Chapter 3 Young Master Kurosawa Escapes Online
"You are the murderer, Ms. Maeda Kyoko."
Upon hearing Kogoro Mouri's accusation, Kyoko Maeda visibly panicked, sobbing, "It wasn't me, boohoo, I didn't..."
“Hey, uncle,” the child’s voice was very distinctive.
Kogoro Mouri looked down and saw Shinichi standing in front of him, staring up at him silently with his crescent-shaped eyes.
"You don't have any concrete evidence, and the murderer isn't that easy to find."
“Yes, Mori, it’s too hasty to draw such a conclusion,” Inspector Megure said.
"Ahem, I was just... just suspicious." Kogoro Mouri was a little embarrassed, so he yelled at Shinichi, "Kids shouldn't be causing trouble here! This isn't a place for you!"
"Oh dear, I'm sorry, children say things without thinking, children say things without thinking, Shinichi, come here quickly." Yukiko Kudo pulled Shinichi to her side.
"Mother!"
"Shinichi, go play outside by yourself. Mom and Dad will take you out for a big meal later."
Shinichi Kudo, feeling indignant, was thus kicked out.
"Seriously, what's wrong with that old man!" He kicked the innocent wall with a sour face.
The main corner is cleared, great, I can solo farm the recognition points now. Kurosawa Jin appeared behind Shinichi like a ghost, silently.
"Shinichi, it's wrong to damage public property~" he said quietly.
"Ugh, it's you again. Can you please stop scaring me like that?"
"I'm not a ghost, why are you so afraid of me?" Kurosawa Jin shrugged.
"But every time you make a sound, it's terrifying."
"You were so engrossed in kicking the wall that you didn't even notice me walking behind you. Now that you mention it, I do realize." Kurosawa Jin squatted down to be at eye level with Kudo Shinichi.
"You have a great focus. You will be able to concentrate on whatever you do in the future and do it well."
That hit the nail on the head of that arrogant brat.
"That's right, I'm going to become someone like Sherlock Holmes in the future."
"Sherlock Holmes? Do you know who Sherlock Holmes is?"
"Of course I know, he's the best detective in the world!"
"Wow, that's amazing. You're so young and you're already reading Sherlock Holmes." Kurosawa Jin gave a thumbs up.
"Of course, I've watched the whole series!"
"Wow, that's amazing! You know so many words!"
The two of them chatted like this for almost ten minutes, with Shinichi saying one sentence and Kurosawa praising it.
If it weren't for the recognition points, Kurosawa Jin wouldn't have talked so much to a kid.
During this time, Yukiko Kudo came over to see Shinichi, but seeing that the two were chatting enthusiastically, she did not disturb them.
When the cocky brat started talking about Sherlock Holmes, it was like a machine gun loaded with endless bullets, firing nonstop. Even someone as patient as Kurosawa Jin couldn't keep up.
"Ahem, Shinichi," Kurosawa Jin seized the rare pause in the child's voice to change the subject, "Future great detective, who do you think is the culprit in this case?"
"Hmm...the murderer?" Shinichi lowered his head and began to ponder. Although he was young, he certainly looked like a detective.
“That Maeda-san is the prime suspect, but there’s another person at the scene who is also a suspect.” He looked firmly at Kurosawa Jin, “that greasy middle-aged man.”
"Oh, why him?" Kurosawa Jin feigned surprise.
"Because I saw that uncle kept glancing at the older woman and the deceased, which means he must be related to the deceased!" Shinichi said confidently.
Kurosawa Jin smiled, his emerald green eyes gleaming with an unknown light. He reached out his sinful hands and gently ruffled Shinichi's hair.
What are you doing!
Shinichi: (▼伖▼#)
"Haha, Shinichi's observation is very thorough. As for the connection between that old man and the deceased..."
Kurosawa Jin paused deliberately for a moment, then said cryptically, "It's better for someone your age not to know."
"Huh? You knew about their relationship, why didn't you tell me?"
“Not only do I know this, but I also know there’s another suspect at the scene, and she has a motive,” Kurosawa Jin said smugly.
"Have you already figured out the truth?!" Shinichi stared at the handsome man in front of him in shock, his eyes filled with a desire for the truth.
"Almost, but it still needs to be verified."
"Tell me who the murderer is!"
"Heh heh, I'm not telling you," Kurosawa Jin said with a mischievous grin. "Think about it yourself, great detective."
Shinichi:（╯‵□′）╯︵┴─┴
Ignoring Shinichi's angry stomping, Kurosawa Jin turned back, his upturned lips indicating he was in a good mood.
An eye for an eye, after all that talking about Sherlock Holmes. Kurosawa Jin felt perfectly justified in his revenge.
