The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

"Watch?"

Seeing the watch lying in the box, Cheng Shi was startled and stunned.

This was bought by Qin Zhibo in a luxury store at Heathrow Airport while he was waiting for the flight back to Japan.

Originally, he wanted to buy a men's watch, but after looking around at the counter, he found that the diameter of men's watches was too large, which was not suitable for Cheng Shi, who was slim. The watch was too heavy and uncomfortable to wear at work.

Of course, this watch is smaller than men's watches, with a diameter of 34, and is neutral in color and style.

"Why? Don't you like it?" Qin Zhibo asked tentatively.

"No..."

Cheng Shi lowered his head, and his ponytail with distinct hair swayed gently.

Immediately, he raised his head, and tears slid across his cheeks with a bright smile, like crystal clear water drops on young leaves after the rain.

"I like it very much!"

"This is the best gift I have ever received!"

...

At night, Qin Zhibo did not return to the detective agency, but stayed at Cheng Shi's house.

After dinner, he and Cheng Shi talked a lot.

Especially about the "wandering planet" that had caused a huge discussion around the world not long ago, and the doomsday theory of the earth.

But this matter is strange.

With the departure of the "wandering planet", almost no one is discussing this matter anymore.

Everything has returned to normal.

But even if he recalled the situation at that time again, Cheng Shi still felt a sense of unreality.

"At that time, many people were rumored that the end of the world was coming soon, and every household was hoarding supplies, including food, drinks, tools and the like."

"But Xiao Ai said that if it was really the end of the world, humans would not have the possibility of survival, so it would be better to die from the beginning..."

"So I didn't buy many supplies at home."

"Looking back now, I really feel for Xiao Ai!"

"It's just that the food in my patients' homes these days can't be consumed at all, so they are all sent to me again..."

Cheng Shi recalled the previous events in the tone of telling interesting stories.

Qin Zhibo smiled slightly, thinking that this is what Huiyuan Ai would say.

"By the way, I've been busy talking about my side. How are you doing in the UK, Mr. Qin?" Cheng Shi asked.

"Me..." Qin Zhibo pursed his lips and thought for two seconds.

"It's OK. Everything is going well."

"I was planning to come back earlier, but because of that planet, all flights were suspended."

"I rested in the hotel for a few days and came back after the flights were resumed."

Qin Zhibo did not tell Cheng Shi what happened during that time in the UK.

After all, those things are difficult for ordinary people to understand, not to mention that Cheng Shi's willpower is only 40, so there is no need to stimulate him with those things.

Cheng Shi just looked at Qin Zhibo, and a slight strangeness flashed in his eyes.

Although Qin Zhibo said that he stayed in the hotel for a few days and flew back after the flights were resumed.

But Cheng Shi knew that Conan and Dr. Agasa would come back two days earlier, which means that the flights to Japan had actually been resumed a long time ago.

Qin Zhibo stayed in the UK for two more days, probably to complete something.

And he guessed that it might be related to Shuichi Akai who suddenly disappeared from Kudo's house.

Shuichi Akai was recovering well at Kudo's house, but he suddenly disappeared yesterday.

Toru Amuro called Cheng Shi to ask if he had seen him, so Cheng Shi also knew that Shuichi Akai had disappeared.

It was just because of his trust in the person in front of him that Cheng Shi did not ask what was going on.

At this moment, a grand music suddenly sounded from the TV in the living room.

"Clang clang..."

"Everyone has a yearning for the ocean in their hearts."

"Take a cruise to travel and look at the boundless blue Pacific Ocean, which will be a unique experience in your life."

"Yashiro Cruise, as the leader of Japan's cruise tourism industry, has been adhering to the continuous pursuit of high-end quality for 30 years, adhering to a rigorous and meticulous service attitude, and is determined to create Asia's No. 1 cruise tourism brand."

"'Aphrodite', as the highest-end masterpiece of the Yashiro Cruise brand, will usher in its first voyage on April 9..."

A cruise ship promotional advertisement appeared on TV.

As the voiceover introduced, a beautiful white luxury cruise ship sailed on the blue sea.

