Conan's First Love is a Profiler

Chapter 198: Final Farewell (Mysterious Boy)

On the small wooden table, there are several notebooks recording Chi Zhiqiu's short poems.

The handwriting is neat and there are many of them.

In one of the notebooks, there was a newspaper cutout that was a report on the New Year's Concert on January 11, 1, and it also reported that Yasue Sagawa's work had been selected for the New Year's Concert.

"But why did Mr. Aki cut out this report and keep it?" Conan asked in confusion.

"Because it's a selected work by tanka enthusiasts?" Chao Jiu answered uncertainly.

Suddenly Conan noticed that on the small wooden table behind him, there were two wooden boards with two tanka works written on them with a brush. The signature was Ji Zi, and the style was completely different from the previous ones, so he expressed his doubts.

"That's from grandma. Uncle Qiu must have inherited grandma's literary talent." Chao Jiu explained with a smile.

After Chao Jiu greeted Chi Zhiya, Conan and Xiao Luohao followed her to Ji Zi's room.

Before changing his surname, Ji Zi was originally called Migu Ji Zi.

He took out several copies of Nikko from the bookshelf, which contained the works that Jizi had published. In one of the magazines with a bookmark, Conan found the tanka that was exactly the same as the one in the newspaper.

Perhaps Chi Zhiqiu was flipping through "Sunlight" in order to read the works published by his mother that year, and accidentally discovered the same tanka.

The cause of the case suddenly became clear.

The song selected for the New Year's Concert was actually a plagiarized work!

Yasukawa Saegawa won the honor of being selected for the New Year's Song Contest, but that honor was stolen. Two people discovered the secret of plagiarism, one of whom was Chi Zhiqiu, who was killed two years ago, and the other was Shikama Naoko.

Naoko Kama discovered the plagiarism of Yasue Sagawa through "Nikko" and went to question him.

"Being selected for the New Year's Song Contest is the highest honor for a waka poet. If you are exposed, you will lose all your reputation and status. In a panic, you called out Mr. Shikama on the night of September 9th and killed him."

After his secret was exposed, Shechuan Kangying knelt on the ground, with a mixture of sadness and pain. He lowered his head, as if he was confessing, or as if he was helpless after being found out.

Paper, after all, cannot contain fire.

A police car arrived and took away Kangying Shechuan.

Upon investigation, he found out that he had checked out "Daylight" from the Library of Congress.

This alone left him no way to refute.

At the police station, Yasuyoshi Saegawa confessed to the murder of Naoko Shikama, but denied the murder of Ji Ji Qiuyuki.

If the murderer of Ji Zhiqiu was indeed not Yasunari Saekawa, then the sentence "There is a wonderful discovery in Nikko" must have some special meaning.

Who was it and why did he kill Chi Zhiqiu?

"What? The ranch manager's body was found?"

The next day, Chao Jiu received this sudden news.

In the funeral room, Kayo looked at her husband lying on the bed. There was no excessive emotion on her face, but she felt as if she had lost her soul.

The body was found in the waterfall pool of Huayan.

"This should be suicide, right?" The section chief muttered to himself softly, "Driven by guilt, he jumped off the Kegon Falls that hurt Chi Chi Qiuzhi. If you analyze it this way, everything makes sense."

"But what's the motive for the murder?"

"With Ji Ji Qiuzhi gone, the ranch will become Kawamori's property. That's probably what he thinks, right?"

After leaving the spiritual room, Kayo came to the river and squatted beside it, not wanting to be disturbed by anyone.

She looked like she had suffered a great blow.

Would Ranch Master Kawamori, who has lived with horses since childhood, really want to kill his beloved horses?
Conan doesn't think he is the murderer.

What if he's not even the murderer, but the victim?

After questioning the ranch staff, someone revealed a piece of news.

He claimed that he saw with his own eyes that one night, Jiadai had a secret meeting with Dushan in a deserted place and they even hugged each other.

Looking at Du Shan who was busy transporting fodder, Chao Jiu's first reaction was disbelief.

"How did Mr. Dushan come to work on the ranch?" Conan asked.

"His parents died in a traffic accident when he was a child, and he grew up in an orphanage. Because he wanted to work on our ranch, Uncle Qiu brought him back."

Kayo also grew up in an orphanage.

Kegon Falls, jumping off a cliff to commit suicide, the hidden truth is...
For the first time, Qinghai Chuantang felt that his status with Conan had reversed.

It was clearly the other party who had been working for me for free before, so why is it my turn to work for him for free now?

Faced with the request message sent by Conan, she finally sighed helplessly and made a phone call.

Perhaps, this is what they call a changing fortune.

After receiving orders from their superiors, the Nikko Police Department conducted on-site evidence collection at the ranch and found luminol reaction on the floor in the room.

It seems that this is the crime scene.

"Chief, fibers were extracted from the curtains, they should have come from Kawamori Nakajin's clothes." A police officer came over.

It seems that the criminal carried the body out through the window.

And the murderer was Du Shan Katana.

"Kayo."

Chao Jiu appeared in the courtyard and found her: "Du Shan has been arrested."

The cup in the other person's hand suddenly fell to the ground and broke into pieces in an instant.

Kayo and Dushan had similar upbringings, and they both understood very well the sadness of not having the love of their parents.

