Stay away from Conan

Chapter 963 The names don’t even match

"'Nine'? Conan?"

Listening to Officer Megure's words, Mouri Kogoro looked puzzled and asked even more puzzled.

"Yes, Brother Akechi discovered this. The katakana 'NA' in Conan's name is similar to the Chinese character for '十', and the time he was attacked happened to be a little later than Brother Akechi. It also fits the sequence in which the gangsters use playing cards to count down.”

In response, Officer Megure explained seriously:

"So now that Miss Towako is safe, the gangster's next target should be someone with 'Nine' in their name. Do you have any clues about this?"

After hearing this, especially after hearing that "Miss Towako is safe," Mouri Kogoro couldn't help but show a look of relief on his face, and then his expression became serious and he began to think:

"Nine? Nine..."

Mouri Kogoro was thinking seriously at the moment, but after looking around at the familiar people around him, he didn't expect anyone with the word "Nine" in their name.

In this regard, seeing that Mouri Kogoro had no clue yet, Officer Megure had no choice but to take Moori Kogoro away from here, preparing to go back and make a long-term plan...

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And soon, in the Metropolitan Police Department, when Officer Megure and Kogoro Mori returned, Gao Yuan was also deep in thought——

Because the development of events is completely different from the original work.

Originally, the target representing the "10 of Spades" was a man named "Tsuji" who could fly a helicopter. In the original work, he was one of the targets that the murderer specifically wanted to kill.

But now, the character representing the "10 of Spades" has been replaced by Conan, so it is inevitable that this character who should have been an important target of the murderer in the original work can no longer be the target of the other party.

As for the next one, according to the plot of the original work, the character representing the "9 of Spades" should have the word "Asahi" in his name, and the other person should be the owner of a newly opened marine entertainment facility.

Therefore, it stands to reason that even without Kogoro Mouri, it would be easy to at least find information about the character with the word "Asahi" in his name based on the impression of the original work.

However, just now Gao Yuan was searching the Internet and found that there were no newly opened marine entertainment facilities in Tokyo recently, let alone any boss with the word "Asahi" in his name——

So, in the plot of this incident, except for Officer Megure and Fei Eri who were initially attacked, what happened after that has completely changed, right?

Therefore, when I cannot determine the gangster's next target by myself, although it is not yet sure whether the gangster this time is coming for the people around Mouri Kogoro, I can only consider all possibilities at the moment. So when Kogoro Mori followed Officer Megure back to the Metropolitan Police Department and saw Kogoro Mori's Gao Yuan, he asked straightforwardly:

"Mr. Maori, do you have any idea about the gangster's next target, that is, the person with the word 'Nine' in his name? Of course, it may not directly have the word 'Nine' in it, but it may also be something like 'Xu' 'Someone with the word 'Nine'...or something similar in pronunciation to 'Kyuu (Nine)' or 'Nine'. Is there anyone like this among the people you know?"

This time, because even Gao Yuan is not sure about the future development of the plot, so at this time, it is better to list all the possibilities——

After all, in the original work, when the murderer selects targets, in addition to choosing people whose names have similar glyphs of numbers, there are also names whose pronunciations are similar to the pronunciations of numbers.

For example, if I remember correctly, in the original work, the character represented by "seven" is a person whose name is pronounced "NANA", which is the pronunciation of "the number seven" in Japanese.

The character represented by "Four" is a foreigner, because the pronunciation of his name is similar to the pronunciation of "Four" in English.

Therefore, when Gao Yuan asked Mouri Kogoro, he explained all the rules for gangsters to choose targets that appeared in the above original works, so as to make Moori Kogoro think about what happened to the people he knew. Among the people, who are in line with the target corresponding to the "9 of Spades" that the gangster followed.

But having said that, there is actually a choice method that is not available in the original work. That is, in Conan’s katakana writing method, the shape of "ナ (NA)" is similar to the Chinese character "十".

But after thinking about it, names written in katakana are usually names transliterated from foreign countries. This kind of name is rare, and there is no character similar to the character "九" in katakana, "カ (KA)" "Maybe it can be related, but the direction of the strokes is wrong, obviously not as good as "ナ".

Therefore, after careful consideration, Gao Yuan did not ask about this possibility.

In this regard, facing the possibility of these names that Gao Yuan suddenly proposed, Mouri Kogoro couldn't help but blinked with a blank look on his face. He seemed to be confused by Gao Yuan's question and did not react for a while...

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At the same time, the same situation also happened in Mihua Central Hospital.

At this moment, Conan was basically confirmed to be the victim representing the "10 of Spades". Therefore, after learning that Conan had woken up in the hospital, Officer Shiratori would be over there looking for Conan for a brief explanation. We chatted about what happened.

At the same time, because Gao Yuan also said that the gangsters this time may not be coming for Mouri Kogoro, so far, the four people who have been attacked are all people known to everyone, so for the sake of safety, at this moment in the hospital It is best for Conan, Xiaolan, Dr. Ali and others to recall whether they know anyone with the word "number nine" in their name.

The stated name rules are what Gao Yuan mentioned. In addition to the Chinese character "九", the word "Xu", or names with similar pronunciation to the Japanese or English pronunciation of "九" can be counted as is a possibility.

Therefore, faced with such detailed questioning, especially after hearing Officer Shiratori say the word "Xu", Xiaolan's expression suddenly changed, and she said with some surprise:

"Ah! It's Mr. Hiroki!"

"who?"

Suddenly, when he heard Xiaolan say this name in surprise, Conan on the side couldn't help but was stunned. Then through this name, he remembered the golfer who could fly a helicopter that he met at the French restaurant that day——

"That's Mr. Hiroki we met in the restaurant that day! I've seen the photo he signed for my father. His full name is 'Asahi Hiroki'!"

Xiaolan said seriously...

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"Hiroki Asahi? That professional golfer?"

After hearing this name coming from Mouri Kogoro's mouth, he couldn't help but be surprised, and then asked.

"who?"

In this regard, after hearing the keyword "golfer", Gao Yuan couldn't help but be stunned——

Wait a moment? In the original work, this person's name should be "Tsuji", how come...

No way……

The deviation this time is that even the names don’t match up!