Conan: Start with three choices, but sequence potion

Chapter 222 Amon’s Sharp Comments

Amid Ai's snoring and Amon's mumbling, the train gradually approached Kyoto Station.

No one knew what happened in the room during the next few hours of driving, not even the two little ones who were asleep.

But when they got out of the car, they had already changed their clothes.

An He's original black and gray sweatshirt was changed into a pure white woolen shirt, and he was dragging a box behind him.

Miyano Shiho changed into a refreshing travel outfit, her face was a little rosy, and she was humming a little tune.

However, she didn't dare take too big steps, and walked down the stairs carefully and slowly, waiting for Awa to catch up at the station exit.

"There are so many places of interest in Kyoto." She pulled out a Kyoto travel guide from the newspaper rack nearby. Almost every location had a historical story marked on it, and she was a little unsure where to start.

"Are you sure you don't want to find a hotel to rest first?" An He looked at her worriedly and asked.

The woman's behavior just now made him suspect that she was crazy. Did she really have the energy to travel around?
Miyano Shiho reached out and touched his chin, her eyes arrogant: "Awa-kun, you should worry about yourself."

An He: “.”

Damn it, I was underestimated.

He was secretly thinking about how to retaliate next time.

"But since we are talking about Yoshitsune and Benkei, the most famous thing is probably the Gojo Bridge where they met." Miyano Shiho looked down at the map and searched on it.

"It seems like it's not far from the station, and there are many homestays nearby. Why don't we go over and take a look? It's a good place to put your luggage," she suggested.

"Okay." An He did not object.

The two quickly found a pretty good B&B. Although it didn't have a hot spring bathhouse, the room was large and there were not many people there.

After all, it is not a major holiday yet, nor is it the season for school trips, so there are relatively few people coming to Kyoto.

After putting the luggage into the house, Miyano Shiho and Anhe walked out of the B&B and headed towards the Gojo Bridge next door.

Then, from a distance, I saw a sneaky guy borrowing a bamboo sword from a group of children on the roadside who were going to a kendo training class, and then quietly moved towards a thin figure on the bridge.

“On the Gojo Bridge in Kyoto”

A deep voice with a Kansai accent slowly sounded.

"The big, strong man Benkei"

He raised the bamboo sword high in his hand——

"Raise your sword and chop at Ushiwakamaru!!"

Snapped! !

"Ouch!"

Conan covered his head and turned around to see a dark smiling face. The Osaka boy was carrying a bamboo sword on his shoulder, showing his white teeth, and squatted down and looked at him with a smile.

"Hattori? Why are you here?"

"I want to ask you something else." Hattori Heiji stood up.

However, the next second he saw Conan standing there in a daze, staring at him intently—

No, it's behind him?!

Hattori Heiji reacted very quickly. Following his body's instinct, he drew his sword and turned around to block, but he saw a similar bamboo sword with an afterimage quickly change its moves, deflecting the bamboo sword in his hand, and then falling down with swiftness.

However, when it was about to hit his head, he suddenly withdrew his force.

Snapped! !

A knocking sound, neither light nor heavy, was heard.

"hiss"

Hattori Heiji covered his head and took a few steps back.

"The first to come first, the last to come first and the last to come first."

An He swung the bamboo sword in a beautiful sword flower, and then returned it to the children waiting on the roadside.

"Childish." Miyano Shiho was speechless as she held Ai in her arms.

Amon stood on her shoulder and tilted his head.

"Mr. Anhe? And Miss Miyano?" Conan looked at these two familiar faces in surprise, whom he hadn't seen for more than a month.

By the way, it turns out that Mr. Anhe also knows kendo?
Although it looks different from Hattori's kendo, it seems that the level is also very high.

"I didn't expect to meet you two in Kyoto." An He said this, although there was no sign of "surprise" from his expression.

He took out a few packets of anzuki from his pocket as a reward for borrowing the children's bamboo swords, and then urged them to find the sword of Hattori Heiji who was still covering his head in a daze.

The children gathered together and surrounded Hattori Heiji.

Hattori Heiji couldn't stand the noise anymore and quickly returned the bamboo sword to them.

