Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

"Hello,"

Mao Li could only take the initiative to greet him when he saw this, "I..."

"Who are you?!"

Chikako, a short-haired girl in the crowd, didn't even give Maori a chance to introduce himself. She fiercely shouted, "Did you sneak in?!"

"Tomokako, I forgot to tell you," Suzuki Ayako quickly explained, "He is the famous detective Maori, and also Xiaolan's father."

"Famous detective?"

"Ms. Xiaolan's father?"

……

As the night deepened, it was still raining outside the villa, with occasional rumbling thunder.

After a misunderstanding, no one thought of Mori as the bandage monster anymore. However, Suzuki Ayako's classmates seemed to be very sensitive about Mori's identity as a detective, or they were still thinking about the bandage monster. In short, they kept a tense look on their faces.

"I think we should call the police first."

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit bad, Suzuki Ayako hurried to the phone.

"It can only be this way."

Everyone had their own thoughts, but Sonoko seemed a little indifferent, as if she wasn't worried about the bandage man. She looked Maori up and down and said, "I heard from Xiaolan that uncle, not only have you become extraordinarily active in the detective industry recently, but many aspects of your life have also changed!"

"Even stubborn old men in their seventies and eighties can change one day, let alone me?"

Maori looked at the second daughter of the Suzuki Group helplessly.

"That's true, but anyway..."

"What? The call can't be connected?!"

The people who were waiting for Suzuki Ayako to call the police at the stairs exclaimed, interrupting what Sonoko wanted to say.

"Yeah, it was fine at noon, how could this happen?" Suzuki Ayako held the receiver anxiously, "Could it be that the rain caused the line to be blocked?"

"Could it be..."

The fat man with glasses, Takahashi, suddenly lost his composure and said in fear, "It was the man in the bandages who broke the line!"

With a look of fear in his eyes, Takahashi rushed out of the villa, ignoring everyone shouting, "It must be him! Woohoo!"

"Takahashi! Where are you going?!"

Worried that something might happen to Takahashi, the rest of the people followed him. However, when they reached the edge of the cliff, they found that the suspension bridge was broken and hanging far away on the other side.

Maori walked behind the crowd and clearly saw that the wooden stakes originally used to fix the suspension bridge were covered with marks of chopping. His expression became extremely serious.

(Did he just cut off his retreat? Such a cruel move, it seems that the bandage weirdo is determined to kill someone...)

……

Because there were houses behind the valley over a mountain, the group decided to stay in the villa for one night and go down the mountain the next day.

The rain was still falling. Maori stood by the window smoking, recalling the information about the bandaged monster and the people in the villa.

Although there is no evidence or clues, Mao Li's intuition as a detective tells him that the bandaged man is one of the people in the villa. Of course, the possible victim is also among them.

"uncle,"

Conan suddenly walked up to Maori and asked, "Do you think the disco weirdo is among these people?"

"Children should behave like children and not ask questions."

Maori came back to his senses, ruffled Conan's hair, and replied casually, and soon turned his attention to Suzuki Ayako and the others, "Especially for something like this, the answer is obvious, there is no need to ask at all..."

"Um……"

Conan nodded in understanding while fixing his hair, but then he thought of Xiaolan being attacked in the woods, and his expression darkened, "We must find out the identity of the bandage man as soon as possible, uncle."

"You don't need to tell me!"

……

"Really,"

In the open kitchen, Suzuki Ayako, who was preparing dinner, suddenly sighed and said with a wry smile, "This class reunion is really a letdown. It seems like everyone has a stern face."

Yuanzi grumbled, "Come to think of it, it's all your fault for bringing up that matter, elder sister. We were originally in a good mood."

"that matter?"

Conan asked in doubt: "Is it because of Atsuko? The one who died two years ago..."

Xiaolan saw that Ayako looked unhappy, so she quickly pulled Conan and gently warned him, "Stop talking, Conan, it's too rude."

"…Atsuko committed suicide two years ago,"

Ayako did not blame Conan. She was lost in memories for a moment and said silently, "She was also a member of our film club at that time, but one day she hanged herself, and we have never met again since then..."

"suicide?"

Maori, who was standing aside, frowned, wondering whether this incident was the same as the previous Moon Shadow Island incident and was related to what happened two years ago. After all, it seemed that what happened two years ago was not as simple as Ayako said.

At dinner time, everyone gathered at the dining table in the living room.

"Where is Chikako?"

"She said she was tired and went to rest first."

At this time, Takahashi, who was repairing the roof, walked down the stairs to the second-floor balcony. Amid the greetings of the crowd, he suddenly shouted in fear: "Who is it?! Who's there!"

"What's wrong?" Everyone in the living room looked at Takahashi.

"There seems to be someone next to the window below!"

"Next to the window?"

Everyone looked towards the window and immediately saw a black shadow flash quickly outside the window.

With the help of the light, everyone could vaguely see that it was the mysterious bandaged weirdo with cold eyes, and in his arms was the short-haired girl Chikako, whose face was full of astonishment.

Maori's body reacted faster than his brain, and Conan followed him out of the window, chasing towards the woods with a flashlight.

The scene just now happened so quickly that Maori didn't have time to see it clearly, but the woman named Chikako was indeed taken away by the bandaged monster.

There were a total of four people attending Ayako's classmate reunion this time. In addition to the fat man Takahashi, Ota Masaru and a Kakuko who always held a camera, there was the short-haired woman named Chikako.

