Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

Chapter 3856 Blame Hattori

Seeing that Conan was only glaring at Hattori Heiji, Fei Mo was not in a hurry. He turned to Kuroki Seiji who was standing beside him and said, "Seiji, we only brought food here. Go buy them some drinks nearby."

"Yes," Kuroki Seiji nodded and looked at Hattori Heiji and Conan, "What would you two like to drink? Mineral water or some kind of beverage?"

"Ah, no need to bother..." Hattori Heiji looked at Conan, and thinking that the two of them might be thirsty after eating, he said to Kuroki Seiji, "I'll just drink mineral water."

"Me too!" Conan spoke in a childish tone.

"Please wait a moment, both of you."

After saying this, Kuroki Seiji turned and walked towards the vending machine near the park rest area.

"Excuse me, Mr. Kuroki!" Hattori Heiji called out to Kuroki Seiji with a smile, then quickly looked away, opened the bag that Chi Feichi handed to him, took out the lunch box from the bag, opened the box and saw that it contained a lunch box consisting of fried fish, grilled matsutake mushrooms, mixed vegetables, pickled vegetables, caviar and other foods. He was surprised and said, "The lunch boxes in this store are very rich!"

"That store doesn't usually make bento," Chi Feichi explained, "so I asked the staff to prepare some dishes suitable for bento, put them in the box with rice, and I don't know how they taste."

"It feels like it will be delicious," Conan praised with a smile, opening his own bento. Looking at the rich food inside, he instantly felt hungry. While breaking open his chopsticks, he curiously asked, "But, Brother Chi, why are you eating in that restaurant with Mizuno and Xiaoshu tonight?"

Hattori Heiji corrected him immediately, "I told you to call me 'senpai'!"

Conan: “…”

This guy who only wants the world to be in chaos!

"It doesn't matter, actually. Edogawa-san has always been like this. When he sees me at school, he doesn't even want to call me 'senior'," Fei Mo took the opportunity to complain about Conan, "He's completely different from the cute first-year students."

Conan: “…”

Has this place become a forum for criticizing him? It's all Hattori's fault!

Seeing that Conan remained silent and did not protest, Chi Feichi lost interest in adding insult to injury and answered Conan's previous question, "Yesterday when Xiao Mo participated in the karuta competition, I helped take care of Xiao Shu. To thank me, Xiao Mo invited me to that restaurant for dinner."

"My uncle is not in Kyoto these days, so I asked Mr. Chi to help me take care of the tree these two days," Fei Mo Zhengtai added, "and because my uncle is not here, I have to entertain Mr. Chi tonight."

"Could it be that you three were the only ones eating at that restaurant just now?" Conan was a little surprised.

Seeing Fei Mo Shota nod in affirmation, Hattori Heiji couldn't help but ask, "There should be other adults in the Mizuno family, right? Why don't you ask someone to accompany you?"

"I can handle things like treating Mr. Chi to dinner by myself. There's no need to trouble anyone else." Fei Mo Shota answered confidently, leaving Hattori Heiji and Conan speechless for a moment.

"By the way, isn't Mr. Maori with you?" Chi Feichi took the initiative to ask about Maori Kogoro's whereabouts. "I saw the news about the explosion of the Osaka Nichimi TV building before. I called the teacher before dinner. He said that because of the explosion of the TV building, the program he participated in has been temporarily cancelled, and some people died in Kyoto, so he has to rush to Kyoto. I thought you came to Kyoto with him..."

