Conan's other self

in memory.

seven years ago.

Next to a public restroom outside a baseball stadium, the water pipe at the sink was disconnected in the middle, and tap water was constantly gushing out.

The young Kudo Shinichi stood on tiptoes and leaned forward, holding the broken water pipe tightly with his hands, trying to block the water pipe, but this obviously did not help.

He has been here for a long time.

A few steps behind him, Xiaolan stood motionless and watched this scene, with tears in her eyes.

"It's all Shinichi's fault, he kicked the ball where it shouldn't have been."

"Stop crying, Xiaolan," Kudo Shinichi raised his feet higher with great effort, "It's okay."

Although he said so, in fact he didn't have any tools around him, couldn't free his hands, and had no idea how to plug the broken water pipe.

And as soon as he finished speaking, the water sprayed out of the water pipe suddenly became larger, and the tap water that changed direction because it was blocked by his hand splashed all over him in an instant.

"Ah... damn it!" Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but muttered.

Xiaolan cried louder behind her.

"Hey, kid!"

A strange voice came from behind, and Kudo Shinchi turned around consciously. It was a man in his early twenties, wearing a police school uniform.

The man shouted and knelt down, touching Xiaolan's head gently, "Don't make your girl cry!"

"Aha?"

Kudo Shinichi was a little unhappy.

Before he could defend himself, he saw the man wearing a baseball glove walking towards him. The man took out a baseball held in his glove and stuffed it directly into the break of the water pipe.

By a very coincidence, the break was blocked by a baseball, and the jet of water was immediately cut off.

"Stop!" Shinichi Kudo looked happy and turned to look at the man, who winked at him with his right eye.

"Hagi!"

At this time, three more men came up from behind, about the same age as this man.

They were all wearing the same uniform and had baseball gloves on their hands, obviously playing baseball together.

The man walking at the front asked, "What are you doing?"

"Xiao Jinpei!" The man named Hagi turned around to say hello after helping to block the water flow, "Telephone! Call the water company!"

"Ah, why?"

"Of course this is it!"

Hagi replied casually, taking a step aside to reveal the water pipe that he had just blocked, and nodded towards it.

The man called Jinping immediately understood.

Immediately afterwards, another man with bronze skin and the same uniform ran over from a distance and met these people.

"Zero! You are too slow!"

…

"Although I didn't face him face to face at that time and only had a glimpse of him, I remember it very clearly..."

At the doctor's house, the elementary school students had gone back to their respective homes. Maplehara sat on the sofa and explained to Haibara Ai who was sitting next to him and Conan who was sitting opposite him.

"Whether it's skin color, voice or facial features..." Kaedehara continued, "That's Toru Amuro."

"Listen to what you said..." Conan pressed his forehead and tried to remember, "It seems that there is such a thing..."

"That's why you think he is from the Japanese police?" Haihara Ai asked.

"It should be right." Fengyuan nodded slightly, "He is probably an undercover agent sent by the Japanese police into the organization. I think this is the reason why your radar did not respond to him...

As for Belmode...she said she would never attack you again. Judging from the lack of response from your radar, I think she has kept her promise, at least for the time being..."

Fengyuan paused, "That's why I said it's not your radar that has a problem, don't worry."

Hui Yuarai snorted and turned his head away, secretly breathing a sigh of relief.

"But... I don't have much impression of him," Conan tried to remember again, and then gave up. "At that time, my attention was mainly on the person named Hagi... and then, what else?"

"Zero." Feng Yuan said, "They call him Zero."

He had not mentioned this in his previous narration.

"Zero..." Haiyuan Ai and Conan were both startled.

"Is it a nickname?"

"[Zero] is the name given to [an organization that should not exist]," Conan said. "It exists to maintain the security and order of Japan. It is a common name for the National Security Bureau police."

"Japanese police..."

"This should be his real name," Fengyuan said, "And didn't I say it? Don't you remember the name of one of the people called Hagi? Jinpei..."

"Matsuda Jinpei?" Haiyuan Ai replied.

"Ah, Matsuda Jinpei!" Conan also reacted, "He is the one who gave up on debugging the bomb on the Ferris wheel a few years ago in order to find the address of the next bomb..."

Former police officer Matsuda Jinpei of the First Investigation Section was eventually killed.

