Kudo Shinichi followed behind his parents, tugging off his tie that was too tight with some gloominess.
He originally didn't want to come. This kind of tea party full of adults is no fun at all, and Xiaolan didn't come... He would rather stay at home and read a book, or go to Dr. Arm's house to watch him tinker with inventions, but his mother forced him to drag him away.
Come here, hope he can relax.
Thinking of what happened a few days ago, Kudo Shinichi's bad mood became even more sad.
At that time, he and several classmates were playing football near the commercial street, and they kicked a strange white thing during the game. When he returned in the afternoon, he saw the news that the escaped prisoner was killed and his head was hung on the back of a police car.
Kudo Yusaku said this was a very bad provocation, and Kudo Shinichi looked at the pictures on the news and remembered that he did see a lot of police cars when he went to the commercial street, and the police car with the head on it happened to be parked not far from him.
place.
He has been reading mystery novels since he was a child, and his father deliberately cultivated him in this area. Kudo Shinichi realized what he was kicking.
He told Kudo Yusaku about this incident, but his father did not think he was talking nonsense. He listened carefully to what he said about what happened at that time. He thought the possibility was very high and immediately called his acquaintance, Officer Megure, to provide clues.
Not long after, the police came to the door. It was Officer Memu who was working overtime on this case. He was accompanied by a strange police officer who looked polite and behaved well.
The police officer's name was Takaaki Morofushi, who was the victim of the case committed by the escaped prisoner. He was originally a Nagano Prefecture police officer and came to Tokyo specifically for this case.
Kudo Shinichi felt that he was different from the policemen he usually met. Not only in name, but also in appearance, he was smarter... If there were more policemen with brains like this, maybe his father wouldn't have to be dragged in to help when he was working on the manuscript.
Once the case is solved, the police can solve the case themselves.
The two police officers took notes. Zhu Fu Gaoming, as the person involved, did not rush to press for more information and was calm and patient throughout the process.
Before leaving, he reminded the Kudo couple to pay more attention to Kudo Shinichi, and pay special attention to whether he would be psychologically affected, because children are more affected by vicious cases and can easily have lifelong shadows.
Officer Morofushi said these words in a very serious tone, as if he was giving advice to the Kudo couple who were older than him as a person who had experienced the situation.
Kudo Yusaku didn't think it would have much impact, because Kudo Shinichi had seen murders not long ago - the sniper attack on the Suzuki Tower, the tragic death of the curator in the elevator car in the library - who also died tragically, and it didn't affect him at that time.
He hasn't seen the head yet this time, so there won't be any problem.
But Kudo Yukiko didn't think so. She cared about him very much these days and insisted on taking him out to relax this time.
Kudo Shinichi entered the back garden, put his hands in his pants pockets, and observed Professor Moritani Teiji's other guests.
Most of them are people who often appear on TV. He has a good memory and can name almost everyone. Except for his parents, no one brings the children...etc.
His eyes fell on the table not far away, where a young boy stood.
He looked a little older than him, about fourteen or fifteen years old, with black hair and pale skin. He didn't know if he was injured. There was a bandage around his left eye and neck, and the only exposed right eye was a rare crimson color.
He looks good. Yuanzi will definitely like him, and maybe Xiaolan will also like him. She seems to prefer this kind of cute and handsome boy... Last time she watched TV, she stared at a young actor with a very similar style for a long time.
Kudo Shinichi felt vaguely that he looked familiar, and then he saw the blond mixed-race man following the boy, and then he immediately remembered it.
——The man they met there on the day the library director was murdered.
Kudo Shinichi touched his chin and began to recall. He remembered that the man was looking for someone when they first met, and then they saw him again on the first floor. There was a thin man hiding behind him.
The appearance of this young man is basically the same as the one he described when he was looking for someone. It is very likely that he is the person hiding behind him... Are you so cowardly? He and Xiaolan are not scary.
While Kudo Shinichi was thinking randomly, the boy with black hair and red eyes walked towards them.
"Is this Mr. Kudo Yusaku?" The young man looked at his father expectantly.
"Yes." As a famous novelist who can be chased to the airplane cabin by editors and who receives letters from readers all over the world all year round, Kudo Yusaku is very accustomed to this kind of look, "Hello."
He also felt that the young man in front of him looked familiar. He had been flying between the United States and Japan for a long time, and he felt that he had seen this young man somewhere.
Just as he was about to ask, Teiji Moritani came over with a stack of cards: "Mr. Kudo, I want to ask you a question. Do you mind?"
Kudo Yusaku nodded politely: "I hope I can help you."
"This is to guess the computer startup password of a three-person partnership... For a famous mystery novelist like you, such a mystery should be solved immediately." Moritani Teiji said as he handed a card to Kudo.
Excellent work.
"This is the information of those three people. The password is a noun formed by the three of them. There are five katakana in total." He gave one to Kudo Yukiko and handed another to the boy: "Kero-kun, what do you want?
Don’t you want to try it too?”
...Clo?
Kudo Shinichi didn't get the card. He looked at the boy's appearance. He looked completely Asian. Why did he have a foreign surname?
And he didn't ask about the smell of medicine on him. After a closer look, he found that the paleness was natural, and it didn't seem like the sequelae of illness or blood loss... If the other person was healthy and uninjured, why did he have to wear so many bandages?
Detectives are curious, and Kudo Shinichi was more interested in this strange boy with a bandage than Moritani Teiji's puzzle.
"Don't run around." The blond man finally came over. He separated the boy from the Kudo family politely and distantly, with a perfect smile on his face: "I'm sorry for causing you trouble."
"It's okay, it's okay~ This boy is very well-behaved, he didn't do anything annoying at all."
Seeing that he looked handsome, Kudo Yukiko waved her hands happily, while Kudo Shinichi rolled his half-moon eyes and looked at his mother.
"Amuro, let's take a look together." Crowe pulled the blond man and gestured to look at the card together.
After Professor Moritani Teiji handed out the cards, he placed a timing hourglass on the dining table: "The time limit is three minutes. Everyone present, let's think about it together...the timing starts!"
Kudo Yusaku looked at the information on the card and smiled. He had already guessed what the answer was.
But he did not announce it. He lowered his head and handed the card to his son who had been forgotten by the professor: "Shinichi, do you want to try it?"