Conan's other self

After briefly greeting everyone, Officer Takagi stood aside with his pamphlet and began to introduce the situation he had investigated.

"All four of them are designers. The company manager Aiko Nao went fishing alone around 5 pm on the 29th, the time of the incident.

Hasami Jun, who is in charge of sales, is watching the video at his home.

The man in charge of planning is at the racecourse.

Then Vice President Iwa Fuso said that he went to watch the last round of the golf knockout tournament..."

The Memu Police Department thought for a moment, "The alibi of the four people are very vague..."

"Yes, Qianye is still asking about the situation behind the scenes..."

Officer Takagi responded, and then felt his clothes being gently pulled.

He looked down out of habit and found that it was a familiar child, but this time it was not Conan, but Maplehara.

After glancing at Hattori Heiji and Conan, who seemed to have understood something, Maplehara asked Officer Takagi: "Uncle Takagi, does the president like to collect idol peripherals?"

"Ah, that's right." Officer Takagi flipped through his pamphlet, "Because it seems to have nothing to do with this case, so I haven't had time to say...how do you know, Xiao Kong?"

Officer Takagi knelt down to talk to Fengyuan, and Fengyuan noticed that his pamphlet also wrote about the collecting habits of four other people.

"Because a lot of things in this room have pictures of the same idol on them."

"Oh...not only that," Officer Takagi said, "there are more in the president's room inside...President Tsujiko is indeed a crazy idol lover and has collected a lot of idol peripherals..."

"Does it also include the idol calendar?" Haiyuan Ai asked.

"Yeah." Officer Takagi glanced at the calendar hanging high on the wall, "This idol calendar is a favorite of the president. He doesn't even want to throw away the past months. He keeps it..."

"Uncle Takagi," Fengyuan said, "since the president likes this calendar so much, he must have torn it off and kept it himself, right?"

"It should be so..." Officer Takagi was a little confused, "What's going on?"

“…The ones hanging now are from July.”

"Of course, it's already July."

"..."

"Isn't it?" Officer Takagi looked even more confused, vaguely aware of something, and a little embarrassed, "It's July, so it's time to tear off the June ones and keep them..."

"After his death?"

"Ah?" Officer Takagi was stunned for a moment, then finally understood, his face changed slightly.

The deceased died on June 29th. The four people reported the case on the 30th of the next day, and the scene was taken over by the police.

The colleagues in the Forensic Science Department obviously cannot do such a thing as helping the deceased tear up the calendar...

"I remember the calendar is in the president's room," Officer Takagi thought for a moment and stood up, "I think I've seen the one for June..."

He had an impression from the previous search, so he rushed directly to the president's room, and Feng Yuan followed.

Hui Yuan Ai hesitated.

Based on her understanding of Fengyuan, after finding the calendar, Fengyuan would definitely start reasoning directly with Officer Takagi. And although he didn't seem to care about the reasoning showdown and didn't care about her listening at all, others obviously cared about the outcome...

After thinking about it for a while, although he really wanted to see Feng Yuan's reasoning, Hai Yuan Ai stayed in the living room.

Because the goal was clear, Officer Takagi and Maplehara quickly found the June calendar. There is an inconspicuous blood stain on the upper right corner of the calendar that has been carefully wiped.

the other side.

a few minutes ago.

Just after hearing Officer Takagi mention the word "behind the scenes", Hattori Heiji and Conan had already thought of the meaning of the death message left by the deceased.

Hattori Heiji was very happy to be able to win the reasoning duel and go to see the decisive battle at Koshien that he wanted to see.

However, before expressing his reasoning, he first observed the situation of others.

Judging from the expression of the Kudo next to him, he should have unlocked the death message just like himself. The other Kudo was whispering to the police officer named Takagi...

However, he took a detour and missed important death information. Now he will lose to himself...

Oh, no, he is with me now...

A few steps away, Heye and Xiaolan were still arranging and combining small notebooks, trying to decipher the death message. But at a glance, it was clear that they had no point at all.

That guy with Ye is even wiping his tears...

As for why you like watching Takarazuka perform so much...

Hattori Heiji was stunned for a moment, feeling a little distressed. How about letting her win? No, no, this is a reasoning showdown...

During the hesitation, Hattori Heiji, who was getting closer, heard the conversation between the two people.

