Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

Dr. Agasa instantly thought of the identity he had fabricated for Conan, and couldn't help but laugh bitterly, but then he changed the subject, "By the way, what are we going to Shizuoka Prefecture for so late at night? And you specially asked me to drive out."

Conan looked serious: "It seems that a professor has a disk related to drug information from Huiyuan. The professor happens to have time tonight, so we plan to get it back..."

"Dr. Agasa, you'd better drive faster,"

Maori, who was sitting in the back row, suddenly spoke up, "If those men in black had investigated Ai carefully, they might have gone looking for the disk. After all, it's been a few days since she escaped from the organization, and the information leaked out couldn't have failed to attract their attention."

Huibara glanced at Maori, and in a trance she recalled the time before her sister got into trouble.

"The famous detective Maori Kogoro who has been on TV a lot recently is now known as the Akechi Kogoro of the Heisei era, but I heard that he was also a third-rate, confused detective in the past."

The older sister in my memory smiled and said, "That's great... I also want to be like this detective and suddenly become reliable and powerful, so that I can help you, Shiho..."

"Sister, don't say that. You are my greatest support..."

Huibara recalled silently, her blue eyes like pearls in the dim car, trembling slightly and imperceptibly.

"By the way, sister, are you okay? I heard that you recently received a special mission..."

"Don't worry about me, I'm only responsible for the simplest part, and everything went smoothly. I'm more worried about you, so you should stop making medicine and find a boyfriend as soon as possible, so that I won't have anything to worry about..."

"what happened?"

Maori frowned and met Haibara's gaze.

"Nothing." Huihara turned her head and looked out the window.

……

Shizuoka Prefecture is more than 100 kilometers away from Tokyo. Dr. Agasa drove his old Beetle for more than three hours until 11 o'clock in the evening when he finally arrived at Professor Hirota's house, where he had an appointment to meet.

Just in case, Professor Agasa parked the car a little further away from Hirota's house, and Mori and Conan went to visit Professor Hirota as father and son.

"uncle,"

Conan looked back at Huibara who was waiting in the car with the doctor, and suddenly said, "I think we still can't be too careless. Although she is just a little girl now, she was a member of the organization before, and betraying the organization is just her own excuse..."

"I asked her what the purpose of the organization was, but she pretended to be ignorant of it. She also didn't tell us her real name and age. Maybe that was just a lie she made up to make us believe her."

"It's a good thing that you have such vigilance,"

Maori knew that Conan still didn't trust Huibara, and was secretly thinking about moving back to the detective agency to be closer to Xiaolan. "But judging from the results, there was no need for her to lie, otherwise you would have been captured by that organization long ago. Besides, who can guarantee to be completely honest with others? Everyone has their own thoughts and difficulties, which is normal."

"Uncle, you wouldn't..."

Conan suddenly looked up at Maori suspiciously.

"You don't want to raise her as a daughter, do you? My impression is that Xiaolan seemed to stop sticking to you after she was seven or eight years old, and you were angry and upset for a long time..."

"You have a really good memory, kid!"

Maori gave Conan a slap on the face for being so talkative, and then rang the doorbell of Hirota's house as the latter screamed in pain.

"Hello, I'm Mao Li as you mentioned before."

"Oh, it's Mr. Maori. My husband mentioned it to me. Please come in!"

The person who came out to open the door was a fat woman in her 50s, the wife of Professor Masami Hirota.

"It seems that several of my husband's former students came to visit, and they all made appointments for today, but they have all gone home now. My husband should be in the study now."

"should?"

"Sorry, I just got back actually. He usually stays in the study when he's waiting for guests."

The Fat Lady took Maori and the other man to the study and knocked on the door but there was no response and the door was locked.

"husband?"

"That's weird, what are you doing in there? And you locked the door...husband!"

"and many more!"

Maori narrowed his eyes slightly and sniffed together with Conan.

“This smell…”

"uncle!"

"Ok!"

Both of them smelled blood, although it was very faint, it would definitely not escape their detective noses.

"Mrs. Hirota,"

Mao Li immediately asked in a deep voice, "Do you have a spare key?"

"Huh? No..."

"Then I can only ask you to give way for a moment, Madam."

Maori tensed up.

"Eh?"

boom! ! !

Chapter 54: A famous detective is supposed to make the impossible possible!

Although he did not shout the ultimate door-breaking slogan "FIB! Open the door!", Mao Li, who had an amazing physical fitness, still easily broke open the study door of Hirota's house amid Mrs. Hirota's exclamation.

When the door was pushed open, Professor Hirota, the person that Mori and his friends were there to meet, had indeed lost his breath.

……

Ten minutes later, the police who received the report arrived at Hirota's house. The leader was Yokomizo Sango, who had worked with Mori once before. This middle-aged police officer with a square face and coral hair was a great admirer of Mori.

"Detective Maori!"

Yokomizo was quite surprised to see Mori again. "It's been a long time since the last Dark Duke case! But I have always seen you active in the news reports!"

"Thank you, Officer Yokomizo, but let's get on with the case first."

Maori smiled and nodded as a greeting.

"That's right."

Yokomizo switched to a serious expression and entered the study scene.

The bookshelf in the study collapsed and the books were scattered all over the floor. The owner, Professor Hirota, was trapped underneath and blood was all over the floor from the back of his head.

