Conan's other me

Chapter 113 The Stranger Ten Years Later ([-])
This evening, Dr. Ali's house.

"How's your temperature?" Kaedehara asked.

Judy's appearance has not had a significant impact on Fengyuan's life for the time being, and he doesn't care too much about it. What he cares more about now is that Haibara Ai seems to have caught a cold again.

Haibara Ai, who was sitting on the sofa and flipping through a magazine, took out the thermometer from his armpit and handed it over directly.

Fengyuan took it, glanced at it, and breathed a sigh of relief.Haibara Ai's cold didn't seem serious.

only…

"The body temperature is not bad... But, Haibara, do you catch colds too often?" Fengyuan continued, he remembered that the last time Huiyuan Ai caught a cold was before the school festival, it seems that it has been a long time, but It feels very close again.

"Yeah," Hui Yuanai replied casually, "I'm so sorry, I'm such a troublesome woman—"

"Aren't you trying medicine again? I remember you said before that you are still developing cold medicine."

The "cold medicine" in Fengyuan's mouth refers to the medicine that can make people catch a cold.

Since baigan wine combined with a cold can allow them to recover briefly, Hui Yuanai believes that colds are also a key issue in the development of antidote.

So although she had already made cold medicine before, she continued to carry out this research.

"...At most, it's just a cold." After a moment of silence, Hui Yuan Ai admitted in a low voice, "It will be better tomorrow."

"That--"

"This does not require the data on your body, and this is the last time." Haibara Ai continued, "Don't worry, big detective. It won't cause any damage to the body."

Then the phone rang suddenly.

Dr. Ali was still busy inventing, so Fengyuan had no choice but to answer the phone first.

"Hello, this is Dr. Ali's house."

"Kudou!" A familiar Kansai accent came from the phone, "Long time no see!"

"...What's the matter this time?"

"What are you talking about! It's as if I won't call you if I have nothing to do—wait a minute, don't hang up, I do have something to look for you!"

Replying casually, Hattori Heiji realized that this is the difficult Kudo here, so he quickly ended the nonsense.

However, this Kudo should be stronger than the one over there, and the one over there doesn't even believe what he said...

"what happened?"

"It's like this," Hattori Heiji said, "I received a strange letter, the content of the letter is very short, just one sentence - I will be killed by the mermaid, please help me!"

"Mermaid?"

"Yeah." Hattori Heiji replied, "Because I thought I might have something to do with you, I called to see if you and that Kudou over there would like to go there together."

"Where?"

"American Island. It is a small isolated island in the sea of ​​Wakasa Bay. Residents living nearby say it is an island inhabited by mermaids."

Hattori Heiji paused, hoping to hear Kudo's shocked voice as a joke.But the guy across the way just seemed to be patiently waiting for him to continue.

Sighing inwardly, Hattori Heiji continued: "I heard that on that island, there lived an old woman who became immortal because she ate mermaid meat. It was still making a fuss three years ago."

"Oh...I didn't expect you to believe such rumors."

"I wouldn't believe it at first, but when I think about what happened to you, I feel that immortality is nothing."

"So, this is the relationship with me?"

"That's right." Hattori Heiji said, and then continued to introduce the specific situation:
"The name of the client, Kadowaki Saori, was written in the last signature of the letter, and her mobile phone number was also left on it.

I called her to ask for specific information. When I called her for the first time, although she answered the phone, she was hung up immediately.

After that, I dialed many times, but I never got through.

But the voice from the earpiece at that time was still clearly in my ears—the woman's moans and the sound of the waves. "

"..."

"Well, isn't it more interesting?"

"Wait a moment," Fengyuan said, "I'll check and call you back later."

"Ah?" Hattori Heiji was stunned for a moment, and then realized that the other party had hung up the phone, and couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

On the other side, Feng Yuan hung up the phone and sat down beside Hui Yuan Ai again.

Hui Yuanai raised his head to look at him, casting a questioning look.

"Hattori Heiji, the high school detective who I mentioned to you last time and knew my identity - he received a letter related to the mermaid, inviting me to the American island."

