Conan's other self

"Police, are the police here?" Xiaolan asked Sera Masumi.

Sera Masumi nodded.

"The first to arrive should be the special search team composed of the Criminal Investigation Section 1, commonly known as SIT. When the safety of the hostages is involved, they are dispatched with heavy equipment and forcefully attack when the prisoner cannot be persuaded."

She glanced at the door again, "So you should have arrived outside this door, waiting for the opportunity to attack."

"Ah?" Xiaolan took a look.

"There are also special assault troops who plan to snipe on the rooftop opposite, and the SATs are also here to support them."

"Did Shinichi call you?"

"If it's like you said, Conan will contact Kudo Shinichi..." Masumi Sera replied, "But he will come without calling. If you want to evacuate the customers in the store below, you must explain to the police what's going on here. It just depends on the situation.

Judging from the fact that the police haven't started negotiating with the prisoner yet, your boyfriend is very trustworthy... He should be the one who told the police that he would definitely convince the prisoner. Before that, the police must not attack, right? "

She then held her chin up and thought for a moment, then told Xiaolan her analysis.

"In any case, the opponent is a madman who has tied explosives to his body and holds a detonating switch. If he attacks rashly or fails to hit the vital point with a sniper, as soon as this man shakes and presses the switch, we will all be blown away. The only way to prevent this from happening is to convince the prisoner or kill him with one blow."

There was a brief silence between the two.

"Then...what should Shinichi tell the prisoner?"

"It should be through that mobile phone, right? Although the mobile phone has not been noticed by the bomb man yet... but as long as you speak loudly to the mobile phone, you can attract the bomb man's attention..."

"B-but..."

But isn't that Conan's mobile phone over there? If Shinichi wants to use that phone... is he nearby or is he rushing back?

She was thinking this way, and Sera Masumi saw that Xiaolan seemed to be a little hesitant, "Are you thinking about why Ke... Shinichi hasn't untied it yet?"

"ah?"

"It's okay! He should have seen through the mouse that killed Zeli Weihong..."

Sera Masumi whispered to Xiaoran, and glanced at the three people next to her, "That's the Mitsui Tumi."

Xiaolan was stunned for a moment.

"There is only one reason for him not to tell. Once he knows who the prisoner is, the bomb man will drag the prisoner to death together. There is only one way to prevent two victims."

"ah?"

"But it can only make two become one..."

Sera Masumi looked at Zeurixun and thought for a moment

Because Mouri Kogoro has been unable to give out the results, Isao Zeguri was pacing around the table impatiently. Sera Masumi glanced out the window again, and suddenly said: "Shall I come to help too?"

"Huh?" Ze Lixun looked over.

"Hey, don't underestimate me, I'm a high school detective no less than Kudo Shinichi, right?"

"That famous Kudo Shinichi?" Sawaguri Xun was slightly surprised, and then showed a suspicious look, "Is it really possible?"

"It's always faster if you have more people to think about, right?" Masumi Sera then persuaded, "Don't you want to know who the murderer of your sister is?"

"You also think that my sister must not have committed suicide, right!?"

The high school student had helped tell them that these three people might use their tempers to commit crimes, which made Ze Lixun have a good impression of her.

"Yes, and I don't want to be blown up here...so let me help solve the case and find the murderer? In fact, I already have some ideas..."

"Really? If you dare to lie to me..."

"No! The key lies in the nomenclature of your sister's nicknames. I need to see the evidence you gave me... By the way, I also need paper and pen..."

"Paper and pen?"

"I like to use writing when reasoning, so I don't lose my ideas."

Compared to the famous detective Mouri Kogoro who never had any effective feedback, this high school student detective made Isao Sawakuri feel more reliable, so he stepped aside and said, "It's on the table!"

"Mr. Kogoro still needs that pen, right? I remember there are a few more pens in Mr. Kogoro's drawer..."

"Ah?" Mouri Kogoro was stunned for a moment.