"police officer,"

After examining the body, the medical examiner held up a trophy and reported, "This ornament seems to have been the cause of death. It was probably hit when it fell..."

"fall?"

Dr. Agasa, who was standing nearby, asked in confusion, "What do you mean by falling?"

After the police arrived, he and Haibara received a notification from Mori and did not stay in the car, but took the opportunity to follow. Both of them were quite surprised that Professor Hirota was killed so coincidentally.

"Based on the situation at the scene,"

Officer Yokomizo reasoned, "Mr. Hirota must have climbed up the bookshelf, but his balance was unstable and he fell down with the bookshelf. He happened to hit his head on the trophy that fell from the bookshelf first, and died..."

"Besides, the door and air vents of this room were all locked, and the only key to the room was under the fallen notebook, so it seems to be an accident."

Officer Yokomizo paused as he spoke, then perked up and looked at Maori: "But even so, I still think this was a homicide!"

"why?"

Mao Li was stunned by Officer Yokomizo's firm tone.

"Because Detective Maori, you're here too!"

Officer Yokomizo said with an "I'm very sure" look, "We've spread the word throughout our police system! As long as you, Detective Mori, are involved in a case, no matter how much it looks like an accident, it's actually a homicide!"

"..."

Although it was a serious crime scene where someone had died, many police officers and Dr. Agasa couldn't help but find it funny after hearing what Officer Yokomizo said. However, it was not convenient for them to laugh in such an occasion, so they could only hold it in uncomfortably.

Fortunately, there was Mrs. Hirota, a poor woman who had just lost her husband. She held onto Officer Yokomizo tightly and spoke with a slightly tearful voice, bringing everyone back to the serious atmosphere:

"Who killed my husband? Officer, there is no spare key to this room..."

"Well," Officer Yokomizo glanced at Mori and laughed dryly, "Calm down, ma'am, aren't we investigating? We can only get the results after the investigation is completed... By the way, has anyone suspicious visited the professor tonight?"

"In addition to Detective Mori, there seemed to be two or three more people coming," Mrs. Hirota pointed at Mori and replied, "I just happened to be attending the town meeting, so I'm not too sure..."

"Town meeting?"

"Yes, I went with the ladies from the neighborhood. I left home at eight and didn't come back until eleven. Mr. Maori called me just as I was leaving."

"So, ma'am, you didn't see any guests coming to see your husband tonight?"

Officer Yokomizo said with a headache.

"I saw the first visitor here,"

Mrs. Hirota recalled, "At that time, I happened to be out with the lady next door, and my husband said it was one of his former students, whose last name seemed to be Hosoya... I only heard him say that there would be two or three students to see him..."

"Gone,"

Huiyuan, who was checking the computer nearby, suddenly said, "Not only are all the disks missing, but even the data in the computer seems to have been erased!"

"what?"

Officer Yokomizo was startled when he heard this and turned to look at Huibara who was touching things randomly, "Who is this kid?"

"She is my assistant, just like the four-eyed kid Conan you met before." Maori said as he squatted beside the corpse and inspected the scene.

"Assistant? I see!"

As a fanatical admirer of Mori, Officer Yokomizo didn't think there was anything wrong with Mori's statement, and he praised him mindlessly, "Detective Mori is really amazing. Even the child assistant beside him is extraordinary!"

"Officer Yokomizo,"

Mao Li did not respond to Officer Yokomizo's flattery, but looked at the phone lying on the ground with a book on top of it. "This looks like an answering machine. Can I listen to the recording first?"

"Oh, it has been verified on site, so there is no problem flipping it now."

Officer Yokomizo reacted and quickly pressed the answering machine button while wearing gloves.

"There is a total of 1 message..."

The investigation was proceeding in an orderly manner, but Maori was thinking about those men in black.

Ai's drug information disk makes this murder case no longer so simple, and once those men in black are involved, everything will become quite troublesome. As long as it is not handled properly, Mao Li, who has already been noticed by the organization, and the people around him will be in danger.

"It's best if you don't interfere in this case, uncle."

Huiyuan stood aside and reminded, "They are probably still watching this place..."

"You think those guys did it?"

"It's very likely. Like you said before, it won't be difficult for them to find the disk because the record of the disk's loss and the record of me sending the items out at that time are both kept in the organization."

"I don't think this is their work,"

Conan shook his head and denied it. "Although I don't deal with them much, I am sure they will not commit such a crude crime..."

"Excuse me, what happened?"

As Conan finished speaking, a young man appeared at the door, "I am Shirakura who has an appointment with the teacher..."

"Are you Shirakura? Professor Hirota has been murdered, perhaps by a visitor."

Officer Yokomizo had listened to 12 phone messages in a row and said in a deep voice, "Mr. Morioka has 2, but Mr. Shirakura, you have 10. Isn't that too many?"

"this,"

The young man explained anxiously, "Because I called many times and no one answered, I came to check. I didn't expect that the teacher would be in trouble."

"is it?"

Yokomizo looked at the young man suspiciously, then continued to check the messages and said, "Next is the first, and final, message."

"Ding! Hello... I would like to explain to you about our company's new... insurance product... Could you please spare some time... I will call you again..."

"He's an insurance salesman."