Detective Conan: The System Takes Me to Zero's World

Inside the Kudo family house, Amuro Toru was watching the TV, thinking about something in his heart. Kudo Yusaku, dressed as Okiya Subaru, went to the kitchen to make a pot of tea: "You're welcome, just find a place to sit."

Amuro Toru replied politely: "Thank you." After that, he sat on the sofa.

After a while, Kudo Yusaku, dressed as Okiya Subaru, came into the room with a set of teacups: "Sorry to have kept you waiting."

Amuro Toru asked, "Excuse me, do you like reasoning games?"

Yusaku Kudo, dressed as Subaru Okiya, responded: "Yes, I like it."

Amuro Toru found a topic to talk about: "Then let's start with that story. It was just a trap to simply replace the body."

Yusaku Kudo, who is dressed as Subaru Okiya, is somewhat interested in the story that Toru Amuro wants to tell: "This is indispensable for suspense and reasoning."

Amuro Toru began to narrate the story, while closely observing the every move of Kudo Yusaku, who was dressed as Okiya Subaru: "A man was shot in the head with a pistol at Laiye Cliff, and the man's car was burned together with it.

The fingerprints collected from the man's right hand, which was barely intact, were compared with the fingerprints left on a cell phone that the man claimed to have used before his death. The results were consistent with the identity of the dead man. But it's very strange!"

Yusaku Kudo, who was dressed as Okiya Subaru, frowned and asked, "What do you mean..."

Amuro Toru continued: "It was the fingerprint left on the phone. The man was left-handed, so why were the fingerprints on the phone from his right hand? Don't you find it strange?"

Yusaku Kudo, who was dressed as Subaru Okiya, calmly answered, "Could it be that when you wanted to pick up your phone, your dominant hand happened to be holding something else, so it was inconvenient?"

Amuro Toru picked up the already brewed teacup on the table: "Or rather, he had to use his right hand to take it at that time."

Yusaku Kudo, dressed as Okiya Subaru, raised his right hand and asked, "Why is that?"

Amuro Toru added the soup in the cup to the tea: "It's that phone. Before that man picked it up, another man picked it up first, because the man who picked up the phone happened to be right-handed."

Yusaku Kudo, who was dressed as Subaru Okiya, asked in confusion, "You mean another man?"

Amuro Toru put the cup on the table, picked up the tea with soup, took a sip, and continued: "Yes. But the actual situation is that three men were required to take the phone."

He paused and continued: "Now, I want to ask a question.

At first, the one who picked up the teenager's phone was a fat man with oily skin; next, it was a thin man with a protective gear on his neck; and the last one was an old man with a pacemaker implanted in his body.

Among these three people, only one person left fingerprints. Whose fingerprints do you think they were?"

Yusaku Kudo, who was dressed as Subaru Okiya, answered: "I see. This line of reasoning is indeed very interesting. How did the man who pretended to be shot escape from the scene?"

Toru Amuro chatted with Yusaku Kudo, who was dressed as Subaru Okiya, for an hour.

Suddenly, Toru Amuro looked up at the surveillance camera: "What exactly are you trying to do? Although I just took a quick look, there are two in front of the entrance, three in the corridor, and it seems that there are five more hidden cameras installed in this room.

Planning to record our conversation and send it to the FBI. Or is there someone in another room watching our conversation?

In another room, Conan was sitting in the monitoring room, monitoring the conversation between the two through the camera screen and headphones. Hearing what Amuro Toru said, he muttered to himself: "Amuro Toru is really perceptive."

Yusaku Kudo, who was dressed as Okiya Subaru, asked in a questioning tone: "Do you say that person looks like me? For example, in appearance or voice."

Amuro Toru stood up from the sofa and strolled around: "The appearance is a disguise, and the voice is changed by a voice changer. During the day, I walked around the neighborhood and did a little research. Among the inventions of your neighbor Professor Agasa, there is no invention that was well received and suddenly stopped selling."

Amuro Toru turned around and looked at Kudo Yusaku who was dressed as Okiya Subaru: "As long as the necklace-shaped voice changer is wrapped around your neck, you can change your voice at will by the vibration of your throat. It is very useful for prank calls from stalkers."

Amuro Toru walked up to Kudo Yusaku, who was dressed as Okiya Subaru, and said, "It's just the right size. It's a high-necked dress, which is concealed enough."

