Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

The one who opened the door for Gao Cheng was a casually dressed woman with loose hair. She wore big square-frame glasses, but she didn't look old-fashioned. The corners of her eyes were slightly upturned, and her mouth was painted with lip gloss, just like a Shibuya hot girl. Just fair skin.

The other party was not too excited when he saw Gao Cheng, but he still took a few extra glances indifferently.

"Come on ahead, Detective Kido, my assistants just had a holiday yesterday, so they won't be here until a while later."

The room is very tidy, it can be seen that it is often taken care of, and the room used for painting is not messy. In the middle is the workbench of Naoko Izutsu and three assistants, and bookshelves, TVs and other things are placed around the bookshelves. There aren't many comic books.

"Now that I have a tablet computer, I can read all electronic comics, and it is convenient to find information." Naoko Izutsu explained.

Gao Cheng looked at the penetrating table, dot paper, utility knife and other tools on the table.

Although there is a tablet computer, the comics are still hand-drawn, and he thought there would be a digital drawing board.

"These are some of my thoughts on Kindaichi's manga," Naoko Izutsu took out a stack of sketches and handed them to Gao Cheng, "I was planning to refine them and send them to the editorial department, but they said you would come over this morning, so I tried Several styles of painting..."

Gao Cheng briefly flipped through the drawing.

There are indeed several styles of Kindaichi's image design, and his shadow can be vaguely seen, and the ponytail hairstyle he wore some time ago has also been retained.

He is very satisfied with the style of painting, to be honest, it is much better than the style of Jin Tianyi in his impression.

There is also a cartoon adaptation of the opera house incident in the back, and the storyboard is also quite solid. I don't know if it is because of this world, it has a 73 style.

In other words, the Conan-style "Kindaichi" is surprisingly interesting, and there is an inexplicable nostalgia.

"Let's try again with the second painting style." Gao Cheng said, pointing to the version closest to the 73 style.

As for whether to choose Naoko Izutsu, he will have to wait until after visiting the remaining two cartoonists, but if nothing unexpected happens, Naoko Izutsu is the most suitable candidate right now.

"The second one? Okay," Izutsu finished sorting out the sketches, paused, then turned to Gaocheng and said, "It may be a bit redundant to say this, but I still hope to cooperate with you. In fact, I saw what happened the day before yesterday. The editor who reached out after the vampire incident…

"Different from my comics, the incidents in reality are not so coincidental to be encountered by detectives, but Detective Kido is different, it seems to be more likely to encounter incidents than others, and no matter what kind of case it is, it can be solved."

Gao Cheng frowned.

Is this a compliment to him or what...

"Woo—!"

Just as he was talking, a police siren sounded from downstairs in the apartment. Naoko Izutsu was stunned for a moment, and when he went to check on the balcony, he found several police cars parked downstairs.

There was a bit of silence in the room, but Gao Cheng took the initiative to say, "I'll go and see the situation, and we'll talk about the cooperation later."

On the third floor of the apartment, among a group of policemen, Gao Cheng accidentally met Officer Otaki of the Osaka Prefectural Police who often helped the Hattori.

The deceased was an old man named Hideri Kanyue who lived on the third floor, and lived alone. Officer Otaki cooperated with the Metropolitan Police Department to monitor the old man because of another incident in which the old man killed a former student.

But this morning, when Gao Cheng came over, the police did not see the old man going out at the time when the old man was used to taking a walk, so they went into the room to check the situation, only to find that there was a rope tied to the air-conditioning outlet in the living room, and the old man hanged himself There, there was also a chair upside down underneath.

"So is it suicide?" Gao Cheng asked.

"That's right," Police Officer Otaki frowned and said, "Although the door is not locked, we have been monitoring the windows and the door of the room.

There was no suspicious person coming in or out at all, so he could only commit suicide, and the reason for suicide is still unclear. "

Otaki was a little distressed.

In any case, the sudden suicide of the person under surveillance is also considered his dereliction of duty.

"This old gentleman has been working as a high school teacher until a few years ago, and the serial murderer Fei Tutong we are chasing is also a former student of his,

We came here after receiving information that someone had seen him in Tokyo, because the fertile soil with no relatives and no reason can only rely on the old man who introduced him to work and took care of him. Today is the third day of surveillance ,result……"

"Teacher! How could this be?!" Naoko Izutsu, who followed Gao Cheng, and the apartment residents were stopped outside by the police, and choked up and shouted after learning that the old man had been hanged.

"Miss Izutsu?" Gao Cheng turned around and asked, "Are you also this old gentleman's student?"

"Teacher Guanyue was my homeroom teacher in high school," Naoko Izutsu said sadly, "But why did the teacher commit suicide? She even asked me to borrow a high school photo album a few days ago."

Officer Otaki looked at Gao Cheng suspiciously: "She is..."

"A cartoonist who lives in this apartment, I just had something to do with her today," Gao Cheng looked around the body of the old man who hanged himself in the living room, "However, it's a bit strange here, the height of the chair is not enough for the old man to hang himself , It’s impossible to just tie the rope to the air-conditioning outlet of the ceiling.”

Officer Otaki looked at the chair that had fallen on the ground, and said in surprise, "That's true. Could it be that he killed him?"

Unbelievable, if it was a homicide, how did the murderer come in and leave?

"To be precise, it's suicide, but..."

Gao Cheng glanced across the room, and landed on a sweeping robot and a long cylindrical trash can in the corner.

"The whole room is clean and tidy, only a little pencil shavings are left on the ground where the hanging is, and the trash can is also casually dumped in the corner...

"I think Mr. Guanyue didn't use a chair to set up the stage, but this slender trash can, which was placed upside down under the air outlet of the air conditioner, so all the pencil shavings inside fell out, and the trash can was kicked out afterwards. Instead, let the sweeping robot with a set path be pushed into the corner and it will become like this on the spot, just let the sweeping robot run again to be sure."

Gao Cheng looked at the old man's body hanging quietly in the middle again.

"So, no matter how you look at it, the old man committed suicide. The difference is only the motive. The old man didn't know why, but he pretended to be murdered. It just seemed a little unlucky. He didn't expect to be watched by the police. , The site layout is all in vain.”

When leaving the apartment, Naoko Izutsu gave Gao Cheng a special gift, but his mood didn't seem to be very high.

"Actually," Naoko Izutsu said emotionally, "I probably know the reason why the teacher did this. The teacher seems to have borrowed a lot of money because of the failure of stock investment. Like many people here, he has caused a bad situation for the stock broker who lives on the second floor. Mr. Bupu is very dissatisfied...

"It's right for the teacher to hold grudges. That manager was already very bad. The teacher probably wanted to make it look like he was killed by that person."

"I'm sorry," Gao Cheng went downstairs, turned to the female cartoonist and said, "such a bad thing happened to you."

"It's okay," Naoko Izutsu said with a rare smile, "Even if there were no Kido detectives, this kind of thing would happen, and probably no one would notice the teacher's thoughts and treat the case as a suicide, right? That would be a big deal for the teacher. It's too sad."

Gao Cheng handed his business card to Naoko Izutsu: "Then, please contact me if you need anything."

It was really a strange day. He usually didn't seem to encounter cases very easily, although this time it was just a special suicide case, and the system didn't respond.

"Ah," Gao Cheng suddenly stopped, "I forgot to ask for Qianye's autograph..."