Stay away from Conan

Chapter 25 Gem

"White Horse Detective" looked at Gao Yuan with a slightly thoughtful expression.

"Sir, why do you say this?"

Gao Yuan tapped his fingers on the table and said lightly.

"I felt strange when I first arrived in Tokyo today. There were no police at all outside this 'Hezhou' cafe."

"What's wrong with this?"

"White Horse Detective" asked at the right time.

"Although the content of this notice letter is a bit difficult to decipher, as a collector named Masaaki Saeki who knows where his 'Moonlight Tears' is stored, there is no reason why he cannot understand the anagram about the location."

As Gao Yuan said this, he thought to himself that he was actually able to figure out this word puzzle only after seeing the names of all the real estate properties owned by Saeki.

"Although it is hard to believe that gems are hidden in cafes, sometimes it is safer to be unexpected. But in the end, there was no police deployment outside 'Hezhou'. This is very strange. If the police knew the location of the gems, With the character of Inspector Nakamori of the Metropolitan Police Department, it is impossible not to make any arrangements, so the only explanation is that the police do not know the location of the gem at all - that is, Masaru Saeki himself did not inform the police of the location of the gem at all!"

"But what's wrong? After all, this is the freedom of the gem owner."

"White Horse Detective" was not impatient and continued to ask.

"As I said just now, gems sometimes seem safe when hidden in a cafe. In this case, even if the gems are known to be in this cafe, they may be placed in an unimaginable place.

"Under such circumstances, if the police blatantly protect the gem, it is actually putting the gem on the surface. So if the owner of the gem does not tell where the gem is, unless the Phantom Thief himself fully knows where the gem is hidden, it will still be difficult to find it. Out of gems.”

Gao Yuan expressed his reasoning.

"In this case, the warning letter is actually a bait. If the owner of the gem loses his composure and increases defense against the gem due to the appearance of the warning letter, the location of the gem will inevitably be exposed. Once something is done, it will inevitably Revealing flaws, I think this is Kaitou Kidd’s original plan.”

Gao Yuan paused, looked at the unfazed expression of the "White Horse Detective" in front of him, and continued.

"But this time the owner of the gem unexpectedly did not take the bait and did not take any action at all. This disrupted Kaitou Kidd's original plan. The lack of action means that the location of the gem is still unknown. I want to find out carefully here. Gems, it’s best if there are no police interference at the scene, so you used your identity as Detective White Horse to disperse all the police forces.”

"But, your inference is based on the fact that the gem is hidden in this cafe. What if the gem is not here? After all, no one has actually seen the gem, right?"

"White Horse Detective" said.

"Of course the gem is here."

Gao Yuan said confidently.

"I think you should have investigated. Saeki has never been here at all since he bought this coffee shop that year, but after he bought the 'Moonlight Tears' at the auction, he would often come in and out of this coffee shop. Coffee shop, why do you think this is?”

As he spoke, Gao Yuan looked at the clock that was close to 11:07 on the floor clock in the store. Apart from this table, there were no other customers, and there was only one service staff left on the bar.

"I think it's time for you to take off this disguise, right? After all, the time for the announcement is coming."

Having said this, "White Horse Detective" showed a sly smile, and then a burst of white smoke emerged from his side, covering his entire figure.

When the white smoke dissipated, the person sitting opposite Gao Yuan was no longer a boy with short brown hair, but a man wearing a white top hat, a white suit, and a monocle on his right eye.

Seeing Kaitou Kidd showing his true face, Gao Yuan couldn't help but smile - I've seen it, Kaitou Kidd!

However, when this happened, the bartender was indifferent. Sure enough, that person was Kaitou Kid's assistant, Terai Kinosuke pretending to be it!

"I'm curious, why are you so sure that I'm not the real Detective White Horse?"

Kaitou Kid asked in a charming but emotionless voice.

"That's it, it's very simple. Because Detective White Horse's flight will have to wait until tomorrow morning to fly from London to Tokyo."

Gao Yuan also showed a confident smile and said.

"Oh, that's right. But before I ask, what is your surname?"

"Wise and lofty, he is a detective."

Looking at Kidd who always maintained a poker face, Gao Yuan also kept smiling.

"Oh, you are a detective. So, do you come to me to bring me to justice?"

"No, I'm not interested in this. Rather than this, don't you want to know where the 'Moonlight Tears' is hidden? I think you and your assistant should have carried out a large search of the store in the past two days. "

Gao Yuan said and looked at the waiter at the bar.

"Mr. Detective is so generous, he must not be a philanthropist, right?"

Kaitou Kid's tone of voice remained unchanged, which made Gao Yuan feel tired talking to him like this. He thought about whether he should go directly to his high school to find him another day.

"It's a deal. Use the information about gems in exchange for information you might know."

"Really? Then I'm all ears."

Kaitou Kidd replied - maybe he knows, which means he doesn't have to know.

"You can take a closer look at the grandfather clock."

After Gao Yuan finished speaking, Kaito Kidd stood up and walked towards the grandfather clock. When he looked at the clock carefully, there was suddenly no movement.

"It's surprising. No one would have thought that someone would cut such a large gem into small pieces and make it into a clock."

"Indeed, the dial that looks like marble is actually inlaid with a crescent-shaped yellow jadeite in the middle, and the diamond moment... is simply a waste of time!"

At this moment, Gao Yuan finally heard some emotional fluctuations in Kidd's words.

"If I hadn't found the production information of this grandfather clock, it would be difficult for me to believe this."

Gao Yuan said.

As for finding information, of course I hacked into Saeki Masaru's computer!

"So, the news I want to ask about is that about twenty years ago, a blue diamond weighing about 6 carats was brought to Tokyo from Osaka by an actress who was retired at the time. Do you know the origin of this diamond? whereabouts?"

Gao Yuan raised his own question, and further contact with Kuroba Kaito can be put aside first. This news is the key to coming to him today!

"I have heard about what you are talking about, but I really don't know the whereabouts of this blue diamond."

Kaitou Kidd said.

"But speaking of it, if you put the diamonds on this dial together, it seems to be a blue diamond weighing about 6 carats!"

Hearing this, Gao Yuan was stunned for a moment - blue diamond? Doesn’t the information say that “Tears of the Moonlight” is inlaid with white diamonds?