Conan's other self

"If you cover it up a little, it might just be a number..."

Ayumi leaned close to Conan and pointed at the photo on Conan's phone, "Look, this! If you cover this place, it will be the number 1!"

"Really, really..." Conan felt it made sense.

"But what to cover it with?"

"The shogi pieces!" Mitsuhiko noticed a shogi board and a box of chess pieces placed next to him. "Place the shogi pieces on the code paper, and maybe you can read the eight-digit number!"

Then Yumi Miyamoto and Officer Sato also felt that it made sense, so they tried it just like Mitsuhiko said. After struggling like this for a while, they still couldn't solve it.

"No matter how I put it, I can't see the numbers..."

"It feels really weird. I don't even know which number to start with..."

"Is there something wrong with the interpretation method?"

The two police officers and the schoolchildren became suspicious.

Mr. Yazuka stood aside and watched with cold eyes.

"Maybe the code cannot be deciphered with just this piece of paper..." Conan then thought, "Maybe there is another piece of paper with a similar code written on it. If you overlap the two pieces of paper, you can see the eight characters. Numbers, or display a phrase that can be associated with them..."

"Then let's just find another one, right?" Miyamoto Yumi asked positively.

"Well, probably..."

"Okay!" Miyamoto Yumi looked at the real elementary school students aside energetically, "Let's find another one!"

She is full of energy.

"Okay!" So did the primary school students.

Then, everyone in the room split up again and began to look for clues.

Miyamoto Yumi chatted with Officer Sato while searching.

"The process of desperately looking for something like this reminds me of an incident in the past..."

"Ah? What?" Officer Sato asked curiously.

"Looking for bamboo shoots."

"Bamboo shoots?"

"One time when I went to Hideyoshi's apartment to play, he wanted to show me a very important folding fan, but he couldn't find it anywhere. He was so anxious that I found it..."

"What does that have to do with bamboo shoots?"

"Oh, isn't the folding fan made of bamboo? The folding fan is inserted into the pen holder, but you can only see a little bit. So I told Hideyoshi that if you target the entire folding fan, it will be difficult to find it. If a part of it is covered, it becomes easy to find the remaining part. The bamboo shoots are the same, only a little bit is exposed on the ground, and most of the rest is buried in the soil..."

"oh…"

This sentence was very similar to the famous saying of the peerless shogi master Sakata Sankichi. Maplehara glanced at them, and then noticed that Mr. Yazuka seemed to be slightly lost in thought after hearing these words.

"Actually, when Hideyoshi went to the toilet, I inserted the folding fan on the table into the pen holder..."

"But isn't the famous Taiko man named Haneda Hideyoshi? Why do you call him Hideyoshi?" Officer Sato then asked.

In private, Miyamoto Yumi often called Haneda Hideyoshi "stinky".

"Because that guy is a picky eater. When we first started dating, he said he could just hold it with his hands without getting dirty. He only knew how to eat cheese all day long..."

"Ah, isn't cheese something mice like to eat?"

"So I couldn't stand it anymore, so I gave him a super delicious cake!" Miyamoto Yumi said while looking for it. "Since then, Hideyoshi has been obsessed with..."

"Yes! Chess players often eat sweets during matches. It is said that they can replenish nutrients for the brain..."

"By the way, I heard from Miike that you asked her to drive the police car all the way to Yamanashi Prefecture?"

"Yes, because Hideyoshi said he had a competition and was too late. Looking back now, it should be a shogi competition..."

"Do you know the time and hotel?"

"I don't know. But although I arrived at the competition venue in time, the photo of me that Hideyoshi used as a talisman was missing. He was very anxious. So I gave him a kiss to give him a strong start! It's exclusive to Hideyoshi. !”

Like them, the real elementary school students were chatting and rummaging around on the other side of the room, and Conan also seemed quite active.

Feng Yuan withdrew his gaze, and then looked at Hai Yuan Ai, who had just come to his side.

"What's wrong?" Fengyuan asked, "Keep looking at me..."

"I'm not looking at you." Hui Yuan Ai replied, "On the other hand, you didn't help find anything, and you didn't say anything...Does your head still hurt?"

"It's okay, it's just for a moment," Fengyuan thought for a moment, "Maybe it's just because I want to grow a brain..."

