Stay away from Conan

Chapter 73 Flower

"Which three?"

After hearing what Kudo Shinichi said, Gao Yuan asked.

"President Wakura, Miss Misa, and the local police chief Issei."

Kudo Shinichi said.

"So when Mr. Ryouji died and Miss Kotomi had an accident, did they have an alibi?"

Gao Yuan asked.

"Mr. Ryoji died at night, and no one had an alibi. And when something happened to Miss Kotomi..."

Kudo Shinichi thought about it, ran out of the room, found Suzuki Sonoko and Fei Mili, and began to ask about the whereabouts of Wakura Misa and Wakura Yonghai today. The reply he received was that Wakura Misa had not gone out today, and Wakura Misa had not gone out today, and Wakura Misa had not gone out today. Cang Yonghai has been sleeping in his room.

After receiving such a result, Kudo Shinichi said to Takato: "Then it seems that Miss Misa's suspicion can be eliminated. Only President Wakura and the Chief Inspector are left."

Gao Yuan thought for a moment and said, "Then the problem lies in the murderer's motive."

Looking at the fragments Kudo Shinichi found at the scene, Takato said: "Maybe it has something to do with these fragments. Could this ancient mirror be the ancient mirror mentioned in the legend of Fifteen Nights Village?"

"If that's the case, then why is half of it here with Chairman Wakura?"

Kudo Shinichi thought, and Gao Yuan thought for a while and said, "It seems that I have to ask the elders in the village if they know anything."

So Kudo Shinichi and Gao Yuan immediately went out to find someone to ask.

The permanent population of Fifteen Nights Village is not large, and most of them are elderly people. However, because of their relationship with the Kurasa family, the people in the village were very unfriendly to Takato and Kudo Shinichi who came to ask for news, and even shouted at them to get out quickly. village.

Faced with such a situation, Gao Yuan and Kudo Shinichi also knew that they could not continue to look for any information from them.

But now that he was out, Takato proposed to visit the shrine in the village. After hearing this, Kudo Shinichi thought of the prestigious old woman in the village. She looked very much like the priest of the shrine. So he took Gao Yuan to the Mozu Sho Shrine in the village.

Passing through the entrance of the shrine built on the cave of the mountain, through the cave, the two came to the center of the shrine. In the middle of the open space surrounded by mountains is the sacred perch where Mr. Kosaka Sho died.

Kudo Shinichi relied on his memory and recalled that on the day he first arrived, Issei, the native master, took things and moved them into the hole on the side, so he walked there, while Takato came to the sacred perch and began to move the piece. Round manhole cover.

"You will be punished!"

At this time, the old woman came out of the cave entrance, saw Gao Yuan who was moving boulders, and said in a hoarse voice.

"What are you doing! Do you want to be the fourth sacrifice?"

Hearing what the old woman said, Gao Yuan and Kudo Shinichi were obviously stunned for a moment. Gao Yuan immediately stopped what he was doing, and Kudo Shinichi stepped forward and asked: "The fourth one! What does the fourth one mean?" !”

"Besides Mr. Kosaka and Mr. Ryouji, is there anyone else who became a sacrifice?"

Gao Yuan also stepped forward and asked.

The old woman did not continue talking, but led the two of them out of the shrine. From the outside, they walked up the mountain road to the top of the mountain where the shrine is located. And at the top of the mountain, on the edge of the cliff near the clearing where the god of the shrine rested, the old woman stopped.

Seeing this, Gao Yuan and Kudo Shinichi also stopped and looked around. Soon, the two of them discovered a stone standing on the edge of the cliff, with a few words engraved on it: Machiko Konno.

There is also a year engraved on the edge, twenty-five years ago.

Next to the stone with the name engraved on it, there is a bouquet of white flowers.

"Machiko Konno?"

Kudo Shinichi thought, "Is this the first sacrifice?"

Gao Yuan walked to the edge of the cliff, looked down, and saw the sacred perch in the shrine under the cliff, and seemed to understand something.

"Okay. You can go back. People related to the Kura family should leave this village as soon as possible!"

shouted the old woman.

And Kudo Shinichi understood something from what he just said, and asked: "Mr. Wakura, does he have anything to do with this deceased!"