There seem to be a few pens in my drawer, but how does this person named Sera know...

While he was stunned, Ze Lixun's gun was pointed at him.

"Hey! Take it out quickly!"

"Ah good…"

"Eh? Isn't it okay if you don't do it yourself?" Sera Masaki's voice sounded a little surprised, "If Mr. Kogoro hides weapons or something in the drawer, will he be counterattacked?"

Ze Lixun felt that this made sense, "Get out of my way!"

He held a gun and ordered Uncle Maori to stand up and walk aside. He came to the table and said, "I'll come find him!"

all the best.

Masumi Sera successfully led Bomb Man to a position where he could be directly sniped.

Outside the window, the sniper on the rooftop opposite immediately noticed this scene and reported it to the superior.

"Are you going to shoot?"

"No...waiting for instructions..."

Conan has already used Kudo Shinichi's voice to communicate with the Megure Police Department. The Megure Police Department then requested instructions and received permission, so the police now give priority to "Kudo Shinichi's" plan.

But before the words could be finished, the sniper on the roof saw a scene that surprised him, "Ah..."

In the detective agency, Xiaolan walked to the window expressionlessly and closed the curtains.

"You, what are you doing!" Zelixun pointed his gun at Xiaolan and said loudly, "Are you looking for death?"

"It's said to be very cold tonight. I just want to draw the curtains." Xiaolan pulled the curtains tightly to make sure there were no gaps left. "I'll stand back right now."

After saying that, she stood back obediently and made no other movements at all. Only then did Ze Lixun's tense nerves relax slightly.

He took out a signature pen from the drawer, then put it on the table and motioned for Sera Masumi to get it himself. Sera Zhenzhen silently took away the copy of Weibo and paper and pen and walked back.

"Have you figured it out?" Ze Lixun urged.

"I just got it, I haven't had time to look at it yet..."

Sera Masumi replied, and then started writing and drawing on the paper. Zeli Xun didn't expect her to be that much better than Detective Maori, so he still focused more on Kogoro Maori.

Seeing that he was not noticed, Sera Masumi finally couldn't help but said to Xiaolan: "What are you thinking about?"

Of course she deliberately led Ze Lixun there to create opportunities for the snipers outside, but it was destroyed.

"I just hate seeing people die in front of my eyes." Xiaolan replied coldly.

"Hate..." Sera Masumi was a little confused.

"And..." Xiaolan looked at Sera Masumi and said firmly, "Shinichi will not let anyone die! Absolutely!"

"..."

At this time, the doorbell suddenly rang.

…

A few minutes ago, on the other side.

After the Megure Police Department completed the communication with the commando team, Maplehara followed him towards the small building of the detective agency.

He had already put on Conan's coat, but in order to facilitate Haibara Ai's observation, he did not wear the tracking glasses, but left the tracking glasses to Haibara Ai.

Although this can easily arouse Xiaolan's suspicion, Bomb Man is obviously not so familiar... and he has other ways.

Haihara Ai's voice then came from the earphones, "5A."

Fengyuan was stunned for a moment, "Is that guy at the window?"

"Yes, it seems that the man named Seriang led that guy there...maybe Mr. Detective doesn't need to take action anymore?"

"SAT will not shoot. Conan has already told them..."

"Ah, you are really well prepared, wait a minute..." Haihara Ai said, and then was slightly stunned, "The curtains are closed!"

"Did he pull it up himself?"

"No," Haibara Ai quickly clicked on the frame of the tracking glasses, "it was Edogawa's girlfriend in the office who did it..."

After a pause, Haihara Ai continued, "I turned on the infrared function of the glasses... It should be fine just to tell you the guy's location... But I can't tell you what he is doing specifically..."

"It doesn't matter, that's enough..."

Feng came to the downstairs of the office.

The assault team originally surrounding the door nodded to the Megure Police Department and then quietly stepped aside, hiding aside with the Megure Police Department to avoid being noticed by the person who opened the door.

