Conan: Above all force, there is truth!

Longye reached out and closed the door, saying calmly, "I have a feeling someone is watching this side."

"What?! Could it be the prisoner who rang the doorbell?"

Before Ryūno could answer, Ōran's voice came from the living room.

"—Ryuno, what would you and Conan like to drink? Coffee or juice, okay?"

“Okay, sure~” Longye replied immediately.

Seeing this, Ryuno shrugged at Conan, and the two walked towards the living room together.

After sitting down on the sofa, Ryūno thought to himself, "Judy-sensei? In other words, the FBI is already monitoring Rena Mizunashi."

Thinking of this, Longye instructed, "Xiao Jia, put Mizunashi Rena in front of you on the watch list."

[Received. Vital signs and information have been recorded. Would you like to enable location tracking?]

"Activate".

Location services are now enabled.

After giving the instructions, Longye withdrew his consciousness from his mind, picked up the sugar cubes on the table, and added them to his coffee cup.

This positioning mode was something he had redeemed from the system store at a high price before his last contact with Vermouth, in order to prevent any "accidents."

Its function is the same as its literal meaning; it is used to locate and position "individuals".

The system can record the vital signs and individual information of specified objects in the vicinity.

Once the recording is complete, you can see the other party's exact location on the system map in real time by simply enabling location mode.

In other worlds, this function might not be very useful.

But in the world of Detective Conan...

……

Kogoro Mouri picked up his teacup and took a sip of coffee: "The doorbell ringing started two months ago?"

“That’s right. Starting two months ago, someone has been ringing the doorbell every Saturday morning around 6:30.” Rena Mizunashi nodded.

Do you remember anything important that happened two months ago?

"Well... if I had to say something, it would just be that my broadcasting duties have been changed from morning news to evening news."

"Did this happen every Saturday for the past two months?"

"That's right, but it seems like there was a week when I didn't hear the doorbell. At that time, I had just finished an interview abroad and didn't get home until Friday night. I didn't hear the doorbell ring the following Saturday."

"Yeah……"

"Oh, right! On the Tuesday after the October holiday ended, someone rang the doorbell again. And on Saturday, after that person rang the doorbell, they left a bottle of sleeping pills at the door!"

"What?! Sleeping pills? This is probably a 'criminal warning' from the criminal! He's planning to give you sleeping pills and then do something bad to you!"

"..."

Upon hearing this, Longye seemed to recall the whole story.

This "prank" appears to have been done by a child.

His purpose seemed quite simple... to wake up Rena Mizunashi on time to broadcast the news.

Chapter 259 Takagi Miwako, Takeda...

After learning that someone had placed sleeping pills at Rena Mizunashi's door, Kogoro Mouri's expression changed from calm and indifferent to tense and solemn.

"Besides that, has anything else strange happened?!"

"Let me think... Ah! The night before last, after I took a shower and lay in bed, I suddenly heard the phone ringing next door! But no one has lived next door for a long time! Later..."

Kogoro Mouri and Conan listened to her description with serious expressions.

According to Rena Mizunashi, shortly after hearing the phone call, she looked around from the balcony, but the apartment was completely dark and didn't look like anyone was there.

Later, she heard running sounds coming from the corridor, so she immediately went to the door and carefully opened it.

A dark figure ran from the corridor to the stairs.

The next day, when she called the apartment management, they insisted that she was dreaming and that no one had lived next door for more than six months.

After listening, Kogoro Mouri rested his chin on his hand, closed his eyes, and said, "Judging from the current situation, it's highly likely that he's a stalker! That man probably has a spare key to the apartment next door, and he was probably the one who rang the doorbell on Saturday. If he lived next door, he could have run back and hidden immediately after ringing the doorbell."

At Kogoro Mouri's suggestion, the group went to the door next door.

Kogoro Mori reached out and turned the doorknob, finding that the door was indeed locked.

"If we can get in, we should be able to find out something. Ms. Mizunashi, could you contact the apartment manager? We should be able to borrow the key, right?"

