Ke Xue: Shinichi and I are childhood friends

Yuya couldn't remember the origin of the human skull. It was impossible for the two of them to guess it out of thin air. They could only hand it over to the police for investigation afterwards.

"Now, the only one left is the murderer." Yuya put his hands in his pockets and looked at the direction of the hotel with deep eyes.

Conan nodded slightly and also looked at the direction of the hotel. His movements and expressions were exactly the same as Yuya's.

"What do you mean? Just catch him? I am confident that he can lose his ability to move within 1 second." Yuya said.

Conan's mouth twitched slightly: "Please, we are detectives, okay? Don't always think about fighting and killing."

"Hmm?" Yuya raised his eyebrows, "Do you want me to tell Xiaolan this sentence?"

Conan: ? ? ? Can you be a human being?

You are not my childhood friend at all. I committed a sin in my previous life and you are here to collect the debt, right?

Conan glared at Yuya with empty eyes, took out his cell phone and called Ran Maori: "Hello, Ran, are you still in the hotel?"

"The three of us are here, where did you and Yuya go?" Ran Maori asked on the phone.

Conan replied: "Yuya and I have investigated some things. Where are the three people?"

Ran Maori replied: "They are here too. But Officer Yamamura said it's too late today, and there is no evidence or clues. He plans to temporarily end today's investigation and let them go to the police station to inquire about the situation another day."

"Is that so... Is Sonoko nearby? Let her answer the phone." Ran Maori was a little confused, but still handed the phone to Ran Maori as he said.

"Little brat?" Suzuki Sonoko took the phone, "What's the matter? Ah? Of course I remember, it's the tree where I thought the handkerchief was hung this morning?"

"Indeed, that tree is quite far away from the rock in the last scene of the play. It takes about ten minutes to walk. What's the matter, why do you suddenly mention that tree?"

"What? That tree may also appear in the play? How is it possible? The red handkerchief on the tree is just hung by fans. The only maple tree that appears in the play is the maple tree next to the rock. Little brat, have you seen that play?"

"I'm telling you..."

Seeing that Suzuki Sonoko was about to start a long speech, Conan spoke quickly: "That's right, maybe I made a mistake, thank you Sister Sonoko." After that, he hung up the phone directly.

Suzuki Sonoko listened to the busy tone on her phone and looked at Mao Lilan blankly: "That little brat, dared to hang up on me?"

Mauri Ran laughed dryly: "Well, kid..."

If it was Conan, she might be surprised, but if that person was Shinichi... then there would be nothing strange.

And Suzuki Sonoko's voice was not concealed at all. Xiao Hei, who was hiding in the shadows, heard it clearly and immediately showed a sinister smile.

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After a while

A black shadow, that is, Xiao Hei, walked quickly in the maple forest and came to the tree where the bones were buried.

He quickly dug on the ground for a while and soon found the human skull. He couldn't help but laughed "hehe".

"I thought you would be happier, after all, it's a long-awaited reunion, right?" Suddenly, a voice sounded in the darkness.

Xiao Hei was startled. Just as he turned his head to see who was talking, he was stabbed in the eyes by a light.

As the light shone, Xiao Hei's true face was revealed - he was the old man wearing glasses and squinting his eyes, Tatsuzo Matsunoki.

Tatsuzo Matsunoki squinted his eyes and looked up at Conan sitting on the branch. The light of the flashlight seemed to be emitted from the watch?

Conan glanced at the red handkerchief that happened to be next to him, and said slowly: "Although I don't know who this skeleton is, you should have buried it here after killing it, and then tied this red handkerchief as a mark, so that you can move the body away at any time in case of an emergency."

Yuya walked out from behind the tree with his hands in his pockets: "The reason why I used a red handkerchief is to make it less conspicuous among the maple leaves."

"But you didn't expect that this maple forest and the red handkerchief became popular unexpectedly because of a TV series, causing the maple trees here to be hung with red handkerchiefs, causing you to completely lose track of which maple tree was the original one."

"In order to prevent the body from being accidentally discovered, you deliberately got acquainted with the crew member HOZUMI and paid him to find the tree."

"And he did find the tree, so you met him at the agreed rock, but he didn't expect him to find the skeleton buried under the tree, perhaps using it to threaten you, but didn't want to be killed by you."

"And the reason why you acted so decisively was that you thought that since he found the skeleton, the soil in the dug place would definitely be different from other places, butI didn't expect that the tree was not near the rock at all."

Yuya spoke very fast, not giving Conan a chance to interrupt, and directly told him the story of the case.

Conan opened his mouth but couldn't make a sound. Who knows how frustrated he was when his lines were taken away?

Tatsuzo Cottonuki listened to Yuya's words in silence, chuckled and stood up: "Boy, I admit that you are a little smart, so what would you do if I didn't come tonight?"

Yuya smiled slightly: "It's very simple. At that time, it won't be you who comes here, but I will bring the police to find you."

"After all, Mr. Hozumi's notebook clearly states that you are the murderer."

Tatsuzo Cottonuki was surprised: "How is it possible? There is only one date marked in his notebook. How could you know it was me? "There was no point for Tatsuzo Cottonuki to defend himself, and he admitted it openly.

Yuya smiled faintly: "It's very simple, because April 1st does not refer to a date, but a surname. April 1st comes from 'April is an important season for cotton harvesting', pronounced as わたぬき (watanuki), which is the cotton of your surname."

"By the way, Hozumi's surname is August 1st, which comes from the farming activity of newly emerging rice ears. The Chinese characters are written as 穗積, but there are many ways to read it, so Mr. Hozumi will deliberately write his name in katakana ほずみ to prevent others from reading it wrong."

Tatsuzo Cottonuki smiled, and the wrinkles on his face were squeezed together. He clapped his hands and said, "Not bad, not bad, your reasoning is very interesting. It seems that you are not an ordinary boy. Who are you?"

Yuya put his hands in his pockets and smiled faintly: "Kamiya Yuya, a detective. "

"I'm Edogawa Conan, and I'm also a detective!" Conan quickly took over the conversation to avoid Yuya being the only one to act.

"Detective..." Tamakuni Tatsuzo slightly raised his head, his eyes that had been squinting had opened without knowing when, with a cold smile on his face, "Since you are so good at reasoning, can you guess why I left his body there and left directly?"

"Because you determined that no one would come after dark, so you planned to come and bury the body when it was late at night, right?" Conan finally found a chance to interrupt, and quickly spoke to satisfy his desire.

"Yes," Tamakuni Tatsuzo's smile on his face became more and more cold, "with these people!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a large group of people suddenly walked out of the maple forest. Conan was startled, and he roughly counted more than fifty people with a glance.

He quickly hid behind Yuya: "Yuya, leave it to you!"

Yuya's forehead darkened: "Didn't you say not to fight and kill? "

Conan said without raising his head: "This is not a fight, this is self-defense..."

Seeing the more than 50 big men approaching with bats or shovels, Conan shouted: "If you don't do it, we will all be buried today!"

He was somewhat self-aware of his short arms and legs. Although he had a fast-inflating football and anesthesia watch, he could only deal with one or two people at best.

More than 50 people suddenly appeared in front of him. What could he do? Use his head to hit them?