After giving them a lecture, the two policemen continued their patrol.
"Okay, tell me what happened?"
Ignoring the cautious gaze of the great detective, Yuzuru put Ayumi down, casually sat down by the flower bed, looked at the group of daredevils in front of him, and asked with a gentle smile.
With a new helper, Genta and Mitsuhiko immediately abandoned Conan, whom they had been relying on, and vividly demonstrated what it means to be fickle.
"Big brother, it's like this..."
The children chattered away, recounting the whole story.
It turns out that on their way home from school, as the detective team passed this building, a ring suddenly fell from the sky. The ring had two S-shaped hooks on it, which together spelled SOS.
Just when they were bored and had no cases to play with, the three kids immediately became excited and concluded that someone was sending them a distress signal. So they dragged Conan and Ai along to find the person who was calling for help.
Following this, based on some clues, they found nine families that met the criteria. After knocking on each door and asking them questions, they finally identified the family on the third floor named Shima Masakazu and Shima Asuka.
As a result, they mistook the Shima couple, who were wearing sunglasses and gloves, for the murderers, and rushed out to find the police to report the crime, claiming with certainty that a robbery and murder had occurred.
In the end, it was all a misunderstanding, and he got a severe scolding from the police.
After hearing what had happened, Yuzuru stroked his chin thoughtfully and said, "So, did you make a mistake, or did someone really ask you for help?"
"Well...we don't know either..."
The three children exchanged glances, each looking like a wilted eggplant, speechless and dejected.
After the police's relentless reprimand, they were no longer sure if it was a prank.
Yuzuru glanced at Conan, who was deep in thought with his head down, then turned his gaze to Ai. "Ai, what do you think? Do you think it's a prank or someone really calling for help?"
This time, Ai didn't contradict the other children. She nodded gently and said seriously, "It seems that someone really did call for help, but we haven't found out who it was yet."
Although she was thinking about going back to dissect the alien as soon as possible, human lives were at stake, so the proud and aloof girl forcibly suppressed her scientific research desires and decided to save lives first.
Ai asked with her hands behind her back, "So, can you handle it?"
Yu Shengnan looked at the three little ones with expectant faces, raised an eyebrow, smiled confidently, and said, "Then leave it to me."
"Yay!"
"Big brother is amazing!"
"The Junior Detective League, let's go!"
The three little ones instantly cheered and jumped for joy again, their excitement overflowing. Ai's lips also unconsciously curled into a faint smile.
Only Conan disdains it.
He admitted that Hanyu Nan was very capable, possessing some outrageous high-tech equipment far ahead of its time, but when it came to solving cases, he, Kudo Shinichi, had never been impressed by anyone.
"Hey, Hattori, I have a case here, come quick..."
Conan ran to a corner and called his best friend Heiji Hattori.
It's just hiring outside help; anyone can do that.
Ignoring Conan who had run away, Yuzuru took the ring they had found from Ayumi, looked at it in his palm, and saw a few small words engraved on it: 1993.3.21 and MtoA.
"You just said this is a wedding ring?"
“Yes, my parents’ wedding rings are just like that,” Ayumi answered Yuzuru’s question, a hint of sadness appearing on her face.
Her parents are divorced, and the wedding ring that once symbolized love and commitment is now a thing of the past, only remaining in her memories.
"Then how can you be so sure this is the woman's wedding ring?" Yu Sheng Nan asked casually, fiddling with the ring.
“Because when we found it, there was lipstick on it,” Mitsuhiko answered first. “So the man’s name must start with M, and hers with A.”
"Is that so..."
Yuzuru didn't press the matter further. Instead, he turned to Ai Haibara and casually asked, "Ai, if you were to give me a wedding ring, whose name would you engrave at the beginning?"
Hearing this, Ai glanced at the three little ones to make sure they were discussing her and hadn't heard, then turned around and glared at Yuzuru, saying irritably, "Hmph, don't even think about it, I'm not going to send you off to your wedding..."
Halfway through her sentence, Ai's icy blue eyes narrowed, and she quickly realized, "You mean, this ring might have been given by the woman to the man, so 'M' should be the beginning of the woman's name?"
"Bingo!"
Yuzuru snapped his fingers crisply. "Since you didn't find the person in distress when you started with 'M' as the male's name, why not try a different approach and start the search with 'M' as the female's name?"
“M is the beginning of the woman’s name…” Ai Haibara suddenly realized, quickly rearranging the clues she had just been searching for in her mind. In a moment, she suddenly looked up, “Uehara Misato, this is the one who called for help.”
"Smart, no wonder she's our family's genius girl."
Yuzuru clapped his hands and stood up from the flower bed.
Bystanders see things more clearly than those directly involved.
Sometimes people easily get stuck in a dead end, and the smarter people are often more prone to this. At this time, they need an outsider to give them a little pointer.
Of course, he wasn't a bystander.
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