Chapter 222 Night Talk
Chapter 223 Night Talk

"Huh... It's so comfortable to take a bath." After walking out of the bathroom, I changed into a new set of clothes that I had kept in my necklace. When I came to the living room, I saw Conan discussing something with Dr. Agasa. Shiho was sitting on the sofa flipping through a luxury magazine that she had found from somewhere.

"Shiho, how was your conversation?" I asked.

"No problem. But you asked me to keep the matter between my sister and Sister Jingliu secret. Why is that?"

"Kudo doesn't know about Sister Shizuka's affairs, although he has heard me mention it. But I don't want him to know the details. Sister Akemi used to use the alias Hirota Masami. Coincidentally, Kudo happens to know Hirota Masami." I explained. "However, when Sister Akemi participated in a robbery case some time ago, Kudo happened to be there and also participated in solving the case. But when I met Sister Akemi later, I told her not to be tracked by Kudo and asked her to knock him out. So this case became an unsolved case. Although the other two robbers were found, Sister Akemi's affairs were not exposed. Kudo did not find your sister in the end. And now Sister Akemi is at my house. So he can't know. By the way, how did you talk?"

"I just told him my identity in the organization, my job, and my relationship with you. I didn't tell him anything else." Shiho thought for a moment and said, "But when you mentioned the name Hirota Masami... I remember that there seemed to be a disk with information about that drug that was accidentally lost when I sent a postcard to my sister last time. It seems that I sent it to my sister, and my sister seemed to have sent the disk to a professor at Nanyang University named Hirota Masami."

"Hmm?" When Shiho said this, I remembered that there seemed to be such a scene in the plot, but the data disk was automatically deleted by the self-destruct program as soon as it entered the computer. It was not important. And it infinitely prolonged the research process of the antidote.

"Should we tell this to Kudo Shinichi?" Shiho saw that I was thinking about something, so she asked me.

"I think it's harmless, tell him." I thought about it, the data will be destroyed in the end anyway. It doesn't matter. "It's just that this will delay our return home."

"It doesn't matter. Sister is safe now anyway. It doesn't matter if it's earlier or later."

"Okay, I'll go talk to him then." After saying that, I walked to Conan's side. "What are you thinking about, great detective?"

"Xun, how come you hid it so deeply?" Conan looked at me hatefully.

"Well... you're used to it, aren't you?" I shrugged and smiled. "And that's just how Shiho behaves. But you pretty much understand the situation now, right?"

"The city is full of tricks, I want to go back to the countryside..." Conan said with a half-moon eye, looking hopeless. "Forget it, since she is your woman, I can trust her. And with her as a pharmacist, there is no need to worry about not being able to make an antidote." After complaining, Conan also said that he understood the current situation.

"That's unlikely." I shrugged. "The information on drugs is extremely huge. Even a genius like Shiho can't remember so many complicated steps."

"genius?"

"Well, he has a PhD in medicine, biology, and chemistry. He has published several papers. Do you think he is a genius?"

"How come your organization specializes in producing monsters?" Conan said in disbelief. "No, the amount of information today is a bit too much, I need to digest it."

"Oh, by the way, since you mentioned the antidote, Shiho just told me that she remembered that a disk with the medicine was accidentally sent to a professor named Hirota Masami at Nanyang University. Should we go get it together?"

"Eh? Hirota?"

"what happened?"

"Ah, no, nothing." Conan thought for a moment. "Then let's go get that plate. Doctor, please make a phone call."

"Okay, leave it to me." The doctor said and picked up the phone.

"Doctor, remember to modify the signal source for the final call to the professor." I followed up.

"Hmm? Oh. Okay, I understand." The doctor nodded suddenly.

"By the way, you should also call Xiaolan. But don't tell her that I'm back," I reminded her.

"why?"

"Shiho just escaped, and I need to take her to do some things. Including buying some daily necessities and so on. So this will take another two days, and tomorrow happens to be the weekend. So I plan to go back on Sunday night."

