The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

At the suggestion of Conan and Mr. Kobayashi, the three graduates agreed to work together to find the time capsule buried by Akemi Miyano thirteen years ago.

In order to increase the probability of finding it, Conan proposed to divide the 10 people present into three groups.

Conan, Ai Haibara, Ayumi, and Takumi Murata are in one group.

Kobayashi, Mitsuhiko, and the female doctor are in one group.

Wakasa, Genta, and Gaku Yanagimachi are in one group.

Mitsuhiko heard this grouping and immediately asked Conan, "Why are there only Conan and the girls in one group?"

"Conan, you are too cunning, aren't you?" Genta also agreed.

Conan could only smile helplessly, secretly complaining in his heart: Is this the point?

The reason why he chose this lineup is that the man named Murata seems to be very familiar with Akemi Miyano.

In the process of looking for the time capsule, maybe he can say something about Akemi Miyano, which will make Ai Haibara, who is not in a good state recently, happy.

And his group also has the best chance of finding the time capsule, so Ai Haibara should always stay by his side.

Another point is that the faces of the three people changed when they saw the code paper.

The content on the code paper seemed to have a meaning, and the three people seemed to understand the meaning at a glance.

The grouping was also to allow each group to have an adult to monitor their actions.

But before Conan could explain, Teacher Kobayashi and Rumi Wakasa came up from behind, held the shoulders of the two little ones, and said with a smile.

"Oh~ Teachers are also girls~"

"Won't it be okay to change teammates later?"

In response, Mitsuhiko and Genta could only droop their eyelids and show a very reluctant expression.

...

In this way, everyone came to the school teaching building and walked around the shoe cabinet on the first floor for a while.

The trio sighed at the slight changes here, and the capsule search team officially began to search.

As the "strongest repeater", Conan looked at the photo of the code paper taken on his mobile phone, understood the meaning of the first sentence at a glance, and led the team members to the principal's office.

Facing Conan's proposal, Ayumi asked in confusion: "Huh? Why?"

Conan explained confidently: "Doesn't the first sentence say 'Let people see Monet'?"

"Because the principal of our school likes the painter Monet very much, and there is a replica of Monet hanging in the principal's office, which is his very proud decoration."

"So that painting must be..."

Conan, Ai Huihara, Ayumi, and Takumi Murata just entered the principal's office at this time.

Conan looked up and found that the Monet replica was gone, replaced by an ordinary watercolor painting.

The content of the painting is a small bridge and flowing water, and the label "6th year A group, Takumi Murata" is posted under the watercolor painting.

Takumi Murata, who was behind, walked forward after seeing it, and said with memories in his eyes: "This is my previous award-winning work, I miss it so much..."

Conan walked to the painting at this time, opened the drawing board and took a look, but there was nothing inside.

But since Monet was mentioned in the code, Conan felt that the key information should be the Monet replica.

The principal was on vacation today, so Conan took the initiative to search the office with Ai Haibara and Ayumi.

Seeing the three children searching in the principal's office recklessly, Takumi Murata, who was standing there, was a little overwhelmed.

Are children nowadays so fearless?

"Hey, if you rummage around like this, you will be scolded~"

Conan lay under the desk and replied nonchalantly: "It will be fine if you explain the reason later..."

"By the way, I'm more curious about what kind of person is Miyano Akemi who left this code?"

Conan deliberately led the topic to Miyano Akemi.

This made Ai Haibara next to him look stunned, and she quickly turned around to look.

Takumi Murata was stunned at first, then a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he closed his eyes to recall.

"Let me think about it..."

"She is very cheerful and gentle, and she knows how to think about others."

"Everyone in our class likes her very much... maybe all the boys in the class like her."

Hearing this, Huihara Ai, who was somewhat touched, turned around and confirmed: "Is that true?"

"Yes, in fact, I was one of them before..."

Murata Takumi scratched his head embarrassedly, "But she politely rejected me~"

"There is such a thing~"

Listening to the gossip about her sister in the past, Huihara Ai showed a sincere smile at the corner of her mouth.

Conan looked at the happy Huihara Ai and also rolled his eyes.

Remember to thank me.