The Young Detective Team had previously encountered another case committed by the criminal who committed this case many years ago, and then learned the name from Officer Shiratori.

"I did some research, got his photo, and confirmed that Matsuda Jinpei is the person I met seven years ago."

"How come I don't know about this?" Hui Yuan Ai asked suspiciously.

"While you were busy developing antidotes, I was not idle doing anything, but I asked Mr. Subaru to check most of them..."

"oh…"

"Also, Hagi should refer to Hagiwara Kenji. He and Matsuda Jinpei were classmates in the same class of the police academy. These can be found out..." Maplehara continued, "It is worth mentioning that, Officer Datehang, whose name has the same pronunciation as Officer Takagi, was also their classmate at the same time..."

Datehang was the police officer who died in a car accident a year ago. Officer Takagi was kidnapped some time ago because his names had the same pronunciation.

"Then Zero..." Conan said.

"There is no record." Fengyuan replied, "However, the biggest record is that there is no record. This shows that his files were hidden by the Japanese official because of a certain task..."

"For example, going undercover in an organization..."

"That's right."

"Let me tell you, are you planning to directly contact the person named Toru Amuro?" Haibara Ai crossed her arms, "Even if he is really an undercover agent sent to the organization by the Japanese police, as you speculated, It doesn’t mean that he stands with us..."

She paused slightly, "Maybe he even defected to the organization during his undercover period, maybe..."

"I won't contact him directly, so Mr. Subaru and I are still investigating him secretly..."

"However, if there is only the name Zero..."

"Fang Gurei." Feng Yuan said.

"ah?"

Maplehara continued to explain:

“I remember that there were five of them at that time, and I was not sure about the name of the remaining one at first, but investigation revealed that, like Matsuda Jinpei and Date Hang, Hagiwara Kenji also passed away.

Thinking that they might go to pay homage to their former partners, I went to their cemetery and asked the cemetery management. "

"Then what?" Conan praised at the right moment.

"The first person to die was Kenji Hagiwara. Just seven years ago, he was detonated by a prisoner while handling an explosion case in the Asai villa area near Yoshioka-sanchome. The old man who manages the cemetery had an impression of the people who went to pay homage. It’s profound, because at first there were only four people going to worship, but then there were fewer and fewer people…”

Until he finally becomes a human being.

"His surname is Jianggu, and the other's surname is Zhufu."

"Zhu Fu..." Conan was stunned again.

"It's easy to think of Officer Zhufu Gaoming," Fengyuan continued, "His younger brother Zhufu Jingguang... Like Fangtani Rei, his files were also hidden..."

In this way, the identities of the five people Kudo Shinichi met seven years ago were all revealed.

"Really," Conan held his chin and thought for a while, then couldn't help but complain, "It's really good to remember clearly..."

Feng Yuan blinked innocently.

"But a certain detective has known this for a long time," Haibara Ai rolled his eyes at Fengyuan, "but he didn't tell us until now..."

"That's because the investigation hasn't been completed yet," Maplehara quickly explained, "Mr. Subaru has some ideas and is still investigating these two names. I originally thought I'd tell you after I figured it out..."

"Huh." Hui Yuarai raised his chin slightly to show that he was unhappy.

"But I happened to meet them trying to trick Teacher Judy..."

"It's made me nervous these days," Conan stood on the same front as Haihara Ai without hesitation, "It's really..."

"That will help you hide yourself more." Kaede replied to Conan without changing his expression.

…

Although it is not 100% certain that Toru Amuro is Rei Furitani and a member of the Japanese police before the results of Akai Shuichi's investigation are obtained, judging from the existing clues, this possibility is still quite high.

Therefore, both Haihara Ai and Conan felt relieved for the time being.

A few days later, this afternoon, the young detective team gathered at the doctor's home.

The doctor is going to demonstrate his new invention to them.

Because he was still busy debugging, Maplehara and Conan took advantage of this time to watch the news on TV.

Just now, Sonoko's uncle, Suzuki Jiroyoshi, a consultant to the Suzuki Foundation, bought a newly discovered Vincent Van Gogh painting for a high price of 300 million US dollars at a world-famous auction in New York, USA. Famous painting, sunflower.

On the TV screen, two hosts, one male and one female, introduced the basic situation to the audience in a conversational manner.

"Why did this work not appear in front of the world until recently?" the female host asked knowingly.

