Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

"That should be it."

Conan's mouth twitched.

The huge vault built by the legendary mechanical engineer Kichiemon Sanmizu, which was said to be absolutely unbreakable by the "iron raccoon", finally had to be opened by a phantom thief...

"You will always pay attention to that maid, which means..." Conan looked at the clumsy maid, and his smile suddenly froze, "Hey, no way?"

"I'm just guessing."

Mao Li noticed Officer Nakamori with a sullen look on the other side from the corner of his eye, and didn't say anything more.

In fact, it is easy to judge after figuring out Suzuki Jirokichi's purpose.

Recruiting bodyguards and servants specifically during the days when the notice was released was simply giving Kidd an opportunity.

If Kidd had come earlier, he would have definitely investigated it clearly and there would have been no need to wait until today when the security was the tightest to help. From this point of view, the maid who entered the Suzuki family last was the most suspicious. It just so happened that at this time she had to deliver dinner to Jiroyoshi's room and meet with Jiroyoshi alone.

Of course, the most important thing is that when the weight monitor was turned off, Maori kept watching it and was very sure that the people with him did not do anything tricky. The maid who was looking for the dog outside the side door at that time was in a blind spot.

"All members of the Suzuki family, be alert!" Nakamori Ginzo shouted while holding the intercom, "The time for Kidd to appear is coming! Everyone, be alert, don't relax when you see someone you know, maybe the teammate next to you is Kidd in disguise! That guy is a master of disguise!!"

Shortly after the maid pushed the dining cart into Suzuki Jirokichi's room, Suzuki Jirokichi entered the vault alone with a bag and a cane, just like he did in the previous few days, saying that he was conducting a routine inspection and that no one was allowed to peek.

A few minutes later, he came out of the safe room and said that he had a dinner appointment with Inspector Chaki, and left through the back door with his bodyguard.

Maori and Conan tacitly agreed not to care too much, but went to the Suzuki family restaurant to eat with Xiaolan and the uncle. After Sonoko asked other servants about her uncle's recent abnormality, she came back and told Maori.

"Strange, what happened to Uncle Jirokichi?" Sonoko wondered, "Is it because Kidd is coming that he has become like this?"

"What's so strange about that?" Maori said indifferently as he savored the food with satisfaction. "It probably takes a cane and a plate to open the vault. Even a cigarette can trigger the anti-theft device. It's not that easy to open the vault itself... It's better to think about how Kidd opened the vault than to think about this strange thing."

"But who is Kidd pretending to be?"

"Didn't I just say that? The three new recruits are most likely to be..."

……

The "Iron Raven" as the Suzuki family's heirloom treasury is a huge treasure in itself. I'm afraid that even if Suzuki Jirokichi had not commissioned it in the fake notice letter, Kid would also be attracted to it. At the same time, as the work of the legendary mechanism master Kichiemon Sanmizu, the "Iron Raven" is enough to drive all mechanism masters crazy.

On the rooftop of the Suzuki family’s villa, a white cloak fluttered in the wind.

Without the reminder from Mori and Conan, and with the cooperation of Suzuki Jirokichi himself, Officer Nakamori was easily deceived by Kid during dinner time. He left the Suzuki house along with most of the mobile team members to chase Suzuki Jirokichi, who was believed to be Kid in disguise, and was fooled around.

By the time the police reacted, Kid, disguised as a cute maid, had already opened the vault and rescued the dog trapped inside.

"I still like standing on the roof."

Maori brought Conan to the top floor and saw the white figure in the evening breeze at a glance. It was Kid who had taken off his disguise.

"And he pretended to be a woman..."

"Because it's cuter, isn't it? Uncle," Kidd turned around and smiled, "If it were a woman, everyone would more or less lower their guard..."

Kidd looked at the shorter Conan and said, "It's better than someone pretending to be a child all day long, haha, although a child's body is also quite suitable."

"Come on," Conan snorted, "I didn't want to be like this... But you're such a mess, didn't you think about what would happen if you got caught?"

"So didn't I tell you?" Kidd said with a grin, holding up his magic hat, "I told Miss Suzuki the reason why I would take action. It would be much easier if there were no detectives to mess around..."

"Don't be too happy too soon," Mao Li interrupted, "If I didn't need your help, I wouldn't let you leave so easily. Officer Nakamori will probably have something to say about this."