A day off two years ago.

The two people who shared the same sorrow somehow became connected in spirit.

"Has Du Shan discovered your relationship?"

"Dushan thought so. He overheard the phone call. 'There is a wonderful discovery in Nikko.' From these few words, he guessed that what we did that night when we watched Xinneng was seen by Qiu Zhi, and he was convinced of it."

Shin-noh: Performing traditional Japanese Noh and Kyogen plays under the illumination of a bonfire at night.

"Actually." Chao Jiu found it hard to accept for a moment: "Actually, he killed Uncle Qiu for such a thing."

"He's always been sensitive to other people's gazes, which led to this outcome." Kayo didn't know what expression to make and only felt it was ironic.

Du Shan tampered with Chi Zhiqiuzhi's saddle, trying to make him fall off the horse, but an expert like Chi Zhiqiuzhi noticed it before he got on the horse and severely reprimanded him.

After killing the other person, Du Shan dumped his body at the Huayan Waterfall.

"I was afraid that I would be discovered at any time. During these two years, I was in fear every moment."

In the end, her body was turned into bones and was treated as suicide. However, He Sen knew about her affair with Du Shan.

The murderer of Kawamori was Dushan, but the blame lies with Kayo.

"All the blame lies with me," Kayo said with great self-blame.

"You betrayed Miss Chaojiu and Mr. Akino, who treated you like family. I will never forgive you."

After hearing this, Conan looked at the small conch beside him with a little surprise.

He couldn't have expected that someone so young could say such words.

Yes, some people did not kill anyone themselves, but they are the culprits that lead to tragic incidents. No, maybe they are just the fuse.

Kayo turned and looked at Chao Jiu, her smile very sad and bitter.

"Miss, I will not expect to be forgiven."

"The lady treated me as a real family member, which was my spiritual support, but I..." She lowered her head and cried, "I brought you such great pain."

After saying that, Kayo bowed deeply to him and left with her head lowered.

will never return.

She turned herself in to the Nikko police station and confessed everything.

Afterwards, Ji Ji-ah asked her lawyer to revise her will.

Perhaps this goes against the trend of the times, but it is not a bad thing that the career that Ji Zhiqiu has been committed to all his life can be inherited by Chao Jiu.

Just think of it as a gift I leave to my granddaughter Chao Jiu before I leave this world.

I hope she can inherit Qiu Zhi's will, use the natural land and grass to raise the horses left behind, and let them gallop freely on the grass.

"I'm very curious, what did you say to Mr. Yaben that made him change his mind?" Conan looked at the child whose age did not match his appearance, very puzzled.

Sometimes I really doubt that the other person has become smaller just like me.

"I just told Mr. Masamoto, 'If you change, the business that Mr. Aki has been holding on to will be gone.'"

After the two walked for a distance, a yellow Beetle car suddenly stopped in front of them.

"Now, are you leaving?" Xiao Luohao looked at Conan, seemingly reluctant to leave, even though the two had not had much communication and had not even experienced much together.

Conan nodded and replied in a childlike tone: "If I don't go back, Xiaolan and the others will definitely be worried about me."

"It's great that someone cares about you." Perhaps these words touched him, causing Xiao Luohao to lower his head, seeming a little sad.

Suddenly I remembered that his parents were no longer around.

A person who is alone must envy the days when there is someone by his side.

Just as Conan was about to say something to comfort the other party, Xiao Luohao raised his head, looked at him and said, "Can you please not speak in that tone in the future? I just think those little ghosts are too childish, so I don't want to play with them."

Conan's mouth twitched: After all, aren't you a kid too?
"Then we'll see each other again if we're lucky. Maybe we'll become friends when we meet in the future." Conan said with a smile, leaving the other party with hope.

"Well, see you again if we're lucky." A smile finally appeared on Xiao Luohao's face.

He stretched out his arms and waved, saying to Conan, "See you someday."

Only after the Beetle disappeared from his sight did he finally let go of his aching arms.

In the car, Dr. Agasa asked: "Shinichi, is that child the same as you?"

"No. From my observation, he is indeed a little boy, but he looks more mature than ordinary children. I don't know how he dares to run around at such a young age."

The words stopped abruptly.

Conan himself realized that he could not say the following words no matter what.

"Maybe it's the curious nature of children."

Dr. Agasa didn't care. He laughed a few times and said with emotion: "When you were with those kids before, didn't you enter a cave once and encounter several armed bandits?"

"Doctor, that's different." Conan said helplessly, "Luckily I was there, so nothing serious happened in the end. And if the boy who calls himself Xiao Luohao keeps acting like this, he might get into some dangerous situations."

Some places still have doubts.

But thinking that they were just casual acquaintances and that they might never meet again in the future, he temporarily put aside his doubts and began to concentrate on thinking.
This time Sister Xiaotang did not show up, but a murder occurred.

Could it be that I am actually the god of death?
In the next chapter, it will be revealed what game Tang is so obsessed with.

And...

It will be a brand new detective mode to open the chapter and conduct reasoning.

By the way, here’s another preview.

Preview:
After the New Year chapter, a new chase chapter is launched——

2021, stand and compete! Choose and protect!
"Truth? Justice? Right and wrong? Overall situation? Protection? Standpoint? Choice?"

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(End of this chapter)