Conan: When I Be Gin's Brother

"kid?"

Looking at the strange boy in front of him, Director Ochiai called out again.

"ah!"

Conan came back to his senses and suddenly found that the people around him were looking at him strangely. He scratched his head in embarrassment and ran out again pretending to be a child in need of urination.

"I, I'm going to the bathroom!"

Leaving the scene quickly, Conan avoided everyone's sight and walked slowly in the corridor outside the Hell Hall.

Why can that pen still write?

In this case, wouldn’t there be no evidence at all?!

Conan bit his finger and returned to the Hell Hall after the time was up. But at this time, only Kurosawa Rin, Maori Ran and others were left in the Hell Hall waiting for him.

An unpleasant feeling came to his mind. Conan grabbed Xiaolan, raised his head and asked.

"Sister Xiaolan, where are Officer Memu and the others?"

Xiaolan lowered her head, "Officer Mumu and dad escorted the prisoner back?"

"gone back?!"

Conan was stunned and ran out the door.

At this time, Megure and Mouri Kogoro just got into the police car and drove away from the art museum. Conan rushed outside and ate a lot of exhaust fumes.

"Ahem!"

Ke coughed twice, looking at the car lights disappearing in the distance, Conan became annoyed.

hateful!

Obviously we haven’t figured out the real culprit yet!

He sighed helplessly and had to go back to meet Kurosawa Rin and Mori. Miyano Akemi, who had been hiding in the crowd, also appeared again, holding the car key in her hand, waiting for Conan to come back and take him and Xiaolan home.

"Conan, where did you go again? Everyone is waiting for you!" Xiaolan was a little angry. Conan, this kid, has been alone for more than a day or two!

"Sorry, Sister Xiaolan." Conan showed a forced smile and looked again at Director Ochiai, who was standing in front of Tianpu and admiring it alone.

"Conan!"

Xiaolan shouted again, and Conan came back from his daze.

"Really, Conan, what happened to you today?" Xiaolan pouted, dissatisfied.

"Hurry back, we have already delayed Sister Mingmei and Rin too much time!"

Being forcibly dragged away by Xiaolan, Conan could only temporarily put aside his doubts about the case and follow Xiaolan out of the art museum.

"Well, Director Ochiai!"

"We'll leave now, see you soon!"

Before leaving the Hell Hall, Kurosawa Rin suddenly said goodbye to Director Ochiai in front of Tianpu.

Director Ochiai seemed not to have heard, and did not respond to Kurosawa Rin's farewell. He still turned his back to everyone, admiring the divine punishment in front of him thoughtfully.

Kurosawa Rin didn't pay attention, but the corners of his mouth curled up even more.

Conan glanced back with some concern and saw Rin Kurosawa smiling strangely.

After being stunned for a while, he quickly turned around, with many beads of sweat already appearing on his forehead.

Everyone went home safely.

On the third day after the museum incident.

The art museum announced it was closed for rectification, and except for Director Ochiai, there were no other staff members on that day.

Director Ochiai stood alone in front of the Heavenly Punishment. Compared to that day, there was already a hint of relief in his eyes.

As afternoon approached, there was one more person in the Hell Hall.

Curator Ochiai turned around as expected and looked at the boy who still had a childish smile in front of him.

"Kurosawa Rin."

"Um."

Kurosawa Rin responded with a somewhat happy voice.

He looked up at the huge Heavenly Punishment in front of him, stared at the knight inside and smiled with a slight irony:

"Grandpa Curator is not as stupid as the knight in the painting!"

"Obviously, there is armor to block the blood. Just throw away the armor and let it bear the contamination of the devil."

"Just be careful not to get blood on it when taking off the armor."

"The brave man inside the armor can still escape unscathed!"

Kurosawa Rin's face was filled with a childlike smile, but his meaningful words made Director Ochiai unable to smile.

That day, after he killed Manaka's boss, he cleaned up the traces, put on a clean suit and patrolled the art gallery.

During his inspection, he met Kurosawa Rin who was alone with a blank sheet of paper.

At that time, Kurosawa Rin kept the same smile and ran to him, "Can you lend me a pen?"

