Chapter 232 Twenty-six Gachapon

"…Xiao Zhenping, you said something so cool." Hagiwara Kenji held Yu Xunran's shoulder and breathed softly, "'The disaster will last for a thousand years', isn't that what Xiao Nayue said before?"

"Matsuda, you are amazing to be able to show off in this way," said Toru Amuro in a subtle tone.

"Yes, especially since he laughed after listening to it." Zhu Fu Jingguang was thoughtful, "So you can make him laugh in this way, are you a genius?"

"Who wants to be a genius in a place like this!" Matsuda Jinpei covered his face in shame. The temperament of a 29-year-old mature police officer disappeared completely in the jokes of his friends. He emphasized, "I just said it on impulse, on impulse! In fact, I wanted to punch him, but that guy looks the same as he did seven years ago..."

The implication is, who among the four people present can really beat up their friend who looks like a high school student?

This makes a lot of sense, thought Amuro Toru, because when he first found out that this guy used his name, he also had a brief thought that if he didn't consider the final price he would have to pay, he really wanted to put a sack on the other party and beat him up.

However, the person who used his name not only used his friend's face, but also looked to be only in his teens or twenties. If he really wanted to take action, he would probably be arrested by his other friends and taken to the police station immediately.

From the beginning to the end, Toru Amuro never considered the possibility of 'what if he couldn't defeat the detective'... This is understandable.

The detective is the type who looks thin when dressed but has muscles when undressed. Toru Amuro doesn't have the opportunity to take a shower with the detective like Conan. Even though he can tell that the detective is definitely not thin because of his great driving skills, he has no way of knowing that under that clothes is actually a body full of explosive power.

"Besides, is it that hard to make him laugh?" Matsuda Jinpei used the tip of his tongue to nudge his cheek from the inside, and decided to shift the embarrassment to his friends. So he calmly cited examples, trying to drag everyone into the water, "Let's not talk about Hagi, he laughed many times when you and Aka secretly made an appointment to go out and play, and you even sent me a message to show off."

Hagiwara Kenji blinked and smiled, but there was no special reaction. If you must say, he looked quite proud: "Although the smile at that time was different from the previous one, but what you said is right~"

"Tsk." Matsuda looked away from Yuujinran in disgust, then calmly looked at Morobushi Kagemitsu, "And Midorikawa, don't think I can't tell. That guy said there were too many biscuits two days ago and asked me and Hagi, two strong men, to share them. You made the biscuits, right? I could tell in one bite, and the detective looked very happy when he ate them."

Morofushi Kagemitsu, who was named, smiled, neither nodded nor shook his head, but this reaction clearly confirmed Matsuda's words.

Amuro Toru himself didn't even know how relaxed his expression was when he was with his friends in private. He was looking at Morobushi Kagemitsu with an accusing look.

They clearly agreed before that detectives are dangerous, so it's best not to have private contact, right? Hiro this guy...!

Matsuda Jinpei, who was talking over there, finally shifted his gaze to Amuro Toru.

"I……"

"Hmm..." Amuro Toru was about to start his defense as if he was facing a powerful enemy, when he heard the curly-haired police officer frowning and saying firmly after thinking, "I thought I remembered it wrong, but after thinking about it, it turned out that I didn't remember it wrong. It was you, the blond bastard, who really didn't make him laugh."

Toru Amuro, seriously injured!

He held on to his dignity as Bourbon and sneered twice, "How do you know there is none? Could it be that Officer Matsuda follows the detective all the time, so he knows everything about it?"

The veins on Matsuda Jinpei's forehead jumped: "...My fist suddenly said it missed you, the defeated general."

"Really? I remember someone's dentures were knocked out by me. Who is the loser?" Amuro Toru retorted without panic.

Seeing that the two were about to start fighting again, Hagiwara Kenji was still calmly whispering to Morofushi Kagemitsu.

"The relationship between Kofuku and Kojinpei has remained as good as ever for seven years. I can't really interfere." Hagiwara Kenji sighed in a low voice, half-seriously, "Even when they were apart, they were both so mature and steady. So mature that I almost didn't recognize it was Kofuku. The same goes for Kojinpei. When he was in the hall, he could always scare the newcomers to tears with his stern demeanor..."

"Hey, who scared the newcomer to tears?"

"But once they meet each other, they become childish." Morobushi Kagemitsu echoed in a serious voice, "When Zero found out that Aka was using his name, he said he didn't care, but he was actually so angry that he monitored Aka all night for many days."

"I don't, I don't care!"

"What do you care about?" Chijiang Nayue, who had just returned from a phone call, asked casually.

Amuro fell into silence, but he knew he wanted to say something... but he couldn't.

His mood today was like a roller coaster, with ups and downs that were too abrupt. First, he was depressed because it was the anniversary of his best friend's death. He didn't have time to be happy when he found out that his friend might not be dead. Then he heard the other party say that he seemed to have experienced a lot of unimaginable bad things and even lost important memories.

