Chapter 1152 1160 [Red Horse Incident] Ask for monthly ticket (づど)
Houses made mainly of wood burn very quickly. The fire at the Morokaku house was extremely fierce, and it spread throughout the entire house in the blink of an eye.
When the three people arrived, they were surrounded by a crowd of onlookers with different expressions.
Firefighters carried a person out of Morokaku's house, quickly covered him with a white sheet, and put him in an ambulance. Although the person's face was burnt so badly that it was hard to see, the identity of the deceased was quite obvious as only Mrs. Morokaku was at home at that time.
Mr. Zhujiao and the Feng Shui master were squeezed at the forefront of the crowd.
Seeing this scene, Zhu Jiaoming was stunned for a while, then rushed over: "Liangzi!!"
Soga Mitsuo quickly followed and patted his old classmate on the shoulder, as if he was comforting the man who had just lost his wife.
After a moment, he turned around and looked at the burning house.
Every inch of the house was licked by the flames, and nothing inside would remain.
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A few meters away, among the crowd of onlookers.
Conan looked at the two people, frowned for a moment, and whispered to Jiang Xia and Hattori Heiji: "Didn't they go out to drink? I remember that there were no izakayas among the nearest stores. They should have gone to a farther place. How come they got there faster than us?"
"Maybe he forgot to take something. Or maybe someone saw the fire and informed him." Jiang Xia frowned as he analyzed while taking a bite of the chicken roll in his hand. "Of course, it could also be part of a murder plan. He was worried so he wanted to come back and take a look."
Conan and Hattori Heiji smelled the aroma and looked at his hand. Their stomachs growled with hunger: "...It's already so late, and you still have time to eat!"
One of them ordered ramen and the other ordered curry rice.
The hot meal was served, but before I could take two bites, I saw the fire truck roaring past, and of course the meal was left in the restaurant.
Jiang Xia looked at the chicken roll in his hand and sighed: "Just now the fire truck passed by so suddenly that I didn't react, so I just grabbed it and went out. I wanted to throw it away on the way but couldn't find a trash can, so I had to eat it first, otherwise I couldn't put it in my pocket and take it home."
As he said this, he took another bite sadly.
After a pause, Jiang Xia seemed to remember something and said with emotion: "No wonder Boss Amuro always said that a qualified detective should always be prepared with easy-to-carry food when taking on a commission - come to think of it, every time I go out with you guys, I always seem to miss mealtime..."
"...Huh?" Hattori Heiji felt as if he had been blamed for something. "The second half of the sentence should have been my line!"
…Even though he himself often encountered cases, every time he came to Tokyo, or when his classmates in Tokyo went to visit him in Osaka, the chances of missing meals would obviously increase a lot.
Although Conan also felt that there were many murders around Jiang Xia, he examined himself again before speaking.
"..." Then he rationally realized that even if Jiang Xia was not there, he would indeed not be able to eat because of the sudden case.
So, I had to change the subject: "Boss Amuro has never been a serious detective. I don't think you should take his advice seriously. After all, he..."
I was just about to hint at some suspicious aspects of Toru Amuro.
At this moment, a child's voice suddenly rang out from the crowd nearby: "Look, Mom! I was right. The red horse that will bring fire has appeared!"
"Red horse?!" Several detectives immediately forgot about other topics and came close to him. "Little friend, what is this red horse you are talking about?"
The red horse is the police's nickname for "arsonists." In addition, in each of the three serial arson cases that occurred in 1, 2, and 3 chome, a small red horse ornament appeared at the scene.
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The child felt that he had seen something incredible. When he heard someone ask him about it, he immediately shared it with them:
"I saw it with my own eyes! I was watching Kamen Rider in the living room just now and wanted to sing along with the theme song on TV, but before I could open my mouth, it suddenly became very bright outside."
"I looked over to the curtain and was startled." The child stretched out his short arms and gestured at something that seemed very huge to him. "The curtain reflected the shadow of such a huge horse!"
The child's mother hugged him and looked at the few people who suddenly rushed over to ask questions, with a hint of alertness in her eyes.
Jiang Xia looked at her and asked, "Which side of the burning house is your home on?"
The young housewife looked at him, then looked at Conan, who was about the same age as her son, and felt that they were not bad people. She raised her hand hesitantly and pointed, "To the right. It's the closest building."
Hattori Heiji and Conan looked at each other, and while the fire was still there, they rushed to the wall of the woman's house, climbed over the wall and entered the yard in the blink of an eye, trying to restore the child's perspective and collect clues.
Jiang Xia turned to look at the shocked woman: "This fire is very likely part of the recent series of arson cases. My classmate probably heard the shadow of a horse on your curtains and was worried that you were also marked by the arsonist, so he suddenly broke in... I'm so sorry, I'll catch them right away."
Seeing the woman nod with a hint of gratitude, he also ran towards the wall and climbed over nimbly.
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As soon as Jiang Xia entered, he saw Hattori Heiji and Conan, who were already standing outside the window of the woman's living room, looking intently at the Morokaku family next door.
The fire was so fierce that the whole house was engulfed in flames. No one knew how Mrs. Zhujiao was rescued.
Opposite here, there is a window with a crack open.
In the open space, there was a blood-red horse. It was the size of a palm, but it was very scary. Against the backdrop of the flames and the twisted air, it looked like it had just crawled back from hell with blood all over its body.
Jiang Xia took out his cell phone and took a picture to prevent it from being burned.
By the way, the photos can also be shown to the homeowner outside for report: this kind of hell drawing from a shooting perspective may divert the attention of the innocent homeowner and make her forget about pursuing the three detectives for trespassing in other people's yards.
Two high school detectives, I wonder what the mature and steady social detective is thinking.
Seeing Jiang Xia join them, the two discussed the case with him: "The child saw the shadow of the horse when Kamen Rider was on - the show starts at 7:30 pm. When the theme song was sung, he saw a 'bright light' and no shadow, and then he saw the horse on the curtains... It sounds like an arsonist set the fire at 7:30 and put the horse in the gap of the window, which caused the phenomenon."
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At the same time, outside the courtyard where the three people could not see.
Next to the fire scene, among the crowd of onlookers, a face appeared that was familiar to all three detectives.
(End of this chapter)
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