The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

"...The names of the victims you gave me do match the survivors on the sixth floor of the fire. The number of passengers in the elevator is indeed 7."

"As expected. I guess the last two residents on the sixth floor should be named Nanako Motoami and Kosuke Mizutani, right?"

"Not bad, it seems you already have an idea, Kudo."

"Without me, I wouldn't ask you to skip class and help me investigate these..."

Having said this, Conan slowly exhaled.

Some heavy shadows pressing behind this matter seemed to poke their heads out again at this moment.

"One of these dead people was a hidden member of the organization. I have sent you the information, what do you think?"

Closing the notebook in his hand, Hattori Heiji heard the obvious tone in his voice. He thought for a while and did not take the initiative to answer.

He knew that Kudo would say this, which meant that he had already discovered some clues through his own investigation. Now he was not looking for answers or approval, but more wanted to find someone to talk to.

"University professors, restaurant chefs, parliamentary secretaries, IT staff... To be honest, until this moment, I didn't realize that the members of the black organization I had come into contact with were from so many professions." Conan closed the door lightly. Eyes, "When I saw this information and knew that it was related to the organization, my first reaction was, could they all be the same?"

After starting to investigate the organization for so long, I found that except for gin, vodka and other operatives who seemed to have always been working for the organization, other people's careers were really spread across all walks of life.

From ordinary programmers to wealthy businessmen, even people who have nothing to do with the organization for the time being, when they have some kind of use value, someone will naturally use fame and fortune to tempt them to realize this value.

These guys popping out of the shadows suddenly would always aggravate his doubts again and again, making people become suspicious.

"Of course, my reason quickly told me that this was unrealistic. What's more, how could a real member of the organization continue to send flowers to Nanako because of her death? This doesn't look like someone who can pursue illegal benefits with peace of mind. ." Conan raised his head and looked at the sky above his head.

It was cloudy in Chiba County at the moment, with thin clouds blocking the sunlight, and a faint gray-blue color floated in his entire field of vision.

But if it weren't for this serial murder case, the person among them might have continued to get promoted and raised his salary step by step, to a higher position, to a more critical position, and then...

And then also become part of that organization’s huge root system.

Just like Goro Akechi.

If it weren't for Karasawa's relationship, this person might not have had the chance to step onto the stage and become a detective. But when he did step out, his identity was completely different from the ordinary detective he was when he first arrived in Japan.

Relying on his intelligence and taking advantage of his father's death and Pisco's death, he climbed up step by step and gradually became a frequent guest on TV cameras and the darling of social media...

Hattori Heiji blinked, interrupting his subsequent divergence at the right time.

"There is no need to think so much now. Compared to this, I found a good store in Kyoto this time. Next time, you and Karasawa come to try it together, Kudo."

Be it Toru Adachi, Goro Akechi, the shadows coming again, the pressure of the impending crisis...

Kudo, this guy, has been a little too tight lately.

The truth is likely to be forever submerged in darkness, and there are always some things that are destined to never be fully understood.

That is why those who pursue the truth cannot easily extinguish their own lights.

"Okay, I'll give it a try." After recovering from his divergent thoughts, Conan raised a smile on his lips.

"It's a deal."

After hanging up the phone, Conan lowered his head.

At this moment, he had just finished his conversation with Kazuki Honami and was sitting by the railing in front of Honami's house.

Today is the death anniversary of Motoko Nanako, the day when the youngest child of the family died. The whole house and the guests who came and went could only see black and white, and there was a heavy feeling of haze.

He immediately saw the bouquet at his feet.

A lone handful of white chrysanthemums was wrapped in plastic paper and leaned quietly against the door.

This was undoubtedly left by Kosuke Mizutani, and according to Kazuki Motogami's records, if the murderer hadn't killed the other survivors on the day of the fire one by one, this place might have been filled with flowers and souvenirs sent by them and their families. .

Hattori Heiji mentioned that there might be a limit on the number of people in the elevator due to the damage to the escape ladder during the escape. When the eighth passenger got on the elevator, he pushed out the skinny Nanako Honami as a victim, and this person was probably the person being killed next to him. Jinno Shuhei put down a tube.

