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

The sky was particularly gloomy and the rain showed no sign of stopping.

After leaving Dr. Agasa's house, Edogawa Conan continued to head towards the commercial street.

It was not convenient to use a skateboard on rainy days, so he chose to run directly over. Fortunately, the distance between the two sides was not far, and he reached the intersection in about ten minutes.

Edogawa Conan stood at the intersection, breathing heavily, waiting for the traffic light on the other side. The rain and sweat mixed together, soaking his whole body.

He didn't wipe it, but just lowered his head and looked at the phone that he was holding tightly in his hand.

A lot of raindrops splashed on the screen of the mobile phone, and the video was still playing on it - Kadokawa was holding a water pipe and continued to pour water on Eto's face, and a little further away from him, a hooded man was standing in front of a half-person-high barrel with his back to the camera.

“Are you happy?”

Conan Edogawa saw that the man turned his head slightly and his face could not be seen at all from the direction of the camera. The man asked Kadokawa in a clear Osaka accent.

Kadokawa didn't answer.

Only a ray of light came through the window and fell on the uncovered face. Under the greasy and messy bangs were tightly pursed lips and a pair of bloodshot eyes that were surprisingly bright at this moment.

"..."

Seeing this scene, Edogawa Conan gritted his teeth.

The live broadcast was held on the world's largest video website. The company was not in Japan, so the Japanese police could not directly cut off the live broadcast. They could only temporarily set up a "wall" to block it and temporarily remove all tools for climbing over it.

Of course, this is not a problem for Dr. Agasa. Just now at the doctor's house, he quickly installed the software on Edogawa Conan's mobile phone so that he could continue to observe the victim's condition through live broadcast.

But apart from this, Conan Edogawa didn't get much useful information. No matter whether he borrowed a computer to search the database or directly asked the doctor who had watched him grow up, he didn't get any specific information about Kadoya.

I did see the information about the police officer named Jiang Teng. Although most people don't know who the protagonist of the live broadcast is, he accepted media interviews to appease the protesting people during the previous embassy bombing, and the video is still available online.

The green light on the opposite side came on, Edogawa Conan withdrew his gaze and hurriedly ran across the zebra crossing.

He ran to the door of the animal shelter at the corner of the street and pushed it open.

This is his second stop.

——On Monday, he saw Kadoya outside the window of this shelter. There might be clues here too.

……

"welcome."

Not many people would come to the shelter on a rainy day like this. When the employees heard the doorbell ring, they subconsciously looked towards the door and were all stunned.

Edogawa Conan closed the door, took off his glasses, wiped his face hard, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief in his heart that he finally didn't have to get wet in the rain anymore.

One of the employees was a young woman. When she saw a child rushing in, soaking wet, she quickly walked around the counter, picked up a dry towel and walked towards him, leaning down with a worried look on her face: "Here, little brother, wipe your face quickly."

"Thank you."

Edogawa Conan did not refuse. He took the towel and wiped his face and completely wet hair.

Another male employee poked his head out from behind the counter: "What's wrong with this child? Does he want to come in to avoid the rain? Where are his parents?"

The female employee obviously had the same question and was about to ask when she saw Edogawa Conan stopped wiping.

Conan Edogawa looked up: "Sister clerk, I am the assistant of a lawyer. She adopted a Russian blue cat here a week ago. Do you remember it?"

The female employee was startled and nodded hesitantly: "You mean Lawyer Fei? It happened to be me who handled the adoption procedures that day. Is there any problem?"

Conan Edogawa realized that the other person was in the store that day and immediately raised his cell phone.

At this time, the screen no longer displays the live video, but a screenshot.

He looked into her eyes and said, "Do you know this brother? He also came that day, just before and after Aunt Yingli."

The female employee took the phone and couldn't help frowning as she looked at the sloppy-looking boy with a weird expression on the phone.

Another male employee couldn't help but come over out of curiosity. He looked down at his phone and raised his eyebrows: "Oh, it's him."

Edogawa Conan asked: "Do you know him?"

"It's not like we know each other."

The male employee stood up again and began to explain: "He wants to adopt a cat and has come here several times, but his review documents have never been approved... Uh, little brother, do you know the specific process of adoption?"

"I know." Edogawa Conan said quickly, "Because the shelter is a public welfare institution, you don't need to spend money to adopt an animal here, but you have to meet the basic conditions, that is, you have to have a certain material foundation to ensure that you can take good care of the animal after you adopt it home."

After he finished speaking, he paused, then asked, "So Brother Kadokaya doesn't qualify?"

"Kadōya... it seems to be his last name." The male employee scratched his head. "He is only seventeen years old, a minor. To adopt an animal, he needs the consent of a guardian, but he didn't fill in any on the application form."

