Conan's other me

Chapter 110 The Arsonist and Suzy Lang
The boy detective team returned to the Metropolitan Police Department this time because of a series of arson cases.

In recent days, there have been five arson incidents in Tokyo. The suspects are suspected to be the same person. The police have not yet grasped any clues about the criminals.

Coincidentally, Ayumi happened to meet a suspected arsonist yesterday, and there was indeed a fire there that night, so she told the boys of the Detective Boys when she went to school the next day.

After hearing this, the young detectives accompanied Ayumi to the Metropolitan Police Department at the suggestion of Fengyuan and Conan to provide clues to the police.

They were greeted by Officer Miwako Sato whom they had met before.

Ayumi sat on a chair and described the suspicious person's appearance to Officer Sato, and Officer Sato sketched the characters while listening.

Because Ayumi had heard it before, Fengyuan didn't pay attention to that, but glanced at Haibara Ai beside him.Hui Yuanai just yawned again.

"what's wrong?"

"You've been yawning a lot these days."

"Because I am obedient and reduce my coffee intake." Hui Yuanai replied casually.

"...Don't stay up all night like this."

Although Fengbara felt that he was not good at persuading like Dr. Ali, he still had to try it the first few times he should try.

It's just that Hui Yuanai refused very simply:

"That's not okay, I have to play detective games with you during the day."

During the day she had to look like a normal schoolboy, with school and the Doctor's seemingly never-ending camp.

Usually only at night does she have time to research and develop the antidote.

Ayumi just finished describing it over there, and Officer Sato showed the portrait he drew for everyone to see:

"Does it look like this? Does it look like I drew it?"

Feng Yuan also looked over, and then couldn't help but look away.

"It's not like..." Ayumi said.

"Huh? Is it?"

"Your drawings are so ugly!" Genta and Mitsuhiko said to Police Officer Sato, "It's like a child's graffiti!"

Police officer Sato looked a little embarrassed when the child said that his portrait was graffitied by a child.

"Is there no one else who draws better?"

"I can't help it! Mr. Tomokawa, who specializes in painting portraits, is on vacation with a cold today." Officer Sato blushed slightly, and argued.

At this time, Officer Takagi and Officer Shiratori, who were also in charge of the case, also came to appreciate Officer Sato's painting.

"But Sato," Police Officer Takagi took a look at the painting, "I can't hand over a painting like this to the investigators!"

"Although the lines are neat and the painting style is intriguing, but..."

"But what?" Police Officer Sato said dissatisfied, "Otherwise, you two can draw it."

"No! I'm not good at drawing."

"I'm good at impression painting."

Officer Takagi and Officer Shiratori quickly refused.

"Speaking of which," Police Officer Shiratori looked at Ayumi, "The man this child saw may not necessarily be an arsonist."

"What! Are you saying that Ayumi is lying?"

"But she didn't see that man set fire..."

"It shouldn't be wrong. The weather is so hot, he is wearing a long coat and gloves, and his pants still smell of gasoline." Conan explained to Shiratori and Takagi from the side, "and appeared with a weird smile In the alley near the fire scene, if he is not an arsonist, wouldn’t it be unreasonable?"

"Isn't that right, Ayumi?" After speaking, Conan looked at Ayumi.

"Ok!"

"Then... let's go to that alleyway to collect evidence!" Officer Sato suggested.

"Then, I'll go too..."

"I'll drive you there!"

Officers Takagi and Officer Shiratori agreed with each other.

"No, I'm going to take a detour to another place, because it just happens to be on the way..."

"Want to go elsewhere?"

"Because today is a special day for me." Officer Sato said, showing nostalgia.

……

Although Officer Sato told Takagi and Shiratori not to follow, they still followed.

What's more, the young detective team has a large number of people, and Officer Sato would be overloaded if he drove alone. This gave Officer Shiratori and Officer Takagi a reason to follow.

Soon, Police Officer Sato stopped at a streetlight at an intersection.She made a simple vase out of an ordinary soda can and placed it on the ground with a flower in it, and then put her hands together to worship.

It was obviously not the time to make jokes, the two police officers and the Detective Boys were watching this scene from the side of the car.

"Oh... I remembered," Police Officer Shiratori thought for a while, and then said, "Today is the anniversary of the death of her father Masayoshi Sato, and also the day of his death in the line of duty."

"Oh? Really?" Officer Takagi was a little surprised.

