Conan Moslin

The stars are dotted and the moon is above the branches.

The lights are dim at night after the spring rain.

The warm yellow light swayed through one puddle after another, flickering and casting long shadows.

Soon, the light in the puddle stopped flickering.

At this time, Kuriyasu, who finally put on black clothes, and Miyano Shiho, who was forced to change out of her white coat, stood in front of the mansion marked "Kudo".

A little further away, we finally found a group of people standing against the wall.

One of them came over and opened the door.

He pulled a tool out of his black coat pocket, reached through the bars of the wrought iron gate, and carefully fiddled with the lock on the inside.

But the process was not so smooth.

After fiddling with it for a while, when Li An could no longer bear to watch it, the door finally opened a small gap with a click.

The man carefully removed the padlock, slowly pulled the iron gate, and motioned for the two to come in.

Li An looked back at the Trojan Horse Village not far away and Dr. Agasa's house next door where the lights had been turned off, then went in.

After everyone entered, that person went in last and closed the door.

The night in Beika-cho 2-chome was quiet again.

Conan returned to the detective agency and was standing on a stool, brushing his teeth in front of the mirror and sneezing a little.

"Ah-"

He pinched his nose, took a sip of water, rinsed his mouth and spit it out, not paying attention to it.

Conan didn't know that his house was robbed tonight.

Before entering the entrance hall, Li An took out a rubber band from somewhere, tied up her hair, and stuffed it into the baseball cap he had taken off the car.

The baseball cap was pushed up a little, making it look bulgy and a bit strange, but Li An didn't care.

Under her urging, Shirley had already stuffed her fluffy hair into her hat.

Although nothing can be found out from this hair and no one will care, it is better not to leave any clues?

A long time ago, probably when she had just moved in, she walked around the outer walls of each household, which naturally included the Kudo residence.

She did not find any surveillance equipment nearby at the time.

Even outside Dr. Agasa's compound, which is separated by a wall, there is no surveillance.

In other words, no matter what happens in the vicinity, it will not be discovered as long as no one sees it.

This is a two-story building with a attic. There is a balcony on the second floor, which is also a place to shelter from the rain at the entrance.

The interior decoration is close to European style, and red carpets are laid everywhere from the entrance.

Li An looked around and made sure there were no cameras or anything like that before nodding.

Everyone who came in raised their flashlights and conducted investigations separately.

Putting aside the group of men in black who had finally managed to contact Kasi and Shirley, the two of them had just closed their eyes to rest in the car, so they were still quite energetic at this moment.

After Miyano Shiho and Kuriyasu separated, they went straight to the second floor.

Wherever the beam of light swept, there were white walls.

After passing through the U-shaped passage, Miyano Shiho pushed open the door of the room and shone the flashlight around.

The bed that you see when you open the door is neat and tidy, with no signs of sagging, and it looks like no one has lived there for a long time.

There were some books on the corner cabinet next to the door, with a football on top, and two pieces of something stacked on the desk inside.

It was a card that was being held down by a dark horse piece, or should I say a knight piece in chess.

The card read, "Where is Shinichi? Please contact me, contact me quickly."

Holding down the chess piece with the hand holding the flashlight, she gently lifted the card with the other hand, and saw two familiar faces.

Young men and women of the same age as her smiled brightly and made scissors hands to the camera, with a tropical paradise in the background.

Miyano Shiho recalled the day when she last saw her sister and the scene when she passed by those two people in the car.

I thought of Mao Lilan who ran back from the cake shop in the rain today.

[“Look, that’s her. She’s the childhood sweetheart of our mission target this time.”]

[“Kudo Shinichi has been missing for so long, but I have investigated. She doesn’t seem to be in a hurry about this matter at all…”]

Are you really not in a hurry?

So why did she leave this note?

Miyano Shiho didn't know.

She put the card down and turned to look at the cabinet.

It’s not quite accurate to call it a cabinet, it should be a cloakroom.

There are many boxes in the cloakroom, some with ages marked on them. I guess Kudo Shinichi or his family are nostalgic people.

As she was thinking this, she looked up and saw an empty box.

I lifted up the worn-out box and saw a few words written on it.

"Children's clothes for Shin-chan."

……

Investigations are always boring, not to mention that Kurian had already been there on the day Kudo Shinichi became Conan.

After walking around the first floor, Li An once again entered the huge study room which was filled with many books.

There are a lot of different books, almost all of which are detective works.

He looked around, fixed his light on one spot, and casually picked out a hardcover book with a red cover from the bookshelf within reach.

She clamped the flashlight between her arms and, using the light, grasped the outer cover of the book and flipped through it casually without touching the spine.

This is a collection of short stories.

The page she opened was titled "A Barrel of White Wine."

This is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.

It’s not quite accurate to call this a detective novel.

"A huge golden foot against a blue background; the golden foot is crushing to pieces a giant snake whose fangs are sunk into its heel."

Seeing this, Li An paused, closed the book, carefully put it back to its original place, and walked to the desk.

She stood in front of the desk without moving her chair, and glanced around again in the light.

The circular light moved quickly with slight wrinkles, following the uneven ups and downs.

She could clearly see the dust particles floating in the air, the shining patterns on the books on the rows of bookshelves when the light hit them, and the thin layer of dust accumulated on the desk.

When the light shone on the ground, Li An found that something seemed to be reflecting the light.

Li An looked around again, determined the location, then bent down and picked it up.

It was a slightly square lens.

Lift up the lens and let the light in, and you can see a clear fingerprint on it.

This should be a thumbprint, but the fingerprint is a little small compared to an adult's thumb.

It's like a lens that a child grabbed.

After all, she was here that day too, and she quickly realized that the fingerprints were left by Conan when he pushed the lens of Kudo Yusaku's glasses out of the frame. Later, he went directly to find Dr. Agasa, so no one cared about the two lenses in the end.

Although he hadn't spoken before, at this moment, Li An held the lens and remained silent for a long time.

This flaw seems a bit big.

She thought she couldn't find anything here.

Once she hands this thing in, it will be the end of her life.

A few minutes later.

Li An fell into deep thought as he looked at the two lenses in front of him that were almost the same size and obviously a pair, with two very clear fingerprints on them.