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"Yes, around 15:05 I saw Xun running out in a hurry without looking back," said the neighbor lady who was an eyewitness. She was in her fifties or sixties, with a pair of thick glasses on her nose. She seemed a little uneasy when facing the police's questioning, and kept twisting the edge of her apron with her hands. "A few minutes later, I saw Taiyang with those... detectives?" She glanced uncertainly at Edogawa Conan, Hattori Heiji was okay, and the other two were probably a bit different from the detectives she imagined. "They asked me if I saw Xun running out, and I told the truth that I saw Xun going out wearing that bright red coat, the one with the gray striped lining..."
"I didn't expect that Xun was the one in trouble this time. I would have helped to look for her if I had known," said the neighbor's wife, with a look of pity on her face. "I water the flowers at this time every day, and after the flowers have received enough water, I must go back and turn off the fire. My little granddaughter has just started eating complementary food, and she won't even open her mouth if it's not cooked well. So I really didn't pay much attention to Xun at that time. I thought that if so many people went to look for her, she would be found soon..."
"Thank you, grandma," seeing the topic begin to deviate, Edogawa Conan interrupted quickly, showing a cute smile and saying goodbye, "Grandma provided very valuable clues, Brother Heiji and the inspector will definitely be able to solve the case soon!"
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"That is to say," Officer Megure showed the photos to the owner of the store in the shopping street, pointing out the boy on the far left and the girl in the middle. In the Komatsu family photo, Chie obviously favored her son Masao. Komatsu Miyoko put her hands on Taiyang and Xun's shoulders respectively. Masao stood a little behind, keeping a subtle distance from his family. "Between 15:20 and 16:00, you saw these two children in the shopping street, right?"
The shopping street is about 15 minutes away from the Komatsu residence. The Komatsu family does not have a bicycle, so daily travel basically relies on Miyoko to drive or walk. The three children do not have a hobby such as roller skating, and do not have the relevant equipment. Taiyo and Sayaka can only walk to the shopping street.
Everyone went their separate ways to look for Kaoru. After he left, Officer Megure asked the officers to go back to the Metropolitan Police Department to report, while he stayed behind with two officers. After Kaoru rushed out, Taiyang and Kaoru went to the shopping street by themselves, Toyama Kazuha and Hattori Heiji went to a nearby park as a group, Edogawa Conan chased Komatsu Masao and searched the surrounding area with the school as the end point, and Officer Megure took a police officer to the riverbank - it is said that Kaoru used to hide nearby when playing hide-and-seek, and the remaining police officer stayed behind.
But the trouble was that the police officer who stayed behind was found sleeping in the living room. It was Sayaka and Taiyo who came in later than Edogawa Conan who discovered them. Sleeping pills were detected in their bodies - the same kind of medicine that Komatsu Miyoko gave her son. The police found a freshly opened bag of medicine in the room of the Komatsu couple. They guessed that Komatsu Miyoko intended to give Taiyo the medicine after he ran out of it, but it was used by the murderer who knew the existence of the medicine.
"That's right," the boss nodded and replied affirmatively, "Taiyang and Sayaka, their mother is a regular customer of ours, and we all know the children of the Komatsu family. During the time you were asking questions, the two children asked all of us who run shops along the street if we had seen Xun..."
The boss sighed, "What a pitiful family. I don't know why they were beset with such bad luck that they even spared such a young child..."
"Taiyang and Sayaka are really desperately looking for her, especially Sayaka."
"That grey striped coat is about to be rubbed white by the wall dust."
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"Hey, Heiji," Toyama Kazuha held the ladder and looked at her younger brother, who was knocking on the ceiling, with a worried look on his face, "What are you doing again? It's dangerous to climb so high. Is there any clue on the ceiling?"
"Stop talking nonsense," Hattori Heiji frowned and pricked up his ears to listen carefully to the sounds of knocking on different parts of the ceiling, "Just hold on honestly, and I will explain it to you clearly when we reason later!"
"What?" Yuanshan Heye puffed up her cheeks in dissatisfaction. Despite this, she still held the ladder steadily, "You are trying to be mysterious again..."
“Woo——”
Found it.
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"Housing Manager? What are you looking at?"
"Ah... It's Miyake-kun, sorry, I was a little distracted... Actually it's nothing, I just think the roof of this house, how should I put it, looks a little special..."
"special?"
"I always feel that the house is shorter than it looks from the outside..."
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