Untitled Conan II

Lazy.

With my keen hearing, I heard someone discussing another case that happened at Miss Shoumei's house in the evening.

... Has anyone else died?

I frowned, but didn't stop and make special inquiries, I walked directly along the corridor to the ward.

The corridor of the hospital is semi-enclosed, and one side can lead to the bamboo forest behind.The wind blows the bamboo leaves, making a rustling sound, which looks a little scary in the night, as if someone is walking and watching in the forest.

Stopping in my tracks, I stared in the direction of the bamboo forest and blinked uncertainly.

...Did I misread the figure just now?

After some hesitation, I decided to go and have a look.However, when I walked into the bamboo forest, I couldn't find the shadow I caught by chance just now.

But——the more I think about it, the more I feel that it's not a hallucination or a mistake. That figure is very familiar, but I can't remember seeing it there...

Where the hell is—

"Xiaoyou!"

……

A voice calling me came from outside the bamboo forest, I quickly raised my voice to answer, and ran out of the bamboo forest.

I went to the bamboo forest without telling the nurse, and the person who came looking for me complained to Sister Ye for a long time. Fortunately, I was not found sneaking out of the hospital. If it was Conan or Heiji who was looking for me, they would definitely find something Clue?I comfort myself.

It is said that Xiaolan and Heye were worried about letting me stay in the hospital all day, so they came back to accompany me at dinner time.And in their discussion, I also learned that what happened to Miss Shoumei's house today was Miss Junhui and Miss Saori, another friend who grew up together, who was also the one who got the arrow of dugong at the same time as Heye Miss Naoko.

First, Ms. Saori who possessed the Dugong Arrow disappeared, and then Ms. Sumi and Ms. Naoko, who had drawn the arrow this year, were killed one after another. No matter how you look at it, they are all aimed at the Dugong Arrow, which is said to give people immortality. of.

……So……

Looking at He Ye, who showed a faint panic in his expression but tried his best to hide it in front of me, I suddenly felt a little uneasy in my heart.

No matter what I say, Xiaolan and the others don't agree with me going out to Miss Junhui's house at night. In desperation, I had no choice but to secretly install trackers on Sister Ye and I just in case.

Fortunately, that night, I kept staring at the locator and found nothing wrong. On the second day, I heard from the nurse about the fire that happened in Miss Junhui's warehouse yesterday.

That was the warehouse where the skeleton of the mermaid was discovered after the fire three years ago, and this time, a corpse appeared in the warehouse again.

Based on the hair color and glasses, everyone speculated that the corpse was Miss Saori who had been missing for many days. However, after seeing Miss Junhui come back, according to Conan's suggestion, Uncle Maoli called Junhui Miss once went to a dental hospital, and then compared the tooth shape of that corpse...

The conclusion is that the person who was burned to death in the warehouse was Miss Jun Hui.

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Because I have been staying in the hospital these days, I haven't had much contact with that Miss Junhui, and my impression of her is that she is a kind and beautiful girl.But for others, Miss Jun Hui's death seemed to be a big blow.

Xiaolan and Sister Ye's eyes were red all the time, and Conan and Brother Heping's expressions were much more serious than usual.

Silently watching them from the sidelines, I couldn't help feeling a little... lonely...

……lonely……?

I know that such emotions are actually very contemptible. At this time... But no matter what, I can't understand their feelings, and I can't share anything for them. It's like standing here alone all the time. There is a very thin film, but I can't reach that side anyway, I can only look at it so closely...

For the first time, I felt the indifference in my heart... Don't you care if you are not related to yourself?In fact, not entirely, right?There is still a little pity and sympathy in my heart, but I can't show the pure kindness and compassion of Xiaolan and the others.

At times like this, I really envy them...

Lying on the bed with a wry smile, with the back of my hand resting on my forehead, I stared blankly at the ceiling of the ward in a daze——

In the past, I was always afraid that life would end in the next moment, and then I tried my best to do what I liked. It seemed that there was never enough time, and there seemed to be endless things. The short time reminded me to cherish every moment. To leave the best memories in this world, to leave the most perfect self in everyone's hearts.

So I kept hiding my true self, endured, restrained, and kept suppressing...

...Gentle, kind, cute, considerate, well-behaved...

