Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

"What? Doctor, you can't find anything?"

The time was the fifth day after the murder at the magic party, and the location was the Maori Detective Agency. Maori had just woken up when he received a call from Dr. Agasa, "Then you can ask Conan to help you deduce and find it. Isn't he good at it... Hmm? He's out?"

"Okay, I'll be here in a minute."

After hanging up the doctor's phone, Mao Li shouted to Xiao Ai, who was at home on weekends and did not go shopping with Xiao Lan and Sonoko, "The doctor said he couldn't find something and wanted me to go over to help. Do you want to come with him, Xiao Ai?"

Xiao Ai yawned, looking very listless, but still said, "Go ahead. One more person means more strength, and the chances of finding it will be greater."

"Okay, but..."

Maori frowned and looked at Ai with some worry.

This little girl has been feeling sleepy these days, and she goes to school much earlier than before. I wonder what she is busy with...

"But what?"

Ai looked at Maori in confusion.

"There are ginkgo leaves in your hair. Where did they go?"

Maori took a ginkgo leaf from Xiaoai's hair.

"No, nothing."

"is it?"

Mao Li raised his eyebrows and did not ask any further questions.

……

Originally, Maori was planning to go to Dr. Agasa with Xiao Ai, but plans never keep up with changes - Maori suddenly received a call from Xiaolan and had to go out, so he had to let Xiao Ai go to the doctor's house alone. When Xiao Ai rushed to Dr. Agasa's house, it was already afternoon. Ayumi and the others had been called by Conan and were helping Dr. Agasa find something. However, although the house was messed up by them, they found nothing.

"Doctor, what exactly did the letter you mentioned look like? Do you remember it now?"

Seeing that the children had been searching for a long time but found nothing, Conan asked helplessly.

"I remember, I remember,"

Dr. Agasa smiled awkwardly, then scratched his head and looked around, saying, "The letter was in a postcard-sized envelope. It was a wedding invitation for the son of a doctoral friend of mine. It also contained a reply postcard that had to be mailed out today asking if I had attended..."

"In this case,"

Conan looked at the TV where some letters were placed. "Don't you always like to put the letters you have read on the TV? Maybe it fell near the TV..."

“Really?” Mitsuhiko moved closer to the TV and saw a lot of stuff falling from the gap behind the TV. “There are a lot of letters here!”

"Really, Conan, why didn't you say so earlier?"

"Ha ha……"

Conan looked at Mitsuhiko and the others who took out the letters, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

Shouldn't we look for this kind of place from the beginning?

"Doctor, you are too careless, aren't you?" Mitsuhiko said as he looked through the mail. "New Year's cards, summer greetings... and even a driver's license renewal notice..."

"There's everything."

"Hehe," the doctor said awkwardly, "these are the things I have been unable to find..."

"What is this?" Xiao Ai saw a postcard, "What cute words, written by a child..."

"This one……"

Dr. Agasa was stunned for a moment, then silently took the postcard, his eyes becoming a little moist.

"What's wrong, Doctor?" Ayumi was about to hand the wedding invitation to the Doctor, but was stunned when she saw the Doctor's expression. "It's the postcard written by the child..."

"Is it a love letter?"

"Ah?" Dr. Agasa came back to his senses. "No, it's just a postcard a friend sent me. It was forty years ago..."

"Forty years ago? That was when the doctor was in sixth grade, right?"

"Yes, I still remember it was the first day of school after the summer vacation. I was almost late so I took a shortcut. At that time, I saw a girl from a lower grade standing on the side of the road. She was so scared that her face turned blue..."

Dr. Agasa was lost in memories, with a nostalgic look on his face.

"She had a pair of big black eyes under her low hat. She was a very cute girl. She seemed to be afraid of the barking of the big dog in front, so she didn't dare to go over... That was the Noi family who was famous for raising large dogs nearby, so I had no choice but to let her hide behind me and go over..."

"It seems that she was bitten by a pet dog when she was a child, so she is very afraid of animals. I felt that this was too pitiful, so I took her to my friend Chono's house who has a hamster. She was very scared at first, but gradually got used to it over time, and even began to like animals. She was no longer afraid of the big dog at Noi's house anymore..."

Ayumi and the others all gathered around the doctor with a smile: "So you guys go to school together every day?"

The old doctor blushed: "No, no, it was just that autumn. She moved away a few months later. This postcard was left in my mailbox by her..."

"Ah? What's written on the postcard?"

"Let me see," Conan took the postcard, "Thank you very much for these past few months. It's great to meet Agasa, because I hate saying goodbye, so ten years from now, let's meet in that place full of memories before the sun sets. If we don't meet, then wait another ten years. Even if I become an old woman, I will keep waiting. So if you are free then, come and see me... to my most beloved Agasa..."

……

At the rush to buy the limited edition Fussae products, Maori found Sonoko and Xiaolan who were queuing with a few bags of hamburgers - that's right, the reason why Xiaolan called Maori was because she wanted Maori to help Kissing Eri grab a Fussae bag that was released today.

"Here, your burgers... but it's not your turn yet..."

"Of course, after all, what's on sale today is Fusae's super limited edition," Sonoko took the burger without hesitation, "One person can only buy one, otherwise Xiaolan wouldn't have asked you to help Aunt Eri buy it."