Before dinner, Maori asked Xiaolan that this woman named Chikako seemed to be a famous screenwriter.

But why did the bandaged man kidnap this woman? Did he have any grudge against this woman who was a screenwriter?

The forest was dark and eerie. Maori walked forward carefully, but suddenly he stopped and his expression became tense.

With the help of the flashlight, a bloody broken leg appeared on the grass in front of him and Conan behind him, with red high heels on the foot.

"It's the foot!"

"There's a hand here!" Takahashi and several others who followed him into the forest shouted in fear.

"How could this happen? Could it be that... let's all spread out and look for him!"

The others shouted and separated.

Maori tensed his body, concentrated his mind, looked around carefully, and soon found the short-haired woman in a nearby bush.

It's too cruel, having his hands and feet chopped off, what a huge hatred and resentment...

Maori put on surgical gloves swiftly and tried to turn the woman's body over, but the woman's head rolled directly off his hands, and a pair of terrifying eyes looked straight at him.

Even with Maori's temperament, he couldn't help but take a breath.

Chapter 17: The old father begins to exert his strength (in every sense)

In the villa, everyone returned to the living room. There was still a look of fear on everyone's face, even Maori and Conan were frowning.

"It's late now," suggested Suzuki Ayako, the owner of the villa, "Let's all check the doors and windows and go to bed. When it gets light tomorrow, we'll go down the mountain and call the police."

"It can only be the."

Everyone dispersed with heavy hearts, checking the doors and windows one by one, and Yuanzi also locked the entrance door.

Xiaolan is still nervous and looks at Mao Li: "Dad, do you have any clues about this case?"

"It would be nice if I had a clue,"

Mao Li sighed helplessly, "But now all I can think about is Chikako's severed head."

“Ah… yeah, is that so…”

Xiaolan and Sonoko's faces changed instantly, their voices trembled, and they hugged each other and trembled in fear.

"And the chopped-off hands and feet."

Mao Li couldn't help but add - there was no other way. Even though he had seen many dead people as a policeman before, this was the first time he had seen someone die so miserably as Chikako.

"How strange!"

Conan, who was checking the shoe cabinet next to the entrance, asked in confusion, "Where are Chikako's slippers? If she went out from the entrance, the slippers should be here. When Chikako's body was found in the forest, she was wearing red high heels on her broken legs, right, Uncle Maori?"

"Uh-huh."

Mao Li was stunned at first, then nodded thoughtfully, and immediately turned to Yuan Zi and asked, "Yuan Zi, is there any other exit in this villa?"

"Ah? Yes, there is... There's a back door at the back."

"Go and see!"

Sure enough, they found Chikako's slippers and mud on the ground at the back door.

(Why did you go out the back door? It was as if you were trying to hide it from others...)

With such doubts, Maori returned to the room on the second floor. Of course, he did not forget to check on the balcony, but he did not find anything unusual. However, he could vaguely hear Xiaolan and Sonoko talking in a low voice in the next room - Xiaolan wanted to sleep with Conan because she was afraid, but he, as a wise father, strongly refuted her and immediately sent Conan to someone else's room.

Even though he probably couldn't stop the juicy cabbage in his home from being eaten by the pig named Kudo Shinichi, at least he couldn't let him take advantage of him while the pig was still called Edogawa Conan!

This is the last struggle as an old father!

After taking another look at the dark forest outside, Maori stopped thinking about it, closed the doors and windows, and went to sleep to rest.

……

The sound of the rain continued to fall, and the wind whistled around the villa. No matter how worried he was about the bandage man before going to bed, Maori, who had a big heart, was sleeping soundly in bed.

"what--!"

Amid the sound of rustling rain, Conan's loud shout suddenly rang out, followed by a scream that pierced the night sky.

"What happened?"

Maori jumped out of bed and rushed to the next room without even putting on his coat, but he only saw a dark shadow leaving through the window.

"Don't run!"

His eyes swept over the frightened Xiaolan and the seemingly injured Conan, and Maori followed them out of the window balcony, but there was no one outside in the rainy night, and there was not even any trace left outside the villa.

Maori stood on the balcony and looked down in confusion, then looked at the other rooms connected to the balcony.

The balconies of Suzuki Ayako's villa are all connected, so it is possible that the strange man just now jumped off the building or ran into another room.

"what happened?"

At this time, everyone in the villa was awakened by the screams and gathered in Xiaolan's room. At least from the outside, there was nothing unusual about them.

"What? Miss Xiaolan was attacked again?!"

"Another bandage weirdo?"

"That's right,"

Mao Li squatted down beside the window with a serious look on his face, "He even cut a hole in the glass."

Maori is now very angry and confused - judging from the tragic death of Chikako, he thought the murderer had a great hatred for Chikako, but now he finds that the other party seems to be an indiscriminate killer. Not only did he cruelly kill Chikako, but he also attacked Xiaolan, and even twice in a row.

Maori wanted to ask Conan - this guy was worried about Xiaolan in the middle of the night, so he got up and went to their room to check. As a result, he ran into the bandage monster who wanted to attack Xiaolan, so he pounced on him without thinking. The other party threw him aside like throwing a chicken, and he sprained his foot. Now he is painfully and happily accepting Xiaolan's bandage.

"This is the second floor. How did that guy climb up here?"