Conan looked at Tachihara Fuyumi in surprise, and then at Uemura Yoichi who was following him, and looked at Chi Feichi with a blank expression to confirm, "I said... the person who secretly stared at us during the day could not be Brother Chi, right? Also, after Miss Fuyumi and the others saw us, the person who secretly called us was also Brother Chi, right?"
Chi Feichi nodded and admitted, "I said you have many children, please take care of them."
Conan was even more speechless.
To ask others to take care of them, do you need to follow them secretly, stare at them with cold eyes many times, and talk to them on the phone furtively?
He suspected that Chi Feichi was deliberately teasing them.
Including later when Uncle Maori went to a villager's house to drink and Sister Nanatsuki lost contact, Chi Feichi was indispensable for causing obstruction.
And he had to admit that he had let Chi Feichi succeed, and he was frightened during the day. On the way back just now, he was anxious because of the loss of sister Nanatsuki.
It was wrong for them to leave Chi Feichi alone and come to Beize Village together, but Chi Feichi's dog is also a real dog!
Haibara Ai also guessed that Chi Feichi had no good intentions at all. Seeing that Tachihara Fuyumi was still looking at them, she didn't want to take the blame for 'isolating her companions' anymore, "Brother Feichi fell into the sea before, and he kept coughing in the winter after that. The doctor said that it may be that falling into the sea has made the respiratory tract more fragile, and I will cough when encountering dry and cold weather."
Mitsuhiko nodded in affirmation and added, "And he was admitted to the emergency observation room last time he had a cold..."
"That's why I didn't call him," Dr. Ali scratched his head in embarrassment, "because I was worried that he would have to follow me after he found out, so we didn't tell him."
"I see, I thought Mr. Chi was isolated," Tachihara Fuyumi laughed and turned to tease Chi Feichi, "I didn't expect that Mr. Chi was the one who was willful!"
The middle-aged man who walked in with Conan and others came forward and greeted Tachihara Fuyumi, "Fuyumi, it turns out you guys know each other."
Hikawa Shogo waved to the man, "Yue Yan, you're finally here."
Next, there was another introduction to understand each other’s situation.
The middle-aged man who came with Conan and others is named Takehiko Muto. He is a friend and elementary school classmate who has played with Tachihara Fuyumi, Tono Mizuki, Yamao Keisuke, and Hikawa Shogo since childhood. He is also one of the participants in this party. On the way here, I found five children on the side of the road, so I gave them a ride.
Similarly, Tachihara Fuyumi and others also introduced Chi Feichi and others to Muto Takehiko, and briefly talked about the process of getting to know Chi Feichi.
Uemura Yang explained to a group of people Chi Feichi's "entrustment" to take care of his friends, and then left the villa.
Later, Mouri Kogoroichi explained that he met Chi Feichi in an open-air hot spring, and then went to Kamimura Yo's house with Chi Feichi for a drink, allowing Conan to finally connect the dots between Chi Feichi's movements today.
But what surprised Conan was that Tachihara Fuyumi said that Chi Feichi only arrived one day earlier than them.
He infiltrated the local villagers in one day. Is this scientific when it comes to Chi Feichi, who has not had any friends for several years in high school and college?
Listen to what the uncle said. The people drinking with them tonight are Uemura Yoichi from the ski resort duty room, Uemura Yoichi's father and uncle, the outdoor hot spring manager Mr. Gokatsu, Mr. Gokatsu's brother, and A staff member came down from Kitazawa Dam, and there were four or five women who did not participate in the drinking. If Miss Fuyumi hadn't come over to have a get-together with friends, I'm afraid she would have gone too.
In summary, Chi Feichi spent one day in contact with and made friends with the staff of the ski resort, open-air hot springs, Beize Villa and even the dam. With the addition of several villagers, everyone can sit down. We had a lively drink and chat together.
After thinking about it carefully, he realized it wasn't very strange.
If Chi Feichi wasn't a 'hidden social nerd', could he have dragged the suspect in the case to chat for half an hour and given him time to find clues to solve the case?
If Chi Feichi didn't have the ability to confuse people, how could the detained suspects find out that they had been stabbed in the back by Chi Feichi at the end? Feed the dog's angry reaction?
Chi Feichi didn’t have any friends when he was in school. Maybe it was because of his illness...
When you think about it, everything is very scientific.
This also shows that Chi Feichi's condition has indeed improved.
Haibara Ai was also surprised by Chi Feichi's record of "infiltrating the inside in one day", but he was relieved when he thought that Chi Feichi could chat with Fukada Seiji and others for a long time.
"I'm telling you, you little brats, how can you run around in a strange place!" Mouri Kogoro said with a look of disgust when he heard that the three children secretly ran out to play, "It's still at night, and there's snow all around. , ran out without saying a word, don’t you know it would make people worried?”
"You're still talking about us!" Yuantai shot back unconvinced, "The first person to go to other places to drink alone must be you, uncle!"
"I told Conan on the phone," Mouri Kogoro retorted through his drunkenness, "I also asked Conan to tell you that he is different from you brats!"
Mao Lilan saw that the surroundings were finally lively, and there was no strange atmosphere like before where everyone disappeared one by one or in groups. She laughed and said, "Okay, okay, please stop arguing now."
