Conan's Exorcist Detective

Chapter 123 Speed ​​up, Xiao Ai
Tachibana Park is not far from the hotel where Dr. Agasa and his friends are staying.

In addition to the leisure facilities and green spaces found in ordinary parks, there is also a group of ocean-themed statues. More than one hundred different artists were invited to design statues in different styles. It is also one of the more interesting tourist attractions in Izu.

After getting off the bus, Haruhiko Kousaka walked along the cobblestone path.

Soon I saw the group of statues with different shapes.

Under a hideous statue of Medusa, Haibara Ai stood in the shadows with her shoulders folded.

She was wearing a sleeveless red turtleneck sweater, brown shorts, and brown leather shoes.

This outfit is the one that Haibara Ai wore when she first appeared in the Conan anime to scare Conan.

Haruhiko always felt that she particularly liked this outfit.

"What's going on? Have you found the person?" Haruhiko walked over and asked.

Huihara Ai shook her head: "I searched the entire park, but I didn't see any trace of Ayumi."

Haruhiko frowned, "Did you call the police?"

Huiyuan Ai spread her hands and said, "Speaking of this, I might be in trouble."

"In trouble?"

Ai Haibara raised her hand and pointed not far away.

Haruhiko looked in the direction her white fingers were pointing and saw a police car parked on the side of the road not far away. A uniformed police officer was bending over and standing in front of Conan and the others.

Conan and the other two kids were talking about something with red faces, and Dr. Agasa was standing there adding something.

But the policeman opposite seemed suspicious.

"Don't you believe it? This is a bit difficult. It's better to use the power of the Metropolitan Police Department at this time. Should I call a familiar police officer..." Haruhiko muttered to himself.

"It's useless. The entire Izu police system is so busy that they want to borrow the cat's hands." A voice suddenly came from under the statue next to them.

It scared Haruhiko.

Looking closely, I found that there was a person standing under the sculpture behind Haibara Ai.

The man was dressed in black and wearing a baseball cap. Because his skin was too dark, he was hidden in the shadows, as if he was wearing an invisibility cloak, so Haruhiko had not noticed him before.

The dark-skinned boy extended his hand: "I am Hattori Heiji, a detective from Kansai."

Haruhiko was surprised.

He didn't expect to meet Osaka Black Chicken here, but why did this guy come here? Is he here to find Conan?
"Kousaka Haruhiko, from Kanto... uh, an exorcist and detective." Haruhiko held Hattori Heiji's big dark hand. The other's hands were covered with calluses from practicing kendo, so his kendo skills should be quite strong.

Hattori Heiji: "I've heard Kudo... uh, Conan mention you a long time ago, and I've always wanted to have a chance to compete with you."

Haruhiko also said politely: "I have heard of your name before, but I didn't expect to meet you here."

This was actually something Haruhiko made up. He had only heard of Hattori Heiji's name in anime in his previous life.

"I never thought you were Miss Sato's lover," Hattori Heiji said with a smile. "Tell me quickly, how did you use the sugarcane to explode the barrel of the gun?"

Hattori Heiji looked very familiar.

Haruhiko said helplessly, "It's obvious that being a lover is impossible. I don't know which unscrupulous reporter made this report. I was just about to go find him."

Hattori Heiji: "If you want to sue, I know a cheap lawyer here."

"If necessary, I'll trouble you then," said Haruhiko.

Just then, a girl came running from a distance. She had a yellow ribbon tied on her head, which kept rising and falling as she ran.

The girl came to Hattori Heiji, rested her hands on her knees covered with stockings, and said breathlessly: "Heiji, I have already asked. During the celebration parade just now, several girls temporarily joined the parade."

Hattori Heiji nodded: "I see. I understand."

When Toyama Kazuha saw Haruhiko, she was stunned for a moment and said, "Eh? You're not the pretty boy who eloped with Detective Sato..."

Haruhiko quickly interrupted her: "Those are reports by unscrupulous reporters. Detective Sato and I are innocent."

