Stay away from Conan.

"Hey? Isn't it a crystal bead?"

As Ai said this, Kazuha looked confused, and Sonoko followed suit and asked in confusion.

  In response to this, Xiaolan looked at He Ye and asked:

"He Ye, have you seen the...token in Hattori's hand?"

"Yes, I have seen it..."

Faced with doubts, He Ye thought for a while and replied:

"Well, I've only seen it once or twice. At least from what I can see, it's something like crystal, a bit transparent."

"So, why did this girl say it didn't look like Crystal? She had only seen the photo."

Sonoko couldn't help but look at Ai with frustration and said a little impatiently.

In response to this, Xiao Ai explained calmly:

"The key to the problem is not what the specific material of the object is, but its shape."

"shape?"

Ayumi listened to what Ai said and looked carefully at the thing that looked like a crystal bead in Hattori Heiji's hand in the photo. She didn't quite understand what Ai meant, and the others had the same feeling.

In response to this, Xiao Ai asked everyone back:

"Have you ever seen crystal beads of this shape?"

"This one……"

Faced with this question, Yuanzi's expression became serious. After all, she had seen many strange things since she was a child, but to be honest, she had no impression of things of this shape:

"It looks like a decoration on something..."

Probably, Yuanzi had such a feeling, and Heye and Xiaolan also felt the same way. After all, judging from the structure of this thing, the upper and lower ends looked different, as if the lower end of this thing was specially embedded in something.

  In this regard, Xiao Ai looked at the few people thinking so distressedly and could not help but remind them helplessly:

"We have seen this thing before, haven't we?"

  So, after being reminded by Xiao Ai, Xiao Lan, Yuan Zi and others couldn't help but think hard, but in the end, it was Ayumi who reacted first. After recalling what she had seen and heard today, Ayumi immediately said in surprise:

"Ah! That's right! Those two things we saw just now... Hmm? The things on the forehead of the Buddha statue!"

Then, after hearing what Ayumi said, Xiaolan and the others couldn't help but pick up the magazine again to look at the photos, recalling the appearance of the only two Bodhisattva statues left after the loss of the "Medicine Buddha" statue that Ryuen had shown everyone just now. On the forehead of the Bodhisattva statue, there were two things that looked like crystal beads. The appearance was almost exactly the same as the top of the crystal beads held by Hattori Heiji in the photo -

"Yes, that's what's on the Buddha statue!"

  Seeing that everyone had realized the problem, Xiao Ai nodded in affirmation, and then reminded again:

"Besides, do you remember when Hattori Heiji-nii got that thing?"

"Eight years ago..."

  He Ye replied naturally, and then remembered what he had just said:

"It's the same time as when the Buddha statue in Sannoji Temple was lost! It was also eight years ago!" "That's right. Eight years ago, the Buddha statue in Sannoji Temple was lost, and at the same time, Hattori Heiji-san got a crystal bead that looked like the ornament on the Buddha statue's forehead... Do you think this is a coincidence? Moreover, the thieves had already stolen the Buddha statue eight years ago, so why did they wait eight years to send a letter to the temple where the Buddha statue was lost, using something like a puzzle to tell them where the statue might be hidden?"

In this way, after the key information was pointed out, Xiao Ai began to explain and ask questions one after another.

In this way, after Ai pointed out these key issues, Xiaolan and others combined the clues hidden behind these issues and began to look again at the development of Hattori Heiji's so-called encounter with his first love and receiving the token eight years ago. Then, Xiaolan, Kazuha, and Sonoko all vaguely felt the hidden problems in this -

"Logically speaking, if a thief steals a Buddha statue, he should try to sell it on the black market, right?"

Yuanzi thought about it and began to make an in-depth analysis of what was happening. After all, it had been eight years since the theft of the Buddha statue in Shanneng Temple. Under normal circumstances, the thief would have sold the statue to someone else long ago. In addition, the person who bought the stolen goods would not display his collection publicly. Naturally, it was impossible for anyone to know who had the statue now, unless...

"unless……"

Regarding this topic, Xiaolan also figured out the trick and said:

"The thief didn't sell the statue at all! So eight years later, he was able to send a letter to the temple where the statue was lost, telling them where the statue might be hidden..."

"I understand!"

At this moment, as several people took turns analyzing, He Ye also clarified his thoughts and understood the key to this matter -

"If what Heiji took back then was the decoration from the lost Buddha statue, then that means the thief stole an incomplete statue. An incomplete statue may not be able to be sold for a high enough price, so the statue has never been sold and remains in the hands of the thief. Until now, when the statue is about to be consecrated again at Sannoji Temple, the thief informed the monks of the statue..."

He Ye's words seemed to flow smoothly at first, but at the end, He Ye's tone weakened:

"But...why would they do this?"

"Indeed... Since the thief is the only person who knows about the missing Buddha statue, apart from the people in the temple, then the person who sent the strange letter to the temple must be the thief. However, even if the thief has not sold the Buddha statue because it is incomplete, there is no reason for him to tell the owner about it, right?"

Sonoko also nodded, agreeing with Kazuha's doubts.

But at this moment, Xiaolan was more concerned about:

"Hey! Wait a minute!"

  Xiaolan hurriedly reminded:

"Let's not dwell on the issue of the sender for now! Now, what we know is that the so-called first love token held by Hattori is actually just a decoration on the Buddha statue, right?"

In this way, Xiaolan brought the topic back to the original purpose of everyone coming to Sannoji Temple, and Sonoko immediately said in surprise:

"That's right! Since the crystal bead that Hattori Heiji is holding now seems to be impossible to be a keepsake, then his so-called use of the keepsake to find his first love is simply impossible!"

For a moment, Xiaolan nodded continuously, and then said to Heye:

"That's right! Kazuha! It seems that there may be a big problem behind Hattori's so-called first love... Then maybe, if we tell Hattori about this, he will give up looking for his so-called first love!"

  But He Ye was worried about this:

"But...if I tell this to Heiji...it seems..." (End of this chapter)