As the police car returned, a series of sirens sounded near Suzuki's home, but they were still only able to track the shadow of Kidd flying away with his hang glider.

Mao Li stood on the roof for a while, until the police car chased Kid away again, then he turned around and said, "Let's go, we can report to Sonoko and the others. Anyway, Kid didn't steal anything."

……

"Please, Detective Maori!"

Inside the Mori Detective Agency, Mrs. Onoda, whom Mori had just met at the Suzuki family's party, had red and swollen eyes and begged, "Please help me..."

Maori and Xiao Ai looked at each other and asked, "Calm down, ma'am, what happened?"

"Kei-tae is missing," the woman choked up, "since the 20th, I couldn't find him anywhere. At first I thought he just went out for fun, but it's been several days, and his piano competition is about to start..."

"Missing?"

"So something happened the day after the party... Have you called the police?"

"I've reported it, but the police can't find any clues. If they can't find Keita..."

"Can you tell me the details?"

Maori's face turned serious.

If a child runs away from home simply because the pressure is too great, he or she usually won't last long. Since even the police can't find any clues, there is a high possibility that he or she has been kidnapped.

But if that's the case, the kidnappers should contact the family, whether asking for a ransom or something...

……

On the weekend, Professor Agasa takes a group of children to the mountains to dig bamboo shoots. Only Ai stays behind to help Maori with the investigation.

"Actually, I can do it alone. Should we all go dig bamboo shoots together..."

"You know someone's been kidnapped," Ai glanced at Maori, "how can you still be in the mood to play? At a time like this, of course we have to help find that child as soon as possible."

"Won't they find it strange? You didn't tell them about this..."

"Don't worry, it won't happen."

"You are quite sure..."

Mao Li drooped his eyelids, took Xiao Ai into a rented car, checked his watch and said, "It's getting late, let's go quickly, I hope nothing happens to the child."

Although Xiao Ai was worried, she didn't hold out much hope: "He has been missing for almost 4 days, including today, and there has been no contact from the criminal. In this case, the chance of survival is almost zero..."

"There is still hope, if my judgment is correct." Maori concentrated on driving.

He has conducted a full investigation and finally pinned the suspicion on another child prodigy who would also participate in the piano competition.

Judging from all the signs, he should have some relationship with the little girl. After screening, the little girl's divorced father is very suspicious. After the banquet at the Suzuki family, he has not participated in any activities in the past few days and seems to have been staying in the villa in the mountains.

The car drove along the road into the mountainous area, and it suddenly began to rain heavily. Fortunately, the road had been repaired in the mountains, so it didn't cause any trouble. However, the gray and gloomy sky made people less happy.

Maori's destination is in the villa area in this mountainous area. From the map, he can pass through it directly along the road. Fortunately, he is not the kind of rich man who likes to build a big villa anywhere, otherwise it would be really difficult.

Soon the villa area came into view, and at this moment a sound of piano suddenly came from the rain, and the clear tone was not drowned out by the sound of rain.

"This is..." Maori was slightly stunned and looked at the rows of villas in the rain.

Xiao Ai was also attracted by the piano sound, and subconsciously said: "The melody on the G line... is the third orchestral suite composed by Johann Sebastian Bach..."

"I know."

Maori's cheek twitched.

There's no need to give him a special explanation at this time...

"It looks like we've arrived at the place," Xiao Ai said calmly, looking at the villa area. "The girl can play the piano in a place like this, and the player is probably a professional pianist. The girl's father does live here."

"It's hard to say right now."

The car stopped in front of the villa where the piano sound came from. According to the address, it was indeed the father's villa. Maori opened the car door and unexpectedly saw some children's backpacks at the door of the villa.

"Wait," Mao Li's eyebrows jumped, and he turned back to ask Xiao Ai, "Could it be that the place where the doctor and his team dug bamboo shoots is this mountain?"

"possible."

"It shouldn't be such a coincidence..."

"I think so," Xiao Ai checked her backpack and said, "The bamboo shoots and their things are all here, and the cell phone is also..."

"Really."

Maori opened the half-open door and slowly walked into the entrance.

The room was dark, as if the power was out. Only the sound of the piano could be heard. The room where the piano was being played was on the right side of the corridor. Maori followed the sound to the door of the piano room and looked inside.

