CONAN: I have a compositing station

The secretary who called himself Hanai welcomed Natsuki and Conan in.

Entering the house, Natsuki and Conan meet the owner of the villa.

Katsuhiko Takei, Naoko's father.

Compared with the pictures in the newspaper, I was more serious than in the newspaper, as if everyone owed him millions.

After seeing Natsuki, Naoko's father still had a straight face and a livid face.

"You are the detective the police say, can you find my daughter?"

"As long as I can find my daughter, the commission fee is not a problem."

"If it doesn't work, please leave."

Naoko's father said unceremoniously.

"We need to know what happened."

Natsuki said noncommittally.

If you follow Naoko's father, you may feel that the other party is not bad at money.

But Natsuki knew that wasn't the case.

He remembers that when the kidnappers demanded a ransom, Naoko's father would rather risk his daughter being torn off than pay the ransom.

His idea was that if his daughter wanted to be saved, the money could not be given.

Without money, his company will face a rupture in the capital chain.

If you build a business empire with one hand, you will destroy it.

Because 500 million funds will collapse the "empire".

Hearing Natsuki's words, the female secretary told what happened.

She and Naoko have a very good relationship, and during the holidays, they even made an appointment to go to the movies together.

As a result, she left to buy a bottle of water, and Naoko disappeared.

She searched all the streets and none of them....

Later, she received a call from the kidnappers, who told her to prepare a ransom and wait for notice.

The kidnappers did not say the amount or when the ransom was paid.

Only said wait for the notification.

"The kidnappers should have an explanation, don't let you call the police."

Natsuki asked the secretary.

"Yes, so I notified the president as soon as possible."

The secretary looked at Naoko's father and said.

After speaking, he began to whimper to himself: "It's all to blame on me, if only I hadn't gone to the movies at that time." "

Does Mr. Takei have any plans for work lately?"

"The other party may be a business competitor or something."

Natsuki suddenly asked.

The kidnappers did not come up and ask for a ransom, but asked Naoko's father to wait for a notice that the kidnappers were waiting for a time node.

As Natsuki spoke, he glanced vaguely at Hanai, the secretary on the side.

He remembers that the kidnappers' purpose in demanding a ransom is to make Naoko's father's merger plan fail and taste the company's bankruptcy.

If Naoko's father agrees to pay the ransom and abandon the company.

The kidnappers will release the person, not even for ransom....

"Who will remember so much, I tell you, business is like a war!"

"Those who fail can only blame themselves for being useless. You don't understand, you!

Naoko's father roared loudly.

"It's useless for you to yell at me, Katsuhiko-san, it's probably better to keep these words and talk to the kidnappers."

Natsuki plucked his ears and said.

The secretary heard Natsuki's words and raised his head.

"Miss Hanai, can you please show us Naoko's room?"

Conan asked, seeing that he couldn't ask anything from Naoko's father, he decided to start with Naoko.

"Please follow me."

The secretary nodded, wiped away his tears, and stood up.

......

Natsuki and Conan, led by their secretary, came to Naoko's room.

It is a very simple room in style.

No pink decorations, no large dolls, not at all like a president's room.

After entering the door, Conan looked back at Natsuki for the first time.

Because, on the wall directly opposite the door, there is a huge poster photo.

A handsome teenager above was smiling brightly.

Below the photo, there is a desk.

The bookshelves next to the desk are filled with all kinds of comic books.

In addition to "Detective Aoki: Murder in the Chamber of Secrets Series"

, there is some small and fresh literature.

"The Man We Will Miss Eventually"

"That summer, the cherry blossoms bloomed"

...

"That is a person Naoko likes very much, he hung a picture of each other when he was in junior high school, and I heard that he was a manga artist."

"Naoko, she has always followed the example of the other party."

Noticing Conan and Natsuki's gaze, the secretary explained.

Natsuki nodded.

Conan looked down and snickered.

The photo on the wall is the black-haired Natsuki, and it is still Natsuki from junior high school, which looks particularly green.

Perhaps because of his hair color and age, the secretary did not recognize Natsuki as the person in the photo.

"What does Miss Naoko usually like to do?"

Conan asked.

He picked up a book on a shelf and glanced at it casually.

He had read Natsuki's manga, so he was reading other books whose names looked normal.

After reading it, Conan silently put the book down.

There is nothing special, just some melancholic campus romance novels.

It probably seems to be called "youth pain literature".

"Naoko, this kid, likes to be alone, reading and writing."

"I rarely hear her mention things about school, and I don't have any friends."

"If it weren't for me, she would have been alone all the time."

The secretary said.

Natsuki walked over to the desk.

Several books were spread out on the table.

It is densely written with text.

The handwriting of the girl Juanxiu is full of her "feelings" at this age on the paper.

- I am already satisfied with the world, there is a sunset, there are stars, and you.

- In the Book of Youth, your name is the prologue, the beginning, and the center. And I'm looking for my name and putting it in the same line.

——The youth that we will eventually pass away is only brilliant in the memory.

......

Natsuki put down the book in his hand.

These things, it looks very normal.

But he felt something weird.

"Look slowly, what's wrong with calling me, my room is next door."

The secretary saw Natsuki and Conan looking through Naoko's notes, didn't bother, said a word and left.

After the secretary left, Conan came to Natsuki's side.

"Did you find anything strange?"

"Do you think so too?"

Natsuki asked, he had always felt that something was strange, but he couldn't say it.

"Name!"

Conan suddenly said.

Natsuki looked at Conan.

"Naoko pasted your picture on the wall, but you look at the notes she wrote."

"Your name doesn't appear in it at all, but instead it refers to [you]."

"If this person is you, just write it out generously."

Conan said suspiciously.

Xia Mu's eyes froze.

He found his comic from the shelf and took it down.

In the comic book, he also found Naoko's notes.

"Remember the third case in my comics?"

Natsuki suddenly asked.

"Which one used a rope to hide the key and disguise it as a secret room?"

Conan said, killing as soon as he spoke.

Natsuki handed the comic book in his hand to Conan.

On the title page of the comic book, there is Naoko's handwriting.

I fear the darkness, and you embrace the darkness and look for the light in the darkness.