Edogawa Conan was stunned.

"No one...at all?"

Doesn't Kadokawa live with his mother?

"No."

The female employee seemed to have thought of something. She sighed, her tone tinged with pity: "I asked him, and he said that his mother died many years ago, and his uncle who was originally his guardian also..."

At this moment, the door opened again, interrupting her next words. A middle-aged woman with a capable temperament walked in, she put away her umbrella, and after a few steps she saw Edogawa Conan and the female employee standing not far from the door, she stopped.

"Mom!" the female employee stood up and shouted in surprise.

"Anna, your shift is about to start, why are you standing at the door like an idiot?"

The woman looked at her in confusion, then looked down at Edogawa Conan. When she saw his wet hair and clothes, her eyes widened, "What happened to this kid? Why is he alone? Is he lost?"

"No, he is..."

The female employee was about to explain, but Edogawa Conan quickly said, "Hello, I'm Aunt Eri's assistant. I came here to ask something. I won't disturb this sister for too long."

The woman looked down at him and said, "Eri's assistant? Hasn't Kuriyama always been her assistant? If she has any children, she only has a daughter in high school. She doesn't have any children your age, right?"

Edogawa Conan heard the familiarity in her tone, "Auntie, you seem to know Auntie Eri very well?"

"We used to be rivals in court. If I hadn't resigned, I wouldn't be in this trouble now and have to go to her for help."

Although the woman had some doubts about Edogawa Conan's identity, she still answered his questions in detail.

opponent……

Edogawa Conan understood instantly: "You used to be a prosecutor?"

"Yes." The woman admitted directly, "But I left the procuratorate seven years ago. Now I'm just an ordinary restaurant owner. Little brother, if you like desserts, you can bring Yingli and her daughter over after the lawsuit is over."

Seven years ago?
When he heard this keyword again, something flashed through Edogawa Conan's mind, and he intuitively felt that he had grasped a very important clue.

However, before he could ask further questions, the woman in front of him had already lowered her head. She saw the screen of Edogawa Conan's phone.

When she saw the letter of Kadokuni Kadokuni on it, her expression froze completely.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?"

The female employee noticed her expression change and asked worriedly. The male employee standing next to them looked at this and that in confusion, looking like he had no idea what was going on.

Edogawa Conan also noticed her strange expression. He took a step forward and raised his cell phone again.

"Auntie, I'm helping to investigate a case right now, a very important case, and I hope you can help me," he said with a serious expression, "Excuse me, do you know this brother above?"

"——Did he go through something seven years ago?"

The young detective stared at the former prosecutor. He spoke in a low voice, and as his last question fell into the room, an eerie silence fell.

All that was left were the cries of the abandoned animals in their cages and the sound of rain outside that continued to fall, seeming to drown out the entire world.

……

In the same rainy day, Mihua Detention Center welcomed two special visitors.

As his colleagues muttered, "Why is the Beika Detention Center even bigger than the Beika Police Station?", Morobushi Kagemitsu, who had rushed here from the Eto family, looked silently behind the glass.

The door opened, and a middle-aged man with a decadent look on his face, surrounded by two prison guards, walked slowly towards the glass in the middle and sat on a chair.

He looked at the visitors on the other side of the glass, a puzzled look on his face: "Who are you...?"

Masayoshi Sakaguchi, who successfully let his dog kill his enemy and was now alone, did not expect that someone would come to visit him after he went in.

However, he had no impression of the two people in front of him. They were probably not clients he had received when he was a lawyer in the past.

Zhu Fu Jingguang didn't say anything. He looked back and the two prison guards met his gaze. They looked at each other, then turned around and left the visiting room expressionlessly.

There was a click. The door closed again.

"...?"

Masayoshi Sakaguchi was even more confused when he saw the two prison guards leaving.

"Lawyer Sakaguchi."

Seeing that all the strangers had left and the surveillance in the room had been completely turned off, Zhu Fu Jingguang took out his ID from his pocket, spread it out and gestured to the other party.

Sakaguchi Masayoshi was stunned when he saw the emblem on it.

"We need to confirm some details with you about a case you were in charge of seven years ago." Zhu Fu Jingguang approached the conversation port on the glass with a cold expression.

"..."

Masayoshi Sakaguchi came to his senses, clenched his hands in front of him, and then slowly loosened them.

"You want to ask about the case that indirectly killed my son Masato..."

He spoke in a low voice. Facing two public security policemen who were notorious among the public for their methods, perhaps the glass wall between them gave him courage, and his tone was very calm.

"Or, I can also change the name that is circulated among you..."

He looked at them and said word by word:

"——The son of a senior public security official, a murder case?" (End of this chapter)