Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

Hattori crouched down, turned to Maori and retorted: "It's because you ran over without saying hello, uncle. In that situation, of course I wanted to protect you!"

"I went there just to save you!"

"If you wanted to save people, why didn't you do it before he took out the gun? You just wanted to make Zaowu confess, right?"

"There's nothing I can do," Mao Li showed the newspaper page to Hattori helplessly, "The police kept it a secret so well, and I didn't know they already had solid evidence of the crime in the bad house..."

"Really? Have you ever thought about what to do if something unexpected happens?"

Hattori crossed his arms, still looking conflicted.

"Since you dealt with those guys before my dad, I won't hold it against you. But... you missed one clue that Wakisaka is the murderer!"

"Huh?" Maori was stunned.

"It's the umbrella," Hattori said proudly, "I knew you didn't know that Mr. Kato held the umbrella before he died, which actually pointed out the murderer. The umbrella represents Oda Nobunaga's horse-print golden umbrella. Mr. Kato wanted to say that Wakisaka, who played Nobunaga, was the murderer... What do you think? Didn't expect it?"

"Come on," Maori said speechlessly, "Didn't you think at first that Mr. Kato meant that rain would make the Dragon Scroll show its writing?"

He was very bad at history when he was in school. And even if he was good at history, who would pay attention to something as specific as Malaysia and India if not a real history fan?

Huibara glanced at a few people silently and started flipping through the newspaper.

A middle-aged uncle is bickering with a high school detective. It's speechless...

……

The third day after returning to Tokyo.

At Kanemori Dental Hospital, Maori sat on the sofa outside with his fingers crossed, waiting. Next to him sat a mother and child. The child looked only five or six years old and kept making a fuss about wanting to go home.

"No!" The child cried even louder, "I want to go home! Mommy..."

"Be good, let the doctor check your teeth and then go home, okay?"

"don't want……"

"It's because you don't brush your teeth every night that you're like this..."

Maori sighed and looked at the mother and son.

So what if he is a famous detective? His toothache is still there...

“Zi Buzz—!”

A sharp drilling sound came from inside, which made Maoli's scalp tingle. He picked up a magazine next to him and read it while shaking his legs.

"Come, point here," the woman pointed her index finger at her forehead, pulled the child and said softly, "Just chant a spell, 'No pain, no pain', and it won't hurt when you pull the tooth out later. The man at the bow taught me that..."

Maori raised his eyelids and looked at the woman teaching the child a spell, then sighed and shook his head.

What's the point of chanting spells? Adults always like to trick children like this... But it's okay, finally they calm down and stop making noise...

"Mom," the child turned his attention to Mao Li, and looked curiously at Mao Li who was shaking his legs and flipping through a magazine, "Is this uncle here to see the dentist as well?"

"Yeah, you see uncle is not afraid at all, you should be good too."

"But he is reading the book backwards..."

"Don't talk nonsense."

"..."

Maori paused, coughed lightly, put the magazine back on the shelf next to him, and turned his head to look away.

"Ishikawa-chan!"

As a young man in a suit came out, the female dentist called the two women in. Mao Li glanced at the woman who brought the child in and the man in a suit who sat on the sofa opposite. He tapped his forehead with his finger and tried to draw a circle in the corner: "It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt..."

The man in the suit was stunned for a moment, then looked in the direction of Maori who was muttering to himself. After exchanging a glance with Maori, he looked away and went to the counter to get his medicine.

Mao Li picked up the magazine again and started reading it. He waited until the man in the suit left before he looked up. Before he could do anything, a child's cry like a pig being slaughtered was suddenly heard in the treatment room.

“Ah! It hurts! It hurts!”

Maolitou Daichi closed his eyes, turned away, frowned and rubbed his ears.

Why did it happen when there were naughty kids coming over?

This spell is useless...

"Okay, it's okay..." The child was still crying when he came out of the treatment room, and was finally coaxed by the woman to leave Jinsen Dental Hospital.

"Let's go home and buy you a new school bag, okay?"

Maori looked at the figures of mother and child and couldn't help but touch his cheek.

It's really torturous.

On normal days, he would definitely be drinking tea in the office, or handling a case. Either of these is better than coming here...

In the dental office, female doctor Jinsen took the key to open the cabinet drawer, took out a briefcase, and silently took out a well-preserved women's pocket pistol from the drawer. After a pause, she put the pistol into the briefcase and hid it, then turned around and walked out of the office to find her female assistant.

"Ms. Segawa, could you please buy me a bottle of cold medicine? I have a runny nose."

"Okay, doctor," the female assistant took off her apron and suddenly thought of Maori, "but Mr. Maori is still waiting outside..."

"I'll just come."

Jinsen smiled, watched his assistant leave, then immediately turned around and exchanged the positions of the little bear pendant and the white rabbit pendant outside the two treatment rooms.

"Mr. Maori!" Jinsen shouted to Maori who was waiting outside with the registration form, "Please wait in the room with the teddy bear."

"Little Bear?"

Maori stood up and walked into the inner room, staring blankly at the two treatment rooms with pendants hanging on them.

"Um, have the consultation rooms here always been separated by pendants?"

Jin Sen came over from the office, pulled open the curtain of the right bear treatment room and said, "It used to be 1 and 2, but since there are many child patients, we changed it to something cuter."

"That's right," Maori laughed dryly, "Children seem to be afraid of going to the dentist."

"Have you ever been to the dentist, Mr. Maori?"

“…I haven’t seen it much.”

"Is that so? Please take a seat," Jinsen asked, putting on gloves and a mask, "How do you feel today?"

"Yesterday, I had a sudden impulse and ate some cake, and then my lower teeth suddenly started to hurt..."