Fengyuan briefly described the matter, "When I answered the phone just now, you were reading magazines all the time, but when I mentioned the word mermaid, you glanced at me. So I thought Ask if you know something."

Hui Yuanai was silent for a while.

"If you don't want to say it..."

"It's nothing," Hui Yuanai said, "I've been there. It was rumored that there was a person on the island who ate mermaid meat and became immortal. The organization sent me to investigate...Gin is in charge of monitoring me."

"It's just that after investigation, we found that it was fake," Huiyuan Ai continued, "The so-called Longevity Woman is only played by generations of people using sophisticated makeup techniques. Many people on the island know about it...probably just to make money And weaving together a deception."

Huiyuan Ai didn't seem to want to bring up the past in the organization, so Fengyuan didn't intend to continue to ask: "Thank you. Also, I guess you don't want to go again?"

"Do not want to."

Feng Yuan was thoughtful.

Although Haibara Ai said that the cold will be cured tomorrow, but this is not certain.And I don't know how long it will take to go to American Island, so Fengyuan doesn't really want to go.

However, he had a slight impression of Mermaid Island and decided to remind Hattori Heiji.

So he spent a few minutes, checked the relevant information on the computer, and then went back to the living room to call Hattori Heiji back.

The call was connected immediately, and Hattori Heiji seemed to be waiting by the side.

"Kudou?"

"fake."

"what?"

"I mean, the so-called immortality is a lie." Fengyuan said, "If it is true, this island can't be so peaceful. The US aircraft carrier is now on the sidelines."

"..."

It seemed that there was no way to refute this, and Hattori Heiji was a little speechless.

"The sorceress who is said to be immortal hardly shows up except for ceremonies, and it is very convenient to disguise," Fengyuan continued, "She was probably played by the women in the family from generation to generation."

"You're just guessing—"

"Remember the reason for the commotion three years ago?"

"Of course I remember." Hattori Heiji said, and of course he also did a simple investigation, "It was broadcast on TV that a strange charred corpse was found on that island three years ago, and the shape of the broken bones of the charred corpse was very strange. —no feet."

That's why it was considered to be the corpse of a mermaid.

"It should be the charred body of a woman. Her feet may have been bent and tied with a rope or something, and she was smashed by a falling post or beam in the fire." Fengbara said, "She It should be the last person who played the role of the witch. After she died, someone else played the role... maybe the person who lives with the witch now."

"What about the letter that was sent to me?" Hattori Heiji was a little depressed, realizing that the Kudo on the opposite side didn't seem to want to go.

"Maybe it's the truth about the mermaid that's been discovered and you're worried about being silenced, or maybe it's the murder notice that the murderer sent you. The murderer may still be hesitant, and I hope you can stop it."

Feng Yuan went on to say:

"And judging from the few phone calls you made, Saori Kadowaki who sent you the letter was either the murderer or the target of the murderer, and she may have even been killed.

There are not many residents on the island. Judging from the voice on the phone, if the person answering the phone is not Saori Kadowaki herself, then she should be someone Saori Kadowaki knows.She was probably grieving in her heart because she just killed someone or for other reasons, crying on the phone...

As for the motive, it may be related to the fire just mentioned three years ago.If it's the body of the witch... that means maybe it wasn't an accident. "

Fengbara continued to talk, intending to use the information he got from Haibara Ai and his own impression to fool Hattori Heiji, and let him solve the case by himself.

In his impression, the fire three years ago was actually deliberately set on fire. The person who played the role of the witch was burned to death at that time, and the current witch is played by her daughter.

This is a somewhat sad story, Feng Yuan didn't really want to go, since Hattori Heiji is going, let him stop it.

Hui Yuanai, who was sitting on the sofa, was reading the magazine, listening to the sound of the phone over there, slightly distracted.

Speaking of Mermaid Island, she couldn't help but recall her days in the organization.

These days were so peaceful that she almost forgot...

I am just a traitor to the organization...

And Kudo is a famous detective who can see through the truth with just a few words and represents justice...

"Haibara?" Fengbara, who had successfully fooled Hattori Heiji, came back and noticed that Haibara's mood was a bit depressed, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing." Hui Yuanai replied softly, "I'm going to sleep."

(End of this chapter)