"But I remember that Miss Sonoko, your Suzuki family seems to be a shareholder of this Fusae brand? With such a relationship, do you still need to come here to queue up..."

Looking at the long queue, Maori sighed helplessly.

"I am here to accompany Xiaolan,"

Sonoko smiled and put her arm around Xiaolan's shoulders. "Besides, when buying limited edition items, you have to enjoy the process of going through so much trouble to buy them!"

"For a rich lady like you, this is indeed true..."

Maori was speechless - although he was now considered a high-income earner or a celebrity in Japan and even the world, he was still far behind Sonoko, the daughter of a super conglomerate.

Apart from anything else, just to cultivate this kind of "shopping happiness concept", he may have to add several zeros after his income.

"But then again,"

Yuanzi turned her head and looked at Xiaolan curiously, "Xiaolan, it's really strange that you want to buy a brand-name bag..."

Xiaolan held a hamburger and a Coke, and said with a nostalgic look: "Actually, I made an appointment with someone a long time ago, although that person may have forgotten it..."

"A long time ago? Could it be that reasoning kid?"

Mao Li's face was serious, and his father's alarm sounded decisively.

"No, no, it was a beautiful lady wearing a hat. Ten years ago when I was still in primary school, I forgot to bring an umbrella, so I waited for the rain to stop under the ginkgo tree behind the school. That's where I met that lady..."

"So your agreement with her is to buy Fushahui branded bags?"

Yuanzi felt a little confused.

Maori took a bite of the hamburger and pricked up his ears to continue listening to Xiaolan's story, but the phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

"Hey, Conan? I'm with Xiaolan and the others. Yes, we're just queuing up to buy bags... What do you want from me?"

"That's it..."

There was a noisy sound coming from the other side, and before Conando could say anything, the phone was snatched away by Mitsuhiko and others.

"Uncle Maori!"

Mitsuhiko said anxiously, "Help the doctor find his first love quickly, it's too late!"

"what?"

Mao Li held the phone in confusion, "A ten-year agreement... the doctor's first love forty years ago... 4163, 33, 6, 0... the clue is an animal... a code indicating the meeting place? What's the connection?"

"It's just that the doctor forgot the meeting place!"

Ayumi's soft voice came, "Uncle Maori, please, help the doctor to decipher the code quickly, if we can't find it before the sun sets, it will be over!"

"Uh……"

Mao Li turned back to Sonoko and Xiaolan, shrugged, and said, "He asked me to go over and help find someone."

……

"These are all animals that appear at night..."

"But there are bats and snakes and stuff like that. It's so scary."

At the Night Zoo, Ayumi and the others looked around hurriedly, while Maori followed behind with a postcard in his hand and a frown on his face.

The content was signed with only the date and half of the name "木下", and the latter part seemed to be blurred because it was wet.

But Dr. Agasa can't even remember the name of his first love. He is exactly the same as Osaka Kurokichi, the upright and honest man.

"But is this really the place indicated by the code? The postcard said to meet at the old place, but has the doctor ever been to such a place before?"

"Why would the doctor's first love leave such a secret code?"

The children were talking to each other.

Sudden--

"Found the mole!"

The fat boy Yuan Tai looked at the glass cage in front of him excitedly, "Over there!"

"There's someone waiting there..."

A slender woman with long hair was waiting in front of the Mole display window, checking the time on her watch, which immediately attracted the attention of the group.

Conan pushed the nervous doctor and said, "Although she's not wearing a hat, it must be her. Okay, doctor, we meet again after forty years. You have to do better this time!"

"Uh-huh……"

Dr. Agasa swallowed and mustered up the courage to walk towards the woman.

"Um, sorry, you are..."

"Oh, isn't this the Doctor?"

The woman turned around in surprise and said in a rough voice, "Long time no see!"

"puff!"

The sissy voice made Maori shudder, and he realized that the man in front of the window was actually a cross-dresser, the legendary shemale.

The inverted trapezoidal face with scraggly beard and upturned nose made Maori think of the classic alien image at first, but the elongated eyelashes and lipstick were unusually eye-catching, and the deliberately delicate expression made people's stomachs turn.

After a while, Dr. Agasa came back with an uncomfortable look on his face, as if he was very scared: "It's the child of the Chono family who used to raise hamsters. It seems that he opened a store in Kabukicho..."

"Hey, hey..." Conan pulled Dr. Agasa.

Stop talking.

"But what now?"

Everyone returned to the entrance of the zoo.

"Uncle Maori! Time is running out..."

Yuan Tai said anxiously, "We will have to wait another ten years until the sun sets."

"Don't make any noise, let me think about it..."

Mao Li felt a little nauseous when he thought about the cross-dressing man blinking when he left. He forced himself to look at the postcard in his hand again. All the clues so far flashed through his mind like a movie.

Ten-year agreement...

The doctor's first love forty years ago...

A meeting place full of memories...

The little girl in the hat...

Xiaolan's voice passed through Maori's ears: "It was a beautiful auntie wearing a hat. Ten years ago, when I was still in elementary school, I forgot to bring an umbrella, so I waited for the rain to stop under the ginkgo tree behind the school. There I met that auntie..."

The promise made ten years ago...

Fushahui limited edition product...

Maori was stunned for a moment. As all the clues were reintegrated, he turned his head to look at Ai, and the voices of Ayumi and the others returned to his ears again.

"What are you doing?"