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"Master Xiu Nian, it's your fingerprint."

The sleeping detective revealed the final murderer, and everyone's attention was focused on this seemingly cowardly monk.

"But, Xiunian came here a year ago..." a monk couldn't help but say, but was interrupted by Xiunian.

"It's me. The abbot killed my brother two years ago." Xiunian admitted without hesitation.

"That's right," Conan sighed behind Maori Kogoro and said, "Two years ago, the abbot killed Master Zhongnian with the same method. It should be your brother."

Xiu Nian explained the reason for her murder with a sense of relief. Her brother was killed by the abbot because Junben eloped with Miss Kikuno, the abbot's daughter. The abbot then told her about it after drinking. In a rage, she strangled him to death with a rope.

"No," Kenji Hagiwara, who was standing nearby, suddenly spoke up, interrupting the other person.

"What's wrong?" Conan asked in surprise. He was sure that there was nothing wrong with his reasoning.

"Did you really know the truth because of the abbot's drunken gaffe?" Hagiwara Kenji looked at the other person, his pair of purple peach blossom eyes were surprisingly sharp when he was serious.

"That's right." Monk Xiu Nian nodded and said, "I was so angry at the time that I couldn't control myself..."

"But the abbot's resistance makes me feel that he knew someone was going to kill him..." Hagiwara Kenji murmured in a low voice, but this was just his guess without any evidence to support it. However, Xiu Nian's appearance also made him a little concerned, something was wrong...

I knew it from the beginning... Conan couldn't help but think, why does it feel so damn familiar, could it be?!

"Master Xiu Nian!"

The boy with the bow tie appeared out of nowhere and approached the murderer, ignoring the shocked looks of others.

"Do you know Ikaros?"

The moment Xiu Nian heard the name, her pupils shrank, and she couldn't hide the shock on her face at all, which made Conan secretly say "as expected" and continued to ask:

"Did you receive his letter? He wants to stop your revenge?"

"......"

Xiunian did not reply. His expression calmed down from shock and after a moment's silence, he nodded.

"And the letter?"

"I have destroyed it."

"When did you receive it and what did he say specifically?"

"I......"

Before Xiu Nian could say anything, a voice suddenly interrupted her and asked with a smile: "Little brother, you know a lot. Why don't you talk to me first?"

Hagiwara Kenji picked up Conan with both hands and lifted him into the air, then turned him back to face himself and asked softly:

"For example, who is Ikaros, what is the letter, and why do you know so much about it, kid?"

Conan froze, then scratched his head and asked innocently, "Hahaha, what are you talking about, Hagiwara brother? I just heard it from Uncle Mori."

"Oh, tell me what you said." Hagiwara Kenji came to the front of Maori and his group with Conan in his arms and said, "I need to take the prisoner back first. As for Conan, we get along very well."

Xiaolan seemed to notice nothing under Conan's crazy suggestive eyes, and smiled and said, "Really?"

"Of course," Hagiwara Kenji said seriously, "He just witnessed a murder case. I took him out to relax so that he wouldn't be left with any shadows. I'll send him over to you in the evening. Is that the Mori Detective Agency?"

"Yes, thank you, Officer Hagiwara." Xiaolan agreed to the proposal with a smile on her face, then waved her hand at Conan, told him to be obedient, and turned and left. This made Conan feel the pain of being ruthlessly abandoned for a moment.

"It's okay, I like this little brother very much." Hagiwara Kenji smiled lightly, then held Conan in one hand and got into the police car.

———

"Brother Hagiwara." Conan Edogawa was sitting in the passenger seat, trying to escape this disaster by acting cute, but he didn't expect that Kenji Hagiwara was just looking at him with a smile on his face. The evil taste in his eyes of "I know you are pretending and I just want to see how you pretend" was so obvious that Conan had no choice but to give up and then looked at the other party angrily.

"I'm not saying this, but these tricks of yours are just what I learned from Xiao Zhenping, hahaha." Hagiwara Kenji stopped the car in front of the police station, then turned to look at the other party, and couldn't help but want to teach him a lesson.

"I think you should be acting like a spoiled child to your sister Xiaolan like this, right? I tell you, it's best not to say anything after making such a pitiful expression, otherwise it will be too deliberate. Look at the other person like this for a while, and then keep your voice down. At the same time, you should carefully observe the other person's reaction to prevent the other person from suddenly punching you in the face..."

"So that's how it is..." A deep voice came from outside the window, causing Hagiwara Kenji, who was imparting his experience, to stiffen all over. Then he turned his head slowly like a rusty joint, and as expected, he saw a young girl with black curly hair and sunglasses.

"Xiao Zhenping, what a coincidence." Immediately putting on an innocent smile, Hagiwara Kenji greeted with a smile as if nothing had happened.

"Unfortunately," Jinpei Matsuda raised his mobile phone in a cold tone, and on it was a message from Kenji Hagiwara.

"You asked me to wait for you here."

"Hahaha, it seems so." Hagiwara Kenji laughed awkwardly and tried to skip the topic, but he noticed that the other person's hand was clenched into a fist and exerting force...

"Look, Jinpei-chan, it's Conan Edogawa!"

At some point, Hagiwara Kenji used his nimble hands that had defuse bullets to quickly loosen the seatbelt of co-pilot Conan and hugged him over, successfully blocking himself and Matsuda Jinpei in the hope of escaping the disaster (or acting as a shield?).

