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

"I think there will be no problem." Conan scratched his head, "Dr. Agasa is a very nice person, and he also knows that I am Kudo Shinichi. My family and his family have been old neighbors for more than ten years. We have often visited him since we were young. I ran over to play, and the doctor must be quite bored after living alone for so many years. He would be very happy to have someone to talk to. "

"No, no, no, actually what I want to say is that generally speaking, the living environment of men living alone is usually not well taken care of, and the place is not necessarily spacious." Sera Bell paused and glanced suspiciously. , "Where did your family originally live?"

"2-chome 21, Beika-cho."

Backwards.

"I've been there. It seems to be a villa area?"

"Uh... yeah."

"That's okay, let's go, I'll take you back now."

"Oh yes, one more thing!"

Seeing that Serabel was about to end the topic, Conan, who realized that he had almost been bypassed, hurriedly called him.

Serabel's voice rose and she hummed softly before looking back.

"About Hirota Akira, is there any news about him in the future?"

"You said he, um~ was probably killed by someone from the winery. I didn't see it with my own eyes, but it was the Gin who said it."

"Eh?"

"I'm just responsible for conveying it. If you don't believe it, you can ask him in person."

"..."?

Chapter 38 A little breast, but not much

The idea that Akira Hirota was killed by gin and vodka was naturally made up by Serabel. It was purely used to fool Conan, who was knocked unconscious in the grass and did not hear the entire conversation between the two parties.

Some things really don’t need to be known too clearly to everyone.

As for Serabel himself, he immediately understood the ins and outs of the whole thing as early as when Gin said one billion to Miyano Akemi.

After all, this astronomical figure is already sensitive enough, and it can easily remind people of the billion-yen robbery that occurred in Yoneka Town last week.

Especially when combined with Hirota Kenzo's strange behavior mentioned by his colleagues during his lifetime, the truth becomes very clear.

In fact, Hirota Kenzo, Hirota Akira and Hirota Masami are not the so-called brotherhood or father-daughter relationship. They are just robbers who robbed banks together.

The reason why Hirota Kenzo drove furiously along the same route at a specific time every day was not to relieve stress as Kogoro Mori speculated, but just to become a proficient escape route after robbery.

Theoretically, the robbery mission should have been initiated by Hirota Masami, also known as Miyano Akemi. The purpose was naturally to obtain one billion yen as quickly as possible in order to take his sister Miyano Shiho out of the organization.

As mentioned before, even [-] million yen is an elusive goal for ordinary people at the bottom of Japanese society, and it may take a lifetime to save it.

To say one billion is basically a fantasy.

Obviously, the robbery plan was carried out quite smoothly at the beginning. With sufficient preparations in the early stage, one billion yen was obtained with almost no effort, and he easily escaped the police pursuit.

But something unexpected happened after that. Hirota Masami and Hirota Akira never expected that Kenzo Hirota, the driver in the robbery team, intended to monopolize the one billion yen they had obtained. After successfully escaping, he simply disappeared with both people and money. , leaving the other two people who took the risk but got nothing, staring with big eyes.

This was the so-called family search incident later.

This is why it is obviously more appropriate to contact the police for matters such as finding a relative, but Masami Hirota and Akira Hirota insist on finding a private detective who is not reliable at all.

What happened next was just as the Megure Police Department said and what Serabel saw with his own eyes. Hirota Akira angrily killed Hirota Kenzo who betrayed the team, while Hirota Masami was determined to kill Hirota from the beginning. Everyone kept silent about the one billion yen, so they killed Hirota Akiya in the hotel, left the money at the front desk of the hotel, and went to the meeting alone, gin, vodka, and the black and white of the distillery, blah blah...

Miyano Akemi had done the best she could, but it was a pity that she still miscalculated one step, that is, the people at the winery didn't care whether it was a billion or not. They had no intention of releasing the person with the money from the beginning to the end.

Either, get one billion and kill Miyano Akemi; or, kill Miyano Akemi directly, it doesn't matter if you want one billion or not.

The reason why Serabel selectively concealed this part of the truth was because he saw Conan's photos of what he looked like before he became smaller.

Those are bright eyes that only people who have lived in the light since childhood and have never experienced the cruelty of the world have. And there are often people in this world who cannot understand each other.

