Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

Hattori said this as he looked at Nishijo Taiga's back as he went to the toilet.

"Please, there is no clue at all. How can I doubt it? At most, I am a little curious."

Maori glanced at Hattori, then turned his gaze to the dancer who was playing games with Ryuen, "But you, are you really interested in this dancer? Is she the first love you're looking for?"

"How, how is it possible?" Hattori blushed, "Uncle, how did you know that I was looking for my first love?"

Maori said contemptuously: "Of course it was Kazuha who said that. Conan also knows that you have Kazuha, your childhood sweetheart, but you don't know how to cherish her. You said you had something to do, but in the end you came to Kyoto to find your first love..."

"What nonsense are you talking about? Actually, I also want to investigate the case of Genji Hotaru," Hattori said unhappily, "Although the owner of the murdered takoyaki shop in Osaka was a member of a thief group, he took good care of me, so I want to find the murderer of this incident..."

At this point, Hattori paused for a moment, then leaned in and whispered, "Actually, I was attacked by a weird guy today while investigating. He was carrying a bow and arrow, so he might be the murderer."

"Attacked you?" Mori looked Hattori up and down, "Why?"

"How would I know? Maybe you're worried that I might find out something?"

……

As the time approached 9 o'clock, everyone having fun in the tea room went to the toilet one after another. Only Maori, with his excellent bladder, did not feel the urge to urinate at all.

Of course, he was a little sleepy - after a long yawn, he was thinking about finding a room to rest when he suddenly heard a shout from downstairs.

"Someone is coming! Someone is coming quickly!"

"what happened?"

Mao Li took the lead downstairs and followed the sound to find the tea house owner at the door of the basement warehouse.

"What happened?"

"Mr. Sakura, he..."

Mao Li looked into the warehouse and his eyes suddenly narrowed.

The previously smooth antique art dealer Sakura Masazo was now lying on the floor with his back cold and eyes wide open. His carotid artery was severed and blood was flowing all over the floor.

"What a neat move," Hattori glanced at Maori and Conan, squatting next to the corpse and said, "This may be the work of the same person as the recent murder..."

Maori didn't say anything. He glanced at Sakura Masazo's body and then looked at the messy warehouse.

The things were turned upside down, and it looked like Sakura Masazo was attacked from behind while he was looking for something. The buttons of his suit were roughly ripped open, and his wallet full of banknotes was just left on him...

"Why is Mr. Sakura here?"

"I don't know either," the proprietress was frightened. "I was keeping accounts in the room on the first floor, and then I wanted to wake up Mr. Sakura at 1 o'clock, but Mr. Sakura was not in the room. And there was light in the basement warehouse again..."

Mao Li said to the people outside the warehouse: "It seems that Mr. Sakura was murdered while he was looking for something in the warehouse. Xiaolan, go call the police! Before the police arrive, please go to the tea room upstairs and wait. No one can leave here!"

Chapter 102: The Three Detective Sisters

Upon hearing this, Long Yuan and the others all went upstairs. Mao Li saw this and asked hurriedly, "Excuse me, does Mr. Sakura also have a copy of the Yoshitsune Ki?"

"Ah?" Saijo was stunned. "He did say that he also has a copy of Yoshitsune Ki, because he is very interested in Yoshitsune and Benkei..."

Kazuha asked doubtfully, "Uncle, you don't think Mr. Sakura is also a member of the Genji Hotaru?"

"It's very likely," Maori looked at the people leaving, "and the murderer is among them..."

"Is it possible that someone outside did this?"

Sonoko asked.

"If someone came into the teahouse, the proprietress wouldn't be able to fail to notice."

Maori had just finished speaking.

"Uncle," Conan took a bunch of keys from Sakura Masazo, "I think it's best to go to Mr. Sakura's antique shop first..."

"really."

Mao Li nodded affirmatively, and suddenly heard the voices of the proprietress and the police coming from upstairs.

"I'm Officer Ayanokouji of the Kyoto Prefectural Police Department."

"Thank you for your hard work, please come in..."

Maori walked up the stairs and saw Ayanokouji with upturned eyes entering the teahouse with two police officers.

He came so quickly, could this guy have been guarding this place from the beginning?

"Hmph," Ayanokouji also noticed Mori, left a police officer to guard the door, and walked towards the basement stairs and said, "No matter what you are planning, since you are in Kyoto, you should follow me, a Kyoto police officer..."

