Conan's other self

"Could it be a song from a cartoon?" Yuantai guessed.

"I think it's a bit like Okino Yoko's song."

"It sounds like classical music to me."

"That way it would be impossible for Kaedehara to show disgust," Conan objected, "That shouldn't be the case."

"Yes, yes..."

"I think so too! That's why I'm very curious!" Mitsuhiko said.

Conan thought for a moment.

After all, he is another self, so he should be easy to understand.

And if it was a song that I would dislike, it wouldn't be impossible to find it, but that guy Maplehara listened to it together with Haibara, so there was no reason for him to show such a straightforward expression of disgust...

It can’t be Feng Yuan singing it...

No one should be able to listen to that kind of thing. Even if Haiyuan and Fengyuan have a good relationship, there is no reason to show that kind of expression...

Conan, who had sung in public on a plane last time, had some self-awareness, so he immediately ruled out this possibility, but then he realized that he had no clue.

Damn it, even for Holmes, it would be too difficult to deduce the thoughts of another self...

No, Holmes doesn't have another self at all.

Thinking like this, Conan chose to give up: "Having said that, wouldn't you just ask me directly?"

"Of course we asked, but Haiyuan said it was a secret."

"Where is Maplehara?" Conan asked next, "Have you ever asked him?"

"After Haiyuan didn't want to say anything, we didn't ask again..."

"And Maplehara doesn't listen to it as much as Haibara."

"Then just ask him directly. With Fengyuan's temperament, he will definitely not refuse you..."

"I'm so sorry, it's a secret."

Maplehara's voice came from behind Conan.

"Kaede, Kaedehara!"

"It's just a very ordinary song. It's for your own good that I don't tell you. Curiosity is sometimes very dangerous." Feng Yuan continued, and then handed the bag with juice directly to Genta.

"Hey, hey, what do you mean it's for our own good?" Conan said dissatisfied, "By the way, when did you start liking listening to music?"

"Listen to it once in a while..."

"But, but, Fengyuan, we really want to know!"

"Uh-huh!"

"Just tell us!"

"But..." Fengyuan hesitated for a moment, "Haiyuan told you that this is a secret, right?"

"Hey! It's your turn to fly a kite soon!"

While he was talking, the doctor who had completed the formalities came running back all the way. Haiyuan Ai put his hands in his pockets and followed slowly behind the doctor.

Compared to listening to songs, the kite competition is obviously more important. The primary school students quickly began to prepare for the competition, and Maplehara and Conan also began to observe the field to find a suitable position.

In order to prevent cheating, the organizer will take a video, so Haibara Ai, who did not want to appear in the camera, stood aside and watched with the doctor, and Ayumi also accompanied her.

After a while, under the instructions of the staff, the competition for their group began.

Maplehara and Genta were responsible for holding the kite and retreating. Mitsuhiko was behind them to help indicate the road conditions, and Conan was responsible for putting out the line.

"More to the left! Left, left!" Conan said as he placed the line. "Go forward into the wind, and then go back a little."

"Conan! Louder!" Genta shouted.

"I can't hear you at all!" Mitsuhiko echoed.

"It doesn't matter!" Conan temporarily raised his voice a little louder, "Maplehara can hear it."

"Yeah..." Fengyuan hugged the kite helplessly and motioned for Genta to retreat with him, "You are really lazy..."

"But we can't hear it!"

“No sense of participation at all!”

Genta and Mitsuhiko still want Conan to be louder, but Conan still wants to be lazy and protect his voice: "If it is further away, you can't hear me no matter how loud I am!"

Other kite-flyers nearby were also shouting loudly, and the onlookers had no intention of keeping quiet. As the distance gradually increased, it was indeed difficult to hear clearly.

Feng Yuan had no choice but to serve as a sounding board to remind Genta and Mitsuhiko.

Damn Conan…

"He's reminding us not to step on the tail of the kite." Feng Yuan said to Genta, "Well... the distance is almost there."

"It's about to fly!" the doctors who were watching shouted loudly.

"Come on, come on!" Ayumi also tried her best to cheer up, and then glanced at Haibara Ai, who was listening to the song and watching the game next to her.

