I'm in Mihua, and all the ladies like me.

At this moment, several boys and girls who looked to be about the age of high school students suddenly ran past. The boys ran in front and held the hands of the girls behind, while the girls tightened their yukata with their hands and walked quickly.

"What are they doing running so fast?" Xiaolan asked curiously.

"Oh, that ah..."

Suzuki Tomoko glanced at it and pursed her lips into a smile.

"If it were in the past, the reason would be to catch the last bus."

"what about now?"

"Now, if I have to say it, it's just to decorate the house in time before the parents get home. After all, most parents are not open-minded enough to let their precious daughters have the same name as themselves on such a specific festival. Those brats who don’t know are out alone, and those who ran over just now must have excused themselves from not coming with their parents because they were feeling unwell, and they sneaked out after their parents set off.”

"Eh? Mom, how do you know this?"

Yuanzi was extremely surprised.

If she remembered correctly, about two hours ago her dear mother said that she had never been so relaxed visiting a temple fair.

Tomoko Suzuki didn't take it seriously: "There is a saying that even if you have never eaten pork, you have seen pigs running away. Mom, although I have never experienced such a thing, I was curious about the same question when I was in school and asked my classmates. Other students who went to watch the fireworks display told me this.”

"Mom, your adolescence was such a complete regret..." Sonoko complained.

Rumble--!

As he finished speaking, the rails not far from the tree-lined path suddenly began to vibrate. A few bright car lights shone from behind. Looking back, it turned out to be a tram approaching from far away, with electric lights flashing on the overhead rails. Sparks instantly illuminated the woods on the other side.

Serabel himself is not the kind of person who likes to join in the fun. Let alone a tram, even if an excavator under construction is placed in front of him, he will not be moved at all.

But precisely for this reason, at the moment when the electric sparks exploded, he seemed to catch a glimpse of a pair of people in the jungle on his right.

It should be a man and a woman. The man is kneeling on the ground, while the woman is completely lying down. No matter how you look at it, it looks like...a battle in the wild.

The bright light produced by the electric spark disappeared in a flash. Serabel actually saw nothing clearly, but caught it from the corner of his eye. By the time he subconsciously turned his head to look, the light had gone out, and he could only vaguely see it through the dim light of the street lamp. He saw what seemed to be a human-shaped black shadow, and he wouldn't even have noticed that someone was there if it hadn't been for the sudden glance.

Okay, but it's true that for things like outdoor battles, you really need to find a hidden place.

However, just when Serabel was about to look away as if she hadn't seen anything, a strange scene happened.

I saw the male figure who was kneeling on the grass a second ago suddenly stood up. Something seemed to fall from his hand and fell to the ground. It made a metallic sound when it hit the stones, and the man fled into the depths of the jungle in a panic.

But the woman was still lying on the ground motionless.

"...?"

Faintly sensing something was wrong, Serabel immediately stopped.

When he stopped, Suzuki Tomoko also stopped.

"What's wrong, Sera-kun, did you see something?"

"Well, wait a minute..."

Without enough time to explain, Serabel took out her cell phone from the sleeve of her yukata, turned on the flashlight function and shined in the direction she was just now, while striding into the jungle.

The deep night disappears in front of the light of technology.

When Serabel walked into the grass, she saw a young woman with brown hair lying motionless on the grass about six or seven meters away from the road. The bathrobe on her chest and abdomen was heavily stained with blood.

And a dagger with a bloody blade fell beside him.

"This, this is..."

After seeing the scene in front of him clearly, Conan who followed him was stunned.

Serabel didn't react as much as he did. She leaned closer to talk and felt her pulse before she stood up and said.

"He was stabbed in the heart. Such an injury cannot be saved even if he happens to be in front of the hospital. The person is already cold, so we should call the police."

……

After receiving the alarm call, the local police station in Izu immediately sent people over.

Ten minutes later, a male police officer with a square face and a coral haircut stepped out of the police car beside the tree-lined path with red and blue lights flashing alternately.

