The unscrupulous detective in Conan

Chapter 1254 Some people are alive, but already dead
"Police, it feels like there are more of them."

"Did something happen?"

Several girls came out of the room and looked around curiously.

Then, I saw a group of people who had just returned from outside the villa.

Maori Kogoro scratched his head and laughed: "Nothing, it's just that old man did something naughty again and threatened the people in the troupe!"

"Something fishy going on?"

"Yeah, messed up the lounge or something."

Bai Ma nodded, "But it's not a big problem."

Fujino looked at them and reminded them: "Although that guy won't show up for a while, you should stay in the room... well, or it's better to stay with us, after all, it's still very dangerous here."

Upon hearing this, several people nodded in agreement, then looked around the stage, and then began to wander around the villa with the others.

Passing by a room, I saw a policeman in uniform standing at the door.

There was a label on the door saying "No entry for outsiders".

Inside, a voice came: "If one of us dies..."

"Then there's no better night than today."

When they went in, they saw a stage at the end of the empty room. On the stage, a young man was kneeling on the ground, and he looked like he was poisoned.

Wen Yue Hua Lian was standing nearby and uttered a scream "Ah" at a very appropriate time, appearing very dedicated.

Acting just like the real thing.

This is the evaluation made by several detectives who often see crime scenes.

The full name of this drama is "Magic Mirror". The full name should be "Magic Mirror" or something, but it is too tongue-twisting, so no one says it. Even the promotion uses the easy-to-understand "Magic Mirror".

The story is about a fight for inheritance among a prominent family in a village deep in the mountains, love, hatred, and finally a fight between the two families.

At the end of the performance, Fumitsuki Karen simply picked up the knife on the wall and stabbed it towards Bandai Suzue's stomach.

The depth of the force, the restoration of the expression.

It even gave people the feeling that she wasn't performing at all.

Well, maybe there is no acting at all, it’s all emotion.

"Wow, it went in!"

Yuanzi looked at the scene in front of her and said excitedly in a low voice: "This effect feels so realistic, that knife can't be a real knife..."

"It should be a prop knife, right?"

Hongye stroked his chin and glanced at Yuanzi next to him, looking at him as if he were a fool: "We can't use real swords in rehearsal, otherwise it will be too labor-intensive."

"Of course I know it's a prop knife... You don't think I'm stupid enough to think it's a real knife, do you?"

"It's hard to say..."

"Don't imitate Fujino-senpai!"

Xiaolan and Haibara Ai glanced helplessly at the two people next to them who started arguing regardless of the occasion, and felt a little socially dead.

Fortunately, the people rehearsing on the field are all professionals and will not be affected by this little thing.

The rehearsal ended successfully.

Of course, they were full of curiosity about the women performing on the stage.

After the rehearsal, they started chatting with Wen Yue Hua Lian, who looked not much older than them:
"Sorry to bother you, Miss Wen Yue..."

"No, no. After all, when we go on stage, the audience must be seated below the stage. If we are disturbed just because of you, then we are not suitable to be actors."

"Hey, Miss Wen Yue, did you guys rehearse right before the start?"

"Yes, that's right. After all, Bandai-sensei is able to memorize the script immediately, so the script is rushed out in a hurry."

"That must be very troublesome. I have to memorize the script in such a short time..."

"It's not too troublesome. It's better to be busy."

Facing this question, Wen Yue Hua Lian showed a helpless smile on her face: "I memorized all the lines in my head, and some uncomfortable things naturally made me forget them."

"It must be because of that fat woman who orders you around, right?" Our garden heroine saw injustice and stood up for the poor victim.

"It's not the teacher's business..." She smiled faintly, and seemed to be speaking from the heart: "Although the teacher is a little strict, it's all for my own good. After all, if there was no teacher, I wouldn't be an actor."

Xiaolan nodded and said, "Ms. Hualien, you are indeed a very good actor..."

"I can't say I'm excellent... I'm actually not suitable to be an actor at all."

"...?"

Several people typed a question mark.

It felt like she was in Versailles.

Just as everyone was thinking this in their hearts, Bandai's voice suddenly came: "Hualien, what are you talking about?"

"Nothing, teacher!"