"We did come to Kyoto with the uncle," Hattori Heiji said of the incident, his expression becoming serious. "The program that the uncle participated in in Osaka was a meeting with Mr. Kensuke Achiwa, the president of the Satsuki-kai. The Satsuki-kai is a very famous karuta club in Kyoto and even in Japan. Before they started the meeting, the program team originally planned to arrange a performance match between Mr. Yajima, last year's champion of the Satsuki Cup, and Ms. Ooka, the champion of the high school group of the Satsuki Cup last year. As a result, an explosion occurred in the TV station building before the program officially started recording, and the program was temporarily cancelled. Mr. Yajima, who was also scheduled to participate in the program, was late. It was not until four o'clock this afternoon that Mr. Achiwa received a call from the Kyoto Prefectural Police and learned that Mr. Yajima, who lived alone, had been killed in his own home. After that, Uncle Maori, Conan and I followed Mr. Achiha to Kyoto..."

"Mr. Yajima was killed?" Fei Mo Shota showed just the right amount of surprise.

"Yes," Conan swallowed the food in his mouth and said to Fei Mo Zhengtai seriously, "When I called Brother Chi tonight, we had just come out of Yajima's house. It is confirmed that Mr. Yajima was killed at home this morning. Brother Chi said that you were with him. I thought that you would also participate in karuta competitions and might know Mr. Yajima, so I came to you to ask about Mr. Yajima's situation..."

As they were talking, Kuroki Seiji had already bought two bottles of mineral water, put the water on the table, and stood quietly aside to listen to the conversation between the few people.

"Has he encountered anything special recently? Does he have any enemies?" Hattori Heiji gave Fei Mo Shota an example. "This is probably the kind of information we want to know."

"I'm not very familiar with Mr. Yajima. After all, there's a big age gap between us, and we don't usually get together in competitions," Fei Mo Zhengtai recalled seriously, "However, Mr. Yajima was the champion of last year's Gaoyue Cup and the person who is most likely to advance to the celebrity level in recent years. Naturally, I have heard about some of his situations and I also pay attention to his recent situation. I haven't heard that he has encountered anything special recently. As for enemies... I don't know..."

Conan came prepared. Seeing that Feimo Shota didn't seem to be familiar with Yajima Shunya, he didn't panic and continued to ask, "Then do you know Mr. Sekine Kofumi? He is also a member of Gaoyuekai."

"I've heard of him," Fei Mo Zhengtai said, "In the Gaoyue Cup competition last year and the year before, Mr. Sekine and Mr. Yajima competed in the finals, but Mr. Sekine lost to Mr. Yajima both times."

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"Xiao Shu and I watched the game at Achiba Stadium last night," Chi Feichi spoke up to support Fei Mo, "and we also met Mr. Yajima..."

Under the questioning of Hattori Heiji and Conan, Chi Feichi told them about what happened when he met Yajima Shunya last night.

There was no abnormal behavior from Yajima Shunya last night, so Hattori Heiji and Conan naturally did not get any clues.

As for Sekine Yasushi...

Chi Feichi has never seen him, and Fei Mo Zhengtai has not seen that person in the past two days.

"I'm not a member of Gaoyue Society, and I don't meet them often," Fei Mo Zhengtai concluded, "but from what I know and see, the relationship between the two of them is neither good nor bad. It doesn't seem like the conflict is so serious that they need to kill each other."

"Is that so..." Hattori Heiji took a mouthful of rice thoughtfully. Of course, he would not completely trust the judgment of a fourth-grade child, so he was only prepared to take Fei Mo Shota's words as a reference.

"There is one more thing. Before the explosion at Nichimi TV in Osaka this afternoon, someone sent a crime warning email to the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters. In that email, in addition to the words 'I'm going to blow up Nichimi TV', there was also a picture of a karuta card." Conan put down his chopsticks temporarily, took out his mobile phone, flipped out a picture, and put the phone on the table so that Fei Mo Shota could see the picture, "This is it..."

The picture is the content of the entire email. Below the brief text is a picture of picking cards that will be used in a karuta competition, and a picture of reading cards that will be used in a karuta competition.

Both picking up cards and reading cards refer to the same poem.

"There is a deer stepping on red leaves, wandering alone in the deep mountains, calling incessantly. This is the saddest moment of autumn." Fei Mo Zhengtai whispered the Japanese poem that the karuta referred to.