"What's wrong?" Haiyuan Ai took off his headphones.

"No, nothing..."

"Do you want to hear this song too?"

"Yeah, yeah!" Ayumi responded happily.

The last time when I went to ask with Mitsuhiko and Genta, Haibara-san was unwilling to tell me, but I didn’t expect that she would be willing to tell him directly now that I am alone...

Haibara-san is so nice!

"Then let's listen together," Haiyuan Ai took out her phone and pressed a few times, "Well... ok..."

She removed one of the songs from her playlist.

Ayumi was a little curious: "Isn't this the song that Haibara and Kaedehara listened to together?"

"Eh? Are you curious about this?"

"Um…"

"In that case, it should be considered the same song..." Haiyuan Ai thought about the wording, "But it's better not to listen to it, right?"

"Oh..." Ayumi looked a little disappointed.

This is obviously a little secret between Haiyuan and Fengyuan.

They have such a good relationship...

Hui Yuarai hesitated for a moment.

Not long after they met, she noticed that Ayumi had some affection for Feng Yuan, but this was just a child's emotion, and she didn't take it too seriously.

And as time went by, Ayumi's thoughts became significantly lighter. But she doesn't know why, but she always feels that Ayumi cares about herself this time...

"There's nothing I can't say. It doesn't matter if I tell you," Haihara Ai pressed the phone a few more times, and then handed over the other earphone again, "But... don't regret it, okay?"

"Um!"

Ayumi put on her headphones expectantly, and a familiar singing voice came from inside.

She was stunned for a moment, and her eyes went straight the next moment.

Hui Yuan Ai couldn't help but chuckle.

"What, what's the matter-" After a while, Ayumi came back to her senses and quickly took off her headphones.

"So it's better not to know... let's listen to this, right? It's the same, this song is..."

"Ah...wait a minute, I'll write it down..." Ayumi said, reaching into her pocket, "I feel so dizzy now! My phone is...eh?"

Ayumi quickly rummaged in her pocket again.

"What's wrong?" Hui Yuan Ai asked.

"My hand, my phone is missing!"

"Did it fall somewhere?"

"Ah! It must be there..."

After Haihara Ai's reminder, Ayumi remembered something and hurriedly ran to the side. The doctor and Haihara Ai also quickly followed.

Ayumi stopped in front of a makeshift toilet.

They searched in and around the toilet, but couldn't find Ayumi's cell phone.

"Did you really drop your phone in front of this makeshift toilet?"

"Yeah!" Ayumi looked at the doctor, "I think it was when I came out of the toilet to get a handkerchief, something seemed to fall out."

"Why didn't you pick it up right away?" the doctor then asked.

"Because it's our turn to fly the kite!" Ayumi replied, "I heard the announcement!"

"Then do you still remember who was around you at that time?" Haiyuan Ai thought that someone might have picked her up.

"There was a guy behind me who tripped, but I didn't see his face."

"Then maybe the person thought he had dropped his phone when he fell, so he just picked it up."

"Since he stumbled, it means he is very anxious about something. Maybe he is the person flying the kite in the same group as us."

"Then after their game is over, let's make a call to that mobile phone..." The doctor glanced at the field in the distance.

The competition for this group started, and he felt that calling at this time might affect their competitors, which was not good.

On the other side, Conan has already raised the kite.

"Amazing!"

"Flying so high!"

Genta and Mitsuhiko said excitedly as they looked at the kite in the sky.

"But if this continues like this, you won't even be able to break through the group stage, right?" Maplehara looked at Conan, "Is that okay?"

This group has not many kites flying yet, but there are already two kites higher than theirs.

"It's so verbose, don't worry..." Conan said as he slowly released the line, "Ah! Oh no!"

The kite's tail suddenly broke off from its base. The kite fell headlong to the ground not long after it took off.

Genta and Mitsuhiko ran over quickly, and Maplehara and Conan retracted the kite string together to avoid disturbing others before quickly following them.

When they came to Genta and Mitsuhiko, Genta and Mitsuhiko had already picked up the kite with a look of disappointment.