"Strange," Ayumi nervously hid behind Conan in the villa, looking at the dark corridor and asked, "Did someone come in from the front?"

"How is that possible?" Conan said speechlessly, "The criminal should still be playing the piano in that room, and the doctor can't possibly find his way here so quickly..."

"But maybe there is more than one criminal."

"It's probably just one person. The diary is in the first person, and there's no sign of an accomplice in the text. There's even only one red wine glass..."

Conan was holding a notebook with certainty and was about to say something when he suddenly heard the piano sound stop and then started again after a while.

Chapter 155 Hattori is in trouble

"Huh? This time it seems a little different..."

"How, how could this happen?" Yuan Tai said in fear, "Is the criminal coming to arrest us?"

"Idiot, if he wanted to catch us, he could have just done that," Conan frowned and thought, "and he probably didn't want us to see his appearance in case someone escaped and told the police, so he played the piano in the dark to scare us away..."

"But as long as we investigate the owner of this villa, we can also find out who the criminal is?" Mitsuhiko asked doubtfully.

"Maybe he's not the owner of this villa," Conan judged, "It's possible that he broke into the villa and sneaked in. After all, it's the off-season now, and the surrounding villas are empty, right?"

Ayumi was still looking at the dark corridor in front of her with fear. When the piano music stopped, she pulled Conan and said in a trembling voice, "No, no, it seems like someone is coming..."

"Da da."

In the darkness, the sound of footsteps could be clearly heard on the wooden floor. Conan's expression also changed, and his eyes trembled.

3 sounds of footsteps, 3 people coming over.

Damn it, what on earth is going on? The doctor should still be on his way here... Could he be the owner of this villa?

"I said……"

A flashlight shone on Conan and the others' faces, and Maori's scolding voice rang out: "What the hell are you doing? Where's Dr. Agasa?"

"what?"

Conan blinked stupidly, his eyes sweeping over Ai and the little boy beside Maori.

"Uncle? Huiyuan? Why are you here? This child is..."

"I came here just for this child. I've been staying here for the past few days, and his mother is worried to death..."

"Hug, sorry."

Onoda Keita lowered his head in embarrassment.

"Okay," Maori shook his head, "where's the guy who captured you? Do you remember him?"

"Ah? It's Chiaki's father, because Chiaki showed me the photo," Onoda Keita explained, "But I wasn't captured. It was Chiaki's father who helped me. Because I was about to participate in a competition, my mother kept forcing me to practice the piano. I wasn't happy at all..."

Conan took a while to recover. Looking at Onoda Keita who was fine, he twitched his lips and said, "So you were walking in the corridor, eating snacks, pushing a cart, playing games... and making a mess everywhere?"

"Because my mother usually doesn't allow me to do this, but here no one will scold me." Onoda Keita said happily.

"So that's how it is," Conan wondered into the flashlight, "Then what's with this diary? It says 'I have to kill him' and 'I'm sorry, kid, please forgive me'..."

"journal?"

Maori took the notebook and found that it was written from March 3th, the day Onoda Keita was arrested.

"March 3, sunny. I tried to talk to him. He's such a little kid. He always laughs and plays by himself... I don't know if he understands his current position. This kid must be living a very depressing life... Anyway, there are only two days left. Just be patient..."

"March 3, cloudy. Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven... one more day, hope it passes safely..."

"March 3, rain. Damn it. This kid seems to know who I am. If he tells anyone about this, it will become an obstacle in the future. Even though it's pitiful, I have no choice but to kill him..."

"March 3, Rain, Little Ghost, I'm sorry, please forgive me..."

The date is on the left, and the diary is on the right. The last diary entry on March 3 has red wine stains on both sides...

What is very problematic is that the diary entry for March 3 is missing.

And the problem is not just this. When the diary is closed, the side edges of two pages are exposed.

In addition, the diary entry for March 3th seemed to have been stained by red wine twice, and the second time it was still very new...

Mao Li flipped through the diary again.

The notebook did not use any glue. Instead, a stack of papers was folded in half and stapled in the middle. The inner pages were then cut neatly along the edges. The reason why two pages of paper were protruding was because someone had removed the staplers and moved the papers inside. The stapler in the middle also showed signs of being pressed back.