Conan: Naruto

"Brother Xiunian!?"

Dongfang Haoyue reacted the fastest, turned around suddenly, stared at Xiunian warily, and speculated in her heart:

“He’s following us?!

Then...didn't he hear all the conversations between me and Shinichi? ?

I just... probably didn't call Shinichi by his real name...

Hmm...probably not...!

It's over! It's over! !

I'm used to calling Shinichi all the time. I don't even remember if I called Shinichi just now! ! ! "

"Brother Xiunian, why are you here?"

Kudo Shinichi turned around calmly and looked at Xiunian calmly.

"Because my mind is in turmoil."

Xiunian walked to the middle in front of Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi with gentle steps, looked at them friendly, and explained in an easy-going manner:

“So walking around Shanni Temple.”

Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi secretly breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.

Shinichi was the first to recover, smiled and changed the subject:

"Brother Xiunian, you said before...that you read a book for a long time last night?"

"Yeah, I fell asleep at about three o'clock in the morning last night."

Xiunian looked at Kudo Shinichi calmly.

Dongfang Haoyue looked at Xiunian relaxedly and asked, searching for clues:

“Did you notice anything unusual last night?

for example......"

"The sound of, say, someone sneaking out of a room."

Kudo Shinichi put his hands in his pockets and stated calmly:

"Or the creepy sound of something breaking, or... a scream."

"Yeah, screams!"

Dongfang Haoyue unexpectedly thought of Mouri Kogoro's scream last night, put her hands on her hips and looked at Xiunian seriously.

"No, I didn't hear what you said."

Xiunian Gujing looked at Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi calmly, and added leisurely:

"It was very quiet last night."

"Didn't hear anything?"

Dongfang Haoyue and Kudou Shinichi were slightly startled, their hearts filled with surprise, and they looked at Xiunian pretending to be calm.

"Yes."

Xiunian nodded without thinking and spoke calmly:

"Although my room is far away from Abbot Tianyong's room, everyone's rooms are very close... If there was really an abnormal sound last night, I should have heard it clearly."

Xiunian leaned forward slightly, looked at Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi at close range, and asked in confusion:

"Children, are you suspecting that our monks from Shanni Temple killed Abbot Tianyong?"

"How could that happen~~~"

Dongfang Haoyue looked at Xiu Nian with a smile, and the corners of her mouth curved into an innocent arc.

Kudo Shinichi looked at Xiunian with the same smile as Haoyue, and explained innocently:

"The chubby police officer reasonably believed that Abbot Tianyong committed suicide, and we thought so too!"

"Ah."

Xiunian nodded slightly and was about to continue speaking.

"Xiu Nian!"

Tunnian hurried to the corner of the corridor, locked eyes with Xiunian, and blamed him angrily:

"How did you come here?

Hurry up and help us find the suicide note of Abbot Tianyong! "

"Come, come!"

Xiunian turned around hastily and ran towards Tunnian with small steps.

When their figures disappeared around the corner of the corridor, Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi looked at each other solemnly and said in unison:

"Xiu Nian... there must be something wrong with him."

The voice just fell.

Dongfang Haoyue suddenly remembered something, patted her head gently, her painting style changed suddenly, her mouth was close to Kudo Shinichi's ear, and she whispered a cheerful invitation:

"I'll take Shinichi to the forest below the cliff to look for clues~?"

"what?"

Kudo Shinichi looked straight ahead at the corner of the corridor, guarding against someone intruding and making a surprised sound at the same time.

Dongfang Haoyue looked at Shinichi with a smile on her face, put her hands on her hips, and said solemnly:

"Before, Detective Maori hinted that we should go into the forest to look for clues!"

"Forehead......"

Kudo Shinichi looked at Dongfang Haoyue in confusion, and said dumbly and in disbelief:

"Is there...is there...?"

"Yes!"

Dongfang Haoyue waved her little hand without thinking, and with a thought, water mist rose up all over the sky.

Kudo Shinichi looked at the mist surrounding him, poked Haoyue's ribs decisively, and stopped him briefly:

"Wait first!"

"Eh?"

Dongfang Haoyue forced herself to endure the brief itching, dissipated the mist with a snap of her fingers, and looked at Kudo Shinichi with confusion.

Shinichi looked at Haoyue calmly and arranged rigorously:

"Let's first go to the open-air corridor on the second floor to check if there is anything unusual about the windows of the practice room, and then we'll look for possible clues in the forest."

"Okay~"

Dongfang Haoyue nodded obediently and dragged Kudo Shinichi along the corridor without stopping.

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After a short time.

Second floor, open-air corridor.

"A little bit."

The tall police officer and the strong police officer stood side by side in the window. With both hands, they pulled the legs of the thin police officer who had leaned most of his body into the window, and said with great ambition:

"Hey, hey!"

At the same time, Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi walked into the corridor through the open door. They looked at the tall police officer and the strong police officer with confused expressions as they hugged the thin police officer and placed them in the corridor.

"call......"

The thin police officer breathed a worried sigh of relief. While arranging his slightly messy blue police cap with both hands, he looked at the tall police officer and the strong police officer after the disaster, and sighed happily:

"When the rope came loose, I thought I was going to die..."

"Sorry, we made you worry..."

The tall police officer and the strong police officer stood in front of the thin police officer, bowed slightly, and looked at the thin police officer very sincerely.

"Hello."

Kudo Shinichi took Dongfang Haoyue, who was carefully observing the surroundings, with his left hand and took three steps forward. He pointed at the window with his right hand, looked at the police officers calmly, and cautiously confirmed:

"This window is the skylight of the practice room, right?"

"Ah... yes."

The police officers were stunned for a moment and stood side by side, looking at Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi in slight astonishment.

Shinichi pulled Haoyue and turned to the right, carefully scanned the scene in the window in front, and asked according to the usual detective routine:

"There's really no way to transport someone through a window to the middle of a beam?"

"It's almost impossible to do this without leaving a trace."

The tall police officer seemed to have activated the switch of answering all questions, and seriously asserted:

"It would be extremely difficult for a prisoner to lead someone to climb such a thin beam."

"Oh."

Kudo Shinichi nodded slightly and turned to look at the police officers, about to ask questions related to the case.

"Hey, Shinichi."

Dongfang Haoyue leaned close to Kudou Shinichi's ear, stretched his right hand slantly behind Shinichi's back, pointed his index finger at the wooden board paving the corridor, and reminded in an extremely low voice:

"Look there."