Cheng Shi looked at the cruise ship on TV, his eyes gradually lost in thought.

"What's wrong? Do you want to go up and take a look?" Qin Zhibo asked.

"Um..."

Cheng Shi's voice was very light.

Qin Zhibo nodded in understanding, then took out his mobile phone, searched for Aphrodite on the Internet, and found relevant content.

"The sailing route is from Yokohama to and from, and the time is three days and three nights..."

"If there is no problem with the time, then go."

Hearing Qin Zhibo's words, Cheng Shi, who was still looking at the cruise ship advertisement next to him, was stunned, and quickly turned his head and said: "No! I just said it casually~"

Qin Zhibo smiled slightly, "It doesn't matter, it's just right for me to relax."

"It doesn't matter if the patient is left for a few days. Since you moved to Tokyo, haven't you had much rest?"

Since Cheng Shi left Yueying Island and opened this private hospital in Tokyo, he has been busier than when he was on Yueying Island.

I usually have almost no time to rest, and at most I take the opportunity to stroll around the area at night.

This time, there is a rare place I want to go, so I naturally can't miss it.

And Qin Zhibo himself wanted to relax.

Although he went to London before, he spent all his time on business. He wanted to split himself in half and had no time to travel.

In addition, he successfully stopped the conspiracy of the Beast Brotherhood, which was a staged victory. It was reasonable to change his mood appropriately.

It felt a bit strange to go out alone to travel.

It happened that Cheng Shi also had this idea this time.

In addition, he also wanted to try whether he had overcome the problem of weak sea now.

Especially the water of the Pacific Ocean...

After listening to Qin Zhibo's advice, Cheng Shi was still a little hesitant.

"But..."

"No buts, just decided happily!"

...

The next day.

Qin Zhibo left Cheng Shi Hospital early in the morning and drove to Nagano Prefecture.

Just last night, he successfully contacted the mysterious Kuroda Heibei through the contact information given by Haneda Yasuharu.

In the text message, the two parties agreed to meet and discuss in detail at the ruins of the ancient battlefield of Kawanakajima in Nagano Prefecture this morning.

Qin Zhibo didn't know much about Japanese history.

After searching the internet for this place name, it probably refers to two villages in the past, whose village chiefs were Kenshin Uesugi and Shingen Takeda.

The two villages had some disputes due to territorial issues.

Later, under the leadership of the village chiefs of both sides, they fought in the territory of present-day Nagano Prefecture, and many people died.

The place where they had fought became the ancient battlefield today.

…

At 9 o'clock in the morning, Qin Zhibo arrived at the agreed location.

The area covered by the ruins of the ancient battlefield of Kawanakajima is very large, and Kuroda Heibei did not say the specific location, but just said to contact him after arriving at the place.

So, Qin Zhibo took out his mobile phone and sent a text message to Kuroda Heibei that he had arrived, and then began to stroll around the area alone.

This ancient battlefield, which once flowed like a river of blood, has now been developed into a park with the nature of a tourist attraction.

A river divides the entire park into two.

One half is an ordinary park, and the other side is the site of the ruins of the ancient battlefield.

Since today is a weekday, there are not many tourists in the park.

Sculptures of Japanese generals from the Warring States period, as well as tablets introducing the lives of related figures and historical events, can be seen everywhere in the park.

However, Qin Zhibo has no interest in these things, so he just took a quick look to kill time.

Just as Qin Zhibo was standing in front of the sculptures of the two protagonists of the "Village Fight" - Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin, the voices of others came from behind him.

"But then again, Yamato, have you really never been here?"

"Yeah."

"But this place is so famous, it is a place that everyone in Nagano Prefecture cannot miss..."

"Maybe... But I really have never been here except for passing by the bridge in the park during morning exercises."

The voices were a man and a woman.

The woman's voice was relatively normal, mixed with a hint of informal tone of coquetry between lovers.

The man's voice was quite gloomy, and Qin Zhibo could roughly guess what kind of person he would be just by listening to this voice.

But when Qin Zhibo turned around, he couldn't help but be shocked by the man's appearance.

