Chapter 765 The disappeared Toru Amuro
Masao Koda frowned and thought about it, and felt that what Jiang Xia said made some sense.
But at the same time, he was worried: "What if Watanuki Yoshiichi doesn't let me in? And what if I alert the enemy..."
"Since you firmly believe that the body is buried in his yard, you should have negotiated with him."
Seeing the client nod, Jiang Xia continued, "So, if you want to 'alert the enemy', you have already done it. And this is actually just an attempt - what if he really lets us in to prove that he has nothing to hide, wouldn't that be great?
"Even if we fail, there's still the next Saturday, and the Saturday after that... Although it's not nice to say this, the body has been buried for a month, and many valuable clues have been lost over time. A week earlier or later may not make much difference in the outcome."
Masao Koda pressed his forehead in thought and hesitated for a long time.
Finally, he nodded: "Let's do it this way."
…
Judging from past patterns, there was still more than an hour before Yoshikazu Watanuki went to the hospital for a routine checkup.
Koda Masao urged Jiang Xia to leave as soon as possible.
——There are indeed many Saturdays to come, but Masao Koda doesn’t want to waste this one.
Therefore, he planned to follow Jiang Xia's instructions and visit Watanuki Yoshi's family, and try to get in by relying on the other party's face-saving habits. If this doesn't work... Koda Masao actually made other plans.
So in order to avoid wasting time, he wanted to try the "visit" that Jiang Xia mentioned before Watanuki Yoshiichi went out. If he failed, he would still have time to follow his own plan.
Jiang Xia had no intention of delaying.
He stood up and was about to casually invite Boss Amuro to go with him, hoping that he could pick up a case on the way there and another on the way back.
However, when I turned around, there was nothing behind me.
——Toru Amuro just left a reminder, and then disappeared.
"……?"
Jiang Xia was stunned for a moment and looked at the ghosts floating nearby.
Since Toru Amuro was not in a delicious state that exuded murderous aura just now, he was almost transparent in the ghost's eyes.
Only Matsuda Jinpei paid a little attention to him out of friendship with his old classmates. But soon, he couldn't help but look at Koda Masao who was emitting a bit of murderous intent.
At this moment, seeing Jiang Xia looking over, Matsuda Jinpei tried hard to recall and pointed to the door hesitantly.
——It remembered that just now, Amuro Toru walked in that direction very quietly. At that time, it thought that the old classmate had gone out to do something, but it didn't expect that he would never come back after leaving. Judging from the situation, he must have slipped away.
Jiang Xia: “…”
Tsk.
…
On the other side, in the park.
Conan originally wanted to go to the bookstore to pick up the "Detective Samonji" series he had ordered.
However, as soon as he stepped out of the door, he was surrounded by the Young Detectives, dragged away, and taken to play baseball.
The children originally wanted to go find Haibara Ai, but when they remembered a handsome humanoid creature who lived next door to Haibara Ai, they didn't dare to go over.
Fortunately, communications have gradually developed nowadays. The naughty kids gratefully took out their mobile phones and sent an email to Haibara Ai, asking her out.
Haibara Ai spends all day in front of the computer and replies quickly.
In the end, the five people met at the station smoothly.
However, playing baseball requires a large open space, which is not easy to find.
The five of them rushed back and forth, and finally set their sights on a remote park, where they started fighting happily.
…
However, after just a few hits, something went wrong.
——The strong Kojima Genta swung the bat fiercely, and the ball flew high up with a "bang" and landed on the other side of the bushes in the distance.
Conan, who was playing in the outfield, had his eyes twitched and could only resign himself to running over to pick up the ball.
…
After going around the bushes, Conan looked at the place where the baseball fell and was stunned.
——There was a bench there, and on the bench sat a man with light hair.
The man was wearing a pair of metal-rimmed glasses that gave him a scholarly air, with an open laptop on his lap, looking like he was about to work overtime.
However, at this moment, he stopped typing on the keyboard, his breathing was shrieking, he rubbed his head as if in pain, and straightened his glasses which seemed to have been knocked crooked by something. Next to him, there fell a familiar baseball.
“…”
Conan looked at the scene, and everything seemed very obvious - it should be the baseball that Genta hit just now that fell here and hit the person in front of him who was working overtime with a laptop.
...Although it was a bit of a coincidence, the balls hit by that group of unlucky kids often hit all kinds of unlucky passers-by. This was not the first time Conan had encountered such a thing.
You shouldn't run away from mistakes.
Conan trotted forward skillfully and apologized, "I'm sorry, I didn't expect there were people here... We didn't mean to do that."
The "unlucky passerby" on the bench turned his head to look at him, shook his head helplessly, picked up the ball that hit him and handed it to him: "The park is not a place to play baseball."
Conan reached out and took it.
At this time, the other children also heard the noise and came over.
Realizing that they had gotten into trouble again, the three of them couldn't help but shrink back and apologized: "I'm sorry."
"Nothing." Okiya Subaru looked at them and suddenly sighed, revealing an expression of nostalgia. "It's better to be a child. There are no worries. When you grow up..."
When Conan heard this, he subconsciously glanced at his screen.
Then I squinted my eyes because of the series of formulas and modeling, and felt a sense of pressure from the homework.
The other people did not have similar feelings - Haibara Ai was not that curious and did not look at Okiya Subaru's computer.
The other three kids couldn't understand that.
However, after hearing what Okiya Subaru said, they subconsciously refuted:
"We have a lot of worries too! For example, today we ran around for a long time looking for a place to play baseball..." The three looked at Subaru Okiya with envy, "I heard that when you guys were young, there were a lot of vacant land and there were baseball fields in any neighborhood. But when it comes to us, every piece of land has a building..."
This worry was half true and half false, secretly mixed with a bit of selfish motive - they wanted to describe their difficult task of finding a venue as a little more miserable, hoping that in this way, the good-tempered uncle in front of them would turn a blind eye and ignore their behavior of playing baseball in a public place and let them continue playing.
Okiya Subaru smiled when he heard them say that there were "a lot of empty spaces" in the past:
"It's true that there were more than now, but not as exaggerated as you think. At least since I was a child, Tokyo has been very prosperous. Except in the suburbs, it is difficult to find so many vacant fields. However, if you really want to play baseball that much..."
He seemed to suddenly remember something: "I know a place where you can play baseball. Do you want to go and have a look?"
(End of this chapter)
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