The unscrupulous detective in Conan

Chapter 1221 Xiaolan: Yuanzi, don't look back, I'm not your senior
Xiaolan didn't intend to expose her best friend, so she responded:
"I already know about this..."

"You knew already?"

"Well, Senior Fujino and I are now looking for a place to dump the body."

"Um……?"

Yuanzi silently typed a question mark: No, I just saw the report, and you ran to find the place where the body was dumped?

When Xiaolan heard Sonoko's puzzled voice, she gave a brief summary of the matter involving Zhugu and his son.

Sonoko on the other end of the phone stroked her chin, as if she had entered the role of a high school girl: "In that case, someone killed Itagaki and dumped the body..."

"The murderer also had a tattoo of a nail on his wrist."

"Could it be Itagaki's band logo?"

"If that's the case, it must be the work of the sasaeng fans that Senior Fujino once mentioned!"

Yuanzi's words successfully attracted the attention of everyone present.

Maori Kogoro even asked loudly: "What does the band's logo and the sasaeng fan you mentioned mean?"

"...?"

Yuanzi silently typed another question mark.

She was a little confused as to why Uncle Maori could hear what she said.

Could it be that Xiaolan turned on the loudspeaker? !
That was just...

Sonoko thought about it and realized that Senior Fujino was right beside Xiaolan. When he heard what she had just said, her face turned red:
“How shameful!!”

"kindness?"

Kogoro Mori was a little confused as he listened to the voice coming from the other end of the phone.

What is this girl, who seems a little unintelligent, ashamed of?

Xiaolan looked at her confused father and felt speechless.

So, I had a hard time making Sonoko not so socially dead...

Dad, how did you break her defense so easily?
Xiaolan sighed tiredly, then carefully put the phone to her ear and whispered: "Um, Sonoko, Senior Fujino is not nearby, he didn't hear it."

As she said this, she glanced at Fujino cautiously as if she had a guilty conscience.

Fujino: "..."

So why do I feel a little weird?
How come this is exactly the same as the classic quote from my previous life, “She fell asleep or something?”
In this case it means: Yuanzi, don’t look back, I’m not your senior, right?
"Oh, that's okay."

Hearing this, Yuanzi breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and couldn't help but complain softly: "Why didn't you say it earlier..."

Feeling less socially dead, she immediately regained her confidence and explained, "It's the band that Itagaki founded before he became famous. Doesn't every band have a logo?"

"Itagaki's band logo is a nail and a snake. The pattern is a snake pierced by a nail and nailed to death. The band's fanatical fans like to tattoo this pattern on their bodies as a symbol."

"Come to think of it, there seems to be a tattoo shop near the Beihu Central Bridge you mentioned."

"That store is said to be collaborating with a band called NAIL ANAKE. Fans of the band will go to that store to get that pattern tattooed on their bodies..."

"If this tattoo is found on the wrist of the murderer, it is very likely that it was done by a sasaeng fan."

"Itagaki's leaving the band angered many fans. Maybe some angry fans went to his house and killed him and dumped his body."

"Maybe you can find clues if you go to that tattoo shop!"

"Thank you, Sonoko!"

"Hey, wait, I haven't finished what I'm saying yet!"

Hearing this, Xiaolan nodded and carefully wrote down the address. Then, she decisively hung up the phone at Sonoko's hurried voice to prevent Sonoko from being socially frustrated if she found out that Fujino-senpai had heard everything she had said before because of her father or some other fool.

Sato Miwako watched this operation quietly, then turned to Fujino with a strange expression and said, "So... you didn't expect that the breakthrough would come to you?"

"Well, it's not something that can be expected in advance."

Fujino gently touched his chin: "I just think that at this time, the clues should come to us on their own."

"This guy really came to me on his own..."

Miwako Sato drooped her eyelids, feeling that this was too much of a coincidence.

Just when we couldn't find a breakthrough, Sonoko just happened to call and give the tattoo shop a tip, right?
Why do I always feel like this Fujino guy is doing something behind my back?

Fujino said he was innocent: That was the evidence that the old thief Qisan deliberately sent to Corgi because he didn't know how to write it. What does it have to do with me?
You think it's a coincidence, but I also think it's a coincidence!
…………

A tattoo shop called NAIL ANAKE near Haido Chuo Bridge.

