Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"Why are there always these idiots who try to disguise murder as robbery? Doesn't that just tell everyone they have a reason to hide their identity?"

The group sitting in the living room were waiting for the police to return to Lake Hamana to arrange for the lake to be salvaged. The sky outside was gradually darkening, and Shiota Heihachiro couldn't help but feel anxious.

"Oh dear, if this continues, the body will stay in the water for too long, and it will be difficult to determine the cause of death later."

"Kyle and Lina, they're not necessarily dead! Don't talk nonsense!"

Leon Martin covered his face in excitement. From Marina's analysis, he had immediately realized something was wrong. Whether it was because he himself was the murderer or he couldn't accept the situation yet, he was now the prime suspect.

“I promised Sister Cecilia that I would get them home safely. How can I go back to see her after something like this happened…”

Leon Martin's face twisted in pain. It was clear from his words that he didn't have much affection for his so-called companions, Kyle and Lina, but he was quite different towards Sister Sersé.

"Who are you and Sister Sersel?"

Yuuji walked behind Leon Martin, pinched his chin, and sized up the man, pondering the orphanage he had just mentioned.

“I used to live in an orphanage. My mother and father came to Japan to do business, and they happened to be there when the United States attacked Pearl Harbor. They were killed by Japanese military police on the street, and all the money in their house was stolen.”

Leon Martin thought of his parents, leaned back, and closed his eyes.

“I was only eleven years old, hiding on the streets, when Sister Cecilia took me in and I worked at the orphanage, so I could have food to eat.”

An eleven-year-old child can't do much. He can only light the wood stove for the orphanage or turn over the hard soil behind the orphanage in winter to prevent the Japanese government from reducing the orphanage's area the following year due to inadequate land management, leaving the children with no space to play.

"So the nun is considered your adoptive mother?" Marina, whose father was not religious, roughly summarized what Leon Martin meant.

"I suppose so. God bless me, and through Sister Thessalonians's spreading of the gospel, I am spared from starving to death on the cold streets."

"The land for the orphanage was lent by the Japanese government, and the funds for raising children were allocated from national taxes. According to your logic, we are God."

Black Maru was very unhappy with Leon Martin's statement and retorted, but the other party didn't bother to refute him at all and just looked at him with disdain.

"It's raining?"

Jintaro, leaning against the window, noticed a few raindrops on the ground, which made everyone quiet down a bit. Sure enough, they could hear the sound of rain hitting the ground.

"It will rain heavily soon. If those two young ladies are ordinary people who know to run home when it rains, and we still can't find them later, I think we will definitely find them on the lake after the rain."

“This isn’t the right time to tell jokes like this,” Shiota Heihachiro nudged Jintaro’s shoulder. “Besides, foreigners probably don’t really like these kinds of jokes.”

"Okay, okay. By the way, look, those two policemen are running back from the lake."

Everyone stood up and looked out the window, seeing them rushing towards them. The lights that had been on on Lake Hamana were now off, and the houses of Leon Martin and his group not far away were also dark.

"So they really were soaking in the lake..."

(I've been seeing a lot about Conan lately, and I really can't understand it. The author started writing fanfiction because they like Conan, but now they're getting more and more disappointed. I'm planning to take a break for a while, calm down, and see where this work is headed.) (End of Chapter)