Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

The lady boss smiled amiably and said, "That's great! I thought you would come back to look for it soon, so I didn't take it to the police station yet. This wallet must be very important, right? I see there are many amulets inside!"

"Yes, thank you, Auntie."

"He Ye," Xiaolan asked in surprise, "You have more than one amulet?"

"Yes," He Ye took out a string from his wallet, "I bought a few more amulets to ward off evil spirits, in case something like that happens again and ruins your trip to Osaka..."

"What?" The lady boss next to her was talking to her husband who had just returned, and she seemed frightened. "A man with his whole body on fire fell from the castle tower?! Is what you said true?"

"Yes," the husband confirmed, "There are a lot of people gathered there, and it's very noisy now. I heard there are a few detectives there!"

He Ye silently watched the two proprietresses talking in low voices, lowered his head and put the amulet back: "This is totally useless..."

"Yes." Xiaolan smiled bitterly in understanding.

Below the castle tower, a charred man was lying in the rain with his eyes wide open. Before he died, he just tightly grasped the handle of Hattori's umbrella and was unable to utter any last words.

However, judging by the Paulownia emblem on the deceased's chest, it seems to be related to those role-playing tourists...

"This is the family crest of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Five-Night Paulownia," Hattori said as he squatted beside the corpse and examined it. "Maybe this is the actor who plays Toyotomi Hideyoshi that those people are looking for..."

Maori stood nearby holding an umbrella, looking at the horribly charred corpse with a slightly gloomy look in his eyes.

He looked up at the castle tower under the dim sky.

The deceased was indeed the only one on the roof just now, and it looked like he had set himself on fire...

But why would we go to such a place when it’s raining so hard?

……

On the roof of the castle tower, Maori borrowed a Polaroid camera and carefully climbed to the place where the deceased was on fire.

There were a lot of small fragments left at the scene, and a square lighter with its lid closed was neatly placed on the roof next to it.

Maori took a photo of the scene, put on gloves and picked up a lighter, and found that there was only a fan-shaped area below that was not wet by the rain. He took several photos in confusion.

"Uncle!" Hattori shouted from upstairs, "Why are you so slow? Have you found anything?"

"If you think it's too slow, why don't you do it yourself!" Maori muttered unhappily.

"I have this idea..." Hattori grabbed a rope, "I have borrowed a rope from the staff and just hung Conan down directly."

Conan leaned against the guardrail and frowned: "Do you think I'm a circus monkey?"

Hattori laughed and said, "What does it matter? You are light anyway..."

Maori didn't bother to pay attention to the two of them. After putting the lighter in the bag, he looked around the roof.

The explosion at the time of the incident definitely wasn't a simple fire, but there weren't any other signs on the roof...

Downstairs in the castle tower, Officer Otaki was still the one who took over the case. In addition to the crowd of onlookers, the members of the tour group were also called over. They stood silently beside the body with umbrellas in hand and were questioned.

The long-faced young man is called Fukushima Toshiaki, 32 years old, and he plays Akechi Mitsuhide.

The old man's name is Arihiro Kusaya, 64 years old, and he plays Tokugawa Ieyasu.

The honest young man who keeps squinting his eyes is Wakisaka Shigehiko, 35 years old, who plays Oda Nobunaga.

The girl wearing glasses is called Katagiri Maho, 39 years old, and she plays Ningning.

As for the deceased, it was Kato Tsukasa, who played Toyotomi Hideyoshi...

Everyone at the scene seemed to have assumed that the deceased had committed suicide by setting himself on fire, and began to discuss the motive for the suicide.

"We are not the worms in his stomach, how can we know what he is thinking? Maybe he has already decided to commit suicide in this place that has a deep connection with Taiko..."

"It shouldn't be suicide!"

Maori, Hattori and Conan squeezed into the crowd and handed the lighter and evidence photos to the forensic personnel.

"Although there was a lighter that could start a fire, it was placed on the roof with the lid closed. Would a person who wanted to commit suicide calmly close the lid after catching fire?"

"There is a place under the lighter that is not exposed to the rain. It is not the square shape of the lighter, but a fan shape..."

"Fan-shaped?" Officer Otaki was confused.