These words were obviously perfunctory, but Fengyuan himself was not sure why he had a headache just now, and naturally he didn't know how to explain it.

Speaking of which, he just didn't have much of an idea when he was thinking of the secret code, but when he heard Haibara Ai mentioning the dancing figure and subconsciously recalled it, he suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

But there's something strange about it.

This part should belong to Kudo Shinichi's memory. He can now clearly remember almost every word in that Sherlock Holmes story.

Haiyuan Aixu looked at him, pursed his lips slightly, then turned around and began to look at the room.

After such an interruption, Maplehara returned his attention to looking for the marriage application form of Haneda celebrity.

Haiyuan Ai tightened his clothes and folded his arms in front of his chest.

"Is it cold?" Fengyuan asked.

"Yeah, that's what I was about to say."

"Grandpa," Fengyuan turned to look at Mr. Yazuka who was standing at the door, "Can you warm up the air for a while?"

"I also want to turn it on..." Mr. Yazuka looked at the air conditioner hanging in the room, "But the air conditioner broke yesterday..." Then he looked at Fengyuan, "Sorry, please bear with it..."

"Oh..." Fengyuan nodded thoughtfully.

"What's wrong?" Hui Yuarai looked at Feng Yuan curiously and lowered his voice, "Looking at your expression just now, have you discovered something?"

"I feel a little strange, because when I first entered this room, it was quite warm. There should be a heater on..." Feng Yuan replied, "You didn't feel cold when you first came in, right?"

"Yes. So he turned off the air conditioner on purpose?" Haihara Ai looked at the air conditioner carefully, "Could he have hidden the letter inside the air conditioner?"

"It's possible. However, it's probably not the case. With his height, if he wanted to hide the envelope in the air conditioner, he would have to step on the bed, but there are no traces of that, and the air conditioner doesn't seem to have been dismantled. . And the heater was turned off just before we arrived. It would be too short to clean up all these traces..."

"Why is that?" Hui Yuan Ai asked curiously.

"I have another guess. Since he must turn off the heater and pretend that the air conditioner broke yesterday, there must be some reason why he can't turn on the heater. So if you think about it from another angle, if the air conditioner has been turned on Feng, Huiyuan, what will you do?"

"I'll feel warm."

"Hey hey..."

"I'm kidding. Well..." Haiyuan Ai thought for a moment, "When I enter a very warm room, I will probably take off my coat, right?"

"Yeah, that's it."

Feng Yuan said, and then took off his coat as if demonstrating his reasoning and put it on Hai Yuan Ai.

Haiyuan Ai grabbed her coat and subconsciously glanced at the primary school students. She breathed a sigh of relief when she noticed that they were still rummaging for things. Then she couldn't help but give Feng Yuan a blank look.

"I don't want to catch a cold from someone next..."

"It's okay, the matter will be solved soon. And it's just a demonstration of reasoning," Maplehara said, then looked at Miyamoto Yumi, who was still looking for something, "Because - Officer Miyamoto is the same."

"Eh?" Haiyuan Ai was stunned for a moment, "You don't mean to say that the envelope was put inside her coat, right?"

"It's not impossible. Officer Miyamoto also said that this old man was a habitual pickpocket in the past. It shouldn't be difficult to secretly stuff the envelope into Officer Miyamoto's coat. I thought it was a little strange before, but this The old man clearly prepared a secret code and wanted Officer Miyamoto to solve the mystery, but when she wanted to enter the room, he kept blocking the door, so he bumped into her..."

"You mean, at that time..."

"Yes. Besides, there's nothing wrong with giving it a try..."

It was just a matter of checking to see if there was an envelope inside the coat. It didn't cost anything, the action was very simple, and it didn't matter if he guessed wrong, so Feng Yuan walked over directly.

He walked up to Miyamoto Yumi, gently pulled her clothes to attract her attention, and then whispered to her.

"Hey, coat?"

Miyamoto Yumi glanced at her coat subconsciously.

At this time, Maplehara was quietly observing Mr. Yazuka. After seeing Miyamoto Yumi focusing on her coat, Mr. Yazuka's expression changed obviously and he looked a little unhappy.

