Chapter 79

"Do you know who Nagata Ryo is?"

When Kagano Satoshi said this, the two policemen who were still considering whether to stop him immediately became serious. They looked at Edogawa Conan at the same time. The gazes of the three of them were extremely oppressive, causing Conan to break out in a cold sweat.

He resisted the urge to run away, waved his arms and said in a grandiose manner:

"No, that's not the case. I really don't know who this Nagata Ryo that big brother was talking about is. Haha, hahaha..."

However, the two police officers present had very sharp observation skills, especially Hagiwara Kenji. Once he got serious, almost no little secret could escape his eyes. So he saw at a glance that Conan was lying.

However, Hagiwara Kenji was always patient with children, so he squatted down and coaxed Conan gently:

"Lying is not a good habit. Conan, you have also heard what Senior Maori said, Officer Date and I are both police officers, and we can catch the bad guys based on the clues you provided. Bad guys will do bad things to hurt others, and only by catching bad guys can we protect innocent people from being hurt. So Conan, tell us, who exactly is that Nagata Ryo?"

Kenji Hagiwara's voice is very soft, and his droopy lavender eyes look gentle and innocent. When he looks at someone wholeheartedly, no matter who it is, they will easily fall into the atmosphere he creates.

Conan was stared at by Kenji Hagiwara, and his firm determination to deny everything was quickly shaken.

He suddenly understood Kenji Hagiwara's thoughts. As police officers, the only goal of these two people was to bring criminals to justice and protect the innocent from harm.

As an insider of the clue, if I refuse to reveal important clues just to prevent my own secret from being discovered, then what is the difference between such selfishness and condoning a criminal?

After figuring it out, Conan no longer used the previous exaggerated actions to cover up. He immediately began to think about how much he should reveal. After all, even if it is the same thing, as long as he changes the way he says it, he can hide the part he doesn't want to reveal.

Date Ko knew that he looked a little too serious and might easily scare children, so he did not step forward at this time. Instead, he stood far behind Hagiwara Kenji, putting on a calm and reliable attitude to add credibility to Hagiwara's words.

Compared to the two of them, Kagamino Tomoko is not as good-tempered. He and Hoshikawa and Akira are actually different aliases of the same person, so of course he knows that the Edogawa Conan in front of him is actually a smaller version of Kudo Shinichi, so he is not as innocent as he pretends to be.

Kagino Satoshi reached out and pressed down on Conan's head, then watched Conan struggle to escape from his hand again, then he deliberately made a ferocious expression and said viciously:

"Don't make excuses here. Tell me the truth quickly, or I'll go tell your sister Xiaolan that you have a crush on her!"

Conan paused in his struggle, his eyes widened in horror, and then he didn't care about any excuses anymore, he grabbed Kagano Satoshi by the collar, shook him vigorously and shouted:

"No! Don't tell Sister Xiaolan! I don't have a crush on you, don't talk nonsense!"

Kagino Tomo immediately seemed to have discovered some big secret. He stopped pretending to be fierce and looked at Conan in surprise for a long time, until Conan was a little panicked, and then he said with emotion:

"So you're afraid of being accused of having a crush on Ms. Maori? I never expected that children these days are so precocious."

Then Kagino Satoshi once again put on a ferocious look and said in a vicious voice:

"Then listen to me! I'm going to threaten you with reporting. Tell us the truth, or I'll tell Miss Maori!"

Conan's whole body froze immediately. He could never have imagined that this Kagino Satoshi, who looked so gullible, would actually try to trick a child like him?

At this moment, he was almost doubting his life. Along the way, he had dealt with so many sinister and cunning criminals, and tricked so many people with his innocent appearance. He never thought that today he would be threatened by a hacker who looked so innocent!

Kenji Hagiwara, who was standing by, suddenly laughed in an unkind way, and Conan immediately glared at him.

Isn't this guy a policeman? How could he watch someone threatening a child and not only did he not stop it, but he also just stood there and watched the joke?

"Ha, sorry," Hagiwara Kenji held back his laughter and finally remembered to speak for Conan, "Xiaozhi, stop scaring the kid and let him talk properly."

He then turned to Conan:

"Don't be afraid, Conan. This brother Xiaozhi is just joking with you. Don't pay attention to him. Just tell me about that Nagata Ryo, okay?"

Conan was tired. He felt that if he was really only seven years old, he would have been so angry at these guys that he couldn't even speak. But who told him that he was actually a high school detective who put catching the criminal first?

So Conan decisively ignored Kagino Satoshi's shouting of "I'm not kidding" and began to make up stories based on his own personal experience.

"Actually, I heard about it from Shinichi-nii-nii."

In fact, he himself is Kudo Shinichi.

"Brother Shinichi said that he and Brother Hoshikawa had worked together to solve a case a year ago, and one of the suspects was named Nagata Ryo."

In fact, Conan had long forgotten the name of the suspect in the case he handled a year ago. The reason he still remembered it this time was because he asked Takagi to look up the file from a year ago in order to compare the fingerprints of Hoshikawa and Akira a few days ago.

When obtaining the fingerprints left on the photo, he happened to glance at the information of the other two suspects at the time and remembered Nagata Ryo's name.

"I was just...playing hide-and-seek when I heard a familiar name and was curious. That's why Officer Ida found me."

In fact, after Conan learned that Ryo Nagata was actually related to the poisoning case of Hoshikawa Kazuaki, the first thing he began to wonder was whether Ryo Nagata's appearance at the scene of the case a year ago was a coincidence or intentional?

What's more, if Nagata Ryo was really targeting Hoshikawa and Akira, would there be some connection between the poisoning case a year ago and this poisoning case a year later?