He forgot.

Without thinking much, I took out the oil-free ballpoint pen that Mr. Zhenzhong’s boss had used.

The boy in front of him seemed to have known for a long time that this pen could not write, so he took the pen apart and replaced it with a new refill without even trying it.

After reassembling the pen, he lowered his head and wrote a few paragraphs on the blank paper, folded it and handed it to himself.

"You can open it in a minute and look at it!"

The young man said.

The whole process was so fast that he didn't even realize there was any problem.

When he suddenly recalled the problem with the pen, Kurosawa Rin had already left. Confused, he could only open the note that Kurosawa Rin gave him.

It says:

No one would be in the mood to take back the refill before dying, right? Director Ochiai is about to successfully protect the museum?

Can you meet me in three days?

Enter Kurosawa Rin.

Recalling the contents of the letter, Director Ochiai felt a little wary of the young boy in front of him.

He turned to face Kurosawa Rin, without making any comment on what he just said, but frowned and asked.

"Why did you help me, and how did you know that I was the one who really killed Boss Manaka?"

"Ala."

Kurosawa Rin smiled with interest and said, "Grandpa Curator, you can take a guess. Maybe you can guess the reason."

Director Ochiai didn't answer and said to himself.

"Is it because of the dagger?"

"No, it must be because of that dagger!" His tone became more certain, and Director Ochiai continued.

"You help me cover up the evidence of the crime. In exchange, you want to get the dagger through me, right?"

The corners of Kurosawa Rin's mouth turned up, "Isn't this very clear?"

"Then, where is the dagger?"

Rin Kurosawa looked back and forth in the Hell Hall like a child about to get a long-awaited toy.

Director Ochiai was a little puzzled, "Why does it have to be like this? When boss Manaka sells this dagger, he will definitely find it in the future."

"Can't you buy it when the time comes? Do you have to help a murderer like me cover up the evidence in exchange for getting the dagger?"

"Why must it be that dagger?"

Kurosawa Rin's expression became paranoid, "It must be it! It must be that dagger, and it must be obtained before him..."

"Otherwise, there may never be a chance to get it again..."

"I will also be affected by it..."

Kurosawa Rin was stunned and realized that he had some abnormal emotions just now. He quickly calmed down and put on a smile again.

"So, Grandpa Director? Can you hand that dagger over to me now?" He put his hands behind his back and looked at Director Ochiai as if asking for pocket money from an elder.

Director Ochiai shook his head and looked at the surrounding collections. He walked through them one by one, gently stroking each piece of art with his white-gloved hand like a child, and finally stopped at an empty space.

In front of the showcase.

There is the display case where "The Night Banquet" was originally located.

"I have been dealing with one thing for the past three days."

"That is to redeem these children who were mortgaged by Boss Zhenzhong one by one."

"But only the night banquet, I didn't redeem it."

Kurosawa Rin's smiling face froze, and there was an inexplicable light in his eyes as he looked at Director Ochiai.

"Eh~"

"why?"

"Director Ochiai?"

Kurosawa Rin tilted his head, blinked his doubtful eyes like a child and asked in confusion:

"Why do you do this? Aren't you worried that I will reveal all the evidence of your crime?"

Director Ochiai looked at Rin Kurosawa aside and laughed unexpectedly.

"You can expose my crime at any time. I have already planned to surrender tonight."

Kurosawa Rin's eyebrows twitched, and Director Ochiai continued.

"Killing Boss Manaka is because he has desecrated this sacred art museum, which is an unforgivable crime! Framing Kubota is also a punishment for his reselling of art works."

"But the punishment is enough." Director Ochiai raised his head, let out a long sigh, and looked back at Kurosawa Rin as if relieved.

"I have already arranged everything in the art museum, and I should pay the due price for what I have done."

"Just like you said before."

"If you take off the armor, you can avoid the curse, but taking it off also means giving up the glory and identity of the brave, and giving up everything you once had."

"It's an inner torture!"

"It's also unbearable!"

Director Ochiai once again looked at the huge oil painting in the center of the room - Heavenly Punishment.

Maybe at this moment, he truly understood the true meaning of this painting.