Seven years ago, timeline.
Fujiwara Yu was diligently searching for the Child of Destiny named "Edogawa Conan," believing that only by finding him could he gain permanent residency in...
October 7th, Tuyao day.
For most people, this day was very ordinary, but for Fujiwara Yu, it was his graduation day from the police academy, the day he left Tokyo to live in the United States, and the day he was forced to give up the police uniform that he was proud of.
During the time I returned to Tokyo, I gained a lot in terms of the organization, such as knowing the location of the safe houses of code-named members such as Scotch Whisky, and knowing that they often go to Haido Station when performing missions.
It is also known that the organization's scientific researcher code-named Shirley meets with her biological sister Miyano Akemi once a month, and it is even known that Raven Bioproducts Co., Ltd. is the organization's secret research institute established in Chiba Prefecture.
However, Fujiwara Yuu did not report all the intelligence he had gathered to his teacher. Rather than trusting the CIA's support, he trusted his own abilities. He did not want to repeat the same mistakes as his father.
He parked his motorcycle in an open-air parking lot only two hundred meters away from Nanyang University, smoothed the wrinkles on his jacket, and walked towards the university holding his black and purple skateboard.
He wore a light camel-colored plaid suit, loose white wide-leg casual pants, and black and white high-top basketball shoes, which made him look very youthful. If it weren't for his dazzling purple hair and collar that did not cover his black tattoos, one would probably think he was a graduate student at Nanyang University.
Fujiwara Yuu handed the ticket White had bought for him to the security guard on duty and successfully entered Nanyang University. He stuffed the ticket for the art exhibition into his pocket, but had no intention of going to the exhibition. Instead, he skated among the students, heading to the Nanyang University library.
Through investigations in recent days, he discovered that the organization did not have access to the transaction records hidden by Kyoko Nakahara, otherwise Kyoko Nakahara's family members who were far away in Kyoto would not have been tailed by the organization's grassroots personnel.
Girls like Kyoko Nakahara, who have a higher deviation value, definitely know the importance of transaction records during their relationship with Yosuke Shimokawa, and even speculate that mastering them may bring fatal disaster to themselves.
So why did she take such a risk?
The answer is: Kyoko Nakahara is short of money.
Yosuke Shimokawa is an extremely stingy person. He would not give Kyoko Nakahara too much pocket money, which led to Nakahara becoming obsessed with the transaction record and killing her.
The reason why Kyoko Nakahara is short of money is because of her only hobby - gambling.
Before her death, she owed the casino a huge sum of 20 million yen, so if she couldn't get the money, she would be arrested by the debt collectors and might even be forced to engage in a romantic affair that she didn't want to do.
In order to avoid going down this path, the irrational Kyoko Nakahara placed her bets on the importance of this transaction record, but she never imagined what kind of organization she was about to face, and she ended up losing her life.
The organization that killed Kyoko Nakahara did not get the transaction record they wanted. Kyoko Nakahara, knowing that this transaction record was not simple, would not give it to her parents who were far away in Kyoto for safekeeping. The only remaining location could be Nanyang University.
This is also the main reason why Fujiwara Yu came here. He wanted to find the transaction records that were deliberately hidden.
According to the information provided by White, Kyoko Nakahara had no money to buy an apartment because she loved gambling, so she lived in the graduate dormitory building of Nanyang University and applied for a single room.
Entering the girls' dormitory with his own identity was definitely impossible, so he set his sights on the Nanyang University library. According to intelligence, Nakahara Kyoko went to the library to borrow books every week. He found that the books on the borrowed list were very unpopular, and even completely unrelated to her major.
On top of that, she had checked out several of the books more than once, which clearly meant something was amiss.
So Fujiwara Yuu rode his skateboard to the library entrance, put it away, and walked towards the librarian sitting at the front desk. Since he couldn't enter without a student ID, he found a fairly appropriate excuse:
"Hello, my girlfriend asked me to look for books. Where are foreign novels usually kept?"
The administrator looked at the handsome young man with purple hair in front of her and said with a smile:
"Are you a student at the Art College? The foreign novels are in the west section. Show me your student ID."
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"Okay." Fujiwara Yu reached into his trouser pocket and took out the room card he used to book a room at Beido Zunhao Hotel. He remained calm and pretended to be unaware of the situation. Acting is an essential skill for an agent.
The administrator took it and found it was a room card. A meaningful look flashed in her eyes and she said jokingly:
"Handsome boy, did you leave in such a hurry that you took the room card as your ID?"
"Huh?" Fujiwara Yuu feigned surprise as he took the room card. His handsome face flushed immediately as he frantically reached for his trouser pocket. Realizing he didn't have his student ID in there, he said awkwardly, "Um... could you please be flexible?"
"Go ahead, but you can't borrow books. You can go see if there's anything your girlfriend wants."
"Thank you, sister!"
The fake smile on Fujiwara Yu's face disappeared the moment he turned his back. He walked quickly to the foreign novel storage area on the west side and took out the Russian novel titled "A Gentle Woman" from memory.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a renowned author, and his novel "Crime and Punishment" is one of Fujiwara Yuu's favorites. However, the novel in her hands is an imported Russian edition, and it's unlikely that Nakahara Kyoko, who hasn't learned Russian, would choose such a book to humiliate herself.
Fujiwara Yu quickly flipped through the novel in his hand. He didn't notice anything unusual the first time, including no hidden text on the inside of the cover. He didn't believe borrowing these imported novels was pointless. After a closer look, he noticed a faint red dot beneath a letter on page 58.
This does not rule out the possibility that other people accidentally bumped into it when borrowing it, so Fujiwara Yu immediately looked through all the other books that Nakahara Kyoko had borrowed, and found that the same situation appeared on page 58.
These letters spell out two words, the former is the name Alyona, and the latter is a very simple English word: sofa.
Although it is strange to combine the name Ariana with the furniture sofa, the two words together indicate the location where the transaction records are hidden. Considering that Japanese cuisine likes to be named after the store manager or founder, it is possible that Ariana refers to a restaurant.
To prove his idea was correct, Fujiwara Yu immediately took out his phone and called White. He told White about his discovery while putting the books back in their original places:
"White, go look up a restaurant called 'alyona' and send me the address."
"Yes, sir, but in an hour, okay? I'm tracking the target."
"Okay, I'll hang up first. It's not convenient to talk here."