Conan Moslin

The stars are twinkling and the moon is high in the sky.

"This is right in front of where the bomb timer stopped temporarily last time."

The orange gas lights warmly illuminate the playful yet quiet children's park, extending all the way to the residential area ahead.

Going forward along the highway is the location where the police officer defused the bomb.

The seven people, led by the seven plastic bombs, finally made it through and arrived at the door of the Boss room.

Sitting on a soft sofa with intricate patterns, Teiji Moriya took out a match from the matchbox in a relaxed manner and lit the pipe in his mouth.

The aroma of tobacco filled the room almost immediately.

"I see. These cases are indeed a bit too coincidental."

Officer Shiratori asked a question: "Do you have any impression of someone who might do this?"

The aroma of tobacco...

Could it be him?

While the police officer and detective were questioning Moritani, Conan, who was looking around, saw a photo of Teiji Moritani himself when he was ten years old and his parents in London.

His parents died in a fire fifteen years ago, after which his architectural works began to become famous.

These words were explained alternately by Teiji Moriya and Officer Hakuba.

After that, the two children, Conan and Ai, sneaked out.

They were probably the only two who could run around without being noticed by Moriya Teiji.

Having been here once before, Conan found the exhibition room with ease. He turned on the lights and went straight to the various exhibition photos.

The furnishings in the house were as usual and spotlessly clean.

From a chronological perspective, the Sumida Canal Bridge, Kurokawa, Mizushima, Akutsu... these buildings that were destroyed or were intended to be destroyed are all early works of Teiji Moriya.

However, the Mika Pharmaceutical Company, which was reopened for investigation in today's news, was not in the exhibition room.

"Haibara, is the reopening of the investigation by Mika Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. a coincidence?"

of course not.

Haibara Ai could guess that in order to prevent the location from being exposed, burning everything down was the only way for those guys to solve the problem once and for all.

Kasi, who came back late, was of course cleaning up the evidence - she even fell ill from catching a cold that night.

There seems to be something wrong with the follow-up handling of this incident...Did the police find an ignition device?

How could such obvious evidence be left behind?

Without hearing Ai's answer, Conan could only put the matter aside for the time being.

He looked at the works of art in front of him and suddenly recalled what Moriya Teiji had said.

“Today, many young architects lack the understanding of beauty! They must have a stronger sense of responsibility for their work!”

"After all, I wasn't mature enough when I was young..."

Is it really possible to destroy the work you have put so much effort into just because of such a vague "lack of understanding of beauty"?

The world of artists is really hard to understand.

"Hey, Edogawa, take a look at this."

Haibara Ai also looked around and soon noticed a huge black cloth in the corner of the room.

She lifted a corner of the black cloth and saw the words "Nishitama City, the new town of my dreams" written on the gold-plated sign.

When Haibara Ai was traveling with the Dark Night Duke Group, she saw news about the upcoming completion of the Nishitama Twin Towers skyscrapers, which included a basic introduction to the architect - the designer of these two closely connected buildings was not Teiji Moriya, but one of his students.

In other words, the design of this ideal city was never implemented.

Conan also reacted immediately: "I remember... Inspector Megure said before that after Mayor Okamoto stepped down, his town building plan was also rejected... Could it be that this is the work of Professor Moritani?"

He completely removed the black cloth, moved a chair, and stood on it to observe carefully.

"You can see that he really loves this kind of symmetrical architecture."

The completely symmetrical model town is filled with an architect's morbid obsession with "symmetry".

"Wait, this is..."

Conan noticed the gas lamp models on both sides of the model road.

"I see. That's why he paused the countdown... The culprit turned out to be him."

"But... there is no evidence..."

……

Not long after, Kuroba Kurian, who stayed indoors, received another familiar text message reminder.

She cooperated very well and spoke at a moment of silence between the two sides: "Conan said that he seemed to have run to the exhibition room he visited last time and couldn't find his way back."

As soon as he finished speaking, Moriya Teiji's expression looked slightly unhappy, but he soon returned to normal.

"Speaking of this... Professor Moritani, excuse me, can we visit your exhibition room?" asked Kogoro Mouri.

"Okay, before that, can I go to the study for a moment?"

"of course can."

After receiving a positive answer, Moriya Teiji entered the study alone.

He walked straight to a round table covered with a patterned tablecloth and picked up a large golden lighter with an intricate pattern.

But as soon as he picked it up, his face suddenly turned ugly.

The weight was wrong, someone had touched his things!

He clenched the lighter in his hand with a stern face.

The lights behind me suddenly came on, and a childish voice sounded: "Uncle Maori! Guess what I found?"

Maori Kogoro's voice was a little impatient: "At this time, we don't have time to play with you..."

His voice paused almost immediately and then became serious.

"These are... the disguise props used by the bomber? Where did you find them?!"

"It's in the exhibition room, right?" Conan was showing a pair of sunglasses and a brown beard to a few people, but his voice was still innocent. "I got lost and went in, and saw these things placed there..."

Moriya Teiji's panicked expression changed drastically: "Impossible! I clearly put it in the safe in the study!"

"Oh? So the disguise props used by the bomber were hidden in the safe in the study..." Hime pushed her glasses, "It seems that Mr. Moritani knows a lot about this incident."

Conan has taken out a handkerchief and wiped the lenses of his glasses that he had painted black with a water-based pen, and explained to Moritani the origin of the "prop" in his hand.

"It was Sister Li An who asked me to do this..." Kudo Shinichi was completely invisible today, so Conan once again skillfully passed the matter to Li An, "In fact, when we were on the road, Sister Li An had already guessed who the murderer was, but she just hadn't found any evidence of him."

The suspect of the fire at Mika Pharmaceutical Company is unknown, but the method of arson is surprisingly consistent with that of serial arsonists, coupled with Huiyuan's strange silence just now...

This forced him to guess that everything Moriya Teiji did was vaguely influenced by the organization.

We must not allow "Kudo Shinichi" to appear today.

Thinking of this, Conan handed the two batteries in his hand to Inspector Megure: "These two batteries were found in the lighter in Uncle Moritani's hand. I think that should be the detonator of the bomb."

"How do you know..."

Conan replied with a smile.

"Because Uncle Moritani doesn't even use a lighter!"