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

The scream was so sharp that not only Edogawa Conan but the other three people in the car heard it as well.

The young man standing at the door was stunned for a moment.

Kogoro Mouri got out of the car quickly, ran towards the house with Conan Edogawa, and pushed open the gate.

Before they could run to the door, it opened from the inside with a bang, and a young woman with dyed brown hair and wearing a blue dress stumbled out. When she saw someone at the door, she knelt down in front of them.

"Big sister, what's wrong?" Edogawa Conan ran to her, "I seemed to hear you screaming just now, what happened in the room?"

Mao Lilan followed closely behind them. When she saw someone lying barefoot on the ground, she thought she was injured and quickly squatted down to check on her.

"Xiao, Xiao Gang..."

The young woman was shaking all over. She was not injured, but was obviously very frightened. It took her a long time to speak clearly: "The dog at home jumped on my boyfriend and he fell down the stairs..."

Maori Kogoro's face was serious: "Xiaolan, call an ambulance quickly!"

"Okay!" Mao Lilan came to her senses and took out her cell phone from her pocket.

Conan Edogawa rushed in as soon as he heard the dog attacking someone. He took off his shoes at the entrance, ran quickly through the corridor, and when he turned left into the room at the end, he saw the tragic scene inside the house at a glance.

I saw a young man lying at the corner of the stairs, about twenty years old, with the back of his head hitting the wall. There was a stain of blood all over the wall, and he was slowly sliding down from above.

"..."

Edogawa Conan looked at the other person's bent neck and unfocused eyes, and he no longer had any hope of rescuing him, but he still ran towards him with a glimmer of hope.

He hadn't run a few steps when Maori Kogoro chased him from behind, grabbed his collar angrily and threw him behind him: "Don't run around at the crime scene!"

Edogawa Conan fell to the ground, staggered a few steps and finally stood firm. He saw Mouri Kogoro squatting beside the young man checking his pulse, and his eyes glanced around.

He soon noticed a large German Shepherd dog above the stairs.

Animals that can hurt people are extremely dangerous. Just as Conan Edogawa was about to remind Kogoro Mouri, who was at the stairs, to be careful, a voice suddenly came from behind.

It turned out to be Mao Lilan who came in after calling the ambulance. She looked at the big dog and recognized its identity: "John?"

Edogawa Conan was stunned for a moment.

He also recognized the dog.

He also attended Teitan Elementary School for the first time. Probably in the second grade, this family started to raise a dog and named it John. He often fed the dog with Xiaolan.

He remembered that there was a boy a few years older than them in this family. He welcomed them every time they came and sometimes took John for a walk with them.

But a year later, the boy committed suicide due to school bullying, and the incident caused a big stir. Since then, when he went to see John again, he found that he was always listless and lacked energy, so he gradually reduced the number of visits.

The family had only one son, who died ten years ago... Then who is this young man?

"Don't just stand there, call the police."

Seeing the other three people get off the car, Eri Kisaki naturally followed. When she saw Maori Kogoro get up from the young man without taking any measures, she knew that the man was dead.

She wanted to urge the two children to leave the room as soon as possible to avoid being in the same room with the vicious dog that hurt people, but after taking a few steps, she found a receiver next to the sofa.

The quality of this cordless phone was quite good. After the fall, the call did not end. Under the gaze of the three people, a man's voice came from the other side:

"Hello? Xiao Gang? What happened... I think I heard a girl screaming just now, what are you doing there?" Hibiki was silent for a moment, she thought of the nameplate on the door she saw when she came in, and asked tentatively: "Lawyer Sakaguchi?"

The other side was silent for a few seconds, then hesitantly asked: "Are you...Lawyer Fei? Long time no see, but why are you in my house? Were you the one who was screaming just now?"

"It wasn't me." Hibiki sighed, "I was driving past your house and heard screams coming from your house. My husband and daughter were very worried so we came to check... May I ask where you are now?"

The man on the other end didn't seem to understand the situation, but he still answered the question honestly: "I'm on the Shinkansen, and I'm about to arrive in Izu."

The volume of the phone was very loud and the voice on the other end was very clear. They could even hear faint voices saying "What's wrong, Sakaguchi-senpai" from the other end. It seemed that the other party was with someone else.

"Please come back as soon as possible. Mr. Xiaogang might have been knocked down by your dog and hit his head on the wall." said Kisaki Eri.

The other party was surprised: "What?! Okay, I get it, I will return immediately after arriving at the station!"

The call was quickly hung up, and Edogawa Conan looked at John, who was wagging his tail obediently on the stairs and had no intention of continuing to attack, and he felt very complicated.

Mao Lilan, who was at the side, called the police and asked curiously, "Do you know the owner of this house?"

Looking at her daughter who had encountered another case on the first day after being discharged from the hospital, Hibiki Eri sighed, "He is also a lawyer. I have met him several times. He is very famous for handling juvenile cases."

Edogawa Conan originally wanted to ask for more details, but suddenly he remembered another thing, his face changed, and he turned and ran out.

The deceased's girlfriend was sitting in the entrance hall, still in a daze. When she heard footsteps approaching, she shuddered in fear until she realized it was the child. She relaxed again.

Edogawa Conan put on his shoes and ran to the door. He looked around for a while and then ran back: "Did you see where the person at the door went?"

The young woman looked at him blankly: "I only saw four of you..."

Hearing her words, Edogawa Conan frowned.

He rushed in immediately after hearing the scream, and at that time he was only concerned about finding the source of the scream, and didn't pay any attention to the person who was about to ring the doorbell. The timing of that person's appearance was so coincidental, he might be a person related to the case.

Unfortunately, the other party seemed to have run away... Why did he run away? Was he afraid? Did he not want to get into trouble?

and……

Edogawa Conan frowned slightly.

And for some reason, that person gave him a sense of familiarity.

...Maybe, it’s someone I knew in the past?
……

On the other side, the Metropolitan Police Department.

As soon as Jinpei Matsuda walked into the office of the First Investigation Division, he was stopped by Miwako Sato.

"Where did you go just now?" The female police officer, who was one year younger than him but was considered his senior in the First Investigation Division, stared at him.

"Someone recently created a new type of bomb that seems to be quite tricky, so I went to the explosive ordnance disposal team to check out the situation."

Jinpei Matsuda did not hide his whereabouts. He spoke generously, and then realized belatedly that Miwako Sato in front of him looked like she was about to go out on police duty.

He adjusted his sunglasses on the bridge of his nose: "Another case?"

"There was a vicious dog attack in Mika." Sato Miwako sighed, "Officer Megure just went to Shibuya half an hour ago, so he probably doesn't have time to rush to Mika. This time, you should come with me." (End of this chapter)