Conan: Rice Flower Spring

Chapter 398, Section 392: Tea sprouts, tea sprouts!
Lin Longma had just arrived at the crime scene when he unceremoniously pushed his way through the crowd and saw two figures, one large and one small, staring blankly at the corpse in the woods.

In this pair of large and small, the larger one has a "single horn" on its head, and it is none other than Ran Mouri, the daughter of the sleeping Kogoro!

With a large head and a small body, and wearing glasses that constantly reflect light, isn't he none other than Conan Edogawa, the walking tattoo in Tokyo and a calamity star descended to earth?

The two, one big and one small, stared at the corpse at the scene, while a police officer with a coral-shaped haircut looked at them expectantly.

He recognized the coral-headed officer, Ryoma Hayashi. It was none other than Inspector Yokomizo Sango, who had recently represented the Shizuoka Prefectural Police Headquarters' First Investigative Division at a joint investigation meeting convened by the Metropolitan Police Department!
Interestingly, Inspector Yokomizo originally worked in the First Investigation Division of the Saitama Prefectural Police Headquarters.

I don't know why I was transferred to the Shizuoka Prefectural Police Headquarters.

Of course, the key point about Inspector Yokomizo is not the amazing resume he has, but that he is a die-hard fan of Kogoro Mouri.

Even before Yokomizo Sango knew Kogoro Mouri, he was already a huge fan of "Sleeping Kogoro".

Ever since Kogoro Mouri encountered a murder case during his travels, and it just so happened that Sango Yokomizo was in charge of the scene, this police officer from the First Investigation Division of the Shizuoka Prefectural Police Headquarters' admiration for Kogoro Mouri has reached a new level.

He genuinely believed that Kogoro Mouri was truly capable, because he had personally witnessed Kogoro solving a case while he was asleep.

Regardless of Kogoro Mouri's actual reasoning ability, his sheer charisma is undeniable.

Because of this guy's personality, "Sleeping Kogoro" can be high-class when he needs to be, and down-to-earth when he needs to be approachable.

Sometimes, the seemingly "high and mighty" detectives occasionally show some "clumsy" aspects, which can also be seen as a way to connect with the public.

The reason why "Sleeping Kogoro" is so famous is partly due to Kogoro Mouri's personality.

In short, in Yokomizo Sango's eyes, Kogoro Mouri was almost at the level of "you are my god".

As an island nation with rigid class divisions, the idea of ​​sons inheriting their fathers' businesses is considered perfectly natural.

Isn't it only natural that the daughter of a famous detective would be able to deduce and investigate crime scenes?
Among the crowd, Ryoma Hayashi spotted Sonoko Suzuki and Masahiko Michiwaki. Sonoko was pointing at Ran Mouri and saying something.

Unsurprisingly, she was introducing her best friend Ran Mouri to Masahiko Michiwaki.

Michiwaki Masahiko's expression was quite intriguing.

In Ryoma Hayashi's view, the way Masahiko Michiwaki looked at Ran Mouri was neither out of curiosity nor amazement.

Instead, it was a sense of apprehension that he tried hard to conceal but could not.

Is Masahiko Michiwaki wary of Ran Mouri?

"Mouri-kun, have you made any discoveries?" Yokomizo Sango was very polite to Mouri Ran.

Unlike those who are oblivious to the situation, Yokomizo Sango has no flaws other than being a little fanatical about Kogoro Mouri.

As a police inspector at the police headquarters, Yokomizo's ability to assess situations and make judgments is also at its peak.

In terms of being kind to others, Yokomizo Sango was no less than Inspector Megure of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

It's quite reasonable that he's being so polite to Ran Mouri right now—this Ran is a one-in-a-million detective with incredible connections.

Do you know what a "connections-based detective" is? It's the kind of detective who gets help from bigger people when they beat up a small fry, a man when they beat up a woman, and an old person when they beat up a young one. When Ran Mouri is a detective, if she encounters a case she can't solve, she can trigger her passive ability to call for help, and randomly summon one of the famous detectives, Kogoro Mouri and Shinichi Kudo, to assist her.

Even Yokomizo Sango received some inside information from his colleagues in Osaka. It was that Kogoro Mouri's daughter had a close relationship with the only daughter of Ginshiro Toyama, the head of the Osaka Prefectural Police's Forensic Science Division.

Ginjiro Toyama's only daughter is also childhood friends with the only son of the Osaka Prefectural Police Chief.

In other words, if Ran Mouri encounters a situation where "things are beyond her control," she might be able to summon three great detectives at the same time: the sleeping Kogoro Mouri, the Sherlock Holmes of the Heisei era Shinichi Kudo, and the Kansai detectives Heiji Hattori.

With such unparalleled connections and a divine body, how could he not be polite when trying to comprehend the Dao?

After Conan's "training" over this period, Ran Mouri's crime scene investigation skills have clearly improved.

"The victim's time of death was likely between 8 and 9 pm last night, and the cause of death was direct stabbing by the perpetrator."
Judging from the criminal's methods, he acted decisively and with the intention of killing someone.

"This is the murderer." Ran Mouri said, her gaze falling on the victim's brown hair.

"Officer Yokomizo, this murderer should be the same one who committed the serial killings against women with brown hair."

"So it really is that guy!" Yokomizo Sango wholeheartedly agreed with Ran Mouri's assessment.

In fact, he had already become suspicious when he saw that the victim was a young woman with brown hair.

So far, this serial killer targeting women with brown hair has murdered a total of four women.

On average, there is one victim per year.

The murderer who recently held a joint investigation meeting in Tokyo has killed seven people in a row. The murderer in Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture, has almost reached half the number of victims of the Tokyo serial killers.

If the killer is not caught soon, and he continues to accumulate the number of victims, it is entirely foreseeable that he will surpass his counterparts in Tokyo.

Sure enough, even serial killers in island nations are fairly distributed among the various prefectures and municipalities. The main focus is on fairness, fairness, and damn fairness!

'Brown hair, serial killer?' Ryoma Hayashi suddenly heard Ran Mouri's key point in her deduction from the edge of the crowd.

Sonoko Suzuki had indeed said that Ran Mouri went to investigate a serial murder case as soon as she arrived at the beach.

But she didn't say that the serial killer specifically targeted girls with brown hair.

At this moment, Ran Mouri filled in the last missing piece of information for Ryoma Hayashi—there is a killer on Izu Beach who specifically hunts down brown-haired people!

"Michiwaki Masahiko, do you look like a womanizing college student, or a serial killer?"

Because Masahiko Michiwaki showed Ryoma Hayashi many inconsistencies, Ryoma Hayashi immediately suspected this kid.

But he was still puzzled. This Izu serial killer only killed one person a year, as if one victim was his KPI.

Since this habit has continued for four years, why did he target Sonoko Suzuki again after just killing one this year?

It can't be because Sonoko has some special victim constitution, can it?

(End of this chapter)