Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"I don't think you know how ridiculous it is to have to have your stomach washed after getting food poisoning from eating something dirty."

Sitting on the bed in the single room of the hospital, Wakita Kensuke picked up the report of his examination on the bedside table and showed it to Suzuya in front of him.

"Look, my stomach is perforated. The doctor said I can't leave the hospital at will during this period. I have to put down my work and concentrate on resting."

The bald man had no dentures in his mouth, so his speech didn't look very funny. Pointing at the flowers and fruits placed on the bedside, he was filled with emotion.

"Mrs. Maori comes to visit me almost every day... and she also comes to check me up. How polite of her! I just accidentally ate some poisonous food. How could I, who is so open-minded, take it to heart?"

Lingwu crossed his legs and sneered with some disgust: "If you didn't take it seriously, you should know that he came to the hospital specifically for a checkup and then visited a useless old man lying in the hospital bed."

"That really makes me sad." Wakita Kanenori kept smiling, "You still suspect that I was the one who ordered the attack on the Minami Hotel on Hachijo Island."

"Who else could it be but you?" Suzuya crossed his arms and said, "Half of the young lady's people are dead, and the Karasuma Group's stock price keeps falling."

"This shows that what the lady has done is not good enough." Wakita Kensuke picked up an apple, put it to his mouth and took a bite, ignoring the doctor's advice not to eat.

"Look at the Suzuki Group. They did a great job in the aftermath. Experience makes a difference. They received a warning letter from Kaito Kid right after they came back, but their stock price went up instead of down."

"It's just a coincidence..."

Wakita Kanenori did not refute. He did not care whether it was a coincidence or not. He just wanted to express his own thoughts.

"The eldest lady doesn't have enough experience, so she needs the help of an old man, but the person she chose is not a good one."

The bald man snorted disdainfully: "Vermouth, that woman has a little loyalty hidden in her heart. If you really dare to trust her, you might be sold out by her in the backhand."

"enough."

Lingwu didn't want to listen anymore, so he stood up and said, "Don't do anything unnecessary."

Wakita Kenshinori's face also darkened. He really couldn't pretend to be a kind father.

"Understand your position. With your status, you are not qualified to make demands on me, not even the eldest lady."

"Dong dong."

There was a knock on the ward door, and Rum's driver walked in from outside. He took one look at the father and daughter who looked murderous, and replied nonchalantly.

"Binga is dead."

"Ok?"

Rum finally turned around and looked over: "How did he die?"

"The Metropolitan Police Department sent a message that the guy's body was not brought back and is now in the waters around Hachijo Island along with the ocean buoy."

The driver took out a report from his pocket. "It seems that she took some explosives from our base in Tokyo and put them into the wall while the buoy was being built. I guess she was discovered."

"Binga was a useful person. What a pity." Wakita Kanezawa looked at the moon outside the window. "I still remember what he looked like when I first saw him in America. He was an obedient boy."

"According to intelligence, in the file that the Metropolitan Police Department kept on him, the gender column was filled in as female."

The driver put the information on the bedside table: "Sir, the cross-age system has been officially identified as an activity to defraud funds. The director of the Ocean Buoy, Makino, has been extradited to the United States by the international police."

"Got it." Wakita Kanenori waved his hand and said, "Find an opportunity and invite him to have a cup of tea with me."

The driver and Lingwu both left the room. Looking at the moonlight shining on the quilt, the bald man pinched his chin. "The attack... is interesting..."

……

"How can I be so unlucky?"

After the emergency evacuation following Binga's death and everyone else seeing the dark clouds rising from the explosion of the buoy at sea, Yoshioka arranged for a car to take the last group of people home, and gave the police officers on duty in the buoy three days off.

Along the way, Matsuda Jinpei looked at Kanemoto and Yoshioka strangely, and even suspected that the old man had bad intentions towards the little boy. After all, from what he heard on Fujiwara's phone, the old man and the little boy spoke to each other strangely.

After finally explaining it to him clearly and telling him that Kanemoto's family was the financial sponsor of Yoshioka, Yuuji fell asleep with his eyes closed. When he opened his eyes, he was the only one left in the car. When he asked, he found out that they had already passed the Beika Shopping Street and Kudo's residence.

Standing at the door of his house dragging his suitcase, the boy found that the lights in his house were not on as usual. He pushed open the door and found that the retaining wall next door had collapsed.

"The neighbor's house is also very dark..."

Fortunately, a neighbor on the other side heard the noise coming from Yuji's house and came out to see what was going on.

"It's Kudo-san."

The one who went out was Mrs. Tamiya, she was wearing the same housewife outfit that she always wore, her hand resting on her chin.

"I also told Miss Yuzuki and the others about the situation when they came back this afternoon. It turns out you didn't know yet."

"What's going on?" Yuji blinked.

"Oh, there's a murder case in Mr. Matsushita's family."

Mrs. Tamiya said regretfully: "It seems that because she wanted to renovate the house, Mrs. Matsushita asked her brother to help, and then something went wrong."

"The murderer is..."

"It's her brother."

Housewives always love gossip, and although the murder case is not very serious, Mrs. Tamiya, whose husband has been on a business trip overseas, is obviously not satisfied with the family soap opera at this time.

"The deceased is Mrs. Matsushita. The police said it was a conflict between siblings, but I tell you, that's not the case."

Mrs. Tamiya shook her hands excitedly: "Her husband and her brother got into trouble. Mrs. Matsushita seemed to have persuaded her brother to see a psychiatrist several times, but she was considered to be trying to block her brother's happiness, so she turned on the gas and then remotely controlled the smart kitchen appliances to ignite."

"So the house blew up, no wonder I saw that the house was incomplete."

Yuji turned back speechlessly: "This shape... is the security door that smashed into the wall of my house."

"Yep."

Mrs. Tamiya comforted her, "It's a pity for Mrs. Matsushita, but we should always think on the bright side. At least the prices of our houses have increased again."

"Let's find someone to fix it first. I'll go back to my hometown for the next few days."

Yuji found that his car had also been driven away, so he had to walk to the intersection and take a taxi to Kudo's house.

(End of this chapter)