Chapter 124 Meeting Hattori
Chapter 125: Meeting Hattori
That night, everyone was called to the president's room to attend his birthday party. The people who came included the president's two daughters, Nobuko and Jiang Kang, and Jiang Kang's husband, Nagato Guangming. There was also the butler Musashi Nosuke and the secretary Hinata Yuki. The rest were our group, but Hattori Heiji's father, the Osaka police chief, left, which made me feel a lot more relaxed. Although I am now an ordinary elementary school student, I still have some resistance in my heart when facing the police chief. At the banquet, President Nagato announced the marriage of his secretary Hinata Yuki and his son Nagato Hideomi. Everyone present was very happy about the announcement of this news, except for Nagato Nobuko, because except for her, a single leftover woman who was nearly 40 years old, the Nagato family already had their own marriage partners. So, just halfway through the banquet, Nobuko left President Nagato's room angrily.

"Hey, Hattori, let me introduce someone to you." After the celebration, Conan took Hattori and me to an inconspicuous corner.

"Introducer? Then why do you want to bring this kid along?" Hattori looked puzzled. "But then again, who is this kid? How come I've never seen him before? Hey, you're not going to introduce this kid to me, are you?"

"Ah, just as you thought." Conan spread his hands.

"Eh? Is it really this kid?" Hattori was surprised.

"Ah, do you remember what I told you a few days ago about the reason why I became smaller?"

"Are you talking about how you were shrunk by that organization? Of course I remember. Wait, this kid couldn't have been the same..." He is indeed a famous detective in Kansai. He can connect the dots to something so far away with just a clue in one sentence.

"Yes, Xun is also a victim of taking that drug, but his identity is a bit special." Conan was a little helpless. "That... you can tell me later." Conan shamelessly kicked the ball to me, but it was true. It was not appropriate for him to tell my identity. So I rolled my eyes at Conan, and then walked in front of Hattori. Extended my right hand.

"Nice to meet you. My name is Akiya Kaoru, and I'm the traitor to the organization that Kudo has been trying to track down."

"Oh, Hattori Heiji, the detective from Kansai... Wait, what did you just say? Are you a traitor to that organization?" Hattori, who had reacted, was looking at me with surprise on his face.

"Yes." I said nothing more after a simple reply, and at the same time I retracted my right hand that was in the air without shaking hands with Hattori. In fact, I was not happy that Kudo told others about my identity. After all, the fewer people who know my identity, the better. However, as Hattori was on the same front with Kudo, according to Conan, telling him now would be very convenient in the future. So despite my dissatisfaction, Conan still told Hattori my identity.

"So... So, Kudo's identity has been discovered?" Hattori asked excitedly. After all, this was about his good friend.

"No, the organization doesn't know my identity yet." Conan took over the topic. "There is a reason why Kaoru escaped, because in addition to being an assassin for the organization, he has another identity." Conan turned his gaze to Xiaolan, who was still chatting and laughing with Miss Hyuga. "His other identity is Xiaolan's brother who has been missing for ten years. His real name is Maori Kaoru."

"Nah... Nani?!" The surprised Hattori shouted loudly, instantly attracting everyone's attention. Then he could only smile at everyone. "Hey, Kudo, are you kidding?" Hattori asked Conan seriously.

"Idiot, how can you joke about this?" Conan said unscrupulously, narrowing his eyes. "Actually, it's like this. Actually..."

Ring, ring, ring. . . Ring, ring, ring. .

The ringing of the phone in the room interrupted Conan's words. The butler Musashi answered the phone. But before he could finish two words, a male scream rang in everyone's ears from the other end of the phone. In an instant, everyone realized that something was wrong.

"Hello! What's wrong? Where are you?" Dad, a former policeman and current detective, grabbed the phone and handled it calmly. But not long after, the second shout came into our ears again, and we saw Dad quickly walked to the balcony. We followed him. I only heard Dad shouting and looking down. "Hello! Mr. Guangming, are you okay?" It seems that the shout just now was from Mr. Guangming, but unexpectedly, the person who walked out from downstairs was not Guangming, but Hideomi with a sharp knife in his mouth.

"It's Hideomi!" Hinata looked at Hideomi with fierce eyes downstairs and couldn't help but panic.

"Damn it, hurry down and stop him!" Without explaining anything to us who didn't know what was going on, my dad ran downstairs immediately. Judging from what happened just now, it should be Mr. Guangming who was shouting, and the reason was probably because of Hideomi who was holding a sharp knife in his mouth. Well... No light and holding a knife, anyone would be scared.

Following my father's footsteps, we headed downstairs to the place where the incident happened again, only to find that the door was locked. Just as the housekeeper went to get the spare key, Mr. Guangming's third shout was heard from inside the room.

Less than half a minute later, the housekeeper came running and handed the key to my dad, but when he opened the door, there was nothing inside. Only the window was wide open. He ran to the balcony quickly, and there was a climbing rope hook hanging on the right side of the balcony. And right below the balcony, Mr. Guangming's body was pierced by the sharp railing, and scarlet blood dripped from the wound onto the ground.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk..." I smacked my lips and shook my head calmly, "The left kidney and spleen were pierced. There's no hope of saving him."

