After breakfast the next day, Hui Yuan Ai went to school with her schoolbag on her back.
Chi Feichi planned to find a place to change his disguise and go to the laboratory. He also said goodbye to Dr. Ari and left. However, before he left Miwa Town, he received a call from Takagi Wataru. He turned around and sent Gin an email.
[I was involved in a murder incident, so the meeting was temporarily cancelled. ——Raki]
Not long after, Gin called.
"You're not kidding me, are you?"
"It was the strange thing that happened last night. Someone was killed nearby, and the murderer seemed to be the man who disappeared," Chi Feichi said, "The police asked me to go there. I'm on the road now. I don't know when I can get away."
"...Then we'll contact you after you resolve the matter."
"Okay."
In Shibuya District, Gin stood beside the car, staring at his phone and falling into silence.
It was just teasing last night. If Luck hadn't been tripped, the rice would have been cooked by the time he came over at noon today, but now...
Why did he say that last night?
No, Lark was probably infected by the plague god Kogoro and had nothing to do with him.
…
Rice flower town.
Chi Feichi drove to the place where Gao Mushe said and parked on the side of the road.
The police set up a cordon near a house, with a police car parked inside the line and a group of onlookers outside.
It's a familiar scene, except this time it's Takagi Wataru and Sato Miwako who are the police officers.
The taxi driver arrived before him last night, and the taxi also stopped nearby, talking to Miwako Sato inside the cordon.
Gao Mushe saw Chi Feichi coming over after parking the car, and took the initiative to greet him, "Mr. Chi, you are here!"
Chi Feichi crossed the cordon and looked at the police officers coming in and out of the house. He couldn't tell which incident it was for the time being, "What's going on?"
Takagi Wataru looked more serious and lowered his voice, "The deceased, Mr. Shimura, was an old man who lived alone. As for the person who found the body, it was the old man over there. The old man was a chess friend with the deceased and lived there." Near here, this morning, because Mr. Shimura had not gone to play chess with him at the appointed time, he came over to take a look and found the body. And he said that Mr. Shimura seemed to have put millions in cash in the closet. , but all that money is gone now.”
Chi Feichi walked to the door of a building and asked, "The time of death was last night?"
"That's right," Takagi Wataru took out his notepad and followed him, looking down at the record on it. "The time of death was determined to be between nine and eleven o'clock last night..."
After Miwako Sato confirmed with the taxi driver that the person she met last night was Chi Feichi, she turned around and was speechless, "Takagi..."
The scene in front of him looked like Takagi was reporting intelligence to his superiors. In this way, Mr. Chi was not taking advantage of them... No, Mr. Chi was not originally from their police force!
"Ah?" Takagi Wataru looked back at Miwako Sato in confusion.
Miwako Sato sighed helplessly. Forget it, Mr. Chi did seem to be stronger and calmer than Takagi. If she were talking to Mr. Chi about the case, she probably wouldn't be able to hold it back. In this way, she felt even more regretful. It was a pity that Mr. Chi was in such a bad situation. There is no way to join the police force.
"Huh?" Takagi Wataru saw Sato Miwako sighing and became even more confused.
"It's nothing," Miwako Sato cheered up, replied to Takagi Wataru, and said sternly to Chi Feichi, "According to the investigation, this was a home invasion, robbery and murder. We found the driver, he He said that he drove by the neighborhood around ten o'clock last night and saw a suspicious man. Judging from the distance from here, he was probably the murderer who left the scene after robbing and killing..."
"Because he said that a handsome young man also passed by there last night. He was very tall and had a pair of very special purple eyes, so we were wondering if it could be you," Takagi Wataru scratched his head and laughed, " That’s why I called you to come over.”
"Mr. Chi, it's too easy for you to encounter incidents," Sato Miwako complained without sighing, and then got down to business, "Anyway, since the suspicious man and the little boy who fell on the ground were still some distance from the taxi, Due to the distance, the driver couldn't see the man's appearance clearly, but he just saw that the man seemed to be covering his left shoulder with his right hand. We are not sure whether the other person was injured. We are investigating on the scene to see if there are any clues or blood stains left by the murderer."
"In addition, it was the little boy who fell to the ground at that time. According to our speculation, the boy might have seen the appearance of the murderer. The driver said that when he got out of the car, the little boy had already run around the car. He just Seeing the back of the child turning around and running into the alley," Gao Mushe looked at the driver and said to Chi Feichi, "Mr. Chi, you were at the entrance of the alley behind the car at that time, and the child should be running in your direction. Then you turned right into the alley, so we want to ask you, have you seen what the child looks like?"
"The child was some distance away from me at the time. He was wearing a white baseball cap and kept his head lowered. His face was blocked a lot by the hat. I couldn't see his exact appearance," Chi Feichi said calmly, "About seven or eight years old. , wearing pajamas, slightly taller than Conan, about the same build, and looks thinner."
"Is the child wearing pajamas?" Miwako Sato looked at the driver.
"Uh, yes," the driver nodded quickly, "I saw that he was wearing white patterned loose clothes, it should be pajamas."
Sato Miwako touched her chin, "That must be a child living nearby?"
