Chapter 80

The four of them wanted to go up and ask for directions, but they didn't expect to hear the group of kids saying bad things about Xingchuan and Ming behind their backs.

Putting aside personal opinions, just looking at the character of Hoshikawa Kazuaki and the fact that he has been using his royalties to support the welfare home, he can be said to be a well-deserved philanthropist. Even if someone really dislikes him because of personal grudges, they really shouldn't use such vicious words to attack him.

Regardless of his original intention, Hoshikawa Kazuaki's contribution to the welfare home is indelible.

However, what was unexpected was that from the very first moment they met, the people in the welfare home showed no gratitude towards Xingchuan and Ming, and now some children have gathered together to slander them, not hiding their ill will towards Xingchuan and Ming at all.

Not to mention close friends, even Conan Edogawa, who had set traps with Hoshikawa and Akira many times, couldn't bear to watch such a scene.

Idahang never tolerated people talking bad about his friends behind their backs. He thought that if he were seven years younger, he might have stepped forward and denounced their slander.

But now he has been a criminal police for seven years and is much more stable than when he was in the police academy.

Plus, the people who were talking were just a group of kids after all, so even though he was very angry at this moment, his first reaction was to hold back the people behind him to prevent them from doing anything excessive in impulse.

However, what Date Kou did not expect was that after hearing those people's slander, Hagiwara Kenji, who had never been very well-behaved, was unusually not impulsive. Instead, it was Kagino Satoshi, who had deliberately kept a distance from Hoshikawa and Akira along the way, who reacted the most.

Kagino Satoshi's eyes were red at this point, and he was shaking with anger. He didn't care who was talking, and he yelled at them:

"Stop talking nonsense here! Xiaoxing was not abandoned by his friends! He is such a good person and has contributed so much to the welfare home. You ungrateful bastards, what right do you have to say that about him!"

As he was talking, Kagano Satoshi was about to lift his legs and move forward, but Hagiwara Kenji, who had been paying attention to him, hugged him from behind and urged him anxiously:

"Xiaozhi! Calm down. We all know that Xiaoxing is not that kind of person. These are just kids. Don't bother with them."

The group of children who had gathered together were talking excitedly, and seemed to have taken slandering others as a way to show off. Suddenly, they were startled by Kagano Satoshi, and immediately stopped talking and turned to look over here.

Date Kou was also surprised by Kagino Satoshi's reaction at this time. He didn't expect that Kenji's friend would be so protective of Hoshikawa. However, as a reliable policeman, he still remembered that in this situation, he had to suppress the situation immediately.

He hurriedly tried to comfort the group of frightened children, but to his surprise, the children just looked at them with disdain, then dispersed and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Conan was the calmest of the four. He looked at Kagamino Satoshi who was still indignant, and Hagiwara Kenji who was trying to comfort this angry cat, but he was very concerned about what Kagamino Satoshi had just said.

Kagino Satoshi's emotions were so intense that it was understandable that he felt sorry for Hoshikawa and Akira. However, when he was angry, the first thing he paid attention to was not the disgust of the children towards Hoshikawa and Akira, but the fact that the children said that Hoshikawa and Akira were "abandoned by their friends".

Why is there such a rumor about Hoshikawa Kazuaki? Who is the friend who allegedly "abandoned" him? Why did Kagamino Satoshi react so violently?

Conan thought of the fact that Satoshi Kagino also lived in this orphanage when he was a child, and suddenly an outrageous guess came to his mind.

Could the friend who "abandoned" Hoshikawa and Ming be Kagino Satoshi?

Conan did not forget that when Kagamine discovered that Hoshikawa and Akira were being targeted, he was smart enough to hack into his computer and mobile phone as soon as possible and send a warning letter to the mailbox of his apartment.

It can be seen that before this, Kagino Satoshi had been secretly monitoring the lives of Hoshikawa and Ming.

In addition, when they met at the foot of the mountain before, Kagino Satoshi's attitude of obviously caring about the other party but awkwardly avoiding him from a distance all showed that although something happened between them, it was definitely not as those people said.

The people at the welfare home not only slandered my friend's character, but also defamed the friendship between the two of them. No wonder Kagino Tomotsu was so angry.

Hagiwara Kenji used all his skills and finally calmed the angry cat. Conan pointed in the direction where the group of children ran away and said:

"What should we do now? We can't ask for directions."