Yuanshan Heye looked suspicious.

After Hattori Heiji helped explain, Kazuha said in surprise: "So you are Kosaka-kun, Heiji often mentions you."

Haruhiko smiled and said, "That's really embarrassing."

At this time, Huiyuan Ai suddenly said: "Genta and the others seem to be arguing."

Haruhiko looked up at the police car.

I found that Genta and Mitsuhiko were arguing with the policeman with red ears.

Haruhiko said, "I'll go over and take a look," and walked towards the police car.

From a distance, he heard Yuan Tai's loud retort: ​​"Ayumi is not the kind of child who hides away on purpose to make people worry!"

"But even if you say that, I can't send a helicopter to search, kid." Yamaoka had a smile on his face, but he was secretly cursing the kid in his heart for being so daring.

Is it that easy to dispatch a helicopter?
This little fat boy is really whimsical. I really don’t know how his parents educated him.

He had seen a lot of things like this; they were mostly just pranks played by children, or kids who had gone out to play and forgot to tell their families.

There happened to be a celebration procession passing by the park, which increased this possibility.

The more Yamaoka thought about wasting his limited rest time on these little kids, the more he felt that the rice ball-headed kids in front of him were becoming more and more hateful.

I really want to eat this little fat guy.

"Excuse me, is there any trouble here?" A man who looked like a high school student walked over.

Yamaoka: “Who are you?”

"I'm also a friend of the missing little girl. Are you encountering any difficulties in the investigation now?" Haruhiko said.

Yamaoka had to repeat what he had said before: "Due to the evidence we currently have, we really can't mobilize more people to join the investigation, but I will do my best to help find it..."

Although Shangang said this, he didn't take it to heart at all.

He just wanted to fool this group of people away quickly, then go back and take a nap. He guessed that when he woke up, the missing little girl would have come back on her own.

...

Haruhiko negotiated with the other party for a long time, but failed to change the mind of the police officer who came to investigate.

The inspector named Shangang seemed to be sure that Ayumi was hiding herself.

But on the surface he said that he would do his best to investigate, and his impeccable attitude made it impossible to do anything to him.

The group watched the police car leave.

The dust raised by the tires seemed to express the dissatisfaction of the hill patrol.

Conan thought for a moment and said, "Hattori... Big Brother, can you use your connections in the Metropolitan Police Department?"

Hattori Heiji shook his head. "I'm afraid not. It would be fine if it were any other time, but right now, there's a bomber and a serial killer in Izu, and so many eyes are glued to this place. Do you know how busy the Shizuoka Prefectural Police are right now? My dad said that even with so many officers from out of town coming to support them, it's still not enough."

Mitsuhiko looked worried: "What should we do? Ayumi would never hide and scare us. She must have encountered something."

Conan glanced at Hattori Heiji.

Hattori Heiji continued, "I think this is a good opportunity. Three famous detectives are gathered here. Isn't finding people a skill that detectives must master?"

Toyama Kazuha asked curiously, "Three? Do you mean you, Conan, and Kousaka-kun?"

Hattori Heiji nodded.

Genta and Mitsuhiko expressed their dissatisfaction: "There are six of them. Don't just count Conan himself. We in the Junior Detective League are all great detectives, right, Haibara?"

Haibara Ai hugged her shoulders and said nothing.

Conan ignored the dissatisfaction of Genta and the others. In fact, he already had a guess in his mind, but a guess is just a guess after all. If he really wanted to investigate, he would still need the cooperation of a lot of people.

That's why Conan wanted to persuade the police so much and wanted them to allocate manpower to help in the search.

But the hill patrolman obviously didn't believe that Ayumi was missing.

Since that's the case, I can only try to find Ayumi on my own.

But there is Hattori Heiji here, and Haibara also called Kousaka, as well as the Doctor, Genta and a few others.

Conan pushed his glasses and said, "Some amusement park staff dressed up as cartoon dolls and passed by this park before. At that time, Ayumi's eyes were fixed on the mermaid princess surrounded by the crowd.

