The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

Conan followed Ai Haihara to the store next to the station and politely purchased a map of Tokyo from the store owner.

"Thank you. Can you lend me another pen?"

"sure."

Taking the pen from the store owner, Haihara Ai opened the map and started looking for the address on it.

"Kudo, do you remember the locations of the previous arsonists' arsonists?"

"Well," Conan said while holding his chin in thought, "The first time should be in Ikebukuro, and the second time in Asakusa Bridge."

Relying on Conan's super memory, Haihara Ai marked five points on the map.

"What does this look like to you?"

Haibara Ai listed several points in front of Conan. After staring at them for a while, Conan figured out what they were.

"This is fire!"

After being connected by several lines, the points depicted on the map are exactly the same as the Chinese character "fire", except that the last point in the middle is missing.

And this point happens to be the Shinagawa Ward where I am currently!

"Could it be that the last place where the arsonist set fire was in Shinagawa Ward?"

At the same time, on the red Mazda sports car outside the station, the three little ones were waiting impatiently.

"Did Conan and Haiyuan think of some clues and went to the police to claim credit?"

As soon as Genta's idea was put forward, he immediately received unanimous approval from Mitsuhiko and Ayumi. After all, Conan and Haibara are old offenders of personal heroism.

So the three of them decided not to miss the opportunity to show off, and got out of the car to return to the station.

But as soon as she got out of the car, Ayumi saw a slovenly figure coming towards her that was incompatible with the people around her, with a wild smile on her face.

The sloppy man passed by the three little ones and didn't notice the fearful look in one of the three little ones.

When the man passed by with his back bent, Ayumi pointed tremblingly at the man's back and said that this man was the bad guy she met yesterday.

"Really! Ayumi?"

"Um."

Ayumi nodded weakly, but Genta and Mitsuhiko showed excited expressions.

Because they know that the time has come for them to make meritorious deeds.

In the taxi back to Shinjuku Street, Qin Zhibo rolled down the window and looked at the sky outside.

Dark night falls on this land, and thousands of stars penetrate the distance of the universe measured in light years, just to share the same sky.

This cosmic romance is intoxicating, but it also reminds someone that it's time to go home.

"Is it time for you to go home?"

Qin Zhibo looked back at Koizumi Hongzi in the back seat, but Koizumi Hongzi had a serious face and did not answer the question Qin Zhibo asked.

"Did the arsonist want to build a magic circle?"

What Koizumi Hongzi blurted out shocked Qin Zhibo and the driver in the front seat.

"Is the magic circle you are talking about the one you built on Tokyo Tower before?"

Koizumi Anko nodded lightly, "Such large-scale magic arrays require preliminary preparations, called 'marking'. Similar to the drawing of a magic array, certain special conditions need to be completed at a specific location."

"Our red magic clan has a special marking method that ordinary people cannot detect, but different magic arrays have different methods, and flame may also be one of the conditions."

The driver sitting in the front seat shed a drop of cold sweat. His tight lips represented his heart, which was that he neither knew nor dared to ask.

After all, who has nothing to do to provoke mental illness?

Qin Zhibo was thoughtful and asked: "Then can you feel if this is a magic circle?"

Koizumi Hongzi closed her eyes and felt it, then shook her head.

"No, I won't be able to sense it until the magic circle is completed."

"However, I can tell based on the location where the fire was set before whether this was a 'mark' before the magic circle was formed. Because there are only a few types of magic circle formations, it is relatively easy to see."

Qin Zhibo looked at the driver beside him and asked, "Master driver, do you have a map in the car?"

"Yes! Yes!"

Not wanting to get into trouble, the driver quickly pulled out the map from the glove box and handed it to Qin Zhibo in the passenger seat. Qin Zhibo gave the map to Koizumi Hongzi.

"The locations are Ikebukuro, Asakusa Bridge, and Tabata."

Koizumi Hongzi pointed out these points along the map with her fingers. She scratched the map with her fingers and quickly found the answer.

"It's a five-pointed star!"

"He's marking the pentagram!"

Koizumi Hongzi handed the map to Qin Zhibo. Qin Zhibo drew the lines according to the method pointed out by Koizumi Hongzi. Sure enough, they were the five endpoints of the five-pointed star.

"The five endpoints marked are the edges of the magic circle, and the very center is where the magic circle is activated."

Following Koizumi Hongzi's prompts, Qin Zhibo found the center of the entire magic circle on the map.

Shinagawa Ward!

But even if you get the location in Shinagawa District, you don't know when the other party plans to activate the magic circle.

unless

Qin Zhibo suddenly remembered that in the Zoroastrian Cult during the day, Kuchiki Hiyan introduced that today was the "fire of truth" believed in by the Zoroastrian Cult - the first day that Fomalhaut, the true form of Cthugha, ruled the night sky.

Could it be today?

"Master driver! Go back to Shinagawa District immediately!"

At Shinagawa Station, after Conan and Haibara Ai finished discussing the case, they returned to the car and found that the three little ones had disappeared.

"Where are the people?"

Conan and Haihara Ai were stunned. At this moment, the detective badge in their pockets made a beeping sound.

After answering the call, I found out that the three little ones had followed the arsonist first because they happened to meet him, and the arsonist was now lighting a fire.

After hearing the news, Conan and Haibara Ai looked at each other. Since there was only one arsonist, they decided to solve the incident personally.

After the two left, Miwako Sato returned to the car after finishing her work. When she saw the empty seats in the car, she was filled with questions.

"Where are the people?"

The three little ones hung up the communication and stared intently at the arsonist who was lighting the fire.

The red flames burned brighter and brighter in front of the arsonist. The arsonist was not afraid of the burning eyes and stared at the flames obsessively, grinning at the corner of his mouth.

"Hehe. My good boy, grow up quickly."

The third child, who had never played with fire since he was a child, looked at this exciting scene and couldn't believe that someone was not afraid of the curse of playing with fire and wetting the bed.

After a while, the arsonist stood up and walked out. The three little ones were so frightened that they hid and whispered.

"The fire is getting bigger and bigger. Do you want to call the fire alarm first?"

"But I don't have a phone."

"The gangster is about to escape, should we chase him?"

"No! Conan told us to wait here obediently."

The three little ones kept talking to each other, completely unaware of the danger coming quietly behind them.

The arsonist was holding a sharp knife, and an evil smile appeared on his face.

"Young man? Do you also want to spread the fire?"