"You weren't staring at me the whole time, were you? You came really quickly..." Maori's mouth twitched, "Where's your pet squirrel?"

“It’s not like I carry it with me every day!”

Ayanokouji entered the basement warehouse with a stern face, leaving Hattori stunned.

"Uncle, is this guy your partner this time?"

"Yeah," Mao Li said helplessly, "Although he's a bit weird, I heard he's a capable police officer... Never mind, let's go to that antique shop first."

With the arrival of follow-up police forces, the entire teahouse was searched, including everyone in the teahouse, but the most important murder weapon was not found until the end.

The only possibility was that the murderer threw the murder weapon from the air vent in the basement into the river outside. However, after the police searched the river, they found nothing in the river. In addition, Xiaolan and the others were on the terrace at the time and did not see any suspicious people below. No witnesses were found on the opposite embankment.

On Teramachi Road, Maori brought the key and rushed to Sakura Masao's antique art shop with Hattori and Conan.

There was nothing special about the antique artworks, but I did find a copy of "Yokeiki" in the office.

"Uncle," Conan said in surprise as he flipped through the Yoshitsune Ki, "It says Ise Saburo, and there's a photocopy of it in the middle..."

Hattori came over and said, "This piece of paper is a photocopy of the treasure map... I see, Mr. Sakura is most likely one of the three survivors of Genji Hotaru, Isezaburo. The murderer took the original copy of the map from the teahouse, but I didn't expect Mr. Sakura to have a photocopy left in the store."

Maori leaned on the shelf next to him, smoking and watching Conan analyze the two of them comfortably.

This case was a big one and was of great importance to his detective career, so he certainly would not take it lightly. However, with these two guys around, at least he didn't have to think about everything himself and could be more relaxed.

Of course, these two guys are not very reliable sometimes...

"Hey uncle," Hattori looked at the lazy Maori next to him with a dark face, "Tell me, do you have any clues about the murderer?"

"Don't you all have a clear idea in mind? If there is nothing wrong with the proprietress, the ones who are worthy of suspicion are Nishijo Taiga, Ryuen, and Mizuo who went to the toilet at that time..." Maori touched his chin and said, "But the strange thing is that when Mr. Mizuo went to the toilet, Ms. Chiga Ling followed him..."

"It seems that all dancers do this. The reason why she didn't accompany Mr. Nishijo and Mr. Ryuen was probably because she was playing games with the uncle at the time."

"is it?"

The image of Saijo and his companions appeared in Maori's mind.

"These guys have all learned kendo, but I don't know how good they are... The most important thing now is to find the missing murder weapon and determine whether it was committed by someone outside or if there is an accomplice."

"Uncle, you are right," Hattori said helplessly, "Now we can only rely on whether your strange partner police officer can find any clues..."

"I'm not some weird partner police officer," Ayanokouji walked into the office with a straight face, glanced at Mori and said, "We've already searched the warehouse, and there are quite a few artworks that Genji Hotaru had stolen in the past."

"Officer Ayanokouji?" Mori asked in surprise when he saw Ayanokouji. "Have you finished investigating the teahouse? Where are Mr. Nishijo and the others?"

"We've all gone back. After all, we can't find the murder weapon," Ayanokouji turned and walked out of the office. Suddenly he turned back and looked at Maori and said, "Detective Maori, remember to contact me if you have any clues."

"it is good."

Mao Li followed him out of the office.

Sakura Masazō is undoubtedly one of the members of Genji Hotaru, and should be the one who handles the stolen goods. If this guy is included, 6 people have already died. It's really weird.

Does the murderer have a grudge against Genji Hotaru, or is the murderer after the main Buddha statue that was stolen from Sannoji Temple?

The remaining ones who have not been confirmed are the leader of the Genji Hotaru, Yoshitsune, and another one named Benkei. But I don't know what the letter sent to Sannoji Temple is about.

……

"call out--!"

Late at night on the street, Hattori drove a motorcycle with Kazuha leaving Sannoji and preparing to return to Osaka. Suddenly, an arrow shot from behind, narrowly passing by the two of them and knocking off the rearview mirror. While the two were horrified, a guy with a bow and arrow caught up with them in the car from behind.

"It's that guy again!"

Hattori's face changed, and he turned an intersection and chased after him: "He Ye, hold on tight!"

The two motorcycles sped through the construction site one after the other and finally stopped outside the park woods.

Hattori glanced at the murderer's abandoned motorcycle, turned his gaze to the woods ahead, said something to Kazuha, then hurriedly took off his helmet and followed.

