Conan's Helping People

It was so obvious that Hinata was reasonably happy.

It's like the blue sky and white clouds have been calm all this time. Suddenly, the clouds disperse and the sun shines down.

On the way back with him, Hirota Masami had been observing everywhere keenly, trying to find some traces on the road, such as traces of fighting or fresh blood.

But there was nothing. It was calm along the way, the underground parking lot was quiet, and there was nothing unusual about the surrounding scene.

It was as if Hinata hadn't done anything at all and was just jumping around.

But before hanging up the phone, the strong wind came from the other end of the phone...

As if he noticed that she was silent and absent-minded, after pressing the elevator button, Hinata reassured her gently, "Don't worry."

She looked up.

"Although the surveillance in the underground parking lot is broken a lot, the surveillance above is not broken. It clearly captured me coming down with him," Hinata stated reasonably and calmly, "He will not die before we leave here.

of."

"About three or four hours later... If the police can find him, and it is not defined as a suicide case, and they are willing to perform an autopsy, his death time will be three hours later. We all have alibi."

'he'.

It means that the person riding the elevator with Hinata is a male.

Recalling what the other party said clearly before, "The underground parking lot is dark and the surveillance camera is broken, I'll pick you up, sister," things became clear.

In a place with surveillance, Hinata cannot force others to ride in the elevator with him, but the other party can follow him with ill intentions.

"Okay." After a moment of hesitation, Masami Hirota simply answered.

After confirming that the other person was a male, she no longer scanned Hinata's entire body, but focused on scanning Hinata's shoulders and knees.

There was no dust or other strange traces in both places, which meant that Hinata was not injured.

She breathed a sigh of relief.

To a perceptive person, it is simply too obvious that Hinata is reasonably happy.

He walked back to the restaurant with Masami Hirota. As soon as he caught Matsuda Jinpei and the others in the restaurant, Matsuda Jinpei stood up and waved.

When walking over, the other party poured two glasses of juice and asked casually: "What happened? Why are you so happy?"

"Nothing," Hinata replied casually and looked at Masami Hirota, "Is it obvious?"

Since it is a social gathering, of course it is not a gathering of acquaintances with acquaintances, but men sit in a row alone, and women sit in a row alone, sitting on both sides of the long table.

He and Masami Hirota were seated at the very back, next to the wall.

On the other side of Masami Hirota is a sassy-looking woman with short hair. Next to him is Jinpei Matsuda, and a little further to the side is Kenji Hagihara.

The other party glanced at Matsuda Jinpei, who was smiling politely and staring at him, stretched out a hand to cover his mouth from the side, and then replied softly: "Obviously, the mouth is rising and the eyes are bending."

But it's very slight, so slight that if a stranger were to look at it, they would think that Hinata is reasonable and has a calm and indifferent expression, and because her face is a little pale, she feels a little world-weary.

Hinata touched her eyes and mouth reasonably, but couldn't find any difference. She could only nodded and pretended to understand, "I see."

Masami Hirota raised her eyes, and the short-haired woman next to her also looked over with a smile and said hello, "Hi, hello, are you Mr. Hinata? I have known you for a long time."

People you don’t know.

"Hello," Hinata replied reasonably and politely, continuing her polite questioning, "Do you know me?"

"I heard Yui talk about you," the other party said with a smile, "Uehara Yui is a police officer in Nagano Prefecture. When she came to Tokyo to help, we worked together for a while."

Uehara Yui is also a strange name.

But I was very familiar with Nagano Prefecture, so familiar that Hinata's eyes immediately saw a Samoyed colleague who was "squatting on the ground, showing an angelic smile". The dog's hair was obviously very white, but he was full of bad water, like a fluffy black dog.

Sesame glutinous rice balls.

His expression instantly became polite again, "I see."

"Cough...cough," Matsuda Jinpei next to him made a suspicious low cough, handed over another cup, and said loudly, "Hey, little Hinata, why doesn't you drink juice? Don't you like it? Then change to a glass of boiled water.

.”

After saying that, while pouring water, he quickly lowered his voice and gave an urgent reminder amidst the sound of pouring water, "That's the female police officer in the shrine case. There was only one police officer involved in the case, and she almost became a suspect.

"

Shrine case, female police officer.

After thinking for a moment, Hinata remembered who 'Uehara Yui' was. She was the police officer who chased him out after solving the case and asked him questions.

After returning to the car, he deceived his blond colleague in a serious manner.

However, he gestured with his eyes and asked Matsuda Jinpei: 'Why, do you know?'

After pouring the water, and no longer able to whisper in secret, Matsuda Jinpei sat back down as if nothing had happened.

Finding that their side was back to normal, the short-haired woman opposite continued: "However, I was a little confused at first. Yui said you were very kind, but in that mystery novel, you were very cold, and you were completely two people.