"You are such a slut who sticks to men as soon as you see them. You can't even walk when you see a handsome guy, right?"

"I didn't, it's just..."

"How dare you talk back?"

Bandai Suzue, the seemingly unruly head of the theater troupe, maintains a domineering personality.

She called Wen Yue Hua Lian over, and seeing that she was still trying to explain, she threw the script at her and angrily said, "Hurry up and prepare the medicine. It's already time. Have you forgotten?"

"I'll get ready right now!"

"Um, teacher, the script..."

"Humph, just throw this kind of thing away. Don't compare me with a bunch of idiots like you."

Bandai Suzue snorted and turned to leave the room, "I can't even remember something like this after watching it once, and I have to rehearse it. What a waste of time!"

“……” Fujino looked at the fat figure with eyes as if he was looking at a dead person.

It should be said that in his eyes, this person is already a dead person.

In Mihua's worldview, he still dares to be so arrogant.

You are dead, even Jesus can't stop you.

"Why is this old woman so arrogant..."

Yuanzi became unhappy, "Ms. Hualian, why don't you leave this band? We are in need of actors."

Everyone looked at Sonoko in silence: Suzuki's money-making ability was indeed so terrifying.

"…Um, thank you, but I can't betray the teacher."

"Ha, that guy treated you like that!"

Facing Yuanzi's sudden olive branch, Wen Yue Hua Lian refused, and finally could only explain helplessly: "Actually, I was an orphan before. After graduating from high school, I was taken in by Mr. Bandai..."

"Although the teacher is a little emotional, she is really a good person and I regard her as my mother."

Yuanzi frowned when he heard this, and didn't know what to say.

Fujino fell into silence, and secretly complained in his heart: "Why are there orphans everywhere in the world?"

He felt that this script was becoming more and more similar to the Dongyang Canary...

Don't wait until the end, this Bandai is also an old one. It seems that I have to investigate it carefully...

Fujino made a secret decision in his heart.

At this time, a woman wearing a kimono, with long straight black hair, who looked slightly like Yamato Nadeshiko but had an obvious scar on her face came over.

Looking at Wen Yue Hua Lian, she said with a smile: "Compared to a daughter or something, she has always been using this 'daughter' as a punching bag."

"After I became an old woman, I couldn't stand seeing young girls being popular or anything like that."

"Because of her anxiety, jealousy, and constant temper, everyone in the troupe has a big prejudice against her."

"If someone is going to die, tonight might be the best time to do it."

After saying a few meaningful words, the woman in kimono followed Bandai out of the room.

Yuanzi touched his forehead and said, "Who is this? It's so strange..."

Wen Yue Hua Lian introduced: "Her name is Hen Jian Mozi, and she is also an actor in our troupe."

"Bian Jian Mozi..."

Maori Kogoro thought for a moment and said, "It's Henmi Mako who is said to have an imperfect face like snow!"

Fujino: "..."

Brother Maori really understands.

By the way, brother, your role this time is not to introduce the descendants, right?
After Wen Yue Hua Lian left the room, only the people who came to watch the fun were left in the room.

After strolling around for a while and not finding anything, they went to rest and planned to go to the theater in the evening.

Fujino took out his cell phone and started to send a message to his loyal brother, Mika Robin Sawada Hiroki: "Hiroki, check for information about the troupe I'm in now."

"Wait a mininute……"

Fujino looked at Hiroki's reply and crossed his arms.

He is not very clear about this case.

To be honest, he didn't like the feeling of being controlled by others.

This time, the murderer obviously intended to kill people, but the purpose of making threats in advance should be to stop the performance. However, there is no other explanation for the relationship between the performance and the murder, except that he had some grudge against the people in the troupe.

The person who was killed is obvious, it must be Bandai Suzue.

This old woman is so unsexy, she has the arrogance of a rice cake man before he dies.

However, since he has a grudge against someone in the troupe, he could just kill him directly.

Sending threatening letters or something...

This is a bit like trying to cover up something and it even feels like a diversion.

Killing people for a show is a bit outrageous to be honest, but it is understandable in Mihua's case.

So this kind of thing is troublesome to think about.

