Conan: This repairman is not very knowledgeable

"Swing the knife straight down!"

With a loud shout, Conan's face changed, he felt his hair stand on end, and he jumped three feet high to the side.

"Whoosh!"

A bamboo sword slashed across with a sharp force, and the person holding it had very dark hands...

"Hatori?!" Conan was really shocked.

In broad daylight, someone suddenly attacked me on the street. I thought it was some vicious person, but I didn't expect it to be this guy.

If I saw it correctly, he seemed to be heading for my head!
"I didn't expect to meet you here." Hattori said with a smile, carrying a bamboo sword on his shoulder.

"..."

Conan was speechless for a while.

This guy doesn't think he's funny...

At this moment, several children in kendo uniforms ran over from the other side of Gojo Bridge and asked Hattori for bamboo swords.

"You have to practice hard!" Hattori, who temporarily borrowed a bamboo sword to scare people, shouted to the children who ran away.

"Why are you here?"

Conan and Hattori stood face to face and asked the same question.

"Actually, the owner of that takoyaki restaurant in Osaka is an acquaintance of mine." Hattori said as they walked down the bridge.

“A takoyaki shop in Osaka?”

"A member of the Genji Hotaru?"

Conan searched for keywords in his mind and remembered the members of the Genji Hotaru who were killed one after another. One of them opened a takoyaki restaurant in Osaka.

"Yes, although he is a member of a thief gang, I have often gone to that store since junior high school and have received a lot of care, so I want to catch the murderer." Hattori nodded and said.

"I see."

"That's why you sneaked to Kyoto alone to look for clues..." Conan said this and turned to look at Hattori, and took out the strange painting he got from the temple.

"If we can solve the mystery of this painting, we can find the lost Buddha statue, and maybe even get clues about Genji Hotaru?"

Only then did Hattori understand why Conan came to Gojo Bridge.

"If, as we think, it was Hotaru Genji who stole the Buddha statue, we can only look for her in places related to Yoshitsune and Benkei first." Conan said, nodding with his hands in his pockets.

"us?"

"Hey, Brother Lin Feng isn't here too, is he?" Hattori asked after looking around.

That Maori uncle would never discuss such things with elementary school students.

"That man went to find your old rival." When mentioning the repairman, the famous detective smiled speechlessly.

He ran out to fight early in the morning and was very enthusiastic.

"Okita?"

"Damn, I really want to go and see it in person." Hattori really wanted to see it, but to him, solving puzzles and reasoning were more important, and he was very addicted to it.

"Do you feel any different when you see this painting?" Conan asked.

"a different feeling?"

"It feels strange to use so many patterns and colors?" Hattori said as he looked carefully at the piece of paper in his hand.

Yellow, green, red and purple. I wonder what the mental state of the person who painted it was at the time.

"When Lin Feng got up this morning and saw me holding this piece of paper, he had a strange expression on his face." Conan recalled with a frown.

He seemed to mock himself: Such a simple game... "Actually, I felt it before. It seems that it's not just his sense of smell, vision, and hearing. His brain seems to work a little faster than ours."

Hattori pointed to his head and shook his head helplessly.

Osaka Black Chicken suspected that the repairman was really evolving secretly without telling others, or he was transformed by Dr. Agasa and the evil scientist...

This time too, it is very likely that the other party has already deduced the answer, which is why Conan said that after thinking early in the morning.

"Is that so..." Conan didn't believe it.

"Forget it, leave the rest of the trip to me. If we can track down Hotaru Genji, we might be able to find the murderer."

Walking aside, Hattori threw a motorcycle helmet to Conan. He was still riding the green motorcycle that he had participated in several action scenes.

The two first came to the Gojo Temple.

"Actually, it is said in the Yoshitsune Ki that this is where Yoshitsune and Benkei met for the first time." Hattori introduced to Conan.

The story about the five bridges is just spread by everyone and cannot be taken seriously.

The famous detective looked around while looking at the painting in his hand.

Tengu, Mount Fuji...there is no similar pattern at all, it is difficult to find any connection between them.

"The more I think about this, the angrier I get." Hattori suddenly lowered his head and said to Conan.

"Eh?" Conan tilted his head.

What's wrong with this Muggle?
"Why don't the monks from Shanneng Temple come to me for help in investigating the case?"

"If people from Kansai want to investigate a case, they should think of me first!" Hattori's face was very dark, full of dissatisfaction.

He had been thinking about this matter all the way.

Osaka is only 50 kilometers away from Kyoto, and I am somewhat famous here. Isn't it a bit too far to go?
"Maybe... you're too famous. They know your father is a policeman, and they're afraid that the police will intervene in this matter and make it known to everyone."

Seeing that Hattori was serious, Conan immediately started explaining with gestures.

How do I know why...

According to common sense, there are many benefits to hiring Hattori, a high school detective. At least the people in Kansai have strong connections, so investigating any incident will be much smoother.

However, the old abbot of Shanneng Temple was a bit strange. A normal person would have called the police long ago. How could he have waited for eight years?

"Is that so?" Hattori could accept this statement to some extent. He let Conan go and took him on the motorcycle to the next stop.

"Benkei Stone, it is said that Benkei used to sit on this stone to think about problems, and he had many ideas." Hattori said, pointing to an ordinary stone on the street.

"It doesn't seem to matter." Conan shook his head again.

The two people stopped for a moment to look at the stone, then turned around and wanted to get in the car and leave.

Just then, a guy in a gray suit and neatly combed hair came out.

He showed his ID as soon as he met her.

"I'm Fumimaro Ayanokouji from the Kyoto Prefectural Police Department. From what I understand, you seem to be investigating the case of Hotaru Genji."

"Let me remind you, this is not Osaka, so you'd better not meddle in other people's business."

Officer Ayanokouji pointed at Hattori and said, at the same time a squirrel ran out of his pocket and landed neatly on the back of his hand.

"..."

"Why are there such strange police officers wherever I go?" Hattori looked at the back of Officer Ayanokouji with a confused look on his face.

"Hmm..." Conan couldn't help but think of his fellow detective who was so bored that he raised an eagle.

Weird guys in high society... (End of this chapter)