"

"Before I saw you again, I couldn't imagine that 'kindness' and 'indifference' could be so harmonious in one person."

While talking, the other person held his chin and laughed.

Hinata rationally slowly extracted the key points:

First, the other party knew about his dark history, which was the shrine case. Yui Uehara should have described it to the other party in detail.

Two, reasoning, reasoning, small, saying.

If there is no accident, this so-called mystery novel is the same mystery novel that was sent to Hinata's house before, and Matsuda Jinpei has also read it.

Moreover, I don’t know what is written in it, but after reading it, the curly-haired police dog will make even weirder barking sounds, such as ‘divine detective’.

...It is the social custom here to overexaggerate and even attach too much importance to all things with reasoning elements such as detectives and mystery novels. Hinata is reasonably aware of this matter, although she still doesn't get used to it, just like she doesn't get used to the fact that people often ask her questions as soon as she comes up.

It's like he apologized.

He turned his head and glanced at the eavesdropping poodle.

The other person is still wearing sunglasses and holding a tea cup in his hand. He is not looking here, as if he is listening to the topics of other people instead of paying attention to this side.

The requirements for police dogs are very strict, for example, they must be prick-eared dogs.

If the dog's ears were not straight up and tilted this way, the disguise of pretending that he was not eavesdropping at all would have been more perfect.

After looking away, Hinata reasonably raised a topic, "Mystery novels?"

"Hey," the short-haired policewoman was surprised, "Don't you know?"

"Miss Mystery Writer wrote to me, but I just came back from Nagano Prefecture recently and was a little busy, so..." He paused.

"Miss Mystery Writer?" The other party repeated the title and laughed again, "What an interesting title."

This title is very polite, but also full of unfamiliarity, so there is a subtle sense of alienation and weirdness, but it does not make people feel that they are being indifferently excluded, but that the person who can be called by this title must be that kind of person.

He has a cold personality that pays great attention to the distance between people, but instead wants to get closer.

After laughing, she explained the reason for her laughter.

Hinata nodded politely again to improve her politeness.

Although I don’t understand it, I respect it.

Hirota Masami drank the juice in the cup and raised her hand lightly, "Mr. Matsuda, can you pass the kettle?"

Matsuda Jinpei immediately raised the kettle and said, "Let me pour it for you."

On one side, he naturally glanced at the smiling short-haired policewoman, and received the polite look from the other party as he looked at the obstacle, so he nodded politely and took advantage of the situation to look at Hinata Reasonably.

Okay, this guy here doesn't look at obstacles, but like a silly dog.

Moreover, I don’t know when, the person holding the cup to receive the water was Hinata.

Sensing that the other party was looking over, Hinata explained reasonably, "If you hold a cup to collect water, you might get burned."

After receiving it, he handed the water glass to Masami Hirota and glanced at the short-haired policewoman along her line of sight.

Both parties sat back down again.

The short-haired policewoman adjusted her posture silently, raised her eyebrows, and remained silent for the time being.

Amidst the subtle looks at each other, the atmosphere suddenly became quiet.

"?" Hinata sniffed the atmosphere reasonably, typed a question mark in confusion, and continued the topic, "It's a very interesting comment, thank you for the compliment."

Although he didn't understand the very contradictory words of 'being cold yet wanting people to get close'.

He focused on the key point, "So, what kind of story does that mystery novel tell?"

So, what exactly was written in that book?

Hinata only read the beginning in a bookstore and knew that it was set in a shrine and that the main character was a shrine maiden, but she didn’t know what happened next or what was included in it that could distort canines.

It can’t be catnip, right? Matsuda Jinpei is not a cat.

"Well..." the short-haired policewoman muttered in embarrassment. What was inversely proportional to her embarrassed tone were her eyes.

There was a kind of smile brewing in her eyes, but she tried her best to restrain it from coming out of her eyes and appearing at the corners of her eyes and lips. She tried her best to say seriously: "It tells a very tragic murder case. To put it simply, the murderer was because of a tragic incident in the past.

, so he took revenge on the deceased and harmed the other party."

"The police officers at the time found no evidence and did not find out who the murderer was. They only classified it as an unsolved case that was temporarily in trouble."

This is the background setting.

It didn't sound like anything special. Hinata listened reasonably and carefully. He glanced at Matsuda Jinpei with his peripheral vision and found that the other party was staring here. He glanced at Hirota Masami with his peripheral vision and found that the other party was also staring here.

...are they staring at each other?

"Ahem," the short-haired policewoman once again suppressed her smile and continued speaking seriously, "The protagonist is a miko. If I were to call him Riko-kun, he should be called Miss Miko?"

"It's such a distant yet intimate title. It's very cute."

"Hinata-chan, do you want some tea?" one of the observers, Matsuda Jinpei, asked.

"Riko, can I drink your juice?" Masami Hirota, the second observer, also sent a question.

