Dr. A Li closed the door, came over with shame and explained:
"We had a curry party yesterday. Have you had breakfast? Would you like some too? There's still a lot in the pot."
"Then I'd rather be respectful than obey. I happened to be riding all the way, and my stomach was protesting solemnly all the time."
Hattori Heiji nodded hurriedly, and as he spoke, he pulled out his chair without ceremony.
Just kidding, although I suspect Brother Gengyi is deliberately playing with dry humor, but if it were more serious, wouldn't he admit that he was right?
A group of people are quite accustomed to this.
Dr. Agasa served curry and rice and handed them to Hattori Heiji.
Hattori Heiji took it and while skillfully stirring the curry rice with a spoon, he pretended to ask casually:
"Hey, why are you not surprised at all by my visit?"
"Because this isn't the first time." Haiyuan Ai spat out in a statement tone.
"Um……"
Ye Gengyi just finished finishing the curry, took out a few napkins and wiped his mouth, then looked at Hattori Heiji and said:
"Tell me, what happened this time?"
"Hey, why don't you be so direct?"
Hattori Heiji said awkwardly, "Well, I did encounter a strange case..."
"Oh?" Ye Gengyi was obviously interested, "Tell me more carefully?"
"Hey, I knew you guys would definitely be interested, Brother Gengyi. Ahem..."
Hattori Heiji cleared his throat pretending to be mysterious:
"I received a letter from the deceased. I couldn't believe it at first. But the person who sent the letter knew my mother. He was the president of a design company in Tokyo, and his surname was Wakamatsu... I also met him several times. I heard that he was killed in his villa in Karuizawa last month.”
Hearing this, Dr. A Li and Haihara Ai suddenly widened their eyes.
Only Ye Geng started to clear away the dishes, as if he was too lazy to listen to his lies.
"Brother Genichi, don't you want to hear the follow-up?" Hattori Heiji was stunned.
Ye Geng said expressionlessly:
"The letter can be sent by the deceased while he was alive, or by someone else after his death. This kind of thing is not surprising, let alone weird. You finish telling the story first, and I won't listen to it again when you get to the point. Late."
"yes!"
Dr. A Li and Haihara Ai obviously didn't think much about it. After being reminded by Ye Gengyi, they also cast speechless looks at a certain black man.
"Ahem! I just want to create an atmosphere."
Hattori Heiji felt a little uncomfortable being stared at. He coughed dryly and said:
"Brother Geng is right. Although the letter was signed by the person involved, Kohei Wakamatsu, judging from the content, it should have been written by his murderer. On the day Mr. Wakamatsu was killed, his wife's birthday party happened to be held in the villa. , according to the description of the police officer handling the case, Mr. Wakamatsu accidentally ran into gangsters who sneaked into the villa to steal property, and was killed... Now, this is the letter..."
As he spoke, he took out a piece of letter paper from his pocket, unfolded it and placed it on the table.
Several people looked around and saw that it read:
[Dear Mr. Hattori Heiji, I really want to meet you, the high school detective, and confess to you the crimes I have committed. However, I still have some doubts about whether you can see me even if we meet, because I am a twisted existence created by you humans without permission, an illusion that cannot be faced... If you are still willing to meet me even so, I will meet you next time. On the night of the full moon, I am waiting for you at the house of the man I killed. 】
Ye Gengyi withdrew his gaze and commented: "Oh...that's all?"
"Gengyi, did you see anything?" Dr. Ali asked curiously.
Huihara Ai also looked at it expectantly.
... She is now very used to this kind of mindless process.
"The first is the word decoration. The person who wrote the letter used a lot of decorative words. To someone who doesn't know the other person's character, it is easy to feel that he is deliberately showing off. Moreover, after the other person used 'unable to face the illusion', He also expressed his desire to 'meet', indicating that he just wanted Heiji to see something, and because he couldn't reveal his true identity, he couldn't meet..." Ye Gengyi explained calmly.
"As expected of Brother Gengyi!"
Hattori Heiji sighed, took out a key from his pocket and said:
"But unfortunately, the other party did leave something in Karuizawa's villa, but the person who saw it was not me but He Ye..."
"Huh?" Ye Geng looked sideways.
Will this Osaka black chicken be investigated if there is a case? It doesn’t look like I’ve changed gender either…
"Oh, don't mention it. It's all because of that guy Kudo's lack of confidence, which caused me to catch a cold because I didn't sleep well some time ago..."
Hattori Heiji breathed out and his expression became solemn:
"While I was sick, that guy He Ye saw this letter, so he took the key to the villa and went there with his school classmates to hold some kind of courage test meeting. As a result, in the bathroom of that villa, they I saw a very strange person leaning against the wall, and then all the lights in the room went out. When the lights came on again, the person not only disappeared strangely, but also left a piece of paper in place, which said What has disappeared is my body, not the words..."
"This sounds more attractive than the story just now." Ye Gengyi said.
After 'disappearing' in front of a group of people and having eyewitness testimony, the incident became authentic. Obviously, with this level of conditions, the other party didn't seem to care much about whether the person who went there was Hattori Heiji.
"I was a little skeptical at first," Hattori Heiji explained: "But I heard from Kazuha and the others that the three words 'EYE' were carved on the tile near the head of the guy sitting in front of the bathroom wall with a sharp object. The uppercase letters disappeared together with the scratches on the letters when the call came, leaving only a bunch of random scratches under the corner. Because the wall tiles were of different colors, it was unlikely that they had been replaced."
"Heard again?" Ye Gengyi expressed doubts about this.
"I had no choice. After receiving Kazuye's call, I immediately ran to Karuizawa. Who knew that on that day the villa suddenly started to be renovated, and a lot of construction workers came, and they wouldn't let us in at all... …”
Hattori Heiji said helplessly: "So I can only listen to Kazuha."
Haibara Ai had some guesses and said: "If the wall tiles in the bathroom were replaced by that person during the power outage, and then the evidence was destroyed after contacting the construction personnel, it would have been impossible to find out after so long, right?"
"Yes," Hattori Heiji nodded: "But the key point is that Mr. Wakamatsu was also killed in a bathroom with the same tiles. When the body was found, there was also a pre-death message left by the deceased in blood next to it, but in The blood disappeared after police arrived at the scene."
(End of chapter)
