At this point, Hanoi Fukasato stroked his chin and pondered, "I've forgotten what projects he specializes in, but if you're interested, you can go to his room on the second floor and take a look."
Upon hearing this, everyone naturally went to the room of the village chief Rihara, and then saw many medals scattered on the table.
"It's true. It seems like he won the championship in every competition."
Hattori Heiji looked at the medal, but found that there was only the medal and the suspenders had been removed.
"Oh, is this the statue of Lord Niou?" Xiaolan hesitated as she looked at the statue lying on the table.
"Let me see." Maori Kogoro said as he picked it up: "It's quite heavy."
"The workmanship is very fine, but logically there should be another one." Tang Ze looked at the Nio statue and said, "Generally speaking, there should be two of them in a pair."
"That's right." Hattori Heiji looked at the Niou statue in Xiaolan's hand and said, "This one is a Hum General with his mouth closed. There should be another Ha General with his mouth open, right?"
"On the night of the murder a year ago, one of the statues of Sonnin was lost along with the valuables from the village chief's home," explained Shiroyama Suma.
"So that's how it is. Does that mean it was stolen by the criminal?" Kogoro Mouri said in understanding.
"This statue of Nio seems to have been handed down from the Edo period, right?"
Tang Ze, who has three years of experience in antique appreciation, chose Japanese cultural relics and identified them with some uncertainty.
"Yes, this is the work of a famous sculptor from the Edo period. Nowadays, one of them would cost at least 5 million yen." Shiroyama Suma nodded.
"Five million!? That's so expensive!?"
After hearing the price, Kogoro Mori felt like he had touched a hot potato. His hand shook and he almost dropped the Nio statue to the ground. After a lot of panic, he finally put the Nio statue on the table.
"But this is even more strange." Ignoring Maori Kogoro's antics, Tang Ze said, "Logically, a pair should be more valuable, right? But the criminal only took one?"
“We don’t know about that.”
Shiroyama Kazuma said in a dull tone, glancing at the bewildered Kudo Shinichi, "But that person seemed to have noticed this as well.
This is the Kudo Shinichi who was involved in the case a year ago."
For a moment, everyone's eyes unconsciously turned to Kudo Shinichi, and the confusion in their minds became more and more.
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