Conan Rick's Investigator

"That kind of boring class, I just skipped it when I was told to~"

At the same time, in Class 2B of Ekoda High School, a balloon dummy that looks like Kuroba Kaito is sitting in his seat and "listening attentively".

What’s even more amazing is that no one around noticed that it was a fake person, including her childhood sweetheart Aoko Nakamori.

"Hey, hey~ Your high school is really awesome..."

Conan couldn't help but complain, because he thought Kuroba Kaito was a delinquent boy who simply climbed over the wall to skip class.

Just like that, the dancing duo who once loved and hated each other became a loving family.

……

20 minutes later, Conan and Kuroba Kaito arrived in front of an apartment building.

On the way, Conan told Kuroba Kaito what had happened in general so that he could keep up with the progress of the version.

"So, you are going to go in and see if the female teacher named 'Wakasa' is really missing?"

"Yeah." Conan nodded.

"Don't worry, leave it to me~"

Kuroba Kaito and Conan discussed it and then they took action.

Conan first came to the management office on the first floor of the apartment and pretended to be lost to lure the apartment manager out.

Taking advantage of this time, Kuroba Kaito sneaked out of the door and went to the management office, checked the tenant list, and found the room number that Wakasa Rumi rented.

After he came out, he made an "OK" gesture behind the administrator, and Conan made up an excuse to get away.

Afterwards, Conan relied on his size advantage to sneak back into the building.

The two entered the building and went straight to the floor where Wakasa Rumi's room was.

Conan stared at the door in front of him solemnly and took a long breath.

"Open the door..."

"What do you mean by open the door?"

Conan looked surprised, "Didn't we agree that you would be responsible for opening the door? Didn't you steal the master key to the apartment?"

"No……"

"you……"

Just as Conan was about to get angry, Kuroba Kaito smiled and reached into his pocket.

What he pulled out was not a master key, but a small bag of lock picking tools.

"Hehe~ As a magician, do I need a key to open the door?"

"Ah……"

Conan grinned slightly, not knowing where to start complaining.

Kuroba Kaito squatted in front of the door and poked at the keyhole with a small metal stick.

But just as he was concentrating on the keyhole in front of him, footsteps suddenly came from the room diagonally opposite. From the sound, it seemed that the tenant inside was about to go out.

If other tenants saw the two of them whispering and poking at the door, they would definitely call the police.

"Hey! Hurry up!"

"Don't rush me, I'm trying my best~"

"Didn't you say you were fast?"

"Of course~ But the protection this time is a bit tight, it's not easy to poke it open..."

The footsteps from the room diagonally opposite were getting closer and closer, until the door handle also made a noise.

Conan's pupils widened. He didn't want to be called as a parent for something like this.

Fortunately, the moment the door opened, Kuroba Kaito was the first to open the door lock, and the two of them rushed into the room at lightning speed.

Listening to the sounds coming from the corridor outside the door behind him and the pounding of his own heartbeat in his chest, Conan finally understood what it meant to have a guilty conscience.

In fact, Conan himself has done this many times, sneaking into private territory to look for evidence without the owner's permission.

But I don’t know why, but this time when I was traveling with my cousin, I felt so guilty.

The two looked at each other, gradually relaxed, and smiled at each other.

Next, the search began.

The apartment that Rumi Wakasa rented was not very big and was a single apartment.

There was a faint smell in the whole suite...

Fishy smell?

Chapter 1463: Old Friend in Hawaii

"Hey, do you smell that?"

"Well, there is a smell..."

Kuroba Kaito sniffed the room and suddenly his face twitched and his expression turned into fear.

"yue~"

“It smells fishy!”

With Conan's "police dog" attributes, he naturally smelled the fishy smell in the room earlier.

But he didn't expect that Kuroba Kaito's reaction would be so big.

"Hey, are you okay?"

Kuroba Kaito turned his back, covered his mouth and nose, and waved his hands, "No, it's okay... I just hate this smell..."

Because he had a fish bone stuck in his throat when he was eating fish as a child, Kuroba Kaito is still very afraid of fish.

Whether it is freshwater fish or sea fish, even the fishy smell will cause Kuroba Kaito's body to suffer great pain.