"It should be that some kind of round object was placed on the roof before it rained," Hattori explained, "and after the rain, that object was taken away, and then the lighter was placed on it..."

Officer Otaki asked Hattori in confusion, "But, Heiji, what do you think that round thing is?"

"I don't know about that yet. I think it has something to do with the small fragments that fell nearby..." Hattori thought, stroking his chin.

Mao Li did not stay at the scene for long. After handing the evidence to the police, he began to check around the scene alone with an umbrella.

He did hear an explosion at the time of the incident. If there were not many clues on the roof, he could only go downstairs and look again.

If the cause of the fire could be investigated...

"what?"

After walking around the castle tower with a flashlight, Maori bent down and carefully picked up a dry battery on the grass with a handkerchief.

It doesn't look very noticeable, but there are still traces of burning on the dry battery, which obviously fell from a high place, and probably after it rained.

Maori looked up and saw that he was not too far from the roof where the incident occurred.

"Swish!"

The rain in Osaka still showed no signs of stopping, but the crowd watching below the castle tower did not decrease, but instead increased.

Amid the crowd of onlookers, the police covered the charred body with a cloth and carried it away, leaving behind only a few items found on the body.

A cell phone, a watch, a wallet, keys, cigarettes, a shard of pottery and a fragment of a scroll were all badly burned.

"This fragment," He Ye interrupted, "is it related to the previous charred corpse case? A fragment was found there..."

"The charred corpse case?" Hattori was stunned.

"Yes, my father and your father mentioned it in the car yesterday. They said that the charred corpse found in the moat in the city thirteen years ago, and the charred corpse found in the moat in the east a while ago, seemed to have these fragments..."

He Ye helped earnestly, "And they also said that a recent fragment had the words 'eight hundred and forty-eight' written on it, which seems to be part of the treasure!"

"treasure?"

"I didn't lie to you, because they were talking in low voices, talking about treasures left by the general..."

"Hey, Hattori!" Conan picked up the broken piece and called out to Hattori, who looked suspicious. "This piece seems to be stained with something shiny."

Maori thought and returned to the scene. Before he squeezed to the middle, he found that the tour group members standing on the side all had strange expressions on their faces, staring at a torn scroll in Officer Otaki's hand.

Except for the word "dragon" written in the upper right corner, the rest of the scroll is blank and does not look like it has been burned.

"I see!"

Hattori suddenly snatched the scroll and threw it directly into the rain regardless of Otaki's scream. As the raindrops soaked the scroll, words gradually appeared in the originally blank space, as well as a gourd-shaped figure.

"it is as expected……"

Chapter 125 Hattori gets beaten

Hattori couldn't help but laugh excitedly: "It seems that the legend may be true. The treasure of Hideyoshi, known as the Golden King, may still be sleeping somewhere, somewhere in this Osaka Castle."

"Treasure?"

The tour group members had different expressions, some were excited, some were silent, or some had weird smiles on their faces.

The old man looked around the house, then walked to the side carefully and made a phone call: "Hello, it's me... Don't act rashly for now. I think the police won't leave in a short time... Don't worry, our target is already in front of us, just be prepared in advance..."

Maori's ears twitched slightly.

These guys are indeed very problematic, but there is no way to tell who the murderer is.

If the cause was treasure, anyone could have a dispute with the deceased.

There was also a dry cell battery that fell nearby. It looked like a flashlight battery. Mao Li thought it might be the key to this case...

……

At the Hattori family, Haibara and Hattori's mother were watching TV in the living room. Dinner had been prepared for a long time but no one had come back.

"Are we going to have dinner out tonight?" Hattori's mother looked towards the entrance worriedly.

"Maybe he's encountered a new case," Huiyuan took out his cell phone as usual, "Let's make a call..."

"Xiao Ai?"

At the crime scene, Maori handed the dry battery to the forensic personnel for investigation. He was shocked when he received the call because he had completely forgotten about Ai who was still at Hattori's house because of the case.

"Well, something happened in Osaka Castle..."

Maori explained roughly.

"Hmm?" Kazuha noticed that Maori was on the phone. "Is that Ai? Let's eat outside. I know there's a very good restaurant opposite the Shinbashi Bridge in Osaka Castle. It's nearby..."

