Conan's Unscientific Detective

Fujino invited the woman into the detective agency.

After a brief understanding, it was found that the woman's name was Haruna Yuuki and she was a college student majoring in fine arts.

This time, she came to Fujino for a commission just to find someone.

That’s right, looking for someone again.

Fujino always feels that there have been a lot more requests for help recently for unknown reasons.

He still likes affair commissions.

Not only is it simple, but the commission money and hush money are also high.

"Friends I met through the pager?"

Fujino poured a cup of black tea and handed it to Yuuki Haruna, "So, this time Ms. Yuuki wants to ask me to find someone?"

"Well, his name is Qiu Wu, and we met three years ago."

Yuuki Haruna explained: "At that time, I came to Tokyo from the countryside to attend an art university. I was looking for a place to stay, but I was unfamiliar with the place and didn't have many friends around me, so I just randomly pressed a number on the pager. Then, unexpectedly, the other party actually replied to the message."

She thought for a moment and continued, "The content of the message was something like this: 'His first love is also called Haruna, and she hopes to be friends with me.' Since then, we have been using the pager to communicate. I feel like he is as gentle as an uncle, so whenever I have any troubles, I will go to him to talk."

Fujino pursed his chin in thought when he heard this.

It seems that things like pagers are rarely seen nowadays.

However, this way of making friends was indeed quite popular in the past.

To take a specific example, it is equivalent to the current shake function.

However, the person you get lucky with may not necessarily be someone nearby.

After thinking for a while, Fujino continued: "So, you bothered me to look for him because he is missing?"

"That's not true, actually. His pager is in my hand right now."

Yuuki Haruna pulled out a blue pager from her pocket. "It was probably around Christmas last year when I came to Tokyo and worked part-time to earn tuition fees. But in the end, I couldn't hold on any longer and thought about dropping out of school... But before I went back, I had to see him, so we made an appointment to meet in front of the Faithful Dog Statue in Shibuya."

"But I waited for a long time but nothing happened. Then I found this pager nearby, along with this music box."

As she spoke, she picked up the handbag and placed it on the coffee table. "He said this music box is very valuable and asked me to sell it to pay for my tuition. Don't give up. This has always been my dream."

"So that's it."

Fujino narrowed his eyes and looked at the music box.

It was an antique music box that looked quite old and was well made.

After a pause, Fujino asked her, "So, you didn't sell this music box?"

"Of course I wouldn't sell something this valuable, so I thought if I could find out where the music box came from, maybe I could find its owner, so I found an antique shop."

Yuuki Haruna shook her head. "But the people at the antique shop said it was just a damaged music box and not worth anything at all."

"It could also be that it has some special meaning to that person, so they think it's very expensive."

Fujino gave his own guess, and at the same time, narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Yuuki Haruna who was sitting opposite him.

Why do I feel like there's something fishy about this woman...

Going to an antique shop, wouldn't you want to ask the price and then sell it?

However, since the other party wanted to entrust him to find someone and return the music box, it didn't seem like that.

Fujino felt that this job was a bit difficult.

If he needed to find someone or something, he could do it easily.

What he found difficult was the price.

After all, she can barely pay her tuition, so how can she afford the commission fee?

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 283 I need to call Brother Megure

"I think so."

Yuuki Haruna nodded, agreeing with Fujino's guess.

Then he mentioned again: "Actually, after that, I received several strange messages."

"Did Mr. Qiu Wu send it to you?"

Fujino asked, "For example, using someone else's pager to send you a message or something."

"I don't think so."

Yuuki Haruna shook her head and lowered her head and said, "The tone of those messages was very strange. They said, 'I have something to ask you. Please come to a designated place alone.'"

"Mr. Qiu Wu's tone was not like that, and my friends around me never sent me such messages, so I didn't go over there."

She paused for a moment, looking a bit frightened. "Then, that night, I received more than ten similar messages, saying I was a 'cat that stole fish' and 'I shall not die a good death', a bunch of nasty things."

"Forehead……"

Fujino fell into deep thought after hearing this.

Why do I feel like these words sound a bit like the original wife scolding the mistress?

Could it be that this lady has been mistaken for an online love object?

Fujino thought for a moment, sorted out his thoughts, and then said in a deep voice: "From what you said, I feel that the person who sent the message should be the other party's wife, and the reason why she sent these messages is that she saw the chat content and mistakenly thought you were a mistress."

"Little San?"