The man who made the gloomy voice looked a little fierce at first glance. He had dark skin, a big "X"-shaped scar on his left eye, a stubble on his chin, and a short ponytail tied behind his head.

Although he had a sturdy figure, the cane in his left hand reduced his sturdiness.

Next to and behind the fierce man were a woman with a gentle temperament and a bun-haired woman, and an elegant man with a mustache.

They were...

Qin Zhibo glanced at the top of the trio's head and saw the basic information of the three people.

Yamato Gansuke, Uehara Yui, and Morobushi Takaaki.

The identities of the three people are police officers.

Since Qin Zhibo was also in Nagano Prefecture for the first time, he was very unfamiliar with the faces of these three people.

But what were the police doing here?

Did a case happen here?

Qin Zhibo quickly glanced around and did not find any clues about the case.

While Qin Zhibo was thinking, Zhu Fu Gaoming, who was standing behind the trio, was also looking at the man in the brown windbreaker who was standing silently in front of the statue.

That man...

Zhu Fu Gaoming saw the moment when the windbreaker man turned around, and remembered his appearance. He felt that he was very similar to a famous detective who often appeared in newspapers recently.

Just when he wanted to greet him and verify whether his guess was correct, a voice came from the entrance behind him.

"Yamato!"

"What are you doing here?"

Yamato and the other two looked back and saw that they were also a group of three.

The three people were different in height, weight and size. The only similarity was that they were dressed more formally, all in suits and ties.

Qin Zhibo, who heard the voice, also looked back and saw that the three newcomers were also policemen.

So many policemen?

Could it be that Kuroda Hei called them over?

Yamato Gansuke looked at his three colleagues without showing a good expression on his face, and still looked at them coldly.

One of the other three people, a fat policeman with curly hair, didn't care and said with a smile, "Could it be that you are secretly dating your childhood sweetheart Uehara while on duty?"

Hearing this, the policewoman named Uehara Yui blushed and waved her hand to deny it.

"No, it's not like that..."

"It's just that Officer Yamato said he had never been here, so he came here on the way..."

Just then, Zhufu Gaoming interrupted Uehara Yui and asked, "Mr. Saegusa, why are you here?"

The fat policeman put his hands in his pockets, "We were assigned to go to the hideout of a wanted robber next, so we thought we would come here to pay homage to Lord Shingen before setting off."

"We are not here to slack off, after all, not everyone is Aburakawa..."

As he said this, the fat policeman glanced back at his companion with a pouting mouth behind him.

However, the policeman who was implied to like slacking off retorted that his surname was no longer Aburakawa, but Akiyama, the surname of his mother.

At this time, the thin policeman who had been silent before glanced around and asked Yamato and others.

"By the way, have you seen our team leader?"

"Team leader? You mean Mr. Takeda?" Uehara Yui asked.

The thin policeman with glasses responded and explained: "We all agreed to meet here before, but now we can't see him anywhere, and even the phone can't get through..."

Yamato Gansuke took a step forward with crutches, "Could it be that the time was wrong? After all, the old man is also old."

"That's right..." The pouting policeman agreed.

"Then let's look for it somewhere else."

After the fat policeman finished speaking, he turned around and left with the other two.

But just when they were about to leave, Yamato Gansuke called them again.

"By the way, if you find old man Takeda, please tell him for me..."

"Even if there is an order from the higher-ups, I will never agree to return to your group!"

"Okay, I will convey your words to Takeda."

"But I think you are very suitable to stay in our group, what a pity..."

The fat police and the thin police looked at Yamato Gansuke's tough attitude, responded lightly, and left indignantly.

Zhu Fu Gaoming watched the backs of the three people leaving, and thought of the famous detective he had just seen.

But when he looked back, the man in the brown windbreaker who had just stood in front of the sculpture had disappeared.

...

Before the two groups of police finished talking, Qin Zhibo left first.

Because Kuroda Hei had sent a text message saying that he had arrived at the place where Yamamoto Kansuke died in the last battle.

When Qin Zhibo arrived at the location, he saw a tall and burly back standing in front of a gray-black stone tablet.