"Because it is rumored that this painting had been burned in the flames of World War II."

"Burned? Is this painting a fake?"

"No, there is just such a legend. Please look here." The male host took out a newspaper and showed it to the audience in front of the screen. "This is last year's newspaper. The report said that in Arles, France, Discovered a possible oil painting by Vincent van Gogh.”

"This painting was found on the rooftop attic of an old house, and it sparked a conversation at the time."

"Yes, that painting is the second sunflower this time..."

Conan watched the news for a while and then noticed that Feng Yuan walked away and walked into the house, but he didn't take it to heart and continued to read.

"But, it might be a fake, right?" The female host's voice then came from the TV.

"Yes, the experts couldn't be more cautious about this. Before the auction, everyone had already conducted a detailed appraisal. It turned out that the canvas used in this painting was different from other paintings painted by Van Gogh in Arles. The works are the same…”

Then it should be authentic...

"Conan, it's time to start!" Ayumi's voice came.

"oh!"

"Come on, come on!"

"What did you do this time?" Genta, Mitsuhiko and Ayumi looked excitedly at the rice cooker-like thing in front of the doctor.

Haihara Ai stood behind the three of them, admiring the doctor's new invention with some curiosity.

"Could this be a robot?"

"Start it quickly, Doctor!"

The primary school students couldn't wait to rush, and the doctor glanced to the side, "We still have to wait for the most important thing to come...ah, it's here..."

Haibara Ai also turned around and noticed Fengyuan walking over holding a watermelon that looked almost half as big as him.

Although Feng Yuan had no problem with his strength, it was obviously a bit troublesome to hold such a big watermelon due to his size, which almost completely blocked his head.

"Wow!"

"awesome!"

The pupils' eyes lit up, and Hui Yuan Ai couldn't help but chuckle.

"Really, I'm here to help..."

"Ah, I can't hold such a big watermelon..."

The doctor quickly went up to help pick it up.

Haiyuan Ai clapped her hands, "Fengyuan is really amazing."

"Yeah! So awesome!"

"I can hold such a big watermelon..."

"It should be heavier than Yuanta..."

"That's not the case, this is already the biggest one..." Feng Yuan said, standing next to Hai Yuan Ai.

The doctor put the watermelon into the rice cooker-like prop and pressed a few buttons on the side.

"Just push the button..."

"Will it turn into eel rice?"

"No, no matter how magical it is, it's impossible, right?" Mitsuhiko argued.

"It's something even better than eel rice." Maplehara said.

"Something better than eel rice..." Genta showed a more expectant expression, "Will it be a bigger eel rice?"

"Hey, can't you think of something else?"

The primary school students were playfully guessing what would come out in the end. Conan would look back at the news from time to time, a little absent-mindedly. Feng Yuan and Hai Yuan Ai took in all the expressions of the primary school students.

"You really hold a grudge..." Thinking of Haiyuan's performance just now, Fengyuan complained softly to her.

"Hmph, wasn't it because some big pervert secretly kissed me this morning..."

Obviously it was you who came together like that day at the shrine, but I just didn’t miss the opportunity again...

Feng Yuan thought to himself, and very wisely chose not to say these words, and then noticed that Hai Yuan Ai turned to look at him.

"What will be the result?" Hui Yuan Ai was a little curious.

"It will be fine soon..." But Fengyuan didn't want to spoil the story.

Casting a threatening look at Feng Yuan, but finding it useless, Hai Yuan Ai snorted again, turned his head and looked at the slightly trembling instrument.

After a while, the machine stopped vibrating.

"Ah, it's out!" Ayumi said in surprise.

The side of the machine opens and the watermelon is pushed out.

"Strange," the primary school students were stunned for a moment, "it turns out that watermelon is still watermelon."

"What? It failed again."

"Humph," the doctor said with a proud smile, "The excitement is just about to begin."

As soon as he finished speaking, the watermelon suddenly split from the top.

In the shocked eyes of the primary school students, the watermelon peeled off bit by bit from the edge, revealing a masked Superman model made of watermelon.

"oh!"

"Amazing!"

"It's the Masked Blade!"

"How was this done?"

"What are you doing, doctor? I need to do something useful."

The last quiet complaint was obviously from Conan, but even though his voice was so low that only he could hear it, Maplehara still heard it.