Fengyuan listened to the voice in the earphones, came to the door, gently pushed the door of the office, and then rang the doorbell.

He could hear the room go quiet for a moment.

"Ah, hey...it's so strange..."

Fengyuan raised his voice slightly and pretended to talk to himself, "Sister Xiaolan, are they already asleep?"

"Ke, Conan!"

Xiaolan, who had a serious face in the room, whispered in surprise and couldn't help showing a worried look.

Sera Masumi also put what just happened behind her and couldn't help but look at the door, especially the others.

"Conan?" Zawali Xun repeated, "Oh...that kid who has been following Detective Mouri all the time, right? I even forgot..."

After what happened before, Zelixun is obviously smarter.

Just like the previous phone call, if the child who lives here is not allowed in, it will obviously arouse suspicion——

"Hey, you!" Ze Lixun ordered in a low voice to Xiaolan, who had just caught his attention, "Go open the door and let him in... No tricks!"

"He's just a kid!"

"Don't worry..." Ze Lixun urged impatiently, "Just tell me who the murderer of my sister is... and you will be fine..."

"Sister Xiaolan, are you there?" The child outside the door rang the doorbell again, "I forgot something! Let me go in and get it!"

Even if he doesn't open the door, the three people next to him will listen to the bomb man's orders. Thinking like this, under the threat of gunpoint, Xiaolan walked over silently and unlocked the door.

Ze Lixun moved closer to the door. Although it was only a child, he still pointed his gun at the door. It wasn't until I saw that there was really only one child outside that I was relieved.

"Very good, keep an eye on this kid——"

Fengyuan took a step across to avoid Xiaolan.

Ze Lixun lost consciousness before he finished speaking.

Fengyuan didn't look at Xiaolan, who hadn't yet understood the situation. He stepped forward to support Ze Lixun and caught the detonator in his hand.

After reacting, Masumi Sera immediately came over to help support the bomb man, and then looked at "Conan" who was not wearing glasses with some surprise, and "Conan" turned back and said hello to the door.

The commando team and the Megure Police Department filed in.

Crisis resolved.

"Ke, Conan!"

Xiaolan finally came to her senses. Although the child didn't wear glasses and his shoes seemed to have been changed, he was wearing Conan's clothes.

Of course, the most important thing is that sentence...

So it should be Conan.

"This is too dangerous!" Xiaolan said worriedly.

"Brother Shinichi asked me to do this... He asked me to use this on that uncle as soon as I entered the door..." Feng Yuan threw half of the pot away unceremoniously.

"Oh...it's Kudo..."

Sera looked at Fengyuan with a pure smile, indicating something.

As soon as "Conan" entered the room, he confirmed the location of the bomb man. He suspected that he used the watch with the cover still unfolded and fired an anesthetic needle or something to kill the bomb man.

All this happened so fast that even she, a master of Jeet Kune Do, couldn't react...

This is not something that ordinary children can do...

You are indeed Kudo Shinichi...

"Shinichi is taking advantage of children again, it's true!"

Maplehara imitated Conan and pretended to be stupid, and then said as if he had just remembered something, "Ah, by the way, Shinichi-nii still has something else he wants me to do..."

"ah?"

The police had already taken the bomb man away. Fengyuan broke away from Xiaolan who was holding his shoulders, and walked to the table under Uncle Maori's thoughtful eyes.

Uncle Maori was thinking about the anesthetic needle.

That guy fell asleep just now...

However, it is said that when he "slept" at the crime scene, his posture was very cool, and it didn't look like he was sleeping at all. The bomb man was crooked and had no grace at all.

So I must not have been anesthetized...

Fengyuan picked up Xiaolan's cell phone.

"Ah, that's mine..." Xiaolan said, trying to get her phone back, and then she noticed that "Conan" turned on the external speaker.

"It's me, Kudo Shinichi."

Kudo Shinichi's voice came from the phone.

