Conan's other self

The already famous Uncle Maori obviously looked down on such a trivial matter as finding the cat's owner, not to mention that horse racing happened to be on TV right now.

However, Uncle Mori immediately changed his mind after Toru Amuro proposed a commission in exchange for tickets to Okino Yoko's summer concert.

After a while.

Uncle Maori sat upright at the table.

Toru Amuro, Xiaolan and the Young Detective Team were listening on the sidelines.

Ayumi also held a kitten named Goro in her arms.

This is Feiying's cat. Because she was going to Fukuoka on a business trip, she entrusted Goro to Xiaolan to take care of her for one night.

The three people who claimed to be the captain's master were questioned individually in turn.

The first is Mrs. Shechuan, who is about sixty years old and a housewife.

"When did your cat disappear?"

"About two months ago." Mrs. Shechuan replied, "Because our whole family was going on a trip, we left it at a friend's house. As a result, the cat disappeared without paying attention. This is the cat's owner, my granddaughter. The photo was taken five years ago.”

With that said, she handed a photo to Mouri Kogoro.

In the photo, a female middle school student is holding a cat.

"That's it. She was just a kitten at that time. Judging from the distribution of patterns on her body, she looks very similar."

"Really, Mr. Detective, you think so too, right?"

"Grandma, you also like cats, right?" Conan took Goro from Ayumi's arms and walked over with him in his arms.

"Yeah, of course." Mrs. Shekawa replied, then noticed Goro, "Oh, come here, come here!"

But Goro ignored her and jumped directly onto Kogoro's lap and lay down.

"That cat must have been neutered, right?" Toru Amuro asked.

"Yes. It was really tiring at that time," Mrs. Shechuan nodded. "Although I only stayed in the hospital for one night and came back, the bandage couldn't be taken off, so it took more than a week until the stitches were removed. Woolen cloth."

The questioning of Mrs. Shechuan ended here. The second person to be questioned was Mr. Masuko.

"Mr. Masuko, the president of the IT company, you are the second candidate for the cat's owner." Uncle Mouri asked, "When did the cat get lost?"

"It happened to be four months ago when I moved." Mr. Masuko Sadashi replied, "My wife who I have been with for thirty years passed away, so I want to sell the house and move to an apartment. I should It was put into a cage and put on the moving company's truck, only to find the cage empty when we got out."

"Oh. Do you have any photos?"

"I took a photo with my mobile phone," Mr. Masuko took out his mobile phone and showed the photo to Uncle Mori. "The one with the cat is my wife. I took the photo."

"This is exactly the same as Poirot's cat." Uncle Maori compared it with the magazine.

"Of course. It's the same cat."

Then it's still the same process as before.

First observe the mutual reaction between the other party and Goro, and then Toru Amuro asks the other party if he knows that the cat has been sterilized.

Mr. Masuko seems to be allergic to cats, and he can't help but sneeze whenever Goro comes near him. However, he clearly remembered that the cat had been neutered, and he remembered that the cat was not bandaged at that time, but had something like a satellite dish around its neck.

The same goes for the third person process.

Mr. Shogo Amasawa, a freelancer in his thirties, claimed that he kept free-range cats. One day six months ago, the cat disappeared when he returned home.

Wulang seemed to like him very much and jumped directly into his arms and rubbed his face. He claims to be very fond of small animals.

However, he was vague about whether the cat had been neutered.

Later, Conan lied to him that the captain was a female cat, and he subconsciously thought that he had made a mistake.

…

After a while.

After being questioned, the three people gathered in front of Uncle Mori. Miss Azusa Enomoto also happened to bring the captain to the Mori Detective Agency.

"I kept you waiting!" Miss Azusa Enomoto opened the door.

"Captain!" Ayumi shouted happily, hugging Goro.

Immediately afterwards, they were somewhat surprised to see the captain jump out of Miss Azusa Enomoto's arms as soon as he entered the door.