"Well... okay." Conan thought about the relationship between me and Shiho, and didn't say much, and then started to make a phone call. On the other side, the doctor also contacted Professor Hirota, and soon we set off in the doctor's Beetle.

"Oh, by the way, Xiaoxun. I have already used the money you gave me to buy an SUV. How about the latest Tesla Model X?"

"It's all right, doctor. As long as you like it." On the way, I chatted with the doctor. It takes about three hours to drive to Professor Hirota's house. That means we can arrive around 10:30. If we return, it will take another three hours. There is another case to deal with later. Think about this series of events. If we want to go home, it will be at least three or four in the morning. I frowned.

"Doctor, remember to park your car farther away from the professor's house. We'll walk over there."

"Huh? Why?"

"Avoid the organization. Although the chance is small, places with information about the organization may be investigated. It will be bad if we run into them, so we have to be careful." I explained.

"Oh, OK." The doctor also understood the seriousness of the situation and quickly agreed to my request. Not long after, we arrived at the door of Professor Hirota's house. After checking around, I didn't see any suspicious people. So I knocked on the door of Professor Hirota Masami's house with Dr. Agasa and others.

"Oh, is this Dr. Agasa?" The person who came was Professor Hirota's wife, Toshiko Hirota. "I have heard about you, sir. Please come in."

"Ah, excuse me." Dr. Agasa came forward. "Have all the other guests gone?"

"Yes, they are all my husband's students, and they came to see him today." As she spoke, Mrs. Hirota knocked on the door of the study.

"Grandpa, Grandpa..." However, no matter how Mrs. Hirota called, no one responded.

"Hey, Xun, do you think...?" Conan looked alert.

"No way?" I said, pretending to be ignorant. "What a coincidence, where you go, you die."

"..." Conan ignored me and jumped up. He landed on the wall window of the study and looked inside. I saw his eyes shrink and a surprised expression immediately appeared on his face.

"Is there a spare key here?" Conan asked seriously as he fell down.

"Huh? We don't have a spare key." The lady didn't understand why Conan asked that.

"Kaoru, is there any way to open the door?" I shrugged slightly at Conan's words, pulled out a set of lock picking tools from my necklace, and opened the door in a few seconds. Although Mrs. Hirota wanted to stop me, my hands moved too fast. I opened the door directly. But I saw Professor Hirota Masami was being pressed by the bookshelf and fell in a pool of blood.

"Tsk... The halo of the god of death is really not exaggerated." I curled my lips in disdain. The plot has not changed at all.

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

"You said... this was an accident?" Half an hour later, the Shizuoka police chief, Officer Yokomizo, arrived at the crime scene and told us that this was an accident.

"Ah, although I don't know the specific circumstances, the probability of it being an accident is very high," said Officer Yokomizo.

"Officer, the cause of death is probably this ornament," the accompanying autopsy officer said to Yokomizo. "When the deceased fell, the back of his head probably landed on this trophy."

"Is that so?" Officer Yokomizo pondered. "Then the cause of Hirota Masami's death should be that when he was trying to get a book from a high place, his foot stepped on the bookshelf, but he lost his balance and fell down. His head happened to land on the corner of this trophy, which led to his death. The best evidence is that the door and window of this room are locked, and the only key to this room is under a notebook."

"Well... in this case this should be an accident, right?" the Doctor whispered.

"No, it is also possible that he was killed. Because..." Conan began to analyze, but while he was analyzing, I had already walked out of the room.

"Where are you going?" Shiho asked me.

"I'm not interested in solving the case. I'm going out for some fresh air." I said to Zhi.

"I will go with you."

"Huh? Aren't you going to watch him solve the case?" I raised the corners of my mouth slightly.

"I'm not interested either. And judging from your expression..." Shiho seemed to have figured me out. "It seems like you know the answer?"