Everyone on the field was stunned for a moment.

Sera Masumi's expression, which was staring at Feng Yuan, suddenly changed.

"Xin, Xinyi!" Xiaolan said.

"I've learned about the situation from Conan," Conan said on the other end of the phone. "The bomb man's case has been solved, and next is Miss Weihong's case."

"Everything goes well, I'll hang up now."

While everyone's attention was on Xiaolan's phone, Fengyuan whispered something into his phone so that Haiyuan wouldn't worry, and then hung up the phone and picked up the three signed books on the table.

"Uncle! Please take a photo of these three books and send them to the doctor's computer." Fengyuan opened the book and handed it to Uncle Mouri. "Brother Shinichi needs to take a look, right, brother Shinichi?"

"That's right." Conan replied.

In fact, although he had some ideas, he was not sure enough and had no evidence. But this was what he had agreed with Fengyuan before, and now he had no choice but to hurry up and hope that Fengyuan could get effective clues.

Naturally, it was impossible for the three female novelists to propose leaving. After all, whoever proposed first would appear to be guilty, so Uncle Maori took a photo and sent it to them with the help of Feng Yuan.

Although he was very unhappy with the boy, he still had no idea after a few hours and didn't feel sleepy at all, so Uncle Maori decided to cooperate.

Conan understood immediately after receiving the photo.

That guy purposely took pictures like this...

You must have noticed it, but it’s really obvious...

"Xinyi!" Xiaolan connected her cell phone to the power supply, and then said to the other side, "Why don't you come over and tell me in person?"

"Xiaolan, wait a minute...I already know everything."

"Eh?"

"Then, let's get down to business from now on...the person who killed Zeli Weihong and then disguised her suicide...is among those three people!"

"I know this too, Kudo."

Sera Masumi, who had been looking at "Conan" with a complicated expression, finally came to his senses and withdrew his gaze, "The murderer is Ms. Mitsui who finally came to Miss Weihong's room, right?"

"What?" Ms. Guangjing was stunned for a moment.

"...No." Conan replied.

"Ah?" Sera Masumi was also stunned for a moment, "Isn't Miss Weihong's naming rules like this? Use colors, those colors named after animals..."

"That's right." Conan continued, "The color of the fox is the color of the bread baked at Ms. Yuchi's workplace...The elephant is ivory, which is the color of the seal carved by Mrs. Erbo's husband."

"Of course the mouse is mouse gray, the color of the stones in Ms. Mitsui's home stone shop..." Masumi Sera said, this is the information mentioned by Isao Sawakuri, "That's why I said the mouse refers to Ms. Mitsui..."

"Mrs. Mitsui, you ran in a hurry when you left the room. May I ask why?"

"Because I want to use the toilet!" Mrs. Guangjing replied, "When I went to Weihong's room, she deliberately targeted me and refused to let me use the toilet in her room..."

"C-could it be that..." Sera Masaki thought of something.

"That's right...it's not the mouse that stays in her room, but the fox that comes second. Mrs. Shinobu Yuchi, that's you!"

There were not many places to hide in the hot spring hotel room, so Conan guessed this, and it turned out to be true.

"What the hell is going on?" Xiaolan asked confused.

Sera Masumi, who had already understood, couldn't help but glance at "Conan" who was acting cute on the side, and then explained:

"Didn't Miss Weihong post on Weibo? The fox came to cause trouble and refused to leave. Just when the two sides were arguing, Mrs. Guangjing came...

So Mrs. Yuchi hid in the bathroom first so that she could deal with Mrs. Mitsui first! That's why Miss Weihong insists on not letting Mrs. Mitsui use the bathroom, is that right, Kudo? "

"That's right. Then, just as Mr. Xun said, Mrs. Yuchi killed Miss Weihong in the bathroom, disguised it as suicide, sent an email to Mr. Xun on her mobile phone, waited for him to break the window, and then entered through the broken window. Enter Mr. Xun's room along the balcony, sneak out along the door, and blend into the crowd watching the excitement at the door."

