Conan: When I Be Gin's Brother

"Uh..." Conan's forehead was dripping with sweat. He didn't expect Kurosawa Rin to ask this suddenly.

I was so involved in solving the case that I forgot that I am a primary school student now. Was it because my words and actions just now were too abnormal...

Closing his mouth tightly, Conan calmed down. Fortunately, he had not encountered this kind of thing once or twice, and had already summed up countermeasures.

When you are indecisive, blame yourself.

As usual, he put on a childlike expression and looked at everyone innocently.

"I don't know anything~ Brother Shinichi told me this!"

"Xinyi?" Xiaolan was relieved.

"...This does seem like something that guy Shinichi would do, but...does that reasoning madman even tell an elementary school student such a thing?"

"He told Conan some nonsense..." Xiaolan said helplessly, covering her head.

"Okay, this can be considered as enriching this kid's knowledge reserve."

"Right, Conan?" Hattori rubbed Conan's head vigorously and slapped him casually, trying to get rid of the matter.

Rin Kurosawa also knew when it was time to stop, and after seeing that Conan was troubled for a while, he stopped pestering him.

"But could the three people killed by Numabuchi Kiichiro have anything to do with this case?"

Kurosawa Rin flipped through the documents and began to guide the question in the direction he wanted.

"After Numa Yuan escaped, he was attacked on the rooftop. Could it be that the person who attacked him had nothing to do with the previous case, but was the relatives and friends of the people who died in Numa Yuan. They did this in order to retaliate against Numa Yuan."

ah?"

"It is indeed a possibility."

Hattori thought for a while, and realized that Kurosawa Rin's analysis was a possibility. He nodded and turned to leave.

"Well, just to be on the safe side, I'm going to ask Officer Otaki to retrieve Numabuchi's case files."

Hattori left, Kurosawa Rin looked at his back and sighed in his heart.

It’s really convenient to have a tool like Officer Otaki. You can basically read the police’s case information and so on.

It's different when the Osaka Police Chief becomes a father.

…

After getting the information about Numabuchi's previous case from Officer Otaki, Hattori rushed back and entered the house shaking the documents in his hand.

"I just took a look. Kurosawa, your guess just now seems wrong."

Hattori handed the document to Kurosawa Rin. Under Hattori's eyes, Kurosawa Rin opened the document, and Conan hurriedly stepped forward.

"I want to watch it together too!"

He shouted in a cute childish voice, lay on Kurosawa Rin's shoulder, and looked at the information in Kurosawa Rin's hand very seriously.

Soon, Conan came to the same conclusion as Hattori.

This case does not seem to have much to do with the fact that Numabuchi killed three relatives.

The place where Numabuchi committed the murder was in Kanto. He is now in Osaka and disappeared for several years after being wanted. Even if those people wanted to take revenge on Numabuchi, it would be difficult to find Numabuchi's location without police channels.

"But why did Kiichiro Numabuchi kill these three people? They obviously have no relationship with each other, and they don't know each other..."

Conan frowned.

Kurosawa Rin was still reading the information carefully. Of course, Conan didn't know that he was pretending to be in a daze. He leaned on Kurosawa Rin's shoulder and poked his head to look again.

The information contains detailed records of what was found at the scene when Numa Yuan killed several people.

The location of the victim, the footprints left by Numa Yuan, the time between the crimes, the location connection, and the murder weapon found near the last crime scene and randomly discarded by Numa Yuan in panic.

The files are very messy, but also very detailed. From important things to useless points, everything is recorded.

Among them is one thing: the victim's clothing.

Dress?

His eyes that had been wandering back and forth over the documents paused.

As if he had discovered something, Conan's eyes immediately returned to the beginning of the document and looked again at the few points that he originally didn't care much about.

"When Shan Yongren, thirty-one years old, was returning home wearing a long black raincoat, he was stabbed in the abdomen by Numa Yuan who suddenly turned around in front of him. He was stabbed twelve times in a row. He died after being unable to save him..."

"Nakawa Yusuke, 23 years old, was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and a black windproof jacket. When he turned the corner, his throat was suddenly cut by Numabuchi who was ambushing here, and he died on the spot..."

"Masa Murotani, wearing a black windbreaker and carrying a guitar bag..."

Wait a moment!

Black raincoats, black sweatshirts and hoodies, and black windbreakers... They were all wearing black clothes.

In my impression, the two people who drank drugs, claiming to be gin and vodka, were also dressed in black.

The same goes for the "red face" who "kidnapped" him and was suspected of being an undercover agent of the organization. Apart from the red mask and red gloves on his face and hands, he was also wearing black.

Moreover, on the piece of paper he left behind, he also specifically reminded himself:

Be careful with black.

"black……"

Conan muttered this word quietly.

The symbol of that mysterious organization is black, and the members of the organization basically wear black clothes.

Does Numabuchi Kiichiro have some kind of relationship with the black organization?!

There were some terrible guesses. Conan's expression was solemn, and he pushed back to look at the doubtful points in front of him.

Under the premise that Numabuchi Kiichiro is a member of the organization, everything seems to be explained.

Why did Numabuchi Kiichiro suddenly disappear for several years?

It's because Ma Yuan joined the organization, and that mysterious organization imprisoned Ma Yuan or concealed his whereabouts.

Why did Ma Yuan kill three unrelated people when he appeared again?

It was because he escaped from the organization and saw several people wearing black clothes. He mistakenly thought they were people from the organization chasing him and killed them.

…

After sorting out the Numa Yuan murder case, the three cases that happened yesterday, their answers also came to light along with the investigation of the Numa Yuan murder case.

Numabuchi had been found by the organization before Officer Sakata was shot and killed.

They learned about Officer Sakata from Numabuchi's mouth, and thinking of Officer Sakata's identity as a police officer, they thought that Numabuchi was likely to tell the police about the organization's information.

In order to silence him, they shot Sakata dead.

After shooting Sakata, they tortured Numabuchi to the point of death and threw him on the rooftop of the building, letting him endure the pain and slowly die...until they and Hattori discovered it.

As for why Officer Sakata imprisoned Numabuchi Kiichiro?

Maybe he wanted to make Numabuchi, a wanted criminal, his scapegoat?

Unfortunately, he didn't expect that behind the "scapegoat" of Maoyuan, there were cold and terrifying wolves.

…………

My thoughts are racing and my mind is wandering wildly.

The truth of the matter should be like this. Conan thought he had everything straightened out, but unfortunately he didn't have any evidence to prove it.

At this point in this incident, it is no longer possible to continue the investigation.

Conan was a little depressed.

Although he is unwilling to do so, he is not yet capable of facing that mysterious and terrifying organization.