Conan, My Neighbor Kurosawa Jin

At first Imaguchi didn't care, but the more he listened, the more familiar the voice of the person outside sounded, so he finally stood up and opened the room.

Sure enough, the person outside was an acquaintance.

"Mr. Subaru." Imaguchi greeted him heartily.

"Imaguchi?" Okiya Subaru looked at Imaguchi standing inside the door and was stunned for a moment.

After learning that the two parties were acquaintances, the clerk relaxed.

"Want to come in and eat together?" Imaguchi invited heartily.

"Okay." Okiya Subaru looked at the room and finally nodded.

After ordering something, Subaru Okiya walked into the room and sat across from Imaguchi Shin.

Imaguchi brewed a pot of tea and poured a cup for each of them.

"Mr. Subaru, have some tea."

"Thank you." Okiya Subaru nodded, took the tea and took a sip.

Looking at Okiya Subaru sitting across from him, Imaguchi was a little curious. This store was not close to where they lived. He came to this store to check something. What did Mr. Subaru come here for?

"Mr. Subaru, have you been to this store before?" Imaguchi asked curiously.

"No, this is my first time here." Okiya Subaru shook his head.

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Seeing Imaguchi's confused eyes, Okiya Subaru explained.

"I haven't been here, but a friend has been here before. He said it was very good and recommended me to come."

Imaguchi nodded heartily.

"Imaguchi, are you a regular customer here? I think the clerk seems to be quite familiar with you."

“I haven’t been here very often, but several of my uncles often ate here before, and I saw the photos they took here before, so I wanted to come and have a look.

I didn't expect this shop to be open, so I wanted to try the food here. "Jiankou said from his heart.

"So that's it." Subaru Okiya nodded, put down the tea in his hand, raised his head and looked around, with a hint of sigh on his face, "This shop has indeed been open for a long time, I remember there should be several Ten years."

"Yes, they came here more than ten or twenty years ago! I thought this store might have disappeared long ago, but I didn't expect it is still there." Imaguchi said sincerely. Fortunately, the stores here are older. Long, if it was a livelier place, I'm afraid it would have changed several stores in the past ten years or so.

"More than ten or twenty years ago?" Subaru Okiya's expression paused when he heard this, and he looked at Imaguchi's heart in surprise.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door suddenly, and then the clerk came in with the food Subaru ordered and helped him place everything on the table.

"Indeed, it was more than ten or twenty years ago, when they came, I was still a child!" Imaguchi nodded heartily and continued.

"I thought your uncles were from a few years ago. If they were from ten or twenty years ago, they are indeed old memories." Subaru Okiya picked up the cup and took a sip of tea, hiding the expression on his face. .

The reason why he came here today was to find a clue from more than ten or twenty years ago. But the uncle he was talking about now actually came here more than ten or twenty years ago. What a coincidence!

"Indeed, if I hadn't suddenly seen the photo, I wouldn't have known about this place." Imaguchi said to himself.

"Photo?!" Okiya Subaru and the clerk said in unison.

Imaguchi Kokoro and Okiya Subaru looked at the clerk at the same time. The clerk was a little embarrassed, but he still spoke to Imaguchi Kokoro.

"Sorry to disturb you, but the shop owner just said that there seem to be photos of your uncles in the shop, as well as things that were previously placed in the shop, and he wants to give them to you together."

"Okay, shall I go and get it now?" Imaguchi's eyes lit up, but he didn't expect there would be an unexpected gain.

"No, I'll get it for you." The clerk shook his head, bowed, stood up and left.

The room became quiet again. Subaru Okiya had a complicated expression in his lowered eyes, and he suddenly had some bad premonitions in his heart.

Isn’t what I’m looking for today the same as myself?

Imaguchi looked at Subaru Okiya who was sitting across from him eating, and his heart tightened slightly.

Although the clerk's voice just now overwhelmed Okiya Subaru, he did not forget the surprised look on Okiya Subaru's face when he heard him talk about the photo.

Could it be that the purpose of his trip was related to the photos? Or could Mr. Subaru be related to those people?

Just when they were quiet, the clerk returned to the room with the photo. After Imaguchi thanked him heartily, he took the photo and a package from the clerk.

Then he sat at the table and started reading. Subaru Okiya, who was sitting opposite, raised his head and looked in the direction of Imaguchi's heart, feeling a little nervous.

Looking at the photo in his hand, Imaguchi confirmed his suspicion. Those members of the organization indeed had secrets. They were obviously in the same group.