In his sight, Miyamoto Yumi immediately reached out and groped for her coat, "Ah! There is an envelope in the inner pocket of the coat!"

She quickly found the envelope.

"ah?"

"Have you found it yet?"

The elementary school students also looked back. They were already a little impatient and wanted to give up, but they were happy and relieved to hear that Yumi Miyamoto had found the envelope.

Conan was a little depressed.

He had just realized that there might not be a second code sheet, so he focused on the code again, but it turned out that it was just the beginning and it seemed unnecessary.

"Great!" Yumi Miyamoto happily waved the envelope in her hand towards the primary school students.

"I see," Officer Sato looked at Mr. Yazuka who looked unhappy, "When Yumi bumped into you at the entrance, did you stuff the envelope into her pocket using the same thief method you used to do before?"

"Huh." Mr. Yazuka didn't want to speak.

Kaedehara could feel that at least half of Mr. Yazuka's unhappy eyes were on him.

"Hideyoshi's marriage application...got it!" Yumi Miyamoto opened the envelope and took out the marriage application inside.

The primary school students curiously gathered together to read the marriage application, and Haihara Ai was no exception. Conan just glanced at it from a distance and came to Fengyuan.

"Really, you guy," Conan couldn't help but say, "You just don't want to decipher the code, do you?"

He just noticed what Maplehara said to Miyamoto Yumi in the past, and Miyamoto Yumi then found the envelope.

"We can continue the matter of deciphering the code later," Fengyuan replied, "For now, let's rush to the venue first, right?"

"The venue for the battle between General Wang should be the Niya Hotel in Kanagawa Prefecture," Officer Sato said, looking at his watch, "There is still half an hour before the lunch break, and there is also a lot of rest time - Yumi, You still have plenty of time!”

"Yes! Then I'll take a taxi there." Miyamoto Yumi said, "Miwako, do you want to go with us?"

"Okay, I don't want to miss this scene!"

"Let's go too!" the pupils demanded.

"No!" Miyamoto Yumi immediately refused, "Besides, there are so many of you, and I can't take you with me!"

"Eh?"

"It's too much!"

"Really! Sister Yumi, you obviously relied on our young detective team to find the marriage application..."

"But he didn't recognize him just after he found him..." Huihara Ai also echoed.

"Hey, hey," Miyamoto Yumi was a little embarrassed, "Even if you say that, then I just need to take Xiao Kong there, right? He told me..."

"This is even more excessive!"

"Maplehara is also an important member of the Junior Detective Team! Don't exclude him!"

"That's right!"

"Hey, you guys, since you have found the envelope," Mr. Yazuka interrupted the debate between Miyamoto Yumi and the elementary school students very unhappily, "get out of my room quickly!"

That's what he said, but he didn't continue to call Chacha, and his attitude of chasing people away was not very firm. It could be seen that he seemed to have a deeper understanding of the relationship between Miyamoto Yumi and Haneda Hideyoshi, and was a little relieved.

After a while.

Officer Takagi, who happened to be nearby, drove over and watched the large group of people in front of him squeeze into the car.

"It turns out that I was just here to deliver the car..." he said depressedly.

"You don't have a day off today!" Officer Sato sat in the driver's seat of the police car, "And I really can't sit down..."

On the passenger seat next to her, Haihara Ai sat up and then moved to one side of the seat.

Immediately afterwards, Fengyuan also sat on the other side of the passenger seat, then pulled the seat belt and leaned in front of Haibara Ai to fasten the seat belt.

Although there is a traffic police officer in the car now, it is not the first time that the young detective team has been overloaded in a police car together, so it can be considered that they are familiar with the road.

Miyamoto Yumi sat in the back seat holding Ayumi.

"It's too crowded, Genta!" Mitsuhiko couldn't help complaining, "It's because you ate too much!"

"What! I haven't had lunch yet! You guys should squeeze over there again!"

"Then, let Yumi-sister hold Yuan Tao." Kaedehara suggested.

"No!" Miyamoto Yumi immediately rejected the proposal, "I even doubt whether I am as heavy as him!"

"Okay, okay," Officer Sato said goodbye to Officer Takagi, and then started the car, "Everyone is already seated..."

The scenery outside the window began to recede.