Was Ryo Nagata, one of the suspects at the time, really completely innocent?

It was because of this doubt that Conan accidentally broke a branch of the bush due to his distracted mind, and was discovered by Date Kou.

After Conan briefly explained the relevant information about the case a year ago, Date Ko immediately contacted Takagi Wataru and asked him to help find the case information and send it to his mobile phone.

Kenji Hagiwara praised Conan with a professional tone comparable to that of a child care teacher. Conan had to cooperate with him by grinning silly the whole time, and his mouth was almost twitching from exhaustion.

Only Kagino Satoshi pretended to be bored and watched the scenery, but in his mind he had already scolded Hoshikawa and Akira.

Kagino Satoshi: Xiaoxing, you are an old man! Look at little Conan, he can still remember the suspect clearly after a year. Look at you, you even forgot the name of your fellow suspect just through a copy! If Conan hadn't remembered, you wouldn't have known that you and Nagata Ryo had met once a year ago!

Hoshikawa Kazuaki: Uh...but my memory is really bad, there's nothing I can do about it.

Kagino Satoshi: I don't care if your memory is good or not. Now the problem is very obvious. That Nagata Ryo has been targeting you since a year ago! So you have always been dangerous, right?

Hoshikawa Kazuaki: It's not necessarily that he had hostile intentions towards me that early on. Wasn't Nagata Ryo a spy sent to my place by the hooded vest? Maybe he was just monitoring me normally at that time?

Kagino Satoshi: Oh, it's so annoying. Where on earth did that bottle of perverted wine find such a troublesome spy? He found it but couldn't control it, and he had to make us clean up the mess for him. Damn it! Next time, I should give him more trouble!

Hoshikawa Kazuaki: What perverted wine? Are you talking about the hooded vest? Do you have information about him?

Kagino Satoshi: The reason I sent you a warning letter this time is because I tried to get information about him but failed, and I accidentally intercepted a message with no beginning or end. The message roughly meant that it was not enough to destroy your reputation, but I also wanted to make you unable to speak forever, something like that.

Hoshikawa Kazuaki: Can't even you find out who sent and received the message?

Kagino Satoshi: I already said it was an accidental interception. Why do you keep asking me, after our consciousnesses were connected, didn’t you also have my memories? Can’t you remember it yourself?

Hoshikawa Kazuaki: Uh... I've already said that there's something wrong with my memory. Even if I have your memory, I'll forget it very quickly. And different memories mixed together will be very confusing, so I just don't care.

Kagino Satoshi: Ah, you pig-brained fool.

Hoshikawa Kazuaki: Thank you. I also hope that my memory can catch up with that of a pig soon.

Perhaps because this was the second time he had looked through the file, Takagi quickly sent the information Date Kou needed. Date Kou quickly read through it, then shook his head in disappointment.

"No, that's too little. I guess I need to find someone who knows the situation and ask him in person."

He asked Kagamino Satoshi again:

"The information you got from that person does say that Nagata Ryo is related to this welfare home?"

Kagamino Satoshi nodded. He, Hoshikawa Kazuaki and others all believed that even if the bottle of perverted wine in the hood vest had not been activated, it would not lie about this.

Yi Dahang nodded, his expression becoming solemn.

"In that case, let's start by asking Miss Lihua. As long as Nagata Ryo has really had any contact with the orphanage, we will definitely find clues."

Tomoya Kagino became excited. As long as they found the clue, he, Hoshikawa and Akira's part of the mission would be completed.

"Okay! Then let's go find Xiaoxing and the others first! Oh, by the way, Ms. Maori just said that they went to visit the collection room first. Does anyone know where the collection room is?"

The three people present all silently turned their gazes to Kagamino Satoshi.

Kagino Satoshi exchanged glances with them, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared.

"What do you mean? Do you think I know?"

Conan couldn't help but complain:

"Come on, among the four of us, you're the only one who's been here before, and you've even lived here before, don't you know where the collection room is?"

He thought of the prank Kagano Tomo had played on him before, so he squinted his eyes and laughed:

"Xiaozhi, you really can't remember it, right? Should I go find someone to complain to? Well, how about telling Xingchuan?"

Kagino Satoshi almost jumped up in shock when he heard this. Just kidding, he just mocked Hoshikawa and Ming for being stupid. If he knew that I actually forgot the way to the collection room, he would definitely laugh at me!

He immediately said to Conan viciously:

"Don't be ridiculous! I was only seven years old when I left here. How could I remember the way to the collection room? You little brat, don't go and tell on me! Do you hear me?"

Conan stared at him blankly, not knowing how to complain for a moment.

I just said that on purpose to scare myself before taking revenge on him. Did this guy really think I would do something as childish as complaining?

Wait, is this guy really afraid that I will report him?

No way? How could I be threatened by such a childish guy before?

Finally, the four decided to walk in a random direction and ask for directions when they found someone at the welfare home.

Coincidentally, they soon met people, and they happened to be the group of children who were responsible for the "welcome" with flowers in their hands at the previous welcoming ceremony.

Just as the four of them were about to step forward to ask, they suddenly heard several children yelling angrily:

"That guy named Xingchuan Heming, why did he come back after he left? Don't you know that everyone in the welfare home hates him?"

"Just because he drew a few crappy comics, he thinks he's so great and thinks we all have to flatter him!"

"Bah! Shameless! I hate people like him the most!"

"I also heard that Xingchuan Heming had to stay in the orphanage because he was abandoned by his friends. In my opinion, a person like him deserves to be abandoned by his friends!"

Ida Hang paused and stopped several people behind him, wondering: Xingchuan has obviously contributed so much to the welfare home, why do these children say this about Xingchuan?