Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"Damn it! I've already spent so much money on a brand new card pack, why! Why can't I beat you!"

Mr. Yotsuba, who had lost the battle, was pounding the table to vent his dissatisfaction. The onlookers were frightened away by his crazy look, leaving only Conan and others watching from a distance.

Having seen so many dead people, these kids were not really afraid, not to mention that Conan, who was pushed to the front, had already put his hand on the football belt. As for Princess An, she had always been raised by others and this was the first time she saw someone like this, so she thought it was quite interesting.

The strong and muscular clerk wearing an apron appeared in front of the fighting stage, and after some gentle persuasion, he successfully calmed Mr. Yotsuba down.

"Mr. Nitta, are you okay?"

Mitsuhiko came up to Nitta and looked at Nitta, whose clothes were soaked and who had just taken off his baseball cap: "You won with great difficulty."

"There's nothing we can do. It's not easy to beat that kind of advanced deck with an ordinary deck." Nitta smiled and blinked when he saw the admiring looks of the children around him.

"Next, let's have the usual two-on-two." Yotsuba glanced at his follower, who immediately sat down next to him, while Isuke, who had been silent, walked over and sat next to Nitta.

"Well, I'm going to the bathroom first."

Yotsuba glared at the children beside her, warned them not to mess with her cards, and went straight to the toilet, rubbing her hands and muttering to herself.

"What is he doing?"

Genta walked between Nitta and Isuke, while Mitsuhiko and Ayumi focused their attention on the shelves full of soft-rubber dolls behind Isuke.

"This guy believes in such a thing as a toilet god."

Mr. Nitta was resting with his eyes closed, so Isuke answered Genta's question. The toilet god's words also attracted Rize and others who were admiring the figures nearby.

"Toilet God?"

"Yeah." Isuke explained, "When he first participated in multiplayer matches, he used advanced cards, but he lost every game. One time, he drank too much water before the game and went to the bathroom, but he ended up winning. So after that, he would always go to the bathroom before the multiplayer matches started."

"Then when did this gentleman get to know Mr. Yotsuba?" Conan pointed at the follower.

“That’s the game.”

[Isn't this just simply hiring someone to play with? ]

"His father is a manager of the Yotsuba Group, so he should be happy to play with Yotsuba." Isuke couldn't control the smile.

"Oh…"

[Misunderstood, it's better to play with me. 】

Seeing that the children did not believe in the so-called toilet gods, Isuke raised his finger and reminded them: "There are eight million gods in Japan. Maybe every toilet has its own god, and they know each other."

"Then it's more than eight million, right?" Kuroba Kaito found it a little funny.

"But Mr. Isuke, you seem to know a lot about these people." Conan's habitual suspicion made Isuke pause.

As he was talking, Nitta, who had recovered, turned around and walked to Ayumi and Mitsuhiko. After chatting with the two children about dolls, he put his hands on his hips.

"You guys like Card King so much, I guess I'll have to teach you a few tricks later."

"Really!" Mitsuhiko's question was confirmed by Nitta.

"So you guys need to watch the fight carefully. I want to test you."

"Hi!" x2
The three little ones immediately ran to Conan excitedly. Seeing how lively they were, Mr. Nitta also leaned against the shelf with his hands behind his back and smiled gently.

Looking at Aoko playing cards, she also laughed. She grew up in Ekoda and experienced the park murder case. She finally returned to her daily world and became cheerful again.

"That's it. This is what a peaceful life is like. Compared to the murder case this morning, it's really..."

"Ding-ding-ding! Ding-ding-ding!" The fire alarm interrupted the girl's words. The roof of the store began to spray fire-extinguishing smoke downwards. Other customers began to scream and kept running outside.

The sharp-eyed Kaito saw that Haibara Ai and Rize were about to be submerged in the smoke, so he grabbed them, Aoko and Princess Ann and pulled them behind him, then called on the great detective to take care of the other three children.

"What bad luck!"

Nitta was standing before, so he went around to the table from the side and stood in a slightly empty position with his follower. Isuke didn't stand up in time, and disappeared in the smoke with a loud bang.

"Isuke!"

Seeing his friend disappear, Nitta ran back to Isuke in a panic. Conan saw that he was also blocked by the smoke when he squatted down and reached out to touch him, and then he screamed violently.

"Isuke! Isuke!"

"Hey, hey, hey, no way!" Kuroba Kaito frowned and began to dislike Beika Town.

It turned out that he saw someone on the Internet joking that this place was a place where many crimes happened, and he thought it was a joke. Tokyo is so big, it is not surprising that there are many crimes, but now it seems that they have encountered two incidents in just one day in Beihua, maybe what the people on the Internet said is not wrong.

The smoke cleared and Yotsuba, who had been using the restroom, opened the door and came out. He was wearing wired headphones and the phone in his hand seemed to still be playing a song. He was completely at a loss as to what to do. When he turned to the right, he found Isuke, who was pinned to the ground by the shelf with a bleeding head.

"Isuke?"

Everyone watched Yotsuba's expression change from surprise, to joy, and then to pretending to be sad. They all wanted to persuade him to stop pretending as it was too fake.

"It's you! It's you who killed Isuke!" Nitta jumped up angrily, without even realizing that he had stepped on his friend's hand. Fortunately, Isuke was completely cold, otherwise he would probably have scolded him.

"I?"

Yotsuba looked around and saw that everyone in the store looked as if he had killed someone, and he immediately panicked.

"How could it be me! Why would I kill him?!"

"You are jealous of Isuke because he plays cards better than you." Nitta pointed at the henchman and yelled, "There must be another reason, but I don't know it!"

"Could it be that one?" The follower didn't know whether he did it intentionally or not, but he just muttered at this moment, staring at Yotsuba's expression that said "you're doomed", and he also spoke hurriedly.

"The reason why Mr. Yotsuba won the last match was because he ordered me to peek at the opponent's deck. As a result, Mr. Isuke happened to see it and used it to threaten us!"

"I knew it. You were worried about being exposed, so you killed Isuke..."

"Are you out of your mind?" Yotsuba rolled her eyes. "Who would kill someone just to play a game card?"

"That's not Isuke threatening me, but I'm giving him charity. A guy who can only make a living by playing cards and making videos is no different from being a clown in front of me."

He corrected his henchman's words: "What a loser! He only asked for 100,000 yen for blackmail. I am not ashamed of him!"

After saying that, he spat at Isuke in front of everyone.

"It seems... that makes sense..."

"This guy is quite useless. Last time, I..."

Not to mention that the whispers of other people in the store seemed to reveal some illegal behavior, even Kuroba Kaito felt that Yotsuba was probably not the murderer.

"Great Detective, it should be a coincidence. According to common sense..."

"This is Beika Town." Conan began to observe the crime scene without raising his head.

"Rice Flower doesn't follow common sense." (End of this chapter)