It ran straight to Mr. Yuze, jumped into his arms, and rubbed his chin as intimately as Wulang before.

In front of a tauren...

Feng Yuan thought to himself and looked at Mr. Masuko who had an expression of disbelief.

"Look, it is indeed my cat!" Mr. Yuze hugged the captain and said proudly.

"how so?"

"How can this be?"

"Then I'll take the cat back!"

"Ah, okay." Uncle Maoli nodded.

"But I heard on TV that if there happen to be three people in front of you, the cat will pounce directly on the person in the middle!" Conan said.

"Eh? Is that so?" Xiaolan was a little confused.

"Well, I've seen it too." Fengyuan helped, "And if we make a judgment based on this, doesn't it mean that Goro is also this uncle's cat?"

"Huh?" Uncle Maoli looked over with some displeasure.

"Was Goro just pounced on this uncle like this?"

"Yes!" The primary school students suddenly realized.

"Maybe it's just because uncle, you like animals very much, right?" Fengyuan looked at Mr. Yuzawa, "You also said it just now."

"Yes, yes..."

"That's right! You can't make a judgment based on this!" Uncle Maori changed his mind decisively.

Next, Conan proposed that there is a very simple way to determine the captain's owner.

Everyone decided to give it a try.

Miss Azusa Enomoto took the captain outside the office and gave him cat food to keep him there. Next, the three people took turns approaching the door of the office and opening the door.

The first one to try it was Mrs. Shechuan.

The captain heard the movement and looked back at her, but had no other reaction.

"Come here, Xiaomai! It's me, don't you recognize me?" Mrs. Shechuan yelled for a while before giving up, "As expected, it won't work if she's not my granddaughter."

"No, it will be the same if your granddaughter comes."

"Grandma, the cat you are looking for is different from this cat. It is a female cat."

Conan and Maplehara each said one sentence at a time.

"What?"

"Right? Brother Amuro?" Conan looked back at Toru Amuro.

"...Yes." Tohru Amuro responded, "Mrs. Shegawa, as you said, your cat was admitted to the hospital for one night for sterilization surgery, and it took a total of a week until the stitches were removed."

"Y-yeah."

“That is not a male castration surgery, but a female sterilization surgery, because female sterilization surgery requires opening the abdominal cavity, removing the ovaries, etc., which is a very complicated operation.

Male castration surgery only requires removal of the testicles and testicles. It is a very simple operation. In principle, you can go home the same day. As Mr. Masuko said, in order to prevent the cat from licking the wound, just put a trumpet-shaped hood around the neck. "

"And grandma, you actually don't know how to deal with cats." Fengyuan added, "You have been staring at Goro before."

"What's going on?" Yuantai on the side couldn't help but ask.

"Cats don't like to be stared at all the time, even by their owners," Conan explained, "so at that time Goro went to Uncle Kogoro, who had no interest in it."

"Grandma, you have never raised a cat, right? Maybe your granddaughter had to leave for something and there was no one at home, so she entrusted the cat to you to take care of it for a while, but you accidentally let the cat get away?"

Mrs. Shechuan was silent for a while before she began to confess:

"...Yes, my granddaughter was on a school trip, and her parents also took this opportunity to travel overseas, so they asked me to take care of the cat. However, the cat always refused to be close to me, and it disappeared if I didn't pay attention.

When I was worried about what to do, I suddenly saw the cat in the magazine. It's the same calico cat that looks exactly like my granddaughter's cat. "

So she planned to use the captain to replace her granddaughter's one.

After Conan helped with some suggestions for finding cats, Mrs. Shechuan left the office.

Next it was Mr. Yuze’s turn.

The primary school students all thought that the captain would jump directly into his arms like before, but the captain was equally indifferent.

After Mr. Amasawa couldn't help but raise his voice, the captain even hid directly behind Miss Azusa Enomoto.

"Don't you know?" Conan said to Mr. Yuze.

"ah?"