The two parties were strangers to each other, so it was only business matters.

The Coral Head Police Officer took out a small notebook from the breast pocket of his police uniform, opened it and coughed lightly.

"Anyway, let me introduce myself first. I am Sengo Yokomori of the Izu Metropolitan Police Department. You are the number one corpse... huh?"

Before he could finish his words, as if he saw an old acquaintance, when Henggou Sengo's eyes passed by Serabel and Suzuki Tomoko and turned to Xiaolan and Conan, he suddenly paused, and then glared fiercely. Eyes rounded.

"Ah? Who did I think? Isn't this Miss Lan? Conan is also there. Well, Mr. Maori..."

"My dad is not here. He just went out to play with friends this time."

When Xiaolan met a familiar person on a strange occasion, she was caught off guard for a while and was a little confused in explaining.

Serabel touched the outside of Conan's arm with her knee and asked in a low voice: "Do you know each other?"

"It's... yeah."

Conan's expression was also a bit tangled.

"Uncle Mori and I met several times when we went to Shizuoka and Saitama because of cases, and we got to know each other after that. He also has a younger brother named Yokomori Shigego. I didn't expect to meet him here."

"Is it reliable?"

"To be honest...it's not very reliable."

"That's all right."

While Serabel and Conan were whispering, a police officer named Henggou Sengo on the other side also started chatting with Xiaolan and Yuanzi.

He looked at the female body on the ground not far away, sighed and covered his forehead.

"I didn't expect it to happen this year."

"'also'?"

Keenly capturing the key words in the words, Serabel cast a questioning look.

Probably because of Xiaolan's presence, Henggou Sengo simply acquiesced that Serabel was also related to Mouri Kogoro, and nodded matter-of-factly, putting on a heavy and terrifying tone.

"In fact, in the Izu area, there is a perverted murderer who hunts women with brown hair during the summer..."?

Chapter 186 If the daughter can’t do it, then replace the mother

There are no clues, an open crime scene, and the escaped prisoner...

When these three points are added up, let alone Serabel, he immediately goes to the nearest bookstore to buy a set of "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes", draws the Heroic Spirit Summoning Formation, throws it, and pulls Lao Fu from the Heroic Spirit Seat to summon him. The case cannot be solved in this life.

Reasoning is similar to doing math problems. If you can't figure it out, you can't figure it out. Even if your physique cannot be generalized between people, you can put yourself in a state of extreme anger anytime and anywhere.

There was no choice but to leave the rest of the matter to the local police.

Of course, Serabel didn't have high expectations for this, especially with the Japanese police's ability and efficiency in handling cases, it was normal for them to still find nothing after searching all night.

Half an hour later, after briefly taking notes and saying goodbye to the Henggou Police Department, Serabel and others had returned to the hotel where they were staying.

In the guest room, Serabel was sitting cross-legged on the tatami, holding a tablet phone on the side. Next to the phone were the floor mat for sleeping tonight and a change of clothes for taking a shower.

The sound of gurgling water echoed in the guest room from the direction of the bathroom. The dense mist of water vapor rendered on the frosted glass. The warm light refracted from the door outlined the concave and convex blurred silhouettes of mature women.

"I heard the sound of water over there?"

Conan's voice came from the mobile phone, and his eyes fell on the mobile phone screen. The big face of the bespectacled Shinigami elementary school student was in the center of the screen.

It turned out that the two were on a video call.

Serabel was operating the tablet computer intently, not even bothering to turn her head when she heard the words. She just turned the volume on her phone to the maximum, and then replied.

"...Isn't there the same sound of water over there?"

"Oh, that's Yuanzi, Xiaolan and the others taking a bath."

Conan raised his half-moon eyes and spoke in a tone that was so calm that it was almost a complaint.

"Well, although this is your business, I still want to remind you -" Serabel paused while operating the tablet, "If you can't guarantee that you can hide your current identity for the rest of your life after your body changes back, It’s best to avoid some things as much as possible, otherwise you might be punished by Xiaolan Iron Fist and silenced in the future.”