Is there something wrong with these two people?

Hinata temporarily broke away from the topic, looked at the two people sitting next to him and opposite him, and then unified the two questions and gave a short answer: "I can just drink plain water."

He pushed the juice to Hirota Masami, took another sip of water, indicating that he was drinking water and did not need to change drinks, so he continued to look at the police officer diagonally opposite.

The other party smiled brightly, and was even happier than Matsuda Jinpei, who had a normal expression.

Realizing that he was looking over, the other party immediately stopped smiling and continued speaking seriously, "Miss Miko went to pick up a guest who came from afar to visit the deceased. The guest was a minor."

"While taking the minor to visit various places, the miko lady gradually became curious about the minor."

"A kind of curiosity that is simply uncontrollable."

I understand, it’s love.

Hinata nodded reasonably, glanced at the two observers again, and found that they were all staring at him.

he:"……?"

He didn't know why, so he answered at the right time, "Is it love?"

Is it because he has been listening silently and not answering, so you stare at him?

Then why did he stare even harder after he answered?

"Love? Maybe." The short-haired policewoman continued with a bright smile. "During the visit, they encountered a venomous snake. The minor discovered it in time and stopped the witch lady so that she was not bitten."

"Another group of people was bitten by a venomous snake. After asking about the characteristics of the snake, the minor found nearby herbs, sucked out the poisonous blood of the injured person, applied medicine to the wound, and popularized the characteristics of that type of venomous snake, and saved the person.

The life of an unlucky passerby.”

"During the break during the tour, the minor taught the miko how to care for her hands to make them softer and smoother."

"While climbing the mountain, Miss Miko sprained her ankle. The minor treated her urgently and helped carry her down the mountain."

this.

Listening and listening, Hinata fell into deep thought.

Are today's minors so versatile? Even if they know how to deal with poisonous snakes, they can also deal with ankle sprains, how can they still know how to make their palms softer and smoother...

"They walked in the countryside together, breathed the fresh air together, talked about topics they were interested in, and discussed the murder case together."

"During this process, the miko's curiosity about minors gradually increased," the short-haired policewoman said. "She thought, what is the identity of a minor?"

After saying that, she paused, then suddenly seemed to remember something, and added: "Well, come to think of it, I was also very curious about you before."

Hinata nodded reasonably and asked: "What is the identity of that minor?"

The description 'underage' cannot be...

He always felt that he had guessed it, but he was a little reluctant to admit it.

The short-haired policewoman picked up the water glass, took a sip, and then laughed and coughed while drinking.

She quickly packed herself up and said seriously: "The witch lady also asked the same question. On the night they parted from each other, they stood at the railing in the mountain and looked at the brilliant fireworks in the sky. She asked, 'Sir, who are you?

What is your identity?'."

"They are fireworks for sacrifices," next to him, Jinpei Matsuda raised a hand politely and tried to interject as tactfully as possible, "That day was the day when the god was buried, so the fireworks set off in the town were to commemorate him, not for a fireworks display."

Is there, what, difference?

Hinata nodded reasonably and politely, "I see."

"Yes, it's not the fireworks of love," the short-haired policewoman continued with a smile. "Miss Miko continued to ask, 'You know a lot of knowledge. Although you look cold, you are a good person. You have always cared for me. You are a medical student.

?'."

"The minor responded: 'Doctor? No, I'm a detective.'"

The short-haired policewoman smiled and lowered her voice, trying to be as calm as possible, "I am a detective who has received a commission. I came to Nagano Prefecture to investigate an old case... However, when I arrived, the murderer was already dead.

Already."

…

Hinata made a reasonable effort to maintain his expression, not letting the picture appear in his mind, and not letting himself be overwhelmed by embarrassment. He said dryly: "Well..."

"Miss Miko's face suddenly turned pale." The short-haired policewoman glanced at him with a smile, "The underage detective continued, but it doesn't matter, I have found the murderer who 'killed the murderer', and I can complete this commission.

Already."

She clapped her hands briskly and said, "Here, the clue chapter ends. Next is the detective's reasoning time, which is also the author's provocation to the readers. 'I have explained all the clues to the murder case. Can you crack it?'

'."

As she spoke, the short-haired policewoman showed a troubled expression, "But it's too difficult. During the first week, my boyfriend and I looked at each other for a long time and couldn't guess who the murderer was."

Is she a miko? The message is obvious.

Hinata remained silent for a while, waiting for the short-haired policewoman to announce the murderer.

The spectators were a little surprised when Matsuda Jinpei blurted out: "Boyfriend???"

"Wait, you have a boyfriend?"

Masami Hirota couldn't hide her surprise and repeated: "You have a boyfriend?"

The short-haired policewoman blinked her left eye and said with a bright smile: "Of course, my boyfriend is an adult."