"Ayumi said that she will go with her mother to visit an aunt she used to know tomorrow. Genta's father is participating in baseball training recently. Genta is going to cheer for his father tomorrow. Mitsuhiko plans to go home with his sister tomorrow. Sort out the books." Conan didn't want to hide anything from Chi Feichi. He took stock of other people's arrangements and thought of his own tasks for tomorrow. "As for me...I have to do my holiday homework at the detective agency tomorrow..."
While talking, the car stopped downstairs at the Maori Detective Agency.
It was evening, the sky and the ground were gradually turning orange, and the window glass of Café Poirot also reflected orange light.
Chi Feichi noticed that the light outside was becoming a bit dazzling. After thinking about it, he felt that the light would not become blurry for a while, so he did not take out his sunglasses and put them on.
Conan opened the door and got out of the car. He looked up and saw Poirot Café, his eyes gradually becoming more solemn.
Since the children sent the video to the Mori Detective Agency the night before yesterday, Mr. Amuro seemed to have taken leave yesterday.
It would be very suspicious if Mr. Amuro disappeared since last night...
Of course, it is also worth noting that Sera, who went to the Gunma Prefectural Police Station the night before and was busy going home afterwards, had no news yesterday.
"jingle!"
The door to Café Poirot was opened.
Toru Amuro went out wearing an apron, holding a mop in his right hand. He smiled and greeted Chi Feichi and Conan who had just gotten off the car, "Consultant, Conan, why are you two here together?"
Conan was stunned.
Mr. Amuro is in Poirot today...
"I saw Conan on the road and brought him back by the way." Chi Feichi didn't feel surprised when he saw Toru Amuro staying at the Poirot Cafe. He walked up to chat with Toru Amuro as usual, "Let's have a dinner with the teacher upstairs. ,go?"
According to the news from the African Army, Amuro and Belmod did go to Gunma yesterday, and a crow saw Amuro in the mountain forest of Gunma.
However, at noon today, Amuro terminated the investigation in Gunma Mountain and returned to Tokyo. He went home, changed his clothes, and then went to Poirot to continue working without taking a break.
"Xiaolan just came downstairs and told me," Toru Amuro turned to look at the store and said with a smile, "I felt a little uncomfortable yesterday, so I asked Poirot's boss for a day off. Miss Azusa yesterday I didn’t buy too many ingredients tonight, and Poirot didn’t prepare too much food today. It was already sold out in the afternoon. You can close the store early today, and after I help clean up the store, I’ll come up and have a dinner with you!”
"You're not feeling well. Could it be that you caught a cold from the teacher?" Chi Feichi pretended that he didn't know what was going on and looked at Conan who was standing there blankly. "Conan also had a cold yesterday..."
"I'm feeling much better after taking medicine yesterday." Conan responded, looking up at Toru Amuro's calm smile that was no different from usual, feeling shaken in his heart.
Mr. Amuro is not missing. He looks the same as usual. There is nothing strange about him. Could it be that his nerves are too tense...
"I did have a slight cold yesterday, but I took medicine and rested for a day and it was fine. It's not as serious as Teacher Mori's," Amuro Toru said with a smile, "Anyway, I'll clean the store first, you guys go up first!"
An hour later, Ike Feichi and Toru Amuro each contributed half of the dishes to the dinner, making Kogoro Mouri look at a table of Chinese and Western dishes, grinning from ear to ear.
Just as the Mori Detective Agency was having a lively dinner, Bellmode had dinner in a hotel restaurant in Cupido Town, returned to the room and took a shower to wash away the dust and smoke he brought back from Mount Gunma. Wearing a bath towel, she went to the living room, poured a glass of wine in a leisurely manner, sat down on the single sofa in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looked at the night view outside the window, laughed after a moment, and picked up the wine glass to drink.
She was actually thinking that if she did not stay in a hotel room with such a high floor tonight, but found a one-family house with a yard nearby to live in, would a white cat have come to her door to ask for food? Already...
However, there is no regular pattern for Wuming to come to her, and it is not a suitable time for her to pet cats recently.
If the plan didn't go smoothly, she would still have her hands full.
"Ding dong!"
The mobile phone placed on the table rang, and the email image appeared on the screen.
Belmode put the wine glass on the table, picked up the phone and looked down at the new email. He found that the email he had sent earlier had indeed received a response, so he exited the email and dialed a phone number.
The call was answered quickly, and Gin's cold voice came from the phone, "Is what you said in that email true, Belmode? Bourbon found Shirley's traces, you guys go to the mountains of Gunma The search has yielded no results, but you have another clue..."
"Yes, I made it very clear in the email," Belmod said with a smile on his face and simply restated the contents of his email unhurriedly, "Shirley used others to book the mysterious train. She also asked the other party to send the pass to Gunma Mountain. The person she used realized that something was wrong and planned to find a detective to investigate. So she found Bourbon, who had been in contact with the other party for a long time, and sent this clue to Bourbon. before."
