Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

After walking around the alley to the front, the four people noticed that the man's family was a watch repair business. The storefront faced the back alley, so probably only old customers or people who were introduced might come.

"The Mountain Watch Shop..."

Walking into the store, the walls are filled with various cabinet-style wall clocks, all of which are relatively expensive products. There are also many watches on the counter, but you can tell that these are fake brands.

Most of the wall clocks were sent in for repair, but the watches were bought by men and sold by themselves, which was easy to tell. The three found a small stove next to the repair table, which seemed to be used for cutting watch straps, and a small kettle was being used to heat water.

"My fiancée is missing. The night before yesterday, she came to my house and gave me some freshly made glutinous rice balls. But after she left the house, I remembered that I forgot to take the watch her father had sent for repair. Just as I was about to give it to her, I saw her suddenly disappear in front of my eyes."

"…disappeared? Right before my eyes!"

Is this guy trying to make fun of me? Do you really think such a lame excuse can fool a normal person? It's obviously you who killed the person!
"Disappeared in an instant? How scary!"

Xuntaro covered his mouth in horror, while Marina took out a manual with surprise and started recording her inspiration.

"You said your fiancée disappeared in an instant. Where was she? Did anyone else see her besides you?"

"The place where they disappeared was the alley where you were standing just now. Besides me, there was also Mr. Kawazawa who came to repair the clock at home, and Mrs. Oda who came to buy a watch for her son who had just entered junior high school."

The man pointed to two of the other shops on the roadside at the back and asked the four of them to go and see. The one that looked shabby and looked like a shop but was actually just an ordinary household was the Oda family. The one on the other side, which had rebuilt its house with brand new wood, was the Kawasawa family. The wind blowing from that house had a faint smell of alcohol.

"The man of Oda Rang's family seems to be imprisoned in the northwest of the Soviet Union. I heard it's very cold there. They don't know if the man of the family is still alive."

Yamanaka picked up a watch from the counter and showed it to them.

"Oda asked his wife to make pickles herself and go out to sell them to the residents every day. The women in the family were clumsy and unskillful, so if a man came out to buy, she would take him to an empty alley to sell him more."

"What if it's a woman?" "If it's a woman, don't even think about selling pickles. People will chase her away right away."

"Why?" x2
Marina and Xuntaro, who didn't understand what Yamanaka said, blinked their eyes in confusion. They noticed that Yamanaka paused and didn't want to explain, so they turned to the smartest one, Yata.

"I did not understand."

You are talking nonsense!
Facing the two's questions, Yata just turned his head coldly and rejected the inquiry very perfunctorily. There was no other way, and when Marina saw Yuko writing in the notebook, she had to lean over to see what she found, and then she saw a few big words specially marked behind Mrs. Odano's name.

[Mainly engaged in the flesh trade.]
"Where is the other person?"

When Xuntaro saw Marina hiding in a corner with her hands covering her red face, he hesitated and gave up the idea of ​​getting close to Yuko, and urged Yamanaka to introduce Mr. Kawasawa.

"Mr. Kawazawa is a doctor. He used to work in a hospital. During the war, he was forcibly sent to a Japanese hospital in China. But I heard that he once saved a big shot in the army, so he came back in 43."

Yamanaka glanced outside cautiously and whispered, "But I heard that he came back because he helped the Special Higher Police get information from a Chinese man who was imprisoned in the hospital and made a contribution."

"Right now he……"

"He's a private doctor now, otherwise his house wouldn't be the newest and best on our street."

"That means he is the richest man on this street, right?"

Yuuji watched Yamanaka reluctantly admit it, and in his mind he had a rough analysis of this street. (End of this chapter)