Feng Yuan looked out the window, and then looked at Hai Yuan Ai, who was sitting next to him. Although this is not the first time that we have been overloaded in a police car, and it is not the first time that we have been sitting together in the passenger seat like this, we have never been so close before...

Confession is quite beneficial...

"Pervert." Hui Yuarai whispered.

"Eh?"

"By the way, are you still thinking about that secret code?"

"Yeah, there's nothing else to do anyway." Fengyuan replied in a low voice, "How do you know?"

"Intuition." Hui Yuarai raised his chin slightly.

"Hey hey..."

"Conan, are you still thinking about that secret code?" As they spoke, Fengyuan and Haibara Ai heard Mitsuhiko's voice.

But sitting like this, Maplehara couldn't look back, and he couldn't see Conan from the angle of the rearview mirror. However, Haibara Ai noticed that Conan was still holding the code paper.

"Yeah..." Conan replied.

"But maybe it's not a code at all! Maybe that old man just used a cover to deceive us..."

"It must be a code!" Conan defended, "It would be unreasonable to expect others to be able to find the letter like Maplehara did..."

"And when he saw us skipping the code and finding the envelope, his face was very ugly..." Fengyuan also helped to explain.

"oh…"

"You guys really like solving puzzles!" Officer Sato chatted while driving.

"Yeah, I don't want to decipher the code that the annoying old man came up with." Miyamoto Yumi looked at the code paper in Conan's hand next to her, showing a disgusted face.

You were obviously the most positive before...

Conan complained in his mind.

"Speaking of which, this code seems to be copied. There is no copy machine in the room. If you want to make a copy, you have to walk to a convenience store for about ten minutes. And the paper used by the copy machine is rectangular, and it needs to be cut into a square shape like this code. , still needs another process..."

"So copying is definitely not a whim," Maplehara took over Conan's words, "but there is some reason to copy..."

"Yeah, that's what I thought too." Conan responded, and then he suddenly had an idea, as if he thought of something again, "Ah, I know! It's to hide the creases! If you copy it, the creases will appear Disappeared, so he must make copies!"

"So that's it," Fengyuan suddenly realized, "the original code paper was actually folded..."

"Then what should it be folded into?" Ayumi asked.

"Yenta, the password was put in the trash can, right?"

"yes."

"Putting this code paper in the trash can is also a reminder."

"Do you want to throw it away?"

"No, because as the saying goes..."

"Stand out from the crowd." Feng Yuan said.

"That is to say," Haibara Ai continued Fengyuan's words, "among ordinary things, there will be excellent or beautiful things that stand out..."

"That's right, the chickens here refer to the garbage in the trash can. Putting the code paper in the trash can means using this paper to make origami cranes," Conan said, folding it, "and then putting the code paper in the trash can." Leave the code side outside, and if it is folded... it will look like this..."

Conan showed the folded side to everyone.

"The root number is 5. These words appear, right?"

"What does the root number 5 mean?" Ayumi asked confused.

"The number that results in 5 when multiplied two by two is called the square root of 5, or root number 5 for short. When you go to junior high or high school, it is said that you are required to memorize the eighth digit of this number..."

"W-want to remember to the eighth place?"

"How can I remember this?"

"It doesn't matter, just remember it with homophones. The root number 5 is the cry of a parrot under Mount Fuji..." Conan looked at Yumi Miyamoto next to him, "Sister Yumi, you remember it too, right?"

"Yeah, well, it seems to be 2.2360679..." Yumi Miyamoto nodded, "Oh, it turns out to be this, and that annoying old man is also real! But, I have already got it, haha!"

Miyamoto Yumi still held Ayumi in her arms, reached out and took out the marriage application, looked over Ayumi's shoulder, and looked at it with a proud and happy face.

Ayumi also stared intently.

"..." Conan, who had just become excited, became a little more depressed.

Although he had figured out the code by himself and was one step ahead of his other self, the code was now unavailable, which made him feel that his work was a bit in vain.

"Stop laughing, Yumi," Officer Sato interrupted Miyamoto Yumi's continuous laughter, "Speaking of which, although there is still enough time, do you want to make a call first?"

"It doesn't matter. When the time comes, just give Shouji a special kiss like last time - eh? A phone call?"

