Conan’s Corpse Picker

late at night. Seeing the people rushing into the hotel and hearing the news that they called the police, Toru Amuro felt the increasingly chaotic scene and had mixed emotions.

… He’s been fishing for a week. But now, for Bourbon who is doing a task for the organization, this is actually not a good time for the police to get involved.

However, if the police are confused enough...

Tohru Amuro thought of the police officer named Yamamura Cao in Gunma County.

If this kind of person can act like this, then other police officers in this county may also be half-hearted.

…

Although this maple leaf forest is located in a mountainous area, it is not far from the city.

The police arrived shortly after.

Toru Amuro was observing secretly when he suddenly saw a few people he knew walking over from the hall.

——Although it is already late at night, Mouri Kogoro was trapped in the car during the storm last night, and his work and rest were reversed, and he has not yet recovered. He, his daughter and Conan were preparing to take a rest just now, but none of them could fall asleep due to various reasons.

Now the squeaking sound of the police car came from the window. The three people's ears twitched, and they put on their clothes and ran down. Next door, "Belmod" disguised as Suzuki Sonoko also opened his eyes alertly and went down to the hall.

In an instant, the place was occupied by Jiang Xia's acquaintances.

Toru Amuro: "..."

However, on second thought, what does Jiang Xia's acquaintance have to do with him?

The isolation observation is over, it’s just some people I know...

Amuro Toru took a leisurely sip of coffee. The mission of observing Jiangxia is coming to an end, and the free air is so beautiful.

…

As a detective and former detective, Mouri Kogoro always wants to get involved when he encounters a case. And now, there happens to be a junior next to him who is good at solving crimes.

In Mouri Kogoro's view, Jiang Xia must look more reliable than these sleepy-eyed local policemen, and Jiang Xia should also be planning to go up the mountain to take a look. This is the curiosity of all detectives.

When he turned around, he found Jiang Xia with her back to him, sitting on a wicker chair in the corner of the hall, with no intention of getting up.

"Suzuki Sonoko"'s eyes have already fallen there.

Curiously, she walked around to take a look at Jiang Xia's front, and found that the young detective had his eyes closed, as if he was asleep, so she made a silent gesture to Mouri Kogoro, who was about to shout, "Jiang Xia, let's go!" At the same time, he sighed inwardly. Jiang Xia was probably really tired. These days, he had spent too much unnecessary energy on plotting against Bourbon...well, on responding to Bourbon's provocations.

While thinking about it, she glanced to the side, and then frowned.

Bourbon himself looked radiant and seemed to be sleeping well. Oh, this intelligence agent seems to work in various places, which must also include places open at night such as bars and clubs. Judging from the way Bourbon dragged Jiang Xia to wait in the hall just now, he probably wanted to consume Jiang Xia's energy in his area of ​​staying up late, which he is good at?

...a rough, insidious, but unexpectedly useful strategy.

Tohru Amuro didn't notice the murderous and condemning look in Bermod's eyes.

At this time, he was also looking at Jiang Xia, wondering in his heart - Jiang Xia had a good rest along the way. When he was driving, Jiang Xia was catching up on sleep in the passenger seat. Why did he fall asleep after staying up so late at night? ... Could it be that I have slept too much these past few days, so I am used to sleeping for a long time?

Toru Amuro looked at Jiang Xia, who was sleeping peacefully on the chair, and then thought about the days when he couldn't sleep a few days ago. He felt complicated for a moment, and coldly walked over to shake the person awake.

...It's not that he was quarreling with the child, but in front of Belmod, Bourbon would not considerately let Jiang Xia abandon the mission and continue to sleep because "the subordinates were sleeping".

It's not okay to indulge peripheral members like this. Bourbon is not that kind of person...

…

at the same time.

Thousands of meters away, in a dark maple forest.

Jiang Xia, who was driving Matsuda's puppet, increased the intensity of the whipping and used three times the speed to remove all the murderous energy from the last source of murderous energy.

Then he threw away the belt he had seized, walked to a corner where no one was watching, scattered the puppet, and returned his consciousness to his true body.

As early as when the alarm sounded in the hotel, the ghost staying next to the main body told him the relevant news.

It's just that the distance between the two sides is a bit far, so there will be a slight delay in the transmission of this kind of message. In addition, he had already begun to smoke, and it would be as uncomfortable as peeling half of an orange before leaving without draining out the murderous intent, so he delayed for a little longer.

Fortunately, he did stay up late today, so it is normal for his reaction to be slower...

Ten seconds later.

In the Chishu Hotel, Jiang Xia opened her eyes and looked around.

A group of people saw him "waking up" and briefly told him the current situation in the hotel and the fact that a camper had found the body. Indeed, no one was suspicious of the situation just now. After all, no one would believe it if someone slept with someone lying in front of them and was actually knocking someone in the mountains.

Jiang Xia showed the expected expression of surprise and curiosity about the scene, and nodded to indicate that he understood.

Then he mixed with them and went up the mountain with a few gossips.

There was a murder suddenly happening around, how could the detective not go and take a look. Even though he is already familiar with that mountain, he is very familiar with it...

…

Once again, we came to the shooting location, where red handkerchiefs and maple leaves were floating all over the forest.

The former assistant director of "Winter Maple Red", the man who asked them to help leave a message on the hotel guestbook, has now turned into a corpse.

He lay motionless at the foot of a tree next to police who were setting up lights.

As Jiang Xia approached, she found a handbook lying quietly among the dead leaves on the ground, half buried by the leaves rolling in the wind.

The notebook is dark and inconspicuous at night.

He remembered that he and Tohru Amuro had just peeped on the mountain and saw the deceased holding a notebook before he died. He bent down and picked up the notebook.

From the spoilers all the way to now, Jiang Xia has become very skilled at finding various clues at the crime scene and collecting them easily. In order to avoid the embarrassing situation of "difficult to explain the source of key information" when solving the case - he could not say "Conan told me" like Kudo Shinichi. Conan is Kudo Shinichi's vest, and it is all red. good friend. Not him. He couldn't say "Uzo told me so", otherwise anonymous police would probably block the venue soon and try to find his precious vest...

In short, it seems that the notebook that the deceased last touched is undoubtedly a note before his death, and it is also an important check-in point.

This is a special schedule book with dates printed in advance.

Cut into the loosest part and flip it open, and you will see a bloody fingerprint on the place "April 1st", which must have been the last scratch of the deceased.