Conan kissed me again and again, and Huiyuan was stunned

"Yes, but fortunately the child survived."

The middle-aged police officer looked at the young police officer and was filled with emotion for a moment.

Kudo Shinichi looked down at the two blank papers, and unexpectedly remembered something. He thought carefully:

"By the way, that person said something strange at that time."

Dongfang Haoyue carefully read Kudo Shinichi's facial expression and guessed curiously in his heart:

"Shinichi thought of something that I didn't see?"

The thought just fell.

"Really? No wonder it caused such a big fire."

A fat police officer stood half a meter to the left of the sofa, leaning forward, with his hands on his waist, looking down at the carbonized wooden chair that held the burnt cake, and described with deep sorrow the lack of fire prevention awareness among the public:

"Putting a cake with candles on it on a wooden chair."

"Ok?"

Kudo Shinichi let out a light "hmm" and casually put two pieces of white paper in the left pocket of his shirt. He skillfully dragged Dongfang Haoyue to the right front of the fatter police officer, raised his head to look at the police officer, and confirmed calmly:

“The cake was really placed on a wooden chair?”

"Yeah, the wooden chair is all burnt and the cake is all messed up."

The fatter police officer looked at Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi, then at the wooden chair and cake, and shook his head helplessly.

"In this case."

Kudo Shinichi looked at the wooden chair and asked calmly:

“Where was this wooden chair originally placed?”

"Look over there."

The fatter police officer looked at Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi, pointed to the low wooden cabinet that held the burnt fax machine, and added casually:

“The wooden chair originally stood in front of that charred wooden cabinet.”

Shinichi Kudo followed the fatter police officer's index finger and looked at the wooden cabinet. An idea suddenly came to him and his thoughts raced.

Dongfang Haoyue looked at Xinyi and then at the wooden cabinet, and said in surprise and confusion:

“This… this is the wonderful expression of someone who has seen a key clue and is about to solve the case!

But......

Even a burnt low wooden cabinet can be a major clue...?"

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at the same time.

Hospital, fifth floor, long corridor, brightly lit.

Suzuki Sonoko walked along the corridor to the far right front, towards Uchida Asami's ward, holding a can of juice in both hands and hanging it in front of her chest. She turned her head to look at Xiaolan and Princess Mira on the right, and asked for their approval in a chatty manner:

"But don't you find it strange?"

"what?"

Princess Xiaolan and Princess Mira held a can of juice in their right hands hanging on their lower abdomen, and put their left hands upright behind their backs, looking at Suzuki Sonoko in confusion.

Yuanzi narrated seriously:

"Asami-senpai was in the tennis club until her second year in junior high school, and she won the national championship in her second year."

"oh......"

Xiaolan and Princess Mira nodded in confusion.

"But Asami-senpai became a third year, joined the soccer club, and became the club manager, right?"

Suzuki Sonoko looked ahead, a confused look on her pretty face, and said in an incomprehensible way:

"Why did she do that?"

"do not know."

Princess Mira stopped on the white tiles in front of the left side of the ward door and shook her head decisively.

Xiaolan stopped on Mira's left, reached out to hold the door handle, turned it gently, pushed open the wooden door, turned her head to look at the garden, smiled warmly and guessed:

"Does she want to concentrate on her studies?"

The voice just fell.

Princess Mira looked at the empty hospital bed in the distance ahead and the thin blanket that was slightly lifted. She covered her red lips with her left hand and uttered a word in surprise:

"what?"

“Senior…?”

Xiaolan and Suzuki Sonoko stood there in a daze, with their hands hanging at their sides, looking around the empty ward at a loss.

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at the same time.

Karaoke【ROOM】Convenience store on the right, spacious street outside the glass door.

"what?"

A middle-aged man was standing outside the door with his back to the gate. He was wearing a white shirt and black trousers. He was bald and had thin black hair on the back of his head. He was the manager of a convenience store.

He lowered his head to look at Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi standing side by side half a meter in front of him, and repeated without quite hearing:

"Are you asking me about the customers who come into the convenience store around 3 a.m.?"

"Yes~~~"

Dongfang Haoyue stood on the bluestone bricks of the sidewalk, with his hands clasped behind his back, looking up at the store manager with an innocent smile on his face.

Kudo Shinichi stood to the right of Haoyue, his hands in his pockets, looked up at the store manager, and confirmed calmly:

"You don't remember anyone coming here?"

"I do remember that they were the young people who drove here to sing karaoke."