"Heh...hehe..."

Conan smiled, but his body honestly shuddered subconsciously.

Serabel glanced at the phone screen: "I saw you seemed to be shaking."

"No, nothing."

Conan coughed slightly and changed the subject.

"Compared to this, have you found out about the murder of the young woman with brown hair?"

"Checking...oh, yes."

Serabel's fingertips stopped sliding on the tablet. He turned the screen of the tablet and pointed the displayed page towards the front camera of the phone.

"Why don't you just send the link to the page? I'm so tired of looking at it..."

Conan complained softly, but still read the content on the tablet seriously.

"Well, the time of the news was almost exactly a year ago. It was also...the body of a brown-haired woman was found in the woods of Izu. The fatal injuries were stab wounds to the chest and abdomen..."

Because the news was to be broadcast on the website and TV stations, there was no picture of the deceased on the news page.

However, judging from the written description of the cause of death, Conan can almost conclude that the perpetrator of this case last year was the same person they encountered today.

"I've finished reading it, so do you have any thoughts on this?"

The voice of a certain Shinigami elementary school student came from the cell phone that was completely covered by the tablet.

Serabel moved the tablet away, still wearing the same determined face without any fluctuations.

"Why are you asking me? Generally speaking, shouldn't you talk about your opinions first after reading it?"

"Hey, let's talk about yours first. I haven't figured it out yet..."

It should be said that he is a reasoning madman. Although he usually looks like a stinker and treats women with all kinds of straight-man speeches, when it comes to cases, his emotional intelligence immediately soars by two hundred points, and he behaves like a baby. You can do anything to be cute or dishonest, and your acting skills and eloquence are all blessed by EX.

But Serabel didn't fall into his trap: "Don't ask, even if you ask, I don't know. With the current state of our hands without clues, let alone analyzing the prisoner, we can even confirm the two cases today and last year." Whether it was the same person or not is a mystery."

"What if we assume that these two cases were committed by the same person?" Conan asked.

"Then this prisoner must be a perverted murderer who has a soft spot for young women with brown hair and likes to go to extremes."

Serabel threw out this answer without much thought.

Conan's eyes narrowed slightly when he heard this: "In that case, I have a plan..."

"No, hold it back."

Before the former could finish speaking, Serabel decisively refused.

The face of the Shinigami primary school student on the other end of the phone froze.

"You know what I'm going to say?"

"I know." Serabel rolled her eyes in disgrace, "Don't you just want to say that Yuanzi also has brown hair, so you want Yuanzi to be used as bait to lure out the perverted murderer."

"No, it's not as unpleasant as you said..."

Conan was instantly embarrassed. He carefully looked up in the direction of the bathroom and confirmed that the two girls were still taking a shower before continuing to explain.

"Besides, there's no such thing as bait. After all, we don't know anything about the prisoner yet. If the prisoner is really like you said, he is a perverted murderer who has a soft spot for young women with brown hair and likes to go to extremes. If so, then if the other party takes the initiative to come to Yuanzi, it’s just a matter of probability, isn’t it?”

"That's right, it's just like what you said." Serabel nodded, "So from now on, I will be on guard against all other people who are too close except the five of us, regardless of body type, status, or gender, if necessary. It doesn’t matter even if extreme measures are taken.”

"Don't go to extremes..."

Conan paused as soon as he finished speaking, then thought about it and reluctantly took it back.

"Forget it, let's do as you say anyway."

After speaking, he looked up in the direction of the shower room, then lowered his head and added.

"Okay, hang up now. Xiaolan Yuanzi and the others seem to have finished washing."

"Ah."

Serabel responded with a nasal voice and clicked the hang up button.

The next second after the call was cut off, there was some slight movement from the direction of the bathroom.

Looking up, I saw the bathroom door being opened from the inside, and the steaming white mist pouring out from it as it finally found the flood outlet after infinite saturation. A white and plump jade leg poked out, with bare feet on the tatami.