Chapter 220 Fourteen Gachapon

Akae Nazuki had just sent Conan and his small suitcase to Teitan Elementary School. After returning home, he met two police officers from the Explosion Squad who were looking for him at the door of his house.

"Let's talk inside." Without even raising his head, he took out a large pile of letters from the mailbox at the door. He very naturally regarded the two people as free labor and signaled them with his eyes to move some of the letters.

Then Hagiwara and Matsuda certainly helped. Doesn't this give them an excuse to openly enter Kudo's house and conduct a close-range investigation?

The three of them then moved into the living room. The two guests were sorting letters on the sofa, while Chijiang Nayue was sitting on the window not far from them, reading the letters.

"As expected of that writer, Kudo. There are many letters here from readers of that writer." Hagiwara looked at the next letter, which was addressed to [Kudo Yusaku], and "There are many readers looking for Kudo Shinichi as well."

"These are all letters from readers..." Matsuda Jinpei rubbed his curly hair and paused when he turned to the last letter.

"Wait, this doesn't look like it. There's no recipient's name written on it?" He frowned. "The other party delivered it themselves."

During the boring sorting task, this unexpected harvest instantly attracted the attention of the detective and Hagiwara. The former carefully looked at the envelope in Matsuda's hand and raised his eyebrows: "It's addressed to me."

He took it from Matsuda and opened it. A piece of soft letter paper and a piece of snow-white cardboard fell out of the envelope.

The content of the letter is as follows: [I am very sorry to write this letter to you suddenly...]

"【I heard that you have provided a lot of help to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department recently, and you are temporarily staying at the home of high school detective Kudo Shinichi, so I would like to invite you to attend this party for detectives.】Wow, it sounds so formal, there is even an invitation letter..."

Kenichi Hagiwara came over and curiously picked up the card in the envelope and turned it over and over. "But your name is not written on the letter or the envelope. There is only this... 'Akai Detective' on the invitation letter?"

Apparently, the three people present all thought of a possibility, that is, the person who sent out the invitation knew that 'Furiya Rei' was not Akae Nazuki's name, and might even know that the detective's real name was 'Akae'.

Kenichi Hagiwara and Jinpei Matsuda exchanged glances.

After coming into contact with each other during this period, they were basically sure that this Detective Furuya was their colleague who had been missing for seven years. However, since the other party used the name of another colleague and pretended not to know them, they had no choice but to cooperate and pretend that they were not familiar with each other.

Now, someone who seemed to know Akae Nazuki's real name suddenly jumped out. Even Matsuda Jinpei sat up straight, took the letter that the detective had just read, and read it again twice carefully.

Until the detective jumped down from the window lightly, patted the non-existent dust on his hands and said as a matter of course: "Then, why don't you all go together?"

Both Hagiwara and Matsuda looked a little surprised. The former asked tentatively, "If you don't mind, Kouya?"

The detective frowned and seemed to give him a blank look. He took a few steps forward and pointed at a sentence in the corner of the letter.

Oh, it turns out that they are the two of Conan's family members who are here to accompany him to the banquet.

Hagiwara blinked: "But it seems not bad? Just think of it as a vacation."

"This party is tomorrow night, right?" Matsuda Jinpei thought so too. He stroked his chin and looked very excited. "Hagi and I happen to have a short break these two days. So when are we going to leave? Tomorrow morning?"

the detective shook his head.

"No, right now." He looked at the two police officers sincerely, "You can buy anything here. It only takes two days."

Akae Nazuki turned his wrist and showed the black card he brought back when Conan wasn't paying attention to them. He said calmly, "This is enough."

The news of Kaluuya’s death was blocked, and even the public security department did not register his identity as dead, not to mention the properties and various accounts he had purchased with other fake identities.

So during this period of time, Akae Nazuki was wandering around Tokyo, partly because of the purpose of transferring these things to his current fake identity.

It didn’t matter before, but now there are two children and an elderly person to support at home... although these three people are not short of money.

Knock knock.

In the end, the two mature police officers, aged 19, each smacked the young detective's head (Hagiwara made a light gesture, but Akae Natsuki felt that Matsuda Jinpei really wanted to smash his head), righteously rejected such an unhealthy trend... and then hurried back to their own apartment to pack their luggage.

Just like Akae and Nayue said, this trip would only take two days and two nights at most, and they were going to a big city like Kyoto where they could buy everything, so they didn't need to bring too much luggage. The two of them just packed some clothes to change, and at the same time, they stuffed in some things that might be useful based on their intuition.

Besides that, the backpack was empty. After seeing it, Chijiang Nayue looked at me speechlessly, saying "I said you can go there and buy it later."

It only takes two and a half hours to get from Tokyo to Kyoto by Shinkansen. Because they set out a little late, when the three of them arrived in Kyoto, Conan had already arrived at the beach with the group of excited children in the class led by Teacher Kobayashi.