A gust of wind swept by, causing Kurosawa's silver hair to tremble slightly.
A young man wearing a pink hoodie and with short chestnut hair walked past Kurosawa Jin. Kurosawa Jin paused, stopped, and turned around.
I don't know if she's looking at that young man or waiting for Shinichi to catch up.
A few long sideburns slipped down from behind his ear, and he raised his hand to tuck them back behind his ear, revealing a fair ear once again.
"Hey, wait for me!" Shinichi ran over with his short legs.
"Let's go see how your dad is doing with solving the case."
"Damn it, tell me right now who the murderer is?"
You'll find out soon enough.
"..."
When the two returned to the group, they found that Inspector Megure and his team were checking the movie theater's surveillance footage.
The drink the deceased had purchased from a snack shop inside the movie theater, and its entire life, from preparation to death, was captured clearly by surveillance cameras.
"According to the surveillance footage, no one except the deceased and Ms. Maeda touched this drink." Inspector Megure's expression was serious, and his brows were furrowed.
"Ms. Maeda and the deceased went to the restroom together before watching the movie," Inspector Megure asked again. "So, Ms. Maeda, did that drink leave your sight even briefly?"
"Yes, I put it on the sink along with my bag."
By this time, Kyoko Maeda had calmed down; only her swollen, red eyes revealed her earlier breakdown.
The movie was scheduled to start at 2 p.m., and for the sake of comfort while watching the movie, the two decided to go to the restroom ten minutes before the movie started.
Therefore, anyone who enters or exits the women's restroom within those 10 minutes is a suspect.
"During this time period, the only woman who entered the restroom was Ms. Kashima Kaori." Kogoro Mouri's eyes shifted from the surveillance video to the short-haired woman.
"How could it be me? Even so, if I had administered the poison at that time, this woman should have been the one to die," Kashima Kaori said indignantly, pointing at Maeda Kyoko.
"Because you made a small time-delay device." Kudo Yusaku was holding a plastic bag with a small piece of cloth inside.
When Kashima Kaori saw the piece of cloth, her expression visibly froze.
"You inject poison into the ice cubes, wrap the ice cubes in a cloth and put them in a thermos. In the bathroom, you put the poisoned ice cubes into your drink."
"The ice hasn't melted yet. Once it melts, the venom will mix into the drink."
As always, Yusaku Kudo demonstrated his deductive reasoning skills, perfectly deducing the murderer's modus operandi in a short period of time.
He truly deserves to be considered one of the intellectual pinnacles of the Detective Conan world.
"I picked this piece of cloth out of the trash can outside the bathroom."
Like all murderers whose crimes have been exposed, Kashima Kaori panicked and began to argue, "Then... what evidence do you have to prove that the piece of cloth is mine?"
“Evidence? Of course we have it.” At that moment, Kurosawa Jin and Shinichi walked in.
"It's in that stalker's pocket." Kurosawa Jin turned to look at the greasy middle-aged man.
"Stalker, what stalker? Don't talk nonsense!" The middle-aged man roared fiercely at Kurosawa Jin, spitting as he cursed while covering his pocket with his hand.
Judging from his appearance, you can tell he has something to hide.
Kogoro Mouri walked toward the middle-aged man with a serious expression. The middle-aged man turned around and tried to run away, but ended up being pinned to the ground and having intimate contact with the earth.
They pulled a camera out of the middle-aged man's pocket, and when they opened it, they found it was full of secretly taken photos.
One of the photos was taken from the perspective of a crack in the toilet, and the person in the photo is Kashima Kaori, who was poisoning the toilet.
With the evidence irrefutable, Kashima Kaori knelt down and wept, revealing her motive for the murder.
She actually wanted to kill Kyoko Maeda, but she ended up killing her lover by mistake.
As for that middle-aged man, take him down as well.
"Brother Kurosawa, how did you know he went to the women's restroom?" Inspector Megure asked Kurosawa Jin before leaving.
The surveillance camera is located outside the restroom. It can only capture people walking into the restroom, but it cannot identify which restroom they entered.
“Isn’t it obvious at a glance?” Kurosawa Jin said matter-of-factly.
Inspector Megure: ...
Watching Inspector Megure and his team escort the criminal into the police car, the case was finally closed.
"It's already so dark. Time really flies," Yukiko Kudo remarked, gazing at the dim sunset in the western sky.
"It's getting late, I need to hurry back. There's a little devil waiting for me to feed him at home." Kurosawa held out his left hand to check his watch.
"Ancestor?" Yukiko Kudo was puzzled by this title.
At this moment, Yusaku Kudo interjected, "It should be a cat. Mr. Kurosawa should have a cat at home."
