A Tribute to Sherlock Holmes[Comprehensive]

Has anyone opened the window again?

The messy sound of rain penetrated the dreamland, and faintly spread into the silent darkness.

A slender black-haired girl stood in the torrential rain. The rain soaked her whole body, and her wet long hair snaked on her skin.It was raining so hard that she could barely keep her eyes open.She just stood upright in the rain, as if nailed to death there, looking a little embarrassed.

In the focus of her gaze not far away is a pure black Porsche 356A.The car window was open, and the hand protruding from the car was holding a gun, pointing at the girl in the rain.

Then, he pulled the trigger with his finger, and the bullet shot out from the muzzle, hitting the girl's forehead precisely.Blood spattered from the wound, mixing with the rain.

"... Hiratsuka!?"

Subconsciously calling out the girl's name, Conan woke up from the dream.

He opened his eyes suddenly, it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything clearly.The sound of rapid rain outside the window can be vaguely heard, and occasionally a few drops hit the glass window.

It was a dream... I dreamed that Izumi Hiratsuka died under the gun of Gin.

Such a dream is really unlucky.

His eyes hadn't adapted to the darkness, and Conan, who had just recovered from a coma, hadn't figured out where he was yet, and even his brain was still in a state of chaos.

He turned his body subconsciously, trying to twist into a more comfortable position, but turned around and fell directly to the ground.The impact with the ground, this dull pain made him completely awake.

Suddenly remembered that he was still talking with Hiratsuka Izumi before he passed out, and then, the latter knocked him out when he was unprepared.What happened after that, Conan had no idea.

There is still a faint scent of jasmine in the air, which is the smell of fresheners used by Izumi Hiratsuka.

Conan's head was still a little dizzy. He sat up from the ground, and his body felt stiff and sore, which should be caused by being in a coma for too long.He quickly found the mobile phone on his body. On the mobile phone was a large list of missed calls from Dr. A Li's own house, as well as several recorded messages.

Almost all the recorded messages were left by A Li, asking where Conan was, if he needed help, and if he had any accidents that he couldn't reach.One of them was left by Hui Yuan Ai, simply asking him if something happened.

Looking at the time, it is almost ten o'clock in the evening, has he been in a coma for so long?It's no wonder that Dr. Ali and Haibara are so nervous.

Standing up tremblingly, leaning on the back of the sofa, and walking a few steps against the wall with difficulty, Conan turned on the light in the room.When the lights came on, he was almost stunned by the scene he saw.

Empty, it's not an exaggeration to use this word to describe it.

It is true that he is still staying in Hiratsuka Izumi's apartment, but this apartment has been wiped of all traces of life, and the remaining furniture is placed in a desolate place, as if no one has ever lived here.

A transparent plastic umbrella was leaning against the sofa, the kind you can buy at convenience stores.The umbrella body is not very new, it should have been used for a while.The existence of this umbrella is probably the only thing with a little human touch in the whole space.

Was it specially left for him by Izumi Hiratsuka?

In the last part of the memory, the gift that Izumi Hiratsuka said was left to him, shouldn't it be this umbrella?And her phrase "see you again", Conan felt that she really would never appear again.

Doesn't the apartment, which is completely empty like a box, reflect Hiratsuka Izumi's words?She disappeared as if she had never been there.

With a fluke mentality, Conan hurriedly took out his mobile phone and dialed Izumi Hiratsuka's number, the only remaining contact method.But the phone was dialed out, but it couldn't be dialed.

Conan laughed for a moment, and suddenly felt a little blocked.He always felt that he hadn't found the truth behind Izumi Hiratsuka, but the person directly disappeared.Losing contact is like evaporating.

Is that how Hiratsuka Izumi disappeared two years ago?But at that time, Kudo Shinichi, who was not familiar with Hiratsuka Izumi at all, would not be so nervous about her whereabouts, let alone want to contact her immediately.

Conan went to the small cubicle in the bedroom that he had always cared about, and the cubicle was also empty. When he entered here for the first time, he saw the magnificent large display screen and computer. Evacuated.

Presumably, it should have been cleared away before the Takase incident. After all, there was a death incident here, and the police would search the entire apartment inside and out. The existence of those computers would definitely be carefully interrogated.