"It won't work, the bamboo binding the frame is broken." Fengyuan checked the kite.

"In this case, even if I tie the tail again, I still won't be able to fly." Mitsuhiko looked regretful.

"Damn it!" Yuantai hammered the ground.

"It's all your fault. Your skills in making kite tails are not good." Conan complained in a low voice to Feng Yuan.

"Yeah, I'm not good at flying kites either."

Conan couldn't help but roll his eyes. Fengyuan's words were obviously talking about Fengyuan himself, but he heard something else, "Hey, hey..."

"Hey, hey, what are you doing!?" A loud shout suddenly came from the side.

"Huh?" They turned around and looked over.

There were many people shouting like this on the field, so Fengyuan didn't pay attention to what the people next to him were saying before. However, the sound just now was a bit abrupt, so it attracted their attention.

It was a fat man of about thirty years old.

"If you go back further..." The man shouted to his companions while flying the kite string.

Then he suddenly lowered his voice.

But Feng Yuan still heard it.

"Go to hell..." the man whispered.

Fengyuan immediately looked to the other side. The man in the group with this man was a man wearing a knitted hat. This man was on the embankment. He missed the mark and fell into the river from the embankment.

"Ahhh! Help, help..."

"Hey, that uncle..."

"I fell into the Tsumuzu River!" Genta shouted.

Conan glanced back and noticed that Feng Yuan had already taken out his cell phone to call an ambulance, so he ran directly that way.

When he ran to the embankment, another tall and strong man was already looking at the man who fell into the water, "Oops! That guy can't swim!"

The man who fell into the water struggled desperately in the water, and soon he sank into the water. Only then did two men who knew how to swim ran over and jumped into the water to save people.

The mobile phone that the man who fell into the water had just left was still next to the guardrail column where the rope was broken, and the woman's loud shout came from inside:

"Husband? What's wrong with you? Husband?"

…

After a while.

"I choked on a lot of water, and I'm still unconscious now," said the Memu Police Department who rushed to the scene.

"yes."

"Then who fell into the river?"

"It's the manager of a nearby cafe, Ryota Nianye." Officer Takagi held his pamphlet, "According to people around him, Mr. Nianye kept backing up with the kite..."

Then he dragged the police officer Memu and ran towards the water point. "Unluckily, he happened to be in the middle of the wooden pile where the rope was broken, and he lost his footing and slipped into the river."

"Well, the break of the rope is quite old." Police Department Megure checked the rope on the wooden stake. "It should have been broken a long time ago, but no one has taken care of it. It doesn't look like a criminal case. Just leave it to the local police."

"yes."

"I don't think this is an accident." Conan said.

"Conan! Sora!" The two turned back in surprise.

"Just pick up where the rope broke and take a look."

Officer Takagi gave it a try without hesitation.

"Look, it's out of reach, right?"

"Ah, yes."

"But if it keeps being exposed to wind and rain, there will be some wear and tear..."

"But the rope below has grown out." Feng Yuan connected the ropes below. "This way, even if it is connected, it will hang down and it will not have a protective effect."

"And this rope has traces of being burned by the sun on one side, but not on the other side." Conan added.

"Why is this?" Officer Takagi asked curiously.

"They must have used the rope that was originally tied to the wooden stake at the end!"

"The rope on the wooden pile on the edge is often exposed to the sun and rain, and it can easily become worn out. Untying the rope, measuring the length and retying it here can cause the rope to have been broken long ago. It’s an illusion. And because the part of the rope that was originally tied to the pillar was used, there are no traces of sunlight on the inside.”

"I-I see..."

Genta and Mitsuhiko, who helped check the ropes on other pillars, quickly ran back and confirmed this to them.

"What is the purpose of doing this?" Police Department Mumu was confused.

"You did it to make that uncle fall into the river, right?" Feng Yuan replied.

"How can this be?"

"That person didn't just slip because his foot..."

"That uncle is holding the kite and retreating like this, right?" Conan imitated the gesture, "In this case, he shouldn't pay much attention to what's going on behind him, right?"

"We still need Mitsuhiko's help to look behind us at that time."