"Mutianli is only effective for five to ten minutes. Once it expires, to the cat, you are just a yelling and scary uncle. The evidence is that Goro, who was clinging to you at the beginning, now doesn't dare to do it because of fear. Close to you."

"..."

"If you were really its owner," Uncle Maori, who was sitting at the table, gave the verdict, "you wouldn't have gone out of your way to claim it after sprinkling the powder on your body."

"Ah, it's not...that, actually..."

"And you were just about to give up after Conan said the cat was female, right?" Toru Amuro said, "If you saw the photos in the magazine and were sure it was your own cat, and came here to claim it, you would probably refute it. I need to at least confirm it or something like that. You know that, right? If that cat is a female cat, it has no value at all."

"Value?" Uncle Maoli looked over with some confusion, "That's not a purebred cat."

"It is true that the female cat of the calico cat is not. But the male cat appears due to chromosomal abnormalities, and only one in a thousand. Because it is very rare, the Lucky Cat is based on it."

Amuro paused for a moment, "The cheapest one costs one million yuan. I heard that it has been sold for 20 million yuan."

"Twenty, twenty million?" Uncle Maori couldn't help but stand up.

"Liar..." Xiaolan also looked surprised.

"Captain, you are so awesome!" Ayumi looked at the captain happily.

"As precious as a white lion!"

"For example, if you have so much money, how much eel rice can you eat?"

"You obviously know the value of this..." Toru Amuro gradually approached Mr. Amasawa, "How could you let it live in the city?"

Mr. Yuze fled.

The last person to try was Mr. Masuko.

The captain on the other side of the door just heard the sound of him approaching, so he came directly to the door and squatted down, raising his head and waiting for him to open the door.

This is because a cat’s ears are very sensitive and can remember the footsteps of its owner. In addition, the reason why the captain got into the refrigerated truck of TA-Q-BIN before was because it was the same truck as the Cheetah Moving Company that Mr. Masuko chose when moving.

…

In this way, Captain Calico Cat finally returned to his owner. A week later, the young detective team was invited to Mr. Masuko's apartment to see the captain.

Since there was no need to see Amuro Toru this time, Haibara Ai also went with him. However, when they arrived at the apartment, they found that Mr. Masuko had been attacked not long ago and was in critical condition.

After solving the case, they learned that Mr. Masuko’s friend came to him to borrow money because his company was not doing well. Mr. Masuko planned to give Captain Lucky Cat to him because he was allergic to cats.

However, the other party did not know that the captain was a Lucky Cat, nor its value and significance, so he felt that Mr. Masuko was humiliating him. In a rage, the other party pushed him to the ground and hit his head on the table.

This misunderstanding turned into a case.

Fortunately, Mr. Masuko was eventually rescued and regained consciousness.

After that, the captain went through many twists and turns, and finally returned to Poirot Café.

A few days later, the day of the kite competition arrived.

This is the eighth kite competition, held by the Mihua Municipal Government at Tsumutsu River.

The Doctor and the Teen Detective Team are also preparing to participate in the competition.

This day, at the doctor's home.

"Okay, it's done!" Yuantai stood up the kite and showed it to everyone.

"Awesome! Beautifully done!"

"It's just a detective badge!"

The shape of the kite is like the detective badge of the Boys Detective Team.

"Huh?" Conan was stunned for a moment, "But if it didn't have a tail, it would spin around in circles, right?"

"Xiao Kong and I have already finished that!" the doctor said. He and Feng Yuan each came over with a rolled kite tail.

"And it also has slogans printed on it!" the doctor continued.

As he spoke, Maplehara unfolded the rolled kite tail in his hand, with slogans written in large letters on it.

Haiyuan Ai stood next to the tail of the kite, looked down, and knew at a glance that the handwriting on it was the doctor's.

"If you encounter a case, please contact the Young Detective Team of Class B, Grade 1, Didan Elementary School." Haiyuan said sadly, and then looked at Fengyuan.

"It's not what I thought." Fengyuan immediately distanced himself from the relationship.

