Conan: What's wrong with my Yan Shuangying's painting style?

Therefore, it is better to eliminate unstable factors first.

"...Hmm? An urban legend imitator? Haha, just let him come. After all, he's just asking for his own death."

Mr. Glasses said with a sneer.

"Forget about imitators. Even if the real one showed up, what would happen? When we were committing the crime in Beika Town, there was no trace of that urban legend. He was just an ordinary guy who was only active in Beika Town for two months."

"We should send him to the Dragon God Economic Research Institute for interrogation, right? Got it, I'll be there right away."

Chapter 229 Josephine (1/5)

"Inspector Megure, you're going on vacation tomorrow, so why are you still talking to me about that case from a year ago? I hate it, but that gang of robbers has been on the run for three or four months. Even a famous detective like me wouldn't be able to find them."

At the Mouri Detective Agency, Kogoro Mouri climbed the external stairs with his luggage to the door of the office. While answering Inspector Megure's call with the phone clamped between his head and shoulder, he stared at the keychain in his hand, searching for the key to open the door.

Just watching this scene makes people feel very difficult.

Mao Lilan stood behind, shook her head and sighed.

If Kogoro Mouri hadn't said that he had to do this kind of thing himself for the sake of ritual, she would have opened the door for her father and pulled the luggage in. She would probably have started cleaning the room by now, right?

"Go see the Shiratori Bridge in Hokkaido? How come I've never heard of it... I know, I know."

Kogoro Mouri muttered and opened the door.

They had been away for about five days this time, and there was already some dust inside the detective agency. Looking at this scene, his expression was a little complicated, knowing that a thorough cleaning would be needed next.

Cleaning the detective agency on the second floor alone is already troublesome enough, and adding the living quarters on the third floor—

If I think about it carefully, this trip was a loss. I went to two places and encountered three murders. Not only did I not feel good, but the reputation of the God of Plague spread further and further. It's really tragic to think about it this way.

"Damn it! That kid's parents happened to be back in Tokyo. They were planning to capture him and make him do the cleaning..."

The sleeping detective was somewhat unwilling.

Because there are actually only two rooms in the Mouri Detective Agency, one room is where Mouri Ran lives, and the other room is where he and Conan live together. In other words, if Conan is there, he can openly ask Conan to clean the room.

As a result, he now has to clean both his own living room and the detective agency on the second floor by himself, and his workload has increased.

"Don't say that, Dad. Mrs. Edogawa rarely comes home. The last time she came was about a month ago, right?"

After correcting Kogoro Mouri's words, Ran Mouri began to prepare the cleaning tools and prepared to clean up the Mouri Detective Agency. After all, as soon as they came back, they would start taking on various commissions tomorrow.

However, just when Maori and his daughter had finished cleaning the second floor and were about to go to the third floor to clean the living room.

The office doorbell was actually rung at this moment.

Mao Lilan put the rag in her hand into the basin beside her in some surprise, then wiped the water stains on her hands with a towel. Then she walked to the door of the office, opened the door, and looked at the two ladies standing at the door.

"Eh? Are you... Miss Makiri?"

Even high school girls who don't care much about drama can still recognize such celebrities at a glance.

At this moment, the person who appeared at the door of Maori Office was Makiri.

She wore a pink coat, a black lining and white trousers. Although she had red hair, her face was delicate and she wore blue gem earrings on her ears. The most eye-catching thing was the blue gem on her left ring finger.

There are three creases on the surface of the blue gemstone. When the light is projected on the surface of the gemstone, it appears extremely perfect, with almost no impurities!

Following behind Makiri was her agent, Masayo Yaguchi.

A woman in casual clothes with long straight black hair and black-framed glasses that hide her beauty, looking a bit gloomy.

"Of course, little sister... Oh, it seems like we came at the wrong time?"

Makuri took it for granted that others could recognize her. She peeked inside and saw Kogoro Mouri cleaning the dust off the bookshelf, so she spoke tentatively.

Hearing the movement of other people at the door, Kogoro Mouri tilted his head, his eyes immediately fixed, and he spoke loudly.

"No, you came at the perfect time! What a stroke of luck! If you had come any later, I might not be in the detective agency anymore!"

————If he had come two minutes later, he might have taken Xiaolan out to eat.

Ran Mouri was already used to Mouri Kogoro's outspoken personality. She just smiled apologetically and immediately turned sideways to let Makiri and Yaguchi Masayo enter the detective agency.

As for herself, she went directly to the third floor to continue cleaning the room.

After all, if her father asked her to go with him for a detective commission, he would definitely tell her afterwards. Therefore, it didn't matter whether she stayed in the detective agency to listen to the content of the commission. She might as well go and clean up the room first so that she could stay there at night.

"Mr. Maori Kogoro, I have heard of your reputation and I know your strength."

"Masayo and I came here this time because we have a commission that absolutely needs you—you should have heard the news about Kaito Kid sending out a new notice, right?"

Makijuri showed the sapphire on her ring finger and said seriously.

"The target of the notice is this [Gem of Destiny] in my hand, the Sapphire Star."

This sapphire, inlaid with white diamonds on all four sides, has three white rays in the center, corresponding to trust, hope and destiny respectively. Therefore, it has been given the prestigious title of "Gem of Destiny".

Just by hearing the four words "Kaito Kid", Kogoro Mouri knew what the content of the commission was.

Only when Makiri continued to talk about the gems did he completely confirm that this commission was the same as the last commission from Suzuki Jirokichi at the Beika Museum, which was to prevent Kaito Kidd from stealing the gems.

Oh, when it comes to dealing with phantom thieves, his sleeping detective, Kogoro Mouri, is a professional!