For the safety of the children, even though this short trip was for sketching at the seaside, Teacher Kobayashi and another teacher who came to look after the children were so worried that they lost a lot of hair.

"I really don't know what the principal was thinking, organizing first graders to come to Kyoto." Another teacher complained quietly, "It's very dangerous for such young children to leave Tokyo so far."

"Just think of it as a preview of the school trip for the kids." Teacher Kobayashi laughed. "I heard from other teachers that Teitan's sixth grade school trip comes to Kyoto every year... What is the principal's obsession with Kyoto?"

"Who knows..." Another teacher smiled, turned around and grabbed a little kid who was about to run out of the team with a sharp eye, "Kenta-kun, you can't leave the team, okay?"

Conan put his hands behind his head and walked slowly at the end of the team side by side with Haibara.

"So it's you. No wonder Brother Zero didn't look surprised at all." Conan muttered, "When he came back from the restaurant, he said someone had invaded. Later, he specially asked the doctor to make a bunch of high-tech things to fill every corner of the house..."

"Everywhere?"

Conan nodded vigorously, his expression very sad: "You definitely don't want to know when he turned my coffee table into a table with twistable legs and replaced it with a real-time linkable eavesdropping device."

Even when Conan learned about this, he stared at Akae Nazuki in shock for the whole day, and finally realized once again the truth that his cheap brother was the ultimate control freak.

Haibara Ai was wearing a hood, so Conan couldn't see her expression, but he could tell from her tone that it was no big deal. She even gave an example: "If I had taken the organization's people there and had made these arrangements, I wouldn't have known so quickly that you were not dead."

...Damn, this is really convincing!

Conan covered his eyes with a snap, then looked at the brown-haired girl suspiciously: "Come to think of it, Haibara, you seem to be very close to Zero-kun. You don't even protect the doctor that much."

Conan, who learned a few days ago that Haibara was Shirley, later asked the other party many things in detail, including the details of the organization, and most importantly, whether the one who kidnapped the detective and turned him into a Gachapon brother was the Black Organization.

For the former, Haibara answered selectively. Her attitude towards most of the questions was "You'll just rush over and die if I tell you, so I won't tell you." But for the latter, when Haibara learned from Conan about the detective's appearance and the gashapon, the genius lady who had always remained calm turned pale for the first time.

Huihara was thinking that Brother Yue had disappeared for seven years. Seven years might not be a big deal for the organization, but for the scientific research fanatics in the organization, it was enough time for them to torture an experimental subject.

She suddenly had a guess about the seven years that Kaluya had disappeared.

What if, after making some principled mistake, he was labeled a traitor, and the boss was tired of his loyal dog and sent him to a research institute to become an experimental subject? That's why there is a Gachapon brother, and Kudo probably entered the scene by mistake and accidentally "rescued" Kalua.

This is just a reasonable guess she made from the perspective of "Researcher Shirley". Huiyuan herself certainly doesn't want this to be the truth, and she would never tell Conan that person is a member of the organization.

So in the end, faced with that question, Huihara chose to nod.

"This is not my responsibility, but there is no shortage of crazy researchers in the organization," she said coldly at the time, "especially undercover agents. These people have strong physical qualities and will deteriorate very slowly no matter how they are tortured. They are quite popular with other researchers."

What she said was all true, but after putting the words together it took on a different meaning... At least it seemed like Detective Kudo had been fooled for the time being.

Haibara believes that whether to tell Conan her identity is not a decision she can make by herself. She must wait until Kalua and Nazuki recover their memories, and then make the decision herself.

Obviously, Conan was no longer calm after receiving this information. He had been thinking about what had happened to make the public security department think that Zero had died in the line of duty. He originally thought that he had just lost contact, but now he thought that maybe the public security department had received some news, such as Zero's undercover identity was exposed and he was sent to the research institute or something.

In this case, it's no wonder that they were so wary of Zero who suddenly appeared in the outside world without contacting the police, and they kept him under surveillance.

Maybe he suspected that he was brainwashed by an experiment? Or maybe he suspected that it was a bait released by the organization?

Conan was lost in thought, but one thing remained constant.

He would never let the organization attack Zero again.

A powerful fire ignited behind the child!

the other side.

"Are you sure it's here?"

Matsuda Jinpei stood in front of the bus stop. After a long silence, he turned to look at Akae Nazuki who was pointing the way and asked, "The address on the invitation letter is in Maizuru City, so this must be Fushimi!"

Maizuru and Fushimi, one is in the north and the other in the south. It cannot be said that they are very close to each other. It can only be said that they have no connection at all except that they are both in Kyoto Prefecture.

Chijiang Nayue silently looked away: "...Ah, I went the wrong way."

Matsuda Jinpei: "Ah, you're a head!!"