Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

"Hey, you kid..."

"Crack!"

With a slight sound, a small lens at the bottom of the Egg of Memory fell to the ground.

Xiaolan next to her was stunned and stood up anxiously.

"Conan! What are you doing?!"

"It's okay, Xiaolan,"

Yuanzi looked at Xiaolan's anxious expression and waved her hands in amusement, saying, "I dropped this mirror several times when I was a child. It's very easy to disassemble."

"..."

Hearing what Sonoko said, Conan, who was lying on the ground picking up a small mirror and was already sweating coldly, breathed a sigh of relief, but soon his eyes became fixed -

"Uncle! Turn off the light! There's something on this mirror! It's a 'magic mirror'!"

……

The Queen Elizabeth cruise ship sailed gently on the sea and would not arrive in Tokyo until the next day.

Conan walked through the empty corridor and found the telephone booth on the ship to contact Dr. Agasa.

"We should be in Tokyo tomorrow... The egg is fine, but there seems to be another egg..."

"Another egg?"

Although he did not study Russian cultural relics and history, Dr. Agasa on the other end of the phone was still a little surprised - the egg of memory discovered by the Suzuki family was already the 51st one that had not been recorded, so how come there is the 52nd one now?

"Ah, although it's not very clear, there is indeed a lens installed later in the Egg of Memory, and there are clues on it pointing to the castle of the Kosaka family... The other egg is probably hidden in the castle. This is what my uncle and I have judged."

Conan said this while holding the microphone.

"That's it,"

Dr. Agasa nodded in understanding, "By the way, what's going on with Kidd?"

"Hattori and I have been chasing him since he got the egg, and then a mysterious sniper shows up..."

……

After reporting the situation to the doctor, Conan hung up the phone, turned around and walked out of the phone booth.

After arriving in Tokyo, he did not return to Dr. Agasa's house for the time being, but instead followed Mori to Yokosuka, where the Kosaka family castle was located.

His detective instinct told him that not only was Kidd not dead, but he was very likely already on board the cruise ship - and if Kidd was also on the cruise ship, he would definitely find a way to steal the Egg of Memory again, or simply sneak into the castle in Yokosuka and get both eggs at the same time.

Conan would never let him get his wish.

……

Because the Suzuki family's luxury cruise ship was so large, and there were so few people on the trip, the huge ship seemed a bit deserted. Fortunately, the rooms for everyone were arranged together - before Conan returned to his and Mori's room, Sonoko dragged him to Xiaolan's place like a conscript.

There is a small living room in the luxurious suite where Xiaolan and Sonoko live. Kosaka Natsumi and Pu Siqinglan, who is wearing a red cheongsam, are already sitting on the sofa enjoying snacks and tea.

Natsumi Kosaka has long, soft hair, and looks like a working sister next door. She is lively and cute, and at the same time has a very gentle temperament.

Pu Si Qinglan has angular short hair, like a strong woman, but I don't know why she wears a cheongsam with a very short hem. Her long white legs make Conan blush.

"Ms. Xia Mei has been staying in Paris since she was 20 years old?" Xiaolan asked in surprise.

"Yeah," Kosaka Natsumi smiled, "So my Japanese is weird."

Conan stared at Kosaka Natsumi for a while and asked in confusion: "Huh? Sister Natsumi's eye color..."

"It's gray, right? My mother and grandmother were also gray," Kosaka Natsumi leaned closer and smiled at Conan, "I think it must have been inherited from my great-grandmother."

"Come to think of it, Miss Qinglan's eyes are also grey."

“Do Chinese people also have grey eyes?”

"yes,"

Pu Siqinglan nodded slightly, then changed the subject very abruptly and said: "This is a rare opportunity. Do you want to learn a little Chinese from me? For example, Miss Sonoko, your name is pronounced 'Suzuki Meatball' in Chinese..."

……

At dusk, the sunset fills the sky and the whole world is orange.

The group did not stay in Xiaolan's room for too long, but were invited to the deck to enjoy the scenery.

"Dinner has already started to be prepared, come here and take a rest."

Pu Siqinglan and Kosaka Natsumi walked out of the cabin together. On the deck, Maori had been drinking with President Suzuki for half a day.

"Two beauties,"

The uncle shook the glass in his hand and greeted with a smile, "Would you like to have a drink together?"

"convenient?"

"Of course it's convenient, please take a seat!"

Maori very gentlemanly helped Pu Siqinglan to move her seat, but accidentally saw her long legs lifted up under her high-slit cheongsam, and quickly diverted his gaze with his iron will.

(What a white cheongsam... I will definitely arrange one for Eri next time!)

However, it was precisely because of the diversion of attention that Maori discovered that it was not just Pu Siqinglan, the big representative of the Russian consulate, the sinister art dealer, and the frivolous young man who had been carrying a camera... All of these people had gathered on the deck at the same time, seemingly admiring the sunset, but each of them seemed to be not simple.

Kidd is not the only one who covets the Egg of Memories...

