Conan: I'm really not the mastermind behind the scenes

On Monday, students at Teitan Elementary School started a new week of study.

The second class in the morning for Class B was Chinese class. Everyone started to recite the text. Most of them were serious, with only a few people absent-mindedly slacking off.

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya was halfway through reading when he suddenly realized that there was no sound next to him. He turned around and saw Ayumi Yoshida holding the textbook, her mouth not moving, her eyes occasionally glancing towards the window, her expression looking uneasy.

He glanced at Mr. Kobayashi in front of him, held up his textbook as a cover, and whispered, "Ayumi?"

The textbook in Yoshida Ayumi's hand fell to the ground with a thud, and she turned to look at him.

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya had only called out casually, but he didn't expect her to react so strongly: "What's wrong with you? I see you've been distracted today."

Yoshida Ayumi put her textbook upright again, glanced at the window again, and replied in a low voice: "I'm just curious why Conan and Haibara didn't come to class."

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya and Genta Kojima, who noticed their movements, looked over together.

I saw that the two adjacent seats by the window were empty, there were no stationery or textbooks on the table, and even the chairs were not pulled out.

"Maybe he's sick." Kojima Yuanta scratched his head, "My dad said that the flu is rampant recently, and many regular customers don't come anymore."

Yoshida Ayumi sighed softly: "If they are sick, should we go see them on the way home? I have something very important to tell them..."

……

"Ah!"

Edogawa Conan felt a chill on his back and suddenly sneezed.

Today is the day that Mao Lilan is discharged from the hospital. Mao Li Kogoro and Kisaki Eri come to handle the formalities for her, and Edogawa Conan also comes. Now they are standing at the entrance of the hospital, waiting for Kisaki Eri, the only one who has a car, to drive over.

Hearing his loud sneeze, Maori Kogoro said with a bit of disgust: "You have a cold, kid? Be careful not to pass it on to Xiaolan."

Edogawa Conan sniffed, and before he could say anything, Mao Lilan next to him said helplessly: "Dad, I'm not that fragile."

As they were talking, Kisaki Eri's car turned the corner and stopped in front of them.

Kogoro Mouri glanced at Eri Kisaki in the driver's seat and hesitated a little, but still sat in the passenger seat, and then Ran Mouri and Conan Edogawa sat in the back seat.

The car started quickly and drove towards the Maori Detective Agency.

Beika Pharmacy Hospital is not far from Beika 5-chome, about 20 minutes by car. Edogawa Conan sat in the back seat, looking out the window at the peaceful and quiet streets outside, and sighed softly.

Even though his life seemed to be going on as normal, he had been living in fear for the past two days.

At the beauty pageant on Saturday night, they ate cake in the hotel and suddenly turned into adults, and then met members of the organization again.

After growing bigger and then shrinking again, Edogawa Conan was fine, but Haibara Ai started having a fever after she came back.

Dr. Agasa was really worried, so he took her to a hospital he knew for a check-up in the middle of the night. No major problems were found, so he just prescribed some medicine. After taking the medicine and having a good sleep, her fever finally went down. She was expected to rest for a few more days.

In fact, even if she was not sick, Edogawa Conan would advise her to stay at home as much as possible and not go out these days. After all, she was photographed at the banquet - although only adults were photographed, she still had to respond with caution.

In addition to her affairs, Edogawa Conan also immediately asked the doctor to help investigate another "Kudo Shinichi" who appeared at the venue.

Yesterday morning, as usual, they went to the hospital to accompany Maori Ran. Maori Kogoro and Suzuki Sonoko told her that "Kudo Shinichi appeared at the venue."

Although he tried his best to clarify that it was not him, and Mao Lilan believed it, but thinking about how the two of them sang the same tune to criticize Kudo Shinichi at that time... he just wanted to find out the true identity of that bastard as soon as possible.

But the results of the investigation made Conan Edogawa feel troubled.

It's not that I gained nothing, on the contrary, I gained a lot. A kendo player from Kyoto Izumi High School, a baseball player from Konan High School... and a few other high school students from other places. Looking at the photos, they all look very similar to Kudo Shinichi.

Conan Edogawa had never seen the other person in person, so he couldn't be sure which one it was. Finally, he asked Aoyagi Akimitsu if he had time to help identify him.

I don’t know if Aoyagi Akimitsu has been very busy these two days—Edogawa Conan suspected that he was still dealing with the “support” on Saturday night—the reply only came just before he came to the hospital this morning.

Thinking of this, Edogawa Conan couldn't help but take out his cell phone and look at the reply email.

[Sorry, I was busy and just saw your email. I have time now and can go to Mihua.

PS: Have you told your parents about this? They look so similar, they might be your relatives. 】

Edogawa Conan looked at the email.

It would be good if Qing Liubin could come directly. In addition to identification, he also wanted to discuss other things with him...

He was checking his emails. Ran Mouri, who was sitting next to him, was also holding her cell phone. She had just received an email from Suzuki Sonoko.

She smiled as she read to the end: "Yuanzi said that to celebrate my discharge from the hospital, she wanted to invite us to visit the art museum this weekend."

Edogawa Conan's ears twitched slightly, and he raised his head: "Which art museum?"

"It's the Beika Art Museum that was said to be closing down not long ago. Sonoko's cousin bought that museum."

Mao Lilan looked at Edogawa Conan and smiled: "Speaking of which, that art museum is also somewhat related to Mr. Aoyagi. Conan, you should know about it, right?"

"Hmm?" Edogawa Conan thought for a moment, "I remember that Mr. Aoyagi witnessed the will of a wealthy American businessman not long ago, and wanted to donate part of his collection to an art museum... Could it be the Beika Art Museum?"

He didn't have a deep impression of it at first, but he remembered it now because he happened to meet Miss White, the daughter of the wealthy businessman, at the game on Saturday.

Mao Lilan nodded: "That's it. Sonoko said that there will be two exhibition halls, 'classical' and 'modern'. The modern hall contains works by some well-known contemporary artists, some of which are very beautiful."

Maori Kogoro's mouth twitched when he heard this: "Her family's business has encountered so many accidents in recent weeks, why hasn't it been…"

Before he could finish his words, Kisaki Eri suddenly slammed on the brakes, interrupting him from saying anything.

Maori Kogoro's body suddenly fell forward, but fortunately he was restrained by the seat belt in time. He held the belt to sit firmly and said angrily to Kisaki Eri beside him: "Do you know how to drive?!"

"I'm sorry." Hibiki adjusted her glasses in a calm tone, "I just can't stand some people's rude shouting."

"What did you say..."

Ran Mouri hurried forward to mediate the fight, and Conan Edogawa also tried to help persuade them while glancing outside.

They had already driven to the block, which was surrounded by single-family houses. Two blocks away was Teitan Elementary School, a route he often took to go to and from school.

The sound of brakes seemed to have startled people nearby. He saw a person who was about to ring the doorbell at the door of a house in front of him turned around and looked over here.

The two sides were not far away, and Edogawa Conan felt vaguely familiar with it. However, before he could recall it carefully, a heart-wrenching scream suddenly came.

"what--!!"

Edogawa Conan was startled and quickly opened the car door and got out.

The scream came from this house in front of us! (End of this chapter)