Conan Rick's Investigator

After driving for 20 minutes, the two arrived downstairs of the Yingmihua Building.

The reason why it is called the Shadow Rice Flower Building is that this building and the Rice Flower Building in the neighboring chome are two buildings built symmetrically.

Among the towering buildings, two buildings are facing each other across several streets.

However, unlike the commercial building, this movie building is a high-end residential apartment built specifically for wealthy people.

The building provides exclusive butler service to residents, and even the glass door on the first floor of the building requires entering the owner's preset password to enter.

This has one advantage, which is that it prevents outsiders from disturbing the peace of the residents in the building.

Qin Zhibo parked his car in the parking lot under the building and came to the door of the building with Mary.

Mary entered the password given by Yasuharu Haneda into the cipher machine at the door, and the glass door automatically opened to the left and right.

Entering the lobby on the first floor of the apartment, there was an administrator who looked like a butler standing behind the front desk, smiling and asking the two of them.

"Please stay, both of you."

"If you are visitors and have not made an appointment in advance, please register here before entering the building."

The building is strictly managed. If you are a stranger, you cannot enter easily even with a visitor password.

Qin Zhibo and Mary could only go to the front desk and fill in their names and the people they were visiting on the registration form.

The building manager picked up the registration form, took a look at it, and was stunned.

"Are you going to visit Mr. Haneda in Room 1801?"

"Yes." Mary nodded.

The building manager smiled and replied, "Actually, Mr. Haneda went out an hour ago. He's not home now."

The administrator then added, "But according to past practice, Mr. Haneda will be back before 12:30 every day."

"You two can wait in the reception room over there for a while..."

Qin Zhibo and Mary turned to look at the clock at the front desk of the lobby. There was still half an hour until 12:30.

Half an hour is not enough to go out and do something, so it is best to wait here.

Qin Zhibo was about to point to the administrator

Instead, they went to the reception room indicated by the building manager, but Mary started chatting with the building manager.

"Hello, is there a woman who is close to Haneda who often appears around him?"

"A close woman?" The administrator was stunned, then his eyes lit up and he smiled, "Are you talking about Miss Miyamoto?"

"Miss Miyamoto used to come to Mr. Haneda's house quite often, but we haven't seen each other in the past few years."

"What does Miss Miyamoto look like? What does she do?" Mary's expression became serious, like a detective interrogating a criminal.

"Huh?" The administrator was stunned and a little embarrassed. "So..."

"She's a very beautiful woman, and she seems to be a police officer..."

"police?"

Mary Akai's eyes changed slightly and she stood there thinking.

Qin Zhibo looked at Mary's serious expression and knew that she had begun to examine her future daughter-in-law from the side.

This is what a mother is like. Even if she hasn’t been around for a long time, she still cares about her child’s marriage.

At this moment, the glass door of the apartment building was opened with a key, and a man wrapped tightly in his clothes walked in.

Since the man entered the house with a key, his identity was assumed to be a resident, so the administrator did not ask any questions.

Qin Zhibo watched the man hurriedly pass through the middle of the hall and went straight into the elevator.

His intuition told him that something was wrong with this man.

Because when the man passed by the front desk, he saw himself and Mary at the front desk, and there was a hint of panic in his eyes.

He didn't want to be seen.

This can be seen from the hat on his head and the scarf on his face.

It’s a pity that the man has already gone upstairs, and I’m just a visitor and am not allowed to go upstairs for the time being, so I have no way of finding out the man’s identity.

At this time, Mary finished chatting with the administrator.

"Thank you, Mr. Administrator."

“No, no…”

Qin Zhibo and Mary entered the reception room and waited.

After waiting for half an hour, a figure finally appeared at the door.

Qin Zhibo and Mary, who were looking at their phones, looked up at the same time.

I saw a tall and thin man wearing a turquoise kimono standing at the door. He had a mustache on his chin, his hair was curled up, and his face looked a little sloppy.

However, despite his sloppy look, one can still see that he has a good foundation and has perfectly inherited the sharp and handsome faces of the male members of the Akai family.

Qin Zhibo glanced at the information above the man's head: Haneda Hideyoshi, male, 28 years old, professional shogi player...

Social credit: 8900.

Qin Zhibo was stunned. Such a high social credit?

"Mother Mary!"

Seeing Mary sitting on the sofa, Haneda Hideyoshi's eyes behind his lenses became excited and he revealed a cute childlike smile.

"Hideyoshi..."

Mary also stood up from the sofa with a smile on her face.

The mother and son hugged each other warmly.

Mary Akai was originally tall, but she still looked a little shorter than her now grown-up son.

