Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"It looks like Mr. Maori may not come today."

Sitting in the police car, Officer Nishimura checked his watch. After confirming that the time agreed upon with Kogoro Mori had passed, he opened the door and got out of the car. He and a group of people rang the doorbell of a house not far away.

Although there was a doorbell, this family obviously did not use a Western-style architectural design. Instead, they added a circle of brick walls and iron railings to the traditional Japanese building. This strange thing made the police who came to the door sigh, thinking that the owner must have made a lot of money with his old boss to be able to renovate the old house.

"This family bought several houses around them just to expand their yard."

Officer Nishimura took the documents handed to him by his subordinates and prepared to have a good talk with the owner of the house.

"People like this may not be willing to have a good chat with us."

Inside the fence, the main door of this family's house was opened from the inside shortly after the doorbell rang. A man in a kimono and wooden clogs looked back at the door reluctantly, then quickly went out.

"You are the only son of this family, blessed and holy."

Officer Nishimura closed the file and suddenly realized, "No wonder I felt so familiar with this name. It turns out that he was a former kendo genius from Hokkaido."

"I recognize you. You are Officer Nishimura from the police station. Some students in the school said that you asked them to make a death judgment."

When Fucheng Sheng saw the police officers appearing at his doorstep together, he knew it was no small matter. He opened the door without asking any questions and stood at the door.

"It is said that they encountered a murder case while shopping, and then you arrested them to make a preliminary diagnosis of death."

"Well, there were times when that was true."

The rumbling sound of a motorcycle coming from the west side of the road attracted the attention of both groups of people. Looking at the Kansai detective who appeared here on a bicycle, Nakamori Ginzo, who was relatively familiar with the situation, stepped forward to greet him.

"Why are you here?"

"It's just a coincidence. I found out that Mr. Fukushiro seemed to be a former employee of the Axe family, so I rode my bike to take a look." Hattori Heiji took off his helmet.

The Kudo brothers did not tell him who the person holding the other two knives was mentioned by Takuzo Axie, but considering that the Fukushiro family was surrounded by many police officers, it was not difficult to guess.

The reason why Hattori Heiji rode his bike here was really not much different from what he said. After leaving the gas station, he went around the subsidiaries of the Fujiang family. He didn't understand why the Fujiang Group suddenly lost all its subsidiaries and went bankrupt, so Hattori Heiji had to ask someone who might know this.

Fukushiro Sei's father, Fukushiro Ryoe, used to be the driver of Axie Takuzo's father. So as a confidant, he must know what happened in between, but he is not sure whether the other party will tell him.

Realizing that he could use the police's halo to help himself obtain intelligence, Hattori Heiji coughed twice, and walked obediently among the police amid Fukushiro Sei's suspicion, indicating that he was with the police.

"Well then, Fukjo-sei, we have something we need to ask your father, he should be home."

Officer Nishimura skillfully took out his police ID to signal the other party not to refuse, and walked straight into Fuk Cheng's yard. He briefly glanced at the artificially dug pond and the frightened deer, and finally stopped at the door of the house without moving. "My father is indeed at home..."

Although the policeman walked into the yard, he did not open the door directly. From this point of view, Fukushiro Sei could confirm that the other party did not have a search warrant, but he had no choice but to cooperate with the police and walked back to Nishimura and opened the door.

"You all shouldn't all go in."

"Of course, it's just me and Officer Nakamori..."

"And me!" Hattori Heiji, who rushed over, shouted. After being given a cold look by Officer Nishimura, he repeated carefully, "And me."

"Hi hi."

After opening the door of his home, his expression immediately changed from impatience to a friendly smile. The three people who followed Fukushiro Sei into the house looked at each other in confusion, and only understood why until they entered the living room.

"Ah, Mr. Fukushiro is back!"

Toyama Kazuha and Ooka Momiji, who were sitting at the tea table, had a cup of tea in front of them, while Iori Muga was standing next to the two girls. The moment Hattori Heiji walked in, the atmosphere in the Fukushiro family was obviously a little worse.

"He Ye?! And Hong Ye, why are you two here!?"

Hattori Heiji widened his eyes, and under the stiff expression of Fukushiro Sei, he walked directly to the girl, and without saying a word, he hit Toyama Kazuha on the head with a knife.

"There's nothing we can do. We couldn't get through to you on the phone, so we ran into this Mr. Fucheng who said he seemed to have seen you somewhere, so Xiao Ye hurried over."

Ooka Hongye was speechless and hit Yuanshan Heye on the head with his hand knife: "It's a good thing I followed you."

"You are such a fool to believe such a thing." Hattori Heiji looked at his childhood sweetheart, but pointed at Fukushiro Seiji: "What if this guy has bad intentions?"

[No, in this situation, it should be “definitely” rather than “if”. ]

The two police officers still standing at the door watched this scene with great interest but did not interrupt. After all, provoking and stirring up Fucheng Sheng's emotions first would only be beneficial to their subsequent questioning.

"Don't... don't underestimate me!" Yuanshan Heye clenched his fist and hit Hattori: "Even if Hongye didn't follow, nothing would happen, okay!"

"Yes, yes, I am right, Heye-chan..."

Before Fukujo Sei finished his words, everyone saw Toyama Kazuha take out a pink Glock from her bag.

"Yuji lent me his electric gun!" (End of this chapter)