As Miyamoto Yumi was talking, she heard her cell phone ringing. Ayumi happily helped her hold the marriage application, and she reached out and took out her mobile phone to take a look.

Then she was stunned for a moment.

"Huh? It was Stouji who called here."

Everyone else stayed quiet.

Miyamoto Yumi answered the phone.

"Hey, Hideyoshi! What's wrong?" Miyamoto Yumi still wanted to surprise Haneda Hideyoshi and decided not to say on the phone, "Your game this morning has just ended..."

"To be precise, the battle is over."

Haneda Hideyoshi's voice was a little low, and Miyamoto Yumi immediately realized that something was wrong.

"Hideyoshi?"

"So please throw away the envelope from last time. It has no meaning anymore..."

"Hey, the battle is over already? Isn't there still time in the afternoon..."

"Yes, but the winner has been decided just now..."

"B-But, Hideyoshi..."

"Carry out the original intention..." Haneda Hideyoshi replied on the other end of the phone, "This is the motto of my adopted brother and my most respected Haneda Koji."

"Hada Koji?" Miyamoto Yumi was stunned for a moment.

Hearing the name repeated by Miyamoto Yumi, Haibara Ai was slightly startled and looked back.

Feng Principle could only turn his head to look at Haiyuan Ai.

"I'm sorry, Yumi," Haneda Hideyoshi continued, "Once a man decides, he will never change it..."

Miyamoto Yumi was silent for a moment.

Although he couldn't hear what Haneda Hideyoshi said on the other end of the phone, something seemed wrong, and even Genta and others remained silent.

"Ah, that's it..." After a while, Miyamoto Yumi put the phone to her ear, then reached out and took out the envelope, tearing it up directly.

She tore it open again and again, and even the sound of tearing the envelope could be heard over the phone.

"Ah!?" Everyone in the car was a little surprised.

Officer Sato, who was driving the car, couldn't help but glance at Yumi Miyamoto in the rearview mirror.

"You guy, although I don't know what you put in the envelope," Miyamoto Yumi said, "but if you have anything to say to me, just tell me directly! Wait until you collect it next time Those seven or eight or whatever...when you take over the world, I, Yumi-sama, will reluctantly listen to what you have to say."

"..."

"So before that, don't lose to anyone again! You stinky rat!"

"Yes Yes!"

"Hmph!" Yumi Miyamoto snorted and hung up the phone.

"Yumi, you are so handsome!" Officer Sato praised.

"right?"

"Then we still go to the stadium?"

"Of course I want to go! You've come here already! Oh my, Shouji must be so pitiful now and needs Yumi-sama's kiss to comfort him!"

The car was filled with a happy atmosphere again.

"But," Fengyuan couldn't help but remind him, "The battle between kings only happens once a year, right?"

"ah?"

"Yes," Officer Sato said with a smile, "So if Yumi wants to accept the marriage proposal from a celebrity from Taiko, she will have to wait a year at the earliest..."

"What! I thought it happened once a month!"

Miyamoto Yumi looked annoyed.

"Although Mr. Taiko is now the six-time champion, if he loses another title like today, he will have to start from scratch... Yumi, don't you know that your wedding will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse?"

"Really, don't care! I'll call him and ask him to stamp the marriage application now!"

"Ah, didn't you tear it up?" Officer Sato was stunned for a moment.

"All I tore was the envelope! The marriage application is still in Xiao Ayumi's hand! Right, Ayumi?"

"Yes!" Ayumi nodded as she held the marriage application tightly.

"No! You just managed to be cool!"

"If you like it, why don't you get married right away?"

Elementary school students also joined the battlefield, and the car immediately became noisy. Feng Yuan listened for a while and then looked at Hai Yuan Ai, noticing that she seemed to be worried from the beginning.

"Haiyuan?"

"Kudo..."

Not only did she call her Kudo, but she also used a voice so low that only she could hear it. This meant that what Haibara was going to say next was very important. Maplehara became serious, "What's wrong?"

"Do you know? Haneda Koji?"

"I know. The genius chess player who was once the closest to winning the seven-time crown went to the United States to participate in a chess competition that he was interested in. As a result, he was involved in an incident and passed away."

"I've seen that name before." Haihara Ai's voice became even lower, "It's on the list of people taking APTX4869, two lines below your name..."