At this time, Murata Takumi turned to face the watercolor painting on the wall and murmured: "Speaking of this painting, actually..."

Huihara Ai took a step forward, "Actually?"

Murata Takumi stared at the painting and hesitated for a while, and finally smiled and scratched his head, without answering.

"No, nothing..."

...

Conan and others searched the principal's office for 10 minutes, but found nothing.

After looking at the agreed gathering time, the group went downstairs and looked around the science classroom, but still found nothing.

When the agreed time came, the three groups gathered again in front of the breeding hut beside the playground.

"Well..."

"So far, we have been to the principal's office, the health room, the art room, the family classroom, the science classroom, and the rooftop."

"Although we have visited many places, we have found nothing."

Yanagimachi Yue: "Me too."

Female doctor: "Me too."

Looking at the trio of gloomy graduates, Conan was also lost in thought.

He asked Mitsuhiko and Genta where the other two groups went.

Mitsuhiko, Xiaolin, and the doctor's female team went to the health room to investigate.

The reason is that Mitsuhiko feels that the "lie" in "Doctors Don't Lie" means "TELL A LIE" in English.

This is very similar to "washing hands" in Japanese, so Mitsuhiko thought of the sink in the health room.

However, after Conan heard this, he immediately rejected this idea in his heart.

Because there are many wash basins in the school, Miyano Akemi would not leave a code with such a high error rate.

On the other hand, the team of Genta, Rumi Wakasa, and Gaku Yanagi went to many places for no particular reason.

"We went to the family classroom, the art room, and the rooftop..."

Genta stretched out his fingers and counted the places he had been.

"Originally, Mr. Wakasa said that there was a fire in the music classroom 14 or 15 years ago and some paper cranes were burned, but Yanagimachi-nii said he didn't remember it, so he didn't go there."

"But we still didn't find anything. Teacher Wakasa went to the toilet in the middle, and Brother Yanamachi left alone to look for clues."

"alone?"

Conan looked at the trio of graduates who were still discussing not far away. He still felt that the three of them were trying to hide some secret.

So, he planned to test it out.

"How about we tell the other students in the class the secret code?"

"How about we all come together to help find it?"

The three people discussing not far away turned around and looked at the childlike Conan with slightly stunned expressions. Then the doctor woman took the lead in waving her hand.

"But, I, we can still try harder to find it, right?"

The doctor woman turned to look at Yanagi Dingue, who also echoed.

"Yes, yes, I also thought of some clues."

Murata Takumi also said in the same tone, "...I really feel like I'm about to figure out the secret code."

Seeing the strange reactions of the three people, Conan was already convinced that they knew some secret.

If that's the case, let's test them.

"Then the two teachers and I will continue to help find..."

Conan turned around and said sadly to the three little ones and Haiyuan: "Please stay in the breeding hut and finish the rest of the work~"

"Eh-?"

The three little ones raised their voices to express their dissatisfaction.

Only Haiyuan Ai stared at Conan's back as he followed the adults and thought to himself.

Please, Kudo.

…

The trio of Conan, Kobayashi, Rumi Wakasa, and the graduates returned to the teaching building and sorted out the entire search route while strolling around.

During this period, Xiao Lin called the principal and learned that he had taken the imitation of Monet home and hung it, and there were no suspicious marks on the painting.

"It's a pity that I guessed wrong..."

Murata Takumi sighed, but there was no regret on his face.

Yanagimachi, who was walking at the front, held his chin and murmured: "If it's not on the back of the painting, could it be on the wall?"

"yes!"

As soon as these words came out, other people present seemed to have woken up from a dream and immediately decided to go back and take a look.

When they returned to the principal's office, the doctor girl removed Takumi Murata's painting from the wall, and sure enough, a hiragana was revealed behind the wall.

"Sure enough, there are words on the wall behind the painting!"

"Is it...?"

"We've all noticed it before."

The three of them put their heads to the wall and observed.

Xiao Lin, who was standing at the door of the principal's office, also congratulated several people, "I finally took the first step..."

"Yes." Rumi Wakasa said.

Only Conan stood behind the three of them, staring at them with scrutinizing eyes.