"Smart girl." I reached out and scratched Shiho's nose. "Let's go for a walk together."

"Ah."

"Hey, Xiaoxun, Aijun, where are you going?" The doctor called us.

"Let's go outside and take some fresh air. Let Kudo take care of this." I whispered to the doctor. I glanced at Kudo who was fully immersed in the case, and then walked out with Shiho.

"You obviously know the answer, why don't you tell Kudo?" Shiho and I were strolling outside the door, and she asked me.

"Let him be in the limelight. Otherwise he will become more and more lazy in the future."

"I think you're the lazy one, right?" Shiho said jokingly. "But whatever, tell me about your sister."

"Yeah, okay." I looked around, then took Shiho's hand and said as we walked. "My real name is Kaoru, Maori Kaoru. Before I was abducted into the organization, I was just a child from an ordinary family. My father is a policeman, Maori Kogoro. My mother is a lawyer, Kisaki Eri, and I have a fraternal sister, Maori Ran. We lived in Beika City until I was six years old. And Kudo Shinichi happened to be my childhood playmate."

"...Isn't this too much of a coincidence?" Shiho looked at me in disbelief.

"I know this is almost impossible, but it is true." I sighed. "When I went to investigate Xiaolan, I followed her home and saw the photos in her room. Haha, the same photos of me when I was a child were right in front of me. How could I make a mistake?"

"So what are you doing now..." Shiho continued to ask.

"I am now living in my father and Xiaolan's home as Ming Yaxun. They don't know my real identity. The only ones who know it are Dr. Agasa, Kudo, Kudo's parents, and my mother. But they all promised to keep it a secret for me. In addition, my mother seems to have separated from my father because of my disappearance."

"Kudo's parents? They're not the ones who have connections with the FBI..." Shiho also seems to have her own intelligence channels.

"Well, but I have a good relationship with Kudo's mother. So under the pressure from his mother, Kudo Yusaku did not make things difficult for me. What's more, his son and I are now on the same front. Unless he wants to ruin Kudo Shinichi's future."

"Hmm... But the situation between you two is really complicated." Shiho thought for a while. "I never thought that you would have such a background. The child of a policeman and a lawyer, but in the end you became a killer. I don't know whether to say it's a coincidence or fate."

"Not really. Anyway, I'm just at home now. On the one hand, I'm keeping an eye on that confused detective and on the other hand, it's easier to find loopholes in the organization now that I've become smaller."

"How can you fight against the organization with your own strength?" Shiho reminded.

"So I formed my own force. It started from my first mission when I was nine years old." I said confidently.

"What?" Shiho was surprised. "Nine years old? Did you think that far back then?"

"No, I just thought it was fun at the time, and I never thought it would be useful someday." I shrugged. "After solving the case here today, we will go home first, and then I will take you to see my power. Oh, and I have another mission for you."

"Mission? What mission?"

"Hehe, you'll know tomorrow." I kept it a secret.

"Okay." Shiho thought about it and gave up questioning me. "It's just that sometimes, Bing, I doubt whether you are from this world. Why are you so ahead of the times? It's almost like you predict your actions. For two months, it seems that every step we took was within your calculations. How did you do it?"

"I told you... I rely on the aura of the protagonist." I said unscrupulously with my eyes half-mooned. "There are some things I can't explain to you. You just need to know that I am still the same me. Although my hair color has changed, I am still Bing. It's just that my name has become Xun." While speaking. I stretched out my hand and hugged Shiho's slender waist. "In short, I have paved the way as smooth as possible. As for how to choose and how to go, it depends on you."

"Eh? What do you mean?" Shiho was shocked, because I had already said something similar to this when we parted that time.

"Well, I'll tell you when we get home." I tightened my arms. "The night is getting cold, let's go back and see how the detective solved the case."

“...Yeah.” Shiho’s cheeks blushed slightly, and she let me put my arms around her waist and walk back.

(End of this chapter)