"Yes, because Mr. Sugiura was unconscious all the time, we had some headaches at first, but fortunately, the mother of Kairen's child happened to be traveling with friends. After our police contacted her, we finally successfully found all the people there. Three tenants."
Chief Gong of the Police Department said, and briefly introduced the names and occupations of the three people.
The man whose skin is only one degree paler than Hattori Heiji and has short curly brown hair is Ryuhei Hosoi, a carpenter.
The young man with squinted eyes and a pair of flat-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose was Subaru Oki, who was currently a graduate student at Toto University.
The last middle-aged man with a round figure and slightly long hair was named Ginya Makabe.
Although he does not have a stable job, but...because a certain government statistics department needs to reduce the unemployment rate of social workers, this middle-aged man is naturally classified as a freelancer.
"Gongchang Police Department!"
At this time, a scary-looking arsonist searched a group of police officers and found Sugiura Kaito's diary stored in a thick iron box from the scene of the fire. Fortunately, it was not damaged by the fire.
Several people's eyes lit up.
Thinking that there might be information about the suspicious tenant recorded in it, Gongchang Police Department took the initiative and opened it to read.
The last page is yesterday's diary content, which reads:
[The weather is not very good this morning, but I still have to get up and go to school. The people in red are probably still sleeping in. After I came back from school, I accidentally fell down in front of my house. Fortunately, I met a white person when I went out. I was really lucky. The red people, the white people and the yellow people all went out tonight, and my father and I were the only ones left in the apartment. Although I really want to play for a while, the detective team is coming tomorrow, so I'd better go to bed early. . 】
【……Who is the one? He actually came back in the middle of the night and had an argument with his father in front of the stairs, ah! He is a yellow person. Could it be that his father discovered him because of the strange things he usually does? I'm so scared, I'd better plug my ears and go to sleep... I must tell Edogawa-san about this at noon tomorrow. 】
Listen to Police Chief Gong read this page of his diary.
Yuan Taiyan said firmly: "The one who set the fire must be the yellow man!"
"That's right," Mitsuhiko and Ayumi also agreed: "And he also lied to the police, claiming that he had been out all night!"
Conan remained silent... There was still too little information.
"Even if you say so, but..."
Police Chief Gongzhang helplessly turned his head to look in the direction of the three people, "Who is the yellow person mentioned in the diary?"
"Police Gongzhang..." Another police officer from the search team came over and said, "We already know the whereabouts of the three of them last night. Do you think we still need... eh? Police Department, what's wrong with you? ?」
He looked at the sad face of his police station in confusion.
...It’s already scary at ordinary times, but now it’s because of the fire that makes you feel bad?
"nothing……"
Police Yumaga shook his head and explained: "The child Kaito Sugiura who was rescued from the fire was a classmate of these children. I just heard from some of them that just the day before the fire, that child was looking for someone." He discussed something..."
He briefly recounted the reasons why Conan and the others came here.
what can we do about it……
Conan thought.
Even if Mr. Akai's pseudonym Subaru Oki is included as a suspect, the names and clothes of the three of them have nothing to do with Red, White and Yellow.
The gaze he kept casting forward finally attracted Akai Shuichi's attention.
Almost at the same time he turned his head and looked over.
Haiyuan Ai felt a strong and gloomy aura.
In an instant, the warm afternoon sunshine was also tinged with a bit of chill.
...Yes, someone from the organization? !
Why?
Why does it appear in such a place?
? No... I don't have time to think about this now. I must take the children and leave quickly, and then inform Brother Gengyi of the news...
"You are indeed still here."
As her thoughts flashed, Ye Gengyi's voice suddenly came from behind her.
In an instant, my slightly uneasy and worried heart calmed down a lot.
Turning around, he saw a familiar figure arriving a few steps away from them.
"Huh? Expert Ye, we meet again..." Police Chief Gong greeted this side.