"What surprises me is that you have already gone to Gunma to investigate?" Gin said with surprise, but there was no trace of surprise in his tone, "And you haven't gained anything yet..."
"We didn't search too deliberately. We just went to the road where Shirley appeared in the third party's witness statement. We pretended to be campers and searched nearby. After finding no trace of suspected Shirley, we went Withdrew it," Bermod explained. "If we alerted her because our search was too obvious, she might change her plan and not appear on that mysterious train again. By then, we would have finally obtained the clues. But that's it. It's not easy to find a person hiding in the mountains. It's much easier to catch her in that moving train. There's almost no need to think about the choice... That's why we didn't make a big fuss. We have organized people to go over and prepare to focus the plan on the mysterious train. Bourbon has already reported our ideas to that person, and that person also agreed to follow our plan."
"But the mysterious train...the Suzuki Express train that will leave in a few days?"
In the car driving on the street at night, Gin bit out a cigarette from the cigarette case, "I don't think Shirley would take such a ostentatious train..."
"Oh, this might be the reason why she chose that train," Belmod said in a more serious tone, "Just because the train is too ostentatious, we think it's impossible for her to choose that kind of train, so we won't pay attention to that kind of train. She specifically chose that train because of the situation on the train, and the luxurious carriages of that train were all with separate compartments. After boarding the train, she could stay in the compartment without contacting other people and avoid us. Don’t you think that is the best means of transportation if our eyes and ears escape from Kanto? On the other hand, if Shirley will really be on that train by then, it will also be our best hunting opportunity, won’t it?”
"Yeah..." Gin lit the cigarette with a cigarette lighter, with a bloodthirsty sneer on his lips, "As long as we prevent her from getting off the train midway, the train will become a speeding steel cage. We just need to hunt like a deer. Put fear on her, and she'll probably be at gunpoint herself."
"I leaked such important information to you on purpose. You should know the reason, right?" Belmode asked.
When Gin thought about his relationship with Bourbon, he didn't think that Bourbon would be willing to hand over the sovereignty of this operation to him. When he thought about Belmod's interest in Shirley in the email, he guessed that Belmod He didn't want to get involved himself, so his voice had a hint of ridicule, "Aren't you just telling me not to take action until that big iron snake returns to its nest? After so long, I heard the name Shirley from your mouth again, I'm very happy. Originally, I was worried that you would be kind to her because we are both women..."
"What nonsense are you talking about? Who do you think I am?" Belmod laughed, and quickly suppressed the smile on his face. "By the way, don't tell Lark about this. I I don’t plan to tell him about it either.”
"Oh? I remember that he will also board that train. Tell him the news, and he might be able to help you keep an eye on Shirley..." Gin asked in an unhurried tone, "Or Tell me, is there any reason why you must not let him know?"
Belmode sighed in his heart that Gin really understood the yin and yang, turned his head to look at the wine glass on the table, and said with a slight smile in his voice, "Well... I think it was based on Bourbon's wishes, and this time I got Shirley's whereabouts." The person with the clue is Bourbon. Bourbon does not want to give this opportunity of hunting and performance to others. This opportunity should also be given to Bourbon first. As you know, raki is the kind of wine that can be covered up by its strong smell. Other drinks smell like wine. If Lark is involved, it’s hard to tell who the prey is... Lark has met Shirley before, but he didn’t catch anyone, right? If it hadn’t been for this, I’d ask him not to take action for the time being. If he gives us the first round of hunting opportunities, he should consider agreeing to it, but with this incident, I'm not sure what he will choose..."
When Bourbon called her to go to Gunma, he made it clear that he didn't want anyone else to take this opportunity away, and he didn't want those troublesome guys to get involved in their hunting operations.
This idea coincided with hers. She also wanted to prevent others from intervening in the pursuit and get rid of Shirley as soon as possible.
Of course, her purpose was not to compete for prey or to show off, she was worried that others would discover Shirley's secret and thus notice that Kudo Shinichi had also turned into a child.
Especially people like Lark, who have been in contact with shrunken Shirley and shrunken Kudo Shinichi for a long time, are the ones who need to be on guard the most.
If Lark finds out that her elementary school sister is Shirley, she will immediately suspect Conan, and then the situation will be out of her control.
She didn't dare to bet that Lark would have friendship with those people and would be reluctant to kill those people. After all, Lark might also feel angry because he was deceived and choose to kill Shirley and Kudo Shinichi together.
Therefore, in addition to convincing Gin to give up the first round of hunting to them, she also had to find a way to stop Lark so that Lark could not participate in their hunting operations.
Yes, rather than asking Lark to promise not to get involved, she felt it would be safer to prevent Lark from getting involved. It would be better to stop Lark from getting on that train.
She already had some ideas as to how to keep Lark out of the action, but she needed to convince Gin to help.
(End of chapter)