"Really?" Yukiko turned her gaze to Kurosawa Jin, hoping for an answer.
"As expected of Mr. Kudo, I do have a cat at home, so I need to hurry back. That little guy is quite a handful." Kurosawa Jin said with a hint of helplessness.
As a cat owner, your own feline overlord comes first.
Kurosawa Jin exchanged a few more polite words with the Kudo couple, then bent down to say goodbye to Kudo Shinichi.
"It's a pleasure to meet you today, Shinichi." Kurosawa Jin couldn't help but reach out his hands to touch Shinichi Kudo's hair again.
Shinichi seemed to be immune to it, just staring at him speechlessly with his half-moon eyes.
"We'll meet again someday, future great detective." Kurosawa Jin straightened up and left.
After Kurosawa Jin disappeared from sight, Shin-chan looked up at Kudo Yusaku and asked, "Dad, how did you know that Kurosawa-nii has a cat at home?"
"Because he has cat hair on him, not much, but it looks like a calico cat," Yusaku Kudo instructed his son with a smile.
"So, Shinichi, a detective needs very keen observation skills."
Shin-chan covered his face and began to think deeply.
"Oh, stop thinking about it." Yukiko Kudo picked up the bewildered Conan. "Shinichi, what do you want to eat? How about we go get some ramen?"
"Didn't you promise to take me out for a fancy meal?"
"Huh? Really?"
"..."
In some unknown, dark corner, Kurosawa Jin, who should have left long ago, watched the Kudo family depart.
He curled the corners of his mouth into a smile, his eyes no longer as gentle as before, but sharp, as if everything was under his control.
"Little C, what's the current approval rating for the Red team?" Kurosawa Jin shifted his gaze to the watch on his left wrist.
This watch is the "approval value detector" that Gu Gu gave me before. It is produced by the Time and Space Bureau and uses artificial intelligence for real-time monitoring. It is a product with a very user-friendly service.
The voice of the AI, Xiao C, slowly emanated from the table.
[Currently unlocked Red Team characters: Shinichi Kudo, Yukiko Kudo, Yusaku Kudo]
[Current approval rating for Red:]
[Shinichi Kudo: 10, Yukiko Kudo: 10, Yusaku Kudo: 6]
[Red Team Total Approval Value: 26; Unlocked Characters: 3; Average Red Team Approval Value: 8.66]
[Would you like to see the character's impression of you?]
"Check."
[Your impression of Shinichi Kudo: A despicable adult, but his reasoning ability is decent.]
Yukiko Kudo's impression of you: A fan who is very good at praising, a gentleman and elegant.
Kudo Yusaku's impression of you: A runaway young master.
[Dear user, your average approval rating for the Red team is 8.66, which is below 10.]
[Little C is here to remind you that you may have a lot of bad luck in the future. Please be careful of malicious attacks from the world's consciousness. Wishing you a happy life and thank you for using our service!]
"Tsk." Kurosawa Jin was a little annoyed.
He put on a show to the death, so why did Yusaku Kudo only give him 6 points, which dragged down the average? What does he mean by that?
Could it be that he's jealous because he was showering Yukiko Kudo with compliments?
Kurosawa Formation: (╬￣ dishes￣)
At this moment, Kurosawa Jin was unaware of the seriousness of the world consciousness's malicious targeting.
"Boom boom boom—"
A deafening roar was accompanied by lightning flashing like cracks, and torrential rain poured down, as if a bucket of water had been poured from the sky.
The windshield wipers on the police car were working overtime, and even when they were almost smoking, they couldn't stop the rain from covering the windshield.
"The weather forecast said there wouldn't be any rain, so why is it raining so heavily?" Inspector Megure, sitting in the passenger seat, looked worried.
Inspector Megure and Kogoro Mouri had only driven out of the movie theater for about ten minutes.
The sudden downpour caught everyone off guard, leaving everyone wondering what was wrong with the weather.
The light ahead is red; vehicles must stop.
Kogoro Mouri gripped the steering wheel, gazing out the window at the towering buildings standing in the rain.
Suddenly, he saw the illuminated sign on the building—Kurosawa Group.
His eyes widened slowly, filled with surprise.
"Kurosawa!!!" Kogoro Mori jerked the steering wheel and turned the car around.
"What are you doing, Mori buddy!"
"That kid surnamed Kurosawa is the runaway young master of the Kurosawa Group!"
"ah?"
"I knew it looked familiar! Turns out I saw the missing person notice posted on the news this morning!"
Kogoro Mouri's reminder immediately brought it to mind.
"There seems to be a bonus..."
"Three hundred million!!!"
"That's three hundred million!!!"
On the road, amidst the traffic, Kogoro Mouri's shouts echoed through the sky.
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