Conan: Start from Lucky Three

Chapter 36 Why are you following me?

(Yesterday was my wife’s birthday, today is my mother-in-law’s, and tomorrow is my mom’s birthday. I call this period the three-day feast.)
At around 9:40 in the evening, Tachibana Seiji and his group returned to the hotel after watching the fireworks.

It was just before ten o'clock, which was a good time for a midnight snack. The hotel owner served everyone freshly prepared side dishes and pots of sake.

Before the meal started, the others complained to Maori Kogoro, "We finally got a good seat, but none of you guys showed up!"

The others kept laughing and raised their glasses to change the subject.

Conan noticed the empty seat in the restaurant and pointed to the cushions on the tatami and said to everyone, "Aunt Yumi hasn't arrived yet. Is it okay for us to eat like this?"

"Uh" Conan's words made Mouri Kogoro's college classmates look at each other in confusion.

"Why don't we just go together and wake her up? That way, even if she's grumpy about getting up, she won't get angry when she sees so many of us."

Zhongdao Hezhi made a suggestion to everyone with all his heart, and this proposal of risk sharing was passed unanimously by everyone.

So the group left the restaurant and came to Horikoshi Yumi's door.

"Yumi, Yumi, you've slept for too long, it's time to get up. Yumi, do you hear me?" Along with the knocks on the door, Mouri Kogoro's classmates stood at the door calling Horikoshi Yumi.

After knocking for a long time without receiving any response, Kogoro's classmate tentatively pressed the doorknob.

"Huh, isn't the door locked?" Ayashiro Yukio, Kogoro's classmate, pushed open the door, groped in the dark to find the switch and pressed it gently.

After the light tube flickered several times, the incandescent lamp on the ceiling finally dispelled the darkness in the guest room, but also brought another bad news to everyone.

"What, what is this?!" Ayashiro Yukio looked at the scene in front of him in shock. Horikoshi Yumi, who had been chatting and joking with them not long ago, was now leaning against the wall.

Of course, this is not important. What is important is the blood on Horikoshi Yumi's body, the blood on her head, the almost dried blood stains on the wall, and the real-looking pistol in her hand, which constitute a real crime scene.

Ayashiro Yukio and his wife were about to rush forward, but were stopped by Nakamichi Kazushi behind them: "Wait a minute! No one else can enter the scene except me, the police officer, and Mori, the detective!

Xiaolan, please go call the police, go quickly!"

Zhongdao and Zhi saw Xiaolan still in a daze, and couldn't help but remind her again.

"Okay, okay, I'll go right away!" Xiaolan said and hurriedly ran to the first floor to find a landline to contact the police.

Because Xiaolan was about to attend a fireworks display, she left her cell phone in the room. Compared to going back to the room to make a call, it was indeed faster to go to the front desk to call the police.

Just as Xiaolan ran to call the police, Tachibana Shizuka and Hattori Heiji subconsciously looked at each other. After exchanging glances, they looked at Nakamichi Kazushi who had just made the arrangements loudly.

A murder occurred, and it was reasonable for the current police officer Nakamichi Kazushi to take the lead in making arrangements, but he only took a glance at the scene and did not even check closely before "announcing" the death of Horikoshi Yumi.
This unintentional little detail was immediately noticed by Tachibana Shizuka and Hattori Heiji.

The incident and murder undoubtedly have great appeal to the black guy Hattori Heiji. He immediately reveals his identity as a high school detective and enters the scene to investigate.

But he was grabbed by Tachibana Shizuka.

"What's wrong?" Hattori Heiji looked at Tachibana Shizuka who was holding him in confusion.

"Don't you think this is a good opportunity to observe Uncle Maori?" Tachibana Shizuka said calmly.

He just set up a short trap, and now is the time to close the net.

"I'll tell you all the clues I can observe. If Uncle Maori can't handle this case, you can take action.

You should be able to trust my observation skills, right?" Shizuka Tachibana's observation skills. After the experience at Beika City Bank, Hattori Heiji certainly trusted Shizuka Tachibana's observation skills, and he also realized that what Shizuka Tachibana said was right.

This well-timed murder really made it easier for them to observe Uncle Maori.

"In that case, I'll just keep an eye on that old man. I'll leave the scene to you."

"Don't worry, leave it to me."

After saying this, Tachibana Shizuka took two steps forward, and then as he gradually focused and improved his insight, the moment of enlightenment began.

As the moment of insight begins, various information from the scene and the corpse is constantly collected by Tachibana Shizuka.

Although Tachibana Shizuka has only seen a few murder scenes since he gained the moment of insight, based on his usual use of the moment of insight, the information contained in this murder scene is undoubtedly abnormally abundant.

According to Roca's law: wherever there is contact, there will be a trace.

It is obvious that the murderer this time had a lot of contact with the corpse at the scene, and correspondingly he also left a lot of traces.

Just as Nakamichi Kazushi and Mori Kogoro were carefully examining the body and Tachibana Shizuka was carefully observing the scene, Conan could no longer suppress his detective spirit and was about to sneak into the scene when no one was paying attention, using his legs to move.

In the past, Conan was only able to enter the scene when no one was prepared. After all, neither the police nor any adult would let a child into a murder scene.

By the time Conan was discovered, he had almost completed the preliminary investigation.

But this time it's different.

Not long ago, Sonoko received advice from Tachibana Shizuka when she received a call from him.

"Sonoko, I've had a bad feeling since the beginning. It might be because I'm being overly suspicious, but for the sake of caution, if anything happens to our hot spring hotel, you must keep an eye on that brat, Conan.

If there is any danger, take him away in time, but if something happens, be sure to keep an eye on him and don't let him run around.

From what I've heard, this kid loves to go to the scene of an incident and do some 'detective work.'"

"Lan is so thin-skinned that she always gets fooled by that brat. You must keep an eye on that brat this time."

Such advice might seem suspicious in other places, but it was just right for the Rice Flower Man.

Old Rice Flower always says that events are like chocolates. You never know who will suddenly give you one.

Sonoko was deeply touched by Tachibana Shizuka's serious request.

Suzuki Sonoko relies on three things to make her way in life: she is rich, loyal, and good at gossip!

The only thing missing was a tattoo of the word "righteous and righteous" on his back, and he patted his chest and promised that he would keep a close eye on Conan.

So after discovering the murder, Sonoko came behind Conan immediately.

Just as Conan was trying to sneak into the scene with his short legs, his feet suddenly went empty, and then Conan was forced to make a disgusted eye contact with Sonoko in mid-air.

"Ha! You little brat are really dishonest. I tell you, that's not a place you can go!"

(End of this chapter)