Seeing Uncle Mori's bewildered expression, Miwako, who was sitting next to him, explained, "These are called '101 Gyaru' (a popular Japanese girl group). This kind of makeup is currently trending among young girls."

"101?" Uncle Mori was hearing this new term for the first time.

Near Shibuya, you can often see girls with brown hair, black faces with white eyeshadow and silver lipstick, super high platform shoes and super short mini skirts.

Most of these girls are high school girls, and this kind of outfit is not something just anyone can do. In order to maintain this kind of dark skin, and to make it shiny, they go to great lengths, spending several thousand yen every week to go to a special beauty salon to tan themselves from head to toe under lights for several hours.

If they find their skin has become slightly lighter, they will use a special blackening makeup bottle to restore it. From Guangyou's own perspective, he doesn't like these so-called 101 hot girls.

Aside from the miniskirt and brown hair, Kwang-woo really couldn't accept such exaggerated makeup, because the standard for the 101 girls to be called 101 girls is that when you see them, you think you've seen a ghost.

"Hearing the name reminds me of the animated film '101 Dalmatians'," Guangyou muttered to himself.

Seeing that only Mitsuyu and Sonoko were there, Conan asked, "By the way, where is Ran-neechan?"

“Oh, Sister Xiaolan said she’s going to the restroom,” Guangyou replied.

Takagi frowned, somewhat troubled: "On the other hand, it's very difficult to find a criminal who would commit a crime if he saw a girl dressed like this."

The only thing that has been found to be common among these three victims is that they all dressed like the girls from Produce 101. They have nothing in common in terms of identity or anything else.

“Yes, there has never been a case like this before.” Miwako pinched her chin and thought back. The cases she had encountered before were either revenge killings or crimes of passion. She did not recall any indiscriminate attacks targeting the same group of people.

“You’re wrong. I only remember it happening once.” Uncle Mori used to be a detective, so he had some impression of this kind of case. “I remember that time it was a high school girl who was hit by a car and the driver fled the scene. It’s disgusting to think about.”

Kōyū narrowed his eyes. He saw Inspector Megure's pupils shrink sharply and his face darken when he heard Uncle Mori's words. Uncle Mori still remembered that case, which had caused a sensation at the time, before Uncle Mori became a detective.

Inspector Megure seemed a bit off, and stood up, saying, "I think we should go back and investigate."

Takagi naturally didn't object and responded. Miwako wanted to continue pretending to be a 101 gal to lure the criminals, but Inspector Megure shook his head directly: "No, there's no need to pretend anymore. You two go and investigate whether these three victims have any other commonalities."

"Ring ring~"

Sonoko answered the phone and saw that it was Ran calling, so she asked, "Ran, where are you right now?"

After a few seconds, she looked at her with a hint of disgust: "What? You can't find the exit?"

Where are you now?

"Underground parking lot?"

Sonoko has been completely defeated by Ran's terrible sense of direction; she can't believe she got lost in a shopping mall.

Conan seemed to notice something and asked, "Sonoko-neechan, the ring, necklace, and bracelet you're wearing now are the same as the ones in those photos."

“Oh, this was a gift from that shopping mall. They were having a millennium promotion, and you could choose a gift worth 10,000 yen by showing the official invoice at the exit,” Sonoko replied.

Inspector Megure naturally couldn't let go of this possible suspicious point. After Takagi compared them, he found that it was indeed the case. Although not all three items were present, they all had decorations similar to Sonoko's to some extent.

The conclusion was obvious: these three victims were likely customers of that department store. It was at this moment that a few penetrating words were transmitted to everyone's ears through the cell phone.

Uncle Mori recognized the voice as Ran's and quickly took the phone to ask if Ran had encountered any trouble. Then, through Ran, everyone learned that there was a girl lying on the ground in the underground parking lot with her head covered in blood. Uncle Mori first told Ran to protect the scene, then hung up the phone and rushed to the scene with Inspector Megure and his group.

An investigation revealed that the victim's name was Lan Ze Duo Hui, 20 years old, who had previously worked as a clerk at the department store but was dismissed after a year and has not yet found a job.

Like the previous victims, the victims were clearly 101 hot girls, and they were also connected to this department store.

While comforting the somewhat frightened Ran, Uncle Mori said to Inspector Megure, "The culprit must be someone who harbors a grudge against the department store."

At that moment, a man broke through the crowd, shouting the victim's name, and struggled to enter the scene.

The man's name was Shirakawa Noriyuki, and his father was the owner of this department store. Then a woman named Konno Yuri came to Shirakawa Noriyuki's side and said something, seemingly to comfort him.

Konno Yuri is said to be a waitress at the restaurant where Shirakawa Noriyuki works. She and Shirakawa Noriyuki were college classmates, and she often discusses problems with him.

The problem is simple. In Guangyou's view, it's nothing more than his rich father looking down on the victim's family background, which is why he has always opposed their relationship.

Guangyou nodded repeatedly. Although he didn't know why Shirakawa Noriyuki, the young master of a department store, would fall in love with an ordinary shop assistant, he could completely understand why Shirakawa's father disapproved of their relationship.

After all, if the department store is still around when he passes away at the age of 100, it will definitely be passed on to his son, unless his son is so despicable that his father has given up on him. There may be some factors of disdain involved, but more importantly, such a person cannot bring more benefits to the family.

If it were a girl who studied economics and had achieved some success, even if her family background wasn't great, Shirakawa Noriyuki's father would definitely agree, because she was capable, and who would be willing to be a shop assistant?

However, Guangyou neither wanted to nor could get involved in these family matters. He wasn't so bored as to meddle in other people's business. Even when he was so free that he was lying in bed staring at the ceiling, he was too lazy to get involved.

After shaking his head, Guangyou took out a ball of yarn and started knitting. This time he wasn't very fast. He had only been showing off his skills before, but now he was just killing time.

Thinking about this, Guangyou felt a little regretful. Coming to Detective Conan was good, but there were too many entertainment options. Playing games on computers these days was too difficult, and the gameplay wasn't great either. Game consoles only had a limited number of games. If only he had the Nintendo Switch from his previous life, it would be great. However, given the current level of technology where surveillance is not even fully widespread, it was still quite difficult.

If surveillance equipment were universally available, ushering in an era of high-tech case handling, things would be much simpler now.

“I remember that when I came to this parking lot, I didn’t see any suspicious people. There was only a security guard who brushed past me.”