Although nothing can be seen in the photo, it can prove that they once had dinner here, and it was just a few of them.

Imaguchi raised his head and suddenly seemed to see something strange on Okiya Subaru's face. Although he quickly returned to normal, he couldn't help but feel a little suspicious in his heart and couldn't help but test it out.

"I didn't expect that my uncles really like to have dinner together, and they particularly like this restaurant. Look, they have been coming here for several years." Imaguchi said casually, and while talking, he The photo was placed on the table. "The hair is a bit white. They are really getting older. Mr. Subaru, why do you think they like to come to this restaurant so much?"

"I don't know about this, maybe it's just out of habit!"

Okiya Subaru's heart tightened, but he spoke calmly on the surface.

"It's possible. For example, I like to go to the same store. If you go to some places for a long time, your feelings will naturally develop." Imaguchi said as he put the photos away.

"That's true. Some people are nostalgic." Subaru Okiya nodded.

"I wonder what my uncle and the others left behind? It looks quite bulging." Imaguchi looked at the package aside, as if he was curious, and opened the package as he spoke.

As the package was opened, the contents inside were revealed. It was a box the size of an adult's palm. It was locked with a combination lock and no key.

Imaguchi fiddled with the box up and down curiously, and even listened to the sounds inside, but found nothing.

During the entire process, Subaru's eyes did not leave the package. Even when he saw the combination lock on the box, something strange flashed in his eyes.

"Mr. Subaru, what do you think will be in this box?" Imaguchi handed the items to Okiya Subaru and asked.

After Okiya Subaru looked at the box for a few seconds, he finally took it and observed it carefully. His fingers gently rubbed the surface of the item and he half-squinted his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a while, Okiya Subaru pushed the box back.

"I don't know, but it looks quite mysterious. Maybe it contains something important!"

"Mr. Subaru, can you open this box? There is a combination lock on it. It shouldn't be difficult, right?" Imaguchi asked, looking at the combination lock on the box.

"There are 100,000 possibilities for the six-digit password. It's really difficult to guess." Subaru Okiya shook his head. If he could get some clues, he might actually be able to open it.

I just don’t know what is in this box?

Since they are undercover agents of those organizations, the contents of the box should be equally useful to them, right?

Okiya Subaru wondered in his mind how likely it was that he could take the box away.

"That's right, there's no other way, I can only go back and mess around." Imaguchi sighed helplessly.

"That's not the case. Just find the pattern, or try out frequently used passwords, such as birthdays or holidays, important dates, etc." Subaru Okiya said with a smile.

"Yes." Imaguchi nodded heartily, then put the cryptex aside.

After staying in the room and drinking a few more cups of tea with Okiya Subaru, Imaguchi looked at the time on his phone, got up, took the things he had just found, and left with an excuse.

After Subaru Okiya watched him leave, the expression on his face changed. After making sure there was no one around, Subaru Okiya opened his eyes and then searched carefully in the room.

Imaguchi walked to the counter and paid for himself, and then chatted with the boss for a few more times about the members of the organization. Sure enough, he got some clues. Imaguchi looked at the things in his backpack and carried the things with satisfaction. left.

After leaving the restaurant, Imaguchi continued to search at the location he had determined. The third location also had nothing, but it was cleaner than the first location because it had turned into a lake.

Obviously after more than ten or twenty years, this place has become an artificial lake. Even if there was something there back then, it is impossible to find it now.

Imaguchi was not particularly disappointed. Anyway, just what he had just found made him very satisfied.

Now that he had visited all the places, Imaguchi stopped wandering around and walked back along the original path. When he reached the first cafe, he was suddenly stopped by someone.

"Hello, sir, are you looking at this house?"

"No, I was just passing by." Imaguchi shook his head.

"So that's it. I saw you wandering around my house from the surveillance camera. I thought you wanted to rent a house?" the woman said sheepishly with a smile.

"You want to rent this house? Doesn't it look nice?" Imaguchi looked at the private villa where the cafe was located with some doubts. This house obviously showed signs of living in it. He thought that the other party had been living here. .

"The house is indeed very good, but it belongs to my grandfather, and he is older now, so we want him to move in with us. But he is always reluctant, saying that he still has something to give. You have to stay here and wait.

There is no other way, so we want to rent out this house and let the tenant help wait for someone, so that the elderly man can feel more at ease. But this house is really not easy to rent, nor can it be sold, so there is nothing I can do. During this time, everyone looks like a tenant to me. "The woman said helplessly.