After the two of them stood apart, Hideyoshi asked, "Mom, why did you come back to Japan so suddenly?"

"And Masumi, she's back too?"

Faced with Hideyoshi's question, Mary did not intend to explain immediately. After all, the reasons involved were quite complicated.

"It's a long story. I'll tell you after we go upstairs..."

"By the way, look who this is?"

Mary turned sideways and directed Hideyoshi's gaze to Qin Zhibo.

Haneda Hideyoshi looked at Qin Zhibo and said without hesitation: "I know, it's Uncle Qin."

"Uncle has been a famous detective and has solved a lot of cases lately. I often see him in the newspapers and on TV..."

Haneda Hideyoshi has been living in

Flowers, so Qin Zhibo is not unfamiliar to him.

But Qin Zhibo still felt a little awkward being suddenly called uncle by someone who was less than 10 years younger than him.

You have to know that others who call themselves uncles are minors of the same age as Conan and Kuroba Kaito.

Especially when Hideyoshi Haneda was in a slovenly state, judging from his facial features, he looked almost a few years older than himself.

"Don't call me uncle, it makes me look so old..."

"Just like Shuichi, just call me Qin."

"Brother Xiuyi?" Haneda Hideyoshi's face changed, and he immediately grasped the key point of Qin Zhibo's words, "Brother Xiuyi is also in Japan?"

“Well…”

Qin Zhibo looked at Mary, because whether to tell Hideyoshi about that matter was also decided by her as a mother.

Mary's face darkened. "That's exactly why we came here today."

"We'll talk about the details when we get upstairs..."

……

Hideyoshi Haneda lived on the 1801th floor, room .

Like most single men's homes, Hideyoshi Haneda's home is more... casual.

To put it bluntly, it's sloppy.

Various daily necessities are placed randomly, everywhere on the sofa and dining table.

However, what impressed people most was the ubiquitous shogi board.

There is a shogi board in the living room, bedroom, and even in the bathroom, and the chess pieces on the board have their own merits.

Some are endgames, some are just beginning, and some are in a state of equal strength.

"Sorry, I didn't expect you guys to come, so the room is a bit messy..."

Hideyoshi Haneda scratched his head embarrassedly, then started to clean up.

Mary walked around her son's living area and casually asked, "You're not young anymore, why don't you find a woman to help you clean up?"

"Woman?"

Hideyoshi Haneda, who was bending over to clean the sofa, was stunned for a moment, looked up at Mary, and then asked vigilantly.

"Mom, did you hear something from Haneda's dad?"

Mary didn't beat around the bush and said directly, "Kang Qing said that you seem to have someone you like..."

"what……"

Haneda Hideyoshi straightened his back, a happy smile on his face, "I do have someone I like..."

"But I plan to propose to that girl after I get 'seven'."

"Seven? What seven?" Qin Zhibo asked in confusion.

Haneda Hideyoshi smiled and explained, "These are the titles of champions in the seven realms of shogi: Go King, King General, Throne, Go Saint, Throne, Dragon King, and Meijin."

"Now I have obtained the other six titles besides the celebrity title. I only need one more to achieve the seven titles!"

When talking about his achievements, Hideyoshi Haneda was as complacent as a child.

Mary felt relieved as she watched her son, who was now shining in the field of shogi.

19 years ago, the Akai family and the Haneda family were on vacation in Hawaii and were hosted by Vince Qin, a distant relative of the Haneda family.

At that time, the three families suggested that since they had come to Hawaii, a holy place for skill training, they might as well develop their children's interests and hobbies, which might come in handy in the future.

Originally, Qin suggested that the brothers Xiuyi and Hideyoshi learn shooting with him.

However, Hideyoshi was so frightened at the sound of gunfire that he started crying and was unable to learn at all.

Shuichi, who is four years older, shows a keen interest in guns.

But when it comes to memory, Hideyoshi is very talented.

So Hideyoshi learned shogi from Yasuharu Haneda, who was already a talented professional shogi player at the time.

Xiuyi learned shooting from Qin.

After so many years, I didn’t expect that the choice I made back then would be like a “Zhuazhou”, revealing the trajectory of their lives.

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But now, she couldn't help but worry about the fate of her eldest son, Shuichi Akai.

"Hideyoshi, I came back to Japan this time because I have some matters to deal with..."

"You still remember..."

bell--

Just as Mary was about to tell him about Elena, the doorbell interrupted the conversation inside the house.

Hideyoshi Haneda turned his head and looked at the door, his expression also startled.

“That’s strange…”

He muttered to himself and walked over to open the door.

Qin Zhibo and Mary stood in the corridor between the living room and the entrance, keeping an eye on the situation at all times.