He was not referring to the previous "Red Horse" incident, but to him who also belonged to the Investigation Section. When he returned to the Metropolitan Police Department to pick up documents this morning, he happened to meet Ye Gengyi, who was looking for Mu Mu Shisan.
"Gongchang Police Department."
Ye Gengyi nodded lightly and went straight to the topic: "Are the three people over there the tenants of Trojan Horse Villa?"
"right."
Gongchang Police Department knew that Ye Gengyi was a master at breaking eucalyptus, so he quickly recounted what had just happened and said:
"...The situation is roughly like this. Now, this is the diary of kid Kairen. Expert Ye, who do you think is the yellow person who had a dispute with Mr. Sugiura?"
"Makabe Yinya." Ye Gengyi said.
"Eh?"
Hearing such a straightforward answer, Gongchang Police Department was stunned for a few seconds.
On the side, Conan also asked hurriedly: "Why? Brother Gengyi, do you have any basis for your reasoning?"
He is not willing to give in!
He had already thought over the contents of that diary several times in his mind, and could not figure out which sentence contained the message that the yellow person was equal to Makabe Ginya.
"Because I was in the Metropolitan Police Department and happened to hear other police officers from the search team discussing the fire in Mima Village, so I stopped by Mihua General Hospital on the way back."
Ye Gengyi explained:
"Of course, I only learned from Sugiura Kaito's child that Makabe Gin also had an argument with his father in the early morning. It wasn't until I just heard from the Yumaga Police Department that the three suspects claimed that they had not returned home all night. , we know that Gin Makabe is also involved in this case, and there is a serious suspicion of arson."
"It turns out... Saraichi-nii, you went to visit Sugiura-san in the hospital..."
Conan felt that his view of detectives had been destroyed.
Well, speaking of which, the Yumaga Police Department did mention that Sugiura Kaito only suffered slight burns.
But... why?
Why didn't Gongchang Police Department and the others grasp such important information? No matter how useless the police were, there should be a limit, right?
He couldn't figure it out at all.
Fortunately, the Gongchang Police Department was also puzzled by this.
He looked at Ye Gengyi with that big, rude face and asked for advice:
"Expert Ye, how did you do it?"
"Huh?" Ye Gengyi said in a nasal voice that he didn't understand the question.
"Just let the child talk," Gongchang, the police department, scratched his head like a baboon and asked, "Although he was not seriously burned, there was a fire at home and his father was sent to the operating room... Although we have been comforting him He, but as soon as the details of the fire were mentioned, the child started to cry. There was no other way... We had to come here to collect clues first, thinking that after Mrs. Sugiura came back, we could find the mother and son to understand the situation. "
"Police Chief Gong, are you...serious?"
In the entire Metropolitan Police Department, Ye Gengyi was actually the only one who was familiar with Mu Mu Shisan and the others.
Therefore, at least at this moment, he really didn't understand whether the police officer in front of him didn't know much about the police chief of the arsonist search team, or whether he opened a completely different situation with him because he knew the real culprit of the arsonist. No funny jokes.
"What, what's wrong?" Police Chief Gongzhang blinked, wondering seriously.
Ye Gengyi: "..."
All right
, it seems that it is not a joke, they really have no idea about their respective looks...
"That...Gongchang Police Department," Conan immediately understood what Ye Gengyi meant after listening to the conversation, and said helplessly, "When you asked Sugiura-san about the situation in the hospital, why did you just talk to us? The attitude and tone when speaking are exactly the same, right?”
"What else?" Police Chief Gongzhang was even more confused.
"Although we haven't been in contact for too long, Sugiura-san's personality should be very introverted, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen to ask us peers for help after discovering a suspicious tenant in the apartment, so you just go and ask him directly. I definitely won’t say it…”
Conan sighed, glanced at someone again and said:
"But I really didn't expect that brother Gengyi would be so good at making children happy."
After figuring out the key, he, a famous detective who never liked others treating him like a child, was very unhappy.