Moreover, he suddenly found out that his name was used because this was the only name that the amnesiac Akae Nazuki remembered. How could he question it?

Toru Amuro still doesn't completely believe the detective's one-sided words. Even if the other party is exactly the same as the faded Aka in his memory, and he is sure that this is Aka himself, he can't completely let down his guard against the other party. He thinks Morobushi Kagemitsu is similar in this regard.

He cast a long glance at the detective walking towards them, his eyes resting on the other's thin shoulders.

...I've lost a lot of weight.

Based on the "cause of death" of Akae Nayue seven years ago, Toru Amuro seriously suspected that the truth might be that the other party was not dead that year, and was picked up by the organization and used as an experimental subject. The loss of memory was the sequelae of that time... or it might be due to traumatic stress reaction, and the so-called transaction was also a reflection of the value of the experimental subject.

If that's really the case.

He couldn't help but clench his fists tighter.

If this is true, what did Aka go through in the organization? Compared to the seven years of torture, he was shocked to find that he began to find it easier to accept that Aka really died painlessly in the center of the explosion seven years ago.

"That call was from the kids, right? Did something happen there?" Hagiwara Kenji changed the subject and asked curiously.

"Ah." The detective's expression seemed to soften a little. "They went on an adventure."

"Exploring? Exploring in someone else's home?" Jinpei Matsuda complained.

"Conan said that the children found a photo marked with an x ​​during a brief indoor exploration, and then judged from the background of the photo that it was behind the manor, near the swimming pool." Akae Nazuki was already calm when he said this. After all, he knew very well the curiosity and destructiveness of the children.

"They thought it might be a code, so..." He didn't finish, but the others, who had known the boys' passion for solving crimes even briefly, understood.

"Then let's go over now." Morofushi Jingguang suggested after a moment's hesitation, "But Hattori-kun and Miss Heye probably can't hold the children, after all, they just met."

Coincidentally, the others thought the same, even the detective who was very gentle to children and had great trust in his brother agreed to this proposal. After walking a few steps forward, they remembered that Amuro Toru, who had been silent since the detective came back, was still standing behind them, so they turned around and greeted him.

Even the detective looked at him for a while, his lips curled up slightly, and he mouthed: [Are you shy? Zero? ]

Toru Amuro couldn't help but touch the corner of his mouth, which was also curled up.

He wiped his face and chased after him: "Wait, I'm going too!"

Although it was corny, he was really happy to see a real Aka standing in front of him who could laugh, get angry and show off his sense of humor.

Very good.

"Now I'm not the last one, the squad leader is the backup." Toru Amuro, who caught up with Morobushi Kagemitsu and walked beside him, said meaningfully to Jinpei Matsuda.

Aka also smiled at him just now.

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On the other side, after hanging up the phone, Conan stared at the screen of his mobile phone and sighed heavily.

"What's wrong, Detective Edogawa?" Ai, who was standing next to him, asked leisurely, with her hands behind her back, even though she knew the answer.

"I don't know whether to say it's lucky or unlucky." Conan said casually, "Luckily, Brother Yue has recovered some of his memories. Unfortunately, there are not many people here, including many members of the organization. I couldn't catch any trace of them before."

"You still want to catch me?" Xiao Ai said coldly, "Then Brother Yue will let you know how naive your thoughts are."

After hearing the name "Brother Nayue", Xiao Ai knew that her brother had probably revealed a lot of information to this high school detective, so she no longer concealed it and called him in a very natural tone.

As Conan listened, he remembered that the Haibara guy had lied to him before, saying that he didn't know Yue Ge...but now it seems that they have known him for a long time!

He was slightly angry for a few seconds, then he regained his composure.

Forget it, there's no need to be angry. Hui originally defected and felt insecure, so it's normal that such things were kept secret from him. After all, since they are companions now, there's no need to bring up the past.

He is not an unreasonable person.

"Those two members of the organization are already troublesome enough, and now there's a new doctor, and now there's Yuri Tsuji's tattoo..." Conan changed the subject and rubbed his hair worriedly, "Are all the members of the organization gathered together?"

Normally, he would probably start investigating excitedly, but now the situation is different! There are those innocent children here, as well as the organization traitor Huiyuan, and now he even knows that his brother is probably one of the defectors of the organization.

This situation makes it impossible for Conan to fully devote himself to tracking down the organization.

"Come to think of it now, Dr. Shindo's technique is very much like checking a disguise." Conan suddenly thought of something, "I've seen my mother do that before, and it's basically easy to feel the boundary line behind the ears and on the neck..."

Xiao Ai suddenly shuddered, her face turned pale and she bit her lip: "Disguise?!"

She hadn't guessed this before, and thought that Akai Niide was just a member of an organization she had never seen before, but if it was related to disguise.

Vermode, that's not an easy character to deal with.

Xiao Ai was about to say something more, but when she looked up, she noticed something was wrong around her. It seemed that everything had been quiet for a long time.

She paused: "...Wait a minute, Edogawa."

"Where are the kids?"