Conan Rick's Investigator

But after calling several times in succession, there was no answer from the bottom of my back.

"Hello, Heiji?"

Toyama Kazuha lifted the backpack, but saw Hattori Heiji's "victory" travel bag underneath.

"Eh? Heiji isn't here?"

"Conan isn't here either..."

Mao Lilan also opened the quilt. What was placed on the bulging back was not a duffel bag, but two pillows stacked on top of each other.

There was only one pillow for each person in the guest room, and Conan obviously used Hattori Heiji's pillow to pretend he was still there.

"What's going on? Why aren't they both here?"

In Ms. Saomi's room, Mouri Kogoro and Inufukako arrived first.

I saw Ms. Suo Chen lying on her somewhat wrinkled back, with more than a dozen white beads scattered on the tatami around her.

"Hello!"

"That's the truth!"

Mouri Kogoro shouted loudly.

Inufushi Koko hurriedly explained, "Just now, I went to the corridor to talk to the funeral staff on the phone, and then I heard strange noises coming from the room. When I came back, I saw my mother collapsed next to the cabinet..."

"These beads are from the rosary on the bracelet that my mother always wears..."

Under Kaoko's explanation, Mouri Kogoro picked up the beads on the ground and looked at them. There was a hole in the middle, and it turned out to be rosary beads.

Generally, the ropes used to string rosary bracelets are very strong. Suo Chen deliberately untied the rope and let the rosary beads scatter on the ground, which is indeed suspicious.

It should be done on purpose...

"Are there any other beads?"

"have……"

Inufukako opened his back and saw Suo Chen holding the remaining rosary bracelet in his right hand.

There are eight beads left on the bracelet, one of which is black, and the other seven are engraved with characters: benevolence, righteousness, propriety, loyalty, trust, filial piety, and brotherhood.

"This is..." Kogoro Mouri murmured.

At this moment, Maori Ran and Toyama Kazuha, who had changed their clothes, ran in from the door and told Maori Kogoro that Hattori Heiji and Conan were missing.

"What?"

Mouri Kogoro frowned, feeling that things were not simple.

So he rarely mobilized his IQ and began to reason seriously.

"I see. I understand everything..."

"The truth of everything is everyone's name!"

"Name?"

The others in the room were puzzled.

Mouri Kogoro had a serious face and reasoned sternly.

"Actually, we've overlooked the names of all our adopted children from the beginning. These names actually have a origin... It's the Nansou Satomi Hakkenden!"

"The Eight Dog Legend!"

Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuha's shoulders trembled, and then a look of confusion appeared in their eyes, "So what is that?"

"Hmph, you don't know?" Kogoro Mouri rolled his eyes and explained to the two of them.

"This is a famous novel by the Edo period literary giant Takizawa Bakin..."

"In the story, as his castle was about to be captured, Satomi Yoshizane said to his beloved dog, Yafusa: If you can bring the enemy general's head, I will give you my daughter Fukihime in marriage."

"He didn't expect that Yafusa actually brought back the enemy general's head."

"Afterwards, Fukihime said, 'Even though the other party is a dog, as a monarch, I must keep my word.'" Then, she and the dog named Hachifusa retreated to the mountains.

"This is the beginning of the Eight Dog Legend..."

"But in reality, Satomi Yoshizane obtained the position of lord by killing the former lord and suppressing the ministers who disobeyed him."

"One of the traitor's wives was named Yuzi. Before she was beheaded, she swore a curse: Even if my body is destroyed, my soul will become a vengeful spirit, cursing the Satomi clan until their destruction."

"So, the dog named Hachifusa was cursed."

"Fortunately, Fuji continued to recite Buddhist scriptures every day, and the effect of the curse disappeared."

"But Satomi Yoshizane ordered his retainers to get rid of the cursed dog and rescue the princess."

"Fukie sacrificed her life to protect Hachifu. At that moment, the eight prayer beads held by the princess flew into the sky and fell into the hands of eight swordsmen whose names contained the character 'dog'. This marked the beginning of a new chapter in this legendary story..."

"This is the Minamisato Satomi Hachikenden."

After Maori Kogoro's narration, Maori Lan and Toyama Kazuye were stunned.

This love story between a man and a dog sounds very soul-stirring.

Inu Fukako next to him knew this story, but did it have anything to do with their names and the current case?

Maori Kogoro continued to reason, "In fact, each of the eight prayer beads in Fukihime's hand is engraved with a word, which is also the eight virtues, namely benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, loyalty, trustworthiness, filial piety, and brotherly love."

"And the names of all the adopted children of the Inufushi family also imply these eight virtues."

"For example, the radical on the left of the character 'Shen Yi', plus the two horizontal lines above the character 'Yi', becomes 'Ren'..."

After Mouri Kogoro's prompt, the other three people in the room suddenly realized.

"I see! You can't use it directly..."

"Then, if you add the word 'Akira' to Mr. Zhi's 'Zhi', it becomes 'Zhi'."

"When you add the left radical of Zen to Mr. Zenya's name, it becomes Li."