"The children around here should all go to Didan Elementary School, right?" Takagi Wataru analyzed, and looked at Miwako Sato with a speechless expression. Seeing Chi Feichi looking at him, he explained, "We also saw people going to school in the morning. Conan, Xiao Ai and the others have finally been sent to school. If they go to Didan Elementary School to find the boy, if they see it, they will follow him everywhere..."
"Since there are students from Didan Elementary School and they live nearby, if you ask Conan, they might be able to get there faster." Chi Feichi reminded.
Looking at it this way, this is still a case in the plot, that is, Conan, the God of Plague, was blamed. He just happened to run into it by chance, and became the scapegoat of the God of Plague again...
…
Didan Primary School.
At noon, the children in Class B of the first year were cleaning in the classroom.
Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Ayumi stopped, holding mops, and gathered together to chat in low voices.
"I don't know what happened to the incident this morning."
"I wonder if the murderer has been caught."
"Let's go around and have a look after school!"
Conan was standing in front of the window cleaning the glass, listening to the three people chatting, and suddenly saw three acquaintances entering the school below, and was a little surprised, "Huh?"
"What's wrong, Conan?"
The three children leaned over to take a look.
"Brother Chi?!"
"And Officer Takagi and Officer Sato?"
"They didn't come to school because of the case this morning, right?"
Huihara Aidu put down the rag and walked to the window to look.
Shouldn't Brother Fei Chi return to Aipido Town at this time?
"It seems like there's no need to go around after school." Conan smiled and put down the rag and walked away.
As soon as Chi Feichi and the others arrived at the door of the teaching building, they were blocked by five children.
Takagi Wataru and Sato Miwako told what happened.
"I see," Haiyuan Ai stood at the back and looked at Chi Feichi and said, "Last night, the doctor said that the convenience store was closed. You took a detour to another store to buy soy sauce, and you happened to meet a suspected witness. ’s child?”
Conan laughed in his heart. When Mrs. Kana came back, Mihua Town was rarely quiet for a while. Just after Mrs. Kana left, Chi Feichi came to harm Mihua Town again. Even if he bought soy sauce, he could meet a witness. This was no luck. Who.
Haiyuan Aichi raised his head and asked Chi Feichi, "I remember you said last night that you would go to Kyushu today to secretly check out the sales of Umbrella's new mobile phones in Kyushu. So now...?"
"I received a call from Officer Takagi before I left Miwa Town in the morning. I went over to check on the situation," Chi Feichi said. "Fortunately, I didn't book a ticket. I'll probably go later or tomorrow."
He said last night that he was going to Kyushu. It was just a pretense. In fact, he needed to disappear for a few days for the assassination operation. However, if there is a case, he really has to talk about it tonight or tomorrow.
"Hey? Is there something wrong, Mr. Chi?" Gao Mushe looked apologetic, scratched his head and said with a smile, "I'm so sorry that I delayed you all morning..."
Chi Feichi calmly said, "It's okay."
Takagi Wataru felt chilled by this response. He sweated and looked at the five children, "So, do you know the little boy who lives nearby?"
"Brother Chi said that boy is about the same age as us, a little taller than Conan, similar in build to Conan, and thinner. He probably lives nearby and wears a white baseball cap, right?" Mitsuhiko touched his chin and thought for a second, " Could it be Keiichi? He is Mitsui Keiichi from the class next to ours!"
"Ah, that's right," Yuantai said hurriedly, "He went to the same kindergarten as us. This summer, his mother fell ill and passed away..."
Ayumi nodded and took over, "Before Keiichi's mother passed away, she bought him a white hat. From that time on, he has been wearing it."
"That's it..." Sato Miwako and Takagi Wataru looked at each other and asked the children to take them to the class teacher next door, and then asked the class teacher to take Mitsui Keiichi to the temporarily vacant conference room.
As someone who had seen the witness, Chi Feichi also followed in. However, the five children from the Junior Detective Team wanted to follow but were ruthlessly rejected.
Teacher Takagi Wataru walked in with Mitsui Keiichi and leaned into Chi Feichi's ear, "Mr. Chi, is this the child?"
Chi Feichi observed it and nodded.
After the door of the conference room closed, Sato Miwako squatted down in front of Mitsui Keiichi, making her voice gentler, "Your name is Keiichi, right?"
Mitsui Keiichi leaned in front of the teacher, holding tightly the white baseball cap with the letter M on it with both hands, and nodded nervously, "Well..."
"Don't be afraid, we just want to ask you a few questions. We hope you can help some aunties." Miwako Sato comforted her before asking, "Keichi, did you encounter anything strange on the street last night?" What’s the matter?”
Mitsui Keiichi lowered his head and said softly, "No, no."
"Huh?" Miwako Sato was a little surprised, but she quickly said patiently, "Then around ten o'clock last night, did Keiichi go to the street near your home?"
"No," Mitsui Keiichi said softly, still holding his hat tightly and still lowering his head, "I was at home last night, the night before, and the night before yesterday. I never went out."
Takagi She turned to look at Chi Feichi, "Mr. Chi..."
Chi Feichi looked at Mitsui Keiichi's hand that was tightly on his hat, quickly looked away, and said to Takagi Wataru, "Maybe I saw it wrong."
"Ah?" Takagi Sheba was confused.
Mitsui Keiichi looked up at Chi Feichi in surprise, and when Sato Miwako looked over, he quickly lowered his head.