"Well, 18 years ago today, when he was chasing robbers, he was hit by a truck at this intersection. Unfortunately, it was raining heavily that day, and the ambulance came too late. I heard from the Mumu Police Department that he was in the ambulance. On, with the company of my family, I died..."

"That case is called..." Officer Shiratori continued to think.

"Chou Si Lang." Conan gave the answer.

Conan remembered this case, so Fengyuan naturally remembered it too.

This is a well-planned case, and the only clue is the less than ten-second footage captured by the bank monitor.No one knows what channels the dead police officer used to target the suspicious person. He was also hit by a truck while chasing the robbers.

At that time, he kept calling the mysterious name "Chou Si Lang" to the escaped prisoner, so the case was named "Chou Si Lang" incident.

It's just that the criminal police who grasped the core of the incident had passed away, so the investigation stopped. Just three years ago, the statute of limitations for prosecution of this incident also expired.

When Fengyuan recalled the case, Conan told everyone about it.

"I didn't expect that police officer to be Sato's father." After listening to Conan's story, Officer Takagi said.

"It's destined!" Officer Sato came back after finishing the worship, "Although the name of the incident and the name of the main suspect will remain in everyone's memory, if it is not someone related to the police, they will not remember that. The name of the officer who died in the line of duty in this incident…”

"Sato..."

"But we don't work to let everyone remember us." The atmosphere was made a little low by himself, and Officer Sato quickly added.

"Didn't the truck driver see the murderer's face?" Yuan Tai asked aloud.

"Because the murderer was wearing a long raincoat, it was hard to tell whether he was a man or a woman. Moreover, the person captured by the surveillance camera was wearing a hat, sunglasses, a mask, and a coat..."

"Don't you know that the murderer's name is Shu Si Lang?"

"But no one with this name is suspected of being involved in the case!" Officer Sato said to Mitsuhiko who raised the question.

"No wonder the case is in a fog," Police Officer Shiratori mused, "The only clues are the pictures captured by the monitor, the figure of the gangster in a raincoat, and [Chou Si Lang]..."

"Actually, there are four." Police Officer Sato said, "The fourth clue is the three strange katakana [カソオ] that my dad wrote in the police manual."

"Casuo?"

"I heard for the first time..."

"The police don't seem to have disclosed this matter. From my dad's account before and after, it has a close relationship with the incident, so I still remember that my mother and I were questioned several times."

"and then?"

"I've never heard it once, and I don't understand its meaning at all. When I was a child, I stared at these three words and thought about it very hard," Officer Sato showed nostalgic look again, "If someone solves this mystery, Arrest Chousilang, I am willing to do anything for him and fulfill all his wishes!"

"Huh?" Takagi and Shiratori froze for a moment.

The primary school students reacted quickly.

"Then I want a thousand servings of unagi rice, is that okay?"

"of course can!"

"I'm going to live in the castle in Dorobega Amusement Park!"

"I want a ticket to the International Space Station!"

"May I have a ticket to this World Cup?"

"I want the latest Prada bag."

Although I bought it last time, Prada just released a new product yesterday.

"Yes, yes..." Officer Sato had a headache, and then looked at the other child who didn't speak, "What about you?"

"Me?" Fengyuan thought for a while, "I don't have anything special in mind right now, can I keep it for now?"

This child seems to be more difficult to deal with... Officer Sato thought to himself.

But they were just children, so Police Officer Sato agreed without hesitation.

On the other side, Officers Takagi and Officer Shiratori are obviously already thinking about what to name their child with Officer Sato.

Just at this time, four middle-aged people in their 50s came over together.One of them was carrying a bouquet of flowers, apparently also to pay homage to Masayoshi Sato.

Officer Sato knows them. They are all friends of her father's high school baseball team.

These names all contain animal names, Fengyuan thought for a while, and then noticed that Huiyuan Ai was getting closer.

"What exactly do you want?"

"I really don't want anything," Fengyuan replied, "And the dreams you mentioned don't need Officer Sato at all, I can realize them myself."

"Really?" Hui Yuanai pointed, "I thought you and those two had the same idea..."

"..."

"What!" Officer Shiratori, who answered the call from the Megure Police Department, suddenly shouted, attracting everyone's attention, "Anyone finds a suspicious person who looks like an arsonist?"

……

After a while.

"I said, how did these two children keep up?"

Officer Shiratori said to Officer Takagi in the passenger seat while driving.He and Officer Takagi are going to participate in the arrest of the prisoner.

"Because Officer Sato couldn't fit in the car." Fengyuan replied.

