood.
Nervous, anxious, at a loss...but eager for the next moment to bring him the answer.
Within ten minutes of that time, someone from the logistics department came to recover the body and turned a blind eye to his murderous behavior.
But this time, the answer seemed to come out in the next second.
"It's an idiot."
"……Eh?"
Hui Yuan Ai turned around and continued walking forward. Kuro Muren was stunned for a long time and didn't understand what the answer meant. He scratched his head and followed Hai Yuan Ai with a puzzled look on his face.
Naturally, he couldn't see it either. Hui Yuan Ai, who was walking in front with his head down, raised the corners of his mouth and smiled softly like him.
On the same night, the progress on the other side was not as quiet as they were here.
Since Mouri Kogoro accepted Conan's explanation for attacking those around him, he began to recall who the next candidate would be based on the clues they found.
Conan discovered that in the three attacks, a white paper folded object was left at the scene. The first time was a folded paper dagger, the second time was a paper flower, and the third time it looked like an infinity symbol, but it was actually a sword. handle.
These three patterns are exactly the same as the ones on the playing cards from K to J.
Therefore, Conan deduced that the prisoners committed their crimes in the reverse order of the playing cards. The first one was Memu Shisan, with Shisan in his name; the second Fei Yingli was because his surname was Fei, which also means queen, that is. Q, and Dr. A Li’s real name is Dr. A Li, and when the word “shi” is broken down, it is eleven.
Then the next prisoner is the person with a cross in his name.
Mouri Kogoro immediately thought of his mother in the nightclub, Miss Towako Sanju.
With the police and children, the group stayed in the nightclub for half the night, and nothing happened until they were sent to the room.
Several people could only sum up the situation as the prisoner also went to sleep.
Except for Maori who continued to stay squatting without believing in evil, Memu suggested that Officer Shiratori take Xiaolan and Conan back to rest first. Conan also felt that this was too inefficient, so he and Xiaolan sat in Officer Shiratori's car.
In the car, they heard Shiratori pick up Kuroki Jin's call.
"Let's not talk about ten. If it is the number two, there is a ready candidate here."
Kuroki Jin’s name [Jin] contains the number two.
"There are three, too." Shiratori followed Conan's words. Seeing the surprised faces of the two people in the back row, Shiratori smiled and said, "My full name is Shiratori Rensaburo."
"In that case, I also know who Yi is." Xiaolan didn't know what she thought of, her eyebrows curved.
"Is it Brother Shinichi?" Conan opened his eyes and looked cute.
"Conan..." Xiaolan felt a little embarrassed after being exposed about the person she was thinking about. She changed the subject: "By the way, Officer Shiratori, why did Murakami come to take revenge on my father?"
Shiratiao was slightly startled when he heard this. He thought about it and said, "I hadn't joined the job at that time, so I only heard about it from my seniors."
At that time, Kogoro Mori was still working as a police officer. During the arrest and interrogation of Murakami, the prisoner asked to go to the bathroom, so Mori and Megure took the opportunity to take a break.
Just then Feiyingli and Xiaolan came over to deliver clothes and dinner to Uncle Maori who was working overtime, but they were hijacked by Murakami's father who attacked the police and took the pistol. At this critical moment, Kogoro Maori shot the gangster without hesitation, but hit Fei Yingli, who was the hostage.
In the middle of Shiratori's words, Xiaolan seemed to have her memory suddenly activated, suddenly recalling this scene that she had long forgotten, or that she subconsciously didn't want to remember. The memory of her mother being hit and falling to the ground overlapped with the scene of slamming the door and never coming back, causing Xiaolan's expression to darken instantly.
"Xiaolan..." Conan looked at Mao Lilan worriedly, who pursed his lips slightly and smiled as if to comfort him.
The atmosphere in the car gradually became dull. Shiratiao realized that he might have said something he shouldn't have said, and drove the car solemnly, not knowing how to lighten the atmosphere.
At this moment, Conan pointed out the window with sharp eyes: "Are those Mr. Kuroki and Haibara?"
"Eh?" Xiaolan was also attracted to her attention. Shiratiao subconsciously slowed down so that she could clearly see the backs of the two people who were gradually approaching.
"It's true." Haiyuan Ai's brown hair was very conspicuous under the street lights at night. Shiratiao parked the car next to the two of them, rolled down the window, stretched out his head and said, "Get in the car, I'll take you go back."
It's better to sit in a car than to walk. Kuroki Jin went to open the passenger door, while Haibara Ai got into the car from Conan's side.
"Why are you two here?" Conan asked in a low voice.
"I'll take her home." Heimuren, with his sharp ears, heard and answered quickly.
"You're not..." Just as Conan was about to say something, he received Hui Yuan Ai's sharp gaze and immediately swallowed what he had not finished.
Xiaolan took the opportunity to ask: "Xiao Ai, how is Dr. Ali's injury?"
"I have been staying with my mother in the afternoon, and the doctor and my mother are not in the same hospital, so we haven't had time yet..."
Before Mao Lilan finished speaking, he heard a violent cough from the front.
"What's wrong, Mr. Kuroki? Is it a cold?"
Kuroki Ren smiled awkwardly: "No..."
The corners of Hui Yuan Ai's lips slightly twitched, and she suddenly felt much better when she recalled someone's rumor that someone had said that she was visiting the concubine, the lawyer, and stopped by to see the doctor.
"Doctor, nothing's wrong." She simply answered Mao Lilan's question. She felt that Kuroki Ren was quite concerned about this case, so she subconsciously asked him:
"What about you? Is there any progress in the case?"
Speaking of this, Mao Lilan looked dim, but quickly covered it up and smiled slightly: "Dad is still protecting Miss Towako... Oh, yes, we speculate that the criminals attacked in the reverse order of the playing cards..."
Mao Lilan roughly described their progress throughout the afternoon, and Conan added the content from time to time. Soon Kuroki Ren got the latest progress of the case.
"Does that mean the next person should be the number ten?"
"Does Mr. Kuroki know anyone?" Conan asked quickly.
"I don't, but the Maori detective may know someone else."
"???"
"Tsuji Hiroki, a golfer, the Mori detective often meets him on the golf course on weekends."
The people present quickly thought about how Tsuji Hiroki's name was written, and they were deeply puzzled after suddenly realizing it.
It was Conan who asked first: "How do you know the people around Uncle Maori so well?"