"Forget it, let's talk business." Matsuda Jinpei didn't want to think about why his childhood friend was so childish. He rubbed his temples and said seriously: "You said there was news about Ikaros, what's the specific information?"

Under Conan's shocked eyes, Hagiwara Kenji shook Conan in his hand and said with a smile:

"Then we'll have to ask this little brother Conan."

———

"Finally back."

The moment Noel returned to the organization's base, he ran into Silvani, who seemed to have been waiting for a long time.

"What's up?"

Noel became alert, this bottle of wine had never appeared in the comics. According to his information, the other party was obviously the leader of a large number of core research in the organization, and the brainwashing operation he had performed two days ago was also conducted by the other party. It was very dangerous.

"Grappa, I will be responsible for your body research from now on." Silvani said, looking at the other party with cold eyes.

"What's going on?" Noel's tone couldn't conceal his irritability. He had just been picked up from the mountain road and was ridiculed by Gin for a long time. He thought that he had killed that bottom-level member again, making his reputation worse. It would be troublesome if Xiaoguang heard about it.

"You should receive a message from the boss soon." Silvani pushed his glasses and looked at Grappa in surprise. He originally thought that the other party would be more...less angry?

The cell phone rang at the right moment, and the boss's order arrived as expected.

/Grappa, listen to Silvani./

"Understood." Noel glanced at it and restrained his attitude.

As expected, Silvani saw the man's attitude in front of him change from rejection and dissatisfaction to obedience in an instant, like a machine that had received an order.

Even though it was the brainwashing command that he implanted himself, it was still quite a magical feeling to see this beast retract its claws and behave like a well-behaved pet. No wonder the boss liked it so much.

"Let's go to the lab." Silvani still looked cold and composed. He turned and walked towards the lab. Noel followed him silently without saying a word.

There was no one in the laboratory. As arranged in advance by Silvani, the camera had been completely turned off. After the door was closed, there were only two of them in this closed environment.

"Take off your clothes first." Silvani's tone was cold, not even as warm as the machine's reminder. His words were so serious that they could easily lead to overthinking, but they were not warm at all.

Another physical examination?

Noel thought about it internally, but without hesitation, he took off his black coat and threw it aside, then took off his mask and began to remove the bandages on his body.

Silvani's expression remained unchanged. His deep blue eyes looked at the fair skin exposed under the bandage through his silver-framed glasses like a scalpel, until the bandage on his wrist slowly fell off, revealing three horizontal scars nakedly, like the unignorable cracks on a flawless jade that would destroy its perfection.

"When did you make these three cuts?" Silvani finally spoke. He did not ask the other party whether he had cut himself. This question was too obvious for someone who had studied the human body.

"Two weeks ago." Noel didn't hide it, and he couldn't hide it.

"reason."

"Subconsciously," Noel said, and it wasn't really a lie.

Silvani nodded without saying anything else. Noel quickly removed the bandages, and when he saw that the other party hadn't called for a stop, he took off his black shirt, secretly thanking his luck that he wasn't wearing a Pokémon-themed outfit today.

The two scars on the abdomen were naturally visible. Silvani had seen them during the previous surgery, but Noel was in a coma at the time and did not ask about them in detail.

"reason."

"There was a car accident in one place, and a piece of steel bar suddenly fell down."

"You didn't dodge?" The question was forcibly spoken in the tone of a statement. Noel studied the personality of this bottle of Silvaner in his mind. Frankly speaking, he hated this type of personality.

"Seat belts, too late." Noel simply explained, and was happy to act mechanically to reduce the other party's suspicion.

"The other was a shot in the abdomen during a mission, and it didn't heal quickly after the bullet was removed."

It's a lie, the bullet was taken by Gin on behalf of Akemi Miyano, but it's not a lie, because not long after this incident, Noel went to find a mission and took the opportunity to hit the wound again with the enemy's pistol.

"What do these three injuries have in common?" Silvani frowned and thought. He did not doubt that Noel would lie, because only he knew that in the previous operation, he had also implanted the suggestion to obey his orders.

"No." Noel answered decisively, ready to throw this troublesome question to the other party to think about.

"Are you sure? I'm not talking about objective conditions," Silvani pushed his glasses up and walked forward, grabbing Noel's left hand, his fingers gently touching the three scars.

"In terms of mentality, for example, did you have the mentality of, 'I don't want to live anymore, and it's okay to die'?"

"It is common that psychological factors can also have a certain impact on the body."

No, I think you're overthinking it. I committed suicide so many times in my early years and there were no scars left... Noel complained ruthlessly in his heart, but he was happy to take the bottle of Silvaner in front of him. Therefore, he did not answer, looking confused.

It would be a good thing to let this troublesome guy focus his research on psychological problems. He still hates the feeling of his body being cut like pork on the operating table.

"That's it for today." Silvani thought for a moment and said, "You can stay here from now on. I need more observation."

"I'll clean you up first... Never mind, you can just sleep at my place. It will be more convenient for me to observe you this way."

If he could show it, Noel's expression would have been distorted, and he would have wanted to scream out loud in his heart.

Ha, why should I sleep with you? Can’t I sleep well with Xiaoguang? ! ! !