But having said that, Ayumi and others obviously thought this slogan was very good, and they all showed happy and expectant expressions.

"That's great!"

"I'm sure I'll receive a lot of commissions!"

"Isn't this a good idea?" The doctor looked proud.

"Where's the other tail?" Conan asked next.

"The doctor didn't even want me to see him just now..." Fengyuan also looked at the doctor, a little curious.

Although he helped make the tail of the kite, the slogan was written by the doctor. The doctor was still mysterious and did not want him to know what was written on it.

However, the doctor, who was now being targeted by the young detective team, hesitated: "Well, let's wait until we get to the scene before opening this."

As he was talking, his hand slipped and the tail of the kite in his hand fell off, "Ah..."

The tail of the kite lay spread out on the ground, revealing a handwritten slogan.

Haibara Ai continued to read: "If you need a convenient invention, please contact Dr. Agasa at No. 22, 2-chome, Yoneka Town."

Then she couldn't help but cast a sidelong glance at the doctor with her half-moon eyes.

"It even has the website address of the homepage printed on the back?" Conan couldn't help complaining.

"There's nothing to be secretive about, Doctor," Fengyuan said, "We don't mind."

"Yes! The doctor also helped make the kite!"

"Ahem," the doctor touched his head sheepishly, then looked at the time, "Oh, it's time to go!"

They had been delayed for a while and then hurried out.

After a while, sitting in the doctor's car, they continued the topic.

"But does it really matter?" Mitsuhiko asked. "The tail of the kite will swing with the wind, so won't the slogan that was written with great difficulty become clear?"

"Just win the prize in the kite competition." Feng Yuan replied.

"Winning a prize!?" The real primary school students were a little surprised.

"As long as we win the prize for the highest flying kite or the prize for the most uniquely designed kite, our kite can be hung in front of the city hall for a month." Conan explained helpfully.

"In this case, the slogan will be displayed for a month, which will have a good publicity effect." Maplehara concluded.

"oh…"

"That's awesome! Then keep working hard, Haibara!" Ayumi looked at Haihara Ai who was sitting next to her, and then noticed that she didn't seem to listen to the topic just now, but was listening to the song happily. .

Hui Yuan Ai was still humming something very softly.

Sensing Ayumi's gaze and realizing that Ayumi seemed to be talking to herself just now, Haihara Ai quickly took off her earphones and asked Ayumi:

"Ah, I'm sorry! What did you say?"

"I-I said work hard." Ayumi replied.

"Eh?"

"We're talking about the kite competition." Fengyuan explained helpfully. He also wore a pair of headphones in his ears, which were obviously the same pair as the ones in Haihara Ai's ears.

However, because he has better hearing and is not very focused on listening, he did not miss the conversations of the elementary school students and was able to participate in them.

Then the primary school students discussed the competition again, and Feng Principle took off the headphones directly.

"Haiyuan," Fengyuan whispered to Haiyuan Ai, "Can't we change the song?"

"Can't."

"You have cycled through this cycle so many times..."

Hui Yuan Ai snorted, but he was not dissatisfied, and even a little proud, "If you don't want to listen, just return the earphones to me, right?"

Fengyuan handed the headphones back without any hesitation.

Soon, Tsumutsu River arrived.

The place was packed with people coming to participate in the kite competition.

Because Genta felt a little thirsty, Maplehara and Haihara Ai went with the doctor to handle the competition matters and bought a few bottles of water.

The elementary school students who stayed in the crowd started chatting.

"Ah? The song Haibara is listening to?" Conan looked at Ayumi.

"Well, she often hums along with a happy expression on her face."

"And Maplehara often listens together." Mitsuhiko said.

"They have such a good relationship, it's normal to listen together..."

"However, Kaedehara often shows a disgusted expression when listening..." Ayumi said.

"ah?"

"Why exactly? Even though they are listening to the same song, Haiyuan looks happy, but Fengyuan looks disgusted." Mitsuhiko couldn't suppress his curiosity, "I really want to know!"