The old woman became silent about this.

"Please answer!"

Kudo Shinichi continued to ask.

The old woman looked at Kudo Shinichi's serious expression and said, "How much do you know about the legend of this village?"

"I heard that a long time ago, a giant Moxa turned people into sacrifices; and every three hundred years, the ancient mirror in the shrine will resonate with the sacred perch to cause a total solar eclipse; and also, lovers who kiss under the sacred perch can never separate."

Kudo Shinichi said.

Gao Yuan, who was listening on the side, knew that this was the same as the report he saw in Wakura Yonghai's study.

"Is this all there is to the legend?"

Gao Yuan asked.

"only these."

The old woman said, turned around and went down the mountain.

In this regard, Gao Yuan and Kudo Shinichi did not stay, and went down the mountain and returned to the villa.

"What do you think, Mr. Akechi?"

After entering the villa, Kudo Shinichi suddenly asked.

"That bouquet of flowers."

Gao Yuan said, walking up to the second floor of the villa, and Kudo Shinichi immediately followed.

When they arrived at the door of He Cang Yonghai's room on the second floor, they were about to knock on the door and find that the door was ajar.

Through the crack in the door, you can see a middle-aged man in a white coat standing in front of Wakura Yonghai's bed, and the Wakura family's youngest daughter, Wakura Misa, is also inside.

Therefore, the two of them were not in a hurry to go in.

"I really want to trouble you to make a trip this time, Dr. Hasegawa."

It was Wakura Yonghai's voice.

"this is nothing."

Another middle-aged man's voice sounded, "After all, we have been acquaintances for twenty years. When I was a graduate student at Dongdu Medical University, you were the patient I took over. After so many years, this small favor is nothing. ”

"Well, Dr. Hasegawa, my father..."

Misa Wakura's voice sounded.

"It seems to be nothing serious at the moment, just take a good rest."

The doctor named Hasegawa Ryuichi said, turned around and walked out the door. He nodded at the door to Kudo and Takato who were standing outside, and then walked downstairs.

Seeing this, Kudo Shinichi followed him into Wakura Yukai's room, but Takato thought for a while and caught up with Dr. Hasegawa.

"Mr. Wakura, are you okay?"

Kudo Shinichi came to the sea bed of Wakura Isamu and asked.

"Well, it's okay."

Wakura Yukai, who was lying on the bed, saw Kudo Shinichi and replied, "Do you want to see me for anything?"

"I remember Mr. Wakura said that you have been investigating various strange bird legends since you were a student, right? You have been to Izayoi Village before!"

Kudo Shinichi asked straight to the point.

Gao Yuan, who caught up with Dr. Hasegawa Ryuichi, walked up to Dr. Hasegawa and said, "Dr. Hasegawa, maybe it's a bit presumptuous, but there is something I want to ask you."

"Is it about Mr. Wakura's condition? Sorry, it's a matter of patient privacy. I may not be able to disclose it since you are not a relative."

Hasegawa Ryuichi stopped and said this.

Gao Yuan shook his head.

"No. I heard that you were a graduate student at Dongdu Medical University twenty years ago. So I would like to ask, do you know if there was any graduate student named 'ROU' among the graduate students at Dongdu Medical University? of?"

Hearing this, Hasegawa Ryuichi's expression changed slightly, and a name blurted out:

"TAROU Asami!"

As he spoke, he seemed to be nostalgic, as if he was reminiscing about something. But soon, Hasegawa Ryuichi came back to his senses and said, "I'm sorry, I was a little lost. If someone's name ends with the sound 'ROU', that's what I can think of. He was one of the students of our class that year. A great celebrity, he is a talented pharmacist."

"Then, do you know where Taro Asami is now?"

Gao Yuan asked.

Hasegawa Ryuichi shook his head: "I don't know about that. I haven't heard from him since graduation. If you want to find him, maybe you can go to my teacher, he may know."

"May I ask, who is your teacher?"

"Ooka Kiyosaku. But he retired the year before last, and now he should have returned to Kyoto to retire."

It seemed that Gao Yuan's question triggered his memory. Faced with Gao Yuan's question, Hasegawa Ryuichi answered without reservation.