I did exactly that...

Just, is this really right?

I want to leave a perfect version of myself, but I am not my true self—that kind of impression, is it not me at all?

Since I recovered from my illness and returned to Japan, I no longer have the constraints of time, and I no longer have to be afraid of death all the time... I have a future and a lot of time... But, I am even more at a loss...

I can't find what I should do—or rather, what I can do...

I try to show my true self, I can cry, make trouble, laugh, be self-willed, wronged and dissatisfied, but I don’t know why, but I feel that this kind of myself is so strange——

is this really me?I'm not sure anymore.

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Early the next morning, everyone went out to investigate the case.Although he made an indifferent and reassuring appearance, after the ward door was closed, the smile that had been hanging on the corner of his mouth was hidden after all.

Uncle Mori, Conan, and Ran went to Ms. Saori's house to investigate, while Heiji and Sister Kazuba assisted the police at Ms. Sumi's house.

Because of the uneasiness looming in my heart all the time, I have been turning on the tracker on my watch since the morning, observing the direction of Sister Ye and the others in conjunction with the topographic map of the island on the glasses.

And when the point representing Sister Ye stayed in the middle of the dense lines on the topographic map, I knew something must have happened to her—the dense lines were cliffs!

Sure enough, when I arrived at the edge of the cliff, what I saw was that one hand was hanging and hanging on the tree trunk protruding from the cliff, and the other hand that was still bleeding was tightly holding on to Heiji with Sister Ye. elder brother.

The blood flowed down the wound on Brother Heiji's hand and onto Sister Ye's arms, and on the faces of the two men, one was determined not to let go, the other was a plea to let go quickly .

The tree trunk that was the life-saving straw for the two of them was already faintly showing the fragility of being overwhelmed.

Knowing that the accident happened on the edge of a cliff, I borrowed ropes from someone on the way here, and when I ran to this remote forest just now, I invited some local people to help. Two people hanging on the edge of the cliff were rescued.

Later, I found out that while we rescued Heiji-san and the others together, Conan had followed the voice of Uncle Maori and successfully solved the case.

The murderer who committed three murder cases in a row used his superb special makeup skills to pretend to be a 130-year-old mermaid mother-in-law, that is, Miss Junhui, his grandmother.

She didn't die, the person who was burned to death in the warehouse of the shrine was Miss Saori who had been missing for a long time.

Sometimes, destiny is so neat and strange.

If it wasn't for staying in the hospital because of a cold, I wouldn't have seen the old woman from a distance just once with heavy makeup on.

If I had seen it from the beginning, I would not have noticed Miss Junhui's disguise, maybe...

Oh, in fact, what if it is completely meaningless, right?

Recruitment notice

After returning to Tokyo, I spent some time recuperating. Because of school, Brother Heiji and Sister Ye went back to Osaka on the weekend night. During this period, many people came to visit me. When I was almost recovered from my illness, this week It was almost over, and the renovation work of the coffee shop downstairs of the Maori Detective Agency had also come to an end.

Although at the beginning, Brother Guangji planned to directly appoint someone to come over, but at my request, he still agreed to let me recruit people by myself, provided that the finalized personnel information must first pass their review...

By the way... I'm just recruiting an employee—it's not Anbu's assessment, do I need to do this...

In short, the current life is still going smoothly.

At noon on Friday, I brought the cakes and desserts I made, and took the bus to Qingxue to visit the members of the tennis club and the members of the music club who were still training hard.

Coming back after such a long time, there is always a feeling of a lifetime away.

In the tennis club, Guoguang's brother has gone to Germany, and Ryoma has also gone to the United States.After the national competition, the members of the third grade also quit the club because of the entrance exam. In the main election, only the second graders Taocheng and Kaitang remained.

And the day I came, just in time for Fuji, Oishi, and Kikumaru to guide the tennis club. The rare and lively scene made the eye sockets of the three first-year students on the side a little red.

Taocheng is the new minister, and Haitang is the deputy minister.

In the chat, you can often hear Shengxiong and the others describe the soft-hearted minister and the stern deputy minister, and it seems that the two of them are less likely to quarrel and fight as before, and they have truly fulfilled their duties as ministers.

But that being said, during the short while we were chatting, the two of them