I guess she might have been playing hide-and-seek and couldn't help but follow us, and then she encountered something that prevented her from contacting us."

Haruhiko didn't know about this, but after hearing what Conan said, it made sense.

Conan continued, "I think we can follow the route of the cartoon dolls in the amusement park and investigate all the way. Maybe we can find some useful clues."

Conan's words were unanimously recognized by everyone, including the Junior Detective League.

"I have a different opinion." Hattori Heiji turned his hat. "There was also a festival parade passing by here before."

Conan: "So what? I don't think Ayumi is likely to be interested in that kind of thing."

Hattori Heiji shook his head: "You are wrong about this. I just asked this little girl Huiyuan, and she said that Ayumi had mentioned privately more than once that she admired the oiran in the festival procession, so it is also very likely that she sneaked into the procession because of this, and then encountered something that prevented her from contacting us.

I asked Heye to ask nearby witnesses, and they said that several girls temporarily joined the parade, and Ayumi was probably one of them.

Only then did Haruhiko realize that Hattori Heiji had been standing near Haibara Ai to ask for clues about Ayumi.

It seems that this guy is still quite capable.

Conan obviously didn't know this news: "So, Heiji-nii thinks there are two possibilities now?"

"That's right. If there are no other opinions, let's compare these two possibilities." Hattori Heiji said as he looked at Haruhiko.

The others also turned their eyes to Haruhiko's face, their expressions full of anticipation.

Haruhiko thought, is this my turn to speak?
But what should I say?
What Conan and Heiji Hattori said made a lot of sense, and their reasoning was based on actual facts.

But if you say something like "I think both of you make sense" at this time.

Wouldn't that be too cheap?
After all, he was one of the three very powerful detectives that Hattori Heiji had just pointed out, and looking at the expectant eyes of the others, it seemed that they were also looking forward to Haruhiko being able to come up with his own reasoning.

Haruhiko thought back to the incident of Ayumi being kidnapped.

Ayumi is a frequent kidnapper and experienced more than ten kidnappings in the original work, but Haruhiko did not seem to remember being kidnapped in Izu.

However, Haibara Ai just told him what happened before and after Ayumi disappeared. They were playing hide-and-seek in the park before, and Genta was pretending to be a ghost. He tried his best to find Ayumi, but he couldn't find her. Then he realized that she might be missing.

This premise reminded Haruhiko of an "oolong kidnapping case" in the original work.

In that incident, Ayumi was playing hide-and-seek with the detective team, and then she hid in the trunk of a roadside car and fell asleep. When she woke up, she found a large amount of banknotes and a blood-stained woman's head in the car.

Conan and the others were so scared that they thought Ayumi was involved in some terrible incident.

However, the final investigation revealed that it was just a prop used in the mystery drama performed at Teitan University's anniversary celebration. Because of their reckless behavior, Conan and his friends were used as tools to perform the mystery drama that day.

Although the time and place of the current situation do not match, the prerequisites for playing hide-and-seek are the same as those of that incident.

I don't know if there are any similar mystery drama performances in Izu.

But even if not, if Ayumi faced the same situation, there was a high probability that she would choose to hide in the trunk of the car.

Thinking of this, Haruhiko organized his words and said, "My guess is that Ayumi probably hid in the trunk of a nearby car while playing hide-and-seek."

Hattori Heiji was stunned for a moment: "Hide in the trunk of the car? But if the car is started, she should notice it."

Haruhiko: "I think she might have fallen asleep."

Hattori Heiji showed a disappointed expression on his face. He had thought that Haruhiko could come up with some eye-opening reasoning and guesses, but he didn't expect that it would be such a far-fetched inference.

It seems that this guy is not as powerful as Kudo said.

After hearing Haruhiko's reasoning, Conan frowned and thought: "So, there are three inferences now?"

Haruhiko thought that it was right, it was the classic three-choice situation.

"In that case, let's each investigate in the direction of our choice. If we find anything, we should immediately notify others to come over and help." Hattori Heiji suggested.

