Detective Conan: Knifeman? I'm a good citizen of Beihua

Maple Hill Cemetery.

The young man with black hair and red eyes sat on the steps, fanning himself casually with his hands.

The system finally checked all the tombstone records and said in surprise, "Host, there is no tombstone for Nakamaki Shunsuke here! Could that guy be lying to us?"

Baichuan Qiu paused fanning the wind, then continued fanning and said, "What Nagakura Xiong said should be true. Nakamaki Shunsuke's grave should be here."

But there is a high probability that Shunsuke Nakamaki's name was not recorded.

Since what happened back then made Nagakura Yu so secretive, it is possible that Shunsuke Nakamaki didn't even have his name left on his tombstone.

It's just an unknown monument.

——It’s really... cruel.

Maybe if the original owner had died that year, he would have suffered the same fate.

The system was dumbfounded: "Ah? Host, what should we do? There are so many tombstones here, where should we look?"

I can't go to see them one by one, it will take a long time...

Bai Chuanqiu frowned slightly: "System, the timeline of the scientific world is chaotic. I currently don't know what year it was seven years ago. Can you help me calculate it?"

The Conan world seems to have its own timeline. 1996 is the first year of Conan studies, and 2024 is also the first year of Conan studies.

Now Baichuanqiu can no longer tell which year to count seven years ago.

The system understood Bai Chuanqiu's meaning and said arrogantly, "Don't worry, host. We have our own algorithm. You just need to tell me how to calculate it."

Baichuanqiu felt relieved.

That's good, he doesn't have to ask others like a lunatic.

"It's known that Nakamaki Shunsuke and Nagakura Yu were both of the same age and started working together, so he should be about the same age as Nagakura Yu. If you extrapolate from Nagakura Yu's age, you can roughly deduce Nakamaki Shunsuke's likely birth year."

"Then locate the year of my car accident, and focus on setting the date within two weeks of the original owner's car accident on March 21st."

"These two time periods should be the times that might be left on Shunsuke Nakamaki's tombstone."

Tombstones usually record the name, date of birth and date of death of the deceased.

Since the name cannot be found, we can only start from the last two places.

Shirakawa Qiu had already obtained the cemetery record book in advance, and now all of it has been absorbed into the database by the system. At Shirakawa Qiu's suggestion, the system re-screened the big data to see if it could lock on to Nakamaki Shunsuke.

This area was considered the system's advantage. In just a few breaths, it brought good news: "Host, host! I successfully locked it! The host is amazing!"

Baichuan Qiu finally smiled, but he still asked cautiously: "Isn't it another three-choice game?"

"Not this time, host. We're lucky this time! There's only one person who meets the criteria! And it happens to be the nameless monument with no name left on it!"

Great.

Baichuanqiu breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally, the world didn't make things difficult for him.

Following the direction indicated by the system, Baichuan Qiu quickly found the corresponding tombstone.

This tombstone is similar to others. Perhaps because the cemetery is regularly taken care of, there is not so much dust and weeds, and it looks ordinary.

There is only one short line of words on the tombstone:

A fool chasing his dream

Below that are the dates of birth and death.

Baichuan Qiu read the words above and found them a little funny.

Are all the Sakura people so obsessed with their second-year syndrome?

It's surprising and funny.

A fool?

If it is for the so-called justice, then he is truly a fool.

As a sign of respect, Baichuan Qiu wiped the blank photo on the tombstone for his master, then squatted down and carefully knocked on the stone slab where the ashes were placed.

"咚咚-"

The stone slabs echoed.

Baichuan Qiu bent down and listened carefully to the sound.

"咚咚-"

The system looked at Baichuan Qiu's actions in confusion.

Soon, Baichuan Qiu stood up and walked out.

System: “? That’s it?”

Bai Chuanqiu was speechless: "What else?"

System: "It feels like we haven't done anything."

Shirakawa Akane: ...

He sighed.

The system feels inexplicably guilty.

It's really trying to keep up with the host's pace...

Baichuanqiu held up three fingers: "There are three points."

"First, Shunsuke Nakamaki's tombstone has never been visited. Although the cemetery staff maintain it regularly, the details and crevices are already covered with dust. This either means that he didn't know many people during his lifetime, or that those who did know him rarely visited him."

"Secondly, Nakamaki Shunsuke died after the original owner, on the 26th. It's said he died in a car accident due to fatigue driving. This is five days after the original owner's death. So, did he really die on the 26th? This is a thought-provoking question."

"Third, there's nothing beneath his tombstone, just a cenotaph. This means his body hasn't even been found to this day—and this alone answers the two questions above."

"The fact that the body hasn't been found means Nakamaki Shunsuke didn't die on the 26th. It's difficult for the body or even the car to be discovered, and the fatigue driving is just a cover-up." Shirakawa Qiu chuckled. "If I were the mastermind, I would create the illusion that he drove the car off a cliff into the sea. That way, the body could have been swept away by the water, and the car would have been destroyed, leaving no evidence."

"And once we have come up with this, we can boldly infer the first point—"

"Nakamaki Shunsuke's death may not be known to many people. He probably had no relatives when he was alive. Only Nagakura Ou, who was closest to him, quietly built a cenotaph for him without telling anyone else."

The system's brain felt hot when it heard the data.

Okay, that's a brain-burner...

Shirakawa Qiu clearly understood the system's silence. He sighed deeply, "Simply put, this monument actually belonged to Nagakura Yuritsu. No one else likely knows the truth about Nakamaki Shunsuke's death, so we don't need to investigate further. His car, which was 'crashed' due to fatigue driving, is most likely the car the original owner was driving before his death, and he most likely died on the 21st."

No wonder the car driven by the original owner could not be found anywhere. It turned out that it was the scene of another accident and was destroyed as a matter of course.

even--

Shirakawa Akane boldly guessed that in the car accident seven years ago, not only the original owner was in the car, but also Nakamaki Shunsuke!

So who is driving this car?

Could it be that... the person driving the car was actually Shunsuke Nakamaki?

Bai Chuanqiu held his chin, his expression becoming somewhat amused: "This is really getting more and more interesting."

Slowly unravel the mystery...and find the truth of the matter.

Ah.

The system was confused: "No, no, I have to clean up the database, otherwise I feel like my brain is not working properly."

Baichuanqiu: "...Your database is so small, is it 1MB?"

System: "! Who are you insulting?! This system's database is huge! It can hold a lot of things! How can it be compared to the capacity of your world!"

Baichuanqiu: "I understand. It can only hold water, not knowledge."

Just like the human brain, some people's brains are filled with water and can't hold anything else.

The system felt as if it had been scolded, and was about to jump out of its skin in anger: "!! No! No!!"

Ahhh, the host is so bad! Ignore him!