"This is useful," Maplehara glanced at Conan, "Many companies have already placed orders with the doctor."

"Huh? Such a thing?"

"It's so rude!" The doctor said dissatisfied, "This is my most proud work these days!"

"Hahaha…"

Whether they can make money is another matter, but real elementary school students are already excitedly running around the living room holding a masked Superman model made of watermelon.

Maplehara and Haibara watched Ayumi and the others having fun for a while, and then came to the TV to continue watching the news with Conan.

The news seemed to have just broadcast a press conference at the New York auction in the United States.

"Next, let's ask Mr. Suzuki Jirokichi, who successfully won the sunflower bid, to say a few words for all of us."

Suzuki Jirokichi nodded slightly to the host, and then looked at the reporters in front of him.

"First of all, I am deeply honored to be able to successfully bid for the work with the highest amount in the history of painting according to the plan."

"Ah? Did you originally plan to win the bid for US$300 million?"

"That's right. It's all for the purpose of holding a sunflower exhibition in Japan."

"Art exhibition?"

"We, the Suzuki Foundation," Sonoko said, "are planning to collect all the paintings with the composition of sunflowers in vases scattered around the world. We hereby officially announce that we will hold the exhibition at the Lake Rock Art Museum that we own. Looking forward to Japan’s sunflower exhibition!”

"Ms. Suzuki, you said that the collection is complete. How many paintings are there in total?"

"Are you saying that marking the sunflowers this time is also part of the plan?"

Reporters asked questions one after another.

"Yes," Yuanzi replied, "Everything is to announce this art exhibition today. There are seven paintings in total that we are going to collect, including the sunflowers that won the bid this time."

"That's seven pictures?"

"No matter how powerful the Japanese consortium is, it won't be possible, right?"

"Don't worry," Suzuki Jirokichi said, "This plan has been in progress for a long time."

“Our foundation has been expressing its determination to art museums and individuals around the world who hold sunflower paintings since a long time ago, and we have obtained their consent in advance. As long as we After successfully capturing the sunflower at auction, the other party agreed to lend the painting to our exhibition!”

"What's more important!" Suzuki Jirokichi said after picking up the garden, "I have invited seven experts to ensure that whether it is storage, transportation or preservation, everything is safe!"

"Seven experts?" the host couldn't help but say.

"Ha. They are the best Seven Samurai I have specially recruited for today!"

Suzuki Jirokichi waved his hand, and five people walked onto the stage and stood side by side with a man who had been standing next to Sonoko before.

Suzuki Jirokichi then introduced.

Starting from the left, the first person is Ms. Natsumi Miyadai, who is responsible for the history and appraisal of paintings.

The second person is Mr. Higashi Koji, who specializes in painting and is responsible for restoration, preservation and management.

The third person is Ms. Keiko Anderson who serves as curator.

The fourth person is Mr. Shi Ling Taizo, who is responsible for directing the handling and transportation of paintings.

The fifth person is Ms. Kumiko Kishi, who is responsible for guiding the layout of the sunflower exhibition.

The sixth is the security chief, Officer Charlie from New York City.

"There are only six people..." Fengyuan said, looking at Conan on his left, "Couldn't the last one be you?"

"Huh?" Conan was stunned for a moment.

"Don't he think highly of you?"

Haiyuan Ai also echoed: "Kidd's nemesis..."

In the previous gem exhibitions held by Suzuki Jirokichi, Conan had a lot of limelight in his duels with Kidd.

And because Kid agreed with Yukiko Kudo to teach Ai Haibara how to dress up and gave her notes, Maplehara couldn't just copy him, so she mainly watched Conan's performance.

After all, Conan alone is enough to keep the gems. Although that's also because Kidd didn't really want to steal the gem.

"Hey, that Kidd guy is only interested in gems," Conan said angrily, "He's not interested in paintings. Besides, that guy obviously doesn't want to meet you..."

While talking, it was also revealed on the TV that the last samurai who had not yet arrived was actually Uncle Maori.

This made Conan couldn't help but roll his eyes.

However, he was no longer in the mood to complain about this, because the next moment, just when Suzuki Jirokichi said something happy and laughed, a card flew through the crowd towards the stage and was firmly inserted on the stage. on the floor.

Yuanzi blushed and covered her mouth, "C-could this be..."

"Kidka!"

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