Chapter 225 This detective showed his back, why not...
After confirming the situation on the fourth floor, Jiang Xia went to the room where Naoki Kamimura was and prepared to pick up the cat.
Of course, he also wants murderous intent.
While Jiang Xia was going upstairs, three high school students were running on the road with their own thoughts. Their goal was also this apartment.
The three people are Ran Mouri, Quantum Hiramatsu who is dragged by Ran to act as a guide, and Conan who is in a complicated mood.
Hiramatsu Quantum is a student at Beika High School. She has a good relationship with Akagi Hero and often helps Akagi Hero take care of his brother. Today, she was also the first person to discover that Akagi's brother was "kidnapped".
Due to the threats from the kidnappers, Pingsong Quantum did not dare to call the police or find a detective.
But she also didn't want to watch Akagi Hero play a fixed match, so she wanted to secretly find a detective of similar age to help her, pretending that he was just a friend, so as not to attract the attention of the kidnappers.
Speaking of high school detectives, Hiramatsu Quantum immediately thought of Jiang Xia, who has frequently appeared in newspapers and occasionally on TV recently.
But soon, she crossed out this option - Jiang Xia had been in the spotlight too much recently. If the kidnappers recognized Jiang Xia as a detective and ignored her explanation that they were "just friends", and killed Akagi's brother, everything would be over.
Pingsong Quantum soon had another idea - when talking about Jiang Xia, it is hard not to think of when he first became famous, some people joked that Jiang Xia was possessed by "Kudo Shinichi".
...In that case, Kudo Shinichi is actually a very suitable candidate.
So, based on some information he had gathered, Hiramatsu Quantum went to the Mori Detective Agency under the alias "Akagi Quantum", claiming to be "Kudo Shinichi's girlfriend". He hoped that through this magical operation, he could lure Kudo Shinichi, who was said to have gone into hiding, to Akagi's house and ask him to help find clues.
...Fortunately, the kidnappers did not notice that Hiramatsu Quantum went to the Mori Detective Agency, and naturally did not notice that she had hired a detective.
Unfortunately, Hiramatsu Quantum failed to attract Kudo Shinichi through this operation, but only attracted Mouri Ran, who had a stern look on her face, and Conan who ran out of the door after her.
Conan endured the waves of shark-like aura from Mouri Ran and discovered the truth of the kidnapping case as expected.
Through a game console in the room, he guessed that the kidnapper was most likely Naoki Kamimura, so the three of them came to the apartment.
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When the three high school students rushed to the vicinity of the apartment, Jiang Xia had already reached the fourth floor.
He looked at the door number 402, rang the doorbell, and observed the location of the door lock.
The doorbell rang once, but no one came out to open the door.
Jiang Xia pressed it again calmly, and at the same time visually assessed the hardness of the door.
Before he could change his knocking pattern, the door clicked and the occupant unlocked it.
Naoki Kamimura hung the door chain and carefully opened the door a crack - the doorbell kept ringing, and if he didn't respond, his younger brother Akagi who was abducted here might come and open the door himself.
Naoki Kamimura looked outside vigilantly, and when he saw Jiang Xia, his expression became a little confused.
He seldom paid attention to news other than sports. Although he occasionally saw Jiang Xia's photo in the Detective Daily next door when buying newspapers, at this time, Naoki Kamimura failed to recognize him at first sight. He just felt that the person outside the door looked somewhat familiar.
...Maybe a fan came to visit him to express his condolences?
Naoki Kamimura sighed and planned to say a few words to send the person away.
But before he could open his mouth, the "fan" suddenly grabbed the door handle and closed the door with a click.
Naoki Kamimura stared at the door in a daze, almost thinking that he was the one who came to visit and was turned away. What was going on? Did he knock on the wrong door?
In a corner that Naoki Kamimura couldn't see, a piece of white clay-like substance appeared from under the chain button on the door chain, and then quickly stretched out along the gap, pushing the hung door chain out.
The door of this apartment building does not have an automatic lock and can only be locked manually.
The clay disappeared silently, and the metal chain clicked onto the door frame. Naoki Kamimura lowered his head in confusion. Almost at the same time, the door handle turned downwards and the door was pushed open from the outside again.
Jiang Xia walked in as if he was returning to his own home, passed by Uemura Naoki, and headed for the balcony: "Sorry, my cat seems to have run onto your balcony, I'll take it and leave."
……cat?
This word made Naoki Kamimura stunned.
Suddenly, he remembered something - once he was reading a newspaper in the lounge, and after he finished reading, his teammate exchanged the newspaper with him and gave him a third-rate detective tabloid in return.
The first page of the tabloid was a report about a detective who the writer described as "just wanting to find a cat, but always getting involved in murder cases, the ghost of Kudo Shinichi has yet to rest in peace."
And the picture above...
Naoki Kamimura turned his head suddenly, his clothes soaked with cold sweat. He stared at Jiang Xia who was walking towards the balcony - no wonder he felt that the person knocking on the door looked familiar, it turned out that he was a detective who had been in the newspaper!
At such a critical moment, he broke into his house and said he was picking up a cat... No one would believe it! This detective must have gone to check on Akagi's brother's condition.
Naoki Kamimura listened to the commentary of the football game on TV, re-hung the door chain, and then gritted his teeth and gripped his crutches.
——No, we can't let Akagi Hero's brother go just yet. Although the game was already halfway through, Akagi Hero was very reluctant to let him go, and he even lost his focus and accidentally scored a goal, and now the score was still tied.
If Akagi brother leaves now, Akagi Hero may lead the team to turn defeat into victory.
The idea of "letting Hero Akagi taste the taste of failure" has taken root in Naoki Kamimura's heart and has made him a little crazy.
Naoki Kamimura looked at Jiang Xia's seemingly defenseless back, his breathing became heavier, and he slowly raised his crutch.
...He won't beat anyone to death, at most he'll knock them out, and the detective must stay here until the end of the game.
...No one can stop this game in which Hero Akagi is bound to lose!
As Naoki Kamimura raised his crutch, the doorknob turned silently behind him and someone pushed the door open a crack from the outside.
The chain on the door made a slight noise, but it was drowned out by the sound of his brother Akagi's game console, so Naoki Kamimura didn't notice it.
The people who opened the door were the high school students who had just arrived.
——When the three of them ran to this floor, before they turned the corner, Conan vaguely heard the sound of a door closing and also heard voices.
So when Quantum Hiramatsu wanted to ring the doorbell, Conan stopped her, then tried his luck and opened the door directly.
I didn't expect the door was actually not locked. When I pushed it, it slid open a crack.
However, it could only be opened a crack - there was a chain on the door.
Conan peeked inside through the crack in the door.
Mao Lilan and Hiramatsu Quantum also followed over with confusion.
Just then, he saw Naoki Kamimura inside the house swinging his cane, ready to hit the person in front of him.
And the person in front...
Conan: “!”
Mao Lilan: "!!!"
(End of this chapter)
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