————The scent of orchids, the scent of lavender, the scent of home & the wings of angels, the wings of demons, the wings of guardians————

"The test results are out. He was pushed against the railing." Soon, police cars stopped in front of Chairman Nagato's villa. The person who just spoke was Officer Megure. After ten years of not seeing him, he seemed to have gained a lot of weight. "So, the murderer is really Nagato Hideomi?"

"No! That's absolutely not the case!" Miss Hyuga was the first to refute when she heard that her fiancé was suspected by the police officer. "The murderer may not be Mr. Hideomi."

"Huh? What do you mean?" Inspector Megure was puzzled.

"Indeed, we only saw a man with a bandage on his face." Hattori, who was standing next to Megure, began to explain Hideomi's situation to him. "We saw the murderer around 10 o'clock in the evening. At that time, everyone was in President Nagato's room on the third floor."

"Who are you including?" Inspector Megure turned and looked at his father.

"Well, there are Xiaolan, Xiaoxun, Conan, Hattori Heiji, the butler Mr. Wu and Miss Jiang Kang, including me." Dad thought.

"So where did you go after everyone left the dormitory, Ms. Hinata?"

"I was with the president at the time." Hinata Yuki said.

"Well... the staff probably understands it, but judging from the scene, the murderer should have used the rope hook currently hanging on the second-floor balcony to escape."

"Ah, that should be it." Hattori took over again. "Because when the guard and I ran around outside and came here, the rope was still shaking."

"So, when was the last time you saw Mr. Hideomi?"

"To be honest, we haven't seen the young master since this morning, and we didn't find him before the police came."

"In other words, it should be confirmed that the criminal is Mr. Hideomi."

"Well, anyway, the sharp knife, bandage and hat used by the murderer have been found. We just need to identify them..."

"Hey. How did the deceased get the wound on his right hand?" Just when Inspector Megure was discussing the case with his father, Conan suddenly interrupted, and the price he paid was that a big bump appeared on his head a few seconds later.

"Inspector!" Just as my father was still scolding Conan for his sudden interruption, a young police officer ran towards us. He was a new police officer named Takagi Wataru.

"How's it going, Takagi brother?"

"We just checked the security videos of this house and outside, but we didn't find anyone leaving the house after the incident!"

"What?!" Everyone present was shocked. "So the murderer is still in this house!"

"Oh no! President!" Conan and Hattori reacted at the same time and ran towards the president's room, and then the others followed them one after another. Only one person was walking slowly, and that person was me. In fact, I don't know what they were so anxious about. If the president really had an accident, then everyone would have been dead if they had been hanging around downstairs for so long. Another point is that even if someone had ill intentions towards the president, they would not have the courage to commit a crime under the noses of so many policemen. Finally, if so many policemen were here and the president had an accident, what was the use of these policemen? So, I just walked slowly towards the president's room.

【So Thank You For Everything，ここから変わり开める． True っすぐな道などないと気づいた, strong さ见つけた. . . 】

As I was walking slowly towards the president's room, a pleasant ringtone rang in my ears. It was the ringtone of my cell phone that I had just put in my arms. I opened it and saw that it was a call from Shoulang. I looked at the time and it was indeed close to twelve o'clock in the morning.

"Have you found out?" I asked directly after answering the call.

"Ah, although it took some time, the Nagato family is a wealthy family after all, so it's not difficult to collect all the information. So, Mr. Liufeng, how should I give you this information? Email?"

"No, I don't have a computer here. Let's use text messages." I scratched my other ear. Although there is a laptop in the wing necklace, if I take it out now, if my dad or Xiaolan finds it, I won't be able to explain it at all.

"Okay, I understand. However, Mr. Liufeng, your body has returned to your childhood now. It would not be very convenient without a computer. Let me mail you a new phone in two days. Our technology can now transfer the functions of a notebook to a phone. This way, when you accept a mission, you can use your phone to receive it directly, saving the trouble of using a computer."

"Really? That's a lot more convenient." I said calmly. "Then I'll leave it to you. Just mail the phone to Jingliu. I'll pick it up myself when the time comes."

"Okay, then I won't disturb Mr. Liu Feng's work. I wish you all the best." After saying that, Shoulang hung up the phone. There was a busy tone.

I shook my head slightly at the phone. It seems that Shoulang is really short of money. He mentioned the mission to me again after just a few days. With a helpless smile, I opened the text message that Shoulang just sent me. As I browsed, the smile on my lips slowly disappeared, replaced by a solemn atmosphere. I read the information page by page, and my brows tightened little by little. Finally, after a long time, I gently put the phone back into the necklace. I took a deep breath. I continued to walk towards the president's room. There was no one in the empty corridor, and only a long sigh was left.

"Ugh..."

　The ringtone in this article is from Iwata Sayuri's Thank You For Everything. I will put the lyrics in the related works later and put the song in the group sharing, so it will not take up words here. Please search for it yourself if you are interested.

　　
　
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