The store manager is a man with a big tattoo on his arm, wearing a black hat, black sunglasses, and a black short-sleeved shirt. He looks very West Coast style.

The store also displays various tattoo booklets, successful tattoo cases, and peripherals of Itagaki's former band.

Zhu Gu walked into the store and saw the sign hanging on the wall at a glance.

A logo nailed to a wooden board with a nail pierced through the snake's head.

However, he frowned: "This is not what I saw at the time."

"Isn't it this?"

Xiaolan sighed when she heard this: "I thought I finally found the right one."

Ooka Hongye took a closer look at the pattern and said, "But this pattern is indeed quite scary. It feels similar to what little brother Zhugu described."

As a conservative, she couldn't help but sigh, her tone full of confusion: "I really don't know who would tattoo this kind of pattern on their body."

Inside the store, a man standing behind the counter, dressed in a West Coast style, stood with his arms folded across his chest as he looked at the large group of people entering the store.

He is the manager of this tattoo shop. He couldn't help but frowning slightly as he looked at this group of people who looked very serious and didn't seem like they would come to take care of his business.

It felt like this group of people came here to mess things up.

"Who are you?"

"But don't disturb other people's business by coming to get a tattoo, okay?"

"Metropolitan Police Department Criminal Investigation Division 1."

Miwako Sato glanced at the man after hearing this, and then took out her police ID and glanced at the man, revealing her identity, with a calm expression on her face:
"We have something we want to know from you."

"It turns out to be the police officer sister!"

"If you have any questions, just ask me. I will tell you everything I know!"

As soon as the man heard that the other party was a policeman, his expression immediately became fawning.

He is a spirited young man, but a spirited old man.

The non-mainstream spiritual young man had no idea about official power, but as an old spiritual man, he knew clearly how powerful official power was and was afraid of it.

——Never offend the police or official forces.

Perhaps if you are a little ignorant, you can try to defy the official power, but if you still don’t have a clear understanding after all these years, you can go to a neurosurgeon to have your brain checked out.

Miwako Sato narrowed her eyes and stared at the man in front of her.

Then he said, "We are investigating a case right now. A witness said that he found the same symbol on your wall on the murderer's hand."

"Is this one?"

“But it doesn’t look like it.”

"That must be the new band logo, right?"

The man immediately took out a hanging flag from under the counter: "This is the pattern, officer, can you see if it is like this?"

"That's it!"

Zhu Gu suddenly stretched out his hand at this time: "This is the pattern I saw at that time!"

The man glanced at the boy and immediately realized that he was an eyewitness to the case.

At the same time, as a veteran rice flower man, he immediately understood that the female police officer must have brought the child here to look for clues to the murder.

Without much hesitation, he squatted down again and took out a booklet from the counter:

"This LOGO is new and was originally scheduled to go on sale next week..." "But some die-hard fans couldn't wait and got it tattooed in advance."

"For publicity purposes, I took promotional photos of them. Miss Officer, take a look."

"From the left are Mr. Kiritani, Mr. Yasushi, and Mr. Kan'ai."

"You can take this page away if you need it!"

Sato Miwako: "...?"

The man was so cooperative that it was hard to trouble him.

No, why are you feeling so guilty?

This is not in line with the tradition of the Mikan people to rebel against the police, right?

Miwako Sato pinched her chin, with some suspicion in her eyes.

However, considering the other party's active provision of evidence, she did not say much.

Just take the whole page away.

On the way back to Beihu Central Bridge, everyone began to look at the people on the list.

The three people on the list are all non-mainstream like Itagaki, with band tattoos on their wrists. One looks like a killer, one looks like a gang leader, and one looks like a foreign black person.

Xiaolan observed it carefully and suddenly said in surprise: "I've seen this before!"

"Charge...Charge Nono Yoko!"

The two sharp-eyed people immediately noticed that behind the photo of the black man there was a photo of Yoko Okino wearing a maid outfit and holding a teapot on the TV.

What Xiaolan saw was a teapot, and what Maori saw was a maid.