Let Hiroki help me open a perspective plug-in...

"All right."

"I have gathered some intelligence, but it is somewhat general."

Hiroki sent a message: "First of all, the information that can be publicly collected, except for Miss Wen Yue Hua Lian, there is nothing special about the people here."

"Wen Yue Hua Lian, whose real name is Kitami Hanae, is 27 years old this year. She is an orphan and was adopted into the troupe about ten years ago. Before that, she seemed to have lived in a foster family."

"Come to think of it, Brother Fujino, you have some connection with her."

Fujino was a little confused about what Hiroki said: "What do you mean?"

"Sufang Hongzi, I wonder if you still remember Brother Fujino?"

Fujino looked at the message sent by Hiroki and said, "Remember, Canary Prisoner was brought to justice by Batman. It was really satisfying."

"In fact, this Wen Yue Hua Lian is also one of the orphans affected by the Su Fang Hong Zi incident. After all, her parents died in a traffic accident when she was seven years old."

"After that, due to a series of events, she was introduced to this famous actress by Sufang Hongzi."

"Oh..."

Fujino was speechless for a moment: "This old woman really has something to do with the canary prison, right?"

"It is indeed related, but the connection is not significant. After all, when the two of them became orphans, Sufang Hongzi had not yet done 'charity'."

"It's something else that's important."

"From the information I found, she has an older sister named Kitami Renko. They are identical twins, but the two sisters were not fostered in the same family."

"However, compared to her younger sister, her foster family didn't like this child, so she suffered a lot of abuse. Then she disappeared in December of her second year of high school. She reappeared in a murder case in Sapporo ten years ago, and the wanted person was this Kitami Renko."

"I'll send you a photo. These two sisters really look alike. If it weren't for the photo, I wouldn't have noticed it so quickly."

Soon, Hiroki sent a photo of a girl who looked exactly like Fumizuki Karen, wearing a high school uniform.

Fujino took a look and felt that this pair looked a bit like the Nana sisters.

Perhaps the only difference is that the Shimogasa Nana sisters got through it together.

Hiroki explained: "The victim in that case was a gangster with a history of drug trafficking. The police found out that she was living with this guy, so they issued a wanted notice for him."

"Is that so?"

Fujino nodded after hearing this, and he almost understood what happened. Then he asked, "What about the information that must be released?"

"That's something to be said for."

"In addition to her main job, Ms. Fumitsuki Karen also works as a designer in a small Tokyo firm under the identity of Kitami Hanae, but that's not the point."

"The important thing is about that Bandai Suzue and Nijikawa Yukio."

"Yukio Nijigawa?"

"That's the screenwriter, the middle-aged man who looks a bit like a playboy."

"Oh, I see. What next?" Fujino immediately thought of the man who had given Bandai the package before, and continued to ask.

"I hacked into their phones and computers a little bit and found out some unspeakable things about them."

"To put it simply, they are both drug addicts."

"My goodness, who are these people?" Fujino was speechless. "The previous Canary embezzled charity funds, and this one just sucked it up. There are no good people in the entertainment industry, right?"

"Who said it wasn't? There are so many things like this. I have a lot of more exciting ones. Do you want some, Fujino?"

"Hey, don't dirty my ears."

Fujino waved his hand and continued, "So, what's the situation with Santa Claus with red beard and the people in the troupe?"

"It seems that the people in the troupe did not directly participate in the purchase of drugs, but they still knew about it. As for whether there was any, well, I am not sure. They seemed to talk about these things directly in real life, and there is no record."

"As for the red-bearded Santa Claus, he is their superior."

"About a year ago, the police found the body of Santa Claus with the codename Red Beard. I guess he was killed by them, but I can't find the specific information anymore."

Fujino nodded when he heard this: "So, this is what Red Bearded Santa Claus means, but... can the dead be resurrected and send threatening letters?"

"Did you win the resurrection match, or are you just trying to use the tiger's skin to pull the banner?"

"That's about it..."

Hiroki responded, and then said in a deep voice: "But it's not really true. After all, this red-bearded Santa Claus is still connected with them, and even made a deal with them. Moreover, he is right next to you, Brother Fujino."

(End of this chapter)