"what?"

Pu Siqinglan, who was sitting down, suddenly noticed the ring that Hanchuan was wearing as a necklace on his chest, and asked anxiously, "Mr. Hanchuan, what is that necklace..."

"As expected of a Romanov dynasty researcher,"

Han Chuan snorted and took off the necklace and handed it to Pu Siqinglan, "Did you notice it? Do you want to take a look?"

Pu Siqinglan carefully took the ring and necklace and examined it in the light of the setting sun: "... Could this be the ring of Maria, the third daughter of Nicholas II?"

"If you say yes, then it is."

Hanchuan took back the ring and necklace, ignored Pu Siqinglan, chuckled, turned around and walked back to the cabin.

Maori looked at Hanchuan who was leaving in surprise, and swept his eyes over the art dealer Qian Jiang and others who were standing on the other side.

……

It was past seven o'clock and it was completely dark, but dinner was still not ready. Everyone went back to their rooms, including Maori and Conan.

"clatter!"

In the cabin corridor, a slight sound of footsteps was heard, and a dark figure skillfully installed a silencer on a pistol and stopped outside a room.

"Dong dong!"

"Ok?"

Maori was lying on the bed thinking about the incident when he was interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Detective Maori, little Conan," Nishino called out from outside, "dinner is ready."

"Oh, we'll be there soon."

Maori responded.

The two of them packed up a bit and walked out of the room.

"Ugh!"

Nishino's terrified cry suddenly came from the other side of the corridor.

"What's wrong?!"

"Detective Maori!"

Outside of Hanchuan's room, Nishino stepped back repeatedly with a look of fear on his face, "Something bad has happened, Mr. Hanchuan seems to be dead!"

"What did you say?!"

"What happened, Nishino?"

President Suzuki, Sonoko and others heard the noise and rushed over, looking at Nishino with a grim expression in confusion.

"President..."

"This is a murder case, contact the police first."

Maori walked into the room in a deep voice.

Hanchuan's body fell facing the door, with blood all over his head. The surroundings were full of messy debris, broken flower pots, overturned tables and chairs, and many scattered feathers.

The whole room was in a mess, as if it had been robbed. The wardrobe, drawers, and even the feather pillow were not cut open. The feathers at the scene must have leaked out of the pillow.

"The time is now 8 o'clock. Confirmed dead," Maori squatted over the body to check the situation. "The body has just started to stiffen. The time of death should be within 0 minutes. The fatal injury is the right eye... gunshot?"

……

"Buzz!" On the apron deck of the Elizabeth, a police helicopter slowly landed under the watchful eyes of everyone. The strong airflow caused by the propeller almost blew away the "horns" on Xiaolan's head.

"Officer Megure!"

Mao Li stepped forward to greet him and said, "We have been waiting for you for a long time!"

Although it is said that you should not hit a smiling person, when seeing Maori, Inspector Megure, who was holding his hat and walking out of the helicopter with his subordinates, was still quite helpless, with his expression and tone full of disgust: "Really, Maori brother, why do cases always happen where you are?"

"Well, I guess this is God's will?"

After being teased so many times, Maori had become calm. He shrugged his shoulders and led Inspector Megure and his group into the cabin.

"Mr. Maori, you are talking about the god of death, right?"

Officer Shiratori, who always behaved in a gloomy manner, told a rare joke, which made Maori's eyes twitch.

(Why is Officer Shiratori just as worthy of a beating as that brat Kidd today...)

……

At the scene of the incident, facing the forensic personnel who began to investigate and collect evidence, Mao Li simply told Megure his preliminary autopsy results: "This is what happened, Officer Megure."

"Well," Officer Megure wrote in his notebook, "The victim is Mr. Ryu Kamikawa, 32 years old, a freelance video writer. The time of death was around 7:30, and the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the right eye..."

"The prisoner also took a very valuable ring."

Mauli added.

"A very valuable ring?"

"Yes, it's the ring of Maria, the third daughter of King Nicola II. Hanchuan wears it around his neck as a necklace..."

"So it's a robbery and murder case? The murderer's purpose was to get the ring?"

"I don't think so, officer,"

Mao Li shook his head. "Because if the murderer's target was the ring, he could just snatch it from Hanchuan's neck, but the scene was destroyed like this... It's quite suspicious!"

"That makes sense..."

Inspector Megure fell into deep thought—although he might not be able to come up with any conclusion.

"Inspector Megure,"

The forensic officer suddenly found a ballpoint pen and hurriedly handed it to Megure, "I found this on the ground!"

"This looks like Mr. Nishino's ballpoint pen."

Yuanzi on the side said in surprise.

"Oh?"

……

In the restaurant, Inspector Megure finds Nishino and questions him, confirming that the ballpoint pen belongs to Nishino.

"Because dinner was about to start, I went to call him. I don't know how this pen ended up in Mr. Hanchuan's room," Nishino said confusedly, "because the room was full of feathers, so I didn't go in..."

"feather?"