Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

In order to get to the bottom of the "truth" behind Yuko's injury, the reading club team returned to the old alley and began a more detailed search and analysis, wishing to turn over every inch of the land.

"Judging from where they found me, they probably knocked me out and then ran away."

Yuko pointed calmly to the place where Marina found her yesterday and asked the other three to look at the bloodstains on the ground. Although they were inconspicuous, there were still some small black marks.

"My wound had obvious signs of abrasions going backwards. I think this person must have knocked me unconscious from behind."

In fact, it should be the angle at which he landed that caused his forehead to slide backwards, but since we need such a prisoner now, it is natural to say it in this way.

While Yuko was analyzing, Yata reached out and touched the ground. Thinking of the time of Tayura's death and Rum's act of discarding the police manual and gun in an attempt to frame the Special Higher Police agents, he couldn't help but touch his head in worry.

[I must hide the family behind me from Marina...]

"Nanjun, why did you get attacked by that person?"

Marina came up to Yuko and poked her face with her hand: "You are indeed very cute, but when I found you, your clothes were dirty, but you were dressed neatly and decently."

"Could it be... an old-fashioned family or something..." Xun Tailang interrupted, then noticed that Yi Tai was staring at him, and immediately slapped his lips and smiled apologetically: "I don't know, I just said it casually."

"Hey! What are you doing, kids?"

Just when Yetai was looking worried and the other three were chatting and laughing, a strange head popped out from the wall beside the alley and shouted anxiously at the four people.

"It's time to get out of school, what are you doing sneaking around in the alley?!"

The other person's hands climbed up the wall, and the four people realized that he was wearing an ordinary black kimono. The shaggy mustache on his mouth proved that he had cleaned his cheeks not long ago.

"No, we were just in this alley..."

Before Marina could finish her words, she found that the man's head disappeared above the wall. She only heard the sound of him running away through the wall, from their side to the street at the entrance of the alley. It was obvious that the man had run away from home.

"It's been so noisy here since just now. You little brats, go home early if the streets are not peaceful!" The man appeared at the entrance of the alley, trying to scare the four children away by yelling, but found that they were all looking at him calmly, with no intention of leaving.

"Uncle, you live next door?" Yuko asked directly.

"What does it have to do with you? Instead of wasting time on this, you might as well go home and do your homework!" When the man heard what Yuko said, he immediately frowned and put his hands on his hips impatiently.

"It actually has something to do with me. I was knocked unconscious in this alley the night before yesterday for no apparent reason. So I'm investigating this matter with my friends right now."

"Being knocked unconscious? In the past two days!"

The man immediately put down his hands that were crossed over his chest, looked up at the wall where he had just stuck his head out, and then immediately stared at the wound on Yuko's forehead with an unsightly expression.

"You don't think it was our family who knocked you out, do you? I tell you, that's impossible."

"I thought so too. Uncle, you are really smart. Can you tell me if anything strange happened in the alley these two days?"

The man hesitated.

"Yes, I do. Well, come to our house and talk..."

The other party seemed to have something difficult to say, but the three people in the reading club didn't take it to heart and just treated it as normal. Only Yuko immediately perked up her alertness and her expression changed immediately when she looked at the man. Yata also felt that the man's attitude change was a bit too big.

This person... looked like a murderer. He was clearly very disgusted with them just now, but when he heard that she might have appeared in this alley the night before, his attitude immediately changed.

He has a problem!

(End of this chapter)