Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

Chapter 145: Defense, it’s time for the defense!

For a sport like sumo wrestling, Yuji didn't even want to watch it. Two big fat guys were going back and forth on the stage. What was there to pay attention to?
"Officer Yamamura, did you find anything?"

Yuji saw the arriving police starting to search the deceased and ran to Yamamura Cao's side.

"I found this man's cell phone."

Yamamura pointed to a black keypad, and turned it over so Yuuji could see the name sticker on it.

"That's right!" Yuji walked up to Pu Chuan: "When does the hotel usually clean the bathroom?"

Pu Chuan took the record book from Toda, and read it one by one: "It used to be cleaned at noon every day, but since last year, because the young lady would come here to take a nap at noon, we changed the time to It's night."

After speaking, Mr. Kagawa handed the record book to Yuji under the instruction of Mr. Kagawa.

"Huh?" Yuzuki and the other three glanced at each other, noticed the questioning look on Yuji's face and said, "But, we originally wanted to take a bath at night, but we found that the women's bathroom had a sign saying it was being cleaned."

"This is impossible!" Mr. Kamikawa immediately raised his chest and raised his head: "The lady is here, how can we clean the bathroom before she goes to bed."

Nodding his head, the boy told everyone to separate to the two sides, and then squatted on the tatami, observing the somewhat wet floor.

"Then it's pretty obvious that someone with a cleaning sign had grabbed a handful of hair from the women's bathroom and put it in a newspaper to fake a curse."

Yuji returned to the table and picked up the cell phone with his name on it: "Mr. Mouri Korokuro was murdered!"

Pointing at Kamagawa, Tohta and Jimbo, Yuji paused and said apologetically to the teacher: "Teacher, I'm afraid the culprit is among the boys in this hotel."

"Ah!" Conan opened the deceased's cell phone with gloves on and showed the communication records inside to everyone: "This person only made one phone call!"

"Really." Mori Kogoro frowned and dialed back the phone, but he didn't get through. He just received a text message 3 minutes later.

[Duff, have you finished the good thing you said? If you don’t come back to pay the rent for a year, I will throw all your things out of the apartment. 】

"It seems that this man is indeed called Duff." The uncle noticed that the label on the mobile phone also said Duff, and returned the phone to the police.

"Did you bring any of the belongings of the deceased four years ago?" Yuji sat on the tatami, leaning his hand on the Japanese table with wooden boards above and below. He noticed that the bottom was a little wet, and secretly remembered it in his heart.

"We took photos." Yamamura pointed at a policeman, then took the photo from his hand and handed it over.

Conan also moved closer to Yuji's head, looking at the milk carton that had no straw in the photo but was crumpled and empty. The two brothers lowered their heads and stared at the newspaper on the table.

In order for the police to conduct simple questioning, everyone left the deceased's room first.

Before leaving, Yuji took Conan and turned the table over while the boys in the hotel had already gone down the stairs, and asked a security policeman to check to see if there were any fingerprints or the like on the back of the table.

"So, the main problem is this newspaper. What puzzles are there?"

Sitting in the room, the two brothers put their mobile phones in the middle and studied the sports news.

"Brother, look for any robberies five years ago." Yuji sat cross-legged, shaking a can of coffee in his hand.

"The text message from the deceased tonight seems to be saying that as long as he comes here and does something well, he can get a lot of money." Yuji took a sip of coffee: "If it's just pretending to be Uncle Maori, you can get a lot of money." It’s too outrageous to clear the rent for one year.”

"A robbery case..." Conan took out his mobile phone and kept searching: "There is no such thing, but there is a fraud case, and the amount is as high as [-] million yen."

The Shinigami elementary school student noticed the big letters on the newspaper headline, "Akagi Maru won the top five in East Head!" Something suddenly occurred to him.

"I see, this code does not refer to sumo!"

"Huh?!" Yuji sat over and scratched his chin: "It's not about sumo wrestling. Are you saying that the secret code has nothing to do with the content of sumo wrestling?"

"Do you still remember, when Xiaolan was going to help the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in the morning, what did the mountain village police officer say it was called?"

"Remember, it's called the Forest of the Head God, because the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva who fell forward suppressed evil spirits..."

Yuji consciously took up the topic, but stopped suddenly in the middle of speaking. He looked at the "Top Five in East Head" pointed by Conan and paused.

"That's what happened."

Yuji thought of tonight's deceased again: "But who killed that Mouri Korokuro?"

Conan adjusted his glasses and showed a cruel smile on his face: "I think it should be Mr. Jinbao. The teacher said that everyone in this store except him joined the Kagawa club seven or eight years ago."

"It's just that, but we can't be sure that he is a prisoner." Yuji walked to the window and looked at the dark forest outside. With his hands in his pockets, he suddenly received a text message from Police Officer Yamamura, and then he breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, now we can confirm."

"Are there his footprints on that table?" Conan took his brother's cell phone.

"Never mind!" Yuji stretched his waist, picked up the newspaper on the table and walked out: "I'll leave that prisoner to you. I'll go find the so-called treasure."

.........

"Yuji, why did you call us out so late?"

Xiaolan pulled Yuzuki and Kaori and watched Yuji walking in front with a watch for lighting and carrying a shovel. She was frightened by the forest wind and hugged the two girls in fear.

"Didn't I tell you that I would take you on a treasure hunt?"

Yuji waved the newspaper around and finally saw the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva who had fallen forward in the afternoon.

"Yes, yes! Here!"

Facing the compass, the boy took Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva as the starting point, walked five meters eastward and came to the foot of a tree. He stepped on the ground, took off the shovel from his back and started digging.

Not long after, a crisp knocking sound reached everyone's ears. Yuji, who was overjoyed, dug out the clay pot that appeared in the pit and smashed it to pieces with a shovel.

Inside was Fukuzawa Yukichi in a plastic bag, a big bag full, roughly estimated to be [-] million yen.

"This is the reason why the long-haired man died. He and his accomplices extorted [-] million yen, and were killed in the forest. Although they were aware of it in advance, the money was saved, but their lives were lost."

Yuji looked through these large bills one by one. After confirming that they were correct, he relaxed a little and sat down on the ground.His face immediately turned green when he felt some softness under his butt.

"That...Miss Xiaolan, can you go back and get me a pair of pants!"

.........

"It's really comfortable..."

Soaking in the hot spring, Toru Amuro looked at Date, who was covering his face with a towel, and moved his ears.

"Speaking of which, it seems a bit noisy tonight?" The handsome blond guy just stood up when a gust of cold wind blew, and he sat back down again.

Anyway, Kudo-sensei and the others are outside, it’s okay to wash for a while...

(End of this chapter)