Yuuki Haruna asked in confusion, looking a little surprised.

"Yes, think about it."

Fujino took a sip of the tea and explained, "After all, the other person's name is the same as my first love, and the music box has precious meaning. If it were me, I would definitely think that the other person is a mistress who is seducing my husband."

"Is that why Mr. Qiu Wu stopped contacting me?!"

Yuuki Haruna suddenly realized what was going on and hurriedly took a sip of the tea to calm herself down.

After thinking about it carefully, she felt that what Fujino said made sense.

It is true that I am easily misunderstood.

"If that's the case, then we need to explain it quickly..."

"Well, it does need to be explained."

Fujino said in agreement.

I feel like this college student seems a bit crazy...

Maybe all college students are like this?

That’s right, naive college students like these are really nice people.

However, although he is a good person, we still have to mention the commission first.

After all, he was not sure whether the other party could afford the commission.

Thinking of this, Fujino continued: "I have roughly understood the whole story. Next, we should talk about the commission."

"Ah."

Yuuki Haruna recovered and nodded.

She felt a little guilty that Fujino would take the initiative to bring up the matter of the commission.

"Normally, my unit price for a missing person request is 300,000 yen."

Fujino lowered the price a little based on the previous missing person commission.

From the looks of it, the other party must have been saving money since last Christmas before coming to find a detective now.

However, he was not sure which Christmas this ghost Christmas of Ke Xue was referring to.

After a pause, he added, "However, according to the difficulty of finding someone and the time it takes, the commission will increase accordingly. After all, finding someone is very troublesome."

"Three hundred thousand yen?"

Yuuki Haruna lowered her head and thought for a moment.

Three hundred thousand yen was indeed a bit too much for her, a college student who had to rely on part-time jobs to make a living.

Fortunately, she had saved some money before coming here...

Thinking of this, she nodded and said to Fujino: "If you can find Mr. Qiu Wu, then I will trouble you..."

After signing the contract, Fujino received a deposit of 100,000 yen.

Now he won’t do low-price deposit promotions like before.

After all, people die in Mihua all the time, and there are not many talented people there, so maybe the other party will be dead before the commission is completed.

After asking for some clues about the commission and the pager number, Fujino sent Yuuki Haruna away and left the music box with her.

"Is this music box the only clue we have now?"

Fujino sat on the sofa in the bedroom, staring at the music box in front of him, thoughtfully.

Then he wound up the music box.

Pleasant and clear music sounded.

Fujino closed his eyes and listened carefully.

“Is spring here?”

Fujino quickly recognized the title of the song, took out his mobile phone, and found the song on a simple search app.

Haru yo come, he also had this song in his previous life. It was recommended to him by a certain Penguin daily recommendation. He thought it was okay and collected it, so he still has some impression of this song.

And in his impression of this world, this song seems to be a very popular classic, and it seems to be included in both elementary school and junior high school textbooks.

"LA, DO, LA."

Fujino simply compared the melody of Spring is Coming, and based on the knowledge of the piano master in his mind, he quickly found the missing tone of the music box.

However, Fujino had no idea what the code LADOLA meant.

After thinking for a moment, Fujino stopped worrying about the music box.

He took out his cell phone and dialed Megure Juzo.

If you have any problems, call Brother Megure, you will never go wrong.

He had asked someone to do this several times before, and it worked every time.

"Brother Fujino, has there been another murder?"

On the other end of the phone at the Metropolitan Police Department, Megure Juzo, who answered the phone, asked straight to the point.

"Brother Megure, why do you always think about murder cases?"

Fujino complained.

"No murders?"

Megure Jusan felt a little surprised when he heard this.

Generally speaking, when Fujino called him, it was either about a murder case, or he had just defeated a group of robbers, or he had discovered a criminal gang.

If you have nothing to do, call him...

It's a bigger deal.

Thinking of this, he sighed and asked Fujino helplessly: "So, brother Fujino, what's the matter with you calling me this time?"

"Well, there are indeed some things I want to trouble you with, brother."

Fujino nodded and reported the pager number he had just written down: "Actually, this time I want to ask you for a favor, brother. Help me find the address of the owner of this pager number."

Mu Mu Thirteen: "..."

Sure enough, if there is no case, there must be something going on.

Brother, why don’t you just call me and ask how I’m doing?

After a moment of silence, Megure Jusan sighed and said, "Okay, okay, this time the other party is the wanted criminal you suspect, right? I know, I will probably find him tomorrow."