After saying that, Toru Amuro started to check the collar of Yusaku Kudo, who was dressed as Subaru Okiya, with one hand, but failed to find any clues.

Kudo Yuki calculated the time and felt that it was about time, so she walked out of the car, carrying her bag, and rang her doorbell. Kudo Yusaku, dressed as Okiya Subaru, stood up and walked to the door, and also answered the phone: "Who is it, what's up?"

Kudo Yuki's lips curled slightly, revealing a sly smile: "Xiaoxue, go home."

Kudo Yusaku opened the door immediately, and Kudo Yuki winked at him. Then, she sat on the sofa, looked at Amuro Toru who frowned, and comforted him softly: "Toru, don't worry."

Yusaku Kudo sat on the sofa and watched the interaction between the two. Conan saw his sister coming home and almost rushed out the door. But he stopped and thought to himself: [This is a good opportunity to find out the true identity of Toru Amuro.]

A minute later, Amuro Toru's phone rang and he answered it: "What? You said Akai shot at you? Did you lose him?"

The tracking personnel reported: "One after another, cars were damaged and could not be driven."

When Amuro Toru heard this, he almost yelled in anger. Kudo Yuki took out a piece of paper and a message marker from her bag and wrote on it:

Zero, remember what I just said? Calm down, the problem will be solved one day.

Yusaku Kudo was curious when he saw that there was no handwriting on the note. Conan saw his sister's action through the surveillance screen and thought: "That pen of your sister is interesting. I'll ask for one later."

Kudo Yuki pinned the information marker on her clothes and continued to use it as a decoration. When Kudo Yusaku saw his daughter's action, he realized that this was another newly invented prop.

Kudo Yuki stood up and gently patted Amuro Toru's shoulder. After letting her read the words on the note, he was obviously not as angry anymore.

Amuro Toru warned on the phone: "Don't worry about it. As long as there is a car that can move, chase it. If he escapes this time, I don't know where he will hide next."

Kudo Yuki breathed a sigh of relief, and the pursuer continued, "Even if we continue chasing, in this situation..."

The next moment, Akai Shuichi's voice appeared on the phone: "Long time no see, Bourbon. Now it's Amuro Toru, am I right?

Because I caused your accomplice's car to be written off, to express my apology, I'm giving you a gift, that is the gun that Kusuda Rikumichi used to commit suicide. As long as we trace the way he got the gun, we should be able to get clues. Rather than letting the FBI, which is a guest, let you, the host, do the investigation."

Amuro Toru quickly asked: "Do you know my identity?"

Akai Shuichi calmly replied: "Although I began to doubt it when I was still in the brewery organization. But your biggest failure was letting that boy know that your nickname is Zero, Furuya Zero."

When Toru Amuro heard his name, his eyes revealed a look of shock. After watching Toru Amuro's reaction on the surveillance screen, Conan thought: "Knowing this name will make the investigation much easier."

Akai Shuichi continued, "There aren't many people nicknamed Zero, so it's easy to find out. I guess you're planning to hand me over to those guys, so that you can get closer to the power center of the brewery organization and get more information by making great contributions.

I want to advise you one thing. I hope you don't miss the real target for the sake of the immediate goal. Because you are one of the men I don't want to become an enemy. Also, I still feel bad about him. "After saying that, Akai Shuichi returned the phone and told Cameron to drive away.

The pursuer asked Amuro Toru, "Mr. Furuya, should we continue chasing?"

Toru Amuro calmed down completely: "No, since he knows our true identity, it will be dangerous if we continue to pursue him." After that, he hung up the phone.

Amuro Toru turned to look at Kudo Yusaku, who was dressed as Okiya Subaru, and said, "I'm sorry, it seems I misunderstood this matter. I have to take my leave now."

Amuro Toru took a few steps and turned to ask: "Before I leave, can I ask you a question?"

Yusaku Kudo, dressed as Subaru Okiya, asked back, "What's the problem?"

Amuro Toru turned around and asked, "I'm curious, why did you allow a weirdo like me to come into the house?"

Yusaku Kudo, who was dressed as Subaru Okiya, coughed and said, "Because you looked like you wanted to talk to me no matter what, I let you in. At that time, I thought to myself, he really is a deliveryman who likes to chat with people."