"So how did you end up here?" Miyano Shiho took out a pack of anchovies from Anhe's pocket, opened the package and put one in her mouth.

Well, it’s a sweet taste that she can accept, and it tastes pretty good.

Hattori Heiji took off his baseball cap and ruffled his hair: "You all should know about the recent serial murder case, right?"

An He nodded: "I know a thing or two."

"In fact, the takoyaki chef who died in Osaka was quite familiar to me."

Hattori Heiji looked a little embarrassed to speak, and his eyes wandered for a while.

"Although he is a member of a thief group, I have often visited his store since junior high school and received a lot of care from him, so I want to at least find the murderer and help him get to the bottom of the truth."

"I see." An He understood. "Because the case was taken over by the Kyoto Metropolitan Police Department, you think there might be further clues in Kyoto, right?"

Hattori Heiji nodded.

"As for this little brat." An He lowered his head and looked at a primary school student whose presence was becoming less and less. "Maybe Mr. Maori received some commission and brought him here with him, right?"

Conan forced himself to put on an innocent smile in a very perfunctory manner, then thought that he could probably use these people's wisdom for free, so he took out his mobile phone from his pocket and showed a photo.

It was a painting of a cabinet with a staircase structure, divided into five layers. On the first, second and fourth layers there were these incomprehensible pictures that looked like children's doodles.

He pretended to be good. "Since Brother Hattori is here for this, why don't we also think about this puzzle together? This is the clue in the commission that Uncle received from Sannoji Temple. It is very likely related to 'Genji Hotaru'. If we can solve it, it may also help find the murderer."

Hattori Heiji was obviously interested.

"Brother Anhe and Miss Miyano, do you want to come together?" He turned and asked the two of them.

Although he was already very confident with Kudo, he would definitely be more efficient if he brought An and the younger brother with him. This time he had no intention of competing, he just wanted to solve the case as quickly as possible and bring the criminal to justice.

An He asked Miyano Shiho who was standing beside him: "I don't care, but what about Miyano-sensei?"

When she met these two unlucky high school detectives, Miyano Shiho knew that this trip would definitely be accompanied by a murder case. "What do you say?" She lowered her head and ruffled Ai's beard.

"Uh-huh."

Xiao Ai turned over lazily, seemingly not caring.

"Ga! Detectives! Squad!" Amon rarely expressed his opinion directly.

"It seems that Amon is very interested in solving puzzles, so let's do it together." Miyano Shiho said in accordance with her pet's intention.

I haven't encountered a murder case in a long time, and I miss the feeling of being involved in reasoning.

"Since it is related to 'Genji Hotaru', then we just need to look for it in places related to Yoshitsune, Benkei and others, and we should be able to find something." Conan sent the photo to the three people, and then said with some distress: "But I'm not very familiar with Kyoto."

This was where he had been having trouble. This picture puzzle was obviously closely related to Kyoto's local culture and legends, but he knew nothing about Kyoto and only knew a little about it from his history textbooks.

The database is incomplete, so no matter how powerful his reasoning ability is, there is nothing he can do.

"We just set out on this journey based on a sudden idea that Awa-kun came up with." Miyano Shiho said while hugging Ai.

"In that case, I'll lead the way." Hattori Heiji patted his chest confidently, "I'm fully prepared."

There are only a few taxis that allow pets. After some effort, the four of them finally got in the car and headed to the first stop recommended by Hattori Heiji.

"This is the Gojo God Temple." He walked in first. The temple was deserted and no one was in sight.

Anhe and Miyano Shiho were walking behind and couldn't help but complain: "Kyoto has nothing but a lot of temples."

What about Kiyomizu Temple, Sannoji Temple, Gyokuryuji Temple, Kinkaku and Ginkaku?
As an old capital, the legacy of the shogunate period still has a far-reaching influence.

Hattori Heiji introduced: "The Yoshitsune Chronicle says that the real first meeting between Yoshitsune and Benkei was not at Gojo Bridge, but in this temple."

Conan lowered his head and looked carefully at the picture in his phone, but did not find any clues that could be related to it.

"By the way, why did the monk from Sannoji not ask me, a famous detective from Kansai, to investigate the case, but instead went all the way to Tokyo to entrust that uncle with the task?" Hattori Heiji thought angrily.