"But, but," Uncle Maoli said, "Isn't it possible that Mrs. Erping who passed by at the beginning has been hiding in the toilet?"

"Judging from Miss Weihong's Weibo, the person staying in her room and refusing to leave is most likely the second Mrs. Tangchi who came...and there is evidence that the culprit is Mrs. Tangchi."

"ah?"

"The photo of Ms. Weihong desperately trying to escape from the bathroom and grabbing the bathroom mat with her bloody hands. The two palm prints are very clear in the photo, but only the traces of her fingertips are left in front. This is She grabbed evidence of something, and what’s worth noting is the signed book of Miss Weihong that Mrs. Yunchi is holding.”

After a pause, Conan continued to reason.

"Depending on the printing method, the cutouts on the opened side of the book can be either smooth or rough. If it is the same first edition, it cannot be different. But only the cutouts on the pages signed by Mrs. Yuchi are very smooth. , that’s because Mrs. Tangchi smoothed the cuts on the pages with sandpaper—to eliminate the bloody fingerprints left in Miss Weihong’s hand before she died!”

Amid Conan's reasoning, Maplehara picked up Ms. Yuchi's signed book in cooperation, bent the book towards Uncle Mouri, and showed it to him.

There was a faint blood stain at the incision, which was in the shape of a fingertip.

Uncle Maoli took the book in surprise.

Why didn't he notice it before...

"This is unshakable evidence."

Conan continued, "If you buy another book and put a new cover on it, it can indeed cover up the blood stains on the surface, but the book is twisted when it is grabbed, and the blood stains that seep between the pages cannot be hidden."

"But why did the signed book appear on the bathroom mat?" Uncle Maori asked, looking up at the phone.

Conan and Fengyuan both had guesses, but it was obvious that they didn't need to speak because Mrs. Yuchi, who had been silent all this time, finally couldn't help but speak up and began to confess.

The book fell out when she was moving Miss Sawuri to the bathroom.

The reason why she didn't throw away the blood-stained signed book was because it contained the most famous story she wrote - there was a story in that book written by her.

Because of this book, Sawaguri became very popular, and after that, Sawaguri began to imitate Mrs. Yuchi’s style. As a result, when Mrs. Yuchi wanted to publish her own book, she was considered to be too close to Sawaguri’s style. He was even persuaded to be Zeli Weihong's ghostwriter.

After hoping Zeli Weihong came forward to clarify but failed, she became murderous.

The case is over.

Megure Police Department and Officer Takagi were still nearby. After receiving the news, they came and took Mrs. Yuchi away. Conan then hung up the phone.

Maple dug out a mystery novel he bought from Uncle Maori's bedroom where Conan lived, and then returned to the doctor's house.

Sera Masumi followed.

"I haven't thanked you yet!" Downstairs from the detective office, Sera Masumi squatted and held Feng Yuan in his arms, "Thanks to you, otherwise we wouldn't know what we would do!"

"Brother Shinichi is here, nothing will happen..." Fengyuan turned slightly sideways, a little helpless.

"...You're not Conan, right?"

Sera Masumi said suddenly, and Fengyuan was slightly stunned.

He didn't think about hiding his existence in front of Sera Masumi. After all, appearing with Conan would confuse the other party's judgment. But she probably isn't very familiar with herself and Conan yet...

"It seems that I guessed it right?" Sera Masumi let go of Feng Yuan, and then pulled the clothes on her chest, "Because when I held you just now, you were very careful to avoid my breasts! "

"..."

"I'm flat-chested, and Conan thought I was a boy!"

"But you're wearing a skirt now..."

"Then you should be surprised! But you are not at all. It seems that you have known that I am a woman for a long time..." Sera Masumi said, "I was surprised before. When Conan saw me, it was like meeting me for the first time. I'm the same... I just met him in London not long ago..."

"..."

"That's you in London, right?"