Amuro Toru replied somewhat awkwardly: "Is that so."

Kudo Yuki covered her mouth with her hands and pursed her lips to laugh. Amuro Toru looked at Kudo Yuki's grin, raised his eyebrows and said: "Xiaoxue, since you are home, I will leave first, see you another day."

Kudo Yuki smiled and waved goodbye: "Toru, let's talk some other time."

After Toru Amuro walked to the door of the Kudo family's house, he instructed the police officers to carry out the next work instructions.

Holding the detector in his hand, Yusaku Kudo carefully checked every corner of the room, not letting go of any details, fearing that he would miss any possible eavesdropping device.

Various data were displayed on the detector's screen. Kudo Yusaku looked at the screen intently, not missing any abnormal signals.

Finally, Kudo Yusaku finished checking the entire room. He breathed a sigh of relief and shouted to the monitoring room upstairs: "It's ready."

Seeing that Conan did not respond, Yuki Kudo and Yusaku Kudo went upstairs to check. One of them opened the door and the other turned on the light, and they found Conan lying on the table, looking very tired.

The two walked into the house, Conan stood up and looked at Kudo Yusaku and murmured: "Dad, can you do what we discussed beforehand?"

Kudo Yusaku walked up to Conan, took off his mask and glasses and explained: "Anyway, the process was smooth, wasn't it? I use the voice changer installed in the mask to speak. If I am asked to take off the mask, or if I am asked a difficult question, I will cough twice and let you answer for me through the loudspeaker embedded in the voice changer."

Kudo Yuki listened to Kudo Yusaku's reply, looked at Conan's speechless expression, curled the corners of her mouth slightly, and continued to watch the show.

Kudo Yusaku went on to narrate: "If I want to speak, I just need to cough, because coughing can be used to cover up the difference in the sound of speaking."

After saying this, Kudo Yusaku tore off the mask, revealing his true face, and winked at Conan: "You performed very well, didn't you? So good that I think you can win the Best Supporting Actor Award."

Conan looked at Yusaku Kudo's boastful look and answered perfunctorily, "Yes."

Kudo Yusaku crossed his hands in front of his chest and looked at Kudo Yuki and asked: "Xiaoxue, you made Conan go to so much trouble to invite me back to be his substitute FBI agent, will he come back here?"

Kudo Yuki smiled and replied: "He will come back, because his target and the people he wants to protect are still here."

At this time, Conan walked to Kudo Yuki's side, pulled her sleeve, and asked: "Sister, the pen that you wrote on the note before and had no marks, is it your new prop?"

Kudo Yuki's eyebrows jumped: "Conan, are you interested in my pen?"

Conan nodded without hesitation, and Kudo Yusaku also spoke: "Xiaoxue, it seems that the pen you use requires special means to see the handwriting."

Kudo Yuki praised, "As expected of a father, you can see through it at a glance."

Conan pulled his sister's sleeve again and spread out his little hand: "Sister, give me one."

Kudo Yuki looked at Conan's impolite look and rubbed his head: "Okay. But let me make it clear in advance, you have to think about how many people you want to show your writing to? Not too many people."

Conan tapped his chin with his finger in thought, and didn't say anything for a long time. Kudo Yuki pinched Conan's nose helplessly: "Don't think about it, I will give you 3 for now, as for who you want to give it to, it's up to you."

Conan raised his head confidently: "Sis, according to what you said, you need another item to see your own handwriting."

Kudo Yuki nodded: "Yes, but you can't reveal this news to others. You can only tell those who need it and make sure it is not spread outside."

Conan nodded and agreed: "Don't worry, sis."

Kudo Yuki carried her bag and walked while silently repeating in her mind: [Sign in.]

"Ding, congratulations to Xiaoxue for signing in successfully today and getting +300 mall points and a human skin mask. The current mall points are 3200, and the system space has 1 barrel of healing potion, 1 invisibility charm, 1 replica prop, and human skin mask. Please continue to sign in every day, Xiaoxue."

Kudo Yuki communicated with Shu Shu using telepathy: "Shu Shu, use the replica props in the system space to copy my information marker and gem button. Copy a few more gem buttons and change the function so that only the information of the replica exclusive information marker can be seen. I want to give it to Conan."

After saying this, Shushu hung his head and replied, "I know, Xiaoxue."

To be continued...