"How about I go ask Xiao Kong and Xiao Ai?" Xiao Lan hesitated, "They are talking to Officer Takagi. Maybe they discovered something..."

"No need, Xiaolan," Kazuha wiped away tears again, "I want to win over that idiot Heiji on my own, and then we can go see Takarazuka together..."

"Huh?" Hattori Heiji's face turned even darker.

"Hey, Hattori..." Conan, who had his hands in his pockets, whispered to Hattori Heiji, "You know the true meaning of this death message, right? Then tell the police department quickly..."

"Yes, I already know," Hattori Heiji said, "Then let's end this duel——"

"Wait a moment!"

"Ah?" Hattori Heiji was stunned for a moment and looked at Conan with an unkind expression, "You changed your mind so quickly?"

Conan did not reply, but watched Maplehara follow Officer Takagi out, lost in thought.

Since that guy Maplehara went to find Officer Takagi, he must have discovered something and asked Officer Takagi to investigate...

Speaking of which, I had felt something strange in the room before. I and Hattori's attention had been focused on the death message, and we hadn't had time to check it yet...

"Hello?" Hattori Heiji called again.

"Hattori, do you feel anything weird?"

"...It's a bit," Hattori Heiji was stunned for a moment, "But the real meaning of the death message, we must be right, right?"

"Huh?"

Hattori Heiji forgot to lower his voice when he said this, so everyone on the court looked at him.

"Hei, Heiji, you already know?" Heye's face turned pale and he felt unwilling.

"Brother Hattori, do you know?" Megure Police Department, who spoke at the same time, looked excited.

"Yes, yes..." Hattori Heiji, who felt something was wrong, bit back and replied.

He glanced at Conan, who was still next to him with the same confident expression just now, and found that this kid had slipped next to Xiaolan at some point and was putting on his cute...

Damn Kudo... so unloyal...

"Speak quickly, Brother Hattori!"

"Ahem," the arrow was on the string and had to be fired. Hattori Heiji didn't think there was any mistake in the death message, so he said, "Unlike the code that implies some message, these four ink-stained blocks directly point out... Uh… that person’s.”

"That person? You mean the prisoner, right?"

"direct…?"

"Police department, do any of the four people look like toys?" Uncle Maori asked the Megure Police Department.

"ah?"

"It's the name." Hattori Heiji continued, "What Officer Takagi said about 'behind the scenes' reminded me that the deceased may not have wanted us to see the ink-stained side of the blocks, he just put the blocks on the ink. …”

"In other words..."

"That's right, the reverse side of those four words in ink is the real message."

"So that's it!" The Megure Police Department suddenly realized and took out the photos again, "Uh, but you can't see the reverse side of these photos at all... Takagi! Tell the forensics personnel to bring them over the building blocks-"

The Memu Police Department was stunned for a moment, "——Hey, where is Takagi?"

"I just went out..." Xiaolan said.

And he went out with Kudo.

It's over, there must be something I didn't notice... It's all my fault for this Kudo here, I accidentally said it...

Hattori Heiji thought to himself, but the reasoning was already halfway through, so he stopped like this, "There is no need to get the building blocks, police department. The engravings on these building blocks are all regular.

Unfold these six-sided building blocks and arrange them according to the direction of the kana, and you can write out all the sides of the building blocks in order.

It is easy to figure out that the back of o stained with ink is i, the back of mo is mi, the back of chi is to, and the back of ya is wa..."

Hattori Heiji paused and let everyone think for a while.

"That is, i mi wa to or i wa to mi..."

"Iwatomi!?"

"i wa to mi" refers to Iwatomi, and the vice president happens to be named Iwatomi. The police department and Uncle Maori suddenly realize this.

The reasoning showdown seemed to have a result, and Xiaolan and Heye felt a little disappointed.

But it’s also nice to see Heiji’s reasoning... Kazuha thought to herself, I just don’t know why, but I always feel that Heiji is not as confident as before...

"Thank you so much! Brother Hattori!" Police Department Megure expressed his gratitude, "Go and bring Iwatomi over for questioning, Takagi... uh..."

"Police department?"

Officer Takagi responded.

He happened to come back this way at this moment, holding a wall calendar that had been packed in a transparent bag, with Feng Yuan following him.