Then Conan hurriedly called Dr. Ali back, and the old man on the other end of the phone breathed a sigh of relief: "...I thought something happened to you, Shinichi. If you don't call back, I will call the police."

That's right, but Conan's current identity is sensitive. If he really loses contact and can't expose his foot injury that is exactly the same as Kudo Shinichi, he probably can only ask Judy from the FBI for help, right?

"Where are you now?" Hui Yuanai snatched the phone, her cold voice was full of anxiety.

"Haihara? I'm still at Hiratsuka's house, well... I'm fine."

"I don't care if you have anything to do, so you should stop being sentimental."

Hui Yuanai is still duplicity as before, she will not admit that she cares.

In Conan's words, she looks really... not cute.

After confirming Conan's safety, she let go of her worries.

The topic quickly changed, and Hui Yuan's tone became serious: "She...didn't do anything to you, did she?"

She, of course, refers to Hiratsuka Izumi.

"It was just fainted by Hiratsuka, and everything disappeared when I woke up."

"What do you mean everything disappeared? Did she become missing after she left?"

"Leaving, to be more precise, all traces related to her here have been erased."

Conan held the plastic umbrella that Izumi Hiratsuka had left for him leaning on the edge of the sofa, his eyes darkened, and he didn't continue to mention his conversation with Izumi Hiratsuka.

The truth is almost clear. Although Izumi Hiratsuka did not respond to his series of questions, he started a long narration by himself. This also reflects that Conan's inferences are correct, right?

Izumi Hiratsuka is the current Chabli, and Takumi Takase is her pawn, or in other words, they are all puppets of the organization, and the three who died were all victims of the organization's testing of new drugs.

This is the truth.

Saying that Izumi Hiratsuka is evil, what she did for the organization were unforgivable mistakes.

From a certain point of view, her experience is somewhat similar to that of Hui Yuan Ai, who was the maker of the poison that killed countless people.But the two of them are still different, and Conan can't see what Hiratsuka Izumi's true thoughts are.

"She erased all the traces?" Haibara's voice pulled Conan back to his thoughts, and the female voice in the receiver snorted coldly, "This method is very organized...Speaking of it, you have to stay outside how long?"

"I...then you should let the doctor answer the phone."

"Okay, I don't have time to chat with you either."

Then, the phone was returned to Dr. Ali.

This night, it was raining again, and Conan still had a foot injury, so in the end, he had to ask the doctor to drive to pick him up.

Dr. Ali was also shocked when he saw the current appearance of Hiratsuka Izumi's home.

All in all, go back first, and then go back if you have anything to say.In Hiratsuka Izumi's apartment, no further investigation could find any information. She handled everything too cleanly.

Izumi Hiratsuka...has it really disappeared like this?

Throughout the night, Conan's mind was filled with things about the girl.He always felt that the matter was far from over, and the disappearance of Izumi Hiratsuka was just a cover-up to bury some truth forever, right?

When he woke up the next morning, Conan opened his eyes and vaguely saw a figure in front of the bed, standing there, motionless.He was so startled that he jumped up from the bed.

At the same time when his mind cleared up instantly, he realized that the person standing in front of the bed was Hui Yuan Ai.The girl looked cold, just staring at him.

"Good morning, Edogawa." The cold girl greeted him pretending to be innocent.

"Huihara...can you stop scaring me like this..."

Conan took a deep breath and clapped his hands on his chest.Looking at Hui Yuan Ai's expressionless face and looking at him coldly, he was speechless for a while.

"I have something for you." As Hui Yuanai said, he took out a bunch of crumpled things and handed them to Conan, "I found them in your trouser pocket while drying the clothes, and they were washed by the washing machine. .”

After speaking, Hui Yuanai turned his head and left the room.

It was a ball of paper, still a little wet, and the soaked texture was soft.

When I opened it, I realized it was a photo.

Because it was soaked in water in the pocket, tossed and tumbled in the washing machine and finally dried, the photo has been tossed and wrinkled, but fortunately, the picture is still recognizable.

The content on the screen is a photo of Kudo Shinichi and a girl in a cheerleading uniform. The scene behind it looks like a scene after a football game.

The girl in the photo has neat short hair and a sweet smile.In the blue and white team uniform, her belly was exposed, and she was holding two golden flower balls in her hands.

This is Hiratsuka Izumi from the middle school days.