Simply summed up in one sentence, why not eat minced meat.

Well, it doesn’t matter even if it’s known... Serabel thought to herself.

Half an hour later, as two bright beams of car lights pierced the deep twilight on the fifth street of Yoneka Town, a black Audi stopped at the door of a two-story building called "Moori Detective Agency".

Serabel glanced sideways at Conan in the passenger seat who was still smacking his lips as he reminisced about the delicious ramen he had just eaten on the way back, and turned on the interior lights to remind him.

"We're home. Check to see if there's anything you didn't bring. If you left it in the car, I won't be responsible for helping you bring it back overnight."

"Oh, no!"

Perhaps the effect of the anesthetic had not completely faded. Conan was stunned for half a second before he reacted until the soft light fell from above his head. He then unbuckled his seat belt, opened the door and stepped in, not forgetting to wave goodbye before closing the door.

"See you later, Brother Sera!"

"..."

How should I put it, although he looks like a child, it always feels weird to be called brother after knowing that the other person is actually a person of the same age as himself.

Forget it, leave him alone.

Silently touching her nose, Serabel turned off the lights in the car, stepped on the accelerator and left gracefully.

About ten seconds later, Xiaolan's dissatisfied complaints sounded from the second floor of the Maori Detective Agency.

"Really, Conan, why didn't you come back until now? It's already eight o'clock. Where have you gone? Have you had dinner? Are you hungry?"

"Well, I've already eaten, but I have to go to Dr. Ali's house next, hehe..."

"Still going out!?"

"If you have something to say, I'll be back soon!"

……

It was already nine o'clock when Serabel returned to the Cupido Hotel.

At this time, the center of Tokyo has completely entered the state of nightlife. Standing on the street and looking around, all you can see is bright lights and neon lights.

It's a pity that it has nothing to do with him, a passenger from England.

Park your car in the hotel's underground parking lot and take the elevator all the way up to the guest room floor.

When Serabel used the room card to swipe the door and walked into the suite, she heard a rush of footsteps like drums coming from far and near from the depths of the room.

The next second, the tiger-toothed girl, wearing a cool sports bra and only wearing socks on the floor, rushed out of the bedroom. She looked as anxious as if she had been pigeonholed at home all day. Finally, she was looking forward to the return of the shit-sweeper. When we met at home, we gave him a big hug and pulled him up like an octopus.

"Berni-chan is finally back!"

"I am back."

Seeing this, Serabel quickly gave up her plan to change her shoes. She skillfully reached out to catch the opponent and turned her face to the side to avoid irreversible damage to the bridge of her nose.

Well, it's actually not that steel plate, it's still a little soft, but not much... The touch from the contact surface of the trainee detective's left cheek told him.

Just when Sera Masumi and Sera Bell were getting tired of the entrance hall, Akai Mari came out of the bedroom dragging her slippers.

She glanced at the two people standing close to the door, and then noticed the open door behind Sera Bell in the corridor outside... There were three large suitcases.

Akai Marie coughed lightly: "Bell, what is that behind you?"

"this is……"

Serabel put down Sera Masumi, turned around and carried all three suitcases into the room, then closed the door, pulled one of the suitcases and placed it flat on the floor of the living room, then opened it.

Sera Masumi couldn't help but let out an ooh and took a deep breath.

I saw that there were a lot of Fukuzawa Yukichi placed in the suitcase, all of which were [-] yen banknotes!

Then Serabel opened two other boxes, both of which were 1 yen.

"Each box here contains about [-] million yen. If you add it all up... it's about one billion yen."?

Chapter 39 Help me take care of her

"Ten ten ten...a billion!"

Sera Masumi was so shocked that she couldn't even speak.

Because I have been living in the UK since I was a child, and the maximum denomination of the pound is only one hundred. In terms of numbers, it is a hundred times less than the ten thousand yen. If I can carry two hundred in my pocket on weekends, When Pound goes out for dinner with friends, she can be as happy as a little princess.

Of course, it would be better if he went out with Serabel.

Therefore, in Seryo's pure concept, one million pounds is already an astronomical figure that may not be saved enough in this life.

As for one billion... well, the last time I heard such an exaggerated number was when the Z Warriors defeated Cell. After that, because the combat power units soared so horribly, I gradually lost touch with it.