"Yes, and he knew there was a rope blocking him behind!"

"In other words, as long as we can lead him to the middle of these two wooden piles that are not tied with ropes, can't we let him fall into the water?"

"Yes, it is indeed true..."

The suspects were obviously the fat man who flew the kite with the drowning man, and the very big man with whom the drowning man had spoken a few words before falling into the river.

In addition, the drowning man had been talking to his wife on the phone before he fell. Although Maplehara felt that no normal person would listen directly to the instructions given on the phone, considering that the other party might have heard something on the phone, the Megure Police Department asked Officer Takagi to bring Mrs. Lian Ye over.

…

After a while.

Megure Police Department and Officer Takagi questioned the three people.

Maplehara, Conan and others were listening. Fengyuan noticed that the doctor, Haibara and Ayumi were looking at this side of the crowd, but they obviously had no intention of coming over.

"Haha? I induced Lian Ye to walk to the place where the rope broke and made him fall into the water?" The fat uncle who flew the kite with Mr. Lian Ye was named Yagoshi Ken. "Are you kidding! I was the one who wanted to stop him by shouting danger. His!"

He looked at Feng Yuan and others, "Little brother, did you see it too?"

"Yes." Yuantai replied, "That uncle shouted before the drowning uncle fell!"

"And he looks worried." Mitsuhiko agreed.

"But I don't know if Mr. Lian Ye heard it, but the people around him were also shouting instructions to their companions."

"And the two of them are still far away." Feng Yuan said.

"Is that so?" Police Department Megure asked.

"Yeah, but I think he should be able to hear a little bit. And then I backed away at the same time, so I was further away."

"But even if you can't hear your voice, you can still use body language to induce Mr. Lian Ye." Officer Takagi asked.

"I didn't do that kind of thing!" Mr. Yatsugoe pointed to the organizer's tent nearby, "If you don't believe me, you can go and see the video taken by the organizer of the conference to prevent foul play!"

"But why are you so far away?"

"We observed the situation of other kites, and it seemed that the wind above was relatively strong, so we wanted to open up a little distance and let the kites fly higher in one go! Each team's time is limited, so they must succeed in one go. OK."

"By the way, what is your relationship with Mr. Lianye?"

"I am the clerk of the cafe run by Lian Ye. We want to win today with a kite with the cafe's logo on it. Because if we win, the kite will be hung in front of the city hall for display, which will be a great blessing to us. It’s a very good publicity, and it will give us a good face when we go to the town chamber of commerce.”

"That's it." Memu Police Department nodded.

The next person to be questioned was the tall, strong man named Yutoshi Kakura.

"Yes, I had a few words with Lian Ye," Mr. Kakura replied, "just before he fell into the river."

"Excuse me, what did you say?"

"That guy obviously had a wife, and he flirted with my sister, which made her almost commit suicide, so I told him to follow me after the competition. He must have suffered retribution before he fell into the river."

"That means you have the motive to let Mr. Lianye fall into the water?"

"As for the motive, Mr. Yatsugoe probably has one too. He has liked my sister since high school. When I told him about my sister and that guy, he became furious. And that guy's wife also has a full motive. "

"Is it true that Mr. Lianye has been on the phone with his wife?"

"It seems so. If you say that I induced him, wouldn't his wife on the other end of the phone hear it? And that guy's kite flying skills are about the same as mine, so there's no need for him to listen to his competitors."

"But when Mr. Lianye fell into the river, you also saw it, right? Didn't you think of stopping him?" Conan asked.

"I was far away from him when he fell into the water, and I thought he walked to the river to throw away rubbish."

"throw rubbish?"

"He kept carrying an empty drink bottle under his arm."

Next was Mr. Lian Ye’s wife. After casually asking about the content of the phone call, the Memu Police Department came to the side to check the video taken by the organizer.

"Well..." Police Department Megure looked at the screen, "As Mr. Yagoshi said, he did not do anything particularly big."

"Yeah, it's just a drink."

Mr. Yatsugoe's voice came from the video: "Hey! What are you doing! If you go back further-"

"Go to hell." Feng Yuan continued the next sentence thoughtfully.