"You just stay here, okay?"

"Heiji!"

The park's woods were quiet, and the stone-paved stream was reflecting the moonlight. A tram rumbled by. When Hattori rushed over, he saw the masked man who attacked him waiting leisurely across the artificial stream, holding two wooden swords in his hands. When he saw him, he immediately threw one to him.

"Hmph, you want to compete with me, right? No problem!"

Hattori chuckled and picked up the wooden sword. He was not afraid of a sword fight, but he couldn't help but frown when he saw the masked man's posture.

There are flaws all over the body...

"Drink!"

Hattori tightened the wooden sword in his hand, stepped over the water and concentrated on attacking.

"boom!"

……

At Sannoji Temple, after Ai, Ran and others went to sleep and rest, Maori and Conan still stayed in the meditation room to study the treasure map.

"Oh no!" Sonoko ran over in her pajamas, breathlessly saying, "Hatori, Hattori has been attacked!"

"what?"

"He is injured now and was sent to Umekoji Hospital by Kazuha!"

Umekoji Hospital. When Maori, Conan and Xiaolan rushed to the hospital, Hattori was still unconscious. Also coming with them were Officer Ayanokoji and Officer Otaki who received the news.

The injury was not serious but not light either. The main problem was the sharp blade wound on the shoulder, which caused a lot of blood. As for the short knife, it was very likely the weapon that killed Ying Zhengzo, so it was taken away by the police for testing...

Maori stood silently by the side, looking at Hattori who was unconscious on the hospital bed, his face slightly gloomy.

The murderer's purpose didn't seem to be as simple as Hattori thought.

It was his negligence, and he didn't expect that the opponent's swordsmanship was no match for Hattori...

It was already noon the next day when Hattori woke up again, but this guy had not learned his lesson at all and sneaked out of the hospital as soon as he got the chance.

"You really don't need to stay in the hospital to recover?"

Conan and Maori followed Hattori.

"I am fine."

Hattori got on the Kyoto train and put on a hat to cover the bandage on his head without giving in.

"I haven't asked yet," Maori asked curiously, "even if you were attacked, how did you end up like this?"

"What can I do? That guy is really weird," Hattori said, crossing his arms. "It seems that he deliberately led me to the woods to fight with me with wooden swords... I have never seen swordsmanship like his. It seems that he also added iron bars to his wrist guards to use as a shield. Moreover, when Kazuha pretended to bring the police to drive away the guy, he actually left the short knife at the scene..."

"A sword technique you've never seen before?"

Maori was stunned.

"Not only that," Hattori took out a brocade bag, "When I was fighting him, that guy actually wanted to pick up the bag I dropped. The more I think about it, the more confused I feel..."

"Is there anything special about this?"

"Oh, there is a crystal bead inside," Hattori held the bag carefully, "This bead belongs to my first love when I was a child. I only saw her once, so I bring this with me every time I come to Kyoto..."

"You fell in love with someone after only seeing them once?" Mao Li took the bag and checked the crystal beads inside. "But why did that girl give you this?"

"It wasn't a gift. Actually, I happened to sneak into a temple to explore at that time, and then I saw her through the lattice window." Hattori's face showed a trace of longing. "At that time, she was singing under the cherry tree in the yard, but soon she disappeared. I ran over and only found this bead she dropped... Although it seems like a dream, I think we will meet again one day..."

Mao Li patted Hattori with a smile, "You are really obsessed. Could it be that you really like that girl? What about Kazuha?"

"I..." Hattori opened his mouth and angrily snatched the bag back, "Uncle, stop talking nonsense! Don't meddle in the affairs of us young people!"

"Although I don't want to discourage you," Mao Li smiled and said seriously, "But is this crystal bead really from your first love?"

"what?"

"The temple you sneaked into back then should be Shanneng Temple, right?"

"How do you know?" Hattori looked at Maori as if he had seen a ghost.

"What's so strange? Don't you think this crystal bead looks familiar?" Maori placed the photo of the stolen main Buddha statue of Sannoji Temple in front of Hattori and Conan, "Haven't you noticed yet? Buddha statues often use crystal beads to make the white hair in the middle of the forehead. This crystal bead is very likely to have fallen under the cherry tree when Genji Hotaru stole the Buddha statue eight years ago..."

"Why, why is this so?" Hattori's eyes trembled and he wanted to refute, but his mind was quickly filled with the same thought.