Taking advantage of Officer Takagi's time looking for handcuffs, the Boys' Detective Team discussed it and decided to split up to solve the case.

Takagi's side was just arresting people, Conan was not interested, so he followed Sato to see the scene, and Fengyuan chose to follow.

"Okay, that seems to be the case..."

Takagi felt that what Fengyuan said made sense. When he came here before, because there was no room for a car, the two children were also sitting here.

"...Forget it." Shiratori sighed.There's a dangerous arsonist out there, and it's not safe to leave the kids on the side of the road, and they're in a hurry to catch the culprit, so that's it.

"However," Hui Yuanai was a little curious, "You are from the Criminal Investigation Division, so you shouldn't be responsible for the arson case, right?"

"Ah, this is because the assassinated body was found near the scene of the fourth arson case," Police Officer Takagi explained. "We think that the deceased may have been killed because he witnessed the arsonist or wanted to stop it..."

"So follow closely, don't run around."

"Yes." Fengyuan replied honestly.

But he had something else in mind.

The anesthesia needle gun that Dr. Ali promised to make has been completed, and he is carrying it with him.The appearance of the gun is not much different from that of an ordinary police pistol, and the needle box can be equipped with up to eight anesthetic needles.

However, it is not only strange but also too conspicuous for a child to carry this, so in fact Fengyuan did not plan to carry it at any time, let alone take it out to show off when he has nothing to do.

The distance was not very far, and Officer Shiratori quickly drove to the target location, Shinagawa Station.

There were also cooperating police officers over there. Officers Shiratori and Officer Takagi managed to bring the prisoner back after a chase.

But the prisoner claimed that he was not an arsonist, but just a thief who broke into an empty door.

Over there, Officer Shiratori reported the situation to the Megure Police Department, and here Fengyuan also told the rest of the Boys Detective Team.Conan and others are following Officer Sato to the laneway mentioned earlier to check for clues.

Officer Takagi on the other side planned to take a break.

He sat on a chair on the platform, pulled off his collar to cool himself down, panted heavily with his head up, and then looked up at the station sign.

As if a bullet had passed through his brain, Officer Takagi suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and suddenly thought of who the katakana left by Officer Sato's father referred to.

Excited, he immediately took out his phone and prepared to call Officer Sato, and make a wish by the way, and then found Officer Shiratori approaching.

"Who are you calling?"

"No one!" Officer Takagi said perfunctorily, and then slipped out under the pretext of going to the bathroom, and came to the phone booth.

He has already discovered that Shiratori is suspected to be his rival in love, and he doesn't want Shiratori to know about it.Soon, Officer Takagi called Officer Sato.

"What!" On the other side of the phone, Officer Sato was a little surprised, "Do you know who the murderer was 18 years ago?"

"Yes! If my deduction is correct, maybe...don't be surprised...it might be one of the people we met today..."

As he was talking, Takagi suddenly found a face on the glass of the phone booth looking at him, which startled him, causing him to hang up the phone subconsciously.

"What's the matter, Officer Shiratori?"

"Your actions are suspicious..."

"What are you talking about? Really..."

While covering up, Officer Takagi came to a Japanese TV show while running, and at the same time took out his mobile phone and called Sato back.

"I understand everything, the true meaning of [悲思郎] and [カソオ], and I also know why your father can lock specific people..."

Officer Takagi said as he ran, and then couldn't help stopping to catch his breath.

At this moment, he seemed to see his beautiful future life, and he was also thinking about how many children he and Officer Sato should have, and what the name of the child should be...

He is like a dying person in a bloody TV series, he just doesn't mention the main point, he doesn't directly say the prisoner's name...

And he was completely oblivious to the danger he was in.

Behind him, a sneaky figure approached quietly. The man held a stone in his hand and was about to throw it at Officer Takagi's head...

Click.

The sound of taking pictures, and then the immature voice of a child.

"Hi, long time no see, miss me?"

Some abrupt voices came from behind, and the attacker and Officer Takagi turned subconsciously at the same time.

At the same moment, a dark object struck at high speed and slammed into the attacker's face fiercely.

"Sorry, I forgot," Kaedehara retracted his right foot, which was wearing the power-enhancing shoe, and apologized humbly, "We are just meeting for the first time."

What flew out was the anesthesia needle gun prototype.

The first use of anesthesia needle guns was physical anesthesia.

The scene in front of him was somewhat unexpected by Officer Takagi.He looked at his phone for a while, the two people opposite him for a while, and the unconscious man on the ground for a while, and it took him a while to react.

