Conan's other self

With a lot of money in his pocket, Fengyuan directly called a taxi and rushed towards his destination, quickly arriving near the signal.

It was a very ordinary apartment building.

He was just a child and would not attract anyone's attention, but Fengyuan still observed carefully before walking upstairs.

Arriving at the location indicated by the transmitter, Fengyuan knocked on the door.

There was only one person in the room.

It is Ms. Masami Hirota.

Seeing "Conan", Hirota Masami was very surprised: "Conan! How did you find it?"

At this moment, Hirota Masami is completely dressed in professional attire, with her hair untied and not wearing glasses.

She also took off the rustic makeup she wore last night, and now she looks more mature and attractive.

"You left your address yesterday," Fengyuan squeezed into the room and said, "Did Sister Yami forget it?"

Masami Hirota was just a kid from the Maori detective family and was not wary. She stepped aside to let Fengyuan go in, and then closed the door.

However, she was still a little confused.

She remembered that she didn't leave her address, just her phone number, but after hearing what "Conan" said, she wasn't sure if she did.

"Sorry, Conan, sister, there is no juice here, so I have to give you this drink," Masami Hirota poured a glass of water and handed it to "Conan" who was sitting on the sofa, and said, "Conan came to see sister, what can I do for you? Yes? Didn’t Mr. Detective already find my father?”

If Kenzo Hirota was found, he should have called me to notify me... There is no need for a child to come so far to notify me...

Feng Yuan shook his head.

"Uncle has some questions that he would like me to come over and ask sister Masami," Fengyuan said, "Is that okay?"

"Of course." Hirota Masami said, "As long as I can find my father as soon as possible, I can ask anything."

Judging from Masami Hirota's performance last night, her acting skills are quite good, but it seems that it needs a period of brewing. Although she is trying to show her anxiety and helplessness now, the effect is much different from last night.

But...his acting skills are just like that, Kaedehara thought.

Masami Hirota poured herself a glass of water, sat down opposite "Conan", and waited patiently for "Conan" to speak.

Then she saw "Conan" showing an embarrassed expression and said to her: "Oops! I seem to have forgotten what I wanted to ask! Sister Yami, can you let me call my uncle first?"

What a cute little kid...

Hirota Masami nodded and said: "Oh... okay, the phone is -"

She stopped before she finished speaking because she noticed that the child opposite took out her mobile phone.

She had forgotten that the child was holding a mobile phone yesterday... Such a young child has a mobile phone, probably because he is often ordered around by Maori detectives...

Hirota Masami sat quietly, listening to "Conan" ask what he wanted to say on the phone. Then the kid just kept listening, seeming to be trying to remember what was being said on the other side of the phone...

Hirota Masami couldn't help but look at the child in front of her... There is no doubt that this is a very cute primary school student.

When I and my sister could still be together relatively freely...my sister was about the same age.

She couldn't help but fall into the beautiful memories of the past, but her mood dropped a little bit.

"Conan" put down the phone, Hirota Masami braced herself and prepared to deal with Detective Mori's questions.

"Sister Masami," Maplehara took off his glasses, "Then let me start asking, okay?"

After taking off my glasses, I feel like a different person...

Hirota Masami, who didn't think much and didn't want to be suspected by Detective Mori, concentrated her mind and couldn't help but feel a little nervous. Then she heard "Conan" say:

"Sister Masami, you are not Hirota Kenzo's daughter, are you?"

Hirota Masami's brain went blank for a moment, and then he reacted: "How could it be? Conan, why do you think so?"

"Because Sister Yami, you don't look like a high school student now."

"I'm studying in college," Masami Hirota said hurriedly, "at Yamagata University."

"Then why do you dress up like that to see the detective uncle?"

"last night…"

"Sister Masami, you already explained it last night." Fengyuan interrupted, "However, for a college student to entrust a detective to find his father, there is no need to dress up in a different way, right? College students look more mature. Nothing strange."

"So, maybe you are not Hirota Kenzo's daughter, and you have another reason for looking for him." Masami Hirota listened blankly to the child in front of her. "Of course, this is just a guess. What follows is The key point - we called and asked about the taxi company you mentioned, the taxi company where Kenzo Hirota once worked."

"They said Kenzo Hirota has resigned. They also said," Maplehara paused, "Kenzo Hirota didn't work seriously when he was in office. He didn't take passengers in the evening every day. Instead, he drove a taxi around Driving back and forth on a route, and at a pretty fast pace..."

"He likes drag racing? But he only runs back and forth on a repetitive route. He likes the scenery there? But he drives very fast. So, I thought, he might just be familiar with that route."

Hirota Masami glanced at "Conan" with a complicated expression.

"Do you know which line it is, Sister Yami?"

Hirota Masami said nothing.

"I know!" Fengyuan continued, "Someone on the other side of the phone told me patiently. Because Hirota Kenzo ran like this every day during that time, many people remember it very clearly..."

Maplehara took out a neatly folded newspaper from his clothes, put it on the table, and then slowly opened it to Hirota Masami.

Billion Dollar Robbery.

The case was reported on the front page of the newspaper.

Hirota Masami still didn't say a word, just stared at the newspaper.

There was a picture of three robbers wearing balaclavas in the newspaper.

That was captured on surveillance video.

"What's interesting is that that route is exactly the same as the escape route of these robbers."

"Sister Masami," Maplehara paused and said softly, "Do you think it's possible, Kenzo Hirota?" He pointed at a robber in the picture, who was about the same size as Kenzo Hirota, "That's it. Where is your uncle?"

There was a brief silence.

The air seemed to be stagnant, making Hirota Masami breathless.

After a while, she seemed to wake up suddenly, gasping for air like a fish in the shallows, and then said in a confused and lost tone: "No wonder there has been no news about dad... It turned out that he did such a thing..."

Even Hirota Masami herself felt that her struggle at the moment was a bit ridiculous.

The child expresses doubts about his identity from the beginning.

but…

This is her last chance.

This was the last straw for her drowning.

If Detective Mori had called the police... If Kenzo Hirota had been caught by the police... If she hadn't been able to get the money... If she hadn't been able to meet Gin as planned...

Then she, and her sister...

Tears fell on her watch.

The slight ticking sound suddenly woke her up again, but it also made it difficult for her to suppress her emotions.

She just looked at the child in front of her helplessly while shedding tears, hoping that he would say something like "Yes, sister Yami, your father is a robber."

I beg you.

Really please.

But the child opposite just lowered his eyes, leaned slightly, stretched out his finger to point to the person in the middle of the picture in the newspaper, and said in a completely different tone from before, which sounded very plain to Masami Hirota:

"This is you, Miss Yami."