Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 485 Young man, do you want to spread fire too?

Conan followed Haibara Ai to the shop next to the station, and politely bought a map of Tokyo from the shop owner.

"Thank you, can you lend me another pen, please?"

"sure."

Taking the pen from the owner of the store, Huihara Ai opened the map and started looking for the address on it.

"Kudou, do you still remember the arson location of the previous arsonists?"

"Hmm," Conan said while holding his chin in thought, "The first time should be in Ikebukuro, and the second time should be in Asakusabashi."

With Conan's super memory, Haibara Ai marked five points on the map.

"What do you think this looks like?"

Haibara Ai listed several points in front of Conan, and after Conan watched for a while, he figured out what it was.

"This is... fire!"

The points depicted on the map are exactly the same as the Chinese character "fire" after being connected by several lines, except that the last point in the middle is still missing.

And this point happens to be the Shinagawa district where I am currently located!
"Could it be that the last place where the arsonist set fire was in Shinagawa?"

At the same time, on the red Mazda sports car outside the station, the three waited impatiently.

"Did Conan and Huiyuan come up with some clues and go to the police to claim credit?"

Once Genta's idea was put forward, Mitsuhiko and Ayumi immediately nodded unanimously. After all, Conan and Haibara are old habitual offenders of personal heroism.

So the three decided not to miss the opportunity to show off, and they got off the car one after another and prepared to go back to the station.

But as soon as she got out of the car, Ayumi saw a scruffy figure who was incompatible with the surrounding people coming towards her, with a mad smile on her face.

The sloppy man passed by the three little ones, but he didn't notice the fearful look in one of the three little ones.

When the man passed by with his back bent, Ayumi pointed at the man's back tremblingly, saying that this man was the bad guy she met yesterday.

"Really, Ayumi?"

"Ah."

Ayumi nodded weakly, but Genta and Mitsuhiko showed excited expressions instead.

Because they know that the time has come for them to make meritorious deeds.

On the taxi back to Shinjuku Street, Qin Zhibo rolled down the window and looked at the sky outside.

The night falls on this land, and thousands of stars penetrate the cosmic distance in light years, just to go to the same sky.

This cosmic romance, intoxicating, reminds someone that it's time to go home.

"Should you go home?"

Qin Zhibo turned his head and glanced at Koizumi Hongzi in the back seat, but Koizumi Hongzi had a serious face, and did not answer Qin Zhibo's question.

"Could the arsonist want to build a magic circle?"

Koizumi Hongzi's blurted words startled Qin Zhibo and the driver in the front seat.

"Is the magic circle you mentioned the one you built on the Tokyo Tower?"

Koizumi Hongzi nodded lightly, "That kind of large-scale magic array requires preparatory work, called 'marking', similar to the drawing of a magic array, which requires certain special conditions to be completed at a specific location."

"Our red magic family has a special way of marking, which is undetectable to ordinary people, but different magic circles have different ways, and flames may also be one of the conditions."

The driver sitting in the front driver's seat was dripping with cold sweat, and his tightly pursed lips represented his heart, which he neither knew nor dared to ask.

After all, who has nothing to do to provoke a mental illness?
Qin Zhibo was thoughtful, and asked again: "Then can you feel if this is a magic circle?"

Koizumi Hongzi closed her eyes and shook her head.

"No, I can't sense it until the magic circle is completed."

"However, I can judge from the location of the previous arson whether this is a 'mark' before the formation of the magic circle, because there are only a few types of formations in the magic circle, and it is relatively easy to see."

Qin Zhibo looked at the driver beside him and asked, "Master driver, do you have a map in your car?"

"Yes! Yes!"

The driver who didn't want to be troublesome hurriedly took out the map from the glove box and handed it to Qin Zhibo on the co-pilot, who in turn gave the map to Koizumi Hongzi.

"The locations are Ikebukuro, Asakusabashi, and Tabata."

Koizumi Hongzi pointed out these points along the map, and quickly found the answer by scribing fingers on the map.

"It's a pentagram!"

"He's marking the pentagram!"

Koizumi Hongzi handed the map to Qin Zhibo, and Qin Zhibo followed the drawing method pointed out by Koizumi Hongzi, and it turned out to be the five endpoints of the pentagram.

"The place marked by the five endpoints is the edge of the magic circle, and the very center is where the magic circle starts."

According to Koizumi Hongzi's prompt, Qin Zhibo found the center of the entire magic circle on the map.

Shinagawa area!
It's just that even if they get the location in Shinagawa, they don't know when the other party plans to activate the magic circle.

unless
Qin Zhibo suddenly remembered that in the Zoroastrianism during the day, Kuchiki Feiyan introduced that today is the first day that Fomalhaut, the "fire of truth" believed by the Zoroastrianism-the body of Cthugya, ruled the night sky.

Is it today?

"Master driver! Go back to Shinagawa immediately!"

At Shinagawa Station, after Conan and Haibara Ai finished discussing the case, when they got back to the car, they found that the three little ones had disappeared.

"What about people?"

Conan and Hui Yuanai's eyes were dazed. At this moment, there was a sound of "Dididi" from the detective badge in their pocket.

After answering the call, I realized that San Xiaozhi followed the arsonist first because he happened to meet the arsonist, and the arsonist was lighting the fire now.

After hearing the news, Conan and Haibara glanced at each other. Anyway, the arsonist was alone, and they decided to solve the incident in person.

After the two left, Miwako Sato, who finished her work, returned to the car and was full of question marks when she saw the empty seats on the car.

"What about people?"

The three little ones hung up the communication and stared intently at the arsonist who was lighting the fire.

The crimson flames burned more and more vigorously in front of the arsonist. The arsonist stared at the flame obsessively without fear of the burning eyes, and grinned at the corner of his mouth.

"Hey, my good boy, grow up quickly."

San Xiao, who had never played with fire since childhood, looked at this exciting scene and couldn't believe that someone was not afraid of the curse of playing with fire and wetting the bed.

After a while, the arsonist stood up and walked out. The three little ones were so frightened that they quickly hid and whispered.

"The fire is getting bigger and bigger, do you want to call the fire alarm first?"

"But I don't have a phone."

"The gangster is about to escape, should we catch up?"

"No! Conan told us to wait here obediently"

The three little ones talked to each other, completely unaware that the danger behind them had come quietly.

The arsonist held a sharp knife, and a wicked smile appeared on his face.

"Young man? Do you want to spread fire too?"

(End of this chapter)