However, Conan did not pay too much attention to this, nor did he discover this weakness of Kuroba Kaito.

After all, some people just hate the smell of fish, and that's normal.

"Then I'll go in by myself, you go wait outside."

Kuroba Kaito made an "OK" gesture to Conan, turned around and opened the door to go out, leaving only a crack.

The curtains in the room were drawn. The black curtains blocked out light, making the room very dark.

Conan did not turn on the light, but used the light from a watch-shaped flashlight to search the room for the source of the fishy smell.

In fact, it is not difficult to find. This apartment has a living room and a bathroom. The kitchen is an open kitchen and the bar is both a place to eat and a place to cook.

There is a table in the corner by the window with a laptop on it.

There was a mat on the middle floor with the quilt neatly folded. It looked like it was where people usually slept.

The whole room was very simple and without any furnishings, and it was obvious that it was just a temporary living place.

Conan first went around to the kitchen, opened the door of the small refrigerator, and was immediately shocked by the scene in front of him.

Each layer of the small refrigerator was filled with black plastic bags, and there seemed to be something hard wrapped inside the plastic bags.

Conan took out a plastic bag, opened it, and found frozen fish inside.

The fish species is rainbow trout.

Conan tied the plastic bag, took out another bag, and when he untied it, he found frozen cod pieces inside.

Here comes another bag of frozen eels.

So the fishy smell comes from here...

I didn't realize she likes fish so much.

Conan was too lazy to take out the frozen food in the refrigerator one by one to check it, so he put them all back to their original state.

Then he went straight to his desk and opened his laptop.

The computer has no password set and it goes directly to the desktop when it is turned on.

However, Conan searched inside for a while and did not find anything useful.

The browser is in incognito mode and the file manager is blank.

It seems that he is very vigilant and cleans his computer every day...

Conan turned off his computer, jumped off his chair, and looked around the room.

Judging from the condition of the room, Wakasa Rumi must have been dragged in temporarily because the room was not prepared for leaving.

Beyond that, there isn't much else to explore.

After drawing a conclusion in his mind, Conan turned around and was about to leave.

But when I walked towards the entrance, I saw a toilet with its door closed.

Conan: "..."

Now that you're here, let's go in and take a look.

Conan raised his hand, grabbed the door handle, and gently pushed it inside. A strong and pungent fishy smell instantly hit his nose.

"Um……"

Conan frowned slightly and couldn't help covering his nose with his hands.

The fishy smell actually came from here...

With the help of the light from his watch, Conan looked around but did not find anything emitting a strange smell.

The toilet and sink were clean without any dirt.

So Conan turned the light to the bathtub at the innermost side of the bathroom.

The milky white bathtub reflects a round halo under the light of the flashlight.

As Conan got closer, the fishy smell became stronger and stronger.

Until he walked to the bathtub, stood on tiptoe, and shone the flashlight into the bathtub.

The rippling water surface reflects the light source, creating water ripples that are almost like broken lines.

And deep in the ripples, an octopus between dark blue and dark green was wriggling at the bottom of the bathtub.

"drink!"

Conan's eyes widened in surprise, frightened by this octopus-like "monster".

The diameter of this octopus's tentacles when stretched out is about 50cm. The slender tentacles with wing membranes spread out are like an umbrella that can be opened and closed freely in the water.

Just looking at the octopus swimming alone in the dim water, Conan couldn't help but feel that the scene was a little creepy.

Conan shuddered and stopped looking at the octopus, instead looking at the dagger beside him.

On the platform next to the bathtub, there was a bloody dagger.

Conan picked up the dagger and sniffed it.

He thought it was the knife Wakasa Rumi used to cut fish to feed the octopus, but there was no fishy smell on the dagger.

Instead, there was a faint smell of rust.

This is……

Suddenly, a tentacle sprang out of the bathtub and wrapped around Conan's neck at lightning speed.

Before he could react, Conan felt a cold, clammy touch on his neck.

"Well--!"

Conan groaned and subconsciously reached out to grab the tentacle on his neck.

But the tentacle kept wrapping around him tighter and tighter, with incredible force, and within a few seconds it strangled him to the point where he couldn't breathe.

thump.