Mao Li let out a sigh and sat on the lift chair. When he saw the electric drill in front of him, he quickly turned his head away.

"Doctor, there should be no need to extract the tooth, right?"

“That’s hard to say.”

Jinsen chuckled and put a scarf and smock on Maori, then lowered the back of the lift chair and covered Maori's eyes with a towel to avoid direct exposure to strong light.

"Open your mouth, open it wider... Oh, it's a bit serious, your gums are inflamed... It looks like you ate a lot of sweets..."

After the inspection, Kanamori turned off the light and raised the backrest of the lift chair: "It's OK... But then again, Mr. Maori doesn't look like someone who likes sweets very much."

Mao Li coughed lightly and said, "Yeah, but there's nothing I can do. I met some detective fans on the way home, and they gave me some..."

While filling out the form, Jinsen said in surprise: "Mr. Maori is also a detective? Have you ever handled any cases?"

"I've handled a few minor cases."

Maori wiped his nose. He didn't expect that there were people in Tokyo who didn't know him.

"Doctor, do I need a tooth extracted?"

"Don't you want to have your tooth extracted?" Jin Sen tried to hold back his laughter. "Anyway, let's take a X-ray to see how far the decay has progressed... It's best to clean the decayed tooth later."

"it is good."

Jinsen Dental Clinic is located on the second floor of a commercial building. Jinsen had just completed the tooth X-ray for Maori when the female assistant who was out had already returned with medicine.

Hearing the sound of the bell caused by the door being pushed open outside, Jinsen hurriedly filled out the form, looked at Maori who was covered with a towel in the treatment room waiting for his teeth to be cleaned, and exchanged the little bear ornament and the little white rabbit ornament at the door again.

Chapter 128: Asking a detective to provide an alibi is not a good idea

"Ms. Segawa," Kanamori found the female assistant who was changing clothes in the lounge and said softly, "Can you help me? There's an emergency patient here, and he said I must treat him, but I'm busy now... The X-ray has been taken, so just help me clean his teeth, and call me for the rest."

"I see," the female assistant put on an apron and handed a bag of cold medicine to Jinsen, "By the way, doctor, I bought the medicine."

"sorry to bother you."

Jinsen nodded and handed the form to his assistant, then walked into the bear treatment room on the left. After the assistant went to treat Maori, he hurried back to the office, changed his clothes, and went out with the briefcase he had prepared in advance.

When he reached the door, he pressed the doorbell and walked out of Jinsen Dental Clinic. He looked around, carefully closed the door, and quickly left through the emergency exit.

"Ah!" In the treatment room, Maori opened his mouth wide and let the tweezers clean the tartar, and his fingers were pulling tighter and tighter.

Before the tooth was extracted, the sound of the metal rubbing in my mouth felt like torture. The tweezers directly touched the rotten tooth, like a knife cutting it.

My mouth was filled with a strange smell of cleaning water and saliva mixed together, which made me feel extremely uncomfortable. However, I couldn't move. It took a long time before I heard the doctor put down the tweezers and walked out.

"Doctor," the female assistant looked into the treatment room next door with the curtain open and found that Kanamori had already left the treatment room and was writing a report in the office, "Mr. Sasuke's teeth have been cleaned."

"Thanks for your hard work."

Jinsen put down his pen, watched his assistant go to the counter, and quickly breathed a sigh of relief, put on his mask and entered the treatment room.

Mao Li was already lying on the lift chair with his mouth open. Hearing the voice, he quickly asked, "Are you done?"

"It's ready now," Jinsen helped raise the back of the chair, "Rinse your mouth."

"Good, I feel like I'm saved," Mao Li smiled bitterly and picked up the cup of water next to him to rinse his mouth, "I feel much better."

"This is just cleaning the teeth," Jinsen said with a smile, "Although you don't need to extract the teeth for the time being, there is a lot of dirt inside the teeth. Have you seriously learned how to brush your teeth?"

"How to brush your teeth? I didn't really pay attention to that..."

Mao Li rubbed his brows awkwardly, "But I brush my teeth every day, and I have never stopped."

"If you don't use the correct method of brushing your teeth, it won't work," Jinsen said seriously with a straight face, "You must brush your teeth well in the future, and it's best to eat less sweets."

"Uh-huh."

Outside the commercial building, Mao Li walked to the door and looked up at the "Kinsen Dental" sign, holding a toothbrush and a children's picture book with a conflicted look on his face.

“How to brush your teeth correctly…”

Looking at the cartoon character brushing his teeth in the picture book, Maori shook his head helplessly.

How could he, a famous detective, feel like he was being treated like a child?

But after all, he is a dentist, a kind of doctor. In front of a dentist, let alone a famous detective like him, even the police have no say...

……

"Mr. Maori?" Near Kanemori Dental Clinic, Officer Sato was looking for a passerby on the side of the road to question. Seeing Maori passing by, he couldn't help but exclaimed, "Why are you here?"

"what?"

Mao Li came back to his senses and looked at Sato: "I came here to see a dentist... But Officer Sato, do you have any cases?"

Sato said solemnly: "Just half an hour ago, a murder occurred in the building next door. An employee named Yamamura was killed in the bathroom, and the murderer escaped and is nowhere to be found..."

"Mountain village?"

Maori suddenly thought of the man in a suit in Kanemori Dental Clinic.

It seems to be called Shancun...

Thinking of this, Mao Li scratched the back of his head and said embarrassedly: "Officer Sato, can I see the scene? I may have seen the deceased..."

"Really?" Sato narrowed his eyes slightly.

Could it be...like before?

In a building not far from Kanemori Dental Clinic, Maori followed Sato to the 7th floor.

"Here……"

After greeting the police officer on duty, Sato took Maori into the murder scene in the men's restroom.