Kagino Satoshi was still in a bad mood, and his tone became stiff:

"I was so mad at those guys just now that I remembered some things from my childhood. I remember that the collection room is behind the Wall of Honor. I'll take you to the Wall of Honor first, and we should be able to find it soon."

Hagiwara Kenji reached out and patted Kagamino Satoshi's shoulder, and soothed him in a pretentiously relaxed tone:

"Glad you remembered. Xiaozhi and the others are already waiting. Let's go over there quickly."

Wall of Honor? Conan remembered that these three words were in the notice letter that Hoshikawa and Akira received. Conan followed behind the others on his short legs and noticed that Date Kou was also a little interested in these three words, and he nodded secretly.

Officer Date is indeed a senior whom even Officers Takagi and Sato admire. His sensitivity is truly extraordinary.

At that time, they thought that the "Wall of Honor" in the preview letter was just a metaphor, but it turned out that there was actually such a place in the welfare home.

In that situation, if Kagino Satoshi wanted to warn Hoshikawa and Akira as much as possible, he had to use some words that were common to others but had special meanings to both of them.

So the Wall of Honor here is a special existence for them?

After turning around and around in the bamboo forest and bushes, the four of them soon arrived at a small empty space. In the center of the space stood a single brick wall with common propaganda slogans written on one side of the wall and a huge blackboard next to it with the names of the children who had performed well recently.

Conan suddenly realized that the so-called "Wall of Honor" was really just a wall used to display the honors received.

So how did such an ordinary thing become that special existence in the hearts of Hoshikawa Kazuaki and Kagino Satoshi?

The group continued to search along this road, and suddenly heard Mao Lilan's voice coming from not far away:

"Conan, Officer Date, so you're here!"

Following the sound, they saw a large house on the other side of the bamboo forest. Mao Lilan was standing in front of the door, waving at them.

From their perspective, the house was hidden in the dense bamboo forest, so it was easy to be overlooked. But from Mao Lilan's perspective, because this place is relatively empty, and there is the Wall of Honor as a reference, so they were discovered quickly.

Finally found it!

The group breathed a sigh of relief and hurried towards Ran. Before Conan could see the building clearly, he was about to step onto the stairs when Ran pulled him back:

"Conan, the library is above the collection room. We need to wipe off the dirt under our feet before we can go in."

Conan lowered his head and saw that the bottom of his shoes were still stained with mud from the dirt road on the path when he walked across the lawn. Perhaps it was because of the special nature of the soil, the mud was very easy to stick to the soles of shoes and was not easy to fall off.

The others were walking on the paved gravel road, and only his soles were dirty. So he responded obediently:

"Hello, Sister Xiaolan."

Tomo Kagino happened to pass by and saw Conan acting coquettishly towards Ran Mouri, so from an angle where Ran couldn't see, he reached out and made a heart shape towards Conan and gave him a mocking look.

Veins suddenly popped up on Conan's head.

This guy is still making fun of me for having a crush on Xiaolan! Damn it! How could I have a crush on her? I've already confessed my feelings to her.

Although he used the identity of Kudo Shinichi.

As soon as I entered the room, I saw Kogoro Mouri being very attentive to a beautiful woman who was dressed very fashionably, while Hoshikawa Kazuaki and Miss Rika were standing beside them, smiling very awkwardly.

Mao Lilan also felt that her father's behavior was extremely stupid, so she had to introduce him to the others awkwardly:

"That lady is an employee of this welfare home. She originally wanted to come to the library upstairs to read books, um..."

Mao Lilan couldn't continue speaking, so she took a deep breath and shouted at Mao Li Kogoro:

"Dad! Officer Ida and the others are here, please don't bother Ms. Arimori anymore!"

An employee of a welfare home?

Date Kou and Hagiwara Kenji looked at each other.

Great! They were worried about not being able to find anyone to ask about Nagata Ryo. Now that they had met this Ms. Arimori, they could start investigating. By the way, they could also ask what the rumors about Hoshikawa and Akira in the welfare home were all about.

So the two of them approached tacitly, Date Kou put his arm around Maori Kogoro's shoulders, and enthusiastically wanted to visit the collection room with this senior from the police academy. Hagiwara Kenji, on the other hand, showed off his superb social skills and chatted happily with this Miss Arimori in just a few words.

Conan originally wanted to follow Kenji Hagiwara to get clues, but then he changed his mind and thought that Officer Hagiwara would definitely tell Officer Date after getting the clues. He might as well take this opportunity to go to the collection room and look for old items left over from those years. Maybe he could really collect the fingerprints of Hoshikawa and Akira when they were children.