Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"Mr. Nishiki, Mr. Nishiki!"

As soon as the door of the room was kicked open by Xiaolan, Kudo Shinichi rushed in. He was shocked when he saw Nishiki lying on the ground, and rushed directly to Nishiki who was covered with a pile of sticky notes that looked like a corpse.

"You're still breathing, you're still alive, Xiaolan!"

"The police have been called. The person on the phone asked us to protect the scene."

Inadvertently, several people entered the room. Kudo Shinichi just remembered that Kuroba Rise had never seen a real murder scene and wanted Sonoko to pull her out. The girl had already raised her head and stayed in place.

"Sonoko, cover her eyes." Shinichi and Sera looked up at the same time, looking ugly when they saw the blood stains exploding on the ceiling and the small footprints that seemed to extend from the blood masses.

"Kudo, I remember that there is an octagonal golden plate leaf in the envelope of the code, right? Isn't that something the Tengu often holds?"

"That's a leaf fan."

What a coincidence. Tengu elements appeared at the scene of Nishiki's murder. Now the two detectives no longer need to think hard about the secret code, because even Sonoko can guess that the content of the code is definitely a murder notice.

It didn't take long for the Kyoto police to surround the entire hotel, and all students were temporarily banned from entering and exiting. Nishiki, who was still breathing, was carried on a stretcher and sent to the hospital.

"Nishiki! Damn it, who did this!" Composer Agata Riki punched the wall: "Is it a Tengu? Is Izuri turned into a Tengu and coming back!"

"Calm down." Ishayamori also pulled Agada back: "Don't talk nonsense!"

The scene became noisy. It was not until Officer Ayanokouji appeared on the fifteenth floor with Squirrel that the adults finally calmed down.

"Well, I don't really want to say this, but I haven't seen you for a long time, Miss Mori." Officer Ayanokouji looked at several people for a few seconds, and then asked: "Well, before everyone is taken away for questioning, I want to first understand the Izuri that this gentleman just mentioned..."

He felt a light touch on his shoulder, and the squirrel he brought flew towards the girl next to Mao Lilan, seemingly seeking a touch, and helplessly watched the high school girl take the child aside.

"So, Kudo Shinichi-kun, how well do you understand Izuri?" Ayanokouji was the first to ask the detective.

"Actually, I don't know much about it." Kudo Shinichi handed the code entrusted by Nishiki to Officer Ayanokouji, and explained clearly what happened, and then said seriously: "Mr. Officer, I would like to ask, what is there in Kyoto?" About the place names of southeast, northwest and northwest?”

"There has to be a connection between the southeast and the northwest, right? There seems to be no such place." Officer Ayanokouji noticed that the boys next to Kudo Shinichi and Xiaolan looked over, with shock on their faces.

"Hey, Kudo, was our previous guess wrong?"

Sera Masumi frowned: "In this case, many things will have to be re-reasoned."

"Yeah, damn it." Kudo Shinichi quietly looked at the few people taken away by the police, always feeling that the murderer should be among them.

Knowing Izuri's logo, I specially mailed a letter to Nishiki. After all, they must be mutual friends.

"So what you are saying is that the place names of east, west, south, north, and south are related to this case, right?" Officer Ayanokouji took out the police manual from his breast pocket and prepared to record key words with the small pen stuck next to it.

"Actually, we should be overthinking it." Shinichi rubbed the back of his head and explained: "At first, I heard the little girl talking about up, down, left, and right, so I subconsciously thought of east, west, north, south, but they turned out to be useless guesses."

"No, east, west, north and south are useless, but when it comes to up, down, left, and right, Kyoto does have such a place." Ayanokouji blinked and wrote down the words Kudo Shinichi said before in the manual.

Upper Gyeong District, Lower Kyoto District, Sakyo District, Ukyo District, and Nakakyo District.

"Indeed, these characters correspond to the towns in each district. The reason why the prisoner drew the code like this is because the same character has many ways of reading, and according to the local people's habit of pronouncing place names in Kyoto, the third character of each character is added One initial sound connects together..."

Kudo Shinichi looked up at Officer Ayanokouji and noticed that he nodded in agreement with his reasoning: "It means (the person to be killed is)"

"It's really a murder notice?!" Sonoko and Xiaolan came over with the girl when they saw that Kuroba Rise was calm.

The eldest lady stared helplessly at Kudo Shinichi with her hands on her hips: "Hey, Shinichi, hurry up and use your smart head to find the prisoner."

"Even if you say so, it will be difficult to find the prisoner without further clues." Kudo Shinichi also glared at Sonoko with his hands on his hips: "Right now, I only have a rough guess."

After Kudo Shinichi and Sera Masumi looked at each other, they raised their feet and wanted to go back to Nishiki's room to observe more, but before they took two steps, Officer Ayanokouji pinched their shoulders behind them.

"Leave the rest to the police first." He glanced at Kuroba Rise's shoulder a few times and watched his precious squirrel come back reluctantly. He breathed a sigh of relief: "Of course I'm not kicking you out of the case. I will communicate with you if anything happens. But as a student, I’d better enjoy my school trip first.”

This time, the noble police officer was unexpectedly easy to talk to. Until they took the elevator back to the lower floor, Kudo Shinichi was still wondering if he had a cognitive problem.

"What's so strange about this? Aren't you Yuji's brother?" Sonoko was speechless after hearing Shinichi's question: "That aristocratic police officer should be the descendant of Mr. Shinan, not to mention that the old man is still the chief of the police department, so But he is the boss of all the police in Japan."

"This feeling is really uncomfortable. It would be nice if that guy acted like this because of my reasoning ability."

Kudo Shinichi remembered that he had joked on the phone that Hattori was the noble prince of reasoning, but he was no better now.

"Why did you come back?"

As soon as the elevator door opened, several high school students saw their homeroom teacher waiting in the rest area. They were relieved when they saw that several people were fine: "Why did Kudo-kun encounter a case as soon as he came back? I originally thought that one was enough, but just now I heard from some classmates who got the news that this might be a serial murder case."

"Teacher, there is no need to worry so much. In fact, Shinichi has almost solved it." Sonoko immediately defended after hearing the teacher's complaint: "And it doesn't have much to do with Shinichi. In fact, there were cases in the previous school activities. ah."

"Ah...I'm sorry, Kudo-kun, I said something very careless." The teacher quickly apologized: "By the way, it seems that out of fear of scaring the elementary students below, the dean of the elementary school has sealed their floor. "

"Hey! What about this little girl?" Sonoko pointed at Kuroba Rise, who was being held by Xiaolan: "Where is she?"

"The teacher in her class called me and asked me to sleep with her tonight." Seeing the girl clinging to Mao Lilan, the teacher clasped his hands together and said, "But the teacher's sleeping posture is not very good, so can I please sleep with her?" Classmate Maori?”

"How bad can sleeping appearance be..."

"Hey, Mr. Yamamoto! The hotel has repaired the hole in the floor of your room. You can sleep peacefully tonight."

The dean of students passed by at the right time and Xiaolan agreed directly.

"I agree, teacher." (End of chapter)