Conan didn't have much impression of this photo, he didn't remember that he had a photo with Hiratsuka Izumi at all.On the contrary, he vaguely remembered the football game in the photo. He was forced to help by the football department and won the championship.

Wrinkles make the girl's face look hazy in the photo, but just the smile is enough to tell that Izumi Hiratsuka in junior high school and Izumi Hiratsuka who reunited not long ago with long hair are completely different in aura. It's already two people.

One is a sunny and cheerful ordinary girl, at most, maybe a little prettier than girls of the same age.The other, even though she has the same face, always has a smile like a spring breeze, but she just can't see through her, she is full of mysteries.

The more unpredictable it is, the more it attracts people to investigate.

Conan frowned, he couldn't help but think of what Hiratsuka Izumi said to him.Being imprisoned in the organization is an understatement, and in retrospect, it will only become more and more that it is an unbearable experience.

"Detective, have you seen enough? Are you stuck in a past relationship?" Hui Yuan's cold teasing interrupted Conan.

Conan suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction of the sound source. The brown-haired girl's face was still cold, and she leaned against the door with her arms folded. Her cold eyes were as cold as the color of her pupils.

The corners of his brows couldn't help twitching, and he was speechless: "Hey... haven't you already left? Why are you back..."

"What's the matter? Sichun's appearance is afraid of being seen?" Hui Yuanai maintained her poisonous tongue as always.

She knew that Izumi Hiratsuka and Shinichi Kudo were classmates in the past, and that Chabli happened later.She had also seen the photo, and the Hiratsuka Izumi on it and the Hiratsuka Izumi she came into contact with later on were indeed not the same person.

"Or do you mean that you and this person really had some secret past? Are you afraid that your childhood sweetheart girlfriend will find out?"

Haibara Ai continued to tease unceremoniously, and Conan's expression became more and more speechless with a series of nonsensical rhetorical questions.

He was really too lazy to explain, but he still wanted to clarify the relationship: "I was not familiar with her at that time, I was just wondering when this photo was taken..."

"So are you ready to wake up?"

"Right now."

"Ah la la, it's so good, you don't have to attend elementary school classes if you are injured."

"... Huiyuan."

"Got it, I'm going to school."

This time Huiyuan Ai really left, obediently being a primary school student and going to school.

Conan once again cast his gaze on the photo in his hand.

Yeah... when did he take this picture?

His eyes couldn't help tracing the outline of the girl in the picture, and he seemed to recall some memories about Izumi Hiratsuka at that time.

Is this the gift Hiratsuka Izumi said he gave her?

When the evening was approaching, Conan also showed the photo to Ali.Dr. Ali pushed his glasses very seriously, and even took out a magnifying glass to carefully study the appearance of Izumi Hiratsuka in junior high school.

In the end, I came to the following conclusion: "Koizumi was indeed like this at that time." The implication was the same as in memory.

It seems that no one is remembered, only Conan himself.

He took the photo, sat on the sofa and stared blankly for a while.

At that time the doorbell rang at home, it should be Hui Yuanai who came back from class.Dr. A Li went to open the door, but the voices of people other than Hui Yuan Ai came from the door.

"Ah, Xiaolan is here!" Dr. Ali said loudly on purpose so that Conan in the room could hear the message, and he didn't expect Mao Lilan to come.

Conan's foot injury has not healed, and he can't appear in front of Mao Lilan in such a posture.Hearing the signal from Dr. Ali at the entrance, he hurriedly jumped up from the sofa and hid in the room as quickly as possible.

Mao Lilan carried some fresh vegetables in his hand, and he didn't seem to intend to leave immediately.

Dr. A Li looked at Hui Yuan Ai, the indifferent girl shrugged and didn't say a word, it seemed that she didn't want to explain anything.

Therefore, Mao Lilan took up the task of explaining: "I happened to meet Xiao Ai, so I just happened to send her back."

"Then this is..."

"Oh, when I met Xiao Ai, I was in the supermarket. I saw her picking vegetables, so I bought some and brought them here." Mao Lilan smiled and looked at Hui Yuan Ai, whose expression was as cold as ever.Mao Lilan, who didn't get a response, asked again solicitingly: "Are you right, Xiao Ai?"

"Well, that's it."

"It just so happens that my father is not at home tonight, so I decided on my own to come over and cook dinner with Xiao Ai, and Xiao Ai agreed."

