Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"Based on the way the cabinet fell, it should be just an ordinary accident, right?"

Inside the Card King store, Takagi and Chiba, who were on duty for the second time, first made a judgment and then looked at their acquaintances.

"What a coincidence, Conan-kun, it's great to have you here."

"Ah...ah, long time no see, Officer Takagi..."

Both of them were smiling, which made Princess An feel emotional.

"Kuroba-san, the police in Tokyo are really enthusiastic and they like children very much."

"Uh~" Kuroba Kaito didn't know how to explain to Princess An. It seemed that the child had never heard any sarcasm, or didn't quite understand it.

"That's not the case, Princess An." Several children walked up to Princess An and shook their heads in unison: "Officer Gao Mu just wanted to complain about how we are always involved in cases."

"Edogawa is stabbing him back." Haibara Ai seemed to be talking to Princess An, but in fact she was explaining to Rize.

This is also a sign of a good relationship. Officer Takagi and Officer Chiba are the children's oldest friends in the Investigation Division, second only to Officer Matsuda, but he is not a policeman now.

"But Officer Shiratori did not come with you this time. I still think that Officer Megure is more competent than him." Genta put his hands behind his head and said something that Takagi and Chiba could not answer.

"Officer Shiratori is still busy with a case from this morning." Mitsuhiko touched Genta.

After a brief chat, everyone turned their attention back to the case.

Officer Chiba went out to wait for someone, while Takagi put on gloves and squatted in front of Isuke. From the side, although only the head of the deceased was exposed, in fact, because the human body itself was raised, only the part from the heart down was pressed under the shelf.

Holding Isuke's head with his hands and shaking it up and down and left and right to make sure that the man could move his head after being hit, Takagi glanced at the ground and looked at the blood of the dead man.

"The forensic department is here and they're going to take the body away now." Officer Chiba returned from outside the store.

"I understand." Gao Mu whispered slightly: "Qianye, can you ask them to determine the cause of death as soon as possible?"

"You have an idea?!" Officer Chiba clenched his fists excitedly: "So we don't have to stay here for at least another two hours?"

"The case is fine, why are you in such a hurry to go there?"

"Yeah... I promised Naeko that I would accompany her to the Suzuki Museum."

"You are so... By the way, please, can you get it from the Forensic Department..."

Takagi watched Chiba leave happily. Although he had an idea, he still didn't understand the murderer's method. Although he achieved his goal in the end, he thought it was too much of a coincidence.

"Normally at this time, there would be some people talking..."

"Officer Takagi, are you finally going to ask me for help?" Conan snorted twice: "You seem to have reached a bottleneck."

"No, I want to delegate the task to other children." Takagi shook his head, and a basin of cold water extinguished Conan's enthusiasm.

"We?" The other members of the Junior Detective Team were all very curious, and the three suspects on the side became nervous.

"Hey, officer, it's absurd to let a group of children find the criminal. If they can't find the murderer and just point to someone as the murderer, do you really want to take that person to the Metropolitan Police Department?"

Mr. Yotsuba's rebuttal successfully aroused the children's dissatisfaction. Except for Haibara Ai, the other four children became motivated and determined to catch the real murderer.

After pulling a few kids to a corner and making sure that the suspects couldn't hear him, Takagi carefully instructed them, "I want to ask you to find out the reason why the shelf collapsed. As long as you find this, I will probably know who the murderer is. But you must keep this mission secret and don't let others see it."

"You can do this, Officer Takagi, right?" Rize noticed the three people looking over here from the corner of her eye: "Are you worried that if you keep staring at the shelves, the murderer will hurt others?"

"After all, this should be his most important method. When you were looking for the cause of the shelf collapse, I was next to those three people. If anyone tried to escape or hold someone hostage, I would knock him out."

With the admiration of the four children, Takagi returned to the suspect and looked at them confidently with his chest folded.

"Great Detective, you should have found out who the real murderer is, right?" Kuroba Kaito pressed his palm on Conan's head and then rubbed it.

"Ah, this case is pretty simple." Conan rolled his eyes at Kuroba Kaito, and while fixing his hair, he looked out the window at the sunset, unable to control the corners of his mouth curling up. "Genta-kun, what are you doing?"

Princess An, who was led by the children to the shelf, found that everyone was looking for something, so she asked. Of course, the three suspects targeted by Takagi Shigeru had already noticed this. Although the guilty criminals pretended to be very good on the surface, their hearts had already jumped into their throats.

"It's like this. During the chaos just now, Rize's two cards fell somewhere." Ayumi pretended to be very anxious.

This was a reason the children had agreed upon long ago. If the high-level card that the African hero Kuroba Rize had drawn with 10,000 yen was lost, it would be reasonable for everyone to look for it on the shelf to comfort her.

"Sob, sob." Rize covered her eyes with the back of her hands. Her excellent acting skills made the adults believe it. The goodwill that came from nowhere made them ask Takagi Shigeru to agree to let them search at the crime scene.

"Officer, can you bear to see a girl who loves card games so sad?"

"That's right. If the police officer disagrees, we can shout together so that the police can hear everyone's voice."

The muscular clerk raised his arms and everyone shouted in agreement, but it seemed as if in coordination with the girl's sobs, sobbing and shouting alternated, making Takagi Shigeru sweat coldly.

Although he asked the children to do this, this is too exaggerated.

"Please keep your voice down. If the noise gets out of hand, I'll be in trouble!"

Takagi had to be "forced" to agree to let the children find the cards. The adults who supported the girls were like they had won a football game. Although they didn't say anything, you could always hear cheers in the store.

"What the hell is this?" Kuroba Kaito looked at Rize with some envy: "That little girl is so likable."

They are all Black Feather, so why doesn't he have this skill? Kidd can only special attack against women.

……

In front of the big soup pot in the forest castle of Ekomachi, Koizumi Akako, who was wearing a red robe, was in a daze, stirring the soup with her hands from time to time, which made Lucifer, who was floating above the soup pot, very angry.

"You summoned me out here, when will you let me go back?"

"Tell me, should I help him?" Hongzi was obviously very conflicted.

"No help!"

"But you said that if I don't help, Kuroba Kaito will just be a high school student again, and then marry Nakamori Aoko after graduating from high school and become a world-renowned magician and liar."

"Then help!"

"But you said that if you help, Kuroba Kaito will accept his identity as Kid in front of me and completely cut off the relationship between Koizumi Hongzi and Kuroba Kaito."

"What on earth do you want!"

Although there was only one head, the servant standing at the door clearly felt that Lucifer had already knelt down.

"I'm so tired, I want to go to sleep, please, let me go back!"

"Tell me if you want to help him, and I'll lift the summoning circle."

"you……!"

The magic circle effectively blocked Lucifer's obscene words.

"Miss Hongzi." The servant said at the right time: "Since you want to go but can't, why not let someone who is sure to help Kidd go."

Hongzi's eyes lit up, and she left the basement after saying that.

"That's awesome! You, you, you are my benefactor. Don't worry, when you go to hell, I will take care of you."

Holding the bucket of water, the housekeeper directly put out the wood burning in the pot, and sighed slightly as he looked at the disappearing big head.

"I still want to go to heaven..." (End of this chapter)