As the night deepened, thick clouds slowly drifted away into the distance with the wind, and the silvery moonlight shone into the corridor through the branches of the withered cypress trees.
This house has a long history. It was first built in the early 19th century. At that time, Ogawa Kusaki happened to become the principal of the Teachers' Training Institute and settled down in Maebashi City for work.
The floor was shiny black, and its edges had long been smoothed out, like a handy tool in the hands of an old farmer. The doors and windows were all made of century-old beech wood, coated with pine oil to prevent rats and ants from gnawing on them.
The huge courtyard is home to only a dozen people, making it look very empty. Regular cleaning alone is troublesome enough. Conan and Sakaki Makoto split into two groups and observed the surrounding environment with Kid, Hattori Heiji, and Sera Masumi. Compared to the criminal hiding in the dark, they knew nothing about the structure of the courtyard. It would be bad if the criminal entered Ogawa Yoshio's room in an unexpected way.
Conan and his team have everything they need, and they don't even want to leave the advantage of location to the criminals. They must ensure the personal safety of Yoshio Ogawa.
"Huh?"
After walking quietly in the corridor for a while, Conan and his three companions ran into Akutagawa Fuuna's granddaughter, the girl who was in high school.
I saw her holding a basin of cold water with a towel on the edge of the basin, and she seemed to want to go to a room upstairs.
"Aren't you going to the restaurant? Dinner will be served in a while."
She looked at Conan and the others strangely and asked:
"Where are you going?"
"Oh....Oh, we need to go to the toilet and accidentally got lost. Big sister, big sister, where is the toilet?"
Conan's eyes rolled around, and the acting spirit that used to be hidden in his heart reappeared, speaking in a perverse and cute tone. No one knew what others were thinking, but at least Kid and Hattori were about to vomit out their overnight meals, they were very disgusted.
The key is that if you want to ask, just ask. Why take the opportunity to move forward and touch someone's thigh?
It turns out that the pervert's true nature has been exposed!
"So you want to find a toilet. If it's a toilet..."
Who would be on guard against a little kid? The high school girl held the basin with one hand and turned to point to the end of the corridor:
"Go straight ahead and turn right to find the toilet."
"Thank you, big sister!"
Conan said with a smile:
"Big sis, you are so beautiful. My mom said that all beautiful women are called Yukiko. Your name must be Yukiko too!"
The high school girl was obviously stunned for a moment, and after a while she covered her mouth and chuckled:
"Your mother is talking about the famous actress Fujimine Yukiko, right? I can't compare to her. My name is Akutagawa Mari. What's your name, little brother?"
"Jiang....My name is Kojima Genta!"
After finding out the girl's information, Conan let go of the little hand that was holding the girl's skirt and took two steps back:
"Sister Zhenli, please go and get busy, otherwise Mr. Ogawa and the others will be waiting anxiously!"
"Okay, see you later then."
Waving her hand, Mari Akutagawa smiled and nodded to Conan and the others, then continued walking forward. But after taking only two steps, she suddenly stopped, looked back at the backs of Conan and the other three, frowned, and a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes.
Why....
Would Conan know that she was going to Mr. Ogawa's room?
"I told you to lie, so you lied. Why are you taking advantage of the opportunity to take advantage of me?"
After walking a few steps forward and making sure that Akutagawa Mari couldn't hear them, Kid grabbed Conan's hair without hesitation, narrowed his eyes, and looked at him with contempt:
"He's a little devil, even more vulgar than me!"
"Let go!"
Conan slapped Kid's arm away, adjusted his bow tie, and said unhappily:
"What do you mean by taking advantage of her? You better understand, okay? I was just checking her out!"
"Inspection? Touching someone's thigh is what you call inspection?"
"Tsk, looking for clues from subtle details is the basic skill of a detective!"
Conan glanced at Kidd:
"Mr. Sakaki said that the cook and the gardener are suspects, which is true, but have you ever thought that Ogawa Yoshio fell down the stairs? In general, the rooms of the cook and the gardener are far away from the owner, and they rarely meet each other unless there are special circumstances."
"So the most suspicious people in the Ogawa family are Akutagawa Fuuna, who is responsible for the daily life of Ogawa Yoshio and his wife, as well as her daughter and granddaughter!"
"Well, I understand the reason, but why are you touching someone's thigh?"
"Would you mind stopping me? I haven't finished my sentence yet!"
His old face turned red, and Conan stiffened his neck and shouted:
"I touched her thigh not for pleasure, but to... to test the hardness of her biceps. Yes, that's right!"
The looks of Kidd and the other two became extremely strange.
This reason...
Not to mention them, even Conan himself doesn’t believe it!
Look at his guilty expression, as if he is afraid that others will continue to question him.
“So, does it make a difference whether the biceps femoris located on the outside of the thigh is hard or not?”
Of course Kidd would not let Conan go just like that. He had to get to the bottom of the matter today:
"Or do you just want to touch her thigh to see if it's soft?"
"Bullshit!"
Conan suddenly became anxious:
"Scientific research shows that walking in a normal posture can exercise a total of 13 large muscles, including the triceps, quadriceps, waist and abdomen, but the biceps are not included!"
"The well-developed biceps femoris proves that Mari Akutagawa is very active and exercises regularly! Xiaolan's biceps femoris is well-developed!"
"oh...."
Masumi Sera who was behind suddenly said:
"The prisoner is responsible for monitoring the members of the Ogawa family and patrolling the deep well regularly. This job is very hard. If you don't have extraordinary physical strength, it is difficult to stick to it. In addition, patrolling the deep well requires a lot of free space. Thinking about it this way, Akutagawa Mari, who is a high school student, is actually a big suspect, right?"
"That's right, that's what I thought!"
Conan nodded rapidly:
"So you all blamed me wrongly, Kidd! Apologize now!"
"Ms. Sera, please don't make excuses for Conan, that pervert. He just came up with this excuse. How can you smooth things over for him?"
Kidd said sadly:
"The most important thing is, Miss Zhenli didn't care at all even though her thigh was touched. Why...why do I always get slapped when I touch a girl's thigh?! It's so damn good to be a kid!"
“It’s not that good actually…”
Conan sighed, looked up at the sky, and showed an expression of seeing through the world:
"The pain here is not worth telling to outsiders..."
"If it doesn't have that function, then it doesn't have that function. Why are you pretending to be so high and mighty?"
"Damn it! Will you die if I don't say something?!"
Seeing that the two were about to fight again, Hattori Heiji quickly stepped forward to smooth things over:
"Stop arguing, stop arguing. What's there to argue about? It's more important to get down to business. The kitchen is right in front. Checking the chef first is the most urgent task!"
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