"Hmm." Huiyuan responded softly.

In fact, she just didn't explicitly say no.And this silence was interpreted by Mao Lilan as agreement.

Of course, the angel has good intentions and should not refuse anything.

"So, excuse me, Doctor." Mao Lilan bowed to Dr. Ali and saluted.

"No, no, no..."

"Has Xiao Ai been buying the ingredients for dinner before? It turns out that Xiao Ai already knows how to cook by herself." It was a complimenting tone, really treating Hui Yuan Ai as a child.

Dr. A Li smiled awkwardly, because it was Hui Yuan Ai who refused to let him do it.And the food prepared for him is all low-calorie.Hui Yuanai was at home, acting like a little housekeeper.

"Then...don't stop standing at the door, come in."

Ah Li is getting older, and he also likes the atmosphere surrounded by children, so of course he won't turn people away.

The visitor is a guest, and he greeted Mao Lilan warmly.Seeing that Conan, who was sitting on the sofa, no longer knew which room he was hiding in, Agasa breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, Mao Lilan also has some selfish intentions. What she wants more is to go to the detective boy's house next door.Since the kidnapping of Izumi Hiratsuka last time, she has not contacted her family.

In the end, I felt a little sour in my heart, and then I was angry by myself.

Because at that time, Izumi Hiratsuka always actively went to Kudo’s house, saying that he was taking care of the injured Kudo Shinichi.She had to go to school on weekdays, and went to Kudo's house in her spare time, and saw Izumi Hiratsuka cooking dinner like a master.

Afterwards, Mao Lilan reflected on herself, she shouldn't have such concern for Hiratsuka Izumi, her Izumi sauce is very clear and supports her relationship with Kudo Shinichi, and Hiratsuka Izumi didn't hide anything from her Yeah, I even told her when I went out in the middle of the night.

On the day Hiratsuka Izumi said goodbye, Kogoro was the last one to tell her that she didn't even have a chance to give it away, so Mao Lilan felt a little regretful about it.

During the dinner, she didn't say a word about Kudo Shinichi and Hiratsuka Izumi, and just kept holding back until after the meal.

Poor Conan hid in the room for the entire dinner time, Hui Yuanai took some food, saying that it was going to be fed to the wild cats, then quietly turned to the room and gave it to Conan.

Helping Dr. A Li get the teapot from the coffee table, Mao Lilan happened to see a piece of paper that looked a little wrinkled on the sofa.The piece of paper lying on the sofa looked too abrupt, Mao Lilan thought it was waste paper, and when she picked it up to look at it, she realized that it was a photo.

It was the group photo taken in junior high school, Conan accidentally dropped it here in a hurry when he left.

Kudo Shinichi in the photo, of course Mao Lilan noticed it at the first time.The girl Mao Lilan who was standing with him also quickly recognized that it was Izumi Hiratsuka with short hair.

"Ah, the photo from junior high school." Mao Lilan held the teapot in one hand and the photo in the other, and stared at it for a while, "Xinyi hasn't changed at all, and Izumi seems to be gentler than before with long hair. a lot of……"

After such an exclamation, Mo Lilan suddenly realized that the holder of this photo was either Izumi Hiratsuka or Shinichi Kudo himself.

She thinks it is more likely that it is Kudo Shinichi, after all, he lives next door, and there is no reason for Hiratsuka Izumi to come all the way here with the photo, and accidentally drop it here, right?

So, Mao Lilan asked the doctor: "Doctor, did Xinyi come here just now?"

"Ah? Um...he...he hasn't been here before." Dr. A Li was speaking Tai Chi, his eyes wandering, and his faltering tone was quickly detected as a lie.

"This photo, Xinyi dropped it here, right?" Holding the photo, Mao Lilan walked over to Ali, and handed out the photo in his hand.

Ah Li had just seen this photo, and he didn't expect that Conan didn't clean up his things when he hid here.

"This is where he landed here before..." Forcibly lied.

Mao Lilan squinted her eyes, the photo appeared so abruptly, if it had been dropped before, it must have been put away.She was sure that Kudo Shinichi had been here not long ago, or...he hasn't left yet.

The author has something to say: next time I will divide the 3000 words into three chapters with more than [-] words. I am a little tired of writing such four or five thousand chapters