Conan's corpse picker

Chapter 225 This detective showed his back, why not...

After confirming the situation on the fourth floor, Jiang Xia went to the room where Uemura Naoki was, and was going to pick up the cat.

Of course, he also wanted murderous intent.

While Jiang Xia was going upstairs, three high school students were rushing on the road with their own thoughts. Their goal was also this apartment.

The three are Mao Lilan, Hiramatsu Quantum who was dragged by Mao Lilan as a guide, and Conan who was in a complicated mood.

Quantum Hiramatsu is a student of Mihua High School. She has a good relationship with Hero Akagi and often helps Hero Akagi take care of his younger brother.Today, she is also the first to discover that Akagi's brother was "kidnapped".

Due to the threat of the kidnappers, Quantum Pinsong did not dare to call the police or find detectives.

But she also didn't want to watch Hero Akagi play match-fixing, so she wanted to secretly find a detective of similar age to help, pretending that it was just a friend, so that it would not easily attract the attention of the kidnappers.

Speaking of high school student detectives, Quantum Pingsong immediately thought of Jiang Xia, who has often appeared in newspapers and occasionally appeared on TV recently.

But soon, she crossed out this option again——Jiang Xia's recent exposure is too high, if the kidnappers recognize Jiang Xia as a detective, don't listen to her "just a friend" explanation, and tear up Chimu's brother, everything will be over .

Quantum Hiramatsu soon had other ideas - when it comes to Jiang Xia, it is hard not to remember that when he first became famous, someone joked that Jiang Xia was possessed by "Kudo Shinichi".

...In that case, Kudo Shinichi is actually a very suitable candidate.

So Quantum Hiramatsu went to the Maori Detective Agency under the pseudonym "Quantum Akagi" based on some information he had inquired, claiming to be "Kudo Shinichi's girlfriend". Lead to Akagi's house and ask him to help find clues.

...Fortunately, the kidnappers didn't find out that Quantum Hiramatsu went to the Maori Detective Agency, and naturally they didn't find out that she hired a detective.

Unfortunately, Hiramatsu Quantum failed to attract Kudo Shinichi through this operation, and only attracted Mao Lilan with a stern face, and Conan who ran out with her.

Under Mao Lilan's waves of shark anger, Conan lived up to everyone's expectations and discovered the truth of the kidnapping case.

Through a game console in the room, he guessed that the kidnapper was probably Uemura Naoki, and the three came to the apartment.

……

When the trio of high school students rushed to the vicinity of the apartment, Jiang Xia had already reached the fourth floor.

He looked at the number plate of 402, rang the doorbell, and observed the position of the door lock at the same time.

After the doorbell rang once, no one in the house came out to answer the door.

Jiang Xia pressed it again calmly, and at the same time visually checked the firmness of the door.

Before he could change the way he knocked, the door clicked and the occupant unlocked it.

Uemura Naoki hung the door chain, and carefully opened the door a crack - the doorbell kept ringing, if he didn't respond, Akagi brother who was lured here might run to open the door by himself.

Uemura Naoki looked outside vigilantly, and after seeing Jiang Xia, his expression became a little puzzled.

He seldom pays attention to news other than sports. Although occasionally when he was buying a newspaper, he saw a photo of Jiang Xia on the Detective Daily next door, but at this time, Uemura Naoki failed to recognize him immediately, and only felt that the person outside the door Some familiar.

...Maybe a fan came to express condolences to him?

Uemura Naoki sighed, and planned to say a few words casually to send people away.

But before he could speak, the "fan" suddenly grabbed the doorknob and closed it with a click.

Uemura Naoki stared at the door in a daze, almost thinking that he was actually the one who came to visit and got rejected, he was startled.What is this number, knocking on the wrong door?

In the corner that Uemura Naoki didn't see, in the door chain, a piece of white clay-like thing formed from under the button, and quickly stretched along the gap, pushing the hung door chain out.

The door of this apartment does not have an automatic lock, and the anti-lock can only be turned manually.

The clay disappeared without a sound, and the metal chain clicked down on the door frame. Uemura Naoki lowered his head in confusion. Almost at the same time, the door handle was turned down, and the door was pushed open again.

Jiang Xia walked in the door as if returning to her own home, passed by Uemura Naoki, and went to the balcony: "Sorry, my cat seems to have run onto your balcony, I'll take it and leave."

……cat?

This word made Uemura Naoki startled.

Suddenly, he remembered something - once he was reading a newspaper in the lounge, after reading it, his teammates exchanged newspapers with him and gave him a third-rate detective tabloid.

The first page of the tabloid was a report of a detective who was called by the writer as "only looking for cats, but always getting involved in murder cases, Kudo Shinichi's soul has not yet rested".

And the picture above...

Uemura Naoki turned his head abruptly, his clothes were soaked in cold sweat, and he stared at Jiang Xia who was walking towards the balcony—no wonder the person who knocked on the door looked familiar before, it turned out that this was a detective who had been published in the newspaper!
At such a critical moment, he forced his way into the door of his house and said he was picking up cats... No one would believe it!This detective must be going to confirm the condition of Akagi's brother.

Uemura Naoki listened to the commentary of the football game on TV, re-hanged the door chain, and then gritted his teeth and held his crutch.

——No, you can’t let Hideo Akagi’s brother go yet.Although more than half of the game was over, Akagi Hero was very reluctant to release the water. Before, he lost his mind and scored a goal by mistake. Now the score is still stuck.

If Brother Akagi is gone now, Hero Akagi is likely to lead the team to turn defeat into victory.

The idea of ​​"Let the Akagi hero taste the taste of failure" took root in Naoki Uemura's heart, which has already made him a little dazed.

Uemura Naoki looked at Jiang Xia's seemingly undefended back, breathing gradually, and slowly raised his crutch.

...He will not kill people, at most knock them out, this detective must stay here until the end of the game.

...No one can stop this game where the Akagi hero must lose!

While Uemura Naoki raised his crutches, behind him, the doorknob turned silently, and someone pushed the door open from the outside.

The locked door chain made a slight sound, but it was covered by the sound of Akagi's brother's game console, and Uemura Naoki couldn't detect it.

The people who opened the door were the high school students who had just been killed.

——When the three of them ran to this floor, before turning the corner, Conan vaguely heard the sound of closing the door, and also heard voices.

So when Hiramatsu Quantum wanted to ring the doorbell, Conan stopped her, and then tried his luck to open the door directly.

Unexpectedly, the door was actually unlocked, and when it was pushed, it slid open a crack.

There was only one opening, however—the door was chained.

Conan looked in through the crack of the door.

Mao Lilan and Pingsong Quantum also approached suspiciously.

Just seeing the inside of the house, Uemura Naoki picked up his crutches and was about to hit the person in front.

And the guy in front...

Conan: "!"

Mao Lilan: "!!!"

(End of this chapter)