Xiaolan's face darkened immediately: "Dad, can you please focus on the main point!"

"I was talking about the teapot!"

As she spoke, she took out her cell phone from her inner pocket and said, "Look, this is the advertising car."

"In other words, the hammer he saw at the time might have been an advertising vehicle?"

Huiyuan Ai stood on tiptoe, Xiaolan cooperated and looked at her, nodded and agreed:
"Well, I think that might be the case!"

Hongye also leaned over to take a look: "But Xiaolan, why did you take pictures of the advertising car?"

“Because I think it’s cute.”

"That's it..."

Hongye touched his chin and wanted to say, why not just buy it if it’s cute.

But thinking about it, it seems a bit too otherworldly to say this...

Considering that Xiaolan was Fujino's friend, she didn't say anything.

Then he reminded her, "However, a cute teapot like this might be promoted on an advertising truck, but a hammer or something like that, I can't imagine there would be such a thing..."

"That's right."

Xiaolan thought about it after hearing this, and sighed in disappointment: "That's exactly what happened."

At this time, Haibara Ai was thinking about the teapot in her mind.

She put her hands in her pockets, thinking, a little confused.

He immediately turned to look at Conan, whose reasoning ability was slightly better than his, and planned to ask him what he thought.

Then, she saw Conan staring at Hondou Eisuke, who was following behind everyone and had no sense of existence at all.

"What are you looking at?"

"Don't talk, I'm thinking."

"...?"

Haibara Ai opened her dead eyes and looked at the corgi in front of her, feeling a little confused.

She ignored the corgi that dared to talk back to her, and planned to find a chance to return it later.

He turned his head and continued thinking.

Then, when his eyes passed the bridge, he was suddenly stunned.

brain...

Ahem, anyway, I finally understood it.

Huiyuan Ai touched her fair little chin, and a thought flashed across her eyes:

"That would explain the hammer thing."

"But the other...fireworks?"

"It seems to be the case. If you see the tattoo, that's it!"

Haibara Ai's expression was extremely serious, and she looked almost the same as Conan's usual head, as if it had been struck by lightning and exploded.

Fujino silently looked at his little Ai, with a hint of tenderness in his eyes.

It’s safe! Once the code assistant shows this expression, the case will be solved completely!

In fact, Fujino sometimes feels helpless.

The old thief Qisan always likes to play some abstract puzzles that only he can figure out, and then let Conan, the son of the plane and the little god of death, solve them with various coincidences and ideas.

Just like the teacup and pot promotional vehicle provided by Xiaolan, and Sonoko's tips.

Even if you know the puzzle in advance, you may not be able to figure out how to solve it.

For a time traveler like Fujino who thinks from another world...

My brain circuits really can't keep up with the direction of the scientific world.

Fortunately, we have Ai, the secret code reasoning girl.

It’s better to leave the unsolvable problems to her because she is so clever and obedient.

After thinking things through, Xiao Ai's mouth corners slightly tilted, revealing a sweet and cool smile.

She raised her eyes and looked around, thinking about the way the little corgi usually acted like a child.

Then he pointed to the side of the bridge and said, "Ah, look, the lights on that building look like sticks when they're on!"

"It should be the lights on both sides of the elevator, right?"

"If you think about it, if a teacup advertising car happened to pass by a flower, wouldn't it look like a hammer?"

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at Huibara Ai who suddenly spoke in surprise and blinked.

Today’s Conan is not... Haibara Ai?

What about Conan?

Everyone turned around and found Conan who was silent.

...So did the two of them swap roles today?

There was a flash of confusion in everyone's eyes.

"..."

Under the gaze of everyone, Huibara Ai was silent for a moment, lowered her little head, and suddenly felt her face a little hot, and immediately turned red.

The weather is a bit warm today. If it were a bit hotter...

I guess it's going to steam wave.

Sure enough, this tone is still very embarrassing...

How on earth could that damned Edogawa say something like that without blushing or getting nervous?
Huibara Ai couldn't help feeling confused.

Finally, considering that this guy could move into her childhood sweetheart's home without blushing or beating his heart, and called her "Sister Xiaolan" all the time, she could only come to the conclusion that Edogawa might be a little shameless.

(End of this chapter)