At 7:55 in the morning, Makoto Sakaki and Corgi quickly arrived at the cable car departure point not far from the lake.
Before they got close, a long black dragon came into view. Tourists who did not want to climb the mountain themselves would choose to take the cheap cable car to the top of the mountain.
The cable car that starts operating at 5 o'clock is also specially prepared for climbers who want to get up early to watch the sunrise. After all, there are not many opportunities to stand on the top of the mountain, smell the fresh and cool air, and appreciate the rising morning glow. In a sense, you will see it less and less each time, so you should cherish it.
The small cable car can carry four people at a time, and the team is moving at a fairly fast speed. While waiting, Sakaki Makoto raised Conan's glasses to determine the location of the bug.
"Why are you in such a hurry?"
Conan asked doubtfully:
"Is there anything on the mountain? Is it related to the woman named Takenaka Momoe you mentioned?"
"Um."
Nodding, Sakaki Makoto said:
"Takenaka Momoe is a cleaning lady from Tokyo. She has been asked to clean my house for the past ten years."
"Your home?"
Conan and Kid looked at each other:
"Is this the house your parents lived in?"
"That's right."
"The party that commissioned her couldn't be the Black Organization!"
"Do you think it's possible?"
Sakaki Makoto glanced behind him with a look of concern for the mentally retarded person.
"Indeed, given the style of the Black Organization, they showed mercy by not setting fire to the house."
Conan shrugged and said:
"So you secretly installed a bug on Takenaka Momoe in order to investigate her employer?"
"That was the case at first, but now I know who hired her."
Sakaki Makoto did not mention Ishikawa Hide's name, but changed the subject implicitly:
"I saw her when I checked the surveillance video of the Takeda convenience store. There were three people who went to the Takeda convenience store at noon today. In chronological order, they were Takenaka Momoe, Naoki Seiichi, and Aohara Daisuke."
"Aohara Daisuke is there too?"
Kidd was surprised:
"What is he doing at the convenience store?"
“Buy rice balls.”
After a pause, Sakaki Makoto added:
"The three of them went to the convenience store to buy rice balls."
"....Are you kidding me?"
The two Corgis were stunned:
"It's not like the production team didn't prepare lunch boxes, why did they have to go to a convenience store to buy rice balls?"
“That’s what aroused my curiosity. I suspected…”
With his brows slightly furrowed, Sakaki Cheng considered:
"There seems to be some connection between these two consecutive cases. Otherwise, it would be impossible for Takenaka Momoe and the other two to appear at the Takeda convenience store at the same time."
Hakone is a well-known tourist attraction with more than a dozen convenience stores, including chain brands such as FamilyMart, 7-Eleven, and Lawson. Some of them are located at the foot of the mountain. Why should Kiyoshi Naoki and Daisuke Aohara go so far away?
"You just said that the three of them bought rice balls?"
Kidd thought for a while, then suddenly said:
“Is it the same kind of rice balls?”
"If so, then there might be something hidden behind the rice ball shelves. As far as I know, some people like to use this method to exchange goods to conceal their tracks."
"While I was checking the surveillance footage, Ai went to check the shelves. There were indeed traces of tape on the top of the shelf where rice balls were sold."
"That's right!"
Kidd vowed:
"There must be a deal between Takenaka Momoe, Naoki Seiichi, and Aohara Daisuke!"
"Naoki Seiichi was killed because of the uneven distribution of the spoils!"
"I've seen this kind of thing a lot!"
Where is the trust and loyalty between robbers?
Killing companions after achieving the goal has almost become an industry rule. For some robbers, the failure of robbery is not terrible. What is terrible is that after robbing the property, you relax your vigilance.
Compared to the police's gun, the threat from behind is obviously more dangerous.
"Could this be a murder case caused by uneven distribution of spoils?"
Conan's eyes lit up:
"If that's the case, then things will be much easier!"
"You installed a bug on Baihui Takenaka. We can track her location. As long as we can catch her, we can make her reveal the identity of her companions!"
"I hope so..."
Sakaki Makoto's face was as heavy as ever. He kept staring at the red light on his glasses and did not take his eyes away until he got on the cable car.
A cable car can carry four people. Sharing the cable car with Makoto Sakaki and the other two was a young woman in brown and green mountaineering clothes. She was holding a camera and kept pressing the shutter to take pictures of the scenery from a high altitude.
soon...
The strange behavior of Sakaki Makoto and the other two caught her attention.
"Are you here to look for treasure in the mountains?"
The young woman looked at Makoto Sakaki, who was staring at his glasses, with curiosity.
"....no."
Seeing that Sakaki Makoto obviously didn't want to pay attention to her, the young woman stopped making trouble and turned around to continue taking pictures.
"strangeness..."
As the cable car continued to rise, a dense jungle appeared under his feet, and Conan discovered something strange:
"Why does she stay in the same place?"
Ever since Makoto Sakaki turned on the tracking system on his glasses, the flashing red dot has not moved. The cable car was moving towards the top of the mountain, getting closer and closer to the red dot.
Hearing Conan's surprised cry, the young woman put down the camera and glanced at the lens in Makoto Sakaki's hand. She became very interested in this high-tech, but she thought of Makoto Sakaki's cold attitude just now, so she didn't dare to ask. After a long pause, she said:
"The place you are looking for is a forest, and tourists are generally not allowed to enter."
Sakaki Makoto finally looked the woman straight in the eye and asked:
"You know the terrain around here well?"
“I don’t really understand…”
The young woman pulled out a map from her waist bag:
"Professional mountaineering map, 300 yen a piece, do you want to buy it?"
"Conan, give me the money."
"...oh."
I'm paying again...
Conan muttered to himself, silently counted out three coins, put them in the woman's outstretched hand, and was about to take the map...
"Why!"
The young woman pulled the map back:
"I can give it to you, but you have to tell me what you are looking for. Is it the treasure left by Tokugawa Ieyasu?"
"Looking for someone. Have you ever seen a treasure hunter in a suit looking for treasure?"
"Tsk, I thought there was something good, it's so boring."
Pursing her lips, the young woman handed the map to Sakaki Makoto and completely lost interest.
She had indeed never seen a hunter wearing a suit going into the mountains to look for treasure, and besides...
If there were glasses in the world that could track treasure, that would be too far-fetched and even fairy tales wouldn't dare to write about it.
Spreading out the map, Makoto Sakaki quickly determined the location of the bug by comparing it to the green spider web on his glasses.
As the young woman said, there is a forest there. To protect the natural environment, tourists are not allowed to enter. It is sandwiched between Owakudani and Lake Ashi. If you walk from the hotel...
The round trip takes about 1 hour.
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