Conan: I'm Really Not Tokyo Ghost Story

According to passersby, the robber didn't actually intend to rob the jewelry store; instead, he wanted the police to come and ransack the house's yard.

Because the robber's sister had gone missing, he suspected that the homeowner had killed her and buried her in the yard. However, due to a lack of evidence if he called the police, he was unable to verify the information and resorted to this desperate measure.

...To bury the body?

Sano threw down his cigarette butt and stomped it out, considering the shovel he had just acquired.

It seems very likely.

The next second, Sano received a mission—to help Inspector Megure find out the truth.

The deadline is today.

Even on his way home, he managed to pick up a mission. Compared to the plague god, he was truly a lucky guy... Sano pushed through the crowd and walked towards the villa gate.

"Excuse me, this area is temporarily closed to the public."

A junior policeman tried to stop Sano.

"Ok?"

Sano smiled with some surprise: "You don't recognize me?"

The young policeman blinked: "Should I recognize you?"

"Hey hey!"

Before Sano could speak again, the chubby policeman he had met earlier quickly came over and said, "Detective Sano, what a coincidence that you're here too."

"Ah."

Sano nodded... This chubby guy, I think, is called Chiba Kazunobu.

"He's a famous high school detective. Unless there are special circumstances, just do him a favor when you see him, and you can ask him for help if you need anything."

Chiba Kazunobu explained the situation to the young policeman.

Sano, meanwhile, put his arm around Chiba Kazunobu's neck and patted the young policeman on the shoulder, saying arrogantly, "If you're going to work for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, you'd better remember my face. I'll protect you from now on."

"..."

The young policeman blinked again and nodded hesitantly.

"Okay, let's go in and take a look."

Sano released Chiba and walked inside, and sure enough, he saw the Plague Squad.

Inspector Megure was supervising Takagi Wataru and his group of police officers as they dug a hole in the yard.

"Inspector Megure, Detective Sano is here."

Upon hearing Chiba Kazunobu's voice, Inspector Megure turned around, paused for a moment when he saw Sano, then beamed with joy and approached him with great enthusiasm.

"Oh, Sano-kun, it's been such a long time!"

Chapter 624, Inspector Megure: Digging and digging and digging in the small yard.

Sano sidestepped Inspector Megure's attempt to hug him and responded calmly.

"It has been quite a long time since we last met."

Inspector Megure wasn't embarrassed at all. He leaned closer to Sano and began to explain the situation: "Brother Sano, whether this case is a murder or not is still under consideration, but since you... Conan is here, I feel that the possibility is quite high. Let me tell you the specifics first."

Sano raised an eyebrow and looked at Conan, who was also looking over after noticing him: "Hey kid, Inspector Megure said you're a jinx."

Conan and Inspector Megure both twitched at the corners of their mouths.

"...Ahem, Sano-kun, let's get down to business first."

Inspector Megure chose to ignore Sano's previous words and continued explaining the main point.

The situation was actually similar to what Sano had heard outside.

The only fresh element is perhaps the character settings and relationships behind the scenes.

The missing person was a stockbroker.

The owner of this villa was an old man who looked to be in fairly good health.

The old man was very rich, so he was a customer.

It is said that the missing person was last seen on his last day of work.

I had said I would come to visit this old man.

The missing person's flawed decision-making caused the old man to lose a lot of money on stocks.

So they said they would no longer cooperate.

The missing person wants to try again.

So far, it all sounds normal; it's just ordinary work communication.

But the next day, the missing person did not go to work and could not be contacted.

The company waited for several days but the person did not come, so they had no choice but to call the police. The police then contacted the family members of the robber to come and give a statement.

The elderly man, who is the prime suspect, stated that he had not seen the missing person, although he allowed the police to search his home.

But they couldn't find anything.

There's nothing we can do about it.

As of today, the missing person has been missing for more than a month.

Sano listened to the whole thing without uttering a single unnecessary word.

He stepped forward and patted the old man on the shoulder, eliciting a standard response.

This startled Inspector Megure, Conan, and the others.

"dig!"

Without saying a word, Inspector Megure picked up a shovel and jumped into the pit, shouting, "Even if we have to dig this hole, we have to find it!"

"Yes!"

As Sano stood above, watching the group of people working hard in the pit, the sound of "digging and digging and digging in the small courtyard" involuntarily surfaced in his mind... cough cough, no, it was that he noticed that the old man had shown some surprise and uncertainty after being touched, but had not shown any panic so far... something was not right.

Even without this step, normally speaking...

Or, to put it in Sano's experience...

The body shouldn't have been buried in this yard, but it wasn't.

Where can it be buried?

Without the shovel, Sano might have thought of some outrageous things like "eating it" or "building it into the wall."

Ok……

Sano then turned his gaze to the man who looked anxious and eagerly awaiting his return.

"You're the missing person's brother?"

The man hesitated as he looked at Sano. He was originally worried and didn't want to pay much attention to outsiders, but considering what he had just seen, he felt that the man in front of him might not be ordinary and could be of use, so he nodded.

"Yes."

"Where does your sister live in Tokyo?"

"She rented a small apartment."

Are you still there?

"Yes, because at that time I was worried that I might need to find some important clues from there in the future, so I renewed the lease when it expired, but I never touched anything inside, and everything remained the same."

"Okay, that's good. Let's go take a look."

Sano gave Conan, who was about to join in the fun, a look that made him stop in his tracks: "Don't follow me. Just stay here and keep an eye on that old man."

Conan smacked his lips but didn't say anything more, nodding in agreement.

Then Sano and the man arrived at an apartment.

...It's called an apartment, but it's only slightly more upscale than Sano's old place. The main difference is the exterior decoration.

"Wait for me outside."

Sano didn't let the man in. He went into the house by himself, looked around, changed his disguise, and after confirming that there was no problem, he summoned Xiao Hei.

"Go ahead and look for it."

"okay!"

Xiao Hei immediately started rummaging around the room.

The focus of this incident is nothing more than finding the body, or in other words, where the missing person is. To put it bluntly, it's about finding someone, and coincidentally...

Sano has a special tool for finding people.

"We've found the boss!"

A short while later, Xiao Hei, who had been burrowing in the blankets for a while, shouted excitedly.

"Are you sure this is the owner of this place?"

Sano confirmed, while Kuro nodded frantically: "There's no mistake. Although there are other residual scents here, the difference in intensity is too great. Especially this strongest scent, which is clearly a woman's scent, so I think it's the target."

"Ah."

Sano nodded in agreement, bent down and patted Xiao Hei's head: "Not bad, you've improved a lot. I'll give you an extra treat tonight, two chicken legs."

"Hehe, you flatter me, you flatter me. It's all thanks to your excellent teaching, boss."

The little black tail was wagging so hard it looked like a helicopter, perfectly embodying the meaning of the term "lackey".

"Let's begin then, lock onto the track."

Sano pulled out a map, and after giving the order, the target locations appeared one after another... Yes, one after another, not just one.

More importantly, none of these positions are red.

Sano calmly discerned the locations of these locations.

Rivers, parks, sewers.