He didn't think so.

Although saying this may look down on human nature, the fact is that guilt is also a negative emotion, and all negative emotions are instinctive that a person does not want to face or face.

If the victims have done something wrong, they may feel sad or blame themselves for the girl they killed in the first few months. As time goes by, the brain trying to escape this emotion will try hard to make them forget about this life-threatening incident. The matter of heaven may even deepen into disgust and fear. This kind of precedent has been seen frequently in previous cases.

The emotions that may be beautified and deepened step by step over time must be positive.

The emotion was more likely to be one of gratitude than guilt.

Nanako Motogami, since she is such a lovely and kind girl who deserves all praise in her brother's words, in such an occasion where one person is destined to be left behind, will she be the one who takes the initiative to stand up and sacrifice?

Conan thinks that the answer is yes.

If it were him or Xiaolan, they would probably make a similar decision and then find a way to escape.

If so, then the biggest problem is...

Conan looked at Motogami Kazuki, who had sent off the guests and stood at the door and bowed meticulously, and narrowed his eyes.

I hope everything is not what he thinks.

A brother who loves his sister deeply, but deprives the life of the person his sister saved with her life, and wipes out the kindness and possibilities that remain in the world. This is actually a very sad thing.

Picking up his schoolbag, Conan was about to leave, but the corner of his eye caught something that Mizutani Kousuke put in the bouquet.

A white envelope, and a silver metal pendant.

Pendants of the Big Dipper and the Morning Star...

Conan slowly opened his eyes, and some similar patterns overlapped and compared automatically in his mind.

He immediately took out his mobile phone and made a call.

"Hello, Huiyuan! Is it convenient for you to use the computer now? Please help me compare the connection lines of these addresses on the map..."

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"What? On the Qixi Festival three years ago, all the victims were in Kyoto?!" Maori Kogoro almost choked, "Didn't the previous investigation find such an important thing?"

"It's mainly because the investigation of travel and tourism records three years ago is a bit troublesome. We also chose to start tracking the itinerary route because we couldn't find any results in the interpersonal relationship investigation." Shiratori Renzaburo answered calmly.

In fact, it was because the previous unlucky fugitive suspect provided the tip of Dorobiga Park that reminded them to investigate the consumption records of the deceased.

As for other records, it is difficult to find intersections after such a long time, but credit card consumption is much easier to check.

"Not only did they appear in Kyoto at the same time, but more accurately, everyone stayed in the same hotel called Vega around the Tanabata Festival three years ago." Takagi Shige, who was distributing the information, took over and said, "We are contacting the police in Kyoto to ask them if anything happened in this hotel. I think something must have happened three years ago that connected these people."

"Three years ago, in Kyoto." Ireland leaned back in his chair and replied weakly, "I know, there was a fire."

"Fire?! Vega Hotel!" Everyone looked at him in unison.

"Oh, I almost forgot, you worked in Kyoto before." Sato Miwako glanced at him and said coldly.

Yes, if he hadn't worked in Kyoto, how could he have the opportunity to hurt Tang Zejun?

Ireland wanted to roll his eyes at the policewoman who had been targeting him for the entire time, but he no longer had the extra emotion to deal with her. He just continued, "This incident was a big deal at the time. There was a problem with the firefighting, and two people were burned to death."

After searching for Homura Kazuki and Mizutani Kousuke, who might have killed Shindo Sumire, for a whole day, he did not get any results. He was in no mood to argue with these policemen now.

In this regard, Tang Ze, who used his own name to make an appointment for Mizutani Kousuke and used Noah to prevent the tracking and location of certain phones, could only say that he was hiding his merits and fame.

"Do you know the name of the deceased?" Megure Jusan stood up immediately.

"How can I remember? Just check the news. There must be a report."

So soon, the newspaper news investigated by Conan was put on the projector and displayed in front of everyone.

"Honjo Nanako, a nurse, was still very young when she died..." The police looked at the cute girl with a smile on her face in the black and white newspaper photo, and most of them became sensitive.

She is younger than all the victims in this case, and seems to be gentle and easy to talk to. Such people are easy to become victims in the scene of escaping and surviving.