Conan also nodded in approval of the proposal.

Genta couldn't wait to pull Conan to the doctor's car: "What are we waiting for? Let's go quickly. Ayumi is missing now!"

Conan broke free from Genta's pull and said, "Taking a car won't work. The route from here to the amusement park is very congested at this time, and parking is also very troublesome. Skateboarding is more convenient."

As he said that, Conan took out the skateboard from the trunk of Dr. Agasa's car and began to debug it.

Hattori Heiji also said enthusiastically: "Waha, let's go quickly too. The festival parade shouldn't have gone far yet."

Yuanshan Heye nodded and prepared to leave.

At this time, Haibara Ai hugged her shoulders and said to Haruhiko, "It seems that no one wants to investigate with you. In that case, I will accompany you reluctantly."

Haruhiko glanced at her and said, "I guess you don't want to squeeze into the skateboard with Conan and the others?"

Haibara Ai's face flushed when she was hit by what he said. "Stop talking nonsense!"

Haruhiko chuckled and ruffled Haibara Ai's hair.

After that, everyone had a brief discussion and decided to temporarily divide into 4 groups.

Conan is in a group with Mitsuhiko and Genta, Hattori Heiji is in a group with Toyama Kazuha, and Haruhiko is with Haibara Ai.

As for Professor Agasa, he stayed in the park to continue looking for any places that might have been missed, and waited for the possibility that Ayumi would find it herself.

Haruhiko planned to first inquire about the information in this area and then make a plan.

If Ayumi really got into the trunk of a car, maybe someone nearby would see her.

As for the subsequent tracking, Haruhiko originally wanted to drive Dr. Agasa's Beetle, but Hattori Heiji threw his motorcycle keys to him, saying that if he drove Dr. Agasa's car at this time, he would most likely be stuck in traffic.

Haruhiko: "Thank you."

Hattori Heiji smiled and said, "Why thank you? I just don't want you to be tied down by this kind of thing. Otherwise, even if you win, I won't feel happy."

With that, Hattori Heiji confidently led Kazuha towards the festival parade.

Haruhiko first took Haibara Ai to investigate the surrounding area.

Sure enough, I soon met an aunt who said that she had seen a little girl sneaking around a delivery truck not long ago.

Haruhiko's eyes lit up, and he thought that he had guessed it.

But unfortunately, the aunt was not sure whether the little girl got on the bus or not, and she couldn't remember the license plate number.

She just told Haruhiko the direction the car was going.

Traffic in the city is very congested during this period. If the car does not change lanes, it is still possible to catch up by riding faster.

Haruhiko rode on Hattori Heiji's motorcycle, and Haibara Ai sat on the back seat, grabbing his sleeves with her little hands.

"I'll ride faster, you won't be scared, right?" Haruhiko asked, turning around.

"Are you kidding? I used to ride a Harley." Haibara Ai's tone was full of dissatisfaction after being looked down upon.

"Is that so? Then I have to speed up." Haruhiko suddenly stepped on the accelerator.

The motorcycle shot out like an arrow, stirring up fallen leaves and dust.

"Ah~~" Haibara Ai exclaimed, and the little hand that was originally grabbing Haruhiko's sleeve changed to hugging his waist, and her body pressed tightly against Haruhiko's back to maintain balance.

However, because she had taken drug A, Haruhiko could not feel any soft touch on his back.

On the contrary, it's a bit unsettling.

I don’t know if it’s because Haibara Ai’s bones are too hard, or if it’s because her bones are too hard.

Soon, the motorcycle drove out of the park path, merged into the busy road, and chased in the direction the express truck left.

Although he had a target, Haruhiko felt that it would not be easy to find the target vehicle in this vast sea of ​​cars, and it would probably take a lot of effort.

But unexpectedly, shortly after driving out of the park, the incident took another surprising turn.

Haibara Ai's detective armband suddenly rang.

The signal source on the other side seemed unstable, and the crackling sound of radio waves was heard several times.

Ayumi's voice came from the detective armband.

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