“Okay, but based on our experience last time, they probably won’t lend us their keys…” Rena Mizunashi shook her head.

—"Click~"

At that moment, a crisp sound interrupted the group as they were pondering a solution.

"Alright, it seems the door is open. Let's go in and take a look."

Everyone: "???"

Everyone glanced at the wide-open door, then looked in shock at Longye, who was smiling to the side.

"Hey... kid! You didn't break the lock with your brute force, did you?!" Kogoro Mouri's hand trembled slightly as he pointed at the lock.

"Longye?" Xiaolan also showed a worried expression.

"Don't worry, I didn't break the lock. I just opened it." Longye smiled at Xiaolan and reassured her.

"What?! Kid, you can pick locks?!"

"It's nothing, I studied in Hawaii before~" Longye scratched his head and chuckled.

Conan: "???"

Hawaii again?

Are you talking about the Hawaii I know? I've never learned lock picking!

Conan stared at Ryūno in front of him, his lips twitching uncontrollably.

Knowing how to drive a car and fly a plane is one thing, but this guy Takeda can even pick locks...

……

Soon after, everyone went inside.

Apart from a table, there was no other furniture in the room.

Moreover, under the sunlight, everyone could clearly see the thick layer of "dust" on the table.

Just as Rena Mizunashi said, there was indeed no trace of anyone having lived here.

Just as everyone was looking around the room, a melodious child's voice came from not far away.

"Huh? What's this?"

The group walked up behind Conan and, following his gaze, saw the words "Kimi and Kazuha" on the balcony glass.

The moment they saw the writing, everyone present immediately understood that someone must have been in this room in the past few days.

Writing on glass cannot be preserved for a long time.

Not to mention, no one has lived here for more than half a year.

"Kimiwa? What does that mean?" Kogoro Mori frowned.

"Is this some kind of code?" Xiaolan asked, puzzled.

After glancing at the handwriting again, Ryūno seemed to realize something, and smiled with narrowed eyes, "You can rest assured now, the person who left the handwriting isn't a stalker—no, I should say he's not Miss Mizunashi's stalker."

"Why do you say that? You already know what this code means?" Kogoro Mouri looked at Ryuno, puzzled.

"Yes, this isn't a code, it's names. You should know by now, Uncle—Officer Sato and Officer Takagi."

"Sato and Takagi? What do you mean... um? Takagi Miwako?!"

"Well, if nothing unexpected happens, this should be Officer Takagi's doing. We can call him and ask."

"..."

At Ryūno's suggestion, Mōri Kōgōrō made a phone call to Officer Takagi.

According to Officer Takagi, he did ask the apartment manager for a key a couple of days ago and enter the apartment.

The reason for doing this was to monitor the apartment across the street.

Across the street, in the apartment, lives the ex-fiancée of a suspect in a certain incident.

He suspected the prisoner might visit her, which is why he asked the management company to cooperate and let him enter the house to monitor her.

The night before last, the criminal was arrested near Toriyama Town. He fled immediately after receiving the call.

After he finished speaking, he repeatedly begged Kogoro Mouri not to tell anyone about his daydreaming of marrying Officer Sato while he was under surveillance.

Kogoro Mouri glanced at the four people, including Ryūno, who were listening to the phone call, and agreed to Officer Takagi's request.

-

After hanging up the phone, Kogoro Mouri breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that the figure Ms. Mizunashi Rena saw that night was actually Officer Takagi, not some stalker.

Ran, with a grin, pulled Ryūno aside and whispered about Officer Takagi's love life.

After all, Officer Takagi had fallen for Officer Sato so much that he had changed her name without her permission.

It is common knowledge that a woman will only share the same surname as her husband after marriage.

Officer Takagi's actions have long exceeded the level of "explicitly indicating"!

……

Ten minutes later, it started to get dark.

The group returned to Rena Mizunashi's room.

Looking at Rena Mizunashi in front of him, Uncle Mori hesitated for a moment before standing up and saying, "Rena-san! Would you please allow us to stay here tonight?"

"Huh?" Rena Mizunashi was clearly surprised by this request.