"Idiot!" Hattori said unhappily, "There's a murder, how can we have time to eat?"

"It's okay," He Ye smiled and waved his hand, "I've called my dad and asked him to come over. Anyway, the police headquarters is nearby, and this incident is somewhat related to my dad's previous case... Okay, I'll leave it to my dad to handle it later. Xiaolan, are you hungry too?"

"Are you kidding me?" Hattori yelled with a dark face, "Someone died right in front of us, how can we still be in the mood..."

Noticing from the corner of his eye that Kazuha's father was coming over with a serious expression, Hattori lowered his voice: "How can I be in the mood to eat leisurely...Haha, so I think you should just leave us alone and go eat with Xiaolan first, okay?"

"If you don't want to eat, forget it," He Ye looked at the cowardly Hattori with disdain, pulled Xiaolan away and said, "Xiaolan, let's go eat by ourselves!"

Mao Li watched Kazuha and the other man walk away and touched his stomach.

It would have been fine if he hadn't said anything. Once he said it, he was really hungry. However, after these guys started making a scene, he, a famous detective and elder, felt embarrassed to go eat...

Well, let’s find a way to solve the case quickly.

Hattori next to him wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and discussed the case with his future father-in-law.

"Every time Taiko Hideyoshi won a battle, he would hang a small gourd on the horse seal, which later became the famous golden horse seal - Qianchenggoutan. If each small gourd was filled with gold, a thousand of them would be quite considerable. Add to that the historical value, and it would be almost priceless."

Hattori guessed: "From the charred corpse 13 years ago and the charred corpse found a few days ago, as well as the pottery fragments found on Mr. Kato this time... the three of them may have coveted this treasure, but in the end they were killed by someone who wanted to keep it for himself..."

Hattori looked at the tour group meaningfully.

The old man's face was slightly gloomy: "Officer, can we go have dinner first and then come here? Because we haven't eaten anything since lunch..."

"Yeah," the others followed and left, "My clothes got wet by the rain, so I have to go back to the hotel to change clothes first..."

"We came right back because the hotel we were staying in was very close to here."

"Okay, fine," Officer Otaki said helplessly, "but you have to go and come back quickly. I may have something to ask you later."

Mao Li frowned as he watched these people leave. There were still too few clues...

Although we know that the murderer should be among these people, we can't be sure who it is and there is not enough evidence.

Perhaps we should investigate the identities of these people more carefully. It doesn't seem as simple as forming a travel group by chance after meeting them online.

Especially the old man’s house, the sneaky phone call just now was also very problematic.

"Mr. Toyama," Mao Li found Officer Toyama, Kazuha's father, "There have been no clues to the murderer in the previous two cases?"

Yuanshan narrowed his eyes as he watched the group of people from Zaowu leave. "We haven't found any more clues about this, but after the charred corpse was found thirteen years ago, several robberies occurred one after another, resulting in the deaths of seven people. There is a high possibility that there is a connection between them."

"Robbery?"

"Otaki!" Yuanshan looked solemn. He handed over his subordinate, Officer Otaki, and whispered, "Find a few people to keep an eye on that old man. Don't let him get discovered."

"Yes," Officer Otaki responded hastily, "I'll go tell my subordinates right away!"

Maori stared blankly at Yuanshan who continued to make a phone call in a deep voice.

It seems that he doesn't need to remind him, and Ye's father has already begun to suspect that the old man is ruining the house.

If the Bad House was the robber who haunted the place thirteen years ago, then the suspicious phone call did have an explanation.

But is Zaowan really the murderer?

It looks like he's afraid of the police, there's no reason to make such a big fuss...

Maori touched his stomach with a sigh and looked up at the roof of the castle tower where the deceased had fallen on fire.

We still have to wait for the police to investigate the identities of those people... Are we going to have nothing to eat today?

……

Opposite the Shinbashi of Osaka Castle, Xiaolan and Kazuha were having dinner in a restaurant. Suddenly, she realized that she had lost Conan and hurriedly left the restaurant in worry.

"It'll be fine," He Ye comforted, "He should be with Heiji and your father, and there are a lot of police officers around, so it's impossible for any more cases to happen..."