"Why are you two here?"

"Because I noticed that this person is staring at you, Officer Takagi, so I came over to take a look." Fengyuan explained, "Is the phone okay?"

"Phone? Oops!" Officer Takagi glanced at the mobile phone in his hand, and found that he had subconsciously hung up the phone just now.

Thinking about hanging up the phone twice in a row when he was about to tell the answer to the mystery with Sato, Officer Takagi had a bad feeling in his heart.

Sato, don't she feel that he is teasing her...

But there were obviously other things to do at this time.

Officer Takagi took a closer look at the fainted person on the ground again, and found that he was wearing a hat and a coat, with a pair of fox eyes, almost exactly the same as Ayumi said before.

It even looks a bit like a painting drawn by Sato...

"this is…"

"It should be the arsonist," Hui Yuanai, who had been watching the show before, said, "I think he saw the police officer and you called, thinking that you saw his crime of arson and planned to call the police."

"what?"

"So...congratulations," Fengyuan said, "solved two cases at once."

"How can it be? It's just luck." Officer Takagi was a little embarrassed, "Thank you all, otherwise I would have been attacked——"

"—Two cases?" Suddenly reacting, Officer Takagi was a little surprised, "You, how do you know..."

"Because you looked up at the Shinagawa station sign on the platform," Fuedahara explained, "and then you rushed to make a phone call. I thought, you should know."

Officer Takagi was a little dumbfounded.

Feng Yuan planned to experience the fun of Conan, and then continued.

"Officer Sato's father is considered a high-ranking officer, but he went to arrest the criminal alone without any subordinates, which makes people feel strange."

"So I think the prisoner is probably someone he knows, and he got the clue because he knew the prisoner."

"He probably wanted to persuade the man to surrender."

"[Chou Si Lang] is not the prisoner's name, in fact he said [to surrender]. It's just that he was injured and it was raining heavily, passers-by got it wrong."

"That katakana is even simpler. Based on the above, this is probably the nickname he gave to that person, referring to Shikano Shuji."

"That's right? Officer Takagi?"

Fengbara ended his reasoning.

Officer Takagi was a little dejected, "That's right. Well, I thought I was the first to know, but you guys have already seen it."

His happy life is about to become a toy for children, Police Officer Takagi is depressed.

However, although he has no psychological burden to compete with Police Officer Shiratori for this, it would be too weird to compete with a child for credit.

Fengyuan was slightly surprised.

No wonder Officer Takagi was so disappointed... So he was thinking about this.

This also gave him a deeper understanding of Officer Takagi.

I have to say that although I feel a little dumb, Officer Takagi is indeed a very good person.

"I just thought of it just now, Officer Takagi." Feng Yuan lied without changing his face, "Hurry up and call Officer Sato. She must be very anxious."

……

Fengyuan persuaded Officer Takagi for a while, and Officer Takagi promised to take their young detective team to the amusement park, so he reluctantly made up his mind to call again.

He first notified Police Officer Shiratori to come over, controlled the suspected arsonist who wanted to attack him, and then ran away to make a call...

I just don't know if it will be interrupted by strange things again this time.

"You are quite generous."

Haibara Ai watched Officer Takagi run away, and said softly.

She didn't believe that Kudo just thought of it.In her opinion, Kudo should have thought of it when he heard Officer Sato mention that katakana.

"I really don't want anything," Fengyuan replied, "From Officer Sato."

"Then you can also give me your wish."

"If you just want to buy a bag, I can help you realize it," Feng Yuan said softly, "No conditions are required."

"Oh... Mr. Detective is really considerate. Is this a reward for my hard work?"

"...Speaking of this, Haibara," Fengbara's tone became a little more serious, "Shouldn't you stay up late?"

"The antidote is not in a hurry." Fengyuan continued, "Before the organization is dealt with, even if there is an antidote, we will not be able to restore our previous identities."

Hui Yuanai was silent for a moment, then suddenly said: "Liar."

"Eh?"

Why did you become a liar all of a sudden?

"You said before that you really wanted to see my original appearance, but now you say you're not in a hurry," Hui Yuanai snorted softly and turned his head, "So... a liar."

"But, I know. It's rare for Mr. Detective to care about people, so I'll try to think about it."

"Let's go," Huiyuan Ai said, turning his head and calling Fengyuan, who seemed to be a little distracted, "If you don't go back, those children will be worried."

"it is good."

(End of this chapter)