When he first fought against Kaito Kid on the ferry of the Suzuki Group, Suzuki Tomoko's Black Star was successfully protected under his wise and brave command, forcing Kaito Kid to return empty-handed. It must be the same this time!

"Leave it to me! Ms. Makiri, you can completely trust me, the famous detective Maori Kogoro!"

Kogoro Mori is extremely confident.

Then, he stared blankly at the preview letter of Kaito Kid given by Makiri.

【Romeo, Juliet, Conqueror, Cheers】

[In the interlaced dance of 26 letters]

I will come to take the jewel of destiny.

【Kaito Kidd】

"Well, let me see. Romeo, Juliet, Conqueror, and Cheers—these four words have exactly 26 letters in English. Miss Makiri, it seems that your performance tomorrow night will include these three roles, right?"

"That Kaito Kidd will definitely pretend to be the Conqueror at the end of the stage performance and take the Sapphire Star from you, Miss Makiri—I've seen through it all!"

Kogoro Mouri made up a bunch of nonsense and spoke loudly, and Makiri and Masayo Yaguchi also looked at him with admiration.

Then, with a creaking sound, the door of the Maori Detective Agency was pushed open.

"That's not the case, is it? Those four words only have twenty-two letters, not twenty-six."

The Death Elementary School Student stood at the door, his hands in the pockets of his blue suit, looking a little helpless.

"Tomorrow night's performance is 'Josephine.' It's true that the Conqueror [Napoleon] will appear, but isn't it a bit too much of an underestimation of Kaito Kid to simply insert that character into the show?"

Chapter 230 Beware of Vermouth (2/5)

Time goes back to when Yan Shuangying dealt with Maekoshi Rinori and left directly from the Beidouxing No. 3 train.

Kogoro Mouri and others were kept by Inspector Megure to take their statements, especially Kogoro Mouri. As the plague god who had contact with all the suspects, the deceased, and the murderer, his statement took the longest time.

So at this time, Kudo Yukiko disguised herself as Edogawa Fumiyo and came to pick up Conan.

"Shinichi, have you ever looked up the name [Karasuma Renya]?"

In the Kudo family's study, Kudo Yusaku looked at the Death God elementary school student in front of him with a serious expression.

Conan Edogawa frowned, not quite sure what his father meant by mentioning "Karasuma Renya" at this time, because he searched the name on the Internet and found nothing, and Haibara Ai refused to say any relevant information.

Yan Shuangying mentioned the name of the high-ranking member of the Black Organization when they first met at Dr. Agasa's laboratory.

He didn't have a very deep impression of it until Kudo Yusaku brought up the old matter again, and then he asked back.

"Is Karasuma Renya a very powerful person? Yan Shuangying mentioned this name to me before. However, Shirley, a former member of the Black Organization who took Drug A and became smaller like me, warned me not to investigate this name, otherwise I would die."

"But I can't think of any other possible scenarios that could lead to such a disastrous outcome, other than Karasuma Renya's codename being [Voldemort], or him having a pink cat substitute. Since you mentioned that name, why don't you elaborate on it?"

Kudo Yusaku was silent for a moment. He looked at his equally curious wife beside him, and then he remembered.

The Karasuma Group went from being in the open to being in the dark too early and for too long. If he had not tried to investigate the information of the Twilight Villa murder case forty years ago in his early years and found some information about the Karasuma Group, he would probably know nothing about it now.

He straightened his collar and then spoke.

"Karasuma Ren'ya announced his death forty years ago. If he were still alive, he would be one hundred and forty years old, and his wealth would be even greater than the combined assets of the Suzuki Group and the Ooka Family."

"You were right when you said that the former Black Organization member advised you not to investigate."

"With Karasuma Renya's power, if someone could really trace Karasuma Renya's connection to the Black Organization, I'm afraid Karasuma Renya would counterattack that person at all costs and strangle him completely."

The famous mystery novelist said seriously.

"He's pretty much one of the most powerful men in this country."

"Shinichi, the last time I came here I told you that if you were in danger again, Yukiko and I would take you to settle in the United States. Now that the real culprit behind the Black Organization has surfaced, danger will soon follow."

"If possible, I hope you can go to the United States with me. Only in this way can your safety be guaranteed."

———What? More than the combined assets of the Suzuki Group and the Ooka family? Are you kidding me?

Conan's eyes showed some confusion.

This was simply nonsense. He couldn't believe that such a terrifying capital tycoon could emerge from this country. Why didn't he see the Karasuma Group come out and buy Texas in the United States during the bubble era?

If he didn't know his father's habits, he wouldn't say such unrealistic things on big issues.

Otherwise, Conan would have performed three consecutive objections at this time.

"...I won't leave Beika Town, at least not yet."

Conan shook his head and said bluntly.

"Your purpose for coming to Beika Town this time isn't just to take me to the United States, right? I remember one of the gimmicks of the Sindora Corporation's closed beta test was the game script you wrote yourself. You must have been invited to participate in the closed beta test."

"In that case, Dad, you might as well just do it step by step."

"Vermouth, a member of the organization, is my mother's good friend. She will definitely be keeping an eye on your situation. If you and I return to the nations, I'm afraid Vermouth will attack us. That's too dangerous. It's best not to gamble on her sympathy." (Note 2)

"When the time comes, you and Mom will return to the United States. Please ask Interpol to use Vermouth as a springboard to find out about the Black Organization's arrangements in the United States. This may be more helpful to me."

————Opinions diverged once again.

Kudo Yusaku frowned slightly and his mustache moved.

He really had no way to deduce the action logic of a criminal as complex and changeable as Vermouth. This code-named member both blocked the Black Organization's way and helped the Black Organization build the road. It was difficult to understand what Vermouth's purpose was.