Conan: Naruto

"Ok?"

Kudo Shinichi let out a conscious sigh, turned to the right, lowered his head, followed Dongfang Haoyue's fingers to look at the wooden board, and suddenly realized...

There is a rectangular board missing in the middle of the many non-slip boards that line the corridor.

Without hesitation, Kudo Shinichi took out a white handkerchief from his coat pocket, carefully turned over the wooden board through the handkerchief, and was surprised to find...

Two vertical wooden boards are fixed under the edges of five neatly arranged wooden boards through iron nails, forming a shape like a water channel.

In addition, more cherry blossoms are inlaid in the gaps between the horizontal wooden boards, and there are relatively old cutting marks remaining on the top of one side of the two vertical wooden boards.

"Take photos to collect evidence."

Kudo Shinichi thoughtfully put down the board, put away his handkerchief, turned to look at the chatting police officers, and told him without a doubt:

"The remaining cherry blossoms on the wooden board may be very important evidence, and you must take a photo of it."

"Ah good!"

The police officers looked at the two children they saw at the crime scene almost every day, and confusedly agreed.

It wasn't until Kudo Shinichi dragged Dongfang Haoyue away, who was staring at the board and was always confused, that the police officers complained belatedly:

“Why should we listen to a six year old???”

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After half a minute.

Dense forest below the cliff.

Dongfang Haoyue led Kudo Shinichi and landed on the vibrant lawn. With a thought, the mist covering his figure disappeared without a trace.

Shinichi had just landed, turned his head to the left, looked at Haoyue in surprise, Zuoyue squeezed Haoyue's palm, and complained in confusion:

"Why is the bright moon landing?

It’s obviously faster to look for clues while flying! "

"Eh...yes!"

Dongfang Haoyue nodded stupidly. In order to avoid anyone seeing that he could fly, with a thought, water mist rose up all over the sky. He once again took Kudou Shinichi and took off on the spot, hovering at a low altitude.

They shuttled between the many trees at a slightly faster speed, lowered their heads, and searched the dirt and lawn inch by inch through the gaps in the water mist.

Three minutes later, Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi still found no suspicious clues.

"Not quite right."

Kudo Shinichi kept looking for clues, put his right hand in his pocket, and analyzed meticulously:

“The only things missing from the murder scene were fragments of windows and fragments of walls.

Detective Maori's previous statement is not unreasonable. The prisoner probably discarded the pieces of wood in the open-air corridor on the first floor of Shanni Temple. The problem is...

We have searched the extreme range of discarded wood fragments, and even those branches were shaken once by Haoyue with the wind to confirm that the wood fragments were not hanging on the branches. "

"That is to say...unless the prisoner did not discard the wood fragments from top to bottom, the fragments must be located further away from us."

Dongfang Haoyue nodded thoughtfully, and without hesitation led Kudo Shinichi to fly to the forest area further ahead.

Shinichi calmly searched the ground and asserted solemnly:

"If we can find those fragments of wood, maybe we can know the reason why the prisoner had to discard them, and maybe even understand the prisoner's modus operandi."

The voice just fell.

"Found it~~~!"

Dongfang Haoyue was keenly aware of a small piece of broken wood lying on the lawn not far from the left front. He decisively led Kudo Shinichi and flew to the side of the board, landed on the ground, squatted down, and looked at the board curiously.

Shinichi squatted on the right side of Haoyue, took out the white handkerchief again, picked up the wooden board across the handkerchief and placed it on his chest. He lowered his head and carefully observed the fragile wooden board. He was surprised to find...

Broken tape stuck to the straight edges of the brittle boards.

Kudo Shin's eyes were fixed, and he took the evidence bag thoughtfully handed over by Dongfang Haoyue without looking at it, and carefully placed the wooden board in the evidence bag.

Haoyue looked at Xinyi happily and happily claimed credit:

"Shinichi, our cooperation is getting better and better~~~!"

"Well, Haoyue understands my thoughts more and more."

Kudo Shinichi put the evidence bag and handkerchief in his coat pocket, gently held Dongfang Haoyue and stood up, looking at Haoyue affectionately with a pun.

Haoyue was stunned for a moment, looked at Shinichi with a smile on her face, and said calmly as if nothing had happened:

"Yes, yes, I knew without Shinichi saying anything that Shinichi wanted the evidence bag. Shinichi knew without even looking that I handed the evidence bag to Shinichi!"

"here we go again......"

Kudo Shinichi looked at Dongfang Haoyue with a melancholy face, pinched the tip of Haoyue's index finger with his left hand, and said helplessly:

"Haoyue clearly knows that's not what I want to say..."

"All in all~"

Dongfang Haoyue waved her little hand, smiled sweetly and changed the subject:

"The wooden fragments just now must be the fragments of the corner window of the practice room, right!"

"Yes Yes Yes."

Kudo Shinichi nodded perfunctorily and was about to correct the topic.

In an instant, water mist rose all over the sky.

Dongfang Haoyue smiled lightly and pretended nothing happened, holding the helpless Kudo Shinichi and flying to Shanni Temple.

Shinichi was flying, turning his head to the left, openly admiring Haoyue's handsome profile, and thought to himself:

"Although I still haven't cracked the criminal's modus operandi, I feel that reasoning about Haoyue's heart is much more difficult than reasoning about the modus operandi..."

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After a short time.

Shanni Temple, practice room.

Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi stood side by side in the corridor outside the door. They averted their curious eyes looking for Kikuno and Kikuno's husband, and turned to look at Officer Megure and Mori, who were standing side by side one meter to the right and looking up at the training room. Kogoro.

Haoyue and Shinichi stepped into the practice room uniformly, stood to the left of Memu, turned to look at Memu, and asked in confusion:

"Officer Megure, may I ask...where are Sister Kikuno and her husband?"

"They followed Abbot Tenyong's body to the Metropolitan Police Department."

Officer Megure was stunned for a moment, turned his head, looked at Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi calmly, responded casually, turned to look at the calm Mouri Kogoro on the right, and asked for advice with hope:

"My subordinates and the monks searched Shanni Temple but could not find Abbot Tenaga's suicide note. What does Detective Maori have to say?"