Mouri Kogoro glanced at the three children, "Hmph... If we don't educate them properly, I'm worried that they will run around again next time."
After the quarrel here had subsided, Yamao Keisuke asked aloud, "Speaking of which, Mr. Mori and Miss Koshimizu are here. Do they have any work to investigate?"
"No, no," Dr. Ali quickly smiled and said, "How can anyone bring a group of children with them to work?"
"We are here to participate in the Ice and Snow Festival," Mao Lilan smiled back at the five people on the sofa over there and asked, "You just said that the five of you are friends who have played together since childhood?"
"They say we are classmates in elementary school, but actually we are a branch school in the village," Yamao Keisuke said with an easygoing smile, "There are only five of us in one grade!"
Yuantai was surprised, "There are only five people?"
"That's right," Hikawa Shogo said, looking at the other four people, "The five of us haven't seen each other for eight years, right?"
"It's a reunion after eight years," Mitsuhiko said longingly, "It's such a touching reunion after a long absence!"
"But why haven't we met for eight years?" Conan asked doubtfully.
"This..." Hikawa Shogo took out his wallet and pulled out a cut newspaper page.
Facing this page on that page of the newspaper was a report about Yamao Keisuke's hit-and-run accident, which took place eight years ago.
After seeing the newspaper, Tono Mizuki was startled, frowned and looked to the other side.
Yamao Keisuke sat next to Hikawa Shogo, stared at the newspaper, and lowered his head without saying a word.
Tachihara Fuyumi hurriedly spoke out to stop the atmosphere from getting worse, "Hikawa, don't do this!"
"Ah?" Suzuki Sonoko saw the photo of Yamao Keisuke in the newspaper, "This is..."
Hikawa Shogo didn't care whether the atmosphere was right or not. He looked at Yamao Keisuke who was bowing his head silently, put the newspaper pages back into his wallet, and said in a teasing tone, "Eight years ago, this guy Yamao who lived in Tokyo drove back to the village at night, planning to He was visiting his grandmother who lived alone in the village, but he drank while driving and hit a young woman on the road. Out of fear, the guy actually left the body and fled back to the village. After a few hours, he After regaining consciousness, he surrendered to the police.”
Mitsuhiko looked at Yamao Keisuke, "Did you surrender?"
Yamao Keisuke looked helpless, "Yes, the car was seriously damaged, and I don't think I can run away."
"At that time, he borrowed a lot of loan sharks for gambling and lived a messy life," Hikawa Shogo glanced at Yamao Keisuke with a playful expression. "The court convicted him of speeding, drunk driving, and hit-and-run. In addition, his driver's license was suspended at the time. He will be punished and will not be released until this summer."
Suzuki Sonoko looked at Yamao Keisuke, "That is to say, while Mr. Yamao was serving his sentence, the dam construction plan started..."
Yamao Keisuke clasped his hands in front of him, lowered his head and said, "Yes, the village has sunk under the water."
"Yamao's grandma was so affected by his case that she became ill and passed away soon after." Tachihara Fuyumi added with a look of dismay.
"So, she didn't have time to move to the new village, right?" Mao Lilan asked softly.
Tachihara Fuyumi nodded silently.
As if Hikawa Shogo didn't think the atmosphere was bad enough, he looked at Yamao Kei and said, "The worst part is that the girl he killed was Mizuki's sister, Natsuki, who was only eighteen years old."
When Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko were surprised, Tono Mizuki also looked up at Yamao Keisuke, the smile on his face when we chatted before was gone, "Yamao... I still can't forgive you."
Yamao Keisuke just lowered his head without saying a word.
"Hikawa, I can't forgive you either!" Takehiko Muto suddenly looked at Hikawa Shogo and said, "When the plan to build the dam started, you were the first to raise your hand in favor. After receiving the compensation, you sold the land at a high price and moved to Tokyo. Your whole family is unforgivable!"
Hikawa Shogo smiled a little awkwardly, "Hey, Muto, you..."
"You were the one who instigated my parents to agree to the construction plan in the first place, right?" Takehiko Muto said angrily, "You betrayed our precious hometown, do you understand?!"
"Humph," Hikawa Shogo stopped laughing and said with a disdainful expression, "The most important thing for people living in this world is to know the current affairs!"
The three children were estranged from seeing five friends they hadn't seen for many years, and their moods were not getting better. They silently watched Takehiko Muto and Shogo Hikawa quarreling.
Mouri Kogoro sat on the sofa, yawned, looked at Dr. Agasa and the children and said, "It's almost okay? Let's go back to the room, I'm very sleepy!"
"That's right," Dr. A Li also felt that the children could no longer be depressed, so he said to Hara Fuyumi and others, "We won't disturb you all."
"Feichi, you live in..." Maori Kogoro turned around to talk to Chi Feichi, but found that his apprentice was not nearby. He turned around looking for someone with a confused look on his face, "Huh? Why did that kid disappear?"
"There..." Conan pointed silently at Chi Feichi who was standing in front of the window.
While they were listening intently to Hikawa Shogo saying that Yamao Keisuke killed someone with his car, Chi Feichi had already gone over there to smoke, and now he has finished one cigarette.
(End of chapter)
