Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"I don't understand, I really don't understand."

Sitting on the motorcycle, Hattori Heiji unscrewed the cap of the mineral water and poured it into his mouth. While drinking, he glanced at the bottle of medicine for bruises and sprains sent by the man in black. He didn't know why someone gave this to him.

On the lid of the mailbox in front of the motorcycle, a marked map of Hakodate was pressed down by a stone, and a pen with many red circles was placed next to it. Looking at the sea in the distance, Hattori Heiji sighed.

"Confess, where should I confess?"

He even went to Goryokaku, but the artificial cherry blossoms everywhere made him feel that if he confessed his feelings there, Kazuha would have to be crazy to agree.

"Or should we rent a yacht and confess our love on the sea..."

After taking out his wallet and weighing it, Hattori Heiji gave up the idea and had never considered borrowing money from Yuuji.

"Well, let's deal with the matter in Hakodate first, and then prepare for the confession with peace of mind."

Hattori Heiji folded the map and stuffed it back into his backpack. He then found some important newspapers and magazines about Hakodate from the past two years and took out his cell phone to confirm the authenticity of the information.

"The first is that the old Self-Defense Force base in Hakodate was bought by the Karasuma Group and converted into an airport. The second is that the local Axe Group was exposed to have suffered massive losses from top to bottom."

The second piece of information attracted Hattori Heiji's attention. He read on and noticed that after the deficit was exposed, quite a number of people were buying up various items and subsidiaries of the Axe Group at low prices.

From the perspective of a newspaper writer, the way the Fujiang family responded at the time was extremely rogue.

By lending money to his confidants and then letting them buy his important subsidiaries, he showed that the Axe River Group only got to this point because of corruption, and that there was no problem with the company itself, and that anyone who bought the subsidiary would make a fortune, which was a false advertisement.

These guys registered a lot of shell companies just like they were speculating on housing prices, and then sold them to those who had some money and wanted to expand their businesses, and finally they made up for their losses.

"He also made a lot of money by selling shares in shell companies, but in the end he was just eating ordinary people's money."

Hattori Heiji selected several more famous subsidiaries to search and finally found an interesting place.

"Although these subsidiaries were originally located near Hakodate, they all moved together to a place closer to Goryokaku after the Fujiang Group recovered."

Hattori Heiji thought for a while, and continued to observe other newspapers and magazines with this information. After eliminating a lot of gossip, his attention fell on a bombing case.

"A malfunction occurred in the rail depot used to store abandoned trains, resulting in a large-scale explosion and a major incident that caused 26 deaths and 73 injuries."

After noting down the address of the warehouse where the explosion occurred, Hattori Heiji took out the map again and gently pressed his finger near Goryokaku and Axue Mansion.

"It's not far from the Karasuma Group's airport."

After starting the motorcycle, Hattori Heiji immediately set off for the warehouse address.

……

"Why are you here?!" Looking at Yuuji sitting in the car in front of him, and a friend of the same age who was obviously Kudo but said he was Kuroba Kaito, Hattori Heiji stretched his neck and found that the person sitting in the driver's seat was an unfamiliar police officer.

"Where's Xiaolan?"

"Sister Xiaolan was locked up in a hotel by the uncle."

Yuji sighed, "Really? This uncle is too much. How can he put his daughter under house arrest?"

[Look at the way you look at others gloating over someone else's misfortune. You must have done something! ]

This is why he was reluctant to ask Yuji for help and confess his feelings. Even though he was a good brother, ordinary people really couldn't stand his meanness. And he was sure that once he asked Yuji for help, the end result would be far from the original plan.

"By the way, I haven't told you how you got here yet."

Hattori Heiji didn't see Kazuha and Momiji, so he took out his cell phone and asked his childhood sweetheart.

"Officer Nishimura heard from Takuzo Axe that his father gave the last two swords to a friend, so he asked for the address and said that we should go and have a look." Yuji patted the car door: "This car is out of gas, so let's fill it up."

After confirming that he was not here because of the bombing, Hattori Heiji, who felt that he had taken the lead, smiled and said, "What a coincidence, me too."

"Oh, it would be a problem if you didn't come to refuel." Yuji waved his hand, interrupting the Kansai detective who wanted to express his opinion, and said that he was not interested in listening to his long speech for the time being.

"Just tell me, have you found any good clues?"

Kudo Shinichi's head appeared at the car window, his entire upper body pressed on Yuji's legs, like a cat seeing a mouse, but his eyes were green.

"There was a huge explosion here!"

When Hattori Heiji saw Kudo Shinichi making an excuse perfunctorily and humming twice, he couldn't help but ask further.

"This is a gas station, so it's understandable that something like that would cause an explosion." Shinichi said, "There are explosions every day in Tokyo, and there are even explosions in public toilets!"

After pulling up the anti-peeping window and seeing that Hattori Heiji was also moved to leave by Kudo Shinichi's words, the great detective immediately became excited and wanted to get out of the car to check.

"Don't you think it's ordinary?" Yuji rolled his eyes.

"That was the clue Hattori Heiji found." Kudo Shinichi said proudly, "Sometimes I trust him more than I trust myself."

It just happens sometimes, and not very often, but it’s not his fault.

[Who made Hattori not as good as me in reasoning? 】

(End of this chapter)