Aside

Inufushi Kaozi also pondered his own name and murmured, "My name is Kaozi, which takes the upper part of Kao and adds Zi, which just happens to mean filial piety..."

It seems that the names of all the adopted children of the Inubushi family can form a corresponding virtue.

But soon, Mao Lilan discovered the highlight.

"But Miss Yuki's name doesn't contain any virtues, right?"

"Hehe... That's exactly what I wanted to say."

Maori Kogoro sneered confidently, "In fact, Miss Yukihime is the fake adopted daughter lurking in the Inufushi family!"

"What! How is this possible?"

Mao Lilan and Yuan Shanheye's eyes widened in surprise.

The two of them got along quite well with Inubushi Yukihime. They both felt that Yukihime was a good person with a kind heart and was the least likely to be a murderer.

But Maori Kogoro was not swayed by personal feelings and continued to reason:

Think about it, the late Inubushi-guild leader's full name was Inubushi Tsuneyoshi, and the word "ti" already exists in his name."

"In other words, President Inubushi himself and his seven adopted children embody all eight virtues."

"And Inubushi Yukihime's name is the only one that cannot be considered a virtue. Even if we consider the fact that her name contains 'Fujihime', Ms. Soshin's 'Inubushi Soshin' already represents Fujihime."

"So, Miss Yukihime is the 'superfluous person' of the Inufushi family..."

Maori Kogoro's reasoning came to the fore, which made Maori Lan and Toyama Kazuye shaken.

At this time, Inufukako, who was silent on the side, suddenly exclaimed.

"Oh right! I remember now!"

"Sachiki was the last one to come to the Inufushi family, and when she first came to this family, she took her mother's surname, Tamaki Sachiki."

The three characters Yuki Yuki combined together form "Yu Zi".

He is also the villain in "The Legend of the Eight Dogs" by Minami Sori!

Now, it seems that Yukihime's theory that she is the murderer is more solid.

Mouri Kogoro glanced at Ms. Saomi on the hospital bed, and the tears in the corners of her eyes were slowly sliding down her old cheeks.

Seeing this situation, Mouri Kogoro let out a long sigh.

"Ms. Suochen must have seen through Yukihime's fake identity long ago and kept her by her side in order to influence her."

"But unexpectedly, this not only failed to change her, but instead caused disaster, which is why we had to use the rosary to remind us..."

At this moment, everyone has imagined the evil face of Inubushi Yukihime as a villain.

But at this moment, Quan Fuchan also ran over in a hurry, holding on to the door frame and panting.

"Oh no, this is bad... Chiaki and Yuki are gone!"

"what?!"

Maori Kogoro's pupils dilated and he shouted, "Damn it! I didn't expect her to get there first!"

Inufuzen also took out a letter from his other hand and handed it to Mouri Kogoro.

"What's this?"

"I found this in Chiaki's room..." Zenya replied.

Mouri Kogoro picked up the letter and saw that it was Yukihime's crime.

"All the sins I've committed will be fully repaid in that little house where the demon dog is raised, Yukihime..."

"H-How could this happen?"

Everyone in the room except Mouri Kogoro had trembling expressions, and their faces were even more incredulous.

Because if what was said just now was just reasoning, then it is now clear that Yukihime is the murderer.

Maori Kogoro immediately put the letter into his arms and said calmly, "It seems that Miss Yukihime knows that her affairs will be exposed sooner or later, so she wants to end it in advance..."

"And Mr. Chiaki discovered her suicide note and must have gone to rescue her."

"In that case, let's hurry to the cabin!"

At Kogoro Mouri's command, everyone who was shocked beyond words by the "truth" seemed to have found their backbone and immediately took action.

Mao Lilan, Yuan Shan and Ye Ze volunteered to wake up Qin Zhibo, who was still sleeping.

In front of the guest room, Mao Lilan knocked on the sliding door.

"Mr. Qin, wake up!"

"We know who the murderer is and we're going to find her now."

"Mr. Qin? Are you there?"

No one responded in the room, which made the children a little suspicious.

"I'm coming in..."

Mao Lilan slowly opened the door and saw that in a standard single room, the bedding on the tatami was neatly folded and had not been touched at all.

How is this going?

Mr. Qin is not in the room either?

Maori Lan and Toyama Kazuye quickly told Maori Kogoro, who was already waiting at Xuanmen, about this situation.

Maori Kogoro frowned, thought for two seconds and made up his mind.

Determined to go to the cabin first.

Maybe when we get to that place, we will find that they are the ones who arrived late.

"Ignore them, let's set off immediately!"

……

In the house at the foot of the mountain, Qin Zhibo sat on an old-fashioned wooden chair and talked with the old man at night by the lantern.

After learning from Qin Zhibo about the current dead people of the Inufushi family and the legend of the Inufushi family told by Yukihime, the old man murmured.

"Actually, my grandfather was once a servant of the Inufushi family, and the most loyal servant of the previous Inufushi master, so he knows some of the Inufushi family's secrets..."