Ah, you can't say that. In fact, Sera Masumi has no idea about the billion combat power in Dragon Ball. After all, whether it is a billion combat power or a billion trillion combat power, there will always be a close fist fight with the villain in the animation. Just with Back then, there was no difference in playing peach for nothing.

The only difference is probably that the thing that collapsed in the background is an uninhabited island, the entire galaxy, or the entire universe.

But now it's different.

At this moment, the one billion yen was placed in front of them, all in boxes of large-denomination bills.

Sera Masumi made a simple visual inspection and found that its size was at least enough for her to make a full-size bed. It was actually rolling around in a pile of money, which was very visually shocking.

But she didn't get carried away. Instead, she immediately calmed down. Her thoughts were even calmer than usual. She grabbed Serabel's arm and said sincerely.

"Berni-chan, you will go to jail for robbing a bank. Why don't we throw these three boxes of money out before the police come after us? Just find a corner. If everything goes well, the police may find them later." I won’t pursue it…”

"Don't be stupid, I can really rob a bank."

Serabel raised her other free hand and flicked it lightly between the tiger-toothed girl's eyebrows.

Sera Masumi immediately let out a cute cry in coordination, her expression changed to >w< and she took a half step back, covering her forehead with both hands.

The two of them sang and harmonized, and they had a lot of fun and fun with each other.

However, Akai Marie could not be bypassed so easily. She walked slowly to the three large boxes of banknotes on the ground and pondered for a moment.

"One billion. If I remember correctly, the amount of a bank robbery in Tokyo a few days ago was as high as one billion. Let me guess... the person you entrusted with the family search yesterday was the perpetrator of the bank robbery?"

"Oh haha, you are indeed Sister Mary, you are so insightful." Sera Bell clapped her hands and used the idioms she had learned in the past two days.

In contrast, Sera Masumi could only look confused: "Hey, eh? Why, why, mom, how did you know?"

"It's very simple. There are too many doubts in it."

Akai Marie raised an index finger.

"First of all, I felt something was wrong when Bell said yesterday that someone had entrusted him to find a relative. If you want to find a relative, entrusting the police of the Metropolitan Police Department is a more convenient way than asking a private detective to solve the problem, and it doesn't cost money."

"Secondly, before Bell went out this afternoon, he received a call from the Metropolitan Police Department. Although I didn't hear it clearly, the general message was that someone who had been in contact with him recently was killed, and the only possibility was that There are only a few people involved in yesterday’s family search.”

"Finally, combining the above two elements, plus the three large boxes of money now placed in front of us, it is not difficult to guess that the people related to the so-called family search case should also be related to the billion robbery case, and the murderers The reason is probably due to uneven distribution of the spoils or someone trying to embezzle it for themselves."

After saying this long sentence in one breath, Akai Mari paused for a moment, with a look of confusion on her pretty face that was calm and unbecoming of her young appearance.

"It's just that I don't quite understand. If you helped the police catch the robber, then the money should be recovered, but why..."

Sera's big cat's face changed slightly, and he hugged his arms again: "Berni-chan, they say that a gentleman loves money and gets it in a proper way. We can't do anything like killing people and stealing goods!"

"Of course not..."

Another flick of the finger lightly hit the girl's forehead, and Serabel's eyes dropped.

"I didn't kill anyone, and the police didn't catch her, but she didn't need the money anymore, so I brought it back."

"No need?" Akai Marie didn't understand this statement.

"Well, it's no longer needed." Serabel said in a relaxed tone, "She didn't grab the money for her own glory and wealth. She just wanted to take her sister out of the organization. It can be regarded as ransom money."

organize……

Hearing this familiar word, Akai Marie's emerald-green eyes narrowed slightly.

She already had a premonition of where the next content would go.

"But it's a pity that the other organization didn't intend to keep the contract. They wanted to pay to kill people, or they wanted to kill people even if they couldn't get the money. But fortunately, I saved the people..."

Serabel added with a shrug.

"By the way, her name is Miyano Akemi."

"Miyano? Isn't that right?" Sera Masaki was startled, and subconsciously looked at his mother.

Akai Marie didn't speak, just pursed her lips.