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

Ten o'clock in the morning.

Daizo Eto's home is in Nakano Ward, and he usually lives with his father, Manager Eto.

Zhu Fujingguang made a phone call on the way here, and a colleague who arrived earlier was waiting for him at the door. Seeing him push the door and get out of the car, the colleague put away his phone and led people directly into the house.

This was a small villa with a Japanese-style garden, and Zhu Fujingguang had never been here before. At this moment, the house was strangely quiet, as if there was an invisible dark cloud weighing heavily on it.

"Have you found any clues from the suspect's classmates?" the colleague asked in a low voice.

Zhu Fu Jingguang shook his head and spoke at the same volume as usual: "No, they haven't been in touch for almost seven years."

My colleague was silent for a moment, but he didn't find it strange: "Our work here is not going well..."

After a brief conversation, the two walked through the corridor and came to the living room.

The living room is the largest room on the entire first floor. When they stepped through the door, another colleague sitting on the sofa looked up at them and nodded as a greeting.

Zhu Fu Jingguang also nodded slightly, and then his eyes fell on the woman sitting on another sofa. She was the nanny of the Eto family.

Manager Jiang Teng has a simple family structure. After his wife was killed by gangsters thirteen years ago, he did not remarry and lived with his son. In addition to them, there is only a nanny who handles daily housework in the family.

Now that Eto Daizo is missing, she is naturally the first person to be investigated.

"I do not know."

Her face was full of nervousness and anxiety: "Mr. Katsuhiko left home at 7 o'clock in the morning, and Mr. Daizo had breakfast and drove out at 7:30."

Zhu Fujingguang looked at her carefully without saying anything. The colleague on the sofa continued to ask, "You really don't know where he went? Didn't you ask him when he left?"

The tone of the public security officers is much harsher than that of ordinary criminal police. Even if it is just a normal questioning, it naturally carries a sense of coercion.

The nanny's face became even uglier, but she still shook her head: "I know that Da Zang-kun is very confidential at work. I never ask about his private affairs. Even his room is cleaned by himself..."

"Let's go."

Zhu Fu Jingguang felt his shoulder being gently touched, and the colleague who brought him in whispered, "It seems that she can't get anything out of him. Let's go to Jiang Teng's room and take a look."

The two turned and left the living room, went to the second floor, and quickly found the room - Eto Daizo's bedroom was the first room at the stairs, with a wooden sign with his name hanging on the door.

Zhu Fujingguang looked at the crooked handwriting on the door, which looked like it was left by a child who had just learned to write. He turned the doorknob and stepped into the bedroom.

The room was a bit messy, which was consistent with the image of a single man who didn't like to tidy up. The quilt on the bed was not folded properly, and the light-colored suit that Daizo Eto wore yesterday was still thrown on it.

Did he change his clothes specially when he went out?

Zhu Fu Jingguang looked at the clean clothes that had only been worn for one day as far as he could remember, made this judgment, and then frowned slightly.

The junior was not someone who cared much about his image. In weather where it was not easy to sweat, it was common for him to wear his clothes for a week as long as they were not dirty.

He took a special leave today and changed his clothes... Could it be that he was going to meet someone important, or go somewhere special... ?
“Lots of books.”

His colleague's words brought Zhu Fu Jingguang back to his senses. He turned his head and looked in the direction the other person was pointing.

Eto Daizo's bedroom was very large, with two large bookshelves against the wall, filled with books. His university textbooks and police academy textbooks were on the bottom shelf, while the third and fourth shelves in the middle, which were the most convenient, were filled with all kinds of novels.

"I was on a mission with him once, and he saw a poster announcing the arrival of new books at the door of a bookstore on the way, and told me that he must buy some when he got back." My colleague walked to the bookshelf and took a closer look, then pulled out a book at random, "They were all mystery novels."

Zhu Fujingguang's eyes inadvertently swept across the book. There was a big skull painted on the black cover.

"Put it back on the bookshelf and look at it later." He reminded, "First look for important clues in his desk and computer."

"Too."

The colleague sighed imperceptibly, then out of professional habit, put the book in his hand back to where he had taken it out, and walked to the desk with Zhu Fu Jingguang.

Daizo Eto's bed was a mess, and his desk was not much better. The pen holder was filled with pens, scissors, and even a few pairs of disposable chopsticks, and the laptop in the middle of the table was not closed.

Zhu Fujingguang tried to slide the mouse, and the screen lit up. There was no password, and the desktop jumped out directly.

He saw the desktop background and paused.

It was a group photo. Administrator Eto, who looked a dozen years younger, and a pretty woman were standing at the gate of a school. Each of them was holding a boy's shoulder, and all three of them were looking at the camera with smiles on their faces.

This is a photo of the Eto family of three taken more than ten years ago.

"..."

