Conan's Science Manga Artist Kudo Yuuji

"Go up the mountain from here and you will find the shrine."

Standing at the entrance of the mountain, Hattori Heiji pointed at the scattered torii gates from the bottom up and asked the three people next to him to pay attention.

"Sure enough, the third, sixth and ninth are wider than the other shrines."

Facing the speechless expressions of the other three, Kuroba Kaito said in Aoko's voice quite skillfully: "Hurry up, hurry up, there must be clues next to those torii gates."

"Hurry up, hurry up..." Yuji imitated it in a somewhat artificial way: "If Sister Aoko knew that you dressed up as her to pick up girls, I'm afraid Mr. Kuroba would never be able to return home in this life."

"Hey, I warn you, don't tell Aoko!" Kaito immediately raised his hand and pointed at Yuji, his eyes full of murderous intent.

"Is it reasonable for you to threaten me, Kaito?"

Yuji waved his hand in front of the magician: "Are you too full?"

"Ahem, don't tell Aoko anyway..." Kuroba Kaito rarely weakened his momentum: "Also, Officer Nakamori and the others are all at the shrine. The fox-eyed shrine maiden recognized that I was in disguise, so I lied to her that my name was Kudo."

"Why Kudo?" Conan rolled his eyes: "Our family's name is very cheap for thieves to call us, okay? What, is your Kuroba not presentable?"

[You are really poisonous, great detective. 】

Kuroba Kaito tossed his long hair and stepped onto the stairs, heading towards the torii gate on the first platform. Looking at Yuji and Conan who followed, Hattori Heiji suddenly remembered the new ring on Xiaolan's hand and realized that the Kudo brothers next to him were almost out of sight.

"Hey, Hattori, what are you doing? I can hardly see you."

Because of the steps and the greenery on both sides, Conan could only see Hattori's hat if he didn't stretch his neck, so he urged him to come up quickly.

[I came to Hakodate to confess my love...]

Walking slowly, Hattori Heiji remembered that he ran around Hakodate a few days ago just to find a place that was most suitable for confession, but now...

Why did he make so many preparations, but Kudo took the lead? Confessing at the place where Kudo Shinichi proposed to marry him, what kind of thing is this? The lost Osaka people sighed under the gaze of the Kudo brothers.

"What's wrong? You look so unlucky."

Conan, who was trapped in the happiness trap, pushed Hattori, who was indecisive, and asked him to observe the torii with the three of them.

"Different widths mean that the stone foundations under the pillars on both sides should extend further, right?"

Kuroba Kaito knocked on the torii first, confirmed that they were all classic old wood, squatted down with his skirt covered, and while stroking his hair, he slowly cleared the weeds next to the stone foundation with his right hand.

"Sure enough, there is something engraved on the stone base." Kuroba Kaito hurriedly called the three people to come and see, pointing to the straight line in the south of the eight-direction diagram. "The first one is the south." "So the two platforms above should also have similar directions. The key is where to use it." Yuji pinched his chin: "There are also three stone slabs in front." "I have an idea, is it really the front?" Conan suddenly raised his hand and asked: "Just like Yuji did so many bad things to get the code paper, the first step to crack the code is to get here, then the eight-direction diagram should be the first one." "That makes sense. The eight-direction diagram is a riddle in the shrine. The full star and the moon are hints that you must go to Goryokaku on a clear night." Hattori Heiji shook his head and decided to solve this matter first, and then think about confession. "Anyway, going up and figuring out the other three torii is what we have to do now." (End of this chapter)