Soon, the call from Kyoto confirmed this.

"The boyfriend of Nanako Motogami, the girl who died in the fire, had inquired about the details of this case two years ago. In addition, the high school student detective Hattori Heiji in Osaka also inquired about the same information two hours ago." Sato Miwako came back to report after answering the phone, but her eyes involuntarily drifted towards the direction of Ireland.

The caller was the police inspector of the First Investigation Division in Kyoto, Fumimaro Ayanokouji.

Of course, his call was not just as simple as reporting the situation.

"This kid Hattori has caused us a lot of trouble recently. For a wounding case, he and his father almost searched all the police stations in Kyoto. This guy is really..."

Just hearing the keywords "Kyoto" and "wounding case", without Ayanokouji saying anything more, Sato Miwako has already guessed what Hattori Heiji is investigating.

Just like the investigation they did privately, Hattori Heiji is likely to feel that there is something wrong with Karasawa's case after contacting him, so he is using his own abilities and his father's power to try to investigate and collect evidence, and strive for the possibility of overturning Karasawa's case.

"Speaking of this, Inspector Ayanokouji, do you know a policeman named Adachi Toru?" Miwako Sato remembered Adachi Toru's listless and completely lazy work style in the conference room, which was called investigation as surveillance, and couldn't help asking, "I heard that he is an expert in solving cases?"

"Huh? Adachi? I don't know him." Fumaro Ayanokouji raised his eyebrows and answered in a very subtle and somewhat literary tone, "If you know from where that there are police officers transferred from Kyoto recently, I advise you to be careful and be cautious in your words and deeds."

For some reason, the public security department has paid special attention to the situation of the Kyoto Prefecture Headquarters in the past few months, and they have been investigating and assessing them from time to time, which has made them miserable.

And it is said that someone from the confidentiality department has transferred the data files of many Kyoto policemen for unknown reasons, saying that they are used for investigation and evidence collection, but privately, everyone thinks that it is very likely that some big shot has a problem, or there is a problem within the department in Kyoto, and they are being urgently supervised by people from the central government.

If there is someone who he has never heard of but claims to be a Kyoto police officer, it is very likely that the confidentiality department deliberately arranged it.

The Special High Police is not like ordinary police, so you have to be careful.

His tone is very subtle, and the taste of wanting to say something but not saying it, so it naturally fills Sato Miwako's ears with imagination, making her feel a little frightened.

Could it be that there is really a big problem with Adachi Toru's identity, so that even Inspector Ayanokouji can only pretend that he doesn't know him and say that some things can't be said directly?

"Hattori Heiji? Is he also paying attention to this case? I'll call and ask." Megure Jusan muttered in a low voice, and after Matsumoto Kiyonaga agreed, he also dialed the phone.

The answer was beyond everyone's expectations.

"You said that mahjong means elevator, and you inferred that the mahjong tiles represent the position of other people in the elevator with Nanako Motogami at that time?"

The people in the conference room exchanged glances.

This actually confirms and coincides with their current investigation conclusions, and is enough to explain the murderer's motives.

If the murderer was actually her boyfriend, Mizutani Hirosuke, who was seeking revenge on his girlfriend because she was abandoned by others and died in the fire, then the following situation would be logical.

"According to your statement, the murderer's revenge has actually been completed." Megure Jusan turned around and looked at the whiteboard with photos posted behind him, "After all, all the people who 'killed' this girl on the Tanabata Day are already dead."

There were nine residents on the entire sixth floor at the time. In addition to Nanako Motogami who died in the fire and Mizutani Hirosuke who temporarily left the hotel and escaped, the other seven people were posted here, neatly.

"No, there may be one last one." Hattori Heiji looked at the photo of three people sent by Conan and shook his head, "There is also Mizutani Hirosuke himself. If he hadn't left the hotel, maybe he could have escaped with his girlfriend."

He understood the meaning of Kudo sending this photo, but no matter whether the murderer was him or Motogami Kazuki...

Today is Tanabata Day.

Even if it was as a sacrifice for her death, the murderer certainly didn't want Mizutani Kosuke to survive tonight.

No matter which one it was.