He had personally inspected the painting just now. If there were writing on the wall at that time, there was absolutely no way he would have missed it.

But at this moment, the words appeared "magically".

This can only mean that during the time when he left the principal's office, someone came back here and wrote on it.

First of all, it's impossible for Murata Takumi, because this person never left during the whole process.

The doctor's condition is unclear, but Yanagi Machigaku is certain to have left the group during the last operation.

Moreover, it was also him who caused the re-examination of the conversation in the principal's office.

It seems that this word should have been written in the principal's office when I left last time.

It's just not clear why he did this...

After weighing it in his mind, Conan decided to remain silent and continue watching Yanagi Machigaku's performance.

…

Next, the trio of graduates began to reason alone.

Yanagimachi suggested that the second code sentence, "attack the plane," could also be equated with "hijacking."

The English word for "hijack" is "hijack", which can also be pronounced as "high" and "jack", which means a high socket.

The highest indoor socket in the entire school is the socket that powers the clock hanging high in the gymnasium.

As an active firefighter, Yanagimachi took the initiative to bring a ladder and climbed to a high place to check.

"It's all gray and I can't see clearly..."

"But there's a hiragana written on the side of the socket."

His voice reached below, immediately arousing Conan's alert.

Conan turned on the telescope function of his black-tech glasses and looked at the location Yanagimachi mentioned. There was no so-called hiragana there.

He is lying...

However, Conan did not reveal it and allowed him to continue acting.

Next, the group went to the art room again.

Yuanta's group had searched here before, but when they came here again, Conan used his height advantage to find a ぐ under the edge of the table.

He took a photo silently and did not tell anyone about this discovery.

Since the others were all adults and could not see below, they naturally did not find it.

At this time, Murata Takumi remembered that a student in the school was drawing on the rooftop at that time, and the wind blew the drawing board off, and the person almost fell down.

Since then, the school has prohibited students from drawing on the rooftop.

And an experience just happened to coincide with the code of "Don't go to draw".

So, several people came to the rooftop and found ぐ on the door handle leading to the rooftop.

Based on this way of thinking, the female doctor remembered that a former classmate liked to pretend to be sick and sleep in the health room.

Everyone hurried back to the health room.

The female doctor crawled under the bed in the health room alone, and indeed found a hiragana "し" at the foot of the bed.

However, Conan, who was more careful this time, had already found the same match on the scale next to him.

He silently took out his mobile phone and took a picture of the symbol, leaving it as evidence for later reasoning.

"Okay, then put the four words collected now together to get YOUGUSI..."

"In this way, you don't even have to solve the 'Don't burn the amulet of 89'..."

"The answer must be the storage room (YOUGUSITU)!"

The three graduates looked very excited, but at this moment, Teacher Kobayashi poured a basin of cold water on the three.

"But I remember that place has..."

Kobayashi brought a few people to the library, where he searched the history of the school's reconstruction on the big-headed computer.

Sure enough, he found that the storage room in the corner of the school was too dilapidated and had been demolished and converted into a toilet 10 years ago.

"Eh?"

"Then did our time capsule disappear with it?"

Kobayashi nodded hesitantly and replied: "I think so..."

Hearing Kobayashi's reply, the three graduates could only shake their heads regretfully, feeling that even their alma mater, which seemed to remain unchanged, had actually changed over time.

And Kobayashi couldn't help but sigh as he touched the keyboard in front of the computer.

"But I really miss the time when I was a library committee member~"

"At that time, this computer was still brand new, and I was organizing the books in the library like I am now!"

Kobayashi's sigh was like a flash of lightning exploding in Conan's heart, and his pupils instantly dilated.

Could that figure be...

Conan quickly stood on tiptoe and took a look at the keyboard on the table. The keycaps on it were all patinated.

This was enough to show how old this keyboard was.

And on the code paper, it was written that Miyano Akemi was also a library committee member here.

That means...

I understand!

Conan quickly turned around and left the library, while Kobayashi and the trio who were still talking did not notice the actions of this super short guy.

Except for Wakasa Rumi who stood there with her hands behind her back, glancing coldly at Conan's back as he left.