Conan: Goodbye, Brewery, I'm running away

"Eh? Call the police?"

Yoneda Yuto widened his eyes and hesitated, "But I can't confirm that the uncle is really missing. Will the police..."

Conan glanced at the children in front of him. He knew the personalities of the three members of the detective team and knew they would not leave easily. "Then let's go over quietly and take a look."

He pointed to a narrow gap not far away that was big enough for children to pass through.

The three children of the detective team loved this kind of mysterious adventure activity, and their new acquaintance Yuto Yoneda seemed to like it the same way, so they made a simple decision without any intention of breaking into a private house.

Haibara Ai glanced at the detective who was leading the group. Out of trust in Conan, she followed them even though she felt helpless.

"Genta, come on!" Ayumi, who had already crawled in, clenched her fists to cheer Genta on as he was trying hard to hold in his stomach. Haibara Ai was also watching from the side, ready to stop the actions of several people at any time if anything went wrong.

Yuto Yoneyama and Conan pulled Genta inside, while Mitsuhiko pushed him in from outside the wall. They finally managed to get Genta, who was the largest in size, into the yard.

After Mitsuhiko at the back squeezed into the small courtyard through the gap, the children looked at the ordinary residential courtyard that was no different from other houses.

Conan, who had already looked around, called out to the others, "This way."

After saying that, he walked in front and led a few children around to the front yard.

Mitsuhiko looked at the fallen leaves in the yard and the dust in front of the French window not far away, "Look at the fallen leaves in the yard, it turns out that he hasn't been back for many days."

Seeing the footprints left on the dust, Huiyuan Ai thought of someone's suggestion to call the police, so she deliberately guessed, "Could the strange noise you heard be a cat?"

She pointed to the gate and said, "You heard the noise at the back of the alley. By the time you ran around to the front, the cat had already left along this tree. You definitely couldn't see anything from the gate."

Ayumi asked in confusion, "What about what Yuto heard from that uncle about someone trying to kill him?"

"Maybe it's a performance or something."

Conan, who had already walked to the French window and could see a little bit of the facilities inside the house, turned around and said, "Look, is there something like a performance prop over there?"

The four children ran to Conan. They could see the props in the room without having to go to the steps outside the French window. "Hey, it's real!"

Looking at the performance of the four children, Conan scratched his head, pretended to be embarrassed and smiled and said: "Fortunately, I didn't call the police directly according to Yuto. That uncle has not been here these few days. Maybe he went out?"

Having already gotten the answer they wanted, it would be inappropriate for them to continue staying in someone else's empty home.

After finally squeezing out from the gap in the backyard, Conan and Haibara Ai said goodbye to the four children and watched them go home happily together.

After the four children left, Huiyuan Ai, who was standing behind Conan, said in a cold voice: "So, what did you just find out?"

"Ah...you figured it out." Conan took out his cell phone while speaking.

Huiyuan replied: "It's too obvious."

"The image of the person that Yuto described sounds familiar to you, Haibara?"

He said as he turned his phone around to show it to Huibara Ai, "Is it the same as this person?"

The photo was one of several daily photos of the victims he had investigated after hearing about the arson case in the mountain village.

Huihara Ai's eyes suddenly widened, "Hanai Shunta! The fourth arson victim!"

"Yes."

Conan took back his phone and opened his address book to continue searching.

"Gray, just leave this to me."

Knowing what he meant, Huiyuan Ai also knew that she shouldn't stay here any longer and nodded, "I understand. You should be careful too."

Conan raised his head and smiled confidently when he heard her say that. He replied, "Don't worry."

......

Jinpei Matsuda looked down at Conan who was pretending to be innocent in front of him, and his gaze behind his sunglasses seemed to completely see through the little brat.

Conan, who was being observed, felt the hairs on his back stand up.

Although he thought Officer Matsuda was very powerful before, he had never been stared at like a prey by him before.

Now being looked at by Officer Matsuda like this, it was as if all his secrets were exposed to him.

After seeing the child like a cat with its fur standing up as he wished, Matsuda Jinpei sighed in his heart. He had always felt that Conan looked familiar, and he finally remembered where he had seen a child who looked similar to Conan.

However, the child he met at that time should be a high school student now. It is very likely that the little brat is a relative of the child he met once.

Jinpei Matsuda didn't say anything. He put on gloves and used the key he got from the administrator to open the gate of the courtyard of the detached house.

Conan didn't hear Officer Matsuda asking him to leave, so he assumed that the other party agreed to let him follow. So even though he was still a little angry at the moment, he still followed the footsteps of the person in front of him and entered the courtyard.

Jinpei Matsuda had previously confirmed from the agency administrator that the person renting this place was indeed the deceased in the fourth case, Shunta Hanai. They had been investigating for so many days, but they had not discovered that Shunta Hanai, who lived in Gunma, had changed his name and had a long-term rental residence here.

The little brat had called Kenji before, but Kenji had found new clues in Gunma and had not returned yet. He happened to have just finished investigating the scene of the first case and was nearby, so he came over to take a look.

While thinking, Jinpei Matsuda took photos of suspicious places in the yard as evidence. After he had checked all the suspicious places, he walked to the door of the house and prepared to open it to enter.

As soon as they opened the door, both Jinpei Matsuda and Conan Edogawa noticed something strange at the door.

The two came to the same conclusion at the same time that after Hanai Shunta's death, at least two groups of people had entered the house.

Jinpei Matsuda glanced at the brat without leaving a trace. He did not miss the look in the brat's eyes just now. He came to a similar conclusion as himself at the same time.

And this kid usually pretends to be something, but I don’t know if he forgot or just stopped pretending.

In short, this child is too smart and mature, much more mature and stable than the average adult.

A strange idea suddenly popped up in Jinpei Matsuda's mind. Could it be that this little kid has a mature adult soul inside his body like in some comics?

Thinking of this, he looked at Conan again and shook his head in his heart. It was impossible. How could such an unscientific thing happen? He was probably working overtime for too long recently.

The kid must be a genius, a natural born detective or something like that.

Conan, who had forgotten everything else as soon as he entered detective mode, didn't notice the hidden gaze that Matsuda Jinpei was casting on him. He had finally made a breakthrough, so he didn't waste any time carefully investigating the places in the room that he found suspicious.

The deceased deliberately changed his name and rented a residence here, so there must be clues here.

But at the same time, he was a little anxious. This house had been entered by at least two groups of people. So... were the clues that might have been left in the house still there?