The young Eto Daizo above him had a bright smile without any gloom. Zhu Fushi Jingguang looked away, but soon his attention was drawn to a folder on the desktop.

"Moruobushi, Eto made a mark on the calendar. He circled today and Monday and wrote the death anniversary underneath. I remember he also took Monday off... What is this?"

A colleague was holding a desktop calendar and was midway through a sentence when he noticed the actions of the person next to him.

Zhu Fujing opened the folder and found a video inside. There was only this video in the entire folder.

The layout within the folder is in detailed information format, which clearly shows that this video was just played at 7 o'clock this morning.

"..."

Zhu Fujing looked at this delicate moment, frowning again. Then, he clicked on the video.

……

On the other side, Beika Town.

After washing up, Haibara Ai came to the living room. As soon as she opened the door, she saw a figure running past her.

She was startled, and when she looked closely she realized that the person was Conan Edogawa.

The other party seemed not to notice her presence, and ran out after saying "Then I'm leaving, Doctor." She watched his back hurried away, and only turned to Doctor Agasa when she heard the door close outside.

"Why, is he in trouble again?" asked Huibara Ai calmly.

Dr. Agasa nodded slowly, with a complicated look on his face: "It is quite troublesome."

Haibara Ai was just asking casually, after all, the famous detective would encounter cases every now and then, but she noticed that this time Dr. Agasa's tone was obviously different from his usual helplessness.

She felt something was wrong: "What on earth is going on? Could it be..."

Seeing her face turn pale, Dr. Agasa quickly comforted her: "No, it has nothing to do with the organization. It's just that a video of... uh, torture of a public security police officer appeared on the Internet a while ago. Shinichi has seen him and the suspect before, so he is very worried."

Haibara Ai felt half relieved, turned and walked towards the kitchen, and started preparing her brunch for the day.

She just took out two slices of toast and spread peanut butter on them while casually asking, "What's the name of that public security officer? Is he the one Edogawa met at the Suzuki Hotel last week?"

"His surname is Eto." Dr. Agasa sighed, "It seems he is the son of a high-ranking public security official. The public security personnel just went to the Mori family to question him."

pat.

The half-finished toast that Ai Huihara was spreading fell onto the table.

Dr. Agasa turned his head in confusion and saw that the shrinking scientist who escaped from the organization looked even worse than before.

"What's wrong, Ai?" Dr. Agasa was also stunned when he saw her such a big reaction.

"…Eto?"

Huihara Ai murmured the name.

She raised her head and met Dr. Agasa's worried gaze, with an obvious tremor in her voice.

"Doctor, I've heard this name before in the organization..."

The following words were drowned out by the sound of rain outside the window.

……

"Cough...cough..."

Eto Daizo was coughing violently.

He had never felt such pain before. The water kept splashing on his face, wetting the towel on his face and suffocating him.

The pain of dying made him want to struggle and call for help, but his hands and feet were tied tightly, and only the cold liquid penetrated into his lungs and stomach.

After dozens of seconds, the flushing sensation disappeared, and he felt the towel on his face being lifted, and warm liquid flowed out of his eyes and ears. The buzzing sound made his brain dizzy, and he could only barely see a blurry black shadow standing in front of him.

"...waterboarding is a terrible punishment. Large amounts of water are sucked into the stomach, lungs, trachea and bronchi. The victim will vomit, and some may even suffer from incontinence. It can make a person lose consciousness in a few minutes."

"I personally hate this kind of punishment. Abusing other people's bodies cannot bring me any happiness or satisfaction... I don't know what those CIA people are thinking. They are a bunch of perverts who actually like this kind of punishment."

"But I have to admit that sometimes it is somewhat useful..."

The ringing in his ears gradually faded, and the incoherent words became clearer. Jiang Teng Daizo opened his eyes and finally heard and saw the person in front of him clearly.

A man with long, slightly curly black hair and wearing black clothes stood in front of him, his back facing the window. The gray sky outside the window seemed to be draped over his shoulders, and it looked like it would rain at any time.

Seeing Eto Daizo looking at him, he smiled, and the panicked and painful face of the young man in front of him was reflected in his green eyes.

"you you……"

Jiang Teng Daizo looked at Aoyagi Binkou in front of him, looking at the pair of green eyes that were like a bamboo leaf green snake.

At this moment, the pain in his body seemed to disappear, and he only felt a severe pain in his head. Countless fragments gushed out from the deepest part of his memory and were pieced together into a complete picture.

——In the deepest part of his memory, there was once a pair of... no, two pairs of such green eyes, looking down at his dying struggle.

"It seems you remembered?"

Aoyagi Akimitsu saw his reaction clearly.

"Your intuition was correct. We have indeed met before. I have been to Japan three times in total. The last time was three years ago, and the earliest time was thirteen years ago... That was when I met you."

He spoke gently and then laughed softly.

"——How could you forget even the person who murdered your mother?" (End of this chapter)