Conan's other me

Chapter 50 Moths to the Flame ([-])

With enough money in his pocket, Fengyuan directly hailed a taxi and rushed towards the destination, and soon arrived near the signal.

It was a very ordinary apartment building.

He was just a child and would not attract attention, but Fengyuan still observed carefully before walking upstairs.

Coming to the location indicated by the transmitter, Fengbara knocked on the door.

There was only one person in the room.

It is Miss Masami Hirota.

Seeing "Conan", Hirota Masami was very surprised: "Conan! How did you find it?"

At this moment, Hirota Masami was completely dressed for the workplace, her hair was untied, and she was not wearing glasses.

Her rustic makeup from last night was also removed, and now she looked more mature and attractive.

"You left your address yesterday," Feng Yuan squeezed into the room and said, "Did Sister Yami forget?"

Just the child of a Maori detective, Hirota Masami is not suspicious.She stepped aside to let Fengyuan walk in, and then closed the door.

However, she was still a little puzzled.

She remembered that she didn't seem to have left her address, but just left her phone number, but after hearing what "Conan" said, she wasn't quite sure if she had.

"Sorry, Conan, my sister doesn't have juice here, so I have to drink this for you," Masami Hirota poured a glass of water and handed it to "Conan" who was sitting on the sofa, and said, "Conan is here to find my sister, what can I do? Has Mr. Detective found my father?"

If Hirota Kenzo was found, it should be a phone call... There is no need for a child to run so far to notify me...

Feng Yuan shook his head.

"Uncle has some questions and wants me to come over and ask Sister Yami," Fengyuan said, "Can you?"

"Of course." Hirota Masami said, "As long as I can find my father as soon as possible, I can ask anything."

Judging from Hirota Masami's performance last night, her acting skills are quite good, but it seems that it will take a while to brew.Although she is trying to show anxiety and helplessness now, the effect is much worse than last night.

But... my acting skills are just like that, Fengbara thought.

Hirota Masami poured herself a glass of water, then sat across from "Conan", waiting patiently for "Conan" to speak.

Then she saw "Conan" showing an embarrassed expression, and said to her: "Oh! I seem to have forgotten what to ask! Sister Yami, can I call my uncle first?"

What a cute kid...

Hirota Masami nodded and said, "Oh...okay, the phone is—"

She stopped before she finished speaking, because she noticed that the child on the opposite side took out her mobile phone.

She had forgotten that this child was also holding a mobile phone yesterday... Such a young child has a mobile phone, probably because he is often sent by Maori detectives...

Hirota Masami sat quietly, listening to "Conan" asking what to say to the phone.Then the kid just kept listening, as if trying to remember what was said on the other side of the phone...

Hirota Masami couldn't help but look at the child in front of her... There is no doubt that this is a very cute elementary school student.

When I and my younger sister can still be together relatively freely... my younger sister is about the same age.

She couldn't help but fall into the good memories of the past, but her mood fell a little bit.

"Conan" put down the phone, and Masami Hirota cheered up, ready to deal with detective Maori's question.

"Sister Yami," Fengbara took off his glasses, "Then I'll start asking?"

I feel like a different person after taking off my glasses...

Without thinking too much, Masami Hirota, who didn't want to be suspected by the Maori detective, concentrated and couldn't help feeling a little nervous, and then she heard "Conan" say:
"Sister Masami, you are not Hirota Kenzo's daughter, are you?"

Hirota Masami's brain went blank for a moment, and then she reacted: "How could that be? Why do you think so, Conan?"

"Because sister Yami, you don't look like a high school student at all."

"I'm studying at university," Masami Hirota said hastily, "at Yamagata University."

"Then why do you dress up like that to meet Uncle Detective?"

"last night…"

"Sister Masami, you explained it last night." Fengyuan interrupted, "However, if a college student entrusts a detective to find his father, there is no need to dress up in a different way, right? It's not surprising that college students look more mature."

"So, maybe you are not Kenzo Hirota's daughter, and you are looking for him for another reason." Masami Hirota listened to the child in front of her in a daze. "Of course, this is just a guess. The next thing is the important point - we called the taxi company you mentioned, the taxi company Kenzo Hirota once worked for."

"They said that Kenzo Hirota had left his job. They also said," Kaedehara paused, "Kenzo Hirota didn't work hard when he was working. He didn't pick up passengers every evening. Instead, he drove a taxi back and forth on a route, and at a fairly fast speed..."

"He likes racing? But he only runs back and forth on a repetitive line. He likes the scenery there? But he drives very fast. So, I thought, maybe he's just getting used to that line."

Masami Hirota gave "Conan" a complicated look.

"Do you know which line it is, sister Masami?"

Hirota Masami did not speak.

"I know!" Fengyuan continued, "Someone told me patiently on the phone, because Hirota Kenzo ran like this every day during that time, so many people remember it very clearly..."

Fengyuan took out a neatly folded newspaper from his clothes, put it on the table, and slowly opened it for Masami Hirota to read.

10 billion robbery.

The case reported on the front page of the newspaper.

Hirota Masami still didn't say a word, just staring at the newspaper in a daze.

The newspaper had pictures of three robbers wearing hoods.

That was captured on surveillance video.

"What's interesting is that the route is exactly the same as the escape route of these robbers."

"Sister Yami," Feng Yuan said softly after a pause, "Do you think it's possible, Hirota Kenzo?" He pointed to a robber in the picture, who was about the same size as Hirota Kenzo, "Is this uncle?"

A brief silence.

The air seemed to be stagnant, and Masami Hirota was a little out of breath.

After a while, she seemed to wake up suddenly, gasped for breath like a fish in the shoal, and then said in a dazed and disappointed tone: "No wonder Dad hasn't heard from him... So he did such a thing..."

Even Masami Hirota felt that her struggle at the moment was a bit ridiculous.

The kid expressed doubts about his identity from the start.

but…

This is her last chance.

This is the last straw for her drowning.

If Detective Maori has called the police...if Kenzo Hirota is caught by the police...if she doesn't get the money...if she doesn't meet Gin as planned...

Then she, and her sister...

Tears dripped down on her watch.

The slight ticking sound woke her up again, but it also made it difficult for her to restrain her emotions.

She looked helplessly at the child in front of her while she was crying, expecting him to say something like "That's right, Sister Yami, your father is a robber".

I beg you.

Really please.

But the child on the opposite side just lowered his eyes, leaned slightly, pointed out his finger at the person in the middle of the picture on the newspaper, and said in a tone that was completely different from before and sounded very plain to Masami Hirota:
"This is you, Ms. Masami."

(End of this chapter)