Conan's Science Manga Artist Kudo Yuuji

"The hot spring hotel is right here."

After paying the taxi fare, Mouri Kogoro carried his bag and looked at the hot spring woman at the door and nodded. After reporting the reservation at the police station, he walked back behind the police officer.

The hot spring hotel is divided into two sides from the entrance. The woman took him to the right. From the introduction, it seemed that multi-room reservations were basically taken to the right, while the left side was usually reserved for guests who booked a single room.

"Of course, if there are not enough rooms on the right, we will also arrange to live on the left."

The woman bent down and explained: "The room in the corridor on the right is a collective bath, and on the left is a small individual bath. Mr. Nishimura has requested dinner and breakfast the next day. Please enjoy it until then."

The woman knelt on the floor, gently pushed open the sliding door of the room with both hands, lowered her head and exposed her neck, and waited for Mouri Kogoro to enter the room before she stood up and left.

"Oh, Mr. Mori."

Officer Nishimura sat cross-legged on the tatami. To his right was Nakamori Ginzo. There was a coffee table in the middle. They were the only two people in the whole room.

"Where are Xiaolan and Conan?"

"Those two kids and a few other girls have already gone to enjoy the hot springs, so don't worry."

There was no food or wine on the coffee table. Mouri Kogoro sat cross-legged with his hands on the tatami. When he lowered his head, he noticed that it was a strong man in a suit.

"It seems that there is no contact with the wind, and we will have to do something soon."

"Stop whining and explain the details of the matter clearly. It's not too late for you to enjoy it."

Nakamori Ginzo pushed the person in the photo in front of Mouri Kogoro: "You are a detective, so you may be familiar with this guy."

"Brian D Kadokura, right? There's a bit of him in a case I took on before."

Mouri Kogoro put the photo down and reached out to the other photos. He found that most of the photos were of Brian and his subordinates. There was only one blurry photo showing a hotel building.

"This guy is an American philanthropic industrialist on the surface, but he is actually using this platform to sell arms everywhere." Officer Nishimura lit a cigarette and threw one to Kogoro Mori.

"I don't smoke." Nakamori Ginzo was still looking at the photo of the building, and reached out to reject Officer Nishimura: "It seems like it is collecting charity deposits and sending them to those in need of help. It is indeed a weapon. This guy..."

"So what does this have to do with Hakodate? The reason why he appears here cannot be that there will be a large number of weapons in Hokkaido, right?"

Mouri Kogoro noticed that Nishimura and Nakamori Ginzo looked at each other, thinking about Nakamori's purpose of coming to Hakodate, and seemed to understand something.

"Is it related to Kaito Kidd?"

"Are you really Kogoro Mouri?" Ginzo Nakamori stretched out his hand and pinched Maori's face suspiciously: "You are so different from the person I met before, aren't you?"

"Don't think of me as an idiot." Mouri Kogoro lowered his head: "I just checked everything on my phone. The attacks on those children are inseparable from this guy."

After his family was attacked, Mouri Kogoro's dusty brain started working hard again: "If you arrange to meet here, I'm afraid it's not just a reason to reward the Tokyo police."

"I suspect there is a mole in the police department secretly helping Brian."

Police Officer Nishimura shared his previous experience.

After tracking Brian for many years, every time this guy showed up in Hakodate, he would organize the police to implement a plan to arrest Brian, preparing to carry out the arrest if the other party violated the law, but the guy would escape every time.

"It was the same this time. In the morning, Kaitou Kid went to his hotel, and we realized that this guy was also here for the Star Blade this time. But when the police arrived at the scene, everyone had completely disappeared, except for the broken windows. and surveillance, not even a trace was left.”

Nishimura pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray: "Since this guy is here for the knife, there is a Star Blade on the Ax River that has not been stolen by Kidd, so the first thing I want to do is ask Officer Zhongmori to forge a copy of Kidd's knife. "

In order to fish Brian out, the police had nothing worthy of their attention, so they had no choice but to borrow Fujiang's knife.

"Please make sure not to spread this matter. Except for the three of us, no one else in the police department is worthy of trust for the time being."

Although he felt sorry for the subordinates who trusted him, Nishimura did not have any regrets about it. Capturing Brian was much more important than this kind of thing.

"I have one more question."

Mouri Kogoro stared at Officer Nishimura: "What does this star blade have to do with arms?"

It’s impossible for a knife to be the weapon itself. Is that still an arms dealer? Isn’t it an antique dealer?

"Star Blade..."

While the three of them were talking, Conan, who was sitting on the bench in the large bathtub, was covering his ears with his hands. He had been eavesdropping on the exchanges between the three uncles since just now, and finally got a lot of information.

"The great secret treasure that can change the situation of the war was bought from the United States."

Conan's expression was also stiff. He was also thinking in that direction whether it was reasonable for Japan to purchase such a level of weapons under the circumstances at that time.

"Considering that the United States and the Soviet Union started not to deal with it before the war was over, it is actually quite reasonable."

"What's reasonable?"

Iori Muga stood in front of the door and stared at the elementary school student talking to himself. He really didn't hear clearly what Conan said.

"I guess it's a good thing that I don't have to go to the big bath on the right, Edogawa-kun."

"Ah...hi!"

Conan raised his hand. (End of chapter)