The store manager held his chin with his right hand in the shape of a pistol, looked up at the hazy moonlight, and recalled seriously:

"I bought cigarettes, tomato juice and things like that."

"What kind of people are they?"

Kudo Shinichi stared at the store manager intently.

Dongfang Haoyue tapped her cheeks with her index fingers, looked up at the store manager, and softly agreed with Xinyi:

"What kind of person~?"

"Um......"

The store manager recalled for a moment with a long tone, looked down at Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi, and answered seriously:

“There were three of them.

A boy wearing glasses and with brown hair.

A girl is wearing a black dress.

There was another boy with a sporty crew cut. ”

Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi heard this, and the corresponding images appeared in their minds. They carefully judged in their hearts:

"They are Mr. Sawai, Ms. Tomoko, and Mr. Shigehisa!"

"Now think about it, that guy with a crew cut vomited all over the place in front of the convenience store."

The store manager folded his hands and complained unhappily:

"He got me into a messy cleanup."

"correct!"

Kudo Shinichi decided to get straight to the point and calmly verified his conjecture:

"Did the brown-haired boy use the fax machine at the convenience store?"

"Oh, just like the kid said!"

The store manager looked at Kudo Shinichi with an expression as if to say, "How did you know that?" and complained distressedly:

"I kindly reminded the guy that he had put the fax paper in the wrong place, but he refused to listen and even stained our store's fax machine with sticky stuff.

This is really too chaotic.”

"Oh, that's right."

Dongfang Haoyue smiled cutely to ease the store manager's worries.

Kudo Shinichi looked ahead without focusing on anything, and said solemnly in his heart:

“There is no doubt that it was that man who started the fire.

If my reasoning is correct, he must be carrying evidence with him!"

Thinking of this, Kudo Shinichi looked at the store manager calmly and asked rationally:

"Does your store have a receipt for the guy who borrowed the fax machine?"

"Yes, our store will keep customer receipts for a period of time."

The store manager withdrew his kind gaze from Dongfang Haoyue and looked at Kudo Shinichi as a matter of course.

Shinichi asked calmly:

"Can we see that receipt?"

"Uh...ok."

The store manager nodded after a little hesitation, turned and walked towards the automatically opened glass door, and casually invited:

"Come~"

"Here it comes~~~"

Dongfang Haoyue smiled sweetly, and casually dragged Kudo Shinichi, who was expecting this, to chase after the store manager.

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after a while.

Holiday villa, on the first floor, in a spacious corridor, the gentle moonlight shines through the open door of the villa and falls into the house.

"What!?"

Maori Kogoro stood on the right side of the low wooden cabinet that held the landline phone against the wall, facing the cabinet, holding the microphone to his ear with his right hand, and repeated in shock:

"Ms. Asami disappeared in the hospital!?"

Maori Kogoro did not wait for the person on the other end of the phone to respond, and confirmed with an unbelievable look on his face:

"Really, Ran!?"

Actually...

Maori Kogoro said calmly in his heart:

“This is how I should be behaving now when someone who might have committed suicide has disappeared.

If my guess is correct, Miss Mami is not missing, but has come here.

She didn’t look like someone who would throw away her life.”

On the other side, the hospital, first floor, bright hall.

Xiaolan stood outside the counter with the landline phone, holding the receiver to her ear with her left hand and the bottom of the receiver with her right hand, anxious and not knowing what to do:

"Really, she was sleeping in the bed just now, and she disappeared when we left for a while, and then we looked for her everywhere, but couldn't find her.

What should I do now, Dad..."

at the same time.

Two nurses stood one meter behind Xiaolan, with their hands hanging down at their sides, looking at her with concern.

Princess Mira stood half a meter behind Xiaolan to the right, with her left fist clenched in front of her chest and her right hand holding her left wrist. She turned her head to look at Suzuki Sonoko on the left, and asked for advice with some concern:

"Hey, will Miss Asami be in trouble?"

"It should...it shouldn't be."

Suzuki Sonoko held her chin with her right hand, looked at Princess Mira hesitantly, and said in a troubled voice:

"It would be great if Touhou-san wasn't dealing with the alien creatures. I could use the red string to ask him to come look for Asami-senpai."

"Ah... That's true. Dongfang-san is a very busy man. It would be terrible if your summoning interferes with his battle."

Princess Mira looked in silence at Suzuki Sonoko, who had complete faith in Dongfang Haoyue. She forced herself to suppress her awkward emotions, and in the blink of an eye, she used her full acting skills and pondered seriously.