"Maybe it's because your father is a high-ranking official in the police force." An He stretched out a hand so that Amon could fall, and said casually.

Miyano Shiho said calmly: "Although you have helped the police solve many cases, your main job is still a student, right? And you don't have a formal office."

"If you really entrust a high school student with this kind of thing, guess what your father's attitude will be?"

".That's true." Hattori Heiji sighed.

He is still a sophomore at Gaifang High School. His father will definitely be angry if he knows that Shanneng Temple has given him a commission.

There is nothing worth seeing in Gojo Tenjin Temple, it is just an ordinary temple. After walking around and finding nothing worth noting, everyone took a short rest and then rushed to the next stop.

"This is the Benkeishi Stone."

Hattori Heiji pointed to a half-man-high stone surrounded by signs on the side of the road.

"It is said that Benkei used to sit on this stone and think, so he named it Benkei-ishi, but some people say that it is because he threw this stone down from Mount Hiei."

An He took a closer look at this very ordinary stone, but didn't see anything magical about it.

“It’s very ordinary.”

He straightened up in disappointment.

"That's it." Miyano Shiho rolled her eyes at him. "You don't expect a natural monkey to pop out of it, do you?"

"It would be great if it is possible." An He agreed, "But then the size of this stone will not be enough."

Conan took a picture of the stone and then marked their current location on the map on his phone.

Although I can't see where there is anything worth paying attention to, it's still a good idea to mark it first.

An He noticed this boy whose mind was full of secret codes and riddles and patted him on the shoulder.

Conan looked back in confusion.

"Dear hardworking and brave detective, I have an important commission here. I wonder if you are willing to accept it?" An He coughed twice and spoke in a very epic tone of RPG plot transition.

Conan squeezed out dead fish eyes.

Anhe and his brother have transformed into NPCs again.
"What kind of work is this time?"

An He took out some change from his pocket and stuffed it into his pocket, then pointed to a convenience store not far away and said, "Go buy some water for the brothers and sisters."

Conan clutched the money: "."

After looking resentfully at the unscrupulous adult who ordered the child around, he finally walked towards the convenience store.

"Children are born to exercise more." An He didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

Even though the three people present all knew that under Conan's child's body was the soul of a high school boy.

Not long after Conan left, a tall and thin figure walked from the front and appeared in front of the three people.

He was a cool man wearing a custom-made suit that didn't look cheap, with his hair combed back meticulously, leaving only a strand of hair on his forehead.

"I'm Ayanokouji from the Kyoto Prefectural Police Department. As far as I know, you seem to be investigating the case of 'Genji Hotaru'?"

He pulled his police ID from his lining pocket, flashed it, and then put it away.

Although the object used was "you", his gaze was mainly directed at the somewhat confused Hattori Heiji, and only lingered for a moment when he passed by Ai and Amon.

"But this is not Osaka or Tokyo. It's best for an amateur like you not to meddle in other people's business."

He said this harshly in a very cold tone.

"Zhizhi."

A furry little head suddenly popped out from the upper pocket of the suit.

Amon suddenly straightened up, stood on Anhe's shoulder and stared at the little squirrel, his wings slightly spread and a cold light flashed on his monocle.

Ai also became alert instantly, her previous lazy look instantly disappeared, and she raised her head from Miyano Shiho's arms.

The squirrel suddenly shuddered, then timidly jumped out of the pocket, climbed up the suit and onto the shoulder of Officer Ayanokouji. Then, as if feeling unsafe, it burrowed into his collar, hiding half of its body inside, leaving only its little head exposed to look at them, and sniffed gently with its tiny nose.

The strange police officer named Ayanokouji let the little squirrel finish his actions before snorting coldly, "Please remember this."

He gave this warning and turned away very gracefully.

For some reason, An He always felt that he left a little too quickly.

Conan just came back with a drink, and looking at Officer Ayanokouji's back as he left, he asked curiously, "Who is that?"

Hattori Heiji shook his head and was about to say that he didn't know him either, when he heard the loud voice of the starling from the side.

"Coward! Coward!"

(End of this chapter)